The first awakening
When Su Hao opened his eyes, he saw a daisy.
The white petals bloom in the morning light, carrying crystal dewdrops, and a very faint, colorful rainbow is transmitted.
It is very close to where Su Hao was lying, only five centimeters away from the tip of his nose, and you can even smell a faint fragrance.
In the distance, the dull and solemn morning bell sounded.
Su Hao silently recited the numbers from one to eight.
In that direction, it is the train station south of the city. The most prominent landmark building is a huge bell tower.
Memory is exactly in line with reality.
He smiled and got up from the ground, looked at the road where traffic and pedestrians were already dense, turned around, took a deep breath, raised his feet, and walked into the "Parksen" Commercial Plaza with the glass door open next to him. After confirming that no one noticed him, he slowly walked towards the public bathroom, punched hard and smashed the red window with the eye-catching "119" and took out the heavy fire axe.
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Except for himself, no one knows that Su Hao has come from fifty-six years later.
That is the future.
It was a world full of rotten and death, the clearest part of memory was completely occupied by blood, bones, and minced meat. The sky was dark, and even the sun rarely appeared.
Su Hao built a space-time shuttle. However, the dimensional pressure generated by the transit of superluminal speed will cause extremely strong spiritual shock to the living beings. As a last resort, he could only adopt a backup plan - using the various materials he collected to create a strongest body that concentrates all the advantages of human beings' physical signs. Through consciousness indoctrination and energy catalyzing, he can successfully return to 2020.
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Su Hao in the mirror is no longer the old look in his memory.
He is now tall, with very wide shoulders, and the leather jacket he wore is old, but it shows a perfect golden ratio between his waist, legs and upper body. The buttons on his chest are open, revealing the tangled and developed chest muscles covered by the thin sweatshirt. The high nose bridge and slightly deep black eyeballs make him look full of strength and heroic charm.
Turning his head, he glanced at the quartz clock hanging on the wall—the pointer had just walked past 8:15 am.
Time is almost done.
Su Hao squinted his eyes and showed a slightly melancholy smile. He was silent for a few seconds, picked up his axe, walked through the corridor, and walked along the stairs into the underground part of the mall. With the help of the instructions, he came to a metal gate with a red circle and a white background marked on the surface, and next to it was marked "The warehouse is heavily located, and no one is allowed to enter."
A security guard in a gray uniform walked out of the duty room. He was a little stunned, obviously not very clear about why Su Hao appeared in such a place. His eyes then fell on the fire axe in the other party's hand, and his expression became frightened and nervous.
He subconsciously reached out his hand to take out his self-defense stick, grabbed it, and asked vigilantly: "Stop——Who are you? What do you want to do?"
Su Hao smiled faintly, and suddenly exerted force under his feet, rushing forward at a speed of more than 100 meters. Before the security guard could react, he had already rushed into the warehouse, closed the gate with his backhand, and tightened the heavy iron bolt.
The energy collected in the future is only enough for the shuttle to run until this time.
He could not make any more preparations, so he could only wait silently as safe as possible.
Roars and shouts came from outside the gate. Immediately afterwards, there were rapid steps and phone calls to the police. More and more people gathered outside, which was noisy. The key was inserted into the keyhole and turned it hard, and leather shoes and heavy objects hit the door wall, accompanied by curses and scolding. The sound was very blurry, and you could barely hear words such as "police", "maybe want to rob", "will be a fugitive?"
The door latch has been stuck from the inside. If you want to force it to break through from the outside, you must use methods such as blasting, oxygen welding cutting, or damage to the wall.
Su Hao turned around and looked at the warehouse he was in with a picky look.
Hundreds of cartons are neatly placed on the shelves. Judging from the external labels, the storage items should be shoes and various luggage. He patiently picked carefully among the piles of goods, and took out a durable multi-functional mountaineering backpack and a pair of air-cushioned sports shoes corresponding to his size.
Time and space teleportation is full of unknown dangers, and he cannot bring back more things from the future. Except for some weapons and potions that are teleported to predetermined coordinates in advance... most equipment and necessities of life can only be obtained from the real world.
Time passes by minute by minute.
More than six hours later, there was no sound outside the gate, and there was a dead silence.
Su Hao packed up everything he needed, picked up the fire axe that was placed obliquely at his feet, and slowly clenched it.
The corners of his mouth were gradually curved upwards, and his face was sickly pale.
Grasp the cold steel latch hard and twist in the direction of opening. With the dentifritic metal friction, the heavy gate slowly loosens a gap.
Looking at the light coming out of the crack in the door, Su Hao suddenly hesitated. He lowered his head, remained silent for a moment, and raised it again, and there was no confusion in his pupils. Instead, he was unprecedentedly fierce, decisive, and determined.
"No matter what the future will look like, this is the path I chose———"
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The sunlight shines through the glass window, and dull heat gathers on the ground.
