Chapter 090 Zombie Apocalypse 28
Lu Xizhou used a little energy to heal Zhao Dong's wound.
Zhao Dong asked expectantly, "How is it?"
Lu Xizhou: "The wound has healed."
"No, I mean, will I turn into a zombie again?"
Lu Xizhou didn't know what the conditions were for becoming a zombie, so he could only shake his head: "I don't know."
Zhao Dong's eyes darkened at first, then brightened again.
He'd been infected for just a few minutes, yet he hadn't lost his mind. Even a healing psychic couldn't see that he had the potential to turn into a zombie. Doesn't that mean...
Xie Yunsui said, "You should isolate yourself tonight and see what happens tomorrow."
According to his experience, the only way to survive a zombie bite was to become a zombie. He had never seen such a change in the original world. He was also very curious.
Ji Tianyuan locked the person in a bedroom in an empty room in the apartment building and added two chains.
"Brother, I'm afraid you are a mutant among the zombies, so you should be a little more cautious." Ji Tianyuan explained.
Zhao Dong's voice came from behind the door: "...Okay."
There were three days' worth of food and water in the room, and Boss Xie also generously provided him with a 1,000-piece puzzle for him to pass the time.
Zhao Dong walked around the room twice, not knowing why he was so anxious. He simply took apart the puzzle to relieve his anxiety. As he continued to put the puzzle together, he became obsessed with it and did not sleep all night.
Another person who couldn't sleep late at night was Xie Yunsui.
The lights on the first floor of the convenience store were still on. Lu Xizhou had taken a nap and when he woke up he found that Xie Yunsui was still awake.
He was wearing thin cotton pajamas and standing at the stairs: "Why aren't you asleep yet?"
Xie Yunsui turned his gaze towards him and smiled, "I'm thinking about something. I'll go to bed soon."
Lu Xizhou just remembered: "Oh, I occupied your bedroom..."
"Let's not talk about this for now. I just happen to have something I want you to help me with."
Xie Yunsui spoke quickly, fearing that he would follow up with "Why don't I go back to sleep?"
Lu Xizhou's attention was indeed diverted: "Huh?"
Xie Yunsui smiled and spread out the map in his hand. Lu Xizhou looked over and found that there were many signs of different colors on it.
Xie Yunsui introduced them one by one, especially a green area, which is the territory of Venus flytraps and pitcher plants.
The two alien plants each occupied a semicircle, tearing a big hole in the central area and the four major bases.
Xie Yunsui wanted the activity area in the central area to be larger, preferably including a residential area next to it.
Lu Xizhou tilted his head: "Do you want to accommodate more people?"
Xie Yunsui's heart skipped a beat, he had forgotten that Xiaoxi didn't like to interact with others.
The two strange plants grew according to Lu Xizhou's wishes, and they surrounded him tightly. People outside had no place to stand, let alone live with him.
From another perspective, this is also a reflection of Xiaoxi's inner thoughts: staying away from people.
"Sorry, I..." Xie Yunsui didn't know how to explain.
He originally just wanted a small place to hang out and occasionally go out with Xiaoxi.
Who knew plans couldn't keep up with changes? First, a group of people came to stay because of the East District Base incident, and I'm afraid there will be more in the future...
So far, he has read the life experiences of many people, most of which ended after the alien plants took over City C. Only Han Xiu and others from last time escaped in the original world line and went to other shelters.
But they didn't live long, and soon, their city was hit by a wave of zombies during the first snowfall of the winter.
No one knows where the zombie tide comes from. The defensive fortifications of those shelters are not perfect. The zombie hordes are overwhelming and one after another, bringing a devastating blow to the survivors.
Xie Yunsui thought that only City C, with its alien plants, was not afraid of the zombie horde. At most, it was just a matter of eating more or less.
But now, City C is still ruled by survivors. If the zombie tide comes, which of the four major bases’ defenses can withstand it? They are still using trucks as fences.
The zombie tide was just his prediction based on the life experiences of a few people. Maybe only that city was destroyed, and maybe there was no such thing in City C?
Xie Yunsui didn't dare to gamble, so he had to make as much preparation as possible.
"We're just cleaning these up for emergencies, they might not be needed. Most importantly, I want your help to plant all the alien plants outside the four major bases, all the way up here—"
Xie Yunsui pointed to the outer layer of the zombie circle, meaning that as long as the alien plants spread over, all the zombies in this circle would be eliminated.
The alien plants feed on energy organisms, which is just what the zombies like.
Lu Xizhou: "I'll try... I don't know if it will work."
Xie Yunsui was stunned: "Aren't you going to ask me why?"
Lu Xizhou raised his head and shook his head: "You are very good to me, it is my duty to help you."
He eats and drinks for free in the store every day.
Lu Xizhou knew that he liked him, but he just couldn't learn to like him. However, he felt that he should be nicer to him, at least to prevent him from being too sad.
After finalizing the matter, Lu Xizhou went home and brought back two pots of grass.
The next day, the sun rose as usual, and the morning wind was much colder.
Ji Tianyuan wrapped himself in a fleece leather jacket and went to find Zhao Dong shivering. He knocked on the door first and opened it only after hearing a response from inside.
"You!" Ji Tianyuan's palm suddenly ignited a ball of fire: "Have you mutated? Why are your eyes so red?"
Zhao Dong looked sleepy and answered slowly, "Maybe he spent the whole night doing the puzzle..."
1000 tablets! He's almost going blind!
A very useful flashlight ran out of battery, and it consumed two of his candles, but he only managed to put the edge together.
Ji Tianyuan swept the edges of the puzzle on the ground, and saw the middle was full of puzzles placed in a disorderly manner. He couldn't help but be silent for a moment.
Zhao Dong woke up and said, "Good morning, I think I won't mutate anymore."
