There are two printing shops in the school, and Chen Dong is the owner of one of them, and almost all the students know him.

He is usually kind to people, proficient in computer operation, and even more good at changing the format of papers.

Chen Dong brought stools for the two and poured two more glasses of water.

Chi Xiaoxian thanked him, but Chen Dong said modestly: "It's just a gesture." I heard the radio and felt something wasn't right, so I closed the door early. Later, I saw you flee to my side, so I opened the cracks and took a look. Why didn't you go back to the dormitory, but ran out again? ”

"We were shut out." The boy said indignantly, "A group of murderers, it's just brutes!" ”

"What else can happen?!"

The boy recounted the situation of fighting with zombies at the door of the teaching building and dormitory in the afternoon, and Chen Dong was nervous for a while, so he quickly stood up and checked the windows and back doors, and then said to them: "You guys live here first, I usually sleep upstairs, there is an empty room upstairs, and I still have food and drink here." ”

Chi Xiaoxian hurriedly said, "Thank you." ”

"It's fine." Chen Dong smiled faintly, "It's all for the sake of my classmates, I'm used to it." ”

Boy: "Oh yes, I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Zheng Yikai, a sophomore in the College of Engineering." ”

"Chi Xiaoxian, sophomore in the School of Economics."

"I know you, your name is easy to remember." Zheng Yikai looked into his eyes and said, "We had a physical education class together before, and I was the class representative. ”

Chi Xiaoxian thought hard for a while, but didn't recall this person.

"I'm sorry, I'm in gym class—" He suddenly stopped, because the second half of the sentence was meant to say "I skipped too many classes".

"You didn't come to class much, I saw you the first two times." Zheng Yikai teased him.

Chi Xiaoxian smiled awkwardly: "You have a good memory." ”

"It's hard not to remember you." Zheng Yikai smiled and said, "There are two girls in the class who have been saying that you are good-looking, and they have asked me for your name and college. ”

"Me?" Chi Xiaoxian blinked.

He doesn't usually go out much, he sits in the dormitory when he has time, and the total number of words he talks to girls after going to college doesn't even exceed ten sentences, and he doesn't have a chance to know how heterosexual he is.

In the evening, the boss cooked instant noodles for the two. After eating it hot, the tip of Chi Xiaoxian's nose was sweating.

This sweat is very comfortable, as if all the tension of today has been released with the sweat.

Suddenly, a piece of tissue paper fluttered to the tip of his nose, Chi Xiaoxian was stunned, and when he looked up, he saw Zheng Yikai.

"Thank you."

He wiped the sweat from the tip of his nose, but he caught a glimpse of Zheng Yikai staring at him all the time, and couldn't help but think to himself, this person seemed a little strange......

The print shop is not big, the room on the first floor is full of all kinds of printing paper, the table at the front desk is stacked with a large number of professional course materials that have been printed and have not been taken away, and in the background are three cabinet printers, each with a computer next to the machine.

There are two rooms on the second floor, the boss lives in one by himself, cleans up the clutter in the other room simply, puts a folding bed, and brings an old sofa for Chi Xiaoxian and Zheng Yikai to sleep at night.

Chi Xiaoxian lost his mobile phone, thinking that the printing shop might have some spare electronic products, so he asked the boss, and it turned out that the boss really had an old-fashioned mobile phone, so he lent it to Chi Xiaoxian.

The phone was useless for a long time, and it was only turned on when it was charged to ten bars.

Chi Xiaoxian fiddled for a while, and found that the basic functions were still normal, so he downloaded Rome online.

Rome is a global social software developed five years ago, with very advanced language functions, with translation functions in various Chinese, and even including various Internet buzzwords and slang. It also includes the education system, social security system and shopping platform, which can be said to be a software that has gone all over the world.

Perhaps nostalgic for the world where the concept of nationality still existed before the catastrophe, the developers named it the vanished "ROME", which means that all roads lead to Rome, and the United Heights is the new Rome of this era.

Chi Xiaoxian passed the login through face verification, and immediately saw Rome's classic opening screen, which is a map of the new world after all the glaciers melted and a third of the continent was submerged by the sea.

A line emerges on the map – a new home, a new future.

Chi Xiaoxian hadn't paid much attention to this sentence before, but today he stopped and looked at it more, and then clicked on the contact list.

