Ch45 - Someone Familiar

The road to the north of T City is wider than other places. Wei Xuan feels that the farther north he goes, the worse the road conditions.

On both sides of the road are relatively new buildings compared to the residential areas in other districts. The viaduct on the main road can be seen to have collapsed more than half without going close.

Looking at the high-speed rail tracks from a distance, you can see that many of them have already collapsed, and they have become more dilapidated after being drenched by rain these days.

What makes this scene even more desolate is that there is almost no green around here.

There were only thin and small trees planted on the newly built roadside, but now even those small trees are completely withered and decayed, and it looks barren similar to how it is in winter. Coupled with the collapsed buildings around, the upturned ground, and the group of aimless walking corpses… the scenery feels depressing.

Fortunately, it may be because these plants have only been planted for less than two years, so Wei Xuan has not encountered any mutant plants during his journey.

“Let’s take a lunch break and continue in the afternoon. We should be able to get there before dark.” Because they need to pass the road where the viaduct is on the way, it is unfortunate that Wei Xuan and Du Hang have encountered the most difficult walk so far. However, if he wanted to take a detour, the nearest street is a ways away, and he doesn’t know the road conditions there. So Wei Xuan can only endure the difficult road and move forward slowly. At noon, he was almost exhausted and had to find a place to take a rest before continuing.

Standing on a high broken wall and carefully surveying the surrounding environment, Wei Xuan took his family’s zombie and walked to a nearby housing community.

This is a relatively high-end community. The buildings in the community are not too high, but the units are large. Although it was built in a place closer to T City, the houses here are unaffordable for the average person in terms of T City’s per capita income.

Walking to the side of the community, seeing that some of the scattered zombies were still wearing security uniforms, Wei Xuan glanced at the uncollapsed sign at the gate of the community, and read the name on it with some doubts: “Hao Jiajiajiayuan…” Although he had heard of the name of this community before, he didn’t have a deep impression of it, but when he looked at it now, he felt like he had seen it somewhere before.

When he couldn’t think of it, he shook his head, turned around, and took Du Hang to the location of a relatively clean beauty salon nearby.

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There are no traces of zombies in this bottom store at all. This is not because the business of this beauty salon is so bad, but it should be because of the previous earthquake that caused all the zombies in it to run away.

He took out the food and water he prepared in advance from the backpack. The staple food he brought this time was onigiri made of rice, and the side dishes were vinegar potato shreds and potato pancakes.

Since he developed many ways to eat potatoes, Wei Xuan took turns trying them and finally felt that potato pancakes are the food that suits him best!

Maybe it was because of the lack of oil and water in his last life. In short, the slightly greasy potato pancakes in this life have become his favorite instead. Of course, recipes such as vinegar potato shreds and hot and sour potato shreds are also very popular with him because they are not greasy.

Therefore, once thinking about the days when there will be no cooking oil available in the future, Wei Xuan has a faint sense of melancholy, a feeling of a bleak future. When he thinks of that, simply becoming a zombie to join Du Hang doesn’t seem like a bad idea. This seems to have some similarities with Jia Baoyu’s frequent talk about going to become a monk.

After lunch, Wei Xuan packed his things and fed Du Hang two snowflakes. Now he has changed his habit of only feeding Du Hang snowflakes before going to bed every day, and he will also feed him some during the day when he eats. This change in his habit has allowed him to discover what he hadn’t discovered before—if he only If you feeds Du Hang snowflakes before going to bed, then he can eat five snowflakes each time, but if it is divided into three times, then he can eat two snowflakes each time on average, and three times a day will be more than eating five flowers in one go!

Although he didn’t know if this was the result of the snowflakes falling last time, Wei Xuan decided to change his previous habits and use a new method to let him eat ‘meals’ every day.

The two put on all their equipment again, walked out of the beauty salon under the scorching sun, and were ready to continue on the road. Outside the community is a relatively spacious open space with some vehicles parked on it. Should be that the residents in the community used it as a free parking lot.

