[Exclusively published by Jinjiang Literature City]

Noon, meal time.

Recently, this time period has gradually become more and more intolerable for Zhao Zheng.

He was sitting on the wooden steps along the corridor outside a tent house, looking at the girl in white walking through the corridor of the tent house opposite.

Wu Meiling was holding a plastic bag in one hand. Every time she passed someone, she would stop and take out a piece of bread from the bag and hand it out.

Some of the people sitting on the corridor were in a hurry and quickly took the bread from her hand before she could reach out her hand. However, because Zhao Zheng was sitting opposite, the most they dared to do was take it from her hand.

Dare to grab the bag she is holding in her other hand.

Wu Meiling, on the other hand, always had a faint smile on her soft little face. She seemed to understand this urgency very well and didn't care about the other party's rudeness.

That bread is not fresh bread baked in a bakery, but the kind of bread you can buy in supermarkets with a shelf life of up to half a year. It contains too much saccharin and the taste is not very good.

In the past, Zhao Zheng would never even touch bread like this.

But now, he is feeling distressed.

When the end of the world comes, the old life is gone and everything is turned upside down.

When they left school that day, besides him and Wu Meiling, a total of six girls and one boy crowded into his car.

Although the off-road vehicle he drove was large, it could barely accommodate so many people, and two people could only sleep in the trunk.

There were so many people packing and it was a waste of time. In addition, most of the people in the car were girls, and they all begged him to deliver them. The car drove back and forth on the road, which wasted a lot of time.

He couldn't drive home immediately, and he was anxious and worried. It rained all night, and a girl in the car who was resting in the dormitory suddenly mutated and bit the boy closest to her.

People in the car screamed in panic. Wu Meiling, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was so frightened that she threw herself into his arms. Zhao Zheng was unable to react in time and hit the rear of the car in front of him.

The car door opened, and several classmates fled the car in panic.

Fortunately, the mutated girl was the one sitting in the trunk, and because there was a seat in the way, no one else was bitten except the boy who sat in the trunk with her.

They didn't take You Xi's warning to heart at first, but now they understood what her words meant. Mutated zombies can be careful and stay away, but what about the people around them?

Who knows what will happen to the people around you in the next second?

The temporarily formed team dispersed instantly. Zhao Zheng couldn't bear to part with his car. It was still a long way from his home. If he didn't have his car now, how would he go back?

Subway? Taking a taxi? Don’t be ridiculous! Who can guarantee that we won’t encounter other suddenly mutated infected people on the road?

He hesitated for a moment, and when he found that the two zombies stuck in the trunk could not climb to the front seat, he felt heartbroken and dragged Wu Meiling into the car, planning to drive home directly.

Wu Meiling cried so hard that she refused to get in the car. Leng Mian, who was originally too frightened to make a sound, suddenly stepped forward to help, dragging Wu Meiling along with him, and squeezed into the passenger seat with her.

Zhao Zheng glanced at Leng Mian after getting in the car. She suppressed Wu Meiling on the seat, closed the door, and said to him with a pale face: "I know you live in Jinlong Villa District, and my house is just at the intersection in front of your house.

Just drop me off there!"

In this way, with Leng Mian's help, Zhao Zheng finally returned home with Wu Meiling.

However, his parents could not escape the disaster. His mother happened to be outside, his father died while driving to pick her up, and his mother lost contact completely.

After that, infected people broke out on a large scale, social order collapsed, and the peaceful world ceased to exist.

Before the cell phone signal was cut off, Wu Meiling contacted her family. Her father had mutated and her mother was hiding at home and struggling to support herself.

In the end, her eldest brother Wu Tianqi rushed home in time with his brothers from the boxing gym, rescued her mother, and then brought the family's food and water supplies, and emptied a small supermarket of supplies along the way, and came to the villa area to join them.

There are few people in the villa area. After clearing away the zombies and locking the door, we can still guard it for the time being.

