In the hot summer, the sun is scorching, and at noon the next day, a scattered sun makes the asphalt road almost melting.

They arrived in the suburbs of S City.

"What's going on?" Zhang Min took off his sunglasses and murmured.

In front of him was a dilapidated toll station. Zhang Min got out of the car, and many people rushed out of the toll station. Everyone shouted in fear, seeing that they seemed to come to grab the car, Zhang Min made a quick decision, sat back in the car, and turned the steering wheel and left the highway section.

"Brother Wang, hey, can you hear it?" Zhang Min put on the headphones and said anxiously: "Yes, we are almost here, and there is still a twenty-minute drive. OK, no problem, where is my sister-in-law and Xiaoshan?"

Cassin was staring at the people far outside the car window. As soon as Zhang Min entered the car, the person opposite immediately stopped and looked at him from a distance.

"Where are others?" Cassin asked.

Zhang Min didn't care about checking the surrounding environment, drove to the designated location on the phone, and replied: "He is not at home, it may be a bit crowded later. Baby, you have to sit in the back seat."

Cassia nodded in understanding, and Zhang Min parked his car in the parking lot behind a two-story building, looked around and there was no one.

The streets on the roadside were sluggish, and garbage was everywhere on the empty streets. The overturned trash cans were pushed around by the hot wind, rolling gently, making a clanging sound.

After getting on the highway, he slept overnight, but Zhang Min hadn't closed his eyes for forty-eight hours. At this moment, he couldn't hold his head down in front of the steering wheel.

"You go to bed," said Cassin.

Zhang Min nodded tiredly, simply turned his head and laid it on Cassia's legs, and said in a daze: "Call me when he comes."

Cassin nodded, looking into the distance in a daze.

The father and son were waiting for someone in the car. Cassin covered his left ear for a while, then covered his right ear, tilted his head and listened, raised his hand to touch Zhang Min's handsome side face - his eyebrows were furrowed.

Cassia stretched her adoptive father's eyebrows with her fingers and looked up.

A group of children in the distance were walking aimlessly under the scorching sun, lifting their hands slightly, dragging their feet, crossing the road. One of the little girls' heads were sunken and their necks were tilted in an unnatural posture.

Cassia narrowed her eyes slightly. The person they were waiting for here was Zhang Min's business partner. Her name was Wang Bo, a middle-aged man in his early thirties. He was also one of the comrades-in-arms introduced by Zhang Min when he was in the army.

Wang Bo is married, his wife is very beautiful, and he has a four-year-old daughter. Zhang Min once brought Cassia to play. The couple like Cassia very much.

Cassin also likes them very much. Of course, with his personality, he will not have too enthusiastic expressions. Wang Bo's daughter is close to him. When Cassin comes to visit, he will accompany her, take her to the playground and let her play, while he watches him.

Xiao Shan’s self-adhesive stickers were also attached to the Cassia travel bag.

Three hours later, Cassin shook Zhang Min and said, "Dad, he is here."

Zhang Min was sleeping so hard that his mouth was dry and he held up. He calmed down and looked out. He saw a middle-aged man standing next to the sidewalk, which was Wang Bo.

"He's the only one?" Zhang Min immediately had a bit of an ominous premonition: "Baby, sit in the back." After saying that, he got off the car.

As soon as he opened the car door, the heat wave immediately swept over. Zhang Min ran quickly to his friend and found that Wang Bo was in a daze. He hurriedly held his hand on his shoulder and helped him walk towards the car.

Cassin bowed and looked out, his eyes always following him until Zhang Min helped Wang Bo into the car. Wang Bo collapsed exhausted, his face turned gray, and he was not as good as a living person, and his eyes were sunken.

Zhang Min touched Wang Bo's forehead, touched his pulse again, pressed his fingers on his pulse, pondering without saying a word.

Cassia received mineral water, and one minute later, Zhang Min said: "I'm having heatstroke... Why is the pulse so slow? Drink some water."

Wang Bo nodded and raised his hand to take the mineral water. The bright red flesh on his wrist turned outwards and was blurred by biting. Zhang Min was shocked and asked, "Has someone bitten?"

Wang Bo gasped for a moment and said, "You guys go quickly, don't worry about me."

Zhang Min said: "What's this? What about sister-in-law and Xiaoshan?"

Wang Bo shook his head, as if he had just experienced a thrilling death battle or blow, and murmured: "I don't know."

Zhang Min said: "Xiaoshan is not at home? Isn't my sister-in-law with you?"

Wang Bo seemed to remember something and hurriedly said, "She... took Xiaoshan back to her parents' home."

Zhang Min frowned, Wang Bo's words were a bit inconsistent. Before he could think about it, Cassia took the medicine box. Zhang Min pulled out the bandage and bandaged Wang Bo's injured wrist.

"I'm going to die." Wang Bo said again: "Brother, don't worry about me, you guys run away."

Zhang Min said: "How can you ignore you?!"

Wang Bo said: "I was bitten, I'm afraid... I'll spread the virus to you..."

"Stop talking." Zhang Min said: "You have a rest. On the way we came, the Seventh Hospital was injecting the vaccine at the toll station. We have already taken the injections. Now I will take you back for treatment. Brother Wang, hold on."

Zhang Min glanced at Cassia, as if afraid that Cassia would be in danger. Cassia said: "It doesn't matter, I'll take care of him."

