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Chapter 8 - A matter of life and death

Lan Ye turned his head and saw that the door had opened from outside at this time, and a group of cannibal demons began to slowly enter.

The few people standing on the gate were immediately affected and were grabbed by countless dry and rotten hands and pressed to the ground. They were even drowned before they had time to scream.

Lan Ye was shocked and noticed the machine that was still smoking on the wall next to him, that is control system for electronic door locks, and Lan Ye felt something bad would happen.

The bullet that just flew in happened to break the control system. Without electronic door locks, the door cannot be locked and no longer can stop the terrifying monsters outside.

The crowd panicked again and began to flee desperately, screaming for help and cursing. Some hid in the nearby wards, while others were knocked down and trampled by the crowd. Sticky blood flowed everywhere.

Without time to hesitate, Lan Ye grabbed the baton on the ground and quickly ran to Gao Weijun's side. He looked down at his injuries. Fortunately, he was still breathing. Lan Ye handed the baton to a doctor next to him and shouted:

"Come help!"

Doctor Shangguan reacted immediately. She came up and lifted Gao Weijun's legs, and Lan Ye grabbed his shoulders with both hands from below and lifted them up.

The two of them lifted Gao Weijun up together, but they were shaky and very strenuous.

"Come here, quick!"

Mu Han shouted anxiously to Lan Ye at the door of Ward 308. That was the nearest room to them, and there was no other choice at the moment.

Lan Ye and Dr. Shangguan carried Gao Weijun and stumbled all the way to the door of the ward. Mu Han hurriedly made way for the door, and Lan Ye and the others dodged and hid inside.

A male doctor behind him waved a baton desperately, helping Lan Ye and the others to fight off several monsters that surrounded them, and then turned around and ran in. Mu Han at the door quickly slammed the door shut.

Just after locking the door, there was a violent banging sound outside the door. Something knocks on the door heavily, making a crazy roar like a beast.

Mu Han was startled and took several steps back, but he tripped over something and fell to the ground.

Lan Ye and the others looked at the things on the ground. Lan Ye was so scared that he broke out in cold sweat and his hair stood up.

There was a body on the ground, the nurse who was bitten to death by the terrifying woman.

She was lying on the ground at this moment, her white nurse uniform was stained with dazzling blood, her face was covered with blood, and the broken blood vessels and swollen muscles on her neck were exposed to the air.

Her eyes were wide open, full of infinite fear and nostalgia for this world.

Lan Ye and the others who ran away in fear were not much better, they collapsed on the ground and gasped.

Lan Ye turned his head to look at Gao Weijun on the ground. He was already in a coma, with blood gushing out from the wound in his abdomen, and his face was terribly pale.

The male doctor returned the baton to Lan Ye and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up and lift him to the bed. We have to stop the bleeding!"

As he said that, he began to search through the boxes and cabinets for medical supplies.

Lan Ye and Doctor Shangguan hurriedly lifted the unconscious Gao Weijun to the bed. Mu Han pushed the cart at the door over, which had some useful medicines and equipment.

The male doctor first wiped the blood around the wound with an alcohol cotton ball and disinfected it. He looked at the wound carefully and breathed a sigh of relief:

"Fortunately, it was a penetrating wound, and the bullet didn't stay inside."

Lan Ye glanced at the ID card hanging on his chest: Cao Minde, deputy chief physician.

Lan Ye watched him stop bleeding and disinfect with ease. Even though there were screams outside, he remained calm. He couldn't help but sigh that the director was the director. This was called professionalism.

Standing aside, Lan Ye felt that he couldn't help much, so he could only pick up the baton and stand aside to guard nervously.

The chaos outside continued, and from time to time someone made miserable shouts, helpless roars, and desperate wails before dying.

There were sporadic gunshots downstairs, mixed with countless low and hoarse roars like beasts, revealing bloodthirsty madness.

Lan Ye looked around the ward with the baton. There were 3 beds in the ward. Bed No. 16 near the door and the surrounding ground were splattered with large patches of black and red blood, which had dried up a little. The patient should be the terrifying woman who had been shot in the head outside.

The patient in bed No. 17 in the middle went to get hyperbaric oxygen in the morning and was not in the ward, so the space was vacated for Gao Weijun.

The curtain of bed No. 18, which was at the innermost and closest to the window, was drawn, so the situation inside could not be seen clearly.

At this moment, the TV on the wall made a rustling sound, and then the screen flashed, and the host's serious voice came:

"Attention, citizens, we are now interrupting an emergency notice. There have been many violent injuries in the city, which are suspected to be related to the recent virus. The infected people are slow-moving, their eyes are white, and they are extremely violent. There have been a certain scale of riots and bloody conflicts in the East District and the West District. People in the infected areas are requested to remain calm, stay at home as much as possible, close the doors and windows, stay away from the infected, and wait for rescue..."

"An unknown virus broke out in the West District Hospital, which has now become a severely affected area. The transmission route of the virus is not yet fully understood. At present, the hospital area has been completely blocked. The S War Zone issued an order that all combat units enter the first-level combat readiness state and will soon enter the urban area to maintain order."

"Now that many cities have entered a wartime state, the military will temporarily take over the city and implement military control. The infected urban area has been blocked. The relevant departments of various regional hospitals, public security bureaus, emergency management bureaus, disease control centers, etc. are on vacation. Employees cancel their vacations and return to their posts immediately..."

The hospital where Lan Ye and his friends were was the West District Hospital. At this moment, he was watching the broadcast on TV with great concern.

The TV was broadcasting the situation outside, and the picture was a live broadcast.

The smoke was filled with smoke, sirens were blaring, and on the messy streets, people were crying and running away. Policemen carrying shotguns and pistols fired continuously at the infected people who were staggering.

The bullets broke blood holes in their chests, and blood and flesh flew everywhere, but they only staggered for a moment, still surging forward like a tide.

"Ah!"

A low exclamation sounded from behind, and Lan Ye turned his head and saw Mu Han pointing at the door in horror.

Looking in the direction of her finger, Lan Ye felt his whole body stiffen, and a piercing chill rose from his spine.

The dead nurse at the door had climbed up from the pool of blood on the ground again at some point.

Her steps were shaky, her neck twisted and made strange crisp sounds, and she let out a series of low roars from her throat. Her pale pupils looked at Lan Ye and were full of desire for flesh and blood.

Her hideous face twisted, and the next second, she opened her bloody mouth and pounced on Lan Ye, who was closest to her.

The dead are resurrected!

Something so outrageous that it was enough to subvert the medical education Lan Ye had received in the past few years happened in front of him. The nurse who had been dead stood up again in a seemingly impossible situation.

Lan Ye suddenly recalled the so-called doomsday prophecy posted on the news social network last night:

When hell is overcrowded, the dead will return to the world.

Maybe the end of the world has really come, and the dead have been resurrected, although they seem to have no intelligence and cannot speak, like a monster that only eats flesh and blood.

Lan Ye looked at the corpse in front of him, which was walking on its own with its claws and teeth bared, and thought, So, what should we call these guys?

Living dead? Zombies? Ogres? Or something else?

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