#11 - Chapter 11 Mutation Night
October 10th.
The opening ceremony of the Green Source Base has finally arrived.
The location is, of course, inside the factory.
Although it's called a celebration,
it's really just a company-organized dinner party.
A large room was converted into a banquet hall, not too big, with seating for about ten tables.
The number of people attending wasn't large, less than a hundred, so even ten tables weren't needed.
Normal office work in the morning, and the employees were allowed to leave early at 4 PM.
To allow them to go home and prepare, bringing their families to the event in the evening.
Qin Jin stood by the window in his office, looking at the setting sun.
The afterglow sprinkled over the factory, giving the buildings a yellowish tint.
His eyes were filled with complex emotions, fear, trepidation, unease, and… excitement?
His family members had already confirmed their arrival at the base.
They were currently resting and chatting in the arranged meeting room.
He called Wang Yang, Zhong Yu, and the Director of Human Resources, Zhao Ling, to confirm the arrival of the leaders' relatives and subordinates.
And issued an order that after 6 PM, all security guards and doorkeepers on duty should enter the banquet, without exception.
The dishes were prepared in advance and placed on the table to keep warm, so everyone could directly take their seats.
Even the chefs and assistants didn't need to prepare in the back.
The factory gate was closed directly, and no more guests were allowed in.
Everyone was used to President Qin's eccentric style.
No one raised any objections, they just did as they were told.
Time came to six o'clock.
Qin Jin, still in his office, walked to the window again and opened it to look outside.
The sun had completely set.
Only some afterglow was still stubbornly shining.
Seemingly slowly drawing the curtain for the arrival of the night.
What many people hadn't noticed was that a faint mist was rising from the ground!
Very faint.
It wouldn't be noticed without careful observation, but if you looked closely, you would find that this mist seemed to reflect some kind of purple.
Hidden in the boundary between the setting sun and the night.
Qin Jin stood by the window.
Staring intently at this scene!
Abandoning the last bit of luck.
His originally tense body slowly relaxed, and he turned to walk towards the banquet venue.
Before entering the venue, Qin Jin made two final calls.
One was to reconfirm Li Cai's situation with the detective agency.
Unfortunately, she still hadn't been found during this last period.
Then he could only wish her to survive the mutation night and the early days of the apocalypse as smoothly as she did in her previous life.
The second call was to a special number, and after it was connected, he directly asked:
"I've decided I want the thing, give me an account number, I'll transfer the money immediately, and then send the information to the email address I specified!"
The other side also replied: "Boss is generous, the stuff can be sent at any time, as long as the money arrives, it will be processed immediately. After finishing this deal, I'll have to keep a low profile for a while. This number won't be used again."
Both sides had a tacit understanding.
Qin Jin received a text message from an unknown number with a string of numbers. Without thinking too much, he transferred the last five hundred thousand.
In less than five minutes.
His phone indicated that there was a new email in his inbox.
Without even looking, he stepped into the venue.
Seeing the lively atmosphere inside.
He found Zhong Yu and Wang Yang and confirmed that everyone had arrived.
He silently pressed the remote control in his pocket.
Without anyone noticing, this room had been completely locked, all the doors and windows were closed.
Only the specially built filtration and ventilation system prepared in advance during the construction of the base continued to work, at least the temperature and humidity wouldn't make people feel uncomfortable.
Qin Jin came to the main seat in the venue.
He gave a simple speech with the microphone, encouraging everyone, and then let everyone start eating.
The rest was handed over to the emcee, who was a company employee, to liven up the atmosphere.
There weren't too many superficial formalities.
The main thing was to let everyone eat their fill first.
Everyone ate and drank as they pleased.
The delicacies on the table were ordered from a large restaurant during the day, transported to the factory, and then given a final touch. The taste was very good.
During the day, Qin Jin had personally gone to the kitchen and replaced the wine and beverages used for the banquet with those he had specially prepared in advance, with some ingredients added.
Antibiotics.
Oral type.
Mixed into tea, juice, wine and other drinks, the efficacy may be somewhat destroyed, but it will not be completely ineffective.
These operations were the experience summarized by survivors over the years in his previous life.
The surviving humans, more or less, had some talkative people.
After all, they were far away from the modern world, without any electronic products or other entertainment, and they had to minimize activities every night to reduce energy consumption.
