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Before the man arrived, Julia's life was a dead end.

She wandered in this hell day and night, knowing only that she had to live, but she did not know why she was alive.

The only thing she remembered was the name: Julia.

There is no last name.

Someone used to call her that, and her voice was low and cold, full of contempt. When she heard this call, she somehow was so angry that she couldn't control herself for a while, and wanted to jump up and fight back, only to realize that her hands and feet were all shackled!

On the verge of collapse, Julia opened her eyes, and all she saw was Daddy's old and tired face: "...... Another nightmare? ”

Julia rolled over and sat up, holding her forehead and sighing softly.

From the day she woke up, Julia followed her father, struggling to make a living in this ghostly world, she didn't know where she came from or where she was going.

In 2015, humanity suffered a catastrophe: a corpse was transformed by an inconspicuous virus, and the living were quickly infected and turned into zombies. Governments around the world launched various contingency plans, tried every means to invest huge financial and material resources and troops, and in the end, "succeeded" in spreading the virus to all continental plates, so that all five continents were spared.

In September 2015, martial law was declared globally, and all citizens were unconditionally allowed to be armed with guns.

In 2016, the concept of "government" disappeared from the public eye, and with it, the world's major media outlets.

In 2017, the "defense offices" built by people everywhere collapsed one by one, like dominoes, and fell one after another in front of the tide-like zombies.

In 2018, there was a radio outage.

I don't know if it's because of the damage to the communications equipment, the lack of power, or the despair of the communication party (or maybe it has turned into a zombie), Julia's radio hasn't made a single human voice since that dark summer night in '18 - even eight months ago, the joking men were still joking with each other on the unknown side that this is the only year Starbucks "doesn't plan to open a new branch."

Then they fell silent, as desperate as they had never been.

After that, Julia had no choice but to throw away the radio and begin a difficult journey with her father on this deserted planet.

The recording of time has stopped, the days have become more and more blurred, and the precise calendar has lost its usefulness, and the seasons can only be barely recognized. Julia and Daddy's livelihood depends on nature's restoration, picking wild fruits, hunting birds and small mammals, and searching abandoned residential buildings for clothes and salt...... The greatest threat to their lives comes from the horrific zombies.

Rarely, Julia would consider them friends because she was too lonely. And they are still wearing the clothes they wore when they died, and they still walk upright. But most of the time, she was able to soberly avoid them.

You can't have the human affection you have for their faces just by looking at them: those faces that are half rotten, those faces that are blackened with their teeth exposed, those faces that have half of their eyes hanging out......

When there are few of them, she kills them, and when there are more of them, Julia hides. She just wants to make a living, she's not a zombie hunter.

Five years have passed, the outside world has not changed in the slightest, the world is getting quieter and quieter, the number of zombies has not increased significantly, and they may no longer be able to capture the living.

It was another autumn morning, the fog had cleared, and Julia had left the house, taking her bow and arrow blade out the door.

It's what she does every once in a while: hunting, and scavenging for what was once inhabited. Today's goal is the community behind the woods ahead.

The woods are luxuriant, five years ago it was just a park, the power of plants is strong, there is no human hindrance, they are expanding wildly, the old cement has long been unable to stop them, now this is a small primeval forest.

Animals began to haunt the area, and Julia once saw a polar bear foraging for food. That was more than a year ago, and when she first saw a polar bear, she was shocked and thought she shouldn't have such an animal anyway! This is the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, how can polar bears, thousands of miles away, haunt here?

At that time, she ran back in a panic and told her father about it.

Daddy told her that Asia's most famous zoo was on the outskirts of the city, and that although the buses had stopped, the polar bears could find themselves in the city. Daddy said that the cage must have been broken and the animals had escaped.

However, Julia believes that it was the keeper who opened the cell door with compassion at the last moment.

