Survive! Zombies are no match for Koi

Seven days before the end of the world, my bestie and I happened to stock up a large amount of supplies in advance, and we were very lucky to survive!

However, in the midst of chaos, are we really the lucky ones who are guarding a large amount of supplies?

Or, a piece of fat meat in the eyes of other survivors…

1. Countdown seven days

I’ve been super lucky since I was a child!

Really, you may not believe it.

I got into a key high school with just the passing line in the junior high school entrance exam, and attended a 985 university with just the passing line in the college entrance exam. After graduation, I got the offer with just the passing line.

Except the company laid off some employees a few days ago – I was laid off.

I went through the legal process and got a lot of money.

Just when I was planning to live a life of drunkenness and dreaming in my apartment, Lin Tang called me and asked me to go to her large apartment to live a life of drunkenness and dreaming in a different place.

As I agreed, I went to Taobao and ordered all kinds of snacks and fast food I liked, filling in Lin Tang’s address.

Being a programmer is really tiring, I need to take a break.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Lin Tang is my best friend and relative since childhood. My parents passed away early, and Lin Tang’s parents were my mother’s friends, so they took me in and raised me. They finally sent Lin Tang and me to college, but a car accident took their lives.

Lin Tang is a host who does unboxing shows. With hundreds of thousands of fans, Lin Tang is quite popular among manufacturers.

Lin Tang has a room filled with all kinds of snacks, a utility room full of daily necessities, and half of the living room full of rice, flour, grain and oil.

Lin Tang’s large flat is located in the suburbs. Even though she has made a good income as a host in recent years, after looking at
the housing prices in City A, she still resolutely bought a house here. The excellent view on the 23rd floor and the design of one elevator per household give people a sense of security and happiness!

After buying the house, Lin Tang cried poor for a while. It happened that I had received a lot of salary at that time, so I generously replaced Lin Tang’s doors with the highest grade and bulletproof windows.

Lin Tang is usually a broadcaster and has installed full soundproofing equipment in his home.

A few days ago, the solar panel manufacturer sent solar panels to Lin Tang, and I installed them for her.

When I came here, I went to Cainiao Station to pick up the express delivery for Lin Tang at her request.

The courier boy half-jokingly said, “This supports half of our post station’s business.”

Wow, there are more than twenty express deliveries. Luckily my car is an SUV, otherwise there would be no room for them.

I’m really lucky that Lin Tang usually works at home and I was fired, otherwise we might never see each other again in our lives.

2. Six-day countdown

I couldn’t sit still after getting away from my high-intensity work all of a sudden. While watching the videos of bloggers cooking at home on Xiaohongshu, I thought that I could do it too.

I simply dragged Lin Tang, who could stay at home for several months, to RT-Mart. The welfare benefits of my previous company were really good. During the holidays, there were rice, flour, grain, oil, supermarket shopping cards, electronic products, etc., which were distributed in large quantities. I moved all the rice, flour, grain, oil to Lin Tang’s place.

The kitchenware at RT-Mart seemed to be on sale. Although Lin Tang said he came with me, he actually bought more than anyone else.

Buy, buy, buy air fryers, and buy some chicken wings and other things later, and follow the tutorial to learn, so as not to bury my good cooking skills.

Buy, buy, buy small electric rice cookers. They are so convenient for cooking noodles. I might also buy some snail noodles or something later. I don’t remember how much I bought when I placed the order on Taobao yesterday. Buy more, more.

When I turned around to buy meat, I saw Lin Tang coming over with a cart of yogurt and mineral water.

The water quality in City A
is not good. The water is too hard, so most families store purified water. Take Lin Tang’s home for example. Lin Tang stored purified water in an entire study. Of course, the main reason was that Lin Tang was too lazy and simply asked the water delivery company to deliver more at one time.

“This yogurt is super delicious! I was amazed when the manufacturer sent it to me last time. I’m going to buy more. And this mineral water, it’s said to contain some minerals, oh, I don’t know, I’m going to buy more.”

I:”……”

It turned out that Lin Tang and I had amazing fighting power, and the cashier was smiling as happily as he could when we were checking out.

“Hello, here are two small medicine boxes and a coupon for a purified water plant. Do you need it delivered?”

“No, thank you.”

Since the end of the epidemic, the country has relaxed its control over medicines. Although it is called a small first aid box, there are quite a lot of medicines in it. When Lin Tang got in the car, he opened it and took a look. It can be said that there are all kinds of medicines.

The coupon for purified water is buy fifty barrels and get fifty barrels free. I thought about it and it seemed that the attic of Lin Tang’s house was empty, with nothing stored in it.

The good thing about buying a top floor is that it also comes with a small attic, which is basically a small loft.

“There are only a dozen buckets of water left at home. I might as well use the coupons to avoid running out of water every day.”

The purified water plant promised to deliver the water in about three hours, and I suddenly remembered the empty fish tank in Lin Tang’s house.

“Let’s go buy some fish. Otherwise your fish tank will be wasted.”

“You don’t know, these manufacturers are more bizarre than each other. How can I advertise for them if they send me a fish tank but no fish? They send me nutrient soil but no seeds, and ask me to plant myself in it? Someone even sent me a big box of ice cream before, so I had to buy a big freezer and put it in the study.”

Buying a freezer just for ice cream, you are worthy of being Lin Tang.

Now we buy all kinds of meat for the freezer, which is good and in line with the consumption concept of today’s young people.

To be honest, Lin Tang and I didn’t have the habit of hoarding vegetables at first. It was two years ago when Lin Tang came to visit me in the city center. The community was sealed off due to an outbreak of the epidemic. We stared at the refrigerator in a daze. By the time the volunteers delivered the vegetables, we had been drinking water for two days. Since then, we have developed the habit of hoarding vegetables. Now that technology has improved, we can just throw the vegetables we bought into the refrigerator. The preservation technology is really good.

Lin Tang and I obviously had no idea how much the freezer could hold. When we got home, the water delivery man had already arrived, huffing and puffing as he carried the water up: “Oh, RT-Mart and we are having a joint event recently, you don’t know how many people have ordered water in the past few days.”

“Hahahahahaha, mainly because these things have a long shelf life now.”

After the water delivery man finished delivering the water, I started to clean up the freezer. The big freezer was filled to the brim, and there was really no more ice cream. I saw the ice cream in the freezer, so I simply took it out. There were two large buckets, and Lin Tang and I each held a bucket, stuffing our mouths with cold air.

“It’s too cold. It’s too cold.”

“Eat it quickly, don’t waste it.”

3. Five-day countdown

The Nanchang mixed noodles and instant porridge I bought arrived. The weather was not very cold today. I looked at a lot of logistics messages on my phone and decided to pick up a batch of express deliveries today, otherwise I might not be able to pick up all of them tomorrow.

Just as I was about to go out, Lin Tang took off her mask in a hurry and said, “I’ll go with you. I just received ten packages.”

Facts have proved that lazy people have good fortune. Fortunately, I drove here. Wow, Lin Tang’s ten express deliveries were all large items.

Water purification tablets, mineral water, waffles… When I was sorting them, I also found a wall of sanitary napkins…

Is this the benefit of being an unboxing host with hundreds of thousands of fans?

In the next few days, except for going out to pick up the package, I stayed at home every day. Because the video membership was about to expire, I downloaded a USB
drive of TV series and variety shows in anger, which can be watched offline. No one can afford these apps!

