Chapter 4: Birthdays

At the entrance of the cave, Lin Zaishan was busy packing his backpack; Li Yan opened the small handbag she had been carrying with her and took out a small mirror.

"Ahh Li Yan exclaimed.

Lin Zaishan hurriedly turned around and found that Li Yanren was safe and sound, holding a mirror with one hand and covering his face with the other, looking like he had seen a ghost.

"What's wrong?"

"I haven't dressed up for seven or eight days, and now I look ugly!"

"It's good to appear in your true colors and perform without makeup, what's ugly?"

Li Yan didn't speak, turned around and just cleaned up her head and face in the mirror: "It's a pity that I didn't bring my skin lotion." ”

"Beauty, I don't want to disturb your grooming Yaxing, but as far as I can see, we're running out of food and water now. For now, let's put more effort into foraging. ”

"Humph!" Li Yan stuffed her hand in her pocket, and said with sparks in her hand: "With my sister's means, the food is not yet handy!" ”

"You're packed?"

"Alright."

"Let's go, then!"

Most of the stagnant water in the boulder valley has receded, and the exposed ground is still muddy and damp, and there is a thick layer of impurities like grease and dust floating on the surface of the remaining stagnant water. Occasionally, you can see the charred carcasses of animals such as squirrels or pheasants. The bare ground was littered with charred, broken trees, and there was not a single grass in sight.

"This explosion is too powerful to withstand a nuclear weapon." Li Yan said.

"Wait!" Lin Zaishan seemed to remember something again and said, "This is not scientific. As far as I know, such a superexplosion would have left behind strong radiation and dust, but it has only been a few days since it was so clean. ”

"You're not a scientist who studies meteorite explosions, so how do you know that these phenomena aren't scientific?" Li Yan asked rhetorically.

"Forget it, no matter. The most important thing is that we are all alive, and there are many romances and legends waiting for us to compose in the future. ”

"I'll lead the way!" Li Yan took the lead and ran out.

After walking one hundred and eighty meters, Li Yan stopped.

"Why don't you leave?" Lin Zaishan asked.

"I don't know the direction anymore." Li Yan said embarrassedly.

"It seems that after the test of the apocalypse, in addition to being more sexy and hot, our beauty is still a scumbag in the wild."

"Don't you still have it. Lead the way. ”

Lin Zaishan glanced around and sighed.

"What's wrong? Isn't it that you can't find your way either? ”

"It's not. We parked the ambulance here when we came, but unfortunately there is no trace of it now. Hey, I hope I can restart 'Lin Fuzi'. ”

Lin Zaishan walked in front to lead the way, and said as he walked: "Walking 100 meters in this direction is the highway; About 1 km along the road, there is a small restaurant. I hope the hotel is still there. ”

After a while, the two stepped onto the road.

"Are you sure it's a road?" Li Yan asked.

"Sure."

"Why did the pavement look like this?"

"Of course it was an explosion, and it became like this after the heat was scorched."

The two walked a little further.

"Huh! I think I saw that restaurant! ”

"How is it possible, the hotel should only be seen after turning a corner." Lin Zaishan looked at Li Yan's point and couldn't help but be surprised. Forty meters away, in the mud and rubble, there was a small house. And the mounds and jungles that used to block the view have been swept away.

Lin Zaishan accelerated towards the half-buried house. This stubborn house is not only structurally intact, but also upright. Lin Zaishan picked up the gravel blocking the window a few times and shouted inside:

"Anyone?"

No one responded.

Li Yan, who followed up, asked, "Do you want to go in and have a look?" ”

"Of course." Lin Zaishan was about to drill into the window, but Li Yan grabbed him.

"You don't see the black rumbling inside! And the smell is not right. Li Yan reminded.

"Then wait a few minutes and see."

A few minutes later, Lin Zaishan went into the window with a flashlight. Passing through the window is the living room of the hotel, which is littered with debris and half-charred tables and chairs. To the left of the living room is the kitchen, and when Lin Zaishan entered the kitchen, he saw dishes, chopsticks and kitchenware scattered all over the ground.

"The contents in the kitchen seem to be more complete than in the living room." Lin Zaishan thought, "Maybe you can find food." ”

He opened a refrigerator, which had long since lost power, and a stench came from inside. Lin Zaishan shook his head, turned around and opened another refrigerator, which contained several bottles of beer and drinks.

“Yeah!” Lin Zaishan cheered, these can be regarded as luxuries. Then I rummaged through a basket full of potatoes and onions. He rummaged through them, eventually finding five well-kept potatoes and storing them in his backpack. In another box, Lin found several more packets of instant noodles, biscuits and bread.

After sweeping the kitchen, Lin Zaishan probed to the right again, and on the right was the bedroom, and the iron door of the bedroom was closed.

"Anyone?" Lin Zaishan shouted, but still no one answered.