Julia didn't know where the polar bear ended up, and she never saw it again, and in a flash, it rushed into the subway entrance of the black hole. Under the mottled black and red subway logo, a huge snow-white figure is imprinted on Julia's retina, making her feel inexplicably sad.

That freeze frame, perhaps, could be named: "The End of the World".

It's a bit cold today, and it's probably time for frost to fall. The forest was quiet when the white mist cleared, and Julia carefully stepped on the dead branches under her feet, trying not to make too much noise.

Zombies love to swarm, and their ears are very sensitive, talking loudly, laughing, and clapping their hands...... Such ordinary actions can often lead to death: when they swarm in hundreds or thousands, you will not want anything but to have two more legs.

A hare sprang past Julia, and she stopped, just then she heard a strong wheezing sound!

A figure staggered over!

Through the shadow of the tree, Julia could see the tattered posture, a zombie? How does it run so fast?

Wrong!

Soon Julia realized that behind the running figure were followed by five or six zombies, who let out a shrill howl and stumbled towards the figure......

Could it be that he is a living person?!

No matter what it was, the zombie was less than three meters away from Julia at this moment, even if she wanted to, it was impossible for her to escape, thinking of this, Julia no longer thought about it, she quickly pulled out her scimitar, approached from the side, and cut off the head of a zombie with one sword!

The monsters, apparently not expecting an attack from the side, stopped and looked at Julia, who's catching a glimpse out of the corner of her eye at the man they were chasing, a man in ragged clothes.

It was a living man, Julia could tell from his eyes, and although the eyes were also glazed, there were signs of life in them.

He carried a tool axe in his hand, and although he was a living person, his wheezing movement was bigger than that of zombies!

While the zombie was stunned, Julia slashed down another one with the second knife, and then looked at the man, the axe was halfway raised, and suddenly hung down.

Julia was anxious and couldn't help but exclaim, "You can do me a favor too!" ”

The man was shaken by Julia's voice, and he raised the axe in his hand again with great difficulty, but before he could lift it halfway, the whole person actually leaned back!

"Hey! It's useless to play dead! ”

With Julia's screams, the man fell to the ground with a pop.

Knowing that there was no hope, Julia had to fight alone, and the remaining four zombies, three of whom were attracted by Julia's activity, rushed at her with open arms, and one seemed to smell the smell of the man who fell to the ground, and stumbled to bite him-

Julia quickly slashed past the three, slashing down with the knife over her head. The zombie who wanted to gnaw at the fallen person collapsed to the ground with a bang, and half of his brain fell to the side.

The rest of the zombies, in the next half minute, fell with a knife.

Picking up the besieging zombies, Julia wiped her knife in the grass. Then she walked up to the man.

"Are you still alive?"

There was no answer, and the man closed his eyes tightly, his face like gold paper. No wonder he couldn't lift the axe, it turned out to be exhausted.

Normally, the person should be tested with his hands, but this is very dangerous in the zombie realm: no one can be sure that he has not been bitten by zombies.

Julia kicked him her toes, and the man didn't open his eyes, but let out a low moan, well, he's still alive.

What to do? Julia began to feel worried, it stands to reason that she should be happy to meet a living person, but the bitter lessons of the past have taught her that in this world, the living are not much better than zombies, and even in some cases, the living are more terrible than zombies - zombies at least have no brains and will not deceive and use others. Besides, who knows if he was bitten or not?

Do you want to leave this big living person here? If she just walks away, soon this person will be discovered by the zombies around her, and even if the zombies don't notice, there are bears and wolves in this forest......

Even if this guy dies in the belly of a wolf, what does it matter to her? Julia wondered, what if he had already been bitten? What if he's a bad guy and wants to take over her and her daddy's rare habitat in the future? What if he's just a waste of their precious food?

Alas, Julia, you should grow a little heart!

Thinking so, she gritted her teeth and turned around to leave, but the man on the ground let out a heavier groan.

This groan struck her heart.