After a few days of cleaning, I found that Lin Tang had a lot of stuff. Simply put, her supplies could support two people living at home for about five years, and this was taking into account that some things would expire.

4. Zombie Outbreak

I just finished making breakfast when the Cainiao Post Station sent me a message saying that a package had arrived. Lin Tang also had a package arrive, so we went out to get it after finishing our meals without putting away our bowls.

Today’s express deliveries are mainly some bread and miscellaneous items sent to Lin Tang by manufacturers. Although the Cainiao Station is just outside the community, Lin Tang and I are used to driving there, otherwise we would be exhausted after carrying the express deliveries back.

While driving, there was a man standing not far from Lin Tang’s parking space. He looked quite young and was wearing a windbreaker. He stood there motionless. When Lin Tang and I got in the car, he seemed to look in our direction and even staggered a few steps towards us.

“It shows that young people today still need to exercise. Look at that young man, he can’t even walk at such a young age.”

I agreed with him, and Lin Tang and I were excitedly discussing the talent show that was about to be aired. When the staff at the Cainiao Station was delivering the last package to Lin Tang, a fierce quarrel suddenly broke out in the steamed bun shop a few doors away. The guy stuffed the package into the car for us and went to watch the fun.

We had to pass by the bun shop on our way back to the community. I pulled Lin Tang, who was rushing forward, into the car: “What’s the matter? Do you want to come back and drive later?”

Little did I know that my action saved my life and Lin Tang’s life.

When I got in the car, I used my phone to reply to a few WeChat messages from my former colleagues before I took the key and prepared to drive. When the car started, the guy who had just watched the excitement suddenly ran back, followed by a few “people”. They walked strangely and were all covered in blood. As soon as the car started, the guy ran back to the post station and slammed the rolling door. The group of “people” still rushed forward, seemingly unaware of the pain. I was about to stop the car to take a look, but Lin Tang pulled me back, and I realized that Lin Tang’s face had changed.

“It’s a zombie!”

My expression changed as I spoke, for no other reason. At least a dozen “people” ran over from where the bun shop was just now. I hurriedly stepped on the accelerator and started rushing into the community. Fortunately, the automatic door of the community was very sensitive and did not let Lin Tang and I get stuck at the gate.

“Tangtang, climb into the back seat now and take the package. Get out as soon as I stop the car. We don’t have any self-defense equipment. If we run into that thing, the package can buy us some time.”

Lin Tang folded down the seat without saying a word and climbed into the back seat.

The person that Lin Tang and I met when we got on the car was indeed a zombie. It was still spinning in the same place. When it saw the car passing by, it looked at it blankly and then continued to spin in the same place.

Lin Tang had already taken out the access card and elevator card: “You can park directly at the door of the apartment building later! There is no time to be a law-abiding citizen.”

As soon as I parked the car, I put the keys in my pocket. Lin Tang hurriedly handed me a few express packages. The unit door was closed. It was daytime and very bright, so I could easily see that there was no one in the hall and no strange things. Lin Tang and I swiped open the unit door and ran straight to the elevator. As long as we got home, we would be safe.

We were very lucky. The one-elevator-per-unit design avoided almost all risks for Lin Tang and me. After we got home, we sat on the floor to catch our breath.

I don’t know how long it was, but Lin Tang and I jumped up as if suddenly awakened from a dream and checked all the doors and windows.

Lin Tang’s house is on the 23rd floor, which is already the tallest building in this suburban area. There is no need to worry about the safety of the doors and windows. The only thing to worry about is that someone knows that there are people in Lin Tang’s house. Lin Tang and I tacitly took out the thick curtains, which were sent by a manufacturer a few days ago. At that time, Lin Tang and I were too lazy to hang them, but now we have to hang them.

After hanging the curtains, Lin Tang and I moved a few buckets of water to the back of the door. Although we knew the door had enough security, we were still afraid.

The information on my phone has exploded. As soon as I open it, there are endless messages. Lin Tang and I are both veteran fans of the end of the world. Lin Tang found a folding bucket to collect water, and I hurried to wash the dishes while there was still water.

Lin Tang and I cleaned up the supplies at home. These were sent by manufacturers for advertising, and some were instant food I bought. The two of us cleaned up the food in the order of expiration. It seemed that as long as we were busy, we would not be afraid.

In the afternoon, Lin Tang and I mustered up the courage to open the curtains a little bit to look outside.

There are zombies wandering around the neighborhood, and I don’t know where they came from. The floor is so high that I can’t see if there is blood on the ground. I went to the other side window, and Lin Tang took out the telescope he had just packed, and he could easily see that the city had fallen.

On the muted TV, a flustered-looking expert spoke very quickly, saying that this was a catastrophe for all of humanity and the cause was still unclear. Residents were asked to wait for rescue and that the country would not abandon anyone.

I took two hand-torn breads and a bottle of milk for Lin Tang and me, so that we could at least have something to eat.

“You know what? I’m still scared. If we had chosen to go and watch the fun that morning, would we never have been able to come back?”

I really don’t want to think about this, because if I make the wrong choice, I really can’t afford the cost.

It was the first time I realized that the night in City A could be so empty and quiet. Under the warm yellow light of the solar street lamps, there were only zombies wandering around aimlessly. There were no speeding cars or noisy humans on the streets.

5. The second day of the zombie outbreak

Last night, Lin Tang and I just sat on the sofa staring at each other. I don’t know how I fell asleep. It must be that
the temperature in City A was too low at night. At three or four in the morning, Lin Tang woke up from the cold and pushed me up, and we went to the room to get the quilt.

Now that I think about it, from a certain perspective, Lin Tang and I were really courageous. We didn’t even think of arranging a duty shift or anything.

The number of zombies in the community has not increased or decreased. While Lin Tang and I were eating bread, I suddenly remembered that I had audited three years of architecture courses in college.

I went to Suzhou and was deeply influenced by I.M. Pei’s works, so I tried my best to audit the architecture courses during college. It was not until the second half of my junior year that the hunchbacked old professor was on the phone with the client and changed the architectural design drawings according to the client’s requirements. There was no artistic atmosphere at all, only vulgarity.

I remember that I angrily asked the professor why he didn’t stick to his principles. It was obvious that anyone who had studied architecture could see the beauty of the original drawing. The professor asked me if I could stick to my principles in everything I did in the future. I was so angry that I slammed the door and walked out, and never went to audit a class again.

Later I started working on my own.

When I thought of this, I suddenly wanted to cry. When this catastrophe is over, if the old professor is still alive, I must go to see him.

I suggested to Lin Tang that we build a dry toilet on the top floor while the zombies are not that serious. After all, it was only the second day and most people still had food stored at home. It would be difficult to build a toilet in a few days. Many people would come out to look for food. If they found Lin Tang and me, we would be in trouble.

It’s not that we don’t believe in the country, but from yesterday to now, there has been only one news report. There is no sign of anything like population registration or distribution of supplies.

Lin Tang took my hand and went to the top floor. He pointed at the dirt floor that took up almost half of the top floor and said, “This was built by the property management company when they were hosting a biodiversity conference. It was later abandoned.”

In this way, our physiological problems are solved.

In the afternoon, a celebrity on Weibo suddenly started a live broadcast, and the annual hot search package he bought instantly surpassed the emergency alert issued by the country and rushed to the top of the list.

During the live broadcast, a fairy with a chin that could kill someone cried like a pear blossom in the rain: “Wow, I’m so scared. My agent didn’t run away, and now I’m all alone. I’m now in the
×× community, No. 78, Nanxu Avenue, City B. Are there any fans here? Come and save me.”

