In the tall building, Wei Xuan and Du Hang sat side by side on the sofa. Across from them, there was Bai Guangnan, holding his zombie girlfriend tightly, forcing her to sit on the sofa.
Wei Xuan was watching the two of them closely.
After Bai Guangnan had finished complaining and Wei Xuan had consoled him, he suddenly returned to his usual state and began showing affection to his zombie girlfriend.
“Eating those things seems to be good for Ruoxin. She has already learned to open doors now! She gets up every night and wanders around!”
Seeing the excited expression on Bai Guangnan’s face, Wei Xuan silently looked at the zombie girlfriend sitting next to him, who was emitting a hostile aura that seemed to say, “Who are you? Get lost!”
It seemed that Wei Xuan’s previous guess was correct. These two people… probably didn’t know each other before, at least the female college student definitely didn’t know Bai Guangnan, and they were definitely not in a romantic relationship.
As for what had happened between them, Wei Xuan decided not to delve into it at the moment. Also, her coming out at night… was she trying to escape from Bai Guangnan’s amorous advances?
Near the sofa, by the big window, Cheng Ma was holding her son and exclaiming, “Potato, potato, potato,” and “Mommy, mommy, mommy,” emitting brainwaves of excitement. Wei Xuan couldn’t help but wonder if the snowflakes that Bai Guangnan had dug downstairs had been fed to Cheng Ma and her son.
Although their relationship should not have left them hungry, only consuming snowflakes without an increase in intelligence… Could it be because their intelligence had already deteriorated before consuming the snowflakes?
“…Jumping around everywhere, but after a few days, they start digging holes. Do you think those zombies have completely lost their minds? Is that why they are so restless?” Bai Guangnan finally brought the conversation back to a more manageable topic and concluded it in a summarizing tone.
Wei Xuan snapped out of his thoughts and realized that Bai Guangnan was talking about the behavior of the zombies during winter. The initial jumping around… could it be a way of spreading a message? Did the zombies start digging holes after receiving some kind of signal?
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They must have been consuming both snow and soil. What if they kept consuming soil and reduced the amount of snow? Unfortunately, there was no easy way to separate the snowflakes from the soil, and the zombies couldn’t perform such delicate tasks.
Sighing once again, Wei Xuan thought about how to convey his intentions to the zombies so that they could understand. After bidding farewell to Bai Guangnan and joining Du Hang, they climbed to the top floor of the technology building. Wei Xuan raised his binoculars to observe the surrounding area.
The technology building was the tallest among the nearby structures, although there was also a TV tower in T City that was even taller. However, that building was narrow and elongated. Wei Xuan hadn’t noticed it at first, but later, while inspecting the area, he discovered that although the building had not completely collapsed, the top part had fallen during the earthquake.
The disc-like section seemed to have many broken windows, and there was damage to the walls. Therefore, Wei Xuan rarely visited that area for fear that a strong wind might blow it over and put him in danger.
Now, standing on the top floor of the building, Wei Xuan felt even closer to the clear blue sky. As he looked around through his binoculars, he couldn’t help but notice numerous craters of various sizes on all the visible streets. Some were shallow, while others were deep, and even the closest craters could not be seen to the bottom.
Another unusual thing was that there were fewer zombies on the streets than usual. Some zombies wandered on the streets, but after a while, they would run to a certain crater and jump into it.
There was a lot of soil piled around those craters. Wei Xuan even saw that in some craters, it seemed like snowflakes were settling deeper into the soil. A large amount of soil was flying around the big craters, some landing on the soil mounds beside the crater, and some returning to the crater. It made Wei Xuan wonder if they were burying themselves.
“Sigh, let’s go down first,” Wei Xuan sighed. Although he had other things to do, how could he handle the current situation? It would be better to resolve this matter first.
Descending quickly, he arrived at the temporary room where his zombie underlings were staying. He counted them carefully, and there were exactly thirty zombies, no more, no less.
