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Hidden Survivors
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00:04Oh my god! Something's wrong at Pinnacle Hospital! There are police and doctors everywhere!
00:09Is there a confirmed case?
00:16Emily, I was just about to reply to you, but the post vanished. I didn't delete it.
00:19I don't know if it's a confirmed case, but there are special police. It's terrifying.
00:22Is your lease almost up? Do you want to renew it?
00:26Emily, graduation season is coming up soon and apartments will be in short supply.
00:30Decide quickly if you want to renew and I can give you a discount.
00:54The city will be locked down at 8am tomorrow. Get out if you can. Stock up on supplies until your
00:59place is full.
01:09There's an emergency at home. I need to take leave.
01:11Okay, Emily, go on home. Take a week off.
01:20Dad, drive back to City Q right now. I'm coming home today.
01:24Honey, what's going on?
01:25I'll explain everything as soon as I get out of the car.
01:28Where are you now?
01:38Mom, send me the address of our new place. Leave work now. I'll be home this afternoon.
02:01Miss, are you sure you want this much stuff?
02:03Positive. Please deliver it as soon as possible. Thank you.
02:11What was wrong with that biter in the video?
02:14A huge metropolis with tens of millions of people, a major transportation hubbit, locking down just like that?
02:20Why run away from the most important economic and cultural center unless it's already out of control?
02:25What is happening to this world?
02:33What's wrong, honey? What happened?
02:35Sweetie, does this have something to do with you coming home suddenly?
02:38I don't know exactly what's going on, but I know it's serious.
02:41The city is locking down at 8am tomorrow.
02:43Someone warned me to leave right away and stock up on supplies.
02:46I'm so scared. Please believe me, Mom and Dad.
02:48We really need to buy enough to last at least a year.
02:50Don't be afraid. Mom and Dad have your back, always.
02:53Who would we trust if not you?
02:56Stocking up, right?
02:57Don't wait for my cooking today.
02:59I'm heading to the wholesale market first.
03:01Send me the list of what you ordered, baby.
03:02I'll check what you're missing and fill in the gaps.
03:09Our family will be fine. Stop panicking.
03:12Pack your things properly and head to the airport.
03:14I already placed an order for a batch of supplies.
03:16To avoid drawing attention, I had them delivered to the B1 parking garage around 8pm.
03:20When you could be upstairs, be careful not to run into anyone.
03:22Okay, don't worry, sweetie.
03:23Mom will never let anything happen to you.
03:48I don't know.
04:13I don't know.
04:33I have to face it.
04:34This is already the last train to the airport.
04:56It's passable now.
05:14Hi, Mom. It's me.
05:16Honey, Mom's busy here.
05:17I just ordered 200 pounds of pork, 100 pounds of beans, 100 pounds of lamb, four whole chickens.
05:21Still need chicken wings and drum hocks.
05:23Is there anything else you want?
05:24Mom, you're incredible.
05:26Listen, remember to buy a solar generator, batteries, and a few more refrigerators.
05:31I'll search for the rest.
05:39Attention all passengers bound for city queue.
05:43This flight is about to depart.
05:51Hold on.
05:52If I throw up now, everyone will notice.
06:02I don't know.
06:04I don't know.
06:33Honey, we can't go home yet.
06:35We need to finish buying everything first.
06:37Starting tomorrow, we won't go out at all.
06:45We're out of stock.
06:46Installation can't be done for three days.
06:48What if we pay extra?
06:50I'll head over to your place and install them right now.
07:05Mom, when will you be back?
07:07My girl's calling.
07:08I'll head home now.
07:09I couldn't bargain down the price for these clothes.
07:12I'll check the underground market tomorrow.
07:14Oh my God.
07:15Fine.
07:16You win.
07:16Take it at this price.
07:17Mom, when will the meat and solar generators you bought be delivered?
07:20The wholesale market will deliver the meat pre-stored in refrigerators.
07:23The fridge shop and meat vendor are run by the same family.
07:25The solar generators have already arrived.
07:27I had them left outside room 1502.
07:29That apartment's unfinished.
07:30No one will notice.
07:31I stash the rest in the 24th stair hill.