Lin Tang and I ate potato chips while watching the little fairy crying: “How stupid.”

While we were watching the live broadcast, several drones suddenly flew around in the air without any announcement or distribution of supplies.

Lin Tang and I haven’t turned on the lights since yesterday. We haven’t cooked a meal in two days and have only been eating bread and milk.

We really are not in the mood to cook.

In the evening, the sound of square dancing suddenly came from somewhere. The sound was so loud that it attracted dozens of zombies. Only then did I see clearly that the source of the sound was the apartment building opposite.

The unit door was not closed, and soon the sound of a child crying was heard, but the sound of square dancing stopped.

The Chinese people are cohesive in their bones. In the community owners’ group, the family whose child’s crying was heard was asking for help, asking everyone to save them.

About a minute later, the sound of “The Most Exciting National Style” was heard from the neighboring apartment building. The sound was extremely penetrating and attracted many zombies over there at once.

“Don’t be afraid. No one lives below the tenth floor of our building, and we have sealed the emergency door.”

This seems to be the kindness engraved in the bones. Everyone always wants to help each other. Those difficulties will always pass and the hustle and bustle of the past will always return.

6. The third day of the zombie outbreak

Lin Tang was on guard last night. When I got up in the morning, I found that Lin Tang had planted the seeds that we bought. We bought them when we went to buy fish before.

There has been no power outage so far. From time to time, someone in the community group pops up to ask when rescue can arrive, and everyone tacitly agrees not to answer.

At noon, someone called for people to grow things at home, such as potatoes, which are extremely easy to mature and can fill the stomach. Someone immediately replied that they had no potatoes left at home.

When Lin Tang woke up in the afternoon, I had a small meeting with Lin Tang. Lin Tang said that there was an old lady living on the seventh floor of this building. The old lady’s husband died early and her daughter was far away abroad. In this society where neighborhood relations are indifferent, the old lady gave Lin Tang a lot of warmth across a distance of more than ten floors.

Since the zombie outbreak, the old lady has taken the initiative to send a message to Lin Tang, asking how Lin Tang is doing and whether he is safe at home.

Older people definitely have the habit of hoarding food, but the amount of food they hoard is definitely not as much as Lin Tang and I.

The old lady’s house is on a lower floor, and yesterday’s incident also alerted Lin Tang, so Lin Tang wanted to take the old lady in.

It wasn’t that she wanted to pick up the old lady for no reason, but the old lady was really nice to her.

After knowing that Lin Tang’s parents were gone, the old lady would give Lin Tang New Year’s money every year. She would make dumplings, buns, etc. and would always call Lin Tang over to get them.

The design of one elevator per household means that you are home as soon as you get out of the elevator, as long as you have the old lady’s elevator card.

Fortunately, Lin Tang really had it. The elevator card was given to Lin Tang by the old lady so that it would be convenient for Lin Tang to get free meals.

What we need to confirm now is the old lady’s safety.

Lin Tang received a reply to the message she sent to the old lady. The old lady said that she was safe and that there was enough food at home for at least a month, so we should not pick her up. The old lady also said that she had locked the fire door since she saw the family yesterday.

From this perspective, there is almost zero risk for us to pick up the old lady.

As veteran fans of the apocalypse, Lin Tang and I understand that if the army is also infected with the zombie virus, there will be an immediate water and power outage, as well as signal interruption, which would be a catastrophe for the old lady.

It’s winter now, and we were already wearing a lot of clothes. Lin Tang also took out a helmet and a mask. We each carried a kitchen knife and went out fully armed. Lin Tang took out the elevator card of the old lady’s house and told her to wait for our call before opening the door. Knocking on the door was not enough.

Sure enough, what the old lady said was right. When Lin Tang and I arrived at the seventh floor, we found that the old lady had locked the fire door with a big lock. Lin Tang called the old lady and she opened the door.

The old lady looked to be in her sixties and was in good spirits.

Lin Tang and I looked around, found a few large bags, and started packing everything the old lady could use at home. Through Lin Tang, I learned that the old lady used to be a Chinese medicine practitioner at the Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Among the things the old lady packed, there were many Chinese medicinal herbs, and even more than 30 barrels of drinking water at home!

Considering the load-bearing capacity of the elevator, we made seven or eight trips in total before we moved all the things that the old lady needed to the 23rd floor.

After Lin Tang and I finished moving our things, the old lady had already prepared dinner. Her cooking skills were much better than Lin Tang and I’s. I almost cried while eating this meal.

In the afternoon, Lin Tang cleaned up the room and covered the bed with crystal velvet and a thick quilt.

Lin Tang said, “Grandma, even though the weather is cold, we dare not turn on the air conditioner. It’s okay now, but I’m afraid that there will be no food at home in a few days…”

“You are doing the right thing. I don’t dare turn on the air conditioner when I am at home.”

7. The Seventh Day of the Zombie Outbreak

There is a power outage.

Lin Tang’s home uses solar panels, so he didn’t notice the power outage immediately. He only found out about it after seeing discussions in the community owners’ group.

When the old lady woke up in the morning, she found that the owners’ group was full of curses. In modern society, electricity and the Internet are particularly important, so the power outage was discovered the moment it happened.

Yesterday, Lin Tang was on night duty, so when I got up, Lin Tang was about to go to bed. The old lady was a great cook, and a bowl of white porridge with a plate of pickled vegetables from her home tasted really good. I was eating and chatting with the old lady, and suddenly we talked about not eating too much of this kind of pickled vegetables.

I asked, “Isn’t it possible to eat too much of this?”

Before the old lady answered, I suddenly heard a scream. The sound was very penetrating. I quickly ran to the window and opened a corner of the curtain. I saw a group of zombies rushing towards an apartment building. Due to the angle, I couldn’t see the whole process clearly, nor could I see which apartment building the zombies were going to.

Fortunately, there are always people in the owner group who are not afraid of death. Even at this time, they still remember to record videos one by one. The voice coming out of the video sounds like that of a middle-aged man.

“It’s the apartment building across from me. I heard a child crying last night. You may not have heard it because you were far away.”

From the video that person sent, you can clearly see groups of zombies walking inside. I don’t know which bastard went out to find food and didn’t close the unit door, and I don’t know which bastard opened the fire door. The group of zombies slowly climbed up, and what happened next was unclear.

After a few minutes, someone in the owner group finally responded.

“Damn it, I live in that building. There’s an idiot on the third floor, a family of four, a couple with an old lady. The kid is spoiled to death by them. He has to be given whatever he wants every day. He cuts his wrists if he doesn’t agree with them. How can adults really let him cut his wrists? Of course not. Last night, the kid was clamoring for pineapple and went door to door asking. Don’t you see what day it is? As a result, the kid ran away this morning and the old lady started to cry. I’m really speechless. Fortunately, my house is on a high floor, otherwise I would have to be buried with them.”

Before the end of the world, most people would stay away from such naughty kids and avoid provoking them if possible. Perhaps because of this, these naughty kids don’t know enough about the end of the world. They always think that everything will be the same as before, and they can just cry and make a fuss and everything will be fine.

The stockpiled goods of an ordinary family may be able to sustain for half a month, but in the event of a power outage, how long can the stock at home last?

Sure enough, in the afternoon, I saw three girls running out of some building, each holding a knife and a stick in their hands. Their short hair looked like it had been cut temporarily, and it was messy even from a distance.

