A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 727: 1 person, 1 dog, 1 city

Three years ago, in 2009, a medical scientist in New York tried to modify the measles virus in order to develop a drug that could cure all cancers. The modified virus did cure cancer patients.

But before long, more than half of the 10,090 cured cancer patients began to show symptoms of rabies and began to attack others crazily. The people attacked by those people also contracted similar rabies.

Later, the "rabies virus" mutated further and became able to spread through the air and kill humans directly.

The medical scientist might not have thought that what she had created was not a good medicine to treat cancer, but a demonic virus that could destroy humanity.

After the virus broke out in New York, the US government completely blocked New York in an attempt to control the spread of the virus.

In order to find an antidote to the virus, Robert Neville, a military pathogen expert, voluntarily asked to stay in New York and was ready to do his best to develop an antidote.

But all this was obviously in vain. The mutated virus spread rapidly through air and contact, and soon spread completely.

After that, the virus spread to the whole world, and 90% of humans died directly from it.

The remaining 10% of humans have mostly become "rabies patients" who only know how to kill and kill. Only a very small number of humans are immune to the terrible virus.

Because these "rabies patients" hide during the day and come out at night, they are afraid of sunlight and may even be directly killed by the sun. Living normal people call these "rabies patients" night demons...

In the blink of an eye, three years have passed. The once prosperous metropolis of New York is now a ruin. The streets are full of abandoned vehicles, all kinds of weeds have grown on the wide asphalt roads, and the city center has become an area where animals can move freely.

Actually, those animals are much luckier than humans. They are not infected by the viruses in the air, which is why they can survive.

At this time, Robert Neville, the pathogenist who had voluntarily stayed in New York, had been living with his beloved dog Sam in the city of New York for three years.

During the three years, the man and the dog only went out to play in the sun, and the rest of the time they hid in a completely enclosed home, not daring to go out or make any noise.

Over the past three years, Robert Neville has received too much unfortunate news from news broadcasts. He only knows that the world has basically fallen, and he has no idea how many people like him are still alive.

Robert doesn't know why he is completely immune to the virus, but for the past three years, he has been using his own blood for experiments, trying to transfer his ability to be completely immune to the virus to others, but he has not been successful so far.

One man and one dog were guarding an empty city, unable to contact any humans from the outside world, and they didn't even know if there were any other normal people alive in the world. This went on for three years, and Robert's mental state had become a little abnormal.

In order to pass the time, Robert would drive through the city with his beloved dog every day, talk to the dummies in the stores, collect all kinds of useful supplies, pick corn in the cornfields in the wild, and look for prey to hunt.

There is one more thing Robert does almost every day, which is to go to the New York dock and send a signal to the outside world through the radio:

"I am Robert Neville, a survivor living in New York City. I am now broadcasting on all AM frequencies. I will be waiting at the South Street Pier in New York City at noon every day when the sun is at its highest. If any survivors hear this news, they can come here to find me.

I can provide food, I can provide shelter, I can provide a safe haven. If anyone can get this message, no matter who it is, you are not alone, please stay alive and come to me..."

On this day, Robert Neville finished his broadcast as usual, then went to the abandoned aircraft carrier docked at South Street Pier, climbed onto the wing of an airplane, and started one of his favorite sports, playing golf.

Robert twisted his waist and swung the club, hitting a golf ball far away. He looked back at his beloved dog Sam and said, "Hey, Sam, look, my golf skills have improved again."

At this time, the German Shepherd Sam did not look at his owner, but raised his head and looked in a certain direction in the distance, as if he had discovered something.

Robert looked in the direction Sam was going, but before he could see anything clearly, he heard the roar of a motorcycle.

After hearing the voice, Robert couldn't wait to pick up the M4 assault rifle with a scope placed beside him, raised the rifle, and looked into the distance using the scope on the gun.

Soon, a motorcycle appeared on the street in the distance and sped towards this side along the edge of the street.

Through the telescope, Robert discovered that it was a young face wearing combat uniform and carrying a backpack, and it was an oriental face.

Seeing that the person coming was indeed a normal human being, Robert immediately became excited. He couldn't remember how long it had been since he had seen a normal person. Now he finally met a fellow human being. He didn't care whether the other person was an Oriental or a Westerner. He immediately greeted the other person from a distance.

“Hey, I’m here!”

The motorcyclist seemed to have seen Robert as well. He rode his motorcycle straight to the dock, then parked the motorcycle steadily at the dock. He took a rifle from his back and looked at Robert who was coming down the escalator from the aircraft carrier.

"Was it you who made the broadcast? Are you Robert Neville?"

"Yes, that's right, it's me. I'm Robert Neville, welcome to New York!"

"Hello, I'm Lu Cheng."

"Are you Chinese?"

"That's right. Since I came to the United States three years ago, I have never been able to return to my hometown. I have been hiding and trying to survive for the past three years. I received your broadcast not long ago and came all the way here. I didn't expect to find you."

"That's great. I haven't seen other humans in a long time. If you hadn't appeared, I would have thought I was the only one left in the world. Let me introduce you, this is my friend, Sam."

As he spoke, Robert turned to look at his beloved dog, only to find that Sam was circling around Lu Cheng, wagging his tail non-stop, and seemed very happy.

"Sam, you're excited to meet new friends too, right?"

Lu Cheng also greeted the dog: "Hello, Sam."

Then, Lu Cheng looked at Robert Neville in front of him. He was quite familiar with this face. He had seen many movies he acted in, such as "Men in Black", "I, Robot", "The Pursuit of Happyness" and so on.

Of course, this is a real world, with only pathogen expert Robert Neville and no Will Smith.

"Lu, welcome here. Would you like to have something to eat first? I have plenty of food, including fresh corn, bacon, whiskey, and brandy. I think we should celebrate our meeting.

By the way, can you tell me your story? I don’t mean anything special, it’s just that I haven’t talked to anyone for a long time, so I talk a lot at once.”

"It's okay. I feel the same way. Three years of wandering life is not a good memory..."

When Lu Cheng traveled through this world, the system did forge a rough identity for him, a Chinese student who was stranded in the United States because of the virus and had a rough survival experience of three years.

Afterwards, Robert took Lu Cheng back to his safe house...