Siheyuan: 55 years, starting from a buyer

Ms. Zhang was too frightened to look at Yu Xiaowei's face, but now she turned her eyes to look out the window. But she was horrified at the sight. If it weren't for her weak constitution and the discomfort caused by long-term undereating, the scene in front of her almost made her sick. She trembled and said, "Oh... that is... that is... that is... a scene of people... people eating each other!"

"Now they are no longer human. This world is no longer the world we once knew. We are at the end of the world." Yu Xiaowei's words were calm but firm. His calm attitude was contrary to his young face but thought-provoking, causing a shocking echo in the car.

"The end of the world? Xiaowei, what is going on? These man-eating monsters, could it be..." Zhang Sheng, who was driving at the same time, was shocked. However, as a warrior, he quickly connected the man-eating monsters in the outside world with the world described by Yu Xiaowei.

"Second Master, your guess is correct. Those man-eating monsters outside were once humans, but now they have turned into zombies."

As they were talking, their car was forced to stop because their road back to the city was completely blocked and the streets were in chaos.

"Second Master, when we find zombies walking towards our car from a distance, we should just ram them. The zombies nowadays are extremely fragile, and destroying their heads or hearts will kill them." Yu Xiaowei quickly told Zhang Sheng when he saw zombies rushing towards them from a distance.

Zhang Sheng didn't have time to ask Yu Xiaowei how he knew about this. He accelerated according to Yu Xiaowei's instructions, then quickly crashed into the zombies. He finally found a way forward amid the splatter of blood.

"Second Master, according to the original plan, we should go to Haijin City, where I need to find my best friend's family, and then go to Pingjing City to find Master." Originally, Yu Xiaowei wanted to deal with the scum Cha Yang, but the sudden end of the world disrupted her plan. Although Cha Yang will have countless opportunities to deal with him in the future, Gong Youqing and his family are much more important to Yu Xiaowei, especially this time she brought her second master Zhang Sheng with her. After weighing the pros and cons, she decided to let the latter go and find his family who lived in Haijin City first.

Although no one has experienced mutation so far and the chance of activating special abilities is very high, the long-term bumpy ride and lack of sufficient heat supply are not good.

What's more, Aunt Zhang's face became paler as they were on the road, especially when she saw the zombies being beaten into a ball. Yu Xiaowei thought it would be best to go to the rest station to find some food for the mother and son, and then let them use medicine to relieve the pain.

Mr. Zhang nodded and looked at the gas tank. "It's a good time to fill up the gas tank at the rest station and store some spare gas."

This car was already very fuel-intensive, and after the modification, the body became much stronger, but at the same time, the demand for fuel consumption was also greater. It seemed that although the fuel tank seemed to be wider and larger, the fuel capacity was rapidly decreasing.

Earlier, Mr. Zhang asked Yu Xiaowei if she had any spare fuel, and she sheepishly admitted that she didn't.

To be honest, since getting her driver's license, Yu Xiaowei has rarely driven a car except for a few occasional uses. She should have remembered everything about daily consumption—this is her basic need for surviving the apocalypse—but she forgot to stock up on fuel. Although she had used the car at certain times in the past five years, it was not a long time, so she had no intuitive understanding of this need.

However, not having it doesn't mean it's too late to act. In order to meet the needs that may arise on the road, Yu Xiaowei plans to scan the gas stations along the way as many times as possible, and according to the improved time and space, there is currently some space available for storing items.

"We are almost at the next rest stop, let's stop there and take a rest." Seeing the road signs flashing by, Yu Xiaowei told Mr. Zhang about his decision.

"Okay!" Mr. Zhang agreed, and the car slowly approached the right side of the highway, preparing to turn in when approaching the exit curve.

When they were about to reach the rest stop, they encountered a truck blocking the entrance. What was even more surprising was that the truck door was open, with obvious bloodstains on the door, but there were no zombies around.

When he glanced towards the cab, he saw no bloodstains on the seat, but the dark marks on the steering wheel and under the door sill seemed to indicate that someone had stood there, and there was no sign of any living people or zombies.

Yu Xiaowen changed the items in his hand, then pulled the seat open and moved to the driver's seat. He then found that there was still something left on the top of the cab, so he quickly started the car and drove forward.

The car started to move slowly, and the tense heart behind him finally settled down. Zhang Sheng, who was following behind, was just about to calm down when his eyes suddenly focused on a figure that flashed a faint light somewhere on the top of the truck. This figure seemed to be running towards the driver's seat in front, like an ominous premonition hidden in the dark night.

