Ch. 5

"Is that grandpa also with you?" Lou Ai asked.

"That's Grandpa Xia, do you know him?" Xia Xing's expression softened a little.
　　

Lou Ai nodded: "Well, I did a small business with him before, how did you two know each other?"
　　

Xia Xing was now much more familiar with Lou Ai. He subconsciously thought that Lou Ai also knew Xia Chengcheng: "Xia Chengcheng and I were studying in the same calligraphy class. Her grandfather was with us at the time. The day after the purple moon came, our teacher and several students turned into zombies. Xia Chengcheng escaped with her grandfather at the time, but when we found Grandpa Xia in the stairwell the day before yesterday, Xia Chengcheng had been bitten to death by zombies. Don't ask questions about Xia Chengcheng later."

　　

Lou Ai nodded: "I promise not to ask, so can I join you?" She looked at the zombies wandering in the distance. Some people in Xia Xing's team were lucky and awakened psychic powers, and the rest were ordinary people.

"I need to discuss this with Yang Yang. Can you cook?" Xia Xing asked. "I've been eating instant noodles and compressed biscuits every day these days. I have blisters on my mouth."
　　

"Don't worry about getting blisters, I have some watermelon frost here." Lou Ai can cook. After two or three years of struggling in the apocalypse, cooking has become a necessary skill for her. But now she is a zombie and can't stand the smell of cooking. She is afraid that she will vomit on the spot.
　　

Xia Xing: “…”
　　

Yang Yang tensed up when he saw Xia Xing approaching with the girl. "Grandpa Xia, was she really the one who stole your water?"
　　

"It was her, that's right. It's because I ran fast that she couldn't catch up with me." Xia Shoucheng narrowed his eyes and nodded.
　　

"How abominable! How could she have the guts to come here again?"
　　

"It's only been a few days since the end of the world, and the order is collapsing so quickly because of people like this."
　　

Lou Ai walked over and was met with stares from several people. She touched the little yellow duck on her hairband. She didn't look like a vicious criminal now. She asked in surprise: "Xia Xing, what's wrong with them?" Why are these people so hostile?
　　

"Brother Xing." Lou Ai looked at the crewcut-haired man and whispered in Xia Xing's ear, "Why did you bring her back? This is just causing trouble. This girl is the bad guy who wanted to steal the water when Grandpa Xia went to look for water just now. She is not a good person. What if we are harmed by her?"
　　

"No way?" Xia Xing asked in shock as he put the water on the ground. He looked at the expressions of the people in front of him, put away his smile, and was half-believing and half-doubting.
　　

"Of course not, that's what Grandpa Xia just said."
　　

"But I've already promised her that I'll let her live with us. She also said that she and Grandpa Xia had done some small business together. That was also a lie." Xia Xing said, "Is this a mistake? No matter what, that woman can't beat Grandpa Xia, right? What do you think, Yangyang?"

"Then let's take her with us first. If anything happens, we'll drive her away. Be careful not to let her do anything behind our backs." Yang Yang made the final decision. He looked carefully at the hairband on Lou Ai's head and her relatively clean and tidy clothes. It was obvious that she didn't have much fighting power. If she really had bad intentions, they should be able to subdue her. "Grandpa, let's give her another chance."
　　

"Okay, it doesn't matter to me. The main thing is that you think it's okay." Xia Shoucheng nodded and said understandingly.
　　

Lou Ai’s ears are very sensitive now, and she heard everything the young boys talked about.
　　

"Lou Ai, come with us first. You probably haven't eaten for a long time. We still have food."

　　

Lou Ai looked at Xia Xing's gesture for her to follow, nodded and followed, walking out of the supermarket side by side with Grandpa Xia.
　　

There is still the small freezer next to the supermarket, but now there is a middle-aged man in gray work clothes next to the freezer.

　　

The man almost reached under the freezer and was searching vigorously from beginning to end, from end to beginning. The rotten sausages were knocked over and gave off a foul smell, but no matter how foul the smell was, it could not offset the sadness in the man's eyes.

"Where is it? I clearly hid the water here. Um... Woo." The man's low, choked cry sounded.
　　

After Yang Yang moved away a little, the crying sound seemed to be unblocked, attracting one zombie after another.
　　

As they got closer, the zombies became more like cats that smelled blood, rushing over.
　　

There was silence in the team. Several young men stopped talking and listened to the man running away frantically without even turning his head. Instead, Xia Shoucheng next to them showed a sad look on his face.
　　

“It would be great if I could awaken the healing power someday, the kind that can cure the zombie virus. Then I can save the world single-handedly.” After a long time, the child with glasses spoke up to break the silence.
　　

"If you want a healing power, then I want a flying power."

"Why?"
　　

"Then I'll take you to fly in the sky, and you'll heal people from top to bottom."
　　

"Go to hell, do you think I'm a little spray bottle?"
　　

Lou Ai couldn't help but smile as she listened to the quiet discussions of the kids in front of her. She looked to her side, her sadness faded away, and Xia Shoucheng actually smiled with relief.
　　

