This is apocalyptic

Chapter 68: It has nothing to do with me

Bai Xiao still had some dry food in his bag. After hesitating for a moment, he took it out and shared some with Yu Ming.

Yu Ming waved his hand and refused, "You need it, I don't, no need to reciprocate."

After finishing his meal, the uncle wiped his mouth, looked at the time, and said, "Are you going to leave? If you are not in a hurry, play a game of chess with me, and I will pay for the next meal."

"Okay." Bai Xiao did not refuse.

"Have you ever played it? If you haven't played it, checkers is the easiest." Yu Ming said.

Bai Xiao looked at the things on his shelf. There were military chess, checkers, go, and flying chess. He wondered if he had specifically looked for them when he was scavenging.

"Chess," he said.

"You can?" Yu Ming was a little surprised and a little happy.

"I know a little." Bai Xiao said.

Yu Ming took out the chess pieces. The pieces were very big and had been polished to a patina. The chessboard was a tree stump in the corner. There were nine vertical and horizontal lines on it, clearly dividing the Chu River and Han River. It was homemade and had a very rustic feel.

"Do you usually play by yourself?" Bai Xiao touched the patinated chess pieces.

"I used to play this game with my good brother, but he didn't move much after he died." Yu Ming also placed the chess pieces and motioned for him to go first.

Bai Xiao's chess skills are very amateur and he cannot beat this uncle. He even suspects that even the professional chess players before the disaster might find it difficult to beat a man who has lived alone for so long after the disaster.

Lin Duoduo can even hold a Bible and read it. This uncle polished this tree stump in the winter. Playing chess is also his hobby.

After only one game, the uncle did not ask Bai Xiao to continue, but took back the chess piece.

"I'll let you know when I find the location of the shelter and come back," said Bai Xiao.

If you can find shelter, if you can stay alive.

"You're coming back?" Yu Ming shook his head as he was about to open his mouth to pay the check. He wanted to say something, but paused as he put away the chess pieces. "Is someone waiting for you?"

"No." Bai Xiao shook his head.

The uncle looked at him, smiled and didn't ask any more questions, saying: "No, I'm not going anywhere."

"Not going anywhere?"

"If you really come back someday, just play a game of chess with me when you pass by."

The uncle was very indifferent. Bai Xiao felt that some of the words sounded familiar. He thought about it and realized that it was Aunt Qian who said: "I'm not going anywhere."

"Why?" Bai Xiao looked at the uncle.

"If I had children, I would go," Yu Ming said with a smile, "but I don't."

"That one person stays here..."

"No matter how bad the environment gets, I can still hold on until the day I die. I'm not a young man." Yu Ming said, "I'll still have to do it even if I go to the shelter."

Bai Xiao was stunned for a moment.

"Finding a shelter is a matter for you young people. If you want to have a future, you must solve it. But I have no future, so why should I do it? You don't think reconstruction is easy, do you?" Yu Ming smiled and shook his head.

"——You still have many years to live. If you want to survive, you have to come together and find a solution. That's your business. I have no future. Giving young people a little help is the greatest effort of a loser like me. I will make money day by day."

Bai Xiao looked at this middle-aged man. There was a sense of contradiction in him. He loved life, but had no expectations for the future. He despised Chenjiabao and had no yearning for the shelter.

It was as if he just wanted to survive this day, and he didn't care about the future which should have been heavy. ——Now I understand, it was because he couldn't see the future and didn't want to work hard for it.

The setting sun was a bit dazzling, and Yu Ming narrowed his eyes. "It's not easy for young people, but it's not my fault. I'm also a victim."

He was once a young man, more than 20 years ago. He was playing games and surfing the Internet. He had not visited his relatives during the Chinese New Year. Suddenly, a disaster struck. The streets were under martial law, and then a zombie outbreak occurred. Zombies were everywhere in the buildings and on the streets, like mad dogs on the loose.

"It's not your fault. When you came into this world, you faced this mess."

The uncle sighed, with some compassion in his eyes, looking at this energetic young man, "Live on, find a shelter, and try to survive - you still have hope."

Bai Xiao was silent for a moment, "I see, thank you."

"I didn't help you at all. You grew up after the disaster... In fact, you are the most innocent, and you will be the most tired if you want to survive."

Yu Ming wiped his favorite action figure with a soft cloth. He was not one of those who wanted to watch fireworks, but he was not one who liked grand narratives either. He was just a former young man who had been playing around for twenty years and had good intentions towards young people.

There are so many figures on the bookshelf. He went to the city to pick up rubbish and met a collector who had turned into a zombie. Many figures were scattered around the house. He was no longer interested in the things he had collected before.

"It's getting late. Why don't you stay one night and get some rest? That small fish can be a good snack."

"it is good."

Yu Ming showed kindness to the young people after the disaster, as if he was entertaining a friend he hadn't seen for a long time.

The setting sun is slanting down.

The yard formed by a row of houses is very large. The basketball hoop in the yard is rusty and the basketball has long been deflated. Bai Xiao tried it with a bicycle pump, but found that it was leaking badly and could no longer be used.

Yu Ming's wish to play basketball was dashed.

It is not suitable to play basketball after the apocalypse. This sport consumes a lot of physical energy, and physical energy needs to be replenished by food.

Yu Ming went to the tool shed next to him and took out a harpoon, handed it to Bai Xiao and said:
"This fork isn't very useful against zombies, but it's better than your knife for dealing with animals and people. It has a barb here, so you can catch a fish or something on the road."

Bai Xiao took the harpoon. As Yu Ming said, this fork is more useful than a knife against people and animals.

"The tense period has long passed. Now... it's not wrong to be more cautious. Don't let me hurt you. Don't think everyone is a good person. Don't be too sensitive. Many people are tired and don't have any bad intentions."

Yu Ming stared blankly at the sunset in the distance, as if recalling memories of the "tense period".

Bai Xiao guessed that the period that allowed people to suck the blood of zombies and sneak into the settlement should be the one mentioned by Lin Duoduo. Those were very chaotic years, which was the early stage of the disaster. It was just that Lin Huayou was looking for a shelter at that time, and he stayed together with Aunt Qian and the others in a small mountain village.

People in each place have different experiences, but they are all very difficult.

“Young people suffer the most…”

Yu Ming sighed. He had no hope, and no burden. He was the most relaxed type of person.

"Time is running out." He said that the disaster is accelerating and the environment is deteriorating faster and faster.

"Do you think there will be a plan for the shelter far away?" Bai Xiao said softly.

"I don't know, but I have a solution." Yu Ming said with a smile.

"what?"

"Build a Noah's Ark, and then have a flood to cleanse it. Those who survive can reproduce again."

(End of this chapter)