On a bitterly cold day in the winter of 2023, on a street covered with thick white snow on the outskirts of City H in the northeastern part of China.
Yang Fan temporarily stopped trudging forward, took a breath, then looked around, looking at the desolate scene around him, and murmured to himself: "It has been ten years, can the world return to its original state?"
He was shivering from the cold, so he crossed his arms across his chest, put his hands tightly under his armpits, and stamped his feet, trying every means to warm up his body. Even in such hardships, he still
There is no turning back, and I have to continue wandering on the empty streets, just for the increasingly slim chance of survival, which is the indispensable part of life - food.
This is the third time this month that Yang Fan has gone out to look for food. The reason why finding food is so difficult is because after the drastic change on December 21, 2012, the global climate changed significantly, and then most of the land changed.
Contaminated by an unknown substance, the combined effect makes 99.9% of the cultivated land no longer able to produce food.
Not only natural disasters, but also epidemics, it can be maintained at first, but after a year of the Great Depression around the world, the previously stored food has been exhausted, and very little can be left. After learning that food is about to
After the food was exhausted, natural disasters continued, and the government's control power decreased sharply, and the situation could no longer be controlled, all mankind began the most cruel, intense, and chaotic cannibalism and destruction in history. The entire earth was filled with iron and blood.
, there was even a time when the nuclear button was about to be pressed. At this critical moment of life and death, the remaining sanity finally came into play and stopped mankind from self-destruction.
After five days and five nights of continuous discussions, the United Nations Security Council, headed by five countries, finally reached a final consensus and unanimously passed a resolution aimed at maintaining stability and food distribution.
The content of this resolution is to use force at all costs to stop the momentum of chaos, and to make every effort to protect the few remaining food-producing areas and key resources so that mankind can survive.
Therefore, all countries issued a unified military order to publicize the content of the resolution for ten days starting from the day after the agreement was reached. After ten days, anyone who dared to continue smashing, looting, burning and turning a blind eye to the resolution would be shot without mercy.
Ten days later, as expected, the situation had not eased. The presidents of various countries ordered the army to carry out a comprehensive suppression. A month later, the situation in the major countries improved significantly. Only sporadic remote areas were left with resistance, but the small countries were still in chaos. However,
This no longer threatens human life and death.
After this riot, coupled with the outbreak of the disease, the global population was reduced by half, and is still decreasing. Subsequently, in accordance with the resolution, unified harvesting and supply of food began, but there is still not enough to eat. It is inevitable in some serious areas
The phenomenon of cannibalism has emerged. The city where Yang Fan is located is no exception. There are also some maniacs who cannibalize themselves for a living.
Today, ten years later, the population has unnaturally decreased to about 500 million, barely maintaining the situation without another major decrease, and births and deaths have barely reached a balance. The biggest difference from previous years is that the central government of all countries
The government has been completely disintegrated, and all cities have become autonomous. Therefore, some cities have sufficient food and are densely populated, while other cities are short of food and sparsely populated. The most serious ones have even spawned cannibalism to eat food.
Perverts who seek the highest level of human enjoyment. Unfortunately, the city where Yang Fan lives is exactly the latter.
On the pure white snow, there were two lines of lonely footprints left after Yang Fan walked through them. Several dilapidated cars were piled randomly on both sides of the road. It was not that Yang Fan didn't want to drive, but that the governments around the world had disintegrated five years ago.
There is no more oil to be extracted, no more oil to be imported, and the little oil left is all divided up by various local forces and major monopoly companies headed by Volta Biopharmaceutical Company (hereinafter referred to as Volta Company).
Most poor people will no longer be exposed to these. Electricity has also been greatly reduced due to lack of fuel, and it is intermittent. Even the energy blocks made of newly developed new energy sources are of no use to the poor.
You can imagine how miserable the lives of the poor must be under such conditions.
Some people say that this is not tragic enough? Never mind, there is something even worse, that is, due to a sudden large-scale outbreak of a mysterious virus one day after the disaster, the most powerful thing about this virus is that it can spread through the air.
As a result, 110 people around the world were infected with a strange disease. After inhaling the virus, people began to cough, have a fever, and runny nose. The initial symptoms were exactly the same as those of the flu. Then the lungs began to become inflamed, and a few days later began
Slowly, the whole body will fester until death. The most terrifying thing is that the fatality rate is 100%. Any medicine can only delay death slightly but cannot prevent it.
This is also another important factor why people started to panic and riot. At this critical moment, after half a year of hard work from the onset of the disease, the American pharmaceutical research and development team headed by Volt invented a C1 agent that can fight the virus. And
Therefore, it is believed that the virus codename is c! Unfortunately, due to various reasons, this drug cannot be mass-produced, and it cannot achieve the purpose of saving mankind.