It reminds Julia that this is a living man, one of the few "unrepentant" higher animals in the apocalypse of the zombie world.

He is his own kind.

Julia closed her eyes, then turned around and walked back to the man. She carefully examined the man from head to toe, then took out a knife, pressed it on his forehead, and whispered, "First warn you, don't bite me." ”

The warning had no effect, and the man had already fainted. Julia was still holding the knife to his face, then quickly reached out and tried it on his forehead.

It's not good, it's a little hot. If you are bitten by a zombie, you will get a fever - but under normal circumstances, you will also get a fever if you are cold.

Forget it, good people do it to the end, and they won't be zombies in this hour or two anyway. Julia resigned herself to putting away her knife and taking out a cloth to tie his mouth. Then she grabbed him by the arm and carried the man all over her shoulders.

Honestly, not too heavy.

At least much lighter than the last wild boar she hunted.

Carrying the strange man she had picked up, Julia walked out of the woods, her original plan for today had changed, and it seemed that she had to go to the "inn" in advance.

The inn is a room not far from "home", which was originally a house in a certain community. It is not appropriate to go deep into a deserted community to find a place to live, because it is too dangerous, and it is difficult to ensure that there are no zombies between the doors that are close to each other. But this "inn" is different: the original owner engaged in illegal construction, he widened and lengthened the balcony, even extended the area of the community, and built a simple staircase. Therefore, on weekdays, you don't need to detour to the main entrance, you can go upstairs directly from outside the community.

After discovering the place, Dad smashed the staircase, and then they put an iron ladder under the window, and if the person was not in the house, the iron ladder was placed horizontally in the corner, and if necessary, the hooked end of the ladder was hung on the suspended plastic steel window.

When she arrived at the inn, Julia put down the "big baggage" on her body, and then looked around the window before and after, and found no traces of destruction, so she was relieved.

Found the iron ladder in the corner of the wall, hung the ladder, Julia went upstairs to put her luggage in place, and then came down, picked up the unconscious man, and climbed up to the second floor.

Coming into the house, putting the guy on the floor, she put away the ladder, locked the doors and windows, and went back to the living room.

The man was still unconscious, and the temperature on his forehead was still hot, and Julia stripped him of his dirty, rotten clothes, and dragged him to the bed to lay flat. There was a quilt in the bedroom cupboard, and she picked a thick duck down bed and covered the man's body.

Now, I finally have time to take a closer look at this guy.

Judging from the appearance, the appearance of about thirty, the facial features are quite good-looking, belonging to the thin category, although the face is very dirty, but there is no injury, the man's face is very haggard, and the lips are gray.

Everything else is okay, the most bizarre thing is the man's hairstyle, which reminds Julia of film and television dramas set in the late Qing Dynasty, especially those patriotic films that show the revolutionary situation. The revolutionaries in the play always have a signature move: find a pair of scissors, stretch the scissors to the back of their necks without hesitation, cut off the braid at the back of their head with a "click", and then grab the cut braid, hold it high, and do a righteous and awe-inspiring posture, in order to show that they are incompatible with the Qing court!

…… This man's hairstyle is the "revolutionary" hairstyle that has just cut off his braids.

If the average person sees it, they will say: This hairstyle belongs to the non-mainstream.

If Daddy saw it, he would definitely blurt out: It's ugly!

Julia frowned, no longer bothering with other people's hairstyles. She took a towel, scooped a basin out of the water stored in the bathroom, brought it to the bed, and scrubbed the man's face and hands. The stains and dust were washed away, and the man's eyebrows became clearer, and he looked much more comfortable.

While washing her hands, she also noticed a strange thing: the style of men's underwear was a little strange.

Handmade white cloth? She thought that this kind of fabric, Julia had never seen before. And in that way, it really looks like the pajamas worn by the ancients in costume films, that is, they are not autumn clothes and pants blended by modern machines.

Do you want to see what this guy's panties look like?