This is apocalyptic

Chapter 76 075: Going the other way
The night passed peacefully.

Bai Xiao put on his shoes and helmet. After being baked yesterday, the shoes became more comfortable to wear.

These are the leather boots that Lin Duoduo found. They are sturdy and wear-resistant.

The sun rises earlier and earlier, and it gets warmer outside.

Young people have really great physical strength.

Zhang Tan rubbed his neck and sat up, threw the extra strips of meat that he had peeled and boiled last night into his mouth and chewed it, then left the unfinished building.

Bai Xiao did not wait for him. He had no antibodies against the Zombie King and no physical strength. He set out on the road alone, indeed prepared to die on the way.

In the face of disaster, everyone makes different choices.

Looking at the map, Bai Xiao gradually entered the city. He wanted to find a usable bicycle, but he wondered if he could find one.

This journey is destined to be lonely. If he travels with others, perhaps the zombies will only follow the movements and the fact that they don't bite him will not be noticed by others. This is still a secret, and no one knows it except Lin Duoduo.

The revelers are not to be trusted and shelter is currently pending.

There must be people who want to survive and work hard to survive, not everyone is just waiting to rot. At least young people will not associate with them.

There was an aura of decay about Zhang Tan. Although he was not a zombie, he looked somewhat similar.

If Yu Ming is an aging young man, then Zhang Tan is a real old man. Time has already worn down his character. He lives just to see that day - the day when everyone dies.

If he didn't want to find a bicycle, Bai Xiao wouldn't want to come to the city to pick up rubbish and waste time. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. He gave himself a day to look for it.

As for electric bikes, they have long become scrap in the doomsday. Even if you can pedal them, they are not as easy as walking.

The zombies on the street ignored him and were attracted by the footsteps, walking slowly towards him. The outskirts of the city were mostly frequented by scavengers, and the remaining old zombies were also sporadic, occasionally wandering out from the city center.

Walking down a street, Bai Xiao occasionally looked back and saw a string of scattered old zombies following him, like a zombie squad.

He suddenly thought of Friday, the old zombie who carried a basket every day and saw water dripping from the basket after it snowed in winter.

Their withered faces make it difficult to recognize their former appearance.

Not knowing whether there would be scavengers in the city, Bai Xiao deliberately quickened his pace. When he turned to the next street, the zombies lost their target and returned to normal.

There are many rusty vehicles in the community parking lot, including cars, electric vehicles, and occasionally bicycles.

But they are all scrapped. It is difficult to find a car that was bought twenty years ago and is still usable in the doomsday, unless someone maintains it. But cars that are maintained by someone will not be parked in this abandoned city.

He did find a skateboard, and Bai Xiao tried it out, but he discovered that standing on it was not as tiring as walking.

Wandering around the city like a ghost and searching for a long time, Bai Xiao finally gave up. If the disaster had just happened, there would be countless resources that could be used in the city.

But it’s been more than twenty years.

The city is a huge tomb, burying the prosperity and brilliance before the disaster.

Bai Xiao left the tomb and continued walking on the road.

The decadent past is history; the future belongs to the young, if there is a future.

It took a lot of time to find a bicycle in the city. By the time he walked out of the city, it was already afternoon. Bai Xiao walked in the afterglow of the sunset, and the setting sun made his shadow very long.

When it was getting dark, he met a couple who were going into the city to scavenge for scraps. They came from another road. When he saw them from a distance, they stopped at the far end of the other road, not moving, and watched them leave before continuing forward into the city.

Their habits were still stuck in the years when the disaster broke out, and they were indifferent and wary of strangers. Much like Lin Duoduo, the changes outside had no effect on them at all. The apocalyptic life isolated from the outside world allowed them to still maintain the habits of those years.

The fact that they did not look for a place to settle down already shows something: no matter what they have gone through, they are satisfied with their current life.

Bai Xiao wanted to remind them that time was running out, but he didn't know how to start.

He is still on the road to finding hope, and Lin Duoduo is still living in that small mountain village.

The two scavengers and Bai Xiao walked further and further away. They went into the city, and Bai Xiao headed towards the next destination.

We arrived at the highway toll station before dark. It was shabby and the barrier machine had long disappeared. But it was a good place to shelter from the wind and rain, and we could stay in the toll booth.

In the past, he would watch the live broadcast of the toll booth on the highway, where a staff member would be busy non-stop, letting cars pass.

Nowadays, even the tables in this toll booth have been dismantled, and there are signs of burning on the ground. I wonder which scavenger once stopped by and rested by the fire in this booth.

Bai Xiao used his foot to clear away the black ash on the ground, took out a piece of clothing from his bag and put it under the ground, then sat down, huddled in the small pavilion, waiting for dawn.

After the rain in the past two days, the temperature has risen a little in the past few days. The nights are no longer so cold, the stars in the sky are brighter, and the green in the fields is richer.

This is a season of revival.

Hibernating animals, insects and the like crawled out of the ground. Bai Xiao had a hunch that after the severe cold of winter, the transmission of infection would accelerate again when spring and summer came.

He thought about the scavenger couple he saw on the road, and then thought of Lin Duoduo.

Will Lin Duoduo live an ordinary and satisfying life in the mountain village until the end?
The people scattered across this land have no better options. They can only wait passively, hoping that day will come later.

When it was daybreak, Bai Xiao had recovered his strength. He thought that he should be able to find the kind of wild grass that could heal wounds in a few days, as it could be found everywhere outside. However, Bai Xiao discovered that the wound on his hand from the bat bite had already scabbed over.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but the healing speed is much faster than before and there is no inflammation. In just two or three days, it healed like a normal wound.

I didn't feel any discomfort from moving around, but I was very hungry.

The soul-stirring hunger from the zombie infection overlaps with the real hunger from not having enough food.

Bai Xiao grabbed a big mouthful of locust flowers and a piece of salted fish and stuffed them into his mouth. He shook the kettle, but there was no water left.

He could only keep moving forward, like a practitioner walking on a lonely road.

It was not until the afternoon that he saw a lone figure in front of him.

It was Zhang Tan, the reveler who had not entered the city and was always on the road.

One is looking for hope of life, the other is on the road to death. These two paths should have been going in opposite directions, but absurdly they are walking on the same road.

"I thought you went back." Zhang Tan noticed the gray figure catching up with him from behind.

The harpoon on the back is easy to identify.

Yesterday Bai Xiao was walking in front and he fell behind. He really couldn't match the young man's physical strength. Unexpectedly, Bai Xiao appeared from behind again.

"Why would I go back if I haven't found hope yet?" Bai Xiao said.

"This is a road to death," Zhang sighed.

"We are different."

(End of this chapter)