The lighting of a few candles brought a lot of light to the small hardware store, and the yellow light that seemed to bring warmth made the family who had experienced the separation of life and death feel the peace and warmth that they had not seen for a long time.

The little guy was eating snacks by candlelight on the bed, and looked at the cartoons brought back by Meng Qingqiang with relish. The husband and wife sat facing each other.

After recognizing each other just now, Meng Qingqiang returned to the car and took some daily necessities, food and water, and the reunited husband and wife did not immediately tell each other about their situation after separation, and the tacit understanding of life for many years has been deeply embedded in each other. In the small bathroom in the store, they first bathed their son with a large bucket of pure water, and the little guy who hadn't taken a bath for a long time happily kept making a splash, and every time a splash hit his father's rabbit mask, he always let out a crisp smug laugh.

I have to say that children are really amazing sometimes, on the one hand, they are easily frightened and even have psychological shadows. But once you realize that you are safe under the wing of your parents, you will quickly let go of your worries, focus on the things you like, and adapt to the new environment much better than adults. After helping the little guy change into new clothes, his wife refused Meng Qingqiang's request to help, went in and started to wash himself, and he who was kicked out of the bathroom also took advantage of this time to clean up the room.

He placed several shelves horizontally in the third of the room by the door, leaving only a very narrow passage between the shelves and the wall, and then he found a few wooden boards for decoration and used screws and wires to cover the outward-facing side of the shelves and stitch them together, so that the hardware store was divided into two rooms, one large and one small, and then piled up most of the goods that were not needed in the store outside the door several times.

The light and sound attracted some corpse onlookers, and whenever he noticed them approaching, Meng Qingqiang would stand outside the door with his newly equipped weapons in his hands, and roar to drive them away.

Speaking of new weapons, I have to mention that when Meng Qingqiang was packing up the inventory in the point just now, he found a few boxes of good things inside, and in one of the boxes turned out a few axes that looked like Indian battle axes, the head and handle of the axe were cast in one piece, and the shape was well-made, one side was a perfectly shaped axe blade, and the other side was processed into a sharp pickaxe tip, although there was no sharp edge, but under the addition of Meng Qingqiang's huge strength, it would show terrifying power, and the axe body was equipped with an axe sleeve that could be hung on the belt, and the axe weight that looked small was not light, and it was waved gently, There was a terrifying sound of breaking the sky. In addition to the fierce bravery of the double axe in hand, there are also military shovels, daggers, binoculars, sunglasses, telescopic sticks, etc.

And in the other box next to him, there were tactical gloves and military boots, five-pointed star armed belts and other things, while rummaging through the favorite items, Meng Qingqiang thought to himself: "Could it be that Lao Wang usually goes to the night market to set up a stall at night?" It's hard work. It's not easy for a bachelor to make a living! But he is really a noble man of our family, not only gave us the land, but also sent the equipment intimately, if he is expected to meet in the rivers and lakes in this life, I will definitely invite him to have a good drink"

Meng Qingqiang, who was slightly stunned, was overjoyed in the face of the many controlled knives he found, and he unceremoniously came to change his clothes, hanging a battle axe on the left and right sides of his armed belt, and putting on tactical gloves on his hands and suitable military boots under his feet.

After cleaning up for a while, Meng Qingqiang pulled down the roller shutter door of the hardware store and locked the anti-theft fence from the inside, and returned to the room, at this time the room was free of clutter, two simple folding beds were placed side by side against the wall on one side of the bed facing the door of the bathroom, and on the other side was the writing desk that the shopkeeper who moved in from the door usually placed at the door for cashier, and a simple table was also erected under the back window facing the door, and several plastic stools were placed around the table, and the table was full of food, Other daily necessities are placed on the empty shelves in the middle, and when you look around, you already feel a little home, although it is still very simple, but it is particularly warm in this cruel last days.

At this time, his wife Bai Ying had already come out of the bathroom and was sitting on a plastic stool to wipe her hair. Meng Qingqiang noticed that his wife cut her shoulder-length hair into short ear-length hair, which made her look a little more energetic.

Bai Ying looks very ordinary, but she has a pair of clear eyes, which can make people judge the strong and capable character of the owner at a glance. Bai Ying's family background is not very good, the single-parent family allows her to live independently as early as Meng Qingqiang, and she also has a perseverance in her bones, and people by analogy may be the reason why she and Meng Qingqiang finally came together, Bai Ying is a dentist, and the surgical equipment packed by Meng Qingqiang is also prepared for her.

