This is apocalyptic

Chapter 29: Dangerous Flames
Lin Duoduo found a few books in the house, thought about it, and put them into her bag. Similarly, they didn’t take up much space.

Books are not very useful, but they are also very useful.

There is only one word difference between being alive and living, but it is the distance between when the disaster breaks out and more than 20 years later.

She was trying to live, not just exist.

Almost all the useful things in the room had been taken away. Lin Duoduo looked back, hesitated, and picked up the guitar that Bai Xiao had plucked.

Take it first. If there is room in the car, it won’t be a problem. If there is no room, just throw it away.

Scavenging doesn't always return with a full load, but this time, after only three days, I've already reaped a lot.

Maybe Bai Xiao is not that unlucky?
The branches and leaves of the big trees outside rustled in the breeze. Two hardworking guys were wandering around Building 13 of the Happy Home, going down floor by floor. Occasionally there were old bones and rotten zombies trapped in the house.

Now is not a good time, but it is also a good time. If there is another ten years, there may not be so many old zombies in the city, but it will become an animal paradise.

The urban greening of the past can no longer be called greening. No one takes care of it, and plants are madly covering the high-rise buildings in the city.

There are two elevators and four households in one unit. The corridor in the middle can also go to other units, a total of 12 households. Some houses have windows that are not closed tightly, so they can't be used. Lin Duoduo was busy for a long time, but in the end she didn't find the honey she had been thinking about, nor did she find the delicious and filling canned food. But unexpectedly, she found a lot of sugar.

It's quite satisfying.

Being able to eat something sweet in the end times will also make people happy.

Lin Duoduo moved all the things to another empty room, put them together, and wiped the sweat off her forehead. After rushing around picking up scraps these past few days, both of them were covered in dust, with gray and black streaks on their faces.

Bai Xiao was very worried that he would smell like a corpse and he felt uncomfortable all over.

"Here are the candles, the tools, over here is the box of wine, over there is the box of salt that we found..."

There are already quite a lot of miscellaneous things piled together. Except for salt, wine and sugar which are necessities of life, the others are things that you can live without, but it will be much more convenient with them.

He also stuffed away some good quality towels and ropes that looked like they could still be used, and he even wanted to take some thick winter clothes.

Bai Xiao looked at the group and suddenly found Lin Duoduo standing in front of the window, looking into the distance.

He moved closer. The outer walls and windows were somewhat obscured by the green plants, so the light was not very good, but he could vaguely see a column of smoke rising between the buildings in the distance.

"Is there someone else, a scavenger?" Bai Xiao estimated that the distance was not very close.

"Ah."

Lin Duoduo nodded. Zombies couldn’t make fire, and neither could animals. Only the surviving humans could control the dangerous flames.

"Zombies won't follow smoke to find people, and neither will animals. Only humans can." Lin Duoduo watched for a moment and said, "It's probably that gang. Normally, lone survivors like us wouldn't light fires and smoke in the city. Only a group of people would do this, and they wouldn't be afraid of others finding them."

She recalled the piece of paper she saw after entering the city and said, "They were also looking for survivors."

"Oh……"

Bai Xiao retracted his gaze and looked at Lin Duoduo. It was obvious that Lin Duoduo had no intention of joining in the fun. As for him, compared to the other survivor teams who had no idea where they came from, it would be better for him to hold on to Lin Duoduo and stay as he was.

If you get close to someone and drool at them, it wouldn't be surprising if you were shot.

"Almost done." Lin Duoduo turned around and took a look at the various tools and food piled together, and said, "We'll go back tomorrow."

"Aren't you here to help...who is that? Bring something?"

"Aunt Qian, we've found it." Lin Duoduo said.

"what?"

"Some old stuff, not very useful." Lin Duoduo turned around and looked around, collecting the photos in the room, putting them together and preparing to take them back to her.

He rummaged through the cupboard again and pulled out a stack of papers.

"She also has a child?" Bai Xiao saw that it was a stack of very old pregnancy test reports.

"No." Lin Duoduo put it back and closed the drawer.

Bai Xiao looked around the room and indeed did not see any children's toys or other signs that a child had lived there. Some of the houses he had looked in before also had children's rooms and children's toys.

"She wanted to come back a long time ago, but Uncle Cai scolded her, saying that these things were useless." Lin Duoduo was looking at a photo. In the photo, a young man and woman were smiling happily.

"Not really. People who lived before the disaster are different from people like us who haven't seen that time. Sometimes they are very depressed. Some have mental problems. Some feel hopeless and commit suicide. I didn't quite understand it when I was a kid, but later I figured it out. It's the gap."

Lin Duoduo held up the photo and said, "Look how good it was before."

In the photo, young Aunt Qian is standing on a bridge, wearing a sun hat and sunglasses, with her head tilted and leaning on a man.

"They used to live here. They could go out and find whatever they wanted to eat. There were no zombies on the road. There were only cars moving around, and they were running very fast."

Lin Duoduo took a look at him, put the photo away, and seeing that it was getting late, she took out the dry food she had prepared, ate a few bites, and drank some water.

She heard from her parents that living in the city was not like there are so many zombies now, and the cities used to be clean and beautiful.

Bai Xiao looked at her dark face and wanted to laugh, but he held it back.

It's getting late.

The two of them divided the things into several large bags so that they could be transported to the tricycle hidden halfway tomorrow, and then Lin Duoduo went to rest next door.

Bai Xiao tried hard to learn the advanced scrap picking experience of the survivors of the apocalypse.

I thought there wouldn't be much to pick up from the scraps, but after going in and out of the houses one by one, I gradually accumulated quite a lot.

Just like Lin Duoduo said when she came, if you are lucky, you don’t have to go anywhere else. The city is too big and this community is enough for you to search for a long time.

After staying in this building for a long time, Bai Xiao felt suffocated, so he walked around the rooms again.

Finally, they made it to dawn. They took down the metal clothesline on the balcony and tied it to the bundle. Bai Xiao tried it and found it was as sturdy as a shoulder pole. He just carried it on his shoulder. Lin Duoduo carried a bag in front, holding a stick and a gun to lead the way. He went downstairs sideways.

It was just daybreak, and the leaves of the plants were still covered with morning dew. When the zombies, who were originally hidden by the lush vegetation in the distance, heard the noise, they now had a target.

"I said two people are better than one. If you do it by yourself, how many times will it take you to finish moving it?"

"Well, the meal was not in vain."

The smoke and dust in the distance yesterday had disappeared, and the old zombies in the lush greenery were approaching, smelling the scent.

Walk slowly to the gate.

Lin Duoduo poked the zombie with grass growing on its head with a stick.

"It's strange that the grass looks good."

"Why doesn't it bite me?" Lin Duoduo just poked it lightly without using any force.

“Maybe it’s too old and some of its functions have decayed.”

(End of this chapter)