Chapter 161 Giant Evolved Species
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For Min Min, this was a nightmare.
She had never thought that she would be outdoors without a safe shelter with her family on the upcoming crazy and bloody night.
November was her favorite season of the year in Zhoucheng. It was slightly warm during the day and cool at night, and the air was full of the fresh scent of grass and trees.
At that time, she liked to take her parents and brother downstairs for a walk after dinner.
The family of four always talked and laughed. Occasionally, they would go to the fruit store near the community to buy some of their favorite fruits. When passing by the supermarket, they would always buy some ice cream and a few bags of potato chips. Then, they and their brother would quickly finish the whole ice cream while their mother was nagging...
But now, they are forced to leave their father behind, leave their home, and embark on the road to escape from the city.
Such a plain and warm time will never come again, and will never go back.
Perhaps because he and his classmates relied on mutual help along the way, escaped from L City in a very dangerous and difficult way, and finally returned to Zhou City safely, Min Min unconsciously trusted his companions in distress.
However——
"Min Min, your brother is like this now, we really can't continue to take you with us..."
"Yeah, you're hurting everyone by doing this, hurry up and get him out!"
"Whose family doesn't have someone infected here, and you're not the only one who's unlucky! We've all finally gotten here, why should I take risks for you!"
"Can you guarantee that he hasn't been infected!? Can you guarantee it? What guarantee do you have!?"
"Don't beg us, we're begging you, please, we want to live, we'll be able to reach the shelter tomorrow, I don't want to be blocked outside the shelter because of infection!"
"Don't waste your time talking to them, we can't take off our masks to eat with peace of mind with him here, and we can't have a good rest, get him out!"
"Hurry up, do you want to kill everyone to feel at ease? If you don't want to, take him with you!"
"Get out, get out--"
"Get out--"
...
Those people are from the same community as her, and many of them live in the same building. When they occasionally met in the past, they would greet each other with a smile and exchange a few words.
In the morning, after she tidied her back, she began to check the corridor through the cat's eye. There is a window in the corridor, but near the stairs, there are large shadows. The situation in the elevator is even worse. From her current angle, she can see the three infected people hiding and sleeping inside.
She felt that with the fighting power of the three of them, there was no way to rush to the first floor safely without waking up several infected people. It was almost impossible to leave the building through the main door.
Fortunately, their house was not high, on the third floor. So in the end, she decided to take her mother and brother directly to the balcony and leave the building from the outer wall of the residential building.
In this way, as long as they were careful to avoid the glass windows of the residents on the two floors below and avoid being attacked by the infected hiding inside, they could leave safely in the sun.
Her brother was a member of the school mountaineering team, and she also liked rock climbing. There were more professional ropes at home, and they just had to take good care of their mother and they could land smoothly.
In the end, the family of three left the building safely with this method. As they were climbing down, many people in the same building saw their actions on the balcony.
Several residents living on the lower floors followed suit, tying ropes with ropes if they had them, and tying clothes and sheets without ropes, and they all managed to escape successfully in the end.
In the same community, other people were also packing their things to go to the shelter. Their community was in the northern part of the city center, and the distance was almost the same whether they were going to the shelter in the eastern suburbs of the city or the Pianshan shelter in the southwest.
The community and the road looked safe during the day, as long as you were careful to avoid bloodstains, human tissue, dark corners, and buildings with black holes on the roadside.
They finally decided to act collectively and go to the Pianshan shelter in the southwest together, because there were fewer high-rise buildings on the way there, which meant fewer dangerous shadows. This idea was proposed by Min Min.
When they were in Diguo, they had planned the escape route from Baicheng in this way.
Min Min was very smart and knew that there was no adult male in her family of three, and she could not become the main force of the team in terms of body shape and force.
But she had a smart mind and could make up for the shortcomings of the three of them. So when it came to collective action, she was very open-minded and very active in making plans.
Most people in the community parked their cars in the basement, but no one dared to go to the basement, which was where the infected gathered.
