"I once had six teammates. Zhang Shui was a big brother, skilled in medicine, kind-hearted, and loved helping others. But ever since his beloved son disappeared, he's completely lost his mind. During one mission, he proactively confronted a zombie that looked like his son."
"Sun Fenfen was a quiet girl with excellent knife skills. She fell in love with a man, who betrayed her and sent her to sleep with another man. She then used the knife to cut the man she loved into pieces... She sought revenge on the man who had wronged him, but was killed."
"Huang Shan, our team's strongest man and mechanic, was proficient in both mechanical repair and vehicle driving, his driving skills reaching the pinnacle. He rescued us from zombie hordes many times. His parents were mauled to death by zombies, and he and his sister lived together at the base. But one day, he saw his sister's body, mauled to pieces by zombies, and he went completely mad."
"Su Yun..."
On the experimental table, Zheng Jingxiu, whose face was completely disfigured, was talking about the past to Zhou Chuchu, who was even worse off than her.
By then she had swelled up into a large tumor and only one eye was left on her face.
When she reminisced about the past, a smile of happiness and expectation appeared on her face that looked like no human, but the next second it became as terrifying as a demon.
"And me, I haven't told you my story yet, have I?"
"I have a daughter named Zheng Lili. She used to be a very cheerful and lively girl. But when the apocalypse came, I caught my husband cheating on me. He refused to admit it and swore and cursed, saying that if he lied, he would turn into a zombie. Suddenly, the apocalypse came, and he turned into a zombie..."
"It's okay for this jerk to turn into a zombie, but he actually wanted to eat my daughter. How could I let him do that? I hit him to death with an ashtray. My daughter witnessed the whole thing and was terrified. She became extremely timid and easily frightened by the slightest movement. A six-year-old child, but she's only the size of a three-year-old..."
"You know what? I'm filled with regret, heartache, and hatred. That bastard is dead, so what? He's causing me trouble even after death! But I hate myself even more. I couldn't protect her and let her suffer such a great trauma... I shouldn't have gone out that day. She even called me mom, but I didn't stay home with her. Damn it, damn it!"
"When I came back, I saw her... my daughter, only half of her body was left, soaking in the fish tank..."
"...The Zhang family said they could revive my daughter if I agreed to volunteer as their experimenter. I agreed. I couldn't refuse."
"Now, tell me, can my daughter... survive?"
Zheng Jingxiu looked at Zhou Chuchu expectantly with his one remaining eye, as if she could endure more pain as long as she said her daughter was alive.
But Zhou Chuchu knew very well that her daughter would not survive.
Because when she escaped in a frenzy, she found her daughter's body soaked in formalin.
So she told Zheng Jingxiu the truth. The poor woman was completely desperate and activated the bacterial spores in her body to cleanse the experimenter...
"Lily, it's Chinese New Year. Mom has brought Uncle Zhang, Brother Lei, Sister Sun and the others to visit you. Let's celebrate Chinese New Year together!"
"I have good news for you. There's a very powerful auntie joining Mom's team~"
Zheng Jingxiu shouted into the house in a cheerful tone.
Her house is actually not very big, only 20 square meters. The temperature inside is around zero degrees, which is one of the rare warm rooms in the base.
The room was quiet for a long time. Then a skinny little girl who looked only about three years old flashed by and hid under the bed.
No matter how much Zheng Jingxiu shouted, she would not come out.
"Excuse me, everyone. My daughter is very timid... How about this? You guys find a place to sit first while we prepare the food. Once everything is ready, I'll call the child out."
Zheng Jingxiu said apologetically, and everyone quickly waved their hands and said it was okay, and then they very consciously set the table and cleaned up.
Among the group, only Zhou Chuchu and Qin Zeyuan had nothing to do, with nothing in their hands.
But in reality, even with so many people, they didn't save much food.
There were absolutely no vegetables or fruits, let alone chicken, duck, or pork. The only surprise was a fish frozen on the lake.
The rest are rotten-smelling flour, old rice bitten by insects, and some high-temperature-resistant and anti-corruption technologies and hard work.
However, even this kind of food is not much.
Coal for cooking is also a precious commodity. Even if everyone saves together, they can't collect more than ten kilograms.
In this way, everyone's savings have been drained.
Looking at the food, Zhang Shui, the team doctor, sighed and said:
"I really miss life before the apocalypse. My mother, who was still alive, would always prepare a huge New Year's Eve dinner with chicken, duck, fish, and everything you could want. But now, what is there?"
His words resonated with everyone.
"Before the apocalypse, I cut out this and that to lose weight. I only ate one or two bites of the New Year's Eve dinner my mom carefully prepared, and she scolded me for having a small stomach. Now... now, even if a pig was placed in front of me, I would eat it. Unfortunately, there's no pig in front of me."
Sun Fenfen had tears in her eyes. They were willing to shorten their lifespan by ten years just to let her eat a meal cooked by her mother again.
"My parents passed away early, and my older sister raised me single-handedly. When we were little, our family was incredibly poor. To keep me healthy, my older sister went fishing every day. In the summer, her tiny body was covered in bites from mosquitoes and flies, and in the winter, her hands and feet were frozen red and rotten... During Chinese New Year, she grilled, steamed, and braised the dried fish she caught for me. I vowed then that I would repay her in the future!"
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