After leaving the shop, Wei Xuan didn’t take the terrifyingly huge deer antler with him. He had other things to do besides coming to this place. He needed to talk to those two people and then visit a larger bookstore.
As for the antler… he decided to deal with it after finishing the other tasks.
However, he did manage to pack all the energy conversion devices into the backpacks. Thanks to the help from those two lunatics, Wei Xuan obtained eight of them. Though he didn’t read the content in their notebooks too carefully, he vaguely remembered that they mentioned finding several more of these devices during their visit to the villa base.
Once they left the shop, Wei Xuan had Du Hang fly them straight to the technology building where those two lived, but once again, he couldn’t find them.
Standing in their building’s corridor, Wei Xuan opened the notebook and carefully searched through the last few pages. In one of their notebooks, he found a mention of the problem they encountered while bringing back the large and unwieldy items from the villa base. They managed to obtain a strange vehicle that could travel on difficult terrains, and that’s how they brought back the deer antler.
The only problem with this vehicle was that it was slow and consumed a lot of fuel. So, they made an agreement with the people at the villa base to transport all the items they found, along with Wei Xuan’s devices, to a nearby shopping mall on the outskirts of the city (reportedly with better road conditions). The villa base would then send a vehicle to pick up the items from there.
However, they still needed the help of those two guys to keep some of the mutated animals around the villa base occupied and preferably not attract too many zombies near the temporary transfer point at the mall.
So, at the moment, those two guys were most likely busy coordinating with others on this matter.
With a rough understanding of their situation, Wei Xuan temporarily dispelled his worries and left the building with Du Hang. He was glad that he didn’t confront those two and hadn’t disclosed too much about himself.
Otherwise, if he had to help them out this time… his weak combat strength couldn’t even handle a battle with a mutant animal, let alone deal with zombies. He would have surely exposed himself!
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After leaving the technology building, Wei Xuan directly headed towards the city center with Du Hang. There was a relatively large bookstore there, close to where Wei Xuan had found a bunch of seed shops just last year. If he couldn’t find the books he needed there, he could search in the southeast area of the city, where a massive bookstore existed even before the apocalypse.
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So even though he failed to find those two again and got startled by the huge deer antler, when he reached the bookstore, he easily found the relevant books on architecture.
This bookstore was located on a bustling street in the very heart of T City. No matter which direction one entered the city from, it would take quite a distance to reach this place.
Moreover, being situated in such a prime location, the area was teeming with a large number of roaming zombies. As a result, after the apocalypse, very few people could survive and make their way to this area, except for those who had been living here from the beginning, or rare individuals like Wei Xuan, who could stroll around and visit bookstores even after the apocalypse.
Wei Xuan wandered around the architecture section for a while before slapping his forehead and hurriedly started searching for books related to traditional Chinese medicine. He figured that information about deer antlers would probably be found in books on herbal medicine, as it seemed unlikely to be listed in any cookbooks.
“Too bad, I can’t access the internet now…” Wei Xuan sighed as he flipped through the pages filled with various unfamiliar names of medicinal herbs.
He couldn’t help but appreciate the convenience of the internet in the pre-apocalypse world. If he had any questions, he could just look them up online and get immediate answers, much faster than browsing through physical books one by one.
“Oh right, I need to find some cookbooks too, I still have a bunch of mushrooms at home.” In the middle of flipping through the books, Wei Xuan suddenly remembered this and shifted his gaze toward a nearby shelf that contained a more extensive collection of cookbooks.
While searching, Wei Xuan found that most of the traditional Chinese medicine books were organized based on different ailments, so even though he found some information about deer antlers, he only knew that it could indeed be consumed, but its specific effects left him feeling speechless.
Closing the book, he looked over to Du Hang, who had been obediently following him like a living wall decoration. When he met Du Hang’s gaze, he immediately launched a “kiss” signal, prompting Wei Xuan to lean over for a kiss.
With his eyes closed during the kiss, Wei Xuan’s mind wandered a little. He couldn’t help but wonder if feeding deer antlers to zombies would also have the same effect of improving certain aspects… Ahem, well, he had a problem in mind regarding his boyfriend, but Wei Xuan quickly discarded the unwholesome thoughts.