Some people's cars were parked on the ground, but obviously they could not accommodate everyone, and everyone did not want the team to disperse. Fortunately, someone found a working bus on the road next to the community.
This kind of car is better than a bus, because the windows are large and the entire compartment is light-transmitting, so it is impossible for the infected to hide inside.
After clearing the bodies from the car, everyone set off smoothly. So far, this makeshift team was quite harmonious.
But the journey from the city to the suburbs was not as smooth as they had imagined. Some sections of the road were almost completely blocked by vehicles and bodies. It was obvious that a fight had broken out on these roads at night.
There were bodies of infected people at the scene, but there were more bodies of rescue workers in combat uniforms. There were several cars stacked on top of each other, and the spaces between the cars were full of human bodies and severed limbs. Blood flowed out from the gaps between the cars, flowing over the car bodies like a waterfall, and the air around them was filled with a nauseating smell of blood.
The bus stopped, and everyone looked at the scene in panic. Because they were too scared, they did not notice the abnormality of these cars. They hurried and quickly left these areas.
The bus had been taking a detour. It was originally heading southwest, but later it slowly changed its route to the east, trying to cross the bloody area.
In the end, someone found that with their current location, it was actually closer to the shelter on the outskirts of the east city. In
the end, the route was changed halfway, and the road to the east of the city was a little smoother. Even though some sections were blocked by the same cars, they could pass by just taking a slight detour.
Although everyone didn't say anything, Min Min could feel that others seemed to blame her because it was her idea to go to the Pianshan Shelter before. This idea wasted a lot of time. They should have planned to go east from the beginning.
At three or four in the afternoon, when everyone found themselves still in the city, they couldn't help but panic.
It was November now, and the sun set earlier, usually at six o'clock. If they were still outside at that time, they would be found by the infected at any minute.
They couldn't survive the whole night on the bus, so they had to find a solid building to hide in and wait until dawn the next day before setting out.
Because it was a temporary plan, and everyone was just an ordinary person with no experience in the apocalypse and no ability to fight, they encountered two waves of infected people lurking in the dark while looking for a building to hide in. Everyone used their self-defense weapons to randomly hit them a few times, and then fled in panic.
Min Min's younger brother Min Cong was contaminated by the blood of the infected person when he encountered the infected person for the second time. At that time, the infected person rushed straight towards their mother. Min Cong was only thirteen years old and had limited strength. After hitting the infected person with a baseball bat, he was grabbed by the other party's backhand.
In a hurry, Min Min didn't know where he got the strength from, and he raised the bone-cutting knife and chopped the infected person's wrist fiercely.
The knife got stuck in the bone, and the infected person's wrist was not cut off, but she successfully diverted the other party's attention. She didn't even want the knife anymore, and pushed down the shelf next to her.
The infected person was suppressed, and she took advantage of the situation to run out with her mother and brother.
Almost at the same moment they stepped out of the shadow, the infected person chased after them. The other party was afraid of the sun, roared at her twice, and shrank back to the dark corner.
Min Min was shaking all over. She protected her brother and mother and got into the car. She hid in the back seat of the car and checked her brother's face.
Sure enough, although he was wearing a mask and a raincoat, his face was still stained with the infected person's blood.
His mother hugged him and cried silently, and Min Min changed his mask for him, wiped the blood off his face with a disinfectant wipe, and then threw the dirty wipes and mask out of the car window.
She thought that no one would notice without evidence, but she didn't know that someone had already discovered the abnormality of the three of them, and someone took photos and videos of her wiping Min Cong's blood with a mobile phone...
They were driven out of the solid building they had finally found. She rushed to the front to fight monsters, while her mother and brother helped to move and clean the bodies in the building. The three of them worked so hard, but the other party only brought up this matter after all the work was done.
The person who said this was her neighbor downstairs, a girl about her age. Her parents were fine, so she was well protected along the way and stayed at the back and did nothing.
The girl's name is Xiaomin, the same as hers. Because they are about the same age and have similar names, people always mention Xiaomin when they mention her. Of course, the latter is usually mentioned in a derogatory way.
