This is apocalyptic

Chapter 21: The End of the World
Playing tricks on people in the apocalypse is a bit too difficult for a zombie.

Bai Xiao suddenly sat up in the middle of the night. It didn't matter what the street was called. He repeatedly objected that "catch" might be the reason.

A quiet night.

Lin Duoduo came out of the house early in the morning. Bai Xiao had already put on his helmet and was stretching his muscles, as if he was going to have a big fight with the zombies.

"Morning, Zombie King."

Lin Duoduo greeted him.

She didn't know what the meaning of this was, but her mother used to say to her every morning, "Lin Duoduo, good morning." She learned it and kept the habit.

When she lived alone, she would say to herself, Lin Duoduo, good morning every day.

Morning is the beginning of the whole day. If the morning is good, the following day will probably not be too bad.

After checking the house and the yard again, Lin Duoduo helped Bai Xiao tie his helmet, untied the chain, and pushed the tricycle out. Bai Xiao wore a full-cover helmet and thick gloves, fully armed, like a soldier.

Turn around and lock the door.

On this cool morning, Lin Duoduo continued to push the car out, pedaled the tricycle, left home, and set off with the fully armed zombies.

The road in the village was a bit bumpy. Bai Xiao looked into the distance and saw a small village at the foot of the mountains.

He pushed the bike from behind at first and went out along the road into the village. The weeds in the fields were very tall and there were vaguely roaming zombies in the distance.

"Why do you want to give me a stick?" Bai Xiao became a little nervous, looking at the long stick in his hand in confusion. Speaking of weapons, it seemed that a knife was not as useful when he was fully armed.

"When you see a zombie, just stab it." Lin Duoduo said.

"Um……"

Bai Xiao was still a little worried. Was he going to fight the zombies soon? He was not sure whether the zombies would bite him.

While I was still thinking, the figure on the roadside at the entrance of the village was already walking towards me.

"There are zombies!" Bai Xiao shouted.

"Poke it! Don't let it get close!" Lin Duoduo shouted.

"Is it enough to just poke it with a stick? It's coming!"

"Forget it, you pedal and just follow the road." Lin Duoduo got off the tricycle, took the stick from Bai Xiao, and let Bai Xiao ride the bike.

The tricycle and the zombies were getting closer and closer to each other.

"If I pedal forward, I will just bump into him. Shouldn't I go over to deal with it first and then come back to ride my bike?" Bai Xiao looked at the zombie getting closer and closer and made a good suggestion.

Just riding a tricycle towards it doesn't seem like a good idea.

“Ride your bike well!”

Bai Xiao saw the zombie coming, so Lin Duoduo poked it with a stick and pushed it far away, knocking it down and making it fall on its butt.

Bai Xiao was confused for a moment.

The old zombie fell on his butt and lay in the ditch. It was difficult for him to stand up, so he could only try to crawl forward.

It was really old, with its dark and thin body just skin and bones, its eye sockets deeply sunken, dirty rags hanging on its body, and it made a hoarse sound.

The tricycle creaked and drove past the zombies. Bai Xiao still tilted his head to look at it.

He kept looking back even after driving a long way. The tricycle was almost in a ditch. Lin Duoduo knocked on his helmet with her hand, making a banging sound, "Pedal well!"

Lin Duoduo didn’t know why Bai Xiao, a new zombie, was so afraid of other old zombies.

Bai Xiao straightened the handlebars a little dazedly and put the tricycle on the right road.

He was bitten by this thing?
Bai Xiao suddenly became depressed. "It's so weak." Bai Xiao said. This was very different from what he imagined.

"All old zombies are like this." Lin Duoduo said.

Exposed to wind, sun and rain, the zombies aged quickly, and since they could not eat like normal people, they would become skin and bones in just a few years.

It has been twenty years, and there are almost no zombies left from the original batch. Most of the zombies still wandering around this land are people who were infected over the years, and they are getting old one by one.

"What about the fresh zombies?" Bai Xiao suddenly understood what Lin Duoduo meant when she said he was a fresh zombie.

It is literally fresh.

"Fresh zombies are very dangerous. Not only do they run fast, but they are also very powerful and ferocious." Lin Duoduo paused and said, "Not including you."

"Fortunately, I am not included." Bai Xiao said.

Zombies are very old.

Twenty years later, he suddenly realized what the end of the world meant.

The disaster broke out in the year Lin Duoduo was born. Now she has grown up, and those zombies have grown old.

It has been many years since the disaster.

"That means this land is not that dangerous?" Bai Xiao was pedaling the tricycle. He felt Lin Duoduo getting on the tricycle, but it was still not difficult to ride.

"Have you forgotten the mouse?" Lin Duoduo said, holding the stick.

As the sun gradually rose, the coolness of the early morning quickly dissipated and the temperature began to rise.

There was silence between heaven and earth.

Bai Xiao bumped along the country road for nearly an hour before he reached the highway. The tricycle suddenly became much more stable and no longer difficult to drive on.

Thick dust covered the original road. Lin Duoduo held a stick, like an emotionless god of war. Occasionally, old zombies approached on the road, and she knocked them away with the stick. Bai Xiao took the opportunity to speed up, pedaling the tricycle frantically and leaving it behind.

This was completely different from what Bai Xiao had imagined before he went out, fighting zombies.

There wasn't even a sense of fighting at all. All I saw was Lin Duoduo beating the zombies with a stick.

There are some villages and shops along the roadside, but there are few people around, only the occasional zombie coming out of the yard.

"There used to be a family living here with a child, including a woman in her forties. I wonder if they have left." Lin Duoduo said while looking in the direction of the village from afar as they passed by a village called Baiyang.

Bai Xiao took a look and saw that the village was quiet.

Lin Duoduo had no intention of exploring further, she just remembered this incident.

In fact, they didn't know each other. They had just met each other from a distance twice when they passed by each other before. The first time, both sides were indifferent and cautious, and the second time, they didn't speak either. They just greeted each other from a distance and then walked away.

Bai Xiao discovered that whenever he passed by the village, Lin Duoduo would be holding a gun.

In the end times, as long as the two parties are not familiar with each other, most of them will keep a considerable distance. Even if they happen to meet, they will pass by each other from a distance and avoid meeting unless necessary.

This is what her mother taught her. Her mother was one of those who struggled through the disaster and experienced the most difficult years. Those years when the disaster first broke out were very chaotic, with many people and many things. Her mother saw and heard a lot of things and told her a lot, which left a deep impression on her.

Later, the number of people decreased, and the survivors gradually got used to the post-disaster life and became stable. Nowadays, perhaps such incidents are much less common, but those who experienced the first few years still maintain the habits of that time.

Lin Duoduo suddenly felt like laughing.

Humans are on guard against humans.

But when he encountered a zombie, he made another choice.

Lin Duoduo glanced at Bai Xiao who was riding a tricycle. Maybe it was because he was not very smart... right?

(End of this chapter)