I sell Coke in the doomsday

Qu Yunliu took a sip of tea, looked at me, and said lightly.

"Ajie and I have carefully analyzed the mutant zombie you mentioned."

"There are two pieces of bad news now. Which one do you want to hear?"

Chapter 224 Rejection

"There are two pieces of bad news now. Which one do you want to hear?"

I raised my eyebrows slightly, couldn't help but look at Qu Yunliu, and said.

"I want to hear some good news first."

Hearing this, Qu Yunliu's expression did not change. His gloomy face was calm and he just spoke lightly.

"I told you, it's two pieces of bad news."

"If you want to hear good news, you can go to sleep. Maybe you can hear three pieces of bad news by tomorrow morning."

The corner of my mouth twitched, and I turned to look at Ajie, pointed at Qu Yunliu, smacked my lips and said.

"Tsk, has this person always been like this?"

Ajie smiled bitterly when he heard this, touched the black stubble on his chin with his hand, and said helplessly.

"I think you know him better than I do. I can't say for sure what kind of person he is."

Hearing this, I sighed, put away my negligible sense of humor, rubbed my temples with my hands, and spoke softly.

"Tell me what bad news it is."

Qu Yunliu is a person who is even more boring than me. Upon hearing this, he spoke directly without any transition.

"First of all, with our current firepower, there is no way we can deal with the mutant zombies you mentioned."

"Once we start a war with them, we may be able to fight a defensive battle with our strongholds, which should be able to stop their attack."

"As long as the defense of the stronghold is strong enough, we can slowly consume those mutant zombies."

My eyes lit up, I was quite surprised, and laughed softly.

"No, this is not bad news. This should be considered good news."

The strange thing is that when they heard what I said, Ajie and Qu Yunliu didn't smile at all. This made me feel a little embarrassed for laughing alone, and I quickly put away my smile.

At this time, Qu Yunliu continued to speak softly.

"The second bad news is that our stronghold is not solid."

"..."

The corners of my eyes twitched slightly, and I began to consider whether or not to punch Qu Yunliu in the face. As if he had noticed my intention, Qu Yunliu coughed a few times, then took a step back and continued.

"When the shield stronghold was first built, it was for defense against zombies. But that level of defense can only resist ordinary zombies that are not smart or strong."

"The mutant zombies you described have amazing speed and strength. The original defenses of the shield stronghold are naturally insufficient."

Hearing this, I was speechless for a moment and waved my hands dejectedly. Qu Yunliu was right. Although the number of those mutated zombies was not large, their strength and speed were extremely terrifying, and their weakness lay in the hard flesh and blood that wrapped them.

If a siege and defense battle really breaks out at the shield stronghold, I'm afraid this stronghold won't last a day.

In my distress, I glanced at Qu Yunliu, but found that his sickly face was still calm, without any panic or anxiety. Seeing this, I turned my gaze to him again and said with a frown.

"From the look of you, you must have some ideas."

Hearing this, Qu Yunliu nodded slightly, covering his face with a white handkerchief, and spoke slowly.

"I have carefully analyzed your description. Those mutant zombies are now busy cleaning up the creatures parasitized by Epiphyllum in the city, so they cannot attack us in the short term."

"During this period, we must reinforce the walls so that the defense of this stronghold reaches the standards of a real city wall."

"In this way, the so-called offensive and defensive battles can be fought."

"Secondly, we have to consider food reserves. If a fierce war breaks out, eating only corn and other plants will not be enough."

As he spoke, Qu Yunliu pointed to the ordinary people in the stronghold at the foot of the mountain and spoke slowly.

"Take a closer look. The people in this stronghold are pale and skinny. They don't look like they can fight an offensive or defensive battle."

I looked in the direction of Qu Yunliu's finger, but saw the people at the foot of the mountain. They had thin arms and weak bodies, and they definitely didn't look like they had any fighting ability.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but turn my head to look at the tall and strong Ajie standing next to me, and muttered in confusion.

"No, then how did this thing get so big?"

Upon hearing this, Ajie immediately rolled his eyes and replied unhappily.

"Why are you looking at me? With my physique, even if you draw a pie in the sky next to me, I will gain several pounds."

“People’s physiques are different.”

Qu Yunliu stopped talking and stood aside, looking at me quietly. I vaguely understood what he meant, but found it somewhat unacceptable, so I deliberately ignored his existence.

Ajie seemed to understand something as well, and started to make jokes on purpose, patting the simple railings trimmed on the mountain road and speaking with a smile.

"It's okay not to eat meat. There's plenty of high-quality protein in this world. That freak scientist you found earlier, who huddled underground to eat bugs every day, grew quite big, didn't he?"

Qu Yunliu frowned and spoke in a calm tone.

"Where are you going to find so many bugs to supply the entire stronghold?"

Hearing this, Ajie was speechless for a moment, but Qu Yunliu turned to look at me and said something meaningful.

"What we need is not insects, but meat that can regenerate and be replenished at any time."

I couldn't ignore such straightforward words any longer, so my frown slowly relaxed. I looked at the setting sun that had completely sunk into the horizon, and said slowly.

"Have either of you ever eaten your own flesh?"

Without waiting for the two to answer, I answered the question myself.

"I ate before."

"It tastes terrible, fishy and astringent."

