Chapter 15
The old lady’s name is Zhang Dongxuan, and she usually lives alone.
Her children would visit her every few days, and each time they would bring some vegetables, fruits, rice, flour, grain, oil and other daily necessities.
However, the old lady could not eat so much by herself, so she asked her children not to send it to her, but the children insisted, and the stockpile at home became more and more.
In fact, the children wanted to bring the elderly to live with them, but the old lady had familiar neighbors here. She could walk downstairs for a quarter of an hour to her own vegetable garden. Her daily pace of life was slow, but also fulfilling and comfortable.
The old lady usually drinks tap water. Her children think the water contains a lot of impurities, so they order 15-liter bottled water online and have it delivered to their home.
As fate would have it, the end of the world arrived and the old lady had four barrels of unopened water in her house.
Other neighbors either fled, died, or were attacked by zombies. Only she managed to survive more than two difficult months in such a hot environment.
However, when Fu Erdie searched to the 24th floor, she had already drunk all the water. She had been thirsty at home for three whole days and felt dizzy.
Fu Erdie heard the noises in her house and thought she was watching and lying in wait. In fact, she was just struggling to move, taking a step and resting, and slowly walking towards the door.
After using the last of her strength to "shout" those words to Erdie and open the door, she fainted at the door.
This is the scene that Fu Erdie saw when he came back.
At this time, Fu Erdie was sitting in the old lady's house. After listening to what she said, she completely let down her guard.
"I want to discuss something with you. If you are willing to take the risk and help me watch the surveillance on the second floor, I can provide you with the food and water you need every day. In addition, I can also take care of the cleaning of your home."
The old lady was stunned for a moment, and it took her a while to react. She was a little bit unbelievable, but couldn't help but look at Fu Erdie with hope.
The old lady almost burst into tears when she received an affirmative nod from the other side.
"Yes, of course I am willing... I am embarrassed to ask you for so much water and fruit. I won't survive after eating here. Isn't it just living on the second floor? There is nothing wrong with that. At this point, if I have some water to drink and some fresh fruit to eat, I will earn every day I live."
Fu Erdie was afraid that the old lady was not aware of the danger, so she carefully explained the current situation.
"I will put surveillance cameras on the stairs and corridors on the first and second floors. You need to choose a room on the second floor and live there for a long time. When you have nothing to do, you should watch the surveillance cameras in different areas where your phone's Bluetooth can receive it. Your room will have electricity and you can use a fan, but for safety reasons, you cannot use particularly bright lights at night. You can only use a small flashlight when necessary."
"The zombies in this building have been cleared, but there may be zombies coming in from outside at any time. I left the dog on the second floor. If something happens, you can make noise or directly deal with ordinary zombies that are not numerous. Once there are too many zombies, you will be in great danger, mother-in-law, and you may even die on the spot."
The little old lady shook her head: "It's already good. I'm prepared, don't worry, sister, if something happens, don't feel guilty."
Fu Erdie looked into her eyes, confirmed her determination, and began to help the old lady move.
The old lady was not in good health, so Fu Erdie asked her to pile up the things she needed to move and then go directly to the second floor to choose a house. She would do the rest.
Three months ago, she certainly could not have imagined that she would be able to carry things by walking from the 24th floor to the 1st floor, back and forth.
But now, not only did she do it, she did it with ease.
After moving to the new house, Fu Erdie taught the old lady how to use her mobile phone to watch the surveillance and how to use the walkie-talkie to make remote calls. As long as there is an abnormality in the surveillance, the old lady can immediately contact her with the walkie-talkie.
"This pot of succulents should be placed next to the toilet in the bathroom." Fu Erdie showed it to the old lady and then put the succulents into the toilet.
"It's a mutant plant. It will slowly take root and release a substance that can corrode and dissolve garbage, absorbing the garbage as energy. It can be responsible for the cleanliness of the toilet. When it grows up, it can also be responsible for the cleanliness of the house."
Succulent nodded slowly.
The thick roots slowly emerged from the soil and waved in the air.
The little old lady was a little scared and her heart was pounding.
It really shocked my three views.
After finishing all these, Fu Erdie's life entered a period of normality.
You don’t have to worry about your home every day, as the house will take care of the flowers, plants and crops inside.
Outside, Fu Erdie had planted mutant plants on several floors, which needed to be watered on time.
The millet on 16-7 had grown into ears of grain. Fu Erdie didn’t know what to do with them, so she took them back and gave them to the almighty green ivy.
The green ivy found it troublesome, so I threw it to my little brother, the spider plant.
The spider plant is not as big as the green ivy now, but after digesting several floors of garbage, it is almost as tall as the bushes.
I don’t know if it’s because it often goes out with Fu Erdie, but both it and the gardenia can flexibly retract their huge root systems, curl up in a small box, and complete daily tasks with Fu Erdie.
