Chapter 3

Fu Erdie's eyes were a little moist. After a long stalemate, she closed the door again when she saw zombies coming outside.

She couldn't bear to leave the dog. Let's stay at home together. What if they all turned into mutant dogs and mutant people?

That's it.

When closing the door, Fu Erdie heard the sound of some stone breaking.

I looked down and didn't see anything wrong.

"Maybe there are some body parts outside the door that haven't been cleaned up." Fu Erdie thought, and symbolically poured a little water towards the crack in the door, trying to clean it up.

Fu Erdie’s balcony is an inner balcony of eight or nine square meters, with walls on three sides and a window on one side.

She lay on the ground, letting the heat waves blow on her body, turning off the lights and air conditioning, and charging her cell phone with a long power strip next to her so that she could make calls and receive messages at any time and keep it fully charged at all times.

I felt tense and drowsy until nine o'clock in the evening.

The indoor temperature was 35 degrees. The dog next to me was so hot that he kept sticking out his tongue, but he didn't make any sound.

Fu Erdie got up from the ground.

She didn't mutate, she just felt hot. And she slowly came back to her senses from the state of being hot and irritable, even from having just killed someone.

She is home now and appears to be very safe.

I prepare a lot of buckets of water at home. When I lived alone at home before, I also had the habit of hoarding instant noodles. If I saved a little, I could eat them for a month.

Assuming the zombies outside can't get in, she can at least survive at home for a month and see if she can wait for rescue.

But the current mutation situation is unknown, and the zombie virus will not shy away from you just because of your identity. Ordinary people may become zombies, and so may police officers...

Moreover, many people will go to the police station to seek shelter when something happens. If someone comes in with the zombie virus and goes crazy and infects a large number of people, the situation will become more difficult and the rescue work will not be so smooth.

And if she stayed at home and waited for help, she might miss the first wave of escape. The next city was full of zombies, and she couldn't escape.

Looking at the messy room, Fu Erdie thought again and again, gritted her teeth, and decided to take her bicycle and go out to join her family, and see if she could find Zhao Xiaolu by the way.

My parents live in another city, one or two thousand kilometers away from City C, so they are not under consideration.

Grandma is her closest person, but it takes one or two hours to get there by bus. She can’t drive, and she doesn’t know when she can ride a bicycle to get there.

The family member nearby was her uncle, who usually walked there in 40 minutes, but riding a bicycle was faster, so I wonder if he could get there in 20 minutes. Her uncle's family had a car, so maybe they could take her with them to escape.

In fact, her younger uncle's family is closer to her, but not as close as her eldest uncle's, so she prefers to ask her eldest uncle's family for help.

She packed a bag, picked up a hammer, opened the door and rushed out angrily.

As soon as I took a step, I met the eyes of the neighbor who was wandering in the corridor...! At that moment, the neighbor's chaotic eyes seemed to glow, like a lion seeing fresh meat, and pounced on him.

He closed the door, locked it, put on the chain, and pushed the table, all in one go, leaving the zombies banging on the door outside but unable to get in.

Five minutes later, the zombies changed their target and walked away, one heavy and one light.

Fu Erdie breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly discovered a problem.

The door of my house opens outwards.

Damn, she is standing inside against the door, feeling lonely!

I was scared and angry, and finally I laughed at myself.

She slowly dragged the sofa and dining table back to their original places and continued to call her family and a few close friends.

Maybe she was extremely lucky, as she kept pressing the buttons and finally got through to her uncle on the phone which had no signal.

Her eyes lit up: "Uncle, are you okay now?"

It wasn't particularly noisy at my uncle's place. I could hear my aunt and cousin talking anxiously nearby, and the sound of highway horns, but there was nothing else.

The uncle said with some difficulty: "We are fine. We have already left Dongye District through Jiuhui Tunnel."

At that moment, the area around my uncle became quiet, and Fu Erdie also became quiet.

After a pause, the uncle explained: "We took this tunnel, which is not on the way to your place, so we didn't go there to look for you. You can go find your uncle and see if he can take you out. If not, hide at home and wait for rescue."

My cousin felt a little guilty on the other end: "I'm sorry. But the traffic on the road is complicated. We are close to the Jiuhui Tunnel. If we take a detour to your side, we will lose the advantage of grabbing the road. I'm really sorry. You should go find my uncle. He's on the way."

Fu Erdie opened her mouth and heard herself say, "It's okay, take care of yourself and have a safe journey."

The air conditioner was humming, but the breeze at 26 degrees was not cold.

She touched her arm and turned it up a degree.

Actually, it’s pretty good.

What the uncle said was right. It was indeed more circuitous for him to get here than for the younger uncle.

She scrolled through the call history on her phone and paused when she saw the number from her uncle that she hadn't called yet.

She understands.

Whether to take a detour or not does not affect their decision.

If picking someone up was as simple as parking the car downstairs and waiting for her to come down, then everything would be easy.