He basically blocked the group messages, and the remaining unread messages were basically sent to him by Zhang Wensheng, asking where he was now, Chi Xiaoxian simply called him back to report his safety.

After hearing that Chi Xiaoxian was in the printing shop, Zhang Wensheng breathed a sigh of relief: "Your kid is really fateful, and my father is worried about death." ”

Chi Xiaoxian snorted softly: "I'm too tired today, and my dad won't worry about you." ”

Zhang Wensheng: "There's all the food over there, do you have a place to sleep?" ”

Chi Xiaoxian glanced at Zheng Yikai, who was lying on the sofa playing with his mobile phone, and said, "Yes." ”

The mobile phone suddenly vibrate, and Chi Xiaoxian took a look and found that it was an alarm clock, and the remark of the alarm clock was "son". The old phone never had a battery, so the alarm didn't ring until it was charged today.

He walked out of the room and came to the next door, wanting to ask the boss if he wanted to keep the alarm clock, but found that the boss was asleep on the recliner, and there was a noisy TV series background music playing on his mobile phone.

In the past, he might have turned it off, but now he won't, he found that people who are a little older like to sleep with the background sound on, and if they help turn it off, they will wake up.

For example, his grandmother, every time she turned off the TV for her, she had to shout stiffly: "I'm not asleep, why did you turn off the TV for me......

Chi Xiaoxian returned to his room and made a video to his grandmother.

His grandmother lived in the 10th district of the Southern United Highlands, and Chi Xiaoxian lived with her until he went to college, and only came to the central district - the third district after being admitted to the first university in the highlands. The tenth district is a bit far from the third district, and the plane takes three hours, so Chi Xiaoxian basically only goes back on holidays, and usually has to video chat with her every day.

After chatting a few words on the phone, Chi Xiaoxian found that nothing seemed to happen in the tenth district where she was, so he didn't mention anything at school, for fear of scaring her old man, who was not very good.

He asked around the corner, "Do we still have food at home?" ”

"Eat? When did you run out of food at home, and there were still a lot of things left for the New Year? Are you coming back in the next two days? ”

"No, no, no, I'm just asking, you stock up more on food in the past two days, go out and run less, it's too hot, don't get heat stroke."

"You know, I have a fan on during the day."

When she was about to hang up the phone, she suddenly changed the topic: "Don't go out and run around lately, what did grandma hear about you...... Oh yes, the mental hospital, there are crazy people running out. ”

"Crazy?" Chi Xiaoxian was stunned for a moment.

Could it be that these zombies are being spoken?

He clicked on Rome's own news page, and the first item that popped up on the homepage was "Highland Mental Illness Treatment and Prevention and Control Hospital Fire". He clicked in to see the specific content, but the page suddenly stuck, no matter how to refresh it, it was useless, forcing him to return to the chat dialog, and the software returned to normal.

He clicked on several group chats with blocked messages and found that his classmates were also talking about today's events, some expressing panic and despair, some calmly guiding how to defeat the zombies, and some analyzing the truth behind the matter......

The display screen of the old-fashioned mobile phone was not clear enough, and after reading too much information, Chi Xiaoxian's eyes were a little spent, but he was not sleepy, so he ran downstairs and flipped through the stack of printer paper on the front desk table, trying to find something interesting to see.

Military Theory Review Manual, skip.

"Esperanto Rhyme", skip.

"Advanced Mathematics Past Question Practice", jump and jump, jump decisively.

……

After flipping through for a long time, just when he was about to give up, he suddenly found a manual that was incompatible with other things, with the words "Survival Guide to the Last Days" printed on the cover, without the name and specialty of the printer.

Why would anyone fight such a thing? Is it the course material?

Chi Xiaoxian opened the catalog and saw that the manual included three chapters: "Extreme Weather - Extreme High Temperature and Low Temperature Weather Survival Guide", "Wasteland (Radiation Ground) Survival Guide", and "Deadly Virus Advent Survival Guide".

Printing in stores generally requires students to swipe their student cards, so there will be a faint watermark in the upper right corner of the print, consisting of the student number and the four-digit printing date, and this handbook is no exception.

Chi Xiaoxian couldn't recognize the person corresponding to the student number, but the printed date happened to be yesterday.

