Chapter 16, Dawn of the Dead (Part 2)
Some people say that the history of human civilization is a history of internecine wars - as the spirit of all things, human beings are fighting each other against the same kind, using the lives of countless compatriots as blood sacrifices, and saying goodbye step by step Ignorance and barbarism moved towards reason and civilization.
Every development of human society has led to the advancement of weapons and equipment.
In the ancient times, the emergence of stone spears and stone axes gave humans the basic ability to truly face dangerous beasts for the first time, and also allowed humans to stand out among animals. Next, with the emergence of bronze smelting technology, human civilization had a more efficient way of killing. Sharp metal blades broke away from the constraints of nature on weapons, and wars between humans also became more intense and grand.
Then, the Hittite Empire in Asia Minor invented iron smelting technology, bringing the world into the Iron Age. From then on, the farming countries had an overwhelming military advantage over the surrounding barbarian peoples. Farming civilizations began to launch expeditions one after another, exterminating their tribes and genocide, and the wars became more bloody and cruel.
Next, the emergence of stirrups and the spread of iron-smelting technology enabled nomadic peoples to not only have weapons of the same level as agricultural peoples, but also have unparalleled mobility. As a result, in nearly a thousand years, they became physically strong and capable of riding. The nomads who were good at shooting regained a long-term military advantage over the farming peoples, and the mobility and flexibility of warfare also reached the peak of the cold weapon age with the development of cavalry.
Another thousand years later, revolutionary firearms finally appeared. The era of human beings relying on their bodies and strength to collide and kill officially ended. Early long-range weapons such as bows and arrows were gradually eliminated, and the majestic cavalry also began to decline and became a supporting role in war. .
After automatic weapons began to appear, human beings were able to massacre their own kind with unprecedented efficiency. In order to uphold their various beliefs and righteousness, they killed all enemies more, more gorgeously, more quickly, more cruelly, and more thoroughly. destroying their homes.
——Human beings have always been good at destruction. This is a truth that has been proven countless times in history. Those once glorious ancient civilizations required countless years of precipitation and accumulation to form, but when they were destroyed by enemies, it often only took a short moment.
After the emergence of nuclear weapons, their destructiveness has posed a threat to the survival of human civilization, forcing the great powers to dare not fight again for decades.
However, this is still not as good as some biological weapons with god-level plug-ins!
A mere accidentally broken T-virus test tube pushed the entire British island into the abyss of the apocalypse! Turn Jane Austen's romantic novel "Pride and Prejudice" into a modern Hollywood horror movie blockbuster "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"!
In fact, the current biohazard in the world of "Pride and Prejudice" is even more terrifying than the situation in the funny horror movie "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" - the latter is just the dead crawling out of their graves and hunting the living. Just people. Now, in this biochemical crisis caused by the genuine T-virus, it is not just humans who are infected, various animals are also being infected and turned into zombie monsters.
Moreover, for the infected, becoming a zombie is still not the final outcome, but will "evolve" into more ferocious biological weapons.
At this moment, blocking Wang Qiu's carriage in front of them is the most powerful monster formed after the T virus infects the human body: the Licker.
This is a monster uglier than zombies, mutated by zombies whose infection with the T virus has reached a critical point. Its eyes have completely degraded and it has no vision at all. It relies entirely on its keen hearing to hunt and kill. Even walking, running, and even the sound of breathing and heartbeat cannot escape its ears.
——In the setting of "Resident Evil", lickers are the strongest type of monster that can automatically "evolve" or mutate after the human body is infected by the T virus. As for the stronger "Tyrant" or "Nemesis", they are biochemical weapons artificially synthesized using high-tech equipment in Umbrella's laboratories. It cannot be achieved by just relying on a tube of T-virus solution or a few bites from zombies.
Lickers cannot walk upright, but they can rely on their powerful limbs and claws to climb upside down on walls or even roofs. Coupled with super powerful bounces and fast movement speeds, humans can even carry out attacks with modern submachine guns. Strafing, it's hard to hit them.
