from my heart [last days]

On October 2028, 10, at 14:14, it has been nearly eight days since the meteorite fell.

Xie Congxin was wearing a clean white coat that he found from the laboratory next door, biting some beef jerky found in an office drawer, and raised an eyebrow at the person who came, "The yard sent you to pick me up?"

"Yes," said the leading man, "we're here to pick up Academician Xie."

Xie Congxin threw the wrapping paper of the beef jerky into the trash can at his feet, "What's your name? Which army is it?"

"My name is Yu Lei, the captain of the third team of the Ministry of National Security," the man replied, pointing to the two people behind him, "This is my team member, Xu Mingyi and Wang Yong."

"Oh," Xie Congxin nodded, "He came from the capital?"

"The ones from Sichuan Province happen to be on mission there," Yu Lei said.

Hearing this, Xie Congxin raised his head and scanned around. Yu Lei's skin was dark, he was tall, and he was wearing a loose sports cardigan. He looked 1.9 meters tall and had strong muscles.

The latter two are thinner. The taller one is Xu Mingyi, who wears glasses, and the shorter one is Wang Yong, who looks ordinary.

"Can you reach the courtyard?" Xie Congxin took out a cell phone with a black screen from his pocket, "My phone is out of battery, is there any signal outside now?"

Yu Lei shook his head, "I can't get in touch, there is no signal."

"How did the courtyard get in touch with you?" Xie Congxin unpacked another pack of beef jerky, and ate all kinds of weird snacks for a week, only this one was relatively to his taste, and it happened to be the last pack left.

Yu Lei said: "Sometimes I can receive a little signal, but it is not stable, and it will disappear soon."

Xie Congxin nodded thoughtfully, chewed beef jerky and got up from the chair, his mouth puffed up like a hamster, "Have you brought any medicine? I hurt my arm, help me wrap it up."

As he spoke, he lifted up the sleeve of his left hand, revealing a large wound, because the epidermis was disinfected with alcohol every day, and it was not festered, and it was still clean.

Yu Lei's complexion changed, "How did you get hurt?"

Xie Congxin narrowed his eyes and looked at him, "The glass was cut, and it fell during the earthquake."

Yu Lei was obviously relieved, and his eyes drifted to Xu Mingyi who was next to him. Xu Mingyi nodded, and Yu Lei said, "There is medicine in the car, academician Xie will come downstairs with us first."

Xie Congxin nodded, handed the beef jerky in his hand to Wang Yong, who was the smallest, and said kindly, "Eat a little? It tastes good."

Wang Yong paused, showing a weird expression, not because he hesitated to take it, but a little defensive, as if the bag of beef jerky had been poisoned.

Yu Lei picked it up for him, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Xie Congxin didn't seem to notice Wang Yong's expression at all, smiled, turned back to the computer, opened the file, and typed a few words quickly.

Yu Lei and the others stood at the door, but they didn't see what he typed. He pulled out the USB flash drive, took off his white coat and hung it on the back of the chair, and changed back into his cardigan jacket, "Let's go, take me to school first Guest house, my personal computer is there, I have to get it back."

Yu Lei and the two behind him looked at each other, showing hesitation, "Academician Xie doesn't know what's going on outside, does he?"

Xie Congxin turned to look at him, "Oh? What's going on outside?"

Yu Lei said: "Zombies are everywhere, and they bite anyone they see. If they are bitten, they will either die, or they will be infected and mutated within an hour."

"It's about the same as what I guessed," Xie Congxin smiled, "I've seen a few."

"It's too dangerous," Yu Lei said, "there are too many people on the other side of the school, it's better not to go, just go through the door here."

"No," Xie Congxin refused, "Do you know why the courtyard asked you to pick me up?"

Yu Lei: "Why?"

Xie Congxin played with the foldable U disk in his hand, "The zombies you are talking about are caused by a new type of virus, which probably came from a meteorite that fell eight days ago. My parents were involved in a meteorite carrying the virus more than [-] years ago. The research of the project team has left a lot of information, which is stored in my computer, which is of great significance to the production of antiviral drugs, so the hospital must pick me up, and you must also accompany me to get that computer. "

As soon as this remark came out, the eyes of Yu Lei and the other two changed. Although he tried his best to suppress it, Xie Congxin still saw a little excitement in his eyes.

"Really?" Yu Lei deliberately lowered his voice, "Can the virus be cured?"

Xie Congxin half-closed his eyelids to hide the deep meaning in his eyes, and then smiled: "Of course, nothing is impossible."

Several people went downstairs.

Yu Lei and the others drove a Maverick with a license plate from Sichuan Province. Xie Congxin tapped the silver-gray car shell on the back of his finger, "Where did you get the car?"

Yu Lei pressed the key to unlock it, "I picked it up on the road."

Xie Congxin smiled and said nothing.

Several people got into the car, Xie Congxin sat on the right side of the back seat, Yu Lei locked the doors and windows, started the car, and slowly drove away from the bottom of the teaching building, "Don't get out of the car when you encounter anything, go to the guest house to get the computer Let's go now."

Xie Congxin propped his elbows on the edge of the car window, with his face resting on the back of his hands, "Of course, I also hope to go back to the courtyard soon."

