This is apocalyptic

Chapter 37: Guidance from Many Years Ago

Bai Xiao saw a millstone next to Lin Duoduo's yard. It was entangled with green vines and no one had used it for a long time.

"If you don't die, you can grind the mill." Lin Duoduo seemed very enthusiastic in helping him plan his future career.

"The Zombie King cannot turn a millstone."

Bai Xiao thought that letting a zombie chop wood was too much, but he didn't expect that Lin Duoduo actually wanted him to turn the mill.

The areas where he was scratched by the animal are now inflamed, and he doesn’t know if he can survive it.

After returning to Lin Duoduo's yard and observing the wound for a while, Bai Xiao asked for the 'Zombie Observation Diary' she had written before - the little notebook in which he was the main object of observation.

When she encounters a zombie that is able to retain its sanity, she wonders if there is a chance her father could also regain his sanity.

The small notebook recorded his performance in the days since he was captured, or rescued. To be honest, Bai Xiao himself was a little confused at the time and could not remember anything about the period when he had a high fever.

"I remember you still have an old notebook. When you were observing me before, you compared it with that small notebook." Bai Xiao asked.

Lin Duoduo said, "That was left by my father and grandfather. It was a plan for my future. There were also some things he wrote when he was free... about curing illnesses and so on, all kinds of stuff."

"I mean, can you show it to me?"

"Um……"

Lin Duoduo thought about it for a moment, and seeing that Bai Xiao would not suddenly go crazy and tear up the notebook, she went into the house to get it.

It was very thick, with many books. The shed where Bai Xiao originally stayed was collapsed by him, so he had no choice but to read it sitting on the tricycle.

The handwriting in the first book is strong and powerful, recording the observations of zombies and subsequent changes. Normally, when a person is bitten by a zombie, they will lose their mind within half an hour at most, depending on the part of the body bitten. If the person is bitten on the ankle, there is still time to leave a last word, but if the person is bitten on the neck, the onset of the disease will be the fastest.

Bai Xiao simply flipped through the book of records of zombie infection and put it down.

Picking up another book, the handwriting was different, a little sloppy, obviously written by a different person with different writing habits. This book contained plans for Lin Duoduo's future, with several plans and deduced future developments.

He watched carefully. Lin Duoduo's relatives had speculated on the possible future a long time ago, and made different suggestions and arrangements for her according to different situations. For example, Lin Duoduo mentioned that if there are enough survivors in the future, they might choose a few key cities for redevelopment, and other cities would be abandoned. In this case, cities with military garrisons would be given priority.

After observing the aging of zombies, her father was full of confidence in the future. He asked Lin Duoduo to observe the aging speed of zombies. However, after discovering that the infected animals learned to reproduce, her father's confidence began to waver.

Zombies can be resisted, and animals can be resisted as well. However, when a disaster breaks out, people try their best to resist the disaster brought by the zombies. When the zombies are no longer a threat, they find that the infected animals have learned to reproduce since some point.

Bai Xiao flipped through a few pages. These texts were very old and covered a long period of time. There were time marks at the beginning, but gradually they disappeared. It might be because it was too long after the disaster and people gradually forgot the time.

He thought about it and realized that it must be when the zombies were still very dangerous, and her father might not come back every time he went out, so he started preparing at that time, while looking for the organization, he wrote these words in case he might not come back.

There is a lot written in the thick little book.

When they were still alive, they were considering what would happen to Lin Duoduo if they were gone one day.

The only hope is to keep Lin Duoduo alive, and to keep her alive in every possible way.

Bai Xiao watched from noon until the sun was about to set, then he raised his head, rubbed his neck and let out a long sigh.

Lin Duoduo glanced at him, only to see him stand up, look around the yard, and then go out. "Where are you going?"

"next door."

Bai Xiao went out quickly and came back quickly. He caught two crickets and a small insect, found a glass bottle in the corner, and then picked up a wooden thorn next to the collapsed shed and carefully pierced his skin with it.

A drop of blood overflowed. Bai Xiao dipped it with a wooden thorn, fed some to the cricket, then covered it with a glass bottle and observed it nervously and carefully.

Lin Duoduo was startled by his action and watched from a distance, "What are you doing?"

"Shh." Bai Xiao raised his index finger and stared at the cricket.

Soon, the cricket stopped moving. Bai Xiao's eyes moved, "Stay away." He reminded Lin Duoduo, then took away the bottle and poked the cricket with a wooden thorn.

It's already dead.

Bai Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head and stared at the sky for a while, then lowered his head again and buried the cricket with soil. "The worst-case scenario your father had predicted should not have happened yet. I was scared to death."

"Ok?"

"Some things...can't withstand the side effects of infection, which is fatal to them and they can't serve as a source of infection."

Bai Xiao was somewhat relieved, but not much. He remembered the zombies he saw when he entered the city. He didn't feel anything at the time, but just felt a little awkward, as if something was missing. Now he suddenly realized -

The weather was getting hotter and hotter. On the way into the city, the zombies were not surrounded by flies, and there were no maggots on their bodies.

Probably because they can't survive the infection, or at least can't yet.

Lin Duoduo's grandfather speculated that infected individuals would release a pheromone, which was the reason why zombies would not bite each other. As time went on, creatures that could not withstand the infection would gradually avoid them because of this pheromone, just like sulfur could repel insects, and the source of infection was walking sulfur.

Lin Duoduo's father was a little pessimistic. At first, it was just people. Even if the pets scattered around the city were infected, they would not survive. If they were bitten by zombies, they would die quickly. But gradually, as time went on, animals that were infected but still alive appeared in the city. In his opinion, the infection would spread to all living things sooner or later, and then someday, insects would also be infected.

——On that day, the real doomsday will come.

In this catastrophe, only the fittest will survive.

In the end, no conclusion was reached in the thick book. Everything needed time to prove. They could only give Lin Duoduo limited advice and reminders based on different situations and speculations.

"Have you seen them all?" Bai Xiao asked Lin Duoduo.

"I've read it. Some parts are not clear to me, but some... have been confirmed." Lin Duoduo said.

Bai Xiao touched the yellowed paper. In this thick notebook, Lin Duoduo's father said at the end:

"Maybe Qian Jin's choice is the right one. I'm sorry for bringing you into this terrible world. I love you."

Signed by Lin Huayou.

(End of this chapter)