Cowardly little zombies just want to live

Compared with detecting messy data, checking the monitoring is the easiest job, but it is more time-consuming.

Just like now, there are more than 150 files for the surveillance video of the hospital alone, covering almost all the surveillance of the hospital during that period of time.

Fortunately, there were three of them by the pool, and they were barely enough.

"Let's watch the hospital's video first." The fat man clicked on the folder sent by Shen Sinian, and immediately there were more than 150 surveillance files on the big screen in front of him.

Poolside and the others first clicked on the surveillance screen at the gate of the hospital. Now the most urgent task is to find out where those infected people are going to prevent them from infecting more people.

The gates of the hospitals in the city are very wide and large enough for four or five cars to pass in parallel.

Therefore, when they saw more than 200 people at the poolside, wearing white coats and hospital gowns, swaggering through the gate, they all felt creepy!

"Aren't they avoiding people? This is too rampant!" The fat man exclaimed in surprise.

Poolside rubbed his arms, he felt a little chill, coming from the bottom of his heart.

It wasn't that he was scared because he saw this battle, but because of the appearance of these people, they were like walking dead, without any expression, their bodies were stiff, and they were heading in the same direction.

This scene is really uncomfortable.

They kept adjusting the monitoring screen by the pool, and saw this group of people walking along the spacious road in the dark.

The picture is played at four times speed, and this group of people seems to have a clear destination.

When they walked all the way to the ancient courtyard scenic area outside the second ring road, the group of people finally stopped.

The fat man hastily turned off the double speed, and the three of them stared at the screen closely.

The group of people stood still for about 3 minutes, and then they suddenly started to move.

They spread out and entered various alleys.

You know, this scenic area is a building handed down from ancient times. It used to be a residential area and is famous for its many alleys.

Therefore, when these people entered the alley separately, it was difficult to find them again.

"Let's keep an eye on each of them first to see their final destination." The fat man said, "I think their destinations should all be in the same place."

Chipan and Xiaoyi immediately nodded.

The three of them chose a tracker one by one and looked it up on their computers.

After 5 minutes, all three of them were stunned.

There is no other reason than that the people they were staring at all disappeared at different sewer entrances.

Their bodies are too soft, and they can easily enter those drains or sewer wells.

After entering the sewer, no matter what they did, it would be difficult for them to find their whereabouts by the pool.

"The sewers in the city extend in all directions. It is estimated that they will all appear in other places in the end, and then rejoin to reach their destination." The fat man sighed and rubbed his hair irritably.

In order to prove their idea, several people followed the pictures of several infected people. Sure enough, they all entered the sewer in the end.

Chipan frowned and asked the fat man, "Brother Bao, do you want to tell Brother Tong about this first?"

The fat man nodded. He picked up the walkie-talkie and was about to call Tong He down, but Tong He had already arrived.

"How's the investigation going?" Tong He walked up to the fat man and sat down.

The fat man told his findings again, and Tong He immediately watched the scene of the group of people missing in the sewer again.

"Sure enough." Tong He nodded and said, "I'll talk to the teacher first."

After speaking, he called Shen Sinian and said, "Teacher, we guess that the infected person should have gone to the Moat River Reservoir."

Shen Sinian didn't ask him the specific reason, but only said that he would immediately reconcile with Xie Yulou to go to the reservoir to investigate, and would pass the news to the other members of the suppression team, and let everyone go to the reservoir to gather immediately.

After hanging up the phone, Tong Hecai explained: "We just studied the bodies of Dr. Lu and Xiao Zhang on it, and found that this parasitic earthworm likes a cool and humid environment, and their emotions will be soothed in this environment." come down."

"Just now I was suspecting that they might choose to live in a wet place with water, and then you told me that they entered the sewer. The sewers in Qiyang extend in all directions, but they all lead to the water purification plant downstream of the moat, so I I guess they may have gone to the moat reservoir."

Poolside suddenly said: "So it is!"

The fat man was a little worried: "I don't know if they have enough people, should I also go there?"

"Enough is enough. Our top priority now is to find out how the parasitic earthworms are infected. I hope you can find some clues from these materials." Tong He believed them.

The fat man nodded: "Okay, what about you?"

Tong He said: "I still want to go up and continue to analyze the two experimental subjects to see how they survive and parasitize. Our mission is the same."

"Okay." The fat man patted him on the shoulder.

