This is apocalyptic

Chapter 30: Fortunately, there is a helmet

Chapter 30: Fortunately, there is a helmet
After leaving the community, Bai Xiao was relieved that the tricycle hidden in the store was not picked up by anyone, although he was not too worried.

He opened the bundle and placed the contents neatly on the truck bed. He hesitated a little, "Do you want someone to watch the truck?"

"Need not."

Lin Duoduo looked around. Apart from the rotten zombies that had fallen to the ground and the old zombies that were still moving, there were no other signs of humans.

That group of people had a clear goal and would not run so far just to pick up trash in an ordinary residential building.

After hiding the tricycle in the shop, the two men walked across the square and returned to Xingfu Community to continue moving the harvest of the past few days.

When you are on the road, you don't have time to clean up the zombies, so you just poke them with a stick. But in a residential area, poking them with a stick is not very effective, you still have to break their necks.

Bai Xiao felt that the stick was becoming more and more convenient to use. Lin Duoduo walked in front and entered the building. He dealt with the zombies that followed them. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

There was a strange noise behind me, and it came towards me at a rapid speed.

Looking back subconsciously was an instinctive reaction, but it only lasted for a moment. Bai Xiao's experience living in the apocalypse came into play, and he forcibly restrained the impulse and rushed forward.

Bang!
Click...

A teeth-grinding sound was heard on the helmet, and Bai Xiao felt something bite him on the back of his helmet. He had no time to rejoice because he was ambushed and was furious. The irritability that he had been suppressing for the past few days suddenly surged up. He turned over and threw the thing off his back, and held it down with both hands using the stick.

The stick was stuck on the thing's neck, and Bai Xiao could see clearly what it was at this moment. It was a cat. To be precise, it looked like a big cat. It was very large. It did not have a cute appearance, but only wild eyes and a fierce look. Its red eyes revealed madness.

"Help..." Bai Xiao shouted. The animal under his command was struggling hard. It was difficult to control it because it was getting restless and was about to break free. Bai Xiao only shouted one word, then suddenly lowered his head and hit it with his hard helmet.

Feeling the force of the struggle ease for a moment, and then become even more violent, Bai Xiao didn't have time to think about it and continued to hit it on the head several times in succession.

This thing is much more dangerous than the old zombies. It has the aura of a predator and is good at attacking from behind.

Fortunately, Lin Duoduo noticed something was wrong and came back. She was holding a gun, but when she got closer, she saw Bai Xiao pinning its neck to the ground with a stick. She pulled out her knife and thrust it into its neck. She stepped on the stick that Bai Xiao was holding and said, "Hold it down!"

The two men pressed its neck to the ground with a stick. As Bai Xiao's eyelids twitched, Lin Duoduo swung the knife several times, and its originally violent strength weakened.

"Are you okay?"

"Luckily I had a helmet."

Bai Xiao shook his head. The force was mutual. He was not feeling well from banging his head. He looked at the thick gloves on his hands, which were torn by the beast's struggle in just a short while.

"Let's go, we need to speed up." Lin Duoduo glanced around vigilantly and walked slowly behind Bai Xiao.

"I was wondering why you never shoot at zombies with a gun. It turns out that zombies are really not dangerous." Bai Xiao was still gasping for breath. The fight that just broke out was short, but very exhausting.

"You can actually suppress it." Lin Duoduo began to wonder if she had underestimated the Zombie King.

"It was almost impossible to hold it down. I hit it with my helmet with all my might. Didn't you see?"

Bai Xiao was still a little scared, "What is that?"

Infected cats? Why not old ones?

"Before the disaster, people would keep some pets. At first they were food for the zombies, but later they were no longer," said Lin Duoduo.

Bai Xiao climbed the stairs and said, "The zombies are old, how come they are still so strong?"

“Animals are different from humans.”

"Ok?"

Bai Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then a terrible guess emerged. He felt a chill on his back, and after a moment he said: "It... can reproduce?"

He finally knew where that strange feeling came from.

Even zombies will rot after more than 20 years. As long as we persist, victory will come sooner or later.

But what if the infected animals reproduced?
Lin Duoduo said: "We have to hurry, the smell of blood will attract many zombies and other predators."

Thanks to Bai Xiao carrying a lot of things into the car at one time, he didn't have to run many times and pick up the rest. Lin Duoduo took out the whole box of wine and stuffed them one bottle at a time into the big bag on her back.

Carrying a big bag, Lin Duoduo avoided the zombies attracted by the smell of blood, and followed Bai Xiao vigilantly with a gun in hand to avoid the appearance of its kind again.

After walking across the square and putting all the stuff on the tricycle, it was hard to fit another person on the bed. Bai Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the green neighborhood in the distance with some fear.

The trees sway in the wind, presenting a thriving and stable scene, and the ivy quietly climbs on the outer walls of the buildings.

"It feels so good to be alive." He was very nervous just now because he didn't know whether the creatures that turned into monsters would still live in groups.

I used to think that life of picking up scraps with the surviving humans was meaningless, but now I still think that it’s better to be alive.

"Maybe we should come in winter." Bai Xiao looked at the green bushes that hid the danger.

Lin Duoduo released the handbrake and pushed the tricycle forward with a squeak. "Nothing is perfect. In winter, they lack food, so they will hunt more fiercely."

"..."

"Just try to live."

Lin Duoduo pushed the tricycle out of the shop. She didn’t want to stay here any longer.

The danger in the city center is not getting lower or higher, but it is very strange. At the beginning, it is extremely dangerous and becomes a restricted area. After many years, the danger gradually decreases as the zombies age, and then after a few more years, it will gradually increase again.

Now is the window period.

In the future, this city probably will not belong to zombies or humans, but to various animals.

Now it has begun to take shape, with the city center completely transformed into a huge botanical garden.

"There are too few people." Bai Xiao said.

"Well... my grandpa speculated that many years later, the survivors would choose a few cities to start developing, and other cities would become like this, but it would take many, many years." Lin Duoduo said, "Linchuan City is obviously the one that was abandoned."

"Your grandfather has made such a speculation?"

“If that happens, they said let me go to one of the cities.”

"What if it doesn't happen?"

"My father disagreed with him and they argued a lot, especially after it was discovered that animals reproduced... and those animals were infected with viruses that were deadly to the humans who survived."

"Fatal?" Bai Xiao looked down at the wound on his hand.

"Ah."

Bai Xiao was silent for a while, then said, "I'm done."

"what?"

Lin Duoduo turned around and followed his gaze, suddenly a little panicked, "Didn't you say everything was fine?"

"It didn't bite me to death, so I feel it's okay." Bai Xiao was a little scared by her, "What's wrong? Will I become like it...hmm..."

At this point he was stunned, and said uncertainly: "I am a zombie—"

"Ah." Lin Duoduo was stunned.

"So...if it infects me and I become like it, then..." Bai Xiao thought for a moment, "Is it able to reproduce?"

Lin Duoduo was silent.

Bai Xiao was also silent.

No one knows whether the infected people will be infected again.