Zombie Nine×Human Bell
"How long has it been since you last showered?"
Wen Jiuze stretched out a finger.
One day? One week? One month? It can't be a year, right?
Xue Ling didn't want to guess riddles with him. It was getting late and she had to go back to the base.
I don’t have time to supervise my zombie ex-boyfriend taking a shower, so I can only remind him again and again to find a place to take a good shower and remember to use soap or shower gel.
"You don't have any wounds on your body, do you? If you have wounds, or if your internal organs are exposed, you can't soak them in water to wash them, you know? They will rot."
Xue Ling had already gotten off the bus, but she remembered this incident, got back on the bus and said something, then left in a hurry.
She went out alone all day and came back after it was completely dark. The whole family was waiting for her to have dinner.
Her uncle saw the expressions of her stepsister and brother and spoke to her.
"You kid, you didn't even tell me where you were going. If you really wanted to go somewhere, just tell me and let your uncle go with you. In this world, if something really happens to you, you won't even have time to cry."
"I don't know if my family is worried about me. I don't want to get married, but I don't think I'd be so angry with you."
The mother was also worried, but when she heard her brother and sister-in-law scolding her daughter, she explained to her daughter: "She told me she was going out. She is near the base. Nothing will happen. Eat first, eat first."
My stepfather was always quiet and focused on his work. When his wife spoke up, he didn't say anything, but just reminded her: "You should be careful when you go out alone."
At night, after my step-sister put her daughter to sleep, she suddenly asked her, "What did you do today? Did you find a way to make money? If so, you don't have to hide it from us. Maybe we can help."
Xue Ling was writing in a notebook. Hearing this, he stopped and said, "I'm just bored at the base, so I'm going out for a walk."
The step-sister obviously didn't believe it, but she didn't say anything else. Xue Ling heard the bunk bed creaking when she lay down unhappily.
Regardless of her step-sister's thoughts, Xue Ling continued writing. This was a farewell letter she was going to leave for her mother and uncles.
If they said goodbye in person, she wouldn't be able to leave. There was no way they would let her leave the base alone.
For Mom and the others, the world outside the base is always accompanied by the danger of death. It is nothing like the stable life in the base.
Even if she has to live with a big family and endure all kinds of friction, or marry a strange man and work like a slave.
In short, being "eaten" by people is better than being eaten by zombies.
But Xue Ling didn't want to live like this forever. She had thought about leaving many times and had been consciously preparing things and training herself, but the departure was always far away and various concerns held her back.
Wen Jiuze's appearance was like a gust of wind blowing from afar, reminding her that it was time to set sail.
The time has come, don't hesitate any longer.
"Mom, I have to say goodbye to you..."
Xue Ling held the pen and thought back to her childhood when her parents divorced and she and her mother were the only ones left in their home.
In order to make a living, her mother chose to leave her and go out to work alone.
When she grew up, her mother chose to remarry and leave again.
Every time it was her mother who chose to leave, leaving her where she was, and this time it was she who was leaving.
Xue Ling spent a long time writing a short farewell letter. Her step-sister in the lower bunk urged her to go to bed quickly, saying that the small table lamp in the upper bunk was bright and dazzling and she couldn't sleep.
Xue Ling ignored her and finished writing the rest of the words.
It suddenly started raining outside.
Xue Ling put away the letter she had written, turned off the dim desk lamp, opened the curtains a little and looked out of the small window. The densely packed resettlement houses were completely dark.
I wonder how Wen Jiuze is doing staying alone in the bus.
Wen Jiuze did not stay in the bus honestly. He was at the shopping mall with the most zombies in the center of Xinyan City, preparing some gifts for Xue Ling.
In the large shopping mall in the city center that no scavenger team dared to come to, Wen Jiuze was soaking wet. He raised his hand to pull a handful of his dripping messy hair, waved his flashlight at the mall's sign, and then walked upstairs.
The elevator had been out of service for a long time, but there were still some zombies standing on it.
Wen Jiu would push aside the troublesome corpses, or step on the zombies lying on the ground and strode up.
He was originally planning to go upstairs to get some base hard currency, gold, but when he saw a high-end women's clothing store, he turned around and went over.
It's not that he doesn't know that Xue Ling dislikes his aesthetics, but she wore a thin coat on this cold day, and the cuffs were worn out. She was so cold that she had to curl her neck while driving, so he had to prepare a thick coat for her.
