EOTWR Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Ai Wei watched his stiff and slow movements, and couldn’t help but think, “Why is this person so slow?” But he didn’t pay too much attention to him and walked directly towards the door.

After sleeping for a day, his stomach was also hungry. Before going home, he might as well go to the supermarket to buy some meat, make pork stewed with cabbage and vermicelli, add some chili and vinegar, and eat it with steamed buns. It would be simply too good.

Ai Wei thought about pork, cabbage, and vermicelli, and his mouth almost watered. His stomach growled even louder.

Just then, he suddenly felt someone approaching him from behind. He instinctively dodged to the side, and the person missed, crashing directly into the glass door in front of him.

This person was the slow-moving one in the lobby. Ai Wei didn’t expect him to suddenly lunge at him. Seeing his stiff and sluggish movements, he wondered what kind of illness the man had.

He didn’t want to get entangled with this strange person, so he moved away from him. But the person was persistent. After failing to pounce on Ai Wei once, he turned around and pounced on him again. When Ai Wei saw him turn around, he was startled.

The person’s eyes were dull, and blood was flowing from his wide-open mouth. His two hands were stretched out long, his expression was terrifying, as if he wanted to grab Ai Wei and take a bite.

Ai Wei’s hair stood on end. He dodged to the side, avoiding the person’s attack again.

Ye Cong and Xia Junchi, who had gotten off the elevator with him, also noticed the abnormality.

Ye Cong pointed at the person with a mouth full of blood who had his back to him, and found the person’s appearance of roaring and reaching out to grab people with his claws somewhat comical. He couldn’t help but say to Xia Junchi beside him, “Look at that person, doesn’t he look like a zombie from a movie?”

Xia Junchi took a look and thought the person’s movements really did resemble a zombie from a movie.

Just as he was about to speak, the “zombie” noticed them, turned his head towards them, revealing his blood-filled mouth and stiff, dull face.

“Ah—” Ye Cong let out a sharp scream.

The sound echoed in the closed building, quite ear-piercing. Xia Junchi immediately stood in front of him and said, “It’s okay, don’t be afraid, he can’t hurt you.”

Ai Wei, who was standing to the side, was caught off guard and force-fed a mouthful of dog food, and immediately felt heartbroken. When would he be able to find such a handsome and boyfriend-like boyfriend?

Ai Wei, who had only had intimate contact with his five fingers so far, was in tears.

After screaming, Ye Cong wasn’t so scared anymore. He didn’t believe there would be zombies in reality. Calming down, he began to think that the person was wearing zombie makeup and was out to scare people.

He had seen online that some people deliberately put on zombie makeup and ran outside to scare people, and then filmed the reactions of the people who were scared and posted them online. Could this person with a mouth full of blood be wearing zombie makeup to scare people?

Ye Cong was angry and pointed at the zombie, scolding, “Are you just full and have nothing better to do, deliberately dressing up like this to scare people? Aren’t you bored?”

The person didn’t react to his words at all and continued to wave his claws as he walked towards them.

Ye Cong saw that the person’s hands and mouth were covered in blood, and he was still trying to grab him. He couldn’t help but feel disgusted and angry. He quickly took a few steps back, afraid that the “blood” on the other person’s claws would stain his clothes.

Where were the security guards of this building? How could they let this kind of lunatic in?!

“Let’s go, ignore him,” Xia Junchi said.

The two bypassed the “zombie” and walked towards the door.

However, when they reached the door, they were both stunned.

The street, which used to be busy with traffic, now had only one or two cars passing by occasionally. Several cars on the side of the road had crashed into each other, and some cars had crashed into telephone poles and walls. There were also many pedestrians on the road, walking unsteadily.

Because they were far away just now, they couldn’t see clearly. Now that they were at the door, they noticed that these pedestrians were all moving stiffly and slowly, and many had bloodstains on their mouths and bodies, looking very similar to the “zombie” in the lobby.

In the distance, there was also a group of people squatting on the ground, tearing at something on the ground.

