EOTWR Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Ai Wei cooked, and the others took care of washing dishes and other household chores.

They also went to the supermarket and brought back several cases of water because they weren’t sure if the water in the pipes was contaminated. They used bottled water for eating and drinking.

Xia Junchi’s leg hurt fiercely at first, but after a few days, the pain gradually lessened.

In the beginning, Ai Wei was afraid of touching Xia Junchi’s broken leg, so he didn’t dare to move him. He just let him lie in bed and fed him some things. Later, when his leg didn’t hurt so much, Ai Wei thought about giving him a body wipe.

It was still summer, and if he didn’t shower for a few days, he would have an odor. Previously, Ai Wei had only wiped Xia Junchi’s hands, face, and upper body. He hadn’t wiped the parts below because touching them would cause pain. Now that Xia Junchi’s leg didn’t hurt so much, he wanted to wash him.

However, the thought of washing Xia Junchi’s lower body made Ai Wei blush and become too nervous to say it.

Xia Junchi saw him always looking at himself with a conflicted and blushing face and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Ai Wei immediately felt as if he was thinking about something guilty and had been discovered, and his whole face turned red.

After a while, he stuttered, “That… I saw you were sweating, do you want to wipe yourself down? I’ll go get you some water…”

The further he spoke, the lower his voice became.

Xia Junchi was stunned, not expecting Ai Wei to be struggling with this.

Looking at Ai Wei’s somewhat shy, yet sparkling, expectant eyes, Xia Junchi suddenly felt a little moved.

He did need to wash himself properly.

But having Ai Wei fetch water and wipe him down made him feel a little uneasy.

Ai Wei went to the bathroom, found a clean towel, filled a bucket with warm water, and took two basins back to the room.

He asked Xia Junchi somewhat embarrassed, “Do you want me to help you wipe?”

“No, I can do it myself,” Xia Junchi quickly said. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a look of disappointment in Ai Wei’s shining eyes.

“Then, then I’ll help you take off your clothes,” Ai Wei said in a serious tone. “I don’t mean anything else, I just think it’s inconvenient for you to take off your pants yourself.”

Taking off his top was fine, but to take off his pants, it would be best to cut or tear them open, otherwise, he would have to move his leg.

It would have been better if he hadn’t said he didn’t mean anything else. Saying it made it seem like he was trying to hide something.

Only then did Xia Junchi realize that the body wipe Ai Wei was talking about was for his lower body. He immediately blushed and became a little uncomfortable.

However, what Ai Wei said was true. It was indeed very inconvenient for him to take off his pants alone.

Seeing him hesitate, Ai Wei was afraid that he would feel embarrassed and not wash, so he quickly said affirmatively, “Don’t worry, I’ll close my eyes when I take them off, I won’t look at anything.”

Seeing him acting as if he was afraid that he would be regarded as a pervert, Xia Junchi somehow felt a sense of incongruity.

Xia Junchi discovered that he liked men when he was 18 years old. After that, because of his height and appearance, he always thought he was the top. However, he wasn’t very proactive in love, so when he was dating Ye Cong, Ye Cong was mostly the one who took the initiative. But Ye Cong was always the type to act cute and take the initiative in front of him, which was different from Ai Wei’s proactive nature.

Ai Wei had delicate and handsome features, and a gentle personality, but he also had a very manly and brave side. Just the fact that he was able to pick up Xia Junchi and avoid the zombies before showed that he was very capable as a boyfriend. This made Xia Junchi vaguely realize that Ai Wei was probably different from Ye Cong. Ai Wei probably wasn’t the bottom.

Xia Junchi, who had always thought he was the top, naturally felt a little repulsed by Ai Wei’s coveting of his body. However, he was also trying to adapt to this side of Ai Wei.

“It’s okay, you don’t need to close your eyes,” Xia Junchi said. Ai Wei didn’t expect him to say that, and his heart was filled with surprise and joy.