"Does your wound hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt. It stopped hurting after I received treatment yesterday... Come to think of it, when I was scratched by a zombie yesterday, the pain I felt wasn't very noticeable. Could this be considered a superpower?" Zhao Dong suddenly had an idea: "Just like you superpowers, I might have a stronger defensive ability."
Ji Tianyuan calmly broke the illusion: "If we, the superpowered, are captured by zombies, we will also mutate."
Zhao Dong scratched his hair. "That shouldn't be the case. Could it be that I remembered it wrongly? The one who hurt me wasn't actually a zombie?"
There is really no definitive answer to the question of being caught by zombies but not mutating.
Zhao Dong was conscious and his wounds had healed. Everyone thought he was lucky and quickly accepted him back.
"That's great. Now I don't have to be timid. Hahaha, I must take this opportunity to kill a few more zombies to earn crystal cores." Zhao Dong decided to continue to join the team to clear out the zombies.
"Don't be so mean. You might be lucky this time, but you might not be lucky next time."
There were a total of twenty-three people in the group rescued by Ji Tianyuan. They went out in teams of ten, and the rest of the people cleaned the streets on their own initiative, and then went to the supermarket to see if there was any food.
Today Xie Yunsui assigned them a new task, which was to tidy up a residential area off a street, originally called Nandian Garden.
Nandian Garden has a total of ten buildings, all on high floors and with high-end decoration. The occupancy rate was 90% before, but now there is definitely no one living there.
"There are many schools near Nandian Garden, and the occupancy rate is quite high. There should be a lot of supplies inside."
"I'm sure they took everything with them when they left. We can't have too high expectations."
"There are always things you can't take with you, like winter quilts and down jackets. Even one or two would be great."
"Such a great place, why doesn't Boss Xie go there himself?"
"Boss Xie doesn't need these things, and didn't you see him busy with Mr. Lu... just having a little time for himself?"
“…”
Everyone was silent for a moment. It was the end of the world. Some people liked to be alone without any worries, while others needed to be in a group to feel safe.
It didn't take long for them to notice Boss Xie's preference for Mr. Lu. He prepared different kinds of delicious meals for him three times a day, different afternoon tea snacks and drinks every day, played fun games with him, and even had Mr. Lu stand by to show his presence. The two of them even stayed together at night.
It’s not that no one was envious, and some people were eager to hook up with Boss Xie, but they were all driven away by his emotionless and indifferent eyes.
Boss Xie is usually polite and courteous, and speaks in a gentle voice. He looks like a very amiable person, but everyone feels that Boss Xie has a sense of detachment from the world.
Boss Xie would be in a better mood only when Mr. Lu was around. When they didn't have enough crystal cores, he was willing to buy them on credit in advance without asking for more.
Thinking of this, they actually wished that Boss Xie would stick to Mr. Lu every day.
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This time, Ji Tianyuan led the team to a construction site where there were many zombies gathered.
There is a row of container dormitories next to it, and outside the dormitories are densely packed with wandering zombies. It can be imagined that it is enough to spend the whole day here.
Ji Tianyuan found a good spot and got out of the car first. He first dealt with a nearby zombie before signaling everyone to get out.
While cooperating in clearing the area all the way to the fence, we unexpectedly encountered another team. There were about a dozen people on the other side, all wrapped up tightly, and it was difficult to see who they were for a while.
"I'm Wu Feng from the West District Base. Who are you?" the leader on the opposite side shouted loudly.
Ji Tianyuan paused and replied, "From the Central District, I'm Ji Tianyuan."
Wu Feng:!!!
Wu Feng: "Aren't you from the East District?"
Since they were old friends, the two teams were no longer so hostile and simply got together to start working. There were so many zombies here anyway, so there was no need to worry about not having enough to share.
Wu Feng followed Ji Tianyuan to a spot, knocked on the steel plate to make noise, and lured a few zombies over. He asked, "Are you working exclusively for Boss Xie now?"
Ji Tianyuan: "...I guess so. You guys in the West District haven't heard about what happened in the East District yet?"
"What's going on? I just cleaned out a wave of alien plants a couple of days ago. I was so tired that I might not have noticed."
"It's not something I can't tell you..." Ji Tianyuan then told him about Han Xiu and sneered, "Lang Hao is dead too. The East District should have a new leader soon. I hope he won't be so stupid."
"Why don't you try to fight for it?"
Ji Tianyuan thought about the brothers who had followed him at the beginning, and how they had all left. He said in a muffled voice, "I can't do the work of a big leader."
"Since you've left the East District, why not come to our—"
Before Wu Feng finished speaking, he heard a scream from not far away, followed by several people shouting, "Assemble!"
When the two looked towards the source of the sound, they saw a zombie with extremely fast movements biting off the neck of one of their teammates and tearing the protective suits of the two.
The zombie's muscles were bulging, his eyes were bulging, almost bursting his eye sockets, his nose had rotted into a black hole, the corners of his mouth were full of fresh blood, one of his hands was the size of two ordinary people's palms, and his nails were long and sharp like cold needles.
There was something wrong with this zombie, so Wu Feng immediately condensed a small metal arrow and stabbed it towards his eye socket - behind the eye socket was where the zombie's crystal core was located.
At the same time, several companions attacked the zombie, but the zombie dodged them one by one.
"They are too fast and the zombies are too strong. Don't fight any longer and retreat first!" Ji Tianyuan said loudly.
The sound attracted the zombie, which tore apart the two humans beside it, leaving several bloody marks with its sharp claws, and rushed straight towards him.
"careful!"
Ji Tianyuan reacted quickly and dodged to the side, but the next second the zombie twisted its body and reached out to him, with its sharp claws glowing with cold light right in front of him.
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