This is apocalyptic

Chapter 35: People of the Previous Generation

After walking back a little along the path, they stepped onto the bluestone road in the village. Lin Duoduo looked around at the dilapidated houses that she had not paid much attention to before.

"If you have nowhere to go, you can find a house that looks better, remove the grass in the yard, and do some repairs. No one lives here anyway."

"Let's wait a bit." Bai Xiao said, "What if I can't handle it? I'll happily build a house of my own, but when I'm about to move in, I'll find out I'm going to die. That would be too painful."

Lin Duoduo withdrew her hand that was pointing at the houses, nodded and said nothing.

When I first started weeding, I began looking forward to the day I could move in. As the house became more and more tidy, this hope became stronger and stronger. Then, suddenly I found that I couldn't bear it. It was really too cruel.

After returning home, Lin Duoduo boiled water with the roots of the herb. She not only gave it to Bai Xiao to drink, but also drank a large bowl of it herself.

Just like dandelion and wild chrysanthemum, it can clear away heat and detoxify.

Bai Xiao was very satisfied after successfully getting another meal.

Although he is the Zombie King, he really doesn’t know how to survive in this land if he doesn’t eat Lin Duoduo’s food.

So when Lin Duoduo was cooking, he squatted aside and watched, writing down every edible thing and learning secretly.

It seems that living in such a mountain village is not difficult, as long as you are on guard against possible wild beasts. But if you really try, you will find that you don't know where to start.

After dinner, Lin Duoduo rinsed her feet with running water and went back to the house. Bai Xiao remembered that he hadn't done the radio gymnastics today, and suddenly felt a little anxious, so he started jumping while standing there.

The pile of things scavenged were still in the car and had not been sorted out today. Bai Xiao did not mention how to divide them, and Lin Duoduo did not say anything either. In fact, there was no need to divide them so clearly, after all, he was still eating for free.

If I clear out a house and live in it, Lin Duoduo will probably give me a share. If I die, I won't have to move around. Or if she's been eating out for a long time, I'll have to follow her and eat with her often, so there's no need to give her a share.

The wind became cooler after nightfall and there were some insects chirping outside. Bai Xiao finished his radio gymnastics and moved his wrists to feel if there was any discomfort.

When Lin Duoduo woke up early in the morning and was still asleep, she heard a loud bang outside.

She was startled and jumped out of bed, grabbed the gun and looked out the window.

The shed collapsed, and Bai Xiao, covered in dust, was standing up from it.

Lin Duoduo put away her gun and ran out, looking at the zombie in the yard, not understanding why the shed suddenly collapsed.

"I wanted to do a pull-up exercise..." Bai Xiao was a little embarrassed and avoided Lin Duoduo's sight. He looked strong, but he was buried after doing two.

Lin Duoduo looked at him without saying anything.

Bai Xiao continued to feel awkward, brushing off the dust on his body, "It's not very solid, I've done the quality inspection for you, just in case you come here to look for tools or chop wood one day and it suddenly collapses and breaks."

"Is it okay?"

"It's okay, zombies are all thick-skinned."

Bai Xiao checked it and found only some scratches. "I'll fix it for you another day."

Early in the morning, before the sun came out, Bai Xiao stood in the yard looking at the ruins.

After Lin Duoduo finished brushing her teeth, he handed her the clean grass and said it was time to change the medicine.

Lin Duoduo glanced at him, took it, put it in her mouth, chewed it, and then passed it over.

After changing the medicine on the scratched part of his hand, Bai Xiao handed over a few more pills and said, "It's just a little scratched."

Lin Duoduo continued chewing with an expressionless face.

Bai Xiao also applied the scrapes on his arm, touched his back, picked up a few more pieces, washed them, and handed them to Lin Duoduo.

Lin Duoduo's cheeks felt a little sore from chewing. She looked at him expressionlessly, went to the side room, found a clay pot and a small wooden hammer, and threw them directly to him.

Bai Xiao felt that it was not a big deal to have Lin Duoduo's saliva all over his body, so he went to the side silently to make medicine himself.

"I'm going to visit Aunt Qian. If you have nothing to do, pick some elm seeds and bring them back. The elm seeds are probably a bit old now, so bring more." Lin Duoduo sorted out the things on the tricycle and said as she took the bag of sugar and most of the bottle of wine she had opened on the road, and picked out a new bottle, preparing to go to Aunt Qian's place.

"Can I come along?" Bai Xiao turned around and took out his sunglasses.

Lin Duoduo looked at him in confusion.

"You're the only living person I've ever seen. Since you live in the village, it would be nice to visit you." Bai Xiao said, "If I can't make it, I'll have someone to know before I die. If you make it, we can be neighbors at least."

He paused, "And what if I'm out walking one day and she comes looking for you, and she doesn't recognize me and hits me with a hammer?"

"Then hide your eyes and the infected wound." Lin Duoduo said.

Bai Xiao carried a bamboo basket and held a hoe and a stick. The zombie king acted like a follower and went out with Lin Duoduo.

I met Uncle Cai on the road. He still didn't recognize me and limped in the distance, like a villager guarding this shabby little village.

The winding path goes straight up.

Aunt Qian lived a long way from the village, in a remote and secluded place. She moved there because of the high ground at first, so she could observe more areas and be safer when facing zombies. Gradually, the zombies became less dangerous and there were fewer people in the village. She got used to it and didn't think about moving.

Later, only two women, one old and one young, were left in the village.

Lin Duoduo knocked on the door, and a low voice asked, "Who?"

"I'm back from scavenging." Lin Duoduo said.

The rusty door opened, revealing the figure of a woman behind the door. She looked very happy, but her eyes froze when she saw Bai Xiao behind her.

"he is……"

"He was injured in the city, and I caught... and saved him." Lin Duoduo explained.

Aunt Qian stared at Bai Xiao for a moment. Bai Xiao was wearing sunglasses, and his heartbeat suddenly quickened under her sharp gaze.

Bai Xiao then realized that Aunt Qian was not an old person, but a ruthless person who had lived in this sparsely populated land since the disaster broke out twenty years ago.

Her former lover still limps around the village.

When picking up rubbish in the city, the young woman in the photo that Lin Duoduo showed him was hard to associate with the person in front of him. Only the shadow of the person in the photo could be vaguely seen in her eyes and eyebrows.

Aunt Qian looked at him for a moment, then retracted her gaze, stepped aside and said, "Come in."

The yard was much larger than the one where Lin Duoduo lived. It was a wall between two residences that had been demolished. However, it was not as clean as Lin Duoduo's yard, and weeds were growing along the wall.

As I stepped into the yard, I suddenly felt a sense of dusk, as if the yard itself had a life and had reached the other end of time.

There is a vegetable garden near the west wall, with fruits and vegetables hanging on the poles.

The threshold of the main house was almost worn away. There was a very old stool there and a rifle standing next to the threshold.

The butt of the rifle looked patinaed, far inferior to that of Lin Duoduo's homemade rifle.

(End of this chapter)