Chapter 39 collapsed
"Thump!"
"Smack!"
A sound came from Lin Xi's house. She swiftly flattened the small cucumbers that she had just picked that day, which had finally grown to maturity, and used a cleaver to scoop them up and put them in a bowl. She added soy sauce and aged vinegar, then picked a garlic clove from the small potted plant, peeled and chopped it, sprinkled it in, and stirred.
Today's lunch was smashed cucumber and hot and sour beef with potato noodles.
Smashed cucumber is the vegetable that has appeared most frequently on her table recently. Under normal circumstances, Lin Xi would have been tired of it long ago, but with the apocalypse and the water and electricity cut off for so long, she is already very satisfied to be able to eat fresh and delicious vegetables.
Many people died when the zombie outbreak first occurred, and many more have probably died since the water and power outages, just like Lin Xi in previous lives.
Yang Xin downstairs must have been at his wit's end, because he actually thought of taking a sledgehammer and smashing his ceiling, which is Lin Xi's floor.
Lin Xi knew that Yang Xin was alive, and Yang Xin also knew that Lin Xi was alive and well.
He had been eyeing Lin Xi's house and food for a while, and seeing that his food and water were about to run out, he had no choice but to try to find a way in Lin Xi's house. His plan was to dig a hole in the ground of Lin Xi's house and break in.
But it didn't work.
When Lin Xi was decorating, she asked Yu Shiyun to design a 360-degree "copper wall fortress" with no blind spots, and the ground was naturally reinforced.
Yang Xin knocked several times without success, and the noise attracted a bunch of zombies. Some of the more powerful zombies climbed up to the second floor through the security windows, and only then did Yang Xin stop.
But he's not dead yet.
Lin Xi remained calm at home, ignoring him and waiting for him to be dealt with naturally.
As Lin Xi picked up the green jade in the sauce with clean chopsticks and brought it to her mouth, she heard an alarm sound from the monitor screen.
The alarm at her front door was turned off; only the alarms on the balcony and at the entrance of the building were still on.
Lin Xi put down her chopsticks. Could it be that Yang Xin could climb out the door and go to her sunroom to cause trouble again?
However, even after seeing countless corpses and gore in the apocalypse, a glance at the surveillance footage still made my vision go black—
It was the alarm at the entrance of the building. There was a bloodied skeleton lying on the ground. The skeleton was small and short, obviously belonging to a child.
Almost all the meat was gone, leaving only fresh blood and some sparse tendons hanging on the blood-red bones.
This exposure to the air immediately released a heavy stench of blood, attracting a horde of zombies.
It's obvious what happened. Yang Xin's family didn't have much in terms of resources. Even if only Yang Xin and a child were left, they would have a hard time surviving. A heartless man like Yang Xin would naturally prioritize his own life.
Seeing that they couldn't survive, they treated the child as...
Lin Xi rubbed her forehead, her mind filled with the unpleasant things that had happened to Gu Lanjuan's family downstairs. Although they were not a good family, they would normally just do disgusting things and stir up gossip, but they had become like this under the pressure of the apocalypse.
They ate raw meat and drank blood, and killed people like flies.
The skeleton on the ground was quickly picked up by the zombies wandering nearby, leaving behind a pool of blood and a few pieces of bone.
Meanwhile, the sound of stir-frying came from room 201 on the screen.
The crackling of the oil in the pan, and the satisfying sizzle as food hit the oil, instantly reminded Lin Xi of Gu Lanjuan.
But the person cooking was definitely not Gu Lanjuan, and the food in the pot was not ordinary.
Just thinking about what was in the pot made Lin Xi gag.
She lost both her parents when she was 16. Although she was heartbroken, she was almost an adult and could take care of herself. She lived in the house left by her parents and relied on the compensation money and her parents' savings to complete the college entrance examination and finish university.
After graduating from university, I successfully entered a listed company in downtown Nanhua City. My income wasn't high, but it was more than enough to support myself, and I lived a comfortable life.
