Chapter 4: Open the Door! Open the door! (Above)
Time never stops for anyone......
Opening and closing his eyes again, Xiao Ye lived a little longer, and touched the two sons who were still sleeping in his arms, and his body temperature seemed to have dropped a little, which was good news.
Through the blood-red eyes, I could see that it was a sunny day outside the window.
Xiao Ye lay on the ground, quietly feeling his body. Yesterday I had a full meal, and it seems that my condition is much better. I tried to move my hands and feet, but it was still very stiff and painful, but it seemed that the pain of moving was much less than the tearing pain of yesterday, and I wonder if I was used to it.
Or is your physical condition improving? Won't die? Won't turn into a zombie? What about the sons?
OK! OK! Although the two little ones are still bare and ugly, they sleep peacefully and breathe not as quickly as yesterday. From time to time, the toothless mouth sticks out its long tongue and licks its nose and its own hands.
Everything seemed to be developing for the better, and Xiao Ye had a glimmer of hope. First he tried to get up, yes no longer crawling, crawling on all fours. Every time I move, the bones still 'rattle', and the pain seems to be really smaller than when I got up yesterday. Very good.
Slowly~slowly~ he finally did it, and then he learned to see his sons just wake up, with his hands stretched out, his chest on the ground, and his legs and buttocks up.
There was a crunching sound between the bone joints, and occasionally the sound of some tendons being straightened and stretched. Lie down, get up, get down, get up, and repeat the cycle several times. Xiao Ye once again felt the refreshing feeling brought by exercise, although he still couldn't stand up, it was enough to make him feel that the hope of survival increased by another point.
Relying on the instant noodles and other materials stored at home and the fact that there is no power outage so far, Xiao Ye lives on all fours like his two sons. The first thing I did after I was full was to take a bath for myself and my two sons. After washing away the blood and dirt all over his body, he lay comfortably in the bathtub, looking at his sons, who were also shouting happily in the small bathtub, and it seemed that everything was starting to get better.
The recovery speed of the two guys is really good, much faster than Xiao Ye's recovery.
Three days later, the sons were able to run slowly, and Xiao Ye was finally able to stand up again.
It's just that in the past few days, his teeth and nails have been lost. At first, he was careful to protect them, but it turned out to be very unsatisfactory. From the eyes that have recovered to a pale red, looking at the teeth on the hands that were broken and then falling out due to calcification, and then looking at the blood that oozes half red and half black after falling nails, is there any salvation from this?
With a worried heart, I spent a week.
Xiao Ye was happy again, he looked at the soft fluff and nails that had just grown on his two sons' bodies, and the white canine teeth that Xiao Lotus had just shown their sharp corners in the gums......
The word "rebirth" occupies the whole mind.
One man, two puppies.
We can live.
Day after day......
The good power supply system finally died after more than two months of heavy rain in the last days.
Thankfully, the water supply system is still functioning.
Until the moment before the power outage, there was still a computer on the Internet, and I still didn't receive a message from my wife Zhang Xue, it seems that ......
Xiao Ye's body has fully recovered, and he has a feeling that his physique is better than before the apocalypse. That state is like myself in my early twenties, with numb legs and feet, no soreness in my waist, and no pain in my back. And this good momentum is still strengthening day by day. The strength is getting bigger, the jumps are getting higher and higher, and the reflexes are getting faster and faster.
Standing in front of the mirror, I looked at myself seriously, looking at the skin that was getting tighter and more elastic, with a sickly white that had not seen the sun for a long time. The hair that had just grown out was no longer pure black in the sunlight, but had a color that looked like burgundy and deep purple. The whites of the eyes are no longer white, they are red. It's not the kind of blood-streaked red, like a thin pair of blood-red contact lenses, with a faint layer covering the whites of the eyes. The color of the pupils also changed, not black nor red, more like the purple-black color of the blood that had clotted after a few days.
The whole is still the same as it was, plus those red and purple elements, the facial features are more distinct and profound, and it looks a little more mysterious and demonic.
The appearance of the new student is quite handsome.
