This is apocalyptic

Chapter 179 Chapter 178: Winter

This is a terrible world.

It will continue to get worse.

Bai Xiao brushed the snow off his shoulders, walked upstairs with a clatter, and walked downstairs carrying a few buckets. He placed them at the drain as a precaution in case the weather suddenly cleared up tomorrow.

He considered packing a large box of snow and compacting it, then moving it upstairs to burn it. After filtering it, it could at least be used for daily cleaning and for boiling water.

In the past, snow would carry with it dust, bacteria, car exhaust and chemical pollution, and the sky over the city would be grey. But now it is much better, with less haze and it is much cleaner.

The first snow of the year fell, covering everything and adding a touch of white to the zombies surging outside the community.

In the dim environment, the white snow and the black staggering zombies make up the vitality of this city.

The next morning, Bai Xiao continued what he did yesterday. He checked the community and looked along the snow to see if anything had come out and moved around last night. The result was pretty good. Apart from some rat footprints, there were no unexpected traces.

In a trance, I found the feeling of patrolling around the village.

However, outside the community, the foreign zombie that was carried out yesterday was missing. There were traces of dragging on the snow, and some plum blossom-shaped footprints.

"From the footprints, it looks like a cat, but the size doesn't make sense. If it could drag the old zombie with its mouth in its mouth, it must be a very large cat, one of the biggest I've seen in Linchuan."

Bai Xiao followed the footprints and observed that the weasel's footprints were similar, but with slight differences. There were also other animals invading from outside. If he couldn't tell them apart before, he could now roughly recognize them.

He was not surprised. Twenty years ago, before the zombies appeared, the most common stray animals in the city were cats, and the second most common were dogs. They even had automatic feeding houses on the streets, and their reproductive capacity was also strong.

At first, they served as food for zombies and died instantly after being infected. Later, they began to feed on zombies for a long time.

“I haven’t seen this before.”

Bai Xiao found a row of delicate little paw prints, which were relatively shallow, with three oval toe prints in front, one in the back, and an irregular palm print.

The snow was still falling. Apart from the traces left by the wandering old zombies, he followed the traces for a while and looked at the Luhu community in the distance, the place where he had felt dangerous before. There were not so many messy traces in the snow there, but there was a footprint that attracted his attention.

This footprint is very big, much bigger than the ones we just saw.

"It seems that it travels at night..."

Bai Xiao guessed that he walked far away mainly to observe what else needed attention in this neighborhood besides the traces of zombies.

"Very good, now that the event time has been staggered, you are eligible to become the Zombie King's ally."

After walking around for a long time, I got familiar with the nearby neighborhoods. There was also an old town area, which must have been occupied by tenants in the past. It was very crowded, and there were many zombies, some of which had fallen down, while some were still able to move.

"Did you find anything?"

When he went back, Lin Duoduo was standing by the window with a telescope, observing the Zombie King on the spot. She was looking for suspicious traces in the distance, and turned back to ask.

“The surrounding area is relatively clean.”

What Bai Xiao meant by clean was that there were no groups of stray monsters wandering around in this neighborhood.

As long as they are not living in groups and wandering around in groups, they are not a big threat. If they are, we should activate the plan of humans riding zombies and eliminate them just like we hunted down wolves.

If they really found a group of messy claw marks, he and the human would have to take action and follow the traces.

As for other neighborhoods, being a little more dangerous is actually a good thing. The more dangerous the city is, the safer it is.

Lin Duoduo nodded, put down the telescope, sat aside, covered her legs with the wolf king skin, and wiped the rifle. It was snowing, so Bai Xiao didn't go out. He went upstairs and tidied up a small room next to the stove. He laid the bricks he found outside on the ground and prepared to make a small stove in case of extreme weather or when it was particularly cold.

There wasn't much to do in the winter, and he gradually became like the barbarian. Apart from patrolling the surroundings, he liked to be lazy by the fire, holding a book in his hand, warming himself by the fire while touching the human's outstretched leg, eating something and chatting, and the cold days passed.

"The door curtain is hung in this room?" Lin Duoduo also came upstairs wrapped in a coat.

"Well, once you're done, hang it on the window."

At this time, cold wind was still blowing in through the windows. The dense wire mesh on the undecorated windows could block the birds but not the wind.

Once the door curtain is hung, the wind is kept out.

In fact, there is a reason why people like to take naps by the fire. For many people who grew up in the north, these days are most like life before the disaster.

Covered with heavy snow, there is no need to face the zombies and monsters outside, nor to deal with any danger. It is no different from the past when we would call a few friends to play cards and drink to spend the winter.

Sitting by a warm fireplace will also give you a pleasant mood and a constant supply of hot water.

When Lin Duoduo saw him laying bricks, she guessed what it was. She seemed very happy and lay on the zombie's back with her arms around his neck.

"You're strangling me, loosen up a bit."

"You can't kill someone by strangling them by the neck." Besides, she didn't strangle them hard.

He took out a cotton hat from somewhere and put it on the zombie's head. He pulled it down so that even the ears were covered, and the top of the zombie's head suddenly felt warm.

There were two small pompoms on the top. She moved them with her fingers and turned to look at the front. The Zombie King's red eyes suddenly looked softer, and a little cute in an alternative way.

"You warmed it up with your head, and it's warm when I put my hand in it."

"I thought you were afraid that I was cold."

"the same."

Lin Duoduo looked at it with satisfaction, then took out a scarf and carefully wrapped it around his neck.

Then he took out a pair of sunglasses.

Lift up the hat to expose your ears, then pull the brim of the hat down once you have it on.

"Making trouble." Bai Xiao took off his sunglasses and put them on her.

"That iron helmet is too cold, use the hat to cushion it." She seldom goes out nowadays, so she has no use for these scarves and the like.

The snow stopped for a while at noon, and started again in the afternoon. Fingernail-sized snowflakes swirled past the window. Looking around, the streets were filled with them, blending with the tall and short buildings. I felt cold just by looking at them.

The water stored in the upstairs room had also formed a layer of ice, which made a clanging sound when shaken. Seeing this, he moved the water to the place where he lived downstairs. At least there were no gaps here and the decoration was solid.

The stove wasn't ready yet, and it was too cold, so Lin Duoduo went back into bed.

The Zombie King stood in front of the window holding a telescope.

Zombies are wandering in the snow on the streets, which is a unique scene in the apocalypse.

Bai Xiao really wanted to find a camera to take a picture of this scene.

(End of this chapter)