Xia Junchi saying that meant that he could look at Xia Junchi’s naked body??

Thinking of the scene that was about to unfold, Ai Wei suddenly felt so excited…

He couldn’t help but take a deep breath, trying to keep a straight face and not reveal a perverted expression.

“I’ll go get a pair of scissors,” he said, turning and walking out of the room. Who knew that as soon as he turned around, he would do a classic left foot tripping over right foot, and then “bang” he fell to the ground.

…

It was the first time Xia Junchi had seen someone fall on flat ground. He couldn’t help but widen his eyes slightly. He saw Ai Wei quickly get up, but a stream of blood was flowing from his delicate nose. He gave him a strong smile and said, “It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt…”

“You’re bleeding,” Xia Junchi said.

“Ah…” Ai Wei touched the area below his nose and saw the blood on his hand, but his expression remained unchanged and he said calmly, “It’s nothing, just a little blood.”

After saying that, he left as quickly as possible.

Xia Junchi looked at his fleeing figure and couldn’t help but let out a low chuckle.

It wasn’t until an hour later that Ai Wei came back, holding a pair of scissors in his hand.

Seeing Xia Junchi looking at him with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, Ai Wei felt his heart about to jump out of his chest.

Xia Junchi’s smile was very handsome and pleasing to the eye. Ai Wei couldn’t help but look at him, but when he met his warm and clear eyes, he couldn’t help but blush and look away.

He took a deep breath and said, “I, I’m going to start.”

As he said that, he reached out to unbutton the buttons on Xia Junchi’s shirt. His serious and solemn appearance made it seem as if he wasn’t unbuttoning a small button, but doing something of national importance.

Xia Junchi wanted to laugh very much, but in order not to stimulate him and make him run away again, he could only try his best to hold back his laughter.

Ai Wei appeared serious and calm on the surface, but his heart was extremely excited. Fortunately, his hands were still steady. After unbuttoning the top two buttons of his shirt, he saw the sexy and hollow collarbone inside, and a bit of chest muscle that made his blood boil.

The little gully in the center of his chest muscles made him think endlessly and couldn’t help but want to see the scenery below. Ai Wei’s heart was pounding fast. He took a deep breath, then pulled down the shirt with both hands, revealing a large expanse of skin.

The wheat-colored chest muscles rose and fell, with obvious chest grooves. The firm abdomen rose and fell with the owner’s breathing, and you could faintly see his abs. Ai Wei had seen it twice before when he wiped Xia Junchi’s upper body, but now that he saw it again, he still thought it looked incredibly good.

I really want to… I really want to touch it… Ai Wei looked at the sexy and eye-catching chest muscles, and saliva almost dripped down. He took off Xia Junchi’s shirt, then lowered his head to unbutton his pants.

Who knew if it was because he was too excited, but he couldn’t unbutton the button on his pants no matter what he did. Ai Wei couldn’t help but feel anxious, but the more anxious he became, the more he couldn’t unbutton it.

Xia Junchi’s laughter came from above his head. The low and magnetic voice made people’s ears feel pregnant.

Then, he saw a slender hand with well-defined joints covering his hand…

When Ai Wei came out of the room, he was floating. His consciousness was still immersed in the wonderful feeling just now, and he couldn’t come back to his senses for a long time. (Don’t get me wrong, nothing happened, just taking off his pants)

He didn’t know when Xia Junchi would finish washing, so he simply went to the bathroom and took a shower. He also washed the clothes he had changed out of, and borrowed a few changes of clothes from Doctor Li. When he returned to the room with the clothes, Xia Junchi had already finished washing. Then, Ai Wei, with a flushed face, helped Xia Junchi put on his pants, and changed the bed sheets for him.

Xia Junchi didn’t smell anymore after washing. Ai Wei couldn’t help but take a peek. The shape was good, and it was quite big. His butt was also very perky. I really want to touch it…

Because he saw something that made his blood boil, Ai Wei couldn’t help but feel a little hot while sleeping that night.

