There was little light in the storage room on a rainy day. I stood on tiptoes by the wall and looked out at the world outside through a flat window.
Beside the car wreckage in the distance was a yellow figure with creamy yellow markings, milky white belly and paws, it was that little guy again. It had already come once two days ago, but as I was also hungry, I could only give a few sunflower seeds, and it left quickly after eating. The weather is bad today, rain is falling everywhere, what is it doing outside?
Speaking of this cat, Nana next door likes to call it "Mimi", but I'm always not interested in such coquettish words, so I simply call it "Orange". But compared to Nana, it is much closer to me. I know this is mainly because the powdery smell on Nana's body is too strong, or maybe Tangerine feels a similar outcast scent on me.
To be honest, Orange is not a cat we have. Our working hours are extremely irregular, our home is a mess, and we are not qualified to keep pets. Except for the occasional snacks of chicken nuggets that the rest of us feed him, and the fact that I feel sympathy for him and sometimes put him on my lap in a daze, he is free the rest of the time.
Thinking of this, I accidentally opened the window and shouted: "Orange!"
It turned its head and saw me, saw me waving to it, and staggered over.
I suddenly stopped waving my hand, as if I had forgotten why I was waving and why I was opening the window. I always feel that all this seems familiar, and because of the similarity, I feel inexplicably scared.
At this moment, a shadow suddenly rushed to the window, its sharp teeth and claws scratching everywhere, and a cat's face covered in blood and ragged flesh was trying to get into the room.
For a moment, there was no sound of rain. I was frightened and fell backwards...
"Dream?"
Anyang woke up with a tremor in the storage room, and Zhang Cheng, who was leaning aside, opened his eyes immediately.
"Yeah." Anyang just nodded and said nothing. Since driving away the orange that day, she has had this kind of dream more than once. The image of Tangerine that day always appears in my mind. When he was driven out of the barred window, his big eyes showed confusion, hesitation and fear.
In order to drive away Orange, Anyang showed such a vicious attitude for the first time. She didn't want the orange to end up like in the dream, and she didn't want it to come back to this devil's cave...
As time passed, this time the black corpse outside the door did not leave as usual. Perhaps these black corpses have been aroused by Guo Qi's new flesh and blood, which has aroused their appetite and madness. Like the people in the storage room, these black corpses have not eaten for a while. One month since the disaster broke out, the living people nearby have fled to death, and they are the only prey left by the black corpses.
Before Christmas, the institute organized team building as usual. Zhang Cheng did not want to participate, but he also did not want to appear too maverick in the eyes of his colleagues. After all, this was the first job he had found since dropping out of school this year.
On the night of Advent, the lights in the narrow box were dim, and more than a dozen pairs of men and women were hugging each other, and the atmosphere was ambiguous. Even any strange movements would be considered as new tricks of flirting. By the time the disaster actually happens, it's too late. The black corpse bit open the throat of the victim, and the victim stumbled in the footsteps of the survivors. Within a few minutes, there were heavy casualties. In the end, only Wang Hu, who followed Zhang Cheng, escaped with his life.
Wang Hu is a fat older otaku who is relatively honest and has left a good impression on Zhang Cheng. Zhang Cheng would go out to explore during the day, leaving Wang Hu to keep watch at night. Two shifts were enough to meet daily needs. Until Guo Qi attracted a group of corpses ten days ago, all explorations were interrupted.
There is not much food in the store room of Candy KTV. There are only a lot of red wines and foreign wines on the central shelf, including red wines, tall royal salutes, and some unnamed Spanish wines from century-old wineries, but they are all placed in simple cardboard boxes without distinction. together. There is a mixed bag among them, and there are many shoddy products from small workshops that cost more than ten yuan or dozens of yuan.
No matter which one they were, they were all torn apart, leaving only countless empty wine bottles.
