This is apocalyptic

Chapter 81 080: The Messenger
"My name is Zhou Xu, and I'm not a fool."

The man named Zhou Xu was not angry at Bai Xiao's words. He thought for a while, untied his backpack and opened it. A box emerged from it, a creation from before the disaster.

"This is radio. I don't know if you've ever seen it, but if you've been around revelers, you should know it and understand what it means."

"radio?"

Bai Xiao's eyes behind his helmet moved. He had seen computers, televisions, and radios in the ruins, but they were all scrapped and could no longer be used.

He looked at the man and didn't speak for a while. Instead, he slowly sat on the ground. Being with zombies for a long time, the hunger and numbness, the fatigue and loneliness made Bai Xiao feel that he had lost some humanity and his thinking was a little dull.

If it weren't for that anchor point, he suspected that he would really be a zombie. At this moment, smelling the human scent coming from the other person, he sat on the ground and rubbed his forehead through his helmet, silent.

The man named Zhou Xu was also looking at him. Bai Xiao's dusty clothes were torn and stained with blood. His skinny body sat on the ground, and there seemed to be some space under his clothes. It was obvious that it was not easy for him to walk out of the ruins.

"Were you sent by the shelter to die?" Bai Xiao sighed during the long wait.

This is not a case of one side in trouble and all sides coming to help. In a disaster, everyone is busy taking care of themselves.

"I'm a rescue."

As Zhou Xu spoke, he took out a square piece of food wrapped in a plastic bag from his bag and handed it to Bai Xiao.

Bai Xiao turned around, took out sunglasses from his bag, took off his helmet and put them on, then tore open the package and put it in his mouth. It was hard and dry. He took out his water bottle, drank some water, and chewed hard.

Zhou Xu was also sitting on the ground. When Bai Xiao took off his helmet, he realized that Bai Xiao looked a little young, which made him less vigilant.

"We have built a safe fortress, with sufficient food and order, and we have restarted some industrial production." Zhou Xu said: "Do you know about industry?"

"I know."

"It's just... huh? You know?" Zhou Xu was stunned.

"I know a little bit." Bai Xiao said, "You have restarted industry and established civilization..." He paused, suddenly thinking of something, and looked Zhou Xu up and down, "Have you solved the infection problem?"

"Not yet." Zhou Xu said.

The hope that had risen in Bai Xiao's heart suddenly dissipated, and he looked at the stranger who claimed to be his rescuer, "Um... where is your rescuer?"

"If you're talking about a convoy that cleared the obstacles and entered the ruins with a large amount of supplies, no." Zhou Xu shook his head. "There are only revelers and scattered survivors on that land now. The former refused to accept asylum, and the latter... they rarely go out. The land is too large and there are too few survivors. There is no way to organize an effective rescue, and there is no manpower unless the scattered people gather together."

"what do you mean?"

"It's been twenty years since the apocalypse." Zhou Xu looked at him and said, "Those who received the information and the settlements that gathered together have long since left the ruins. The only ones left now are those who don't trust anyone and live alone. The others who gathered together are just revelers."

"We left the ruins a long time ago...what do you mean?"

“They went to the safe zone.”

Bai Xiao was silent. He looked at Zhou Xu, thinking about the people he met along the way, and finally licked his dry lips. "So, the safe zone once broadcast a message that the temporary settlements had left the ruins. Only those who didn't receive the message missed the rescue, right?"

He looked back at the ruins, at the wary and indifferent people he had met along the way, at the revelers...

Bai Xiao suddenly understood what Zhang Tan meant by refusing to accept asylum.

The ruins were left with only the laziest people, the revelers, and the scattered lone people who missed the rescue. That’s why Yu Ming was wary of all people before the disaster, and showed kindness to the young people who missed the rescue. “It’s not quite right to say rescue. The safety zone didn’t have the spare power to lend a helping hand at that time. It just pointed in the right direction to let the survivors know that there was a safety zone in the distance.”

Zhou Xu's tone was a little low.

The sun has set, the sky in the distance is gray, and a sense of desolation emanates from that land.

Bai Xiao figured it out. There was no shelter in Linchuan, so everyone needed to migrate to a farther place to seek help.

That human lived in an abandoned ruin, missed the information released by the safe zone, and would never be rescued.

"Thank you." Bai Xiao said, "I'm sorry, along the way... I met people who lived alone, and I also met people who celebrated the end of the world. They were all waiting for destruction, so... is there anything I can do to help?"

"It's normal. Everyone who came out of the ruins is very vigilant." Zhou Xu said.

"Can I see your technology?" Bai Xiao looked at his backpack. It was super post-apocalyptic technology. One person could be the rescuer.

"I don't have any technology." Zhou Xu said.

"So... you are planning to rely on this pistol to rush into the ruins and rescue everyone?" Bai Xiao looked at the powerful-looking pistol on his waist.

"This pistol can only deal with some animals." Zhou Xu turned around and knocked down an approaching old zombie.

"So your radio... can emit some kind of deadly frequency to eliminate the zombies or infected animals within a radius of so many miles?" Bai Xiao looked at the seemingly powerful radio in his bag again. It turned out that one cannot judge the value of a thing by its appearance, and one does not know how powerful it is.

"How could such a thing happen?" Zhou Xu felt that this young man who walked out of the ruins was different.

"...Then what are you here for?" Bai Xiao was confused. To rescue one person, he had to go to the ruins.

"I'm here to deliver the message." Zhou Xu said.

"To whom?"

"Pass it on to the people who are still alive there, the revelers, and the scattered survivors. I will go to meet the revelers.

"Tell them that time is running out. Infected birds have appeared in the distance, and many... Now is the last chance. The industry needs the population. We need to work together to resume production. We need to delay that day as much as possible until the problem is solved. One more person means more strength."

Bai Xiao looked at him quietly for a long time. When Zhou Xu wanted to ask something, Bai Xiao said, "I am a little confused. Are we in this ruin backward, or are you more backward after restarting the industry?"

Without waiting for Zhou Xu to speak, Bai Xiao pointed behind him and said, "You said there were infected birds in the distance. I saw them on the way here. I also saw infected rabbits and infected field mice. Except for the grasshoppers in the field, they have all been infected, but it has not yet formed a large scale. You are alone, saying you are a rescue, and then died on the road. This is not funny, really."

If he wasn't a zombie, he would have died somewhere along the way without even a grave.

Zhou Xu's expression changed.

Bai Xiao looked at his appearance and suddenly said, "Oh, you are in a safe zone. The surrounding area is very safe... The area near where you live has long been cleared of large animals and zombies, destroying the transmission chain and delaying the time, right?"

"There is still a chance." Zhou Xu said.

"You seem like a young man full of ideals and passion. How could the safe zone do that... No, you were not sent by the safe zone." Bai Xiao said.

"This is a personal thing, right? You applied for it yourself."

(End of this chapter)