07:33Hardly anyone climbs that high and no one lives above the 20th floor.
07:44Mineral water, toilet rolls, self-heating hot pots, lime storage barrels,
07:49rainwater collectors, rubbing alcohol, everything's here.
07:52I все.
07:54I had to Bonjour.
08:07Jokela Xiaogans,keltra.
08:07I am a refrigerator and my apologize.
08:07Let's go.
08:08Switch into血is.
08:10Listen, let's move.
08:11At work there.
08:12this year?
08:13Yes,-
08:13Mr. Sкаезж, I'm sorry.
08:14первый millimeter…
08:37I'm keeping the four hens on the enclosed balcony off the kitchen.
08:41Soundproof cotton has been installed everywhere, so no clacking can be heard outside.
08:59What was that?
09:08Oh, my God.
09:47Movies are just movies.
09:48I can't judge these creatures downstairs based on fictitional stories.
09:52The person who was brutally attacked this morning has now turned into one of them.
09:56Judging from this, the virus spreads through saliva and blood.
09:58Right now, these zombies seem mindless, wandering aimlessly in circles.
10:02After that sick man vomited earlier, they were drawn to the smell and swarmed around Building 10 where he lives.
10:08That means they hunt relying on hearing and smell.
10:12Honey, let's get some sleep.
10:14We were completely worn out last night.
10:19What's happening?
10:20It's so dark.
10:22Damn it.
10:23The stench of rotten iron is thick enough to choke on.
10:28I remember these eyes.
10:30I saw them at the airport in City B one day ago.
10:34Sweetie, you're having a nightmare.
10:36Wake up.
10:40You have a fever, baby.
10:42Take this medicine and you'll feel better.
10:54The number of zombies between Building 10 and Building 12 hasn't changed.
10:59Still 11.
10:59It means there are likely no new infected in our community.
11:04I have no idea what sustains them.
11:07They seem to need no food or energy besides human flesh.
11:11Stray cats in the yard hold no interest for them.
11:14They fear no daylight.
11:16And will lunge and bite and blindly at any sound.
11:20Proving their hearing is extremely sharp.
11:29Dad, come quick!
11:38Dad, should we help him?
11:45Help might come for us soon.
11:48I think we can give him something.
11:51Just not too much.
11:53That makes sense.
11:56Two packs of compressed biscuits and two chocolate bars.
12:02But how?
12:03The distance between our building and Building 14 is nearly 50 meters.
12:07We can't throw it that far.
12:09There's no way we'd risk our lives to deliver it.
12:25We can't throw it that far.
12:29We can't get this far.
12:33But how do we help our computers?
12:35We can't do that.
12:35We can't throw it that far.
12:50Can someone get this besouks?
13:02Oh, my God.
13:04It's horrifying.
13:18Sweetie, what's wrong?
13:19Mom, Dad, that man downstairs, he's the one from apartment 1602, building 14.
13:24The neighbor gave him two packs of instant noodles today.
13:27So the victim was that kind Linju.
13:29They made it in first down, lame, or supplies.
13:31We might have been the ones killed tonight.
13:33In this world, even kindness can get you killed.
13:37All right. Honey, go back to your room and rest.
13:41Margaret, you take over the night watch.
13:43I'll reinforce our fire north, our fire door, with extra defenses.
13:49Shit! Shit! Shit!
13:58Who says being trapped indoors means we're just waiting to die?
14:17Damn you.
14:18Just you wait.
14:19I'll make you pay.
14:31The dying woman's last words played in my mind.
14:34She mouthed one thing to me.
14:37Run.
14:53You hear me? You hear me?
15:08You hear me?
15:54You hear me?
15:56Of course.
15:57I'm not reckless.
15:59I'd never gamble with my own life.
16:00Deep down, I knew the plan was full of flaws.
16:02If the zombies had caught me before I got in the elevator,
16:05or if that man downstairs had noticed the changing floor numbers and grown suspicious,
16:08I would be dead a hundred times over.
16:10My plan came with high rewards, but equally high risks.
16:13That was why I never let my parents get involved.