These girls were extremely careful, but their luck was not good. They ran into zombies just after they ran out of the residential building. When the girl walking at the end was closing the door of the apartment building, a zombie ran out from nowhere. Fortunately, the blond girl had been guarding beside her and immediately stepped forward to fight with the zombie. The red-haired girl who was running in front also turned around and slashed at the zombie, then looked around vigilantly and confirmed that the door of the apartment building was locked before continuing to walk to the gate of the community.

The purpose of locking the door is to prevent zombies from entering the apartment building. This is a guarantee for their safe return, and it also adds a layer of protection for the residents in the apartment building. At the very least, these girls have a sense of public morality.

There was a power outage, and the sensor door at the door naturally lost its function. I don’t know what happened to those girls later.

Ever since the old lady came, Lin Tang and I don’t have to do anything with growing vegetables. If we are really bored and want to water the plants, the old lady will chase us aside and tell us not to make things worse.

The temperature seems to be getting lower and lower these days. Lin Tang’s family does not have a temperature measuring device, so we judge the temperature based entirely on our physical sensation.

The old lady also said that it was probably going to snow.

Once it snows, the difficulty of human survival will increase again. When hunger and cold come together, it will be even more unbearable.

At 4 or 5 o’clock, Lin Tang just woke up. When I was on guard, I saw a car driving in. It was a common family car. I saw the car parked at the door of the apartment building where the three girls went out. The blond girl who got out of the back seat looked around, and then the other two got out of the car. Then they opened the door and entered the apartment building with a lot of supplies.

Three people go out and three people come back, which is extremely precious in this doomsday.

Lin Tang looked at it for a while with his messy hair, and said with emotion: “If it were me, I would probably starve to death at home and dare not go out.”

When she watched zombie movies with Lin Tang, she screamed the loudest but was the least courageous. She often covered her face with her hands, with her eyes showing through her fingers. When she saw a zombie coming out, she closed her eyes and started screaming. After watching a zombie movie, she didn’t even dare to go to the underground parking lot, for fear that a zombie would suddenly appear.

After a long time, she would ask me to watch zombie movies together, and the cycle would repeat itself.

On the ninth day of the apocalypse, the Internet was disconnected.

This was discovered by Lin Tang. The community owner group, which had been unusually active since the zombie outbreak, had been silent for the entire morning. Lin Tang found the file transfer assistant and sent a punctuation mark. The message box kept spinning in circles and finally showed that the message failed to be sent.

In the past few days, people often run out of the community. Some of them come back with a lot of harvests, but some are never seen again.

We haven’t left the house since we picked up the old lady, and we don’t know what the situation is like outside. However, the delay in rescue seems to imply that we have reached the end of the world. Otherwise, how could the country have not provided rescue for so long?

In the afternoon, the sky suddenly turned gloomy. Lin Tang took out three thick cotton coats from the storage room and said, “These were given by the manufacturer last year. They said they are very warm, but I don’t know how they are.”

After about ten minutes, snowflakes started to fall.

Normally on days like this we would definitely have hotpot, but this is the end of the world after all.

I thought about it and took out the self-heating hot pot I bought before. Lin Tang and I are both hot pot enthusiasts. Later, because I joined a large Internet company by chance, 996
is a blessing, so I naturally have no time to go out for hot pot, so I started collecting self-heating hot pot. This time when I was unemployed, I bought two boxes of self-heating hot pot that tasted good.

Lin Tang and I both love spicy food, so we ordered the lighter tomato and beef brisket hotpot for the old lady.

We finally warmed up after eating the hotpot, but the snow outside started to get heavier again.

There are already three bags of household garbage at home. If you want to live longer, you must pay attention to safety and hygiene. It is obviously unrealistic to pile up so much garbage at home.

The old lady had a lot of life experience, and Lin Tang’s home had so many materials that it was outrageous. There were five or six fish tanks alone. The old lady suggested turning the glass fish tank upside down, putting the garbage in it, and burning it. Glass has no fixed melting point, and usually it will soften a little at more than 600 degrees. If it is burned less each time, it will not be a big problem.

The old lady cleared a small area on the balcony. If you want to burn it, you can’t burn it randomly, so as not to cause any accidents.

The room where the old lady lived had a large bay window. Since yesterday, Lin Tang, the old lady and I have been sleeping together. The person on night watch spread a thick quilt on the bay window and looked outside through a corner of the opened curtains. The other person slept on the bed with the old lady.

The temperature dropped too quickly. At around eight o’clock in the evening, under the dim street lights, I saw a thick layer of snow on the ground in the community.

Lin Tang brought out two more quilts, one to put on the bottom and one to cover himself.

This is the quilt I brought from the old lady’s house. It’s a big quilt weighing ten kilograms.

Lin Tang and I are used to the thin air-conditioning quilts. We have air conditioning in winter and summer anyway. If it weren’t for the old lady, we would have had a hard time this winter.

The old lady’s quilt was warm enough, and today she was in a good mood and wanted to tell us a story. We huddled in the quilt while listening to the old lady’s story. When it was almost time, I got out of the quilt to keep watch, and the old lady handed me the hand warmer.

“As for me, I just hope that you and Xiaotang are doing well. This world is not easy.”

On the twenty-third day of the zombie outbreak, Lin Tang had no idea how many cooking videos he had cached, and he kept yelling that he must show me his cooking skills. The old lady and I were leaning against the kitchen door frame, watching, when we suddenly heard a car brake.

The old lady and I looked at each other and immediately ran to the window. The old lady went into the kitchen to remind Lin Tang who was concentrating on cooking. Lin Tang hurriedly checked if there were any leaks in the house, for fear that the smell in the house would spread out.

The curtains were very thick and Lin Tang’s house was tall, so the possibility of being discovered was almost zero. But knowing was one thing and being afraid was another. We had no fighting power and could only stay at home.

The curtains were opened, and two trucks were seen. When Lin Tang came over after checking the ventilation holes at home, more than 20 people had already gotten off the trucks. They were all wearing camouflage uniforms, and some of them had guns on their shoulders. They found an open space and sat down, and then two people went back to the truck to get some things. There was still thick snow on the ground, so the group of people built a rack in the snow, lit a fire, and put a pot on it.

Obviously, the clothes they wear have a persuasive power that makes people trust them.

For a moment, none of the three people in the family spoke. After a while, the old lady lowered her voice and said, “They can’t be soldiers. Believe me, they should be a group of desperate criminals.”

To be honest, Lin Tang and I were more or less aware of it, but we were so eager for the country’s rescue that no one spoke up to point out their identities.

In such a short while, the group of people were already eating.

Since the zombie outbreak, food has become a huge temptation for people.

Less than five minutes later, a voice suddenly rang out from a certain apartment building in the community: “Are you here to rescue us?”

completion!!

The group stood up and saluted. “Yes. Please don’t panic. We will distribute water and food soon.”

The three of us immediately lowered the corner of the curtain we had opened, fearing that distributing food was a bait to lure more people out. Before the end of the world, people were the labor force; in the end of the world, people are not only the labor force, but also food!

The old lady made three cups of soy milk and brought them over. We dared not eat anything with a strong smell, so we drank some soy milk and ate some bread. For a moment, the atmosphere was heavy. After a long time, Lin Tang spoke up: “What do you think they are going to do?”

I don’t know what they are going to do, but it’s definitely not a good thing.

“The main reason I bought this house was because of its good security. The fire doors on each floor are made of good materials. Now there is a power outage, and it will take time for them to cut up the doors floor by floor. We should use this time to think about what to do.”

