Survival [End Times]

They stayed outside for another half a month, not going far, just hunting zombies nearby, and then encountered a large group of zombie rats, so they ran away.

"Why are those rats so big!"

"They should be level three!"

They killed a small group of level two rats a few days ago, and their size was smaller than the one tightly behind the car.

"I don't know where they came from!"

"Sister, hold on to me and turn the corner!"

The car drifted around the big turn, and Yu Heng saw a bridge in front of him. His eyes lit up and he drove the car over quickly.

Maybe the corner just now blocked them for a while. When they drove to the other side of the bridge, the large group of zombie rats chased to the bridge head.

Zhang Henghui put away the oil barrel and fired a shot at the bridge. With a whoosh, the whole bridge was on fire.

Yu Heng parked the car not far away, waiting for the group of flames to roll and fall into the water.

When everything calmed down, they drove over and cleaned up the mess on the bridge. The smell on the bridge was very unpleasant, so the two of them sped up their movements, dug up the crystal cores and left.

This escape exhausted both of them physically and mentally. However, looking at the large bag of crystal cores, Zhang Henghui felt that it was all worth it.

"Let's go back to the safe zone first. We've been too tired recently and need to rest."

"Okay, you stop for a while and I'll drive."

They just kept on going all the way. In the evening of the second day, they arrived at the outskirts of the safe zone and saw a lot of people outside. There were tents and shacks one after another, people walking around, and high and low voices...

Both of them were a little surprised.

"Why are there so many people?" Even the car couldn't drive in.

"Hey, move your things out of the way!"

"Whose child is this? Watch him!"

"Drive slower! I told you to drive slower. Are you deaf? What if you hit someone?"

...

The patrolman shouted at the top of his lungs, but the outside of the gate was still in a mess. There was no way. Suddenly, more than 10,000 people came, and they couldn't let them in at once. There were people who needed to check their health, pay fees... It was already more than half an hour, and they hadn't finished yet.

They drove the car to the residents' passage in the district to queue up. Fortunately, they had access permits, and they only needed to get a health certificate to get in. Otherwise, they didn't know how long they would have to wait in line.

After queuing for more than an hour and getting the health certificate, Yu Heng and Zhang Henghui were able to enter the door.

"Too tired."

After entering the door, Zhang Henghui opened the car window and took a deep breath. When queuing, there were people on the left and right, and some people were peeping in through the cracks of the car windows. Zhang Henghui was so scared that she thought it was a zombie and almost stabbed it with a knife.

In the end, she simply closed the car window tightly, and it was suffocating.

As a result, she couldn't feel at ease even when she entered the door. There were seven or eight men squatting on the side of the road, staring at everyone passing by like wild wolves, making her feel that a robbery would happen in the next second.

She decided to just stay suffocated, so she closed the window again.

There were a lot of people outside, so they were worried that the rent would increase significantly, but they really couldn't find a place to live.

There were many people in the Housing Authority, buying, renting and selling houses. Yu Heng took a recent brochure and learned that houses can now be bought, sold or sublet. At the same time, the workload brought should not be underestimated.

Zhang Henghui saw Qiu Lin and greeted her.

Qiu Lin said with surprise: "Hey, Sister Hui, you are back?"

"Just back, are you busy at work?"

"Yes, you - hey, it's sixty first-level crystal cores a month, no, you can't buy on credit, it's difficult for me to do this."

Zhang Henghui shouted loudly: "When you are free, I will find you!"

"Okay! I'll wait for you, Sister Hui!"

There were a lot of people soliciting business at the door of the Housing Authority.

"Come to my house, two crystal cores or two kilograms of rice a night!"

"My house is cheaper..."

Yu Heng didn't dare to live there, it was not safe.

He thought of Huang Zhongliang, he could go to his house for one night, he slept on the floor, and his sister slept on the sofa. Give a gift, he should be willing to help.

