Ch48 - Going Home

Step by step, although I often act at night, I have already prepared myself for the burden when I come back this time, but looking at the faint brilliance in the east and the surrounding sky that seems to be a little bit darker than the previous night, Wei Xuan still couldn’t help but sighed softly: “Hey…it’s already dawn just after walking halfway.” I feel that I haven’t walked for a long time, and the sky has reached the darkest moment before dawn.

After looking around and confirming the condition of the surrounding buildings, Wei Xuan was surprised to find that they had just returned to the Haojia homestead where they had stayed during their lunch break.

“Ah, as expected, we can’t go back in just one night.” Wei Xuan shrugged helplessly, turned his head to Du Hang beside him with a wry smile, and said, “Come on, let’s rest for a day, and then go back in the evening.”

During this journey, The section of road with viaducts is the most difficult to walk, but the total length is relatively shorter. After walking south from here for a while, you will leave the road of the viaduct. Although the distance after that is rather long, it is much easier to walk.

So it only takes one more night at most, and Wei Xuan and the others will be able to return to their community. And Lu Weixuan over there is more familiar, so the speed will naturally be faster.

Putting the items that he had been carrying for eight hours on the ground, helping Du Hang put down the things he was carrying, and taking off their backpacks, Wei Xuan instantly felt that his chest and his back were heaving. It’s like being blown by a big cool wind.

As soon as he took off his shirt, he checked the position of his shoulders in the mirror of the beauty salon and confirmed that although the shoulders were red, they were not damaged because of the homemade sponge cushions placed in advance. He turned around in one breath and went to check Du Hang’s body, afraid that he would wear out after carrying so many things for a long time, and there was no other meaning!

After a careful inspection, Wei Xuan couldn’t help grinding his teeth because of the inspection results—”There’s not even a red mark!” Well, he is a zombies, isn’t it normal to have no red marks?

But what made Wei Xuan feel envious again was that when Du Hang just took off the backpack, there were still some imprints on his shoulders, but as time passed, the indentations on his shoulders recovered so fast that it was visible to the naked eye. 

“You zombies… you want to piss off us humans.” Wei Xuan patted him on the shoulder resentfully.

Du Hang tilted his head and looked at him as if he was an innocent child who didn’t understand why he was suddenly beaten. Seeing his appearance, Wei Xuan, who was somewhat unwilling, couldn’t help laughing, raised his hand and poked him on the cheek, helped him get dressed again, then turned around and sat directly in front of Du Hang, he acts as an excellent backrest.

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Wei Xuan was greatly surprised by this action, his whole body trembled as if he had been frozen. After a long time, he raised his head with some difficulty, slowly, and looked at Du Hang behind him bit by bit.

Du Hang still looked blank, his eyes were not bright, as if he didn’t feel anything about his sudden action.

But Wei Xuan’s heart was still full of turmoil – before, he would only do what he taught Du Hang to do. When I asked him to do it, he would do it according to the movements I showed him, or what I taught him in advance.

Of course, he will also imitate some other actions, but until today, his active imitations are still very few, and the interval between them is too long, so much clear imitations like now really make Wei Xuan shocked.

Taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly, Wei Xuan smiled, with a deep sense of relief and emotion in that smile, and he leaned his head into Du Hang’s arms again, as if he could not even feel the exhaustion from walking all night.

Du Hang’s movements stopped when Wei Xuan turned his head. Seeing that he was leaning back in front of him and not moving around, he slowly put his fingers on his face again, poking and poking again…

“Why does it always feel like I’ve felt this feeling there before?” Wei Xuan was puzzled and frowned, but he couldn’t remember it at all, as if his face remembered this feeling, but the memory of his brain was completely different.

But no matter what, Du Hang can always show new, human-like movements that make Wei Xuan happy and complacent, so… Even if his imitation is indeed a kind of harassment, I have to endure it!!

