(There is a lot of plot content, students who don’t care can consider jumping)

Time changes to winter.

The first thing that appears on the screen is a rabbit, Ellie hunting with a bow and arrow.

Judging from Ellie's mental state, players can infer that Joel is still alive and has just lost his ability to move, otherwise Ellie would not have come out to hunt alone.

While chasing a deer, Ellie met two passers-by. While waiting for her passers-by to go back to get the medicine, Ellie and the passers-by encountered an attack from zombies.

When Ellie was fighting the zombies, the players discovered that the little luoli, who had only known to follow Joel's back and shouted 666, had grown into a qualified warrior. Stealing, assassination, bow and arrow, shooting, and all abilities have been unlocked. It can be seen that in the past few months, Ellie had fought many difficult battles to take care of Joel.

After all the zombies were solved, just when the players thought they were safe, the plot ushered in a magical turn.

This vulgar uncle who fought side by side with Ellie turned out to be the leader of the hunter. The hunters Joel and Ellie had killed in the nearby town were all his companions.

However, the wretched uncle looked quite enlightened and gave Ally antibiotics and let her go.

But in fact, if the player has followed the previous plot and mentioned the new leader during the chat of the hunters in that town, his cruelty even caused dissatisfaction among the hunters. Some hunters would even leave than work with him, which shows that this is a hidden villain.

(Easy Easter Egg: The wretched uncle and Nathan use the same actor.)

Ellie returned to her hiding place, and Joel was still lying on the ground and unconscious. Ellie got antibiotics to save him.

It was cold and Joel was unconscious while covering the blanket. Ellie lay next to him with a pillow as a backpack and took good care of him.

But in the early morning, the hunters actually found this place, and Ellie decided to lure the hunters away.

Although many hunters were solved, Ellie was still caught by the hunter's leader.

Awakened from the prison, Ellie found that the hunter outside was dissecting the living, obviously trying to feed on human flesh.

The leader wanted Ellie to stay, but Ellie was unmoved. The leader was so angry that he decided to chop Ellie into Ellie's sauce.

And at this moment, Joel, who had been injected with antibiotics, woke up.

...

Zhao Lei manipulated Joel and cried with joy. You finally woke up!

Obviously, Ellie has been caught, and now only Joel arrives in time can save her. Zhao Lei did not even plunder the supplies in the room, and almost immediately rushed out of the house to find Ellie's traces.

Kill the hunter who was searching for him in the town. Joel tied up two living people and tortured and asked the whereabouts of Ellie. This inhumane torture scene not only did not make Zhao Lei feel cruel, but instead made him feel very relieved!

However, the story after this did not become a clichéd scene of "Joel saving Ellie". Ellie escaped very cleverly. At this time, the story was conducted on two lines. In the blizzard, Ellie escaped and searched for life in the town; and Joel also came to the town and searched for Ellie's traces.

In the restaurant in the town, Ellie and the perverted uncle had an extremely difficult boss battle. Ellie could only sneak in the scene, assassinate with a knife, and had to assassinate three times.

Zhao Lei died here several times, but when the final stab came out, the picture switched to Joel.

When Joel arrived at the town, the enemy's reinforcements had arrived and were searching for the entire town. Zhao Lei had no intention of entangling these people, but searched for Ellie's location in the town.

Ellie finally killed the perverted hunter leader, and almost vented his machete to pieces. Joel finally arrived, and Ellie burst into tears in Joel's arms.

With the low guitar sound, everything calmed down. Zhao Lei realized that his back was already soaked in sweat.

...

So far, the whole plot has actually reached the climax part. The players have experienced a lot, and the emotions of Joel and Ellie have also changed.

From the initial indifference to the later gradual trust, and now, the two people are inseparable.

When Joel was seriously injured, Ellie did not leave him behind. Instead, she went to great lengths to take care of him. Joel had already treated her as her biological daughter. The conversation between the two of them had obviously increased. Joel said that when all this was over, she would teach Ellie to play the guitar. It can be seen that at this time, Joel had already regarded Ellie as a sustenance in the end of the world and as her family.

At this time, the players only had one goal, which was to send Ally to Firefly and develop a vaccine against the virus.

Finally arrived at the hospital at the destination. The scene at this time was no longer full of wind and snow. It can be seen that the two of them had walked for a very long time and took a whole year to cross the United States.

There were many animals in the ruins of the city. A giraffe was downstairs, stretching his head upstairs to eat grass. Joel and Ellie walked over and stroked the soft fur on the giraffe's neck.

The giraffe was eating grass, looking at the camera with big watery eyes, and behind it was a tall building with lush green grass.

The cute giraffe seemed to awaken Ellie's girlish heart and began to jump forward, chasing the giraffe and running.

