Chapter 31 Great Changes Brought by the Disaster
Noon, meal time.
Recently, this time period has gradually become an increasingly unbearable time period for Zhao Zheng.
He sat on the wooden steps along the corridor outside a tent house, watching the girls in white clothes walking on the corridor of the opposite tent house.
Wu Meiling carried a plastic bag in one hand, and stopped to take out a piece of bread from the bag and handed it out every time she passed by someone.
Some people sitting on the corridor were very anxious, and they quickly took the bread from her hand before she stretched out her hand, but because Zhao Zheng was sitting opposite, they only dared to take it from her hand at most, and did not dare to snatch the bag in her other hand.
Wu Meiling always had a faint smile on her pretty face, as if she understood the urgency very well and didn't care about the other party's rudeness.
The bread was not fresh bread baked in a bakery, but the kind of bread that can be bought in a supermarket with a shelf life of up to half a year. There was too much saccharin in it, and the taste was not very good.
In the past, Zhao Zheng would never even touch such bread.
But now, he felt distressed.
The end of the world has come, and the previous life is gone forever. Everything has been turned upside down.
When they left school that day, in addition to him and Wu Meiling, a total of six girls and one boy squeezed into his car.
Although the SUV he drove was large, it was just barely able to fit so many people, and two people could only stay in the trunk.
It took too much time to pack up the things because there were too many people. Besides, most of the people in the car were girls, and they all begged him to take them home. The car wasted a lot of time driving back and forth on the road.
He couldn't drive home immediately, and he was worried. To make matters worse, a girl who was originally resting in the dormitory suddenly became strange and bit the boy closest to her. Everyone
in the car screamed in panic. Wu Meiling, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was so scared that she threw herself into his arms. Zhao Zheng couldn't react in time and crashed into the rear of the car in front.
The car door opened, and several classmates fled out of the car in panic.
Fortunately, the girl who became strange was the one sitting in the trunk. Because there was a seat blocking her, except for the boy who sat in the trunk with her, no one else was bitten.
They didn't take You Xi's warning to heart at first, but now they understood what she meant by those words. The mutated zombies can be alerted and stay away, but what about the people around them?
Who knows what the people around them will become in the next second?
The temporary team was dispersed in an instant. Zhao Zheng was reluctant to leave his car. It was still a long way from his home. If he lost his car now, how would he go back?
Subway? Taxi? Don't be kidding! Who can guarantee that he won't encounter other suddenly mutated infected people on the road?
He hesitated for a moment, and when he found that the two zombies stuck in the trunk could not climb to the front seat, he made up his mind, pulled Wu Meiling into the car, and planned to drive directly home.
Wu Meiling cried so hard that she refused to get in the car. Leng Mian, who was originally so frightened that she was silent, suddenly came forward to help. She dragged Wu Meiling with him and squeezed into the passenger seat with her.
Zhao Zheng got in the car and looked at Leng Mian. She pressed Wu Meiling on the seat and closed the door. She said to him in a miserable way: "I know you live in Jinlong Villa District. My house is just at the intersection in front of your house. Just drop me off there!"
Just like that, with the help of Leng Mian, Zhao Zheng finally took Wu Meiling back home.
However, his parents did not escape the disaster. His mother happened to be outside. His father was killed on the way to pick her up, and his mother also lost contact completely.
After that, the infected broke out on a large scale, social order collapsed, and the peaceful world no longer existed.
When the mobile phone signal was still there, Wu Meiling contacted her family. Her father had mutated, and her mother was hiding at home and struggling to support herself. Finally
, her eldest brother Wu Tianqi brought his brothers from the boxing gym home in time and rescued her mother. Then he brought the family's water and supplies, and emptied a small supermarket along the way, and came to the villa area to join them.
There are few people in the villa area, and they can still defend it for the time being after clearing the zombies and locking the door.
Zhao Zheng and the people in the villa area temporarily formed a team. Relying on some information they had received from Youxi before, they made accurate judgments when taking action, and soon gained the trust of others and became the main member of the team.
Wu Meiling's brother Wu Tianqi also relied on his ruthlessness and worked hard with his boxing gym brothers to clean up the zombies in the small supermarket at the entrance of the villa area, adding another batch of supplies to the team, thus becoming another main member of the team.
At this point, Wu Meiling, as the sister and girlfriend of two main members, also became the core figure of the team.
Even though she had no ability and had never dealt with zombies, the other people in the team were very polite and caring to her.
Wu Tianqi treated this sister very well. When she went out with the team, she was kind enough to rescue the people she met and bring them back to the villa area. Wu Tianqi never objected.
At that time, Zhao Zheng could not stand this kind of "kindness" anytime and anywhere, but because Wu Tianqi was willing, he did not object.
