This is apocalyptic

Chapter 142 141: Sunshine

While thinking about it, he cut two bundles of bamboo and carried them home.

"I'll go to the mountains to take a look." Bai Xiao said.

Lin Duoduo was sitting under the eaves, splitting old bamboo vertically. When she heard him talking, she looked up and when she lowered her head again, she was accidentally cut by the sharp edge of the bamboo. She didn't pay attention and suddenly retracted her hand after being scratched.

Bai Xiao's breathing became a little faster, and he couldn't help but stare at the bleeding wound on Lin Duoduo's hand.

Lin Duoduo looked up at him and said nothing.

"Hehe..." Bai Xiao smiled awkwardly and looked away, "Next time I won't talk when you're doing something. Be careful."

Lin Duoduo looked down at the bleeding wound, then looked at the zombie king, "Open your mouth."

"Ah? No." Bai Xiao shook his head and hesitated again.

"You can taste a drop." Lin Duoduo said, "Don't you want to try it?"

"..."

Bai Xiao suppressed his inner throbbing and shook his head slowly. He looked at Lin Duoduo, his eyes glancing into the distance. Finally, he couldn't help but close his eyes, raised his head and opened his mouth:
“I’ll just taste a drop.”

The human carefully squeezed out a drop of blood and it fell into the zombie king's mouth.

"What does it feel like?"

"It's not satisfying enough." Bai Xiao said, "Would you like to try a little more?"

Lin Duoduo raised her hand.

"Just kidding. I don't want to try it." Bai Xiao moved away from her.

"What's that smell?" she asked.

"Hmm... it smells like humans."

Bai Xiao is hard to describe, it's like drinking only one drop of wine, it's not satisfying enough.

Lin Duoduo watched him swallow the blood, then lowered her head to find a piece of cloth to wrap the wound on her finger.

"Now don't put your fingers in my mouth. Don't make it a habit." Bai Xiao reminded. If Lin Duoduo was injured and put her fingers in his mouth again, she might turn into a zombie.

Lin Duoduo smiled, sat there with her fingers pressing on the wound, and stared at the Zombie King.

"Wipe your saliva."

“I didn’t shed.”

The zombie didn't want to continue arguing with her about this matter, so he turned around to find his helmet, wiped it with a cloth and put it aside, then started sharpening the knife.

"Let's go check it out tomorrow," he said.

Lin Duoduo nodded. She didn't need to express her opinion or ask about others' well-being or ask them to be careful. All she had to do was to prepare some dry food for the Zombie King to eat in the mountains.

The snakes and insects at this time of year are very poisonous, and the birds in the mountains have all changed. It is difficult for her to go there again. She can only go there in winter. Going there now is tantamount to seeking death. The next day, he put on a helmet, tied thick leather around his arms, and protected his calves.

Lin Duoduo stuffed the rifle into his hand and watched him go away.

Bai Xiao did not rush in directly. He walked around the hillside for a long time, observing the nearby plants and terrain. After entering, the undulating mountains were connected into one. Lin Duoduo had not gone very deep, and he had only gone behind the mountain once.

The first time I came in with Lin Duoduo, I saw animals that had died of the infection lying on the ground, twitching weakly. At that time, there were still birds singing and insects chirping in the forest. But in the blink of an eye, so much time has passed. When I stepped into the low bushes and grass again, the birds singing were gone and it was eerily quiet.

It was the same when he went into the mountains in winter, but now it was midsummer, and a patch of small flowers, pale yellow and wilted, bloomed in the bushes. He remembered that there was a stream deep in the forest.

Finding the way in the mountains is neither difficult nor easy. He made marks on the trees and bushes along the way. Going further, a five-browed owl showed its head from under the roots of a tree and quickly shrank back. This made Bai Xiao feel relieved. In this environment, the original life always makes people happy.

The mountain is not just one, but a series of mountains connected together.

It is not easy to walk in the mountains where there are no signs of human activities. When I came here to pick raspberries and chestnuts, I could see rabbits, doves and the like, but now it has become much quieter.

He was mainly on guard against animals that became adaptable after being infected. They would retain a certain level of intelligence and would grow larger in size, just like the big cats that lived in the city. As for zombie monsters, they would be a big threat at first, but they would age and not reproduce. They could not be considered alive, but just zombies. Like zombies, as long as time was long enough, they would fall down on their own, and return to dust.

But before it turns into bones, it will become a new source of infection. The first birds to be infected are scavengers and will attack all living things.

Compared to the zombies in the city, they are another disaster.

Occasionally there were festering animal carcasses in the grass. Looking at the wounds on their bodies, I couldn't tell what had bitten them. I poked them with a knife and found that their flesh was pale.

In the hot weather, the corpse was not infested with maggots. Bai Xiao was somewhat glad that it was not infested with maggots and was not surrounded by a bunch of flies.

Following my memory, I arrived at the stream that I remembered. Maybe it was because it hadn't rained for many days and the hot weather had lasted for so long that the stream had dried up. A large area of ​​mud and rocks were exposed where the stream had originally been. Only after walking along the waterway for a while could I occasionally see an isolated pool of water.

There was no flowing stream, and the self-purification ability of the pool had also disappeared. The corpses of insects and frogs were floating on the water. The turbid water emitted a strange smell, and the exposed soil around it was dotted with dark spots like dried blood, and there were scattered hairs and bones.

The animals in the mountains will look for water sources, and fighting will also occur nearby. Bai Xiao looked at the pond water. There was no doubt that this turbid pond water had also become a source of infection. After many days of continuous heat, the streams had dried up and the ponds had been polluted, exacerbating the changes in the mountains. Herbivores such as squirrels and rabbits were not immune.

He looked up at the sunlight shining through the leaves and felt a little heavy. Everything is closely related. When the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, he thought it would be beneficial to the survivors. The high temperature at this moment was completely the opposite.

The water in the pond was so muddy that he even felt uncomfortable washing his hands. He adjusted his helmet and continued walking inside, passing by the tall trees. It was here that he had dissected the wild boar while hunting last winter, cut it into large pieces and dragged it out. The blood and internal organs left behind had long since disappeared.

Instead, a half-bald bamboo partridge was fluttering in the distance, its feathers scattered, and some birds attracted to it were standing on the branches.

He saw the corpse of the poisonous snake covered by fallen leaves, the fox's originally smooth fur became mottled and messy, and its tail was no longer furry and raised, but dragged on the ground, gnawing on the corpse of a rabbit that was not surrounded by flies.

A group of birds were surrounding the screaming deer. Its movements were no longer light but limping. Its four legs twitched from time to time, and festering skin and flesh were exposed in some places.

Twisted monsters occasionally appeared among the grass and bushes.

Bai Xiao walked alone through the dense forest.

The sun shines through the gaps in the leaves, but it no longer has the warmth and tranquility of the past.

The end is near and the world is rotting.

(End of this chapter)