Chapter 81: The End of the World

After seeing off the brother and sister and saying goodbye to the enthusiastic Liu Chunhui, Qin Luo took Xuanyunduo and walked back.

The area where ordinary humans live here easily reminds people of the time before the apocalypse. Ignoring the newly built high-rise buildings, one only looks at the ordinary streets, the shops on both sides of the road, and even some people setting up stalls in front of the school. Everything is the same as before the apocalypse, and in a trance it feels as if the apocalypse had never come.

The little zombie couldn't walk anymore and wanted to walk around here, so she grabbed Qin Luo's clothes and pulled him, scaring him.

"Fuck, you scared me, what's wrong? Don't you want to leave? I'll carry you?"

Qin Luo was full of question marks.

Xuanyunduo pointed to the pedestrian street over there and blinked to indicate that she wanted to go.

Qin Luo understood immediately, and finally accepted his fate, "Okay, okay, let's go, where are we going?"

The little zombie became happy and pulled his sleeve and left. After all, he didn't come here often.

Qin Luo didn't know at first why a zombie like her liked to go shopping. Later, he saw her looking around, but her hand had to hold his sleeve.

Ten minutes later he suddenly realized!

She said shyly, "Well, if you want to date me, just tell me directly. Why are you pretending to go shopping? Really."

Qin Luo still felt a little embarrassed, and couldn't help but mutter, "How can a little zombie like you, a girl, play straight like this?"

No wonder you're not ashamed.

Many more:? ? ?

The little zombie didn’t know. She just wanted to go shopping. She heard Qin Luo mumbling something, but she didn’t care and just pulled his sleeve and walked forward.

Liu'an District, as a living area for ordinary humans, is actually very similar to the time before the apocalypse, about 80% similar to what it was before, but there are still some differences.

For example, ordinary supermarkets in the past have become luxury goods stores, and many things have become in short supply, as scarcity makes things valuable. For example, some snacks that have not expired before the end of the world, some cosmetics, some daily necessities and so on.

The price is several times higher than before the end of the world.

Of course, there are also some new snacks and other alternatives that have emerged from post-apocalyptic research.

The price will be more affordable.

But they are certainly not as exquisite as before the apocalypse. Nowadays, you can’t change your slippers whenever you want. Everyone probably won’t be willing to buy a pair until they are worn out.

It’s not like before the end of the world, when people could stockpile as much as they wanted, and many people would throw away the items if they didn’t like them after wearing them once.

It feels like we have returned to an era of material scarcity, but the buildings are even more novel than before the end of the world. For example, because there are not enough houses for ordinary people to live in, people are now building houses higher up to make use of every space.

The flat land is almost creating the feeling of a mountain city. At present, some places already have high-rise pedestrian streets, coupled with colorful light billboards, which are particularly punk and magical.

So you can only see the ordinary streets below. It's easy to be distracted when you look up. It's obvious that this is a new era in the end times. When the upper city is completed, humans will really be divided into different classes.

Qin Luo was also shocked. "It's true that every time I go out for a few days, I come back and look different."

It feels like the combat teams returning to the base are like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

The old man who was setting up a stall nearby laughed when he heard this. "You heroes who often go out on missions definitely don't understand. I heard that after the upper city is built, it will be open to traffic. The high-speed bus and subway will be online. You can go up and down and go everywhere, just like magic. You can arrive at the station in the blink of an eye. Isn't it amazing?"

Qin Luo was quite horrified. "Will the people living on the lower floors be spat on by the uncultured upper-level people from now on?"

The old man immediately waved his big fan and said, "Hey hey hey! Don't talk nonsense, young man. No, no, the headquarters has ordered that if you drop objects from high places in the upper cities, you will be arrested and sent to jail. You will be locked up and forced to do hard labor for ten or eight years."

hiss.

Awesome.

Xuanyunduo was stunned by what he heard. The new world was indeed magical, and it changed every day.

The old man is also a chatterbox. He sets up a stall to sell "little goldfish", but this kind of goldfish is not an ordinary fish. It has long legs and can jump. It is said to be a newly discovered ultra-low pollution mutant animal with basically no pollution index. This thing is sold to children to play with.

"Hey, would you like to buy one for your girlfriend? It's fun! And easy to feed. Just pick some plants and feed it, or a few grains of rice."

Qin Luo blushed when he heard it, and hesitantly muttered, "This is not even a girlfriend."

There's no formal confession yet.

As he spoke, he looked down at the little zombie squatting in front of the stall playing with fish, and suddenly he saw her looking up at him in confusion, and his heartbeat became even more abnormal.

He turned his face away and didn't dare to look at her.

The ears are all red.

The old man was a little hard of hearing, so he couldn't hear the whispers clearly. After pondering for a while, he finally understood. He sat on the small stool and said in full force: "Hey! How are you going to pursue someone when you are so shameless? If you like someone, just go for it! You are so shy like a grown-up girl! I don't think you are as confident as this girl!"

Qin Luo's face was red, "Why are you like this? Eavesdropping on people's conversations."

The old man got angry when he heard it. "Hey, you open your mouth to talk for others to listen, right? You young man, you don't listen to the experience shared by experienced people. How can you be so shameless when pursuing your wife? When I was pursuing my wife, I chased her from China to abroad, from our student days to when we became colleagues."

Qin Luo is indeed thin-skinned. Although he looks nonchalant, he can't help but tease and talk. He blushes every time he is told to do so. This time, he was directly told to run away by the old man. He picked up the little zombie and left quickly.

No one was seen in a few seconds.

The old man laughed angrily when he saw it, and shook his head, "Nothing, you say this child, so shameless, not as good as me, not as good as me, don't you think so, wife?"

After he said that, he took out an old pocket watch from his chest pocket and touched it again and again on the yellowed old photo.

"Professor Xu? You don't have classes today? Why are you setting up a stall again?" A young teacher who had just got off work to buy groceries greeted him with a smile when he saw him.

The old man laughed when he heard that, pointed at a glass tank in front of him and said, "These are new species that students just brought back. I'm selling some to the kids to play with. I'm also accompanying my wife to bask in the sun. She loves basking in the sun the most, but unfortunately the sun won't come out after the apocalypse. It's good to accompany her to bask in the sun."

After the end of the world came, the sky was always blocked by thick fog and was gray. Any day when the sky was a little brighter was considered good weather.

The young teacher seemed accustomed to it and smiled when he heard it, "You two have a great relationship."

The old man was very open when he heard it, "Of course, we have a very good relationship. We are not like that young man just now, who is so thin-skinned. Young people these days will never get a wife like that. It's really not okay..."

He was amazed.

After saying goodbye to the young teacher, he muttered to himself while looking at his pocket watch, "If it weren't for the fact that this kid looks a bit like me when I was young, I wouldn't have bothered with him, don't you think so, wife? He still doesn't like it."

The old man muttered to himself in a wronged manner.