This is apocalyptic

Chapter 88: Back to the Ruins

If the population is large enough and the land is not enough, it will inevitably continue to expand and will only stop when a balance is maintained.

Bai Xiao guessed that in another twenty years, perhaps it would be able to expand to Linchuan.

The population here is large, but not much compared to before the disaster.

The zombies in the ruins were once living people, and in this peaceful place, I don’t know how many zombies have been eliminated.

The zombie disaster is over, at least we have survived it in this safe zone.

No matter how much time is left before the end of the world as told by doomsday theorists, at least it is safe now. There is no need to wander around or scavenge carefully.

Bai Xiao sat on the side of the road and thought of some people.

Yu Ming, Lin Duoduo, Zhang Tan, Zhou Xu...

The ruins are chaotic and disorderly. They refuse to migrate and refuse to accept asylum. Civilization is neat and orderly. People living in the safe zone, whether in cognition or other aspects, seem to be different from those in the ruins.

I learned from Zhou Xu that the population of the sanctuary is now aging, and no vaccine for the infection has been developed. The infected birds in the distance are like a sword hanging over their heads.

I don’t know where Zhou Xu is now.

Bai Xiao sat until the sunset, and then he turned and left in the afterglow of the evening. He had now fulfilled his promise and found hope for the future.

Half of the work is done. The safe zone has not yet been freed from infection, but at least its location has been found.

People before a disaster are always full of confidence and believe that mankind will win. Bai Xiao finds himself the same. Although he has been infected and turned into a zombie, he still tends to believe that the safe zone can eventually develop a vaccine to solve the zombie virus that is sweeping everything.

He could now go back, back to the ruins, where the zombies should be.

Super virus...

There have been plagues before. What Bai Xiao knew about was the Black Death, which killed all the infected people.

And the zombies can even get up and bite people after being infected.

There was a patrol car from the safe zone in the distance. Bai Xiao didn't know whether it was a fixed or random patrol, so he hid in the bushes by the roadside and held his breath. He waited until it was slightly dark before coming out and continuing to leave in the opposite direction.

Summer is almost here before I knew it, and the speed of walking is really not as fast as when I first started riding a bicycle.

When Bai Xiao set out, he also wanted to visit the city where he used to live. He wanted to see if the city without him was the same as before, with a company, and his boss and former colleagues who had been infected into zombies.

But it was too far, and he was already very tired along the way. When he was with the zombies, his perception of being a human gradually became blurred. After arriving at this place with a safe zone, there were no zombies on the road, but he felt even more uncomfortable, that feeling of being out of place.

After seeing civilization, we will eventually return to the ruins.

Bai Xiao wondered if there was another him in this world. He struggled against zombies for a long time, wandered around with people who clung to each other, and then an accident happened while he was scavenging. So he came to another prosperous world.

In short, he is a zombie.

The zombie walked alone in the darkness. The night gave him a sense of security. Holding a dog-leg knife, he walked back towards the ruins.

The two corpses had already smelled bad, but the good news was that they had not been discovered yet. Bai Xiao was once again convinced that the control of the safe zone in this outer area was not that strong.

After walking for three days, the supplies in the backpack were almost used up before they reached the cellar. This time, Bai Xiao packed a lot of compressed biscuits and canned food.

If he hadn't lost consciousness along the way, he should have been able to walk back to where he first came from, where he still had a house, where no one rejected him, and no one was afraid of him. The backpack was full, and there were still many things left in the cellar that couldn't be put in. After Bai Xiao had a big meal, he closed the cellar door, filled the soil, and left the small courtyard.

By the time we go back, winter will be almost here.

When they were on the road, Bai Xiao realized the problem. The human being might not have enough supplies without his help, and he would have to consume more when he returned.

As he thought about it, he was alert to his surroundings. People in the ruins would be wary of lone walkers, but the people here were not like that.

It would be fine once we crossed the provincial border. The scattered zombies and stray animals wandering on the country roads and in the city ruins were dangers to others, but to him they were companions and food.

The bag on his back was very heavy, but it was the necessary supplies for his journey. If he took it easy now, the journey back would be difficult. He was almost losing weight along the way.

It was unknown whether Zhou Xu had followed his advice and avoided the tunnel, which contained not only wrecked cars but also zombies, bats, snakes, and other hidden animals.

The dark and damp environment is much more dangerous than the road.

Walking on the road that I have walked before, I gradually saw some old zombies again.

There were also dead zombies on the roadside. Bai Xiao checked its wounds and suspected that they were dealt with when Zhou Xu passed by.

After so many years in the apocalypse, those who should have left the ruins had already left. The safe zone and the ruins are two different worlds. Except for the reveler, no one had ever traveled with him along the way.

Sunrise and sunset, more than half a month later, far away from the safe zone, on the way back to the ruins, Bai Xiao was wondering if he would see Zhou Xu's body on the road, when he saw that man again.

Zhou Xu looked very embarrassed, with a radio on his back and a gun slung over his waist.

Bai Xiao saw him in a deserted village. He was in the village and Bai Xiao was on the road. He did not go up to say hello. He just saw him from a distance and hid his body.

The original color of Zhou Xu's clothes could no longer be seen. He had lost weight and became darker. With him was a couple.

Bai Xiao had seen the middle-aged couple when he came. They were almost unable to hold on. When they learned that Bai Xiao was going to find a shelter, they wanted to go with him. However, after seeing the location Bai Xiao pointed to on the map, they backed off because it was too far away.

They shouldn't be here. Bai Xiao remembered that the couple was still far away, and their location was also written on the paper given to Zhou Xu.

At this time of year, there are wild weeds growing everywhere, covering the roads and making them lush and green.

Looking at Zhou Xu and the two men, Bai Xiao hid on the side of the road, easily concealing his figure.

The three of them walked around the deserted village, rested for a while, and then left.

Bai Xiao looked at their backs and roughly understood that Zhou Xu planned to take them both back to the safe zone.

He was not going to continue to go to the ruins, perhaps because he had come to realize during the past half month that if he went to the ruins to look for the revelers, he would die on the way, so he only took two people with him and planned to retreat.

When he is fully prepared, maybe he will come again.

Bai Xiao suddenly felt something strange. He was on his way back, and Zhou Xu was also on his way back.

The only difference is that he returned to the ruins, while Zhou Xu returned to the safe zone.

Civilization and ruins never intersect.

(End of this chapter)