"We're here. Once we get to the room, we'll be safe for the time being and can have a good rest." Xia Shoucheng said with a smile.
　　

Lou Ai nodded and walked into the room. Behind the door was a storage room of about twelve square meters. There was a small window high up, and a little light came in through the blinds. There were some messy tables and chairs piled against the north wall.

As soon as Xia Shoucheng entered the room, she sat down on the small bed under the window.
　　

Lou Ai also found a chair to blow the air, then sat down next to Xia Shoucheng.
　　

Yang Yang, Xia Xing and the others were packing up the supplies they had found in an orderly manner. After being busy for a while, Yang Yang took out a gas stove from under the table and started to boil water.

　　

The smell of Master Kang's braised beef noodles wafted over here. Lou Ai frowned. She felt like she was in an old-fashioned public toilet on the side of a main road. The strong smell of inferior oil mixed with an unspeakable stench made people nauseous. Fortunately, there was a small window next to her that allowed her to breathe in some fresh air occasionally, so Xia Shoucheng sat next to the window.

Lou Ai turned her head to look at Xia Shoucheng. He was obviously also affected by the impending transformation into a zombie. He smelled the beef noodles and lowered his head slightly, coughing again and again.
　　

Lou Ai felt a rare sense of empathy and comfort.
　　

After being bitten by a zombie, the mutation will take a certain amount of time to adjust according to the physical constitution and environment of different people. If you are infected with the zombie virus in a zombie group, no matter who you are, you will be assimilated on the spot. But if you are not in a place where the zombie virus is dense, a large wound directly exposed to the air will infect the virus and turn you into a zombie within ten minutes. Some people with good physical constitution can withstand a day of small abrasions before mutating. A small cut with a single bar will be the same as Xia Shoucheng, with a buffer period of a few days, but he himself can clearly feel that something is wrong with his body.
　　

Xia Shoucheng obviously didn't intend to tell anyone about his abnormality.

Lou Ai looked at Xia Shoucheng's eyes staring at Xia Xing's neck. Xia Shoucheng had already begun to crave human flesh and blood.
　　

On the contrary, she has no desire for human flesh and blood. She might be a freak among zombies.
　　

Lou Ai shook her head, took out the bottle of water that Xia Xing gave her from her backpack, twisted it open, and drank it down in one gulp. Her thirsty throat was finally relieved after an afternoon of pain. Even in this smelly environment, she had to say that she had never tasted better water than this. After drinking half of the bottle, Lou Ai took another sip and put the rest of the water back into her backpack.
　　

After the instant noodles were ready, Yang Yang used a disposable paper cup and a fork from the supermarket to serve one portion to Xia Shoucheng and her. A group of people took their chairs and sat in a circle to eat. Lou Ai stirred the instant noodles and took out a few cans of food from her backpack. She threw three cans of medium-sized pork she bought to Xia Xing and the others, and opened a can of beef for herself: "Xia Xing, share it among you."
　　

"Thank you." Xia Xing nodded and distributed the food to several people without hesitation.
　　

After the teenagers ate the canned food she gave them, their expressions relaxed a lot, and there was less hostility in their eyes when they looked at Lou Ai.
　　

"How did you get trapped here? You should be at home during the Purple Moon, right?" Lou Ai asked for information.
　　

"We have calligraphy lessons here. We were in class on the night of the purple... purple moon. I fell asleep and when I woke up again, I became like this." Yang Yang explained, "Originally, there were seven of us who escaped, but two of them were bitten to death by zombies in the past few days."
　　

"So you and Grandpa Xia weren't together before?"
　　

"Well, I met Grandpa Xia two days ago, and we got together since we met." Xia Xing tried his best to wink at Lou Ai.
　　

Lou Ai nodded quietly: "Then you have been staying in this supermarket. There should be more than just your small group in the supermarket, right?"

The crew cut said immediately, "Of course there are more than that. I don't know how many individual players there are, but there are two other groups in this supermarket. One group is formed by the supermarket's security guards. Most of them are supermarket employees and some old customers. They were formed on the first day of the apocalypse. They collected enough food and occupied the original cafeteria as a base. Several security guards have awakened their special powers. The day before yesterday, I secretly saw a man over there setting fire to the zombies' hair.
　　

I don't know where the other team is from, but they all have guns. I don't know if they have any special abilities. They are bad, and they hunted down people in the supermarket. They took away more than half of the food in the food section on the second floor of the supermarket, and they also captured pretty girls."
　　

"Yes, sister, you should change into some inconspicuous clothes later, otherwise you will be caught by them and it will be bad." Yang Yang said, pointing to the clothes on her body.

"We'll talk about this later."

Lou Ai looked at the sky outside. The sun was gradually setting, and the sunset glowed the entire sky a bright red, which was extremely beautiful.

Xia Shoucheng's condition became unstable as he ate noodles, but he sat steadily on the small bed without moving.

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