Chapter 46 Darkest Hour
When she went to the first world, because the characters in the world looked exactly like her, their body shape, age, and even many details, You Xi once felt that the apocalyptic world might be the real world.
But when that world ended, the Star House system told her that after she left, the characters in the world would continue to live according to the existing track. Such unscientific things made her feel that this could not be the real world.
Then, she looked like an 18-year-old, and her father and mother looked like her biological parents. Now she looks like a 30-year-old. Whether it was the first world or the three years in the zombie apocalypse, she never had her period...
All of this made her feel that this might just be a virtual world, because only a virtual world can have so many inexplicable phenomena.
Actually, now thinking about it, the Star House that appeared in the stairwell of her apartment was originally something that could not be explained.
But does this mean that the Star House is not real?
The Star House is real, and the cold and neutral voice in her mind is also real. The items she brought back from the apocalyptic world are even more real, and the missioner Luo Rui is also real...
So... at this moment, the world she is in is also real, right?
And why did she come to these worlds to complete the so-called mission?
[Host, please focus on the current mission. ]
The Star House system became indifferent again, just like the warning sound that sounded every time she touched a certain boundary.
Now is different from the beginning. You Xi remembered the reason why she started the apocalyptic world mission ahead of schedule this time, and had to pay attention to this warning.
The time has not come, and sooner or later she will reveal all the mysteries.
**
The three-day incubation period passed quickly.
During these three days, Youxi stayed in the hotel suite without going out. She had done what she could do. Her personal strength was too small to compete with the entire apocalyptic disaster. The
only thing she could do now was to ensure that she would survive until the thirty days were up, complete the mission and leave the world.
After the water supply was cut off, the hotel began to be in chaos. Most of the people who would come to the hotel were not from Hairu City. Everyone knew that the hailstorm only ravaged coastal cities, and the few guests hurriedly packed up and left.
The guests in the hotel left, and the hotel staff held on for a long time. Many people who lived in the city asked for leave to go home. Later, no one asked for leave again. Some staff members took the hotel's supplies and left directly, and some took the supplies and hid in the upstairs room.
Youxi cleans her room several times a day, relying on the two magic tools, [Instant Cleansing Oil] and Star House Warehouse, to ensure that there are no bugs in the room and on her body.
Bugs basically do not move unless they smell blood. As long as she makes sure that she has no wounds on her body, these bugs are almost harmless to her.
And after seeing it several times, Youxi has long been immune, and her sense of disgust has dropped significantly. In addition to insisting on several hours of physical exercise every day, she also changes her eating habits.
She has been eating takeout cooked food these days. First, she really doesn't have the time to cook, and second, cooking is more dangerous and easy to get hurt, so she just gave up.
Breakfast is usually light beef ramen, bone soup wontons, preserved egg and lean meat porridge with soup buns, egg pancakes, fried dough sticks, and pan-fried dumplings.
Because she needs physical exercise, she eats rice for lunch, sometimes with Sichuan dishes such as mouth-watering chicken, Maoxuewang, and hot and sour potato shreds, and sometimes with Cantonese-style double-fried clay pot rice.
The clay pot rice she bought is famous for its honey sauce. The takeaway box is made of aluminum and it is still hot when it is delivered to her.
After the sauce is poured, the transparent slices of bacon and sausage, the green vegetables, and the snow-white fragrant rice are all mixed together, and every bite is salty and juicy.
In the evening, she usually drinks soup and eats seafood together. In addition to Chinese soup, she also stocked up a lot of Korean oxtail vermicelli soup, kimchi tofu clam soup, and spicy beef soup.
She dare not eat raw seafood for the time being, and usually takes already cooked seafood, such as stir-fried clams with scallions, XO stir-fried squid tentacles, steamed grouper, and oyster scrambled eggs.
In addition, desserts are also indispensable. The most eaten is still various milk teas. Occasionally, she will eat things like snow meringue and mousse cake, or supplement some fruits and vitamins.
There is only a short time of three meals a day, which will make her temporarily forget the world she is in and let herself have no distractions.
