End of the World

Before dark, the four found a shelter. Today was another day without food, so they wolfed down a few fish and finally regained some strength.

At night, Wu Bin was on duty. The faint light from the campfire shone on his face. The darkness was filled with the sounds of unknown insects. It seemed very peaceful.

The food was running out, and they would set out on the journey home tomorrow. Wu Bin felt uneasy without food, as they rarely ran out of food.

"Wu Bin!"

In the darkness, He Yuxin shouted softly.

"Well, why aren't you asleep?" Wu Bin responded, and then he saw He Yuxin get up, carefully move her body, and move next to him.

"I can not sleep!"

"Are you hungry?" Wu Bin sighed inwardly and wanted to give her more of the dinner, but she didn't want it.

"No!" He Yuxin shook her head.

"Are you overthinking it again?" Wu Bin smiled. He felt that He Yuxin was in a bad mood today.

"Well, I miss Sister Yun a little bit!" He Yuxin admitted. After going through so much and having been away from the team for some time, she saw Chen Guangjun's injuries today and saw his face full of pain while in a coma. It would have been great if Fang Xiaoyun was here.

When she was leaving, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at her. He Yuxin suddenly felt a little scared. She was afraid that someone else would get hurt, so she could only watch and do nothing.

"I miss you all too. Don't worry, we'll be home soon!"

Wu Bin took the initiative to hug He Yuxin. She did not resist and leaned into his arms.

"Fortunately, Jun's injuries aren't too serious, we have some medicine!"

"Don't think too much, go to sleep!" Wu Bin caressed her gently, and He Yuxin quickly fell asleep in his arms.

When she woke up the next day, He Yuxin found that Wu Bin was still holding her in his arms and had not changed his position.

"Wu Bin, I...!" He Yuxin felt embarrassed.

"It's okay!" Wu Bin let go of her hand and patted her head. Although he didn't sleep well after changing shifts in the second half of the night, he enjoyed it very much.

"My Yuxin sleeps very quietly, she is a good baby!"

“…What are you talking about…!” He Yuxin couldn’t stand it anymore.

"Brother Bin, you are going too far. I'm still here!" Dafeng protested against the couple's show of affection.

"Go! It's such a big place, I didn't stop you!"

"hey-hey!"

Wu Bin pretended to punch Dafeng, but he dodged it easily. This guy is quite quick.

"A day's plan begins in the morning, Dafeng, let's go find something to eat!"

"okay!"

Hearing about finding food, Dafeng became full of energy again. Unfortunately, he only ate two fish yesterday, which were not enough to fill his stomach. He felt weak when he got up in the morning.

There are almost no shops in places like this, and the two of them didn't know where to find food. They were just lucky yesterday and took someone else's fish.

Wu Bin just didn't believe that there would be no food in the house. In fact, there had been some food there, but it had been visited by the local survivors, and almost nothing was left. It was like a swarm of locusts, leaving a mess everywhere.

"Brother Bin, if all else fails, let's just eat grass roots!" Dafeng said breathlessly. This is what is written in history books.

“Yes, you can also chew on the bark!”

Wu Bin saw that apart from the weeds in the field, there were still some vegetable leaves, but they were very thin and small. They were about to survive the winter, but then he met two more people.

"Hey, this smells better than grass roots!"

Dafeng pulled up a few vegetables, but unfortunately there were not many. Wu Bin walked to the water's edge, thinking that picking some wild vegetables would be enough to last the day.

So the two of them started picking a bag full of wild vegetables. If Wu Bin remembered correctly, this was called Solanum nigrum. It sounded like a medicinal herb and it did have medicinal uses, with the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

It is also known as bitter herb. I used to pick it and eat it as a vegetable in my hometown, and it was no big deal to eat so much of it.

"Shh! Brother Bin, wait a minute!"

Dafeng suddenly stopped and stopped Wu Bin.

"what happened?"

"Look, there's a snake, a walking protein!" Dafeng said with shining eyes.

When Wu Bin looked in the direction he wanted, he saw a snake as thick as two fingers. Although he didn't recognize it, he knew it must be poisonous when he saw its inverted triangle-shaped head.

At the moment it seems to be basking in the sun. The weather is not too warm now, so how come the snake came out? This is a good thing for several people.

"Hey, be careful!" Wu Bin warned. Being bitten by this thing is no joke.

"Shh!"

Dafeng picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it at the snake's head.

The target was hit accurately, but not completely knocked out. The snake was injured and burrowed into the grass trying to escape. Dafeng found a branch, grabbed its tail and pulled it out.

"Fizz!"

The injured snake head spit out its tongue, but it failed to scare Dafeng at all. At this moment, he only had food in his eyes.

"Let you hiss!"

Dafeng flattened the snake's head directly, and the snake's body slowly curled up and squirmed.

"Haha, let's go back and cook snake soup!" Dafeng was very happy and picked up the snake.

Wu Bin looked at the sections of the snake's belly and felt a tingling sensation on his scalp. Yes, he was afraid of snakes.

"Okay, let's go back!"

The two returned with a full load. When they got back to the small camp, Dafeng couldn't wait to show off his achievements, but this scared He Yuxin.

