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In the vast space, as far as the eye could see, in the distance was a pitch-black void filled with numerous stars. Near the vast space, as far as the eye could see, there was a pitch-black void filled with numerous stars. This is our solar system, 150 million kilometers from the sun is our mother planet, Earth. The red planet farther away is called Mars, and in the past, the giant planet was Jupiter. The sun had carried its planet quietly through the starry sky for more than 4.5 billion years. Looking at its slow rotation, it seemed as though it was eternal and everlasting.

In the void between Jupiter and Mars, there appeared out of thin air a huge whirlpool. It was a funnel-shaped hole with a diameter of several thousand kilometers, and some invisible, mist-like objects were continuously flowing out of the whirlpool, spreading outwards in circles. Days passed, year after year, and the area covered in mist grew larger and larger. On March 31, 2027, the earth was finally engulfed.

At 7: 40 AM, Chen Jing arrived at the office 20 minutes in advance as usual. After turning on his computer, he started to process the day's mail. Chen Jing, 45, is the director of the company's process laboratory. Chen Jing's company is a large state-owned enterprise, formerly known as the 5719 Factory, now known as Novelty Machinery Co., Ltd., which is mainly responsible for the research, testing and manufacturing of light weapons. The National Key Laboratory for Light Weapons Research is located at the Novelty Company. After dealing with the mail, Chen Jing leaned back with his eyes closed, thinking about his own matters. Chen Jing married later. His wife, Yang Xue, is a doctor who works in a downtown hospital. Her only daughter, Chen Lan, 15, is currently studying in Canada. A while ago, Chen Jing's process laboratory in conjunction with the company's central laboratory just completed a national key project. Therefore, Chen Jing, who gave away his annual leave every year, planned to take his wife to Canada to see his daughter in a few days' time. At the same time, he planned to let his wife, who had never been abroad, also go abroad to gain some experience.

Chen Jing squinted for a while, then looked up and saw the yellow light of the water dispenser turn on. He picked up the teacup and prepared to make a cup of tea, but just as he was about to add water, he felt a sharp pain in his head, followed by an excruciating pain that made him drop the teacup, hold his head and roll on the ground. The bone-piercing pain lasted for nearly an hour, but Chen felt as if it had been there for a century.

After an hour, the storm finally passed. Chen Jing was lying on the ground, exhausted and breathing heavily. He looked like he was having a bath. After lying on the ground for a few minutes, Chen Jing felt his body slowly recover its strength. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and was about to stand up when he suddenly heard a woman's cry for help from downstairs. Startled, Chen Jing quickly got up and looked at the window, and was instantly stupefied when he saw He Jing, who was in the processing area on the first floor, rush out of the room with her clothes ripped in half and her bare arm covered in blood. Behind her, Zhao Hui and Liu Rumei, who were in the same class as her, also rushed out.

The two people behind moved extremely quickly. Zhao Hui grabbed He Jing with a leap and bit down on her arm. Immediately after, Liu Rumei also followed suit. Seeing this scene, Chen Jing couldn't help but be filled with anger, and shouted, "Zhao Hui! What are you doing? " As soon as Chen Jing finished his roar, he suddenly heard the sound of breaking glass nearby, followed by a black shadow falling down from the second floor. When he took a closer look, he realized that it was Secretary Zhang, who had broken the window from the office next door, jumping into the yard from the third floor, while three other people had jumped off from the second floor.

Hearing Chen Jing's roar, Zhao Hui turned his head and let out a howl towards Chen Jing with his mouth full of blood. The roar was like a crazy beast, then Zhao Hui jumped up and ran towards Chen Jing with both hands raised. The others also ran towards Chen Jing with their hands raised like zombies.

Crouching under the window, Chen Jing realized that the people running towards him all wanted to climb up the wall. Their nails were like steel claws as they scratched against the concrete wall. Fortunately, due to the wall being too steep and smooth, the few of them could not climb more than a few meters before falling. Among them, Zhao Hui was the most powerful.

Secretary Zhang, who had jumped down the stairs, lifted his head and saw He Jing, who was still struggling to get up in the courtyard, covered in blood. Secretary Zhang, who had jumped down the stairs, raised his head and saw He Jing, who was still struggling to get up in the courtyard.

At this time, three people jumped down from the third floor one after another. One of them was very unlucky, as he landed right in the middle of the pile of scrap steel by the wall. A piece of steel plate pierced through his abdomen like a sharp knife, causing blood to spurt out immediately.