After a round of shopping, she gave up those that suited her aesthetic taste and picked up a plain black cotton coat. Thinking of her kiwi head, she also picked up a woolen hat and took out a bag from the counter to pack her clothes.
In the end, the things he took from the mall were much more than expected, so Wen Jiu pushed the things directly to the mall’s parking lot.
There are a lot of cars here, half of them are blocking the entrance to the parking lot, and half of them are parked in the parking spaces.
There were a lot of zombies, too, with dark figures moving between the cars, and some standing there motionless, giving you a fright when you least expect it.
Wen Jiu turned on the lights and went to pick a car. He saw one with a high chassis, opened the door, and came face to face with the zombie owner sitting in the car.
Wen Jiu pulled the car owner out without hesitation, but when he got into the car, he saw a rotten body in the back seat. He immediately got out of the car again, grabbed the car owner who was about to abandon the car and stuffed him back into the car, then closed the door.
After looking around and finding the car that he liked the most, Wen Jiuze pumped some gas from another car as a backup, loaded it with the things he got from the mall, and drove out of the garage.
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Xue Ling got up at dawn. When she was at home, she would always help her mother make breakfast. Her uncle and stepfather got up to go to work at the base, and her aunt went to help her cousin.
Xue Ling originally planned to stay in the base for two days, but it rained heavily in the second half of last night, and she remembered that the bus seemed to be leaking.
So she planned to go to the bus again today to take a look.
As soon as she went out, she saw Chen Xin walking towards their home.
Xue Ling's heart sank and she stopped at the door.
"Xue Ling? My brother Chen Xu didn't come home all night. I wanted to ask you if you knew where he went?" As expected, Chen Xin asked as soon as he came up.
Xue Ling asked him back: "You can't find your brother, why do you come to ask me? I don't know you brothers well."
Chen Xin probably didn't expect her to be so rude. He said awkwardly, "I heard that he talked to you at the gate of the base yesterday, and then he disappeared, so I wanted to ask you."
"We exchanged a few words, and I never saw him again."
Chen Xin cursed angrily: "This brat, I don't know what he does with a bunch of bad friends all day long, and he never comes home."
Then he pretended to apologize: "Did that kid say some nonsense to you yesterday? Don't pay attention to him, he is just a bad mouth. I will definitely discipline him when he comes back."
He really sounded like a good and sensible brother, but Xue Ling still said calmly: "It has nothing to do with me."
They hadn't even spoken a few words before, and Xue Ling didn't know how he fell in love with her.
Logically speaking, there was nothing going on between them, but his brother treated her as a treasure and was so frivolous. Xue Ling didn't believe that he had never said anything inappropriate in front of his brother.
It is said that Chen San usually listens to his eldest brother the most. They are such close brothers who love each other. Chen Xin really doesn't know what kind of person his younger brother is, and really doesn't know what he will do?
"Okay, sorry to bother you. I'll go look for him again. When I find him, I'll ask him to apologize to you." Chen Xin said.
Although he spoke nicely, he still pretended not to understand what people were saying. What was the relationship between them that required him to pressure his brother to apologize?
Xue Ling looked at his leaving back and changed her mind instantly.
She turned back into the house, took out the farewell letter she had written and placed it on the bed in her mother's room, took her packed bag and left the base.
Before leaving the base, she took a special look around where Chen Xin worked, then walked out of the base and headed straight for the abandoned bus.
If Chen Xin was really a good brother who knew nothing, he would probably go ask his brother's friends.
But if he knew what kind of person his brother was, he should be able to guess what good thing his brother did yesterday and would target her directly.
Seeing her going out alone again, Chen Xin would most likely follow her.
Holding her small bag and the knife she carried with her, Xue Ling ran across the road in front of the base and took the deserted path leading to the abandoned bus.
She ran very fast, and her heartbeat gradually became stronger. She didn't know whether it was because she was afraid that Chen Xin would really catch up with her, or because she was thinking that she was about to leave her family and run towards an unknown future.
The treetops above the abandoned bus were dripping water, dripping onto the roof of the bus. Xue Ling pushed open the door.
She saw Wen Jiuze lying on the small bed with his long legs nowhere to put.
He was lying on her pillow, reading a philosophy book she had placed on the table.
The anxiety in his heart suddenly eased, Xue Ling calmed his breathing, and walked up the two steps.
Wen Jiuze had already put down the book and was looking at her cheeks which had turned red from running too fast.
What happened? Why did you run like you were being chased by a dog?
