Chapter 23 Infection of unknown cause
Yan Chu's eyes drifted away subtly, and he took out a wet wipe from the wet wipe box with his right hand, then stood on tiptoe to wipe the side of his face.
"There's blood here, too."
Gu Qinyuan obediently bent down to let her wipe it: "You're changing the subject again. You still don't believe me."
Yan Chu: “…”
Isn't that certain? Who would trust a man who is full of doubts?
But for some reason, she subconsciously felt that Gu Qinyuan did not lie to him.
Damn, it must be because this guy is so handsome.
Don't be fooled by this deceptive face!
Thinking this in his mind, Yan Chu couldn't help but increase the strength of his hands and rub his face vigorously.
Gu Qinyuan held her hand, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Okay, okay, it's clean enough."
Yan Chu puffed up his cheeks and stretched out his hand to continue wiping him, when he suddenly heard a shrill scream in the supermarket!
The sound came from the direction of where the survivors were gathering.
Is there something wrong over there?
Yan Chu's heart sank, and he immediately ran towards that direction with Gu Qinyuan.
When he returned to the gathering place of the survivors, Yan Chu saw a woman writhing in pain on the ground.
The woman was one of the people rescued by Lu Yuanze.
However, her face was now purple and her eyes were red, showing signs of turning into a zombie.
At this moment, the woman suddenly stopped rolling and began to twitch all over.
Suddenly, she let out a strange roar, and stood up from the ground with her belly facing up and her head facing down in a twisted posture that was impossible for a human being.
She slowly twisted her neck, and her blood-red eyes locked onto Xue Rong, who was closest to her, and she rushed towards him with a roar!
Xue Rong was so frightened that his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground, trembling all over.
Just before the zombie was about to bite him, Hu Zi picked up a baseball bat and rushed towards the zombie, hitting the zombie's head hard with one blow.
The zombie suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground. When it struggled to get up, Lu Yuanze had already stepped forward nimbly and held down its body. He held the knife in his right hand and stabbed it directly into the zombie's brain.
The zombie struggled on the ground for a few times and finally stopped moving.
Xue Rong had just escaped death, his face pale. He stared at the dead zombies on the ground in shock, and suddenly pointed at Lu Yuanze and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"It's all your fault! If you hadn't brought her in, we would have been safe here!"
The other survivors subconsciously looked at Lu Yuanze.
Xue Rong took two quick breaths and shouted hoarsely, "We...we here will all be killed by you sooner or later!"
Lu Yuanze glanced at him coldly, bent down to pull the knife out of the zombie's head, and walked towards Xue Rong.
Xue Rong's face changed and he stepped back repeatedly: "What are you going to do!"
Lu Yuanze raised the knife and pointed it at him, his voice cold: "If you keep talking nonsense, I will throw you out to be with the zombies."
The tip of the knife was only ten centimeters away from Xue Rong's eyes. There was still traces of zombie blood on the sharp blade, and Xue Rong could even smell the rotten and stench.
He felt a chill on his back and suddenly dared not speak. He could only stare at Lu Yuanze with resentment.
Yan Chu stared at the dead zombie for a while, feeling that something was wrong.
She simply walked over to the zombie, squatted down, and carefully examined its entire body.
From the outside, the zombie was covered in purple bruises, with bulging blood vessels, and it looked really scary.
But the strange thing was that apart from the fatal wound on his forehead, Yan Chu did not find any other wounds.
There should be bite marks, right?
Yan Chu turned to Hu Zi and asked, "She must have been staying here for a long time, right?"
Hu Zi was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "She has been here for about three days... or four days."
Yan Chu frowned.
Three or four days?
Can the zombie virus remain dormant for so long?
Impossible?
According to what Yan Chu observed in the hotel, the closer the place where a zombie bites people is to the brain, the faster they will turn into zombies.
If the bite is on the neck, it will mutate almost immediately.
Even if the bite is on the feet, the corpse will not last more than a day.
Assuming that the incubation period can really be more than three days, the woman also said that she never left the supermarket after entering.
She had no contact with zombies during this period, which meant that she must have been injured before entering the supermarket.
But she had no wounds on her body.
So how did he get infected?
No matter what the actual situation is, this is where everyone eats and sleeps after all, and it is impossible to leave a zombie corpse here.
So some people helped to move the zombies out and get rid of them, while others helped to clean up.
While everyone else was busy, Yan Chu walked over to Hu Zi and patted him on the shoulder: "The one who turned into a zombie... do you know what she's eaten recently?"
"Eat?" Hu Zi scratched his head in confusion. "I remember she ate more bread, right? What's wrong?"
bread?
Yan Chu thought of the deflated bread that Hu Zi had given her before, and suddenly felt an ominous feeling in her heart.
She turned to Hu Zi and asked, "Where is the rest of the bread?"
"The rest..." Hu Zi pointed to a nearby shelf, "Because those breads have a short shelf life, I picked them out and put them in the crisper over there."
As he spoke, Hu Zi couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Do you think there's something wrong with what she eats? But what does bread have to do with zombie transformation?"
"Who knows?" Yan Chu's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness. "Just go and take a look and you'll know."
After the two arrived at the shelf that Hu Zi mentioned, Yan Chu found that the shelf was filled with large and small fresh-keeping boxes. Almost every fresh-keeping box was filled with something, some of which contained fruits and vegetables, but the quantity was not large.
Hu Zi explained, "When we entered the supermarket, the fresh fruit section was mostly empty. It was probably because the mall was closed for renovations, so they took all the fresh fruit away and stored it separately. We tried our best to pack the remaining fruit in fresh-keeping containers."
As he spoke, he opened the box of bread and handed it to Yan Chu: "After all, there is no refrigerator here, and I don't know how long it can be kept. That's why I always let everyone eat food with a short shelf life first."
Yan Chu looked at the various breads in the fresh-keeping box, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.
She picked up a piece of bread and squeezed it, but it was bulging and not leaking air.
Strange, could her guess be wrong?
Wait, she remembered that her leaky bread at that time was... blueberry jam sandwich bread.
Yan Chu rummaged through the fresh-keeping box and took out all the blueberry jam sandwiches.
She picked up one of them and squeezed it hard. As she expected, the bulging bread bag deflated with a "biu" sound in an instant.
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