Appearance, skin color, figure, upbringing, obedience... There are too obvious differences, and there will always be people who like to talk about these things behind her back.
Minmin doesn't like this kind of talk, but her upbringing makes it impossible for her to say anything more in front of those gossipers, after all, they are all elders. Xiaomin doesn't like to pay attention to her for this reason. She knows all this, but she really didn't expect that she would make trouble at this time. She does
n't understand, even if she wants to drive them away, why didn't she say it earlier, but only after they cleaned up the building where they were hiding. They spent a lot of energy and time, but were chased away when the sun was about to set.
When the three of them left with their bags, Xiaomin chased after them, with some regret and fear on her face.
She said that she didn't mean it, she just wanted others to know that she was not so perfect at all, and she would tell lies. She really didn't expect that others would just chase them away...
"Does it make a difference? The result is already like this, you don't want to hear me say I don't blame you?" Min Min sneered, rejecting the tears of this crocodile, "Remember, I will not forgive you." After she finished speaking, she turned around, supported her mother, and took her brother away.
It would be dark in half an hour. Where could they find another solid building to spend the night?
There are only three of them now. It took more than 20 people to kill two infected people and clear the building...
Later, they saw a raised guardrail on the side of the road two streets away. Inside... was a hospital.
**
Before Youxi heard the movement at the gate of the inpatient building, she first heard the sound of snatching and banging at a distance. But because those noises came from outside the hospital's isolation wall, she automatically ignored them.
The inpatient building has two doors, front and back. The door at the back is a small single-opening door. It does not pay attention to beauty, but is relatively thick and safe.
As for the front door, two types of doors are installed because of lighting and other issues: a full-glass electric sliding door and a double-opening sliding glass door.
The electric glass sliding door was closed at the beginning of the hospital quarantine, and a warning fence for quarantine was placed outside the glass wall on this side, leaving only two double-open glass doors for necessary personnel to enter and exit.
However, these two doors were also closed and locked in the afternoon after Youxi cleaned up the building, and the grid gate was pulled down.
All the broken glass windows in the lobby and rooms on the first floor have also been reinforced by Youxi. The current inpatient building has a very high safety index. As long as no one turns on the lights and makes noise in the building, the infected people outside will not break the door or smash the glass in a targeted manner.
But the fact that the survivors in the building do not cause trouble does not mean that trouble will not come to them.
When Youxi put on protective clothing and came to the lobby on the first floor, there were several survivors lying outside the two double glass doors. Some of them were wearing hospital gowns. It was obvious that they were patients of this hospital. Maybe something went wrong in their original hiding place, so they had to take the risk of escaping at night.
They were staring at the people in the door at this moment, threatening them fiercely, saying that if they didn't open the door, they would smash all the glass. At worst, they would attract infected people and die together!
There were three people in the door, one medical staff member, and two were family members who accompanied them in the past. They held a group meeting in the evening, one to confirm whether there were any infected people who had not yet completely mutated and were still rational in the building, and the other to discuss the night shift.
The duty was decided by drawing lots. The three people were actually afraid. Whenever there was a little noise inside or outside the building, they would panic for a while.
On such a terrible night, people outside wanted to come in, but the people inside looked at each other's blood-stained clothes with suspicion and did not dare to open the door. Who knows if the person who came in after opening the door is a healthy person or an infected person?
The refugees outside the door were threatening with their eyes wide open. They did not want to take the last step unless it was absolutely necessary. They wanted to survive, not die. All the glass in this building was reinforced, and the doors were locked tightly. It looked very safe at a glance.
They have changed several places to hide in the past two days. Previously, they were in the clinic building. There were more people there than here, and there were more mobile personnel. When the chaos occurred, many people did not have time to find a suitable place to take shelter.
For several nights, they could hear roars, cries for help, and fighting coming from nearby.
