{MTL} ✅[Space] Rebirth in the end of the world

ch 18 : Surprise Change

 Zhuo Yuan woke up just as the sky was bright. The sun rose early in the summer. He glanced at the time. It was 8 minutes past 5:00.

As soon as he moved, the monkey who was sleeping curled up on top of him woke up, and screamed a few times, waking the others up one after another.

Several people got out of the car one after another to move their muscles and bones, and it was still very uncomfortable for them to curl up in the car all night.

In the silence, a few people lightly packed up and finished eating, and then sorted out the materials that were placed in the third row of seats as display items, and put all the excess items into Zhuo Yuan's space.

After 6:30, Xu Tianxing was driving, and they were about to leave the military area.

It was unbearably hot in the cafeteria, and the uncles and aunts usually got up early and quarrelled over trivial matters.

An aunt in a dark blue shirt who was just rescued back to the military area yesterday said to another uncle in a black T-shirt: "I really don't lie to you, just before the police comrade rescued me and Qiangqiang yesterday, I did. I see! That young man is handsome, he waved his hand like a meat grinder and smashed dozens of zombies into pieces! Good guy, it's amazing~"

"I saw it too! That brother is so amazing, like a superman. !" The grandson of the aunt said vigorously, "It's amazing, it's amazing."

The uncle in the black T-shirt obviously didn't believe it and looked at them suspiciously.

"Hey! Why don't you trust people, old man!" The aunt pouted and said unhappily.

Others around me who heard it also expressed their disbelief. The aunt was in a hurry and kept describing the scene at that time. Even Qiangqiang, who was seven or eight years old, tried his best to agree.

"Have you read too many cartoons for children? How can there be a superman in the world?"

"That's right, if there are really such powerful people, what kind of zombies do

you need to be afraid of?"

The group of people spoke louder and louder, and the noise soon attracted the soldiers on duty to maintain order. Coincidentally, it was the 'righteous brother' Captain Wu who was on duty in the cafeteria today.

After listening to the descriptions of the dark blue shirt aunt and Qiangqiang, Captain Wu felt a lot of unease for some reason, but he couldn't understand why.

He thought about it and asked a soldier beside him to tell this to Major Zhang in the Mediterranean.

The soldier quickly ran back: "Captain, Colonel Wei asked you to bring these two people there quickly. He wants to ask questions in person."

Captain Wu did not dare to delay and invited the old and the young to the third floor of the administration building.

Colonel Wei's face was haggard and tired, and Major Zhang, who was standing with him, was even more oily on the top of his head.

"Auntie, this is Colonel Wei, the head of the technical engineering department of our military region, and next to him is the chief of the first technical section, Major Zhang. You can repeat what you just said to them." Captain Wu said in a relaxed tone as much as possible. .

When the aunt in the dark blue shirt saw that the other party was a high-ranking official, she immediately repeated what she saw yesterday like a bean. "It was around 10 o'clock yesterday morning when Qiangqiang and I saw it from the window of our house. On the road not far from our house, a few young people drove by in a big car, and dozens of zombies ran towards them from all directions. , who knew that one of the young men in the car waved his hand like that, and the dozens of zombies were all smashed into slag as if they had been minced by a meat grinder! Really, I swear I didn't tell a lie!"

"The meat grinder Dozens of zombies smashed into scum at the same time?" Major Zhang couldn't believe it, this is too far-fetched, isn't it? !

However, Colonel Wei did not express any doubts but fell into thinking.

Major Zhang can't believe it, do you believe this? "Senior Colonel?"

Colonel Wei looked at him with a solemn expression, so frightened that he didn't dare to speak.

"Have you seen any movies or novels about the end of the world? In every work, the zombies that appear in each work will be some kind of mutation of human beings." Colonel Wei clenched his fists, and his expression became even more intense. Deep down.

"Some kind of mutation in human beings?" Colonel Zhang scratched his hair that was about to go bald, thinking about the meaning of this sentence, and then suddenly Blessed Spirit came to his heart and raised his voice and shouted: "Ability?!" In an instant, His heart was beating so violently that he could hardly control himself.

Captain Wu and several soldiers who were standing beside them also jumped in their hearts, and everyone's faces were full of horror.

"Grandma! Brother Superman! I saw Brother Superman!" Qiangqiang, who was playing by the window, pointed to the outside and shouted excitedly.

"Where is it?" The dark blue shirt aunt immediately looked out, and then Colonel Wei quickly went to the window.

Looking along with the strong fingers, it was at the side door. There were only eight or nine people standing guard in the early morning, and the medical staff were not fully in place.

A battered Hummer with numerous scratch marks on its body was passing the inspection and driving out.

