from my heart [last days]

Chapter 6 Goodbye

"From the perspective of time, this is likely to be the initial place where the virus broke out." Xie Congxin continued to analyze, "After the meteorite landed, the virus spread, and the first batch of infected people belonged to natural infection, which may have poor immunity or be caused by other infections. condition."

"You mean that girl? Her body is complete," Shen Wen continued, "She bit someone here, then walked through the north gate and entered the playground..."

"More than that," Xie Congxin said, "It's impossible for her alone to bite so many people in a short period of time. There should be other infected people, one or more, who went to the playground through the door on the other side."

Shen Wen nodded, "Then walked to the middle of the playground with the most people and bit someone."

Xie Congxin took out his mobile phone and looked at the time. It was 6:57, exactly 20 minutes had passed since they left the seat at the beginning.

"Suppose he," Xie Congxin raised his chin slightly, pointing at the boys outside, "was attacked around 6 o'clock, and a new type of virus similar to rabies spread through saliva or other methods, infected him, and invaded the nerve center , causing changes in his body functions, then the incubation period of the virus is 30 to 50 minutes."

Shen Wen said: "But now there is only this one sample, and this time may not be accurate."

"Of course," Xie Congxin said, "This is just speculation. There should be differences between individuals, and more observations and experiments are needed to confirm the authenticity. What I mean is, assuming that 30-50 minutes is the incubation period for most individuals, we'd better do it at 30 minutes." Arrive at a relatively safe place within minutes."

Shen Wen understood what he meant, "You mean that after 30 minutes, more people who were bitten may start to mutate..."

"More people will be infected naturally, and the virus concentration in the air may increase in a short period of time." Xie Congxin said, "There are too few known conditions, which is a relatively bad situation."

With so few known conditions, Xie Congxin was able to make a series of speculations so quickly.

Shen Wen thought that Xie Congxin might have guessed more, because of the urgency of time and because there was no evidence, so she withheld it and didn't say it.

"Let's go." Shen Wen said.

Xie Congxin took another unexpected look at her.

Shen Wen wiped away the tears on her face, and calmly said: "There should still be more living people outside, let's go out."

Of course they can continue to stay here, this room seems to be safe for now.

But this safety is only temporary, there is no water and no food, sooner or later they have to go out and face reality.

Shen Wen has already reacted from the initial shock and bewilderment, and her strong desire to survive has inspired the resilience in her body.

As Xie Congxin said, a dog can jump over the wall when it is in a hurry, she can't be worse than a dog.

She raised the javelin in her hand, "If he attacks me, I can fight back, even if he is still physically alive, right?"

"Okay, self-defense," Xie Congxin stopped after hearing the words, and turned to find a few skipping ropes on the shelf, "But if the situation permits, I hope you will cooperate with me to subdue him and obtain certain cell samples from him."

Shen Wen nodded: "I understand."

Xie Congxin handed the skipping rope to Shen Wen, and put it back on the wall, "Lead him here."

Shen Wen knocked on the wooden door of the equipment room with the tail of the javelin, making regular thumping sounds.

The boy really responded to the voice and turned his stiff neck to look over.

Xie Congxin pressed his hand on a row of shelves near the door, Shen Wen understood what he was going to do, and increased her voice.

The boy's eyes were wide open, almost protruding from their sockets, his face was bloodstained and hideous, Shen Wen gritted her teeth and continued to knock on the wooden door.

The boy moved, and rushed over like a catapult, faster than the girl just now!

"Open the door!" Xie Congxin snorted.

Shen Wen opened the door violently, and at the same time the boy rushed in, and Xie Congxin overturned the shelf, and the glass door shelf weighing dozens of catties fell on the boy's head, shattering into snowflakes——

With a loud bang, the shelf crushed the boy to the ground!

I don't know where it hit, blood splattered everywhere, Shen Wen was close, and a lot was splashed on the hem of her skirt.

The volleyball basketball in the shelf fell down, hit the boy's back, bounced off again, scattered all over the ground, and gradually subsided together with the dust flying in the sun.

After the door opened, the noise from the other side of the playground became clear again. Shen Wen looked down at the blood on her skirt and murmured: "It's so noisy, it's like a sports meeting..."

"If the broadcasting room can still play the athletes' march." Xie Congxin squatted down, pressed the boy's intact right arm with his knee, and signaled Shen Wen to tie his leg up with a skipping rope.

"Where to get the sample?" Shen Wen followed suit, "Virus bodies may not be detected on the body surface, cells near the source of infection, or the central nervous system..."

Xie Congxin took out the meal bag she got in the morning from her pocket, unpacked it, and stuffed the meal bag inside into Shen Wen's mouth.

"........."

Shen Wen knew that Xie Congxin had good intentions. After all, according to the general post-apocalyptic zombie movie routine, they might face the plight of lack of water and food. This last meal package is extremely precious.

But everything in front of her still made her feel nauseous, and she vomited out the meal bag with a wrinkled face.

She whispered, "I'm not very hungry..."

