from my heart [last days]

The fifth turbine, self-inspection progress 46%.

Xie Congxin leaned against the cold metal shell of the CNC machine tool, half kneeling and half sitting on the ground, his breathing slowed to almost nothing.Of course he heard Cheng Yinshang and Zhou An calling him, and it wasn't that he didn't want to answer, but he couldn't.

Less than [-] centimeters in front of me is a face, under the dim light of the operating table, I can vaguely see the protruding direction of blood vessels on the head, like a spider web, falling from the hairline to the chin, penetrating under the collar, It covered the entire face tightly.

Those eyes, which were red to black from the white of the eyes to the eyeballs, were staring at him intently, as if they wanted to see a flower on his face.

They seem to be playing a game of "whoever moves first loses", maintaining a delicate peace in the stillness of both sides. Xie Congxin will not move if he doesn't move, and he will move when Xie Congxin moves.

With just a blink, the owner of that face widened his eyes and moved another five centimeters closer.

Xie Congxin raised his hand at a speed that was almost imperceptible, and slowly touched the pocket of the jacket - there was the 54 that Fan Zheng gave him last night.

Other people outside were calling him, the voice was not too low, the light of the flashlight swept around, but this zombie had a special liking for him, and stood still like a stone sculpture, squatting in front of him with his legs crossed.In just a few seconds of silence, the distance seems to have shrunk a little, to less than ten centimeters, and the eyes protruding from their sockets are almost touching his forehead.

It wouldn't matter if they were bitten by a small bite, but if the carotid artery was directly bitten through, it would be impossible to rescue them with their current conditions.

The underground factory building is nearly a thousand square meters, and he is not close to other people's positions, so he must save himself.

Xie Congxin had already touched the gun in his pocket, and his breathing was at its limit, and because of lack of oxygen, his blood pressure dropped rapidly, and the white spots on his retina flickered.

He has lived for 23 years and has never encountered any life-and-death moments, but at this moment, he wonders if he is not the kind of person who can only wait for others to come to rescue him. The latter is more likely, and they can only fight for this chance.

However, just as he moved his hand to pull out the gun, the velcro on the pocket of the jacket made a click.

The slight sound was nothing more than earth-shattering shock at the moment, the two paused at the same time, and reacted at the same time, the zombie suddenly regained consciousness, and let out a low growl as he drew his gun, the black mouth opened to the limit, as if to His whole head was bitten off!

This scene was played frame by frame in slow motion like a long movie, and each frame made Xie Congxin realize that he was not fast enough. There was a strong stench from his teeth that gnawed meat and tongue that licked blood, and he exhausted all his perseverance Only then did he overcome the instinct to close his eyes——

Suddenly, a hand was stretched out in front of him, and it was pressed against the zombie's side face and buckled towards the ground!

Pei Ze's side profile flashed past, and he pushed the zombie to the ground, the palm was so strong that it almost burst the zombie's eyeballs!

Xie Congxin suddenly let go of the breath he was holding, and before he had time to breathe, he rushed towards the two of them, pressing on the zombie together, and at the same time the gun hit the zombie's chest, and within half a second of loading and firing, there was a loud bang. The bullet passed through the chest.

Missing the point, the zombie roared and struggled, Pei Ze put his arm against his neck, let go of one hand and grabbed Xie Congxin's hand and moved him two inches to the right, shouting: "Go again!"

Xie Congxin closed his eyes and pulled the trigger again, his jaws numb from the recoil of the bullet.

The bullet pierced the heart, and the zombie quickly stopped moving. Xie Congxin let go of the gun, leaned against the wall and gasped for breath.

Every mouthful of air he takes in has a disgusting smell, even if he ingests a large amount, the low oxygen density can't make him feel better, every cell is clamoring for him to leave here immediately, but the body has entered In a state of de-strength, it is extremely laborious to even blink.

"Are you okay?" Pei Ze reached out to help him.

Xie Congxin waved his hand away, stood up slowly with his support on the wall, and sarcastically said: "If Captain Pei can stop the enemy, I can do better."

He was too independent, or too arrogant. Pei Ze could already hear that his breathing rate was wrong, but he still refused to show weakness. He leaned on the wall and walked slowly towards the next water turbine.

A few minutes later, Cheng Yinshang finally found the light source switch in the huge space, and the whole row was lifted up, and hundreds of light tubes on the top were all lit up, causing retinal blindness for a moment.