I understand that Lin Tang just wants us to get rid of our pessimism as soon as possible. Hearing this, I also said, “Yes, yes, and Tangtang, this door is safe-grade, with a high safety factor. We will be fine.”

We don’t have time to think about what they will do specifically for now, because that group of people have already finished their meal and are currently performing a one-shot zombie killing streak.

There weren’t many zombies in the neighborhood, and they were attracted by their gunfire. The zombies came in scattered groups, so it was no problem to kill them one by one.

Just because we know they can’t be trusted doesn’t mean that other people in the community know it.

Some children have already started cheering and shouting “great hero”.

“Are there any other survivors in the community? If we cannot confirm the safety of your building, we will send someone to pick you up.”

After saying this, the credibility of that group of people increased a lot.

In a short period of time, quite a few people gathered downstairs.

There were little children gathered in front of the group, saluting them adorably and giving them the best things they could.

To be honest, we initially planned to use sound to attract all the zombies around us and fight them to the death. Even if they win, it doesn’t matter, there will definitely be heavy casualties. But now that so many ordinary people have gone down, if we attract more zombies, the ordinary people will definitely be the first to bear the brunt.

In the end times, it is already so difficult for everyone to survive. We finally see hope, but it turns out to be a carnival for killers.

That is not salvation for them!

For three consecutive days, the group of people did not search the building, but simply stationed there ostentatiously, using food as bait to attract all the survivors in the surrounding area.

Lin Tang and I have discussed this privately. This group of people might want to use this community as their base. This community has a good location and is perfect as a base.

On the morning of the fifth day, I was half asleep and half awake when I suddenly heard a gunshot. The old lady was watering the seeds and almost dropped the watering can when she heard the gunshot.

When I went over, Lin Tang was already watching.

I saw a man who looked like the leader of the group putting a gun to a man’s head.

I remember that man. He came the day after that group of people arrived.

He drove a black commercial vehicle with his pregnant wife, knelt on the ground and cried like a child, thanking the country while crying.

Lin Tang and I both had tears in our eyes when we saw it.

But just a few days later, the group of people he worshipped as gods put guns to his head.

“Do you think they are the People’s Liberation Army?! They killed my wife! My wife was pregnant! The child was already seven months old! I was going to be a father!”

In fact, people who came later knew that those people could not be the rescue team sent by the country, but they were too scared, so they were willing to hand their lives over to others.

As soon as the man finished shouting, I heard a gunshot. Blood splattered on the snow. No one stepped forward, no one spoke. Everyone just listened to the man with the gun in silence: “The country doesn’t want you anymore! Now, I am your boss!”

“Bullshit!”

There was the sound of brakes coming from the door again. Several cars drove over. The men in the cars spoke in a rough voice: “Amazing! You robbed the prison as soon as the disaster happened.”

The zombies nearby had almost been killed, and gunshots rang out again.

I bravely looked down and saw two groups of people fighting.

Thanks to that group of people, they were afraid that the survivors would covet their supplies, so they asked the survivors to stay aside during meals, which resulted in almost no innocent civilian casualties in this gunfight.

The gunfight was over and the group that came later won. They looked at the survivors, said nothing, and turned away.

About half an hour later, a survivor finally came out timidly from the back, got on the truck, dug out the car keys that were confiscated when he came out, helped his family, and drove away at full speed.

I don’t know whether they will still believe in Chinese soldiers after this incident, but Chinese people are kind at heart. They will grow rapidly in adversity and sing the praises of peace in prosperous times.

We lived in fear for several days and never expected this to be the outcome.

The old lady sighed and went to the kitchen to cook. These days, everyone had just made do with milk and bread for meals and no one dared to light a fire to cook.

The old lady has already harvested one crop of garlic sprouts, and this is the second crop.

Lin Tang suggested making garlic pancakes. There was enough flour at home, about forty large bags, some of which were about to expire, so it would be better to cook them.

Just do it. There are not many eggs at home, so why not make an omelet? You can taste the egg flavor. Other methods probably won’t even taste the egg flavor.

The chives have been planted. They grow fast, and after they are harvested, they can be used to make chive cakes.

It rained a few days ago. We collected some rainwater and threw some water purification tablets into it. Now it is almost purified and can be used for washing clothes and washing dishes.

The old lady is a very good cook. As soon as the garlic pancakes came out of the pan, Lin Tang and I were not afraid of the heat. We just grabbed them and ate them. It was as if the end of the world had not yet come.

There were roars coming from the community. They were zombies attracted by the smell of blood.

Lin Tang and I counted yesterday, and we were probably the only family in the community who was stubborn enough not to go downstairs.

It’s not that other people didn’t notice something was wrong, but they were used to following the crowd and were used to relying on others for their lives. The end of the world is really too hard to endure, would it be different if there were more people?

8. The 48th day of the zombie outbreak

It suddenly started to rain last night, and the temperature dropped again. The experienced old lady asserted that the temperature has now dropped to almost minus 20 degrees Celsius.

She had lived for so many years and had only experienced such cold waves a few times.

The weather was so cold that the three of us huddled under our covers and couldn’t get out.

Since the zombie outbreak, this group of zombies seems to have evolved and their hearing has become more acute. A few days ago, Lin Tang was just watering the seeds and accidentally knocked over the garlic seedlings on the balcony. In an instant, more than a dozen zombies looked up at him.

I really don’t dare turn on the air conditioner. Even though the zombies can’t climb stairs now and can only howl below, what if they evolve again?

All five hand warmers in Lin Tang’s house have been used and placed in the bed. Although the old lady is old, her body is much warmer than Lin Tang and I, who have cold bones.

The whole house seemed to feel the biting cold.

There was some pepper at home, so the old lady simply cooked some cabbage and kelp soup at noon and added some pepper to it, which made it spicy and warm to the stomach.

The colder it is, the more you need to eat.

After we finished our meal, we immediately went back to bed. Lin Tang took out a deck of cards from the corner and we started playing Landlord.

In the afternoon, it snowed again, mixed with rain and turned into ice. Remembering that we had bought a lot of bacon before, the three of us decided to eat some fried bacon with garlic sprouts.

Lin Tang and I are mainly responsible for the discussion. We are both useless and can do nothing except eating and sleeping.

9. The 59th day of the zombie outbreak

The weather has gotten colder. According to the days before the zombie outbreak, it should be the first month of the lunar new year.

Chinese people have deep feelings for their country and family, and they still yearn for a little bit of the New Year atmosphere even when they are in danger. Since I was born, this is the New Year with the least New Year atmosphere I have ever had.

Maybe it’s because the weather is too cold, the zombies’ mobility seems to have decreased. These days, I often see people driving away quickly, but I don’t know where they are going.

When the weather is cold, people tend to want to eat some noodles, which are very comfortable to eat with soup.

The weather was very cold and it was impossible to knead dough, so I went to the storage room and took out three packs of tomato noodles from Mou Kuan. I boiled some water and added the noodles to the bowl, which was enough to warm me up.

To be honest, if it’s hot, Lin Tang has a lot of thin clothes at home, and even a silent fan. But when it’s cold, it’s really helpless.

We literally had our thickest clothes on.

While eating tomato noodles, there was a sudden noise in the neighborhood. I ate quickly and ran to the window to see what was going on. I saw a woman running out from nowhere, shouting for help, followed by three or four zombies. The woman was wearing a bright yellow cotton coat. Lin Tang had also finished eating and ran over to watch with me.