At this time, besides some garbage, many zombies were wandering around in the open space.

Wei Xuan took a glance and found that most of these zombies were sloppy, probably caused by the continuous rain. Most of the zombie clothes can no longer see their original appearance.

Not far away, there was a male zombie who looked to be about fifty years old. He was a bit chubby, his face was dirty, and there were traces of muddy rain. The reason why he caught Wei Xuan’s attention was that he was dragging a zombie behind him.

No, that’s not right, it’s not a zombie anymore, it’s just a highly decomposed zombie that has been dead for an unknown amount of time, and was grabbed by the ankle by this fat male zombie and pulled along like this.

Taking a closer look, Wei Xuan judged that the long-dead one should be a female zombie. Most of the clothes on her body were worn out, and the skin and flesh on her body were rotten. But it looks like she has long hair.

I wonder if that zombie is his relative?

Having this thought in his mind, Wei Xuan sighed softly in his heart and continued to walk forward. After walking a few steps, he suddenly felt that the rope around his waist tightened. Wei Xuan turned around in surprise but saw Du Hang still standing where he was.

“Du Hang?” Du Hang’s attention seems to be on something else as he stood in place, he only turned towards Wei Xuan when he heard his voice. Wei Xuan looked in the direction Du Hang was just looking in, there seemed to be nothing besides the male zombie dragging the corpse of the female zombie. But looking at Du Hang’s reaction, it shouldn’t be humans that he has spotted, so what is he looking at?

Wei Xuan waited for Du Hang to come to his side and looked around carefully again, especially at the position Du Hang had just looked at, but still got nothing, so he grabbed Du Hang’a hand and continued walking north.

Following behind him, Du Hang, who wasn’t any different than before, turned his head again and looked at the male zombie who was dragging the female corpse around with a dazed expression, Du Hang had a kind of daze in his heart, a sense of familiarity. But what is that? What is the feeling?

In a simple room, there are only a few single beds lined up by the corner, and the family gathers around one of the beds with sad expressions. Lying there was a thin old man with a sallow complexion and weak breathing. His life had come to an end, and he might die soon. 

In the apocalypse, even if you are lucky enough to escape from your home in the city surrounded by zombies and escape into the base, even if you are lucky enough to escape at that time, those who were suffering from certain serious diseases can not last for long. 

There are no specific medicines for the symptoms, no specialized hospitals, and limited doctors who can’t even help the regular people in the base. Many aren’t even in the correct field to help, for example, a doctor who was a dentist before the end of the world knows more than ordinary people. There is a lot of medical knowledge, but they can’t help them to switch to the treatment of endocrine patients! 

Especially in the last few days, the urgent shortage of trauma doctors caused headaches for the survivors in those large and small bases. At this time, even if there is a Mongolian doctor in the base, the survivors are lucky.

It’s just that surgical diseases may be curable, but there is no good way to save his life like the terminal cancer patient lying on the bed. Now, even before the end of the world, the most common chemotherapy equipment used to relieve cancer symptoms does not exist, so since entering the end of the world, since this big family luckily escaped from the city and came to the base, he can only be forced to wait to die. 

“Woooo…”

Some of the people around the bed wept softly. They were crying not only for the old man whose life was about to come to an end but also for their terrible fate that they didn’t know what the future would hold. After all, everyone has been mentally prepared after learning about the illness of the elderly at home. Under the conditions of the end of the world, they all know that the old man cannot persist for too long. 

Their crying at this time is more because they are also very likely to face the fear of the same future soon.

Finally, the old man on the bed completely stopped breathing, but because his breathing had been extremely weak before, the family members who were crying at this time hadn’t noticed it yet. 

But after a while, the bed suddenly moved.

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old granddaughter was looking up at the bed at this time and seeing the old man’s body move, she quickly shouted, “Grandpa moved!” 

“Dad, what do you want? Do you want water?” The old man before was already lying in bed unable to move and fell into a severe coma for the past two days. The family hurriedly surrounded him…