Wife, you know what? Your teasing husband didn't die, he became handsome......
Wife, you know what? My sons and I miss you so much............
The rice in the rice jar is empty, and the reserves are eaten up......
Except for half a bag of ten kilograms of dog food, there is nothing to eat?
No, no, no~and~~
Xiao Ye quickly opened the door of the guest room, and lifted the mattress and bed board of the guest room in three or two clicks, and several piles of materials were neatly placed under the bed board.
There are two polar backpacks, one large and one small, the black 60-liter bag is Xiao Ye's own, and the green and white 40-liter bag is his wife Zhang Xue's.
The contents of the backpack are not needed for the time being, and the other piles are life-saving supplies, so there is no need to put them aside first.
The most important thing is the three army green tin boxes, which contain everything that is food.
A box full of compressed biscuits, another box of 30 packs of self-heating food, and the last box of 20 cans of high-heat canned food, including 10 cans of meat, 10 cans of bamboo shoots, beetroot vegetables.
These things were bought and stored by the two husbands and wives in 2012, when there was a lot of uproar that year. The production date is 11 years, so many years have passed, it has long expired, and I don't know if I will have diarrhea after eating.
But but, but~~ It's better to have diarrhea than starvation.
His plan was to continue to sustain life with these expired military foods, to see if his body would continue to develop in a better direction during this time, and get rid of this weak state. As soon as the normal level is restored, his next plan is to leave the sheep market with his two sons according to the escape routes and locations discussed with friends around 2012 at the time, and go to find a suitable place to survive.
Determined to be a real, veritable, farming flow author. It would be better if you could meet a thigh with some superpowers on the way, and you could get by after hugging it.
Yes, Xiao Ye's character is like this.
The good thing is to be at ease with what happens, and the bad thing is to have no ambitions.
The cautious Xiao Ye was not in a hurry to eat expired self-heating food, even if there was rice and meat in it, he held back. I just opened a can of braised fish, took out a small piece and made do with a packet of compressed biscuits, and filled my stomach to cope with a meal. After all, relatively speaking, the shelf life of self-heating food is a little worse than that of tin cans, and fully dehydrated compressed biscuits are a little better than canned food.
After eating, he took out a telescope from his polar backpack, which was not a very good thing, just a 10X50 foldable telescope worth more than 300. But such an ordinary telescope is enough for him to look around.
Since there is a plan to escape from the sheep market, it has become the first priority to observe, familiarize yourself with the zombies, and formulate an escape route.
Sitting on the balcony and looking at the empty road outside the residential area is a sense of peace and quiet.
Of course, this kind of tranquility is just an illusion, and it is absolutely terrifying to look at the scene in the nearby residential house through the glass window. Zombies that go into a 'hibernation' state because they have no food are lying on their stomachs or lying down, all hiding in places where the sun does not shine.
After searching for a long time, Xiao Ye finally found a zombie in activity in the opposite building. It was a fat aunt zombie, with purple and black skin, bleeding facial features, and in addition to white hair, the image was very similar to her previous self. Through the telescope, it seems to be chasing a small animal, it should be a Persian cat that is not mutated, but not very agile.
This is half a day, and the zombies are basically the same as the film and television descriptions. Slow in movement, stiff in body, sensitive in senses, and seemingly endless in strength. Luckily, the fat cat still had some instinct, relying on jumping on the high refrigerator, or hiding under the TV cabinet to escape the pursuit and struggle.
But Xiao Ye still didn't think much of the fat cat, because no matter where it hid, the aunt zombie would find it quickly.
After the sun went down, Xiao Ye couldn't continue to observe. After a day, he didn't have diarrhea or vomiting, and basically confirmed that there should be no problem with expired food. Eagerly, he opened a box of self-heating packages, added the remaining canned braised fish to heat it up, and used a lighter to light the quilt, pillows and bed boards in the guest room to light a small bonfire with a pot of water on it.
After eating and drinking, he took out a woodcutter about half a meter long with a small hook at the top from his backpack and opened it with a whetstone placed in the kitchen. While polishing, I was thinking about how the zombie acted during the day, and then simulating in my mind the scene of my own battle with it. Now the body is still very weak, and when the strength recovers, I will conduct drills, and whether I can break out of the encirclement with my two sons depends on it.