This was terrible. He set up a makeshift bed in Xia Junchi’s room. The thought of Xia Junchi sleeping on the bed next to him gave him a feeling of excitement.

Beauty was right next to him, but he couldn’t look at it or eat it, which was a sweet torture.

When he finally fell asleep, his dreams were full of fairies fighting, and it was extremely lewd. When he woke up the next day, he was too embarrassed to look at Xia Junchi.

Doctor Li had been locking himself in his room for the past few days, studying the zombie virus. Although his home didn’t have particularly complex and expensive equipment, he did have a microscope and some simple medical equipment. He made several protective suits and put them on, and from time to time he would take some blood, flesh tissue, bones, etc. from the zombies for research.

When Ai Wei saw him doing this, he would help him retrieve some things that would be used for research, such as zombie blood…

After working for a few days, Doctor Li really researched some things.

It turned out that what caused humans to turn into zombies was a gray-black, spherical virus. The appearance of this zombie virus wasn’t anything special. It could survive being frozen in an environment of minus 18 degrees. Even if it was frozen overnight, it could become very active after thawing the next day.

However, this virus could be killed by high temperatures. If it was left in an environment of over 100 degrees for more than ten minutes, the virus would disappear.

The virus couldn’t float in the air. It could only attach to physical objects. It could be transmitted through wounds, and also through droplets. If droplets containing the zombie virus entered the eyes, mouth, or wounds, infection would occur. Even breathing in the virus from a zombie could lead to infection if one was too close to the infected host.

Of course, the above conclusions were obtained from white mice. Yes, the zombie virus could also infect animals, which was undoubtedly a terrible discovery.

In addition to white mice, they also discovered dogs, cats, and other mammals that had turned into zombies. Fortunately, there were no cases of insects such as mosquitoes and caterpillars being infected with the zombie virus. However, it was still very troublesome that flies and mosquitoes could spread the zombie virus.

This made people wonder if the zombie outbreak was so severe because mosquitoes and flies had played a part. After all, it was summer, which was the active season for flies and mosquitoes.

Moreover, the survival period of this zombie virus was very long.

Ordinary viruses could survive for a few days without a host, and that was considered long. Doctor Li observed the zombie virus for four days, and the zombie virus didn’t die. The zombie virus also didn’t show any signs of being listless after leaving the host. Even after being frozen for days and nights, it could still maintain its previous activity after thawing.

What was most shocking was that zombie white mice quickly increased their physical strength by about 1/3 after eating uninfected white mice. Moreover, the more the zombie white mice ate, the stronger they became.

Not only that, the wounds on the zombie white mice that had eaten live mice would also slowly heal.

This meant that zombies could become stronger and heal themselves by eating people. If zombies ate enough living people, they could become stronger in terms of flexibility, speed, and strength.

No wonder zombies wanted to eat people.

After eating enough living people, the zombie virus might even undergo deterioration. Like in zombie novels, zombies might develop intelligence and abilities.

This was a truly horrifying discovery. Although the current zombies were terrifying, they didn’t pose too great a threat to humans because their strength was similar to humans, and their speed was far lower than humans.

The reason why Ai Wei was able to safely return from zombie-infested schools and supermarkets was because the zombies moved too slowly. As long as he wasn’t surrounded by zombies, he could quickly shake them off.

But what if the zombies’ speed and strength became stronger?

Ai Wei imagined a scene where zombies were running after him as fast as athletes and couldn’t help but shudder.

Moreover, if humans were developing abilities, would ability zombies also appear in the future? The thought that zombies might become more and more powerful made Ai Wei feel that the pressure to survive in the future was enormous.

Doctor Li posted the things he researched online. At the same time, everyone also learned many things from the Internet.

