Chapter 27.2
“I’m thinking about this too. It shouldn’t be difficult to send a message on a radio. Three days have passed. Why hasn’t the country done anything? It’s good to send an explanation statement to appease the masses.”
“Don’t worry too much. Didn’t we see a helicopter during the day? Now that the rescue team had appeared, it is only a matter of time before we can be rescued. Wait until all the survivors come together. It would not be difficult to restore normal social order.”
“But didn’t the rescue team leave soon?” Suddenly someone inserted a voice, not too loud, but successfully made the fiery hope that just got ignited in the reading room cool down quickly.
After a long time, someone whispered, “… rescue team, will they come back?”
Silent, no one answered him.
Shen Shian held Shen Xun and laid back on the tatami. The child was hot and looked like a small stove. Shen Shian covered him with a blanket, he turned his head and Shen Shian quietly stretched out his feet. After being found out by Shen Shian, his butt was hit gently, “Don’t make trouble or later you’ll catch a cold.”
Shen Shian wasn’t surprised that the radio could not receive a message.
He agreed with Professor Li’s analysis that there was an absolutely inseparable link between the zombies and influenza viruses. Coupled with the news about Mrs. Fan that he had just learned from Mr. Gu, it was very likely that before the virus outbreak, all people infected with the flu will become zombies after the virus outbreak.
This meant that at the moment of the virus outbreak, the country’s population had been halved. Coupled with the fact that the first generation zombies were spreading the zombie virus by grabbing, biting, or eating humans, the most conservative estimates were that the number of survivors in China as a whole right now will not exceed one quarter of the total population.
What’s more deadly was that the influenza virus infection had no regularity, it had nothing to do with age, sex, and physical strength. In other words, three-quarters of the population lost in these two and a half days was in all fields, industries, and positions, as long as they were infected with the virus, no one can be spared.
A country was like a huge and sophisticated high-end machine. For its normal operation, countless individuals were needed as gears to coordinate and connect with each other. This lack of gears would cause major problems, and having three quarters of it being vacant was definitely a devastating blow to the state. The collapse of the communication networks and the power outages throughout the city were the best proofs for this.
The transmitter and receiver used to transmit the broadcast signal might be intact, but the person making the signal might not be.
What’s more, judging from Mr. Gu’s last paragraph, the zombie virus might be more destructive to the upper-level authorities. If the entire superstructure was on the verge of collapse, no one would be able to send a broadcast signal to alleviate the panic. No matter how speculative it is, wait until the end of this round of reshuffles and a new power mechanism to be determined. At that time, even if you think of the need to transmit a signal, how many people could hear when they didn’t knew that the power was cut.
Shen Shian rubbed the child’s hair, and his gaze out the window was a little dignified. In the call with Mr. Gu, the information that he received was not small, and a lot of that information was important to him. But because the signal was not good, the speech was intermittently ambiguous, and he was not sure whether he understood some information correctly.
For example, since the Qin family had specialized in officials and business circles for several generations, the family members of the clan had been in high positions or were rich, how could they be related to the military? Or did he miss any important information during the call?
However, no matter how tangled, this question couldn’t be answered right now, and he could only discuss it in detail with Mr. Gu after arriving in Beijing. According to what Mr. Gu said on the phone, the rescue team should come over soon.
The reading room became quiet again, and those who tried to make calls gradually gave up. The middle-aged man who turned on the radio did not turn off his mobile phone, he tuned the frequency casually, and placed a constant electronic noise on the table.
Shen Shian thought about things, he woke up slowly like from a shallow dream. So when a cry sounded suddenly at more than four in the morning, his eyes opened instantly.
The voice came from the mobile phone on the table, which was much clearer than the call before, and every word could be heard clearly.
“… Hey, hey, can anyone hear me? I’m Xiong Mengmeng, I live in 12th block room 2203, Qinglan Villa, Taoyuan Street, H City Business District, and is now transmitting signals to outside through a homemade transmitter. If anyone can hear me, please help me, please. My house is out of power because the floor is too high and the water has stopped. My mother hasn’t come back from finding food. I’m so hungry. Outside is full of monsters. I ’m so scared … … If anyone hears me, please, can you come and save me … ”
The girl’s especially tender voice sounded not more than fifteen years old, and she was crying with obvious weakness and fear to the extreme. The bookshelf in the room echoed again and again, travelling through the most vicious darkness before dawn, exuding the despair that caused the whole body to chill.
Someone yelled, “Who the fuck turned on the radio, turn it off!”
The radio turned off immediately, the cry of the girl disappeared instantly, and there was a silence in the reading room.
The child arched in Shen Shian’s arms and said, “… An An?”