Everyone saw the whole picture of the underground, the blood everywhere, the flesh and blood spattered on the pipes on the wall, the mountain of corpses in the center was five or six meters high, and nearly three meters in diameter. Some were torsos, and some were heads. The pale white brains floated on the black red blood. Looking around, it was almost impossible to find a complete corpse.

Everyone was in a mess, Xie Congxin said to avoid bloodstains, but they seemed to be splashed with blood from head to toe, not a single spot was clean.

The water was rumbling overhead, and several people stood in the open space to wait for Xie Congxin. Cheng Yinshang raised his bloody sleeves and said, "Will we be infected?"

Pei Ze shook off the blood in the saber slot, Xie Congxin was walking alone under the huge pipe not far away, his thin figure seemed about to be submerged by something.

Peng He scratched his clumped hair and said, "No way, I think it's fine, there's nothing wrong with it."

Zhou An patted him on the back, and said with a smile: "It may not necessarily be infected, isn't Peng Peng always lucky, and won a lottery worth [-] yuan?"

"Don't mention the lottery," Peng He said with a toothache, "I won it just once, and I spent all my luck in my life. After that, I couldn't open another bottle after drinking."

Cheng Yinshang also laughed: "Twenty thousand is enough for you to drink for a lifetime. Besides, it's better to drink less, and it's like losing weight."

There was not much atmosphere of parting from life and death. When we came, we came with the consciousness of sacrifice, but by this time, no one was dead or injured, but there was some blood on their bodies, which was an unexpected result.

If you want to admit it or not, of course you don't want to admit it. They have never participated in the discussion between Professor Wen and Xie Congxin about LDV, and naturally they don't know that the probability of virus infection after contact with bodily fluids is as high as [-]%.

With no enemies left, Xie Congxin successfully opened the last water turbine underground.

He didn't come directly to them, but took out the cigarette case and emptied it, took a little blood sample from each of the two zombies with the tip of a gun, and wrapped them in tin foil inside the cigarette case.

The pair of white sneakers on his feet were so red and black, and the exposed skin was also full of blood, not much better than theirs, but his expression was calm throughout the whole process, and no sadness or joy could be seen.

Pei Ze took out the cigarette given by Xie Congxin from the inner pocket of his combat uniform and lit it. The smell of dry tobacco filled his mouth, but he remembered the bowl of rusty porridge in the morning.

Xie Congxin walked to them, Zhou An asked him, "Go downstairs?"

He shook his head, his expression could not hide his exhaustion—there were not many bullets left, and the basement level was already so dangerous. I don't know what was going on at the bottom level, and if he encountered something else underground, he would not be able to escape unscathed.Now that the twenty water turbines have been turned on, there is no need to force the risk.

Zhou An wanted to say something else, but Pei Ze interrupted him and said, "Everyone return."

The return trip went smoothly and abnormally. From the stairs back to the top of the dam, there were no zombies and no one spoke.Xie Congxin seemed to be exhausted, and walked at the end, very slowly. The others did not dare to rush him, so they only slowed down.

The watch Xie Yiming gave was unexpectedly sturdy, and it didn't break even after being tumbled and rolled. On the top of the dam, Xie Congxin glanced at the time. It was [-]:[-] in the afternoon, seven hours had passed since they entered the left bank of the dam.

He looked up at the green river flowing eastward. So far, no one has had an outbreak of infection, so the possibility of being infected in the last time is already very low. His experiment was successful, and there was even a little windfall.

——The enemy was too impatient and wanted to test him, but he was tempted instead. Although the passive situation has not been broken, at least the upstream flood has been eliminated, the downstream power supply has been restored, and the cell samples of the two zombies in the pocket are counted. It's not bad to get up.

The incubation period has not yet ended, and it is not yet possible to confirm whether anyone is infected. He found a seat and sat down to wait. Xie Congxin took off his blood-stained jacket. The cotton T-shirt inside was Cheng Yinshang's. Bring out the original background color.

"Take off the bandage first," Zhou An squatted beside him, pointing to the bandage on his arm and said, "The wound is prone to infection if it is stained with blood. I'll wrap it up again when I go back."

Not only is it easy to be infected, but it is [-]% sure to be infected. Xie Congxin looked at him sideways and said, "I thought Deputy Zhou wanted me to get infected quickly."

Zhou An's expression changed, and he blurted out, "How is that possible!"

Xie Congxin smiled jokingly, and said, "It's just a joke, don't be nervous."