Zhang Henghui agreed, after all, this is a familiar person in the safe zone. She has a good relationship with Qiu Lin, but her family lives in the military dependents area at the foot of the mountain, which is heavily guarded, and she doesn't want to trouble her. After all, she is a commoner, and the closer she gets to that class, the more frightened she is.

So the two went to Huang Zhongliang's house.

Huang Zhongliang was very surprised to see the two of them. After listening to their difficulties, he said without saying a word: "Your sister will live in my daughter's room, and you will sleep on the sofa."

"I'm sorry to bother you." Zhang Henghui thanked him.

Huang Zhongliang waved his hand: "It's a small matter, come to my house to eat in the evening." He asked his wife to buy vegetables, and Zhang Henghui said: "I'll go, I'll go, sister-in-law will take care of the children at home."

Yu Heng was worried, so she went with her.

They bought a frozen big grass carp. The fish seller was an ice-type mutant who only accepted crystal cores. There was a vegetable seller sitting next to him. He asked, "What vegetables do you want? I have potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, green beans..." He recited more than a dozen kinds in one breath. But there was only a large basin next to him, with only soil in it.

"I want lettuce."

"Oh, wait."

The young man took out the seeds from the bag at his feet and stuffed them into the moist soil. He put his hand on it, and green light slanted out from between his fingers. Like a magic trick, a bunch of small sprouts sprang out of the soil between his fingers in a dozen seconds, and then slowly grew up, and the leaves spread out... Three lettuces grew.

"Wow."

"It's amazing."

Passersby also exclaimed.

The young man asked, "Are four enough?"

"Enough, how much?"

"Two secondary crystal cores."

After getting the crystal core, the young man cut the lettuce, put it in a bag and handed it to Zhang Henghui: "Thank you for your care, I'll come again next time."

They had the other things themselves. The two returned to the car, and Zhang Henghui said: "Take two bags of pickles, I'll make a stew of pickles and fish heads. Take two bags of vacuum chicken feet, I see that Brother Huang likes to smoke and drink tea, so give them to him. Take two sausages, a bottle of white wine, and a few bottles of juice... Okay, that's all."

When the things were brought to Huang Zhongliang's house, Huang Zhongliang's wife was shocked: "This grass carp is too big. Did you buy it at the second street corner over there? It's very expensive! This is too expensive!"

"Eating fish is good for your health. Sister-in-law, look, this fish head is used to make soup with pickles. Do you like to braise or steam the fish body?"

The two women discussed the dishes in the kitchen. The little girl sipped the juice and sat aside obediently.

As expected, the two men talked about the safe zone.

"They said they came from the base in the east, more than 10,000 people, the whole base was destroyed by zombies, and there were monsters coming from the sea, it sounds scary."

"Are these the only ones left?"

"Not sure, I heard some went to the capital base, each went to their own place. I'm reading the latest safe zone code of conduct at the radio station every day, my throat is smoking."

Huang Zhongliang complained, but his expression was very peaceful.

After a sumptuous dinner, the two families chatted for a few words and went to sleep.

This meal was not in vain. Early the next morning, Huang Zhongliang went to find a house for Yu Heng and his sister, and the rent was a little cheaper than the current market price.

The two moved in that day, and the bed, table and chairs were all complete. The next day, Huang Zhongliang's family came to visit with food, and settled down here again.

Yu Heng now has twelve storage rings, with many and miscellaneous things. Taking advantage of the rare free time, he and Zhang Henghui cleaned up again.

Zhang Henghui also felt that the things he had collected recently were complicated, and his brother's space might be in a mess. He still had to sort it out.

So he took out the things bit by bit, and the two of them sorted out some foods that had a short shelf life and a large quantity, such as vacuum-compressed sausages and bacon, and some milk and instant noodles that were about to expire.

The two paid the rent and bought a small stall in the market, sitting on a small stool and selling there. Only crystal cores were collected.

There were still people who were willing to buy, and the milk was still sold in bottles. It was sold out in three days, and a bag of first-level, second-level, and even third-level crystal cores was collected.

