"What's wrong? You seem so excited. Did you find something?" Lu Heng approached the platform where Lin Yu was, looking at the notebook in his hand.
"It's not this. There are many video files in the control room, and I also discovered that they seem to have a habit of keeping logs, recording important events that happen in the base daily."
The notebook in Lin Yu's hand was a daily hygiene record for the base. Of course, the contents within only recorded the year of the apocalypse.
Lu Heng noticed that the last recorded date was March 31, 2041. The zombie virus outbreak occurred on the morning of April 1st, so they likely hadn't had time to make that day's record.
"Let's go. I want to see the situation in the control room too. Collecting supplies outside isn't urgent."
"Lu Ge, the last recorded time in the control room's videos is later than the hygiene record book. I suspect someone touched the control room's power switch, causing the power to shut off, which is why there were no further records."
"Mm, let's go take a look."
The two walked to the control room. Lu Heng saw that several screens were on, and the area where he had just collected supplies was also within the surveillance range.
"Adjust the time to 6:00 AM on April 1, 2041. In about half an hour, the zombie virus will break out."
Lin Yu didn't say anything. He had seen the recorded time while watching the videos. It was indeed past 6:00 AM on April 1st when the base began to descend into chaos. Some scenes clearly captured the initial stages of humans being infected by the virus.
When the apocalypse happened, he and his roommates were still asleep and didn't know the exact time of the zombie virus outbreak. No one in the post-apocalyptic world ever mentioned it. It was only now that he understood.
The time was set back to the day of the virus outbreak, and Lu Heng patiently watched the replay of the scenes on the screens.
At 6:23 AM, one of the video feeds showed a soldier on guard duty at the entrance suddenly appearing to lose strength, falling against the wall behind him. As he slid to the ground, his body began to convulse.
Subsequently, several soldiers around him walked up to the fallen soldier, seemingly unaware of what had happened to him.
The view was blocked by the backs of several soldiers, and the condition of the fallen soldier could not be seen clearly for the moment. However, the soldier's lower leg, visible in the frame, was in a state of constant spasm.
At the same moment, in another location, two soldiers were driving an open-top off-road vehicle through a tunnel. The two, who had been chatting and laughing moments before, simultaneously began to convulse.
The vehicle gradually lost control. It seemed the transforming soldier straightened up, but his foot remained on the accelerator. The car suddenly sped forward and, with a bang, violently crashed into the tunnel wall.
In another scene, this time in the mountain forest outside, two teams of personnel appeared to be changing shifts. As both sides saluted each other, three people from both teams suddenly fell to the ground and began to convulse.
This outdoor shot was somewhat distant, likely placed at a high vantage point, so the viewable area was wide, but the specific details were not as clear as those from the indoor cameras.
A few minutes later, in several of the scenes with unusual activity, personnel began to stir.
In the scene with the indoor guard soldiers, two soldiers suddenly retreated backward, holding their guns defensively towards the person on the ground, shouting something continuously.
The soldier who had been convulsing moments before had stopped. He suddenly grabbed the neck of another soldier and began to bite ferociously.
In the frame, the biting soldier's eye was already gray and white. His exposed forehead was also pale and blue, with black veins showing beneath the bloodless skin. He looked completely transformed into a zombie.
He flipped over the soldier whose neck he was biting, landed on the ground, and began to devour his former comrade.
The soldier standing nearby with a gun, who had been watching, simultaneously opened fire, sweeping bullets towards the two on the ground.
After several bursts of gunfire, the zombie on the ground and the soldier who had just been bitten simultaneously stopped struggling. Lu Heng saw bullets penetrate their skulls.
It was likely a lucky shot. After all, people initially didn't know how to kill zombies, and the soldiers were specially trained, so their aim was still good.
On the other side, in the tunnel, it took a while for two zombies to stagger out of the jeep. It was likely because there were no living people around them. After getting out of the car, they stood by the vehicle for more than ten minutes without moving.
In the mountain forest outside, the situation was the most tragic.
The soldiers who had initially fallen and convulsed were mistaken for having sudden illnesses. Soldiers squatted beside them, pressing their limbs, seemingly trying to calm the convulsing individuals.
Others ran to a nearby vehicle, seemingly searching for something. Lu Heng guessed they were looking for emergency medicine.
Another soldier stood in place, drew his walkie-talkie from his waist, and spoke into it continuously.
Just as everyone was orderly carrying out emergency procedures, the people on the ground who had convulsed had transformed into zombies. They simultaneously broke free from those restraining them and lunged towards the nearest targets.
After humans mutated into zombies, their physical strength became much greater than when they were alive, so they easily subdued their former comrades and began to tear at them indiscriminately.
After being bitten a few times, the soldiers who were being torn apart gradually lost their ability to resist, their bodies collapsing powerlessly to the ground.
The zombies, having already mutated, did not stop feeding just because the other party had died. When they first became zombies, their craving for human flesh and blood was particularly intense.
They seemed extremely hungry. One zombie grabbed the abdomen of a corpse, pulled out its intestines, and shoved them into its mouth.
Another zombie directly bit off the face of the corpse beneath it, instantly exposing the white bones of the face to the camera.
The soldiers who were startled and standing nearby, not caught by the zombies, watched the scene in horror.
The person who had been reporting the situation also lowered his walkie-talkie and stood stunned, staring at the scene before him.
A soldier who had just retrieved a first-aid kit and was returning stopped halfway, looking at the gruesome scene on the ground in terror, then turned and began to vomit.
After they had eaten their fill, which actually only took a minute or two, the mutated zombies were no longer satisfied with devouring corpses. They raised their pale faces, sniffed the air around them, seemingly smelling a more delicious scent.
A mutated zombie threw down the half-eaten corpse, opened its blood-filled mouth wide, and let out a roar towards the surroundings.
Immediately after, they rushed towards the nearest soldiers.