Chapter 45 Zombies
On the first day of the fourth week of extreme heat, in the middle of the night, Yan Mo developed a high fever without any warning.
It was so comfortable to sleep with Yan Mo, but in my half-sleep I felt like I was trapped in a fire, feeling so uncomfortable. I couldn't escape no matter how hard I tried, and I woke up in anger.
With her dazed eyes, she found herself being held tightly in Yan Mo's arms. She reached out her hand to push him away, but as soon as her hand touched Yan Mo's skin, it was burned by the scalding temperature and bounced back.
Shu Xin immediately came to her senses, sat up, and put her hand on Yan Mo's forehead again.
I have a fever!
"Hiss - the temperature is a bit too high. Don't let it burn you to death."
Shu Xin reached under the bedside cabinet and took out the medicine box, dug out the antipyretic medicine, and had the patient take it with water.
He changed out of his pajamas, put on some presentable clothes, and hurried downstairs to knock on the doors of Xiangwen and Makimai.
After knocking for a long time, only slight noises came from Fu Xiangwen's room. It seemed that both of them were starting to have a fever.
Without caring about avoiding suspicion, Shuxin rummaged through the cabinet in the storage room to find the key to their room and opened the door.
Mu Qimai has completely lost consciousness. Fu Xiangwen is slightly better than Yan Mo and Mu Qimai, and still has some consciousness left. It seems that his fever did not last as long as the other two.
After giving both of them antipyretics, Shuxin finally had time to catch her breath and sort out the current situation.
Yan Mo and the other three should be among the first group of people who developed a fever. It was mentioned in the original book that the probability, strength, and potential of the first group of people who developed a fever to awaken their superpowers were much higher than the second group three days later. Those in this group who awakened their superpowers and were able to survive all became high-level superpower users in the late apocalypse.
High fever is a precursor to human mutation. The fever period is extremely unbearable. The genes in the body are being broken down and reorganized. You can imagine how uncomfortable it is.
There are many people who clearly have the opportunity to awaken their superpowers, but they cannot endure the pain of the fever period, and they give up halfway and become ordinary people or directly turn into zombies. The process of becoming a zombie is much simpler and faster than awakening superpowers.
Antipyretics can alleviate some of the pain during the fever period, so Shuxin gave antipyretics to all three of them. After all, Xiangwen and Makimai were men, and it was not convenient for her to use the physical cooling method of rubbing their bodies to help them. All she could do was to give them antipyretics regularly and replace the ice packs on their foreheads.
However, Yan Mo, she can do it herself.
I took a bottle of high-proof alcohol and a new roll of gauze and went into the bathroom. The medical book said that 75% medical alcohol should be diluted with warm water (32-34℃) to a concentration of 25%-30% alcohol water for body bath cooling.
Shuxin strictly followed the proportion and temperature mentioned in the book, prepared the alcohol, brought it out, wet the gauze, and carefully wiped along the neck, armpits, elbows, groin, behind the knees and other large blood vessels to help Yanmo relieve the pain during the fever period.
After stretching his neck, Shuxin walked to the window, lifted a corner of the curtain, and saw a strange scene outside.
There was not a single star in the pitch-black sky. Suddenly a blood-red moon appeared in it. In the silent night, it looked particularly strange and eerie, making people feel very uncomfortable.
She closed the thick curtains again and lay down comfortably beside Yan Mo. Looking at his familiar face, the discomfort in her heart gradually faded away.
After tossing and turning for half the night, I couldn't help but close my eyelids and fell asleep as I was thinking.
The next morning, Shuxin woke up suddenly and hit her head in frustration.
Oh my god, how could I fall asleep? Luckily nothing unexpected happened.
Following the procedure from last night, all three of them were given antipyretics and new ice packs were placed on their foreheads. Shuxin walked into the kitchen, planning to cook some vegetable and lean meat porridge to replenish their nutrition and physical strength.
White porridge has little nutrition and seafood porridge is difficult to digest, so Shuxin chose vegetable and lean meat porridge which is both nutritious and easy to digest.
Her cooking skills were so bad that they were like dark cuisine, but she still knew how to make something as simple as porridge. She fed each of them a bowl of porridge, changed the ice pack, and ate her breakfast comfortably.
The fragrant and filling hand-pulled pancake, paired with a bowl of steaming hot soy milk, makes you feel as if your stomach has been soothed. It is a happy feeling.
The first group of people with fever appeared last night, and Shuxin estimated that zombies would appear by tomorrow morning at the latest.
Being the first group of people to have a fever shows that their physical condition is definitely good, and it is not a big problem to hold out for a day during the fever period.
Before going to bed at night, Shuxin turned on the high-voltage electricity on the security door in the corridor, closed all the curtains in the room tightly, checked the security alarm on the door, and then lay down on the sofa to rest with peace of mind.
While people are sleeping at night, the world is quietly undergoing earth-shaking changes.
When people woke up again, they found that some of the people around them who had a fever had become very strange, their faces had turned blue-gray, their eyes were completely covered with whites, and they were shaking unconsciously all over.
When you try to get closer to take a look, he will suddenly pounce on you and bite you, tearing off a piece of your flesh.
The smell of blood stimulated them, and similar people kept attacking others. The place where the crowd gathered became chaotic. Before they could control the aggressive people, the people who had just been injured by them turned around and started attacking the people around them. The scene became more chaotic, with screams one after another.
Their appearance was too sudden and people were not prepared at all. When someone shouted the word "zombie", the rest of the people were suddenly enlightened and realized that they really could be "zombies".
They are covered in decay and emit a foul stench. Their nails are sharp and long, and they move slowly and stiffly.
They are extremely sensitive to human smell, light, and sound, and attack and enjoy devouring human flesh.
There is a 99% chance that anyone scratched or bitten by them will become the same thing.
And the ones who become them are the people who were once most familiar to them, their relatives, friends, lovers, and children.
All these changes happened too suddenly. They didn't have any time to think about why they became like this, nor time to grieve and be sad. Escaping and staying alive became the main theme of their lives from then on.
This day was later known as the true beginning of the zombie apocalypse.
People have since entered a new apocalyptic era, with zombies everywhere, animals and plants awakening one after another, people with special powers emerging, ordinary people relegated to the bottom of society, the rule of the official government was completely torn apart, and new rulers emerged in various regions, competing for supremacy in the apocalypse.