No one likes to flee, but in a desolate land, you can't tell where you can go and where you can't.

Du Xiaowei's hometown is in Shihezi. In the Northwest Territories, it is a very prosperous big city. The key to survival in the early days of the virus outbreak was to escape the city as quickly as possible, and to walk towards a place with fewer people, the safer it was. On the day of the outbreak, Du Xiaowei happened to be in class at school, and together with a few classmates, he secretly ran to the carport to ride their respective bicycles and wander around the street.

The life of displacement lasted for more than half a year. Now, even Du Xiaowei himself has forgotten why he came to Wusu in the first place. It seems that I heard that this place is safer than Shihezi, and it seems that a classmate has a distant relative here. As I walked, my classmates died one by one. There is no way, the large amount of fat accumulated in the body in peacetime is quickly consumed in a state of long-term starvation. Several of his classmates were starved to death, and one was caught by other survivors on the road.

What happened that day was very bloody, and Du Xiaowei still remembers it vividly———— it was his tablemate, walking on the road and twisting his foot, only to be targeted by a group of hungry survivors. They were obviously bullying Du Xiaowei and others to be young, and they rushed up and grabbed Du Xiaowei and his tablemates. Fortunately, Du Xiaowei reacted quickly, opened his mouth and bit the back of the hand of the guy who grabbed his shoulder, and took advantage of the pain of the other party to let go, and hurriedly ran as fast as possible.

The same table died. He was beheaded on the spot by those men with long knives. The survivors happily carried the corpses, and did not waste their heads rolling to the side of the road covered with mud. Their makeshift shack is on the side of the road. Du Xiaowei ran hundreds of meters, and then secretly turned back, using the monoculars he got in the toy store, with tears in his eyes, watching the group of madmen disemboweling themselves at the same table, washing them with clean water and burying them, and wrapping the naked corpses of their fellow tables with large pieces of leaves. Then he took a lot of pebbles from the nearby river, burned them in the fire until they were hot, and stuffed them into the abdomen of the corpse with fire tongs. Finally, the wounds on the surface of the corpse were closed, covered with leaves as usual, and a layer of slimy mud was pasted on the outside, and placed in the pre-dug soil pit.

That very famous dish, called flower chicken, is such a method. Human corpses are not much different from chicken corpses, they are both meat, and if you don't consider the length of barbecue time and the quality of the meat, it is a good choice in post-apocalyptic cuisine.

Du Xiaowei didn't dare to trust strangers anymore. He was afraid that he would be caught and eaten by the other survivors like his tablemates. It is said that society is the most filthy big dye vat, in fact, there is another saying in this sentence———— life is the best teacher.

He meets a girl who is about his own age. It was a rainy night, dark and dreary, and it was wet outside, just like the water storage tank in God's house was smashed by Sima Guang, and the pouring rain almost overwhelmed the whole world. Du Xiaowei was lucky and found a cave to shelter from the rain. He lit a fire and roasted a few rats he caught on his way. It's just that he really doesn't have much experience in the wild, and the fire in the dark attracts a girl.

Du Xiaowei was reluctant to think of her name, because he felt heartache every time.

She is also a survivor, and it was because of the chance encounter that night that Du Xiaowei got guidance and came to Wusu.

The girl's understanding of survival is obviously much deeper than Du Xiaowei's. She offered to spend the night with Du Xiaowei, and the reward she had to pay was to let her go into the cave to shelter from the rain, roast the fire to keep warm, and then share half a roasted mouse.

In this way, Du Xiaowei completed the transformation from a boy to a man.

There were many survivors outside the city of Usu. At that time, it had not been long since the outbreak of the virus, and zombies had not yet evolved into living corpses. Although there are already three major gangs outside the city, and there is also a group with the name "savior", Yang Wei is not yet the leader of the gang. That's just a small group of about six hundred people. It's not so much a gang of survivors as a way for them to hug each other and work together to deal with problems and fight against foreign enemies.

Like all dynasties in human history, gangs were cohesive in their early days. At this time, the prestige of the gang leader is good, and he has a great appeal to the survivors. In particular, they proposed the principle of "equitable distribution of food according to the needs of each person", which was supported by many survivors. Du Xiaowei and his girlfriend are also among them. They opted in.

It was a very primitive social structure. All gang members were to be assigned to hunt, plow, mend clothes or pulp, repair machinery, etc., according to their abilities. Du Xiaowei was assigned to the 11th hunting team, and his girlfriend was arranged to be responsible for tidying up the housekeeping in the camp. Strictly speaking, the amount of food distributed each day is not too large to be full, but there is no problem in surviving. At that time, the leader of the team was very kind and a very good middle-aged man. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long, and he was killed by another power-hungry guy and replaced him.

