Chapter 7

Lu Ziming followed Li Qiujing into the villa. Lifting his eyes, he saw a spacious living room. In the center of the living room was a huge dining table. A middle-aged melancholy man sat beside the dining table, bowed his head and smoked fiercely, as if he were thinking about something.

The middle-aged man's name is Li Zheng. He is Li Qiujing's father and is responsible for the program editing of Fangcheng TV station. Wei Ming is under Li Zheng and is responsible for the interview of the program, which is usually called a reporter in the population.

Li Qiujing said a lot in the car. For example, when the virus broke out, the family was holding a 16-year-old birthday party for Li Rumei (Li Qiujing's sister). The dead Xiaoyong, Xiaolei and Xiaoli were Li Rumei's classmates. They had been trapped in the villa for three days and were ready to go out looking for food. They happened to meet Lu Ziming in the underground warehouse.

There are many people in the villa, all of whom are Li Rumei's classmates. Three of them became zombies and were tied in the room after the onset. At first, they expected someone to rescue and treat them, but the survivors gradually found that there was no response at all, and the mobile phone signals were not in the service area.

Suddenly so many things happened, many people were silly. Some people never came back after leaving the villa, others ran back after leaving, and still stay in the villa waiting for the judgment of fate.

To be exact, most of the villas are Lu Ziming's alumni. Li Qiujing has just graduated from senior three this year and has been admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University. In a few days, she will leave home to report to the University.

Li Rumei is a grade one lower than Lu Ziming. She is a sophomore after school. Because Lu Ziming is famous as a Xueba in school, Li Qiujing has heard of Lu Ziming. However, Lu Ziming doesn't know Li Qiujing. Instead, Lu Ziming knows Li Qiujing's Sister Li Rumei. The reason is that Li Rumei is too beautiful and is the school flower of Xingguang high school. It's impossible to know her or not.

In fact, Li Qiujing is also very beautiful. She is already one in a million. Just comparing with her sister, she can only blame Li Rumei for being so beautiful that she completely covers her sister's light.

Li Zheng doesn't approve of Li Qiujing's taking risks. He hopes that someone will come to the rescue, but he is also desperate after waiting for a few days.

Many people stood in the villa living room. After listening to Li Qiujing's story about what happened in the underground warehouse, they focused on Lu Ziming.

The villa is already out of food, otherwise Li Qiujing will not choose to venture out to look for food. Lu Ziming threw his mountaineering bag on the table: "there is still some food here. Take it first". Since he has temporarily decided to live here, it is obviously unreasonable for Lu Ziming to eat alone.

Perhaps he was hungry. The food in the mountaineering bag was quickly divided up, leaving Lu Ziming only a few of the most unpalatable compressed biscuits.

Lu Ziming was not angry. At least they knew that leaving some food for themselves was more conscientious than robbing themselves of everything. They had not completely lost the virtues of a civilized society.

"Classmate Lu? Sit down!" Li Zheng pointed to the next chair and said, "it's not easy for a person to survive. Tell me how you did it and what plans you have in the future".

Li Zheng gave Lu Ziming the feeling that he was like the teaching director of the school. He was cold and rarely smiled. Maybe this is the dignity that leaders should have.

Lu Ziming didn't like to communicate with people like this. In the past, officials of the township government were like this, and so were later school leaders. They always looked like they were superior. It seemed that if they didn't do so, they would immediately lose their prestige and power. Lu Ziming hates two kinds of people, one is an official and the other is rich. The official face and rich arrogance make Lu Ziming mature prematurely and be neither humble nor arrogant in the face of Li Zheng.

"I'm a child in the mountains. I don't know any rules, but I know how to survive in difficulties. Zombies lose their humanity, but retain the nature of animals. They recognize everything around them through sound and smell, and it's futile to attack their bodies and limbs. The brain and spine are the weakness of zombies. There's no hope here. After I find the food and medicine I need, I will Back to the mountain village, thank you for letting me stay one night. "

It may be the reason why Li Zheng worked in the TV station. He was not deeply infected with some officialdom. When he heard Lu Ziming emphasize that he was a child in the mountains and didn't understand the rules, the corners of his eyes twitched a few times, and he understood that Lu Ziming had developed an aversion to himself.

"It's safe here. You can stay here and wait for rescue?"

"Rescue!" Lu Ziming seems to hear the most ridiculous joke in the world. What a warm word. It is the mutual assistance and friendship of civilized society, but now Lu Ziming can't see anything.