Qin Jin had heard people talk more than once that many of those who survived the night of mutation had some commonalities.
Either they had a strong immune system and rarely got sick since childhood, or they were sick at the time and survived while taking medicine.
Some were even patients who had been on long-term infusions and survived.
So what he did was also based on that, to create a slightly "clean" space here.
Because according to later circumstances, as long as the earliest 4-6 hours of the night of mutation were survived, the concentration of the ubiquitous virus mist would drop to a level that would not cause human mutation.
After human contact, although they would carry the virus in the future, the concentration would be extremely low.
Only after death, when the immune system collapses.
The trace amounts of virus will replicate and breed, turning them into zombies.
Now what Qin Jin had to do was to quietly wait for the virus concentration outside to drop before letting these people out.
To let them accept the fact that the outside world was already an apocalypse.
At this time, Qin's father, who was sitting at the same table, seemed to see that he was a little distracted and asked his son: "Ah Jin, what's wrong?"
Qin Jin came back to his senses slightly, temporarily putting his wild thoughts behind him, and said to his father:
"It's nothing, I suddenly thought of something, I'm fine now, come, let me propose a toast to everyone, thank you all for coming to the factory today!"
After saying that, he stood up.
He walked to the center of the venue, raised his glass, and said to everyone present: "I'm very happy that everyone could come to support us, I'll toast to everyone!"
Faced with the boss's toast, no one would refuse to give face.
The employees raised their glasses in return.
Even the family members sensibly returned the toast.
Qin Jin glanced around, everyone in the factory had drunk.
Then he walked back to his seat and continued to let the banquet proceed.
And waited for the time to come.
Qin's father, sitting at the wine table, seeing him like this, had to say:
"We also know that you must be under a lot of pressure, starting such a company suddenly, to be honest, we were surprised for a long time, but it doesn't matter, if you have anything in the future, you can talk to me, or talk to your uncle and uncle, we will help you check, we are old, but we still have some connections."
Qin Jin smiled and echoed, expressing his thanks for his father's encouragement.
After a while, he got up again.
He found Zhong Yu at the next table and toasted them again, chatted with Zhong's father, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and then went to the other tables one by one to toast.
In this process, he was also observing everyone's eating and drinking, whether they had drunk enough.
And paying attention to everyone's physical reactions.
The result was that everyone was temporarily normal.
The meal passed quickly.
Time came to 8 o'clock.
Qin Jin arranged for the employees to start the game session, with prizes, the winning team or individual could get a certain bonus.
In this way, everyone was happy to participate, after all, no one doesn't like money.
Anyway, he wouldn't let anyone out before 12 o'clock tonight.
Various activities were arranged later, with dozens or hundreds of lottery activities alone, which could last at least one or two hours.
Finally, he could also use his identity as the boss to order people not to leave.
Moreover, it might not take that long.
The employees happily participated in the activities, and the venue was filled with laughter.
They didn't know that the outside world was undergoing tremendous changes!
From six o'clock, the fog began to rise, and slowly the entire surface of Blue Star was filled with a pale purple mist!
No one knew why, and no one knew the danger in it.
In just a few tens of minutes.
When network media had just begun to discuss the fog.
The mutation had already begun!
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A little after 7 o'clock.
It was completely dark.
Shenzhen City.
A residential building in a certain urban village.
This point was already off-work time.
The earlier off-duty workers had already dragged their tired bodies from a day's work and began to go home.
To enjoy their own independent time.
Huang Ting.
An ordinary Shenzhen office worker.
He had been running around to clients all day today, because there were quality problems with his company's products, so he personally ran to the client's company to repair them.
He was scolded by the client several times, and it was not easy to appease them, which had already exhausted him.
He knew his own company, and the product quality was indeed average.
His job was also aimed at this situation, putting out fires everywhere.
Although it was uncomfortable, he had been enduring it for the sake of the decent salary.
Which office worker wasn't like this.
Today was his son's birthday, so he spent his mind to settle the client as soon as possible, just to be able to get off work early.
He also bought a cake on the way, to celebrate his son's birthday.
A sense of ceremony was still necessary.
Even though his wife often complained about wasting money.
But when he thought of his son's happy smile, he couldn't help but slightly curl the corners of his mouth.
It was also one of the few happinesses in life.
He lived on the fifth floor of a building in the urban village.
