Undead

"Generally, it dies within 24 hours after infection. Are you sure it wasn't bitten by your last bedmate who was too enthusiastic?"

Si Nan sat behind the door, with his arms on his knees, and shook his head.

Zhou Rong wanted to say something else, but the doctor put down the thermometer and said, "Your person has a fever, Captain Zhou. It's 37 degrees nine, the initial symptoms of infection, and should be isolated immediately."

Everyone around changed color, and people not far away retreated one after another, and the buzzing sound swept through the crowd like electric sparks: "He is infected..." "Will he become a monster?" "Go, stay away!"

A man bravely shouted: "Get him out! There are civilians here, what if he bites people?!"

As the echoes grew louder, Yan Hao said angrily: "He is not infected! Otherwise, the road would have mutated! There are zombies all over the place, where should he go?"

Whispering around: "Soldiers are Heng..."

"that is!……"

Zhou Rong squatted in front of Si Nan, suddenly stretched out his hand, and forcibly raised his chin.

Sinan's complexion is cold and white, which is very different from that of Asians. His lips are chapped and a little tired. When his eyes are slightly lowered, he looks a bit like his mother, which is in stark contrast to Zhou Rong's calloused, muscular hands.

Zhou Rong looked at him coldly for a moment, then suddenly got up and said, "Put him in the warehouse office and keep watching."

The doctor disapproved: "Captain Zhou..."

Zhou Rong said: "My people, I am in charge."

The warehouse office is a small single room separated by plywood, with a size of five square meters. Before the outbreak of the virus, it was the place where the on-duty staff took turns. The thin hollow wooden door was equipped with an old-fashioned spring lock, and there was an iron latch inside.

With his back against the wall, Si Nan sat in a corner with one hand on his bent knee.After a while, Zhou Rong pushed the door open and closed the door with his backhand, blocking Yan Hao and Chuncao who followed suit.

"Here."

Si Nan raised his eyes, and in front of him was a bread with dried meat floss.

"It's in the warehouse, eat it."

Si Nan looked at it without moving for a few seconds before turning his face away.

"Why, it's just shutting you down for a long time, and you're on a hunger strike because of your looks?" Zhou Rong snorted, "I tell you, the last thing I know in my life is to be sympathetic to women, and what I'm best at is to destroy flowers with harsh hands. What kind of Omega information did you get when you were training?" Su and the beautiful spy seduced each other in turn, and then the airborne captain, Yan Hao took the lead in disobedience, and was beaten to death three times a day by me...Be good and eat the food, don't think I dare not be tough."

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Sinan finally told the truth:

"...Materials are limited, don't waste them."

Zhou Rong laughed unabashedly, threw the bread into Sinan's arms casually, and said, "Girl, why are you acting like an Omega?"

Simon: "..."

Zhou Rong clapped his hands and turned to leave.

·

It was getting late, and soon there were sounds of people walking around and distributing food outside the door.

Si Nan thought for a long time, but still ate the bread.The food soothed his nerves, he leaned against the corner of the wall and fell asleep unknowingly, his consciousness drifted between sobriety and twilight, as if traveling through the damp and cold wind for thousands of miles, watching the ground below him that was overturned in the flames of war.

He seems to have returned to the time when he was very young, the heavy gate of the manor slowly opened before his eyes, the crystal chandeliers were shining brightly, and the hand-woven carpet was thick and complicated, and he went straight to the top along the marble spiral escalator.A boy in a black formal suit folded his arms, leaned on the handrail of the second-to-last step of the stairs, looked down at him for a while, and suddenly said meanly: "You are so ugly."

He felt his nails piercing deeply into the flesh of his palm, and wanted to back away, but he couldn't even turn around in his dream.

The boy jumped down the stairs and came to the front in three steps at a time. Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed his hair, forcing him to look up at himself: "From now on, I will be your brother, do you understand?"

Sinan's chest rose and fell, feeling the hot and sour airflow cutting the trachea repeatedly, and wanted to hit the person hard with his fist, but in the dream, he suddenly became very small, and he couldn't even reach out with his hands, and could only look at the proud face , and blue eyes full of sarcasm.

I'm going to beat you... he thought.

One day, I will beat you down under my feet...

In an instant, the camera changed, and the memory disappeared like a horse watching flowers. The boy's hateful face gradually matured and became tough, turning into the surprise and consternation in another picture, and was immediately punched backwards.

boom!

The noise receded like a tidal wave, and he picked up the man's collar, only to see bloodshot from the corners of the man's nose and mouth; those blue eyes that had been staring at him all the time for many years turned into the dark gray of the wind and rain: "...You've been wanting to hit me for a long time, haven't you?..."

Yes.

Always.

But he didn't answer. Instead, he punched a right uppercut, which was heavy and sharp. The crisp sound of the broken nose came from between his fingers. Until a long, long time later, he could clearly recall that pleasant punch touch.

……

As night fell, Sinan developed a fever.

In a trance, he felt that his body was very hot, as if he was in a warm and empty deep sea, fluttering and unable to step on the bottom.Footsteps came and went, disputes and quarrels continued, and it was hard to tell whose voice was sharp: "You must send him away, he may mutate at any time!"

"Your soldiers' lives are valuable, so we deserve to take the risk?!"

"What to do, he is already infected, we are all finished..."

The sound of pushing, shoving and beating approached from far away, and then suddenly disappeared from the ears, as if it was indistinct across the water.After an unknown amount of time, footsteps suddenly stopped beside him, then squatted down, and covered him with thick clothes.

Si Nan struggled uncomfortably, but the man wrapped him tightly, not letting go of his neck.

