Endless Road of Corpse - C61

At this time, everyone became interested as they started discussing all at once.

“Could the Zombie have been frozen to death? We’re still suffering! ” San Mao slapped his thigh and said.

San Tu stretched out his hand and said, “That’s impossible. We’ve just met a lot today.”

I remembered what San Tu said about opening the supermarket’s isolation door to lure Zombie into the museum. I sighed along with Monkey San Mao.

“According to the officials before the defense of the city, humans were infected with Solam Virus, which led to the transformation of the Zombie. Could it be that this virus is not very resistant to low temperatures, causing the Zombie to go indoors to avoid the cold?” Monkey’s guess was somewhat reasonable.

“There’s this possibility …” San Tu nodded his head, drank a mouthful of tea and continued: “Most of the bacterial viruses do not have a strong resistance to heat and cold, that’s why we get a fever.”

“That makes sense. It’s so cold this year, could it be that the heavens are helping us?” the monkey said again.

“Humph!” I sneered. “God? This disaster might even be caused by the heavens! ”

“Let’s talk about this coldness …” I sipped my tea and continued. “Absolute temperature isn’t much colder than usual, and the thermometer is only minus seven or eight degrees Celsius, partly because we don’t have an air-conditioning heater, partly because we’re dirty, partly because we feel colder, and partly because there’s less human activity. All kinds of machines, cars, household appliances, they don’t turn, and the city gets colder without the heat island effect.”

“Uncle Chen Yuan, where did this zombie come from?” Suddenly, Little Casey’s childish voice came from behind me. I turned my head to see that it was either the fire or our conversation, which attracted the attention of the two ladies.

Little Casey was with his three big brothers and sisters, and both her expression and eyes seemed to become lively, as if she had regained her innocence in an instant. The two girls even recombed her hair and braided two of her braids, making her look even more adorable.

“This …” I thought about what happened at the military base in the valley. After a moment of silence, I sighed and said, “Uncle doesn’t know either.”

“Oh …” Casey responded with disappointment. After that, he lowered his head and went silent for a moment, and then muttered in a very soft voice: “Are they still going to get better?”

At that time, she was locked in a classroom with a few other children, and the door to the classroom was securely locked. It should have been because the adults knew that they had been bitten, that’s why they shut them up in order to protect their children, and only after we cleaned up the Zombie howling outside the classroom, did we open the door and find the dying Little Casey, while the other children had all died, and Little Casey had to rely on eating herself and other people’s excrement to survive.

I can’t imagine how a ten-year old child managed to survive those few days, eating up the food bit by bit while watching his companions die one by one. I watched helplessly as my parents transformed into terrifying Zombie s that hovered outside the window, moaning and howling …

I couldn’t help but hold onto Little Casey’s head, and quietly hugged him. Everyone became silent. They knew that they could not use lies to comfort her. In this cruel world, they could only let her learn to be strong and grow up.

Little Casey seemed to know the answer to her own question, she stayed silent in my embrace for a while, her eyes reddened, but she forcibly stopped her tears, just that she wasn’t as lively as before.

“Cough, cough …” At this time, San Tu coughed lightly, as if he wanted to change the atmosphere. “Regarding this Zombie, when we colleagues saw that it was safe in the museum, we had made a few deductions — — Before the Zombie crisis, there must have been someone who knew about it, and had prepared a lot!

“Oh? “Why do you say that?” I was shocked, thinking that San Tu knew something, and immediately asked.

“Because before the crisis, many strange things happened in the whole world. Now that I think about it, it seems that all of them were closely linked to the Zombie’s crisis.”

First place …” San Tu counted on his fingers as he spoke, “The international oil price has plummeted! In just a short year or two, he had fallen from over a hundred dollars to over forty dollars a barrel! “In an era where fossil energy is drying up but consumption of fossil fuels is increasing rapidly, and with the crisis in Ukraine and the dispute in the South China Sea, this is unthinkable!

“Didn’t they say that this was caused by the development of shale oil technology in the United States?” I interrupted.

San Tu waved his hands and swallowed his saliva: “Think about it. If you were the one doing business, would you want your products to be good or cheap? There was no doubt that the higher the price, the better! “If a commodity has already been oversupplied in the market and prices are falling, wouldn’t it be a fool to increase your horsepower without caring about the cost of production?”

I couldn’t help but nod.

San Tu became even more excited, waved his hands and continued, “At that time, oil-producing countries were just such idiots. I remember OPEC coming out to clarify a few times that even if the price of oil fell this way, it would not reduce the production of crude oil. “At that time, our country was also buying in bulk. If the oil depots couldn’t be filled, we would use the gigantic oil tankers as warehouses and park the entire ship at the dock!”

“I can only say that at that time, the upper echelons must have found out something, and hoarded a large amount of crude oil, just in case they needed it!”

“Second… Do you still remember our stock? ” San Tu smacked his lips as he looked at me.

“Remember, it rose to over 7,000 points and then plummeted to 2,000 points!” I nodded. “I lost quite a bit.”

“That’s it!” San Tu shouted excitedly, “Actually, it is not only our country, but all the major economies in the world experienced strange economic fluctuations at that time. For example, Japan, the yen experienced the biggest drop since the 1985 Plaza Accord; The United States is slightly better, but their Nasdaq also mysteriously plummeted, falling by more than 50%! ”

“All these happened within two to three years before the outbreak of the Zombie’s crisis. Why? Because the upper management needs a large amount of funds! ” San Tu answered his own question: “The stock market and foreign exchange market, are always the fastest ways to raise funds. To fall from 7,000 to 2,000 points, how much of the ordinary citizens’ hard-earned money would have to be evaporated? Where did all this money end up? ”

“Third… This is even more bizarre. ” San Tu pulled out another finger, and this time he lowered his voice, as if he was afraid that someone would hear him. He whispered a question that did not seem to fit in with the conversation at this point in time, “Do you know Dominique Kahn?”