After uncovering a municipal manhole cover from an eerie underpass, we came to a meadow. After a few days of investigation, we know that this is the closest street park to the mall.

It was raining heavily, and the raindrops were hurting on my body. In the hazy rain, you can also see some rockeries, fish ponds, stone statues and swings. Without human pruning, weeds are growing wildly to cover the gravel path, bare rocks and stone benches are covered with moss, and it won't be long before this park will be unrecognizable, right? Maybe in a little longer, the whole city will be eroded by the primeval forest.

"Li Chen, Guan Fei, come and help!" Lu Feng's voice came from underground. We immediately ran over and fetched a long sack, followed by another. There were 12 bags in total, filled with the remains of the deceased.

There were more than 20 people on the first day of the underground supermarket, and now more than half of them are gone. My still wounded shoulder began to sore again. Looking at the neatly lined sacks in front of me, I felt a little sad, because I couldn't even tell which one was Xiaorou, which one was Li Peiran, which one was Su Yalun, and which one was Fang Bin.

Five days have passed, and my wounds are healing day by day, but the body is decomposing day by day, and we have to move all the bodies to the park for burial. All the pits had been dug beforehand, and as long as the body was lowered and buried in the soil, the dead could be buried in the ground.

"Let the old decay dig the rest of the pit, and you will bury them." Ye Lao said.

I grabbed the shovel with one hand, "No, let me do it!" ”

Originally, as an injured person, I was supposed to stay in the underground mall, but in order to give them a ride, I persevered. At least let me do my part for these friends.

Guan Fei and I continued to dig the grave, while Lu Feng and Ye Lao took the body out of the sack and put it in the soil. Xiao Lin and Xiao Jiu scattered the prepared flowers and some small items into the pit one after another. I heard Xiao Lin sobbing quietly, and the atmosphere was depressing.

The rain was non-stop, and the sky was full of thunder and lightning. Although the visibility around us was not high, we were safe because the rain washed away our smell, the sound of the rain dripped our sound, and it was not easy for the walking corpse to be found.

Every time I dig it, I feel a slight pain in my shoulder, but this pain is just right to offset the pain in my heart a little. After digging for a while, I suddenly stopped, because I saw Lu Feng carefully picking up Xiao Rou's body.

The petite body was already black and rotten in some places, but the face was beautiful, quiet, smiling, as if it had never died.

I pressed my forehead against the handle of the shovel, and I felt a wave of vertigo in my head. I haven't had a good night's sleep these days, and the horrible, desperate, and tragic dreams have been tormenting me and making me afraid to fall asleep. Sometimes I feel lucky that no matter how bad the injury is, the injury will always get better little by little, but once I cross the blurred line of life and death, my body will never get better. Xiao Rou crossed this line, so she could only follow us forever.

I silently said in my heart: "Thank you (Xiaorou) for meeting you, I hope you can also smile on the road to bliss......"

I gritted my teeth, scooped up a handful of dirt, and poured it into the grave. Xiao Lin came over and held my hand, crying quietly.

Finally closed the last batch of soil, Xiao Jiu inserted the prepared spirit card, which read, "Qu Rourou, a good partner in the last days, thank you for bringing us hope, I wish you all the best!" ”

We reluctantly mourned in silence, and since then our faces have been taken away by her, and remorse and remembrance have made us miss our deaths.

Then there was Alan Su and Lili Song, and we put them in the same grave. Suddenly, I don't know if it was because his body was tilted or the mud was slippery, Su Aaron's hand was on Song Lili's hand.

At this time, even Xiao Jiu couldn't help but burst into tears. If it weren't for them, we would have been the walking dead. The shelter that belonged to them is still providing us with food and safety, yet they themselves died.

Their spirit tablets read: "Our benefactors Su Aaron and Song Lili, you have brought light but reaped darkness, may you continue to love each other in heaven!" ”

Then we buried the dogs and others. Guan Fei plunged the shovel head down into the dirt, and said on his back: "Li Chen, it's raining so hard today!" ”

I saw a trickle of water running down from the corner of his eye, probably rain!

I also looked up, and the rain was coming down from the corner of my eye, "Well, it's raining so hard!" ”

"Li Chen, what should they do?"

Lu Feng pointed to the two remaining corpses, Fang Bin and Li Peiran.

I gritted my teeth and finally said, "Bury them too." ”

Lu Feng nodded in agreement.

I suddenly remembered a sermon from an English poet:

“

No man is an island,

can be isolated,

All people are part of the vast earth,

As long as the sea washes away a piece of the mud on the seashore,

Europe lost that piece forever,

Like a headland that has lost a horn,

As if you or your friend's home has lost a part,

Anyone's death makes me suffer,

Because I'm a member of the human race,

Don't ask for whom the bell is tolling,

It will sound for you.

”

Yes, no one is immune, anyone's death has something to do with themselves, whether we want to or not, we must admit that the entire human race is facing a catastrophe, and whose death will make the human race a step towards extinction.

I used to think that other people's life and death have nothing to do with myself, and even thought, the world is overcrowded, why don't you kill a few more of them? Until the end of the world really comes, that trembling, that despair, that watching a loved one die and not being able to do anything about it...... Really, no one can stay out of it anymore.

"Senior...... You once told me to let me adapt to the world as soon as possible......" Xiao Lin said with a sob, "Why can't I adapt to ...... all this time?"

I was silent, not knowing how to respond.

"Li Chen, it's time to go!" Lu Feng reminded me.

As the rain stopped, the lush green courtyard began to clear, and the torii and corridors of the park were tightly wrapped in vines and plants, making it a small oasis.

Countless swaying figures began to appear in my field of vision, and the sound of "rustling" rubbing on the grass sounded, and I knew that the time for mourning was over, and we had to survive.

I looked back at the people who had been sleeping underground and jumped into the sewers.