After waking up, Wei Xuan’s stiff body gradually regained some normalcy. He wandered around the room for a while and finally found the solar panels on his own room’s balcony, along with the batteries connected to them.
When he saw the small light on the battery indicating it was fully charged, Wei Xuan felt the urge to tear up. Finally, he had some power.
He connected his phone and while it was recharging, Wei Xuan inspected some items in the room that didn’t fare well with extended storage. On the balcony, there were various pots and boxes containing vegetables and fruits he had been experimenting with.
He had assumed that after a long nap, the pots containing plants that hadn’t been watered or cared for would be left with dried plant remnants. However, now they weren’t just alive, they were flourishing.
“This is too vigorous…” Looking at the golden grains and various crops almost spilling out of the pots on the balcony, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but pause. The balcony, apart from the area occupied by the solar panel, was almost completely taken over by these crops.
The small pots and boxes clearly couldn’t handle the unrestrained growth of these plants. Some of them even looked top-heavy with their growth, with a few pots leaning over because the plants had grown too exuberantly on top.
These plants couldn’t be taken care of all at once. Wei Xuan, feeling his physical strength hadn’t fully recovered, had to settle for observing them from a distance and then went to check another area he was concerned about – the cultivation machine.
The cultivation machine was in the living room. Inside, the plants were growing just as rampant as the ones on the balcony. Many of the fruit-bearing plants had grown to the top of the cultivation space, with branches spreading horizontally to claim the remaining space.
“… Can they still be transplanted like this?” Wei Xuan continued to stand beside the cultivation machine in a somewhat puzzled manner.
There were quite a few fruit-bearing plants in it, and he had originally planted their seeds with the intention of letting them germinate and grow to a certain stage in there. Then, he had planned to transplant them into larger pots or even plant them in the yard when spring came. But now…
Du Hang, still obediently standing by Wei Xuan’s side, saw him continuously staring at the machine. He suddenly took a step forward and walked to the side of the machine. Opening a water inlet, he filled a ladle with water from a nearby box and poured it into the inlet.
Observing Du Hang’s action, Wei Xuan suddenly realized – Du Hang had probably been taking care of these plants in their home while he was asleep. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have grown so well.
Both the cultivation machine and the solar panels needed power. These two devices were connected not directly to the battery, but to the solar panels on the balcony, allowing them to work even if Wei Xuan was unconscious. Otherwise, even if Du Hang watered them every day, the plants probably wouldn’t have grown this well.
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Some things couldn’t be forced, and Wei Xuan just briefly regretted it before putting these matters aside for now. After all, he hadn’t even figured out his own current situation yet. Who knew if he could still eat now? Did it still make sense for him to grow these things?
After watering the plants, Du Hang went back to his large bucket for water, scooped some up, and drank it in large gulps. Wei Xuan didn’t expect that after watering the flowers, Du Hang would water himself. He walked to the bucket somewhat puzzled. The water in the bucket was clean, clear, and transparent, without any signs of impurities. It looked much better than his own home, which was covered in dust. However, the faint “fragrance” emanating from the water made Wei Xuan have a not-so-wonderful premonition.
“… Du Hang, is this the same water you gave me to drink just now?”
Du Hang tilted his head, looked at him, and then nodded.
Wei Xuan pointed at the water again and asked, “Is this the water from the strange snow?”
Du Hang seemed to think for a moment and then continued nodding.
So, it really was water from the strange snow…
Wei Xuan felt a bit emotional. He had indeed become a zombie, or perhaps a half-zombie? In the eyes of the zombies, this water was so enticing, so it was no wonder they opened their mouths to catch the snowflakes during snowfall. It also explained why they actively consumed condensed snowflakes… Wait a minute, snowflakes?
Wei Xuan seemed to realize something and widened his eyes with astonishment. He grabbed Du Hang’s hand and shook it a few times. “Did you collect this snowwater yourselves?!”
He had been asleep for nearly a year. Apart from the strange snowwater he collected and stored before falling into a coma, that snowwater should have been depleted long ago! Seeing the growth of the crops at home, Du Hang must have been watering them every day. So where did this snowwater come from? It definitely couldn’t be what he had collected himself!
Du Hang seemed to understand the concept of “collection.” He nodded again and pointed in the direction of the sky outside. “Three meals, three times.”
Was he saying they collected snowwater three times?
At this point, Wei Xuan could only guess at Du Hang’s meaning. Subsequently, his pupils contracted once again.
“You can talk?”
He hadn’t noticed it before, but Du Hang had been answering his questions verbally after he woke up a few times, not using brainwave messages like before!