It stands to reason that at a distance of hundreds of meters, it is impossible for Qiangqiang and Colonel Wei to clearly see the people in the car, but after the end of the world, people's five senses have become more and more sensitive, so that they can see the appearance of those people clearly.

But Auntie doesn't have such good eyesight, she can't see after squinting for a long time. "Isn't it Qiangqiang? Did you see it clearly? Is it really that young man?"

"I can see very clearly that grandma is Brother Superman and his friends."

Colonel Wei took a deep breath and asked, "Aunt, did you have any questions yesterday? Can you see the license plate number of that car?"

"I think there is... I seem to have seen the license plate when they turned, it seems to be 3 or 49?"

Colonel Wei stared at the Hummer's license plate, and several numbers were deeply imprinted In his eyes - TA-31549, this is the license plate number of the 31st Army in T City!

And the people in the car were the ones who brought back the generator and water purifier yesterday and had a relationship with him. It is said that the young people who made Major General Jian irritable!

"Go and stop the person for me and bring them back!"

"Yes." Captain Wu led the way.

Zhuo Yuan put one hand on the car window and looked at the scenery outside the window. Suddenly, he looked back at the military area and said in a deep voice, "Our identity as a power user has been exposed."

"Ah?! How could it be?" Xu Tianxing was stunned. asked.

"Yesterday, a survivor saw me using my ability and was rescued. Hurry up! Send someone to catch us!" Zhuo Yuan said loudly.

Xu Tianxing immediately slammed on the accelerator and drove forward with full horsepower, and soon completely left the military area behind him.

Qi Shaoyang asked, "Are they chasing after them?"

Zhuo Yuan sensed it, and there was no shadow of the other party within his perception range.

After telling Xu Tianxing about the situation, he suggested: "They know that we are going to D city, and it is very likely that the troops will pursue it in several ways. Let's take a detour." Can't figure out the route.

"Just get on the LY Expressway, they can't send someone to chase that far, otherwise they will not be able to go back if they are surrounded by zombies." Zhu Zikang said.

"That's right, as long as they get to the high-speed before they catch up."

Three hours later, Captain Wu returned to the military area with his men with nothing.

Outside the gate, Jian Zhengping, Colonel Wei, Major Zhang, and Colonel Cheng Zhong were all looking forward to it. As soon as they saw Captain Wu's car, they immediately stepped forward and surrounded him: "Where is the person? Didn't catch up?"

Captain Wu saluted Jian Zhengping Said: "Report! Because we didn't know which way the other party took, we didn't catch up with the other party."

Jian Zhengping wiped his face with sweat and asked, "Don't you know how many more teams to chase?! They're going to City D, Isn't that the only way?!"

"Returning to Major General, we divided our troops into three paths and went to find them along the most likely path of the opponent, but we didn't find the opponent at all. In the end, we would end up surrounded by a large number of zombies and do unnecessary things. Sacrifice, I just found a way to notify the other teams to come back together."

Everyone knew that Captain Wu's decision was correct. They couldn't have sacrificed the lives of dozens of soldiers, but this was not the result they wanted.

The scene fell silent for a while.

In the end, Principal Cheng Zhong sighed, rubbed his temples tiredly, and said, "Go on, take back all HUR1 serum, there is no need to use it again."

"Colonel Cheng, HUR1 is useful. It can indeed inhibit alphavirus. I think it is still You should continue to use it. You can continue to research and upgrade." Jian Zhengping is reluctant to give up the HUR1 type, you must know that this is the most powerful bargaining chip with other surviving forces!

Otherwise, what else can they do? With the ammunition that has been stretched? Is the military force more powerful? Without the serum, they lost their biggest advantage!

Of course, Lieutenant Colonel Cheng knew what he was thinking, but if he failed, he would have failed, and he would never allow failures to flow out of his hands! So he said sternly: "Suppression does not mean cure! Originally we thought that the HUR1 type completely eliminated the alphavirus in the bodies of those injured, but now it seems obviously not, it is just suppressed, but always One day it will still erupt!

If you let it circulate, what consequences have you thought about it? Other survivor bases have 'cured' people and let them return to the crowd. Once it erupts in the future, they will not know it People will be completely powerless!

Major General Jian, I admit my mistake, and please face this problem! Colonel Wei and I will continue to study serum, but it seems that we have too little information now, please you in the future Put more effort into this."

Being able to face his own failures is not so easy, how proud Colonel Cheng was in the past, how depressed he is now. But he believes that since HUR1 can be developed, a real cure for alpha virus will be found.

Seeing him walking into the military area with his assistant, his tall and confident figure was not overwhelmed by such a huge blow, Jian Zhengping finally beat his chest in annoyance, determined to take back all the serum that was distributed.

On the third floor of the Administration Building, Technology Section (3), 53 ordinary people who have been injected with HUR1 serum are detained.