Seeing that everyone downstairs had forgotten about him, Chen Jing's worries were finally relieved. He patted his chest and slumped on the floor. At this time, even a pig would understand that something big had happened in this world, so after Chen Jing calmed down from his initial panic, his first thought was, "What's the situation with his family?" He looked at the screen and saw that there was no signal at all on the phone. He immediately used his landline, but there was also no response on the landline. Chen Jing was completely dumbfounded this time as he stood in front of the table not knowing what to do.

After standing there for an unknown amount of time, Chen Jing suddenly felt hungry. He looked up and saw the half-filled bag of biscuits left over from breakfast, so he walked over. Just as he was about to extend his hand, he suddenly realized something was wrong, "How can I see the biscuits in the drawer?" "And just now, I was squatting under the window's wall, so why am I still able to clearly see the situation downstairs?" Chen Jing shook his head. He felt that his spiritual sense was exceptionally clear and powerful, as if it could see through everything. He lifted his right hand and concentrated on his thoughts. He could see the blood flowing in his arm, and when he moved his fingers, he could clearly see the movement of his bones and tendons. By concentrating on the chest, you can see the beating of the heart in the chest; you can see the blood gushing out of the vein and flowing out of the arteries under the pressure of the ventricle; you can see the blood flowing through the great blood vessels, then branching into the small blood vessels and then into the smaller blood vessels, and you can even see the connection between the capillaries and the cells of the body. Seeing this, Chen Jing couldn't help but shiver in excitement. However, as soon as he began to split up his thoughts, he couldn't see anything anymore.

Chen focused his attention on the room next door, and the situation inside of Secretary Zhang's office was immediately and clearly shown to him: the door to the left was Secretary Zhang's desk, and the opposite was a group of guest sofas and tea tables. On the wall above the sofas were the inscriptions left behind by Academician Liu ZhenQun when he came to inspect the laboratory ten years ago. The floor was covered with water, and the water dispenser was overturned in the doorway. It looked like Secretary Zhang had been rolling on the ground very hard, even the water dispenser had been knocked over. The entire window on the right had been broken, and the floor beneath it was covered with glass, the mark of a man who had jumped out of the window.

Chen Jing scanned his surroundings with his consciousness. Opposite him was the data room. The referee, Little Ai, was lying calmly on the floor. One of her feet was still wearing her shoes, but the other leg was bare. The clothes on his chest were open and he didn't feel angry at all. From the looks of it, he had been dead for some time. Next to him, there was an overturned data rack with blueprints and documents scattered all over the floor. The library used to be a staircase, and beside the staircase was a conference room. Above the conference room was the bathroom, but the staircase was empty. The conference room was too far away, so it was hard to see clearly.

After a period of probing, Chen Jing gained some experience. His consciousness was now roughly ten meters away from them. The closer he got, the clearer he became. He wouldn't be able to see them clearly.

After inspecting the area he could scan, Chen Jing felt a surge of hunger assail him. He shook his head and thought to himself, Forget it, I'll finish off my stomach first. He opened the drawer. There were half a packet of biscuits and two boxes of milk in the drawer. A few minutes later, all the milk and biscuits were gone, and the hunger in his stomach was also somewhat better.

After sitting in the chair for a while to calm down, Chen Jing felt that it was necessary to take stock of what had happened today and consider what he should do in the future. After all, Chen Jing had the habit of summing up his plans at any time.

First, he went to the office at 7: 40. It took him about 25 minutes to process the mail, and then he sat in silence for about five minutes. It was about 8: 10, which meant that on March 31, 2027, at 8: 10, the world had changed dramatically. Second, what has changed? All Chen Jing wanted to do was to get a biochemical virus, but he didn't know how big the infection was. At this point, Chen Jing drew a big question mark. Third, the virus should be transmitted through the air. Otherwise, why would everyone be infected at almost the same time? Fourth, a small part of the human population succumbed to the virus and paid for their lives (which was a conclusion drawn from the death of the researcher Xiao Ai), and a small part of the population resisted the virus and evolved (for example, they themselves). Finally, most people resisted the virus and evolved, but the virus destroyed their brains and turned them into zombies (Chen defined the man-eaters in the inner courtyard as zombies to distinguish them from normal people, since they behaved like zombies). Fifth, zombies were meant to eat humans, and when they saw strangers, they would attack in groups.

At this point, Chen Jing stood up and walked to the window, peeking out through the curtain. With just a glance, he could tell that fourteen zombies had gathered in the courtyard. The two corpses had already been eaten clean, so most of the zombies in the yard were wandering around with their heads down. Occasionally, after the two met, they would grimace at each other and threaten each other, then turn around and leave. The zombies couldn't feel Chen Jing, who was peeking from behind the curtain.

