Zombies don't need to rest

"What's wrong with me?"

Amidst the ugly voice, he stood up and looked at his body.

His appearance hadn't changed, and his clothes were still the same, but he could feel his bones becoming extremely stiff when he moved his hands and feet.

The sound of metal rubbing against each other resounded from every joint in the body, and the room was filled with sharp, teeth-stinging sounds for a moment.

Although he was uncomfortable by the noise, Kang Xu still walked to the front of the operating table. There was only broken glass in the silver-white box, and the liquid metal before had disappeared.

"Dad?"

He called out tentatively, but his frizzy voice, like a broken old radio, startled Kang Xu.

After carefully looking at the inside of the operating room, there was nothing unusual, ignoring the friction of the joints when moving, and opened the curtain to the outside shop.

The door of the repair shop was closed, and the room without windows was dimly lit.

After turning on the light, a suit of clothes and an envelope on the counter caught his attention.

Walking over with the unpleasant sound of rubbing, the clothes are new, and the size is slightly larger than what I usually wear, but it is not unusual for this to be just a new set of clothes.

"Is this what Dad left behind?"

Kang Xu picked up the letter and carefully tore off the sealing strip, some yellowed letter paper appeared in front of his eyes.

There is no beginning, what comes into view is:

"Congratulations on opening the door to the new world. The liquid metal transformation needs a running-in period of about 20 days. During this period, it is best not to go out. I have already told your father that you will live with me for a while, waiting for you If your throat is better, remember to call him. The nutrient solution is in the box at the bottom of the counter, which is enough to last you for 20 days. Get used to it, this is one of the few opportunities you have to change your destiny."

Kang Xu pursed his lips and continued to look. Dad didn't say what this so-called liquid gold is, but said that this thing first came from the dark ages, and it was a kind of body modification created by people at that time to fight against zombies. thing.

Dad also wrote: "The strength of liquid gold is not inferior to that of light combat armor, and it will be completely integrated into your body after the running-in period is over. It is impossible to detect it with the current federal technology, but it strengthens your body. It is real, make good use of it, it will not treat you badly."

In the end, Dad said that he would leave the No.11 base city for a while.

"Help me take care of this repair shop. I have already paid the rent. I hope you will have a better life when I come back. As for the girl you like, maybe you can try to pursue her, no matter whether you succeed or not. Otherwise, she will let you grow up."

In the bottom corner of the paper is written Dad's name: Tall Building.

Kang Xu silently put the paper back in the envelope and kept it in the innermost position of the counter, and reached out to touch the new suit.

The old man said that after the fusion is over, his body will undergo some changes, and the old clothes will no longer be suitable.

"The gate to the new world?"

Clenching his fists hard, the sound of metal rubbing seems to be a little quieter than when he just got up.

Kang Xu stood on the somewhat narrow repair shop aisle, listening to the sound of cars passing by outside the shutter door, maybe I really have the opportunity to see this vast world?

with her?

Feng Xiangmiao's smile was very clear in his mind, and Kang Xu silently walked back to the operating room inside.

The sun shone on his face through the narrow window, and under the blue sky, a bird flapped its wings and flew across quickly, and a pure white feather swirled and landed on the edge of the window.

"Zi~Zi"

Holding the white feather amidst the sound of metal rubbing, Kang Xu clenched his fists and said in a low voice, "It will definitely."

Under the same blue sky, Jiang Yang stood on the high mountain outside the city, looked at the flying bird flying over the city with scarlet eyes, took out his camera, took a photo and wrote in his notebook:

[The recovery of natural life has begun. From the first fish to the first bird, after a long dark age, life has become more tenacious, and I hope humans will do the same. 】

After clipping the photos, he put away his notebook, and Jiang Yang walked down the mountain.

This mountain is located more than 11 kilometers northeast of NO.200 Base City. In an inconspicuous valley at the foot of the mountain, dense plants block the stream at the bottom of the valley. Jiang Yang gently lifted a climbing plant on the ground , revealing the white marble tombstone inside.

The passage of time has made the writing on the tombstone blurred, and even the small dirt bag behind it has been washed and flattened by the rain. There is a small bird's nest among the willow leaves.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, not caring that the gurgling stream below wet his clothes, Jiang Yang patted the tombstone and said loudly: "Old Feng, it's a pity that you didn't grow into a pine tree. You are now a willow tree. And the bird's nest?"

There was a breeze blowing, and the surrounding plants made rustling sounds. Jiang Yang moved the creeping plants blocking the tombstone around the tombstone so that they would not block the front of the tombstone.

Stretching out his hand to re-engrave the blurred writing on the tombstone, he stood up and went under the tree to look at the somewhat crude bird's nest and the eggshell inside, and said, "It looks like a wild egret. There is an egg that can still hatch after more than 200 years, the world is returning to normal, and our mission is coming to an end."

