Chapter 4: "Pretending to be a Man"

The cool breeze that had not been felt for a long time swept through the street trees on the side of the road on this silent morning, and they were completely unaffected by the killing of the world, but now they swayed happily.

Retracting his gaze to the treetops, Meng Qingqiang slowly drove the truck, although the road is not wide, but the two-way two-lane road with bicycle lanes on both sides can also be passed smoothly on weekdays, but now he has to drive carefully, because there are too many "debris" on the road, at least he doesn't know if he has crushed the white bones exposed to the air, will he be broken and punctured tires, fortunately, most of the vehicles are either quietly parked on the side of the road, or have already rushed up and overturned on the sidewalk, or even rushed into the shops on the side of the road, Even if there is an occasional one in the way, he can drive it out of the way.

Meng Qingqiang's first stop was a pharmacy, and he planned it last night, after all, it was the body that was broken, and it was better to go to the pharmacy, so he couldn't go to the tailor's shop.

Meng Qingqiang, who was driving slowly, looked out of the car from time to time, there was a miserable scene on the road, and occasionally he could see the figure of the "same kind", like animals in the wilderness, they wandered alone or in groups, they also needed food, meat was the only food of interest, broken corpses, human, animal, cooked, rotten can be, and even passing by yesterday's convenience store, Meng Qingqiang also found that there were two or three "corpses" tearing apart the guys he killed yesterday, but they would not attack the "living" kind, This is already very similar to animals, because some animals also eat the corpses of their own dead kind, and of course their favorite is probably living humans, after all, all kinds of signs indicate their crazy state when facing living flesh.

"Corpse Man" is the name Meng Qingqiang gave to these monsters, he doesn't want to admit that he is the same as them, he can distinguish them by giving a special name, "Corpse Man" and "Meng Qingqiang" are not the same names!

Seeing that the pharmacy was in front of him, Meng Qingqiang's mood was inexplicably happy, yes, he was happy, although he had become a monster and the world was apocalyptic, but he was still happy, his wife and children were alive and well, which was the greatest relief for him, and it was enough for him to protect them.

At first glance, it will be incomprehensible, but the reason actually has a lot to do with his long-term situation, he became an orphan at a young age and experienced too many hardships on the way to grow up, which created his extremely tenacious character, and after getting a terminal illness, he had to endure the torture of illness on the one hand, face the fear of death, on the other hand, he had to endure the appearance of a normal person in front of his family, and at the same time he had to make plans for his death. Two years of hellish life forged him even more beyond ordinary people, and finally admired the whole process of his death and incineration. This series of experiences made him even if his body did not become a monster in reality, he was already close to a "monster" in his heart. That's why he's quick to accept everything.

Slowly parking the car at the door of the pharmacy, Meng Qingqiang jumped out of the car and stood at the back of the car with a double hammer in his hand, and soon a group of "corpse men" who followed arrived, but when they found that there was nothing noteworthy except for a fellow of the same kind staring at them, they slowly dispersed.

Meng Qingqiang, who entered the pharmacy, was a little disappointed, he didn't find anything that could stitch himself, he recalled, a little further ago, there seemed to be a Western medicine clinic, he remembered that there should be a simple stitch of wounds, since this business was carried out, then there should be what he needed, so that he didn't have to really go to the tailor's shop. There are many and complete types of medicines in the pharmacy.

"No one has ever visited here, so the disaster hasn't happened for long." Meng Qingqiang, who came to an inference, took action.

After a long time, when the people who came to collect resources came to this pharmacy, they were very surprised, and at the same time they couldn't figure out what kind of powerful person could leisurely move a pharmacy under the gaze of a large pile of corpses.

It was at that clinic that he finally found the surgical sutures and crochet needles he was looking for, and he packed a lot of surgical instruments and related medical equipment. You're all set. It's finally time to start giving yourself a full body facelift. But instead of doing it right away at the clinic, he drove to the clothing store.