Afterwards, they stayed in the villa area for a few days. As a result, because someone among the newly rescued group concealed the fact of the Type A infected person, the mutation spread from the villa area in the middle of the night one day, and the survivors of the entire villa became zombies.
Once the Type B infected spread, there was no time to control it. The survivors who were awakened by the screams fled in a hurry and failed to take all the food and water supplies.
The only thing to be thankful for was that everyone had pried open a lot of ownerless vehicles in the villa area in the past few days, and also got some gasoline, so they didn't flee in a hurry without even a car.
Later, someone provided information about this camping base. That person was a member here and had come here often before. He was not only familiar with the route, but also clearly knew the facilities inside the camping base.
The camping base not only has RVs, tents, and RVs for accommodation, but also vegetable and fruit growing areas, several farm restaurants that provide meals, as well as fishing and shrimp pools and a cute pet park.
In an emergency, these are all edible foods.
So everyone set the camping base as their destination. On the way, they met a team that was also evacuating from another villa area. This team evacuated in an orderly manner and had more supplies than them, but there were not many young and strong people in the team. Leng Mian was in this team, and it didn't look too good.
Zhao Zheng remembered Leng Mian's help before. After asking about the situation, he learned that when she returned home, her father had turned into a zombie.
He was bitten and mutated, right outside the gate of his villa, which was locked tightly, and her stepmother and the brother who was not related to her by blood were huddled inside the villa.
Although she did not see it with her own eyes, she had a hunch that her father's accident was related to her stepmother and the two of them.
Later, the driver and the servant tied up her father who had become a mutant and locked him in the study. She cried desperately outside the study. When she came to her senses, she found that all the water, supplies and people in the house were gone.
Her stepmother, her brother who was not related by blood, the driver and the servant took the supplies and drove away the two cars in the family, leaving her behind to flee.
In order to survive, Leng Mian had to pick up homemade weapons and go to the villa next door to clean up the zombies and find food.
In just a few days, she could face the zombies without changing her expression. In the last second, she was stabbing a zombie's brain with a sashimi knife at the door of the supermarket, and in the next second, she could rush to the shelf, take a bag of bread, open it and eat it.
The two teams worked together and arrived at the camping base. Zhao Zheng, considering their friendship, pulled Leng Mian into his team.
Wu Meiling was still kindhearted and saved people along the way. When they finally arrived at the camping base, the number of people in the team doubled.
But most of these people had never killed zombies. They consumed food and searched for supplies every day. When facing zombies, most of them trembled and hid in the car.
Although they have arrived at the camping base, there are no supermarkets nearby. Those who came earlier than them have already occupied the advantageous terrain and occupied the supplies in the camping base.
They can't hold on for too long relying on the supplies they found along the way when evacuating from the city. Zhao Zheng didn't want to care about the people he rescued on the road, but Wu Meiling disagreed.
She said that he could help and take care of the female classmates, so why couldn't she help others? They obviously had a lot of supplies, and some of those supplies were found by her brother and his team. As long as her brother agreed, she had the right to distribute them. Could it be that they had food and didn't give them food, and watched them starve to death?
But Zhao Zheng knew in his heart that this was fundamentally different. Although Leng Mian was a girl, she found supplies and dealt with zombies by herself. Her joining the team was truly strengthening the team.
The two quarreled about this, and Wu Meiling cried sadly. She didn't understand why the boy who had pursued her in various ways and made vows to her not long ago would quarrel with her for such a thing and for other girls.
When the end of the world came, her father passed away, and they were forced to leave the home where they had lived since childhood and flee all the way. She woke up every day with a heart full of confusion. Only when she rescued and helped others could she feel the value of her existence.
It would be fine if Zhao Zheng didn't understand her, but why did he quarrel with her about this?
Wu Meiling was depressed, and Wu Tianqi couldn't bear to leave his sister, so he found Zhao Zheng privately and talked to him indirectly, saying that he could find more supplies, but he only had this one sister, and they should unite more in the end of the world.
She just wanted to help others, and there was nothing wrong with that.
At the same time, people in Zhao Zheng's team who were originally in the same villa also talked to him, saying that in the current situation, the less supplies, the better.
If he continues to let it go like this, then in order to protect their own interests, they will demand that all supplies be distributed in a unified manner, instead of the current situation where each person only has four to five days of rations in their backpacks and most supplies are managed in a unified manner.
Of course, only those who got off the car together to deal with the zombies when searching for supplies are eligible to share the supplies. By then, everyone will be in charge of their own affairs, and their team at the villa will be disbanded.
Zhao Zheng wanted to talk to Wu Meiling again, but she was still angry and ignored him. She continued to distribute supplies at lunch time today.
