End of the World, Rebirth as a Queen

Lu Zhu had a relatively smooth journey along the way, probably because this is a mountainous area and the population is not that large.

There are not many villages and towns. Most of the small villages are deserted. Even the slightly larger towns are in ruins due to natural disasters and earthquakes.

Houses are strange. When there are people living in them, they can stand there intact for decades. But once there are no people living in them, they will quickly become dilapidated in a short period of time.

This may sound a bit metaphysical, but Lu Zhu thinks this is what is called maintaining a house with popularity.

You can clearly feel whether a place is populated or not when you walk in. People will feel comfortable when they enter a crowded place, while a place where there has been no one for a long time will give people a gloomy feeling.

So Lu Zhu felt a sense of desolation in many places along the way.

The weather along the way was also very strange. It was gloomy and rainy in the first half of the day, and then a strong wind blew during the lunch break. When the wind stopped, it was completely dark again.

The plants on the mountain are also different from before. There are many alienated plants, and most of them have become carnivorous.

Without any alienation, I feel listless and will die in a moment.

Whenever he saw these unalienated plants, Lu Zhu couldn't help but move inside the space. After all, the space was still quite empty.

She didn't recognize many of the plants, but she thought they were the treasures of the future of Blue Planet. Only with them could oxygen be produced continuously.

Of course, sometimes the wrong plants are harvested, and some plants wilt when they are on the verge of alienation.

However, Lu Zhu's space seemed to be able to identify plants that had alienated reactions and would be kicked out as soon as they entered the space.

Lu Zhu felt surprised and delighted.

In this way, there is no need to worry about alienated plants eating up the food in its space.

As for why the space treats alienated plants and alienated animals differently, Lu Zhu doesn't know, because when it comes to alienated animals, the first one is Xuan Guang, who is obviously a bit eye-catching, and the other is Zhi Zhi. It is understandable that Xuan Guang is of unknown species, but Zhi Zhi's background is quite easy to identify.

After all, it was a native tabby cat, and she saw the mother cat's size clearly when she buried it.

After walking for another two days, Lu Zhu looked at the map and it seemed that they were not far from a big town, so he set up a small tent on the side of a national highway and prepared to rest before setting off again.

Xuanguang and Zhizhi have been running around with her outside during this period, and the two have become very strong due to the exercise.

Xuan Guang's body has not grown much since it grew to the size of a cow, and Zhi Zhi has also remained at the size of an adult lynx.

Along the way, they also defeated monsters and upgraded themselves, and now running, jumping, and hunting are all easy for them.

So even if they disappeared for a few hours, Lu Zhu was not afraid.

However, as they were close to the city, Lu Zhu let them return to him. After all, the city was very large and there might be people living there.

Although these two guys won't become sitting ducks, Lu Zhu doesn't like others coveting his things.

When setting off the next day, Lu Zhu put the two animals into the space and rode his old bicycle into the city.

His original feeling that there were still people there turned out to be correct. After walking for more than 20 kilometers, Lu Zhu met several people fleeing one after another, and also encountered a group of people blocking the road at the main intersection leading into the city.

There were a few cars ahead, and they were also stopped.

This reminded Lu Zhu of a phrase that was often said on TV before, "I built this road, I planted this tree, if you want to pass this way, you have to pay me money to pass through."

As expected, the group of people blocking the road were all armed, and the person opening the gate at the main intersection was holding a gun.

Everyone who passes through must pay for food or supplies, no matter what it is, before they can pass.

The car in front handed over a bottle of Erwotou, three pounds of broken rice, and a bag of instant noodles. Only then did the man with the gun raise his hand, and the two younger brothers removed the roadblocks at the gate.

Some of the people in the back were given biscuits, some were given sweet potatoes, and some were given lighters.

Those who had nothing just sent their wives out, and those who took them in and still wanted wives, they dragged them directly behind the green plants at the intersection, and let the people guarding the gate pass through one by one.

Those who no longer wanted their things were tied up and driven into the back of their cars. Everyone knew the consequences that lay ahead.

Some of them felt that the children were a burden and pushed them over to them. Those children were directly locked in a big dog cage, and their future fate can be imagined.

The two-legged sheep in the end times start with these weaklings and gradually go deeper.

When she arrived at Luzhu, she pushed her old bicycle and took out a bag of salt with only half of it left.

The man guarding the gate saw that although her face was covered, she was skinny, dirty, and had no bag except a broken bicycle. He thought she didn't have anything else, so he raised his hand and let her go.

The people at the gate behind him were still begging and crying, but Lu Zhu ignored them.

Don't be a saint in the last days. This is the first rule of survival.

Riding a bicycle is much faster than walking, and Lu Zhu easily overtook the person who had passed the gate first.

Although their eyes were filled with jealousy, they had not had the energy to rob a car because they had not had a full meal since the end of the world. Otherwise, Lu Zhu's car would have been robbed long ago.

After riding for nearly an hour, Lu Zhu finally entered the urban area. The devastated city no longer had the bright lights and nightlife of the past.

Instead, there was mud, dead branches and leaves, and damaged cars all along the way, which should have been the vehicles that were washed away during the flood.

Faded billboards, broken light boxes, various crooked city buildings, and construction site cranes that have fallen to the ground.

All of these tell the story of the rise and fall of a city. Lu Zhu walked slowly inside, occasionally going into some supermarkets and pharmacies to take a look.

As expected, most of them were looted. After all, the apocalypse has been going on for so long, and anyone who didn't take anything was a fool.

But Lu Zhu was not looking for food, she was looking for some small things, so she went to hardware stores or places like tailor shops.

As expected, it was not food, and there were still some fish that slipped through the net. In the tailor shop, she found a lot of needlework and thread-related things, and also saw a large sewing machine. These things should be things that they could not take away or were difficult to get, and Lu Zhu successfully picked them up.

I don’t know if there is any base-like shelter here. Lu Zhu thinks there should be one, but I don’t know how far away it is.

After a simple stroll around the small town, she found that there were quite a lot of things. Lu Zhu did not miss anything she liked. In a more remote warehouse, she also found various tiles, including alloy, resin, and ceramic ones, which filled her needs.

Isn't the new house in the space still lacking tiles? I'm really sleepy and someone gave me pillows. Take them all and cover the house with tiles when I have time.