Chapter 17 - watch the sunset together

The park Wei Xuan chose is less than half an hour away from where they live now, and in the post-apocalyptic world, the streets are full of debris, and they can only use the time after it is completely dark to go out to transfer supplies , It will take the two of them nearly forty minutes to get to the destination.

Fortunately, although the weather will become hotter every day once the time enters June, it will be relatively cool and comfortable to go out at night at this time, so their transfer of materials this time did not cause any burden.

When the last batch of things that needed to be shipped were all delivered to the destination, Wei Xuan was relieved to be standing in a barren park with many dead trees and flowers nearby, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead: “Finally, it’s almost the same.” gone.”

This park is said to be the garden of a wealthy family before liberation, with a large area and beautiful scenery. After liberation, many of these gardens were directly converted into public places such as parks for people to visit. Before the end of the world, Wei Xuan would come here to play with his parents and classmates except when he was in the lower grades, but he almost never came here after that. On the contrary, after the end of the world, for a person who searched for relatively safe places to hide things all over the city, there are quite a few pavilions here where he can store some things temporarily.

At this time, he did not take out the things collected earlier, but brought a lot of things from home. Of course, there is a very important reason for that, and that reason will happen in the near future-earthquake.

And it is said to be a strange earthquake that spread to the whole world.

The magnitude of the earthquake was not large, but that weird earthquake affected the whole world just like the previous weird heavy snow and global human zombies.

Wei Xuan, who rushed back to the base after the earthquake in his previous life, even heard that the coastal areas were extremely miserable. First, they experienced the siege of zombies, and then they encountered the dangers of the earthquake. After the earthquake, they had to face the ensuing disaster. Tsunami Crisis – A tsunami triggered by an earthquake.

The scope of the tsunami has affected almost all coastal cities, and Weixuan, as a survivor of an inland city, is relatively safe. It’s just that the earthquake also brought many problems to the survivors living in the temporary base.

Fortunately, when the earthquake happened, Wei Xuan happened to look for an opportunity to go out with others in a group. After meeting a small group of zombies on the way, he took the opportunity to find an opportunity to separate from his companions. After meeting with Du Hang who had been secretly following him, instead So no injuries…

Therefore, although he did not remember the exact time when the earthquake occurred, it is absolutely true that the earthquake must have occurred about a month after the end of the world.

In his previous life, when he escaped from the crowd and went deep into the city to search for supplies, he passed by this park because he wanted to go home and have a look. Therefore, although there was also a ground crack here, he roughly remembered the location of the ground crack. , so the tents and other daily necessities brought this time are naturally placed without ground cracks and collapses, and there should be no danger.

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Standing in the gazebo, he looked around again. Almost all the trees, flowers and plants in the entire park have withered, showing a withered scene as if autumn has arrived.

This kind of withering is even more depressed than in late autumn and severe winter. The main reason is that these trees do not simply wither and wither, but when the leaves wither, the whole plant also decays! Completely lost vitality.

Now, relying on the fibers and other substances contained in the plants themselves, they can barely maintain their posture, but after a while, not too long, as long as two or three months, these old plants will be touched lightly , Or a gust of wind will easily break and shatter.

But at the same time, there are still some thriving plants growing in some open spaces in the park. They seem to have just drilled out of the ground not long ago, but they obviously possess tenacious vitality. There is no doubt that these are the potatoes and carrots that Wei Xuan had planted when passing by before. After all, if the residential area he had chosen before collapsed and became uninhabitable due to an earthquake, he would live in a tent in the park at worst.

Of course, the reason why he chose that community as a place to stay before was also because he vaguely remembered that the community had not been destroyed by an earthquake in his previous life. The reason why he has an impression of that neighborhood is of course thanks to the previous fire. After all, the neighborhood is next to the ruins that were burnt to black by the fire, which makes people very impressed…

Set up the tent, put away the daily necessities one by one, cover the things that are afraid of water with tarpaulins, wrap them, and put heavy objects on them. All the equipment for camping here for the time being has been dealt with.

