Ch28 - Returning to the Park

Once people are busy, they have no time to think about other messy things, and the little girl zombies he met before were also temporarily forgotten by Wei Xuan.

The collected water is enough for Wei Xuan to use for a long time. Although the water has not been treated and cannot be drunk, it is still much better than the water found in other places that has been polluted by zombies. In his previous life, although people who lived in the base would be provided with water, at most, the water was only enough for drinking, and sometimes, it wouldn’t be enough for that. If people want to fill up their stomachs with water, they would have to wait until when it rained. Or wait until winter to collect snow water to drink.

In the evening of that day, Wei Xuan dragged the zombies and human corpses collected from various buildings toward the burnt ruins near his community. The buildings that have been burned sometime when the apocalypse has just started, the area there has already turned into a piece of scorched earth. It’s the best choice to burn the bodies in that area so as to not arouse suspicion if any survivors come upon the remains. 

Wei Xuan, who had worked hard all day, could only postpone the task of going to the park to pick up his remaining supplies for another day. In the early morning of the next day, Wei Xuan, who got up in time, left the community with a rope at eight o’clock with Du Hang.

It had rained two days ago, and there were no clouds in the sky at this time, the heat from the son made him feel dizzy. There are still puddles of different depths everywhere on the uneven ground. If you accidentally step into it, it will often cause a tragedy where your feet come out and your shoes stay inside.

Wei Xuan and Du Hang both wore rain boots in order to prevent their skin from being accidentally injured and infected by the zombie virus. But even so, there were still several times when Wei Xuan accidentally stepped into the mud and it took a long time to pull his foot out.

What made him feel a little tricky was that when Du Hang went out with him, he always followed the path he walked and acted according to his actions. This made it so that whenever he stepped into the mud and got stuck, Du Hang would follow his motion and also get stuck! By the time Wei Xuan found out, Du Hang had already left behind his rain boots and was walking barefoot. 

Even if he is a zombie, and is not afraid of stepping on the ground with bare feet or getting hurt! It is not easy for Wei Xuan to find such a pair of well-fitting rain boots in the post-apocalyptic world. It is such a waste!

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After the earthquake and heavy rain, the appearance of these zombies became more and more unkempt, and many zombies lost their shoes, clothes, and hats. They look even more inhumane.

Looking at such zombies, Wei Xuan felt a little at ease in his heart. After all, he was most familiar with this kind of zombie in his previous life. On the contrary, the well-dressed zombies that look like normal people are more unfit. The closer their appearance is to humans, the more uncomfortable it will be for people like Wei Xuan who can observe them up close.

But when he turned an intersection and saw a group of eight or nine zombies walking in a certain direction, Wei Xuan stopped involuntarily. It was dry in the sun, so it wrinkled dryly on the body, and it looked particularly uncomfortable and awkward. But even though this row of zombies was also walking aimlessly and at a loss, the ones behind were all following behind the leading zombie, walking with exactly the same footwork, swinging their arms like a pendulum, with undulating angles, heights, and frequencies all different.

Wei Xuan has seen a lot of zombies in the apocalypse that still have some characteristics of ‘occupational diseases’, such as the zombies sweeping the floor, zombies picking up garbage, zombies cleaning glass, zombies of nurses washing their hands in hospitals, etc., but at this moment, he still felt that this scene was so heartbreaking.

With a soft sigh, he stopped Du Hang who was standing behind him waiting for his movement, Wei Xuan turned around and continued to walk forward. Going straight in a randomly chosen direction on the surrounding streets.

The situation in the park is similar to the day Wei Xuan left, the same cracked ground, the same wandering zombies, and the same pavilions.

After looking around left and right, he can confirm that the things he put here before have not been touched by anyone, and they are all well hidden in their original positions. As for whether it was kicked away by the passing zombies, causing the things inside to be soaked in rain… The things he hid around here are fine to get wet a bit, it will not ruin them.