Lin Zaishan took out a dagger and slammed it into the door, priing it open. A mixture of water moisture, corpse stench, and dust came to my face. Lin Zaishan held his breath and took a few steps back. After a few minutes, the unpleasant smell gradually faded a lot, and Lin Zaishan walked into the bedroom. The flashlight first shone on a messy bed on which lay a half-charred, half-decomposed corpse.

"It's the owner of the small restaurant, he was really killed, I don't know what happened to the proprietress?"

Lin Zaishan swept left and right with a flashlight, and the back of a woman squatting on the ground in white clothes flashed in a corner of the wall at the head of the bed.

"Hostess!" Lin Zaishan shouted, but no one responded. "Am I mistaken?" He pointed the flashlight at the figure again. It's really a woman's back.

Lin Zaishan walked over and reached out to pull the woman's shoulder. A face with a disheveled head, dark complexion, and closed eyes turned. Lin Zaishan felt the woman's cold skin and trembling body.

"Don't be afraid, I'll get you out." He lifted the woman out of the bedroom. At this time, Li Yan had already split the door of the hotel. Lin Zaishan helped the woman out of the main entrance, through the gravel and mud to the sun.

"Who is this?" Li Yan asked.

"The proprietress of this restaurant. I really didn't expect her to survive. Lin replied.

"Why doesn't she speak?"

Lin Zaishan made a booing gesture to indicate that Li Yan's boss lady had not recovered her senses.

Li Yan said: "The situation is not right, I feel that she is not normal!" ”

Lin Zaishan said softly: "Nonsense, the poor woman has gone through the test of the apocalypse, and her husband is dying in front of her eyes, it's normal to blame!" ”

Li Yan leaned into his ear and said, "I'm not saying she's mentally abnormal, I'm saying she's physically abnormal." ”

"What's wrong?"

"I can't feel her temperature."

"Body temperature?" Lin Zaishan asked suspiciously.

"Yes. Ever since I had the ability to firelight, I've been highly sensitive to the temperature around me, especially yours. You don't know it yourself, and your body temperature seems like a raging fire to me. But this woman is completely backwater. ”

"Don't scare me. Let me give her a pulse. Lin Zaishan turned around and picked up the woman's right hand, put his finger on her vein, there was no pulse; He changed to a woman's left hand, still without a pulse.

Lin Zaishan looked at the woman in surprise. At this moment, the woman's eyes opened, revealing eyes like dead fish. The stiff eyes mechanically turned up and down, left and right, focusing on Lin Zaishan's body.

"Whew!" The woman let out a beastly roar, and her claw-like hands suddenly grabbed Lin Zaishan's neck, and her bloody mouth showed Bai Sensen's fangs and bit it with the breath of carrion.

Lin Zaishan screamed, turned over with his head down, and dodged the woman's bite; The woman's claw-like hands seemed to have a thousand powers, and Lin Zaishan was controlled like a chicken that fell into the claws of an eagle. He drew his dagger and slashed at the woman's arm, and a large hole was cut, but not a drop of blood flowed out. The woman was like she was not cut off, and with a strain of her hands, Lin Zaishan was pressed to the ground. The woman opened her bloody mouth again and pounced.

Pressed to the ground by a woman, Lin Zaishan had a similar experience in a dream, it was very cool at that time, but this time it was so frightened that the hairs stood on end.

"Bang!" A ball of fire hit the woman, knocking her to the ground, and Lin Zaishan took the opportunity to roll and escape. The woman who had been knocked down rose painlessly, and then was hit by several fires, and finally turned to ashes in the raging fire.

Lin Zaishan and Li Yan stared blankly at the woman who was burned to ashes, and looked at each other again.

"I killed someone." Li Yan said.

"She's not human anymore. This is probably the legendary zombie. ”

"There really have to be zombies. Do you think we'll have to face them more often in the future? ”

"I don't know. But one thing I finally know now: the end of the world is here, and anything strange can happen. ”

"Are you hurt?" Li Yan asked with concern.

"My shoulder looks like it's scratched by her fingernails."

"Show me!" Li Yan opened Lin Zaishan's collar and saw that there were several red spots on the left and right sides of his sturdy shoulders, oozing blood.

"Am I going to be infected by her and become a zombie?" Lin Zaishan asked.

"You hold back the pain, I'll give you high temperature sterilization." After Li Yan finished speaking, the fire in her hand flashed, sweeping towards the wound on Lin Zaishan's shoulder, and the wound instantly charred.

"That should do." Li Yan said: "Your body temperature is not abnormal, and you should not be infected." I'll disinfect your dagger again. ”

"Beauty, while I haven't been transformed yet, let's be in love. If I turn into a zombie later, I won't have a chance. ”

"Smack!" Lin took a heavy blow on the mountain.

"Until you have completely proven that you are not infected, do not go 1 meter near me!"