Tong He went back upstairs again, and the three of them by the pool also started a new round of inspection.

This time, they opened the ward screen of the first infected Civil Affairs Bureau staff member. The screen was enlarged, and everyone could see the staff member's face clearly.

According to the data, they knew the identity information of the staff at the poolside.

The worker's name is Chen Yushan, 32 years old, unmarried, and has no relatives or reasons in Qiyang.

The fat man sighed, and said, "The hospital wants to contact his parents, but his parents are in his hometown, which is a border town, and there has been no signal for a long time, so they can't be contacted at all."

What he said was conservative, in fact, they didn't even know whether his parents were alive or not.

"Forget it, let's watch the surveillance." The fat man shook his head, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but didn't light it.

Chipan also felt very uncomfortable. He raised his hand and patted the fat man on the shoulder, and then watched the surveillance with him.

For the first 5 minutes of monitoring, everything was normal.

Chen Yushan also woke up from a coma. Doctors and nurses re-examined him, then comforted him and asked him to stay in the hospital for two more days, just in case.

Chen Yushan's attitude is also very good, but it always makes people feel that he is a little absent-minded, as if he is thinking about something.

Five minutes later, the doctors and nurses left the ward, and Chen Yushan was the only one left in the room.

Chen Yushan stared out the window in a daze for a while, then suddenly stood up and walked quickly to the door of the ward.

He locked the door, and then looked out through the glass window on the ward door, with a strange posture.

After watching for 2 minutes, he turned around quickly and crawled on the ground on all fours. He climbed all the way to the window, and then climbed to the window smoothly, like a gecko.

He opened the window, and with an incredible posture and softness, he got out of the gap in the guardrail and crawled downstairs.

Before he had time to be surprised by his behavior, Chipan immediately called up the monitoring file of the ward downstairs, and the monitoring screen changed immediately, turning into a new ward.

This is a multi-person ward. There are three patients, all young and strong men. It seems that they came here together after being injured on the construction site.

In addition to the three of them, there were five or six equally dark and strong men, all wearing engineering uniforms, and some of them were holding hard hats in their hands. They probably came to visit their colleagues.

From the indoor monitoring, it can be found that their windows are open. Although there are protective fences, they can't stop Chen Yushan from approaching at all.

"Is he going to come in?" Chipan looked at the video nervously.

Because he paid special attention, he could clearly see half of Chen Yushan's face protruding from the upper edge of the window. He seemed to be observing the people in the room.

The fat man leaned forward slightly, and said, "Are these people eligible for his host selection?"

"Probably." Chipan wrung his fingers nervously.

Chen Yushan hung upside down in that position for about a minute, then he suddenly left the window.

"Isn't it suitable?" Fatty was shocked. He thought that such a young and strong laborer would meet their selection criteria.

Chipan hurriedly searched in the folder, and found the surveillance footage outside the inpatient building.

He clicked on the screen, and everyone finally saw Chen Yushan's current state.

I saw that his body had turned into that bloody earthworm shape again, but his head still kept the original shape of Chen Yushan.

He quickly crawled on the outer wall of the inpatient department, and every time he came to a window, he would look in, sometimes for a minute, sometimes for only two seconds.

"What the hell is he doing?" The fat man shivered.

Chipan shook his head, he was not much smarter than Fatty, if Shen Sinian and the others were there, maybe they could have other guesses.

Just walking around outside the building, after about half an hour, Chen Yushan actually returned to his ward.

After returning to the ward, he changed back into a human form, took a shower in the bathroom, changed into a new hospital gown, and then fell asleep on the bed!

Poolside and Fatty looked at each other in disbelief.

Xiao Yi scratched his head, wondering: "Whoever he looks at, he will be parasitized?"

The fat man was shocked: "Fuck, that's too scary!"

"Probably not." Chipan thought for a while, and said: "If that's the case, we are probably all infected. And when Dr. Lu was infected, it was also because he touched its tentacles, so it should be because of contact. Infected?"

The fat man nodded: "That makes sense, let's see."

He speeded up the surveillance video to twice the speed, and then, as Chipan expected, when the nurse came in to make rounds again, something happened.

The nurse came in pushing the infusion supplies trolley and walked to the bed. Chen Yushan also woke up, half-sit up and looked at the nurse.

The nurse asked him how he felt with a smile, and then took his hand, ready to give him an infusion.

Chen Yushan suddenly said, "Nurse."