After walking through two clothing stores, Meng Qingqiang finally "purchased" enough clothes for his family, I have to say that he thought very thoughtfully, whether it was his wife or children, he carefully selected a lot of clothes from the inside out, adhering to the principle of strong and dirt-resistant, the clothes were basically selected sportswear or casual wear, and even he chose a few down jackets, after all, it is already autumn, I don't know when the weather will get cold, or plan early. After loading the clothes, Meng Qingqiang finally set off for the place where he changed his clothes, the Sun Rain Public Bath.

Meng Qingqiang, who walked into the bath hall, hesitated, and still chose to enter the men's guest area, not because he still abides by the moral standards of being a human being, but in the state of power outage, there is no running water, and the men's bath is his best choice.

The situation inside is very bad, when people face the monster nakedly, the effect is far more tragic than the situation outside, and the corridor that the men's bath bends back to also trap a few corpses, just like the situation of not seeing long eyes when visiting the store today, Meng Qingqiang used an increasingly comfortable claw hammer to blow their heads, and the wooden handle of one of them was also broken, and it was only then that Meng Qingqiang realized that the strength of his body was far beyond ordinary people, This also explains why he could have smashed his skull with a normal brick last night, knowing that a human skull is the hardest part of the body.

Two of the three pools are mixed with the residue of the corpse, which has been filthy, and fortunately there is a pool where the water is still clean, this should be low-temperature, and the old and young masters who generally soak in the pool like to go to the hotter pool to show their male nature.

Meng Qingqiang, who stripped off all his clothes, did not jump directly into the pool, after all, his current stomach is "open", if it is as direct as water, the consequences will be very unbearable, he took the bucket of the bath master and made a bucket of water, and picked up his bath tool and slowly washed it.

The clear water rushed through all kinds of wounds, only the touch but not the stinging sensation, and the corpses were monsters who did not know pain. After carefully washing inside and out, the skin clearly showed pale red and dark green, and at this time, Meng Qingqiang found that his skin was slightly different from other corpses, the red on his skin was very light except for the stump leg, and the color of those things that looked like blood vessels was much darker, almost black. If he hadn't seen a lot of corpses during this time, he really wouldn't have been able to find them.

After cleaning, he took out the prepared surgical scissors, came to the finishing mirror to trim his hair, but found that the cleaned hair was bald, so he simply picked up the razor on the finishing table and hung up the hair completely, then he remembered that there were no dark green blood vessels on the corpse's face, and now he knew that there were no blood vessels on the top of the head, and it seemed that these blood vessels piercing the skin from the neck should be concentrated on the "big neurons" in the brain.

Finally, he took out his needle and thread, and began to stitch up the wounds on his body starting from his face in the mirror, and his eyes had exploded, so he simply sewed the upper and lower eyelids together. Thanks to the life of orphans, Meng Qingqiang's sewing skills are surprisingly good, the fine stitches are difficult to see that this is from a man's hand, after sewing the face, neck and limbs of Meng Qingqiang began to sew his "door curtain" again, he found that the skin of the human belly is particularly malleable, originally the skin of the abdomen was missing a large piece due to tearing, but after pulling hard, it was all sealed with a small skin on the big hole in the belly. When he stitched up a few deep wounds on his back, he found that his arm could be folded to his back at a large angle that was unreasonable, and he thought that he would need to have his wife stitch it up later.

It's almost afternoon after everything is over, and looking at his face full of sutures in the mirror, Meng Qingqiang feels very familiar, isn't this the living Frankenstein. It's so ugly, so he took out a bandage and wrapped it all over his body up and down to his neck, and Frankenstein became a mummy again. Visually, it's better to be a mummy, at least in the future, it can pretend to be a full-body burn patient or something, and it can also cover the blood vessels.

The moment he walked out of the bath, Meng Qingqiang, who was dressed in clean sportswear and wearing a peaked cap, suddenly felt a little nervous, because he was going to face "his" wife and children.

"I've tried my best to pretend to be people, but I still can't estimate their reactions" Meng Qingqiang, who had sewed up his trachea, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and walked towards his truck facing the sunset.