Chapter 8 6. Shocking news

September 24, 200X at 9:00 am When I woke up in the morning, I clearly felt that the shadow of horror from last night hadn't dissipated from everyone's hearts, and everyone still had expressions of horror and fear on their faces.And everyone is still like a frightened bird, focusing on the door from time to time, nervously judging whether there is another sound coming from outside.It's just that no one mentioned what happened yesterday, probably because no one wants to relive that terrible memory again. Like everyone else, I scoured the supermarket shelves for something to serve as breakfast.At this time, the sound of rattling behind him attracted everyone's attention.Everyone turned their heads and saw that the bearded man dug out electric drills, hammers, rivets, and hacksaws from the storage room next to the bathroom. He held a large number of tools in both hands and walked straight to the iron rolling door.He inserted the plug of the electric drill into a wire slot in the doorway, turned on the switch, and "buzzed" the electric drill.

The fat woman stepped forward and asked, "Hey, what are you doing?" The bearded man puffed his eyes and said, "What are you doing? Isn't it obvious, I want to open this damn door and get out!" The female clerk ran over and said: "These things... are used by our boss to repair shelves and cabinets, where are you..." Before she finished speaking, the bearded man pointed at her viciously and said, "Little girl! You should have told me that there are still these tools in this shop. If I found out earlier, I would have smashed the iron door and gone out." !"

"You can't do this!" the fat woman said nervously, "Have you forgotten the strange noise you heard last night? It must be very dangerous outside now, and you will die if you go out rashly!" "She's right, there may be very scary monsters outside!" The boy with a fair face also came over. The bearded man snorted and said contemptuously: "Then you stay here, I don't want to stay with you cowards and bastards. I've had enough, no matter what's out there, I'm going to go out and see Look." "But the problem is that after you break the door open, it's not a problem for you to go out alone. We lost the protection of this iron door, and those monsters and viruses will also take the opportunity to sneak in." The fat woman said seriously, "This It's not just about you, you can't be so selfish and harm all of us because of your own impulse!"

The bearded man shouted: "Then what do you think? Live here for the rest of your life? Sooner or later, the water and food in this supermarket will run out, and we will not be dead by then! Why don't we go out and die now to understand!" "Let's stay here and wait, maybe someone will find us..." "I found a fart! It's been more than two days, if someone passed by here, they should have found us long ago!" "Stop arguing!" Just as they were arguing endlessly, the middle-aged uncle squatting by the wall suddenly yelled, holding the MP3 in his hand, and said sternly, "I heard the news reports on the radio Already!"

Everyone was taken aback, and quickly gathered around.The single mother was almost the first to jump in front of the middle-aged uncle, and hurriedly asked, "What did the news report say?" The uncle frowned, and quickly gestured to everyone to stop talking.He said in a deep voice: "The signal is very bad, I can only hear some content intermittently." "Then if you hear a sentence, say it right away!" the single mother said anxiously. The middle-aged uncle nodded, and did as she said: "...It has been found that a rather rare and special virus has indeed broken out in M ​​City in the eastern part of my country. The symptoms caused are terrible...The vast majority of people in the area have been infected by the virus...In order to control the epidemic, the Ministry of Health made a decision to transfer all survivors in the area and send them to major hospitals across the country for isolation and treatment. City M, which is the most severely infected by the virus, was also completely blocked and isolated yesterday...At present, all personnel have been evacuated...Until the virus is researched by the medical unit and measures for prevention and treatment are developed, no one will be allowed to enter City M ... Relevant experts said that the virus in the epidemic area may mutate and deteriorate, and it is still uncertain what will happen to the most severely affected city M in the next few days. Experts said that if the situation of M city once There is an uncontrollable trend and some special measures will have to be taken in the area..."

Everyone's hearts were in their throats, but the middle-aged uncle stopped talking at this moment.The single mother asked urgently: "And then? What's next?" The middle-aged uncle listened solemnly for several minutes, and finally took off the earplugs in frustration, and said to everyone: "The signal is completely interrupted, and there is a lot of noise behind, and I can't hear anything clearly." "Damn it! It's gone at the most critical point!" the bearded man roared angrily. "City M! Isn't it the city we are in now?" The fashionable girl screamed, "The people in this place are indeed infected by the virus! And these people were transferred to other places yesterday? Isn't it a city outside now?" Empty city?"

The fat woman said with a pale face: "Oh my god, it's terrible. The news says that all the people in our city have been evacuated-so we are forgotten in this small supermarket in the suburbs!" The boy with a white face said dumbfoundedly: "We have really been forgotten here... I guess the government must have sent people to this area before, but we probably didn't knock on the door for help, and the door was closed... So they thought there was no one inside, so they left..." "You mean, we may be the only people in this city who are not infected by the virus. Just because of some accidental reasons, we are stranded in this empty city that has been eroded by the virus ?” The fat woman was horrified and the ground was completely deserted.