“What’s going on? Are these people doing street pranks?” Ye Cong felt a little scared and couldn’t help but find a reliable reason for himself.

Xia Junchi frowned and turned to look at the “zombie” in the lobby.

He looked closely at the “zombie” and then discovered that the “zombie’s” pupils were actually dilated.

His heart skipped a beat, and he said, “If you want to know if these people are pranking, we can find out by testing it.”

After speaking, he walked towards the “zombie”.

“Honey, what are you doing? Come back!” Ye Cong was a little scared now and didn’t want Xia Junchi to leave his side, but he didn’t dare to approach the “zombie”. Seeing Xia Junchi walking towards the “zombie”, he had no choice but to stop in place, wanting to call Xia Junchi back.

Ai Wei, who was also a little dazed by the chaotic scene outside, saw Xia Junchi’s actions and understood what he wanted to do.

What was the cause of the “zombie’s” appearance and the car accidents outside? He wanted to find out too. So, he walked towards Xia Junchi.

Xia Junchi had already grabbed the “zombie’s” two arms, wanting to twist them behind the “zombie’s” back, but he found that the “zombie’s” arms were very stiff. It would take a lot of effort to twist them behind his back and tie them up.

Seeing Ai Wei approaching, he said to Ai Wei, “I’ll hold him, you come over and see if he has a heartbeat or pulse.”

When the “zombie” saw Ai Wei approaching, he suddenly became excited, as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He opened his mouth wide, biting towards Ai Wei’s direction. It was clear that if Ai Wei got close to him, he would really bite off a piece of Ai Wei’s flesh.

Ai Wei looked at the blood on his face and his stiff and terrifying expression, and felt a little scared in his heart. He couldn’t help but swallow. He cautiously approached the “zombie” and touched the “zombie’s” left chest.

It was a little cold there, without a trace of a heartbeat.

He then touched the “zombie’s” wrist to check the “zombie’s” pulse and found that the “zombie’s” pulse was also not beating.

Then, he looked at the “zombie’s” eyes and saw that the eyes were stiff and turbid, the pupils were dilated, and the whites of the eyes were yellow, not like the eyes of a living person at all.

All the signs indicated that the “zombie” in front of him was really a corpse.

Could it be that this really was a zombie?

Holy crap, how could there be zombies in reality? Shouldn’t zombies only appear in disaster movies? Why are there zombies in reality? Could it be that a zombie outbreak has occurred in reality? And the car accidents outside were caused by the zombie outbreak?

“Does he have a heartbeat or pulse?” Xia Junchi asked when he saw him covered in cold sweat and not speaking for a long time.

“N-no, no heartbeat, no pulse, the pupils are dilated, and the skin is cold. H-he’s really dead…” Ai Wei stuttered.

Before Xia Junchi could say anything, Ye Cong behind him had already screamed, “What nonsense are you talking about? Don’t scare people! He’s clearly alive, how could he be dead?”

“It’s true.” Ai Wei was a little unhappy. What was Ye Cong’s attitude? It was really annoying. Also, what did he mean? Did he have so much time to joke with them about this?

“He’s already dead. If you don’t believe me, come over and touch him yourself.” He knew that Ye Cong definitely wouldn’t dare to touch him himself, so he said it a little maliciously. Escape. As expected, Ye Cong didn’t dare to come over and touch him himself. He was scared right now. He glared at Ai Wei sternly, saying, “So dirty, I won’t touch him…” Ai Wei really wanted to snort at him disdainfully, but the situation was special, and it wasn’t appropriate to argue. He thought about it and held back.

At this time, he suddenly noticed something coming down from the stairwell not far behind Ye Cong.

This feeling was a bit strange. He couldn’t usually feel sounds from that far away, but now he could clearly feel the sounds coming from the stairwell, as if his five senses had suddenly become several times more sensitive than usual.

The sounds gradually descending from the stairwell were like human footsteps, mixed with the roars of zombies. It sounded like it made his scalp tingle.

“Come over here!” Ai Wei quickly said to Ye Cong.