The corridor in the basement was not long. Soon, Su Hao had reached the end and climbed the stairs leading to the ground.
There was no one, and there were shocking large blood stains on the white terrazzo stairs.
Like an alert and flexible cat, Su Hao moved up the stairs with a brisk and agile movement. The moment his eyes came into contact with the ground mall space, he immediately caught a figure standing about ten meters away in front of him.
That was a woman.
She was wearing a black skirt. Judging from her appearance, she should be an employee at a counter at the mall. The stockings on her legs had been torn, and there were no shoes on her feet. The white shirt on her upper body broke from her shoulders, revealing a pink and white bra strap. The skin on her face was as dark as cement, with very obvious and irregular corpse spots. The foundation she had originally rubbed cracked, forming a dense mesh slit. The eye sockets were stretched out by the swollen eyeballs, and the pupils were not visible, and the eyelids were rolled over like a corpse.
She obviously did not rely on vision to capture the target. She raised her head and sniffed the smell of a living person in the air... Suddenly, she found Su Hao who had just walked up the steps, immediately opened her dry lips with yellow-green pus flowing, revealing her sharp teeth, and made a terrible "hoho" sound in her throat, and stumbled and rushed towards her.
"Click————”
The fire axe in Su Hao's hand accurately hit the woman's forehead, and the hard skull was easily broken. The woman seemed to have been drained by some kind of machine instantly, and she opened her eyes wide and collapsed on the ground like mud.
On May 11, 2020, the world was swept by a strange virus storm. This demon that could not be seen by the naked eye should have spread along with the air. At 8:15 am, he suddenly showed his fangs to the unprepared human.
Less than fifty percent of humans are spared, but they must face a more cruel reality than death. Their kind who becomes zombies have a strong interest in all moving objects. Although they move slowly, they are unreliable carnivorous creatures. Bites, bites, and even scratched by nails will cause the virus to enter the body directly, and use the most brutal and direct methods to continuously reduce the number of survivors and expand the dense army of zombies.
In the future, this is a well-known history.
Now, it is just a memory that exists in Su Hao's mind.
He reached out and grabbed the clothes of the female corpse who was twitching under his feet, flipped the body, grabbed the axe, and slashed it hard at the connection between the waist and hips of the body. The hard metal blade cut the fragile flesh and penetrated into the depths of the spine.
Su Hao lowered his body and flipped the sticky flesh with the tip of the axe. Soon, a white bone piece that was reborn from the tailbone appeared in front of him.
It is very small, only the size of a rice grain. It is very white, and the surface is filled with the unique luster of chitin objects.
This is called "Luther's aggregation layer", abbreviated as "Silver Bone".
After the virus outbreak, many people were studying zombies. In 2021, when British Luther Kawiz dissected zombie specimens, they found that there was a strange bulge in the second tail vertebra. This strange alien creature was verified in hundreds of zombies. According to the living habits and movement characteristics of zombies, this hard bulge was finally confirmed to be a accumulation of substances under the interaction between the virus and trace hormones in the zombie.
A strange active substance can be extracted from silver bones. Researchers quickly discovered that it can strengthen metal hardness and toughness and greatly increase the K value of steel. Its biggest function is to have a significant calming effect on the human central nervous system and solidifying elements. It is also from that time on, silver bones have been listed as one of the most important strategic materials by all group forces.
Through the glass window, you can see more than a dozen slow-moving zombies staggering outside the mall. The streets are full of various vehicles. They collide with each other, some car doors are wide open, and some seats are covered with blood. At the end of the road in the distance and inside the mall, rapid running steps are heard from time to time, which is a terrifying and shrill scream.
Su Hao strode to the entrance of the mall, raised his head, and looked at the sunny sky with mixed feelings.
Yes, this is the earth, the beginning of all sins such as order collapse, chaos, violence, killing, and death.
I can't change anything, nor can I turn the situation around on my own.
I just want to get more.
He raised his feet, stepped down the steps, silently recited the map he had already memorized in his mind, and walked towards the depths of the street directly in front of him.
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This is Kunming.
A double-decker bus with the words "Road 389" on the top was overturned in the middle of the road. Rubber tires and metal bodies made more than 30 meters of friction marks on the asphalt road. More than half of the windows were open, bringing out red blood marks from it. The inside of the blurry glass was covered with bloody handprints, and more than a dozen infected people who had already mutated surrounded the body of a victim, biting the flesh that was once his own kind.
The signal lights are still changing between red and green, and dense vehicles block the entire street. Under the tall silver birch tree, a traffic policeman who had been dead for a long time was slumped. His legs were crushed by a "Jetta" sedan that rushed onto the sidewalk. His head, wearing a police cap, rolled down next to the tire like a ball, and there was a clear tooth mark left at the broken neck. The bright red liquid gushed out of his chest covered his whole body, and then slowly slid from the surface of the yellow and white striped fluorescent vest, absorbed by the cotton police uniform, turning into pieces of wet black and red covering.