To be honest, we have a lot of supplies here, enough for the three of us to eat for three or four years. These three or four years are enough to wait for the country to come to rescue us. If three or four years pass and rescue still doesn’t come, I think there is no need to wait any longer.

But I don’t intend to save anyone.

To be precise, none of the three of us intended to save anyone. You can call us cold-blooded or whatever, but how do you know whether the person you saved is a human or a ghost?

That’s what we said, but we can’t bear to see people trying to escape.

Fortunately, this feeling of reluctance did not last long. Suddenly, a car drove out from behind the woman, a gun was stretched out from the car window, and it was aimed at the zombie and shot in the head. Then the car stopped and the woman opened the door and got in.

“They are in the same group.”

Yes, they were in the same group. They relied on that woman to attract people’s sympathy. If someone really came to help, they would only be caught by the people driving behind them.

Although we had no intention of helping, we still felt disappointed when we saw this situation. This also led to our absent-mindedness when we played cards in the afternoon, and Lin Tang threw out a pair of A’s as a pair of 7’s.

“Okay, stop worrying about it. We just need to take care of ourselves.”

10. The 60th day of the zombie outbreak

Lin Tang is ill, and the disease is severe.

The old lady discovered this last night. She is old and tends to wake up suddenly in the middle of the night. When she wakes up, she is busy covering me and Lin Tang with a blanket. Last night, when I was on duty, the old lady found that Lin Tang was very hot when she covered him with a blanket. She quickly asked me to get a thermometer. The temperature was close to 38.5 degrees.

I was so scared that I immediately ran out to find the medicine box. There were a lot of different medicines in the box, so I threw them all to the old lady, then went out to boil water and find some antipyretic patches.

“It’s probably because it’s been too cold lately.”

Yes, the temperature has been unusually low recently. Even those of us who have thick blankets are freezing like this. What about the rest of the people? How are they going to live in this catastrophe?

The old lady and I worked until dawn, when Lin Tang finally opened her eyes. When she spoke, her voice was hoarse: “Pour me some water.”

Lin Tang’s illness was a huge blow to us, not because of how serious her illness was, but because it made us truly realize the harm of low temperatures. She only had a fever now, but what if she got colder? Did she die quietly in her sleep or was she frozen to death while still conscious?

The alarm bell sounded urgent and heavy. The next morning, while I was cooking, I was still thinking about how to resist the low temperature.

I suddenly thought of the yoga mat in Lin Tang’s house. We can do some aerobics and exercise more to promote blood circulation.

So starting today, we do radio gymnastics every day. Lin Tang and I haven’t done it since we graduated from high school. After graduation, I joined an Internet company, and Lin Tang started live streaming steadily. When the three of us do the exercises, we look more like people in their sixties than old ladies.

At dinner, the old lady added pepper to the food to keep the cold away. I have eczema, not serious, but I can’t touch pepper and other things. As a result, I am too cold to care about anything else now. I will not freeze to death first.

After the old lady found out, she picked out a few herbs from the pile of herbs she brought with her and made some medicine for me. She asked me to drink it and went to bed early.

On the sixty-third day of the zombie outbreak, the temperature still hadn’t risen, but with the old lady’s careful care, the planted green vegetables were actually edible.

Maybe because they are grown at home, I always feel that these greens are more delicious than those bought from supermarkets before the end of the world. At noon, the old lady stir-fried the greens and made curry rice.

A few days ago, three people came to the community. They looked like a family of three. They drove an SUV. After entering the community, they randomly picked a building and moved in.

I have to say that the fighting power of that family of three was really strong. In just a few days, they almost cleared out all the zombies in the entire community. It can be seen that the family wanted to find a place to stay.

Since the zombie outbreak, the city’s supplies have become increasingly scarce. Moreover, City A is neither the heartland of the country nor the coastal area, so the country has been busy rescuing other cities, and City A has not yet received its turn.

When I finished my meal and watered the seeds, I saw the family driving back, three of them carrying a bag full of supplies. My
eyesight is not very good after working overtime in the 996 company, so I asked Lin Tang to come over and look. Lin Tang squinted his eyes for a long time and said, “It’s mostly food.”

At night, a drone suddenly came with a small red flag tied to the tail of the drone, and some food and medicine hanging below. Of course, this is what Lin Tang said, Lin Tang has good eyesight.

It’s a pity that the drone didn’t shout like in the novel, it just dropped the supplies in a scattered manner.

For those who are still alive, it is impossible not to arrange people to keep watch at night, so all the families who are still alive should know about the drone delivery of supplies.

Lin Tang and I leaned on the window and watched the family leave the apartment building. The two of us followed them. Their son quickly picked up the supplies and quickly returned to the apartment building.

“I seemed to see them pick up a piece of paper.” Lin Tang said.

Even if Lin Tang has good eyesight, it’s too dark at night and the distance is more than 20 floors. Since we can’t see it clearly, let’s not think about it.

To be honest, the variety shows and TV dramas I downloaded were not as interesting as listening to the old lady telling stories every night. The old lady had lived for half her life and could easily tell all kinds of folk allusions. Occasionally, when Lin Tang and I wanted to scare ourselves, we would pester the old lady to tell us some ghost stories. The old lady had a lot of knowledge, and once she told a story, I would not feel sleepy all night.

We waited for such a long time before finally getting the drone that was suspected to be sent by the country. Lin Tang and I had felt discouraged before. The old lady didn’t say anything on the surface, but the next day she made a little rabbit out of dough for each of us as if she was coaxing a child.

“What are you afraid of? We have survived so many disasters, so what is this? A nation thrives through adversity.”

It seems that the older generation always has an inexplicable trust in the country, always feeling that no matter how big the disaster is, it will survive, and that it is only a matter of time before everything gets better.

The old lady also knew about the drone, but she didn’t show much excitement. Lin Tang and I whispered in each other’s ears: “See, this one has been through a lot.”

As a result, in the afternoon, I saw the old lady walking around the house, and from time to time she would open a small corner of the curtain to look at the sky outside. She probably knew that she was not steady, and she said seriously, “Look how blue the sky is outside.”

11. The 67th day of the zombie outbreak

Today when I was on duty, I seemed to see a few jeeps coming into the city from afar. The bodies of the jeeps were painted in camouflage and they were driving very fast.

The area where Lin Tang’s family lived was equivalent to the suburbs. Lin Tang found a telescope and came to watch with me. Several jeeps stopped in an open area, and several people in military uniforms got off. Then they picked up guns and formed a cordon. Soon, a military truck drove up from behind. The field of view of the telescope was limited, and when the group of people ate and continued on their way, they could no longer see them.

But I seemed to see that group of people sprinkling some kind of powder on the road they passed. Even though the roar was so loud, no zombies surrounded them.

Although that group of people might be soldiers, it is unlikely that they could wipe out all the zombies in a city. After thinking about it, there is only one reason, that is, the powder is working.

Through observations over the past few days, there are only six living people in this community.

Strangely, there didn’t seem to be more zombies outside. Lin Tang and I decided to take a gamble, but the location of the group of people just now was not far from this community, probably within the range of the drone. There were several drones at home, so we tied our phones to the drones and planned to take aerial photos.

We have considered the risk, and there are some, but not much.
There are not many people alive in City A, and we are on more than 20 floors. Even if the survivors see the drone, it will take some time to figure out where it was released from. When they figure it out and come over, they will have to challenge so many zombies outside. Even if they overcome all difficulties and come over, they will have to break open the security doors of more than 20 floors. Yes, we have locked the security doors of this building these days. Fortunately, although there are zombies in this building, they are all at home, which is equivalent to trapping themselves to death.