Someone fell out of the window during the fight, breaking his arms and legs, but he was not dead yet. When he was desperately trying to get up on the ground, the infected person upstairs jumped directly from the open window, like a bloody cannonball, falling directly on him, breaking his stomach, gnawing and biting him...
Some people hid in the same space with their family and friends, thinking they were temporarily safe, but when they turned around, they found that their familiar family and friends were tearing their faces and crying in pain...
...
There were fewer and fewer normal people around them. They were able to survive because they were cruel enough. They pushed out the people who saved them or those who were slow to move to save themselves. They turned around several times and finally hid in a small supermarket at the side door of the hospital this afternoon.
There is water and food here. In addition to the front door, there is only a narrow window in the warehouse at the back. They originally planned to rest for one night and bring more water and food to the shelter the next day. In the evening, they heard faint footsteps. There were outsiders hiding in the milk tea shop next to the supermarket.
They thought they were safe, but as midnight approached, a war broke out on the road across the wall.
First there was the sound of cars, mixed with footsteps, and looting, followed by a huge roar.
This roar was completely different from the roars they had heard before. Compared to human roars, it was more like the sound of a monster, huge, heavy, and deafening.
They heard a crash, as if something heavy fell from a high place and hit something. They
soon found out what it hit, it was people! It was those people holding guns, they shouted to retreat and save people, and there were terrible screams in between. They huddled together and covered their ears, thinking that if they didn't listen, the war outside would end soon.
But the next second, there was a loud bang, and their hiding place was hit by something, and the wall and roof collapsed in half.
They panicked and crawled out of the collapsing building, only to find that the object that hit them was a military truck...
They looked out through the gap in the isolation wall, and the road outside was completely a sea of blood and corpses. Two bloody monsters more than three meters tall stood in the blazing fire, picking up a car beside them and continuing to smash it towards the retreating rescue team.
They were so scared that they almost didn't know how they escaped.
There was only one thought left in their minds, to escape, to escape...
They didn't dare to make any sound, and they couldn't consider whether there were other infected people nearby. They used their hands and feet, rolled and crawled, and passed through the entire hospital, and then saw this building with strict security.
But the people inside dared not open the door!
They had no idea what was outside!
Someone finally couldn't bear it anymore, holding the iron bar in his hand tightly, and was about to smash the glass door in front of him without thinking.
Here, inside the door, a slender figure walked past the other people, took the keys in their hands, bent down to unlock the lock of the grid iron gate, and then pushed it up more than half a person's height, and then unlocked the lock of the glass door.
The group could not wait to get in. The other party locked the door again, then took out the rope and subdued them one by one with extremely fast and neat movements, tied their hands behind their backs, blocked their mouths, and pushed them to the other people.
"They are all covered in blood. Find a floor and lock them all up. We need to observe for two days before deciding whether to release them." You Xi was not doing charity. The reason why she opened the door and let the people who threatened them in was that she didn't want them to continue standing outside and attract infected people.
One of the reasons for tying them up and detaining them was indeed for observation, and the other was naturally because the way the other party threatened them just now was too wanton, and the fierceness in his eyes was obviously not pretended.
She was worried about letting such people walk freely in the building, and they must be locked up.
"Then...what about these three?" The night watchman soon discovered that there were three other people who were not tied up by her. These three people, one old and two young, looked weak and crooked. When those people stood outside the door and threatened them, they stood far away on the other side, feeling anxious but not daring to make a sound.
"These three, come with me to the tenth floor, I will take care of them myself." You Xi checked the door again, confirmed that there were no infected people nearby, and then took the three people to the tenth floor.
The other party followed her quietly and obediently, without saying a word, until the other party took them to the tenth floor, opened an empty ward, and let them in. One of the three people spoke softly: "Xiaoxi?"
You Xi took off her mask and smiled at the other party: "Yes, it's me."
**
Min Min lay on the sofa, feeling this precious sense of security.
The glass of the premium private ward is soundproof, and the monsters and war outside the isolation wall have gradually moved to other sections of the road, so the surroundings have become much quieter.
She took a shower to wash off the dirt and fatigue, changed into clean clothes, and ate something.
