Idol's Doomsday Survival Guide

This slime mold called "Rama" was originally discovered in a local indigenous tribe. According to the local tour guide, due to the net shape of the slime mold, the local people believe that they have the ability to bring people back to life.

When he led the employees of the ecological laboratory to the tribe, the locals were holding a special ceremony.They smeared cow blood on their bodies, imitating the parasitic and slimy form of the slime mold, and the men of the tribe carried a female corpse from their dwelling.The corpse has formed a giant view, and its limbs are highly decomposed.The tour guide pinched his nose and said that the one lying on the stone slab was the wife of the patriarch. The custom of this tribe was very strange. Rama would not be allowed to parasitize the dead until the corpse was decomposed beyond human shape.Rama means hope in the local language.

The employee felt very puzzled and asked him, even if the parasitized person is resurrected at this time, can he return to his state before death?

The tour guide smiled mysteriously, so I don't know.If resurrection from the dead is really so cheap, why shouldn't Rama be the first to export overseas?

The employee thought it was right, and quieted down to observe the whole Rama ceremony.

After a recitation with unique local characteristics, the representative of the ethnic group held a large fern leaf in both hands and walked to the corpse.All the clansmen stepped back to make way.

The employee squinted and looked at the fern leaf.Suddenly, he felt chills all over his body.The leaves are covered with a kind of black slime fungus, forming many black and red spores.The moment it got close to the corpse, the slime mold moved towards the corpse slowly and orderly as if consciously. Where it crawled, it left behind a thick black liquid with a foul smell.

The slime mold covered the woman's fingers, and the tribe cheered.I saw the slime mold crawling from her arm to her upper arm, and then spread from her upper arm to her jaw.

The employee seemed to know what it wanted to do, and he quickly recorded the next scene.

As expected, the slime mold completely entered her body from her mouth and nasal cavity.

He couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

In less than 20 seconds, everyone was waiting with bated breath.The woman's eyes suddenly opened, and the employee observed that her pupils were still dilated, and her irises were cloudy, but they climbed up to the golden spots against common sense.It wasn't until the plaques completely covered the eyeballs that he realized that her eyeballs looked as if they were covered with gold.

Her mouth was opened wide, and her teeth kept opening and closing, making a continuous clicking sound.Hearing the horror of others, the employee looked around, all the natives were singing and dancing, and no one cared about the woman who came back from the dead.Not long after, the patriarch came over, and he ordered people to stuff stones and soil into the woman's mouth and take her down.

The employee tried to ask where they were taking her, but the tour guide stopped him.

After some negotiations, the tour guide disagreed with the employee's decision to stay in the tribe. He thought the ceremony just now seemed dangerous, but the employee gave him a large sum of money temporarily.The tour guide finally agreed.

That evening, the employee only sent back a video, which has since disappeared.

A dying video.

"This is a video from 18 years ago. At the end of the video, it recorded that the local aborigines locked up the resurrected people, but the arrival of our employees disrupted the rhythm." You Guohao stretched his stiff shoulders and continued, "He accidentally ruined the broke down the fence, causing all the Risen to escape, and killed the natives of the local tribe."

"This is the source of the virus?" Zou Tu bit his lip, "In other words, since 18 years ago..."

Ji Nanze's face darkened, he looked down at his knees: "What did you do?"

"Our people rushed to the local area quickly and burned the tribe and all the resurrected people to prevent further spread of the hazard." You Guohao looked at him, "At the same time, we brought the employee we found back to the laboratory."

"He has been infected." Ji Nanze looked up at him, "He is the carrier that you extracted Rama, the so-called 'vaccine', right?"

You Guohao glanced at him appreciatively.

"The so-called vaccine is not a vaccine at all. It's just the slime mold you brought back from the rainforest." Ji Nanze glared at him and gritted his teeth. "What did you do—to prevent Zou Tu from becoming one of them?" ?”

"Dilution. We diluted the bacteria solution a lot to ensure that the activity of the slime mold was minimized. Zou Tu is a very successful example. The diluted bacteria solution brought him new life and gave Zou Xianzhong hope."

"Why is Zou Tu's vaccine only effective for a thousand times?"

Zou Tu's back molars were clenched tightly, and veins appeared on his neck.

"It's because the diluted bacterial solution can only divide a thousand times. If it is the original slime mold, that is, patient zero, he can achieve close to infinite division." You Guohao looked at Zou Tu, "Of course, patient zero is very Especially - among all the oocysts in the video playback, each one is a division of Patient Zero. Therefore, he is very powerful, he will continue to divide, and every transformation of him is an ultimate challenge to the food chain."