In fact, she has a vague feeling in her heart that such a closed, quiet and safe day will soon end.
**
The situation outside is not very good, but it was not that bad at the beginning.
At first, because of a series of emergency measures and assistance from other cities, protective clothing, flamethrowers, drinking water, and medicines were delivered in large quantities, which armed and helped some people in time.
At the same time, the fact that insects can parasitize the human body can no longer be concealed. In addition to the group of patients isolated in the hospital, those who were slightly injured on the day of the hail showed emotional problems.
The police and emergency calls were almost blown up, but both the hospital and the police station were overcrowded and seriously understaffed.
In fact, it is not difficult to deal with people who are parasitic and sick. At present, in addition to methods such as electric shock, sedatives are also one of the effective ways to calm patients.
If it really doesn't work, tying the hands and feet to fix them in one place, blindfolding and blocking the mouth is also a last resort.
When the infected and having seizures cannot see others or hear anything for a period of time, the aggression they show will be weakened until they are stimulated by external factors again, at which time they will have another seizure.
This situation is very similar to a mentally ill patient who has lost his mind.
However, people with mental illness are a minority among the minority after all, and there are sufficient human resources and drug resources to watch over and treat them.
But now, a hail of insect eggs has caused the number of people being parasitized to increase sharply in an instant.
One hundred people can watch over and treat ten mentally ill patients, but what if one hundred normal people are against fifty infected and having seizures? What if
one hundred are against one hundred? What if
one hundred... are against two hundred?
Although the hail of insect eggs was mostly destroyed that day with the cooperation of all parties, there were still many black insects that broke out of the eggs. They existed in every corner of the city: in the grass, in the cracks of buildings, in the water, on people's clothes, and even in their hair...
Because the insects were too small, even if they stuck to clothes, pants, and shoes, they could not be detected at all. The people had no way to prevent it, and the only thing they could do was to try their best to avoid getting hurt.
Many girls, out of extreme fear, went to the pharmacy to buy drugs containing progesterone preparations or estrogen-progesterone combination preparations to delay the onset of menstruation.
On the evening of the third day, all news stations began to broadcast some known manifestations, reactions and coping measures after blackworm parasitism.
The water outage, purchase restrictions and blockades in the previous three days have already caused panic in people's lives. Now, the social order in Hairu City is officially collapsing.
The ports, train stations, airports and private lanes out of the city have long been blocked by people who want to escape.
Congestion not only causes chaos, but also causes injuries.
A vacuum zone will instantly form around the injured person. Everyone knows what this means. Even if the person is not parasitized for the time being, in the eyes of others, he (she) has been sentenced to death.
But there are too many people. Most of them are no different from ordinary people before the parasite attacks. New parasites are constantly getting sick and attacking people around them crazily, creating a new chaos.
Once an injured person appears again, it will be the beginning of another despair.
The blockade was finally opened, after all, most people are normal.
But those who want to enter other cities must go through layers of inspections, shave all the hair on their bodies, wash them clean, check for wounds, and be isolated for five days.
However, these people who finally thought they had escaped from danger did not know that five days later, when they passed through the security gate of the checkpoint and entered the city they thought was safe, and moved into the assigned residence to have a good meal and a good sleep, they would once again find the familiar black bugs around them.
Despair was overwhelming.
There is no such thing as a safe city. All places will fall. The only difference is the time of the fall.
In Hairu City, some people cut their fingers and ran outside frantically, intending to be parasitized and end it all; some people rushed into supermarkets and snatched bottled water and packaged food; some people set fire to their homes and died with the bugs...
A few days later, the hospital also fell. Not only the patients injured on the day of the hail, but also everyone with wounds on their bodies were infected one after another in the past few days, including many medical staff.
There were too many people with attacks and too few normal people. Many people were not parasitized, but died under the crazy attack of the parasites.
In a building that was once heavily guarded, a middle-aged man refused to take the evacuation helicopter parked on the roof. He closed the door of the office, put a letter that he had prepared on the table, and then took out the loot from the safe.
When the man in combat uniforms and a team of his men rushed to this floor and tried their best to break in, the people inside had already lost their life signs.