The most important thing is that the three of them are now in a safe place, and the other party does not regard her brother as an infected person like a monster.
An hour ago, she took the initiative to speak and told You Xi about this. She
concealed it before because it happened too suddenly, and her brother is still fine. She thought that as long as she stayed away from the others in the team for a while, rested in different rooms, and kept an eye on her brother, she could be responsible for this matter.
She didn't expect that other people's fear of the infected had reached such a point. The news clearly said that blood contact could cause infection, but they were afraid to even breathe in the same building with him, as if her brother had become a monster and would pounce on them at any second.
It was because she knew about other people's fear and rejection that she spoke up at the first time this time and explained her brother's situation.
You Xi hummed, her expression did not change much, she put on her mask again, walked towards her brother, and said she wanted to check on him.
"Don't! He may have been infected..." Min Min was anxious to stop him.
Min Cong also hurriedly dodged: "Sister, I may infect you..."
"It's okay, I'm wearing protective clothing, protective glasses, masks and gloves. In this case, even if I touch your blood, I won't be infected." She lowered her voice to comfort the young boy in front of her who was about the same height as her.
He looks a lot like his sister, with a fair and delicate face, but at this moment, his eyes and face are full of panic and despair. "Don't be afraid, let me see if you are injured."
Min Cong looked at the other party and didn't hide anymore.
You Xi quickly checked the face, head and neck of the young boy in front of him: "... Your brother doesn't seem to be injured?"
"Yes, he is not injured. I was next to him at the time, so I quickly cut the wrist of the infected person, but he held my brother's face with his whole hand at the time, and there was blood on his face..."
You Xi checked the other party's hand again: "Was he wearing a mask at the time?"
"Yes, he was wearing goggles, but the skin on his forehead was directly in contact with the blood."
"Are there any wounds on your body? Has any other part of your body come into contact with blood?"
"No."
"If it's just surface contact, it's too early to say you're infected." You Xi let go of the other person and looked at Min Min. "Let's put it this way. The high-level wards here have two rooms. Let your brother wash and change his clothes first, and then let him stay alone in a room and lock it for observation.
Even if he is unlucky enough to be infected, he won't become a complete mutant all of a sudden. The first stage will first show symptoms such as itchy skin and coughing. It's not until the late second stage that the skin will start to rot, sanity will be lost, and begging and crying will begin. The third stage is that the skin and flesh will be separated from the body, there will be severe pain, the pupils will change color, and the ability to speak will be lost... Normal infected people will attack others in the early stages of this stage."
"I know." Min Min nodded. Her father had mutated
in this way... "As for how the blood was transmitted, it is still under verification. There are also several people in this building who have been exposed to the blood. They have all been separated and guarded."
"So, I might be healthy?" A glimmer of hope ignited in Min Cong's originally gloomy eyes.
"Yeah."
As You Xi nodded, the other party couldn't help but smile: "Great! If I am not infected, then I can continue to protect my sister and my mother!"
"Need to be verified." You Xi reminded the other party.
But this is enough. Min Min supported her mother who began to cry again and forced back the tears that had spread to her eyes.
Still under verification, these few words gave them great hope.
Seeing that they were carrying two large backpacks, You Xi knew that they all had brought supplies, so she did not bring water to them, but told them that if they needed anything, they could go to the next ward to find her.
This is a hospital, and each ward has disinfectant and personal care products. The conditions are no worse than those of a five-star hotel.
Min Min sent her to the door of the ward and first expressed her gratitude to her seriously. Then, she told her one by one about her experience when she was hiding in the milk tea shop.
Including the buildings destroyed by the military truck, and... the giant bloody monster.
**
The next day, except for some people who were isolated because of blood stains and their family members and friends, everyone else prepared to leave the hospital and go to the shelter in the eastern suburbs of the city.
Late last night, some people living on the upper floors saw the bloody battle outside the isolation wall of the hospital.
