"The Shetou"

"Before the outbreak started, overland smuggling was never popular. To arrange for the passports, the fake tour buses, the contacts and protection on the other side all took a lot of money. Back then, the only two lucrative routes were into Thailand or Myanmar. Where I used to live, in Kashi, the only option was into the ex-Soviet republics. No one wanted to go there, and this is why I wasn't initially a shetou. I was an importer: raw opium, uncut diamonds, girls, boys, whatever was valuable from those primitive excuses for countries. The outbreak changed all that. Suddenly we were besieged with offers, and not just from the liudong renkou, but almost as you say, from the people on the up and up. I had urban officials, private farmers, and even low level government officials. These were people who had a lot to lose. They didn't care where they were going, they just needed to get out." (12)

World War Z - Max Brooks
Biotechnology and genetics

Max Brook changes the narrator yet again to a Tibetan native. He also uses the local language to give it some authenticity. This point of view is that of a kind of scummy, low life "snake head" who smuggled in whatever he could and whatever could make the most money. After the zombie outbreak, he began to get business from officials and people who had more to lose than your standard citizen. People wanted and needed to get out before the outbreak got too bad to leave. They were just trying to take preventative measures. They only thought of themselves though. Government officials abandoned their posts, and forgot all about the people they were supposed to protect. This shows how selfish humans are, and how they only look out for themselves at all costs. They don't care about other people in a time of crisis, they just care about themselves and their own safety in a situation.