Chapter 4 Survivalists
The desire to connect with the outside world temporarily overcame Luo Xingyu's attraction to pork and cabbage stew.
Under Luo Xingyu's gaze, Gao Yuan took out the biscuit box again and took out a mobile phone. He carefully closed the lid before turning on the phone.
This iron biscuit box also functions as a Faraday cage. In addition to the walkie-talkie, there are also flashlights, chargers, and all the electronic equipment that Gao Yuan can stuff inside.
With Luo Xingyu's expectant face, Gao Yuan whispered: "I know you won't feel at ease if you don't make this call. My phone is not broken, but all basic communication facilities were damaged in that electromagnetic storm.
, so you don’t have too high expectations and you have to be mentally prepared.”
I took the phone and I should have known the result just by looking at it, because the phone had power but no signal at all.
But Luo Xingyu couldn't wait to press the number and dial it, and the result was naturally as expected.
Luo Xingyu's hand holding the phone dropped weakly, but she suddenly remembered something, so she raised the phone again.
Gao Yuan sighed: "Don't think about it. The electromagnetic storm destroyed all electronic equipment. It's impossible to make phone calls and it's impossible to surf the Internet."
Luo Xingyu sighed helplessly. She reluctantly picked up her phone and took a look at it, saying, "Were the magnetic storms released by aliens?"
"Yes."
"How much do you know about aliens? Can you tell me about it?"
Putting the phone away under Luo Xingyu's reluctant eyes, Gao Yuan pointed to the wild boar lying next to him and said, "Let's chat while we work. Now go kill the pig for meat."
The words "kill pigs and eat meat" are more effective than any other comfort.
After dragging the wild boar aside, Gao Yuan took off his coat. He pulled out the long knife from his waist and looked at the wild boar for a long time before finally cutting the knife from its neck.
Gao Yuan, who had eaten pork but never killed a pig, really didn't know how to kill a pig, but there was definitely no problem in eating the meat.
Gao Yuan couldn't help but hold his breath after disembowelling the wild boar, and a bloody smell hit his face. However, he turned to look at Luo Xingyu who was standing next to him, and found that her face was full of excitement and anticipation.
"You are not afraid?"
"I was definitely scared before, but I'm definitely not scared now. Now I'm just thinking about how to eat it."
That's right, my face is turning green when I'm hungry, why should I be afraid of blood and disgusting things?
Gao Yuan took out the pig's heart first and said: "When the aliens first came, I was probably the first person to see it with my own eyes. I was working in Jicheng at the time and saw a smaller spaceship suddenly appear in the sky.
The spacecraft dropped over the city, and then the spacecraft dropped a lot of things that looked like gas tanks. I guess they were containers for releasing the virus. Well, one tank fell not far from me."
Luo Xingyu seemed nervous, and she said urgently: "Jicheng is so big and there are so many people, how did you escape from Jicheng."
Gao Yuan sighed: "I said, I am a survivalist. I have been preparing for disasters, such as earthquakes, wars, economic crises, and even car accidents in daily life. I always live in the fear of my own imagination, so
I'm more prepared than anyone else."
Luo Xingyu nodded and said: "I have always known about the existence of survivalism, but I just can't understand it, but now it seems that fear of death is really beneficial. You have so many things now, and you live like a rich man.
.”
Gao Yuan shook his head and said: "To correct you, survivalists are not afraid of death, but of living without quality. If I die when the disaster just strikes, there is nothing to say, but if I am not there,
If I die when a disaster strikes, I must have enough resources to ensure that I can survive, and live well, at least better than those of you who are unprepared. This is the greatest pursuit of a survivalist."
Luo Xingyu was silent for a moment, then she whispered: "You're right, I'm starving to death but you are well fed and clothed. This is the benefit of being prepared."
"There are costs, such as being treated as a lunatic. The word "unfounded worry" is reserved for people like us."
"The price is acceptable."
Gao Yuan smiled and said: "That's because the disaster has really come now, otherwise you will find that the price of being laughed at is not small. I know this because I have been laughed at for many years.
,Fortunately, I didn’t give up my hobby.”
"Hobby?"
"Yes, preparing for the imaginary doomsday is a hobby for me and many people, because no one knows whether the doomsday will come. In this case, we can only treat this preparation work as a hobby.
It’s a hobby.”
After a pause, Gao Yuan suddenly sighed: "I thought the doomsday-level disaster might be a world war, a planet hitting the earth, or even really thought about aliens invading the earth. In short, it couldn't be zombies, because the existence of zombies is impossible."
Science, but I didn’t expect that the first step in alien invasion would be to create zombies..."
Luo Xingyu whispered: "They are not zombies, they are just patients infected by the virus."
"It has no consciousness and will not die. It wanders around all day long. Although it is not rotten, it will chase after a living person and bite it until it is dead. Moreover, people will also be infected after being bitten. Tell me, this is different from what is seen in the movie.
What’s the difference between zombies?”