After we told the old lady about this plan, she agreed with both hands and even looked at the drone flying away with a look of surprise.

It was almost as we expected. There was obvious shiny white powder on the road that the military walked on. The zombies around seemed to have no idea that there was such a road. Not a single zombie walked on that road.

The zombie outbreak has lasted for more than two months. Those who were infected with the virus in the early stage are all gray. I don’t know how they get their energy. They can still run and jump after so many days. The pictures taken by the mobile phone are so shocking that I don’t want to watch them again after watching them once. I don’t even have an appetite for lunch.

It would be a lie to say that we don’t want that kind of powder, but there is no need for us to take such a big risk to collect powder that is of little use to us just for a guess.

But we never expected that someone would actually deliver this medicine powder to our door.

In the evening, a drone suddenly flew over. The whole drone was shaking, and it was obvious that it was temporarily assembled and definitely not the kind bought outside.

Lin Tang and I have been staring at the drone since it took off. It was getting closer and closer and was hovering outside the window. It no longer flew anywhere else, as if it had determined that there was someone in the room.

“Will you open the window?”

Since the other party sent a drone over, they must have confirmed that there is someone in the house. Since they have confirmed it, it makes no difference whether we open the window or not.

As I thought about it, Lin Tang and I opened the window and carefully took the things off the drone. The drone flew away.

There was a small basket hanging under the drone, containing a note and a small bag of white powder.

“Hello, first of all, I believe you can see that we have no bad intentions. We collected this powder along the way, and we want to use it to exchange for some supplies.”

I pulled down the thick curtains again and called everyone in the family to the living room for a brief meeting.

“It’s obvious that they have no shortage of supplies, and their military strength is not weak. Why do they still want to exchange supplies with us?” I asked the question first.

“There is something I didn’t think was a big deal, so I didn’t tell you. A few days ago, when I was on duty, someone sneaked into our building in the middle of the night. Because there was a power outage, the door of the unit on the first floor could be easily opened. I can only be sure that he came in, but I don’t know what he did specifically.”

The person who was speaking was Lin Tang. Several street lights in the neighborhood had broken down due to the low temperatures over the past few months. Lin Tang could not describe the person’s specific figure and could only vaguely conclude that it was a man.

Upon hearing this, the old lady asserted that the family had something to gain: “Don’t agree to it!”

As she spoke, she took the packet of white powder and even put on medical gloves. “Who took this packet just now? Quick, go and disinfect it with alcohol. We must be on guard against others!”

I hurriedly pulled Lin Tang to spray alcohol, and the old lady opened the window on the other side and shook the white powder down. This side was facing the outside of the community, and there were many zombies outside the community. A lot of white powder was poured down, but the zombies only had a little reaction.

“Some of this should be collected by them, and the rest is mixed with other things. First of all, we don’t know how long the efficacy of this powder is. Even if we point out that this powder is ineffective, they can easily say that the efficacy has evaporated.”

Bags of white powder were also thrown down.

The old lady said, “Promise them, give them some food first, and wait and see what happens. I want to see what these bastards are going to do!”

The old lady is highly educated and well-read. This is the first time that Lin Tang and I have heard her swear.

Lin Tang took out the drone, put some instant noodles in it, thought about it, put some medicine in it, and wrote a note: “Great! Thank you!”

12. The 78th day of the zombie outbreak

After eleven days of fishing enforcement, the fish finally took the bait.

Lin Tang took down the note hanging from the drone, which read, “I really don’t mean to disturb you, but through our recent observations, there are more and more zombies, and some of them have already become intelligent. The floor we are on is too low and too dangerous. Please take us in for a while.”

After eleven days of trap, we successfully made the other party believe that there were only two of us, an older sister and her younger sister.

To be honest, Lin Tang and I might not be able to recognize this kind of trick, but the old lady saw it clearly, “I don’t know when I noticed someone here, and I want to steal something.”

The trap has been set, but we haven’t yet decided what to do specifically. Lin Tang sent a note back saying that we still need to discuss it.

What is certain is that the family is not from this community, but the rest of the information is completely unknown.

According to my idea, I could trick them here and let the zombies bite them to death on the way. But the old lady disagreed, so I gave up.

13. The 83rd day of the zombie outbreak

We never expected that while we were still thinking of countermeasures, they were destroying themselves.

This story started in the morning. Early in the morning, Lin Tang had just finished his shift when he saw the family of three driving back from the outside of the community. The key point was that they brought back a little girl. The old lady leaned over to take a few glances and said to herself, “Could those people be good people?”

At this time, there were not many supplies in the city, and he went out and rescued a little girl. The old lady’s first reaction was that he was a great philanthropist.

This aroused our curiosity, and Lin Tang ran to the other side of the window to release the drone. This is what we have observed in the past few days. Let the drone fly around and fly to the other side. As long as you are careful enough, you can do it without anyone noticing.

Not long after the drone left, the child among the three people ran out, got into the car as soon as he ran out of the apartment building, but the car crashed into the guardrail just after it started and didn’t run far. I winked at Lin Tang, and Lin Tang controlled the drone back and flew to the car again and stopped for a while.

When the drone came back, we hurriedly took out our phones to watch the video.

Just as the family with the little girl opened the door, a zombie rushed out of the house from nowhere and bit her without letting her go. When the family of three saw the little girl being bitten, their first reaction was not to give her a fatal blow, but to take out a rope from somewhere to tie up the zombie. They tied it up very carefully, as if they were afraid of hurting the zombie, and even avoided the zombie’s head.

The drone and the phone were a little far away, and I could only hear the woman saying, “What happened, Xiaotian? Why didn’t you tie up your grandfather before you left?”

In a flash, the little girl who was bitten suddenly bit the hand of the father of the family of three. The situation afterwards was too chaotic. From the pictures in the car transmitted back by the drone, it could be seen that these people had all turned into zombies.

For a moment, I didn’t know whether I should say that this family really cared about family ties by taking the old man who turned into a zombie around, or whether I should say that this family was extremely confused.

The old lady looked at us for a long time and suddenly came to a conclusion: “I guess these people wanted to feed us to the zombies from the beginning.”

The ending was a bit tragic, so after dinner we used the iPad to cast the screen to watch a variety show. When the variety show was about to end, Lin Tang suddenly said, “If I become a zombie in the future, don’t hesitate, kill me immediately.”

Before I could reply, Lin Tang was slapped on the head by the old lady: “Pah, pah, pah, what nonsense are you talking about?”

14. The 103rd day of the zombie outbreak

The temperature rose last night, and I felt that the cotton clothes on my body were too thick when I was on duty at night. Because I didn’t dare to take off my clothes casually, I was sweating all over in the morning. The old lady hurriedly asked me to change my clothes, poured me hot water, and sent me to bed after dinner.

When I woke up in the afternoon, I found it was raining outside. Just as I was about to wonder why it was raining again and whether the temperature was going to drop, I saw Lin Tang and the old lady sitting on the sofa with serious faces.

“This rain is probably not simple.”

Seeing that I was confused, Lin Tang pulled me to the window, opened a corner of the curtain to let me look down, and saw that the outside was densely packed with zombies.

I don’t know where these zombies came from, or if they were all in a corner where no one could see them before. I just saw them all standing there, not wandering around like usual, but just roaring.

The rain made the whole sky and earth dark. The zombies were scary enough just standing there. They raised their heads with gray faces.