The crystal cores they had on hand, regardless of the level, were more than 21,000, which was considered a small asset among the superpowers.

They did this, sometimes setting up stalls, sometimes going out, slowly accumulating wealth, and walking step by step in the end times.

Until they encountered a level 7 zombie, Yu Heng's right leg was injured. When he rushed back to the safe zone, the injury had worsened, and the medical conditions were far worse than before, leaving him with sequelae.

Since then, they have not gone out again.

Fortunately, they have accumulated enough capital in the past six months. The two of them found jobs in the safe zone. They found them by themselves without asking anyone else, so they were all the most ordinary jobs. For example, Yu Heng and Zhang Henghui found jobs in processing plants. In autumn, the fruits on the mountain are ripe and need a lot of manpower to pick them. The two of them took advantage of this opportunity to be recruited.

The mountain is cleaned regularly, and there are fewer zombie animals, but there are not none. The zombie virus of Dogecoin has not been studied out yet. Even if the mountain is cleaned regularly, there are still zombie animals coming out, and they are all level 1.

This shows that zombieization is still going on. If there is no research result, even if the zombies in the country are eliminated, peace cannot be achieved.

Now we can only be thankful that such a situation did not occur among the crowd, otherwise it would be really fatal.

Yu Heng thought about taking out the gene repair fluid and providing some research ideas to the institute. But the institute must be heavily guarded, so he didn't dare to take risks. In the end, he put it off.

There are performance requirements for picking fruits, and there are no restrictions on how to pick them. Yu Heng and Zhang Henghui are in a group. His legs are not very convenient, so Zhang Henghui is the main force in picking fruits, and he is below to receive them, while guarding the surroundings.

The day before yesterday, someone was pecked by a zombie bird because he didn't react in time. Although his family received compensation, it is still a pity that a living person died.

Both of them were wrapped tightly, especially their feet, to prevent zombie rats.

Every day at work, they are tense.

Finally, all the oranges on the mountain were picked, and they entered the subsequent production stages such as washing and boiling.

These are all factory work. Yu Heng was transferred to the sales department, carrying a basket of oranges to the market every day to buy, and collecting food crystal cores.

When the canned fruit is made, they start selling canned food again.

At the end of the year, the processing plant stopped working. Yu Heng and Zhang Henghui returned to the rental house with year-end gifts: two boxes of canned oranges and settled wages.

The two saw canned oranges every day, and the smell of the production process alone made them sick.

However, oranges supplement vitamins, so for the sake of health, they had to endure the sore cheeks and eat them bite by bite.

The days seemed to go on like this, until the night of the 26th day of the lunar calendar, when Yu Heng was awakened from his sleep.

He heard the sound of something falling on the ground from the bedroom next door, put on his clothes, stood up and opened the door, and clearly heard the subtle sound of the lock in the next room.

"Sister?" No one answered the knock on the door.

"Sister, open the door." The door was locked.

Yu Heng leaned against the door and listened. She could hear Zhang Henghui breathing rapidly inside, as if she would be out of breath in the next second.

"Sister! Sister! Zhang Henghui!"

Zhang Henghui leaned against the door, tears falling down.

How could this happen? How could this happen? Her life had obviously improved, and she was planning to find a partner for her brother after the New Year. Why did she suddenly... become a zombie?

She woke up from a painful nightmare, but found that it was not a nightmare. There was really something wrong with her body.

Under the candlelight, corpse spots spread on the back of her hand. She even took off her clothes, but she didn't feel cold on a winter night. Her stomach and chest were covered with ugly corpse spots.

She couldn't breathe, she couldn't breathe...

She could only use the remaining strength to lock the door to prevent "herself" from running out. She wanted to take a gun to commit suicide, but the gun was pressed under the pillow, and she didn't even have the strength to crawl.

There seemed to be a terrible force raging in her body, like fire or lava, burning up her strength.

When she was in a trance, she heard her brother's shouting, but her mouth was dry and her throat seemed to be poured with sulfuric acid. When she wanted to answer, she just uttered a hoarse sound.

