Chapter 3 Aroma

I didn't think about where to settle down in the future, I just wanted to find my parents first and reunite with the family before making plans.

On a small scale, luckily I'm still alive, in a sense!

From the general direction, the doomsday rumors have not come true, and the dates are not right!

Now that December 22, 2022 is still a full month and three days, and the whole city has long been in a state of ruin, I miss my parents more than I can think of before they left.

I look at the time, the sun is about to set, a few seconds before the sun completely disappears, I must distinguish the direction from which the taste of the food comes from, this is the method that the benefactor told me, he did not tell his name, I had to call him benefactor in my heart.

He said that as long as I found that special food, the zombie would not have to eat the flesh and blood of the living, and I had to seize the opportunity to find it before it was discovered by other friends.

Facing the sunset, I closed my eyes and felt everything around me with my sense of smell, suddenly, a wisp of strange fragrance wafted from afar, it was it, I quickly determined the direction, opened my eyes and ran in that direction, my current physical strength is no different from ordinary people, even slower than the rotten meat zombies who have lost their minds and pain.

Of course, they smelled the smell and ran in that direction, and I was so anxious that I kicked my heel in my ass, but I still landed behind the team of running zombies.

The aroma only lasted for twenty seconds, and the foraging army that had lost its aroma guidance immediately spun in place, they only had the function of receiving, not the function of reacting, and they could not use memory, I secretly laughed at myself for being nervous, how could I forget this stubble.

But then I thought that the location of the food is fixed, but the location of the zombie is far and near, if there is a zombie just near the food, I ran over and the daylily was cold, so the speed under my feet did not decrease but increased, ran wild for five minutes, crossed four streets, and finally in the courtyard of a kindergarten, I saw the purple flower swaying in the wind, its fragrance has disappeared, the benefactor said that it will only emit a strange fragrance at the moment of flowering, and the fragrance will disappear after it fully blooms.

I am extremely glad that the day of the outbreak of the virus was Sunday, the kindergarten was closed, and now there is no one in the yard, in fact, there should be a security guard on duty, but a month ago 70% of the people in the city were suffering from high fevers, and it is not surprising that no one is on duty.

I climbed over the gate into the yard and walked to the purple flower that bloomed under the children's slide, this flower has nine petals, the flower plate is only the size of a dollar coin, there are diameters and no leaves, and the height is only five centimeters.

The benefactor said that the flower could not be plucked, and that as soon as it left the land, it withered and became useless, so I had to lie on the ground and take it in my mouth.

The flowers melted in the mouth, like small ice chips, and the juice flowed down the throat into the esophagus, and the taste was incomparably fragrant, and my body suddenly felt a lot lighter, but the amount was too little, and I didn't eat enough.

The time of appearance of this flower is fixed, the flowering period is one week, one flower blooms in every 100 square kilometers, that is, there are only 96,000 flowers in the whole country of China a week.

Due to the silence of communication and media, I deduce that the situation in the rest of the country should be similar to ours here, even if it is conservatively estimated, there are hundreds of millions of zombies wandering around, 96,000, which is really not much, the competition is not fierce, and only zombies within a hundred kilometers of it can smell it.

Again, I thank God for your grace, and within twenty seconds of the journey, there were no other zombies, but two of them had already run to the opposite side of the kindergarten gate, but suddenly lost the guidance of the smell and walked away.

It's like a game of luck, and my luck has been good since the end of the world.

When night falls, the neon lights are no longer flashing, there are no car motors and horns, and the city is as quiet as a cemetery.

Zombies are not afraid of the sun, and I found that they, oh no, we like to bask in the sun, and the zombies at night will automatically hide in the dead corners of the building or in the dark alleys, they are bathed in the moonlight, and their expressions are peaceful and calm, which is very different from the zombies depicted in the movie novels.

The moonlight, soft and peaceful, as if the finest silk crossed the skin of the whole body, I also enjoyed it, as if soaking in warm water, the pores of the whole body were stretched, and every inch of skin was breathing.

The darkness gave me a new experience, I found myself free from the deep myopia that had plagued me for many years, and I also lit up my night vision skills, which can be seen clearly in any corner with legless zombies, and which dark alley is so crowded that it is like a subway car during rush hour in the capital.

I rode the bike I picked up on the side of the road, it was originally an electric car, but unfortunately the battery was dead, and my stamina rose a step, so it was quite easy to pedal.

With the moon above me and the gentle breeze on the road, I pedaled through the sidewalks, avoiding the occasional scrap of paper lifted by the wind, and rode all the way to the intersection of the city.

There are a large number of zombies entrenched here during the day, and at the moment they are hiding behind the buildings on both sides of the road, but the intersection out of the city is blocked by barbed wire, and they can't leave the city during the day, and there seems to be nothing on the other side of the net that they are interested in.

I think it's a little strange, there are also a dozen zombies outside the barbed wire, they have no buildings to hide, they are standing under the trees, why didn't the military clean them up? That's the first question that pops up in my mind.