He Yuxin is afraid of snakes just like Wu Bin. She is not that afraid of mice, cockroaches, earthworms and the like, but snakes are long and can bite you if you catch or step on them.

"Dafeng! You tried to scare me with a snake, I'll cook you into snake soup in a minute!"

Dafeng scratched his head, as if he had angered He Yuxin.

"Hey, sorry, I won't dare to do that again!"

Dafeng apologizes.

He Yuxin ignored him and went to the back to pick vegetables.

After all the trouble to prepare the food, it was almost noon. Dafeng did not get to eat the snake soup as he wished. Since he had no means, he just roasted the snake and ate it, which was a bit chewy.

Wu Bin didn't want to eat it at first. According to the saying in his hometown, he couldn't eat dog meat or snake meat. He had to go to the temple to pay homage to the gods after marrying a wife. But now that the zombies have come out, it's no use following those rules.

The four people had no map and had no idea where they were. They walked northeast for two days and finally stopped in front of a bridge.

The river is about ten meters wide, and the only bridge nearby is controlled by someone.

Speedboats pass by on the river from time to time. These are modified by themselves and use truck engines. I have to say, they go quite fast.

Wu Bin and the other two were almost landlubbers, and Chen Guangjun had injuries on his body and could not touch water.

"These guys are quite organized. It will be very troublesome for us to cross the river!" Chen Guangjun observed for a while and said aloud.

"It's really troublesome!"

Dafeng put down the machine gun he was carrying. If they had a car, they would set up the machine gun and rush directly to the checkpoint, but here, cars have become rare and almost impossible to find.

There was a burst of gunfire in the distance, which was very intense and attracted the attention of everyone here. They shouted words that were incomprehensible.

"What are these guys doing?" Dafeng couldn't help but ask.

The gunshots became more and more frequent. The person who had been driving the speedboat came back in a hurry and started drifting on the water, but in fact he had lost control.

"Tu Tu Tu!"

People on the bridge also opened fire.

"No, everyone be careful!" Chen Guangjun seemed to have sensed the danger, and the four of them hid their bodies even better.

"Squeak!"

This familiar sound, ah! It was the "friend" from my hometown. Yes, it was the old friend, the corpse moth. They looked no different from those in China. I didn't know where those people had provoked them from.

When Wu Bin saw the bugs, he couldn't help but say to himself, "They can't see us... They can't see us!"

But it seemed to be useless. The corpse moths not only have eyes, but also a keen sense of smell. They can detect human breath from a certain distance, just like mosquitoes in the dark, locking onto targets by human breathing.

"Damn it, come on!"

A corpse moth seemed to sense the presence of the four people. It flapped its bat wings and slowly flew over. Dafeng secretly prepared a machine gun.

"Tu Tu Tu!"

The people on the bridge discovered this unusual insect and fired decisively. The bullet flying from the flank shot the insect down, and it fell into the water and was washed away by the river, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

"I suddenly don't want to eat fish!" Dafeng felt a little nauseous when he thought that fish grow up by eating insects.

"Snakes are still the best!"

"Well, snakes eat mice and frogs. Mice grow up by gnawing on corpses, and frogs grow up by eating maggots. Then snakes eat them. Eating a snake is roughly equivalent to eating a zombie!"

"So, I suggest you eat the zombies directly without any middlemen making a profit from the price difference," Wu Bin said.

"Fuck, Brother Bin, you're so disgusting. You're becoming more and more like Qiao Xinghua!"

When He Yuxin heard this, she covered her mouth and smiled.

"Okay, you two, stop talking!" Chen Guangjun said helplessly.

There weren't many bugs attacking, but they were enough to make the people on the bridge panic. They fired without any order, basically just shooting, and they actually allowed a few bugs to take advantage of the opportunity.

"Ah!"

With two screams, the two unlucky guys were hit by the acid of the corpse moth. Their faces and arms melted into blood in an instant. They could only roll on the ground and then die in pain.

There were several roars of vehicles, and then the sound became farther and farther away, and the remaining corpse moths also became farther and farther away, they ran away!

"Huh! Let's go up to the bridge and take a look!" Wu Bin stood up and the three nodded. If they didn't cross the bridge now, when would they?

The zombies nearby might have been eliminated by them. In such a fierce battle, there was not a single zombie. This could only mean that those guys were too poor at shooting. After seeing their performance, Wu Bin suddenly became confident again.

Ahem! Although my marksmanship is not good, I can at least hit the zombies. Hitting the vital parts requires some luck, but that guy just pulled the trigger and let the bullet do the rest.

The two unlucky guys were in a hurry because their companions were running away and didn't take their guns, so Wu Bin and his four companions got them at ease, as they just happened to have a gun each.

The two people who were hit by the acid died in horrible ways, with blood all over their heads and their arms and heads showing white bones, which shows how powerful the lethality was.

"Don't look at it, you'll have nightmares!"

Wu Bin stretched out his hand to block He Yuxin's eyes. She broke free and said, "I'm not afraid!"

He Yuxin has had many nightmares, all kinds of strange ones. As long as Wu Bin is fine, she has nothing to be afraid of.

"What do you think of the corpse moth liquid being used to deal with zombies?" Dafeng said, looking at the dead body. His idea was truly out of the box.