Zhao Zheng and the people in the villa area formed a temporary team. Relying on some information they had received from You Xi, they made accurate judgments during the action. They quickly won the trust of others and became the main member of the team.

Wu Meiling's brother Wu Tianqi also relied on his fierce strength and worked hard with his boxing gym brothers to clean up the zombies in the small supermarket at the entrance of the villa area and add another batch of supplies to the team, thus becoming another main member of the team.

At this point, Wu Meiling, the sister and girlfriend of the two main members, suddenly became the core figure of the team.

Even though she didn't have any abilities and had never dealt with zombies, other people in the team were very polite and caring to her.

Wu Tianqi doted on this younger sister very much. She went out with the convoy and showed kindness and wanted to help people she met and brought her back to the villa area. Wu Tianqi never objected.

At that time, Zhao Zheng was already a little bit intolerant of this kind of "kindness" anytime and anywhere, but because Wu Tianqi was willing, he did not object.

After that, they stayed in the villa area for a few days. As a result, because someone among the newly rescued people concealed the information about the Type A infected person, a mutation spread from the inside of the villa area in the middle of the night, and the survivors of the entire villa became

Zombies.

Once the Type B infection spreads, there is no time to control it. The survivors who were awakened by the screams fled for their lives in a hurry, failing to bring all the food and water supplies.

The only good thing was that in the past few days, everyone had pried off many unowned vehicles in the villa area, and also obtained some gasoline, so they could escape in a hurry without even leaving a car.

Later, someone provided information about this camping base. That person was a member here and had come here often before. He was not only familiar with the route, but also knew the facilities inside the camping base.

The camping base not only has RVs, tent houses, and driveable RVs for accommodation, but also has vegetable and fruit growing areas, several farm restaurants that provide meals, as well as fishing and shrimp ponds and a cute pet paradise.

In extraordinary times, these are edible foods.

So everyone set the camping base as their destination, and met a team that was also evacuating from another villa area on the way. This team evacuated in an orderly manner and had more supplies than them, but there were not many young and middle-aged people in the team, and Leng Mian was there

This team doesn't look too good.

Zhao Zheng remembered Leng Mian's help before, and after asking about the situation, he learned that when she returned home, her father had mutated into a zombie.

He was bitten and mutated. He was just outside the door of her villa. The door of the villa was closed and locked. Her stepmother and her unrelated brother were huddled inside the villa.

Although she didn't see it with her own eyes, she had an intuition that her father's accident was closely related to her stepmother.

Later, the family's driver and servant worked together to tie up the mutated father and lock him in the study. She cried in despair and pain outside the study. When she came to her senses again, she found that all the food, water, supplies and people in the house were gone.

Gone.

The stepmother, her unrelated brother, the driver and the servant took the supplies and drove away the family's two cars, leaving her behind and fleeing.

In order to survive, Leng Mian had to pick up homemade weapons and go to the villa next door to clean up zombies and look for food.

In just a few days, she was able to face zombies without changing her expression. One moment, she was stabbing a zombie in the brain with a sashimi knife at the entrance of the supermarket. The next moment, she was able to rush to the shelf, grab a bag of bread, open it and eat it.

The two teams cooperated and arrived at the camping base. Zhao Zheng, considering the friendship between classmates, pulled Leng Mian into his team.

Wu Meiling was still kind-hearted, saving and guiding people along the way. When they finally arrived at the camping base, the number of people in the team doubled.

But most of these people have never killed zombies. They consume food and search for supplies every day. When faced with zombies, most of them tremble and hide in their cars.

Although they have arrived at the camping base, there are no supermarkets or shops nearby. Those who arrived earlier than them have already occupied the favorable terrain and occupied the materials in the camping base.

They could not survive for long relying on the supplies they found along the way when they evacuated the city. Zhao Zheng didn't want to take care of the people he rescued on the way, but Wu Meiling disagreed.