Maybe Wu Tianqi had talked to her about it, so she didn't want to distribute more as before. Each person was only given a piece of bread, but it still made those people in the villa team look unhappy.
Zhao Zheng felt uncomfortable. The loss of his parents and the drastic changes in the world made him feel scared, but he was holding on with his last breath. But now, he felt that he could not hold on any longer.
The plastic bag in Wu Meiling's hand was empty, but some people still had not received any bread. She had no choice but to return to the tent house and ask for some from the person guarding the supplies.
The man looked at Zhao Zheng with an uneasy expression, but was afraid of offending Wu Tianqi, and seemed to hope that he would speak up. Zhao Zheng said nothing, picked up the leather-wrapped machete beside him, stood up and walked out of the tent area.
On the way, he met Leng Mian. She exchanged food with the people on the farm and got a pot for cooking noodles. She also exchanged for a few vegetable leaves, planning to cook instant noodles for lunch.
She was wondering why Zhao Zheng didn't eat in the tent house during lunch time. Zhao Zheng said he wanted to try his luck around to see if there was any place he missed to find supplies.
"Wait a minute, I'll call Brother Zhou and the others." Leng Mian was referring to Brother Zhou and the others who were close to Zhao Zheng and who could help him along the way.
"No, I just want to take a turn and try my luck."
"Then I'll go with you." Leng Mian said, carrying her things and going to the parking lot behind him. The two got in the car and drove to the iron gate of the parking lot. They gave a biscuit to the gatekeeper, who opened the door for them.
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Leng Mian followed Zhao Zheng out of course for her own selfish reasons. She had been to this camping base several times before and was quite familiar with it.
The closed RV area and hot spring area are located at the outermost edge of the entire botanical garden, and there are roads around them. Because there are no supermarkets or shops selling fresh water, and it is a dead end road with no cars passing by, no one cleans up the zombies on the road in this area.
But Leng Mian knows that although there is no food supermarket here, there are several stores selling other items.
Leng Mian's target is one of the sports stores. She used to know the owner of the store and knew that he had several mountain bikes in the store that were not sold to the public.
She can't drive, so when she evacuated from the city, she could only share other people's cars. She didn't have the opportunity to search for supplies such as car gasoline. Other supplies such as fresh water can't be carried with her because she doesn't have a car.
After being abandoned by her stepmother and servants, she knew that she could only fend for herself in this doomsday, so a mountain bike was the best means of transportation she could think of.
No need to charge, no need to refuel, and with gears, it was not much slower than a car. After all, the roads were full of cars in trouble, and they were evacuating the city very slowly.
With a little modification, a mountain bike could carry some supplies and move freely at any time.
Zhao Zheng came out just to get some fresh air, and since Leng Mian had a goal, he drove along the road in the direction she indicated.
However, the strange thing was that there were quite a few staggering zombies at the beginning of this road, but the closer to the end of the road, the fewer zombies there were, but there were quite a few corpses with broken heads lying on the ground.
After turning a corner, the car stopped near the entrance to the RV area, where the shops were.
There were no zombies around, and a large jeep with a dirty body and blood on it was parked outside the iron gate of the entrance.
The door of the jeep was closed, but the sunroof was open. A middle-aged man in his fifties was looking at the entrance nervously, holding something in his hand.
In the sunlight, the thing was shiny pink and looked pretty.
Zhao Zheng and Leng Mian were both puzzled. They got off the car with their machetes and sashimi knives respectively. Just as they were about to ask, they saw a silver RV driving quickly towards the iron gate on the driveway inside the iron gate.
Behind the RV, there was a long line of zombies. A quick glance showed that there were at least fifty or sixty of them. Some of them were wearing swimsuits. I don't know how long they have been soaking in the water. The flesh on their bodies has almost fallen off, revealing the blackened and dirty underwear inside. It was disgusting and terrifying.
The middle-aged man was obviously nervous, but he still maintained his posture and did not drive away.
The RV braked suddenly two meters away from the iron gate. The driver's door opened, and a slender figure climbed up to the roof of the RV very flexibly, not forgetting to close the door with her foot.
She was wearing a black short-sleeved T-shirt and sports pants. She rushed to the rear of the RV roof in a few steps. She was holding something in her hand and stood there with her arms outstretched to the surging corpses.
Then, a five or six-meter-long flame suddenly shot out from the thing she was holding in her hand. Wherever it went, the screaming and swaying zombies were all burned to ashes.
It was really burned, turned to ashes, and burned. No matter the flesh, blood, dirt, or skeleton, it first turned into charred dregs, and then it collapsed with a whoosh after a few conscious movements, turning into a pool of black ash.
Zhao Zheng: ...!!
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