Ch17 - Watching the Sunset Together

The park Wei Xuan chose is less than half an hour away from where they live now, and in the post-apocalyptic world, the streets are full of debris, and they can only use the time after it is completely dark to go out to transfer supplies. It takes the two of them nearly forty minutes to walk with their supplies to the destination.

Fortunately, although the weather will become hotter every day, once the time enters June, it will be relatively cool and comfortable to go out at night, so their transfer of materials this time did not cause any burden.

When the last batch of things that needed to be shipped were all delivered to the destination, Wei Xuan was relieved to be standing in a barren park with many dead trees and flowers nearby, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead: “Finally, we finished.”

This park is said to be the garden of a wealthy family before liberation, with a large area and beautiful scenery. After liberation, many of these gardens were directly converted into public places such as parks for people to visit. Before the end of the world, Wei Xuan would come here to play with his parents and classmates except when he was in the lower grades, but he rarely came here after that. On the contrary, after the end of the world, for a person who searched for relatively safe places to hide things all over the city, there are quite a few pavilions here where he can store some things temporarily.

At this time, he did not take out the things collected earlier but brought a lot of things from home. Of course, there is a very important reason for that, and that reason will happen in the near future, an earthquake.

And it is said to be a strange earthquake that spread to the whole world.

The magnitude of the earthquake was not large, but that weird earthquake affected the whole world just like the previous weird heavy snow and zombie transformations.

Wei Xuan, who rushed back to the base after the earthquake in his previous life, even heard that the coastal areas were extremely miserable. First, they experienced the siege of zombies, and then they encountered the dangers of the earthquake. After the earthquake, they had to face the ensuing disaster, the tsunami crisis, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake.

The scope of the tsunami has affected almost all coastal cities, and Wei Xuan, as a survivor of an inland city, is relatively safe. It’s just that the earthquake also brought many problems to the survivors living in the temporary base.

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Therefore, although he did not remember the exact time when the earthquake occurred, he thinks that the earthquake must have occurred about a month after the apocalypse started.

In his previous life, when he escaped from the crowd and went deep into the city to search for supplies, he passed by this park because he wanted to go home and have a look. Therefore, although there was also a ground crack here, he roughly remembered the location of the ground crack, so the tents and other daily necessities brought this time are naturally placed without ground cracks and collapses, and there should be no danger.

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Standing in the gazebo, he looked around again. Almost all the trees, flowers, and plants in the entire park have withered, showing a scene as if autumn has arrived.

This kind of withering is even more depressing than in late autumn and severe winter. The main reason is that not only do the leaves die, but the whole tree withers together will all the other plants, completely losing their vitality. 

Now, relying on the fibers and other substances contained in the plants themselves, they can barely maintain their posture, but after a while, maybe two or three months later, these old plants would collapse with the touch of a finger, or get pushed down by a gust of wind.

But at the same time, there are still some thriving plants growing in some open spaces in the park. They seem to have just drilled out of the ground not long ago, but they obviously possess tenacious vitality. There is no doubt that these are the potatoes and carrots that Wei Xuan had planted when passing by before. After all, if the residential area he had chosen before collapsed and became uninhabitable due to an earthquake, he would live in a tent in the park at worst.

Of course, the reason why he chose that community as a place to stay before was also that he vaguely remembered that the community had not been destroyed by the earthquake in his previous life. The reason why he has an impression of that community is of course thanks to the previous fire. After all, next to that community is the ruins that were burnt black by the fire…

After setting up, daily necessities are put away one by one, things that may be damaged by water are raised up, covered with tarpaulins, wrapped, and pressed with heavy objects, and all the camping equipment is taken care of.

Hammering his slightly tired back, Wei Xuan stood in front of the tent and looked around with some emotion. Beside him was the zombie Du Hang who was sitting quietly watching him, and some old old lady zombies were wandering around in the park. He wondered if they were here when the apocalypse started. Or did they come back here by relying on their impressions from their life before they turned into a zombie?

While in a trance, Wei Xuan suddenly saw a group of scattered zombies lined up in irregular rows at the gate of the park.

This strange look made Wei Xuan’s heart tense first, and he ran to a gazebo that was higher than him to hide. He was slightly relieved after seeing that they were all zombies, and was about to go over to check the specific situation carefully, but suddenly saw that the group of zombies began to stretch their arms and legs one after another…

After carefully watching for a long time, Wei Xuan realized that although the movements were extremely stiff and completely invisible, the posture of these zombies, the form of getting together… No matter how you look at it, it looks like a square dance!

After carefully identifying the members of that team—almost all of them were aunt-aged zombies, Wei Xuan finally confirmed that his guess was correct.

He didn’t expect that even this habit could be preserved until after the end of the world!

Wei Xuan sighed again, thanks to their incomplete equipment and no music, they would not attract more zombies to join them. Wei Xuan was just about to turn around and go back to his tent but suddenly saw two zombies walking up towards the gazebo.

Those were two male zombies, one of them looked slightly older, in his thirties, and the other was younger, in his mid-twenties. What made Wei Xuan notice them was not the behavior of the two zombies walking towards the gazebo, but a thick and strong rope tied around their waists, tightly connecting the two of them.

Seeing the rope, Wei Xuan stopped and looked at the two zombies carefully again. The clothes on the older one were a little messy, and it was obvious that he had gone through a lot of hard work. A backpack, the item of every survivor in the early days of the apocalypse. There seems to be a lot of dry blood on his left shoulder, and the flesh on the shoulder has been severely injured, although it has grown back due to the zombie’s self-healing ability. 

And the zombie on its left looked clean, without any scars, except for the dried and blackened blood on the mouth and chin.

Wei Xuan watched the two zombies pass by him in a daze, then walked into the gazebo side by side, sat down on the bench at one side, and stared blankly at the setting sun. Feeling a little sour in his heart, Wei Xuan sighed, turned, and walked back to where the tent was.

Du Hang still stood obediently by the tent – it was because the gazebo was not far from their tent that he didn’t go there with Wei Xuan. At this time, Wei Xuan stood in front of Du Hang, touched his chin, and looked at him. After a while, he muttered as if talking to himself: “Do you want to find a rope to tie us together?”

Wei Xuan knew that the strength would become great after turning into zombies, and maybe a light tug could break the rope—especially when encountering living people and chasing prey.

In the early stage, it may be possible to tie the two zombies with a rope to prevent them from separating, but the rope can be easily broken by them in the later stage.

However, if one day he turned into a zombie, completely lost the consciousness of a human being, and didn’t even remember Du Hang, wouldn’t it be better to tie himself to Du Hang in advance? Just like those two… those two zombies?

Thinking about this matter in his mind, although he didn’t really take a rope to tie Du Hang and himself together immediately, Wei Xuan did find a rope and stuffed it into his usual backpack.

After all, who made Du Hang the only one he can rely on after being reborn, and who can support him to survive in the last days? If Du Hang loses interest in himself who is no longer a human being after he turns into a zombie, at least he will not lose him completely by tying themselves with a rope, right?

Thinking of this, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but look up again at the gazebo not far away. Inside, the two zombies were still sitting on the bench, looking at the setting sun without even changing their postures. Perhaps, before the end of the world, they watched the sunset together at this time every day?