This is apocalyptic

Chapter 272 271: Sleepless Night

The rain lightened up in the middle of the night.

By the early morning, there was only a drizzle and a hazy fog. Zhou Xu had turned into a zombie, struggling constantly, manic and restless. The wires binding his hands had sunk into his flesh. He rolled on the ground, covered with a layer of plaster, looking miserable and horrible.

Bai Xiao squatted on the ground and observed him, pinched his mouth open and poured another bowl of batter into it.

"Can you understand me?"

"Hello? What's this? You can answer with a nod."

"If you can understand, don't move. Stay still for a few seconds."

Bai Xiao kept asking questions, but was met with Zhou Xu's manic and disorderly roars, which made his heart sink.

"Not so fast." Lin Duoduo said in the coffin.

"is it?"

Bai Xiao relaxed a little after hearing this.

Among the people present, the only one who had raised zombies was Lin Duoduo. Even he, a former victim, did not know as much as Lin Duoduo did when he was infected. He had been in a blackout for a long time at that time. Occasionally, when he regained some consciousness, he would lie on the tricycle and sway. Then he would be blackout again. When he was distracted again, he was tied up with an iron chain. Then Lin Duoduo would poke him with a candle and a small stick.

At that time, he could not recognize people or understand what they were saying. He vaguely remembered that Lin Duoduo was trying to communicate, but he could hear Lin Duoduo talking but could not understand what she meant. His language function was basically lost, as if he was staring at a word that he clearly recognized but just didn't know who it belonged to.

"I seemed to be trying to talk to you at that time, and you slapped me twice, right?" Bai Xiao suddenly remembered something.

"No way, it was you who was screaming at me and wanted to bite me." Lin Duoduo said.

"Yeah."

Bai Xiao thought about it for a while, but couldn't remember.

The waiting time is boring.

Bai Xiao cooked something else to eat. Since they hadn't eaten yet, he gave Zhou Xu a bowl of porridge first. He found the supplies Zhou Xu brought with him from his broken car and stuffed them into the coffin.

"Hey, there's also candy." Lin Duoduo said in the coffin.

"To replenish energy."

"Give him one?"

"Zombies don't need to eat shit. What a waste. Eat it yourself." Bai Xiao said.

"Mmm... so sweet."

Lin Duoduo hid in the dark coffin, the only light coming from the small window covered with gauze.

Back then she rode a tricycle to pull the zombies home, and now the zombies carry her on their backs in a coffin.

"It is bright."

"Ah."

Bai Xiao squatted beside the coffin. The man on the ground was even more rotten, and pus and blood were oozing out of his clothes.

"You are not dead yet." Bai Xiao said when he saw him looking over here.

The man with the abscess didn't speak, he just watched the monster squatting there, and occasionally talked to the human in the coffin.

Bai Xiao stretched his body and suddenly remembered that he hadn't done radio gymnastics for a long time. He kicked Zhou Xu aside and stretched his muscles.

The rotting reveler was in a trance for a moment.

Looking at a tall and strong monster, facing the sun, doing the actions from deep in his memory, from thirty or forty years ago, a feeling of absurdity rose from the bottom of his heart.

So many years ago, groups of students stood on the playground and performed uniform movements.

Looking into the distance, the earth looked desolate in the morning light.

The zombies are still roaring.

The coffin was placed on the table, conspicuous enough.

In the devastated ruins of Chenjiabao, the only normal person is a human living in a coffin.

Bai Xiao's crotch tore again. His pants were so flimsy before the disaster.

He fed Zhou Xu another bowl of batter, but he didn't spit it out, which was a good thing. Bai Xiao was picking and choosing in the ruins of Chenjiabao. Zhou Xu had now turned into a zombie, the rotten man was about to die, and Lin Duoduo was hiding in the coffin and couldn't come out. Only he could move freely.

He kneaded the flour into dough, intending to make noodles for humans to eat, but then he looked at the sauerkraut and the green onions from Chenjiabao and spent an entire afternoon making dumplings with sauerkraut and green onions.

"What is this?" Lin Duoduo asked.

"Dumplings." "Aren't dumplings noodles and meat soup?" She remembered what the zombie taught her. The two of them cooked a black noodle soup together in the mountain village. After drinking a bowl of hot soup, she felt very comfortable and delicious. The zombie said that it was dumplings.

“That’s wrong.”

Zombies feed humans through a small window.

"good to eat!"

"It's just like that. Pork and green onions are delicious. No."

Bai Xiao sat on the ground. It was a happy thing to be able to eat dumplings after the apocalypse.

He looked at the rotten man and threw one over, "Try it too."

Then he pinched Zhou Xu's mouth open and stuffed one in.

"How great is this? Why do you have to kill me and I kill you? Wouldn't it be better for us to live together?" said the zombie.

No one answered.

It was evening again, and a cool breeze blew from afar.

Zhou Xu, who had been struggling, had a moment of silence, but before Bai Xiao could ask him anything, he became angry again.

His hands, bound with wire, were covered in blood.

"Was he quiet just now?" Bai Xiao turned around.

"It seems so..." Lin Duoduo also leaned close to the small window of the coffin.

"I used to be like this?"

"You're much quieter than him. That's why I arrested you because you were so quiet."

Bai Xiao looked at Zhou Xu who had turned into a zombie. There was no rationality in Zhou Xu's eyes.

The immune system goes crazy.

The good news is that Zhou Xu did not vomit what he ate, his body temperature continued to rise, and there was no sign of death.

The rotten man was holding on. Bai Xiao suspected that he should have died long ago, and now he was holding on with his last breath, wanting to see Zhou Xu fail.

But everything is getting better.

In the middle of the night, Zhou Xu became quiet again, and this time he was quiet for a little longer. He did not scream, but lay on the ground and tried to sit up.

After failing to sit up twice, he began to struggle again, roaring wildly, as if angry or impatient.

Bai Xiao looked at him quietly in the darkness.

"It seems like he's getting better." Lin Duoduo didn't sleep either.

It was late at night and no one was resting.

Just watching the zombies occasionally become quiet for a moment, and then go crazy again.

This says it all.

"You can bite me now." Lin Duoduo said with a smile in her voice.

She will become like a zombie, and will no longer be protected by zombies in a coffin, nor will she stay in the building, like a princess in a castle, watching the zombies go out wearing helmets.

That winter, she stayed in the building, watching the zombies roaming around in the ruins hunting, and she wanted very much to stand with the zombies.

"Look again."

Bai Xiao also felt that the situation was set, but he still wanted a more certain result.

No one can sleep.

They are all waiting for Zhou Xu to come back to life, whether he turns into a monster or maintains his current appearance.

Lin Duoduo lay in the coffin with her eyes closed.

She will also turn into a zombie, just as she had agreed with the zombies long ago, and the zombies will bite her.

Then she would hug, tear, and stick with the zombies, becoming highly integrated and indistinguishable from each other.

They coexisted together, became monsters together, and lived in the ruins.

(End of this chapter)