Chapter 58 17. Tragedy

More than two months later, the "protective measures" of the living dead center were completed.Iron fences and monitors were all installed in the remaining rooms of the living dead.The name Center of the Living Dead should probably be changed to Prison of the Living Dead.During this period of time, nearly half of the living dead here were destroyed humanely, and the extraordinary period came to an end. Mom resumed going to the center of the living dead three or four times a week.She couldn't sit with my brother and touch his hands and face like she used to.Now, she can only talk to my brother through the iron fence.These iron fences make people in two worlds farther apart.

However, my mother has been trying to narrow this distance.The love and expectation of being a mother made her relax her guard, thus ignoring the regulations of the Living Dead Center. In the end, tragedy struck. I am now in the second semester of my sophomore year. One afternoon, I received a call from my father.His voice was almost exhausted, and what he told me was like a bolt from the blue. "Luo Chen, your mother...was bitten by your brother...while visiting your brother at the center of the living dead." There was a "buzz" in my head, and the whole world started to spin.In a trance, I heard my father say: "I'm in the center of the living dead, so hurry up and come here."

I rushed like crazy to the center of the living dead.In the special ward, my father and the vice president stood by my mother's bed. When they saw me coming, they stood aside silently and let me walk to my mother. Mom is now unconscious and I see her right hand is bandaged.Trembling, I asked, "Is this hand bitten by my brother?" "Yes." The vice president said sadly. "How could it be? Isn't there an iron fence in the room? How could my mother be bitten?" I yelled. "The surveillance video in the room recorded everything, Luo Chen, I can take you to see it." The vice president said.

I followed him to the surveillance room in Zone E, and the deputy director asked the staff to call out the surveillance video from two hours ago.My eyes are glued to the screen. Mom and brother sat facing each other, with an iron fence between them.At first, my mother just told my brother about some things that happened at home recently, but my brother didn't respond.But after a while, he made some moves. The older brother stood up and stretched his arms out over the iron bars towards his mother, as if expecting to make contact with her.Mom was stunned for a few seconds, and then she was overjoyed. She shouted happily: "Lawson!"

The mother stretched out her right hand and held her brother's cold hand. The two hands were tightly held together, and then the fingers were clasped tightly.The mother thought that the brother showed his desire to contact her for the first time, and she was moved to tears.But ten seconds later, something unexpected happened. The elder brother grabbed his mother's hand and dragged it violently, pulling that hand together with his mother in front of him.Mom seemed to realize something, and there was a look of fear in her eyes, but it was too late, my brother opened his mouth and bit down hard.

"Ah!" Mama screamed in horror. "No, Lawson! No!" A few seconds later, the people in the room were pushed away violently, and two staff members broke in, hugged the mother's body together, and dragged him back.Finally, her hand came out from under her brother's mouth, but a large piece of skin on the back of the hand was torn off, dripping with blood. I couldn't stand it anymore, and said to the vice president, "Enough, turn it off." "Luo Chen, I'm sorry." The vice president said apologetically, "If we had arranged for a staff member to stay by your mother's side, this wouldn't have happened. But she has come so many times, I thought she would have I understand our regulations here, and absolutely cannot have any physical contact with the living dead. I didn't expect that when she got excited, she would..."

My mind is in a mess, I don't want to go back to what happened, I only care about the most practical question in front of me: "Deputy Dean, my mother... can she still be saved?" "I'm sorry, Luo Chen." The vice president apologized again, "Everyone who has been attacked by the living dead, without exception, will...become a living dead within a few hours." "A few hours..." I seemed to be out of my body.I heard me repeat mechanically, "In a few hours, my mother will be the living dead..." The vice president didn't speak.I looked at him, and after a few seconds, I twitched and cried, covering my face.

The Vice President put his hand on my shoulder and sighed sadly.I think he was as aware, as I was, of the tragic effects of this incident—it was clear that my brother would certainly be destroyed humanely.What's even more tragic is that the mother who is about to become a living dead is in good health—not to mention terminally ill, she has never had appendicitis.This means she will end up meeting the same fate as my brother.God, my dearest ones, looking to lose two!The stabbing pain in my chest was getting worse, and the sky was falling like I'd never felt before. "Why..." I looked at the vice president with tears streaming down my face, "My brother was terminally ill back then, why did he still mutate, why did he attack my mother?"

Facing my series of questions, the deputy dean hesitated to speak.He hesitated for a while, and said to me: "Luo Chen, there are some things that I planned to tell you after I figured it out. But now that something like this has happened, I think it's necessary to tell you...and your father. " We go back to the special ward.Dad was still by Mom's bedside, his forehead in his hands, and I could feel him enduring the ordeal.And what the vice president said next almost killed us. "A few months ago, because I talked to Luo Chen about a question: whether the living dead with terminal illnesses can also evolve, the cause of this question is some abnormal behaviors of Luo Chen. After that, I organized a doctor to check Luo Chen Sen's body mainly wants to know whether cancer cells and tumors have been reduced or changed under the influence of solanum virus.

"The doctor brought a small three-dimensional X-ray machine and carefully scanned Lawson's body, especially the lungs. As a result... there was a surprising discovery: we did not see it in the X-rays that were taken. Lawson has a tumor in his lung." Time seemed to freeze in the ward.It seems that it is very difficult for my father and me to understand the meaning of this sentence.Half a minute later, Dad asked, "What do you mean? Something went wrong with the instrument?" "No, the 3D X-ray machine is normal. We have tested it many times later." "What's going on?" My mind was spinning numbly. "Can the solanum virus really make tumors shrink or... disappear?"

"We also had this doubt at the beginning. However, after scanning several living dead with cancer, it was found that the tumors in their bodies still existed. Therefore, we can only think..." My dad stood up from the seat, his eyes almost burst open: "What is your conclusion?" The deputy dean finally said with difficulty: "We think that Luo Sen's original diagnosis may have been wrong? Did he really suffer from lung cancer?" Dad was stunned, his wide-eyed eyes rolled a few times in their sockets, as if thinking of something terrible, his whole body trembled.Without saying a word, he rushed out of the ward. "Where are you going, Dad?" I felt like an idiot for asking that.Where else would he go?He must go to the hospital to find Dr. Han Buqiang!I got anxious and shouted at Dad's back, "Dad! Mom... won't you stay with her?" "No, Luo Chen." The vice president came over and said quickly, "Even if your father doesn't go to that doctor, I won't agree with you staying here and watching your mother turn into a living dead. Die in extreme pain, and then... In short, it is very cruel, and no one can face a loved one to go through such a process with his own eyes. So, you should hurry up and catch up with your father, and don't let him do anything drastic!" My mind is extremely confused. Hearing him say this, I seem to be sure of what is going on.God, if that's the case...that's so horrible I can't think about it, I just run after Dad.