As for the old-fashioned single-shot muzzle-loading muskets from the Napoleonic War era at the end of the 18th century, they were like toys in front of such ferocious beasts.
Therefore, after the licker successfully massacred the living people in a building, it jumped into the middle of the road and blocked Wang Qiu's way.
To be honest, with the five Bennet sisters behind him, even though Wang Qiu has experienced hundreds of battles in the infinite space, he still does not have enough confidence. He shot the licker with a gun, and at the same time protected the five Bennet sisters... However, Wang Qiu had no fear of this, because he had a powerful cheating device that could turn the tables at any time.
He sighed, reached into his arms, took out the [Super Time Stop Watch], and pressed it hard, "...There is nothing I can do! Stop time!"
As a result, the eager licker standing in the road turned into a motionless clay puppet, and the whole world fell silent in an instant.
——This means that good skills are not as good as high technology, and high technology is not as good as black technology!
Even so, the horse, which had also turned into a statue, could not pull the cart when time was stopped. Wang Qiu had no choice but to get on the coachman and drag the five Bennet sisters to abandon the car and walk, bypassing the lickers blocking the road, and walked towards the Bennet house a mile away from the town.
On the way, they saw several zombies wandering in the wild, as well as several cattle and horses that were suspected of being zombies. There was also a particularly unlucky family whose own dog was being transformed into a zombie dog, and was attacked as a delicious night snack. , biting the owner until he was bloody and dying...
When the five Bennet sisters saw this, they immediately vomited all over the floor, and their hands and feet were as limp as mud. They panted for a long time before they were finally able to continue on their way.
When a group of them finally arrived at Bennet's home, turned off the [Super Time Stop Watch], and allowed time to start flowing again, Wang Qiu found that the place had turned into a busy military base, and everyone could no longer care about covering up, and directly All kinds of high-tech equipment and even black technology equipment were moved here. The fence of the yard was wired, machine guns were set up at the door and on the roof, and sandbags were piled in the yard. Everyone put on full-body protective clothing, or at least gas masks, and they looked like they were on the verge of death. The appearance of an enemy.
"...How is the situation? Has the T-Virus been confirmed? Have you figured out where they came from?"
Seeing Senior Sister Ma Tong waving a pistol and directing the deployment of defense, and Nan Lixiang setting up a sniper position on the roof, Wang Qiu suddenly felt that the situation was critical - even in the zombie apocalypse of "School Apocalypse", they seemed I have never been so scared...
"...The origin of the T virus cannot yet be determined, but its existence and outbreak have been confirmed."
Through the gas mask, Senior Sister Ma Tong replied angrily, "...We have just repelled an attack..."
"...Oh? But we didn't find any remains of zombies or lickers outside the house just now..." Wang Qiu asked doubtfully.
"...It's a zombie bat! An aerial killer that haunts the night!" Professor Guo walked out of the house on crutches, still looking very weak, "...Ahem, two comrades accidentally killed me just now. I was bitten by a zombie bat. Fortunately, we can still treat this disease..."
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In modern Chinese online novels, whenever the concept of "the end of the world" is mentioned, it will most likely be associated with zombies, as if the destruction of the modern human civilization must come in the form of a zombie outbreak. Although this kind of overly subjective idea is really very unscientific, it cannot withstand the appeal and shock of the zombie apocalypse - as long as you think about waking up one day and seeing that the earth has been occupied by zombies, all kinds of people will be shocked. Scenes of blood, flesh and mutilated limbs everywhere would probably make anyone shudder.
It is not appropriate to classify zombies as the carnivores that prey on humans. They are plagues, and humans are their hosts. The lucky victims were devoured, their bones gnawed clean, their All flesh and blood were lost. Those who were not lucky enough joined the attackers, transformed into hideous monsters, and joined in the carnival of flesh and blood that preyed on humans.
Fortunately, the zombie viruses in most movie plots are relatively "mild" and do not spread through water or air like infectious diseases, or even infect organisms other than humans. Infections that create zombies are generally only caused by direct contact with body fluids. The most well-known of them is, of course, a bite from a zombie... In some plots, even the exchange of body fluids other than blood will not cause the virus. Infection, so much so that some "gentlemen" would pull out the teeth of beautiful female zombies and keep them in captivity, then take off their pants to try what a "warm corpse" feels like...
