"Doctor, we are the last hope of mankind."
Su Ming'an heard a laugh.
He lowered his head and saw a little girl in blood-red clothes. Her eyes were like blood-red whirlpools and she had a cold smile on her lips.
"Big brother."
The little girl's voice swayed in his ears: "Do you like picking mushrooms?"
As she spoke, she hummed the nursery rhyme "The Little Girl Picking Mushrooms" by herself, which was so strange that it was frightening.
...
[The little girl picking mushrooms
Carrying a basket of bones
Walking barefoot at night ~ Walking through graveyards and hills ~]
...
Su Ming'an turned on the light without hesitation.
With a "click", the laboratory lit up and the strange little girl disappeared.
Su Ming'an had noticed that there were bloodstains on the walls of the laboratory. When the flashlight was on, the bloodstains were fading slightly - he immediately thought that the monster might be afraid of light, so he memorized the position of the light switch in advance.
The next moment he turned on the light, he saw the whole picture of the laboratory.
Brain, eyeballs, heart, stomach, kidneys. They were soaked in jars of green liquid, like floating bright red butterflies, dancing with the foam. This is a room for storing human organs, and there is a corpse hanging on the ceiling.
"——Doctor!"
There was a knock on the door outside, and the girl walked in.
"Doctor, why did you run to the human storage room? Come here quickly." Xiaohan said.
"I'll be right there." Su Ming'an said.
He didn't know what the outside world was like, so it was better not to reveal that he was not a doctor.
His mission was to "find antibodies and unlock the secrets of the doomsday outbreak."
He followed Xiaohan out of the room and passed by a long corridor. A group of children were sitting in the classroom reading. They were bright-eyed and reciting poems:
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old people should burn and cry at the sunset;
Rage, rage against the dying of light..."
Su Ming'an passed by them.
At this time, a girl with pigtails raised her head.
"Doctor, people say that you are the smartest adult. Please ask, when can I grow up?" The girl looked up at him, her face round and rosy.
"You still need eight to ten years." Su Ming'an answered very politely.
"I heard that when you become an adult, you can leave this laboratory and go outside." The girl smiled and said, "It must be a beautiful world outside, right? There is sunshine, rain, flowers, and birds. Doctor, I want to grow up, I want to grow tall! I want to learn to paint and sing, and I want to make every child happy. They will listen to me singing, and I will tell them what beautiful scenery there is outside."
"You will grow up." Su Ming'an said.
"Thank you, Doctor! I will try my best to grow up!" The girl with pigtails waved behind her.
Su Ming'an looked at such a beautiful scene and was a little dazed.
...Maybe, the end of the world has not yet broken out?
"Doctor, the medicine in the laboratory is almost used up, and we must go out today," Xiaohan said. She turned the valve in front of a heavy door.
"Only we go out, what about the others?" Su Ming'an asked.
Xiaohan raised her eyes, her pupils were black and very clear. The iron gate opened, and the sun poured in, staining Su Ming'an.
"Doctor, have you forgotten?" Xiaohan said.
The iron gate opened wide.
The scorching sun soared into the sky, the buildings collapsed, and the fog was heavy.
——After the iron gate opened, Su Ming'an saw this scene.
The human corpses were torn open and scattered all over the ground, the flesh was torn into pieces, and the shriveled intestines and internal organs flowed out.
There were no flowers, no rain, no flowers and birds.
The only thing that could move was the stiff zombies. The city was like a living ruin, with nothing but dust, flying dust, blood, and tears.
Xiaohan watched this scene.
"Most of your colleagues have died long ago, dying from bacterial infections in the end times."
"Only these genetically cultivated children are left, without contact with the outside air, and live in the laboratory for their entire lives."
She smiled lightly, her black eyes were shimmering with brilliant sunlight, as if the golden light was gathered into her pupils.
However, what she said was desperate and cruel:
"——Doctor, unfortunately, we are the last hope of mankind."
Tears flowed from the corners of her eyes.
…
The zombie crisis broke out suddenly a few years ago.
One-third of humans suddenly turned into zombies, they were unconscious and thirsty for human flesh and blood. People who were tickled by them would quickly become infected and turn into zombies.
But some underground shelters were established in time - the R&D center where Su Ming'an was located was one of them.
In addition to the R&D center, there are many shelters scattered in Henggang City, but only the area where Su Ming'an is located can research vaccines.
When passing by the bus stop, Su Ming'an heard the players' discussion.
"There are zombies everywhere here, and there are not many survivors. I don't know how my parents are doing, and whether they have been selected..."
"Forget it, I'm here now."
"I heard from the organizer rabbit that you can get points by completing tasks, and the points can be exchanged for powerful weapons and physical attribute points. In this way, after I become stronger, I will return to Zhaixing in a year and beat up the party A who always finds fault with me. Damn it, the plan was rejected five times, and I will crush his dog head."
"Hehe, maybe the next copy will be the legendary magical world? If I can see the elf beauty, the dragon clan and the brave, the future world of the star and the zerg, the martial arts world of the happy rivers and lakes, and the Western world of gods and sacrifices, I can't wait..."
The initial identity of this group of players should be the survivors of other shelters, who came out to find survival resources.
"Shua!" Su Ming'an killed a zombie with a stick he picked up casually. Although his strength was not high, it was enough to smash the zombie's skull.
After the zombie died, he gained experience points.
[Exp (experience points) +50! (450 experience points are needed to upgrade to level 1-2)]
[After upgrading, you will gain 3 free attribute points per level. ]
[Upgrading to a higher level, you will gain privileges such as "special identity", "increase in the number of skills", and "advanced equipment". Stay tuned. ]
…
Su Ming'an found that the initial upgrade was very fast, and he could upgrade by killing nine more zombies.