In the last consciousness, someone picked her up and fed her something, and then nothing happened.

Yu Heng carried Zhang Henghui to the bed, thought about it, cut the sheets and tied her up, and then covered her with a quilt.

Under the light of the flashlight, Zhang Henghui's face was very scary, that was the corpse spot he was very familiar with.

After checking the room several times, the window was not broken, and Zhang Henghui was checked again. There were no wounds on her body. If she was not attacked by zombie animals, then she suddenly became a zombie?

But she had obviously taken the gene-modifying fluid, so could she not resist the damage caused by the zombie virus to her body?

His eyes were a little moist, and he pulled a chair outside and sat by the bed to watch over her.

Later, he heard screams coming from outside, and then they stopped abruptly. He walked to the back of the door suspiciously and listened carefully to the sounds outside.

Crunch, crunch--

Gurgle--

This is the sound of zombies eating people.

The sound of zombies eating people appeared in the safe zone?

Yu Heng opened the door, and where the light was, there was a large pool of blood and a figure lying on the ground at the door of the next room.

The male zombie raised his head, biting a mouthful of bloody meat in his mouth, with only the white of his eyes and corpse spots all over his face.

"Ah!"

It pounced on him, Yu Heng avoided the elbow attack, stepped on the zombie on the ground, leaned over and stabbed the zombie's head with a knife.

"??,?."

He turned around and saw the corpse on the ground twitching and climbing up, half of its shoulder and arm were gone, and the piece of meat fell to the ground as she stood up. It was stunned for a moment, slowly squatted down, and stuffed the piece of meat into its mouth with its only remaining left hand.

Before it could swallow it, Yu Heng had already smashed its head with a knife.

"Ah!"

A light shone into Yu Heng's eyes, accompanied by a scream of fear: "Murder!!!"

"This is a zombie."

Yu Heng dug out two gray crystal cores, then dragged the two bodies to the next house. A man ran out and pushed Yu Heng: "You murderer!"

The other residents on this floor were awakened, and soon the room was illuminated by candles and oil lamps.

"Oh, it looks like this, it's really a zombie!"

"It's bitten like this..."

Everyone was surprised: "Why did it become a zombie out of nowhere?"

When asked this 17 or 18-year-old child, he just glared at Yu Heng with hatred and said he was a murderer.

Yu Heng was in a very bad mood now, and sneered: "Such a big noise, I heard it next door, don't say you didn't hear it, you didn't come out when you heard your mother being eaten by your father, and you ran out to blame me after I killed her. I don't have the kind of fatherly love to tolerate you, a coward."

The boy was stunned, and tears flowed out.

"Wait until dawn and call the patrol team."

Someone patted Yu Heng on the shoulder and said, "It's not your fault. Go back to sleep." These days, there are still a few people who have never killed zombies. They all understand Yu Heng's approach. After all, if you become a zombie, you are no longer a human being. The safe zone also encourages killing zombies.

The others dispersed, but two people came down the stairs. No one took it seriously, but the two people suddenly pounced on everyone and bit them.

Screams were heard everywhere.

This night was a night of chaos, blood, and despair.

Countless people turned into zombies that night, including people next to them, roommates, neighbors, patrolmen...you pounced on me and I bit you, dragging the long-stable Lutong safe zone into the abyss.

Even if the military responded quickly, while dealing with the internal zombie problem, it also exerted external forces. Fortunately, they were only level one zombies, with a few level two zombies. It took three days and three nights to completely eliminate the zombies in the huge safe zone.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there was no celebration like last year. The entire safety zone was immersed in a dead silence.

Some people were completely destroyed by this desperate world and set themselves on fire. There was also a person who committed suicide by jumping on the floor where Yu Heng lived. However, he was unlucky and did not die but became paralyzed. This is even more fatal in this era of lack of medical care and medicine.

The radio station in the safety zone kept broadcasting, claiming that this was a large-scale casualty caused by the invasion of zombie animals, and called on the masses to keep doors and windows closed at home and take good protection.