To put it simply, zombies are compared to vampires, and living people will be fine as long as they don't get bitten.
But the problem is that the T virus in the "Resident Evil" movie plot world is not such a "mild" type - there are many sources of infection for the T virus, and zombie bites are only one of the most effective ways. Others include Bodily fluid infections, respiratory infections, etc. are almost identical to cold viruses. The targets of its infection are by no means only humans. All kinds of mammals such as rats, cats, dogs, cattle and horses are all within the scope of zombie transformation.
What's even worse is that the T virus mutates rapidly like a cold virus. As the virus continues to mutate, other animals have also fallen, and eventually even plants. The most serious result is that the entire earth's ecosystem is collapsing, and life is extinct from the earth to the ocean. In the movie plot world of "Resident Evil 3", it has led to global desertification... That is a real desert of death!
——When the blue test tube containing the original solution of the T virus was shattered, the death and destruction of the entire world became almost irreversible.
At this moment, in a glass tank in front of Wang Qiu, there were several zombie bats that had just been knocked down. At first glance, these zombie bats seemed to be no different from more ordinary bats, except that they were slightly larger. But if you look closely, you will find how deformed they are - each bat has a vertical line on its abdomen that splits from the neck to the tail, which usually looks like a wound cut by a knife. But when they swooped down in the night and attacked living people, the gap revealed its true appearance: it would open to the left and right at this time, revealing the dense teeth inside! And the tongue is unknown whether it is mutated from the intestines or some other organ... As long as a bite is taken from it, a living person will be infected with the zombie virus. And if you are attacked by a swarm of zombie bats, you may even be chewed alive into bones!
The movement speed of flying bats and the speed of spreading crises are obviously much faster than those of staggering zombies...
Then, in another stronger glass incubator next to it, there were several healthy mice used for experiments. Shizuka Marikawa tried to inject one of the mice with bodily fluid extracted from a zombie bat. After only a few dozen minutes, the white mouse turned into a zombie mouse: its hair fell off, its eyes turned red, its movements were slow and stiff, its eyes turned strangely red, and it also grabbed other healthy white mice and killed them. Bite to death. Dozens of minutes later, the other white mice that were bitten to death slowly got up after their bodies trembled violently. Although their huge wounds were exposed and their blood had coagulated, they were still limping. Walking around and banging on the glass desperately, just looking at it makes people feel heart palpitated.
"...It is no longer important where the T-Virus came from. The disaster situation is before us, which is more serious than the zombie crisis in the plot world of "School Apocalypse". In any case, that world Only humans can be turned into zombies. But here, not only humans, but also other mammals can be infected and turned into zombies, and the way the virus spreads is not just through zombie bites..."
Pointing to the experimental results in the glass box, Professor Guo sighed with a worried look on his face and said, "...In fact, no one here is safe anymore, everyone is more or less exposed to the virus. Because there is also T virus in the air Drifting away.
Although you look very healthy, it is actually because you are infected with too little T virus through breathing. The human body's immune system can quickly kill such a small amount of T virus, so there is no mutation. Of course, even if someone is occasionally bitten by a small animal carrying a virus, as long as they are in good health and rely solely on their own immunity, they should be able to remain normal for a few days. But it is different if it is a person who is attacked by zombies until he is near death. His immune system is so weak that the virus can easily invade. Moreover, if the virus enters the bloodstream directly from the wound, it will spread throughout the body in a very short time, greatly accelerating the infection process and turning the infected person into a zombie within dozens of minutes. In other words, just one monster like a Licker can destroy a village or town in one day! ”
Regarding the above statement, Wang Qiu and others, who have long been accustomed to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood, looked calm. However, the five Bennet sisters in the time-travel version did not have such strong psychological endurance. Their faces suddenly turned pale and there was no blood at all, "... …So, what’s going on in Meritun Town now?”
"...We just sent a drone to Meritun for aerial reconnaissance, and what we saw can only be described in one word."
