After entering the interior of the villa, a quick glance seems consistent with its positioning. The corridors are relatively wide and the hall is very bright.
However, there were many rooms, so Yang Ming had to approach each time and use Theia's partition wall to scan and confirm that everything was correct before opening the door to investigate the internal situation.
Relying on this method, the entire building can be eliminated from danger step by step.
This building has a total of three floors. There are no obvious signs of chaos in most areas. It can only be roughly judged that the original owner may have been in a panic when cleaning up the items and dumped many cabinets.
It just needs a little tidying up, and overall it's quite clean. However, the traces of use in the kitchen and household garbage indicate that someone lived here not long ago.
The above-ground part can basically eliminate danger. The problem is that this house also has a basement.
After temporarily splitting up to explore, Yang Ming determined that there was only one entrance to the basement, and the door was locked.
If there are zombies down there, there is a high probability that it will be impossible to come up, but this place is always used as a base, so it is best to explore as clearly as possible.
After Yang Ming unlocked the lock, he walked down the stairs, followed by Carters and Lesia.
After entering the basement, Yang Ming was surprised to find that the scale here was not small at all. It was estimated that the entire villa and the land under the courtyard wall had been renovated.
Up there is a long corridor with many rooms on both sides, so we can only check them one by one.
There was a surprise in the first room, which contained a lot of emergency food reserves, canned food, compressed biscuits, freeze-dried vegetables and packaged drinking water.
There are quite a lot of supplies stored here, enough to last for several months.
I can't help but admire the owner of the villa for being able to do this to such an extent.
But then again, since there is a stable supply of food, it is very likely that the owner of this building did not escape, but maybe he hid here.
Considering that this is only the first room, if the other party is really a survivalist, then there must be a lot of things in other rooms, including guns in all likelihood.
If the other party is still alive and sees Yang Ming barging in like this, will he be so stressed that he attacks himself?
"Be careful. If you encounter a living person, just subdue him as much as possible."
Yang Ming turned around and told the two of them that after all, he was the uninvited guest, so it was better not to go too far.
"Yeah, I'll try my best."
"Lecia, I understand."
Whether they would miss or not, Yang Ming couldn't say for sure. In fact, he would kill those who would violently draw a gun and shoot without mercy.
Continuing to explore the next room, they now need to be on guard against enemy units, so the group was extra careful not to make too much noise.
The second room is a tool storage room, which contains many kinds of daily necessities and hardware products, basically covering all kinds of needs.
Of course it is a good thing to have these things. Although they will not be used often, it is a good habit to prepare them for emergencies.
Then came the third room. Yang Ming noticed that perhaps the original owner stocked items of one category based on different functional needs.
The concept of storing things in this room should be specifically for things that you can consider carrying when escaping outside, such as tents, ropes, sleeping bags, flint, and various portable props.
Perhaps he was preparing to escape from this place one day. There were no traces of movement, proving that he had never left the villa.
After looking at the three rooms, there is a corner ahead, and then there is another corridor, with several more rooms located on both sides.
Continue into the fourth room. In the center of the interior is a small generator and the main switch that controls the entire building.
In a corner on one side, there is also some fuel stored. This is a common solid fuel on the Araghen planet. It has a complex composition, is safe and reliable, and is not easy to catch fire.
As long as the solid fuel is put into the generator, it can be started, and this method also has the advantage that the noise when the turbine rotates is very small.
Considering that this is a basement, the sound transmission to the ground is almost negligible, which can effectively prevent the risk of being heard.
It's a pretty good idea. Before Yang Ming repaired the generator, he must have relied on this generator to maintain the power supply.
Yang Ming noticed that the solid fuel had been opened again and the electric motor had indeed been used, further proving that someone had lived here.
In the fifth room, before entering, Theia sent an alarm.
[Theia: There is something inside.]
[Yang Ming: Is it a zombie? 】
[Theia: No, it could be a dead person.]
The deceased is not strange in this environment, and it is normal if it is the original owner.
However, I was already prepared to get to this point, and it’s quite disappointing that I still couldn’t hold on.
Yang Ming opened the door and saw the body inside.
Judging from the degree of decay, it must have been a while, but there is one detail that stands out.
There was a revolver in the right hand of the corpse, and the head was obviously injured. It was speculated that he had probably committed suicide.
This room seems to be a study room. You can see a row of bookshelves. There is nothing on the wall where the body is located. It is very empty and relatively independent from other furniture.
Yang Ming walked to the desk and picked up a diary.
It should be something left by the deceased before his death, so Theia can translate and analyze its contents.
[Theia: When the zombie crisis first broke out, he hid in this basement and relied on the supplies here to survive. 】
[Yang Ming: What happened next? 】
[Theia: Well... about ten days later, everything was fine, but for some reason, he showed symptoms of imminent transformation into a corpse. 】
[Yang Ming: This...]
We can already vaguely guess the truth of the matter.
[Theia: Yes, he died before he was about to transform into a corpse.]
[Yang Ming: Is this virus so terrifyingly contagious?]
Hiding in the basement of your home, in this relatively closed environment, you will get infected if you don't go out. It feels like it's not just airborne transmission.
If people like this person can't survive, I'm afraid the entire city will have turned into zombies.
You can get infected without even touching. Is this really a virus?
The relevant research progress is still unclear, so it is best not to jump to conclusions.
[Theia: To be honest, the original owner himself didn’t understand why this happened. He guessed that zombies had broken into the house, and he didn’t dare to go out to check because of fear. He was very confused until he died. ]
This cannot be established, because judging from what Yang Ming observed inside the villa and at the outer gate, it is obvious that there are no zombies entering here.
Unless he was infected with the virus from the beginning, but it doesn't seem to be consistent with the rules for it to lie dormant for more than ten days before it attacks.
In the diary that Yang Ming saw at the company before, it was clearly stated that the incubation period of the virus is about two days, which is 48 hours.
So what exactly happened that caused this person to transform into a corpse and have to kill himself?