Chapter 1 (1/2)

Time: the night of August 13, 2018

The night is the best camouflage for sneaking. With the faint moonlight, a dark figure swims around the edge of the lifeless city.

thief!

no

Fugitive!

Neither.

His name is Lu Ziming. He is 18 years old. He is a mountaineer in Lujia village in Qinling Mountains. He is a sophomore of Fangcheng Xingguang high school. He has no choice but to appear here.

If he had a choice, Lu Ziming would rather return to the quiet mountain village, live with his family and live a plain life without waves. But life changed in an instant, damn microbial virus! The government claims that people infected with h13n19 avian influenza virus mutate again. The virus can be transmitted through the air. The infected range reaches 90%. There are no treatment measures, immune drugs and nothing. We can only watch the virus spread all over the world.

Humans who survived the disaster are called virus immunizers. They have virus antibodies in their bodies. Before the surviving human beings had time to celebrate the rest of their lives, they desperately found that they had become the food in the mouth of the zombie. There was no champagne and flowers, but kept hiding and running for their lives.

The virus turns most humans into unconscious zombies, an immortal creature. The dead will not have independent consciousness, but they can detect the surrounding waves and smells, subconsciously avoid the sun and hide in the dark.

These zombies don't move fast, which is equivalent to the normal walking speed of human beings. Their severely twisted limbs make them look like a pile of pickled meat hanging. Their body emits a stench. Their whole body is covered with maggots and makes them vomit. They are carnivorous creatures to the letter.

Lu Ziming didn't know when and why all this happened. There was no official explanation. It was like the big bang of the singularity of the universe, which affected the whole world in an instant.

Food! Now the only thing that can affect Lu Ziming's thinking is his hungry stomach. Lu Ziming tightens his belt. In the morning, two Wangwang snow cakes have been digested under the action of gastric acid, and his growling belly is protesting angrily.

There is food in the city, but Lu Ziming dare not get close to the center of the city. There are countless zombies wandering aimlessly. They can smell the smell of living people within more than ten meters. The vibration caused by running will attract more zombies. As long as they are blocked in the streets and houses by zombies, they can only bite and dismember them.

This is a lifeless and dangerous city. It is only a hundred miles away from Lu Ziming's mountain village. Lu Ziming appeared here. He was originally prepared to ask for help and find medicine for treatment, because his mountain village also broke out a virus.

Lu Ziming boarded in high school in this county-level city called Fangcheng, and returned to the mountain village only during the summer vacation and winter vacation. Now it should be Lu Ziming's summer vacation in the mountain village. Many people in the mountain village suddenly had a strange disease, so Lu Ziming had to go out to find a doctor to treat the villagers.

When he arrived at Fangcheng, Lu Ziming knew that the villagers were not sick at all, but infected with the virus and mutated. Now it is impossible for Lu Ziming to return to the mountain village. His bike was lost when he ran away. Without food and transportation, Lu Ziming can't walk back to the mountain village at all.

Just this morning, Lu Ziming pried open a house and found some food from it, but before noon, he was robbed of all his food by four men. Finally, he was kicked because he had too little food, which made them happy.

Law, morality and human nature seem to disappear overnight. Homicide, robbery and rape are constantly staged around the city. In cities without police and military protection, some survivors are willing to sell their looks for a piece of bread, while others stab you directly from behind. Lu Ziming did not dare to greet people or appear in crowded places. He had to keep one eye open and one eye closed when sleeping. No one knew what these people would do next. People's self-danger, death and fear became a true portrayal of the city.

Food is as important as survival. Having food is not necessarily happiness. Food may bring danger to yourself. People who are unable to protect their food can only starve to death.