But the point is, parking is dangerous, and it is also dangerous for her to go downstairs. She can't even go downstairs, so she can only ask her uncle or uncle's family to pick her up. Is it necessary for them to take this risk? In other words, if her parents are at home now, they have to take a detour to find her cousin, and her father has to risk being scratched by zombies to go upstairs to save people, will she be willing?

Deep down, she was unwilling to do this. Dad was already over fifty, not a young and strong man, and couldn't stand the hardship.

Although her father would definitely save his nephews and nieces given his personality, as a daughter, she would definitely side with her father and selfishly didn't want him to take risks.

Then, did she still ask her uncle for help? After a pause, Fu Erdie dialed the number.

This time it took five minutes to finally get through.

My cousin answered the phone: "We have already left. Don't blame us for not looking for you. We just didn't dare to wait in your neighborhood!"

I could faintly hear my uncle's scolding on the other end of the phone.

The cousin yelled, "What else can we do? We don't even have time to collect our things, let alone find someone to rescue us!"

"Say it again, kid!"

“That’s how it is!”

The young aunt was the one driving, and she couldn't help but yell, "Stop making noise! ​​If you want to make noise, get out!"

My uncle took the opportunity to grab the phone and apologized, "Don't panic, kid. Just stay at home and wait for national rescue."

Fu Erdie was silent and sighed silently: "Actually, what I want to say is that you don't need to look for me. I have food and water at home, so you can stay here. Just take care of yourselves. Goodbye."

The phone was hung up.

Although she was well prepared and she did call to say goodbye to her uncle, she still had a glimmer of hope in her heart.

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She smiled bitterly and leaned weakly on the sofa.

In fact, if she could run away and find her uncle and uncle first, she might still have a chance.

But what did he do? First he was forced back by a zombie, then he stayed at home waiting for the illusory supernatural power. He didn't help Zhao Xiaolu, who still didn't know where she was, and he didn't dare to go out to fight zombies and look for his relatives.

Fu Erdie lowered her eyes, thinking about all sorts of things while calling other people.

Grandma lives with my aunt and cousin. My aunt has a car, so if they can leave, they can leave too.

It's fine for her to be here alone.

The dog whimpered and licked Fu Erdie's hand.

Fu Erdie smiled.

"And my lovely little Ink~" I couldn't get through to my grandma, and there was no news from my aunt or cousin.

Cen Xiyang, who was working the night shift, didn't know what was going on either.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhao Xiaolu is very likely to have been killed.

She glanced at the surveillance camera in the corridor and saw that the number of zombies had not decreased, but instead increased due to the number of people coming in and out.

She took inventory of her supplies.

First, instant noodles. She has two boxes of instant noodles, 24 bags in each box, a total of 48 bags. Instant noodles alone are enough for her to eat for a month.

There are some vegetables and fruits in the refrigerator. They must be eaten first in the next few days, otherwise they will go bad.

When I paid the property management fee for the community, I was given a bag of ten kilograms of rice. Together with the five kilograms of rice that I haven’t finished eating, I can eat for another two months.

But this is only in theory.

She only knows that rice needs to be cooked, and to cook rice, you need a rice cooker or natural gas. But in the future, there will inevitably be a water, electricity, and gas outage. What can you do with raw rice?

Fu Erdie had no clue.

Therefore, rice should be eaten early.

There are still a few jars of pickled vegetables at home that my mother made during the Spring Festival, so I think it won’t be too hard to eat with rice.

As for the dog, there are 20 kilograms of dog food, which can last for two months based on the dog's appetite.

Fu Erdie stroked the obedient dog and said, "We are going to live and die together."

The dog rubbed its head against her hand and cried.

After calculating the approximate date of his death, Fu Erdie felt calm.

But looking at the remaining fruits, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that had not been eaten for a long time and were about to sprout, she couldn't help it. She got up, turned on the balcony light, pried out the ornamental plants in the flower beds, and planted all the food.

Although, I will die in a month or two.

But what if?

What if you could grow a vegetable garden yourself?

She didn't know how to water and fertilize, and didn't even know if these things were planted in the soil, and now she couldn't find out on the Internet. But what if a blind cat stumbled upon a dead mouse and planted some?

For example, the kumquats, peppers, and onions on the balcony, which she had planted for fun before, were growing well. Reason told her that these small flower beds on the balcony could not support them.

But emotionally, her will to survive still made her do it.

As for the ornamental plants she dug out, she did not throw them away. Instead, she found a courier box, put a thin layer of soil in it, watered them, and then threw the plants on top.

Fu Erdie planned to hang these plants up and put them on the ground at the bottom of the building at dawn tomorrow, to give them a ride and let them fend for themselves.

After making her plans, Fu Erdie slept peacefully.

The air conditioner was working diligently and I had a dreamless night.

The next day, before dawn, at just five o'clock, Fu Erdie woke up.

She opened the balcony window and looked outside.

The chaos that has continued since last night has not yet subsided.

There were already three car accidents within sight. Cars were stuck on the road, making the already congested road even more congested.

(End of this chapter)