Hammering his slightly tired back, Wei Xuan stood in front of the tent and looked around with some emotion. Beside him was the zombie Du Hang who was sitting quietly watching him, and there were some old old lady zombies wandering around in the park. I wonder if they will be here when the end of the world comes? Or did he come back here by relying on his impressions from his life after being turned into a zombie?

While in a trance, Wei Xuan suddenly saw a group of scattered zombies lined up in irregular rows at the gate of the park.

This strange look made Wei Xuan’s heart tense first, and he ran to a gazebo next to it that was higher than the ground. He was slightly relieved after seeing that they were all zombies, and was about to go over to study the specific situation carefully. , but suddenly saw that the group of zombies started stretching their arms and moving their legs one after another…

After careful identification for a long time, Wei Xuan put his chin back to its original position. Although the movement was extremely stiff and he couldn’t see the specific posture at all, but the team of this size, the posture of these zombies, the form of gathering together… how do you look at it? It’s like dancing in the square!

After carefully identifying the members of that team—almost all of them are aunt-level zombies, Wei Xuan finally confirmed that his guess was correct.

I really didn’t expect that even this habit could be preserved until after the end of the world!

I sighed again—thanks to their incomplete equipment and no music, they would not attract more zombies to join them. Wei Xuan was just about to turn around and go back to his tent, but suddenly saw two zombies crawling up towards the gazebo.

Those were two male zombies, one of them looked slightly older, in his thirties, and the other was younger, in his mid-twenties. What made Wei Xuan notice them was not the behavior of the two zombies walking towards the gazebo, but a thick and strong rope tied around their waists, tightly connecting the two of them.

Seeing the rope, Wei Xuan stopped and looked at the two zombies carefully again. The clothes on the older one were a little messy, and it was obvious that he had gone through a lot of hard work. A backpack, like the dress of every survivor in the early days of the apocalypse. There are a lot of dry blood on its left shoulder, and the flesh on the shoulder has obviously been severely injured. Although it has grown back due to the zombie’s self-healing ability, it can be seen that the flesh is new growth.

And the zombie on its left looked clean, without any scars, except for the dried and blackened blood on the mouth, chin, and front.

Wei Xuan watched the two zombies pass by him in a daze, then walked into the gazebo side by side, sat down on the bench at one side, and stared blankly at the setting sun. Feeling a little sour in my heart, I sighed, turned and walked back to where the tent was.

Du Hang still sat obediently by the tent—it was because the gazebo was not too far from their tent, so he didn’t go there with Wei Xuan. At this time, Wei Xuan stood in front of Du Hang, touched his chin and looked at him. After a while, he muttered as if talking to himself: “Do you want to find a rope and tie it with him?” ?”

Wei Xuan knew that after zombification, the strength of the zombies would become great, and maybe a light tug could break the rope—especially when encountering living people and chasing prey, no matter what obstacles around them Will subconsciously rule out those things.

In the early stage, it may be possible to tie the two zombies with a rope to prevent them from separating, but they should be easily broken by them in the later stage.

However, if one day I really turned into a zombie, completely lost the consciousness of being a human being, and didn’t even remember Du Hang, wouldn’t it be better to tie myself to him in advance? Just like those two… those two zombies?

Thinking about this matter in his mind, although he didn’t really take a rope to tie Du Hang and himself together immediately, Wei Xuan did find a rope and stuff it into his usual backpack.

After all, who made Du Hang the only one he can rely on after being reborn once, and who can support him to survive in the last days? If Du Hang loses interest in himself who is no longer a human being after he turns into a zombie, at least he will not lose him completely by tying him with a rope, right?

Thinking of this, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but look up again at the gazebo not far away. Inside, the two zombies were still sitting on the bench inside, looking at the setting sun without even changing their postures. —Perhaps, before the end of the world, they watched the sunset together at this time every day, right?