But the breakdown of alcohol does not produce sugar, nor does it provide many calories. And for many days, the large bag of bulk melon seeds was rationed. Although it would not make people starve to death, it would not be very comfortable either. They had never suffered from hunger since they were young, but now they just couldn't eat for a few days, and they couldn't help but see stars in their eyes, nostalgic for all the delicious food they had eaten before the disaster. They mechanically put the melon seeds into their mouths every day, chewing them bit by bit and swallowing them carefully. When people are in a trance, they always feel that everything around them is emitting a familiar fragrance.
Meat is meaty.
The constant hunger makes their craving for meat reach an extreme level. If they weren't still rational, they almost wanted to take a bite out of themselves...
It is now the 30th day of the disaster. Everyone's mobile phone battery has been declared exhausted, and the lights have been turned off three days ago. There was no light in the storage room at midnight, except for the occasional sound. People were sitting on the ground half asleep, completely lacking the energy and desire to exercise.
Although the scratching sounds outside the door were no longer there, when people put their ears to the door panel, they could still hear the sound of many "people" pacing, which sent shivers down their spines for no apparent reason.
"Hey, I just told you that you shouldn't let that cat go." A man suddenly said.
Severe hunger had made him in a trance. He was not talking to anyone, but to himself.
"Cat meat is not sour, really. It is no different from mutton. To be honest, I feel like eating mutton kebabs happened a lifetime ago..."
"Hey, let me bite you, and I'll let you bite me."
He pushed the person next to him, and the person fell down. Because there was no response for a long time, people discovered that she was already taking in more air than out.
She is one of the two girls and the slimmest one. Thin people will be the first to starve to death. This is the most inconspicuous common sense in the apocalypse. What was originally a symbol of pursuing beauty has now turned into a long chain of death, which makes people sigh.
"It's great...if you die, you won't be hungry. I might as well die too..."
Section 2
One morning a few days later, Zhang Cheng was awakened by a series of loud moans.
Since the disaster, he has been half asleep and half awake with one eye closed, maintaining a certain degree of light sleep. This is the first time he has fallen asleep like this.
Anyang pushed him beside him and motioned Zhang Cheng to look across.
It didn't matter, he actually saw three white "meatworms" entangled together. A girl was naked and surrounded by two men. During this period, they kept changing their positions and making sounds that made people blush from time to time.
Of course, Anyang definitely didn't wake him up just to let him see this kind of thing. Sure enough, after Zhang Cheng looked beyond the two men and one woman, he saw a broken body in the corner. This is the girl who suffered from starvation shock before and was officially declared dead yesterday. And after just one night, she was cut into pieces.
Now the evil murderers are drinking heavily and eating the meat cut from her body! No wonder they have the energy to have fun!
"Food and clothing, lustful thoughts," Zhang Cheng looked away and snorted coldly, "We are really the race with the largest antimony reserves in the world."
"What?" Anyang didn't understand. What she saw in front of her made her feel scared, and she subconsciously grabbed the corner of Zhang Cheng's clothes.
"Chengzi, they..." Wang Hu also came closer at this time and hesitated to speak.
Zhang Cheng looked at the two of them, took a deep breath and said seriously: "Listen to me, no matter what they are doing, you don't care. You must not eat that meat."
"Hey! What are you mumbling about?"
On the other side, Li Li threw the unfinished foreign wine to the ground with a bang, stuffed his stuff into the girl's mouth, and smiled lewdly at Zhang Cheng: "If you are greedy, we don't mind. Let’s have fun together, hahaha.”
As he spoke, he scanned Anyang from bottom to top with an aggressive gaze, as if looking at a prey that was about to be obtained.
Seeing Li Li's bloody mouth and lewd expression, Anyang got goosebumps all over his body and couldn't help but tremble all over. Zhang Cheng stood up and stood in front of her, expressing his attitude without saying a word.
"Hey, you hypocrite." Li Li stopped talking nonsense and concentrated on the battle between the three of them. A pair of big hands climbed up to the two peaks in a second and pinched two round grapes hard.
