Ch5 - Dilemma

The first ray of sunlight in the morning shines through the thin clouds and illuminates this once bustling big city inch by inch from the horizon.

But the city is no longer the same as before, without the orderly traffic, the flow of people who got up early and rushed to school and work, and the fragrant vendors selling various breakfasts.

Yes, there are overturned vehicles on the road, almost completely filling out the road, zombies chasing survivors with open arms trying to bite, survivors trying to escape from them, and still burning houses. The loud noise of exploding vehicles, the sound of gunfire, and the sound of the accelerator pedal of a high-powered car.

Wei Xuan, who had rested all night, rubbed his swollen and sore temples. His injured shoulder no longer had the tearing pain from yesterday, and there was even a faint itching feeling on the edge, the wound is healing.

This was the second day after he was injured, and his wound was already healing! You must know that when he checked his wound yesterday evening, he was able to confirm that a piece of flesh was torn off his shoulder abruptly, and there were still horrible and hideous tooth marks on it!

He sat up and looked toward the direction where the dense smoke and dust are rising and the explosion can be faintly heard. It should be that natural gas or something was accidentally ignited by people with supernatural powers or people running away in a panic.

But they didn’t have such good luck as him, although the downstairs of his own house was also ignited, it seemed that the fire resistance of the ignited pipes was better. After being burned out, the fire did not continue to spread to the surroundings after the building was completely burned down.

But at this time, that burning house was very unlucky, the buildings were too close together which spread the fire from one home to another and lead to a gas pipeline exploding, burning down the entire nearby block. After there was nothing to burn, the fire gradually stopped.

Seemingly realizing that Wei Xuan had gotten up, Du Hang, who had been sitting silently by his side, turned his head and ‘looked’ at him directly.

Wei Xuan also turned his head, and smiled at him; “Du Hang, good morning.” At this moment, he suddenly noticed something holding his hand, as he looked down he noticed that it was actually Du Hang’s hand?

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This kind of inadvertent little action can make people’s hearts flutter almost every time, but because he is a zombie, lost all his memories, and the two of them have to survive in the last days, etc. he felt it was a pity. But thinking about it carefully, if it was before the end of the world, if the world hadn’t become what it is now, it might be impossible for him and Du Hang to meet each other, let alone have this kind of interaction. He got a chance to have such seemingly ambiguous actions with Du Hang.

Wei Xuan raised his head and smiled at Du Hang, looked seriously at his face, confirmed that the wounds from last night had basically healed, then sat up. 

“We will live together in the future… even if you can never restore your human memories, even if we will always be like this…” 

In fact, having someone be with him and keeping him company, be it at the end of the world, or before, is a very happy thing. Even if he is accompanied by a zombie, Wei Xuan still feels that such a life would be full of happiness.

Du Hang would be by his side and he will never betray him. The relationship between the two is extraordinarily pure because there is no pressure beyond survival and no complicated thinking.

Even if Du Hang will never understand Wei Xuan’s complicated feelings for him, as long as Du Hang will be by his side as he is now, just like in his previous life, Wei Xuan will be very satisfied.

After tidying up a bit, he entered the bathroom and turned on the water to confirm that there was no problem with the tap water in the city. Wei Xuan simply washed up and prepared his breakfast to fill his stomach. Only then did Wei Xuan sit at the dining table to eat and drink, and opened the little notebook he had sorted out last night.

This is the plan manual he wrote down last night when he rested and recuperated before going to bed, combined with his still-usable mobile phone map and some memories of his previous life.

Du Hang seemed to be some kind of clingy large puppy. He followed Wei Xuan to the kitchen, and then followed him all the way back to the table. Wei Xuan didn’t stop him, so Du Hang just followed a couple of steps behind him.

This person was the only human being that Du Hang felt familiar with after he ‘woke up’ so he did not want to hurt him. This familiarity made him not want to leave at all.

