Chapter 192 How Should I Survive (1)
dusk
A young man in tattered clothes and with a dirty face stood at the entrance of a street, his eyes wandering as he looked inside the street.
It was a relatively intact street. There were some potholes on the cement road surface, but no one filled them up or maintained them. The walls of the low houses on both sides were mottled and peeling.
At the doorways of those houses stood men and women, young or middle-aged, with ingratiating but tired smiles on their faces. They looked at the passers-by coming in, and then stood at their own doorways, teasing and trying to pull people in.
"Why, do you want to go in?" A hoarse male voice suddenly sounded in the young man's ear, scaring him so much that he shivered.
"No, no..." The young man stepped back hurriedly.
"Let's go and have some fun. It's not expensive. The cheapest ones only cost a wheat cake." The owner of the hoarse male voice was a short and fat man with a pair of small eyes on his fat face. He looked up and down at the young man.
"I, I'll just take a look..." The young man said and ran out in a hurry. Even if he accidentally fell, he would get up and run away hurriedly, as if there was a ghost chasing him.
"Bah, poor bastard!" The short and fat man spat at the fleeing young man.
"Hey, boss, I think that guy is quite good-looking. Why don't we catch him?" A man as thin as a stick came over and whispered, rubbing his hands.
"Tsk! I only accept volunteers here." The short and fat man said loudly, attracting the attention of passers-by. "I, Fatty Liu, am kind-hearted. If anyone can't make a living in the city, you can come to me. I can't guarantee you enough food, but as long as you're willing to work, you can still survive."
"Oh, oh, Boss Liu is a kind-hearted man, a great kind-hearted person." The skinny man quickly applauded.
Some men and women who were close to the short and fat man and were soliciting customers cursed in their hearts.
What kind of good man is this? These men and women can't survive in the last days and can only sell their bodies. Their lives are already miserable. Every time they collect a wheat cake, Fatty Liu will break off half of it. After a hard day's work, they can barely survive by starving. They are all skinny, but Fatty Liu eats a lot.
But they didn't dare to escape. Not to mention the group of thugs hired by Fatty Liu, even without those thugs, they didn't dare to face the zombies outside.
They are a group of cowardly, incompetent and pathetic people. They are safe in the city, but to survive, they must obey orders. Those who do not have certain skills will be asked to face zombies directly.
They didn't have strong skills, nor the courage to face the zombies head-on. In the end, they could only end up in the outer city, barely surviving by selling their bodies.
The young man who ran out stumbled into the shantytown outside the city gate.
This is where all the ordinary people who are going to clear zombies and look for resources the next day stay.
The young man lifted the plastic cover of a shed and walked in. It was pitch black inside and he couldn't see his hand in front of him. He groped his way to the wooden bed and lay down on it.
"Ah Ning, where are you going again?" A middle-aged man's voice sounded faintly from the opposite side.
"Yes, I'm going to go and take a look, and then remind myself that I must not fall to that level." The young man Yang Ning curled up on the wooden bed, hugging his knees with his hands, as if only in this way could he give himself some comfort.
"Hmm!" The middle-aged man sighed softly, "If one can live a clean life, who would want to end up in such a filthy place?"
"This damn world!"
"Yes, how come the world has become like this!" Yang Ning closed his eyes, and the reasons for this world slowly emerged in his mind.
August 20th, three years ago
It was a day no different from any other day. People got up early to go to work or school.
People are walking on the street and shops are open. Although everyone's faces show fatigue from the hustle and bustle of life, they are generally happy and motivated.
Time slipped away slowly, and by ten o'clock, the sun was shining brightly just one second, but the next the whole sky was covered by a black curtain, so dark that you couldn't see your fingers.
People hurriedly turned on their cell phones and the lights in the store and looked up at the sky, only to see a pitch-black sky without a single cloud, let alone the sun that was originally high in the sky.
"Where did the sun go?"
"Why has the sun disappeared?" Some people who didn't understand shouted in panic.
"This is a total solar eclipse, don't be afraid." But there are also smart people who are guessing the reason.
"The observatory didn't announce any news about a total solar eclipse recently?"
"Oh, is the end of the world coming?" A smart guy joked.
"There's no such thing as the end of the world. I don't even realize how good the days are. I'm just imagining nonsense."
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There was a lot of noise and chatter, and people made all kinds of guesses, but people at that time never thought that this was the beginning of the end.
More than ten minutes after the darkness fell, people seemed to have adapted to the darkness. One moment they were discussing how long the solar eclipse would last, and the next moment they saw their relatives, friends, classmates, and colleagues collapse in front of them. Just as they were about to check the cause, they also fainted.
In less than half an hour, people all over the world fainted.
Cars on the road were involved in a series of accidents because the drivers fainted. Workers operating machines fell headfirst to the ground, or were unlucky enough to fall on the machines. There were even people flying airplanes and ships...
During the time when people around the world fainted, all kinds of machines that required human operation either stopped working or encountered various problems, such as car accidents, fires, plane crashes, and nuclear leaks...
Two days later, as the first human woke up, more and more people woke up, but after waking up, they found that everything had changed.
The originally peaceful and tranquil world became a place of disaster. The roads were filled with vehicles that had been smashed beyond recognition. A building in the east was on fire with billowing black smoke. In the houses in the west, there were cries of grief and pain.
People were panicking and wanted to know what had happened, but there was no time to ask or react. The classmates, colleagues, friends, and relatives who woke up with them suddenly turned into monsters foaming at the mouth.
They bared their teeth and pounced on their former friends and relatives, tearing off large chunks of flesh with one bite.
Zombies, which originally only existed in novels, movies and TV shows, have appeared in reality.
All order collapsed in an instant, and humanity began to struggle to survive.
Yang Ning sighed softly. Three years ago, he was still a junior student. He did not go to class that day and lay in the dormitory playing with his mobile phone. He did not notice the solar eclipse at all and fainted while playing. When he woke up, he found that the whole world had changed.
He also went from being an ordinary college student to a refugee.
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