This is apocalyptic

Chapter 25: Zombies in the city are always happier

Bai Xiao took the piece of paper.

Lin Duoduo said: "The last time I walked this road, it wasn't there. It seems that this happened in the more than half a month since I rescued you."

"Yes, catch him back." Bai Xiao said as he looked at the information on the piece of paper.

"Oh."

Lin Duoduo nodded.

"..." Bai Xiao raised his head after realizing it belatedly. He was stunned for two seconds, then lowered his head again and shook the paper: "I said, how could there be no survivors living there."

"Here we have food, fortresses, and companions who are united together. If you see this message, please remember that there are many people like you who are trying to survive. If it is difficult to survive, you can also come here."

There is also an address below.

The information on the paper was obviously intended for the survivors scattered across the land, whether they were scavengers who came to the city or people who lived nearby.

Bai Xiao turned to the back of the paper and saw a simple hand-drawn map with the location marked on it.

"Is Chenjiabao far away?" Bai Xiao asked.

"I don't know, it seems..." Lin Duoduo looked at the hand-drawn location, thought for a while and said, "We are almost in the next city."

"So far?" Bai Xiao was surprised.

"It's okay. If they were closer, I would have seen them a long time ago." Lin Duoduo said, "If I hadn't taken you away that day, you might have run into them."

"It may not be a good thing." Bai Xiao flicked the paper, "You don't seem interested?"

Lin Duoduo said: "It's written that if it's hard to live, you can go. My life is not hard."

"Just say you don't believe it." Bai Xiao saw that she was not interested in clusters and guessed, "Has this happened before?"

"There have been several times, and the address was different each time. There was one very close to Linchuan City before, and they also said they would live together, but after observing from a distance for a few times, I found that all they needed were strong laborers and women."

"and after?"

"Then they disappeared. That kind of team can easily go wrong." Lin Duoduo said, "If you haven't been infected, you can go and take a look at this." She glanced at the piece of paper and thought, "It's a little different that they can come from so far away."

"But I was infected." Bai Xiao said.

"What a pity." Lin Duoduo said.

"In fact, coming from such a long distance is also a problem." Bai Xiao said, "If it really develops well, it will slowly attract survivors. Maybe there is no need to find people, many people will find it on their own."

"That's possible." Lin Duoduo did not refute. What she cared about was whether she would meet strangers.

"My mother told me that it's best to never gather together while you can survive. Unless there is order."

For a young woman, rushing over excitedly after seeing a message is tantamount to gambling with her life.

We kept walking towards the city center. Occasionally, we saw broken bones on the road. Lin Duoduo said that it was a long time ago when it was still dangerous. Those people were infected or killed by animals.

The closer you get to the city center, the more tall buildings there are and the wider the streets are, but they are just as quiet.

Bai Xiao discovered the difference between zombies in the city and zombies in the wild.

Although they were all old zombies, there were many buildings in the city, so even if they had no reason at all, they could avoid a lot of wind and sun while wandering around. Some zombies were trapped in buildings, and they looked much dignified than the old zombies in the wild. At least their clothes were not hanging on their bodies in strips. He even saw a white zombie trapped in a building.

"Will this creature trapped in the city be more difficult to deal with than one in the wild?" Bai Xiao did not release it, but went to try and see if it was more powerful.

"One thing is that it at least decays slower than old zombies in the wild. When wild zombies fall down under the wind and rain and cannot get up, this zombie can still hold on for a long time," said Lin Duoduo.

"It seems that even a zombie needs a house in the city." Bai Xiao took another look at the white and thin zombie.

How many people are there in a city? Bai Xiao didn't know, but even if only 10% of the people were infected when the disaster struck, it would still be a huge number.

Fortunately, they are all old, rotten in batches, and have been cleaned up again and again by scavengers over the years.

In the first few years after the disaster, the city must have been a restricted area.

Even now, as they got closer to the city center, Lin Duoduo became more and more vigilant and did not relax like when she first entered the city.

It is easy to see dead bones on the streets. You don’t know whether they are human or zombies. After they rot and only the bones are left, there is no difference.

The city has stopped functioning. Even if all the zombies disappeared, it would be difficult to restart it without a large population. The dilapidated city will eventually become a dead ruin.

"Are we taking the wrong path?" Bai Xiao gradually felt a little tired. He knocked down the approaching zombies with a stick and broke their necks. His speed was slowed down and it was difficult to move forward.

The further you go in, the more zombies you see, in groups of three or five, occasionally popping out from houses on the street.

On the quiet streets, the movement of the tricycles easily attracted zombies. Fortunately, they walked very slowly, old guys, just maintaining their instincts after being infected. They were about the same speed as the old lady in the nursing home.

"It means we are on the right track."

Lin Duoduo looked into the distance, then at the tricycle, considering whether to park it nearby. On the empty street, the movement of the car would easily attract zombies.

"Let's hide the car over there first and explore the road." She made the decision, took out a bundle of ropes and some tools from the car and stuffed them into Bai Xiao's hands, then temporarily put the car down and hid it in a shop on the street.

Only in recent years have scavengers started to venture into the city center, and it is far less relaxed than the outskirts which have been cleaned up many times.

The city was covered with weeds, and the skinny corpses of zombies lay on the streets. The scavengers had cleared the road a few days ago. Although there were still zombies, the journey was much simpler than Lin Duoduo had expected.

Near the Civic Square, the huge square looked very similar to the photos taken by her family. She tried hard to identify the stone statue of a woman standing in the center.

The stone statue of a woman is holding a clay jar. In the photo, there are lights all around it, water is flowing out of the jar, and there are people all around it. Even at night, there are many people walking, resting, and dancing in the square.

This was the first time for Lin Duoduo to come here. Compared with the photo, it was completely the same except for the statue of the woman. The area around the square was overgrown with tall and lush weeds. Years of wind and sun without anyone to maintain it made it look old and damaged.

"It used to be very beautiful. I've seen it in photos." Lin Duoduo said that those photos were all her fantasies about the city in the past.

Bai Xiao pushed the zombies away and looked up. Under the setting sun, the statue was covered with a layer of orange.

"Maybe it can stand for another twenty years." Lin Duoduo suddenly said.

"Maybe even two decades." Bai Xiao said.

Assuming no one destroys it.

Twenty years is not long, but it is also very long. The zombies that once drove humans out of the city have become rotten after twenty years.

The tall buildings are still standing.

(End of this chapter)