Ch16 - Collection Work and Strange Zombies

Translator’s Note:

Thanks to reaching the donation goal, this chapter is an extra one that I decided to release. Enjoy reading  (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ).

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The bustling commercial street in the past looks very ‘prosperous’ at this time, and the scattered vehicles on the street are the source of the prosperity in this neighborhood. Many zombies lost in the nearby streets formed the main passenger flow of this commercial street, and many of them simply wandered into the shopping malls with open wide doors, wandering around blankly.

Wei Xuan took Du Hang directly to the men’s clothing department on the third floor of a shopping mall. Compared with other places, this place is relatively clean. The situation in restaurants and dessert shops is still similar to the situation before the end of the world, even though there are many zombie customers crowded inside.

Of course, although most of the zombie clerks did not leave the store, it is a pity that no one will sell anything to these ‘customers’ unless they are living people themselves and sell their own flesh and blood as commodities, it will be even more impressive. 

The air was filled with a strange mixture of rotten and musty smells, which made Wei Xuan, who entered the mall wearing a mask, subconsciously frown.

These smells are not caused by dead people and zombies but from those shops…

Perhaps it is the growing popularity of online shops, which has caused the large shopping malls in T City to embark on a strange route many years ago. The shopping mall no longer relies on various brands of clothing to attract customers but needs to use a larger number of various gourmet stores.

These customers often call friends to look for newly opened special gourmet restaurants with good reviews after getting off work, on weekends, at festivals, etc. After a full meal in the restaurant, those customers may drop by the various clothing stores in the same shopping mall. If these shops are lucky, they will be able to sell some goods when these drop-in shoppers are in high spirits.

After all, in the era when the internet is so developed, although many people still go shopping, they are just window shopping. Then they go home and check the prices of similar products online. The same items would be much cheaper online than in physical stores.

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Sure enough, as Wei Xuan expected, the size of the clothes of the two of them was hard to find in the place where Wei Xuan lived, but they can be found here very easily. Not to mention the large backpacks on their backs were filled with casual and sports clothes that the two of them could wear, five or six bags were hanging on Du Hang’s bent arms.

After leaving this store, Wei Weixuan packed a lot of useful things from an outdoor goods store on the second floor. He even packed up the tent that was used as a sample there and prepared to carry it on his back.

Looking at the large gift bag of portable field cooking utensils (packed by Wei Xuan) at his feet, and a pile of equipment such as mountaineering suits that can be used by two, Wei Xuan rubbed his temples with a slight headache.

These things must be brought back, but the question is how to bring them back.

Walking a few steps to the window, he looked down at the crowded street… No, it is not entirely correct to say that it is crowded, because there are not many people on the street at all, just that the number of vehicles is surprisingly large. 

The crisscrossing vehicles almost filled the entire streets and alleys nearby. Wei Xuan could barely rely on his driving skills to go through the streets near the residential area where he stayed before, even if he wanted the car to drive on the sidewalk, he would not be able to drive it out!

Rubbing his somewhat swollen head again, Wei Xuan helplessly turned his head to look at Du Hang who was still obediently following him with a blank face, and then looked at the mountain bikes in the sporting goods store, there is indeed a means of transportation, and this means of transportation can indeed move through the city in today’s horrible traffic conditions. But the problem is that he can go back by bike, what should Du Hang do?!

Let the zombie learn to ride a bicycle? Maybe with Du Hang’s ingenuity, which is different from ordinary zombies, one day he can learn it? But the problem is that Wei Xuan is in a hurry now!

Can he ride a bike with Du Hang on? It’s not impossible, but what about those items they collected? 

After thinking about it, again and again, Wei Xuan dropped his belongings and dragged Du Hang to the basement floor of the commercial building next door, and pulled out two supermarket trolleys from the inside, which solved the urgent need.

At this time, he wanted to sigh again – this kind of cart is a very convenient tool! Especially after the end of the world, as long as you don’t have to worry about being seen by others, the efficiency of using this kind of cart to transport things is much more convenient than carrying it yourself.

Although it was confirmed by Du Hang’s nose that there should be no survivors along the way when the two came. But to avoid the possibility that there are still living people on high buildings that can not be detected by Du Hang, Wei Xuan decided to collect some urgent supplies and stuff them into the shopping cart and backpack, and rest until night falls. They can then push the carts in the dark.

Not long after, in the deep night, two small figures pushed a car each during the quiet night, slowly bypassing sundries, garbage, vehicles, and some zombies who fell or sat on the road.

That’s right, the zombies were laying on the ground. They were laying down seeming to be dead. 

These zombies are still alive, and most of them have sound limbs and healthy bodies. Once they meet a living person, they can run at the speed of a 100-meter world champion.

However, it seems that recently, many zombies have fallen to the ground one after another when night falls and there is no attraction for them to find prey.

Their bodies didn’t look damaged, and there was no sign of their eyes closing after laying on the ground. After discovering this strange situation, Wei Xuan judged it based on the strange behavior of his own zombies recently, some zombies may have slightly recovered some of their previous habits. They just habitually lie on the ‘bed’ at the right time. Only when they find food will they get up one after another, throw away these ‘habits’, and chase after the delicious food in their eyes.

It’s very easy to get around bulky things like vehicles. Although it’s night, people can vaguely see the shapes of those things from a distance with the help of moonlight. What makes people vomit blood are these zombies sleeping everywhere!

On the way home that night, Wei Xuan accidentally bumped into and crushed the zombies lying on the ground several times in a row!

Fortunately, because the pushcart is in front to help find the way, even among the ‘attacked’ zombies, even if they occasionally raised their arms and waved at the objects that hit them, they were blocked by the pushcart. Wei Xuan didn’t have to worry about himself being injured by these guys. However, the carts got many scratches from these zombies.

But even so, when he took Du Hang to push things to the gate of his community, he was shocked by the two zombies at the gate, a female zombie lying on the ground, and another one lying on top of her. The male zombie lying on top, the posture, the movement, the ups and downs frequency… No matter how you look at it, it looks like they are fornicating!!

Wei Xuan thought he was dazzled at first, and then he was extremely shocked and thought that he had encountered a perverted incident where a living person came here to attack a female zombie!

But when he realized that the figure did not react to the arrival of the two of them, Wei Xuan immediately calmed down, took out his flashlight, and pointed at the pair of figures, and then…he couldn’t help but curse.

The posture is indeed that kind of posture, and the movements are very similar to the movements of living people, but the two zombies are only very similar in movements… The male zombie didn’t even take off his pants, and that thing didn’t seem to react after turning into a zombie, so how could they possibly do that together?!

Wei Xuan rolled his eyes, guessing that this male zombie would do this kind of activity every time before going to bed. That’s why there are such weird things in the post-apocalyptic world. Fortunately, they didn’t stage an 18+ scene at the gate of his house’s community, otherwise, he would definitely pull these two zombies apart and chase them away from his house!

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Since military vehicles entered and left T City on a large scale, Wei Xuan’s life has become much richer, and he goes out more and more frequently. For a week or so, he spent almost every day regularly going out and going home to organize things.

Then, his routine life gradually changed from bringing all kinds of materials to his ‘home’ to moving a lot of easily damaged things out of his home. It looked like he was going to move again.

However, the destination of the ‘moving’ this time is not to the other nearby residential areas, let alone the hot pot restaurant where he lived before, but a small park near this community that was relatively famous before the end of the world.