Yes, although there was a zombie outbreak and the end of the world had arrived, the Internet was still temporarily up. However, the signal wasn’t very good in many places, and many websites were messy because no one was managing them. In the past, the Internet was more strictly regulated, and the online environment was more peaceful. But now, various bloody videos and extreme opinions had appeared online.

Someone uploaded videos of zombies eating people to the Internet, and the scenes were very bloody and tragic.

Someone live-streamed their suicide, saying that the end of the world had come and humans were doomed.

Some people acted recklessly, exposing the most selfish and dark side of human nature.

Some people were promoting cults, saying that the end of the world was God’s punishment for the world, and only the most devout believers could survive in the end of the world. Those who were not devout would die in the disaster of the end of the world.

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Ai Wei was dumbfounded as he watched all kinds of demons and monsters dancing wildly on the Internet.

However, there were still some useful messages online. For example, many ability users had announced their abilities online.

They also uploaded videos of themselves using their abilities. The base number of humans was too large. Therefore, even though most humans had turned into zombies, the number of survivors was still very large. Among these survivors, many people were gradually awakening their abilities. Some people had just awakened, while others had awakened a day ago, two days ago… or even before the outbreak of the zombies. This made Ai Wei breathe a sigh of relief. With so many ability users, his ability wouldn’t seem too special.

After discovering that he had an ability, Ai Wei concealed it from his companions. After all, he had only just met these people and didn’t dare to trust them too much. But apparently, not all ability users were as cautious as he was.

A considerable number of ability users uploaded their ability information online.

At first, some ability users were very chuuni. Their tone when they said they had awakened their abilities made it seem like they were some chosen one. But as more and more ability users left messages, there were fewer and fewer people like that, but the ability users’ sense of superiority still came from the phone.

According to the messages from these ability users, the most commonly awakened abilities were nature-based abilities, such as metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and lightning, which accounted for more than 80% of the ability users. Next were physical abilities, mental abilities, space abilities, and healing abilities. Although they weren’t common, they weren’t too rare either. Then there were some very rare abilities. For example, Ai Wei saw someone leave a message saying that he saw a woman holding a man’s hand, and then the man slowly aged at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the originally listless woman quickly recovered her spirits, and even her originally gray hair became black and shiny.

The person who left the message suspected that the woman’s ability was to absorb other people’s life force for her own use. This made Ai Wei feel a little chilled and secretly decided that he would be more careful when interacting with people in the future.

Ability users became active online, exchanging information they knew. They also encouraged each other, learned from each other, and even started live-streaming online. Ai Wei saw a fire-based ability user live-streaming the use of flames to boil water and cook. Soon, thousands of people flooded into the live-streaming room.

There were also wood-based ability users live-streaming the instantaneous blooming of plants, water-based ability users live-streaming the use of abilities to catch fish, metal-based ability users using metal to flexibly carve wood art, etc…

Soon, these ability users had hundreds of thousands of fans.

Moreover, it wasn’t just that some people were doing live-streams. Even the staff of video websites were sticking to their posts, managing these newly promoted Internet celebrities who suddenly had hundreds of thousands or millions of fans.

Ai Wei… This world was simply too crazy. It was the end of the world, and these people still had the mood to do live-streams!

Weren’t they afraid that people with ill intentions would know their secrets? Weren’t they afraid that mad scientists would want to catch them and cut them up for experiments?!

Although some people didn’t show their faces when they live-streamed their abilities, there were also people who were blatant and didn’t hide anything, and just live-streamed their abilities. Looking at how carefree these people were, Ai Wei couldn’t help but wonder if he was being a little too neurotic by being so cautious and concealing his abilities.

However, he only doubted himself for a second and decided that he was right to be so cautious. Now it was the end of the world. From the end-of-the-world novels and movies he had seen before, the chaos and danger of the end of the world would stimulate the darkest side of human nature. Humans would not hesitate to kill each other in order to survive. Moreover, the current government was in a state of paralysis. Without the order maintained by the government, those who were inherently brutal would become even more unscrupulous.