Although he didn’t like Ye Cong, he couldn’t just watch Ye Cong be completely unaware of the situation behind him.

Ye Cong heard him call him, but he didn’t want to listen to him at all. He glanced at him contemptuously, ignored him, and instead said to Xia Junchi, “Honey, let’s go quickly.”

Ai Wei was a little anxious when he heard the zombies in the stairwell getting closer and closer. “Stay away from the stairwell, there are zombies coming down,” he said.

When Ye Cong heard that there were zombies in the stairwell, he couldn’t help but turn his head to look into the stairwell.

This time, even he heard the footsteps and roars coming from the stairwell, and he was so scared that his legs went weak.

He trembled as he moved away from the stairwell, so scared that he was about to cry.

Xia Junchi pushed the zombie he was holding onto the ground and said to the other two, “Let’s go quickly.”

After saying that, he went over and pulled Ye Cong up, taking him out.

Ai Wei didn’t have a car and always took the subway to work. It was very dangerous to go out and face those zombies. But he remembered that Xia Junchi had a car, so he followed Xia Junchi out.

“Um, I don’t have a car. Can you give me a ride home?” he asked Xia Junchi as he walked.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Xia Junchi agree.

The three of them left the company gate. Without the soundproofing of the company gate, the zombies’ roars rising and falling on the street immediately entered their ears. Ye Cong’s legs were even weaker. He could only walk forward with Xia Junchi supporting him. He couldn’t help but cry, “What on earth is going on? Is it really a zombie outbreak?” Ai Wei was also very scared, and his legs were a little weak. However, he was still relatively calm. Hearing Ye Cong’s words, he felt very heavy in his heart.

The three of them ran to the company’s underground parking lot as quickly as possible. The parking lot was a little dark, and the zombies’ roars echoed in the space, sounding even more terrifying.

Ye Cong cried even harder, but he didn’t dare to cry out loud. Xia Junchi simply carried him on his back and rushed towards his car.

Ai Wei was a little scared at first, but seeing this scene, he felt even more heartbroken.

Damn it, he was so jealous of Ye Cong! He really wanted to go home quickly and didn’t want to see this dog couple showing off their affection anymore.

Xia Junchi put Ye Cong in the passenger seat and got into the driver’s seat himself. Ai Wei also opened the car door and sat in the back seat. Then, Xia Junchi started the car.

They saw that a small group of zombies had already gathered outside the parking lot. They must have seen them running this way and been attracted.

Because there were too many zombies blocking the road, Xia Junchi gritted his teeth and accelerated, hitting and flying the two zombies in front, and rushed out of the parking lot.

The two zombies were immediately knocked more than ten meters away. Ai Wei turned his head to look at the two zombies and saw that the leg bones of the two zombies were a bit deformed. But they still didn’t seem to feel any pain and slowly got up, dragging their strangely angled broken legs and continuing to chase after them.

Ai Wei felt a little uneasy and turned his head to stop looking, but his heart was still pounding hard.

If he had still had some doubts before that the zombie outbreak was a prank deliberately created by someone, then after seeing the chaos on several streets in a row and the countless zombies wandering around, he increasingly realized that it really was a zombie outbreak. After all, even if someone was playing a prank, they couldn’t have created such a large-scale operation! Not to mention how much money it would cost to turn several streets into this state, even the fact that the suit-wearing man’s heartbeat and pulse were not beating at all would be hard to fake.

Ye Cong cried softly. Xia Junchi comforted him for a while, and he gradually stopped crying.

“Where do you live? I’ll take you home,” Xia Junchi turned his head and asked Ai Wei.

“In Huayuan Residential District, Block C,” Ai Wei said. “Thank you for giving me a ride home.”

“You’re welcome. We’re in the same company. We can’t just leave you alone,” Xia Junchi said.

Ai Wei couldn’t help but smile. Xia Junchi was still very kind-hearted. Then he felt a little lonely again. If he had been able to pluck up the courage to pursue Xia Junchi earlier, it would have been great. Xia Junchi could accept men, so maybe he could have really accepted him too. This somewhat lonely look of his was seen by Ye Cong. Out of a lover’s intuition, Ye Cong keenly sensed Ai Wei’s feelings for Xia Junchi.

