The late autumn wind brought a slight chill, mercilessly blowing down a large number of leaves. The apocalyptic scene seemed even more desolate in this bleak season.

The base recently built a children's park. It covers a small area, but it is decorated in a warm and childlike manner, representing the care and love of the adults in the base for the children.

"Zhao Zhao, Xiao Xun, are you still playing at night?"

A girl passing by looked at the two children playing in the sand with a kind smile on her face: "It's time to go home for dinner."

The base has become their second home. Zhao Zhao is busy digging sand, while Li Xunwei is concentrating on building a sand castle. The two fair-skinned children have sand all over their faces and bodies.

Zhao Zhao wiped his face, and a pile of rough sand rubbed all over his face. He curved his eyes and smiled like a little cat.

"Sister, we'll be back soon."

Li Xunwei nodded in agreement, but when his eyes caught sight of the woman rushing up behind the girl, his expression stiffened slightly. He turned to Zhao Zhao and said, "My mother is here to see me. I'm leaving now."

"See you tomorrow."

Zhao Zhao waved her hand and watched Li Xunwei and her son leave. Then the girl who had just passed by also left.

There are more and more children in the base, but almost all of them have their own relatives or are taken care of by people in the orphanage. The usually bustling small park now only has Zhaozhao as the child.

His situation was special, so he was taken care of by Xu Qianbai and Jiang Yan. These two humans had a lot of say in the base, but they were also much busier than others and didn't have much time to look after him.

Zhao Zhao was already used to this situation. He filled the empty pit with the dug sand, clapped his hands, stood up, and ran towards the laboratory.

"Bang, bang, bang" the sound of basketball hitting each other suddenly came from the path not far away. Zhao Zhao was attracted and looked up, only to see a tall young man standing under the street light, the dim light illuminating his cold expression.

Zhao Zhao paused, he closed his eyes in shock and when he opened them again the boy not far away had disappeared and the basketball had rolled to his feet.

"Brother..." He squatted down to pick up the ball and wiped his eyes sadly. Although he knew that the man appeared, he did not chase him. He picked up the basketball and continued to walk slowly towards the laboratory.

After walking a few steps, he saw Xu Qianbai hurried out.

The young man in white at the end of the path hurried towards him with an apologetic and gentle smile on his face.

"Zhao Zhao, I'm sorry I didn't have time to pick you up." Xu Qianbai held the child's dirty hand, a soft look in his eyes: "I've told you so many times, remember to wash your hands after playing in the sand."

Zhao Zhao smiled and nodded obediently: "I understand."

Xu Qianbai smiled, then lowered his gaze to see the basketball in his hand and asked casually, "Is this a gift from the other kids?"

“…”

Zhao Zhao lowered his head and didn't speak for a long time.

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

So Zhao Zhao nodded and said, "Yes, other friends gave it to me."

Nowadays, his brother's name cannot even appear in places like the base.

Xu Qianbai rubbed Zhao Zhao's head and felt a head full of sand: "Zhao Zhao, look at your whole body..."

Anxious to send Zhao Zhao back to his residence, he hurriedly prepared to give the dirty little cat a bath. He was adjusting the water temperature and when he called Zhao Zhao into the bathroom, he saw the child at the door still holding the basketball, looking aggrieved.

Xu Qianbai chuckled softly and said helplessly, "I'll play basketball later."

He thoughtfully put a little duck in Zhao Zhao's bathtub before putting Zhao Zhao into the water.

It's just that the kids are a little too quiet tonight.

He asked him, but Zhao Zhao just said, "I'm tired of playing."

After giving Zhao Zhao a bath, Xu Qianbai returned to the laboratory again. Zhao Zhao used the signal device to call Jiang Yan and asked about the situation outside the base.

"The detectorists discovered that many zombies are upgrading. The number of medium-level zombies is two per city on average, and the number of high-level zombies exceeds ten."

"As for your brother, the detection organization hasn't seen him for a long time."

Zhao Zhao blinked slowly. According to the plot, during this period of time, the war between humans and zombies had already begun.

"However, there is good news. The zombies outside are not rioting. Even when they see humans, they don't act too violently."

Jiang Yan simplified the information to Zhao Zhao and did not give him any perfunctory advice just because he was a child.

Only the child's low voice came from the signal device.

"Got it, thank you, Brother Jiang."

Jiang Yan smiled and said, "I'm going out to look for supplies tomorrow. Be good at the base."

"good."