When the morning sun shines on the earth, does it bring a bubble of hope? This devastated land seems to have been abandoned by the gods.

Zhou Zimo woke up from the darkness again, his body was wet, and the stench in the air was no longer obvious, but with a long-lost freshness.

"Water?" Zhou Zimo muttered, reaching out and slicing through the stagnant water on the ground, leaving a ripple, he sat up from the ground, surrounded by patches of water. It rained last night, Ye Cheng hadn't rained for a long time, and in his memory, the last time he saw raindrops was when he was in the red maple......

Isn't it? Zhou Zimo was soaked, his already tattered clothes stuck to his skin made him very uncomfortable, he stood up and recalled what happened before he fell into a coma, but he was not as excited as before, and the contact with his three partners had been cut off, where should he go?

After standing and thinking for a while, Zhou Zimo embarked on a journey to find the red maple, maybe they all went back?

In front of it are ruins, the broken leaf city is the same, and the scorched black traces are everywhere like spider webs, what is this? Zhou Zimo squatted down and touched it gently, without any texture, these traces seemed to have existed since the establishment of Ye City.

Unable to get an answer, Zhou Zimo could only continue to search, there were collapsed ruins everywhere, and bits and pieces of water droplets converged into streams and fell from the cracks, hitting the ground, blooming with splashes...... There is something different about this kind of world.

After walking for almost an hour, Zhou Zimo still didn't find his way back, his stomach was already rumbling in protest, they couldn't eat at all when they were in Li Miao's hands, or Li Yong took advantage of the time to escort them to secretly let a few people eat a mouthful of dry food.

Zhou Zimo sighed, and was about to continue to explore with a strong spirit, but he inadvertently found that the stagnant water under his feet was slowly flowing in one direction, he suddenly realized something, and hurriedly followed the water flow to that side.

Another half an hour passed, and when I turned over a building, my eyes suddenly opened up, and it was a huge square, and in the distance, a twenty-meter-high wall stood and stretched into the ruins that could not be seen. Zhou Zimo was overjoyed, isn't this the square outside the north gate of Hongfeng? It's finally back!

But now the square seems to have completely changed, the whole thing has sunk down, all the water has gathered here, I don't know if it is because the debris in the ruins has also been washed over, the square looks dark, not the ground, but the water!

Zhou Zimo bent down and picked up a small handful of black water on the ground, and when he picked it up, he found that it was not the water that turned black, but a large number of black particles mixed in the water, and then realized through the water, which made the square look pitch black, but what are these black particles? Zhou Zimo didn't remember that he had seen this kind of particle near the north gate!

It was another doubt, since he was unconscious, the world seemed to have changed all of a sudden, and there were too many questions hovering in his mind. Since he can't figure it out, he doesn't want to, Zhou Zimo just wants to hurry home and change his clothes, take a shower, eat a big meal and sleep beautifully, he never wants to go to the outside world to explore anymore, he should have listened to the fat man's words in the first place, he didn't come out!

Zhou Zimo thought to himself, he didn't know where those zombies went, Li Miao didn't look like a person who would give up easily, how could he suddenly withdraw his troops? Could it be that Red Maple has some secret weapon to defeat him?

As soon as this idea came out, Zhou Zimo shook his head self-deprecatingly, how is this possible? Even if Li Miao can be defeated, there are still millions of zombies, it is impossible to destroy them all, right? Even if you take a step back and Red Maple destroys all the zombies, then there must be corpses! Millions of corpses can't be burned even in a short period of time!

When he thought of burning, he inexplicably thought of the black particles in the water under his feet, could there be any connection between this? Zhou Zimo suddenly shuddered.

The north gate was already in sight, and the sharp-eyed Zhou Zimo suddenly stopped, he saw that the north gate seemed to be open, what was the situation? Zhou Zimo opened her mouth wide in shock. I must have read it wrong! He said this to himself, but his brow furrowed.

Trotting all the way, Zhou Zimo is getting closer and closer to the north gate, and it is really wide open! It's like welcoming visitors from all over the world, and there is no guard at the north gate! Even a fool knows that something is wrong, and things don't seem to be simple.

Soon, Zhou Zimo stood in front of the north gate, and everything he saw challenged the limit of his nerves!

Not only is there no one outside the north gate, but not even inside the city! It was empty, the huge city gate was full of pitholes and depressions, and at a glance it could be seen that it was smashed out by something, and there were cracks in some places, and the middle of the two city gates was the most seriously damaged, and it must not be closed!

The ground was densely covered with footprints, I don't know what kind of monster could leave so many clear marks on this rocky ground, there were some military supplies scattered in the city, and there was a truck that overturned on its side not far away.

All the oddities tell one thing: there was a terrible fight here, but there were no corpses!

Was it caused by the impact between Red Maple and the Zombie Army? Zhou Zimo couldn't wait to run into the city, the city gate was destroyed like that, and the city was ...... He didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he could only run frantically towards the city and home.