In summary, she hadn't experienced any hardship before the apocalypse; she was a sheltered flower.
When the apocalypse came, she was timid, had a poor mentality, lacked the ability to survive, and had no strong will to live. She just wanted to die easily and lie down peacefully.
I never thought I'd survive!
She could only try to survive. She didn't dare to be a hero in this chaotic world, nor did she have the ability to fight zombies. She just wanted to quietly stay at home and wait for the end of the world. But even this small wish was fulfilled after she died three times.
Even if she lives peacefully in her little house, she is not safe.
Listening to the loud commotion coming from room 201 on the monitor, and seeing the shadowy, writhing figures of Gu Lanjuan and her husband lurking at the door of room 201, Lin Xi suddenly covered her mouth and gagged.
I simply couldn't eat the refreshing and delicious cucumber salad on the table.
Lin Xi turned on the projector to play a comedy variety show, trying to dispel the depression and nausea in her heart.
The screen was moving, but the sound seemed unable to reach Lin Xi's ears. She couldn't hear it, so she took a can of chilled cocktail from the refrigerator and gulped it down.
The alcohol slowly surged into my brain, turning into tears that overflowed from my eyes.
Lin Xi wiped her eyes, finding it hard to understand why she was so negative today, and why nothing seemed to go right.
Neither zombies nor Yang Xin could threaten her safety, and she had a safe and comfortable living environment with enough supplies, so why was she so depressed?
She took out her phone.
She hadn't used her phone in a long time; most of her entertainment came from her tablet and projector. Her phone kept pushing updates on what was happening outside, with cities falling one after another and people facing an unprecedented biohazard crisis.
Meanwhile, personal posts on WeChat Moments or Big Eyes are mostly pleas for help and suicide notes, with the latter far outnumbering the former.
It's better not to turn on a phone like that.
But Lin Xi thought of someone, someone who was definitely still alive.
I opened the chat and sent a message: "Are you okay?"
A message quickly came back from the other end: ?
Then came another question: You're still alive?
The other party quickly retracted a message, replacing it with: Of course~
He also sent a heartwarming picture of a kitten napping on the balcony, along with the caption: "The sons are still alive too."
It's Gu Yixuan, Gu Yixuan who adores Versailles.
Lin Xi didn't reply to her. She knew that Gu Yixuan was most likely still alive, and that she was only talking to her to get some psychological comfort from talking to a living person.
Opening her contacts, Lin Xi realized that Lu Wei's previous friend request had expired. After hesitating for a long time, Lin Xi sent Lu Wei a friend request.
She regretted it as soon as she sent it.
Why would you send a friend request to the Grim Reaper?
But the friend request couldn't be withdrawn. Lin Xi couldn't help but comfort herself, thinking that since the power outage had lasted so long, Lu Wei's communication devices were probably out of power and therefore unable to receive her friend request.
With such a harsh living environment, a thought flashed through Lin Xi's mind—
Could Lu Wei have already...?
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Lu Wei's friend request was accepted 10 days later.
Lin Xi looked at the "typing in progress" message on the chat box with a mixture of surprise and delight, anticipating what Lu Wei would say to her.
“Bong!!!!!!!!”
The loud and noticeable explosion startled Lin Xi so much that she jumped up from the sofa.
What's wrong?
Is the news about this jinx about to explode?
Lin Xi saw a message from Lu Wei, just two or three lines. Before she could even read it properly, she felt incredibly hot, an unbearable heat. Then, another explosion came from downstairs. The sound and the tremor were so close, so very close…
Lin Xi had experienced dying in a building explosion.
It's not hard to guess that Yang Xin downstairs was trying to drag Gu Lanjuan down with him before he died. He couldn't bear to see her living well upstairs, so he used the gas and oil that Gu Lanjuan had stockpiled at home to create an explosion and fire.
The fortress of copper walls has collapsed.
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