Smiling, he took out a stack of paper money from his schoolbag, pinched one out and put it on the tombstone, pressed it down with a stone, and pinched another out to light it. In the faint light of the fire, Jiang Yang said slowly:

"Brothers, there are too many people, so I can give you two. Don't be too small. I have always taken your younger generation with me. The young man is now the big boss. The little girl is in high school and has good grades. She wants to study history just like you , No puppy love, but there is a very clever young man who likes her, I will help you check, if it works, let him come to toast you at that time, if not, I can't help it, right? "

When the flame extinguished, only a piece of ashes remained, Jiang Yang flicked the water on his shoes and said, "That's it, I have to go to other places to see, let's go."

After patting the marble tombstone lightly, he turned around and left this unremarkable valley, looked at the direction and continued heading north, but before he had gone far, he suddenly stopped.

A white shadow fell on the branch next to it, tilting its head and looking at Jiang Yang.

Smiling, he stretched out his hand and waved it. The egret flew up immediately in fright, but found that Jiang Yang hadn't caught up, so it stopped on a higher branch and continued to look at him.

"Stupid bird." Bending down to pick up a small stone from the ground, Jiang Yang suddenly opened his mouth and let out a deep roar: "You (TM) are a migratory bird, it's time to go to the south for the winter."

After roaring, when the egret tilted his head thoughtfully, he slammed the stone out.

"Whoosh!"

The piercing sound made the egret spread its wings suddenly and turn around in mid-air. After dodging the attack, it looked at Jiang Yang angrily, but found that he had turned and walked away.

Looking at his back, flapping its wings and circling around Jiang Yang's head, the egret opened its mouth and let out a cry, raised its altitude and flew away towards the south.

After walking a few steps and hearing the sound getting farther and farther away, Jiang Yang turned his head to look at the back of the egret. This little guy probably doesn't know what winter is.

After all, who would have thought that species that were already on the verge of extinction would still appear after more than 200 years of dark age?

I'm afraid it will also wonder why it is the only one with wings in this world.

Now there are only poultry in the farm that can barely be regarded as its kind, but where can those meat that basically don't live longer than a month fly?

First bird, don't freeze to death.

Jiang Yang shrugged his shoulders and continued walking north with his schoolbag on his back.

The mountain road is rugged, but it doesn't affect him at all. After leaving the planting area around the base city, the surrounding environment has long been in a primitive state full of life.

In particular, the No.11 base city was originally located in the northeast of the Pan-Asian Federation, and there was no human activity going further north, but because of this, the ecology of the northern wilderness far surpassed that of other regions.

After walking not far, Jiang Yang was pleasantly surprised to see a palm-sized ant nest under a tree.

After careful observation, he could confirm that these ants surpassed the previous ants in both strength and speed.

"But they were not lucky enough to spend 200 years and complete the evolution, but survived the disaster in a dormant state, and quickly evolved to adapt to this new era after waking up."

In the years after the catastrophe, he had personally witnessed the extinction of creatures, and although he tried to prevent it, it was ultimately useless.

So in today's world, only Jiang Yang can be sure that these ants did not live for 200 years, but survived the disaster through dormancy.

"Is it the instinct of life? Or is there an ancient memory of similar events in the complex genetic fragments of life?"

An ant carried a purple fruit the size of a grain of rice into the hole. A few seconds later, purple smoke burst out from the hole. Die with a sound.

Jiang Yang took out his camera to take a picture of this scene and wrote in his notebook: 【Facing this strange world, ants have to use their lives to test the rules like their distant ancestors. Of course, sometimes they will Encountering unimaginable disasters led to another extinction]

All the ants in the ant nest were wiped out, and the one that ran the farthest came back at this time, and stopped when it came into contact with the corpse of the same kind.

Jiang Yang looked at it curiously.

The ant carefully circled around the corpses of the same kind, and then cautiously approached the entrance of the cave. When it came into contact with several other corpses of the same kind on the road, it still circled cautiously.

But the purple smoke outside has been blown away by the wind at this moment, so it doesn't know what happened, let alone why its own kind died.

Standing blankly in an open space not far from the cave, its small tentacles swayed in the wind, and finally it walked into the cave, and was corroded by the remaining purple smoke inside and fell motionless into the cave.

This group of ants who did not know when they appeared disappeared into the world without making a sound, and the reason was that they took a poisonous fruit as food.

Jiang Yang hid on a tree in the distance and watched what happened in front of him. After making sure that there were no other ants or insects around, he jumped down and gently opened the soil above. The purple smoke did not touch his skin. Any changes are blown away by the wind.

In the end, this level of corrosion was nothing to him, but it was a disaster for these ants.

Carefully looked inside the ant nest.

Among the dense corpses, Jiang Yang found something unusual.

It was two ant carcasses hugging each other tightly, with a tiny, special egg between them.

