This is apocalyptic

Chapter 19: 019: Care

It turns out he is not a mad scientist.

The disaster started twenty years ago. Bai Xiao was very puzzled before that. In such an environment, even if her mother was a teacher, she probably would not receive enough education to become a scientist.

But Lin Duoduo did observe him vaguely from time to time.

Now Bai Xiao felt much more at ease, at least he knew the reason why Lin Duoduo brought him back for observation.

It has nothing to do with saving humanity or eliminating disasters, it’s just because her father was also infected and turned into a zombie.

Unexpectedly encountering a zombie who can stay conscious represents many possibilities, as well as opportunities and hope.

Bai Xiao looked at the starlight, and the confusion and vigilance he had been feeling before finally had an answer.

Lin Duoduo usually took notes in a small notebook. Now she thought about it and realized that although she was very serious, she seemed clumsy.

He turned over and sighed imperceptibly.

At dawn.

Lin Duoduo seemed not to have had a good rest and looked a little tired, but she still got up very early. Once a habit is formed, it is difficult to break.

"Morning, Zombie King."

She greeted, "How are you feeling today?"

"I feel good, no obvious deterioration." Bai Xiao was very cooperative. He always cooperated. He looked at the meat that Lin Duoduo hung out to dry and continued, "I still get agitated when it comes to meat, but my self-control has also improved."

"Then should I cover it up?" Lin Duoduo said after thinking for a while.

"No, this can exercise my will well." Bai Xiao didn't say it. In fact, there was another reason. With the meat hanging in the yard, his attention could be diverted from Lin Duoduo.

Compared to the drying meat, it is not as embarrassing as the impulse towards Lin Duoduo, a living human being.

"Is there something going on that makes you go out with a gun every day?" Bai Xiao asked.

"There are a lot of things to do. Check for footprints of large animals and signs of strangers. Otherwise, you won't know when danger is coming. Also, you have to keep an eye on the food in the wild and be aware of the surroundings."

While explaining, Lin Duoduo made a record of today's observations, then tied up his trouser legs and sleeves, and went out with his gun in hand.

Bai Xiao saw that she still had a piece of wild root in her pocket. He had thought that she had saved it for eating outside to maintain her strength, but now Bai Xiao guessed that she was going to check on her father who had turned into a zombie and was nowhere to be found.

Speculations are always just speculations.

Lin Duoduo was very calm when she came back, neither happy nor unhappy. She put down the gun, cooked a meal, and after eating, she sat on the doorstep, looking at the zombies under the shed.

She often looked at Bai Xiao like this, but this time Bai Xiao didn't have so many messy guesses.

"Did you go to see him?" Bai Xiao thought about it and asked.

Lin Duoduo nodded, then shook her head.

"How about I let you go?" Lin Duoduo said after thinking for a while.

Bai Xiao was a little surprised, "You are..."

"I have to go to the city." Lin Duoduo did not answer, but just said, "It's the place where I caught you."

"It's not about arresting, it's about rescuing." Bai Xiao corrected, "What are you going to do?"

"Aunt Qian asked me to go to her old house in the city while I was scavenging, but I caught you and was delayed."

"You delayed saving me. Do you want help?"

"How can you help?"

"Help you pedal the tricycle? Look at my long legs. I can definitely pedal faster than you."

Hearing Bai Xiao say this, Lin Duoduo curled her lips, thinking that her legs were not short either.

"Is it urgent?"

"Aunt Qian is dying, I'm worried it's too late." Lin Duoduo said, "I have to go scavenging anyway." "Huh? How could it be..." Bai Xiao remembered this name, the woman who gave Lin Duoduo a piece of meat that day.

"A feeling...you don't understand." Lin Duoduo said.

"Oh……"

Bai Xiao thought for a moment and said, "Are you afraid that if you leave, I'll go mad with hunger and turn into an irrational zombie again?"

“That may be the reason.”

Lin Duoduo lowered her eyes. This was only part of it.

She couldn't keep Bai Xiao locked up forever. Apart from retaining some zombie characteristics, everything else about him was very similar to a normal person. He also retained his sanity. Keeping him locked up all the time was not a solution.

But it would also be dangerous to let him move freely.

Just having this opportunity, Lin Duoduo convinced herself that there would only be two possible outcomes if she continued to observe. Either Bai Xiao would continue to get better until he stabilized in this state, or he would deteriorate into a pure beast like the other zombies.

At least it proves that zombies can also be rational.

"Do you have any family?" Lin Duoduo thought for a while, hesitated, raised her eyes and said, "I can send you back to the city where I caught you."

"It's the place that rescued me." Bai Xiao said, "No."

"That……"

Lin Duoduo thought for a while, "Maybe you can find a house, many villages are empty, you can live like before."

“In the past…”

Bai Xiao thought that he could never go back to the past. He looked up at the sky and felt confused.

"Maybe you can observe me for a while and let me go so that I can get familiar with the environment outside." Bai Xiao said.

"Let you go and observe you?" Lin Duoduo asked.

"Ah."

"What if you bite me?" Lin Duoduo refused.

"No." Bai Xiao said.

"But you are drooling." Lin Duoduo said.

"The braces don't fit well. You'll know when you try one on. You'll bleed if you try it on." Bai Xiao took off his braces and said, "Let's talk about going to the city. Will it take a long time?"

"It takes several hours to get to the town, rest in the town for a night, and then go back into the city the next day," said Lin Duoduo.

Lin Duoduo's words reminded Bai Xiao of the memory of lying on the truck bed and being jolted for a long time.

Lin Duoduo continued, "It's not all Aunt Qian's fault. Once you go into the city, you have to stay for a few days to scavenge." She patted the tricycle, "If you're lucky, maybe five or six days."

Bai Xiao looked at the tricycle. If she had not been lying in the bed, she might have waited until the tricycle was full before pedaling back.

"If you don't want to be locked up, I'll pull you back, and then... I wish you a good recovery." Lin Duoduo said.

"Maybe I can go with you and come back together. This way you don't have to worry about me going crazy from hunger and losing my mind, and I can also...well..." Bai Xiao said, and suddenly felt a little ashamed. He was like a freeloader, and his only purpose was to let Lin Duoduo observe him.

Looking at the end of the world, it seemed so strange that he didn't even know what other dangers there were outside besides zombies.

"Two people are always better than one. They can take care of anything that happens on the road." Bai Xiao said.

Going out will be of great help to him in getting familiar with the outside environment. We can consider what happens next when the time comes.

Whether in terms of physical strength or other aspects, as long as he is familiar with the environment, he always has an innate advantage over Lin Duoduo. At worst, he can find an empty house by himself and live quietly in the end times like her.

If anything happens, he can help.

(End of this chapter)