Darkness is Coming

"woke up?"

   Familiar voice, familiar face.

   For a moment, Yang Xiaoqian thought that he would be abandoned by Yu Qian in the corpse tide.

   "Where's my dad?" Yang Xiaoqian asked the first sentence when he woke up.

   "It's really a father-son relationship." Yu Qian pointed in one direction, "I'm cooking."

Cook? Yang Xiaoqian finally woke up from the stupefied state, looked around, and found that he was not in the base, but in a large and luxuriously decorated house.

   "Don't put my dad in danger next time, not even a little bit of danger." Yang Xiaoqian said seriously, as an awakened person, he felt that he was qualified to negotiate conditions.

   Sure enough, Yu Qian nodded in response: "I won't let him do dangerous things, but in this last world, whether there is danger or not is not up to us."

   "Thank you." Yang Xiaoqian inexplicably thanked him again. In retrospect, he realized that Yu Qian had actually taken measures to protect him.

"Help each other, maybe you will save me one day." Yu Qian waved his hand and said, "I have something to tell you, now I know that four hundred years ago, the living corpse stayed in one place for some reason. ."

   It took nearly 20 minutes for Yu Qian to finish telling a series of events after the dome came down and Yang Xiaoqian was unconscious.

Twenty hours have passed since the outbreak of the corpse tide. On the way to the base, Yu Qian and others encountered a wave of corpses coming from the direction of another hospital. They had to give up the plan to return to the base directly. He broke into a nearby single-family villa and used the threat of bullets to forcibly occupy the villa, waiting for Yang Xiaoqian's recovery.

   "How large is the corpse tide?" Yang Xiaoqian asked. He was eager to know all the information he could understand in order to make the best judgment.

   "It's too late to calculate, maybe one or two hundred." Yu Qian reported an approximate number.

   "One or two hundred living corpses can make you retreat?" Yang Xiaoqian thought that Yu Qian was unparalleled in combat, and was greatly surprised.

Yu Qian pouted and said: "The ability is not unlimited. Excessive use will inevitably lead to collapse or even serious injury, just like you." After thinking about it, Yu Qian added: "But I'll try my best to kill one or two hundred living corpses. No problem, it's just not necessary, after all, that king can't be trusted."

  Yang Xiaoqian nodded in agreement, then said with a solemn expression, "I want to say something."

"Say."

"We have to change our attitude. We must not only save the awakened, but also do our best to save every ordinary person that can be saved, even if we take risks." Yang Xiaoqian said with pale chapped lips that he If it's hard to believe, you obviously don't want to be a hero anymore. Why does fate make such a joke, can't you just let yourself stay at the base to survive the crisis? The realistic answer is brutal: no.

   At this time, very few people in the city realized this, but the fact is clear and sad: if all the people who are able to rescue others decide to take care of themselves, everyone in Yuanjiang will not be able to escape the doom of death.

"What?" Yu Qian thought he heard it wrong. After a few days of getting along with him, he knew very well that Yang Xiaoqian was just a wise, showy and tossing layman, a layman like him. A heart that saves the world and the people, most of the considerations are under the guise of saving the world, but in fact, it starts from personal interests.

   Even the first purpose of helping the gathered awakened people to fight foreign invasion is for their own better development.

   At this time, he said that even if he took a risk, he would go all out to save ordinary people who had nothing to do with him? Has the awakening ability burned the brain out?

   "If we don't save, we will kill ourselves." Yang Xiaoqian began to explain.

"When the logistics is guaranteed and the command system is stable, it is very easy for the state machine to completely eliminate these zombies. After all, they are all creatures that can destroy the body. After they are released and covered by artillery fire, the blockade will be contracted. Exterminate them - after all, it is the initial stage of infection, and the number of zombies cannot be too many."

   "But now, the dome blocks all logistical transportation, and the ammunition is limited. I don't think the troops who originally entered the city to carry out the blockade peacekeeping mission could carry a large amount of ammunition. After all, it is not a war, and no one expected that there would be a dome."

   "If zombies are allowed to infect others, no one can escape the fate of death in this inescapable prison."

   "And, according to what you said before, this dome will eventually disappear, right? Imagine if all the residents of Yuanjiang were transformed into zombies and the terrifying corpse tide after the dome disappeared."

"Perhaps you would say that it's no big deal. Didn't it happen once 400 years ago, and it was completely wiped out by the ancient Ming Dynasty army, but! How many people were there in Nanjing in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli? How large is the corpse tide? How big? What kind of weapons would they find even if they were wise? An axe that could barely chop wood, or a sword that looked like broken metal?"

"How many people are there in Yuanjiang now? With this population base, how many high-level living corpses with high intelligence will appear among the infected people? How many ways can they think of to avoid the army, or even sneak up on the army to intercept weapons? Maybe they can still think of it. Ways to drive ordinary living corpses to form a purposeful corpse tide or even siege. Back to that question, four hundred years ago, intelligent living corpses couldn't find any decent weapons. Now? They can find cannons, tanks, and more. Even if you don’t have a gun, you can put on a bulletproof helmet—even if you can’t find it, there are a lot of helmets on the construction site, right? Can you stop such a corpse tide?”

   "No one can stop it! Everyone will die!" At the end, Yang Xiaoqian couldn't help but shouted, and the fear in his heart finally rushed to his face.

"Actually, when I went to the hospital, I planned to contact the troops to pass the news, but I didn't expect the corpse tide to erupt so quickly, and I didn't expect to have such a **** thing like a dome. If I knew this, I risked being caught and interrogated. Be sure to tell the government everything I know, now Yuanjiang is blocked in a dome, the army has no logistics, no satellites, and limited air firepower... As long as half of the city, no, one-third of the people are infected and become living corpses, We're all done."

   "I didn't expect this to happen." Yu Qian was also deeply shocked. The different circumstances of the two worlds made him make an empirical mistake. Instead, the most crucial and important information was regarded as irrelevant sidelines and left aside.

"Xiaoqian is awake?" Hearing Yang Xiaoqian's shout, Yang Yan, who was still wearing an apron, put down the pots and pans and trotted all the way from the kitchen to the bedroom, looking at Yang Xiaoqian who was collapsed on the bed in surprise, "How is it, is there anywhere? uncomfortable?"

  Yang Xiaoqian looked at his father weakly, and smiled helplessly: "Dad, we may all die in Yuanjiang."

  Yang Yan was stunned, and after a long while, he rubbed his hands together and smiled and said, "Then I will suffer a big loss. Your mother is a pretty wife with a charming charm. I'm afraid someone will take it cheap now."

   "Stop joking." At such a time, Yang Xiaoqian has no intention of being funny.

"I don't want you to be too depressed." Yang Yan scratched his head, remembering the dishes in his pot, and said, "I made your favorite enoki mushrooms, beer duck, and cabbage tofu soup. Wash your face. Eat it, you have to be a full-fledged ghost even if you die."

   said, Yang Yan turned around and walked back to the kitchen, daring to let Yang Xiaoqian see the fear and tears in his eyes.

   Watching Yang Yan's back go away, Yang Xiaoqian turned to look at Yu Qian, like saying to him, and like saying to himself, "I don't want to die."

  Yu Qian laughed, not at Yang Xiaoqian's cowardice, but at his growth. This guy who was weak like a pig a few days ago has become a reliable partner who dares to face the end of the world in a short period of time. Those who dare to face their fears will live longer.

   "We won't die." Yu Qian patted Yang Xiaoqian and said affirmatively.