This is apocalyptic

Chapter 46: Zombies Get Fat

It is not easy to catch fish. Bai Xiao held the bamboo basket and placed it in the water for a long time before he found a suitable position.

The water here is a little slower, so you put the bamboo basket in. There is a big opening at one end of the basket, and there is a blocking mouth inside. Water flows in from the opening and passes through the gap. If there are fish, they will be left at the bottom of the basket.

He had just seen someone catch fish this way before, and didn't know if it would work, so he put it in and went on to do something else.

After putting it away, Bai Xiao walked a little further away, dug up the silt by the river with a shovel, looked carefully, trying to find loaches in it.

Instead of finding the loach, they found some bones, human bones.

At first he was a little afraid of the skull heads, but after seeing them a few more times in the fields, he was no longer so scared.

To put it bluntly, whether it is a zombie or a human, it is already dead.

The thing that is most abundant on this land is bones, human, zombie, and animal. It is a post-disaster land and there is no one to collect them. It may take a very long time for them to disappear, or they may be torn into pieces by animals and scattered everywhere.

After Bai Xiao dug a few more times, most of the bones were dug out. Then he used a shovel to dig a hole far away and buried it, as if it were a return to its roots.

Lin Duoduo didn't understand his behavior, and Bai Xiao didn't understand either. If he buries one today and one tomorrow, the area around the village will become clean sooner or later. Isn't it better than stepping on a dead bone and getting scared from time to time?
Not only is it scary, it's also unlucky.

Bai Xiao thought about it carefully and thought that it might be because it had always been like this since Lin Duoduo could remember. In her eyes, it was normal to have zombie bones among the grass in the fields. It was part of nature.

Just like the war documentaries he had seen a long time ago, where children played with skulls and kicked them without any discomfort.

After burying the dead bones, they continued to dig silt from the river. They dug out the bones and placed them by the river to dry in the sun. Once they were dry, they could take them back and throw them into the small vegetable garden.

There were eels in the mud, which was a pleasant surprise, but there were not many of them. Bai Xiao was not good at catching these things, and he was afraid that they would bite him - he was not worried about being bitten, but he was worried that they would bite him to death, and then he would not be able to eat them, which would be such a waste.

After working for a whole morning, Bai Xiao returned to where he had placed the bamboo basket and pulled up the basket. Although he didn't catch any big fish, he was not disappointed. He didn't have too high expectations in the first place. But the few small fish and shrimps in it made him quite happy.

This shows that the method is feasible and we just need to continue to improve it.

After pouring out those poor little fish and shrimps, Bai Xiao threw the basket back in and left it there overnight. Maybe there would be more surprises tomorrow.

When Bai Xiao returned home, before he put down the basket on his back, he heard Lin Duoduo sharpening a knife next door.

He climbed over the wall and took a look.

"What are you looking at?" Lin Duoduo noticed the movement and looked up.

"What are you sharpening your knife for?"

"The zombies have fattened up, it's time to eat them." She still remembered the story she had told last night, which she had interrupted halfway through, and she had deliberately stopped there and not finished it.

Bai Xiao looked at her without saying anything.

It was a machete with a black blade and a little rust. Lin Duoduo sat by the well with a whetstone in front of her, sharpening the blade very seriously.

She is always like this, and sometimes seems a little fierce.

"Are you going?" Lin Duoduo asked.

Before Bai Xiao asked where they were going, Lin Duoduo continued, "We're going to go up the mountain. We need to bring back some firewood. You should be able to carry a lot. The raspberries are almost ripe, so we can pick some. Also..."

Bai Xiao listened and looked up at the sky. Although Lin Duoduo didn't know what day it was, she knew what to do and when. This was experience accumulated from a long life, and it was this experience that he lacked.

It was impossible not to go. After getting the answer, Lin Duoduo found another knife and sat beside the well to sharpen it.

Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Before going into the mountains every time, she would prepare the tools to minimize the possibility of accidents.

For dinner, Lin Duoduo did not eat a simple meal like before, but took out the pickled meat. She had to maintain sufficient physical strength and spirit to prepare for entering the mountain.

The fish, shrimps and eels caught by Bai Xiao were also cooked in the same pot.

She packed extra food into her bag as supplies for going into the mountains, and went to rest when it was just getting dark.

the next day.

Early in the morning, Lin Duoduo was ready. She put on a pair of work shoes, coarse cloth pants and long sleeves, with the trouser legs and cuffs tied tightly, and work gloves on her hands.

The most annoying thing about going into the mountains is the various insects, both poisonous and non-poisonous. There are many of them in the mountains. Sometimes, the area gets red and swollen after just one climb, and it hurts for several days. Even with medicinal wine, it is very torturous.

"You should also tie your cuffs tightly..." Lin Duoduo instructed, and suddenly remembered that Bai Xiao was different. He was a zombie, and bugs generally didn't crawl on him. Even if they did crawl and bite him, it would be the bugs that died.

Bitten by zombies, scratched by animals, and still alive and well after getting infected, this guy is actually the one that can endure the most.

Bai Xiao obediently followed her instructions and tied up his trouser legs and cuffs tightly. Although he might not be too afraid of bugs after being infected and turning into a zombie, it was always better to be safe just in case.

He also wore his precious helmet, which had saved his life once - although he survived the infection from the scratches, he didn't think he would have survived if the cat had bitten his head open that day.

Lin Duoduo handed him another sharpened machete, as well as a rope, scissors, an axe, and some miscellaneous tools. After checking again to make sure nothing was missing, she set off in the dim light of day.

It is not easy to go to the mountains before a disaster, let alone after a disaster.

It is not even much easier than scavenging in the city. In the past, the city was very dangerous, and people lived off the mountains, so going into the mountains was relatively easier. However, as the danger of zombies has decreased, there has not been much change in going into the mountains.

On the way, passing by the small river flowing down from the mountain, Bai Xiao remembered the bamboo basket he had put down there, but he obviously didn't have time to collect it now, so it might as well leave it for a few more days.

The surviving humans walked towards the mountain road with the fully armed zombies.

I heard that before the disaster, people living in mountain villages often went up the mountain to cut grass for pigs and chop firewood. The roads at that time were somewhat different from those now.

The machete that Lin Duoduo sharpened yesterday was put to use very quickly. Nowadays, there were not many people in the village, and even fewer people went into the mountains. The mountain roads had long been covered with various plants, so they could only walk while cutting off the vines that blocked the road.

It’s not so bad at this time now. People in the past often said “Seven bees and eight snakes”, meaning that bees in July are the most poisonous and snakes in August are the most poisonous.

But there are also many mountain products in the mountains, not only various fruits, but also animals.

In previous years the infection had not spread here, and the animals in the mountains were still very primitive - but in the past two years, she had occasionally seen infected ones, and she was not sure what the mountains looked like now.

So she didn't plan to go too deep, just walk around the periphery and explore the situation.

Lin Duoduo walked attentively on the mountain road enclosed by plants, paying attention to everything around her. If there were traces of large animals scattered among the trees and leaves, she would have to consider whether to change direction.

The chirping of birds sounds familiar. Infected animals would not chirp so clearly. At least birds have not been affected by the disaster for the time being.

——This is good news.

(End of this chapter)