"..." This kind of joke is not funny. Zhou An took a breath, calmed down and said, "How could I hope Academician Xie was infected? I admit that I was wrong yesterday. I was too excited. I apologize to you. I'm sorry."

The words were quite sincere, Xie Congxin took off the bandage, revealing the wound that had opened again, and said with his white lips: "It's a small matter, Vice-captain Zhou doesn't have to be so serious."

His wound was more than ten days ago, and it should have begun to heal, but now there is a long one, and there is fresh blood on the wound.Zhou An glanced at it and asked strangely, "Why is it cracked so badly?"

Xie Congxin said: "I hit it, and I have to ask Vice Team Zhou to wrap it up for me again."

Zhou Andao: "Academician Xie, you don't have to be so polite..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Peng He shouting: "What is it?"

Following the prestige, one can see a blood-red area floating under the tumbling white waves at the foot of the downstream dam, and a few black shadows swim among them, like fish, and they are much bigger than ordinary fish.

Surrounding the bloodstain, black shadows gradually floated up some fish stumps, pointed heads, and long and slender bodies like snakes with fins. Then those black shadows jumped out of the water and jumped out of the water one after another. But the jump was not strong enough, and after a crackling flick, it hit the concrete dam body and fell back into the water.

Xie Congxin rarely showed a little surprise, "... Chinese sturgeon?"

Peng He was confused: "What kind of sturgeon???"

It’s no wonder that Peng He doesn’t study. There hasn’t been a wild Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze River for ten years. The academic circles generally believe that the wild species of this fish is extinct. Even he has never seen a live one, let alone anyone else.

Seeing that the Chinese sturgeons that were still alive did not give up and jumped up again, each time falling back into the water a few meters away from the top of the dam, Peng He wondered, "What are they doing?"

Xie Congxin's dizziness from hypotension has not yet eased, and it hurts even more after blowing Jiang Feng's head. Wuxin talked to Peng He, and Pei Zeben was wiping his gun.

Pei Ze was so seldom talkative that he often felt inferior to Zhou An, the vice-captain. Xie Congxin turned his head to look at him.

He also took off his coat, and only wore a slim-fitting black T. His face and figure can be scored full marks. It would be nice to have less words, but unfortunately the model doesn't match.

Peng He was still asking what "Traveling" was, but Pei Ze didn't answer him again.

Xie Congxin turned to observe the fish under his feet. The Chinese sturgeon usually lives in the mouth of the Yangtze River. It returns to the upper reaches to lay eggs in autumn. It travels [-] kilometers in the middle. Today, wild ones are already more valuable than giant pandas. If these dozen or so were placed before the end of the world, they would be a discovery that would shock the entire biological world.

Meteorites, earthquakes, foreign objects in pipelines, water turbines stopped, biological evolution brought about by LDV, Chinese sturgeon...

Connected together, the earthquake caused the filter to be damaged, or the LDV mutated the group of Chinese sturgeon, broke through the filter and entered the water pipeline, the power station chose to stop the water turbine to rescue, but suddenly a zombie frenzy broke out.In the end, all the people died, and the fish were not rescued, which made them have to come this trip.

This result can be said to be unexpected, but it is too bad in terms of gains and losses.

After the water turbine is turned on, the internal turbine rotates, and the speed of the metal blades can cut even metal, not to mention a few fragile fish bodies.There are more and more bloodstains at the bottom, and the number of fish jumping to the surface is getting smaller and smaller.

Cheng Yin said: "Do you want to save it? This is to protect animals, right?"

Xie Congxin sarcastically said: "Human beings will soon become protected animals, shall we save them one by one?"

These may really be the last few wild Chinese sturgeons in the world. This species that has survived on the earth for hundreds of millions of years is about to disappear completely in such a ridiculous way. How ironic.

He began to study biology from the beginning of literacy, and was taught by Su Shiqing. He devoted himself to research for everything alive in this world, but he didn't want to encounter a virus outbreak in his lifetime.Life is like a mole and ant, and what he has learned in the past has made him arrogant and complacent, but he is so useless in the face of disasters. He is too small to turn back the tide, not even a few fish.

The surface of the river gradually returned to calm and was diluted by the restored river water, as if it had never existed.

A few people sat on the top of the dam where the wind was howling, and the other three chatted without saying a word. Xie Congxin had no intention of participating, and Pei Ze remained silent until the blood on his body dried up and turned into scabs, shaking and falling into lumps. In a trance, I felt a little lucky for the rest of my life after the catastrophe.