Along the way, Jiang Jiaying introduced to him the entire process of planning, establishing, and managing the safe zone since the helicopter landed in the city center yesterday afternoon when the virus broke out. He then talked about the reception area: "Ordinary people must be quarantined for a full week to make sure they are not mutated and do not have the zombie virus in their bodies before they can move freely. Usually they can only stay in the arranged rooms. If they need service, just press the bell."
Shi Yu listened: "I don't need to be quarantined?"
"You have connections." Jiang Jiaying said, shaking the work badge with a ribbon tied around her neck. "The people here don't have as strong a sense of law as in real life. Just scan your face and you'll be fine."
Shi Yu looked at him and asked, "Aren't you afraid that I might be a potential carrier?"
"If you are an infected person, then we can just wipe out this dungeon. What's the point of playing?" Jiang Jiaying asked, "Are you really going to bombard this city with rocket launchers?"
Shi Yu listened to such a miraculous plan and asked: "Is that the way out you thought of?"
"No, I'm not that violent. This is the idea of my cheap captain." Jiang Jiaying seemed to like to laugh. The two dimples on his cheeks suppressed his gray-haired playboy temperament, making him look more obedient. "But he is not in the safe zone now. I told you that you have to wait for the surprise, but he still doesn't believe it."
Shi Yu didn’t understand how their conversation had anything to do with the “surprise,” but she didn’t ask.
"But don't be fooled by the fact that there are so many guards here. We still haven't come to a conclusion on how to solve the zombie problem." Jiang Jiaying took the lead and walked into the municipal building. "During this period, the officials have been holding meetings every day. As an auditor, I had a dozen cups smashed in just one day."
Shi Yu silently looked at the thermos cup in his hand which contained wolfberries and chrysanthemums.
"I just bought this, I haven't drunk it yet." Jiang Jiaying is actually quite fond of his own health tea, and he really wants to pull the beauty into his sunset life army, but now he can still distinguish the priorities. "Researchers have just identified the pathogen, and a vaccine for the cure is still a long way off. Before that, we can't agree on how to treat those zombies."
Shi Yu hit the nail on the head: "Do they want to control them, or kill them all?"
"Just looking at the number of people, it's half and half." Jiang Jiaying said, "If this is really just an ordinary infectious disease, it must be controlled if it can be controlled. After all, zombies are transformed from humans - but zombies can also eat humans. Many research institutes in various places have kidnapped zombies for research and found that zombies do react to external stimuli, but this reaction is only to food. As for their own names, identities, parents, family, and friends, they are all ignored. You can say they are monsters, but they still have human faces, and they didn't mutate and kill people willingly; you can say they are humans, animals at least have the instinct to protect their children, and mutated zombies bite their own children without any hesitation."
Shi Yu: "Murder is punishable by death."
"I share your opinion. Besides, all zombies are crazy serial killers. What's wrong with shooting them on the spot?" Jiang Jiaying spread his hands. "But mentally ill people who kill people are still acquitted. Whether they killed people voluntarily or not has never been figured out."
Shi Yu asked, "Does anyone you know in the meeting have been infected?"
"Smart." Jiang Jiaying smiled, "Many victims' families still hope that the virus will be eradicated and the infected will return to normal."
Shi Yu did not continue the question and asked, "What is the pathogen?"
Jiang Jiaying: "TG7788 is a mutant strain induced by the interaction between the human immunodeficiency virus and the human immune system."
Shi Yu: “AIDS?”
Jiang Jiaying: "You don't seem surprised at all."
Shi Yu: “I guessed a little.”
Jiang Jiaying looked surprised: "How can I guess this?"
"Those animals will not mutate after being bitten by infected people," Shi Yu said. "The human immunodeficiency virus only affects humans."
Otherwise, the scientific name would not be limited to the word "human body".
Jiang Jiaying asked: "Is this the only reason?"
"When I first entered the game, I was in the hospital. After the broadcast informed me of the incident, I closed the door of the ward. There were three people in the ward at the time, and none of them had signs of being bitten. But later, someone suddenly mutated, which shows that there were patients in the ward who had already been infected with the virus."