Lin Zaishan, who was subject to the "lockdown order", couldn't help but complain again that every time he deviated from the script of a righteous gentleman, he would not get a good reward.

"Where are we going next?" Li Yan asked.

"To the SWAT team station, of course." Lin Zaishan said: "I hope more of them will survive." ”

"Let's hope this zombie is just an extreme case." Li Yan said.

They marched slowly along the road around the mountain. Because both of them have things on their minds, neither of them can go fast.

"I'm going to tell you," Li Yan said, "even if you are really infected by zombies, I will not abandon you." ”

"I'm not worried about that." Lin Zaishan responded.

"And what are you thinking?"

"I was thinking that your firelight ability is really cool, it's really a weapon to defend your family and country, kill people and sell goods; But I still don't have any abilities. If I've been so ordinary since then, won't it be a burden to you? ”

"I'm sure you're going to have a very draggy, cool, cool ability. Even if you don't have an ability right now, your abilities are significant. ”

"Well, not to mention my ethereal future, at least for now I can still work for my beauty-sama."

"There is a situation!" Li Yan said.

Lin Zaishan immediately pulled out his dagger and metal staff to maintain a vigilant posture.

"Whoosh!" A four-legged animal with black skin that was not like a wolf and a wolf and a dog that was not like a dog leaped into the middle of the road from the debris on the side of the road and blocked their way.

"Is it a zombie again?" Lin Zaishan asked.

"It's not. It has body temperature, and it's exuberant! ”

"The people from the Forestry Bureau had told them that there were large wild animals in the mountains, but they just didn't believe it. Now such a big guy has been raised to block the way. Lin Zaishan said.

"You don't seem to have that much to say."

"It's all the end of the world."

The two of them were about to ask questions, but the beast had no patience to "listen", it accelerated, jumped more than 2 meters high, more than 4 meters away, and flew straight into the forest.

Lin Zaishan's left hand dagger was blocked in front of his chest, and the metal staff in his right hand stabbed the beast directly. The beast's front paws slapped, the metal staff stabbed off, and the bloody mouth had stretched out in front of Lin Zaishan. Lin Zaishan hurriedly moved to the right to avoid the beast's direct attack, and the dagger in his left hand stabbed into the beast's neck. Although the beast was injured, its combat effectiveness did not weaken in the slightest, and it made a sharp U-turn and bit Lin Zaishan from below. Lin Zaishan brandished a metal staff and forced back the beast's attacks one after another. At this time, Li Yan, who had obtained the launch angle, seized the opportunity and emitted six flames of fire with both hands one after another. The beast jumped vertically and horizontally and dodged five paths, and although the sixth path hit the beast's body, it rolled on the ground one after another, and soon the fire on its body was extinguished.

Lin Zaishan, who thought that after Li Yan's attack, he would definitely transfer the hatred of the beast, was about to adjust a little, but who knew that the beast pounced on him viciously again. Lin Zaishan complained while facing the battle: "Who wrote the game script, I am neither a blood shield nor the main output, why do I always give priority to hatred, it's completely out of common sense!" However, this beast completely ignored the common sense of the script and Lin Zaishan's complaints, and entangled Lin Zaishan and couldn't stop biting. Lin Zaishan was forced to be in a hurry, and Li Yan was afraid that Lin Zaishan would be injured by mistake, so she didn't know what to do for a while.

Suddenly, the beast left Lin Zaishan and rushed straight to Li Yan. Lin Zaishan secretly screamed that it was not good, so he chased after him.

Li Yan hurriedly hit two fires, but they were both cleverly dodged by the beast, and they almost hit Lin Zaishan. The beast that approached Li Yan took off into the air and bit Li Yan's face. Li Yan had no combat training after all, she was completely panicked, and raised her arms to block in front of her, hoping that the fire in her hand could repel the beast, but who knew that she was overly nervous, and the fire did not come out. Seeing that the beast's bloody mouth was about to bite Li Yan, Lin Zaishan jumped over from behind the side and hugged the beast fiercely, and one person and one beast fell to the ground. Lin Zaishan strangled the beast's neck with both arms, and the beast struggled desperately on all fours, but to no avail. Soon, the beast's body stiffened and died.

"How are you?" Li Yan, who was relieved, asked.

"Don't worry, there were no injuries this time."

"There's something in this beast's body." Li Yan said.

"Can you see through the beast's body?" Lin Zaishan resisted the urge to cover his lower body and asked Li Yandao.

"I can feel the temperature distribution in its body." "There's a very obvious light spot in this part of its head. ”

"Okay, the so-called understanding of the enemy is the premise of defeating the enemy, let me dissect it." Lin Zaishan retrieved the dagger and began to dissect the beast. Li Yan frowned and observed.