At this point, Chen Jing wrote back: Sixth, at least 60% of the people who turned into zombies, might reach 80%, or even 90%, because Chen Jing knew that there were a total of 25 people in the laboratory, the only known dead people were the reference person, Ai Hui, the others who survived were himself, and possibly He Jing who had been eaten by zombies, while the number of known zombies had already reached 15. Seventh, the zombies mainly rely on sight and hearing, can't see or hear, can't find. Chen felt another pang of hunger. Looking at the empty drawer, he could not help but smile wryly as he continued to write: Eighth, evolved humans need a large amount of energy to replenish themselves (and so do zombies, as can be seen from the zombies' madness in devouring corpses).

Thinking about this, Chen Jing couldn't help but be frightened. If the area of infection was large, like the whole world being infected, then the consequences would be too scary. After all, there were very few people who could resist the virus, and most of them might have already been eaten by zombies, or were about to be eaten by zombies. At this moment, a scene appeared in front of Chen Jing's eyes: those few survivors who had survived so long with great difficulty were hiding in the midst of a large group of man-eating zombies. The days ahead were simply unimaginable!

5 km away from Chen Jing's company, in a small park beside the hospital at the center of the city, Chen Jing's wife, Yang Xue, was wandering with her head down in a corner of the park. Her right sleeve was torn off, and there were a few bloody scratches on her arm. No, it should be one of the two zombies, a tall male zombie.

Yang Xue went out with Chen Jing every day, and since the hospital was close to their home, she came to the hospital before 7: 30. Every day, Yang Xue's habit was to first go around the ward, then come back to eat something. Normally, Yang Xue would only take fifteen to twenty minutes to go around the ward, but today, after chatting a bit with the old granny Zhang who had just been hospitalized yesterday, it was already 8: 10 when she returned to her office. Just as she raised her cup to drink some water, a sharp pain suddenly came from her head, followed by the same pain as most people, Yang Xue also experienced that hell-like hour.

An hour later, Yang Xue stood up. However, she didn't know anything else and was muddle-headed as if she wanted to eat. At this point, everyone should understand that Yang Xue had turned into a zombie.

At this moment, there was no one else in the room, and the door was also closed. Yang Xue, who had turned into a zombie, would not open the door. Although Yang Xue's office was on the fourth floor, after evolving, Yang Xue was exceptionally strong. After jumping down from the fourth floor, she rolled and stood up, completely fine.

The moment Yang Xue, who jumped downstairs, stood up, she found a mass of objects glowing with a faint purple light in the garbage station of the hospital 30 meters away. Yang Xue instinctively knew that it was her beautiful meal in an instant. Actually, Yang Xue didn't know that when she turned into a zombie, not only had she evolved a powerful physique, but she had also evolved a very special ability: Within a certain range (the current range should be over 50 meters, as the strength of the user increases, the range should increase accordingly), she was able to discover a food that matched her physique. That was the light she was able to detect on the food (in fact, any substance was made of energy, and different energies would emit different rays of light.

Upon discovering the delicious meal, Yang Xue naturally pounced forward without a care. It was a wild cat, concentrating on dealing with a bag of fish bones in the trash. Of course, when Yang Xue was about to pounce, the wild cat naturally noticed as well. However, under the lightning speed of Yang Xue, there was no possibility of escaping.

Yang Xue, who caught the wild cat, naturally wouldn't be polite. In a few bites, she had eaten the entire wild cat into her stomach. After eating the wild cat, Yang Xue did not have the moral integrity of other zombies to fight for the corpse, because Yang Xue had her own pursuit.

Yang Xue wandered around the hospital for more than three hours, during which time she ate three beetles, a caterpillar, two red carp and a frog. After digesting these foods, Yang Xue could feel that her strength had improved significantly, so she continued her search even more cheerfully.

When they found the small park on the street, Yang Xue's eyes couldn't help but be shocked. In the small forest of the park, a huge purple light flashed in the small forest, it was a tall and sturdy man, no, it should be a zombie. He was lying on the ground with another zombie, eating blood from a dead body.

Yang Xue was a zombie, so she naturally didn't think of anything when she saw her delicious food. She directly flew over, laid on the zombie's back and took a bite. After the zombie was bitten on its back, it immediately turned around. With a wave of its right hand, it knocked Yang Xue over. Its left hand took advantage of the opportunity to grab half of Yang Xue's sleeve. Fortunately, the zombie was not interested in zombies, so after threatening Yang Xue, it turned around and continued to eat.

After Yang Xue was knocked over, she instinctively chose to retreat, as if she understood that she was no match for that zombie. However, the allure of that purple luster was really hard to give up, so Yang Xue wandered to the side.