from my heart [last days]

The soles of the shoes were wet with blood, leaving messy footprints on the gray concrete floor.

After the door to the equipment room was closed, the shouts and screams from the playground were cut off, sounding like they were coming from another world.

Shen Wen looked up at the sunlight pouring in from the long skylight, and couldn't imagine what the other side of the wall would look like.

She was still asleep at this time yesterday, but after just 24 hours, she probably won't be able to sleep again for a long time.

So unreal.

Xie Congxin found two bamboo javelins from the box where the sundries were piled up.

Shen Wen looked at the sharp tip of the gun, "...do you really want to stab someone?"

Xie Congxin said: "Use it within the scope of self-defense."

Shen Wen breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to nod, Xie Congxin raised one corner of his lips, and smiled ironically, "If after today, there are still laws in this country."

Shen Wen's face was pale, "What do you mean? You mean... Maybe it's not just our place..."

"In traditional post-apocalyptic creations, there are many reasons for the outbreak of zombies, such as virus outbreaks, epidemics, alien invasions, human experiments and transformations, etc..." Xie Congxin gestured at the length of the javelin, "Among them the most common The reason is the virus."

Shen Wen: "...You mean, these people may have become like this because of some kind of virus?"

Xie Congxin neither said it was right nor wrong, but said, "If it's because of a virus, where did this new type of virus come from? Why did it suddenly break out?"

Shen Wen is also a master's student in biology, and her brain is much more flexible when it comes to professional fields, "Yesterday's meteorite!"

Still smart, Xie Congxin smiled, "It's just a hypothesis."

He stepped on the position where the javelin was in his hand, breaking the too long barrel.

Shen Wen watched his movements and murmured: "The virus originated from space and came to the earth through meteorites, which itself is a hypothesis in the theory of virus origin..."

Xie Congxin nodded and said: "If this assumption is correct, then the situation outside the school will not be much better than here. The area where the meteorite fell is likely to have outbreaks of virus infections."

The city center is densely populated, and the situation must be even more chaotic. Shen Wen thought of her parents, and she was on the verge of falling again. She barely stabilized her body by propping on the table, "What should I do... what should I do?"

"If you have a hypothesis, verify it," Xie Congxin said. "It's not necessarily safe to leave the school. Go to the teaching area. There should be equipment available in the biology laboratory."

Shen Wen opened her mouth, unable to speak.

She watched as Xie Congxin took the javelin in her hand, and folded it into a shorter and more convenient length.

It's incredible, what kind of person is Xie Congxin?

How can you be so calm when this movie is too scary to be true?

He didn't look strong, even thinner than the boy who was bitten in front of them just now, but his focused and calm eyes, straight back, and even the slender fingers holding the javelin seemed to be covered with a halo.

So much so that Shen Wen actually had a strange feeling.

If this is a huge disaster, maybe Xie Congxin is the savior sent from heaven.

"In case it's really a virus," Shen Wen asked, "We..."

"Shh." Xie Congxin suddenly made a silent gesture, and narrowed his eyes slightly to look at the closed door of the equipment room.

Shen Wen silenced the sound immediately, and after a few seconds of silence, she heard very slight...footsteps.

Once, twice, the sound was very soft, dull, and very slow, not like the walking rhythm of ordinary people. Shen Wen concentrated on listening and found that the sound was approaching them!

what is itShen Wen asked silently with her mouth.

Xie Congxin shook his head, bypassed the shelves full of balls, and walked silently to the door of the equipment room.

Shen Wen also followed, and Xie Congxin signaled her to go to the other side of the door.

The two were sticking to the door, one left and one right. Xie Congxin looked out from the not-so-big window and saw nothing, so he stretched out his hand and knocked lightly on the door twice.

Shen Wen was about to cry, and asked him with her mouth: What are you doing?

Xie Cong didn't care, and waited with bated breath, the footsteps really accelerated a bit, coming towards them.

A few seconds later, a black figure approached, and with a snap, something stuck to the glass window.

Shen Wen smelled a strong fishy smell, and immediately covered her mouth and nose, not daring to breathe.

Xie Congxin didn't look at it either. He and Shen Wen were leaning against the wall on the left and right. Shen Wen turned her face and kept asking him with her eyes: What is it?

Xie Congxin raised his chin and pointed to the ground.