16:15Do you think your father and I are weak, hiding behind you, waiting to be protected?
16:21Watching your child take dangerous risks just to keep the family safe is the cruelest thing a parent can endure.
16:25Have you ever thought?
16:26Two people begged for supplies that day.
16:28Where is the other one?
16:29Could he be hiding on the 14th floor, waiting to ambush you?
16:33I... I never considered that.
16:36Baby, beyond being your family, you need to learn to trust and cooperate with others.
16:42We are not burdens.
16:44We survive this together.
16:52Thirteen people went out to search for supplies, but only five actually made it back.
16:57A severe two-day rainstorm hit one night in September.
17:01It completely submerged the first floor and put the second floor in imminent danger.
17:08Will the buildings collapse after being soaked in rainwater for so long?
17:12It's unlikely.
17:14Flooding mostly shortens a building's lifespan, not bring it down at once.
17:17Flooding mostly shortens a building's lifespan.
17:17Do you think you're weak?
17:18D §§
17:23D §§
17:25D §§
17:52I can't help
17:53feel like the zombies
17:55are watching them.
17:57The supplies they brought back
17:58this only enough for one person
17:59to survive three days.
18:01I reckon they'll have to go out
18:02for more.
18:03But I heard the streets
18:04are flooded with them.
18:38Damn it.
18:40The thick, sickening stench
18:41of blood hangs in the air
18:43and I feel like I'm drowning in it.
18:49Oh my god!
18:50It's an intelligent variant!
18:52The zombies downstairs have evolved
18:54and they've spawned a leader!
18:55This is terrible.
18:57Will we even survive?
18:58Don't be afraid, my love.
18:59As long as we stay together as a family,
19:01we'll get through anything.
19:02Based on everything I observed,
19:03I've categorized them as stage one,
19:04stage two, and stage three.
19:06Stage one zombies are the mindless ones
19:07from the early days of the apocalypse.
19:09Stage two are the evolved ones
19:10that hunted the survivors today.
19:12Enhanced physical ability
19:13with basic primitive intelligence.
19:15Stage three are the intelligent overlords
19:17that can command the horde,
19:18even capable of showing primitive emotion.
19:20Evolution is only accelerating.
19:22If we don't stop them soon,
19:23there will surely be stage four,
19:25stage five, and beyond.
19:26This is catastrophic.
19:28We've lost all contact with the government.
19:29We have no idea what has become
19:31of the outside world.
19:31We held our breath until the last zombie
19:34left the neighborhood,
19:35finally able to relax.
19:37Yet overwhelming loneliness
19:38washed over me.
19:39The world had grown deathly quiet,
19:41leaving only the three of us alive.
19:43You've been down lately.
19:44Go tend to the plants to clear your head.
19:46It feels as if I'm nurturing
19:48the last hope for humanity.
19:50Some of the potatoes we stockpiled
19:52long ago have sprouted.
19:53I plant them alongside the new vegetables.
19:55I cut out the sprouting the buds,
19:57then bury them in soil-filled water bottles.
20:00Once leaves grow in,
20:01I dig up the rooted spruits
20:03and transplant them into large cardboard boxes,
20:06alongside the other healthy seedlings.
20:08I fertilize the crops every 20 days.
20:10I snip off all beading flowers
20:12to stop the plants
20:13for wasting nutrients and withering.
20:18Even on such a sacred holiday,
20:21we can only celebrate
20:22in the simplest, saddest way.
20:26How much longer must we endure
20:28this cursed world?
20:30I never cared for Christmas pudding.
20:32I wouldn't take a single bite last Christmas.
20:34This year is different, though.
20:36Every ingredient feels incredibly precious.
20:39It has been six months
20:41since the zombie outbreak,
20:42and we treasure every scrape of food
20:44more than ever before.
21:11I have a bad feeling.
21:14The zombies are evolving again.
21:19With explosions this massive,
21:22could the military have arrived?
21:45It seems cruelty has become their pastime
21:48in this broken world.
21:49With their endless looting,
21:50the last traces of ordinary survivors
21:51in this community are being erased.
21:53My fingers go numb.
21:54I barely have time to mourn the dead.
