This is apocalyptic

Chapter 41: People still have to eat meat
An old house, a desolate courtyard, and a deserted village.

A family that died of illness.

The words that came out of Lin Duoduo's mouth were indeed terrifying. Although this shouldn't be the case in this difficult world, it is difficult for people who have experienced information bombardment to forget the elements implanted in their genes.

Bai Xiao clasped his hands together and bowed towards the weeds in the yard to express his apology.

It is not an easy task to renovate a house that has been uninhabited for many years into a habitable residence. Not only do you have to weed and drive out insects, but you also have to do repairs. The roof is leaking in some places, and the walls have been damaged by tenacious weeds. They haven't collapsed yet, but they need to be reinforced, and there are many other miscellaneous things like that.

If there were more people, it would be quick to clean up, but with just one person, and Lin Duoduo helping out from time to time, it would take a long time.

Repairing a shed is a physical job, and Bai Xiao was very tired. He took a day off to relax. Then cleaning the yard was also a physical job, which was not easy at all.

All the tools were borrowed. Lin Duoduo had a room where all kinds of tools were kept, including farm implements, hoes, axes, and hammers. Probably when she was scavenging and saw something that she didn't have, she would bring it back and keep it there.

Early in the morning, before the sun came out, Bai Xiao put on gloves, carried a shovel, and went to the next yard. There were still dewdrops on the green grass. He opened the door and scared away a few birds.

He picked up a shovel and started working. The insects in the grass were disturbed and ran away in all directions.

He piled the cleared grass aside and waited for the sun to come out. After it was exposed to the sun for a while, he could use it as fire starter for Lin Duoduo to burn.

The Zombie King was working in the yard with a grunt. Lin Duoduo poked her head out from the top of the wall and watched from next door. She held a wild root in her mouth and ate it crisply like a sweet potato.

"I didn't expect I would have a new neighbor." She suddenly sighed.

Bai Xiao didn't want to pay attention to her. Everything was fine, but she insisted that a family died of illness here, and the remaining one died of depression.

"It's still just a zombie."

Lin Duoduo felt that the world was truly amazing.

"If you have nothing to do, can you... Damn it!" Bai Xiao poked out a snake, chopped off the snake's head with a shovel, and jumped aside in shock.

Seeing that Lin Duoduo was still waiting for him to finish speaking, Bai Xiao looked up hesitantly, thought for a moment, and suddenly forgot what he was about to say.

Lin Duoduo admired the sweat on the Zombie King's forehead. Perhaps it really was a sign that it was not just about surviving a zombie bite.

The dying village hadn't seen any new movement for a long time.

She felt that the village seemed to be regaining vitality, just like a touch of green growing out of the rotten tree roots. She even fantasized that there would be more people in the future.

As the sun gradually rose higher, Bai Xiao cleared a path leading to the main house, and then expanded to both sides with this path as the center.

He put all the earthworms he dug out of the soil into a box. Lin Duoduo saw it and asked, "Do you want to eat it?"

"No, it can be used for fishing." Bai Xiao said, "Anyway, I'm not afraid of bugs, and zombies won't look for me. Maybe I can catch some fish."

“The fish wasn’t very good.”

"Hmm...without much seasoning, it should be fishy?"

Bai Xiao rested for a while with his shovel, and then started to work again. It was good that he didn't have to live in someone else's shed anymore. He had already planned to learn some survival experience from Lin Duoduo, and then one day, maybe he could go back to the place where he used to live to see what it had become.

"Please help me make a bamboo basket so I can carry it when I go out." Bai Xiao said.

Bamboo baskets were commonly used by people in the past, but he never paid much attention to them. Only in the current environment does he feel that they are really useful tools, even indispensable.

It was more important than his previous backpack, because without it he could put his phone and keys in his pockets, but without the basket, he couldn’t do anything when he went out for a walk.

It was getting close to noon, the temperature was rising, and the sun was very hot. Bai Xiao found a hat and insisted on weeding and leveling the yard.

Lin Duoduo found a shady place where she would not be exposed to the sun, and took the bamboo strips that Bai Xiao had chopped last time and did not use up, and began to weave them bit by bit. From time to time, the sound of a shovel hitting the ground could be heard from next door. Erdan and Uncle Cai were attracted by the sound without knowing when. Bai Xiao forgot to close the door, and was startled when they came in. He pushed them out with a stick, then closed the door and let them bang on the door outside.

It's a fucking experience to work while listening to the screams of zombies.

Bai Xiao was a little relieved. Fortunately, it was not twenty years ago, otherwise he would only be able to live for three days... or even less than three days.

So many people died, and the only ones left in the village were Lin Duoduo and an old lady.

There were some old things in the yard, rotten wooden frames, and ironware, which were dug out with a shovel and thrown aside. After eating something at noon, Bai Xiao went back to the shed to rest for a while. When the sun was not so hot, he went to the next door to dig the yard.

The grass roots were turned out and the soil was flattened.

By the time the sun was setting, Bai Xiao was exhausted. He put down his shovel, returned to Lin Duoduo, and sat down under the shed to watch Lin Duoduo deal with the snake that had been dug out from the yard.

"Pour some wine while cooking to remove the fishy smell." Bai Xiao reminded, but unfortunately there was no onion, ginger or garlic.

Lin Duoduo hoarded a box of wine that she found while scavenging like a hamster. No one knew why she kept it. She only went into the house to get it out after hearing what he said.

"Do you want to eat too?" Lin Duoduo remembered that he was a vegetarian.

"I can't bear not eating meat. It's too tiring."

Bai Xiao felt a little weak and he thought of those rotten zombies.

After being infected, he is not the same as a normal person. He may be able to withstand hunger, but if he forcibly squeezes his body, he may end up like those old zombies, starting to decay in just a few years.

Certain cells in his body had mutated, so he didn't dare to take the risk.

Lin Duoduo made snake soup. The meat was cooked till it was very soft, and there were some scattered pieces of meat floating in the soup.

Bai Xiao originally wanted to refuse, but he was too tired these days and really couldn't stand it anymore. He closed his eyes and gulped down the drink.

Bai Xiao wasn't sure if it was because his sense of taste was dull or if he was used to eating wild roots and drinking porridge with Lin Duoduo, but the food tasted unexpectedly good. Lin Duoduo helped him serve another bowl.

"You eat so little?" Bai Xiao asked.

"That's enough." Lin Duoduo said.

People who do heavy work always have to eat more, otherwise they will have no strength. She only drank a little and put down the bowl, giving the rest to Bai Xiao, because the Zombie King still had to continue working tomorrow.

The rational distribution of food is also an important thing in this world.

After Bai Xiao finished eating, he saw Lin Duoduo staring at him, observing his reaction.

"What's wrong?" Bai Xiao was surprised.

"I want to see if eating meat will induce madness in you, causing you to drool and even become irritable." Lin Duoduo was still staring at him, completing the zombie observation record.

"At the moment... not yet." Bai Xiao felt it for himself, "But there is a kind of... I seem to be able to feel that the food I eat has turned into nutrients and is being absorbed by the body, and my strength is slowly returning."

"Sometimes I eat when I'm very hungry and I have the same feeling," said Lin Duoduo.

Bai Xiao stared at the bowl, and after a while he suddenly pointed outside, "Speaking of which...if those zombies have enough food, will they remain dangerous, just like they were twenty years ago?"

"Well, they probably became like that because they couldn't find food."

(End of this chapter)