Shi Yu said: "The mutated patient had many red spots on his skin. After being infected, the body will develop rashes, and the virus only targets humans and cannot survive in animals. Combining these two, it is easy to guess."
Jiang Jiaying thought for a while: "But when most people encounter zombies, shouldn't their first reaction be to think that it's a new virus developed by someone? Why do you think it's a mutation of the original virus?"
Shi Yu said: "The world's matter is conserved."
Jiang Jiaying had a confused look on her face.
Shi Yu: "If a virus has never appeared before, it either existed but no one has discovered it, or it is a mutation of an existing virus. A virus that is completely airborne must be carried by aliens."
Jiang Jiaying half-jokingly said, "The Divine Realm has only appeared in the past ten years. Could it be that it is also something that once existed in this world and suddenly mutated? Wasn't that created by the Temple?"
Shi Yu blinked, lowered his eyes quietly and said nothing.
Jiang Jiaying was just teasing and didn't notice his abnormality. Instead, she remembered another thing: "Come to think of it, we encountered a ghost before entering the safe zone. I don't know if it has anything to do with the main storyline."
"ghost?"
"An old grandfather." Jiang Jiaying recalled, "He was probably in his seventies or eighties. If I hadn't run into him by chance and found that he was as cold as ice, I wouldn't have known that he was actually a ghost - because he never hurt us from beginning to end. Later, we found his tombstone on the back mountain according to his name. He had been dead for several years, and his only daughter buried him. But we didn't find any information about his daughter in his house. I guess his daughter didn't want to come to this sad place after burying her father, so she never came back."
Shi Yu suddenly asked, "Did the deceased have a companion?"
Jiang Jiaying shook her head: "I was just about to tell you this, his wife died in a car accident a long time ago, so he has been living alone."
"Did he tell you this himself?"
"Yes." Jiang Jiaying looked at him with even more surprise. "He said so himself. We later searched the house but found no information related to his significant other. He also took the initiative to reveal the car accident."
Shi Yu recalled the old lady who had taken him in for a night when the virus first broke out.
In a game of twenty people, seven of the players have met such a person before. It seems a bit too much to say that it is a coincidence.
He glanced at the other person again.
Jiang Jiaying said, "Is there any problem?"
Shi Yu was quite curious as to why the other party was completely unguarded towards him when it was clearly their first meeting. This attitude could almost be described as knowing everything.
He thought about it, but asked, "What was the cause of death of the person you met?"
This time Jiang Jiaying said with certainty: "It's terminal cancer."
Shi Yu was slightly startled: "Died of illness?"
"We found his medical records at his home. Not only does he have cancer, he's also an AIDS patient - this shouldn't be forged." Jiang Jiaying pushed open the door of the room assigned by the reception desk. "It's too late today. You should get some rest first. We can talk about anything tomorrow."
Then he stuffed a bandage into his hand and said, "And remember to take care of the wound on your hand. My room is next door, and the room next to it is my cheap captain's room. You can always come to me if you need anything."
The door of the room was closed.
Shi Yu didn't turn on the light, but opened the French window and walked to the balcony: "How long have you been here?"
There was no anti-theft net on the balcony, and snow had fallen all around the metal railings and the edges of the tiles. The melted water froze before it could be sprinkled.
Ling Zhao squatted in the corner of the balcony, not saying a word, just looking up at him intently, the snow on her eyelashes melting and wetting her eyes.
Shi Yu waited for a while but the other party didn't speak, and he didn't intend to waste time here, so he turned around and left.
"grown ups."
Shi Yu stopped.
Ling Zhao's back was pressed against the railing, his hair was covered with tiny, crystal-clear snow particles, and the corners of his clothes were stained with dirty mud, probably from when he fell to the ground.
His eyes were also filled with the night sky with heavy snow, and he tried his best to suppress the heavy hoarseness in his voice: "Sir."
