The Rebirth of the Last Days and Return to [Fang] Hao

With other cars leading the way, He Zizhong and Fang Hao followed the convoy without any effort. There were advantages and disadvantages to cooperating with other teams. The downside is fear of encountering pig teammates or unscrupulous teams that deliberately cheated their teammates. The upside is like now-someone helping lead the way, set a course of action, and deal with zombies in advance.

When it was almost noon, the convoy finally left the area of ​​city A and drove toward the sea along a highway that intersected with city F. A voice came from the walkie-talkie, confirming that each vehicle had enough gasoline, before deciding not to rest at noon, taking advantage of the smoother road to rush for a while.

Fang Hao took out two big vegetable buns from the space. After the corn in the space was mature, he dried a little and ground it into corn flour. Last night, he used some dried vegetables and pork belly to steam a whole big pot of vegetable buns.

At this time, the white dumpling was able to get out of the backpack to breathe, and looked curiously at the scenery outside the window that was blocked by a film.

“You eat first, I’ll drive for a while.” Fang Hao put out a pot of sanxian soup1Remember earlier with the sanxian dumplings with 3 flavours? Same deal now, except with soup. on the front panel of the car, and changed spots with He Zizhong.

Tuanzi found that He Zizhong was sitting next to it, turned its head and looked at the “yellow Tuanzi”2Reference to him being the white version. Cannibalism!!! he was holding with a look of eagerness—it wanted to swallow it!

He Zizhong took a few bites before realizing that the white ball with big shining eyes was rubbing against his lap, just like a puppy. It was only a missing a tongue sticking out and paws to wave.

“Are you sure you want to eat? You can go back to the space to sleep after eating.”

Hearing that upon eating, it would have to return to the space, Tuanzi’s entire dumpling face became entangled. Its large eyes blinked aggrievedly, flashing at He Zizhong. But it couldn’t the slightest sympathy from its papa – indeed, mama is the only one that’s good in the world!

With a puff, it jumped into Fang Hao’s arms, rubbed coquettishly, before it was grabbed back by He Zizhong under the pretext of obstructing driving.

Twisting and turning, showing off its white back at He Zizhong, Tuanzi smooshed its big face against the window to look at the depressed scenery outside, its back looking melancholy and sad.

After He Zizhong ate, he switched with Fang Hao. It was not until the evening that the team found a school on the roadside. They decided to choose this place as their place to stay after confirming with the team.

It was a middle school building. Because there is no student dormitory, there is no need to worry about encountering a wave of zombies. Parking the cars in the courtyard and clearing the few stray zombies, they entered the teaching building.

He Zizhong took the dogleg knife, and Fang Hao held the three-pronged blade, and the two of them followed the team carefully into the building. After a brief inspection of the situation in the school, they confirmed there were no other people or zombies in the school. Only then did everyone choose the second floor as their place to stay overnight.

“Someone should have been here before.” Chen Ning said to Guo Bing, looking at the tables and chairs that were moved to the corner of the classroom, and the many charred table legs and chairs.

Guo Bing stood in front of the window and looked in the direction of the playground. “Those people should have left. Maybe they have gone to a nearby security base. There are no signs of zombies coming in the second floor?”

“Not found.”

“Then the people here took the initiative to leave.”

He Zizhong also looked towards the playground. Some railings on the side close to the highway were broken by something unknown. It could be humans or zombies.

“Let’s rest here today, and continue on the road tomorrow morning.” After Guo Bing finished speaking, Chen Ning began to arrange the overnight vigil.

There were a lot of people working together this time, so there was nothing for He Zizhong and Fang Hao to do this first night. After learning they were queued for the third night, they found a corner to sit down and prepare to rest.

The members of the Samsara team also sat in twos and threes together, whispering as they prepared to rest. The two people on duty took turns after eating and sat by and stared out the window. Another two people were in charge of the other side of the building—they were situated on the opposite end to survey the situation.

“Can we reach the pier tomorrow?”

“If there are no accidents on the road, we should be able to.” He Zizhong took the water bottle handed by Fang Hao. When resting with the others, they couldn’t take out the cooked soup and could only drink the well water that had been prepared in advance.

“We should be there around noon tomorrow.” A Samsara team member sat not far away from them and pointed to his companion. “He used to run freight on the highway and used this road.”

“Is the warehouse usually crowded?” He Zizhong said smoothly.

“You could say more and less. There are a lot of people during the day. And when goods arrive at night, there will also be people there. As long as the people in the surrounding residential areas who become zombies are not led over, it should be okay? There is still some distance from where we are going.” The person thought for a while before answering.

“Have you all known each other before?” Fang Hao asked curiously, remembering that Guo Bing said that most of their team were veterans.

“We know each other. They are all from a security company. Liu Zhi and I grew up together in childhood, and we happened to be with them when the accident happened. How about you?”