Xia Junchi was very handsome, had a good income, and was very good at handling things, so he would naturally attract many people to have a good impression of him. Ye Cong had known this for a long time, so he had never let his guard down against Xia Junchi. As long as someone with good conditions approached Xia Junchi, he would try to drive them away.

Now, he couldn’t wait to let Ai Wei get out of the car immediately.

But he held back after all. There were many zombies on the street now, and Xia Junchi would definitely not agree to let Ai Wei get out of the car. Sitting in the safe car, Ai Wei finally had time to call his family. He first dialed Ai Yi’s number. After a while, the phone was connected.

“Hello, is this Xiao Wei?” Ai Yi’s anxious voice came from the mobile phone.

“Sis, it’s me,” Ai Wei said quickly. “How are you now? Where are you? Is everyone in the family safe?” Ai Yi cried with a “woo” sound and said, “I called you so many times, why are you only calling back now?!”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Sis, I’m fine. I’m going home with my colleagues. How are you now? How are Brother-in-law and Yangyang?”

“I’m fine. I’m at home now. Your brother-in-law and Yangyang are also here, woo…” Ai Yi said, unable to help but cry again.

After their parents got married, they first had the eldest sister Ai Yi, and then the second sister Ai Lin. However, the second sister Ai Lin was a love-obsessed person when she was young. At the age of eighteen, she disregarded her parents and everyone around her and started dating a man from another place. When she was twenty years old, she even stole her household registration book and got married to that man.

Ai’s father and mother opposed them dating, firstly because they didn’t want their daughter to marry far away, and secondly because they felt that the man didn’t seem like a good person. Although that man was very good to Ai Lin sometimes, he would give Ai Lin all kinds of romantic surprises as seen in TV dramas, and he had also said many very touching sweet words to Ai Lin. But sometimes he didn’t seem to treat Ai Lin as a human being, cursing at her and hitting her. He also disrespected Ai’s father and mother. Not only that, he also provoked the relationship between Ai Lin and her parents, forcing Ai Lin to separate from her family to prove that she loved him.

However, the more her parents opposed, the more firmly Ai Lin wanted to be with that man. She showed off her affection with that man in her circle of friends and on various social platforms, with an unwavering appearance of deep affection and being able to fight against the whole world for love. Later, she even eloped with that man.

Ai Mei didn’t even dare to tell her family when she got married. It wasn’t until she was pregnant that she called home and said that she was already married and pregnant.

Their daughter got married without even telling them. Ai’s father and mother were naturally very angry and had not contacted Ai Lin. Ai Lin was also a strong-willed person. If her parents didn’t contact her, she wouldn’t contact her parents either. The two sides were at loggerheads until Ai Lin was about to give birth. Ai’s father and mother couldn’t bear to miss their second daughter and went to see Ai Lin with Ai Yi.

However, to their great shock, they didn’t see Ai Lin, who was about to give birth. Instead, they received the news that Ai Lin had already passed away.

It turned out that since Ai Lin got married, her husband’s attitude towards her had become worse and worse. Not only was there no more sweetness and care from before the marriage, but he would also often subject her to cold violence and even domestic violence. Ai Lin worked during the day and had to do all the housework when she returned home. If she didn’t do something well, she would be subjected to verbal and physical abuse by her husband. She had regretted it long ago, but at that time, she had already damaged her relationship with her family so much that she couldn’t bring herself to go back.

Later, Ai Lin became pregnant. Her husband stopped hitting her, but she was still having a hard time. More than nine months later, Ai Lin finally gave birth to a boy after a lot of hardship. Her husband and mother-in-law’s hearts were all on the child. She was lying alone in bed, and no one cared about her eating or drinking. She had to drag her newly delivered body up to get something to eat. Thinking of her carefree life in her family’s home before, and then looking at her current situation, Ai Lin couldn’t help but feel sad and started crying.