"Huh?" The nurse looked up at him.

"My throat seems to be a little uncomfortable, can you help me check?" Chen Yushan asked.

The nurse nodded and gave up the infusion first, but approached him and asked him to open his mouth.

Chen Yushan stared at the nurse for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth.

The nurse took out the small flashlight she carried with her, turned it on and shone it on his throat, and looked carefully.

Suddenly, Chen Yushan's mouth opened wide, just like Dr. Lu's before, it became bigger than his head, and countless wriggling tentacles stretched out from his throat.

One of the tentacles directly penetrated the nurse's mask and pierced into her mouth.

Then, something even weirder happened, Chen Yushan actually raised his hand, and directly tore off the tentacle that had entered the nurse's mouth from his throat, and the tentacle immediately swam into the nurse's body!

The nurse didn't have time to scream the whole time, because the tentacles were too fast!

Even if the poolside adjusts the video speed to the slowest, it is still difficult to see the movement track of the tentacles!

After the tentacles entered the nurse's body, Chen Yushan's mouth returned to its original shape. The corners of his lips curled up in a strange arc, and he looked at the nurse whose eyes were starting to freeze.

"Go." He said softly.

The nurse nodded, changed the mask and put on a new one.Then she pushed the infusion cart and left the ward.

"Sure enough, if the tentacles enter the body, they will be infected!" Chipan exclaimed in surprise.

They were not sure about the infection method before, and even thought that they would be infected if they touched the tentacles like Dr. Lu, but now it seems that this thing is not strong enough.

It is also the same as the zombie virus, it needs to touch and enter the human body before it can work.

The fat man nodded, immediately picked up the walkie-talkie on the table, and said, "Tong He, we may have found a way of infection!"

Tong He immediately said, "I'll go down right away."

Soon, Tong He came to the analysis room again.

Chipan immediately showed him the picture of Chen Yushan infecting the nurse. After watching it, Tong He called Shen Sinian: "Teacher, the tentacles can only be infected when they enter the human body, but that thing moves very fast. The power is also very strong, enough to break through the flesh and enter the human body."

In fact, they had suspected this way of infection for a long time. As early as at the gate of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Xie Yulou and Chipan already knew how powerful the tentacles were, and they also told Shen Sinian and Tong He about it in full, but because there was no Real data support, so Tong and the others have not been sure.

Now that it is really confirmed, the field team will have an extra level of protection, as long as the tentacles are not allowed to get close.

After the notification, Tong He simply didn't go upstairs for the time being, and watched the surveillance with them by the pool.

After finding the infection method, we also need to find out their host selection conditions.

They divided the work and checked the situation of each ward separately.

Later, they found out that since the nurse was infected, more and more people were infected.

Nurses infect other patients and colleagues, and infected people infect more.

"Have you found any pattern?" Fatty wrinkled his whole face.

Xiao Yi shook his head: "It's a mess, there are men and women, tall and short, fat and thin, and the ages are also different."

Neither Chipan nor Tong He spoke.

Poolside carefully compared the surveillance images they screened out. The total number of infected patients and nurses was more than two hundred.

They are just like what Xiaoyi said, there is no rule at all, as if the parasitic conditions of these tentacles are randomly selected.

"No, isn't the ward number of these people a bit familiar?" Chipan suddenly asked.

Fatty and Xiaoyi all leaned over to watch.

Poolside opened the picture of Chen Yushan walking on the wall of the inpatient building again, and they compared the room numbers of these infected people one by one again. After that, they found that the rooms where these infected people lived were actually Chen Yushan who stayed at the window for a long time. The short ones!

Tong He hadn't seen the scene of Chen Yushan's "patrolling the building" before, but now he understood it instantly when he compared it by the poolside.

"Xiaochi, tell me the ward number, and I'll ask the hospital to provide patient information," Tong He said.

Poolside hurriedly recorded those room numbers and showed them to Tong He.

Tong He dialed out the phone: "Hi Dean, I am Tong He from the Biological Research Institute of the Seventh Research Institute, and I am in charge of investigating this case. I will provide you with some ward numbers, and I hope you can send me the patient files." share."

The dean immediately said: "I am about to contact you. Just now, Dr. Shen asked us to count the files of missing patients and medical staff. I will send them to you right now."

"Okay, hard work." Tong He told him his email.

One minute later, 1 sent two files, including Chen Yushan's.

The four began to compare the file information of these people, and the more they checked, the more frightened everyone became.

