Ch18 - First Night Camping

Camping is a special enjoyment that allows people to break away from the original tense pace of life, and integrate into and enjoy nature. And the feeling of camping in the apocalypse is completely different from that before the apocalypse, especially when people who want to camp can choose a camping location at will, and they don’t have to care about the length of camping when they live outdoors, let alone worry about being caught. 

With the start of the end of the world, most of the plants are withered, and there is no dense grass near the tent, so there is no need to worry about finding swarms of mosquitoes, ants, and other insects. Let alone in this life, Wei Xuan didn’t remember seeing them in his last life either. Maybe it was because of the zombie virus that they died completely? Or did they move collectively because of the environmental changes?

Wei Xuan had a quick and simple dinner and watched the sky slowly turn dark. As long as you ignore the scary and hideous figures staggering and walking around you, you can enjoy this life in close contact with nature in peace.

Fortunately, Wei Xuan has been used to living surrounded by zombies since his last life. Even though he spent at least half of his time in disguise and living with ordinary people, his chances of getting close to zombies are far more than ordinary people.

When it was completely dark, Wei Xuan got in through the narrow tent opening with a small flashlight. This tent is the kind with a tent bottom, and sleeping bags and other things can be placed inside directly, without having to spread anything on the ground. Because the weather is getting hotter and hotter, Wei Xuan didn’t bring heavy sleeping bags and bedding, but only two light blankets, which can be used as pillows by rolling them up. 

Although the space inside is relatively small, it is not a problem for one or two adults to squeeze in. There is a pile of supplies and backpacks on one side of the tent, and there are many piles on the outside of the tent. For the sake of safety, Wei Xuan deliberately scattered some materials outside the tent in several different directions in case the magnitude of the earthquake occurred beyond the previous expectation and the things he brought got damaged.

Fortunately, because there are only zombies around, Wei Xuan doesn’t have to worry about pickpockets coming to steal things along the way. Of course, if he can meet someone with the same or similar ability as himself to come and steal his supplies, then Wei Xuan can only consider himself unlucky, and the stolen items …he could only accept his fate.

There is not much space in the tent, but it is barely enough for Wei Xuan to lie in and toss about. He spread a blanket on the ground, rolled his clothes to use them as a pillow, then turned around and lay down, and turned off the flashlight at hand – after all, if someone passes by and sees the light here, it will inevitably cause trouble.

Just lying down, under the moonlight Wei Xuan found that the door of the tent was pushed open by someone’s movement.

“Du Hang?” Today is the first day for the two of them to go camping. This is something new to both Wei Xuan and Du Hang, so Wei Xuan is not too surprised to see him crawling in. “What’s the matter? You also want to live in a tent?”

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Du Hang didn’t respond – that’s what he expected. In the dark, Wei Xuan couldn’t see Du Hang’s face, but as a zombie, Du Hang seemed to be able to see everything clearly in the dark, and with some difficulty, he rubbed against Wei Xuan who had just half sat up in the narrow tent. , and then reached out…to grab Wei Xuan’s hand.

“…” it turns out that it is so easy to develop a habit for zombies?

Seeing that even if there is an obstacle from the tent, changing the sleeping place, the space inside the tent being too small, and other factors, Du Hang’s obsession with holding his hand cannot be changed. Wei Xuan was naturally filled with pride after a moment of emotion.

That’s right, it’s pride, although the other party doesn’t have any memory of human social habits at all, and doesn’t understand the complicated thinking of human beings. Wei Xuan, who may have trained the other party so that he would subconsciously hold his hand every time he went to sleep, still felt a burst of pride and a little excitement in his heart.

After being reborn in this life, Wei Xuanming knew his feelings for Du Hang but still didn’t dare to do anything excessive to him. This is because it is a problem that the other party is a zombie now, and the other main problem is “the other party seems to not understand anything, like a blank piece of paper, and Wei Xuan can’t do immoral things to him in his current state.”

In fact, Wei Xuan is very clear in his heart. According to his memory of Du Hang and his understanding of zombies, the possibility of Du Hang being able to restore human memory in the future is slim, it feels like it would be something that appears only in fairy tales.

But now…after being in an area full of zombies, when it’s just him and Du Hang, there’s nothing wrong with getting closer, right?

He thought about the pair of male zombies tied together by a rope he met in the evening. Even they can use a rope to hold each other after zombification, so Wei Xuan thought that if he wanted to get closer to Du Hang, he may not be able to do it without his current memory and sanity…

Thinking of this, Wei Xuan subconsciously pulled Du Hang to try to lie down in the tent.

