Chapter 1

Fu Erdie was drawing on the board, and only when the details of the final draft were finalized did she realize that a day had passed.

The white T-shirt was already wet with sweat and stuck sticky to her back. Fu Erdie came to her senses and rushed to the bathroom to take a shower.

It's just June now, so it shouldn't be so hot. It's quite comfortable to work with a fan on.

But after painting all afternoon, she came out of her painting state and found that it was a bit too hot. Looking at the temperature display on the purifier, it was already 30 degrees, five degrees higher than at noon.

Fu Erdie didn't think much about it. She took a shower, cooked and ate, heated up the chicken breast that the dog didn't finish yesterday, and took the dog out shopping.

City C is a second-tier city with a not-so-fast pace.

With the support of her parents and grandmother, Fu Erdie has a small two-bedroom, one-living-room house. Although it is an hour or two bus ride from the city center, it can be reached in half an hour by taxi, so it is not remote. When she goes out to walk the dog, she can find it very lively everywhere.

But the weather is hot today, so not many people are taking a walk after dinner.

Fu Erdie was walking slowly with the dog, but after less than ten minutes, she began to feel a little uncomfortable due to the heat.

I checked the weather information and saw that the outdoor temperature was 32 degrees. And even though it was hot, it was drizzling for some reason.

After the dog had solved the problem of dog food reincarnation, Fu Erdie took the dog home. As soon as I got home and turned on the air conditioner, I felt a little better.

The group message alert sounded, and the small group was complaining about the temperature.

Zhao Xiaolu: "I wore long sleeves in the morning and almost fainted from the heat after get off work!"

Cen Xiyang: "[Smiles] I haven't finished get off work yet. By the time I get off work, it should be dark and the temperature will drop."

Zhao Xiaolu: Hahahaha.jpg Cen Xiyang: [smile][smile][smile] Seeing this, Fu Erdie also started laughing.

The three of them grew up together and went to elementary and junior high school together.

More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the three of them have become close friends.

Fu Erdie mixed the hot chicken breast with rice and fed it to the dog, and then took a bath.

She likes to listen to music while taking a bath. She connects it to the bathroom speakers, and the sound of water makes the music very loud.

Fu Erdie vaguely heard a dog outside growling threateningly in a low voice, but she didn't take it seriously and hummed along with the speakers.

But suddenly, she heard a series of noises coming from the road outside, like the harsh sound of tires rubbing against each other when a car braked suddenly.

Fu Erdie paused in her singing and continued to lather her hair.

Bang! The shampoo bottle slipped and the 1000ml bottle fell to the ground, making a startling noise. The dog also started barking crazily.

Fu Erdie wiped the water and bubbles from her eyes, and while picking up the bottle, she comforted the dog: "It's okay, it's okay, something fell, don't bark, ah."

Although it was nothing serious, Fu Erdie still felt inexplicably nervous. She quickly washed the bubbles off her head, put on her nightgown, wrapped herself in an absorbent headscarf, and came out of the bathroom.

The dog stopped barking.

But he continued to make guttural sounds and paced around the house anxiously, and it was unclear what he was threatening.

Fu Erdie touched the dog's head: "What's wrong?"

The dog stopped growling, rubbed against Fu Erdie's hand somewhat aggrievedly, and then whined softly at the air.

Fu Erdie: "It's okay, it's okay, be good."

Although she said this, Fu Erdie actually felt very strange.

She picked up the dog two years ago when she just graduated from college. It was a very ordinary little dog abandoned on the roadside, black in color and skinny.

The merchant next door said that the little dog had been abandoned here for several days.

Its original owner lied to it and asked it to wait here, saying, "I'll pick you up after buying some things at the supermarket."

The dog was very well behaved. It seemed to understand what its original owner was saying and sat there motionless.

But the man did not go to the supermarket. Instead, he turned a corner and ran away out of the dog's sight.

"The dog must have noticed it," the shop owner sighed. "It stood up and ran a few steps in the direction of its original owner, but when it saw the original owner running away, it didn't chase after him. I don't know if it was waiting for the owner to come back, or if it knew it was abandoned and watched the owner leave from afar."

She sighed again: "Poor thing, he hasn't been going anywhere these days, just waiting here, occasionally picking up some garbage to eat."

Fu Erdie couldn't bear to hear this and immediately took the dog home.

It takes two years to raise a pet.

In the past two years, Fu Erdie has been drawing illustrations at home full-time, and Gou Zi has always been with her.

It is very obedient and never barks unless someone approaches the door. This is the first time it barks at the air.

After thinking about it, Fu Erdie also walked around the house, inspecting everywhere.

There was nothing unusual, no rats or cockroaches.

"Maybe he was scared by the shampoo bottle?" Fu Erdie thought uncertainly.

The cell phone suddenly rang. It was Zhao Xiaolu calling.

"Hello?" Before Fu Erdie could say anything, she heard a commotion over there, followed by Zhao Xiaolu's rough and panicked voice.

"Zombies! There are zombies outside!!!"

Fu Erdie subconsciously asked her to calm down, but instinctively rushed to the balcony and looked outside.

