Chapter 222
While Wen Jiuze was asking this question, his hand had already reached for the gun at his waist, and his other hand pulled out a dagger.
His eyes were fixed on the tiger in the forest. He raised his hand and the dagger flew out and nailed into a tree trunk on the left front side of the tiger.
The golden gradient tiger did not come forward to attack. It turned its head and dived into the woods and soon disappeared.
Xue Ling finally untied Wen Jiuze's clothes.
Wen Jiuze looked at his loose collar and the hem of his clothes that had several holes in them from being torn by her, and thought that she was now much stronger.
He went up and pulled his short knife out from the tree trunk and put it back into the sheath.
"Let's go." He got in the car and drove.
Xue Ling didn't care to be angry with him. She took the writing board and wrote, "Tiger!"
Wen Jiu looked at her strangely: "What's wrong with the tiger? What's there to be afraid of?"
Tigers eat people! Xue Ling wrote.
Wen Jiuzhai: "There are man-eating zombies everywhere, tigers are just a little rare."
Xue Ling: “…”
It seems to make some sense.
Wen Jiuze looked through the pile of old and new maps he had collected and found a nearby map: "Chiayi City Zoo...you have to go through this road."
Xue Ling looked at him speechlessly. It turned out that he was not just saying it casually, but was really going?
But!
"The tigers are out!" she wrote.
Wouldn't it be dangerous if all the big animals in the zoo came out and wandered around?
Wen Jiuze comforted him: "It's okay. There are many animals in the zoo. If the tiger runs away, we can go see the others. It's impossible that all of them ran away."
Xue Ling: Is this the problem I’m worried about?
Finally we went to the zoo.
This zoo was built in the suburbs of Jia City and covered a large area. It was much larger than the zoo in Yu City that Xue Ling had visited before, and there were not many zombies to be seen here.
Is it because there are not many tourists here at the beginning of the apocalypse, or is there some other reason?
Whatever the reason, it made their visit to the park much smoother.
Xue Ling was worried that some large beast might pounce out at any time, so he walked behind Wen Jiuze, looking around like a thief.
Wen Jiuze grabbed her hand, led her forward, and joked to her, "Even if there really were a beast, it wouldn't want to eat you. Don't be nervous."
Xue Ling was suddenly startled when he held her hand.
Wen Jiuze did not wear leather gloves to isolate himself from the danger. He held her hand as before, and his warm palm ironed the back of her hand.
She suddenly recalled the scene when they held hands for the first time a few years ago.
...Don't get me wrong, those are not romantic memories.
At that time, the two had just confirmed their relationship and were still unfamiliar with each other. Xue Ling was polite to him, and Wen Jiuze was also indifferent to her.
That day, Wen Jiuze was waiting for her at the side gate of her school and suddenly reached out to her.
When the two of them went out before, Wen Jiuze either walked in front of her or beside her, with his hands always in his pockets. Occasionally, when Xue Ling walked to the side of the road, closer to the car, Wen Jiuze would reach out and pull her back, but they never held hands.
So he took the initiative to reach out for it, which made Xue Ling feel a little strange and a little nervous.
She held out her hand and he took it.
Feeling the warmth of his palm, Xue Ling began to feel a little shy and nervous, and then she noticed that there was something wet in his hand?
He took his hand back and looked at it. The back of his hand, which was pressed against Wen Jiuze's, was stained with some grayish-white... bird shit? Bird shit!
Wen Jiuzhe supported his hand and said with a smile: "When I was waiting for you just now, I accidentally got some bird droppings on the railing."
“…”
It was probably from that time that the way they interacted with each other changed from being polite without any awkwardness to one being mean and the other being angry, and then it evolved into fighting.
Before they knew it, they began to hold hands frequently, although every time Xue Ling would carefully check if there was anything in Wen Jiuze's hand before she was willing to hold it.
Rather than feeling shy about holding hands with her boyfriend, she was thinking more about whether this guy was planning to do something bad again today.
Xue Ling came back to her senses from her past memories and didn't even notice where Wen Jiuze pulled her from. She looked up and saw the beast area.
You really are the one who goes there even though you know there is a tiger there.
Fortunately, there was a big hole in the fence of the beast area, and all the beasts inside ran away.
...Isn't this even scarier? What if it's still lingering around?
"They all ran away?"
Wen Jiuze raised his eyebrows and walked towards the cave, wanting to take a look at the area that was previously inaccessible to tourists. However, Xue Ling pulled him back forcefully, causing him to stumble.
She almost dragged Wen Jiuze away from here.
The areas for zebras, giraffes, ostriches and elephants were all empty.
They walked to the bird area, which was a long row of large cage-like rooms. Labels of various species of parrots were still hanging outside the cages, but the birds in the cages were gone.
In some rooms, you can see the skeletons of dead birds, while in others, there is nothing at all.
Xue Ling was feeling a little uncomfortable, and Wen Jiu motioned for her to look up. There were two parrots with beautiful feathers standing on the tree above their heads.
Xue Ling became happier and pointed at the parrot and howled.
The parrot on the tree looked at the humans and zombies below and opened its mouth: "Awooo."
Wen Jiuze: "Haha, you imitated it quite well."
A strange laugh rang out from the woods again: "Hahahahahahaha, like!"
It turns out there was a parrot in there.
Xue Ling and Wen Jiuze both said: "..."
Compared to those kept in cages, more swans and red-crowned cranes placed in waterside landscapes survive.
Xue Ling also saw a nest of eggs in the grass on the other side of the lake, but she didn't know what kind of bird laid them.