Once he confirmed that his underlings were fine, Wei Xuan sat on a plastic chair in the room, furrowing his brow in deep thought. He needed to figure out how to instruct the zombies to dig and store snowflakes efficiently, and he had to make them understand how to collect snowflakes after the strange snowfall.
However, before dealing with all of this, there was another urgent matter he needed to attend to – he had to find the little zombie girl and have her subordinates bring the scattered zombies from various areas for a meeting.
After all, even if he wanted to find the zombie leaders from other areas and ask them for help in notifying other zombies to come to him, how could he do that if they didn’t show up themselves? However, the problem was that since the snow began to melt, he hadn’t seen any zombies coming to inform him from his territory!
Had they already divided the territory among themselves? Or had they dispersed their efforts to claim territory after discovering the ability to dig up snowflakes? In any case, with fewer zombies coming to him, Wei Xuan initially felt relieved and less burdened, but now it was starting to give him a headache.
Although he could encounter the zombie leaders who controlled the territory while searching for supplies, how would he know who the leader was if they didn’t reveal themselves?
“Ah, it’s really troublesome!” Wei Xuan scratched his head in frustration and then looked at Du Hang. “Do you remember that little zombie girl? The one we encountered several times before, the one who brought three people to me last time, asking why they couldn’t have children?”
Du Hang pondered for a moment and then nodded, not correcting Wei Xuan about the “three people” since he had learned that sometimes it was best not to dwell on details as long as both of them understood the intended meaning.
“Do you know where they live?” He remembered that the little girl zombie had pointed in a certain direction and said, “Mine,” but he couldn’t recall exactly where she had stood or where she was pointing.
Du Hang seemed to think for a moment, then pointed in a direction.
“There? “
“There,” Du Hang nodded firmly.
“Are you sure?” Wei Xuan still had some doubts.
“There,” Du Hang continued to nod firmly.
“Alright, let’s go there then.” Wei Xuan thought for a moment and then nodded. Since he didn’t know where to find the containers he needed and how to locate the little zombie girl, he might as well start by heading in the direction Du Hang indicated. He could consider it a search for supplies along the way.
With a determined mindset, Wei Xuan stopped hesitating and, together with Du Hang, each consumed a bit of snowflake before leading the way in the direction pointed out by Du Hang.
Along the way, they encountered large and small pits dug by the zombies everywhere. Wei Xuan would casually glance at them when his curiosity was piqued. Some pits were shallow enough to see the zombies inside, while others were so deep that it was impossible to see what was at the bottom.
In addition, there were manhole covers overturned due to the earthquake and ground fissures. The city was now completely inaccessible to vehicles like cars. Even if a person walked on the streets at night, they wouldn’t know if they might accidentally fall into a pit and come face to face with a zombie.
Although Wei Xuan followed the direction indicated by Du Hang, he didn’t completely let his guard down and walked too fast. After all, while the direction was correct, who knew whether the destination was near or far in a city like T City, which wasn’t particularly large but still not small.
Furthermore, there was another issue to consider: in case the zombie he was looking for was at the bottom of one of those pits. Walking slowly, he might still find her, but if he walked too fast, she might climb out of the pit, and he would have already left her territory.
With caution in mind, Wei Xuan didn’t forget his mission to scavenge along the way. Instead of searching for supplies in residential areas, he looked for items in shops and small businesses along the roadside. After a day and a night of continuous searching, his group had progressed from being empty-handed at the start to carrying a bunch of red buckets, with plastic lids piled up behind them.
“It’s a shame we didn’t find many storage boxes.” Those square boxes would have been perfect for use in the ice cellar…
As he sighed, suddenly, Du Hang next to him raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction. “Over there.”
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Checking on the zombie neighbors and pot holes, pot holes, pot holes forever…hahahahaha!
Thanks for the triple update 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️❄️❄️❄️
Hahahhahha it look like the zombie girl has become a broadcasting group that will tell other zombies information from Wei Xuan 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the chapter!!