"It's normal to be sick and tired." The humane said, "Beta's physique is not good, so I'm afraid I won't be able to survive the burn."

"Brother Rong..."

The man stood up and said in a low voice, "Give me the car keys, I'll go out for a while."

When he woke up again from his lethargy, Sinan felt that someone was stuffing something into his mouth.He barely opened his eyes, and he couldn't see his fingers around him. After a few seconds, he managed to see a glimmer of light from the crack in the door.

"Drink some water," Zhou Rong said, involuntarily taking a sip from the military water bottle.

Si Nan swallowed the water, feeling the bitterness in his mouth, and realized that the tablet that was forced into his jaw just now had melted: "...you..."

"Antipyretics."

...Where did you get the antipyretics?

Zhou Rong took off his coat and threw it on the ground, sat down, squeezed into the same corner with him without hesitation, and reprimanded him in a low voice: "I said you are stupid or stupid, you just go to the pharmacy to find food, but you don't know what to look for?" Do you bring your usual medicine? Well, you have a fever, which made me drive [-] kilometers back and forth in the middle of the night, which almost didn’t make it a night snack for the hundreds of zombies on the street. If it wasn’t for your good looks ..."

Si Nan coughed in a muffled voice, and said hoarsely, "Thank you for saving you during the day."

Zhou Rong immediately fell silent.

Sinan regained his energy, and was about to tease a few words, when he suddenly smelled a strong smell of corruption and blood coming from his feet - it was the coat that Zhou Rong had just thrown on the ground.

When he touched it, the fabric was sticky and damp.

In the darkness, only each other's deep breathing was heard, and after a while Sinan whispered: "...Thank you."

Zhou Rong said, "You're welcome."

With a click of the lighter, Zhou Rong leaned his back against the wall, lit a cigarette, exhaled a puff of relaxing white mist, and asked with a smile, "Did you just dream? I heard you mumbling something, as if you were swearing." .”

"..."

"Do you miss home?" Zhou Rong asked casually.

Simon shook his head.

"What kind of work did you do before? It depends on your skill, personal bodyguard or policeman?"

Sinan shook his head again, but didn't answer.

"Don't be so nervous, just relax and chat. If you have a fever or a real infection, you will die later, brother will be the last person you can entrust your will to." Zhou Rong squeezed his shoulders and asked jokingly : "Are you married? Do you have a partner?"

"……No."

"Very good, I don't have any, the whole team is all bachelors."

Si Nan glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, and said silently in his heart, it's because you took the lead in mobilizing.

Zhou Rong didn't realize it. He sighed leisurely with a cigarette in his mouth, and his tone was full of fascination: "The refuge in the B military region can accommodate tens of thousands of people. It is self-sufficient in water and power supply, and completely isolated from the outside world. After the virus passes, the country will definitely arrange for you to stay here." Settling down in city B, dating, getting married, encouraging births, supplementing the population loss during the disaster period..."

"Furthermore, Zone B has rescued the most Omegas, most of which are in the fertile period, and specially sent troops to protect them." Zhou Rong licked his lips subconsciously, and said with a smile, "Tsk, that's true, whoever came up with this policy, What a clever mind."

Sinan's voice was a little tense: "Why?"

"Every time a disaster strikes, Alphas are the main combat force for disaster relief. Whichever large shelter has more Alphas, it will be more capable of competing for resources, arms, and territory—and Alphas will definitely gather in places with more Omega, The upper echelons can allocate Omega as a strategic resource, don’t you understand such a simple truth?”

Zhou Rong took a deep breath on his cigarette, and the red light flickered on and off between his fingers.Si Nan didn't speak for a while, but suddenly his waist was poked: "What are you thinking, so engrossed?"

Sinan said casually, "You also want to go to Area B to get a strategic resource back home?"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Rong flatly refused: "No!"

For a moment, Si Nan thought he was going to say "Because I have Yan Hao".But before he had time to be moved by the love between the two beta guys, he heard Zhou Rong categorically say: "I hate Omega!"

"..." Sinan asked, "Why, Brother Rong?"

Zhou Rong changed his sitting position abruptly, stared at Sinan with piercing eyes, and said earnestly, "Brother must give you a piece of advice in life, dear: If you are looking for someone in the future, don't look for Omega."

"..."

"Try to find Beta."

"..."

The two looked at each other for a while, and the corner of Sinan's mouth twitched slightly, and said, "That's exactly what I planned."

Zhou Rong patted him on the shoulder approvingly.

Si Nan asked sincerely, "But...why?"

He thought that Zhou Rong would use Yan Hao as an example that Beta gays can also obtain the sexual blessings of life, but Zhou Rong once again shattered his unrealistic illusions about human nature.Zhou Rong said seriously: "Because of Omega, there is a character problem."

In the dark, the two stared at each other, maintaining Zhou Rong's hand on Si Nan's shoulder, and the distance between their noses was less than ten centimeters.

After a while, Sinan finally squeezed carefully into the corner, and asked cautiously and politely, "Brother Rong, have you ever been hurt?"

The word "emotional injury" is obviously very new to Zhou Rong. He rubbed his chin thoughtfully, and shook his head after thinking for a moment: "It is true that feelings have been deceived to some extent, but it can't be—in fact, it was many years ago. What happened. Have you ever heard of the International Special Forces Jungle Race?"

Simon shook his head.

Zhou Rong said: "I competed on behalf of the country that year, and I was far ahead in points all the way, until in the part of rescuing the hostages, I met a hostage from country A who claimed to be Chinese... a 15-year-old Omega kid."