That's when the nightmare began. After the ** came to power, he engaged in the cultivation of cronies, bragging and flattering and sycophants, and all of them were promoted and became captains and supervisors. People who are really willing to work hard are kicked aside and are given only a little bit of bad quality food every day. Of course, the unfair treatment aroused the opposition of the people, so when they went out hunting, they did not work one by one, and when they saw someone catching prey, they rushed up to fight for it...... If there are more such things, no one will be stupid and take the initiative again. But the problem of hunger is so real that even drinking water and eating air cannot satisfy it.

When people's hearts are scattered and their interest fades, there is no sense of cohesion. There were fewer and fewer people in the gang, and one by one they slipped away quietly without saying hello or making a sound. The original size of the gang was thousands of people, but later there were less than 300 people left. It's just that those guys who control power are still drunk and dreaming of death, and one by one they are sitting on the big dreams of the Spring and Autumn Festival such as "Lao Tzu wants to become the biggest leader in the district".

Du Xiaowei also wanted to leave, but after all, he was still young and had too little social experience. Many young people hesitate when they encounter problems, and few are able to make the right choice in a short period of time. He also wanted to wait a few days to see if things would get better. After all, after encountering so many things in the wilderness, Du Xiaowei can still know that only by gathering with more people can he be safe. Especially the zombies in the city are moving towards the outside of the city, they don't care about the good guys and bad guys, as long as they catch it, it's food.

Girlfriend gets her eye on a drunk guy. That ** actually doesn't know anything, and always puts on a show in public, saying that he used to be a member of the XXXX faction and a full-time driver for the XXXX leader. On that day, Du Xiaowei went out hunting and was delayed for a long time, and the ** broke into the shack of him and his girlfriend and took his girlfriend away...... When Du Xiaowei came back happily with a hare in the evening, the whole person was completely stunned.

The neighbor who has a good relationship with him quietly tells him: If you want to open up, forget about your girlfriend! Because she's dead.

She was ravaged by several men in turn. If that's all there is, you won't die. But those guys drank too much alcohol, and they were stimulated by alcohol and had very terrible visions. After they vented, they imagined Du Xiaowei's girlfriend lying on the ground and dying as a female zombie with teeth and claws...... Her clothes were forcibly torn and turned ragged. The skin on his body was covered in blood from the fingernails of the drunks in the process of being subjected to violence. His hair was scattered, and his body was hit hard again and again in the confusion, and his shoulders and cheeks became swollen and bruised...... In short, if someone who doesn't know what is going on suddenly sees this situation, he will definitely take it for granted that this is a zombie.

One by one, the drunks howled and ran out of the room where they had finished venting their atrocities. They were timid and mean, shouting at anyone they saw, speaking incoherently and incoherently saying things that no one could understand, and their faces were full of tears and snot. Many people gathered in a frightened manner, and finally someone understood the word "zombie" from their slurred, drunken voices. Following the direction of the drunks' fingers, people saw the open room, and saw Du Xiaowei's girlfriend lying on the ground crawling with difficulty, trying to stand up, but being tortured to the point that she couldn't speak.

It was a painful tragedy of frustration. When more than a dozen long knives fell from the air, splitting Du Xiaowei's girlfriend into countless small pieces in an instant, people realized that they had made a mistake. By this time, the drunks had already fled and ran to the safest place. Whether it is their responsibility or not, it doesn't matter whether these things are related to them or not.

The biggest difference between a chaotic world and a peaceful world is the law. The weak, especially women, have no so-called survival guarantee in a chaotic world, and only strong men have the right to speak, and can be respected and feared by others.

From beginning to end, no one found Du Xiaowei and apologized to him, or even a word or two of apology. People don't think it's a big deal. It's just that an ordinary woman died. He is not the main man in charge of hunting in the gang, nor is he the technician who is indispensable for the maintenance of machinery. This kind of woman is also a waste of food when she lives, and when she dies, she dies.

If you just want to get a physical release, then you can find a woman wherever you go. A roasted vole will allow them to sleep with you. The so-called "girlfriends" and "couples" only make people laugh when they say it.

That kind of relationship is stupid. That means that men have to put in more physical strength and energy to find more food to feed the women around them for free.

Because of these thoughts and realities, no one thinks that there is anything wrong with killing Du Xiaowei's girlfriend, and there is no need to apologize at all.