Chapter 2 prologue emergencies

September 22, 200X at 9:25 PM Things always turn out unexpectedly. None of the dozen or so people in the supermarket thought about what happened next. This is an ordinary place.In fact, it is somewhat ironic to call this store with a total area of ​​less than 300 square meters a "supermarket".It is true that this place cannot be compared with those large shopping malls in the city, but the goods in the store are relatively complete, so in this remote suburb, it is already considered a very good store. The store is generally quiet.More than a dozen customers who did not know each other silently chose what they needed.Only one woman was holding a shopping basket and talking on her mobile phone.

"No, I told you, you'll get tooth decay if you eat too much sugar." She lowered her voice and tried to use a serious tone. "Do you want to go to the dentist again?" Pausing, listening for a moment, she shook her head resignedly, "Okay, just a bag of chocolates and chips - but you have to promise me to keep brushing your teeth every day. What... Hey ...Oh, son, the signal here is too bad. Forget it, I'll talk about it when I get back." She stuffed her phone into her handbag and picked out snacks from the shelves. At 9:30, the soft and sweet voice of the female clerk came out from the small loudspeaker in the supermarket: "Hello, customers. The supermarket will close in fifteen minutes. Please choose the goods you want to buy as soon as possible and go to the checkout counter Pay. You are welcome to come back tomorrow."

After hearing the notification, the customers speeded up their purchases.After a while, more than a dozen people came to the cashier one after another, queuing up to pay. "Let's go, let's go." A rough, bearded man buzzed over from behind, unceremoniously pushed aside the people in line, and went straight to a pair of people who were about to put the goods on the cash register. In front of the men and women, he was the first to throw a few bags of food in his hands to the female cashier: "Follow me first, I have something urgent." The one who was squeezed away was a young girl in fashionable clothes. She was about to say something when the boyfriend next to her gently pulled her clothes to signal her not to speak.The girl gave her boyfriend a blank look, and turned her face away angrily.The female cashier naturally felt that it was against the rules, but she glanced at the burly man, and didn't dare to say anything, so she picked up the price marker and scanned the prices next to the packages.The male clerk next to him watched all this helplessly.

At this time, something unexpected happened. With a loud bang, the glass door of the supermarket was slammed open.A sweaty, panting man stumbled in.The female cashier closest to him saw what he was holding at a glance, and exclaimed, "Ah!" "Don't move! You—all of you don't move!" The man raised his pistol and shouted frantically, his shrill voice filled the entire space. "Everyone stay where they are!" The dozen or so people in the supermarket were all stunned. None of them had experienced such a thing before, and none of them dared to act rashly.The gangster seemed to have no time to further control the situation. While holding his gun, he looked back in panic.Suddenly, he pointed his gun at the male clerk by the door and shouted loudly: "Close the door! Quickly, lock the shutter door!"

"Okay, okay..." The male clerk turned pale with fright, and didn't dare to resist at all.Trembling, he walked to the door, picked up an iron hook leaning against the door, pulled down the rolling shutter door on top with a bang, closed it and locked it, then consciously dropped the iron hook, raised his hands, Looking at the man with the gun tremblingly. Seeing that the iron rolling door was indeed closed, the man seemed a little relieved, his expression was much more relaxed than before, but he still raised his gun and pointed at the male clerk: "Go, stand with them."

The male clerk obediently complied, and stood beside the female cashier. Now, all the people in the supermarket are gathered in front of the man with the gun, and the man finally let out a long breath, and said in his harsh and ugly voice, "Don't look at me like that, I'm not you guys!" Imaginary mugger. No mugger would be stupid enough to lock himself in a closed shop." He paused, then said, "Now, listen up, I'm going to tell you something—I guess none of you know what's going on outside like this right now." No one moved, and no one spoke. The man's expression was nervous: "Listen clearly—an unprecedented and terrifying virus has erupted outside! This virus is spreading at an alarming speed. About ten minutes ago, people in the entire city Almost all of them were infected by the virus. I survived because I fled to this suburb before being infected by the virus—" He swallowed and stared at the people in front of him, "I can tell by the way you look You are not infected, which means that this area is still clean. But I know that it will not be long before... This place will be infected... So, do you understand? We are staying in this supermarket now, Wait for rescue! Don't try to go out! You don't know that people infected by this virus will..."

pong!With a muffled sound, the man with the gun shook twice before falling down in a daze.Behind him stood a young man with dyed red hair, dressed like a hippie, a street gangster to be exact.At this moment, he was holding a bottle of wine stained with blood in his hand, staring blankly at the man lying on the ground, seeing the blood slowly seeping out from the back of the man's head, he raised his head and looked at us in astonishment. "Hey, good job, kid!" The rough man standing in front rushed over, knelt down and handed over the gun from the unconscious man, and said to the red-haired young man, "You subdued this lunatic!"