Shi Yu asked him, "How long have you been here?"
"You came here after you entered the safe zone." Ling Zhao said, "The person who came to pick you up will definitely arrange your room next to his."
Shi Yu turned around and asked: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Ling Zhao opened his mouth and said after a while: "Can I go in?"
Shi Yu glanced at him, opened the glass door a little wider, and walked into the room first.
The air in the room was dry and cold. He turned on the light. He couldn't find the air conditioner remote control on the coffee table, so he filled a half-pot of raw water in the kettle and pressed the switch.
Ling Zhao is a divine beast, and is protected by divine power, so he is naturally not afraid of the cold, otherwise he would not wear short sleeves in the middle of winter.
He watched the other person quietly as he finished everything, and then he turned his eyes to himself.
Shi Yu asked again: "Is there anything you want to talk to me about?"
His tone was not questioning, and there was no disgust or impatience in his voice. It was just his usual and routine politeness.
Ling Zhao repeated his words several times, and finally asked only one question: "Why don't you go back to the temple?"
Shi Yu: "Why do you want to go back?"
"Everyone thinks you're dead... No, everyone thinks the person in the temple right now is you. Why don't you expose it?"
Ling Zhao tried to open his eyes wide, his vision was blurry, but his voice was trembling: "He borrowed your identity, issued an oracle to create the system, collect humans, release props, and even asked us to enter the divine domain. All of these must be avoided under the heavenly way, and even risk incurring the risk of heavenly punishment. Since you saw it, why didn't you say it? Why didn't you tell the system administrator, why didn't you tell Si Yu, and even just now you would rather fight with me than explain that the person above was actually a fake, and you were originally the real Lord God?!"
Shi Yu: "Will you believe me if I tell you?"
“No matter if I believed it or not at first, if you had thought about proving your identity for even a moment, would you really not be able to do it?! But you didn’t! No matter whether it was Si Yu or Chi Feng, you knew clearly what was behind them, and why they were targeting you. You also knew clearly that if you had just said a word, things would not have turned out like this!!”
Ling Zhao grabbed his arm tightly, forgetting even the honorific: "You don't want to at all!!!"
Shi Yu stood against the wall and nodded: "Yes."
One word tore through all the hysteria.
Ling Zhao moved his lips after a long while: "You..."
"I haven't thought about going back, not before and not now." Shi Yu looked at him, "Any other questions?"
Ling Zhao stared at him blankly, his cheeks burning, and suddenly tears fell.
He was not the chief god originally, and was born in Kunlun Mountain before he entered the temple.
Yingzhao is a lucky beast of heaven and earth, and he was told from a young age that he would go to heaven when he grew up. The young boy, who was favored by heaven and earth, was naturally arrogant and willful and spoiled to the extreme, until later he ignored the advice and mistakenly entered the dust net, where he was discovered by a hunter and was taken as a monster and was about to be burned.
He had never seriously studied magic for a day, and when he was in danger, his godhood exploded and slaughtered the entire village. He wandered around on the pile of corpses and couldn't find the way back, until he turned around and saw someone approaching.
The man was wearing a mask, but he had very beautiful eyes.
He explained the cause and effect to the other party and asked him how to return to Kunlun.
The other party said that he had blood debt on his body and could not go back until it was cleared.
He asked why, it was obvious that those people were blind and wanted to attack him.
The other party said that only a few people wanted to attack him, but the deaths of other people in the village were all due to his momentary thought.
He still asked why. Just kill a group of mortals. He was born nobler than those ants, so why should he be responsible for the cause and effect of others?
The other party said that cause and effect do not discriminate between high and low status, and all things are equal in the eyes of heaven.
In the end, he stopped asking and used the divine power that had just awakened to try to beat the other person up. After beating him up, he asked the other person to take him back.
The opponent did not dodge or evade, and was cut on the palm of his hand. A trace of blood seeped into his feathers, and he tasted the sweetness of the opponent's blood.