The child had already slept, and the couple blew out the candles and sat down at the small table under the window, and the bright moonlight sprinkled a silvery white on them.

Meng Qingqiang gently took off the rabbit mask that he had brought all night, and took out a cigarette and wanted to light it, but after looking at the child, he put the cigarette back, Bai Ying looked at her husband who was full of scars and only one one-eyed face, and was a little stupid for a while, what should have been terrifying and hideous, under the light of this soft moonlight, it brought an inexplicable sense of security.

"I woke up and lost some of my memories, I can't remember anything after the disaster, how did we get here?" Meng Qingqiang broke the silence. Hearing her husband's words, Bai Ying was stunned for a moment, and then spoke softly.

Only then did Meng Qingqiang figure out the whole story. It turned out that the disaster had happened for a week, I have to say that their family was very lucky, that day the son had a holiday in the afternoon and Bai Ying was not sick, so he went to pick up the child and went home, and Meng Qingqiang also returned home early, but he didn't expect the original family happiness to be broken by the sudden noise, Meng Qingqiang, who went out to see the situation, saw the neighbor who rushed out of the door was pressed to the ground by his relatives and bitten wildly, quickly calmed down and returned home to lock the door, and then came to the balcony with his wife to check out.

What unbelievably cruel was presented before their eyes, with cries, screams, and crashing sounds piercing into their minds. After the couple returned to the room, they were also terrified, I don't know if it is the reason why the wife pays more attention to family and personal hygiene as a doctor or the husband and wife not only have the same immunity in personality but also in physical aspects, their family of three has not mutated, and Meng Qingqiang is an orphan, and the wife's only father also died a few years ago, so they have no relatives who are out of home, thinking of the husband and wife can not help but be a little happy.

In the next few days, they hid at home, hoping to get help from outside, but after a few days, there were no state agencies, and Bai Ying, who was more concerned about medicine as a doctor, deduced that this disaster might be related to the sudden appearance of the virus, if it was really like her inference, then the very large number of infected people would inevitably paralyze all the organs, and the surviving humans had become a rare breed, so I am afraid it would be difficult for them to get help from the state in a short time.

As the food and water at home were about to run out, Meng Qingqiang decided to take the risk of going out to collect supplies and find a way out to save himself, but Bai Ying's strong personality at this time made her insist on going with her husband and children, because she thought that once her husband had an accident, it would be difficult for the two of them to have a chance to survive, so it was better to go together, and die together.

So after some preparation, they took the opportunity to rush out of the house, but when they came downstairs and wanted to flee by car, they were desperate to find that the cars in the community had been blocked, and many people like them who wanted to escape by car failed, and with the vicious circle that followed, there was no possibility of escaping by car in the community. At this time, they were also discovered by the monster who heard the noise, and they had no choice but to run, and finally the husband was killed in order to protect his wife and children, and the surviving wife and children hid in this hardware store.

After saying this, Bai Ying reached out and gently touched her husband's face. "Thank God for giving us a glimmer of hope in this despair, answering my prayers, and giving you back to me as a mother and daughter."

Meng Qingqiang looked at his smiling wife, sighed, and told his wife about his experience after waking up. And also described her physical condition for her. After listening to her husband's description, Bai Ying lit a candle, then brought some tools and asked him to let him untie the bandages on his arms and legs, the shocking picture made her as a doctor gasp, through touch, Bai Ying found that these black blood vessels are surprisingly tough, different from the fragility of normal human blood vessels, even if you want to cut even a small blood vessel with a scalpel, you feel a certain resistance, which is not smooth at all, and the black substance flowing out of it is very viscous and very active, The ruptured blood vessels can be adhered to quickly, and it is believed that it will not take long to recover.

There is no doubt that these blood vessels and the substances inside are the root of the mutation, that is, the derivatives of T-Alpha. And its properties can definitely bring more power, faster speed, and great resilience to the corpse. Thinking of this couple, they looked at each other and expressed pessimism about the future of mankind at the same time.

But soon the two of them, who had gone through the ordeal, cheered each other on.

It was late at night, the two discussed, his wife returned to the children's side to rest, but Meng Qingqiang did not sleep with his wife and children, he came to the small room outside alone, sat in the middle of the room, facing the door on the single sofa, while keeping vigil and pondering, there were too many things to think about in his heart, but fortunately, all the plans are going smoothly at present, and he can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Now it's time to start a new plan.

I don't know how long I thought about it, but he slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep under the steady and gentle breathing of his wife and children.