This is apocalyptic

Chapter 34: No Cheating

"Is there no symptoms that don't match? For example, an infected person would have a high fever, but I don't have a fever, so this is used to disprove the truth."

"Yes, wounds infected by animals will ooze pus and fester, and the flesh around the wound will lose vitality and become stiff."

Lin Duoduo put on her gloves, took Bai Xiao's hand and looked at it, then thought for a while and said, "It's just a slight inflammation at the moment, and it's really... the onset is very slow."

"That's good, there's still hope."

Bai Xiao calmed down. As the zombie king, even zombies couldn't bite him to death, so how could he fail here because of scratches?

It doesn't make sense.

He calmed down and said, "That grass... do you have any more? Chew it for me and apply it on me."

"Would you like to try white sugar?" Lin Duoduo understood his gestures. That kind of grass was the one her father taught her to use.

"Let's go with that grass. I applied that grass last time I was infected by zombies. I don't know if it's useful, but... according to the principle of success theory, it's better to keep it as it is."

"I need to go out and look for that grass. I don't have any on hand right now—"

She was still talking when she heard Bai Xiao swallowing.

Lin Duoduo raised her eyes and stared at him without saying a word.

"It's a good thing to keep a distance for the time being." Bai Xiao was a little embarrassed.

When you are walking on the street or riding in a car and see others eating, you may occasionally secrete saliva involuntarily. This is a normal physiological phenomenon.

Lin Duoduo washed herself clean and white, and this was not something he could control.

Fortunately, the sequelae of the infection have gradually stabilized. At least, I no longer drool like before.

"The sun is about to set, let's go find that herb." Bai Xiao turned around, found his braces and put them on, urging.

It was already past noon when they returned from town. The two of them took a shower and rested. It was now mid-afternoon.

Lin Duoduo stood up and asked, "Are you going too?"

"We have to learn some experience of living in this world. Now that we have gotten through this, what will we do in the future?"

"Too."

Lin Duoduo turned around to find the bamboo basket, put it on her back, took her knife and gun, and filled a pot of water before preparing to go out.

She asked Bai Xiao to bring a hoe.

Anyway, you have to go out, so if you see something edible on the way, just dig it up and bring it back.

Bai Xiao carried a hoe and followed Lin Duoduo curiously. There were many empty houses in the village, but most of them were overgrown with weeds, some of which were even taller than the walls.

It was a very dilapidated village. Some of the houses that had been uninhabited for a long time had even collapsed. Broken bricks and tiles were hidden in the green grass. It was a world of difference from the small courtyard where Lin Duoduo lived.

There is a big difference between a house with people living in it and a house without people living in it. Lin Duoduo does not live on the edge of the village, otherwise she could be distinguished from a distance.

They walked out of the village and met Erdan. Maybe it followed them into the village for a while when it came back from the town, then lost its target and wandered here. When it met them again, it staggered over.

But before it had followed for a few steps, it lost its target again and turned around in circles in a daze.

Lin Duoduo looked into the distance with the bamboo basket on her back. She hadn't gone to Aunt Qian yet. She originally wanted to take a rest before going there, but she didn't think of going to look for herbs.

As for the effect of the herbal remedy, it was just a last-ditch effort. The fact that Bai Xiao was able to survive the zombie infection actually had nothing to do with that herb. If it were that simple, so many people wouldn't have died.

It's simply what he can bear.

But Bai Xiao thought it was useful, so he applied it again.

Passing by the elm tree in the village, Lin Duoduo walked towards the mountain, and when she walked up a small slope, she slowed down her pace.

That kind of grass was easy to find. While Bai Xiaodong was looking around, Lin Duoduo had already squatted down, reached out to a wild flower that looked very common to him, and plucked some leaves for him.

"That's it?" Bai Xiao was stunned for a moment, then looked at the purple flower. He must have seen this kind of wild flower before. "Yeah."

Lin Duoduo handed him the leaves, took out a small shovel from the bamboo basket, and dug it out with the roots. "The roots are also useful. We can boil water to drink when we get home."

Bai Xiao hesitated for a moment while holding the leaf, then thought for a moment and said, "Can you help me chew it?"

Lin Duoduo looked up.

"I'm an infected person. If I come here alone, there might be cross infection..." Bai Xiao was worried that the wound on his hand would be infected with corpse spots again, so it was better to avoid it if possible.

Lin Duoduo thought it made sense, so she picked a few more leaves, chewed them in her mouth for a while, and then spit them out and gave them to him.

"It's a bit disgusting." Bai Xiao took the green ball. He was a little confused because of the infection before, so he used everything. Now looking at this ball, he suddenly doubted whether it was a good idea to apply it.

Seeing Lin Duoduo glaring, he quickly applied the medicine on his hand, took out the prepared cloth strip, and tied a knot on his hand.

"I was worried that you were cheating." Lin Duoduo curled her lips.

"How could you have such a disgusting idea?" Bai Xiao was surprised.

"This is more than the first or second time you've drooled over me." Lin Duoduo used a shovel to dig up the roots of weeds with an expressionless face.

Bai Xiao felt sad. He might not be able to get over this matter. In Lin Duoduo's eyes, he was just a zombie who drooled at people for no reason.

After digging up a lot of grass roots, along with leaves and flowers, Lin Duoduo explained again, "This flower can be dried to make tea, the roots can be washed and boiled in water, the leaves can be crushed and applied externally, or boiled in water, all can be used."

Bai Xiao was stunned for a moment, "Can it be crushed? Then why don't we take it home and crush it before applying it?"

"You couldn't wait for me to chew it." Lin Duoduo looked at him strangely.

"You didn't do it last time either."

"I was too lazy to pound it last time, so I just chewed it and applied it on myself." Lin Duoduo said.

Bai Xiao was silent.

He thought that the lysozyme and some other factors in the saliva would react with the herbs to enhance the effect.

After all, some folk remedies involve licking wounds with saliva, and animals often use this method to assist wound healing.

"Maybe chewing will be more effective." Thinking of this, Bai Xiao felt that chewing would be better.

Lin Duoduo stood up with a small shovel in her hand. Bai Xiao pointed to the distance and asked, "Is that wild wheat?"

"Yes."

"Are there seeds?" The husks of wild wheat are sometimes hollow, unlike the cultivated seeds that can yield a good harvest.

"It's very little, but I can eat it."

Lin Duoduo lowered her head and continued searching. She walked a long way and then squatted down again.

This time she dug up the wild roots that she had given to Bai Xiao to eat before. She didn't know what kind of plant's rhizome it was, and it didn't look like sweet potato. She dug it out and threw it into the bamboo basket, then walked around and pulled out a piece of grass to chew in her mouth.

Bai Xiao studied seriously. When he was a child, he could identify many edible wild vegetables in the fields, but he forgot about them later. Without much experience in surviving in the wild, he could only recognize things like Houttuynia cordata.

It was not until the sun was about to set that Lin Duoduo walked back with the bamboo basket on her back.

"Can you leave some for me?" Bai Xiao asked.

"You mean?"

"I want to recognize them and see them more." Bai Xiao said, "so I won't starve to death in the future."

"I'll let you carry it." Lin Duoduo thought for a moment, then took off the bamboo basket and handed it to Bai Xiao.

She was so stupid that she even forgot to let the Zombie King carry the basket along the way.

(End of this chapter)