He had been thinking of burning the huge antler as soon as they brought it back to their community to avoid any trouble, but now he was genuinely considering grinding it into powder and making a deer antler porridge for his beloved.
His mind filled with these somewhat unhealthy thoughts, Wei Xuan’s eyes flickered with a touch of guilt and a little anticipation. So, after a small excitement, he quickly gathered the Chinese medicine books and cookbooks that he might need, stuffing them all into their backpacks. Then he eagerly waited for nightfall to return to the shop, planning to find a way to bring back that massive deer antler!
Although his mind was somewhat preoccupied with those thoughts, Wei Xuan wasn’t truly clouded by them. When he remembered that there were other things he needed to find, he shook his head and refocused. He thought of the thermometer and the body temperature monitor he wanted to locate.
Finding a body temperature monitor wasn’t too difficult, one could find plenty of them in any small hospital or clinic. Even before the apocalypse, he had come across them in hospitals, and he was sure there must be some at home or in the residential area. However, with so many random items lying around, Wei Xuan didn’t remember where he had carelessly placed the less important items.
Now, when he recalled that he needed to find a thermometer, Wei Xuan promptly brought Du Hang to a nearby stationery store, also an old store located on the same street, and after searching around, he indeed found an indoor thermometer.
Looking at the thermometer in his hand, Wei Xuan’s expression dimmed slightly.
“Indoor temperature is around 28…” He couldn’t believe he didn’t find it too hot. Was it because his body had improved due to his abilities, or was there something wrong with his health?
However, the stationery store only had an indoor thermometer at the moment, and he would have to check a small clinic on their way back for a medical-grade one.
“Let’s take a rest for now and leave when it gets dark.” Putting aside the uncertainties for the time being, Wei Xuan glanced around and headed straight to a nearby large shopping mall with Du Hang. There, they found a counter selling bedding supplies and the largest and softest sample beds. Embracing Du Hang’s waist, Wei Xuan laid down and took a nap.
They slept until the night grew dark, and then both Wei Xuan and Du Hang woke up. After a quick meal of convenience food, Du Hang carried Wei Xuan in his arms and flew toward the direction of the deer antler.
Compared to going from his residential area to the vicinity of the technology building, going from the city center was much closer. In no time, they arrived at their destination.
This time, before entering the store, Wei Xuan specifically had Du Hang carry him to pass by the technology building. All the windows of the building were pitch-black, indicating that those two guys hadn’t returned yet. Since that was the case, there was no need for him to climb the building again. Wei Xuan pointed in the direction and had Du Hang fly straight to the store.
During the day, Wei Xuan had written down a reminder to the two guys about the possibility of zombies climbing buildings in another notebook. This time, he replaced his previous notebook with this one. The cover was also labeled with “Potato.”
However, standing on the second floor, which had very limited space, Wei Xuan knocked the huge deer antler with his hand and looked at Du Hang with a worried expression. “Can you carry it while holding me?”
Du Hang remained silent, probably because he didn’t understand Wei Xuan’s intention, which made Wei Xuan sigh again. How could they carry this massive antler all the way back?
It was impossible for Wei Xuan to drag it all the way himself. Even those two had used a modified vehicle from the villa to transport it. Moreover, with such a large size, it was questionable if Du Hang could carry it alone.
Wei Xuan lamented, “Well, it seems like I’ll have to come back later with the others to bring it home.”
He didn’t want others to know that he would not be attacked by zombies or that he could lead other zombies. But now… perhaps he should just come back with a chainsaw and cut it into sections to take a piece home every time he came here.
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I can’t believe that he thinks 28 degrees Celsius is hot 😭😭😭😭 where I’m from thats just normal if not cool (tbf humidity likes to mess around tho)
Yeahhhh right? If it goes down to 28C during winter here I’d already be thankful it didn’t stay in the 30s 🥲
i think in china it’s quite humid so 28° is hot. i live in the uk and 28 is horrible here
The problem with really large presents…. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
i had to google the celsius, but damn that like 80f, so like, warm? Where i live, we recently had a day that got up to 107f, so like aprox 42c? And that’s excluding the ‘humidity is making it feel like X’ lol
In my place, 28°C is really hot, and 34°C is temperature maximum in my city in whole history…
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