At that time, they were standing behind the curtains of the glass windows, and only dared to peek out from the gaps. The huge bloody monsters were frightening just by their size, not to mention their terrifying fighting power.
The bullets fired by the troops were almost ineffective against them, and the bombs could only force them to retreat temporarily, but they could crush many people to death by simply smashing down a car.
As long as they thought that there were such terrible mutants in the city, even the hospital building that seemed safe now became fragile. Any iron door or wall would be shattered by it.
Those who wanted to leave got up very early, carrying the backpacks of items they had packed in the early morning, putting on the protective clothing they found in the medical station, and couldn't wait to leave the hospital.
Among the medical staff, two were isolated for observation, and six were completely healthy. They originally wanted to leave two colleagues behind by drawing lots, but someone volunteered to stay.
He had a good relationship with the two isolated medical staff, and he wanted to make sure whether they were infected before going to the shelter.
Someone took the initiative, and the others were naturally happy, so in the end he was the only healthy medical staff left.
Several other medical staff had cars, but the cars of the staff were different from those of the patients' families, and were parked in the ground parking lot, not far behind the inpatient building. They could drive away, which increased a lot of safety.
After watching the majority of the troops leave, the medical staff hurriedly locked the door again. Now in this building, there are more people under quarantine and observation than healthy people, and he can't help but be afraid.
But his worry for his friends outweighs his inner fear.
What's more, not all healthy people are gone. The big guy who lives on the top floor and saved everyone is still there.
You Xi never thought that she would stay in the hospital building for so many days. The first few days were to help Min Min observe her brother's condition.
At the same time, she became curious about that giant mutant, and staying here was also a way to wait and see. If the other party appears again, she will try to fight against it.
"So, currently there are two types of evolved BLOOD infected. One is an intelligent change, and the other is a physical change. Min Min said that their team originally planned to go to the Pianshan Refuge, but was blocked by various piled-up cars and corpses. They had to change their route and finally came to the east.
It would be difficult to deal with the infected who can smash the military truck without heavy weapons. But no matter what type of infected, they are afraid of fire. The temperature of the army's flamethrowers should not be high enough."
And she has [High Temperature Perfume], which can kill the black giant worm that even bullets can't kill instantly. Even if she can't kill this giant mutant instantly, protecting herself should not be a problem.
"Yeah." Across the table, the man with a better complexion responded while concentrating on eating vegetable and fruit salad.
You Xi: ...
This feeling of being able to chat face to face with the system, no matter how many times she comes, she still finds it novel - even if the other party speaks very little.
"Want to go out for a walk?"
He looked up at her and shook his head gently.
For him, the feeling of having a physical body again is very special, especially in a world he has never been to before. The temperature of the sun, the color of the sky, the smell of plants... are completely different from his past world.
Before, he only "saw" through her, and now it is directly transmitted through the five senses, and the feeling is very different.
He likes this feeling very much. Even if this is a doomsday world, he can sit quietly by the window and look at the city outside for a whole day.
"There are quite a few supermarkets near the hospital, most of which are on the ground, all small and medium-sized..."
"..."
You Xi leaned on his temples and looked at him, and continued slowly: "The people in the city evacuated too quickly, so even if they took things, they couldn't take much. Many supplies are just left there and will soon be contaminated, especially some fresh vegetables and fruits. Basically, few people will take them. If a supermarket happens to have a cold storage room, there will be at least dozens of boxes of fruits and fresh vegetables."
"..." He was silent for two seconds, and then said, "Let's set off after breakfast."
In this way, they lived with the hospital as the center, killing monsters and cleaning supermarkets during the day, blocking cameras, and emptying half of the supermarket's supplies, and waiting for giant mutants at night.
Min Min's brother passed the observation period quickly, and his family stayed for the time being.
In addition, of the medical staff who were originally isolated, one was infected with the mutation, and the other successfully passed the observation period. As for the other people who escaped into the hospital building that night, all of them were infected with the mutation, without exception.
Youxi removed the theory that blood contact is infection. Blood contact without wounds will not cause infection.
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