16 years

This shopping mall has five floors. The top floor is a semi-open cinema and game hall. The entire building layout is a modern and typical wrap-around shopping mall, with elevated ceilings in the middle and surrounding shops.

Because it is located in a downtown area, the building area of ​​this shopping mall is not small. Fu Yan roughly communicated with the large army outside, and felt that there were at least 200 people left here, but they were too scattered to find them all.

While walking around into the lobby from the stairwell, Fu Yan withdrew from the magazine and counted the bullets, then carefully reloaded the gun, circling around in a circle.

It can be seen that the center of the hall on the first floor is where the previous event was held. The stage set up by the Children's Palace is still standing in place. One block, Fu Yan looked around, and there was no one in the huge shopping mall.

The shop's glass door was open, but there was a dead silence everywhere. The white light shone on the tiles. Fu Yan stepped on a piece of messy plastic, and the small sound echoed in the empty hall. To the feeling of the previous life.

Some distorted command voices came from the earphones. Apart from him, there should be several teams of search and rescue special police in the public channel, and there would be a few responses from time to time that someone had been found.

"If you believe me, you'd better go look for the injured in the whole city now." Fu Yan held down the headset, paused, and added: "There are witnesses, it's best to find out...and then gather these people together Quarantine."

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult." The earphones responded: "There are too many people, and no measures have been found."

"It's best to look for it." Fu Yan said, "As many as you can find."

The earphone side hesitated for a moment, and didn't speak again, not sure if it was refusing or thinking.

In fact, Fu Yan can't help it. It's useless to say anything now, and reminding him is already doing his best.

He searched around the first floor, but couldn't find the so-called "killed patient", so he frowned and turned to the second floor.

In the previous life, apart from Shao Xuefan, the "first patient" who disappeared into the sea of ​​people has always been the focus of missing research.Because of the lack of basic data, many subsequent studies can only be carried out from existing zombies.Fu Yan didn't understand academic research very well, and only heard a few scattered sentences during the meeting, which seemed to say that most of the viruses extracted from those zombies were products of mutation, and their usability was very limited. If the source of infection could be found, things would It will be much easier.

It's just that when they remembered this incident, it was already a mess outside, and people struggled to escape, let alone to find the "first patient" in the vast crowd.

Coming back this time, Fu Yan didn't have time to save Shao Xuefan, but this opportunity was in front of him, and he couldn't turn a blind eye to it.

Fu Yan just couldn't tell Liu Ruosong outside that when he was reborn in this life, he would try his best to catch all the clues he could.

He asked the location of the shooting in the headset, and then walked straight to the fourth floor without further delay.

"Brother." Liu Ruosong's voice suddenly came from the earphones: "I asked the medical staff just now, and they said this disease is very contagious, so be careful."

Fu Yan was taken aback when he heard his voice, but then he realized that someone outside had opened the back door for him, so he hummed in a low voice.

"I evacuated the crowd around here." Liu Ruosong continued: "I heard from the medical staff on the ambulance that the incubation period of rabies this time is very short, and the shortest case of a patient developed a biting body on the way to the hospital. Symptoms, only ten minutes before and after."

"So short?" Fu Yan was a little surprised.

In his previous life, he spent most of his life on rescue missions outside, and most of the zombies he saw were pre-formed zombies. Even if there were a few injured people who were bitten by chance, they were left for the medical staff and the team. Researchers, or let it fend for itself.

He only knew that the zombie virus was irreversible, but he did not carefully understand the time limit for mutation.

"But there are exceptions, which may be related to personal physique." Liu Ruosong continued: "The case with the shortest infection time was a 28-year-old young man. According to the news from the hospital, it seems that both young men and women have already developed some physical symptoms. But a few grandparents are fine for the time being, so the medical staff now suspect that young and strong young people may be more likely to be infected-you have to be careful."

"Understood." Fu Yan said, "Stay away from the ambulance. A team transporting the wounded has just left."

"Don't worry, brother." Liu Ruosong smiled, turned sideways to get out of the way, retreated to the side of the police car behind the cordon, and said, "How can I help, I won't make trouble—"

Before Liu Ruosong could finish his sentence, something flashed in his peripheral vision. He subconsciously turned his head and saw several doctors surrounding the mobile bed, carrying the bed to the ambulance.

Liu Ruosong has been outdoors all year round, and he has inexplicably developed a beast-like intuition. He instinctively felt that it was not good, and subconsciously ran two steps there, only to realize that the restraint belt tied to the patient on the mobile push bed did not know when the other party Got one!

On the push bed was a young man in a suit and leather shoes. He was tall and burly. The back of his neck and shoulders were blood red, and his half-drawn shirt was completely dyed.