I was so scared that I immediately closed the curtains. Maybe it was because the noise was a bit loud, and when I was pulling the curtains, I noticed that there seemed to be a zombie looking at me.

“What’s going on? Wasn’t he fine this morning?”

“You probably just fell asleep not long ago, and two planes came. As soon as the planes left, it started raining. As a result, it was like this at noon.”

I woke up because I was hungry, but now I can’t eat anything after seeing this picture. I can only drink a cup of hot water. There are too many zombies, so we have to be careful when talking at home.

“Okay, don’t think too much.”

Now we can only pray that this rain is intentional on the part of the country and that it will bring us all benefits without any harm. There is really nothing we can do about the rest.

Around 8pm, there was a sudden noise downstairs, like a huge army marching past. Lin Tang and I carefully opened the curtains and saw that the zombies were scattering again, but there were too many of them, so the noise was inevitably a bit loud.

The noise lasted for about half an hour, and no one knew where the group of zombies went.

I have a feeling that this situation will happen again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

I told Lin Tang and the old lady my guess. After hearing it, the old lady immediately went to the kitchen and said, “Then I’ll cook some food now. If it’s the same tomorrow, cooking will make too much noise. I can heat up the leftovers in the microwave.”

Lin Tang and I packed up and planned to sleep on the sofa in the living room tonight, making sure we could wake up immediately if we heard any noise.

Sure enough, I heard the sound of a plane soon after I woke up in the morning. Just as Lin Tang described, it started to rain as soon as the plane flew away. The rain was heavier than yesterday, covering the sky and seemed to sweep away all the dirt. Soon, the group of zombies appeared again from nowhere.

The old lady got up and heated up some porridge. She ate it with some pickled vegetables and said, “I think the stuff in the rain can suppress the zombies. Just wait. I think this catastrophe will be over in half a year at most.”

This situation continued for several days, and by the end, Lin Tang and I were able to eat while watching these zombies getting wet in the rain.

15. The 111th day of the zombie outbreak

Today, there were finally no planes to disturb people’s sleep early in the morning, but in the afternoon, planes came again and started spreading powder.

In fact, the plane was flying high, so the powder was not very obvious in the air, but it was so much that Lin Tang and I looked at it for a long time. At first, we thought it was poplar fluff, but in the end, Lin Tang sighed: “It turns out that the country is really rich.”

Once the powder was sprinkled, the zombies on the ground became like stupid geese. Although I don’t know what the rain in the past few days was for, it must have been useful.

Since everything was going in the right direction, we decided to have hotpot for lunch.

I’m not good at cutting, so I was kicked out by the old lady after cutting two slices of meat. While she was kicking me out, she stuffed a handful of mint leaves into my hand and said, “The meat you cut is hard to stir-fry. Okay, go out and get some mint water.”

This mint was brought from the old lady’s house. I have to say, with the old lady, our living conditions have been improved by more than one level.

16. The 127th day of the zombie outbreak

Finally, it stopped making trouble. The planes and drones finally stopped flying. At night, I heard the sound of a car engine. Lin Tang and I used binoculars to look hard but couldn’t see anything, so we gave up. These days, I found the radio that Lin Tang used to take the English Level 6 exam when he was in school. I don’t know what happened. No matter how I tuned it, there was no broadcast, only a crackling sound. The old lady couldn’t stand it anymore and quickly told me to stop.

The engine sound came and went quickly. As soon as I saw a light flash, the engine sound disappeared.

“Why haven’t the state aid arrived in City A yet?”

Lin Tang said while applying a facial mask, “Isn’t the city next door known as an international metropolis? We should definitely go there first. The more people there are, the more zombies there are. Don’t let us be attacked from both sides.”

That being said, we heard gunshots the next afternoon. The gunshots were very far away and we couldn’t hear them clearly at first, but they became more and more frequent and closer. I didn’t know if there were still zombies in the community, so Lin Tang and I quickly drew open the curtains to look. We saw an army advancing from a distance. The soldiers in camouflage uniforms, each holding a gun, marched in an orderly and serious manner.

It was not yet dark, and one could see the red flag flying behind the group of soldiers. Amid the sound of gunfire, a loud speaker was shouting something, but the gunfire was so frequent that the shouting did not seem that important.

Lin Tang rushed back into the house and took out the small red flag he bought for last year’s National Day. He waved it on the tall building without caring whether anyone could see it or not.

The gunshots were getting closer, and the voices were becoming clearer. The loudspeaker was saying, “Citizens, please stay at home for now. We will clear out the zombies soon. Wherever the red flag is, there is shelter.”

With tears in my eyes, I turned to look at Lin Tang and the old lady, who were already in tears.

This apocalypse is over!

We grew up here, and every inch of land belongs to us!

Extra Old Lady

City A is a fairly large city, and after the army clears the zombies in City A, they will have to continue advancing inland.

Chen Xiuzhi participated in post-disaster reconstruction.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Chen Xiuzhi is the old lady.

Chen Xiuzhi feels that her life is truly wonderful. When she was young, she was an educated youth, working in the countryside, and lost her husband in middle age. Now that she is old, she can still experience a zombie apocalypse that only happens in movies.

To be honest, for this anti-human virus, she said she could only wait for various analysis results to come out before thinking about Chinese medicine, so she followed a group of old scholars to attend meetings every day to do research.

The impact of this catastrophe on humanity was so great that Chen Xiuzhi would occasionally think of the phone call from her daughter when she was free. Her daughter said, “Mom, there are zombies outside the door now. I know I can’t survive. I regret not being able to repay you in this life.”

What was she regretting? Chen Xiuzhi didn’t know.

When Lin Tang called Chen Xiuzhi, she was thinking about how to die in a dignified and less painful way. She had experienced too much in her life. Her only daughter died in a foreign country. She didn’t know whether she became a ghost in a foreign land or a deceptive star. After all, her daughter would never come back.

When Lin Tang came to pick up Chen Xiuzhi, she suddenly thought, yes, there is Lin Tang, and so many other people, why do the living people want to die? What can they do after they die?

She had to stay alive, wait for national rescue, and then find a way to eliminate the virus and avenge her daughter.

“Doctor Chen, I heard you have a daughter?”

Perhaps it was because this catastrophe was so sudden that people became less sociable and their speech became simpler.

“Yes. It’s a pity that she died in a foreign country.”

The laboratory immediately fell silent. Chen Xiuzhi recorded the data and left the laboratory. As she left, she heard someone inside say, “It’s already this late. Don’t mention family or anything like that.”

The days passed quickly. On the 153rd day of the zombie outbreak, all the zombies in the country were cleared out. The vaccine developed by the research institute was proven to be effective after clinical trials. Chen Xiuzhi’s work was almost over.

When she returned to the research institute again, she was asked to send people to Country M to participate in post-disaster reconstruction. China was well organized and was the first country in the world to clear out the zombies, so foreign countries had to ask for support.

Chen Xiuzhi went there, not for any noble cause, but because she thought she had to visit the country where her daughter lived.

The coastline is too far and the longing is too long. She is afraid that her daughter’s soul cannot travel tens of thousands of kilometers, and she is also afraid that she will be idle.

Chen Xiuzhi later went to many countries to participate in rescue operations.

Chen Xiuzhi suddenly remembered a book she had read when she was young. There was a sentence in the book that left a deep impression on her to this day:

In this bustling world, there must always be someone who shows mercy, carries the candle, and keeps moving forward!