And because the spider plant itself is very slender, it can reach a greater distance when moving, and its leaves and roots are more flexible. It is not difficult for it to push aside the ears of grain, eat the husks, and leave the grain.
The dandelions and cabbages on the 24th floor have also matured. The dandelions have begun to spread their seeds when the wind blows, which has become a landscape on the 24th floor.
Fu Erdie went up and down the stairs at least once a day to inspect all the mutated plants, understand the condition of the old lady, and check the connections of a long string of power strips.
At the same time, she would record the condition of her mutated house and the condition outside her building every day.
There are 12 buildings in the community, and Fu Erdie is in Building 7. There are still a large number of zombies in the surrounding residential buildings.
Ordinary zombies are nothing to be afraid of. What Fu Erdie needs to observe is whether there are survivors, people with special abilities, or more powerful mutated zombies in these buildings.
She has basically confirmed that the zombies she encountered on the first day of the apocalypse were zombies with speed abilities.
Later, when her house began to mutate, Fu Erdie suspected it was related to the mutant zombie that was crushed to death by the door.
When she was cleaning the door and closing it, she heard a crackling sound. Based on her years of novel reading experience, it might be that the superpowered zombie had a crystal core in its brain, which exploded when it was killed, and by some strange coincidence, it caused her house to be crushed and absorbed, causing it to mutate.
The mutants who invaded later should have something similar to the crystal core. After being absorbed by the house and the green radish, both of them have evolved greatly.
So the question is, now in City C, or not going that far, just in this community, are there other people with special powers or zombies with special powers?
If so, as Fu Erdie's house, green radish, dog, and herself are getting stronger, will the enemy also become stronger? Should she hope that these superpowered zombies and superpowered people will never find her, or should she join the battle and upgrade herself? If she chooses the latter, what is her capital for fighting and upgrading? Houses and green plants have defensive capabilities, but they are not aggressive. Moreover, they are also independent individuals, not the kind of existence that Fu Erdie can put away at any time. Objectively existing things are treasures that anyone can covet and rob.
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Fu Erdie herself is not strong, everything is fleeting.
She didn't know when she had gotten rid of the state of living a life of idleness and waiting for death at the beginning of the apocalypse.
Maybe if that invading superpower hadn't appeared, she wouldn't have changed. But with that person and fear, she couldn't just sit still and move.
She used a telescope she found to observe and record the situation around her every day, as well as various data about the zombies.
From settling down in mid-August to the end of August, Fu Erdie confirmed three things.
First, the highest temperature in August was close to 50 degrees, but now it has dropped slightly to around 41 degrees.
Every time the temperature drops, more zombies will come out. When it was hottest, there was only one zombie wandering around outside, but now there are more than a dozen zombies wandering around outside.
Second, she found a zombie with the ability to move quickly. This zombie walked much more flexibly than other zombies, and at first glance it looked like a normal person. When it heard certain noises, it thought they were made by humans, and would immediately rush over to see. This speed was much faster than the old zombie that she encountered on the first day of the apocalypse.
Third, as the temperature dropped a little, City C welcomed a new wave of exodus.
If the initial escape involved all kinds of panic and confusion, then the escape now seemed to be much more well-prepared.
These cars have more or less installed protective nets around them. Those without protective nets have been roughly covered with wooden bars, leaving only an opening or simply a skylight for people to enter and exit.
These cars are filled with things except for people. Various luggage and supplies are tied to the roofs, and everything that can be carried is taken away.
Fu Erdie believes that it is right for these people to flee now.
The hotter the weather, the more likely it is to get a tire blowout while driving.
Although there is still a risk of tire blowout, it is a risk we can afford. Otherwise, after a few days, when the temperature drops below 40 degrees, there will be more and more zombies outside. Not long after the vehicle is out, it will be surrounded by zombies.
Fu Erdie sighed when she thought of her grandmother who had gone somewhere unknown, Zhao Xiaolu, and her parents who rented a small villa.
She herself also needs to deal with the speed zombies while the temperature is still high.
Yes, relying on her, a person without super powers.
Compared to before the apocalypse, she is much stronger.
The house promotes the positive mutation of "environmentally friendly green plants" and crops, while also strengthening the bodies of Fu Erdie and the dog.
She lets the dog go home for at least two hours of lunch break every day so that he can get enough rest and also wait for the house to be optimized.
Now, the dog is as ferocious as a wolf, and Fu Erdie's strength and speed have also increased a lot.
Her muscles are tight and slender, wrapped around her bones, and she can burst out with powerful strength when needed.
And this is her confidence in dealing with the speed zombies in the community.
This time, she wanted to evaluate her own combat capability and that of the superpowered zombies, determine whether the superpowered zombies had crystal cores, and by the way, try to possess superpowers again.
If this doesn't work this time, she will completely give up her superpowers and accept the fact that she will always be just an ordinary person and cannot mutate.
(End of this chapter)