Currently, his combat power mainly consists of two skills - clone and annihilation. Both of these are abilities with great potential, and they need to be developed to shine.
"Wow!!"
On the street, a female student holding a lightsaber fell to the ground while running, and was so scared that she couldn't get up.
General players don't have a high score like Su Ming'an at the beginning. If they die faster at the novice level, they will only have 40 or 50 points. Many people are just ordinary people before the game starts, and they don't even dare to kill a chicken.
Su Ming'an glanced at it, estimated the distance, and didn't rush to save her.
"Ah——!"
The female student let out a miserable wail, which was the last sound of her life. The next moment, the hideous zombie bit through her throat.
Xiao Han was indifferent when he saw this.
The female student had a sword in her hand, but she didn't dare to swing it. She could only scream to attract zombies. If such a person was saved, he and Xiao Han would have countless people following them when they encountered a similar situation later.
At that time, if one person was not saved, everyone would start to blame them.
Su Ming'an wiped the blood on the back of his hand.
Thousands of players were destined to be eliminated in the game, and he didn't have time to save them one by one. At that distance just now, if he had rushed over, he would probably not have escaped the fate of being bitten.
He could visually estimate the killing distance, but the barrage did not have such observation ability. They just felt that it was because he did not save people, and gradually a burst of condemnation appeared.
[We are all Zhai Xing people, why can't we help? ]
[It is because of people like anchors that I died so quickly. ]
[Why are you so irritable? Saving people is a favor, not saving people is a duty, Su Ming'an is right...]
[No, you are a bunch of dead trash, how dare you scold adventure players. They are obviously our hope. ]
[In the early stage of the game, there are so many people who blackmail morally. Wait for the game to last for more than ten days, you will know how powerful it is, and see if you dare to scold adventure players at that time. ]
Su Ming'an's eyes did not move to the text in the upper right corner.
…Not all players hiding in the back are trash.
It is human nature to be afraid of death. Some of them may find it difficult to face such a world and hope that other heroes will come forward to break through the barriers. But this cannot be a reason for them to watch others die from a God's perspective.
People can easily lose themselves in such a desperate and powerless environment, and moral kidnapping can easily appear in every corner.
He started live broadcasting to reward points, but it does not mean that he will be morally kidnapped. People like to curry favor with the powerful. When his identity as the first player is exposed, people will stick to him again. At that time, their faces will turn quickly.
"Doctor, let's go to the house at the end of the street. I often do business with them." Xiaohan said.
She was close to the house. This kind of small shelter is very common. Generally, only one or two families live there. The owners of the house seem to be a pair of old grandfathers and grandmothers.
"--You old man, why don't you go to cook noodles?"
"Hey, hey, okay, I'll go, I'll go... Old woman, you are so nagging."
Xiaohan knocked on the door.
"Xiao Han, you're here again?" The person who opened the door was a kind-looking old lady, holding a bottle of blood-red reagent in her hand: "There's not much stock recently, only this one tube, how about exchanging it with compressed biscuits?"
"Yes!" Xiao Han nodded.
During the transaction, the old lady was still mumbling: "My old man has become more and more lazy recently, and he is too lazy to even cook noodles."
"You old woman, you don't even want to add any vegetables, it's bland, and you blame me for not knowing how to cook noodles!" A white-haired old grandfather followed behind.
The old lady ignored the old grandfather and saw Su Ming'an: "——Hey, is this Dr. Su who studies vaccines? I often see him on TV, but I didn't expect him to be so handsome in person. Dr. Su, countless families of ours are waiting for you people to take us into the new century without zombies!"
Su Ming'an responded, and he felt unworthy.
"Grandpa, Grandma, I wish you good health." Xiao Han said.
"Hey, hey." The old lady loved to laugh, and she closed the door with a smile.
Taking advantage of this time, Su Ming'an placed a clone outside.
He originally thought that the clone was similar to a remote-controlled car, and he only needed to convey the instructions.
But he found that the five senses were common, and the vision of the main body and the clone also needed to be controlled and switched. This operation was like having two of him, which made him a little dizzy.
If the clone hurts, he will also feel pain. What the clone hears, he can also hear, but the degree of transmission will increase or decrease with the deviation of his attention.
It seems that the situation where he and the clone attack the same target at the same time cannot occur at this stage. According to the growth of the five senses, it takes about 25 mental points to perfectly control the clone.
He now has 10 mental points, and the level must be at least upgraded to level 16 to obtain 15 free attribute points.
He had seen several groups of looting gangs along the way. These people were small teams of players who specialized in robbing others of their food and funds.
In the face of a crisis, the legal system collapsed, violence was supreme, and it was normal for people who were already malicious to make such a decision.
Nearby, he found some corpses.
[You found the item (a corpse with a miserable death), do you want to start reconnaissance? (The clues obtained by reconnaissance are related to spirit points and wisdom)]
"Reconnaissance."
[*You got a clue. ]
[Clue 1: Black blood: It is best not to touch it directly with your hands - unless you are really thirsty. ]
[Clue 3: Fresh mushrooms: Snow-white all over, with thick caps. Looks delicious. ]
[Clue 6: The vermilion mark on the wrist: Like a special tattoo? ]
[The clue has been recorded in the clue column and can be checked at any time. (Subsequently, more clues will be obtained and linked to form conjectures. Conjectures can be used in the "Final Speculation")]
...
[Hint: You are gradually approaching the truth. ]
[Get 10*3 exploration points]
...
"Doctor, let's go back." At this time, Xiaohan came over, holding a tube of medicine.
(End of this chapter)