Now, the end of the world had only just begun, and humans were still maintaining the way they acted in a peaceful society. But after a while, if society was still so disordered, some people might do things that were even more unethical.

In this situation, he couldn’t be too careful.

However, he had to admire those who still had the mood to use their abilities to do live-streams in this situation, especially the artist who live-streamed carving wood art with metal abilities.

Watching him use his ability to control metal blades to change various shapes with ease, cutting out large and small pieces of wood, and carving a round piece of wood into various lifelike images, this calm state of mind calmed Ai Wei’s somewhat uneasy mood.

In addition to these “skill demonstration” live-streams, some people had also tested methods for killing zombies.

As long as you blew up a zombie’s head, the zombie would truly die. Some people were already hunting zombies to practice their abilities. That person uploaded a video of himself hunting zombies online, and the comments he received were mixed.

Some people said that he was a hero who was killing zombies to save humanity, while others pointed out that he was killing them unhygienically and hadn’t cleaned up the zombies’ remains properly. Some people recognized the identity of the zombie that was killed and @ed the family of the killed zombie, then wished the poster good luck. Some people said he was too cruel, and some even said that the zombie virus might be a disease, and as long as they found a way to eliminate the zombie virus, the zombies might be able to turn back into living people, etc.

When Ai Wei saw someone say that the zombie virus was a disease, and as long as they found a way to cure the zombie virus, they could restore the zombies to humans, Ai Wei thought this idea was a bit too absurd. After all, zombies had no other characteristics of living people besides being able to eat people and move around. But to his surprise, there were quite a few people who supported this idea.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Ai Wei could understand them.

After all, the end of the world had only just begun, and many people were finding it difficult to accept that their loved ones, friends, colleagues, and family had suddenly turned into zombies. At this time, when they saw someone say that zombies could still be restored to humans, even if there was only a slim hope, many people would still harbor fantasies.

If the person he loved most turned into a zombie, he might do the same.

Most of these people were against killing zombies. However, Ai Wei felt that they were against killing zombies partly because the threat zombies posed to humans wasn’t great enough yet.

After all, as long as they stayed in a safe place, zombies would basically not find them. Even if zombies did find them, the zombies moved slowly, so it wasn’t difficult for them to get rid of the zombies. Unless they were surrounded by a group of zombies, the probability of humans escaping was still very high.

Moreover, the people had a high degree of trust in the government. Now the government had issued a notice asking everyone to stay in a safe place as much as possible and not go out. This made many people believe that with the organization of the government and the rescue of the army, they would eventually get through this disaster. This was also the idea of most Chinese people.

Of course, there were also quite a few people who didn’t trust the army and the government and wanted to hoard some supplies as soon as possible by their own strength. Some people even robbed the people around them of food and committed various crimes such as rape and murder. Some of these people were quickly caught and sentenced according to the crimes they committed.

Because the end of the world had just begun, and the crime rate had increased sharply, the sentences for these criminals were very heavy in order to deter the public. Several people were sentenced to death.

On the one hand, the government was appeasing the people and the army was providing rescue. On the other hand, the heavy sentences were a deterrent. Many criminals who had previously thought that the end of the world had broken down order and they could act recklessly suddenly became quiet.

Many videos and posts that incited people to commit suicide and were full of gore and violence were deleted, and some websites were even directly shut down. Instead, the government and various media outlets were calling on people to stay at home as much as possible and not go out. If they had to go out, they should pay attention to avoiding encountering zombies and how to avoid being infected with the zombie virus. There were also leaders giving live speeches, encouraging everyone to unite and overcome this difficult time together. As long as the whole country was united, there was nothing that could not be overcome.

In the following days, videos of the army rescuing trapped survivors were released online every day. For a time, the Internet was full of various requests for help from survivors, some needing doctors to treat illnesses, some children lacking milk powder, and some trapped in zombie hordes. These people were rescued one by one. For a time, the Internet was full of praise and gratitude for the People’s Liberation Army.