"I think it's more appropriate to say it's a 'dead city' than an empty city." A cold voice said.It's the redheaded punk. The female clerk was so frightened that she burst into tears and choked up: "Then what's left outside now? Maybe the living people have all been evacuated, and only the... dead bodies that died of virus infection are left?" "If that's the case, then what was the strange noise we heard last night?" The fashionable girl said tremblingly, "Why didn't this be mentioned in the news at all? Besides, the virus mentioned in the news has mutations and What does the possibility of deterioration mean?"

The red-haired gangster had a disgusted and disdainful expression on his face: "Have you not read through these so-called 'news'? He has always been ambiguous about such important events, concealing the facts, and avoiding the important ones. After listening to it for a long time, even this kind of news I don’t know exactly what the virus is doing. Huh, don’t say that we didn’t hear it all because of the bad signal, even if we listened to it all, we might not be able to figure out the real situation outside.” "But, did you hear what was said at the end of the news?" The fat woman said tremblingly, "It said that once the current situation of our city shows an uncontrollable trend, we will take certain measures against it." some special measures..."

"Do you know what that phrase means?" the fashionable girl asked. "I've seen an American movie before." The fat woman shuddered coldly, "It told about a city that was attacked by a terrible virus similar to what we are facing now. Finally, in order to prevent the virus from spreading to the whole country or even the whole The world spread, and the government had to choose to blow up the entire area..." Hearing this, the clerk's face was distorted with fright.The fashion girl said in disbelief: "Blow up... Blow up? This is too exaggerated, we are not making a disaster movie now!"

I just listened to them guessing and discussing what you said and I said, and I felt a mess and buzzing in my mind.I think the more we hear them talk like this, the worse our situation becomes.My heart sank layer by layer, and I even felt hopeless and hopeless.At this moment, the bearded man roared fiercely: "If that's the case, then why are you hesitating? Since we were left here for no reason, of course we should smash the door and leave here!" The middle-aged uncle stood up from the ground and looked at him and said, "Have you not figured out the situation yet? The virus is spreading outside and there are many dangers. If we go out at this time, we will undoubtedly seek our own death." "Then what do you think we should do?" The bearded man asked sharply, "We have been left here, no one cares! Is it true that we are going to stay here to die?" He pointed at the fat woman, "And she Didn’t you just say that if the situation in our area continues to deteriorate, the government may blow up our entire place! Do you want to wait until that day? Ah!” "I think that's just the most extreme conjecture. Besides, this lady also said that her conjecture came from a movie, and the plot in it was fictitious. In real life, how could the government easily dispose of a certain building?" The city was blown up? So we don’t have to worry so much.” The middle-aged uncle calmly analyzed, “Besides, I don’t think we’re really left here and no one cares about it. It’s said in the news, but now it’s just because the medical institutions are still No measures to prevent and treat the virus have been developed, so no one is allowed to enter our city. This means that once this problem is resolved, there will be medical teams or other organizations coming back here. I believe that by then we will There will be rescue!" "But, who knows how long they will have to study?" The fashion girl said worriedly, "What if they don't research it for a year or so? Or, before they research it, the situation here has developed out of control To what extent, who knows what decisions they'll make at that point?" "Then we can only wait patiently and act with the camera." The middle-aged uncle held up the MP3 in his hand, "Don't we still have this? We can use it to understand the changes of the situation every day, and then make flexible decisions." He turned his head and looked around Walk around the entire supermarket and say to everyone, "At least we have to realize now that we are lucky in one thing-we are not locked in a garage or a gymnasium, but a supermarket. I just estimated , if we save the food in it, it should be no problem to last for a year or so." The bearded man gasped, stared wide-eyed and shouted: "You really plan to live here for a long time! Let me tell you, if we really stay here for a year or so, we won't be suffocated to death." Will be driven insane!" "I just said that the food here is enough for us to last for a year and a half, and I didn't say that we really have to stay here for such a long time. Maybe if we are lucky, we will be rescued if we stay here for another week or two!" "Ah—" the fat woman suddenly twitched all over, shaking her head violently with a pale face, "No, no..." Everyone looked at her in surprise, and the fashionable girl asked, "What's wrong with you?" The fat woman trembled and pointed in the direction of the bathroom: "Did you forget... there is still a corpse in that storage room? After a long time, it will rot and smell, and then..." Everyone was stunned, and a shadow shrouded their faces at the same time.