Ma Tong clicked on a video on the laptop at hand, then pushed it in front of the five Bennet sisters, "...purgatory on earth!"
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The autumn morning sunshine once again illuminated the small town of Meritun, but compared with yesterday, the town was completely different.
Fire, smoke, mutilated bones, sticky blood... and the walking dead wandering the streets!
This is the dawn of the living dead!
Groups of zombies roamed the streets, filled with a pungent rotten stench and roaring. They crashed through houses hiding living people, attacked any living person who fled in panic, and did not spare any animals - as can be seen from the aerial footage of the drone, dozens of zombies took advantage of the narrow streets. , successfully ambushed a A guy who tried to run away on horseback not only tore the unfortunate guy into pieces, but also knocked down the horse he was riding on. Amid the screams of the horse, he tore open its belly, took out its organs, and Cut the body into pieces and devour it...
Although in front of fully armed humans, a single zombie is not difficult to defeat. But as the number of zombies increases rapidly, humans who are still scattered become vulnerable. Not to mention that there are several elusive lickers that are far more lethal than tigers, watching with eager eyes!
At the same time, instead of uniting and getting through the crisis, the remaining humans in the town fell into fighting and robbing each other.
——Since ancient times, disasters and riots have occurred at the same time. When a large-scale disaster occurs, the ensuing loss of local order will definitely give some criminals an opportunity to take advantage of it. Not to mention England at the end of the 18th century, even in China and the United States in the 21st century, such top world powers, when encountering a major disaster, there are countless beasts who take the opportunity to rob, kill, and break the law. All.
The situation is even worse in more vulnerable countries. Any serious disaster will provide some restless people with an excuse to start a rebellion. Taking advantage of the disaster to coerce a large number of people into rebellion is the only way to gather people for rebellion in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.
And as this zombie apocalypse, which exceeded the limits of human imagination, suddenly broke out without warning, the town of Meryton, which had not been tested by war for hundreds of years, immediately fell into a collapse of order. While some people shouted "The devil is coming" and "The end of the world is coming" and huddled in the cellar in despair, other villains and vagrants saw the hope of taking advantage of the situation and becoming rich instantly... Even if they wanted to escape, they had to Wouldn't you like to grab something with you?
As for the militia group that had just entered Meritun Town, in such a chaotic situation where zombies were rampant and thugs were swarming, they failed to mount any organized resistance. Instead, they quickly exploded the camp and collapsed, adding insult to injury and joining the thugs who took advantage of the situation. The procession made the situation worse.
The Western army before the French Revolution was an army composed of the powerful and the untouchables. The officers are all nobles and gentlemen, and the soldiers are all the dregs of society. They were either forcibly captured or came to serve as soldiers when they were desperate. The non-commissioned officers in between are veterans. The discipline of the army relied entirely on whips and firing squads, and the morale of the army was mainly maintained by robbery and double servings of soju, rather than any sense of honor and the hope of promotion - generally speaking, it was impossible for soldiers to be promoted to officers. The European wars of this era were bloody games in which nobles and gentlemen brazenly launched and the poor and untouchables were whipped to death.
Such a unit with clearly defined hierarchies and fierce conflicts between officers and soldiers is probably even slightly inferior to the warlords and troops of the Republic of China era in terms of organizational level. In the modern world, it would definitely collapse at the drop of a hat. In that era, only the rigid tactic of large-scale "queuing to kill" could be applied. Because, in the seemingly silly volley shooting, mental numbness and mechanical movements may be more important than enthusiasm and courage.
In other words, this social structure in which nobles monopolize military and political power determines that battles in European countries can only be conducted in a "queue to shoot" manner. The pariah army led by the nobles is very adaptable to shooting in large formations, but as long as it is broken into small formations for guerrilla warfare, it will immediately lose most of its combat effectiveness. Because small-scale combat requires enthusiasm and complex coordination, it is not as simple as mechanically loading and shooting on an open battlefield. Whips can numb people, but they cannot give soldiers the motivation to cope with complex battlefield environments and fight without the supervision of the team and officers.