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After Doctor Li’s research on zombies was published online, it caused a wave of panic.

Zombies could actually become stronger by eating people??!! The zombie virus could still be active after being frozen into ice??!!

The zombie virus could also be transmitted to many kinds of mammals, including rats??!!

Even flies and mosquitoes could spread the zombie virus??!!

This was simply spine-chilling, wasn’t it??!!

If zombies were like zombie white mice, and they could increase their physical strength by eating a living person, and they could even have self-healing abilities and become more agile than living people if they ate enough people, then to what extent would zombies evolve in the future?!

If zombies had agile speed and great strength, would humans still have a chance to survive?

Everyone shuddered when they thought of this.

However, Doctor Li didn’t just bring bad news. For example, the zombie virus was not resistant to high temperatures and could be killed in a high-temperature environment above a certain temperature. As long as high-temperature sterilization was used, there would be no problem with humans eating and drinking water.

Some people didn’t believe Doctor Li’s conclusions and did their own experiments. However, the results of the experiments proved that what Doctor Li said was true.

When this conclusion was proven by more and more experts, the dissenting voices under the video of the person who liked to kill zombies immediately died down.

In contrast, there were more and more people who liked his zombie-killing video and encouraged him to kill more zombies. Occasionally, one or two people would say that he killed too many zombies and was too cruel, but they would quickly be sprayed with dog blood by the opponents.

It had to be said that humans were a very adaptable species. Many people had gradually adapted to their current lives. They had nailed screens to the windows and doors of their homes to prevent insects from entering. They did a thorough cleaning of their homes, cleaning out all the insects hiding in the corners. They also went to the supermarket and brought back enough food, and then holed up at home, waiting for government rescue.

There was no way around it. After all, there were too many people in the city, and there were too many cars. Even if they wanted to leave the city and go to the countryside where there were fewer people to take refuge, they had to dismiss the idea when they saw the long traffic jams on the road and the zombies wandering in the car crowds.

Many people in the government and the army had turned into zombies. After days of reorganization, the army began to send supplies and medical care to those in urgent need. The government asked the general public to stay at home and not run around for their own safety in order to avoid danger. The government would repair the electrical circuits and the Internet, continue to supply gas, and clear the zombies to establish new safe zones for everyone to live in.

Seeing the helicopters airdropping food and medicine to various residential areas and the soldiers rescuing trapped people, people’s hearts couldn’t help but calm down. Even if some people didn’t receive supplies at first, they believed that the government would send them supplies sooner or later.

Of course, there were also quite a few people who didn’t trust the army and the government and wanted to hoard some supplies as soon as possible by their own efforts. Some people even robbed the people around them of food and committed various crimes such as rape and murder. Some of these people were quickly caught and sentenced according to the crimes they committed.

Because the end of the world was here, and the crime rate had increased sharply, the sentences for these criminals were all heavy in order to deter the public. Several people were sentenced to death.

On the one hand, the government was appeasing the people and the army was providing rescue. On the other hand, the heavy sentences were a deterrent. Many criminals who had previously thought that the end of the world had broken down order and they could act recklessly suddenly became quiet.

Many videos and posts that incited people to commit suicide and were full of gore and violence were deleted, and some websites were even directly shut down. Instead, the government and various media outlets were calling on people to stay at home as much as possible and not go out. If they had to go out, they should pay attention to avoiding encountering zombies and how to avoid being infected with the zombie virus. There were also leaders giving live speeches, encouraging everyone to unite and overcome this difficult time together. As long as the whole country was united, there was nothing that could not be overcome.

In the following days, videos of the army rescuing trapped survivors were released online every day. For a time, the Internet was full of various requests for help from survivors, some needing doctors to treat illnesses, some children lacking milk powder, and some trapped in zombie hordes. These people were rescued one by one. For a time, the Internet was full of praise and gratitude for the People’s Liberation Army.