The peacock cage next door was empty, but the peacock had nothing to do and was strolling along the road with its long tail dragging its head.
When it saw someone coming, it raised its long neck, looked arrogant and looked straight ahead, and walked past.
Wen Jiuze followed it with his eyes and asked, "I wonder if peacock tastes good."
Xue Ling hesitated for a moment, but still pushed him forward. Forget it, it's so pretty, don't eat it.
There are small bridges and flowing water ahead, as well as large and small lakes. Schools of ornamental fish are swimming in the connected fish ponds, and their leisurely appearance is no different from that before the end of the world.
Beautiful-looking ornamental fish are usually not tasty.
In order to prevent Wen Jiuze from trying to catch them again, Xue Ling pointed at the school of fish, shook her head and gestured with a fork, indicating that they did not taste good.
Wen Jiuze also pointed at the edge of the fish pond. Xue Ling took a closer look and saw several bloated zombies soaking in the water, with a group of red and yellow fish surrounding them, pecking at the food.
——Zombies think discarded fish are not tasty, but fish do not think discarded zombies are not tasty.
Xue Ling: Anyone who sees this scene will lose their appetite for these fish.
In the past three years, Xue Ling has seen animals bitten by zombies, and they basically die very quickly without undergoing mutations like humans.
What about the fish that ate the zombies? Will they die too?
They squatted by the fish pond and watched the fish for a long time but didn't see anything. Two zombies walked over nearby and were chopped up by Wen Jiuze and thrown into the fish pond as a snack for the fish.
However, when the fresh zombies entered the water, the fish immediately scattered and did not eat them.
"They don't eat it fresh, they have to soak it before eating. Could it be that it will be less poisonous after being soaked and can be eaten?" Wen Jiuze guessed.
Xue Ling holds a different view. She wrote: "Maybe if it's not soaked, it won't be chewable."
As a zombie gets older, its body becomes tougher and its skin becomes more resilient. When a knife is stabbed into it, it makes a clanging sound, just like cutting metal. A knife of poor quality may even break, so how can a fish bite it?
What Xue Ling found even more strange was how Wen Jiuze was able to cut off the zombie's head so easily with a dagger.
The fish in the fish pond live freely, but the ornamental fish in the water tank are a bit unlucky.
The turbid water had not been changed for a long time, and the oxygen supply device had been stopped long ago. The water in the tank turned green. Needless to say, all the beautiful little fish in the tank died.
They just took a quick look and walked away. Wen Jiuze took Xue Ling to a place that looked like a rock cave.
Xue Ling didn't pay attention to the sign. Just as she was wondering what area this was, she saw the giant python behind the glass.
Xue Ling: “!”
Wen Jiuze heard the sound of his T-shirt being torn.
Fortunately, Xue Ling still had some sense and did not scratch his body with her fingers, but just tore his T-shirt.
The giant python behind the glass didn't move. Xue Ling looked at the gorgeous patterns on its body, which was almost sticking to Wen Jiuze.
She wanted to ask whether it was alive or dead, but was afraid that if she answered, Wen Jiuze would break the glass to find the answer for her.
He had no choice but to turn his eyes away and push Wen Jiuze's back with his fist to make him move forward quickly.
Xue Ling didn't dare to look closely at the snakes. When she accidentally saw an empty nest, she suspected that the snakes had escaped and that a snake might appear under her feet at any time.
After walking through this area, the two saw crocodiles behind the glass again.
The motionless crocodile with its mouth open looks like a statue.
Wen Jiuze squatted down and looked for a while, then knocked on the glass.
"Dead or alive?"
Xue Ling still understood him, because after Wen Jiuze asked this question, he began to press the edge of the glass tentatively, as if he was going to remove the glass and get the crocodile out to see.
As he hammered the glass, Xue Ling also started hammering him.
In the end, the glass was not removed, leaving behind a bunch of questions about "are they alive or dead?"
When leaving here, Wen Jiuze's old T-shirt was almost turned into rags by Xue Ling and was almost scrapped.
Wearing these beggar outfits, Wen Jiuze and Xue Ling continued to visit the next district.
The next area is Monkey Mountain.
Compared to the animals in other areas that were either empty or ran away, this group of monkeys directly became the king here and expanded their population.
When I walked over, I saw monkeys all over the rockery and nearby trees! There were at least hundreds of them.
Seeing them appear, one monkey started shouting, and then a group of monkeys followed suit.
When Xue Ling felt that the situation was not good, Wen Jiuze had already made a quick decision. He grabbed her and turned around to run back.
"Run!" Wen Jiuze said.
A strong man who remained calm in the face of a tiger finally surrendered in front of hundreds of monkeys.
Even though he was the unlucky one now, Xue Ling wanted to laugh in a rather unkind way.
Brother Zha, brother Zha, there are times when you are afraid!
There were monkeys chasing after them from behind. They caught something and were throwing it at them, making squeaking sounds.
The sound of clods of earth, pebbles, and dried fruit cores hit them and bounced at their feet like rain.
Wen Jiu covered Xue Ling's head, almost preventing her from being hit, and half dragged and half carried her out of the Monkey Mountain.
When I stopped and took a look, I saw all kinds of dust marks on his body and dirt in his hair. He looked completely unsightly.
Xue Ling wanted to laugh, but unfortunately she couldn't make a laughing expression, so she just bared her teeth slightly.
Wen Jiu looked at her knowingly and patted his hair: "Are you happy now?"
No! Xue Ling immediately retracted his bared teeth.
After going to the zoo for no reason and being beaten by monkeys, the two set off again.
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