Once the army is broken up and loses command, and the officers and soldiers are out of sight, ordinary soldiers will immediately flee in large numbers, and veteran oilmen will get into houses and rob. The so-called "the most important thing in using troops is to be able to gather and disperse", but in Europe of this era An army can only gather but not disperse.
What's even more terrible is that among the armies of various European countries at that time, the British Army was always at the bottom in terms of organization and cohesion. It was basically a joke in the military circles. The militia regiment that has just been transferred to Meryton Town is a third-rate motley crew in the British Army. Equipment and training aside, the entire regiment, from officers to soldiers, has never fought in a battle. It is considered a street commodity. The bargains in...
In addition, they are all outsiders, so when facing the townspeople, they have no worries about rabbits not eating the grass beside their nests.
As a result, before the officers who had gone to dance could rush back after hearing the news, the militia group that was originally camped in the open space outside the town was first broken into the camp by a licker and killed everyone, and then the entire army exploded. , noisily looking for their own way out with guns and sabers.
In the chaos, the defeated soldiers smashed open the door with rifle butts and used bullets to drive away the owners who were trying to protect their property. They did not care that there were crying children and women at their feet. They pointed the black muzzles at the beautiful girl in a dress, and they used bayonets against the old man on crutches. Don't talk to them about pity or sympathy. When they decided to cause chaos, they had already sold their souls to the devil. Now they only know how to kill people when others stand in their way, and when they stand in the way of Buddha, they kill Buddha! For them, massacring unarmed civilians is as routine as drinking water or sleeping.
But on the other hand, facing lickers who want to devour others or zombies swarming in, their courage melts away as quickly as ice and snow under the scorching sun. When encountering such a situation, they often abandon the property they just grabbed and run away in panic... but they don't know that many small wounds on their bodies have been infected with the deadly zombie virus. Within days, he will become one of the walking dead.
Even if they didn't contract the virus and escaped the town intact, it didn't mean they escaped alive. Because the zombie crisis has begun to spread from London, there are wandering zombies, zombie dogs, zombie horses, and lickers as the ultimate killer everywhere in the countryside... Even if you are bitten by a mosquito that has sucked poisonous blood, there will be The danger of becoming a zombie. It's really hard to guard against, and you can't find a safe way out.
——In just a few days, the world began to collapse at an alarming speed, so fast that people had no time to think of countermeasures!
According to high-altitude aerial photos taken by several military drones, several counties in southeastern England, centered on London, have been plunged into chaos and disaster. In order to fight for escape vehicles, horses and ships, or sturdy houses for defense, humans and zombies, humans and humans are fighting each other - this disaster is not only creating the walking dead, but also destroying the souls of the living, leaving People turned into evil spirits and bloodthirsty monsters, turning those polite and elegant model gentlemen into murderous maniacs who shot each other through the head and added two more bullets to the body.
Those who can finally leave this purgatory alive, except for a few lucky ones and clever ones, are all the coldest and most skilled cold-blooded killers, with only tragic sluggishness in their cold eyes. The eyes were extremely cold, cruel, and pathetic, leaving only a suffocating dullness. On the way to escape, they will not hesitate to shoot at any target, even the elderly, children and women; when facing zombies and monsters, they try their best to blend themselves into the rubble of the ruins to avoid being dirty. It's beautiful to see that there is no difference between it and a garbage dump.
But even if they escape from this purgatory temporarily, it won't be long before the all-pervasive T virus will quickly follow and break out, turning the world into purgatory again, forcing the remaining living people to embark on another journey of escape filled with corpses. ...until the whole world falls into purgatory...
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"...Although the source of the T virus has not been investigated clearly, the world has really changed from "Pride and Prejudice" to "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", and it seems to be even worse - even in "Pride and Prejudice" In the plot world of "Prejudice and Zombies", human beings are not facing the crisis of extinction, and they even have time to fall in love. It's just that the song, dance and banquet of gentlemen has changed into a battlefield romance like Gone with the Wind."
Looking at the latest situation collected through drone aerial photography, Wang Qiu couldn't help scratching his hair in distress and commenting nonchalantly.