Lu Ziming ran out of the township government and waited on the fishing boat for a full day and a half. During this day and a half, Lu Ziming saw slaughter, deception, fear, anger and despair, as well as the mutual assistance and friendship between desperate people, but he did not see the so-called government assistance. Five days have passed since the outbreak of the virus. The police and the army have not appeared. Communication and electricity have disappeared. A city without information communication is like a huge grave. Zombies are dead. Aren't those survivors living dead.

"Is there any hope of staying here without food, medicine and weapons?"

"Uncle Li, you haven't seen it outside. Now the most important thing is to hoard food and medicine. I don't know if there will be rescue, but from now on, the hope is very slim. Don't you often say that people in the disaster area should learn to save themselves?" Lu Ziming doesn't want to excessively stimulate Li Zheng and the people in the restaurant. They have the same idea as Li Zheng and think the difficulties are temporary, There will be rescue. It will be better tomorrow after the storm.

Confidence can make survivors have the courage to live. Maybe Li Zheng doesn't believe there will be rescue. There is no signal on his mobile phone and TV programs have been interrupted. The villa has become an isolated island. Li Zheng was very distressed and couldn't think of a better way, otherwise he wouldn't let Li Qiujing take risks.

"You should believe that the government and the country, now is the most difficult period, should support and help each other. You are the future of the country, and the country will not abandon you..."

Talking to bureaucrats is tiring. What you want to say is not necessarily what they want to hear. What they say must have nothing to do with themselves, but it's disgusting to pretend to listen to the sounds of nature.

Lu Ziming decided to change the topic and understand what he cared about: "Uncle Li, you work in the TV station. You should know something about the virus. Can you tell me about it?"

Li Zheng snuffed out the cigarette butts and said, "I'm about the same as you know. The outbreak of the virus was too sudden. It was Sunday at that time, and there was no latest news... You know the later situation. Now the communication is interrupted, and I'd like to know what happened outside.".

Li Zheng's eyes were in a trance. He should not have said what he meant. Lu Ziming looked up and saw many people standing around. He immediately understood why Li Zheng lied.

"Uncle Li, do you have the latest newspaper? I want to see it."

"Follow me to the study!"

The villa has lost external power supply. Fortunately, the solar power supply device is installed on the roof of the villa. Although it can not meet the needs of normal life as before, there is still some power to maintain several LED lights.

Lu Ziming followed Li Zheng into the study and closed the door: "Uncle Li, before August 7, only people were infected with h13n19 avian influenza virus mutation in the newspaper. After August 8, the virus broke out and Zombies appeared in one day. Can you tell me why?"

Li Zheng didn't panic in his eyes, but he looked appreciative: "you're right to observe and have strong logical analysis ability, but you neglect one thing: the relationship between time and place".

Lu Ziming suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Uncle Li, you mean that the virus outbreak is global... How can this happen?" Lu Ziming suddenly seemed to be drained of his strength and felt the earth spinning. The worst result was that Lu Ziming had not considered it. At most, several cities and provinces, but the significance of the global virus outbreak was completely different.

"It's strange, isn't it? You're very smart. You suddenly found the root of the problem when others didn't understand it for a few days. I don't know much. I've been thinking about this problem these days. Why the virus broke out on the same day. I have several network videos here. You can see it." Li Zheng opened his laptop and pushed it in front of Lu Ziming.

The first video, "here is a report from BBC Radio and television on the spot for you: a new virus has just attacked downtown London. The government calls on citizens not to panic, wear masks, stay at home, close windows and doors and don't go to the street. The government has sent troops..." the painting has been switched quickly. There has been crazy rush buying in supermarkets and smashing and looting in the streets, Angry citizens burned cars in the streets, mounted police with batons maintained law and order in the streets, and teams of armored vehicles were driving into the city.

The second video, "here is the New York Times reporter reporting for you: there is chaos in New York City, a large area of traffic paralysis, the closure of shops and factories, violence is rising, panicked citizens take to the streets and confront the police, hoping the government to explain the situation...". Some people took pictures on the street with their mobile phones. In the picture, people bite. The police are shooting, and panicked citizens are running everywhere. Some people took the opportunity to pry open the door of the store and move things out of it.

There are also the third video and the fourth video. Each video is similar. There are chaotic scenes everywhere. The government calls on citizens to calm down.

Li Zheng pointed to the video and said, "these are videos circulated on the Internet on the night of August 7, London, New York, Hamburg, San Francisco... All of them, followed by China and Japan. Overnight, the virus broke out in the whole world. Do you want to leave here?"

"Impossible", Lu Ziming instinctively retorted: "The virus doesn't spread so fast and won't break out at the same time. There must be a mistake. Although the virus can spread through the air, the flow speed and direction of the air are affected by the atmospheric circulation. Even if there is a strong airflow from west to East, it can't affect the world in one day... This must be a scam. Yes, it must be a scam , this will never happen.