Another week has passed......
I don't know if it was from those greasy military foods to supplement sufficient nutrition, Xiao Ye's physical fitness has grown rapidly in this week, and he has returned to the best state of his youth three days ago. It wasn't until yesterday that he did 200 push-ups in his room, and then ran and swung his knife for more than half an hour, that he was so tired that he had to stop and rest.
Xiao Ye's dress today is completely inconsistent with the hot summer dressing style of Yangshi. He wore plastic-painted gloves on his hands, a pair of outdoor combat boots, jeans and a denim shirt, and a military goggles and headlamp in addition to a mask on his face. This is to go desperately, you can only choose the hardest and most resistant clothes that do not affect the flexibility to wear, and you can't take care of so many things that are warm in winter and cool in summer.
Standing in front of the full-length mirror, carefully confirming that not much meat was exposed, he picked up a firewood knife and a stainless steel pot lid and walked to the door.
'Quack~~Squeak~', the door that had not been opened for a long time was slowly opened, and at the same time, there was a voice of protest.
Pulling open the wooden door and separating the iron door, Xiao Ye quietly observed the dark corridor in front of him that had lost its electric lighting.
'Bang~Bang~Bang~'
"Anyone? I'm a resident of 3508, and I have a living person to say. ”
Xiao Ye knocked on the iron door a few times with the back of his knife, and shouted. If there are zombies in the hallway, they should come according to the sound, and if there are living people, there should also be an echo, which can minimize the possibility of being attacked.
Xiao Ye lives on a total of 36 floors, with eight households on the first floor, his house is 3508, the farthest opposite is 3505, and the left side is 3506 and 3507.
The closest to his home is 3507, the two doors are less than two meters apart, whether it is a zombie or a living person, the first person to react should be here.
Sure enough, only a moment later, 3507 heard the sound of 'bang~bang~bang', which was the sound of flesh hitting the wooden door, followed by the standard zombie's 'whoop~~' roar and 'hiss~hiss~' scratching the door......
Number... Well, it should be a lot of corpses.
Immediately afterwards, similar zombie movements came from the same building one after another. Sure enough, if you want to meet a noble person before you go out, that doesn't exist.
Without rushing to act, Xiao Ye listened carefully to the movements of 3507. It was originally a dormitory, and there were more than four boys who worked in a nearby restaurant. From the movement, it can be heard that behind the two-story door, there are at least three little brothers who have been transformed into zombies.
How many zombies there are in 3507, Xiao Ye doesn't care too much. Because he didn't plan to go in at all, he just had to make sure they couldn't get out.
First of all, it is impossible for the dormitory to have too many supplies in stock.
Secondly, Xiao Ye will not open the lock, not to mention that the 3507 anti-theft door is still the kind of push-pull telescopic iron door, if you want to push it with brute force, it is not possible, you must have a strong tool, and he does not have a lock picking tool.
The target he chose was 3505 directly opposite.
Why?
First of all, 3505 does not have an security door, only a wooden door.
Secondly, 3505 is a family of three, and the child has just been born.
At most, he had to deal with two and a half zombies.
In terms of supplies, there are at least more than ten cans of milk powder, which can supplement calcium for yourself and your two sons.
Half a month before the doomsday storm came, Xiao Ye took the courier with the male owner opposite. Two boxes of ten cans of well-known brands, dead and heavy, I helped him get a box out of kindness. I still remember that when I got on the elevator, I knew that I was a Dink, and he still had a sense of honor as a father, and tried every possible way to persuade himself to change his mind and want a real blood child.
It can really be said that good intentions are rewarded. There are so many milk powders, it is impossible to drink them all, so his family is the first choice.
After knocking patiently for about thirty minutes, it will definitely not be like in the movie, and suddenly a zombie will come behind him and take such a bite. If that zombie could flash or take a slight step, it would be bad luck for Xiao Ye.
Otaku, it's finally time to go out.