Six hundred and fortieth chapters I have a secret (30)
Cheng Kaijing is a reborn person.
At this time in his previous life, he was still living a carefree life, and the annual dividends were enough for him to live and drink like crazy.
Money is nothing, he still has status, and his status as the third son of the Cheng family means that he is treated as a guest of honor wherever he goes. Even when he goes abroad, foreigners will give him some face if he mentions his name as the father of his family.
He thought he would live such a superior life for the rest of his life.
But the end has come.
One year and eight months from now, gray autumn fog has begun to appear in the sky around the world. This fog is strangely moving, and most of the moving directions are inhabited villages, towns and cities.
Fog appears most at night and dissipates at noon when the sun is strong during the day.
This mist attracted the attention of experts from various countries. They conducted various tests on the mist, only to find that the components in the mist contained more heavy metals than ordinary mist.
As for how the mist formed and how it moved without wind, no unified conclusion could be drawn.
Most people say that this is a new atmospheric phenomenon, a form of haze caused by pollution, and then they appeal to the public to be environmentally friendly, and there is another round of wrangling about carbon emissions among countries.
No one is thinking about the end of the world.
One day not long after, people from all over the world fell into coma one after another. Some of these people woke up in two or three days, and some in four or five days. But after they woke up, they bit everyone they saw.
They bite people to suck human blood and eat the flesh and blood of living people.
They have no sense, are not afraid of pain, and will not even cry out even if their arms or legs are broken. They will only get angry if anyone stops them from biting someone.
They are no longer humans, but just zombies.
Zombies become stronger, and their strength and speed will increase after drinking human blood.
They are not afraid of pain, and even wooden bullets cannot kill them unless they are shot in the head.
Almost overnight, the whole world entered chaos.
It only took about ten days for the number of zombies to increase from one percent of the total population to one-tenth and then to one-third.
A large number of people who did not become zombies became food for zombies.
The population dropped sharply.
Zombies are irrational and extremely destructive. In order to suck the flesh and blood of living people, they will destroy anything that stands in front of them. The resulting explosions of gas and electrical appliances abound.
The city has become devastated, many infrastructures have been destroyed, and power and transportation networks have been paralyzed.
The population has decreased too much. People's first priority is to survive and they are unable to repair these facilities. The paralysis of these facilities makes people's lives more difficult.
This is a vicious cycle, we all know it, but there is nothing we can do to stop it.
Not only people will become zombies, but also animals with higher IQs such as cats and dogs will become zombies. Their physical agility makes them more threatening to people. Many people have died from their pet cats and dogs.
Unlike zombies in movies, people who are eaten by zombies will not turn into zombies and come back to life. Some people who are scratched by them will turn into zombies and some will not.
This was not unpleasant, because people soon discovered that those who killed zombies would turn into zombies.
The panic caused by this is greater than turning into a zombie after being scratched. No one wants to be a hero and fight zombies.
What makes people even more desperate is that there are zombies, but the imagined superpowers have not come, and people still have ordinary physiques.
There is no so-called crystal core in the brain of a zombie. Apart from feeling no pain and having its eyes turned white and red, the zombies are not much different from humans in other appearances.
How they turned into zombies was unclear to experts and scholars for a while, because no expected virus could be found in them.
Gu Jie
If it's not caused by a virus, what could it be?
Until one person killed a zombie and said that something ran from the zombie into his head, and he turned into a zombie shortly afterwards.
This revealed the origin of the zombies, which were parasitized by an invisible creature.
These zombies are officially called parasites.
But the trouble is, scientists have no way to detect the parasites that live in the human brain.
Until someone appears.
This person is Duanmu Mingying. She inadvertently bound to a creature said to be from an alien planet. This creature can simply communicate with her through the link with Duanmu Mingying's brain.
This creature said that the parasites in the zombie brains come from outer space. They are natural enemies.
Parasites rely on the numerous tiny sporophytes that divide into mature spores to carry out parasitism.
The sporophytes are relatively fragile and will die if they do not enter the human body within a certain period of time. If the number of spores entering the human body is not enough, they may be swallowed by the human body.
Therefore, not all people exposed to air containing sporophytes will become parasitized.
However, the number of sporophytes is huge, and after the parasite matures, it will divide more than once, and anyone may be parasitized.
If the parasite dies, the parasite will immediately abandon the original parasite and transfer to the nearest parasitic creature.
The creature can eat parasites, but it is currently too weak to actively attack parasites.
After the organism ingests the parasite, it excretes a crystal-like waste.
To the scientists' delight, they used this crystal waste to create an instrument that can detect parasites.
This is a good start.
Later, a purifying liquid was made from crystal waste, which could kill 100% of sporophytes when sprayed into the air.
Crystal waste can also be used to produce medicinal liquids that enhance human physique.
Although the organism cannot prey on parasites, it can purify the surrounding air. Wherever it goes, sporophytes will be swallowed up.
This creature has become the savior of mankind, and Duanmu Mingying has become a savior-like figure, because this creature is bound to Duanmu Mingying, and no one can take it away.
But this has little to do with Cheng Kaijing.
Cheng Kaijing was at his home in Beijing when the zombies appeared.
After the world entered a state of chaos, Beijing was the first to establish a survival base.
Although they didn't know how the zombies were formed, they all guessed that it was related to the strange fog before, and they all thought that it might be airborne.
In order to block this transmission route, the base was set up underground.
The Cheng family is not the only one in Beijing, and only holds one-eighth of the power in the capital base. Under such circumstances, struggles for power and profit occur every day.
Bases of various sizes have been established in various places.
There is also a base in Qiyang City, which has renovated the original civil air defense project. It is much simpler than the base in Beijing.
Duanmu Mingying is a member of Qiyang Base, so Qiyang Base has become a place that the public yearns for, and many people from other bases rush to Qiyang Base in droves.
A place without sporophytes can bring a supreme sense of security.