It has been almost 30 years since the series of disasters that began in 2040 A.D. with global warming as the introduction. It has been fifteen years since the three United Highlands were built at an impressive pace. Words such as catastrophe and the end of the world have gradually been forgotten, and the words that appear most frequently in various media are words such as "new world", "high ground", and "new homeland".

Isn't it a bit of a coincidence to print this at this time?

He moved a chair and sat down, and began to read in the dim light. The manual is very rich in food collection, safety stations, and weapons and equipment. The font is not big, and the lights are dim, so Chi Xiaoxian had to browse it roughly, and only stopped after seeing a few bold and black fonts:

"Keep exercising, build endurance, improve physical fitness, and always be ready to fight zombies!!"

For Chi Xiaoxian, who hates sports and can only warp two out of ten physical education classes, this sentence undoubtedly makes him feel a little uncomfortable.

His interest in reading suddenly waned.

Chi Xiaoxian yawned, closed the book, and took the book upstairs to get ready for bed.

Although a lot had happened in the day today, he was not too anxious or afraid.

He was born with very little mood swings. If his heart is like the water of a lake, no matter what happens, it will be like a fallen leaf falling into the center of the lake, at most it will blur some ripples, and it will not make any waves.

Zheng Yikai saw him lying down on the folding bed and asked, "You went to bed early?" ”

"Actually, I like to stay up late, but I'm a little tired today."

"Well, let's go to bed early." Zheng Yikai extinguished the phone, "I'll go to bed early, too." ”

He raised his hand and turned off the light, and the room sank into a dark swamp.

Chi Xiaoxian quickly fell asleep, and even had a strange dream. In the dream he was standing on a gray-yellow seashore, he had never been to the beach, but he felt the wet sea breeze on his face, and the rough wind and sand rubbed against the skin of his left cheek.

It's weird, it's like a hand.

In the fog, there was a slight knock on the door. Rao is in a dream, and Chi Xiaoxian can feel the gentleness and restraint of the voice - he wants people to hear it, but he doesn't seem to want people to hear it.

Suddenly, his sanity returned, and he forcibly pulled him out of the dream.

There are zombies outside, who's knocking on the door?!!

He sat up at once, and when he opened his eyes, he was startled to see a man standing beside his bed.

The moonlight illuminated a small piece of light in the room, reflecting Zheng Yikai's broad face, and Chi Xiaoxian calmed down.

However, seeing Chi Xiaoxian suddenly wake up, Zheng Yikai's expression became a little strange, and the expression on his face was fluid and disordered.

After a moment, his face returned to normal, and he looked downstairs to Nunu, motioning for Chi Xiaoxian to listen to the knock on the door.

The two of them were nervous when they heard movement in the next room, followed by the sound of slippers falling on the floor.

Lao Chen got up and walked out of the house, and when he saw the two of them in the house, he was stunned for a moment: "Why don't you sleep?" ”

"There's a ...... out there"

"Uh-oh." Lao Chen said as usual, "Don't worry, it's not a zombie." ”

He walked down the stairs to a place where the debris was piled up. There was a hidden back door, and in order to prevent the zombies from invading, Lao Chen locked it and took a chair against the door.

"Who?"

"Me."

Lao Chen moved his chair away to open the door. Chi Xiaoxian stood on the stairs and saw the people entering the door clearly by the light moonlight that came in through the door.

Qingyue's skin, cold eyebrows and eyes......

Hey, isn't that the little teaching assistant?

After hearing the movement upstairs, the boy also lifted his eyes and looked here lightly. After meeting Chi Xiaoxian's eyes, he raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he was a little surprised.

"Why didn't you go back to the dorm?" Lao Chen asked.

"It's been in the lab." The boy finished and unloaded his backpack.

Only then did Chi Xiaoxian notice that his backpack was bulging, and it fell on the table with a bang, feeling strangely heavy.

Since he had just finished reading the post-apocalyptic survival manual, Chi Xiaoxian guessed that there were probably some escape materials in it, otherwise why would this person put so many things in his bag on the way to escape.

He remembered that when he fled in the afternoon, the boy's backpack was still thin.

Just as he was thinking, the boy began to take things out of his bag.

A laptop, mouse, a book, two books, three books, four books......

After taking out all the things, he turned his head to Lao Chen and said lightly: "By the way, I want to print something to watch tonight." ”

Chi Xiaoxian: "......"

It's you.

Although I don't know what your name is, your name is the King of Volumes.