The people on situated next to each other simple got together and chatted.

What had to be mentioned was the Samsara team did not seem to have a single girl-at least He Zizhong and Fang Hao had not seen any till now. A group of rough and tough males chatting and resting together, but no one noticed the rings they wore on their left hands.

Therefore, when it was getting late and everyone was preparing to rest and seeing He Zizhong and Fang Hao sleep together next to each other, the man on the night sighed purely: “The relationship between these brothers is really good.”—The child who doesn’t know the truth is so happy.3Author is breaking the 4th wall here

In his sleep, He Zizhong dreamed that the two of them were picking fruits at the back of the space. They stood under a peach tree. The tree was too high and they forgot that there was a ladder in the space. They could only worry about how to pluck the tender peaches.

Suddenly, the dumpling jumped up, bounced on He Zizhong’s head, and slammed on a big pink peach.

Each time it hit one, the peach disappears directly—just like when Tuanzi eats a crystal nucleus.

One after another, the tree was quickly gnawed clean by a certain dumpling, and there was not even a leaf left. He Zizhong looked at the white ball in a daze-shouldn’t it fall asleep after eating? Why is it okay after eating the fruit of a whole tree this time?

He was wondering when he suddenly heard someone calling something—

“Enemy attack! Mutant zombie, mutant zombie!!”

The people in the room woke up instantly, and two night watchers rushed out of the room: “The opposite side!”

When He Zizhong and Fang Hao arrived, they saw a mutant zombie that was at least three times stronger than a normal zombie, clutching the arm of one of the team members on duty and sending it to his mouth.

With a “bang”, the person who rushed into the room first shot his gun, fairly certain it would hit the zombie’s arm. But only a few sparks came out, startling it mid-movement.

Hardened skin! Its a feature of a physique zombie!

Every ability has different variations, and this kind of variation is especially obvious among zombies. Perhaps because zombies lack wisdom, they often evolve along a certain ability track. For example, physique zombies basically became tougher, with hardened skin and improved strength. Humans, in comparison, can selectively make fine adjustments, such as only letting their fists harden.

The characteristic of this zombie was obviously higher, otherwise it was impossible to block the bullet.

He Zizhong wanted to make this point clear: “Try attacking other places to find its weakness!”

Although no one knew who spoke up, the reminder was clear. The Samsara team’s strength ability user took the lead and rushed up. The big kitchen knife in his hand slashed the zombie’s neck forcefully, but only made a scalp tingling “clink” sound.

“The knife rolled off!” The man yelled, grabbing the companion who was almost sent into the mouth of the zombie again, wanting to remove its claws to rescue his companion.

“Knuckles, armpits!” As soon as Guo Bing’s words fell, the power user was sent flying by the zombie. At the same time, a fireball slammed into the zombie’s chest. Although it has caused it to scream out loud, it still had no effect.

The fireball’s attack only burned a layer of black on its chest, and the furious zombie suddenly grabbed the person and threw it to the ground!

A light blue color suddenly burst out, a faint golden light attached to the blade, and with a “poof,” the mutant zombie’s arm was cut off by a third!

Effective!

He Zizhong blessed the wind element ability under his feet, and flashed behind it while the zombie’s movements stopped. Another figure shot past, faster than He Zizhong. The sharp three-pronged blade pierced into the zombie’s eyes, and before the zombie screamed, the figure drifted away!

The zombie who had lost one eye screamed, threw out the human “weapon” in his hand, and stretched out his palm to slam the floor in front of him.

The huge impact caused the person to faint, a mouthful of blood leaking from his mouth. The floor was instantly cracked by the zombies, and everyone seemed to feel that the entire building was shaking!

He Zizhong leapt into the air. Before the zombie stood up, he violently picked up the dogleg knife strengthened by the gold ability, and slashed at the back of the zombie’s neck using the force of his entire body. “Ka-chink!” The end of the noise rang as if the knife was hitting metal, so sharp that it made the scalp numb. Although the zombie’s neck was cut through halfway, it can still move!

“Go! Attack the wound on its neck!” Seeing that He Zizhong seemed to have exerted all his strength, Guo Bing waved his hand decisively, and rushed forward with several team members with long weapons in his hands.

He Zizhong drew the dogleg knife out, only feeling dizzy for a while. He poured almost all his gold abilities into the knife just now, but still failed to cut through the zombie’s neck. Fortunately, no matter how tough a physique zombie was, as long as its skin can be cut, it can always be killed! If they encountered a powerful speed-type zombie instead, they would be sending themselves to death by rushing forward.

 

Ugh, yes there is a physique and a strength ability/zombie. I went back and checked; different terms. What that difference is… beats me.

 

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1Remember earlier with the sanxian dumplings with 3 flavours? Same deal now, except with soup.2Reference to him being the white version. Cannibalism!!!3Author is breaking the 4th wall here