This is apocalyptic

Chapter 270 269: Before that, don't come back

"You believe me so much?"

The monster looked at the pendant in his hand.

“You’ve never bitten anyone, nor have you used humans for experiments. The two refugees you killed, the conflict a few years ago… and our first conversation outside the safe zone, I always believed you were human.

"To be honest, there is a plan to capture you, but it has not started yet. I did not report this time because I wanted to see if I could find you before them. If they fail again this time... you may never show up again."

The zombie stared at him for a long time.

"It seems you don't believe them either."

"I don't know who the enemy is anymore." Zhou Xu was a little pathetic and a little ridiculous, "You are definitely not."

Maybe just as the zombies guessed, there was once a chance for a vaccine to appear, but it was destroyed by humans.

Finally, it came to this.

"Hahaha……"

The zombie laughed, "You all deserve to die."

A sigh came from the coffin.

The zombie touched the coffin, his eyes swept over Zhou Xu, over the rotten man, over the barbed wire of Chenjiabao, and looked at the gloomy rain curtain. Everything, at this moment, was covered with a layer of blood in his eyes.

"I'm in a bit of a state right now..."

Bai Xiao couldn't tell what this change was. The humanity that had been struggling to maintain in the ruins was almost being swallowed up by instinct.

He tried hard to suppress his restlessness, put his big hand on the coffin, and then stretched out his other hand.

Zhou Xu threw the pendant over.

Zhou Xu sighed, already prepared, "What were you like when you were infected?"

"Nervous disorders, loss of speech, imbalance, agitation... a whole host of problems."

"You didn't... eat humans at that time?" Zhou Xu asked.

"I ate the wild vegetables she dug." The zombie patted the coffin. "This guy tied me up with an iron chain and took me home."

There was a hint of awe in Zhou Xu's eyes as he looked at the coffin.

This is the difference between him and the survivors of the ruins. People in the safe zone can never imagine why people in the ruins do this, nor can they imagine how lonely it is to live alone. They are so lonely that when they hear the noise of old zombies outside late at night, they feel at ease.

After twenty years of ups and downs, zombies have become a part of their lives for those who grew up after the disaster.

But for Zhou Xu, it was incomprehensible that a girl tied up a zombie and took it home, because he did not belong to the ruins.

The ruins and the safe zone have become two completely different worlds over the past twenty years.

"Surprised?" asked the zombie.

"It's really... hard to understand." Zhou Xu nodded. The safe zone would also capture zombies, but they were just used as experimental subjects.

The zombie smiled and his manic state eased a little. A memory flashed in his eyes. He was becoming more and more like a zombie on the road, but later he returned home and turned back into a human.

"This is its last burst of energy." Bai Xiao lowered his head and looked at his arms with bulging veins. After so many years of lurking, he thought he could completely suppress that instinct.

"What did you say?" Zhou Xu didn't hear clearly.

"Nothing." Bai Xiao shook his head.

In Zhou Xu's eyes, the zombies at this moment looked hideous and terrifying, as if they would get out of control at any time.

But his words were calm and rational.

The fight against the virus in recent years has become a subconscious instinct, the restraint day and night, the temptation to eat and sleep with humans, and the desensitization of putting fingers in his mouth from time to time.

Deep in those manic and bloodthirsty eyes lies clear mind.

Bai Xiao felt like a calm madman at this moment. He wanted to tear everything in front of him to pieces, but he could also sit here very calmly and talk to Zhou Xu about the symptoms of infection.

Madness is locked in a cage, but it can be released at any time.

Zhou Xu felt a chill all over his body when he was stared at by those eyes, and he instinctively looked away.

"Then...how did you become like this? I remember you were very...thin at that time." "You drank expired milk powder."

The zombie still stared at him and said, "And after this trip, I suddenly got wiser. I didn't need her to dig wild vegetables to feed me anymore. I could hunt by myself, and I caught a lot."

"She's not afraid of you..."

"She hits me and knocks my head every day." The zombie smiled. "To her, I'm not a monster. I'm just a bigger...stupid zombie."

Zhou Xu fell silent, and the zombies stopped making any sound either.

It's still raining.

"Are you ready?" The zombie knocked on the coffin and stuffed the pendant in through the window.

Zhou Xu is undoubtedly the most suitable person, who has taken all possibilities into consideration.

Zhou Xu just looked up at him steadily, "You will obey, right?"

"Who knows?" said the zombie.

"I remember that you were longing for the safe zone...at least you trekked out to find it."

“It’s more a yearning for order than a yearning for a safe zone.”

"If one day I am safe, I will go to the ruins to find you. Then you will know how they treat monsters." Zhou Xu said slowly, "Before that, don't come back."

"Is this an apology?"

"I'm sorry about what happened before."

The zombie turned his gaze to the rotting man, "As for the revelers, I remember your attitude back then was 'there are no enemies' and 'there are always people who change their minds and can be won over'."

"I mean the mob in the ruins." Zhou Xu smiled bitterly. "When they get together, fall in love, form a family, and have children, they will change their minds. But these people... they don't even have children. History is spiraling upward, and they want to take advantage of this low point to completely pull it into the abyss."

"Then... let's see who fate is on our side."

The zombie picked up an iron rod and poked Zhou Xu's leg, leaving a wound and blood gushing out instantly.

The tremendous pain made Zhou Xu's face twitch.

He...tui!

The zombie spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm.

"Spread it evenly."

In the dilapidated ruins of Chenjiabao, in the pouring rain, witnessed by scavengers in coffins and rotting revelers, this experiment was completed in an almost absurd form.

It was so careless that everyone was caught off guard.

Even Zhou Xu was still in a daze.

"This……"

"This is how we treat illnesses in the ruins."

Bai Xiao still remembers that Lin Duoduo also spit out the herbs with a tui, which was super disgusting.

After looking at Zhou Xu's wound, he turned around and found some wire. While Zhou Xu was still conscious, he tied his hands behind his back and tied them to the wire mesh behind him.

"When I was infected, I used a stick to break the legs of the zombie that infected me." Bai Xiao said, "It seems you can't do it."

"If I die, you go find Zhou Ling..." Zhou Xu's consciousness was being eroded, his infected legs were twitching, he gritted his teeth, his eyes gradually became bloodshot.

The voice turned into a roar.

Bai Xiao guessed that he was talking. He thought so too at the beginning. He thought he was talking to Lin Duoduo, but Lin Duoduo thought he was going to bite her, so she tied him up and stuffed a ball in his mouth.

He tore a large piece of Zhou Xu's clothes and threw it into the rain to get it wet, then brought it back and threw it on Zhou Xu's head. Bai Xiao remembered that he was in urgent need of cooling down at the time.

"Do you really think you are saving everyone?" the rotten man suddenly spoke.

"At least I'm not one of you crazy people. I want to live." The monster stood up from Zhou Xu's side.

(End of this chapter)