Yu Lei and Wang Yong sat in the front, and Xie Congxin and Xu Mingyi sat in the back. After driving out of the parking garage at the bottom of the teaching building, there were more people on the road. When they heard the sound of the car engine, they all turned their stiff necks, and their eyes almost came out of their eyes. His blood red eyes looked over.

Then they chased after them, the speed was far beyond the level of ordinary people, Yu Lei had to speed up to get rid of them.

Compared with the Xu Kaifeng he had once experienced, these infected people had more significant lesions on their bodies, which made them somewhat out of human form and could be recognized at a glance.

"Tell me," Xie Congxin looked out the car window, "How much do you know about them?"

"You mean these 'zombies'?" Xu Mingyi asked.

Since the meeting, Yu Lei has been talking. It was the first time Xu Mingyi spoke. Xie Congxin looked him sideways, noncommittal, and motioned him to continue.

"The action is fast and aggressive," Xu Mingyi said, "just like in the movie."

"Apocalyptic science fiction films," Xie Congxin smiled, "I don't really like this genre, most of them don't talk about science."

Xu Mingyi: "The current situation is almost the same as that of movies. Academician Xie thinks you can still talk about science?"

"Give me enough time," Xie Congxin said, "I can fully explain why the virus causes human disease, causes a short-term increase in physical fitness, and changes in body appearance. For example, why they are very aggressive. It is because of the characteristics of the virus itself. The metabolic mechanism, without an enzyme system, must parasitize in living cells, engulf nucleotides and amino acids, and then transcribe and proliferate in a replication manner, so the infected person shows aggressiveness to the uninfected person, which is the self-reproduction of this new type of virus s method."

"..."

The other three people in the car were silent tacitly.

Even if Xie Congxin has already said it very simply, as simple as a certain encyclopedia, people without a biological background are still confused after hearing it.

"In short," Xie Congxin summarized, "in order to survive, the virus needs to constantly replenish new proteins."

"So you want to bite people?" Xu Mingyi understood, "Even eat people?"

"Yes," Xie Congxin said, "so we need to eat, manipulate the existing hosts to find new ones."

Wang Yong, who was sitting in the front row, whispered, "It sounds pretty smart..."

"No, the virus itself does not have intelligence. Strictly speaking, it is not even a living thing." Xie Congxin rested his chin on the back of his hand, "It is the human body's instinct that makes it possess such abilities."

"……What's the meaning?"

The topic has entered the range that ordinary people can't understand. Xie Congxin said bluntly: "It means that as long as the infected human body dies completely, the virus will lose its activity and will not spread again."

Xu Mingyi understood, and said: "Indeed, the body will not move when it is rotten to a certain extent. Attacking the heart is the fastest way. I have tried it."

Xie Congxin nodded, "Do you have a weapon? Give me one."

Xu Mingyi took out a short knife from his pocket.

Xie Congxin took it, took off the leather case and took a look, "...a fruit knife?"

Xu Mingyi: "Use this to be safe, don't hurt yourself."

Xie Congxin showed disgust, but still put the knife in his pocket.

The B campus of Chongcheng University is not particularly big. After driving for only a few minutes, it has already entered the living area, and there are more shadows of students.

Yu Lei's worry was not unreasonable. The guest house was located on the west side of the school living area, with dense buildings and indeed a lot of people. They were attracted by the sound of cars and gradually gathered over.

It would not be a problem if you were driving an armored vehicle and ran over it directly, but an ordinary car hitting a human body at high speed would cause a lot of damage to the body, so Yu Lei had to control the steering wheel to avoid the students who came one after another, and the waves were higher than the waves .

"Hearing and eyesight are still preserved," Xie Congxin continued to observe, "may even be strengthened to a certain extent."

At this time, Yu Lei suddenly turned the steering wheel to the right, and everyone leaned to the left due to inertia. The car body dodged a female student who was hitting her head on the windshield with outstretched arms, and the rearview mirror hit the girl's waist, sending her flying Two meters away!

Hearing the sound of the solid impact, the bones should be smashed. Wang Yongli heard it the most clearly from the nearest. He felt a dull pain in his waist, but he saw the girl in the rearview mirror with an expressionless face, shaking her stiff joints. As if nothing happened, he slowly stood up from the ground, joined the team following the car, and chased after the car again.

"Brother Lei!" Wang Yong had goosebumps all over his body, "Catching up again!"

The car was driving like a bumper car, and the sound of flesh and blood hitting the car body could be heard every few seconds. Yu Lei went crazy and shouted, "I can't shake it off!"

The guest house is located in the corner of the living area, which can be said to be deep into the enemy's hinterland.There were students rushing towards them from all directions, and there were hundreds of people behind the car. Xie Congxin grabbed the handle of the car roof to barely sit still, "Captain Yu, stop."

"Can't stop!" Yu Lei almost twisted onto the flower bed, and the car bumped violently between the upper and lower tires, "We can't outrun them after getting out of the car!"

"What are you running for?" Xie Congxin knocked on the car window, "The guest house is going too far."

Yu Lei had no choice but to slam on the brakes, the car stopped firmly at the entrance of the guest house, Xie Congxin quickly got out of the car, and said to the three people in the car: "Wait for me here."

Yu Lei immediately said: "You can't let him go alone! You have to watch him!"

Xu Mingyi said: "Let's lure the zombies away, Wang Yong will follow him, and come back immediately after getting the computer!"

Wang Yong immediately opened the door and got out of the car, and chased after him.