Shen Shian sighed indifferently and held him tighter, “It’s all right, sleep.”
“Don’t worry too much. Didn’t we see a helicopter during the day? Now that the rescue team had appeared, it is only a matter of time before we can be rescued. Wait until all the survivors come together. It would not be difficult to restore normal social order.”
“But didn’t the rescue team leave soon?” Suddenly someone inserted a voice, not too loud, but successfully made the fiery hope that just got ignited in the reading room cool down quickly.
After a long time, someone whispered, “… rescue team, will they come back?”
Silent, no one answered him.
Shen Shian held Shen Xun and laid back on the tatami. The child was hot and looked like a small stove. Shen Shian covered him with a blanket, he turned his head and Shen Shian quietly stretched out his feet. After being found out by Shen Shian, his butt was hit gently, “Don’t make trouble or later you’ll catch a cold.”
Shen Shian wasn’t surprised that the radio could not receive a message.
He agreed with Professor Li’s analysis that there was an absolutely inseparable link between the zombies and influenza viruses. Coupled with the news about Mrs. Fan that he had just learned from Mr. Gu, it was very likely that before the virus outbreak, all people infected with the flu will become zombies after the virus outbreak.
This meant that at the moment of the virus outbreak, the country’s population had been halved. Coupled with the fact that the first generation zombies were spreading the zombie virus by grabbing, biting, or eating humans, the most conservative estimates were that the number of survivors in China as a whole right now will not exceed one quarter of the total population.
What’s more deadly was that the influenza virus infection had no regularity, it had nothing to do with age, sex, and physical strength. In other words, three-quarters of the population lost in these two and a half days was in all fields, industries, and positions, as long as they were infected with the virus, no one can be spared.
A country was like a huge and sophisticated high-end machine. For its normal operation, countless individuals were needed as gears to coordinate and connect with each other. This lack of gears would cause major problems, and having three quarters of it being vacant was definitely a devastating blow to the state. The collapse of the communication networks and the power outages throughout the city were the best proofs for this.
The transmitter and receiver used to transmit the broadcast signal might be intact, but the person making the signal might not be.
What’s more, judging from Mr. Gu’s last paragraph, the zombie virus might be more destructive to the upper-level authorities. If the entire superstructure was on the verge of collapse, no one would be able to send a broadcast signal to alleviate the panic. No matter how speculative it is, wait until the end of this round of reshuffles and a new power mechanism to be determined. At that time, even if you think of the need to transmit a signal, how many people could hear when they didn’t knew that the power was cut.
Shen Shian rubbed the child’s hair, and his gaze out the window was a little dignified. In the call with Mr. Gu, the information that he received was not small, and a lot of that information was important to him. But because the signal was not good, the speech was intermittently ambiguous, and he was not sure whether he understood some information correctly.
For example, since the Qin family had specialized in officials and business circles for several generations, the family members of the clan had been in high positions or were rich, how could they be related to the military? Or did he miss any important information during the call?
However, no matter how tangled, this question couldn’t be answered right now, and he could only discuss it in detail with Mr. Gu after arriving in Beijing. According to what Mr. Gu said on the phone, the rescue team should come over soon.
The reading room became quiet again, and those who tried to make calls gradually gave up. The middle-aged man who turned on the radio did not turn off his mobile phone, he tuned the frequency casually, and placed a constant electronic noise on the table.
Shen Shian thought about things, he woke up slowly like from a shallow dream. So when a cry sounded suddenly at more than four in the morning, his eyes opened instantly.
The voice came from the mobile phone on the table, which was much clearer than the call before, and every word could be heard clearly.
“… Hey, hey, can anyone hear me? I’m Xiong Mengmeng, I live in 12th block room 2203, Qinglan Villa, Taoyuan Street, H City Business District, and is now transmitting signals to outside through a homemade transmitter. If anyone can hear me, please help me, please. My house is out of power because the floor is too high and the water has stopped. My mother hasn’t come back from finding food. I’m so hungry. Outside is full of monsters. I ’m so scared … … If anyone hears me, please, can you come and save me … ”
The girl’s especially tender voice sounded not more than fifteen years old, and she was crying with obvious weakness and fear to the extreme. The bookshelf in the room echoed again and again, travelling through the most vicious darkness before dawn, exuding the despair that caused the whole body to chill.
Someone yelled, “Who the fuck turned on the radio, turn it off!”
The radio turned off immediately, the cry of the girl disappeared instantly, and there was a silence in the reading room.
The child arched in Shen Shian’s arms and said, “… An An?”
Shen Shian sighed indifferently and held him tighter, “It’s all right, sleep.”
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