He lost his memory and most of his judgment and thinking ability, but Du Hang’s instinct made the most basic decision; if you don’t want to leave, then don’t leave, and keep this familiarity by your side. It seemed that as long as he kept him by his side all the time, he would be able to get what was most desired in his heart and find some important things that he had lost. 

City T is a relatively large and prosperous city. With the rapid development of commercial and cultural construction, the resident population of the entire city has also become very large.

After people escaped the cities, the things left over are the necessities of life that the survivors yearn for and hope to get. But the city itself has become a purgatory on earth that people fear.

After the apocalypse, many survivors have evoked different abilities due to various reasons, and most of the people who have not mutated into zombies already know how to eliminate zombies, destroying the head.

But even with this information, the zombies are not so easy to kill.

Humans know how to hunt and kill zombies, this is not difficult to say, but the difficulty lies in the limited physical strength! Even people who have worked hard for many years in the apocalypse and have improved a lot in terms of power and physical strength, still cannot continue to fight for too long, only relying on cold weapons to fight.

Besides, for those with abilities, it is a good thing, especially the various offensive abilities. If you use them seriously and efficiently, you can definitely hit and knock down zombies. However, most of the time it is just ‘hitting’. If they want to accurately control their ability to hit the head of a zombie that is moving around, they need to destroy the head with one blow. At least in the early days of the apocalypse, very few people with abilities could possess such heaven-defying operating skills.

In the later stage, the ability users can manipulate and attack more precisely after they become familiar with their own abilities, but the problem is – at that time, the movements of the zombies will become more flexible, faster, and more powerful! After encountering human beings, these zombies will also change their previous attack methods that only go forward in a daze! Some are even as cunning as good hunters, no matter how experienced people are, they are likely to get caught!

After the ability users get more experience, they will reduce unnecessary waste when they use their own abilities due to experience, increasing their proficiency. But zombies will also increase their mobility, combat experience, and so on. While humans are increasing their combat capabilities, zombies are also increasing their hunting experience, and there will be almost equal progress between the two.

Another choice is hot weapons. Using hot weapons to deal with zombies is far more effective than using cold weapons. But using these things to deal with zombies also has accuracy problems. Furthermore, due to the advent of the end of the world, many previous devices cannot be repaired once they are damaged. Many mining areas that used to be mined, simply turned into a location where mutated animals and plants lived.

So only at the beginning of the apocalypse, those bases that have successfully recovered a large number of hot weapons and materials can support themselves. But once these weapons are exhausted, these temporarily non-renewable things would begin to fade out of the sight of ordinary people.

In this apocalyptic world, Wei Xuan has never heard of any upgrades in abilities or zombies. Although there is indeed a crystal nucleus in the zombie’s head, the function of that thing can only be used to replenish mental power and increase the ability to continue fighting for those who have exhausted their abilities and spiritual power. However, the base will also develop more in-depth usage methods in the later stage-using the crystal nucleus as a new type of energy to develop and replace the previous oil and electricity.

Therefore, in general, the situation faced by human beings after the end of the world is very embarrassing, so embarrassing that most of the bases have to abandon the recycling plan for the city, and instead focus on those villages and towns nearby to gather supplies and sow crops.

After the survivors stabilized the situation in the base, they discovered something that made them vomit blood again. Even if they wanted to use some method to lure the zombies entrenched in major cities, and took the opportunity to enter the urban area to collect some important supplies, these zombies seem to have fallen in love with their original homeland. Although some of them leave the city to chase survivors, as soon as the zombies lose track of them, they slowly go back to the city, swaying all the way back to their former homeland.

On the contrary, if human beings want to completely abandon the city and enter the deep mountains and old forests to develop, they will face mutated animals and plants. Not only are their threats not weaker than zombies, but they have all weird and unpredictable means that are enough to subvert the entire base.

Due to plant mutations, those forests with good natural environments are very dangerous, and other ordinary plants have withered on a large scale. Therefore, human bases can only be built around smaller towns, and they should be as far away as possible from places with better natural environments. Once some aggressive plants appeared, their lethality was much more terrifying than zombies…