One of them was curled up in the corner of the department, wearing a white lace dress that was so dirty that the original colour could not be seen. She kept looking around with her tearful eyes wide open, shrinking herself even more whenever someone tried to get close.

Her hands, which were pressed against the skirts of her legs, suddenly grew sharp nails, glowing with a dark grey-black light; and inside her tightly closed mouth, the originally neat and white teeth began to deform like canines. , almost stretched out to the outside of the mouth, as if to choose someone to devour!

If Zhuo Yuan and the others were here, it would be easy to recognize that the other party was someone they rescued from a small shopping mall when they were still in Wuwen County. Tan Zhengliang and his party were also rescued at that time. This girl was Wang Lingling who was dragged down several times and almost left by Zhuo Yuan and the others.

Before the four of Zhuo Yuan left Wuwen County, the survivors rescued by them in the freezer were almost self-sufficient, and they once showed off their might and said they could live well. To be honest, Zhuo Yuan was very optimistic about them at that time, thinking that he would be able to live safely with a small result? The end times are not so sweet.

On the day after they left, dozens of zombies gradually gathered in the nearby village where the group of people wandered around as their own back garden. The first person to find the clue was Tan Weiye, the guard of the freezer, but it was too late when he sounded the alarm, and the zombies that were scattered around the village gathered around at a slow speed.

If they can pick up weapons to fight the first time they see the zombies, maybe dozens of zombies will not help, after all, they have several strong men. But the fear of zombies makes them only scream, shout, and run around in a panic, completely losing their chances of winning!

Tan Weiye and the fearful small supermarket owner Ren Minghui were the first to die. When the zombies were attracted by the blood and began to snatch their bodies, the remaining two men, two women, and four college students ran all the way back to the freezer, but they also completely cut off the lives of others. .

The army of zombies chased them to the freezer, and the young couple with their 3-year-old daughter Yin Yin grabbed two sticks decisively and ran to the underground parking lot without taking anything to eat. and escape.

After knowing that her husband was dead, Liao Wei, the fat proprietress, seemed to have lost her soul.

The four college students and Wang Lingling quickly competed for all kinds of high-calorie food and water. When they ran out of the freezer, the zombies almost surrounded them!

Wang Lingling didn't know how she escaped. She only remembered that she kept running all the way until she lost her strength, and her feet seemed to be filled with lead and could no longer move at all. Climb forward.

She was very lucky and spent the night hiding in a collapsed residential house, and the next day she encountered a convoy sent by the military region to rescue her. Originally, Wuwen County and Minglu County were very far away. It was just that day that the rescue team decided to expand the search area to bring her back.

When Wang Lingling got on the rescue truck, she found out that several blood holes had been bitten out by zombies. She was extremely frightened at the time, for fear that others would kick her out of the car. It was only later that she learned that the military region had actually developed a serum, so she didn't need to worry at all.

She thought she was finally safe, but why are they now secretly guarding the group of people who have been hit with serums? !

And she felt that something was wrong all over her body, especially when she smelled the anger of the living people in the room, which made her want to pounce on... grab it... bite it! !

"Hey, what's the matter with you? Your face is so ugly." A sixteen- or seventeen-year-old boy with a shaved head asked.

Wang Lingling shrunk herself into a ball, avoiding the other party's inquiry, and turned to face the wall.

The inch-headed boy has sharp eyes. When she was dodging, he saw her nails at a glance. Then the boy raised his voice and asked, "Why are your nails so sharp? Hey, are they still grey-black?"

His words immediately attracted the attention of others. Concerned, a tall and strong man roared: "What nails? What's going on? Make it clear!"

"It's her, I read it right." The inch-headed boy scratched his cheek and said.

Wang Lingling hated him so much that she hid her hands even deeper, and buried her head in her knees, arrogantly defending: "No...he got it wrong."

The big man shouted loudly, "What are you hiding? Take it out with your hand!"

"It's not really..."

"Tell you to take it out for me!" The big man took a few steps forward and lifted Wang Lingling up with one hand.

Wang Lingling burst into tears in an instant, desperately trying to hide her hands behind her. She kept twisting and struggling, kicking and kicking. She didn't want any image at all, for fear that she would be exposed in front of everyone.

But how could her strength be compared with that of the big man, and her reaction of no silver in this place made other people in the same room gather one after another, and they all held her down to keep her from moving.

When the pair of black-grey hands flashed in front of everyone's eyes, more than 50 people gasped at the same time.

This... what does this represent? The fingernails they had seen on another creature, the kind of monster that would be charred as soon as it appeared, and almost never left a living mouth!

"Look at her teeth..."

"Such nails... Such teeth..."

"Zombie... is a zombie!!"

"Zombie——"

The military district, which had been surging all the time, finally broke its calm.