This is apocalyptic

Chapter 84 083: Separation

The bonfire illuminated Zhou Xu's weather-beaten face. There were flying insects surrounding him, and he slapped a mosquito to death with a "snap".

"This is a super virus. It subverts the previous logic of infection. It can infect any organism, then mutate and transform the infected life form before continuing to spread." Zhou Xu looked at the small pool of blood on his hand, "If mosquitoes can also be infected one day..." He sighed.

The reason why the end of the world is the end of the world is that there is nothing we can do about it.

"What does the previous infection logic mean?"

"Humanity has encountered many plagues in the past. All of them were spread by rats, fleas, and mosquitoes. They were all terrible, but rats and mosquitoes at that time only carried the virus and then passed it on to humans." Zhou Xu said, "If its mortality rate was very high, the virus would disappear after all the infected people died, but... this time is different from the past. This super virus came from zombies."

"Where do the zombies come from?" Bai Xiao asked.

Zhou Xu was silent.

Bai Xiao thought that he would hear a different statement from him than the doomsday theorists. As for how zombies came into being, Lin Duoduo said it was used to cure cancer, Zhang Tan said it was used to cure organ diseases, but Zhou Xu remained silent.

After a long time, Zhou Xu said, "Maybe it's a punishment from heaven."

Bai Xiao said: "The revelers said the same thing."

Zhou Xu shook his head and said nothing. He just looked towards the safe zone behind him. His eyes were deep as he stared at the dark sky in the distance.

"I don't know what the doomsday theorists have said to you. Maybe when you go to the safe zone, you will find that some of what they said is true. Some things are indeed not that good, but if you want to survive, you must gather together. The safe zone is the only hope. Only with a sufficient foundation can everything be supported. Now is a difficult time, but everything will be rewarded later."

"I know that young people are separated from the people before the disaster." Bai Xiao took out the gold bar he had scavenged from his backpack, "Will this be useful in the safe zone?"

"This is shared by all, you can hand it over," Zhou Xu said.

"I see."

Bai Xiao took it back, sat on the ground and said nothing more.

It was late at night, and Zhou Xu was still sitting there, looking at the endless darkness.

He was happy to talk to the young people after the disaster, especially those who had walked out of the ruins, but Bai Xiao had already rested.

The bonfire slowly went out, and he closed his eyes and slept for a while in the second half of the night.

By the early morning, Bai Xiao rubbed the dead mosquitoes around him into the soil with his hands, and Zhou Xu was ready to go.

"It's difficult for you to get in and you may die on the way. Take more people with you," Bai Xiao advised.

"If you can walk out, it means I can walk in." Zhou Xu looked at Bai Xiao's clothes and equipment. The harpoon looked funny.

Very ruins style.

The young man didn't have enough supplies, so he picked up clothes from the ruins and rushed out with a harpoon.

He has a gun, dry food, and sufficient protection, so his safety is greatly improved. If he really encounters danger, he can only say that he was unlucky.

"Keep going, it will get safer." Zhou Xu pointed to the road behind him, "It's a long way, I won't take you there." "There are tunnels on the road, more than one, try not to go in if you can take a detour." Bai Xiao reminded. He thought for a moment, took out a pen and paper from his bag, and wrote down the approximate address of the man with the little boy he had met. This was what he had promised. If he found a shelter, he would tell them that there were survivors and children here.

There were also a few people in similar situations that we met later on the road. They were not too specific, just a rough range, and there were no clear house numbers in the ruins.

"There are people in these places who may want to go to the safe zone. Among them are children and couples living alone. They don't know where the safe zone is, and they don't have the ability to travel far. If there is rescue from the shelter, they will be very happy. I still suggest you find more people. One person can't do much."

"Thank you." Zhou Xu took a look and put it away. "As you guessed, the safe zone doesn't trust the revelers and thinks they are unstable. The revelers don't trust the safe zone either. This is all old news. The contradiction is not irreconcilable. I will try my best. After all, the storm is coming. Now may be the last chance."

"What if it doesn't work?"

"If the safe zone survives, they will live outside of civilization and die in the apocalypse, or if the safe zone doesn't survive, everyone will face the worst fate."

"I'm not very optimistic." Bai Xiao shrugged. "They said that getting to this point is the result of everyone's efforts."

Zhang Tan thought about the last part of the journey and wanted to go to the most prosperous place before the disaster to see how those guys were different after they turned into zombies after the apocalypse.

"It's better than being in the ruins."

"After the apocalypse, they are actually living better than before the disaster. It's ridiculous. It's too difficult to pull them back together."

"Do you understand their doomsday theory?" Zhou Xu turned around.

"I just saw a little bit." Bai Xiao occasionally had an illusion that he was not facing a stranger, but a colleague, client, friend, or the tired-looking passenger sitting next to him on the last subway train twenty years later.

"——The feeling that the reveler gave me was that even if they lived outside of civilization, they would not be sad, because they firmly believed that this was just a process, and everyone would end up playing themselves to death sooner or later."

The two men parted on the road, one with a weather-beaten face walked towards the ruins, and the other, a skinny young man with empty clothes, strode towards the direction of the safe zone.

Just as Zhou Xu said, the further they went, the fewer zombies there were wandering in the wilderness fields and on the roads. This place was also deserted, the only difference from the ruins was that many people here had gone to the safe zone for shelter.

Places with safe zones and places without safe zones are separated into two worlds, one is ruins and the other is civilization.

A zombie, standing between civilization and ruins.

Bai Xiao has already seen the scene after the collapse of civilization as a zombie, and now he wants to take a look at the post-disaster reconstruction of the safe zone.

He felt a little uncomfortable with the decreasing number of zombies, as if there was some danger hidden on the road ahead.

Bai Xiao looked down and saw that he had become much thinner and darker. Wandering along the way, he looked more and more like a zombie.

Even self-perception is slowly changing.

This was a dangerous signal. Bai Xiao walked in silence, trying to recall some things from his time as a human, but many of his memories had become blurred.

It's very strange that my memory of the world I used to live in has gradually become blurred, but I can still remember many things in the small mountain village clearly.

Bai Xiao suddenly remembered that he hadn't done radio gymnastics for a long time.

(End of this chapter)