At the same time, sporadic gunshots and unpleasant zombie roars could be heard from time to time in the courtyard with an electrified barbed wire fence outside the house.
"...In fact, you can guess what's going on without investigating - there is no T virus in our real world, and it is even less likely to exist in the plot world of "Pride and Prejudice". So its source can only be Infinite space veteran..."
Senior Sister Ma Tong replied leisurely, "...Apart from the two senior people who were ejected, you are the only one who may be carrying the original solution of the virus."
"...Are you kidding?! Senior Ma Tong, you can eat some food randomly, but you can't say some things randomly! Although I got the T virus, it's true, but the last tube of T virus I brought out from the world of Resident Evil The original liquid has long been left in the Marvel world and given to Iron Man Tony Stark - because this thing is too dangerous and can destroy the world if you are not careful. It is not safe for anyone, so it is better to leave it to the superheroes. OK.”
Wang Qiu became anxious when he heard this, took out a bunch of green test tubes and put them on the table, "...Now I only have this tube of virus vaccine left in my hand!"
"...I think so too." Ma Tong nodded, "...so the criminals can only be the Bennet couple who were replaced by senior people."
"...Um...it seems meaningless to discuss the origin of the T virus now. But, no matter what, the destruction of this world has something to do with outsiders like us. So should we think of a way? , try to save the world?”
Elizabeth Bennet raised a hand and intervened to suggest weakly, "...Otherwise, it will always make people feel a little uneasy..."
"...Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do! The world is destined to be overrun by zombies! Even if we drop a nuclear bomb on London, it will still not help - in "Resident Evil", Americans also attacked zombies. A nuclear bomb was dropped in Raccoon City in an attempt to destroy the corpses. Instead, the virus was swept into the stratosphere and spread throughout the world. Three months later, a global zombie outbreak occurred and humanity was almost wiped out! br>
Wang Qiu shrugged, "...Seriously, instead of caring about the situation here, it's better to worry about our world! Do you still remember those Indian guests who just returned two days ago? God knows if they put T The virus is brought back to India in our world! If that's the case..."
Hearing this terrifying possibility, everyone present shivered and shuddered...
Although many thrill-seekers like to watch zombie apocalypse movies or TV series, this does not mean that they like to live with zombies.
Therefore, when Wang Qiu announced that in order to deal with this biological crisis, he was going to end the plot world of "Pride and Prejudice" as quickly as possible and let everyone return collectively, the five Bennet sisters, who were already frightened, immediately There was no hesitation in expressing enthusiastic support.
But the question is, how to end the plot world of "Pride and Prejudice" and bring everyone back?
Although a series of main plot characters in "Pride and Prejudice" suffered heavy casualties in this sudden zombie craze, which gave Wang Qiu and the others a lot of reward points, however, even if these points just earned were added up, , it only has over 85,000 points, which is only enough to get one of the five Bennet sisters out of the plot... What should we do with the remaining four?
Moreover, the plot of "Pride and Prejudice" has collapsed into such a state that even if you want to increase your score, you don't know how to increase it.
Besides, facing the real world where a crisis could break out at any time, Wang Qiu and the others had little time to linger.
However, Wang Qiu is confident about this - fortunately among misfortunes, the people who need to be rescued this time are all women in their prime!
Of course, for the five Bennet sisters, it is a misfortune among all the blessings, because they are women...
"...In fact, due to human rights considerations and respect for life, we originally did not want to use this method. But we did not expect that things would suddenly turn out like this. For the sake of the safety of the country and the survival of the nation, , we really have no other choice, so under this last resort, I hope you can make some necessary sacrifices and contributions for the motherland, the nation, and our world..."
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At this point, facing the gazes of the five sisters, Wang Qiu suddenly became a little embarrassed and couldn't continue talking, so he winked at Senior Sister Ma Tong.
Senior sister Ma Tong, who had lost all her integrity, immediately smiled knowingly, then stood up in front of the five Bennet sisters and announced to the frightened girls: "... In short, dear girls, please dedicate yourself to the motherland. Get out of your own womb! "...What!"