Two months later, the Volt team once again developed a mass-produced version of C2 potion based on C1 potion, and took this opportunity to quickly establish its own pharmaceutical company, and then began selling in large quantities.
This C2 agent can make humans immune to this C virus for a certain period of time. After that, humans all over the world used C2 agent in order to survive. Although it is very effective against C virus. However, using C2 agent once can only last
Humans are immune to the C virus within two months. If you stop using the C2 agent after two months of use, you will immediately be infected with the virus and die quickly, without exception.
This situation, coupled with the covert support of the U.S. government, caused the Volta Company to make a huge amount of money and expand exponentially. Later, the Volta Company gradually controlled the material transactions in most areas on the earth.
And Yang Fan's parents died one after another after the earth changed dramatically on December 21, 2012, because they could not hold on after inhaling the C virus in the air. Although Yang Fan later contracted this strange disease, at that time Volta Company
The C2 drug has been developed, so Yang Fan received timely treatment and was able to save his life.
Time flies, and in March of 2023, in the blink of an eye, it is March of 2023. In the past few years, due to the collapse of the government and the monopoly of Volt Company, the price of C2 medicine has increased across the board, and all the people buying and selling materials in the market have
Recognizing only volt gold or silver coins, many people lived in poverty, were penniless, and eventually died of hunger and cold. Yang Fan was no exception. After using the 59th dose of C2 antibiotics, he could no longer afford to buy the next dose.
Waiting in a daze for the final day to arrive.
Alone in the bitingly cold day with no food, he was unwilling to starve to death, so he
Being able to step onto the snowy streets again, looking for the meager food.
The Volt Company gradually realized that because people all over the world were using C2 medicine, this resulted in a serious shortage of raw materials for the C2 medicine. It was also discovered that the C2 medicine would become ineffective after being used more than 60 times, so the senior management of the Volt Company decided to carry out the C2 medicine
Further upgrade research will be carried out so that people will not be afraid of the C virus for a longer period of time.
In a research room 300 meters underground at Volta's headquarters, researchers in white clothes were busy coming and going. A thin old man wearing white clothes quietly watched everything in a transparent glass room.
Several staff members were conducting some unknown experiments on a burly man lying on the instrument bed. Among them, a beautiful woman with blond hair and blue eyes used her white and slender hands with medical gloves to hold a steel tray.
The tray held a medium-sized injection with blue liquid.
At this time, among several staff members, a tall man used the intercom next to his ear and said respectfully to the thin old man outside the glass room: "Professor Carl, everything is ready and we are waiting for your instructions." A man in white clothes said
The thin old man, whose full name is Carl Volt, is the chairman of Volt Company. He is 65 years old. When he was young, he was a professor of biology at Harvard University and is an internationally renowned biologist.
Karl's wrinkled face showed no expression. He looked at the burly man lying on the instrument bed, his whole body restrained by several special belts. He picked up the intercom next to him and said coldly: "Brooke, let's start!"
Brooke is 47 years old. He is a top student who graduated from Harvard University. He majored in substance metabolism in biochemistry. He has been working beside Karl since graduation and is one of Karl's right-hand assistants.
He nodded silently to Karl, turned around, steadily picked up the syringe filled with blue liquid, and injected it into the man's vein. After a moment, the man's whole body was twitching violently, and he weighed more than 300 kilograms.
The instrument bed was shaking. Seeing this situation, Brooke quickly shouted: "Hurry up and hold down the instrument bed." As soon as he finished speaking, several staff members swarmed up and held down the instrument bed. At this time, the instrument bed was shaking.
The man's face changed dramatically, first turning pale, and then turning purple, and black blood flowed from his facial features. Suddenly, the man's two dull eyeballs turned up, revealing the whites of his eyes, and he grinned widely.
His mouth roared, and his mouth was filled with blood and foam, as if he was trying to eat someone.
Brooke looked at Carl outside the glass room and said hurriedly through the intercom: "Professor Carl, the 105th new C3 drug experiment of test subject mutation failed." Carl's face darkened, and he turned and walked away, but within Brooke's ear
Karl's cold voice came: "Just watch and deal with it." Then the signal was cut off.
Brooke's eyes widened and his face was twisted with anger. He slowly took out an M9 pistol from his pocket and fired a shot between the eyebrows of the burly man with a demon-like expression and a big mouth to eat.
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After the gunshot, Brooke cursed at the surrounding staff: "You are a bunch of trash, if you don't deal with it, if you make me embarrassed in front of Teacher Carl next time, you can all die. It's not that I want to kill you but
The number of times you have taken it has reached 58 times. If we cannot develop the C3 antibiotic within a few months, then you will become like him and it will be impossible to die." All the staff in the glass room looked at it in unison.