Chapter 41 wedge

On April 8, 202X, Easter Day, tens of thousands of people gathered on the street in front of the Capitol in Atlanta, USA, blocking the road.People held up various signs and banners and shouted loudly, demanding that the XX government "restore the right of individuals to become the living dead on their own initiative." At the same time, the Grand Place in Belgium and the Prague Square in the Czech Republic also gathered thousands of people unprecedentedly. The living dead come among us", "I am the living dead, take me away", etc. On May 1, 202X, a mass parade of ten thousand people demanding that the government formulate a "living dead law" in line with public opinion broke out again in various places, this time on a global scale—Moscow Red Square, Buenos Aires May Square, Shinjuku Avenue in Tokyo, Times Square in New York, Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, King's New Square in Copenhagen, Constitution Field in San Diego... almost covering the whole world.

In view of the pressure exerted by people everywhere and the obvious inclinations expressed by various religions, the spokesperson of the White House said that the people should give the government some time. After all, it is not so easy to make a decision to pass such a major bill that concerns all mankind. Yes, it needs to be negotiated by multiple parties. Apparently, the world has gone mad—a phrase my dad often used to say. As the son of a famous anthropologist and legal scientist, I have inherited some ability to analyze things rationally.That's why I can sit here and talk about these crazy things.Although my tone may sound old-fashioned, I declare that I am only 17 years old and a sophomore in high school.I live in the "zombie age".

The new thing about the living dead (also called zombies by some) appeared about five years ago.That was when I just graduated from primary school.One evening, I saw a news report on TV, saying that a strange virus had appeared in Madeira, a city in Mexico. "come alive" - ​​although physiologically, it is not a living person.Because "his" heartbeat stopped and brain activity stopped, he no longer had any vital signs.But the scary thing is that "he" can walk around on the ground and make some simple movements.The hospital staff had never encountered such a strange thing, and they were all terrified and helpless.In the end, the miraculously "resurrected" patient was isolated and shut down in the hospital, waiting for further research by medical experts.Because the condition of being infected with this virus is similar to that of the living dead in literature and film and television works, the hospital in Mexico named the virus the "living dead" virus - the English name is "solanum" virus, which has been used ever since .

You can imagine how this news shocked hundreds of millions of viewers all over the world!But the shock was far more than that. What really made the world crazy was the series of news events that followed: within a few days, different regions in the United States, Tanzania, South Korea, Egypt, Australia, Germany and other countries have discovered Such a peculiar case.In what seemed like an instant, the virus spread across the world.This phenomenon can only illustrate one point: the zombie virus did not spread from Mexico, but was bred all over the world at the same time.As for why it suddenly appeared, until now it is a mystery.

Obviously, in the early days of this incident, the world was in panic and panic, just like several plagues in history, people were terrified and afraid to avoid it.Religious believers claim that the Judgment Day has finally come, and the appearance of the living dead is the ultimate punishment given by God to man. But to the surprise of the whole world, about half a year later, things changed dramatically.The successive incidents made people gradually feel that the virus of the living dead may not be a punishment from God, but may be a gift from God to mankind. The first big event: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences published the results of their six-month study.The research report shows that the infection mode of solanum virus is transmitted by blood and body fluids, that is to say, if you only have normal communication and contact with the living dead, you will not be infected.And the important point is that the living dead don't attack humans and turn more people into their kind as described in horror movies-the classic setting in such movies is purely overdeveloped imagination.According to the close contact with the living dead for half a year, scientists found that they are not dangerous at all, they are as docile as small animals.

Plus, this study of the living dead reveals some intriguing details that hold the key to a new look at the living dead: First, the digestive system and circulatory system in the body of the living dead are useless.This means that a living dead person can "survive" without eating; Second, the living dead will not have any material needs in human life (such as hunger, drinking water, rest, etc.), and can be regarded as a completely self-sufficient creature. And third, the living dead don't feel pain—meaning they're immune to disease and pain. Fourth, the living dead are not completely devoid of brain activity and thinking, as people thought when they first appeared.In fact, their brains retain some thinking similar to that of lower animals, enabling them to make some instinctive reactions, such as turning around when they are called.

