This is apocalyptic

Chapter 94 093: I know
The starlight was bright, and Bai Xiao still stayed in the shed under the bright starlight.

He felt that he had a connection with the shed, as it could shelter him from the wind and rain, and there were no walls blocking his way.

There are insects chirping and frogs croaking outside. It is as simple as an ordinary rural yard. Here you don't have to think about the terrible situation outside.

There were bursts of coughing coming from the room. Later, Yu Ming couldn't sleep because of the coughing, so he put on a piece of clothing and came out.

"You haven't slept yet?" Yu Ming saw a vague outline under the shed.

"I woke up after a nap." Bai Xiao said.

"Did I disturb you?" Yu Ming coughed twice and said, "It's an old problem. Before I came here, I was hiding from zombies. I was wandering outside, sleeping on the cold ground, not having enough food to eat and not having warm clothes to wear. This is the root of the disease."

He paused for a moment, in a trance, and said, "Actually, it's almost the same. It's not as easy for you to find a shelter as it was for us back then."

"I am Long Aotian." Bai Xiao chuckled. It was actually easier. The zombies didn't have to worry about it every night. He would be able to detect any movement, although it was still difficult.

"It's not bad. The winters of those years were the hardest to endure. The number of people who died at that time should be no less than those who became zombies. We don't have a shelter here, so we have to go to other places. Those people went there in groups. I don't know how many people can survive the journey."

Yu Ming stood in the dark yard. There was no one in the village now, and he didn't know how many of those who left the village had managed to survive.

"Disasters are never single," said Bai Xiao.

"Yeah, if it's just a local situation, it's fine, but if everyone is busy taking care of themselves, it will be difficult."

There was a shooting star streaking across the sky. Bai Xiao looked up at it and said with a smile, "Did you people before the disaster make wishes to shooting stars?"

"That's what they say." Yu Ming also saw the meteor streaking across the sky. He said, "But it's probably not a meteor."

"What is it?"

"Sometimes, unsupervised artificial satellites will fall down." Yu Ming looked at the direction where it disappeared. "You may not know what a satellite is. It is the culmination of human technology. We can launch huge instruments into the sky."

Bai Xiao looked at the direction where the meteor disappeared and remained silent for a long time.

Artificial satellites seem out of place in this era of ruins.

"How could humans become like this when they are so powerful?" Yu Ming murmured to himself.

These twenty years seem like living in a dream.

Yet it is so real.

"Sometimes I feel that there is a sense of disconnection between you young people and us before the disaster," Yu Ming said. "In the past, we were able to move mountains and fill the sea. It can be said that we can survive any disaster except the virus."

"But it's the virus." Bai Xiao said.

He remembered something funny. He had read a post discussing all the disasters that could exterminate humanity, including the Ice Age, meteorite impacts, alien wars, and full-scale nuclear explosions. Among all types of disasters, zombies were considered the least likely and would only exist in literary fantasy.

Bai Xiao was in a trance when he thought about this, and he suddenly realized that it was correct. The zombies did not cause the doomsday. If it were not for the subsequent infection, all the ruins would have been cleared by now. What the safe zone is worried about now is the ubiquitous infection, the revelers who refused to accept shelter, and the survivors living alone.

"Yeah, zombies aren't actually that scary. As long as they are stable, they won't be vulnerable. What's scary is the super virus that spreads to any living thing." Yu Ming smiled. "Before, if we didn't test, we didn't have it. Now it's broken. We can still have it without testing, and there's no privacy protection regulations."

He sat in the yard, feeling the cool night breeze, and wanted to see another shooting star, but the stars were hanging in the sky, steadily, with no signs of falling.

"You young people are actually quite happy in some ways," said Yu Ming.

"Ok?"

“This disaster saved everyone’s life.”

"How to say?"

"This is complicated to explain. When you can't survive, there will always be other disasters. It's better not to talk about old things." Yu Ming tightened his clothes. "If the disaster can pass, it will be a new world. The shelter will be praised by people, and then it will be another reincarnation." He looked at the shining stars in the sky. Those stars have existed for countless years. To them, everything is just a blink of an eye.

"I am a person of the old era and I don't want to board the ship of the new era."

The prosperity or decline of this land is just a matter of moments in their eyes.

But for him, it was a real few decades spent day by day.

Yu Ming stayed in the yard for a night. When it was dawn, he stretched out his body. The stars disappeared in the sky, and the sky in the distance was slowly getting brighter.

Bai Xiao wandered in front of the shelf, looking at the rows of models. He also wanted to get one. He saw it when he was scavenging in Linchuan but had never picked it up. If he had another chance, he could pick it up and take it home.

"Can you give me some of this seed?" Bai Xiao saw Yu Ming putting the seeds that had been dried yesterday into a glass bottle.

"No problem at all."

Yu Ming looked at him in surprise, and after a moment he said, "It seems you have thought it through?"

"probably."

Bai Xiao had no way of telling him that he was a zombie. Even if he went to the shelter, he would not be like a normal person. He would not be well fed and well provided for, or receive any other treatment. In short, he would lose his freedom.

Without freedom, one can only be at the mercy of others.

His fate is to live in this ruin, like many other survivors.

Yu Ming packed up the eggplant seeds that were dried yesterday, as well as some buckwheat and a few peppers. Some of them had degenerated, while some were still maintained after his selection.

"Try a small amount first, learn slowly, and remember to choose the right time to plant, prevent insects and diseases, these two together, this..."

Yu Ming kept on talking, saying that he didn't know how to do it before, but he figured it out over the years based on some vague impressions. Some of those who couldn't be solved had already died, leaving only those with stronger vitality and better luck.

He didn't explain it in detail. Yu Ming found a piece of paper and started writing. He rarely picked up the pen. His pen-holding movements were a little awkward and he had to think about it occasionally.

"If you see another Ultraman while scavenging, stay with him. What if you figure it out one day and go to the shelter again? Won't you have to pass by here again?" Yu Ming said.

"Yes." Bai Xiao said.

"And I'm short of Xiao Yan's demon form. If... forget it, you won't recognize it even if I tell you." Yu Ming said.

"I know him." Bai Xiao said.

Yu Ming was stunned and looked up at Bai Xiao, this young man who was obviously born after the disaster.

"You bad boy..." Yu Ming smiled. He did not ask Bai Xiao if he really knew him. He just smiled and lowered his head to continue writing down the precautions on the paper. He said, "I have it in this life."

Finally, he took out two salted fish, which were fresher than last time.

"Leaving?" Yu Ming saw Bai Xiao out and said hello.

"Ah."

"Where else are you going?"

"Go home." Bai Xiao said.

He has a yard of his own.

(End of this chapter)