This is a very warm scene. Although it is very short, it left a deep impression on Zhao Lei. In the past zombie themes, the scenes of the end of the world seemed to be the same gray-black, and the almost rotten zombies brought real nightmare and the end of the world. But in "The Doomsday of the United States", because the virus is set as a kind of Cordyceps, it will not pose a threat to plants and animals, twenty years after the outbreak of the virus, nature and animals regained the territory of human beings.

This warm scene is a very critical female perspective, which has cast a layer of human brilliance for "The Doomsday of America". There are no longer only hormones and killing, no longer only the cruelty and coldness of the apocalypse, but also a lot of sunshine and warmth.

Accompanied by the melodious and soothing melody, Zhao Lei had a feeling that after experiencing so many painful battles before, the story will finally usher in a beautiful ending.

Just like the land in front of you, green grass, trees, and giraffes.

At this time, Joel had already developed a desire to retreat, and he suggested that he could end the journey. But Ellie decided to continue. After all, after going through so much, the goal of saving all mankind was to be achieved.

The players at this time also had such an extremely entangled mentality. Even though they knew that all this was about to end, they didn't want to end just like that.

The two of them skillfully partnered with each other, walked through the city where zombies were rampant, and experienced many dangers. Finally, they found the base of Firefly.

When Joel woke up, Marlene was next to him, sighing that they had been able to walk such a long journey.

Joel said: "Because she is here, she has tried her best to persevere. Maybe this is destined."

Joel wanted to meet Ellie, but Marlene told Joel the truth at this time.

Cordyceps mushrooms have undergone a mutant in Ellie's body, so Ellie is immune to the virus. Doctors must remove the Cordyceps mushrooms that have spread to Ellie's entire brain in order to create a vaccine using reverse engineering.

Reality finally tear off the veil of warmth. Joel faces a dilemma, either let Ellie die, develop a vaccine, or rescue Ellie, putting the safety of all mankind behind his head.

After all, there is only one example of an immune virus, and humans are likely to never find the next person who is as immune to the virus as Ellie.

And Joel chose the latter without hesitation.

He grabbed the gun, forced a question, and fought a bloody path. Zhao Lei never felt so happy. He didn't care about the end of the world or the virus vaccine. He just wanted to rescue Ellie and leave here.

Zhao Lei empathized with Joel, because during this long journey, the two of them experienced so much together and had gained an emotion that was even more inseparable than family affection.

Joel had experienced the pain of losing his daughter, so he knew very well what Ellie's death would mean to him, and it was probably even more painful than the end of the world. So, he did not hesitate at all, for Ellie, he could kill everyone.

On the way to the top floor, Joel found two recordings, one of which was a doctor's recording. The doctor had confirmed that Ellie was in an unprecedented situation, and was even looking forward to developing a vaccine to save the world, and all the pain would end. The other was a recording of Marlene. As the leader of Firefly, she was also very entangled, but finally agreed to the doctor's advice. Moreover, when Joel arrived, Firefly's soldiers proposed to kill Joel, which was also Marlene who rescued Joel.

Finally arrived at the operating room, Joel rushed out of Firefly's base with Ellie in his arms.

The familiar melody sounded again, and Zhao Lei's eyes became moist. He seemed to see Joel and Ellie leaning on each other in the scene of the end of the world.

What is the definition of the end of the world? The virus outbreak and the destruction of civilization may be the end of the world, but for Joel now, if Ellie dies, it is the real end of the world.

Kill Marin and leave Firefly.

In the car leaving, Ellie woke up. They planned to return to Tommy's town to continue their lives. Joel told her a kind lie that Firefly had many people who were immune to viruses, but they could not do anything and they had given up on the development of the vaccine.

The last perspective returned to Ellie.

Joel talked about his dead daughter Sarah, and felt that Ellie and Sarah would definitely be good friends.

In the final scene, Ellie talks about her friends, Tess and Sam, all of whom died of infection, while Ellie survived. Obviously, if Ellie knew that her death could end all of this, she would most likely choose to sacrifice herself.

Ellie asked Joel to swear everything he said was true.

Joel looked at Ellie's eyes and said seriously: "I swear."

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At this point, the game ends.

Zhao Lei still felt a little short of breath and his heart was beating.

This is the first time he has such a strange feeling after playing the whole game.

Looking at the entire list of R&D personnel of the game, Zhao Lei knew that the story had come to an end, but there were too many things that make people reflect on it.

Every character and every plot seem to have its own profound meaning, but it is obviously a controversial story. Everyone has their own judgment and their own ending in their hearts.

"The Doomsday of the United States" did not give players the opportunity to choose an ending, and did not create a very popular "multi-finale story". It just told a good story like a movie, and the characters in the story were each sticking to their own creed.

Zhao Lei felt that he had too many things to say in his heart, but he didn't know how to say them.
Chapter completed!