Chapter 3: Overcoming Fear

Run into the bathroom, wash your face with cold water, dry it with a towel, raise your head, and look at yourself in the mirror.

Half a month of decadence and suffering, Ling Xiu looked vicissitudes, the stubble had completely grown into a beard, and his hair was unkempt, as if he had rubbed it vigorously with his hands. Regaining his faith, he picked up an electric beard sharpener and cleaned it up, then poured shampoo and squatted under the faucet to wash his hair again.

Although an electric water heater was installed in the bathroom, the electricity supply stopped on the first day of the end of the world, and it was impossible to wash your hair with hot water.

Of course, Ling Xiu could use the gas to boil hot water, but he wouldn't do that, because the bottled drinking water had already been drunk, and he had to keep the gas to boil the tap water to serve as drinking water.

After washing his hair and shaving his beard, the previous sloppy image was swept away, leaving him clean and tidy.

When I came to the window and looked downstairs, there were many zombies wandering slowly on the messy street, they moved slowly, and they looked like zombies in Plants vs. Zombies, but Ling Xiu knew that all this was an illusion, as long as they found traces of living people, they would act like chicken blood and instantly become swift.

"Gollum"

There was a protest in his stomach, Ling Xiu smiled obscurely, and his gaze swept towards the sentry box downstairs.

Because he was frightened, his other bag of supplies was left there at that time, and although half a month had passed, it was still lying there alone, like a homeless dog, sincerely waiting for its owner to come and claim it.

There is quite a lot of food in the supermarket, but the supermarket is too far away, and there are many people in the supermarket when the end of the world comes, and they may have turned into zombies now, and if they go to the supermarket, it can almost be said that they are dead.

Therefore, Ling Xiu put his mind on the bag of materials he had lost, as long as he brought that bag of materials back, he would be able to support him for another half a month.

The security guard box was about three hundred meters away, if it was usual, he would just go downstairs and swagger over, but now, Ling Xiu had to plan a course of action.

After observing the situation for a long time, but unable to find a reasonable path, I finally took a pen and paper and depicted the situation on the street, and used some special symbols to mark zombies, cars and various buildings.

It took more than two hours, repeatedly comparing drawings in front of the window, and doing more than a dozen calculations, and finally found a path that could avoid zombies. It's just that when it was time to put it into action, Ling Xiu hesitated and retreated.

Thinking of the bloody picture of zombies eating people, the hand on the door lock was pumped back like an electric shock, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and even his breathing became extremely unnatural.

Wandering in the hall, Ling Xiu fell into a hard struggle, he knew that it was safe to retreat in his rental room, once he stepped out of this door, what he had to face was many unknown dangers, death was terrifying, if he was bitten alive by zombies, it would be even more terrifying.

Will you stay and starve to death or fight for it?

Ling Xiu suddenly stood still and stared at the closed door, his fists clenched, his body tensed, his breathing deep and rapid, his heart was engaged in a final battle.

"Fight!"

With a loud roar in his heart, Ling Xiu rushed to the door in three steps and two steps, and stubbornly opened the door that seemed to lead to hell.

When he opened the door, he was dumbfounded, and there were two zombies standing outside the door, a man and a woman, with rotting skin and flesh, and hideous faces, and they both turned around after hearing the sound of the door opening.

The moment they saw the living, their sluggish bodies erupted with a powerful aura, and a hoarse roar came out of their throats before they pounced on Ling Xiu like beasts. Ling Xiu was immediately frightened, his feet were like being burdened with gravity and it was difficult to move a single bit.

"Oooo

The two zombies and the anti-theft iron door in front of Ling Xiu had an intimate collision, the huge collision sound made Ling Xiu come back to his senses, he saw four stenching hands through the gap between the iron railings of the anti-theft door and grabbed him, he subconsciously retreated, but because he was too flustered, he tripped on the ground, and the whole person sat on the ground with a "plop".

Looking at the two zombies clinging to the security door and full of desire for fresh flesh and blood, Ling Xiu's heart was about to jump out of his chest, and he didn't know where the courage came from, he got up from the ground suddenly, and closed the door with a "bang", and then immediately stayed away from the door, until there was no way to retreat before he stopped next to the wall, panicked, his calf was shaking, and he realized that his fear of zombies had gone deep into the bone marrow.

Thinking of just now, he was afraid for a while, if the landlord did not place the anti-theft iron door, he would have become food in the mouths of zombies at this moment.

"Zizizi"

The sound of zombies scratching the door with their claws came, and Ling Xiu couldn't help but feel a chill, although he knew that zombies couldn't break in, but this sound still made him feel no sense of security.

He rushed into the bedroom, locked the bedroom door, and lay on the bed with a quilt to calm the fear in his heart, but it didn't work, his body still couldn't stop shivering, and his mind was full of the hideous faces of the two zombies.

"Damn, aren't you going to fight against fate, how can you be so cowardly, how can you be so cowardly?"

Ling Xiu laughed at himself in his heart, and suddenly an unknown anger surged into his heart.

He got out of bed and went to the floor and did push-ups without stopping. One push-up after another, the frightened body began to heat up. He kept doing it until he was too tired to do it anymore, and then he stopped and lay flat on the floor in a large shape.

Looking at the white ceiling, Ling Xiu laughed, a smile mixed with self-deprecation, resentment, and contempt for his cowardice and incompetence.

"I'm going to live......"

Ling Xiu began to chant these words non-stop, and the more he chattered, the more he could feel the courage surging in his heart. He knows that if he wants to live, he must overcome the fear of zombies, and to overcome the fear, he must face it bravely, face it, and finally defeat it.

Mechanically getting up, he walked out of the bedroom and went straight to the kitchen, took out a kitchen knife, sharpened the end of the wooden clothes pole, and turned it into a sharp fork.

Holding the fork that had been transformed, Ling Xiu came to the door again, the sound of zombies scratching the door with their claws was still the same, Ling Xiu's heart suddenly chuckled, fear slowly surged up again, and he couldn't stop wanting to retreat.

He gritted his teeth to calm himself down, and then opened the door to the hallway......