BC Chapter 51

“I… I, I don’t know.” Lu Ziming, clearly flustered, started rambling incoherently. Standing beside the sofa, she looked like a child caught doing something wrong, her eyes darting around, not daring to look directly at Zhou Yuanyuan on the sofa.

However, Zhou Yuanyuan didn’t say anything. Her face flushed, she tugged at the clothes on her shoulder, covering the spot where Lu Ziming had bumped her. Then, she sat up, made some space for Lu Ziming, and patted the sofa, inviting her to sit.

Jiang Juncheng had already returned to her own room to rest. At this moment, only Lu Ziming and Zhou Yuanyuan were sitting on the sofa in the large basement living room, illuminated by a deep blue ambient light. The atmosphere was a bit heavy and strange.

Lu Ziming sat down on the sofa, leaving a space between herself and Zhou Yuanyuan, and awkwardly rubbed her hands.

“That…” Lu Ziming thought she should explain her behavior just now, otherwise, the little girl might misunderstand. But before she could speak, Zhou Yuanyuan interrupted her.

“You might be infected too.” Although this sentence seemed like a guess on the surface, Zhou Yuanyuan was now basically certain that she and Lu Ziming were both infected with the virus…

“…Huh?” Lu Ziming was completely dumbfounded. She immediately turned her head to look at Zhou Yuanyuan’s profile, letting out a questioning sound as if she couldn’t believe it.

So that’s why she felt Zhou Yuanyuan was so delicious just now? And almost bit her? Lu Ziming’s eyes were filled with shock, but after calming down, she realized it all made sense.

However… they had only seen the terrifying speed of super zombies, and hadn’t witnessed zombies cannibalizing each other, so Lu Ziming still couldn’t quite understand the situation. If Zhou Yuanyuan and she were both infected, why would she have the feeling of wanting to devour Zhou Yuanyuan like a delicious meal when facing another infected person? And Zhou Yuanyuan had been infected with the virus for many days, but hadn’t lost control to the point of wanting to eat people, nor had she directly mutated into a mindless, walking corpse-like zombie.

Could it be… that although they were both infected with the virus, they were infected with different mutated strains? Or, did the same virus mutate differently in their bodies?

Regardless of which it was, it indicated one thing: this virus didn’t have a 100% mortality rate or mutation rate.

Then, could it also mean that Zhou Yuanyuan and Lu Ziming still had a chance to return to normal? As long as they could hold on until the government’s rescue team came to rescue them, and until a virus-specific drug was developed…

In just a moment, Lu Ziming’s mind had already gone through several brainstorming sessions like a fast-calculating computer. Although Zhou Yuanyuan and she didn’t say anything else, they had both made the same guess in their hearts.

Perhaps it was because of the virus infection, but Lu Ziming felt her thinking was exceptionally clear, and her logical reasoning ability had made a leap forward.

She even immediately jumped to the logical conclusion that she might be locked in a laboratory and studied when she thought about waiting for the antidote.

She suddenly felt a headache. She just raised her hand to touch her forehead, but out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that Zhou Yuanyuan beside her was doing the same thing.

The two of them obviously noticed this peculiarity at this moment, and looked at each other in surprise.

“Laboratory?” Zhou Yuanyuan tentatively threw out three words.

“Being studied?” Lu Ziming almost subconsciously picked up Zhou Yuanyuan’s words.

In the next second, they both retreated in opposite directions, as if they were frightened.

What’s going on? Are they on the same wavelength? Could it be that infected people can sense each other’s thoughts? Or is it because their thinking speed and methods are so similar that they always think of the same thing?

“Too scary, right.”

“Too scary, right.” The two of them uttered this exclamation almost simultaneously…

…

The two of them quickly completed a discussion, and the theme of the discussion was whether to wait for rescue, or rather, whether to cooperate with those people to do the final research.

When we stand from the perspective of humans, any existence that may threaten the survival of mankind will be directly chosen to be eliminated by humans.

But after Lu Ziming and Zhou Yuanyuan became a minority, they discovered a truth in the world: the so-called principle of the minority obeying the majority is actually the most cunning principle formulated by humans.

This principle is actually bullying the minority, sacrificing the interests and even the lives of minority groups to fulfill the selfish judgments of the majority. Relying on their large numbers, they brazenly rebuke the existence and ideas of minority groups as wrong and in need of correction, even remaining righteous when they force people with different views onto the gallows.

It is clearly bullying the weak, but they insist on emphasizing that their choices and orientations are the so-called orthodox, repeatedly emphasizing that the compromising choices of most people are the so-called normal, but then accuse the parties of deceiving their superiors and subordinates and being two-faced when something goes wrong.

Are they wrong? Probably, they are wrong in that they want to live, want to live normally, want to live freely, and want to get rid of the feeling of being criticized behind their backs. They are wrong in that, in order to achieve this simple wish, they can only wear the so-called normal coat and play the role of people they don’t want to be.

Therefore, the final conclusion reached by the two is that they do not want to become undignified experimental subjects under the hands of those people. Therefore, they must disguise themselves, conceal themselves, and make them realize that they will not choose self-sacrifice for the so-called cause of benefiting mankind.

It’s like treating those ridiculous people who use the “great” excuse that the world and the country need population to objectify women as childbearing machines, repeatedly emphasizing the importance of childbirth to mankind, and believing that women who are unmarried and childless are the eternal sinners of mankind.

After all, women’s lives and lives are their own, not of the so-called family, country, world, or humanity. And those who are members of minorities and vulnerable groups are the same, their lives should not be trampled on at will, no matter how great the reason.

“Even if I die, I will not give in on this point.” Lu Ziming clasped her hands together, sat on the sofa beside her, her eyes firm, and muttered to herself decisively. Although she once lived as a normal human, she couldn’t do the cruel thing of attacking ordinary people who are still alive in the city. But if the other party ignores her and insists on coming forward, Lu Ziming doesn’t mind letting them understand what it means to court death.