He didn't know at that time that the blood of the gods was a great tonic for the beast, he only knew that the blood of the beast was a unique delicacy in the world. He gave up the idea of flogging it, just because the taste of blood was directly related to his mood.
He clamored to go with the other party, and called the other party "beautiful brother" in a soft voice. All the skills he used on the elders in Kunlun were used on the other party. He had caused too many troubles in the past, and he knew too well how to show weakness to those who loved to preach, guide, and preach. He just acted like a good boy, acted cute, and acted pitiful. He knew how to step on the bottom line of everyone's tolerance and cause trouble.
And what he encountered this time was obviously no different from what he had encountered in the past. If he had been a little more obedient and soft, the other party would have been willing to take him away and would not even pursue the injuries caused by his taking of the divine power.
Until later, he turned to worldly merchants because they promised him that they had a drug that could make people fall into ecstasy and could dig out the sweetest blood for him.
Then, he drugged the man himself.
Then, the group of merchants betrayed him at the critical moment, and the bronze chain engraved with soul-locking talismans pierced his shoulder blade directly.
Only then did he realize that the group of merchants had been targeting him from the beginning to the end, and the flesh and blood of Yingzhao, the auspicious beast of Kunlun. They just didn't dare to act rashly because they were concerned that the people around him might not be able to figure out the truth.
He had only just mastered the divine power, while the other party's bronze chain was a treasure in the human world to deal with divine beasts. At the moment when the sharp tip of the human knife was about to pierce his skin, someone suddenly pushed open the door of the room, and the light tore through the swaying darkness.
He also realized that the other party was also looking for businessmen who were engaged in illegal transactions. Otherwise, how could he, a small beast who had just come into contact with the power of the divine nature, hurt the main god in the divine world.
He thought that the other party gave in so easily because he pretended well, because the other party discovered his identity as the Kunlun auspicious beast and did not dare to act rashly, or because the other party wanted to take the opportunity to extort some ill-gotten gains. However, he never thought that the other party would take him with him. He just grabbed a chess piece to lure the snake out of its hole.
After those businessmen were arrested and executed, he was drugged and the hole on his shoulder blade was still bleeding. But even though he was carried out of the dark room by the other party, he still insisted on shouting that if the other party dared to do anything to him, Kunlun would never sit idly by.
The way down the mountain was very long. He leaned on the other person's shoulder and whispered for a long time without getting a response. It was not until the chirping of birds returning to the south fell into his ears that the other person spoke: "It's okay now."
He was stunned and suddenly burst into tears.
"You are responsible for the karma of the people in that village. You will have to pay it back in person in the future."
"……good."
“Don’t trust strangers anymore.”
"good."
"Don't cry."
The powerlessness in resisting, the humiliation of being imprisoned on the stage, the fear of being on the verge of death, being saved by the person he once intended to kill, the fear of being retaliated later when his bluff was exposed, all turned into torrential tears in the end.
He buried his face in the other's clothes and apologized over and over again: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
The other party was like this at that time. No matter how fierce, intimidating or hysterical the person in front of him was, his voice remained calm, and his eyes were extremely gentle and indifferent.
There was a "click" sound from the kettle, and white steam rose from the mouth of the kettle.
"Sir." Ling Zhao's eyes were red, and he apologized to him in a hoarse voice, "I'm sorry."
This time it was obviously an apology for causing the previous car accident.
Shi Yu's wrist was also held by him, so she couldn't leave: "How long do you plan to stay?"
Ling Zhao didn't move.
Shi Yu reminded: "Blood."
Ling Zhao grabbed him completely on instinct, with considerable force, fearing that the other party would disappear as soon as he let go. Only at this moment did he notice that he had grabbed the other party's hand that was scratched by the blade.
He quickly let go, but his fingertips were still stained with a lot of blood. The unique taste of the other person's blood was so familiar that it made him nostalgic.
When he suddenly felt it on the snow before, he thought it was just a fleeting illusion. It was not until he later saw with his own eyes how the other party got along with the beast that the unrealistic guess in his heart finally came to light and then suddenly grew rapidly.
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