This is apocalyptic

Chapter 16: So Long
"It can't be more serious than a zombie bite, right?"

Bai Xiao looked at the giant gray-haired rat. He would rather be bitten by a rat than by a zombie - on the premise that being bitten by a rat would not turn him into a zombie.

Then he saw Lin Duoduo looking at him as if he was a fool.

Bai Xiao's heart skipped a beat. Is this a being more dangerous than zombies?

No wonder Lin Duoduo shot it to death.

"Just smile secretly when you get bitten by a zombie." Lin Duoduo said.

"Why should I laugh secretly?"

If possible, he would choose to make a cup of coffee and enjoy a leisurely afternoon instead of being bitten by something.

"Becoming a zombie does make him less intelligent than when he was a human." Lin Duoduo attributed his symptoms to the sequelae of the infection. He was brave, as he was anxious and afraid of the zombies that were about to decay. But he was timid, too...

This is a stubborn zombie.

Bai Xiao turned his eyes and saw the cabbage. He was very curious about where Lin Duoduo got it from. She picked some locust flowers as if she had gone out to raid the place.

"Aunt Qian gave it to me. She knows how to grow these," said Lin Duoduo.

"Good man."

Bai Xiao sighed, if being able to share food with others in the apocalypse is not considered a good person, Bai Xiao doesn't know what a good person is.

Lin Duoduo is also a good person.

"She said she couldn't finish it." Lin Duoduo said.

Lin Duoduo knew that Aunt Qian would not have too much to eat, but it was true that there was some surplus of vegetables in this season. In the beginning, the vegetables grown by Aunt Qian were for three people, which was barely enough for three people if they tightened their belts and dieted, and two people could eat enough. But now that she was the only one left, there was indeed some surplus.

"Are you sure you want to eat it?" Bai Xiao couldn't help asking when he saw Lin Duoduo using a knife to deal with the giant gray-haired rat that was as big as a dog.

"Or should I eat you?" Lin Duoduo asked.

"I don't taste good." said Bai Xiao.

Lin Duoduo glanced at him, took a knife to cut the skin, peeled it and washed it, handling it very skillfully.

Bai Xiao really doesn't like the smell of blood, it makes him feel uncontrollably hungry.

"How come there are zombies?" Bai Xiao diverted his attention.

"It became like this after being bitten." Lin Duoduo said as a matter of course.

"I mean, the very first zombies."

"Who knows."

"You don't know?" This was something that was beyond Bai Xiao's expectations. It was the end of the world and there were many zombies, but she didn't know where the zombies came from.

Even if a plague breaks out, there should be a process.

"Of course I don't know." Lin Duoduo frowned. This zombie started again, always asking some strange questions. "It's been such a long time, how could I know?"

Bai Xiao was stunned for a moment and said, "So long...how long is that?"

Lin Duoduo said casually: "My family said that zombies started to appear the year I was born." She paused and wanted to ask Bai Xiao if he had heard about it from his family, but after thinking about it, she didn't say anything. In this world, many people have no family.

After thinking for a while, she continued, "I heard that in the past, there were no such things as zombies. At that time, there were people everywhere, and it was not dangerous outside. If you wanted to see mice, you had to go to a place called a zoo. Those tall buildings were built by them. If it weren't for those buildings and houses, I wouldn't believe it. What do you think?"

"Well... I guess no one would go to the zoo to see mice."

"Really?" Lin Duoduo said casually.

Bai Xiao didn't say anything.

Lin Duoduo looked to be in her twenties, but he didn't expect that... twenty years is enough time for a newborn baby to grow up.

He suddenly understood why Aunt Qian had so many things to give to Lin Duoduo. It could also be seen from the fact that Lin Duoduo raised a zombie that she probably did not lack food. Although she could not eat and drink to her heart's content, she was not starving either.

This is not the time of fleeing famine when the disaster first broke out. The disaster that lasted for twenty years is more like a ruin than the end of the world. Those who should have experienced it have already experienced it, and those who should have adapted have also adapted. The survivors have their own way of life. "By the way, it seems that someone has developed a drug to cure...cancer." Lin Duoduo was reminded of some memories. She had asked her family members similar questions, and her family would always mention it when they gathered together to talk. She looked up and thought about it, then lowered her head to continue washing the meat. "Probably, I can't remember clearly, so many years have passed."

"It's really scary." Bai Xiao said.

"It's okay." Lin Duoduo said, "Do you want to eat?"

"No." Bai Xiao refused.

"You can't help at all." Lin Duoduo said, moving her arms.

"Actually, you can." Bai Xiao said.

"What if your saliva gets on the meat?" Lin Duoduo asked.

Bai Xiao was speechless.

"My mother used to be a teacher, and she loves to talk to me a lot." Lin Duoduo said, "She really likes people like you who ask a lot of questions."

"What did you say?" Bai Xiao asked.

"explain……"

Lin Duoduo was stuck for a moment. There were obviously a lot of things, but when she tried to remember them, she couldn't remember them at all. It was as if she was playing hide-and-seek, hiding in her memory.

"It is said that rain is formed when water on the ground evaporates and then falls from the sky." Lin Duoduo said, shaking her head and laughing.

"Thunder is caused by the electric charge in the clouds. When a potential difference is created between the upper and lower parts, discharge occurs," said Bai Xiao.

Wind is a natural phenomenon of air flow. There is no god beating drums and gongs to drive it forward.

Lin Duoduo widened her eyes slightly and stared at Bai Xiao.

"I also know a lot." Bai Xiao said.

"Did your mother also tell you?" Lin Duoduo asked.

"The teacher told me."

"Then why are you asking me?" Lin Duoduo said.

You have parents who love you very much, Bai Xiao wanted to say.

He could not imagine the hardships of surviving the disaster with a baby, avoiding zombies, and living for more than 20 years.

After processing the fresh meat, it was already afternoon. The meal was not on time, and Lin Duoduo was just about to cook, but Bai Xiao was already very hungry.

He was always hungry, and he still felt hungry even after eating, but the two kinds of hunger were slightly different.

"Will you bite me if you are hungry?"

"I don't bite my friends." Bai Xiao said.

Lin Duoduo used a fire poker to poke the fire. Since Bai Xiao didn't ask any strange questions, she didn't say anything. She didn't know why a zombie liked to talk so much.

You can ask questions like when will zombies appear?

Lin Duoduo stared at the leaping flames.

——Many years ago, there were no such things as zombies in the world. Now, they are dangerous animals existing in nature, just like tigers and wild boars, and can make normal people equally dangerous.

This is all what she heard. Zombies have existed since she can remember. They exist as naturally as breathing.

Habits are a terrible thing.

From the zombie outbreak to the escape, the end of the world was her childhood and her youth.

Thanks to Mrunkor, Qiuqiumyqiuqiu_, the leader

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