Maybe it’s because Du Hang usually watched Wei Xuan sleep, but he lay obediently beside Wei Xuan, holding Wei Xuan’s hand tightly as always.

It stands to reason that in the hot weather of summer, it is definitely difficult for two big men to sleep in such a small tent. But Du Hang’s physique is no different from that of ordinary zombies, and he doesn’t have the slightest warmth of a living person. On this summer night, it makes people feel cool and comfortable.

Coupled with the elasticity of the unique human skin and muscles, it is simply a big human-shaped cool pillow! Whether it is hugging or sleeping on the back, it is so comfortable!

The most important thing is that Du Hang doesn’t feel the pain of ordinary people. Whether he was asked to hold or carry heavy objects for a long time, or if he accidentally hurt his body, he would not feel it. In this case, no matter how much Wei Xuan sleeps, how much he tosses his arms and legs, and how much he presses him, Du Hang will not resist!

Fortunately, Wei Xuan has the psychological bottom line and dignity of a normal human being. Although he regards Du Hang as a pillow, he has no intention of molesting him at all. Therefore, Du Hang’s innocence is still safe for the time being – except that someone will secretly take advantage of it while taking a shower, Du Hang’s innocence has always been safe.

The obedient Du Hang kept the same posture all night, as someone’s summer cool pillow, without a single complaint or opinion. For him, the aura that belongs to human beings, the aura that he is familiar with and wants to get close to, it seems that as long as he is close to Wei Xuan, he can get the same feeling in the future. . So even if he is still ignorant and expressionless, Du Hang is willing to stay by his side. 

After Wei Xuan woke up after sleeping soundly all night, he found that he forcibly moved Du Hang’s arm under his head to replace the original soft pillow, and their hands are still together.

A pair of eyes dyed from the color of the morning sun stared at him unblinkingly from a short distance away.

If there is such a person in the normal world before the end of the world, who can only look at himself with this kind of gaze every day…

Wei Xuan shook his head, and hurriedly drove away the unrealistic thoughts that popped up in his mind. This is already very good now. Compared to his previous life, there is a person who stays by his side. Wei Xuan still doesn’t want to return to the human base, he is afraid that people will find out about his power and Du Hang. It’s much better to stay in the city with Du Hang, he doesn’t need any crooked thoughts from other people.

In his previous life, every time he left the base to go out on a mission, he had to find a way to get rid of his companions, but every time he saw Du Hang again, he could find some scars on his body that were not there before. Even several times, he found gun holes in his body.

‘But now, I am by his side, which can guarantee the safety of both him and myself. This kind of life was something that I could not have before the end of the world, and it was hard to imagine.’

“Get up, we still have work to do today!” Wei Xuan stretched and then found that he was still resting on Du Hang’s arm, smiled awkwardly, sat up, and rubbed his eyes. But Du Hang still lay on the spot very honestly, maintaining the posture that a pillow should have, watching his every move.

Wei Xuan and Du Hang lived very peacefully these past few days. Every day at around four or five o’clock in the afternoon, a group of aunt zombies dancing in the square would usher in this park. Every evening, they will see the two zombies who are tied with ropes, walking around and sitting on the bench to watch the sunset. In the early morning of every day, many uncle zombies come in to ‘walk in the park’, and you can even see the stiff stretching performance of other zombies.

Some of these zombies leave regularly every day, but some just wander around here after they come, and at certain times they will go to certain specific places, and act out the habits from before the end of the world. The number of these zombies who started to wander around and never left the park became more and more as time went by.

Until June 22nd, Wei Xuan, who had no memory of the exact time when the earthquake occurred, was sitting in front of his tent having dinner, enjoying the evening breeze. The sun is westward, but it has not yet reached the time when the sunset glows all over the earth. The couple of male zombies who are strolling around these days seem to be hindered by the increasingly difficult roads outside. The other zombie uncles and aunts do morning exercises and square dances here, during the daytime, and walk around after. At this time, Wei Xuan just returned to the gazebo and sat down to watch the sky.

In the park, the aunt zombies who usually danced in the square also gradually wandered back to their dancing positions stood up and began to stretch their arms and legs.

In the midst of this peace and tranquility, Wei Xuan suddenly noticed that the water in the water glass on the low table beside him was shaking.