This is apocalyptic

Chapter 161: Way Out

Lin Duoduo is packing her things.

Bai Xiao took the grenade he found in the car and looked at the door, considering whether to tie it to the door to give a surprise to those who came to search later.

After considering the end, he shook his head. The more he did, the more the other party would understand and be more cautious. Losing one or two people was nothing to them.

We set out last winter, and it took us a year to find this place following a forest fire. We suffered a lot during this year when we entered the ruins.

Even such a large-scale search is originally expendable, mainly for positioning. As long as it is found, it doesn't matter whether the people in the car are dead or alive, the target location has been obtained.

Several grenades, guns, and a bulletproof car door were seized.

There was no rush or confusion, everything was in an orderly manner.

In less than half an hour, Lin Duoduo had finished packing.

Perhaps she had prepared herself mentally when she saw those people, or perhaps she had been prepared at the moment the mountain was burned, or perhaps even earlier. Or perhaps she had never slacked off, and living in the ruins had become her instinct. Every time she went to the city to scavenge, she had been prepared not to come back.

Unexpected events happen all the time. It was only after the appearance of zombies that things became stable in the past two years. She was greedy for this kind of stability.

But nothing is safe in the ruins. After Bai Xiao firmly believed that this place was no longer safe, she acted quickly.

There was nothing to pack, so in the end there were only two large bags.
There is also a deluxe double-door coffin and a bulletproof car door.

"You want to take it with you?" Lin Duoduo pointed to the car door.

"Just in case." This is the most powerful protective thing he has found. The iron helmet is useful against monsters, but this car door is useful against guns.

Taking a last look at the place where he had lived for several years, Bai Xiao did not hesitate. He picked up the box that looked like a coffin to Lin Duoduo, carried the big bag and the car door, and strode out.

It's still a bit hasty, but first I have to leave here and avoid this place before I can consider other things.

Without any hesitation, in just over half an hour, his actions were decisive and resolute.

"Are you really leaving?" Lin Duoduo looked into the distance.

"Time may not be much." Bai Xiao said softly.

Although he guessed that the safe zone would enter the ruins on a large scale, he couldn't afford to gamble. He also couldn't bet that the safe zone would only send one car thousands of miles away.

It’s been a year… When he heard the man say that he set out last winter, he felt a chill in his heart, knowing that danger was always around.

All this happened because he was looking for a possible way out for Lin Duoduo - but he found out that the safe zone was not able to solve everything, which laid a hidden danger.

He wanted to find a way for Lin Duoduo to survive while ensuring his own safety and freedom, but they came.

What he saw and heard along the way also gave him enough understanding of the ruins, the scumbags, the revelers...

This is a messed up world.

The city is full of zombies.

There are also people who grew up in abandoned ruins.

He looked in the direction of the city, which was not accessible. He then looked at the mountains where the smoke had not yet dissipated. Not only was it dangerous there, but the fire was still raging. It was only a matter of time before he was found.

“But we’ll be back.”

Bai Xiao strode forward, crossed the village and walked outside.

The wind blew through the village, and the old locust tree looked at the two of them quietly, as if bidding farewell to the zombies and humans.

If we lose our horses, we can't know what a blessing is.

——He was glad that winter had not yet arrived, as this wildfire had brought everything forward.

If it had been two months later, we would have realized that people had arrived in the safe zone.

By then it was covered with snow.

The traces of the two men could not be hidden.

Fortunately, it is not too late now, and the fire has eliminated the threat in advance.

Maybe the safe zone was really stupid enough to send only one vehicle, and it wasn't even an elite one, to find a needle in a haystack?

Bai Xiao walked all the way to the river, looked back in the direction of the village, and fantasized about that beautiful thing.

——It’s not that good either, it means that the two people are very unlucky.

He firmly believed that if one car appeared, it meant that there were many cars outside that had been looking for a long time.

Stand by the river and put down the box.

"go in."

Bai Xiao opened the box, and Lin Duoduo looked at the river. The river at this moment was terrifying to everyone, except zombies.

Lin Duoduo was not surprised. After ruling out the mountains and the city, the zombies decided to cross the river.

She didn't ask any more questions and got into the coffin.

"Will this float?" she asked once she was inside the box.

"Isn't it too late to ask after entering?" Bai Xiao picked up the box and raised it above his head.

Then he walked step by step into the river. The water was icy cold at this time. There were things in the water that bumped into him and occasionally bit him.

