I loaded the dream game

Because there were less than sixty hours left, and they had wasted a lot of time wandering around in the ocean. Even if they ran to the other side of the sea, they probably wouldn't be able to stay there for long.

So after Xia Zhi thought about it for a while, he decided to just drive the car back.

...After all, smuggling is never a good thing, right?

"So, is this the prodigal son's return?" After returning to land after a long absence, he couldn't help but sigh as he felt the slight bumps coming from the car driving on the road.

"Generally speaking, we call this situation 'giving up halfway'." Yukino corrected without even looking up.

"Actually, my ultimate goal was to go around and come back."

After thinking about it, Xia Zhi said that compared to "giving up halfway", it would be more appropriate to call it "completing ahead of schedule".

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"Xia Zhi, you have always been very flexible in your requirements for yourself and your goals." Yukino finally moved her eyes away from the book in her hand and looked at him and said.

Since the goal cannot be achieved, then change the goal itself and use another goal to complete the task that cannot be completed...

"It would be nice if you could do this when doing math problems."

Summer Solstice:…

Generally speaking, math problems have only one answer.

If you want to flexibly change goals and results, you probably have to overturn the mathematical system first, right?

Isn't that kind of thing a little bit difficult?

.. ......... .......

But if you change your thinking, perhaps you can try to start with the test paper and the teacher who sets the test paper?

Xia Zhi pondered in his heart.

"..."

Looking at Xia Zhi who had fallen silent, Xueno could roughly guess, without asking, that he was probably thinking about something messy and unreliable again.

And considering the boy's current abilities, if he really had a sudden impulse and decided to put some unreliable idea into action, it would probably be a big trouble for the world, right?

In order to avoid that from happening, Yukino thought for a moment and interrupted, "So, where are we going next?"

Xia Zhi came back to his senses and replied: "Well...didn't I just say that?"

"After the change... No, in the original plan, I was going to go around and come back."

There's no need to hide something that everyone knows, right? Listening to the boy's words, Yukino complained in her heart.

"so……"

After glancing at the countdown that was running short and thinking for a moment, Xia Zhi made a suggestion:

"Since we have come back early, why don't we just go back to the beginning?"

Chapter 604: You like cats, and I like cats too, so aren’t we in the same group?

The city after the rain was fresh with a little dust washed away. I don't know if it was because so much time had passed that the smell had dissipated, or if the light rain last night temporarily cleaned the air, but the city no longer smelled the stench of decay.

This was the first feeling I had when Xia Zhi returned to the city called "Mizunogaoka".

This also made him feel a little relieved... Fortunately, if this place, as the last choice to return to, is still as smelly as before, it would be a bit too ruinous of the atmosphere.

but……

“It seems like the streets are pretty quiet.”

Driving an RV on a deserted road, looking left and right out of the car window at the desolate and dilapidated street scene with overgrown weeds, abandoned buildings and vehicles covered with green vines, "297" Xia Zhi exclaimed.

“And the environment seems to have improved a lot.”

"Since there are no living people left, isn't this situation very normal?" the girl on the side said as a matter of course.

The city has a suitable temperature, pleasant weather, and sufficient rainfall. It has not been cleaned and maintained by humans on a daily basis. So it is not surprising that it would be reoccupied by growing plants after so long, right?

"What Xueno means is that humans are indeed the culprits who destroy nature, and it would be better for them to disappear?" Xia Zhi tilted his head slightly and asked.

Is that what I mean?

Yukino gave him an unpleasant look, then continued, "Humanity's destruction of nature is the inevitable result of life's highly evolved development, far exceeding that of other species, which ultimately led to a generational gap. If there is anything wrong, it can only be said that we are progressing too fast."

After all, from the hot African grasslands to the frigid Alaska, from the humid and warm tropical rainforest to the dry and hot desert Gobi, before humans, no species in the world could migrate to different environments with such huge differences in latitude and climate in just a few thousand years without changing its own genes at all.

Many people attribute the modern destruction of nature and the extinction of species to modern industrial civilization, but in fact, long before humans developed agricultural civilization, they had already used efficient collective hunting methods and unique skills such as using fire to open up wasteland, which caused the extinction of more than 70% of large mammals in their migration areas within just a few thousand years after completing their migration.

It can be said that before humans entered civilization, more than half of the large mammals on Earth had already disappeared, not to mention that the subsequent development of agriculture caused more species to lose their habitats due to agricultural reclamation.

If we have to say it, the birth of the species Homo sapiens itself represents a catastrophe for the biological world on Earth, a man-made mass extinction of species.

So, according to this logic, shouldn't humans have been born?

How can it be?

"Just because we evolve a little faster doesn't mean we should die, right?"

Yukino concluded.

Xia Zhi thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case.

Human development has indeed brought about many problems, but development problems can only be solved by relying on development.

After all, the idea of ​​protecting nature and the environment was originally proposed for the future of mankind itself. If we stagnate our own development due to over-emphasizing this matter, or even think that we are born with original sin and must die for the harmony and beauty of nature, then it can be said that we are putting the cart before the horse.

On this point, Xia Zhi still agrees with the girl.

only……

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but why do I feel that the way and tone that Yukino uses to discuss issues sound more and more familiar?

