This is apocalyptic

Chapter 255: The Last Winter

Bai Xiao pinched Lin Duoduo's ankles and rubbed them gently. She had accumulated a lot of health problems over the years in the last days, but they were just minor injuries and pains that she didn't take seriously. They only showed up when she was tired.

As minor ailments accumulate, they will become more and more difficult to bear as you age, but few people can live to that age, so they don't care much about them.

Humans can't be compared to zombies, zombies don't have so many minor problems.

After a rain, the temperature dropped a little.

The Zombie King went to a factory in the suburbs and dug up a few wild grape plants there to see if they could be grown. He then inserted a few bamboo poles next to the former garbage room for the vines to climb.

These bamboo poles were brought back from the park. There was originally a small bamboo grove in the park, but later on there was no one there and it was full of zombies. No one cared about it, and over the years there were no restrictions, so they grew outside the park.

Bai Xiao found himself getting busier and busier, and there seemed to be no end to the things to do. Not only did he have to harvest here, but the figs were also gradually ripening, and the water chestnuts and lotus pods, as well as the pomegranates from the old city were also hanging on the trees.

Many of them were collected by Lin Duoduo, so this winter will not be as difficult as last year.

On the way, he passed by the big locust tree in the old city and found that the leaves were a little yellow. Then he realized that the previous period was the autumn heat of the beginning of autumn. When summer is about to pass, the weather will be even hotter for a while.

The lush greenery in the city understands the changing of seasons better than people do.

The bugs have also grown fatter. Ge Xia is often seen taking out her small bottle filled with her snacks during her afternoon break.

This was familiar to Lin Duoduo. When she was in the mountain village, she would also carry a basket and walk around at this time, going into the mountains to look for food.

There were traces of scavengers outside, but they didn't come in. The city center and the suburbs seemed like two different worlds, they were inside and the scavengers were outside, and they didn't disturb each other.

It has been hot for a while, but the weather is no longer so hot and we don’t have to hide in the corridor to escape the heat at noon.

The Zombie King took Monday out, and Monday carried an empty basket. When he came back, it was full of figs. Fresh zombies are much more useful than old zombies if they are put to good use.

Ge Xia's leg injury has healed, and there is no way to smear the blood from her wound to attract zombies, so Lin Duoduo smeared her menstrual blood instead, and the effect was the same.

For this reason, she squinted her eyes at the Zombie King for a long time, until the Zombie King couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to beat her up, then she looked away.

It seemed like good news that no one came to disturb. Either the ruins were too large and had not been found yet, or the bowl of blood took effect, so there were more important things. Bai Xiao hoped it was the latter.

After bringing back all the fruits from the tree, he took the time to visit the settlement again. This time he didn't need to follow the slow people, so he was much faster and it only took him seven days to go back and forth.

There are not many zombies on the road, and the old zombies in the wild are almost extinct. Compared with four years ago, those already rotten zombies have survived another four years, and most of them have turned into dust and fallen in the fields.

Everything is becoming silent.

At that time, he and Lin Duoduo still had to use sticks to poke the old zombies on the road, but now zombies are the local specialties of the city.

When we got near the settlement and looked from a distance, we could see that there had not been any major changes in the settlement.

It may have been one of the places where revelers gathered before, but now it has become a mixed group, some people want to live, and some people live to watch others die together.

In the desolate village, you can occasionally see human figures. This is the time for both humans and monsters to gain weight. This may be the last winter they will spend.

The environment has deteriorated rapidly in the past two years.

Everything reminds them that the end is near.

The huge zombies looked at them from afar, and no one noticed the terrifying figure in the distance.

After the figure left, Old Song, who was repairing the house on the roof, rubbed his eyes and asked someone to throw a telescope up. He took a closer look, but there was nothing there.

He suspected that he was dazzled, as if he saw a person, but he didn't look like a person. At this time, a whistle sounded in the distance. He raised his head and looked at the horizon, then turned over and jumped out of the house. The door was closed, and soon, a fluttering sound was heard.

In the early morning, dew condensed on the grass on the road.

After returning this time, Bai Xiao had a conversation with Lin Duoduo in the study.

"Ruins are ruins. Even with the vaccine, there is no guarantee that rescue will come." Lin Duoduo didn't think that the rescue she had been waiting for for twenty years would come.

"Before, because the infection was not resolved, there were not so many people left. There was no population to occupy the ruins, so there was little point in clearing the ruins, and it was a waste of manpower."

So Zhou Xu was alone at the time and unable to lead any rescue efforts, and could only hope to contact the revelers in the ruins.

"But if there is a vaccine, the ruins will definitely be recovered, and the sooner the better. It will be meaningless if it is too late."

Bai Xiao combined the notes left by Zhou Xu, Yu Ming, and Lin Duoduo's father, as well as what he saw and heard on the road last time. Without Lin Huayou's guidance, he now needs to think on his own.

Lin Huayou once imagined what would happen if a vaccine was available, but it would be different from the current environment.

Lin Duoduo looked at the zombie. It was clearly a zombie, but it made her see the shadow of her former father, the figure sitting in front of the desk in clothes under the candlelight late at night.

The two figures gradually overlapped, both hoping that she could survive.

This is amazing, two generations separated by twenty years, both turned into zombies, yet they had the same goal.

"Solving the infection problem is just the beginning. The next step is to gather the living people together."

If you don't care about the survivors, just announce that there are no survivors, and then bomb them with firepower - Lin Huayou had worried about this in the early years when the zombies were rampant.

But then, for some reason, he stopped worrying.

"If we delay for another two years, all the survivors in the ruins will die, and then it will be too late. As long as there is a vaccine, both the revelers and the survivors will be useful. Our goals are the same, but the processes have conflicted."

Bai Xiao said slowly.

"What you are talking about is what if there is a vaccine. What if there is no vaccine?" Lin Duoduo said.

"Then wait for death. It's only two years away. Next year or the year after, this may be the last winter you can survive."

"It's too awful."

Lin Duoduo climbed onto his legs and sat on them, looking at the open notebook, which was the notes left by her father.

She looked back and saw that the zombies looked particularly terrifying in the dim candlelight.

"What if there is one?"

"I'll send you in hungry and thin, and then you can sneak out. Or I'll snatch you out and directly block the road to steal the vaccine. There are many ways." said the zombie.

"I am a human and you are a zombie." Lin Duoduo laughed.

"Then you find someone to marry in there, and then I will go in and crush him to death." Bai Xiao said.

"What will you do if the ruins are reclaimed?"

"That's something we have to think about after we survive."

(End of this chapter)