Wen Jiuze realized something instantly, dropped his book and stood up to go to the car door, but was stopped by Xue Ling: "Wait, I have something to tell you."
"Yesterday, Chen San was the man you killed. His brother just came to me to ask about his whereabouts. I suspect he will follow me..."
Wen Jiuze looked out the window with red eyes, and his pale face looked unusually cold in the dim car, with a kind of eerie ghostly aura.
"No matter what, I can't stay in the base anymore. Let's stay here tonight and see how the situation goes. Tomorrow... well!" Xue Ling said, her face pressed against Wen Jiuze's chest.
He held her with one hand, bent down, lifted a curtain inside the bus, and looked out.
"I'm not sure whether he will follow or not, it's just a guess." Xue Ling struggled.
Wen Jiuze let her go, touched the sweat on her back, and took out a thick coat from a pile of things beside the bed and gave it to her.
"What, clothes for me?" Xue Ling just realized that there were some extra things in the car.
Wen Jiuze gave her another hat. Xue Ling held the hat in one hand and the coat in the other. She watched Wen Jiuze take out two gold bars when he turned over the hat.
He had stuffed the golden bars at the bottom of his travel bag, and judging from the shape of the bag, there were more than two gold bars.
"You went last night..."
Wen Jiuze took the knife she had left by the door and got out of the car. Xue Ling quickly followed him.
There was no need to explain what this guy did after he couldn't speak. Xue Ling dropped his clothes and hat and got out of the car. He wanted to call him, but he heard someone talking on the road covered with iron sheets.
"Brother, look carefully, is she coming this way?"
"There are footprints on the ground, please watch out."
It was the voice of Chen Xin and another man. It should be his second brother Chen Lan, who actually followed him.
In the two years since the apocalypse, Xue Ling has seen many disgusting people and things, and is not surprised at this development at all, because there are too many people like this.
She went to see Wen Jiuze, who climbed onto the roof of the bus by stepping on the window and shielding himself with the dense willow trees.
The next moment, Chen Xin pushed away the iron sheet and found the abandoned bus.
He still looked simple and honest, and even smiled: "Xue Ling, is my brother Chen Xu here?"
His second brother Chen Lan followed behind him. He was a little impatient: "Brother, what's the point of asking her? Yesterday Chen Xu said he wanted to talk to her, but she came back and Chen Xu didn't. It must have something to do with her!"
"Chen Xu, Chen Xu! Are you there?" Chen Lan ignored Xue Ling who was standing beside the car, and yelled to get in the car to look for someone.
After a moment, he was heard to exult in his voice: "Gold bars?!"
Soon he came out with a bag, looking very happy: "Brother, look, there are a lot of gold bars here, we are rich!"
Chen Xin also showed a look of joy, and said to Xue Ling with a slightly strange expression: "You can't get these gold bars by yourself. Is it related to Chen Xu? Where is he?"
Xue Ling said nothing, but just stepped back away from the two of them.
From the brothers' perspective, it seemed that she was afraid, but in fact Xue Ling was also afraid, afraid that if she got too close, the blood would splash onto her body.
The two brothers were immersed in surprise and dazzled by the gold. They were caught off guard and knocked to the ground by Wen Jiuze who jumped down from the roof of the bus.
He chose a good position and skewered two with one knife. Wen Jiuze used the blunt knife that Xue Ling had picked up and left in the car, which had not been worn off the rust.
He stabbed and drew out the knife in one go, and the blood splashed at Xue Ling's feet.
The Chen Xin brothers were still breathing hard, their expressions showing pain and shock.
Seeing that their blood was about to soak into the bag, Xue Ling went over to pick up the bag of gold bars that had fallen. Chen Xin raised his hand to grab her: "Help, help..."
As soon as he stretched out his hand, Wen Jiuze stepped on it. Chen Xin still couldn't guess that his missing brother was in a dangerous situation.
"Wen Jiuze, I want to leave some gold bars for my mother, is that ok?"
Wen Jiuze made a gesture to invite them to come forward, grabbed the two dying men and dragged them to the back of the bus.
Xue Ling hesitated for a moment: "Wen Jiuze, do you eat people?"
When he heard nine, he waved his hands.
Xue Ling relaxed a little: "Don't eat people!"
Wen Jiuze gave her an OK sign.
Xue Ling followed him worriedly: "Do you know how to deal with the body? There is a garbage incineration pit in the garbage dump behind."
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