This is apocalyptic

Chapter 14: Getting Better

The yard was filled with the smell of blood, and it would take several days for the smell to dissipate.

Lin Duoduo was fine, she couldn't smell anything after a day. Bai Xiao was very sensitive to this smell, and Lin Duoduo also hung the meat in the yard.

It felt like a person who had been hungry for three days, with a fragrant roast duck that was crispy on the outside, tender on the inside and dripping with oil hanging in front of him. I have to say it was a very difficult test.

"If I go out for seven or eight days, or ten days, you won't starve to death, right?" After eating the meat, Lin Duoduo had to think about going to the city. The last time she went to the city, she met Bai Xiao and didn't accomplish anything.

"Where are you going?" Bai Xiao asked.

"Forget it. You don't look like someone who can resist starvation."

Lin Duoduo covered the tricycle with a rain cloth and was not in a hurry.

Logically speaking, zombies should be very resistant to hunger. Even if they wander around in deserted cities all year round, they will still bite people, but Bai Xiao is not an ordinary zombie.

Another point is that even if a person is extremely hungry, he will also turn into a beast.

She didn't want to come back and find that Bai Xiao, who was originally getting better, had turned into a monster no different from the one outside.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter. Amid the sound of iron chains, Bai Xiao was exercising every day in a way that Lin Duoduo couldn't understand.

The eye exercises last ten minutes. To be honest, Bai Xiao has forgotten the procedure. He only remembers the part about rubbing the eyes. However, his purpose is very clear. He moves his eyes left and right twenty times, up and down twenty times, and then moves clockwise and counterclockwise to prevent his eyes from looking too dull and stiff.

Each set of radio gymnastics can exercise the joints, muscles and ligaments of various parts of the body, increase oxygen demand, speed up breathing, pulse and blood circulation, thus promoting the body's metabolism and improving the functions of various organs.

A simple method, but effective.

This was the only solution. After all, he knew nothing about the zombie virus and only had some memories from movies and TV shows.

Zombies wearing sunglasses were jumping around under the shed, and Lin Duoduo was sitting on the doorstep to enjoy the cool air.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye.

"I think." Bai Xiao's language ability is gradually improving as his condition improves. "After I was infected, I became less smart."

That day, Lin Duoduo was recording his recovery status when Bai Xiao suddenly said.

"No way?" Lin Duoduo was very surprised. She pointed at the door and said, "If you are not smart, then what are those zombies outside?"

Bai Xiao opened his mouth and said, "Okay, Lin Duoduo's reference is those zombies that only know how to hunt."

Lin Duoduo held the notebook and unknowingly found that Bai Xiao was becoming more and more like a human being, especially after he put on sunglasses.

"Is there still hope for me?" Bai Xiao asked.

This was a question he had been holding back for a long time, and now he had finally regained a lot of his communication abilities.

"Hmm?" Lin Duoduo was confused. "Are you feeling unwell?"

"I mean, turn back into a normal person." Bai Xiao opened the bandaged wound, revealing corpse spots. The wound bitten by the zombies showed no signs of scabbing or healing, as if it was stagnant.

Lin Duoduo said: "It's probably hopeless."

Bai Xiao asked: "Has there been any cases of cure before?"

Lin Duoduo shook her head, thought about it carefully for a while, and shook her head again. "Even if you are conscious like this, it's the first time I've seen it. I've never heard of it before. If you are bitten by a zombie, you will go crazy in half an hour at most. I have never heard of anyone recovering."

Bai Xiao said: "Then I..."

Lin Duoduo said: "That's why it's magical."

This is an incredible thing. Bai Xiao brings her surprises every day.

Bai Xiao looked at his arm and said, "My right hand is twitching."

Lin Duoduo flipped through the notebook and answered, "It's normal. Turning into a zombie will cause nerve disorders and limb twitching."

Bai Xiao disagreed with her zombie claim, "I can still communicate with you, so strictly speaking I'm not a zombie."

A vegetative person has a chance to wake up, so why can't he recover his health?

"If you are infected with the zombie virus, you are a zombie." Lin Duoduo pointed out mercilessly, "You were still drooling at me this morning." "Then why can I retain consciousness?"

"It's probably because the mutated virus has become less toxic, so the infection period is longer, and during this time your body produces antibodies. The slower it develops, the more antibodies you have in your body... The direction of the virus mutation is unpredictable."

It took Bai Xiao a while to understand these complicated words, and he couldn't help but exclaim, "You know a lot."

"This is a guess my grandfather once made." Lin Duoduo said.

It was actually a very complicated matter, and she couldn't remember too much about it. She could only summarize it like this, and she wasn't even sure if she remembered it correctly.

She still remembered her grandfather and father sitting in the yard, enjoying the cool air and talking incomprehensible words. She thought she had forgotten all this, but when Bai Xiao mentioned it, she inexplicably remembered a lot of things.

"Your grandpa..."

Bai Xiao paused and didn't say anything else.

He subconsciously wanted to ask his grandfather to come and treat him, but when he saw that Lin Duoduo had been alone for so many days, living with zombies in this empty yard, he kept quiet.

Bai Xiao thought for a while, scratched his head, and the iron chains clattered. "That is to say... the virus is not fatal. Maybe in the future, there will be a chance to develop a cure?"

"Later? Research?" Lin Duoduo asked.

“There must be scientists who survived to study it.”

"I don't know, maybe it's too late."

"What's late?"

"It's too late for anything."

Lin Duoduo didn’t know where Bai Xiao got so many questions. He was just like she was a dozen years ago, always asking questions and being curious about everything.

Being infected by zombies and then waiting to die, what a simple thing.

It was indescribable luck that he was still conscious now - or perhaps, this was also a kind of sequelae?
A zombie with a lot of problems.

"Maybe you can let me go. After all, it's already quite stable." Bai Xiao said after thinking for a while.

Lin Duoduo paused and looked at him, "Do you want to leave?"

"No, I can help you with some work, and..." Bai Xiao explained.

Lin Duoduo said, "If you want to leave, I can let you go." She thought for a moment and said, "You still have your sanity, so maybe you can live like a human being."

"Well... letting me go doesn't mean you have to leave, right?" Bai Xiao said.

Lin Duoduo looked at him without saying anything.

"I understand." Bai Xiao said.

One drools over his friend.

One locked up his friend.

Very good, very solid revolutionary friendship.

"The locust flowers can be picked."

"Ah."

Lin Duoduo took two snakeskin bags, prepared herself, and was ready to go out with her gun. The reason she brought two snakeskin bags was that she wanted to pick more for Aunt Qian.

I don't have much contact with Aunt Qian. To be precise, we don't have much contact now. In the past, when there were more people, although the environment was more dangerous at that time, we were close. When my family was still around, we often interacted. But after those people left, we interacted less and less, and I never thought about moving in together.

Maybe people will slowly get used to quietness.

As the number of people decreases, no one likes to move anymore. In this quiet place like a grave, they live their lives and quietly wait to rot.

(End of this chapter)