Fu Hongyang's mind was a mess, and he didn't know how he spent the week in purgatory, and he was on the verge of collapse.

He thought of his parents who were working far away, his girlfriend at school, and his friends.

I don't know how they are doing now, whether they are waiting in the purgatory like themselves, or whether they have been buried in this purgatory shrouded in boundless haze.

"Mom, Dad, I miss you so much...... Xu Ya, I miss you so much......" Tears had unconsciously covered Fu Hongyang's cheeks.

I don't know how many times I cried.

When people are isolated and helpless, they always think of the people closest to them.

When the smog isolates the whole world and death occurs one after another, he knows that this world that is peaceful and the years are quiet is falling into the dark abyss.

Bang bang!

Someone was banging the iron door, accompanied by the roar of a wild beast.

The slender black dog lying at his feet, already dying, opened his eyes weakly and tried to raise his head, but in the end he only whimpered and closed his eyes.

If it weren't for the looming rise and fall of the abdomen, it would be no different from dead.

Fu Hongyang let his tears dry, took out his already dirty mask and put it on his face, touched the black dog's head, stood up and walked out of the already messy room. As soon as the door opened, a haze as thick as smoke rushed in, and he hurriedly closed the door to prevent the haze from pouring in.

Even through the mask, you can still smell the smell of something burning in the haze.

The sound of hitting the iron gate had stopped, and there were still bursts of wild beasts roaring outside the courtyard, but Fu Hongyang knew that it was not the sound of wild beasts—it was humans.

Someone who is already dead, to be exact.

Zombie.

Let's call it that.

He had seen the dead people who had fallen to the ground from the smog poisoning three days earlier, and had begun to rise from the ground one after another, and then had been wandering around like wild beasts. Some people in the village thought they had come back from the dead, and they were pleasantly surprised, and the rest was just like in the movie.

The living are eaten by zombies.

The difference is that zombies in the movie rarely really eat people, but just bite people to death, so that people continue to be infected into zombies. The zombies here are real cannibals, and they don't have any bones left.

Their bodies are unscarred, they walk like normal people, their five senses may be slightly weaker, and they move freely through the dense fog, searching for one living target after another.

Fu Hongyang didn't dare to go out, and he didn't dare to leave this small courtyard in his hometown.

The two tiled houses in the front, the two-story small building in the back, and the ordinary small courtyard in the countryside are all such structures.

He always stayed in front of the window of the room on the second floor, watching the zombies loom in the thick fog in disorder. But since yesterday, he didn't dare to stay on the second floor anymore and moved to live in a tiled house. Because the second floor was about to collapse, it was squeezed by the growing black tree (jiù) in the yard.

Keep your eyes on the thick trunk of a tree.

He whispered: "It's thicker again, it can be seen to the naked eye that it is thicker than an hour ago, and the canopy is getting thicker and thicker...... What is the virus in the haze that makes people become zombies and trees grow wildly? ”

He had asked himself such a question more than once in the past two days.

But there is no way to find an answer.

The cataclysm was sudden and unexpected!

The first day of the fog breakout, Thursday, March 4, 2021. In the morning, the mobile phone signal was cut off, the computers were still able to access the Internet, and the Internet was boiling and the discussion began to fog all over the world. Then in the afternoon, the power and internet began to go out, and then the smog became more and more severe, and you would feel a stinging pain like choking smoke when you breathed.

On that day, the old and young in the village still endured the choking haze and gathered together to discuss, and the next day no one dared to stay in the haze, because several old people in the village were directly choked to death.

The village cadres drove patrol cars and shouted at everyone to stay home with loudspeakers.

Fu Hongyang's distant relative, uncle, an old man from a five-guarantee household, was also choked to death by the haze, and when the village cadres went to carry the body, he also went to help. Although it didn't help much, at least he brought home the uncle's uncared black dog, which is said to be a Shaanxi fine dog.

During the summer vacation last year, a distant relative uncle picked it up out of nowhere. Because the two families are not far away, the black dog has been played with by him since he was a child, so he is very close to Fu Hongyang.

The name is Doudou, which he still gave him.

It is precisely because of the black dog Doudou that Fu Hongyang can survive to this day in the purgatory-like haze disaster. On the third day, almost all the old people left behind in the village fell, and many women and children also fell, even the young and strong men.

Except for a few bold people, no one dared to go out.

But who knew that from the fourth day, the dead people actually got up one after another, and pounced on the living like walking corpses.

Fu Hongyang hid on the second floor, often hearing terrifying screams in the haze and beast-like roars. I even saw three zombies with my own eyes, chasing a living person downstairs to his house. Before he could go downstairs and open the door to save people, the living were eaten by three zombies outside the wall.

The screams and the sound of chewing flesh made him tremble.

Smack.

Suddenly, a brick fell from the courtyard wall, pulling Fu Hongyang, who was caught in his memories, back to reality. When I looked up, the cracks in the wall of my yard were getting bigger and bigger, and the inclination was almost fifteen degrees, and it was about to collapse—the roots of the wall were raised high and uplifted by the roots of the black tree.

The crazy black tree has grown from the thick mouth of the bowl at the beginning to the thick bucket now.

It's hard to imagine that it took only seven days.

"The wall is going to fall, it's better to fall down early, end early, anyway, it's either eaten by zombies or starved to death......" Fu Hongyang thought a little numbly. Staying at home for a whole week, eating everything he could eat, and if he stayed up, he was afraid that he would not be able to resist eating the black dog beans.

It is also possible that Doudou suddenly recovered and ate him.

One man and one dog, all hungry all day.

"Shhh...... Roar! The zombies outside the wall seemed to be arguing, and there was not only a rapid roar, but also a thumping thump.

Fu Hongyang was a little interested, wanting to observe these zombies again. Two days ago, when the building was still alive, his way to kill boredom and vent his claustrophobic was to observe zombies.

Because the haze is too heavy, the appearance of the zombies is not very clear, but the movements of the zombies are very clear.

At first, there was a toddler feeling, and then it was no different from ordinary people, those zombies who were slumped on their backs and revived by the elderly, had the same light steps of young people. Fortunately, zombies don't climb the wall, otherwise Fu Hongyang's home would have been breached by zombies.

At this moment, he couldn't go to the building, and he didn't dare to climb the wall, so he glanced around and put the idea of climbing on the black tree.

The trunk of the tree is the thickness of a bucket, and the crown of the tree sticks into the haze, and it feels like it can be twenty meters high. The trunk of the tree does not go straight up, but grows diagonally towards the building, with a slope that can be climbed. Fu Hongyang gritted his teeth and endured the powerlessness of hunger to climb up.

After a few minutes, he managed to climb to the position of the first branch, and sat on it to gasp, and his vision could already be seen outside the wall.

Through the haze, you can see a large zombie, pushing away the normal zombies and trying to occupy another big tree outside the wall.

"The location of that tree should be the location of the original bark tree, right?" The "bark tree" mentioned by Fu Hongyang, whose scientific name is the tree of the tree, is a common tree in the rural areas of the Jianghuai region. This kind of tree often grows on the edge of the field, by the lake, on the side of the road, and on the corner of the wall, and it grows fast and has roots everywhere when it is useless.

It often plagues farmland and vegetable gardens.

This tree is one size smaller than the black tree in Fu Hongyang's house.

The larger zombie pushes away the normal zombie while screaming around the tree, as if it has something it wants. It's just that the canopy of the tree is obscured by the haze, and it's not clear what is on it.