I blinked my eyes, which were full of soreness and astringency. A hint of bitterness rose in my mouth. The bitterness went along my mouth and went to my stomach, making my stomach churn and I almost vomited.

It was not a wonderful feeling, but a kind of hysterical madness, a madness that I could not accept.

"When I was in the Corpse God Cult, I was eaten for many years. You can imagine that you were hung up, and a group of people surrounded you, cutting your flesh bit by bit with a knife and drinking your blood."

"Their faces and mouth corners are all covered with your blood. I swear I don't want to experience that scene again."

Having said that, I slowly closed my eyes and exhaled back and forth, trying to expel all the air from my lungs, while whispering in my mouth.

"I will never let anyone eat my flesh again, not even myself."

Upon hearing this, Qu Yunliu showed no sign of being discouraged, but continued to speak.

"Why are you so resistant? In fact, there have always been records of cannibalism in our history."

"Using human flesh as military rations during wartime was not uncommon in ancient times, and was even considered heroic..."

Without waiting for Qu Yunliu to finish his words, I waved my hand, forcibly interrupted Qu Yunliu's words, looked at him, and whispered.

"Stop talking, I won't agree to that."

Chapter 225 Reasons for Rejection

"Stop talking, I won't agree to that."

After saying that, I didn't explain anything further. I just quietly looked at the people at the foot of the mountain, watching them busy in the approaching night.

The sun and the moon rotate, day and night alternate, time cannot stop, but it comes and goes, so many years have passed, even in the end times.

In my eyes, people seem to be always so busy, as if we are never creatures that can calm down.

Qu Yunliu was not discouraged, but moved a little closer to me, looking into the distance at the gradually blurry horizon, and said lightly.

"Do you know how many humans are left in this world?"

"No one has an accurate number. Our world has been isolated in this small world since the beginning of the apocalypse."

"How many people are still alive on the other side of the mountain and the sea? How are they doing?"

“For us, this is destined to be an unanswered question.”

"We are trapped here, so our world has become extremely narrow, and is no more than a stronghold."

"Children born after the end of the world will naively believe that people are meant to live behind high walls from birth."

"Even if you patiently explain to them that those motorcycles once filled the streets, those high-rise buildings were once filled with people, and every child could read and learn to read."

"Those kids will just think it's something like a fairy tale. They can't believe what we tell them about the past."

Hearing this, I frowned, looked up at Qu Yunliu, and asked with some confusion.

"What exactly do you want to say? Can you be more direct?"

Qu Yunliu ignored me and continued speaking unreasonably like the protagonist on the stage.

“We are visual animals and we only believe what we see.”

"I understand how much you hate eating human flesh, but if we don't tell those people that it's human flesh, can you accept it?"

From beginning to end, Qu Yunliu didn't even look at me. His eyes were fixed on the distance. His voice became hoarse and weak due to the torture of the disease, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

I fell silent after hearing that, and actually thought seriously about what Qu Yunliu said, but not long after, I shook my head, lowered my brows, looked at the rough wooden railing in my hand, and smiled bitterly.

"I'm sorry, but I won't agree to that."

"You can say I'm hypocritical and pretentious, but I just can't get over this hurdle. You're right. In the distant past, in human history, cannibalism was not a rare thing."

"I even remember that a certain book clearly recorded the price of human flesh, and that people at that time only dared to bury their mothers in their own yards, for fear that someone would dig up their mothers' bodies and eat them."

"But do you know how I felt when I read this history?"

I turned slightly and faced Qu Yunliu, tapped the wooden railing lightly with my fingers, squinted my eyes, and spoke slowly.

"We can perish, but we cannot degenerate into beasts, even for a moment."

"You can fool the kids down the mountain, but you can't fool me, or the adults down the mountain."

"Because they have eaten human flesh. I am sure that there are always people down there who have eaten human flesh."

"This is not even self-deception. The people down the mountain will eventually know that they are eating human flesh. They may pretend to be stupid and eat human flesh with peace of mind."

"But I can't do it. I'll never be able to do it."

Upon hearing this, Qu Yunliu finally frowned, turned around, and met my eyes. When our gazes were fixed on one place, there was a hint of sarcasm on the corner of his mouth, and he said with disdain.

"Your idea is really stupid. Only by staying alive can you change the future."

"Those people in history who ate human flesh survived and had offspring, which continue to this day."

"Those like you who don't eat humans will only starve to death and then be eaten by others. Don't you understand such a simple truth?"

"The instinct of living things is to survive and plunder."

Qu Yunliu waved his hand, pointed at the crowd at the foot of the mountain again, and said with a firm look in his eyes.

"These people, these children, can only have a future if they are alive. If they can't survive, then no matter what they say, it's all bullshit."

I didn't refute Qu Yunliu's opinion. I nodded calmly and said.

"I know."

"But I don't want to do that."

As soon as I finished speaking, Qu Yunliu suddenly took a step forward, grabbed my collar, looked at me angrily, and shouted.

"You know nothing! If you really understand, throw away your damn reserve."

I did not resist Qu Yunliu, but let this sickly man grab my collar.

"They will have no future."

I looked at Qu Yunliu deeply, and repeated it again with a heavier tone.

"They... No, all of them will have no future."

Qu Yunliu's expression changed slightly, and when he was about to speak, he was interrupted by my next words.

"No matter what the final result is, everyone in this timeline will disappear. It's no different from death."