He looked extremely painful, his limbs were contorted and convulsed, his face turned blue and white, and there was a tooth-piercing growl from his mouth.He struggled vigorously, tossing and turning on the narrow push-bed, three or four doctors couldn't hold him down for a while.

I don't know if it's because of excessive blood loss or what, but the man's exposed skin was covered with a layer of bluish-white ashes, dark purple blood vessels protruding from the back of his hand, his eyes were dull and empty, he looked like a man who had just come out of a grave. Dig out zombies.

The fragile restraint belt on his right wrist was completely torn apart, and the man seemed to lose his mind, and suddenly stood up, about to bite the doctor and press his wrist.

The doctor was caught off guard, and before he could react, he felt a sudden force coming from behind, and the white coat made an overwhelmed sizzling sound, and broke into two pieces from the stitches on the back on the spot.

The young doctor kicked back three or four steps according to this strength, his wrist flashed past the man's eyes, and only heard the teeth-gritting sound of teeth closing.

"He's going to bite!" Liu Ruosong quickly rolled up the half-broken white coat into a ball, and regardless of whether it would suffocate the opponent, he pressed the ball of cloth firmly on the opponent's face, and said eagerly: "pay close attention!"

Several young and strong doctors next to him reacted quickly, and hurriedly held him down and tied him several times firmly before sending him to the ambulance.

"Thank you." The young doctor looked at Liu Ruosong and said with lingering fear, "Thank you."

Liu Ruosong just reacted purely on instinct, but now he was relieved, and he was also a little scared, waved his hand weakly, and retreated to the side of the police car to lean against the door.

"Be careful, too." Liu Ruosong hesitated for a moment, and said, "There are many unknown viruses in this world, and rabies is just one of them—just like the Ebola virus that turns people into vampires. I don't know what kind of virus there is." It will turn people into doomsday zombies."

The young doctor had obviously seen the madness of the patient just now. Hearing this, he smiled wryly, nodded, and said that he would pay attention, then turned his head and followed into the ambulance.

The man's illness was too sudden, and the symptoms were scary. Liu Ruosong's palms were cold now, so he couldn't help but check carefully, and he was relieved when he found that he hadn't been scratched.

Too reckless, Liu Ruosong thought, he should be more cautious next time.

He was thinking about it, but he heard Fu Yan calling him in the earphone.

"Ruosong." Fu Yan said.

Liu Ruosong was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he hadn't turned off the earphones, and Fu Yan probably heard the chaos just now.

"You did a good job and responded quickly." Fu Yan said, "But next time you encounter something like this, you must protect yourself first."

Liu Ruosong leaned against the door of the police car, and hummed when he heard the words, indicating that he heard it.

Fu Yan didn't say anything more, but he didn't switch back to the public channel either. Listening to his breathing, Liu Ruosong calmed down a little bit inexplicably.

Hearing that the earphones had quieted down again, Fu Yan came out from the corner where he was hiding. He helped the earphones and saw the "patient" lying on the ground more than ten meters away.

The opponent was hit in the temple by a shot, and fell in the middle of the road with his limbs wide open. Brains and dark brown blood were scattered all over the ground. The scene was really not very good.

Fu Yan had seen too many zombie corpses in his previous life, and he was instinctively disgusted. He frowned, put the gun back into the holster, and took out the two blood collection tubes from his pocket.

Fu Yan knelt next to the corpse on one knee, moved the other's body, looked up and down, and then picked a piece of skin that was slightly intact, and inserted the needle into the other's blood vessel.

He did a lot of work like collecting samples in his previous life, and he is familiar with this process.It's a pity that he has no experience in preserving samples. Looking at the two full blood collection tubes in his hand, he can only hope that they will fight for themselves and have a longer storage period.

Fu Yan got what he wanted, and more than half of the purpose of coming in was completed. He taped the blood collection tube and put it in his pocket. He was about to return the same way, but when he got near the escalator, he suddenly heard the earphone There was a very loud shout.

Fu Yan's heart tightened, he looked around and saw no one, so he asked sharply, "The coordinates."

He was from the Air Force, which is different from the special police system. He was stunned for a second before realizing that he was asking about the location, and quickly responded: "B2 stairs on the first floor——"

The design of the downstairs escalator in this building is not in a vertical line, but is set up in a zigzag cross, with the compartments on the same side.Fu Yan looked around, and found that the elevator downstairs was on the other side of the corridor, and it was too much effort to run there, so he gritted his teeth, and simply supported the railing with one hand, and fell off the railing!

Immediately afterwards, Fu Yan stepped on the wall to buffer against the railing downstairs, and turned directly from the fourth floor into the gap on the first floor.