Indeed, just like he was doing now, he was speaking to himself with his mouth, not using brainwaves as he did before falling asleep.
The various stimuli and changes after waking up were so significant that it took Wei Xuan a while to calm down from his excitement. He circled around Du Hang a couple of times, making sure there were no strange changes on him, and then he couldn’t help but let a smile appear on his face (yes, after relieving the stiffness in his body, he could control his expressions normally again).
The phone charged quickly. After inspecting various things in the room (except for the refrigerator, as he felt that opening his own fridge door might temporarily make the room inaccessible), the indicator light on the phone showed that it was fully charged.
He turned it on, opened the health testing app, and then endured the long wait for the results…
“About three minutes per heartbeat…” Looking at the data, Wei Xuan felt a bit melancholic and nostalgic. He wasn’t sure if he was sentimentally reminiscing about his previous human life, but after confirming that his heartbeat was indeed different from that of a normal person, a faint sadness welled up in him.
After that, he had Du Hang also use the device to test his heartbeat rate, while Wei Xuan took out a temperature measurement device to charge it.
Du Hang’s heartbeat was about every five to six minutes, slower than his. The temperature reading indicated that Wei Xuan’s body temperature was between 20 and 21 degrees Celsius. Du Hang’s temperature was a bit above 18 degrees, but not quite 19.
After a brief thought, Wei Xuan speculated that if Du Hang’s body temperature increased a bit more, his heartbeat might become similar to his. Of course, individual differences couldn’t be ruled out.
“Next, I’ll have to go down and test the temperature and heartbeat of the little brothers.” Wei Xuan roused his spirit and decided what he would do on the first day after waking up.
Opening the door, he walked slowly into the dusty corridor. The corridor was very quiet, almost devoid of any sound. When Wei Xuan and Du Hang walked to the entrance of the corridor, he noticed that after they had walked out together, the brainwaves of the zombie little brothers that were still in the “wake up” chorus suddenly paused for a moment. Then, he “heard” an overwhelming chorus of “they’re out, they’re out, they’re out…”
“…Alright, I’m out,” Wei Xuan said somewhat helplessly. He had no idea what strange personalities he had instilled in his zombie little brothers. In any case, they were completely different from all the zombies he had encountered outside. They were much more talkative, with an unusually cheerful “speaking” style. He really didn’t know how his composed self had ended up with such a group of jokesters.
After inwardly complaining about the zombie little brothers, before Wei Xuan could even start testing their heartbeats and temperatures, he noticed an extraordinary change…
The residential area was filled with all sorts of buckets, boxes, and pots of various sizes. Wei Xuan had already seen this from above before coming down, so it wasn’t surprising. However, he only realized the truth after he actually descended, all these pots and containers had something underneath them!
Almost every open space in the residential area was planted with various kinds of plants. At this moment, these spaces were stacked with all sorts of plastic boxes, bins, and containers. However, even so, the majority of the plants underneath these objects were still tenaciously growing. Their branches and leaves were stretching and reaching out from the crevices between these miscellaneous objects, striving to catch the sunlight as much as possible.
These crops had reached the final stage of their one-year growth cycle. The leaves of most plants had turned yellow.
From the appearance of the leaves, Wei Xuan could distinguish that the majority of these plants were potatoes and carrots. Did they grow like this on their own during the year he hadn’t been looking after them? Or…
Before he could get an answer to his question, the sky that had already been a leaden gray grew even darker. Before Wei Xuan could react while he was checking the situation in the residential area, raindrops had already started falling sparsely from the sky.
Wei Xuan didn’t realize it was raining because raindrops fell on him, but because of the actions of the zombie little brothers beside him…
As the first raindrop fell from the sky, the zombie little brothers in the residential area stumbled towards the roadside, casually picking up whatever pots, pans, ladles, and containers they found on the ground, and then… placed these things on top of their heads!
Under their “umbrellas” were water buckets, plastic baskets, rice bowls, stainless steel bowls, and even the most bizarre of all, paper baskets! Yes, paper baskets with holes all around them!!
Then, one after another, cheerful and joyous voices entered Wei Xuan’s mind – “It’s raining, let’s collect water, it’s raining, let’s collect water…”
Such a cute little community Wei Xuan has.😂
Pfft, just … such silly cute zombies! Best apocalypse ever?…possibly! Hahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
Thanks for the chapter! Really adorable!
Ahhhh author what r u doing how can face a zombie the same way again after seeing these sandsculpture ones 😂😂😂
THEY’RE SO CUTE HELPPPPPPP 🥺🥺🥺
I can’t believe WX hadn’t notice that DH can speak verbally 😂