The people behind all rushed over, seeing that the gangster had passed out, everyone was relieved.The mother who bought snacks held her chest with lingering fear: "Oh my God, it's terrible. I really didn't expect to encounter such a thing in my life!" Everyone became noisy and chattered.The fashionable girl's boyfriend shook his head and sighed: "This is a lunatic, a complete psycho! But the question is, where did his gun come from?" "Maybe he did some other things before coming here." A fat middle-aged woman said with a frown. "Maybe that gun was a toy gun after all," said the fashionable girl.

"No, it's a real gun." The big man held the pistol and glanced at the girl who spoke, "And I checked it, and there are indeed bullets." Everyone took a breath, feeling terrified of the danger just now.A middle-aged man with glasses said: "No matter what, call the police." "Yes, yes." Then everyone came to their senses and agreed unanimously.The saleswoman hurried to the counter and grabbed the phone receiver. "Hey, wait a minute." The big man put the gun on the counter, and squinted at the female shop assistant who was about to call the police, "Whether you want to call the police, or how to deal with this lunatic on the ground, that's up to you .But before that, open the door, I'm going out—I said, I'm in a hurry."

"Ah... yes." The female clerk also realized that everyone was still locked in here, she nodded at the male clerk, "You open the door." The male clerk nodded mechanically, took out the key from his trouser pocket, and was about to squat down to open the lock of the rolling door when he heard a woman's voice from behind: "Wait, don't rush to open it." The male clerk turned his head in a daze, and found that everyone was looking in the same direction as him, staring at the fat woman who was speaking. "What do you mean?" The big man stared at her.

The fat woman's dress was a little out of date. It was only early autumn, but she was wearing a black woolen coat and a cashmere scarf around her neck. It looked like she had just returned from a trip to northern Norway and hadn't been able to adjust her clothes in time.At this moment, she found that everyone's eyes were on her, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.The big man raised his voice again and asked, "Why don't you open the door?" The fat woman hesitated and said, "I have a... bad feeling." The big man stared at her for two seconds, let out a disdainful "hum", turned around and muttered, "Another psychopath." Then he said to the male clerk squatting at the door: "Don't pay attention to her, open the door!" The male clerk hesitated for a moment, then inserted the key into the lock, turned it, and the ground lock opened with a "snap".With a "crash", he opened the shutter door half a person's height, revealing the pitch-black night outside.The male clerk squatted and turned his head and said to the customers: "Okay, the door is open, everyone can go out..." Before he could finish his sentence, suddenly, in full view of everyone, the male clerk was suddenly dragged out by something outside.He had been holding the shutter door with his hands. With a "wow", it collapsed again, and with a "snap", the ground lock locked the rolling door again. It was almost a blink of an eye, and the people behind didn't see what happened, and they realized that the male clerk had disappeared.Everyone was too surprised to react, and something even more shocking happened.They heard the heart-piercing screams of the male clerk outside the door, as well as the loud crashing sound of him struggling desperately and hitting the iron rolling door.The two voices interweave to form a terrible noise mixed with infinite horror and fear, which makes the listener feel horrified and heart-rending. About half a minute later, there was silence outside the door, and no sound could be heard.When the people in the supermarket looked at each other in amazement, another scream pierced the silence. It was the fashionable girl. She pointed at the door with a pale complexion, and shouted in panic: "Blood—blood!" All eyes followed her gaze, and a bone-chilling chill rose spontaneously from their backs. Where the male clerk was dragged out just now, a stream of blood was slowly seeping in from the crack of the rolling door. "Ah—" the female clerk covered her mouth in horror, almost fainting.The other people in the store, including the big man, were all stunned and stiffened by fright. The air in the supermarket froze for about a minute.At this time, it seemed that everyone realized something in an instant. After they glanced at each other, they all looked at the unconscious man lying on the ground, and remembered what he said just now.The middle-aged man wearing glasses walked forward first, knelt down and shook the man's body, shouting, "Hey, how are you? Wake up!" no response.The middle-aged man turned his body over, and felt his heart tremble—he didn't expect that the blood from the back of the man's head had already soaked the front of his body, and there was a big puddle of blood on the ground.The middle-aged man put his finger in front of the man's nose and tried it, and he was stunned with a thud in his heart. A young man behind him asked, "How is it? He..." The middle-aged man wearing glasses turned around, looked at the dozen or so people behind him, and said in a low voice, "He's dead." For some reason, the moment I heard this sentence, I immediately felt a chilling feeling of fear in my heart, as if someone said to me in my ear: The nightmare has begun.