However, if you think about it carefully, this is not surprising. After all, similar conversations have occurred almost every day during the time they have been together... Although it may seem boring to others, the two of them seem to enjoy it.

On the other hand, after spending so much time together, chatting and bickering every day, it is natural and normal that they would be influenced by each other's behavior style and way of thinking.

Similarly, although he has not noticed it yet, Xia Zhi believes that he must have been influenced by the girl in some way. ........

These are all unimportant things. After all, isn't there a saying that after living together for a long time, even their looks will gradually become similar?

Compared to this...

"I didn't expect that Yukino-san still supports the view of human supremacy."

Xia Zhi sighed.

"I'm just stating the facts." Yukino said that she was just an ordinary person... at least compared to a certain person, she was still very ordinary.

For ordinary people like her, no matter what their views are, their influence on the world is ultimately limited, so it doesn't matter what they think.

In comparison, some people are different, for example...

Xue No thought to herself, looking at the boy, and after thinking for a while, she asked, "So, what about you, Xia Zhi?"

"To be honest, I'm actually a member of the Earth Cat Cult." Xia Zhi answered without hesitation.

Yukino was slightly stunned... Of course she had heard of this sect, but what she didn't expect was that the boy was also a member of it.

I haven't seen him show any special love for cats on a normal day.

"Xiazhi, do you like cats too?"

"Of course." Xia Zhi replied as a matter of course: 3.2 "Cat ears are the cutest!"

"...?"

Yukino, who was originally happy that she and the boy had a new common hobby, tilted her head slightly after hearing his words, feeling as if something was wrong.

On the other hand, facing the girl's suspicious gaze, Xia Zhi didn't care.

You like cats and I like cat girls. We are both cat lovers. There is no difference between us. We should naturally be on the same side, right?

As he was thinking this, he suddenly saw a familiar dark shadow of a building surrounded by a wall at the end of his vision.

From a distance, you can see a few words written on the cracked doorplate:

——Megumi no Oka Academy High School

They finally came back to the place where they started...

Chapter 605: Love and Peace Can Continue (referring to Jia Zhong)

...something is not right.

When driving towards Xunzhiaoka Academy, Xia Zhi frowned slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Like he just said, it was too quiet.

Although it is normal to be quiet here as there is no human activity, don't forget that besides humans, there should be other moving things here.

At least last time before leaving this city, Xia Zhi only killed the zombies he encountered and did not deliberately clean up the other zombies in the city. So logically, there should still be quite a few zombies left here.

However, as he drove along the way, even though he did not try to cover up the sound, he did not see any zombies attracted by the sound of the car... It was as if all the zombies in this city had died.

And after arriving at the gate of Xunzhiaoka Academy, this feeling became even more obvious.

As mentioned before, the zombies in this world have the characteristic of following their living habits and activities in life. In other words, during the class time at noon, those "students" should all come back to school.

Even though the college gate had been blocked by Xia Zhi with several heavy trucks long before, based on the experience of the past few months, they should have lingered at the gate and would not "go home" until school was over.

　18 But...

Xia Zhi parked the car in front of the college gate and jumped out.

He looked around but didn't see any zombies.

Apart from……

Xia Zhi's gaze fell on the figure lying at the blocked entrance of the academy.

Judging from the pale skin with blue veins, it was obvious that this was the body of a zombie.

However, this is not the point. The point is... the body looks intact and does not show much signs of decomposition.

In other words, he had just "died" not long ago.

Xia Zhi's gaze moved to his head again, where there were obvious signs of depression and breakage.

"It looks like this zombie was hit to death by some blunt object." He made a judgment after thinking for a while.

Looking at the corpse lying on the ground and the sticky liquid flowing all over the ground, Yukino showed an expression of disgust.

She turned her head slightly and added, "Also, it can be seen that the 'murderer' is not very strong."

Otherwise, there would be no obvious signs of a struggle on the bloodstains on the ground, and the liquid would not be splashed everywhere.

"Really?" Xia Zhi fell into thought.

In other words... have there been other survivors here before?

As he was thinking this, he suddenly heard a rustling sound of footsteps coming from the end of the street in the distance.

Xia Zhi raised his head and looked in the direction where the sound came from, only to see a staggering figure staggering towards him.

Is that... a zombie?

Looking at the zombie girl in school uniform slowly walking towards him from a distance, Xia Zhi had an inexplicable feeling that she looked somewhat familiar.

“…Wu?”

As if she had noticed the two people standing at the school gate, the zombie girl paused slightly and made a sound that seemed somewhat confused.

She tilted her head and looked quietly at the boy not far away with her cloudy eyes, as if she was thinking about something.

After standing there blankly for a moment, she seemed to have come to some answer. She finally moved her body, took another step, and walked towards this side.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion... Xia Zhi felt that her steps seemed to have become more rapid than before?

"...It's you?" His eyes fell on the blood-stained wooden stick in her hand. Xia Zhi seemed to have received some hint and showed a look of realization.

Isn't this the zombie girl who couldn't do gymnastics? So you're still alive?

"Come here." After thinking about it, Xia Zhi waved at her.