From a distance, crazy and hysterical shouts came from time to time. The extremely hot air was filled with blood that was almost suffocating. The range of eyes swept into was full of staggering infected people everywhere, some were on the verge of madness that had lost their minds, and more, they had completely turned into zombies.
Su Hao bent his body slightly and quickly passed through the gap between the green belt and the wall. The old leather jacket and gray trousers on his body are ordinary styles, but they can blend in with most environments, which is the best disguise.
A few minutes later, he had passed through the lane formed by the mall building and nearby buildings and saw the striking round blue-bottom "P" sign hanging from the top of the telephone pole. Just below it, a red arrow pointing to the right is facing the entrance to the ramp leading to the underground.
If it weren't for the accident that some old city renovation drawings were obtained, Su Hao wouldn't have chosen this city as the receiving location for the time and space road marking. In that era, yellowed and worn drawings were just antiques waiting for buyers to appreciate on the black market. After memorizing all the streets and building coordinates on the drawings, the debris storage room on the ground floor of the underground parking lot became the landing point for him to send the first batch of important materials.
The road rod with yellow and black twill is at the intersection. Next to the narrow monitoring booth, there is a zombie in a black suit. Its left arm and the sleeves of the clothes were torn apart, and the edges of the wound were filled with pus and semi-corrosive gray muscles. The nameplate on the chest showed that it was originally the administrator of the building's parking lot.
"Bang—————————————————”
The sound of the head and body collide with the wall is dull and clear. It should have been attacked by an infected person and fled into the guardhouse in panic to avoid danger. The virus entering from the wound quickly occupied the body, turning it into a terrible monster who likes fresh meat.
Su Hao's face was intertwined with cruelty and excitement. He quickly stepped forward, swung his axe, and smashed the glass on the side of the guard booth. The infected administrator immediately poked his head out of the sharp glass fragments, squeezed his body desperately, trying to get out of the cage that imprisoned him. Before it could make the first howl for freedom, the fire axe that fell again hit the neck accurately and slashed the ugly and hideous head away on the spot.
In the middle of the foul-smelling corpse, Su Hao accurately found the insignificant but very precious silver bone. He did not waste time. After putting the spoils into the pre-prepared tube metal bottle, he immediately walked around the road pole and strode deep into the dark parking lot.
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It cannot be illuminated by the sun, but it is not as dark as imagined. The corners of the walls are equipped with energy-saving lamps. Although the wattage is not high, the light emitted is enough to make people see the road surface and obstacles clearly.
On the car washing platform more than 20 meters away from the first floor exit, an expensive and luxurious "Mercedes-Benz" off-road vehicle was parked. The doors on both sides of the driver's seat were open, the windshield was smashed to pieces, and dozens of zombies were squirming back and forth in the car compartment like maggots. Through the gap between the window and body, you can see that the target of the corpse group was two men and women who were gnawed out of recognition. They had been dead for a long time. If one of the zombies holding the buttocks and biting fat meat were still hanging on the mouth, and the other end of the car door was covered with blood-stained men's leather shoes, Su Hao could not judge the true gender of the two piles of bones and rotten meat.
He walked silently in the shadow of the backlight, like the most agile gecko, leaving no trace of search.
Su Hao is not a stunning martial arts person, nor is he awesome protagonist in the comics. Although his body now has the best human genes, in essence, he is still the most ordinary person.
He has not evolved yet.
During the long years of fighting zombies and various monsters, humans have accumulated extremely rich experience. All non-human species that appeared after the virus storm began have colored illustrations and related instructions in future textbooks. Su Hao knows their living habits and their weaknesses.
Due to the damage caused by the virus to the central nervous system, zombies have little visual ability. As a supplement to external perception, their hearing and smell have become particularly acute. They move slowly and clumsyly, but cannot feel pain, and their desire for food has increased their strength. The only way to kill them is to destroy the brain that has shrunk by one third, but still controls the entire body's brain.
Su Hao can use factors such as terrain, distance and odor to solve the infected person who is alone. But he cannot deal with more than two zombies at the same time, let alone dense zombies.
Fresh flesh and blood have an irresistible temptation to the zombies. No one knows when the meal of the zombies will last. He must get the equipment he teleported in advance as soon as possible. If one more minute is delayed, the possibility of accidents will increase exponentially.
Fortunately, the corpse group did not find Su Hao sneaking in the shadow. Following the arrow with fluorescent effects on the wall and the drawings he memorized in his mind, he soon came to the end of the third floor underground of the parking lot and walked into the storage compartment that matched his memory.
This is just an open space with an area of about 30 square meters and no doors. Because the distance between the columns and the pipes on both sides is too narrow, it can only be used to stack bulky and valuable packaging boxes and other debris.
Chapter completed!