Even though Zhang Sheng was not sure what it was, his intuition told him that it was indeed ominous, so he quickly opened the car window and shouted to Yu Xiaowen who was driving at full speed: "Xiaowei, pay attention to the roof!"

Yu Xiaowen, who was driving the car, did not hear the sound, but a strange and deep roar came from the front. Even though she did not hear the warning signal from Zhang Sheng, the roar was no longer unfamiliar to her in her post-apocalyptic life. It had accompanied her day after day since the beginning of the new world. It was a call unique to high-level zombies, a symbol of threat to survivors, and a command that foreshadowed the impending threat to life.

“How come advanced zombies appeared so quickly?” Yu Xiaowen thought in panic, is this a sign of the start of a new world?

Today, no one can give a clear classification of these creatures. It was not until seven days after the end of the world that the characteristics of the zombies were revealed: their remaining humanity is the same as that of humans, and they still have weaknesses, especially the fatal core, which can easily lead to the end of life. However, at this moment, these so-called zombies only have the instinctive desire for food, and have completely lost their emotional cognition as humans.

However, unless it involves creatures that have been torn and deformed beyond recognition, most of the zombies still present at this time can still identify the identity of their former owners from their body shapes.

This is because, in the early stages of the apocalypse, many people chose to avoid harming their former family members and close friends out of pity, which unexpectedly made the survival rate of the first born zombies far beyond ordinary people's expectations - the emergence of this situation also left more difficult problems for subsequent civilizations.

Therefore, these initial zombies were eventually classified as level zero. For the zombies that began to be able to make low roars, they were considered to be level one or higher. These changes meant that the zombies, whose vocal cords were destroyed and reassembled in a unique way by the original human, were losing their human-like appearance characteristics.

At the same time, a specific roaring sound entered Yu Xiaowen's ears, which meant that she would face a challenge that was no longer a simple and powerless primary zombie. As a survivor who had been honing her skills on the edge of this world for many years and had specially gone to the martial arts hall to practice her skills during this period, when facing such creatures, Yu Xiaowen actually put aside her former identity as a "human" and used her own skills to fight against these creatures, which would be relatively easier.

Although these newly formed zombies retain a movement speed similar to that of humans and an instinctive tendency to react to the beauty of blood, it is precisely because of these characteristics that they become quite frightening and even retreat - this is why they are easy to deal with. As long as you find the appropriate coping methods, they are usually not difficult to deal with.

If the newly born zombies were likened to a madly fleeing rabbit, although they bite people wantonly, they are just animals after all. However, when they become level one zombies, this crazy rabbit transforms into a mad dog, which is not only faster but also more ferocious.

Looking back, in the last life, the zombie tide only showed its initial shadow after a month, and the number of first-level zombies was sparse at that time. The reason is that this kind of zombies obtain energy by gnawing on humans. Only after accumulating to a certain scale and density can it evolve to a higher level. Of course, the higher the level, the stronger the zombie's ability, but evolving into a high-level zombie is no easier than the upgrade process of a superpower. Until a few years later, most of the zombies have not reached the first level. Not to mention that the higher-level zombies are even rarer and scarce, like phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

From this, it can be seen that the path of zombie evolution is not smooth and easy, but on just the first day, they unexpectedly encountered relatively high-level first-stage zombies, which really made everything quite incredible.

Although Yu Xiaowei was puzzled by all this, he had to admit that the first stage zombies really existed. Zombies did not have the time and patience to think or discuss their own evolution like humans. Their only mission was to devour fresh fire ** and satisfy the endless needs in their bodies - to absorb the insatiable energy supply.

Yu Xiaowei immediately took out her ** and drove the car into the service area, looking for an opportunity to leave the car. Because compared with ordinary people, the first-stage zombies are more powerful. The part that has been dragged and twisted can no longer withstand the impact from the first-stage zombies.

As the roar sounded, Yu Xiaowei's eyes flashed with the chilling face of the first-level zombie, which was hanging on the car window, and stretched out a hand full of deformed scars like a tangled tree root, and hit the windshield hard. The glass soon cracked. At this time, she had already driven to the service area.

When the car entered the parking lot in this area, Yu Xiaowei finally understood why this first-level zombie appeared - because there were buses parked here with blood marks all over them. There were bloodstains everywhere on the buses, and it was almost certain that there were ten to dozens of such buses.