"How many times have we encountered egg sacs underground in the pedestrian street?"

"The first time." You Guohao said, "When you asked the other two people to report, I did a rough calculation."

Ji Nanze hesitated: "Haisen and Gu Changfeng, are they okay?"

"If you left with us, won't you be able to see it?" You Guohao smiled mysteriously, "At that time, what you encountered was the body of the slime mold, a terrifying body that feeds on flesh and blood. Patient Zero .”

"About him, the story is a bit complicated. However, if I'm not wrong, he and Zou Tu should have some resonance. For example..." He turned to Ji Nanze and smiled inexplicably, "Did he ask you for a mate? "

"Fuck, don't mention it, it makes me sick just thinking about it. What the hell is going on?" Zou Tu's eyes were bloodshot, "He plotted against the senior in front of me!"

Seeing him like this, Ji Nanze quickly comforted him softly.

"Okay, just calm down, isn't he explaining everything to you?"

"I'm not convinced." His teeth were about to bleed, "I'm just not convinced, why should he?"

"It's not surprising that he courted you." You Guohao said, "It's a biological instinct. When he continued to devour humans and then evolved a body highly similar to primates, his reproduction The way and habits will also change with the organisms he parasitizes. He chose human beings, and he also chose the way of human reproduction."

"...I don't understand what you mean. When he met him in the mental hospital, he thought I had scars on my body and couldn't be a qualified spouse, and he thought he had lost all contact with someone."

You Guohao still didn't answer directly.

"The day our people arrived at the tribe, they burned almost all the slime molds, and only had time to bring back the only small slime mold used for experiments." He looked at Zou Tu and said, "So, now the outbreak The sources of infection all come from that slime mold. It was first sacrificed and forced to parasitize in your body, and perceive the outside world through your eyes and emotions. It can also be said that he has experienced everything you have experienced. See From what you've seen, he once shared an emotional system with you."

"Including the white room, including what I encountered later..."

"That's right. He knows everything and sees everything. In the early stage of the split, he didn't have an autonomous emotional system, which caused him to have a strong impulse towards Nanze. This impulse is what you feel about him now. But , every time he regains his body functions, this ultimate creature will realize more clearly that Nanze is just the face he has been watching for a long time, which satisfies him. Zou Tu, you were once a part of him, indispensable Part of it," he said, "if you take the slime mold out of your body, you'll be the same as you started—just a corpse, the corpse of what should have been a baby."

Zou Tu's expression collapsed.

"Where's the employee you found in the rainforest?" Ji Nanze felt something was wrong, "When you got slime mold from him, his condition..."

"He died." You Guohao said bluntly, "The moment he was infected by the slime mold, he was already dead. This is the same for most infected people. Once the slime mold dies, they will die with them. But very soon Unfortunately, if the slime mold divides too much in the body, the brain can also be eaten away. And that's what you call, zombies."

Zou Tu's face became extremely pale.

"The ability to retain self-awareness is all because the bacterial fluid I inoculated has been diluted?"

"I was surprised too. But the same way failed with Song Hae Young, she didn't wake up."

"why……"

"Maybe it's the habit of the slime mold itself. It will choose its own host. In other words, without you, Song Haiying might still be able to survive."

"Stop talking nonsense." Ji Nanze blocked Zou Tu before he could speak, and glared at You Guohao, "It's not what they wanted, but you did it deliberately. How can Song Haiying's death be blamed on him. Turning black and white upside down, making him feel guilty, just to further the plan, what do you want, You Guohao? Or, what do you know about this infection?"

Zou Tu subconsciously clenched his wrist, his forehead was covered with sweat: "I'm fine, senior, really."

"It's not a matter of whether there is anything wrong, I just can't stand it. I can't stand it. He pushes all the faults on you blindly. He is high above, but he forces you to look like a mouse in the gutter."

You Guohao ignored him, he flipped through the information on the tablet.

"Just a few months ago, the strains that were originally cryopreserved were leaked for no reason. An experimenter mishandled the wound and exposed the wound to the environment, and at this time the inactive slime mold quietly entered his Blood vessels. It wasn’t even captured by surveillance, and even his colleagues didn’t notice it. That night, the experimenter felt unwell and asked for leave to go home. If I’m right, the infection broke out from that night.”

"So it's because of a leak from your lab?"

"No, it's the slime mold's self-awareness." You Guohao thought for a moment and said, "Something must have happened that day. Something must have made the slime mold realize that it must unleash a terrible catastrophe."