Ch29 - New Neighbors

Wei Xuan wasn’t sure what the zombies would do after eating the snowflakes, and he couldn’t guarantee that they would be able to take good care of them after they were brought back to their community. But zombies are no better than pets after all. After taking them back, find a room for them to live in. As long as they don’t wander around, they won’t be in danger.

These days, although human life is more difficult and there are many crises, it is still difficult to guarantee the lives of zombies.

Humans will find ways to enter the city and strive to regain their former homeland, which will inevitably lead to a large number of zombies geting destroyed and lured away from the city.

After the early days of the end of the world, people who mastered the tricks of hunting zombies found the function of zombie crystal nuclei and discovered that people with supernatural powers can absorb them, and people can convert the energy inside them into energy sources. A huge number of zombie cities is bound to become an energy pool in people’s eyes!

Wei Xuan is not a kind person, so after his rebirth, he never thought of returning to human society and working hard for human society with his useless power. He is not a friend of the zombies, and the only one who wants to stay by his side after rebirth is Du Hang. But ever since he met these two zombies, he had the idea that he didn’t want them to stay here like this. They were exposed to the wind and the sun every day, and when there are living people entering the city, they would chase after them excitedly… Then they would either die under human guns, get their crystal nucleus dug out, or because of some accidents, the rope that connected them might break…

Yes, it is because of this rope, it made him decided not to care about the identities of humans and zombies and stay with Du Hang like a lover. He made up his mind to give the two zombies a small bag of snowflakes before leaving, and now he decided to take them away. 

It seems that as long as the two zombies can remain inseparable, even if they can never restore human memory, they can rely on this rope to maintain their relationship with each other, and he and Du Hang can be like them in the future.

Anyway, Wei Xuan would have dragged zombies to his community to guard the house, so it would be no problem to drag them back now. I just hope that these two don’t always think about going back to this park to see the scenery and go on a date, leaving the community behind.

The two zombies didn’t answer – of course there was no way for them to. So Wei Xuan thought with peace of mind that – not answering would be treated as accepting, and then took a step forward, trying to pull the rope between the two of them.

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Wei Xuan was startled, and immediately withdrew his hand, and something even more unexpected happened to him! Du Hang, who had been standing obediently by his side, suddenly took a step forward, roaring to block the waving claws of the young zombie, and confronted the older zombie. The older zombie who has realized that his ‘wife’ had been yelled at, roared back at Du Hang!!

This is the first time that Wei Xuan saw zombies confronting each other without any conflict of interest! In his previous life, the zombies would only attack him after he hurt them and caused them a lot of damage, but what’s going on now?!

Wei Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then quickly pulled Du Hang back. Although the other party was also roaring at Du Hang, he seemed to be guessing something and didn’t really want to catch up. And after Du Hang started roaring, the young zombie retreated behind the older zombie, instead of continuing to wander around in a daze as usual.

“Okay, don’t be nervous, it’s okay.” Seeing that the other party didn’t mean to chase after him, Wei Xuan comforted Du Hang, who had a grim expression, to calm him down as much as possible, and then turned his head to look at the two zombies. The older one didn’t catch up anymore and the younger one sat down next to the other zombie. The two zombies didn’t look at the scenery outside at this time but kept staring at Du Hang. Although they had no expression, Wei Xuan can feel that they seem to be wary of Du Hang, worried that he will attack them at any time.

After thinking about it for a while, Wei Xuan can only judge that because Du Hang is a half-zombie, if he threatens or intimidates other zombies, the other party can clearly feel his hostility? Just like when they meet humans?

And the reason why the two zombies were very vigilant of him touching the rope is probably because, in their subconscious mind, this rope is an important thing they have to protect even after they die and turn into zombies.

It has been so long since the start of the apocalypse. If they completely ignore the existence of the rope, the rope that gets in the way when they are usually moving or going out for a stroll will be ripped off by ordinary zombies. But this rope is still intact, they put a special meaning on this rope that tied them together. 

