This is apocalyptic

Chapter 122: 121: Sweep

Bai Xiao was thinking about the Cockroach King all the way.

I don’t know what the situation is in the South. Zombies, animals, cockroaches, and this horrible virus are spread everywhere.

Lin Duoduo didn't have so many thoughts on this. She had never been to the south or the seaside. Poetry and distant places were just the same concepts, things that existed before the disaster. She only paid attention to the changes where she lived.

Riding her tricycle as if she was going to the city to attend the market, she looked left and right on the road. Some villages had collapsed badly, and some zombies that had been trapped in their houses had escaped and were wandering in the ruins.

The cracks in the road made the car a little bumpy, and with the creaking sound, the two people in the car slowly approached the city.

There was a cotton coat in the car just in case. If any fluttering birds or bats attacked, he could wrap Lin Duoduo up and kill them, or carry Lin Duoduo and run away.

Every time she entered the city, Lin Duoduo would look up at the ruins.

“How did people build houses so high before the disaster?” She looked up at the ruined building.

It symbolizes a great era, it's a pity that she was born a little late.

"Relying on huge machinery."

Bai Xiao pushed the cart and urged her to move forward.

High-rise buildings with cracks everywhere have become high-risk buildings, and they have to avoid such places.

Whether it is rain or snow, it will seep in through the cracks, and once cracks appear, the speed of its collapse will accelerate.

There was nothing to find outside, so the two men headed straight into the city, carrying the guns borrowed from Aunt Qian on the tricycle. This was Bai Xiao's suggestion. Now they could wander around in the ruins of the city more, instead of retreating quickly after finding the necessities as they did before.

It was already dark when they rushed back from the village. Lin Duoduo found a high place and did not go up to the rooftop because Bai Xiao said that the rooftop was no longer safe. So they cleaned up the area on the lower floor and made sure there were no old zombies hiding in the building. Lin Duoduo covered herself with the coat she brought and prepared to rest, while Bai Xiao took a rifle and a harpoon.

"You want to go out? It's getting dark."

"This is my territory. I'll go say hello to my people." Bai Xiao said, locked the door and went downstairs.

The city at night is the territory of zombies. Before coming here, he took a shower and changed his clothes to remove the human smell on his body.

Compared to when Shihuang and Lin Duoduo hid on the rooftop together, that really couldn't be called a zombie. We are all zombies, I am still new, why should I be afraid of old zombies?
Walking alone on the deserted streets, the pitch-black night obscured his figure, and occasionally he would step on dry bones, which were left by dead zombies. From time to time, he could hear some movement in the buildings beside the road, and the zombies trapped in the buildings could always move longer.

This kind of environment always reminds Bai Xiao of some scenes from the past. When he worked overtime too late, he would walk on the streets late at night. However, there were many lights at that time, and vehicles were coming and going on the road. There would often be aunties and uncles pushing carts selling fried noodles at the intersections.

He remembered that the latest time he worked overtime was after three o'clock. At that time, even the fried noodle and scrambled egg stalls had closed down, and there were not many cars on the road. Only the lights of billboards were flashing above the closed roller shutters on the side of the road.

The gnawing sounds in the darkness attracted Bai Xiao's attention and interrupted his thoughts. He stood there and listened quietly. After listening for a moment, he recognized that it was the infected rats gnawing on the bones of dead zombies.

This gnawing sound is enough to make people feel creepy, but once you get used to it, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Late at night, Lin Duoduo, leaning against the wall under her coat, heard footsteps, followed by Bai Xiao's light cough. She closed her eyes again, as if she had never woken up.

dawn.

"Did you go looking for female zombies last night?" Lin Duoduo asked as she ate some of the food she brought. "Yeah, I found a big-breasted female zombie wearing black stockings. It was fun." Bai Xiao said.

"Pooh!"

Lin Duoduo spat at him.

There are fewer old zombies in the city. You can still encounter them occasionally, but not as many as in the past two years.

There are more dead bones near the city center, along with the activities of the still-living old zombies, and the intertwined plants. The city no longer looks like its former glory.

Putting the tricycle aside, Bai Xiao took Lin Duoduo to the library. He wanted to find some books related to agriculture, and also take a few novels. However, when he stepped into the library, he saw traces of mess everywhere, with burnt embers on the ground and zombies wandering around.

There are not many books in the library.

"It seems that the light of knowledge has been burning here." Bai Xiao looked around and found that half of the library had been burned.

He remembered that both Yu Ming and Aunt Qian had said that it was particularly cold that year when the disaster first occurred. He wondered if the survivors had kept warm here or if there was some other accident.

"This place used to be full of books. Lots and lots of them," he said to the barbarian.

Lin Duoduo shrugged and found an illustrated storybook in the corner. It was a children's book, in tattered condition, not even as well preserved as those in residential areas.

"Let's go to the hospital. Those people couldn't have looted everything last time." Bai Xiao said.

Having said that, he didn't hold out much hope. The place should have been robbed when the disaster first happened. They arrived too late. Whatever he could think of, there would always be someone else who could think of it too.

Their only advantage was that the city was dangerous in the past few years, there were many zombies, and few people could go deep into the city center.

The ruined city looked a bit desolate. When he arrived at the Xingfu Home community where he had been before, there were some green sprouts among the dead grass on the ground. Bai Xiao no longer saw the old zombie with grass growing on its head. There were only some dead bones on the ground wrapped and buried by the weeds.

Some buildings were damaged, so the two of them carefully avoided them while observing their surroundings.

Bai Xiao already had the harpoon in his hand. He didn't know whether the big cat he had encountered before was alone or had built a nest deep in the city and became the new overlord of this zombie city.

Let Lin Duoduo borrow the gun to protect herself from them. If they really encounter a large group of mutant monsters, let her find a safe high point, and Bai Xiao will lure them to chase her.

As long as we eliminate the dangers in this city, we can move more useful supplies back before it collapses completely.

Bai Xiao even planned to spend one or two months alone to search out everything that could be looted and slowly transport it back to where he lived.

Just in case, the two of them would go to check the pharmacies on the roadside. Regardless of whether they had been looted or not, Bai Xiao was somewhat thankful that there was a pharmacy every ten steps before the disaster, and there were several on one street. When the zombie outbreak occurred that year, they must have helped many refugees.

Could it be that the owners of these drugstores are people from the future? Bai Xiao couldn't help but speculate wildly. With so many drugstores, the chances of lucky people surviving when disaster strikes would be greatly increased. After all, no one could carry too much at once, so they would just grab a little from here and a little from there, and slowly the money would be gone.

There were too many pharmacies, which greatly slowed down the two people's progress. Most of them were empty and they could only find some useless medical supplies.

(End of this chapter)