The voice Liu Chang sounded very familiar, it seemed to be someone he knew.
"Don't do anything, we don't have any malicious intentions." Taking two steps forward, Liu Chang only saw the opponent's face clearly after he reached the attacking range of the opponent.
"Mr. Li, it really is you." There was indeed a familiar face in front of him, to be precise, it was the face he had just met this morning - the biology teacher in Liu Chang's class, Li Qingshui.
"You are... Liu Chang?" Seeing Liu Chang's face, Teacher Li also relaxed his vigilance, and he stood aside the iron bar he was holding.
"And me, Liu Tao." Liu Tao also took two steps forward, allowing Mr. Li to see his face clearly.
"Why are you two here?" Li Qingshui stepped aside and said, "Go in and talk."
"En." Liu Chang and the two nodded, and walked into the same dim room.
The inside of the house is darker than the outside, because there is no sunlight, the red mist is pervasive, and the wires are also damaged by the vines outside, so it is even more invisible here.
But after the eyes got used to the darkness for a while, they got closer, and people could still see each other's outline clearly.
So, after a few seconds of darkness, Liu Chang saw a roomful of familiar faces in the room—all from their school.
There are a total of eight or nine students and more than a dozen parents here, a total of more than 20 people. It should be a small group formed by the school after the end of the world, and then found this foothold together. The founder of this small group should be the biology teacher.
It seems that they are not the only ones who think of finding a convenience store as a foothold.
After entering the room, Liu Chang saw a few more familiar faces among the familiar faces in the room - the fat man and the glasses.
"Liu Chang, Liu Tao?" Fatty stood up from the crowd, "How did you find this place?"
"I just bumped into it." Liu Chang said with a smile: "It's really lucky, the teacher should have gone out to investigate the situation, and we bumped into him unexpectedly."
"It's good that you're fine." Glasses also walked over from her parents, with guilt in her eyes.
"It's okay, I didn't encounter any danger on the road." When Liu Chang said this, he subconsciously tightened the gun hidden in his arms.
"That's good." Glasses nodded, "This place is safe for now."
"There is no safe place in the current world." Teacher Li walked over and said, "The current rate of biological mutation is too fast. At this rate, it is even faster than the Cambrian period described in the book. Evolving at this speed, then in less than three days, all the creatures around will evolve into predators. What a strange red mist, is this red mist the 'free oxygen' of the Cambrian period? No wonder the past two years The biology class of the college entrance examination was forced to improve so much, so they already knew it... "
Teacher Li's voice became smaller and smaller, and only Liu Chang who was standing beside him heard the last sentence.
"Then what to do?" cried the fat man's mother. Teacher Li's words caused a commotion in the house.
"I don't know what to do, just wait and see what happens, and try to live on."
Teacher Li sighed and sat on the ground next to the shelf.
And Liu Chang and Liu Tao, after speaking a few words to Fatty Glasses, also sat down on the ground.
Time passed quickly, and after a while, the night came as expected.
The world became truly dark.
The thick red fog can block more than 70% of the light even when the sun is shining brightly. The soft moonlight and starlight are completely blocked from people's sight by it. In a room without any light, people understand what it means to be "fingers are completely invisible when you put your five fingers in front of you".
However, in the face of this situation, Mr. Li was already prepared, took out the lighter, and with the light of the fire, he lit the two candles that had been placed before.
"Candles should be used sparingly, and if the light is too strong, it will become the target of other creatures." The candlelight drove away part of the darkness and brought a moment of light to the quiet room.
Sitting under the candlelight, Liu Chang looked at the candlelight which was dyed red, and felt his head dizzy, and the wound on his ankle felt unbearably itchy.
Finding a corner where no one was around, Liu Chang took off his shoes. With the help of the faint light, he just loosened the bandages around his feet when he heard a rotting corpse-like stench.
"Hmm!" Liu Chang was almost breathless from the smell on his body. Suppressing his nasal passages to get used to the smell, what he saw was a wound that was more terrifying than the smell.
The wounds were all festered and festered, and the flesh and blood turned red, white and yellow, which was simply unsightly.
"The wound is infected!" Teacher Li's voice came from behind Liu Chang. He stepped forward, supported Liu Chang's foot and pressed the area around his wound.
"Does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt, it's itchy!"
"Infected." Teacher Li adjusted his glasses and stared at the festering wound carefully, "Do you have any medicine?"
"Yes." Liu Chang took out his schoolbag, which contained some commonly used pills.
"Are there antibiotics?" Teacher Li looked at the various medicines in Liu Chang's schoolbag.
"No."
"Then take some anti-inflammatory drugs, eat more!" Looking at the horrible wound again, Teacher Li frowned and said: "This wound looks terrible, it is completely different from ordinary festering festering!!! It seems It’s not just large organisms that have evolved and mutated in this world, these bacteria have also mutated!”
"Uh." Liu Chang took out the medicine, saw that the anti-inflammatory medicine said one tablet at a time, poured out another tablet, and took twice the dose.
"Eat more, it may not be useful." Teacher Li still frowned deeply.
"Oh." After hearing what he said, Liu Chang poured out two more pills and swallowed them with the mineral water in the convenience store.
"Who has alcohol or iodine?" Seeing that Liu Chang had taken the medicine, Teacher Li shouted to the crowd in the dark.
There was no response.
The room was silent, no one made a sound.
"It's not that serious. It's just a wound infection. It was often festered and infected when I was a child."
"You often encountered mice and dogs when you were young. Can this be the same? You know, the simpler the creature is, the easier it is to produce large mutations. Even in normal times, bacterial mutations are very common, let alone in today's world. situation?"
"Is the matter serious?" Hearing Li Qingshui's words, Liu Chang's heart sank. If even the most docile animals become brutal, then the usually ferocious pathogenic bacteria may really be even more terrifying.
"I don't know either, let's take a look." Li Qingshui sighed, stopped talking, and the room became quiet again.
Putting his feet up on the bench in the convenience store, Liu Chang didn't dare to wrap up the festering wound anymore. Maybe because the smell from his body was really bad, no one around him came over, even Li Qingshui who came over just now walked inside, not knowing what to do.
Time, like this, slowly passed in the strange silence.
And Liu Chang just leaned against the foot of the wall, crossing his legs, feeling dizzy and cold.
He felt himself having a fever.