This is apocalyptic

Chapter 93: Nice to meet you

"I suspect you have laser eyes."

Yu Ming looked at Bai Xiao and muttered something, but did not try to get to the bottom of it. Instead, he treated him to eat more.

A gust of wind blew, and the big tree in the yard rustled, like an ordinary meal in a farmyard.

Yu Ming is not a stay-at-home uncle in the apocalypse, and Bai Xiao is not a zombie.

Bai Xiao, who had been wandering around all day and associating with zombies, suddenly regained the feeling of being a human being.

The feeling was very subtle. Living alone for a long time would turn a person into a wild beast. After all, he had not experienced the disaster and had lost these twenty years.

The first thing he faced when he opened his eyes was zombies. He suddenly came here from the bustling city. Unlike Yu Ming, he did not survive the disaster and lived alone in a small courtyard, transforming the courtyard together with an old brother.

Yu Ming has experienced disasters, and his heart is strong enough and his spirit is rich enough.

After all, there are some differences.

No matter how bad the outside world is, at least it is quiet and peaceful at this moment. Maybe this is why Yu Ming is reluctant to leave. He has found his own shelter in this small yard. Here are all his memories after the disaster, good and bad. No matter how chaotic it is outside, at least he can enjoy the tranquility before the end of the world, even though there are only a few years left.

Only those who have experienced the early stage of the disaster and survived from that time can enjoy this kind of loneliness. Or for those who grew up after the disaster like Lin Duoduo, who have not experienced prosperity, the emptiness will not be so unbearable.

Bai Xiao is different from all of them. He is an outlier, both physically and mentally.

Chenjiabao, Lin Duoduo, Yu Ming, and the Safe Zone, they all have complete experiences, and Bai Xiao seems to have pieced them together.

He ate in silence, thinking about everything along the way. He had many questions he wanted to ask, but now it seemed that there was nothing he wanted Yu Ming to answer.

After dinner, Bai Xiao rested while touching his helmet. Yu Ming fiddled with the Ultraman that Bai Xiao brought back for a while, played with the model on the shelf for a while, then put it down, picked up the hoe and continued to do what he had not finished before Bai Xiao came.

"In fact, you should stay in the shelter. They have core technology there. It's very complete. No matter what aspect, they are the best."

Yu Ming was working with a small hoe while saying, "Look at these. It's hard for ordinary people to take care of them. If no one takes care of them after the disaster, many of them will degenerate and slowly become like weeds."

Yu Ming was fiddling with the bean peg, and Bai Xiao was always worried that it would suddenly shoot out beans.

Yu Ming picked a marked eggplant, cut it open with a knife, shook out the seeds, and washed them in a basin. "Sometimes, if you don't handle one well, it's gone."

This was not the time when Bai Xiao had just come out and everything was just beginning to revive. At that time, winter had just passed, and now it was already late autumn.

Yu Ming had enough to entertain this awesome friend who had gone out on his own to find shelter and could come back after finding it.

"You have to seal the windows here." Bai Xiao reminded Yu Ming.

"Oh?"

"Some scavenger birds have been infected and are very aggressive. They migrate quickly. The next step should be other birds. They can't find food in winter, and that may be even more dangerous." That was just what Bai Xiao saw. There may be more in the invisible places, in other ruins, in uninhabited mountains, on the vast grasslands, and in the desert Gobi.

"That makes sense." Yu Ming squatted on the ground, looking at the row of houses, thinking about how to prepare for Bai Xiao's reminder.

The environment is deteriorating. Maybe you won't notice anything in remote places, but if you are unlucky and encounter an attack, you may be able to avoid it if you are prepared. "You are really lucky. You can survive this attack." Yu Ming said, "Wait until I seal all the windows and put a net outside."

"I think you can go to Chenjiabao. You can always live longer if there are more people." Bai Xiao said after hesitating for a moment.

"It's no use staying a little longer. There are too many people and it's a mess. Men and women are mixed together. You'd better not get close to them."

Yu Ming knew without any guessing what could happen when a group of people got together in the doomsday.

After looking at Bai Xiao's sunglasses, Yu Ming wanted to find a model of Cyclops to introduce it to him, but there was only Wolf on the shelf, not Cyclops, so he had to give up.

This young man was really interesting. I didn’t know if it was because he had lived alone for so long, but Yu Ming sometimes felt that they were of the same generation, and sometimes realized that he was a young man.

The sky gradually darkened and a few fallen leaves floated down from the big tree in the yard.

Yu Ming put down his hoe, took out the chessboard, and played chess with Bai Xiao. This time they played Gobang, which was simpler. Bai Xiao didn't have much superior chess skills, so he still lost.

Before Yu Ming's old brother died two years ago, the two must have played together often.

Yu Ming didn't play for long either. He only played one game and then put the chess pieces away.

"This broken helmet, is it what you carried last time? Didn't you find a better one along the way?" He saw the tattered helmet that Bai Xiao had put aside. It was very recognizable because there were two holes drilled on it. The last time he saw it, there was a rope through it, but now the rope was gone.

We walked the whole way, and there was no such thing as car racing, so it was hard to get too bad.

"It still works."

Bai Xiao smiled. This helmet was okay, although it was more torn. He was worried that Lin Duoduo would not recognize him when he returned. At least this helmet could allow her to recognize him.

Only the harpoon and the helmet remain the original two, everything else has been replaced.

Yu Ming packed up everything. It was already late. He sat under a tree, just like in early spring, looking into the gray distance. Perhaps he was often like this when he was alone.

After a while, he picked up the harpoon that he had given to Bai Xiao. There were dark brown stains on the upper and lower parts of the wooden handle of the harpoon, and one of the four teeth had its tip knocked off. Yu Ming found the tools and repaired it with his rough hands. Weapons need maintenance. In doomsday, nothing is more reliable than it.

When it was completely dark, he had only repaired half of it. Then he lit a candle, repaired it, and returned it to Bai Xiao.

Yu Ming wanted to say something but didn't open his mouth in the end. He knew that Bai Xiao probably didn't come back from the shelter just to play a game of chess or give him Ultraman.

"Nice to meet you." Yu Ming said.

Bai Xiao inexplicably understood what this otaku was thinking at the moment, because he had once said the same thing to the human in the distant mountain village, "Nice to meet you."

The world is so big, and when disaster strikes, even a chance encounter, no matter how brief, is good enough in the ruins.

Nice to meet you - this is the best greeting in the ruins, even if it may be the last time.

(End of this chapter)