Stretching out his hand gently, the black bone grew out and he used it as tweezers, carefully picking up the egg.

This thing doesn't have any breath of life, but Jiang Yang suddenly thought of something, looked carefully at the little thing in his hand and muttered to himself: "It's a bit like spores produced by bacteria?"

If this is the case, it seems to explain why these creatures have successfully survived the catastrophe for more than 200 years, but the question is, do ants have such abilities?

"And that fish and that bird, they both successfully survived the catastrophe and recovered, that is to say, the genetic information of the creature actually contains the instinct to deal with extreme environments?"

Holding the egg, he carefully looked at the ant nest.

It seems that the ants didn't realize what happened when the accident happened, but they quickly judged that there was something wrong with the fog, so they organized dozens of ants as quickly as possible to block the passages extending in all directions , and finally the egg was protected by the two largest ants in the soil with the thinnest air.

If nothing else, this spore-like egg will remain dormant until a certain preset suitable condition stimulates its recovery.

Jiang Yang saw the ant that entered the cave last. In fact, it could have survived, but it chose to return to the cave and die with its kind.

At this moment, he raised his eyebrows suddenly, and placed the egg again between the corpses of the two ants, and the figure disappeared instantly.

The ant that fell at the entrance of the cave stood up unsteadily. After shaking its antennae to feel the position, it accurately found the egg, and then dragged it out of the cave with difficulty.

Jiang Yang followed it cautiously, and then saw the surviving ant drag the egg to a place far away to bury it, and then wandered around like a guardian.

I took a photo from a distance and put it in my notebook. Jiang Yang wrote below:

[The fundamental meaning of life is only to survive.It is the instinct of all living things to keep kindling for species. 】

84 What kind of monster?

October is the time when autumn is crisp and clear in the northern regions.

Jiang Yang walked slowly in the wilderness with his schoolbag on his back, stopped from time to time to take a few photos, and then carefully recorded the changes in the past 100 years in his notebook.

Although he asked Dong Quanyun to contact him for something, in fact, since he was far away from the city, he had already turned off his mobile phone.

He doesn't care what happened in those dense human cities. At this moment, he only cares about how the world has changed in the past 100 years since he entered the factory.

The result surprised him.

A climbing vine is slowly stretching on the ground.

They no longer had the frenzy and bloodiness they had when the catastrophe just happened. Although they still had sharp and tough stingers, they were no longer bloodthirsty, and just lay lazily on the ground basking in the sun.

Of course, they may not know what horrors their ancestors evolved 200 years ago.

After Jiang Yang took a photo, he remembered the magic vine that once slaughtered half the city.

That thing doesn't look much different from the plant in front of it. Although it is still absorbing nutrients, the plant in front of it has obviously lost the terrifying ability to grow freely and expand infinitely.

After looking at it for a while, continue to move forward. In this area without human activities, the world is showing its vibrant side.

"Perhaps in a few hundred years the wild will become safe, and by then people will be able to return to living in the fields."

After silently sighing, Jiang Yang stepped up to a hill, but when he reached the top of the hill, what appeared in front of him was not a forest.

Black soil and finely crushed stones can be seen everywhere, and the ground extends down layer by layer. The concrete fortresses on both sides have collapsed, leaving only a piece of mottled debris.

There are no plants or animals here, only a deep pit that looks like a wide and deep black eye when viewed from the sky.

Standing on the top of the mountain and taking a photo, Jiang Yang found his destination, a mine road 300 meters below, and a tombstone as tall as a person stood beside the road.

Slightly bent his knees and jumped up, looked at the devastated ground and sighed, and landed accurately in front of the tombstone.

The text on the tombstone is still clearly visible: All the workers who died in the New Hope Mine.

Jiang Yang didn't speak, but silently put down a stack of paper money on the tombstone, pressed it with stones, then turned and left.

The area of ​​this mine is huge, and the further you go down, the more you can see the traces left by people in the past.

When he finally reached the lowest layer, the hard rock under his feet and the fragments of broken tools everywhere proved that this was already the limit of the mining capacity back then.

Standing at the bottom and looking up, the blue sky and the black soil formed a strong contrast, and not long after he arrived, there was a sudden vibration in a corner not far away.

The huge stone was moved away, a metal box was lifted up, and at the same time a voice sounded: "Brother Yang is here, come in quickly."

I found a corner to put the camera, phone, notebook and the remaining paper money away, put my schoolbag into the box and walked down the dark tunnel.

The first protective door opened, and Jiang Yang walked in with a box containing a schoolbag, letting the air mist disinfect the air he brought in.

The second way, the third way. . .

It took him a full day just to open and pass through the sixteen protective doors. After the last protective door was opened, a spacious and bright room came into view.

A female zombie was standing on the edge of the console inside, and opposite was a male zombie, who was the one who spoke just now.