Zhou Zimo is not familiar with the outside world, but he knows the red maple well, and the four of them have been to almost every place in the red maple.

Or nothing!

Until he ran into the Red Maple Administration Building, it was the same, and there was a deathly silence everywhere, and there was no one occupied.

The panic came again, Zhou Zimo ran in the corridor like a madman, checking every room and room, perhaps, there were three of his partners standing behind a door? They will tell themselves that it was all a joke, that they defeated the zombies, liberated the red maple, and everyone went out to celebrate!

However, fantasy is fantasy after all, no matter how beautiful it is.

Zhou Zimo ran all over the administrative building, and he didn't see a single person's shadow, and there were still tea on the tables in many rooms that had not been drunk but had already cooled, and some documents were even only half annotated......

There are always signs that people seem to be working normally one second, and then all of them are evaporating the next.

In the end, Zhou Zimo stopped at the door of Chen Fei's office, the last time he came was in the middle of the night, from here he took the map and information of Yecheng in Chen Fei's folder.

Zhou Zimo's hand was on the handle of the office and did not move for a long time. He pondered for a long time, his lips trembled, and he mustered up the courage to close his eyes and slam the door open!

Without any sound, Zhou Zimo's heart was already half cold, and when he opened his eyes, it was all cold.

No one.

The chair behind the desk was pushed away and turned to the side, as if Chen Fei would soon come back and sit back again, and the pen that Chen Fei had never left lying quietly on the table, and there were a few pieces of plastic paper scattered on the ground. Zhou Zimo picked it up and found that it was the resolution of the exploration team sent by Hongfeng, and the time was March 25, the sixteenth year of the new moon.

What time is it? Zhou Zimo turned his head to look at the clock on the wall, but found that it was broken, permanently stopping at 1:39 minutes and 58 seconds, could this be the time when everyone in Red Maple disappeared?

He turned his head and continued to read, and it wasn't until he finished reading these pages that he understood why he encountered the Red Maple army led by Li Zimin outside, which turned out to be an exploration team sent by the Alliance, but why did he take refuge in Li Miao? What do you call yourself the Watchmen's Association!

Now, all Zhou Zimo's hopes and illusions have been shattered, Hongfeng is already an empty city, and in time it will be the same as the outside!

Taking the pen, this was his last memory of Chen Fei, Zhou Zimo walked out of the office, solemnly closed the door, and walked towards his home.

It was close to noon, the sun was very strong in the sky, and the little water on the ground had dried up, revealing the ground that was also covered with black cobwebs.

A short time later, he arrived downstairs at his house. This is a residential area, and each small building is crowded with one or two hundred people.

Zhou Zimo's home is not big, because only he and his grandmother Ling Ju are separated, and they are only divided into a two-bedroom apartment. Although the home is quite small, it is exceptionally warm, and everything that should be there is not bad, Ling Ju herself is a nanny, so she naturally cleans up this place and makes it beautiful.

The door of the house was locked, Zhou Zimo skillfully took out the key from the cabinet next to him to open the door, he used to go out without a key, Ling Ju deliberately put a handful at the door, so it was convenient for him to go home.

The room was still the same as before, with the windows closed.

Zhou Zimo tried to shout twice: "Grandma? Grandmother? ”

No one responded, which was to be expected.

This home is full of familiar smells, the kettle on the table is open, only half a cup of water is poured on the side, and a sweater that is almost finished being knitted is thrown on the sofa, Ling Ju has just started to hook the thread before he goes out, and the conversation of that day is still in his ears: "Zimo, Zimo?" Come here, I'll measure your body and knit another sweater! ”

"Grandma! It's going to be summer soon, what kind of sweater are you knitting? ”

"Obedient, come here, you've grown taller now, can't you wear it before? Besides, isn't it autumn after the summer? ”

……

"Grandma..."Zhou Zimo thought about it and suddenly shed tears, he had never missed her so much, sat on the sofa and stroked the sweater, he cried sadly, and scolded himself fiercely in his heart, why was he disobedient? Why run out and explore what bullshit world? Why don't you stay home and wear your grandma's sweater?

He cried more and more sadly, holding the sweater and sobbing constantly, as if he could feel Ling Ju's loving touch and deep concern from the sweater again!

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry......" Zhou Zimo cried vigorously, but time will not go back, all the disasters have come, and his sadness and tears seem so monotonous and weak in the face of reality.

Until a long time later, there were no more tears in his eyes, and he just hugged his sweater in a daze.

Suddenly, Zhou Zimo tore off the tattered shirt on his body three or two times, and put the sweater on his body in one go, ignoring the burrs.

Thirsty, Zhou Zimo ran to the table, picked up the half pot of water and was about to drink two sips, but a piece of paper fell with his movements, he bent down to pick it up, this piece of paper was only half a sheet, the other half was gone, and it was Ling Ju's own handwriting.