When Chen Mofan arrived at the Internet cafe, Zhang Ting was already here and everyone was already there.
"Store manager, everyone, do you feel anything unusual?" Chen Mofan put his two packed daily necessities on the ground and said straight to the point.
"What's abnormal?"
"Raw meat." Chen Mofan said these two words in a serious tone, and the atmosphere suddenly became heavy.
They were all people with normal IQs who had gone out of school and had worked for several years. They originally ignored their abnormalities intentionally or unintentionally, but after Chen Mofan woke up naked and continued to deceive themselves, they were really stupid.
"What happened? Xiao Chen, do you know why it happened like this?" After a long silence, the store manager Li Xiaowei frowned and took the lead in asking the question that everyone was most concerned about in a calm tone.
"I'm damned if I know. In fact, I just discovered the anomaly before everyone else." Chen Mofan explained, "As you know, I don't like to eat takeout. I discovered it when I was cooking at noon."
"So, it may not be that today's takeout was done poorly, but that there is some kind of change in our bodies that makes us crave raw meat more than cooked food!"
After hearing the conclusion in their hearts being verified, everyone's breathing stopped for a moment.
"resident Evil?"
"Slaying the original form?"
Xu Luoling and Yu Boya blurted out almost at the same time.
Everyone who works in an Internet cafe is naturally an Internet-addicted teenager. As soon as the two opened their mouths, the classic, terrifying and absurd disaster plots that they usually see in games and movies suddenly came to everyone's mind.
"I think it's not that serious, right?" Zhang Ting thought for a while and said, "Resident evil? Zombies? These are all fictional. How could such a thing exist in reality!"
"Then how do you explain the raw meat thing?" Chen Mofan looked at Zhang Ting with burning eyes.
"Could it be that we are sick..." As she said this, Zhang Ting's voice became weaker and weaker, apparently lacking confidence.
Chen Mofan sighed: "A person's physical condition can be interpreted as illness, but what if all of us are affected?"
After a half-second pause, Chen Mofan continued: "To be honest, I don't believe those fictional things either. But now that this situation has arisen, before there is a clear answer, we may have to prepare for the worst and deal with raw meat. The changes in desire and taste show that we are all about to become zombies... Maybe there is no umbrella company in reality, but the changes in us are by no means trivial!"
"If a zombie crisis really breaks out in the mountain city... Oh my god, this is incredible. Sister Weiwei, Brother Chen, why don't we take advantage of the moment and go to other cities to temporarily avoid the limelight!" Zhang Ting covered her mouth and exclaimed. .
"I'm afraid it's too late..."
However, Chen Mofan shook his head regretfully and looked up at the store manager Li Xiaowei who also shook his head.
He then explained to several others: “You might as well think about how Black Watch in Prototype, Umbrella Corporation in Resident Evil, and all these organizations view survivors. "
"Let's not say that we ourselves don't know what is happening to us. If something like a zombie virus is really leaked, I think some people above have already put the files on their desks. This has been online from now on It can be seen that there is no news yet.”
"After all, it's already past lunch time. Whether it's a hotel chef or a cook at home, have you ever come into contact with raw meat? With such an obvious anomaly, I can never be the first person to discover the problem. So far, have you seen a little bit of rumors on the Internet? Is this normal? So, there is only one truth."
Li Xiaowei, who has the most experience in life, was the first to react, but the conclusion she came to made her take a deep breath: "The news has been blocked from above!"
Chen Mofan nodded heavily: "Yes, according to the plot in the movie and game, maybe there are already people guarding the smart people who were the first to fall into the trap at the key passage leaving the mountain city."
"I will clear the place and close the store immediately." Li Xiaowei said decisively, figuring out the stakes. As a store manager, she immediately showed the courage that a talker should have.
"etc!"
Chen Mofan grabbed Li Xiaowei and glanced at the few customers still stranded in the Internet cafe.
"If we drive people away like this, it will definitely cause a commotion. There are not many customers in the store now, so we first cut off the Internet, using the excuse of network troubleshooting, and then waive their Internet fees this time, and give them a package to use the Internet in the future. Time slots are free.”
"I already called Master Wang who delivered the ingredients on the way here. He brought a cart with enough water and food for us for a week. According to time, he will be here in 20 minutes at most, just in case. , after half an hour, no matter what the situation is, we will close the door first."
"Hope it's all just a false alarm."
At the end, Chen Mofan sighed and prayed, but his mind still couldn't help but think of various plots from the apocalyptic novels he had read on the Internet.
"There shouldn't be such absurd things in the real world..." Chen Mofan said secretly.
"Well done, you were thoughtful." Boss Li Xiaowei patted Chen Mofan hard on the shoulder to show encouragement.
Then everyone started to dismiss the customers as planned and gave the cleaning lady an early vacation.
There is a simple living area on the second floor of the Internet cafe, where the store manager Li Xiaowei usually lives. Yu Boya and Xu Luoling used the half hour in between to go out to nearby small stores to purchase daily necessities. During this time, Chen Mofan and others After putting a closure notice on the door and checking that all the windows were locked, the heavy curtains were pulled down to completely cover the shop.
Ten minutes later, Master Wang delivered the bottled water and ingredients ordered by Chen Mofan. In less than half an hour, Yu Boya and Xu Luoling returned to the Internet cafe carrying several large bags full of supplies.
However, when everyone saw the two boxes of adult balloons in Yu Boya's pocket, everyone's ambiguous glances made Xu Luoling, who was standing next to Yu Boya, blush with embarrassment.
After a while of busyness, as the rolling shutter door was pulled down, everyone felt a sudden attack of hunger.
Yu Boya pulled up an e-sports chair without any image, and watched Chen Mofan take out the fresh meat from the refrigerator. He swallowed: "Brother Chen, I really can't stand it anymore, or else... Shall I try eating it raw?"
"Eh~"
Obviously, as soon as the words came out, the three women expressed their disgust in unison.
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After getting food, another half hour passed. The snack cabinet and beverage cabinet in the Internet cafe were full of new goods, and there was also a spare diesel generator in the computer room.
Everyone was thinking that even if something unexpected happened, considering the storage period of the food, this place could at least be used as a shelter that could survive for more than a week.
However, as expected, when Chen Mofan brought the food to everyone, everyone's behavior was the same as when ordering takeout at noon - they only moved their chopsticks for a few times and then stopped.
There is really no way, it tastes like chewing wax.
Someone simply opened the snacks in the snack cabinet, but the result was the same, too unpalatable to eat.
Until Chen Mofan finished his work and sat down at the table with his rice bowl, the expressions on everyone's faces were surprisingly consistent.
Horrifying and shocking.
Everyone was silent, but they still digested the food in the bowl. No one was willing to eat raw food unless it was absolutely necessary.
"Then... well, Brother Chen, I just want to make a small request." Suddenly, Xu Luoling said timidly, "Maybe next time you can fry the meat until it is 70% done, or even 30% done for us to try."
Chen Mofan paused when he heard the words, his chopsticks paused in the air for half a second: "Good idea, I'll pay attention to it when I eat next time..."
