This is apocalyptic

Chapter 246 245: Useful

At night, there was a clicking sound in the living room. It was the sound of high heels walking. Bai Xiao said that stockings must be matched with this kind of shoes, so Lin Duoduo tried it. It was a very strange thing. I don’t know why people wore this kind of shoes before the disaster.

I walked crookedly, which was not something I was used to at all.

"And then there have to be skirts."

Lin Duoduo changed into her skirt and looked at herself in the mirror under the candlelight. In the dim light, she saw the person in the photo before the disaster.

It was herself.

"You said that you used to live in a place without zombies. Are the people there like this?" She touched the mirror and her fingers touched with the person in the mirror.

The person inside was completely different from the girl who was picking up rubbish on a tricycle four years ago. She was almost unrecognizable.

"Yes."

The zombie stood behind Lin Duoduo and looked down at her in the mirror.

Lin Duoduo tilted her head left and right, turned crookedly, and looked at the back, "It's great."

It seemed as if there were really no zombies, no hunger, no struggle, and no monsters wandering among the endless ruins and broken walls.

From this pair of shoes, she can feel how relaxed she was more than 20 years ago, which is more intuitive than what others describe, because this kind of shoes is neither convenient for walking nor running, and one can only wait for death when encountering danger. When she was scavenging, she often saw their shadows in those houses and shoe cabinets.

She stretched out the index fingers of both hands, poked the corners of her mouth into a smile, and looked at the woman in the mirror.

"Does she look like my mother?" Lin Duoduo suddenly realized that the person in the mirror looked very familiar.

She went back to her room and found the photos of her parents in her bag. Then she went back to the mirror and saw the shadow of her young mother in the photos in her eyes and eyebrows.

"Hmm... about six points like him."

Bai Xiao discovered that she had grown up in the past few years. He didn't notice it before, but now that her features had softened, they had become similar.

Lin Duoduo was very happy. She looked in the mirror again and again. The past era that her parents had described became a concrete picture in her eyes.

"Stand here, stand here." She waved her hand, pulled Bai Xiao over, faced the photo, and wanted him to stand in the same posture.

But the zombies are too big.

It is difficult to imitate the standing posture of Lin Huayou and his wife in the photo.

Lin Duoduo pressed his shoulders and made him squat down. She fiddled with it for a while, comparing it with the mirror and photos. The people of the previous generation, she and the zombies, all stood in exactly the same posture.

"How did you make this thing?" She really wanted to capture the zombie in the mirror and herself, just like the photos her parents left behind.

"There's nothing we can do..."

The zombie shrugged, "Don't you think there's anything wrong?"

"what?"

"There are two people in the photo. They are a handsome man and a beautiful woman. But you standing with a zombie is scary no matter how you look at it."

"I think it's pretty good."

The previous generation had its own style, and this era has its own characteristics.

There were still a lot of people at that time, and there were a lot of people in the background of the photo. Now we can’t find so many people. If I really had a camera and went outside to take pictures, there would be a lot of zombies in the background.

Lin Duoduo felt that this was normal. Where were there no zombies?

When the zombies took her away from the mountain village, they said they wanted to take her to see the scenery outside and to the city to experience life before the disaster. They were not just talk.

The girl who lived in the ruins, was born and grew up after the disaster, and thought she would be trapped in a closed mountain village all her life until she died, now has a new life and experience.

In a trance, time and space changed, as if I had stepped back into the era without zombies.

Lin Duoduo was very happy. All the struggles and hardships she had endured in those years were meaningful. It would be a pity if she died in the village like that. The hotter the summer, the bluer the sky. Large, clean, soft white clouds floated in the sky.

The weeds on the street also looked a little listless, being baked by the sun.

The Zombie King was walking on the deserted street carrying a coffin on his back, followed by Monday with his hands tied with chains.

The coffin was smeared with some of Ge Xia's blood from his wound. With this little blood, Monday had his hands tied with iron chains, wore a motorcycle helmet, and carried a basket on his back, following the Zombie King.

No one can be lazy here, even the little monsters need to test whether the food is poisonous and whether it can be eaten.

Of course I have to work on Monday too.

When scavenging in the city, it can not only carry the basket on its back, but sometimes when it picks up something large, it can also pull a cart and follow Bai Xiao.

——Fresh zombies are more useful than old zombies.

Ge Xia stayed at home to look after the house, while the Zombie King took Zhou Yi and Lin Duoduo to wander outside. They walked among groups of zombies, said hello to the old zombies, and looked for anything delicious to eat in the remote area.

This area has not been raided by scavengers and is still a restricted area.

I found a patch of figs in the old town, not yet ripe, it had grown so big that I hadn't recognized it before.

Because the ones he had seen before were potted plants, and this tree was at least six or seven meters tall, Bai Xiao passed by it several times but didn't recognize it until it had borne fruit.

"Monday will come in handy in two months."

The Zombie King looked up at the big tree with dense branches and leaves. He bet that the tree grew to this size after the apocalypse.

The original walls were collapsed by it.

There are some bugs on the tree, but Ge Xia must not see them. The child has a mysterious liking for bugs. The evidence is that she is often seen roasting some small bugs and putting them in her pockets while making a fire, and she thought the zombies and Lin Duoduo didn't notice.

Then when I wake up early in the morning, my lips are sometimes dark.

It's obvious that he's eating bugs in the bed.

Fortunately, most of the trees in the community have been cut down and cleared, leaving only some stumps, so there are not so many insects to find.

It was a bit cool under the shade of the tree, so Bai Xiao let Lin Duoduo out of the coffin to enjoy the cool air, while looking up to see if there were any larger fruits he could taste.

Seeing that the branch had changed color slightly, he waved his hand and lifted Lin Duoduo up. Lin Duoduo was held high by the zombies and he reached out and picked the fruit.

"Is it edible?" She had never eaten it.

"You'll know after you peel it." If it's fully ripe, you don't need to peel it, but it's still very green now, so I don't know if it's ripe.

Bai Xiao locked Zhou Yi aside, threw the old zombie that was approaching far away, and sat on the coffin with Lin Duoduo, enjoying the cool under the shade of the tree.

The wind was cool and the branches and leaves were swaying.

"Hmm, it's still a little astringent, but delicious!" Lin Duoduo peeled off the skin, tasted it, praised it, then looked up at the lush trees, and her mood immediately improved.

There are not many old houses here that are still intact. Even before the disaster, they were very "old". After twenty years of abandonment, many of them were swallowed by grass and trees.

Therefore, in the old city, there is a feeling of being in the suburbs, and broken bricks and tiles occasionally appear faintly among the grass and trees.

Under the shade of the trees, zombies and humans sat together.

The wind ruffled Lin Duoduo's hair and blew away Monday's roar.

"Pick another one!" Lin Duoduo encouraged the zombie.

The zombie lifted the human up again, above his head, and said, "Find the one that has changed color. Don't take the one that hasn't."

"I know. I'm not as stupid as you."

(End of this chapter)