"Well--"
The girl was in pain, but she didn't dare to scream. The corpse of her companion was still beside her, making her tremble all over. Although she is also a cannibal now, when the first corpse is eaten and wiped clean, who will be next? She didn't dare to think about it anymore. At least at this moment, she was still alive, whether it was humiliation or relief...
At dusk, Anyang fetched several bottles of spirits as ordered by Zhang Cheng. They didn't eat meat, so they naturally needed wine to survive. But when Anyang returned, he suddenly tripped over a pair of feet, and the wine bottle broke and the wine spilled on the floor.
Zhang Cheng then yelled loudly: "Do you want to die? You're a loser who can't hold a bottle of wine!"
A pair of hands caught Anyang in the darkness, so that she did not fall. Zhang Cheng slowly shook his head at her in the darkness. Although Anyang felt strange, he didn't say anything.
"Don't even sleep tonight." Zhang Cheng whispered to the two of them. He then distributed the few remaining sunflower seeds to Wang Hu and Anyang, and whispered, "Don't say anything, eat them all now."
The three of them looked at each other, especially Wang Hu and Anyang, whose hearts were beating fast, as if they had thought of something.
The carnival continued into the night. The black corpses outside the door were attracted by the sound and beat wildly on the iron door, but these people were completely crazy and didn't care. In the early hours of the morning, Li Li and the three of them finally fell asleep after exhausting all their energy.
There was a "click" and the light went out. Just as Li Li was about to wake up, he heard the sound of the door opening. Followed closely by the footsteps and roars of the black corpse!
"Why did the door open!"
"Black Corpse, Black Corpse is here!"
"Where's the knife? Where's my knife?"
"Ah...help!"
In just the blink of an eye, the seven or eight black corpses lingering in the corridor poured into the storage room. At this time, in the gap between the door and the wall, a voice suddenly shouted: "Run out now!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two men in coats rushed out from the corner far away from the door. The two black corpses, who were a beat slower, were instantly knocked down by Wang Hu, and Zhang Cheng rushed out of the door after him.
Before leaving, he lit a lighter and threw it behind him. In just a moment, the flames expanded rapidly and swept through every corner of the storage room.
"Zhang Cheng, it's you!" Li Li was fighting against a black corpse at the edge of the flames. After seeing Zhang Cheng, he understood everything in the blink of an eye!
But before he could say the second sentence, he was hit hard against the wall by the air wave. Last night, Zhang Cheng sprinkled a large amount of liquor on the ground in advance. Coupled with the "wine running" and volatilization in the past few days, the ethanol vapor and air were fully mixed, and a deflagration would occur with just a little flame!
In the sea of fire, the wine in the storage room continued to explode, mixed with the roars of humans and black corpses, making it extremely chaotic. In the corridor, Anyang asked around in a panic: "Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng, are you out yet?"
Seeing the power of the explosion, Wang Hu couldn't hide his fear: "Chengzi, they..."
At this time, a figure climbed up from the ground. It was Zhang Cheng who was pushed out of the door by the air wave.
"Run quickly!"
He quickly threw away the burning coat and turned on the light of his mobile phone to illuminate the way for the other two to escape. This is a little bit of power that he secretly stashed away just for this situation!
Chaotic footsteps, heavy breathing, and Zhang Cheng's words continued to echo in the minds of the two of them.
"Once they start eating people and cross this line, there is nothing they can't do. The advantage of human beings lies in unity and collective spirit. When individuals start to use any means, the chain reaction will be fatal. They will continue to They will kill each other until the only survivor is left. This will be a plague more terrifying than the zombie tide."
It was already dawning, and Anyang was being held by one hand and running down the street in the darkness. She looked at the figure in front of her, at the beam of light shining in front of her, and was once again surprised by Zhang Cheng's courage and foresight.
This man seemed to have a terrifying charm, he was confident, calm, and reliable...it seemed like there was no problem that he couldn't handle. Every time she thought she understood this person, she would still be shocked by what he did the next moment.
For a moment, Anyang seemed to have a feeling - it seemed that as long as he followed this beam of light and this man, his whole person would be full of confidence and hope.