Until the entire head was submerged in water, only a pair of hands were exposed on the surface of the river, and the coffin held high by those hands was moving slowly.

It was lifted up, and as the river became deeper and deeper, the hands were finally reduced to half of the forearm, and then they slowly rose until they waded across the river.

The river water was flowing slowly, but the hand holding the box was extremely steady. The weight of the box and Lin Duoduo was enough to prevent him from being washed away by the river. He had crossed this river in the summer when he was escaping the heat, and knew where the shallowest section of the river was.

Putting the still dry box on the ground, Bai Xiao shuddered, turned around and swam across the river to continue moving the rest of the things.

Lin Duoduo sat in the coffin on the other side of the shore and looked at the zombies.

After he had moved all the things over, Bai Xiao dried himself, changed his clothes, and packed up the wet clothes to take with him.

"We need to hide for a while," he said.

"It just so happens that I have never left here since I was a child." Lin Duoduo said.

"It may be much more difficult than before," said Bai Xiao.

"No one can leave this world alive." She smiled indifferently.

Living in the ruins is just waiting to die. There is actually not much difference between dying in the village and dying on the road.

She likes the stable life after having zombies.

But being able to see the outside world and leave this cage where I have lived for twenty years can also make up for my regrets.

Before the end of the world comes, she also wants to see what the outside world looks like.

More than twenty years.

She was born in the year the disaster broke out and was brought here by her parents to hide against the zombies. Now the zombies have grown old and she has grown up. She has been living in this narrow and cramped mountain village for so many years, which is gloomy and depressing.

She thought it would continue like this until she could no longer live and died, but then she picked up a zombie, watched him drool, learned to speak, learned to live and identify wild vegetables, and then his arms became broad and protected her from the wind and rain.

"Growing up, the farthest I've ever been was to the east of the city. I haven't been that far since then." Lin Duoduo patted the box under her. "You said that you could use this coffin to take me anywhere I want to go."

"Where do you want to go?"

"I don't know, but I know you might."

She knew nothing about the outside world, but the zombies had been out before and had seen what the outside world looked like.

"You might be disappointed when you see outside." Bai Xiao said.

"Wouldn't it be more regrettable if you didn't watch it?"

There was very little ash floating down from the other side of the mountain, but there were still traces of ash on the ground, in the wilderness, and on the grass leaves, and some of the weeds had been spread by the wildfire.

The desolate land was dark in color, as if winter had come early.

He looked silently at the village in the distance on the other side of the river.

Bai Xiao suddenly remembered the time when he met Zhou Xu and heard him say that he was going to the ruins to rescue people. He asked, "Where are the supplies and the convoy?"

Now the convoy has arrived, but it is not a rescue mission.

Perhaps those who live alone and long for shelter will take advantage of this abandoned place.

"Let's go."

The zombie carried the coffin on his back and his tall figure disappeared by the river.

The river still flows.

About half an hour later, six cars appeared in the distance and headed towards the mountain village.

There was no one here, but the fire on the car in the wild had not been extinguished and the flames were still flickering.

The fully armed men quickly surrounded the mountain village and advanced in groups in an orderly manner.

The village was quiet, with flames spreading in the weeds of the deserted village.

The small mountain village is not big and can be searched quickly.

It was chilling to see that among the chained monsters in the village, the traces of life, and the bullet holes on the streets, there was a peaceful and tranquil courtyard and even a vegetable garden.

Humans would never be able to tie up so many monsters with chains and lock them in the yard as food reserves.

This is farming.

But the village was deserted, with only the noises of the chained, frantic animals.

Are those living in the ruins humans or monsters?

The autumn wind blows the big locust tree, and the yellow leaves fall down.

After a more careful investigation, I found a well wrapped in straw and a water tank half full of water. The vegetable patch was still wet. There was a dilapidated tricycle in the yard. Under the shed were chopped firewood and two heavy dumbbells, with bamboo baskets hanging on them, with dried wild vegetables hanging on them.

Combined with the scrapped car on the road, the violently destroyed cage, and the four dead people, and then look at the monsters imprisoned all over the village and the courtyard full of traces of life.

I always feel a chill.

What on earth is this thing in the ruins?
This land, which had fallen and been abandoned many years ago, looked even more terrifying.

In the main room in the middle of the courtyard, there was a table with a bowl on it and next to the bowl was a piece of blood-stained cloth.

There was a thin layer of blood in the bowl.

There was a piece of paper underneath.

"Good luck to you, and give my regards to Zhou Xu."

(End of this chapter)