Only fools would believe it.

No one believed, and it became even more chaotic. The safety zone that had been built for two years, the economic chain was broken, no one set up stalls in the market, and the large-scale strike caused countless jobs to stop working. People were immersed in panic, afraid of the crowd, and rejected the crowd.

Various suicidal behaviors exacerbated the chaos.

After helping to deal with the zombies in the building, Yu Heng closed the door and stayed at home to guard Zhang Henghui.

It was not until the seventh day of the Lunar New Year that she woke up. The first thing she said when she woke up was that she was hungry.

Yu Heng cooked a big pot of noodles for her, and she ate it all.

Noticing Yu Heng's worried look, she smiled: "I'm fine, I made you worry." She reached out to touch Yu Heng's hand, her fingernails were black, and the black spots on the back of her hand were also extremely dazzling.

Zhang Henghui's eyes flashed with pain, and then she smiled again: "It's good to be alive, thank you Hengyuan, thank you."

She wrapped herself tightly, wearing gloves and a scarf.

Looking at herself in the mirror, her skin was in a state of lack of maintenance for nearly 40 years old, with a corpse spot on her forehead and left cheek.

It was ugly.

She cut off her heavy bangs and sewed a mask to wear. Weird old lady, she thought. Tears oozed from the only exposed eyes, which she wiped away.

When she walked out of the room, she saw a pile of boxes on the table.

Yu Heng was very helpless to sort out the cosmetics on the table. Seeing that each one looked exactly the same, but the names were different. Women's cosmetics are really terrible.

"Sister, take a look, whichever one you can use, take it."

Zhang Henghui chuckled, and finally covered the corpse spots on her face with concealer and BB cream. After makeup, there were only a few traces left.

When she learned what happened during her coma, Zhang Henghui was also surprised: "Why did something like this suddenly happen?"

"It's not yet determined."

The two stood on the balcony and looked outside. The usually bustling and noisy safety zone now looked desolate, and there were very few pedestrians on the street.

From their building, they can see the intersection ahead. Usually, there are people setting up stalls there. Since there is no charge for setting up stalls outside the market, there are many people setting up stalls, just like a small market. But now, it seems that there is no stall at all.

The loss of people this time is quite large. Even if it is just a level 1 zombie, there is no defense against relatives and friends who have been with them day and night suddenly becoming zombies, and then becoming zombies again after being bitten... The death toll is extremely high. The fire burning corpses in the safe zone has not stopped in the past few days.

After that, there was a vigorous recruitment, and various benefits and salaries were higher than before. In addition, the radio station tirelessly promoted and enlightened the offensive, and slowly the emotions of the surviving masses eased down.

It is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death, and live one day at a time.

The research on gene repair fluid cannot be delayed any longer.

Yu Heng cannot produce a batch of finished products, which is quite dangerous for him. He cannot explain the source of these things. He can only hope that the research institute in the safe zone can develop practical results based on this medicine.

He searched the sub-exchange system, and found all kinds of things in the self-creation. He searched for several days but could not find the end, but he finally saw a [puppet doll], which cost 1200 fire points.

With just a hair, you can create and control a life-size puppet, but it has no face and its hands and feet are also rough. With a drop of blood or a small piece of meat from the user, you can create a life-size puppet that is exactly the same as yourself, and the validity period is 3 hours.

After the validity period, everything will cease to exist.

He bought one, and pulled out a hair from his own hand one night and stuffed it into the belly of the palm-sized scarecrow in his hand.

The scarecrow's eyeballs moved, and Gulu climbed up and jumped to the ground, and turned into a life-size scarecrow in the wind. Only the eyeballs rolled around, looking creepy.

He found a set of clothes for the scarecrow to wear, gloves, hats, scarves, masks... and finally put the transparent bag containing 20 bottles of gene repair fluid into the scarecrow's pocket.

Patting the scarecrow's head, Yu Heng said softly, "Go."