Zhang Min nodded. Cassia and himself were both vaccinated and they must be fine, so he went to the front seat to start the car and turned around and drove back to City F.

It was another long journey. The car was almost out of gas halfway through. Zhang Min leaned aside at a gas station, and no one was there.

The convenience store was empty, Zhang Min looked around and said, "Baby, come down and have a walk, pee."

The Cassia came down, Zhang Min pulled the gun and cheered himself on, and ordered: "Don't go too far."

Wang Bo coughed violently in the car, Cassia came over with her trouser chain, and Zhang Min signaled: "I'll go see him."

Wang Bo coughed violently, and the sky was so dark that he pushed open the car door and vomited blood on the side of the road.

Zhang Min hugged him, helped him out of the car, and let him lean against the wheel. His slender fingers slightly opened his eyelids and observed his pupils.

Wang Bo gasped slowly, breathlessly: "Xiao Shan..."

Zhang Min said: "Don't think too much, my sister-in-law and niece will be fine."

Wang Bo's face was almost yellow, and he slowly said, "Brother, have you seen them?"

Zhang Min asked in a low voice and nervous voice: "What? Don't tell Cassia, he will be afraid."

Wang Bo glanced outside and Cassia walked towards the convenience store.

Wang Bo asked: "Is Cassia better?"

Zhang Min nodded: "Now there is no headache, and I like to speak. Who are you talking about 'them'?"

Wang Bo nodded, took out a handful of □□ from the back, slapped Zhang Min in his hand, and said, "Put them in the head."

Zhang Min took it and looked at Wang Bo's eyes. Wang Bo said, "It's a virus. My brother knows... the person who is bitten by them will be infected and become a monster that is not human or ghost."

Zhang Min took a deep breath and whispered: "Can it be cured again?"

Wang Bo shook his head and Zhang Min said, "Brother, when I got home, I saw a lot of them on the way. They said it was rabies. What is the cause?"

Wang Bo said: "No, I don't know... I took Shanshan... to the hospital for a visit..."

Zhang Min's breath was immediately held.

Wang Bo said: "As soon as the virus broke out, it could never be cured. There were monsters that bite people everywhere in the hospital... Patients, they said that these people were dead, had no ability to think, and did not know anyone. There was only a trace of charge in the brain that kept running, and the whole body consumed... very low calories, and the beasts were instincts, bite... and eat."

Zhang Min said: "Can the dead survive...the dead survive?"

Wang Bo looked at the blood-red sunset in the sky and murmured: "I can't survive. Even if their stomachs are torn, their intestines flow out, and their hands and feet are broken, they can still struggle without pain...unless..."

Zhang Min said: "Unless what?"

Wang Bo looked at Zhang Min's eyes, his face was almost completely gray, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, his lips became blue and purple, and he slowly said: "Press their heads, destroy their brains. Or twist their heads, the ends of his spine... cough! cough!"

Wang Bo coughed violently again, and Zhang Min hurriedly supported him and said, "Because the brain can also send movement instructions to the limbs through spinal neurons, we have to cut off the spinal spine. That's what it means."

Wang Bo nodded while coughing. Zhang Min and Wang Bo are both engaged in the pharmaceutical industry. They know a little bit about Western medicine. Zhang Min's family is from traditional Chinese medicine and can understand it at first glance.

"They are no longer humans." Wang Bo grabbed Zhang Min's hand and said, "You must shoot."

Cassin stood behind Zhang Min at some point and looked at Wang Bo. Wang Bo said as if he was giving his last words to his death: "If... becomes like that, you must... break my neck or shoot me, do you know, brother?"

Zhang Min hurriedly said, "No, if you can cure it, you must hold on, Brother Wang."

Wang Bo couldn't help but smile bitterly, turned over and climbed into the back seat of the car.

Cassin stared at the gun in Zhang Min's hand. Zhang Min debugged the bullet, then put it away, held Cassin's hand, and held him tightly in his arms without saying a word.

The two snuggled up in the dusk for a moment, and Zhang Min said, "Eme?"

Cassia nodded.

Zhang Min said: "Dad went to find something to eat. Have you seen it in the store?"

Cassin said: "No more."

Zhang Min said: "There is always something, come."

He held a gun in one hand and held Cassia in the other hand, and entered the convenience store in the gas station. The convenience store was in a mess. Obviously, after several waves of cleaning by passers-by, the shelves were in a mess. Zhang Min searched in the back warehouse, and the sound of cars outside the door sounded.

A couple stopped to cheer, Zhang Min came out immediately, protected the Cassia behind him, and the two looked out.

The man pulled out the refueling gun and stared at the Cassia alertly. Zhang Min said, "Hello, brother."

The man did not answer, Zhang Min took out the cigarette from his coat and stepped forward and said, "I'm asking for information, are you from City F?"

The man still didn't say anything, and he just came to pick up cigarettes. After adding fuel, he stepped back. Zhang Min asked again: "Have you been vaccinated? How is the situation at the toll station... Stop for me! Otherwise, you will shoot!"

The man never answered, Zhang Min pulled it out, and only heard the woman in the car screaming for no life. The man immediately raised his hands.

Zhang Min said: "I have no malice. You can leave after asking."

The man said, "Here...here, but you'd better...as soon as possible, the army has passed."

Zhang Min nodded and said, "It's okay, you go."

The man immediately rushed into the car like a rabbit, driving in vain.

Zhang Min put away the gun, and there was a complexity in his eyes, so he went back to the store to move things.
To be continued...