When I woke up, it was the afternoon, the sun shining brightly on the ground. Waking up at such a time made Wei Xuan deeply feel that it would be better to sleep a little longer and get through this period of sleep. But it’s a pity that I fell asleep not long after I leaned into Du Hang’s arms because I was tired from traveling all night last night. I should have slept enough by now.

It’s just…

Helplessly looking up at Du Hang—his finger is still poking his face… Is it possible that as long as he doesn’t stop him, he can poke forever until he pokes a hole in his face?

“Huh? What are you looking at?” Wei Xuan raised his head and suddenly found that although Du Hang’s fingers were still on Wei Xuan’s face and were still poking him lightly, his eyes would often look up.

Wei Xuan hurriedly followed his line of sight to look out together – the collapsed viaduct, the smashed ground, the houses and buildings opposite, and zombies wandering blankly under the sun. Among them, there were many zombies that the two of them had seen before when they passed by the last time. There was also the male zombie that impressed Wei Xuan deeply and the body of the female zombie dragged by it.

Du Hang lowered his head after hearing his voice, still looking at him blankly.

“…Forget it, it’s fine if there’s something weird.” Wei Xuan smiled at him, stretched his waist, moved his stiff body, sat up and cleaned up a bit, then took out the biscuits and water in his backpack Ready to eat – he prepares two different meals every time he goes out. One is made by yourself, but it is best to eat it within 24 hours. The other is instant food such as biscuits and instant noodles that can be stored for a while.

After all, the weather is too hot now, and the prepared food will go bad if left for too long. When you go out, you still have to rely on those foods that can be stored for a long time.

Now Wei Xuan has collected a lot of convenience food, so he only needs to bring this kind of food when he goes out recently. After a year, he needs to prepare homemade food that can be stored for a long time before going out. In his previous life, survivors like them brought raw potatoes or baked potatoes the most when they went out… …

After having ‘breakfast’, it was still very early. Wei Xuan got up and wandered around the beauty salon twice, then went to the shops on the left and right for a few laps, and then returned to the beauty salon, and then he carried their heavy ‘luggage’ on his back heading home.

Sure enough, as Wei Xuan judged before, going home from this community was difficult at the beginning, but after turning around the road with the viaduct, the road was relatively easy to walk. In addition to avoiding the debris of vehicles scattered on the road and being careful not to trip over the turned-up ground, I finally don’t have to worry about those concrete obstacles mixed with reinforced concrete.

This time, the two walked into the gate of their community around four o’clock in the morning. After Wei Xuan threw the solar panels on the two of them into the storage room on the first floor of the building where they lived, he couldn’t help shouting: “I want to take a shower!” 

The weather is too hot and things are too heavy, The road is too difficult…

If it wasn’t for his increased physical fitness, he would have blisters on his feet after only going out for a while!

After warming up the water stored at home and bringing it to the bathroom, Wei Xuan dragged Du Hang, who hadn’t sweated a single drop, to the bathroom to take a shower.

There is half a tank of hot water in the bathtub—thanks to the continuous rain before, Wei Xuan cleaned out almost all the things that could be used to hold water in the community during that time and filled those basins with purified rainwater.

Therefore, the water is now enough for him to take a bath from time to time. After all, if the water is stored for too long, there will be problems, and it will need to be disinfected and purified again.

First, he helped Du Hang clean up with the water from the small basin, and then Wei Xuan soaked himself in the bathtub, and couldn’t help sighing comfortably: “Tomorrow, I definitely can’t go there right away… going back and forth to carry the supplies will take at least seven or eight times… how about getting someone to help?”

Thinking of this, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but look towards the wall in a trance—whether it works or not, I still have to experiment.

But no matter whether his experiment is feasible or not, it will have to wait until tomorrow. Now he needs to take a good rest! Carrying such a heavy load is not something that can be relieved by simply sleeping.

After washing, Wei Xuan, whose hair was still steaming, carefully treated the blisters on his feet and waited for about an hour to confirm that his mind was clear and there was no sign of turning into a zombie. He grabbed his human pillow, let’s sleep now!!

Of course, unless someone deliberately smeared the blood of the zombie on his wound, there should be no problem.