She said that he could help and take care of female classmates, why couldn't she help others? They obviously had a lot of supplies, and some of those supplies were found by her brother and the others. As long as her brother agreed, she had the right to distribute them. Could it be that they

Withholding food and watching them starve to death?

But Zhao Zheng knew in his heart that this was fundamentally different. Although Leng Mian was a girl, she could find supplies and deal with zombies by herself. Her joining the team truly strengthened the team.

The two of them had a fight about this matter, and Wu Meiling cried sadly. She didn't understand why the boys who had pursued eachother to her not long ago were arguing with her over this kind of thing and other girls.

When the apocalypse came, her father passed away, and they were forced to leave the home where they grew up and flee all the way. Every day she woke up, her heart was full of confusion. Only when she rescued and helped others could she feel the value of her existence.

It's okay if Zhao Zheng doesn't understand her, why should he argue with her over this matter?

Wu Meiling felt depressed in her heart. Wu Tianqi was reluctant to let go of her sister. She went to find Zhao Zheng in private and had a round-about talk with him. The general idea was that supplies could be found again, but he only had this one sister. The end of the world was coming, and we should unite even more.

She just wants to help people, and there's nothing wrong with that.

At the same time, people from the same villa in Zhao Zheng's team also came to talk to him, saying that under the current situation, supplies would be used less.

If he continues to let things go like this, then in order to protect their own interests, they will demand that all supplies be distributed uniformly, instead of like now, where each person only has four to five days of rations in his backpack, and most supplies are managed uniformly.

Of course, only those who got out of the car and dealt with zombies when searching for supplies were eligible to distribute the supplies. By then, everyone would be doing their own thing, and the team at their villa would be broken up.

Zhao Zheng wanted to talk to Wu Meiling again, but she was still angry and ignored him. She continued to distribute supplies during lunch today.

Probably Wu Tianqi had also talked with her, so she didn't want to divide the bread as much as before. Everyone only distributed a piece of bread, but it still made the people in the villa team look ugly.

Zhao Zheng felt uncomfortable in his heart. After losing his parents and the world changed drastically, he was not afraid, but he was holding on with just one breath. But now, he felt that he could no longer hold on.

The plastic bag in Wu Meiling's hand was empty, but there were still people who didn't get the bread. She had no choice but to go back to the tent house and ask for some from the person guarding the supplies.

The man looked at Zhao Zheng with a worried look on his face, but he was afraid of offending Wu Tianqi and seemed to want him to speak out. Zhao Zheng said nothing, picked up the leather-wrapped machete on his side, stood up and walked outside the tent house area.

On the way, he met Leng Mian. She exchanged food with the people at the farm and got a pot that could be used to cook noodles. She also got a few vegetable leaves in exchange for making instant noodles for lunch.

She wondered why Zhao Zheng didn't eat at the tent house during lunch time. Zhao Zheng said that he wanted to try his luck in the surrounding area to see if there was any missing place where he could find supplies.

"Wait a minute, I'll call Brother Zhou and the others." The Brother Zhou and the others that Leng Mian was talking about are the ones who have a good relationship with Zhao Zheng in his team, and they are also the ones who can help him along the way.

"No, I just want to take a spin and try my luck."

"Then I'll go with you." Leng Mian said, carrying his things and following him to the parking lot at the back. The two got in the car and drove to the iron gate of the parking lot, and gave the gatekeeper a biscuit for his convenience.

Opened the door.

Leng Mian naturally had selfish motives for following Zhao Zheng out. She had been to this camping base several times before and knew the place fairly well.

The enclosed drive-in RV area and hot spring area are located at the outermost edge of the entire botanical garden. Next to it is the road. Because there are no water supermarkets and shops here, and it is a dead end road with no cars passing by, so there are no zombies on the road in this area.

No one cleaned it either.

But Leng Mian knew that although there was no food supermarket here, there were several shops selling other items.

Leng Mian's target was one of the sports goods stores. She had known the owner of this store before and knew that he had several mountain bikes in the store that were not sold to the public.
To be continued...