《美国末日》英文ppt.pptx

;In 2013, Joel is a single father living near?Austin, Texas, with his twelve-year-old daughter Sarah. On the night of his birthday, an outbreak of a mutant?Cordyceps fungus ravages the United States, transforming its human hosts into?cannibalistic monsters;As Joel, his brother Tommy , and Sarah flee the chaos, Sarah is shot by a soldier and dies in Joels arms.;In the twenty years that follow, most of civilization is destroyed by the infection. Survivors live in heavily policed quarantine zones, independent settlements and nomadic groups. ;Joel works as a smuggler with his partner Tess in the Boston quarantine zone. They hunt down Robert , a black market dealer, to recover a stolen weapons cache. Before Tess kills him, Robert reveals that he traded the goods to the Fireflies, a rebel group opposing the quarantine zone authorities.;The leader of the Fireflies, Marlene, promises to double their stolen cache in return for smuggling a teenage girl,?Ellie, to Fireflies hiding outside of the quarantine. Joel, Tess, and Ellie sneak out in the night, but after an encounter with a patrol, they discover Ellie is infected. Full infection normally occurs in under two days, but Ellie claims she was infected three weeks ago and that her immunity may lead to a cure. ;The trio make their way to their destination through hordes of infected, but find that the Fireflies there have been killed. Tess reveals she has been bitten by an infected; believing in Ellies importance, Tess sacrifices herself against pursuing soldiers so Joel and Ellie can escape.;Joel decides to find Tommy, a former Firefly, in the hope that he can locate the remaining Fireflies. With the help of Bill, a smuggler who owes Joel a favor, they acquire a working vehicle.;They ally with two brothers, Henry and Sam; after they escape the city, Sam is bitten by an infected but hides it from the group. As his infection takes hold, Sam attacks Ellie, but Henry shoots him and then commits suicide out of grief.;In the fall,