Thinking clearly about this, Wei Xuan got up again, took two steps toward the two zombies, and at the same time took out a small plastic bag from his pocket, which contained the snowflakes that Wei Xuan carried with him, more than half a bag left now.

He held up the bag of snowflakes to the two zombies and saw that the two zombies shifted their vision to him at the same time, so Wei Xuan smiled at them both: “Although it is relatively safe here, there is no guarantee that you will be able to stay here all the time.” Living here so won’t be so peaceful… “Well, I don’t want you to do things for me, but I can find you shelter from the wind and rain, and I can also guarantee that you will have snowflakes to eat for a long time in the future.”

He knew that his words were no different from alien language among the two zombies. So, after showing the snowflake in his hand and shaking it at the end of the conversation, he just took the bag of snowflakes and turned around, and dragged Du Hang down the gazebo together.

After confirming that the two zombies were not as dumb as they seemed, and after confirming how much they attached importance to the rope, Wei Xuan was not as active as before to take the two zombies back. Of course, he would take them away if he could, but he wouldn’t force them if they didn’t appreciate it. That’s why he showed the bag of snowflakes, then turned around and left.

With two huge backpacks on their backs, Wei Xuan and Du Hang walked out of the gate of the park. As soon as he turned around, Wei Xuan could see the two zombies standing in the gazebo, looking in their direction.

He turned around and continued to walk in the direction of his home.

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Because of the hot weather at the end of June, the situation in the community is no different from that before Wei Xuan left. Now, Wei Xuan has just tidied up a room on the first floor of another building, where there are now two more new residents, and at the same time, Wei Xuan has lost more than half of a bag of snowflakes.

Fortunately, the remaining snowflakes are enough for him and Du Hang to use until the next time the strange snow falls, and when the potatoes are harvested, he can just dig deep in the community, and he can gather more snowflakes.

That’s right, just when Wei Xuan and Du Hang had left the park, the pair of male zombies walked out and followed them all the way to this community.

Therefore, there is a new pair of residents in this community.

Wei Xuan chose a building not far away from his, and it is also one that does not leak rainwater, so it was considered safe to let them live there. Although there was no furniture in the apartment vacated for them, the two zombies entered the bedroom and sat on the bed to watch the sky outside. 

Wei Xuan never thought about whether to look for such zombies like them and Du Hang that seem to have some memories or habits of their lives as humans. After all, without a specific measurement, he can’t tell whether their behavior is just out of routine they did previously or for other reasons. Otherwise, would he even classify the zombies laying together that he met at the gate of the community that night as being in this category? He doesn’t want to bring back such pervert zombies. 

After the new residents moved in, Wei Xuan started his new round of work again—while it was still daytime, he went out again after lunch to look for some very useful supplies.

After a simple lunch, he dragged Du Hang out on the road again. As for the community where he lived – he left it to the group of zombies to look after the house for the time being.

This time, Wei Xuan didn’t wander around aimlessly but went straight to the nearest home improvement shop that installed water purification equipment, and carried seven sets of various filter equipment back home. 

Wei Xuan originally wanted to slowly process the rainwater according to the methods of his previous life, such as distillation, using gauze, and other methods, although troublesome but very simple. However, when sorting out the supplies of those relatively intact households in the community, Wei Xuan accidentally discovered that some households still had water purifiers, and then remembered that such convenient things should be found in the city.

He had used the water purifier in the company before the end of the world. He didn’t think about it earlier because before, living in the base, people couldn’t even enter the deep city, even with the water purifier, how can they use this thing when there is no electricity and not enough water for them to deal with?

But this life is different! Wei Xuan even found solar panels, and the roofs of the entire community can be used to collect rainwater. Except for some dangerous places in the entire city, where is he not allowed to go. Isn’t it more convenient to find a few sets of water purifiers and use them slowly?