Originally, I guessed that the original intention of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to publish these research results was to dispel people’s panic about the living dead and the solanum virus—they believed that the emergence of the living dead realized the three dreams of human beings from a certain angle: 1. Immortality. 2. You can live without eating. 3. Get rid of pain. So, about a year after the solanum virus appeared, the world ushered in the first person who voluntarily became a living dead. An AIDS patient in Tunisia, because he could not bear the double torment of terminal illness on body and mind, took the initiative to contact a woman with solanum virus (the woman had not turned into a living dead at that time), and after having sex with her, he succeeded Infected with the zombie virus.

After a period of time, the AIDS patient turned into a living dead, completely freed from the torment of the disease, and transformed into another new life form.According to media follow-up reports, it has been five years now, and he is still "living" well. This incident has caused an uproar all over the world, and some people who have experienced similar experiences seem to have obtained some kind of enlightenment—rather than enduring all kinds of pain in life, it is better to be liberated in this way and obtain "eternal life" from another perspective. A new batch of human beings who are destined to become the living dead are born one after another like this:

A high school student in Sapporo, Japan, lost his belief in living because he failed the college entrance examination for three consecutive years and broke up with his girlfriend.He wanted to commit suicide, so he adopted a "compromise" method-he found a person who lost the virus infection and drew his blood. A businessman in Erhovo, Bulgaria, owed huge debts due to the bankruptcy of the company, and finally chose to escape life by turning into a living dead. A family of four in Ethiopia turned into the living dead collectively for one reason: they were too poor.In the case of chronic lack of food, they simply chose never to eat.It is said that after the family went all the way to find a local living dead, they were extremely excited and cheered for their upcoming new life...

In the beginning, those who chose to become the living dead were those who had some kind of tragic and painful experience.Later, some well-off and even enviable people joined the camp of the living dead for inexplicable and inexplicable reasons. A seventy-year-old billionaire in Leeds, England, used to imagine that he could stay together forever through his estate and wealth-apparently, after the appearance of the living dead, he found a way. If I can still understand the idea of ​​this rich man, then the idea of ​​the famous female model in Brazil is incredible.She is only forty-seven years old and has no diseases.The only reason she chose to become a living dead was—to keep her beauty forever.

There are too many similar examples to list them all.From the first person who took the initiative to become a living dead, tens of thousands of people all over the world have joined the ranks one after another.There is no doubt that the heads of government of various countries are panicking.When they found that the momentum of spontaneously lengthening the undead was out of control, they realized that they had to take coercive measures to control the development of the situation—they didn't want to see their country eventually paralyzed because of the gradual increase of the undead. Therefore, all countries have adopted corresponding coercive measures to limit the increase of the living dead.All kinds of armed forces isolated and locked up all the living dead in the country, including those who were infected with the zombie virus and had not yet turned into living dead, so that people could not get rid of them.But this move seemed too authoritarian and tyrannical, which aroused public anger, which is why a series of large-scale demonstrations in the world later appeared. Now, countries all over the world are facing a problem: the government must come up with a policy or law about the living dead.The challenge at hand is to strike a balance between control and compromise. Having said so much about this era and the overall situation of the world, I now feel that it is time to narrow the topic-back to myself. I live in China, City B. My family is a family of scholars. My father is a well-known anthropologist and social psychologist, and my mother is a well-known legal scientist. Both of them are important figures in academia.I also have an older brother who is a graduate student in a first-class university in China, majoring in biology, and will be graduating this semester. Let me say this, maybe you haven't realized how special my family is.So let me make it clear: whether China establishes the "Law of the Living Dead", or what the content and regulations of this set of laws are, my parents' opinions will account for a large proportion. But my father used to say that the world had gone mad.From this sentence, you can see his tendency. That's right, he's a man who's adamantly opposed to turning humans into the living dead.Under his influence, my mother, brother, and I also took a negative attitude towards this matter. My father believes that no matter what kind of adversity people come from, they should maintain the most basic humanity and dignity as a "human being".He felt that if a person becomes a living dead, although he will get rid of some pain and troubles, but at the same time he will lose the meaning of being a person. He can no longer be regarded as a person, but a degenerated lower animal. A state of existence that should be despised. Moreover, my father also had a premonition. He believed that the appearance of the living dead did not seem to have caused any harm or confusion at present, but he had a vague feeling that this was just a prelude, a prelude to some kind of destructive catastrophe. A moment of peace - like the calm before the storm. To be honest, I don’t understand the source or basis of my father’s worries, and I don’t even care about whether any catastrophe or terrible things will happen in the future. The only thing I care about now is myself. There's a secret I've been keeping from my family for days. Maybe... in a few days or ten days, I will become a living dead.