Xie Congxin didn't say anything, and used the tip of the javelin to shave open the boy's neck wound that hadn't scabbed over, scraped off a little bit of flesh and put it in the packaging bag.

Then he put the packing bag into his own pocket, and started to touch the boy's pocket instead.

"What are you looking for?" Shen Wen asked.

Xie Congxin took out the wallet from the boy's trouser pocket and opened it. There was only a little change and two documents in it.

The address on the ID card is local.

Xie Congxin put his ID card back into the card slot of his wallet, and said to the student ID card: "Xu Fengkai, student number 2027080132."

Shen Wen said: "Enrolled in 27 years, a sophomore, should be a student in Class [-] of the School of Information."

Xie Congxin nodded, put his student ID card in his pocket, and put the wallet back in place.

Shen Wen thought that he wanted to record the sample information, and said, "Don't you want to take your ID card?"

After all, more information can be seen in the ID card.

Xie Congxin said, "Maybe someone will come looking for him."

Shen Wen was taken aback.

"Let's go." Xie Congxin said.

Shen Wen didn't want to stay here for a long time, so she got up immediately, leaned against the door frame to be vigilant, and made sure that there was nothing else, before stepping out.

Xie Congxin put away his things and stood up, but just as he raised one foot, something suddenly caught his ankle, and a strong force pulled him down——

It was Xu Kaifeng's hand, but he still couldn't move it!

Xie Congxin reacted very quickly, and immediately grabbed the door frame with his backhand, but it was useless. Xu Kaifeng's palm was too strong, and his nails were almost embedded in the skin of Xie Congxin's calf. Xie Congxin was already unstable when he landed on one foot, and he fell backwards go!

Shen Wen, who was in front of her, realized that something was wrong and looked back, she was so frightened that she screamed, "Thank you, academician!"

Xie Congxin was still holding the door frame with his left hand, and he didn't really fall, but his body couldn't regain his balance for a while. Shen Wen came back to rescue him, and stabbed Xu Kaifeng's arm with a javelin, trying to make him let go.

At this moment, there was a sudden clicking sound from under the shelf!

Xie Congxin's pupils shrank, and the foot that was still in the air kicked Shen Wen's thigh instead, kicking her back a step!

Shen Wen was in pain, and she didn't know why, so she heard a bang——

As if a spring had been installed on his waist, Xu Kaifeng broke through the two-centimeter-thick plank of the shelf with his head, and sat up straight from the ground!

"Back off!"

Xie Congxin gave a shout, and then stabbed Xu Kaifeng's blood-red eyeball with a javelin in one hand. Her lips were exposed, and she bit Xie Congxin's thigh!

"Ah!" Shen Wen's broken scream hurt Xie Congxin's eardrum.

In a blink of an eye, he let go of the hand holding the door frame, allowing his body to fall backwards, and at the same time he blocked it with his hand reflexively. Xu Kaifeng's teeth pierced his clothes and penetrated into the surface of the skin of his arm. Xie Congxin fell to the ground , and Shen Wen strode forward to shoot a javelin, and plunged into the wound on Xu Kaifeng's aorta with all her strength!

After a few seconds of silence, Xu Kaifeng fell to the ground.

Xie Congxin sat up.

"Thank... Academician Xie..." Shen Wen's face was pale, and she stood outside the door panting, the javelin in her hand could no longer hold it, and it fell to the ground with a soft sound.

Xie Congxin was looking down at the five centimeter long bloodstain on his arm.

"You..." Tears welled up in Shen Wen's eyes quickly, and she was at a loss for words. .

"Well," Xie Congxin replied, "I was scratched by his teeth."

He was still very calm, squinting his eyes slightly, and finished speaking for Shen Wen in a declarative tone, "According to our inference just now, saliva transmission should be one of the infection routes of this new virus. I am very likely to have been infected. 30 - After a 50-minute incubation period, the virus will enter my nerve center and cause lesions in my body, making me lose my mind, become aggressive, and become a so-called 'zombie'."

Shen Wen choked up: "But your wound is so small, maybe you didn't feel touched..."

"HIV, Rabies, SARS, Ebola," Xie Congxin interrupted her, "Since you study biology, you shouldn't take chances on the contagiousness of super viruses."

"..."

"Shen Wen," Xie Congxin raised one corner of his mouth, "I said, once you become my burden, I will immediately abandon you."

Shen Wen already understood what he was going to say, but she couldn't stop him.

"Let's go." Xie Congxin said, "Go to the city to find your parents, or meet other living people."

With tears in her eyes, Shen Wen nodded slowly, "Thank you, thank you..."

It was difficult for her to express her feelings, all she knew was that at this moment, in front of Xie Congxin, who was calmly facing death, she gained a very great courage, so great that she seemed to be able to accept the sudden earth-shaking.

She started to walk backwards, "Academician Xie... If your guess is wrong, will we meet again one day?"

"Maybe," Xie Congxin smiled again, and there seemed to be a real smile in his eyes, "but I rarely make mistakes."

Shen Wen burst into tears, "Academician Xie, goodbye."

"Goodbye." Xie Congxin said.