The others who followed him were stunned. They watched the man in combat uniforms walk to the table, pick up the letter on it, and said in panic: "Boss, what should we do? Are we still leaving?"
"If you want to leave, go to the top floor now. You should be able to catch the plane."
After this sentence, some people in the team looked at each other. In the end, the thought of survival overwhelmed everything. Half of them turned around and rushed out of the office and rushed upstairs.
There were still seven or eight people left, all of them were his most loyal and fearless brothers.
"You guys aren't leaving?" The man in combat uniform frowned.
"Boss, where can we go? In this world, is there any safe place?"
"A few cities far from the sea are still safe for now."
"We're leaving, what about you, boss?"
"Stay and save people." He would save as many as he could. Compared to running away, he would rather die in battle.
"We'll go too. Whoever we can save is one. I've been patient for a long time. From now on, I'll do things according to my conscience!" The man laughed, turned around and began to search for everything he could use in the office.
If You Xi was here, she would find that the man who shouted that he would do things according to his conscience was the first person she had knocked out when he sneaked into her residence on the first night she came to this world.
Hairu City ushered in the most chaotic stage and the darkest moment.
This situation happened in every coastal city in the world.
But no matter how dark the corner is, there are still tiny sparks burning.
As long as the sparks are not extinguished, there is hope forever.
**
In the afternoon, a small group of people appeared on a street scattered with various garbage and several burning fires. The one
walking in front was a boy about twenty years old, holding an iron rod in his hand, with a bag on his back, delicate features, and a cold and vigilant look on his face as he looked around.
The number of people behind him was between seventeen and eighteen. They did not wear protective clothing - after all, resources are scarce now, but they all wore very uniform white clothes.
I don't know where they got all these people together. From top to bottom, they are wearing white coats, white pants, white shoes, and even the bags on some people's backs are white.
If you look closely, you will find that some white bags are deliberately painted with white paint.
Most of these people are very young. Some of them are holding weapons such as sticks and steel pipes. Some people support each other. There are also several middle-aged women and men in the team, who should be the parents of young people.
The team's actions are quite regular. Those with weapons lead the way and cut off the rear. The young people are in the middle, and the elderly and girls are protected in the center.
They look at each store one by one, as if looking for a suitable place to rest.
The reason why they are so vigilant is not only those who are parasitized and have already had an attack, but also those who are in a healthy state.
Most of them were students from the same school. Because they lived in school district housing and were close to each other, they returned home together after the accident.
Some of their parents were injured in the hail and were isolated from the beginning. Some had seizures at home and were tied up in the room by their relatives.
After the chaos in Hairu City, they could hide at home, but the living people needed food and water. Especially in this situation, only bottled water and bagged food were the safest.
After planning, they finally decided to take their families away and stay wherever they could find water.
Someone quickly found a staircase leading up in a supermarket with overturned shelves. Above was a warehouse. Most of the things inside had been moved away, and a lot of them were scattered on the ground.
But for them, what was more important was that the warehouse upstairs had a locked door, the floor was flat, the space was large enough, and the windows facing the street were intact.
After entering the supermarket, they began to work together. Someone collected all the well-packaged food and water in the warehouses on the first and second floors and placed them in a cardboard box.
Someone took off his backpack and took out several aluminum bowls from it. Someone else took the bowls one by one and held them tightly in their palms.
The handsome boy who had led the way carefully put down his backpack and took out a bag of red liquid.
This was a blood bag from the hospital warehouse. For convenience, he took small blood bags of 100ml.
He moved quickly and cleanly, carefully opened the blood bag, and then divided the blood into seven or eight aluminum bowls.
The amount of blood was not much, but the bowls were very large. Each bowl was only filled to the bottom. The first reason was to control the amount of blood and the range of action, and the second was to ensure that the blood would not be spilled.
The empty bag with blood was quickly taken outside the store by the boy. He burned it with a lighter, and then took out a small bottle of alcohol spray to remove the bloody smell that might have stained his hands.
The others took the bowls to the second floor and placed two at the door, and the others were placed at the four corners of the warehouse.
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