These people, more or less, all have heart problems.

Some of them were old and had heart disease, some were fat that oppressed the heart due to obesity, and some were young but under great psychological pressure, and they were sent after staying up all night.

"So, these people all have heart problems?" The fat man was very surprised.

But Tong He shook his head and said: "This is a superficial statement. In fact, their host selection should be specially selected for those with weak psychological endurance, so that they can be controlled. Dr. Lu has been doing a lot of work recently, and he wants to help the Third Hospital as an undercover agent. , so I was under a lot of pressure, so I was parasitized."

"Moreover, this is not the only condition. When there is no better choice, the parasite will also select materials on the spot, just like Xiao Zhang. But one thing remains the same, that is, the host must be well controlled."

Tong He seemed to be explaining to them, and also seemed to be talking to himself, he continued: "If you say that, it proves that this thing is not that powerful, and the power to control people is not as strong as we imagined, even From the way they act, they're not smart at all."

Whether Chen Yushan turned into a prototype and climbed outside the building, or more than 200 infected people swaggered out of the hospital, it proved that they were not "smart people" who were cautious.

And the only thing they can be called smart is that they went into the sewer separately, but this is not a very clever method. After all, as long as you know their habit of being wet, and contact Qiyang's underground pipe sewage drainage method, you can Know where they are going.

Poolside suddenly said: "So that's the case. Then, don't our team members have to worry about being parasitized?"

Because in terms of psychological endurance, the members of the suppression team, especially those who went to the field, were stronger than each other.

"Theoretically, this is the case, but more research data is needed. Don't tell the Jie team about this, lest they relax their vigilance." Tong He pinched his brows and said, "Let's do this first, I'll go upstairs Try it out again."

The fat man asked him, "What about us?"

Tong He said: "There's nothing going on here, if you want to go to the Jie team, they can do it."

"Farewell, no one will take care of us after we leave here." The fat man stretched his waist and said to the poolside: "The three of us go up too, and see how cultural people work."

Chipan actually wanted to go find Xie Yulou, but as Fatty said, if they all left, then if something happened here, Tonghe himself would not be able to handle it.

So, he also took Xiaoyi, and followed the fat man upstairs.

The academicians in white coats were all so busy that their feet touched the ground. The three of them found a corner by the pool, and each of them moved a stool to sit on, without causing trouble to others.

"Xiaochi, let me ask you something." The fat man said to Chipan mysteriously.

Poolside nodded, and said without defense at all: "What's the matter?"

The fat man laughed and asked in a low voice, "What did you and the boss go to the Civil Affairs Bureau for?"

Chipan subconsciously picked his hand, cast his eyes randomly, and said, "That's right."

"What did you just go? What did you guys do?" The fat man scratched his heart and lungs curiously: "Isn't it true that you have obtained a certificate?"

Chipan was startled, looking at the fat man's eyes filled with the words "how do you know".

The fat man was even more shocked than him: "You really got it?! Boss is not a man!"

"Ah?" Chipan wondered, "What's wrong?"

"No, you kid is really stupid." The fat man asked three times in a row: "Did he propose to you? Do you really like the boss? Why do you follow what he says?"

Xiaoyi looked at the two of them curiously, and asked Chipan after hearing the words: "Xiaochi, are you married? Are you a reconciliation team?"

Poolside nodded: "Yeah."

"Oh." Xiao Xiao nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Oh what!" The fat man looked at the poolside seriously, and the poolside was completely dumbfounded.

Chipan pursed his lower lip, and asked the fat man cautiously, "Shouldn't I get the certificate?"

"It's not that I shouldn't have it." The fat man frowned and asked him seriously: "I want to ask you, did you choose it voluntarily, or did you refuse the boss because you were embarrassed?"

The fat man knows Xie Yulou very well, so he knows that although Xie Yulou always teases the poolside, he really likes the poolside. This is not only the fat man, but everyone with eyes can see it.

And when it comes to this kind of marriage, Xie Yulou is not the kind of person who will really fool the poolside, there must be something wrong with it.

But let's not talk about this first, Fatty's main worry now is what the poolside thinks.

Although their brothers always make jokes about Chipan and Xie Yulou, they all understand that Chipan doesn't really like Xie Yulou that much.

So the fat man would be shocked when he suddenly found out that the two of them had obtained the certificate.

Poolside was disturbed by his serious attitude and didn't have time to be shy.