Lin Zaishan expertly dismantled the beast's skull, slit open the brain, and found an object the size of a corn kernel in the brain marrow. The object was silvery-white, crystal and metal, and cold to the touch.

"Isn't this the thing?" Lin Zaishan wiped the crystal clean and handed it to Li Yan. Li Yan took it and looked at it carefully.

"It's this thing, but the temperature is wrong. Before you peel it out, it emits a high amount of light heat, but after you peel it out, its light heat is gone. Li Yan said.

"Perhaps it is only in its active state that it emits light and heat. Let's keep this thing and look into it again when we have a chance. ”

"Okay, then you can put it away."

"Do you dare to eat the flesh of this beast?" Lin Zaishan asked.

"If it had been cooked and served on a plate without knowing it, perhaps I would have eaten it; But now, I feel sick. ”

"Now that the times are over, our stomachs should not be too picky. Besides, so much meat, but it's all wild game, it's too wasteful to throw it here. ”

"Then you want to find a way to carry this meat, I don't want to get my hands dirty."

"I just cut a few pieces of the best meat and put them in a disposable garbage bag in a backpack and that's it."

The two walked for a while.

"Are you hungry?" Lin Zaishan asked Li Yan.

"I don't want to eat game right now."

"It's not game, it's biscuits and bread."

"Then eat a loaf of bread."

Lin Zaishan handed a bag of bread to Li Yan, who didn't need to eat it in five seconds.

"I'm still hungry, I want more."

"Okay, these bags of bread are for you...... Here's a drink, come and cheer us on! ”

The two men continued to march towards the SWAT team station.

"There's movement!" Li Yan said.

Lin Zaishan immediately pulled out his dagger and metal staff and entered the alert state again.

"Gah!" A large bird flew from behind the mountain.

"It's a pleasure to see a live bird after such a catastrophe." Lin Zaishan said happily: "This kind of bird is called the long-billed mountain eagle by the locals, and it feeds on snakes, frogs, rats, and other small birds, and is a second-class protected animal, which is relatively rare. ”

"You seem to be very learned." Li Yan said.

"It's okay."

Lin Zaishan, who had relaxed his vigilance, was about to show off his profound knowledge in front of the beautiful woman when the long-billed mountain eagle swooped down and flew straight towards him.

"Get out of the way!" Li Yan shouted, and the fire from both hands shot directly at the long-billed mountain eagle, who easily dodged the firelight, and the slender claws grabbed Lin Zaishan's backpack behind him, and even lifted the bag with people and flew off the ground.

"That's an exaggeration!" Lin Zaishan thought quickly: "The long-billed mountain eagle shouldn't have such great strength!" It looks like there's something in my head again. ”

The flight speed of the long-billed mountain eagle with heavy objects slowed down greatly, and Li Yan hit it with a firelight, and the long-billed mountain eagle scattered the forest in the mountain, fluttered in the air with flames for a few seconds, and planted itself on the ground.

"Are you okay?" Li Yan asked with concern.

"I'm fine."

"You'd better dissect this bird as well." Li Yan said.

Unsurprisingly, a silvery-white crystal the size of a corn kernel was also found in the brain of the long-billed mountain eagle.

"The Canine Beast and the Long-billed Mountain Eagle must have mutated in the apocalypse. So they're all unusually ferocious. Li Yan said with certainty.

"I have a question." Lin Zaishan asked: "The canine-type beast and the long-billed mountain eagle have something in their heads, so do you think the zombie boss lady also has something in their heads?" ”

"I didn't feel it." Li Yan replied.

"Do you have anything in your head?"

"You've got something in your head!" Li Yan said angrily.

"It seems that whether there is something in the mind has nothing to do with whether or not there is an apocalyptic mutation."

The two moved on.

"Usually, it only takes two or three hours to walk so far to the SWAT team, why have I walked for more than half a day today, and I haven't arrived yet." Lin Zaishan said.

"Are you on the wrong track?"

"Absolutely not. It must be because the road is harder than usual. ”

"Don't forget, we've got a couple of big ponds between us."

"That's right." Lin Zaishan was relieved, and continued: "The Buddha and Bodhisattva bless the people in the special police team are still alive. ”

"Do you believe in Buddhism?" Li Yan asked curiously.

"Can't I believe in Buddhism?"

"I didn't mean that. It's just that I think that a man as strong as you is also a theist, which is a little unexpected. ”

"It's surprising that such a delicate beauty of yours is an atheist."

"I'm not delicate, I'm a woman, okay."

"What do you think this is?" Li Yan said, pointing to a piece of dirt on the side of the road.

Lin Zaishan walked over to check and said in surprise: "It's a seedling!" ”

The seedling had reached out more than 10 centimeters from the ground, looking fragile but vibrant.

"This is the only thing we've seen in the past few days that represents a new life!" Lin Zaishan lamented, "It seems that Mother Earth has begun to be reborn again after this catastrophe. ”