The landlord was reluctant to install an elevator, so he had to climb the stairs to the fifth floor every time.
When he was panting, he would complain about the landlord's stinginess.
But if an elevator was installed, the rent would go up, in which case he would most likely change to a cheaper house without an elevator again.
The body and the mouth were sometimes opposed.
Today he felt particularly relaxed going up to the fifth floor, taking two steps at a time.
He soon arrived at his door.
Although the corridor was a bit old, it could be seen that it was still clean.
Everyone was working hard in the big city, except for some people with too low quality, most people wanted to clean up their small home a bit.
As usual, he took out the key and opened his door.
"Huh?"
After entering the door, he found that there was no one in the small living room.
This was a bit strange.
Usually, his wife and son should already be home at this time, right?
Moreover, today was his son's birthday.
He had told his wife during the day.
He would get off work early today and bring the cake home to celebrate with his child, and his wife would also make a meal of dishes that the child liked.
In the middle of the small dining table, a plate of salt and pepper shrimp and two vegetarian dishes had already been stir-fried.
These were dishes that the child liked to eat.
He changed his shoes and put down his backpack, and his line of sight was slightly diverted.
Since the space of the whole home was not large, just a simple two-bedroom and one-living room, a standard rental house layout, it was easy to hear some movement coming from the kitchen with the door ajar next door.
Well.
Were they still cooking in the kitchen?
Was his son also inside watching his mother make delicious food?
He slowly walked over.
He didn't want to shout out and disturb them directly, he also wanted to see his wife's busy back for the sake of the small family.
His wife usually put in a lot of effort for the small family, she was very hardworking.
Huang Ting could very well understand his wife's hard work as a full-time housewife.
Different functions had their own hardships, and everyone was doing it for the good of the small family.
Next time he got a bonus, he would secretly buy his wife the bag she liked so much that she had "accidentally" revealed, and give it to her as a surprise.
Well.
It was decided so happily.
He gently pushed open the ajar kitchen door.
Then he found that even the lights had not been turned on.
Saving electricity was not done this way, right?
He felt even more sorry for his wife.
She was really a good woman who took care of the family.
Pa.
Turned on the lights.
What came into his eyes was not the figure of his wife busy processing ingredients as he had imagined.
But a figure kneeling at the corner of the kitchen and the toilet.
There was a pa ji pa ji sound coming from there.
Not knowing what she was doing.
What was that red liquid on the floor?
Was she processing some ingredients?
It was too dirty, right?
Huang Ting thought in his mind, and continued to walk forward, wanting to tell his wife to pay attention to the slippery ground.
He walked over to take a look.
A sense of fear like staring directly at a black hole of hundreds of millions of feet deep attacked his brain like a landslide!
Hundreds of millions of nerve cells in his body were frantically transmitting information.
Causing all the hairs on his body to stand on end, and he felt a prehistoric cold current attacking.
Freezing his soul!
"Ahhhhhhhhh————"
His eyes instantly became bloodshot and widened to the limit, and he let out a desperate roar from his wide-open mouth!
What kind of sight was in front of him?
A headless body covered in blood, lying in a pool of blood, could be vaguely judged from the height and clothing that it used to be a child, and was now being eaten by a woman who was also covered in blood!
That was his wife!
At this time, her mouth was still biting something.
Further away, there was a small head facing away from her, seemingly silently telling something.
Perhaps his high-pitched male voice had an effect.
The wife in the middle of "eating" reacted.
She turned around, revealing a face full of blood, and her eyes, white with a hint of red, looked at the newly arrived "food", and pounced over without hesitation with a desire for food!
In an instant.
The woman bit Huang Ting, who was caught off guard!
Then she continued to tear and bite his body frantically!
At this time, the world in front of Huang Ting's eyes was already a blood red.
He had already forgotten whether it was the blood on the ground he saw, or if there was something wrong with his vision. His consciousness was a little blurry, and he only felt cold and pain.
It was a cold and pain that penetrated deep into his soul.
Was he dreaming, he wondered?
But why the hell can't I wake up even though it hurts so much?
No one could tell him the answer.
Subsequently, his consciousness fell into endless darkness.
Following his roar.
Various kinds of noisy sounds rang out around him in succession.
Chaos.
The whole world was in chaos.
What Huang Ting didn't know was.
His voice had torn open the curtain of a new era.
(End of Chapter)