He thought about it carefully, at first, he agreed to be Xie Yulou's boyfriend voluntarily, and he didn't hate the feeling of being intimate with Xie Yulou at all, so of course he is willing to accept Xie Yulou's certificate now.

And thinking of those two small red notebooks, he felt warm in his heart and a little bit happy.

"Xiaochi?" The fat man raised his hand and waved in front of his eyes: "Why are you in a daze? Could it be that the boss is fooling you?"

Poolan came back to his senses and hurriedly explained: "No, I did it voluntarily, and I am also very happy."

Xiao Yi raised his hand and said, "I testify, I feel Xiao Chi's mood, he is very happy! So I am also very happy!"

Saying that, Xiao Yi's smile was even brighter than that of the poolside.

Fatty: "..."

No, why did he suddenly discover that Xiaoyi and Chipan look alike?

It's not about his looks, but his simple and clean expression of thinking, his way of speaking, his expression, etc. The more he thinks about it, the more he looks like Poolside.

The fat man was a little confused, and he digressed a bit: "Xiaochi, have you noticed that Xiaoyi and Baixiang both resemble you so much?"

Chi Pan was a little confused by the topic of his sudden deviation, but he still explained: "Because I cured them."

"That's right." Little nodded, proudly said: "I'm the first zombie to come into contact with Xiaochi's breath when he awakened, and Baixiang is the first zombie to restore his body through Xiaochi's blood, so we can all be better." Feel Xiaochi's emotions. But other zombies can't, they are not the first, so they are not qualified to empathize with Wang!"

Chipan understood that the awakening that Xiaoyi mentioned should be when he began to be able to treat zombies, and the first person he treated at that time was indeed Xiaoyi.

And just like what Xiaoyi said, because Xiaoyi and Baixiang are special, unconsciously, their behavior will become more and more like the poolside, and their emotional perception of the poolside will be stronger than other zombies powerful.

At the same time, their loyalty to the poolside will also be the highest.

Although other zombies are also loyal to Poolside and can feel Poolside’s mood, they only have a vague feeling, and they have to be close enough. Only special characters like Xiaoyi and Baixiang, and higher Only the zombies of the lowest level have the opportunity to empathize with the poolside.

The fat man sighed: "Xiaochi, you can do it. You are only 19 years old, and you are already married and have a child. These two are still loyal to you, big brother!"

Chipan hurriedly said: "No, they are not sons, but my friends."

Xiao Yi said seriously: "You can be a son."

"No, no, no." Poolan hurriedly waved his hands.

Fatty laughed so loudly that all the academicians in the laboratory looked at him.

Chipan hurriedly raised his hand to cover his mouth, and then smiled at everyone apologetically.

The academicians are also very kind, and no one blames them.

Fatty finally calmed down, held back his laughter, and promised that he would no longer care about the marriage and his son by the pool.

But there was no silence for 2 minutes, and he couldn't help but asked Xiaoyi: "Xiaoyi, what is your original name? We can't always call you Xiaoyi. And what did you do before? It depends on your age." Big, are you still in school?"

Xiaoyi paused, then whispered: "You guys should continue to call me Xiaoyi, my previous name didn't sound good. I was an orphan and didn't go to college. When the accident happened, I was selling cold drinks at the pier, and then accidentally Infected, and then you will be caught."

He touched his nose and said, "The solution team even poked my nose off, it hurts."

The fat man patted Xiao Yi's head across the pool, and comforted him: "It's okay, no one will poke your nose in the future."

Xiaoyi: "...Okay."

Chipan smiled, but his heart was always empty, he seemed to want to solve Yulou a little bit.

It was obvious that they had only been separated for half the night, but just like in Philadelphia back then, he had already started to feel sad.

His thoughts drifted a little far away, and he couldn't help but think of what the fat man said just now.

Does he like Xie Yulou?

Should like it.

But Chipan didn't quite know what it was like to like someone.

He was a little annoyed, he hadn't watched two TV shows in his two lifetimes, and there were almost no other forms of entertainment, let alone friends, no one would approach him at all.

His human memory is full of memories of him studying hard and his desire to get out of his little uncle's custody.

So now, he doesn't even know whether he likes Xie Yulou or not.

However, he knew that Xie Yulou seemed to like him very much, he could feel it.

Alas, Poolside sighed.

Falling in love is so difficult, it takes both physical and mental effort.