21:56At this rate,
21:57we'll be next by tomorrow.
21:58Once they find the locked stair hall door,
22:00there will be no way out for us.
22:05To stay hidden,
22:06we can only survive
22:07on compressed biscuits today.
22:09No fireplace,
22:10no fire at all.
22:11The outsiders
22:11clearly know how to fight the undead.
22:13They carry no fear,
22:15living carefree in the apocalypse.
22:16Compared their recklessness,
22:18our small family is trapped
22:19in heavy, suffocating dread.
22:21I run through every possible plan
22:22in my head,
22:22yet none seem enough
22:23to keep us safe.
22:24I refuse to die like this.
22:33Stay safe, sweetie.
22:35I will, Dad.
22:36I will, Dad.
23:18Thank goodness.
23:19It still works.
23:34It only has a flight time
23:35of 23 minutes.
23:36We have to turn back
23:37after 7 kilometers.
23:50The zombie horde didn't come.
23:53My plan failed.
23:54It's all right.
23:55We'll figure out another way.
23:56I'd hope the noise from the drone
23:57would lure the evolved zombies
23:59from the city center
23:59into our community.
24:00They would fight the intruders,
24:01buying us time
24:02to find a way to survive.
24:03But I drew nothing.
24:04Every one of my guesses was wrong.
24:05The drone needs 4 hours
24:06to fully charge.
24:07We can't fly it again
24:08until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
24:09By then,
24:10the intruders will have started
24:11searching the buildings.
24:12It will be too late.
24:21What I feared
24:23has finally come.
24:30Honey, your nose is bleeding.
24:40Have some chocolate.
24:42Sweets are said to boost dopamine
24:43and calm you down.
24:49I'll try one last time.
24:51This is my final gamble.
24:54Our last struggle
24:54before everything ends.
25:23It seems the three of us
25:25are the last surviving people
25:26left in City Q.
25:34Just stay here forever.
25:53We're saved.
25:54We're saved.
26:37I still can't believe it.
26:39Are we truly safe now?
26:41The zombie outbreak
26:42was a global catastrophe
26:43and our nation
26:43was among the worst hit regions.
26:45The government has exhausted
26:46every resource
26:46on rescue and containment.
26:48Here in Q City,
26:48we have eliminated
26:49the last remaining undead.
26:50Only three major cities nationwide
26:52still await full clearance.
26:53We must accept the heavy consequences
26:55this disaster has left behind.
26:58Restoring public trust
26:59will not happen overnight.
27:00The explosions you heard
27:02in the night
27:02were part of Operation Pick You,
27:04a joint campaign
27:05between military
27:06and civilian task forces.
27:08Your drone drew no response
27:09from the undead
27:10for one simple reason.
27:11There were no zombies
27:12left in Q City.
27:14For half a year,
27:14this city has been nothing
27:15but an empty dead zone.
27:17Temporary safe havens
27:19have been established
27:19in every provincial capital.
27:21Most survivors
27:22have already been relocated there.
27:24Your community lies
27:25far from the city center
27:26and was newly developed,
27:27so rescue notifications
27:28were delayed.
27:29Thermal scans
27:29from military drones
27:30mark this area
27:31as completely uninhabitated.
27:33We are so sorry.
27:37None of this is your fault.
27:39Your drone's low-altitude patrols
27:40caught our attention long ago.
27:42We spotted the shaky
27:43blood-written SOS today.
27:45We hesitated,
27:46uncertain if it was
27:47a genuine plea
27:47or an enemy trap.
27:48Refusing to abandon
27:49any chance of saving lives,
27:51we tracked the drone
27:52back to this complex
27:53and waited for the right moment.
27:54I trust you.
27:56I trust it's our country.
28:02Come in.
28:04Warm up with a cup
28:05of hot cocoa.
28:08They never imagined
28:10anyone could have survived
28:11hidden inside this community.
28:14One vicious-looking man
28:15fixed me with a cold,
28:16vengeful glare.
28:19He may have been
28:20plot-rotting retaliation,
28:21but none of it
28:22mattered anymore.
28:34I hope it heals soon.
28:36Just like all of humanity.
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