Luo Xingyu looked at Gao Yuan and said, "There is a difference, they eat food."
Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment and said, "What did you say?"
Luo Xingyu said firmly: "The ones I've seen...the zombies eat corn and cabbage. This is different from the zombies in the movie."
Gao Yuan was skinning the wild boar, but at this moment he stopped and looked at Luo Xingyu with a shocked expression: "Are you sure? Are you sure you saw zombies and not normal people?"
"There is a village not too far away from where I live, and all the people in it are infected. I found that they are always wandering in the village, but about a week after the virus broke out, I saw zombies gnawing in the ground.
Without the corn taken back, they looked like wild animals, but they did eat the corn."
Gao Yuan needed information from the outside world too much, because he had never seen a zombie since he hid in this abandoned mountain village.
The information brought by Luo Xingyu completely overturned Gao Yuan's understanding of zombies. The zombies he thought were the ones in previous movies or books. They were irrational existences like perpetual motion machines, so zombies were unscientific.
But today's zombies are caused by viruses dropped by aliens, so zombies are just called by a name out of habit, so the appearance and existence of zombies is reasonable and scientific.
Since the existence of such zombies is now reasonable and scientific, Gao Yuan certainly expects that zombies will also starve to death.
But if zombies also actively look for food and continue to maintain their omnivorous instinct, that would be troublesome. This is not a question of whether the virus should be called a patient or a zombie.
Gao Yuan looked shocked, which made Luo Xingyu become nervous.
"Zombies...just call them zombies. Does it matter if the zombies are vegetarians?"
Gao Yuanji said helplessly: "I plan to go out after hiding in the mountains for three months. I will go to the nearby villages to observe and see if the zombies have starved to death. But if the zombies still know how to eat, and
If you can eat vegetarian food, the zombies will not starve to death."
Luo Xingyu said with a lingering fear: "I advise you not to get close to the village. Zombies are not as slow as in the movies. The zombies I saw usually move very slowly, but if they find prey, they will move very slowly."
Zombies will move very fast, very, very fast."
"And it is very powerful. Even if it is injured, as long as it is not fatal, the zombie's actions will hardly be affected."
After finishing speaking, Gao Yuan and Luo Xingyu fell into silence together, and after a moment, they both sighed together.
"have you seen?"
Luo Xingyu bit his lip and nodded, "I've seen it, have you seen it too?"
"Yes."
The essence of human beings is repeaters. After repeating the obvious nonsense, the two people fell silent again.
After a long time, Luo Xingyu whispered: "Tell me something else."
"Um."
They couldn't talk any more because both of them thought of unacceptable images. If they continued talking about zombies, they wouldn't have to eat the wild boar.
Let's talk about something else to divert our attention, but in this environment and situation, it's hard to find pleasant topics.
The only topic that can be accepted by two people, and is not offensive or even nauseating, and does not make people sad, is to just eat it.
It was very cold. Luo Xingyu was shivering a little from the cold as she sat still. She was severely lacking in heat.
Gao Yuan thought for a moment, wiped the blood on his hand on the ground, then opened his pocket and took out a piece of chocolate from inside.
"Chocolate is reserved for emergencies, but... eat it, just this once."
Luo Xingyu took the chocolate, she slowly tore open the package, looked at the chocolate with a pious expression, and then licked it slowly.
Luo Xingyu started to cry, and tears broke out into two ditches on his face.
He took a small bite, then another. Luo Xingyu looked very pious while eating the chocolate.
The chocolate was not big, it was divided into three sections, and Luo Xingyu's stomach kept growling, but even so, she still didn't finish the chocolate, but after eating a small section, she
Carefully put the remaining two chocolate bars back into the packaging bag.
“It’s so delicious.”
He couldn't help but lick his lips. After realizing that he really didn't know what to say, Luo Xingyu said again: "It's really delicious. I didn't realize that chocolate is so delicious!"
Gao Yuan felt a little distressed, and he said gently: "Eat up, I still have some."
Luo Xingyu shook his head and whispered: "I'm really hungry, and... I still can't believe that I can really eat enough in the future, just like before, um, can I put away the chocolate?
?”
"able."
Luo Xingyu put the chocolate in his pocket.
At this time, Luo Xingyu looked a little strange when she looked at Gao Yuan. She looked at Gao Yuan and suddenly said: "I believe you are a good person now. You are really a good person. Thank you, brother."
"Don't give me a good person card, and don't call me brother, call me brother Yuan."
Luo Xingyu smiled, and then she whispered: "If I can find my dad, if my dad is still alive... I will let him repay you well."
Gao Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, I remember."
Luo Xingyu hesitated for a moment and said, "My father is Luo Guodong."
"Oh, eh? Luo Guodong?"
Gao Yuan suddenly felt that the name was very familiar. After thinking for a moment, he combined Luo Xingyu's expression and context, and he was startled by the name he thought of.
"I only know one Luo Guodong, the richest man in Shimen. What's the name of the group? You can't be talking about him..."
Chapter completed!