This is apocalyptic

Chapter 57: Night Talk in Deserted Village

A place that had been uninhabited for a long time was filled with movement again. Bai Xiao led three zombies, and after releasing another zombie from a yard, four more followed him.

He looked back, was silent for a while, then turned back and continued exploring this deserted village.

If they had a choice back then, they would have preferred to become like Bai Xiao.

After visiting many households, it can be seen that many people once fled from the city to the mountain village, because many household belongings do not match the original style of the village. Some yards still have scrapped cars parked, and valuable watches and coins are occasionally scattered in the dusty houses.

There are also heavy suitcases, but unfortunately, there is nothing useful inside them - perhaps they were very useful before the disaster, but the refugees did not anticipate subsequent developments, and the valuable things they packed up are no longer useful twenty years later.

Their people have also disappeared.

Bai Xiao wandered like a ghost in the deserted village. Wild grass grew out of the cracks in the walls. Perhaps the last person left in the village had also wandered like this many years ago. There were empty houses, a few of which were still tidy, only covered with dust, while most were extremely messy, with clothes and tables and chairs scattered around.

He hit the rat that rushed out to death with a stick and didn't put it away. He always felt that rats were dirty. It was okay to eat snakes and rabbits, but he didn't let Lin Duoduo see them. Maybe in her eyes, except for zombies and humans, all meat was the same after being cooked.

He found a jujube tree in a yard, with jujubes hanging on the branches. Bai Xiao searched around and found a bamboo pole. He tied a wire to one end of the pole and bent it into a hook. He stayed there to pick jujubes for a long time, and only stopped when the basket behind him was almost full.

He also found a pepper tree. If the disaster hadn't been over yet, he would have wanted to plant one in his yard. In the end, he only cut off a few branches and put them in a basket.

There are persimmon trees in this village as well. He planned to pick some and have Lin Duoduo dry them into persimmon cakes.

It's just that the journey is a bit far. It took most of the day just to get here. After wandering around for so long and picking dates, it would be very late when he goes back. He did this because he relied on the fact that he was a zombie. According to Lin Duoduo, it was too dangerous to go out at night. Not only were there snakes, insects, rats and the like, but the zombies lying in the fields and hiding in the grass were also dangerous. After all, this was an unfamiliar village.

After only turning halfway, Bai Xiao saw that it was getting late, so he carried a basket of dates and peppercorns and led the five zombies behind him to go back.

He walked to the edge of the village and paused, then looked back. If he led these five old zombies back to the village, Lin Duoduo would probably be so angry that she would hit his helmet. So he turned back and led them to a yard, then came out, locked the door, and walked towards the fields.

The frogs and a snake that he caught when he came were all put in the bag. Now it is the autumn harvest season, and the frogs are fat. Now there are Sichuan peppercorns and wild peppercorns. Bai Xiao's saliva immediately flowed as if he saw Lin Duoduo taking a bath.

He quickened his pace. Firstly, it was getting late. Second, he was worried about getting lost after dark. If he went back so late, Lin Duoduo would definitely tell someone about it. That human was very worried about him as a zombie.

The setting sun in the distance cast a red glow on the clouds. The magnificent and gorgeous sunset seemed to be leading the way, leading him back from the deserted village to another village with only two people.

Sure enough, when I got back, Lin Duoduo poked my helmet with her finger. It was already dark, and there were many dangers in the wild. Although zombies were not afraid of infected rats and other zombies...

She would go to the village entrance from time to time to see why the Zombie King was still nowhere to be seen after dark. This was the first time he came back so late.

"There is no one in the village over there. It has been gone for a long time." Bai Xiao took off the basket behind him and changed the subject.

"Yeah, I haven't seen it either." Lin Duoduo said.

She lit a candle under the shed and processed the snakes and frogs that Bai Xiao brought back. There was also food left for Bai Xiao under the shed.

"We also saw four zombies, two men and two women," said Bai Xiao.

"Old or not?" Lin Duoduo asked.

"Quite young." Bai Xiao said.

"I said whether the zombies are old or not, I didn't say them."

Lin Duoduo's words made Bai Xiao stunned for a moment, then he said: "They are all old zombies, fresh zombies... there shouldn't be any fresh zombies, right?" "Aren't you?"

"I was an accident." Bai Xiao said.

Whenever he mentioned this incident, he felt a little sad. Being bitten by a zombie would have been fine, but it happened to be more than 20 years later when the zombies were rotting. Everyone else was guarding against infected animals, but he was the only one who was bitten by an old zombie and became a fresh zombie that had not appeared for a long time.

Lin Duoduo's father was accidentally infected by the blood of zombies about ten years ago. Now, ten years later, the infection method has been infinitely reduced - those old zombies probably can't produce much blood if they are put into a juicer.

"So this is why we can't compare to animals?" Bai Xiao suddenly said.

"Huh?" Lin Duoduo was confused.

"We are too smart. When the zombies get older, not many people will be infected, so they stop changing. However, those animals are constantly screening, either dead or alive."

Bai Xiao remembered the deer that was infected and died in the mountains.

"You shouldn't say the word 'we'." Lin Duoduo reminded him.

"...You are challenging the authority of the Zombie King."

"Will those zombies not bite you either?" Lin Duoduo was curious.

"of course."

Bai Xiao was reminded by Lin Duoduo and looked at the bamboo baskets. "Next time I will bring five baskets and put four on their backs. When they are full of dates and persimmons, I will bring them back..."

Lin Duoduo looked up at Bai Xiao blankly. What the hell was this zombie talking about?

You feel uncomfortable if you don't let Erdan grind the mill, and now you want to harm the zombies in the neighboring village, right?

"Are you the Zombie King?" Lin Duoduo felt like something was wrong.

"The common people are full of treasures." said Bai Xiao.

Lin Duoduo was silent. She still remembered that when Bai Xiao left the village for the first time, he was so scared when he saw Erdan coming that he screamed and didn't even dare to hit him with a stick.

"I feel like you are thinking about something very rude." Bai Xiao asked in confusion.

"No."

Lin Duoduo put the snake meat and frogs in a basin, marinated them with salt, and covered it with another basin.

"The Zombie King led his people to build a happy and beautiful new home." Lin Duoduo stood up and said, "This is how most stories end."

"——But in your case, I think it should be an overthrow. The zombies overthrew the brutal rule of the zombie king and ushered in a happy life."

"You don't understand. Employment is the zombies' only way out. They will overthrow me because they have nothing to do." Bai Xiao said.

Lin Duoduo didn't want to talk nonsense with him anymore. "Don't come back so late next time. It's very dangerous outside. Wild boars may run down from the mountain occasionally."

(End of this chapter)