Walking into the park, looking at the familiar pavilions, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but sighed again: “Hey, it’s good to live here all the time, but the tent is not resistant to rain and snow, and it’s too small… “Just as he was speaking, he looked up and saw the two familiar figures on the gazebo. One was still sitting on a bench looking at the sky, and the other was circling around. Although this scene also made people feel sad, there was another kind of inexplicable warm feeling.

After rummaging and tidying up, Wei Xuan sorted out the things that needed to be brought back and put them into the oversized backpacks of the two of them. Walking back to the area near the big crack that opened during the earthquake, he can confirm that those snowflakes have indeed disappeared.

No, there are still snowflakes, but because of the heavy rain, all the snowflakes on the surface have gone deeper underground, and if someone wants to dig those things, they need to dig a hole at least one meter deep. Otherwise, after the next strange snow arrives, it will settle for about a week, and then the condensed snowflakes can be dug in relatively shallow places again.

The relationship between this kind of snowflake and water is very strange. If you put these kinds of strange crystal snowflakes in the sun, they will not melt, but if you sprinkle them into the water, they will disappear instantly, but if you put this basin of water in the exposed sun the water will evaporate leaving those snowflakes at bottom of the basin, which is very strange.

So in fact, if this kind of thing is afraid of being discovered by others, you can simply put all the snowflakes in a mineral water bottle and fill them with some water to dissolve them. Then pour them into shallower basins to dry when needed.

Wei Xuan used this method in his previous life. When he entered the base, he was worried that someone would find something strange and steal Snowflake away. The only downside to this method is that he needed to be careful not to drink that bottle of water! Although these snowflakes can be absorbed by supernatural beings, who knows if drinking such a bottle directly will turn people into zombies?

In this life, Wei Xuanshi does not need to use this method for the time being. But he decided that when the ‘strange snow’ falls next time, he can try to use the pots and pans on the roof to directly collect the snow, and dry them to collect condensed snowflakes. If this experiment is successful, it would be much easier than digging the ground for snowflakes!

When the last heavy snow fell, he hadn’t been reborn yet, and after rebirth, he couldn’t find time to collect those snowflakes. He wanted to use that time to activate his abilities and find Du Hang. When he fully woke up, the snow outside had already completely melted, how can there be time to collect snow water?

As for whether this kind of weird snowflake was found in the base in the previous life? It is unknown whether ability users can absorb snowflakes instead of the zombie crystal nucleus. At least in Wei Xuan’s impression, when cooperating with earth-type supernatural beings, they never brought snowflakes from the soil. To find this thing, one still needs a certain amount of luck.

However, if someone discovers this secret, I am afraid that digging and finding snowflakes will become popular all over the base. By then, there will probably not be any intact ground in the entire base, right?

After packing up the things to take away, Wei Xuan wandered around the park for the last time and then walked to the highest gazebo to look around before leaving. Just after he walked up, he saw the older zombie turn his head to face Wei Xuan, then opened his mouth and let out a low, non-threatening “ho—” sound.

Wei Xuan froze for a moment, wondering if its voice was the kind of threatening sound it would make when facing humans? Or is it simply that he tried to say hello to him and Du Hang? Does he remember them??

With this question in mind, Wei Xuan carefully pulled Du Hang to the place where the zombie was sitting, but the sound just now seemed to be an illusion, the zombie continued to sit on the bench and look out. There is no other movement or sound and the younger zombie is still walking around in the gazebo within the limit of the rope.

Wei Xuan carefully observed the two zombies again, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual about them, he looked in the direction of the street outside. The scene on the street was no different from when the two of them came here. The zombies still roamed around in this empty city, looking so peaceful and silent—except that they themselves would make a few calls of unknown meaning from time to time. In addition, almost no other movement can be heard in the whole city.

Then Wei Xuan turned around again, looked at the two zombies still in the pavilion, and then made up his mind to walk in front of them, and said to the older zombie sitting on the seat: “Do you want to come with us?”