Shen Wen looked towards his line of sight and saw the silhouette on the ground projected from the window.

It is slightly distorted, but it can still be seen that it is the shape of a human brain.

It should be a tall boy with short hair.

Shen Wen closed her eyes and thought desperately, the window in the equipment room was high, and Xie Congxin was not tall enough to put her face in this position.

The two waited quietly for about ten seconds. The man probably didn't see anything, and left with heavy steps.

The shadow on the ground completely disappeared, Xie Congxin looked out the window and said softly, "Look."

Shen Wen took a deep breath and mustered up her courage before looking out with Xie Congxin. The first thing she saw was the mottled blood on the window.

How much blood did it take to stain the windows like this?

Shen Wen continued to look through the gaps in the bloodstains, and saw the "person".

If that can even be called a human being.

The short-sleeved t-shirt was stained with blood and the original pattern could no longer be seen. The half of the arm exposed under the sleeve was broken. The shape of the wound was strange, and it was impossible to see what caused it. The pink fleshy fibers fluttered with his movements.

His main artery was also torn, his neck was bent at nearly ninety degrees, the scalp under the short hair was red to black, the hair was stuck together, covered with dense blood scabs, and the bare|exposed skin showed a sickly blue-gray.

Shen Wen never knew that she was so courageous. Even though she didn't dare to watch horror movies before, she was so numb and indifferent to such a scene at this moment.

"He..." Xie Congxin narrowed his eyes slightly.

"What happened to him?" Shen Wen asked immediately.She has already discovered that Xie Congxin hardly talks nonsense.

"He should have been lying down just now." Xie Congxin glanced at the corpses of a dozen students on the other side.

Shen Wen hesitated: "...Are you sure?"

"Sure," Xie Congxin said, "There were twelve people on the ground just now, and now there are only eleven left."

"..."

The two were silent for two seconds.

Shen Wen said: "If it is a virus, it is not surprising that it is contagious... But he has lost the characteristics of a living body, how can he still act?"

"Maybe he hasn't completely died yet." Xie Congxin frowned. "The concept of death itself is difficult to define. As long as the cerebral cortex is not damaged and the corresponding nerves and torso exist, he can complete most of the reflex activities."

Shen Wen immediately shook her head, "Impossible, he lost so much blood...how could he still be alive? Even if he can maintain the minimum physical function, his brain should be in a state of shock!"

"You're talking about the general situation," Xie Congxin said, "but the current situation doesn't fall within the scope of modern medicine. Some kind of change may have occurred in his body, causing him to continue to act after acute blood loss. Responsive to sound, insensitive to smell..."

At this time, the boy suddenly knelt down, leaned over a corpse, opened his mouth to the face of the corpse, bit down hard, and tore off a piece of flesh.

"...and also showed a certain degree of aggressiveness." Xie Congxin finished speaking, "It is specifically manifested in the biological instinct of eating."

"........."

Another moment of silence.

"Don't you think it's too quiet?" Xie Congxin asked suddenly.

Shen Wen replied without thinking: "This is a dead end, opposite to the nearest door to the school..." As she spoke, she suddenly realized something, and suddenly raised her head, "That's not right!"

Xie Congxin said lightly: "The first reaction of the students in the chaotic middle school should be to leave the playground immediately and subconsciously choose the nearest door. There are thousands of people, it is impossible that no one chooses this direction."

Shen Wen quickly drew a rectangle on the rough ground with the tip of a gun, marking three points, "Assume this is the playground and this is the door."

The playground has a total of three gates, two gates in the east and west directions, the north side is the side gate they walked through, and turning right is the living area, turning left is the corridor behind the grandstand, and going forward is the school wall. Shen Wen drew the cafeteria The location is on the east side of the playground.

Xie Congxin judged that Shen Wen's original idea was to walk through this corridor, take him back to the cafeteria door to pick up the car, and then leave the school through the main entrance there.

"Maybe they all went to the living area..." Shen Wen swallowed, "the living area also has a door to leave the school."

Xie Congxin didn't speak, but just stared at the map drawn by Shen Wen and wrote down the approximate route.

There are four options to escape from the playground. Their route is the one with the lowest probability of being chosen, but it is not without probability. With so many students, why didn't any one come over?

Maybe it's not that I don't want to come, but because of some reason I can't.

No matter what the reason is, it is best not to go back.