Fu Erdie lives on the 16th floor, with a balcony facing the highway. This road is just a side road, not a main road, and there are not many vehicles passing by. But now, for some reason, many cars are heading uphill on the side road, and at a very fast speed, as if they are fleeing from something.

Fu Erdie stuck her head out and looked in the direction of the traffic.

When I looked up, I saw a car that had been in an accident and was smoking on the side of the road.

With a start, Fu Erdie suddenly realized that the sound of the shampoo bottle falling just now could not have been that loud.

It's the sound of a car accident outside!

Fu Erdie's house has good sound insulation, and the doors and windows are closed because of the air conditioning. When she opened the window, screams, exclamations, honking... and many other noisy sounds from outside poured in, making her head buzz.

A car accident can't be so noisy.

So, it's really a zombie? No, it's unlikely...? "Zhao Xiaolu, where are you now!"

Fu Erdie heard the hurried running sound and knew that she didn't have time to explain too much. The call came in a hurry, and it must be for help.

Thinking about where she worked, it was an industrial park three stops away from where Fu Erdie was. She should have gotten off halfway and was now coming to her residence.

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Zhao Xiaolu: “In… huh…” She was a little out of breath and said reluctantly: “It’s half an hour away from your house. I’ll run as fast as I can!”

Fu Erdie immediately said: "I'll come pick you up!"

"What the hell are you doing? You're a worthless jerk, and you dare pick me up!" Zhao Xiaolu cursed, "I'll be at your house soon, and you'll open the door when I call your name. Don't open the door when someone knocks, do you hear me?"

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Fu Erdie felt very nervous when she heard the busy tone.

The neighborhood she lives in is a fully occupied neighborhood. Many people are on their way home from get off work and haven't gotten home yet, so there aren't as many people as at night. But there are many elderly people in the neighborhood. The fact that there were fewer people out for a walk today doesn't mean that fewer people came out to see what was going on after the accident.

The elderly are especially worried and may come out to check out the situation as soon as they hear about a car accident. There are definitely more people coming now than before!

If zombies really exist, and they are spreading in large numbers now, can Zhao Xiaolu successfully get home through so many people?

Fu Erdie couldn't figure out what was going on on the balcony. After thinking for a long time, he picked up the hammer used to loosen the soil beside the flower bed in one hand and his cell phone in the other and rushed downstairs.

While running, I hurriedly called my grandmother in the city center.

busy tone.

Unable to get through.

She also sent text messages and WeChat messages to her parents who lived away from home.

The little gray circle kept spinning and spinning until it turned into an exclamation mark that couldn't be uttered.

She then called Cen Xiyang, as well as her aunt, uncle, and uncle's family.

She lived on the 16th floor and was afraid something might happen to the elevator so she didn't dare take it and just took the stairs.

But just after going down two floors, I was confronted by an old man with a pale face.

His pupils were cloudy, the whites of his eyes were unclear, and his walking posture was very strange, as if his joints were dislocated and he was bouncing back and forth. But when he saw her, the old man immediately rushed over in this awkward posture, so fast that he looked like a middle-aged man! Fu Erdie turned around and ran upstairs desperately.

There are two stairwells in this building. Realizing that he was not as fast as the old man, Fu Erdie went up this staircase in twists and turns. When the old man pounced on him, he turned and rushed to another staircase to continue going upstairs. He relied on a flexible route to barely increase the distance and returned to the residence at 16-1.

She took out the key, but in her haste she made a mistake and couldn't get it in.

I finally managed to insert it in, but the lock core, which was a little rusty inside, was causing trouble and I couldn't turn it!

The zombie old man went up to the 16th floor, and the sound of his running echoed in the corridor, each sound was a symbol of death.

Fu Erdie turned the key hard, the veins on his wrist bulged, and the keys made a tinkling sound as they collided.

The old zombie turned the corner and finally found Fu Erdie and pounced on her instantly.

Click.

The door is unlocked.

Fu Erdie pulled hard, and the heavy security door opened wide between herself and the old man, and there was a dull bang after the impact.

Fu Erdie hid behind the door outside the house, with a fire hydrant behind him. His waist hit the bottom edge of the fire hydrant hard, almost dislocating it.

The dog, who had been barking at home, finally found an opportunity to rush out and bit the zombie old man's ankle.

Just when he was about to bite, the old man kicked him away, and he fell onto the security door diagonally opposite 16-1 and fell to the ground with a bang.

The dog's whimpering made Fu Erdie's eyes red. She grasped the door handle fiercely, and while the old man was gathering strength to charge at her again, she slammed the zombie old man against the door frame and pressed hard.

It was not known whether it was luck or misfortune that the door frame just happened to press down on the zombie old man's head. The skull made a tooth-grinding sound of breaking, and blood and brain matter flowed all over the floor.

Fu Erdie was frightened and felt sick, and wanted to let go.

But he was also afraid that if he let go, the old zombie might not be dead yet and might pounce on him again.

But she was more afraid that this was not a zombie, and things were not as bad as she thought, but she had killed someone by accident.

Her hand holding the phone trembled slightly. Finally, she made up her mind and let the motionless old zombie fall to the ground. She picked up the dog and rushed into the house, closing the door and locking the security chain in one go.

(End of this chapter)