TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 18

Xie YunChuan composed himself and got up to return to the bedroom.

Lu Yunzhou added some wood to the fire and called out from behind, “Where are you going?”

Xie YunChuan replied without turning his head, “Sleeping, where else would I go?”

“Aren’t you cold?”

“Not cold.”

Lu Yunzhou: “…”

Fine, he was just being nosy.

Xie YunChuan couldn’t possibly not go back to be with Luo Shuyou at this time, otherwise, he would overthink again when he woke up in the middle of the night.

As soon as he lay down, Luo Shuyou snuggled into his arms. He hugged him tightly and said, “Weren’t you asleep? You woke up again?”

“Not asleep.”

“Oh, so you were pretending to be asleep just now to trick me?”

“I didn’t mean to trick you, I just didn’t know how to face you.”

“Do you know now?”

Luo Shuyou rubbed against his chest and said, “Xie YunChuan, I’m scared~!”

“Shuyou, don’t give up, we still have a chance. Look, you’re doing well now, just keep going, we’ll definitely find a way.

Someone must be researching a vaccine, maybe they’ve already developed it, but it hasn’t been rolled out yet. Don’t give up, okay? And don’t overthink.

I’ll take you to Li City, there are many research institutions there, there will definitely be a solution.”

Luo Shuyou said with a heavy heart and lifelessly, “Did you see those twisted, crawling monsters yesterday? Neither human nor ghost, I don’t want to become like that. I don’t want to become dirty, I don’t want to smell bad, full of the stench of rotting flesh, and I especially don’t want to bite others.

Just thinking about turning into that, I’d rather die. Please, grant me my wish!”

“It won’t happen, Shuyou, you have me. You’re different from them, I won’t abandon you. If you really turn into that one day, I’ll bathe you and make you smell nice. I’ll hold you back and not let you bite people, I’ll take care of you.”

“But if I don’t bite people, I’ll die too, I’ll become a dried corpse.”

“You don’t want to bite others, then bite me, I’ll let you bite me.”

“Then you’ll eventually turn into that too, and you won’t remember to take care of me.”

“Then… then don’t bite. I’ll give you my blood to drink, find meat for you to eat. Shuyou, trust me, as long as we persevere for a while, I’ll definitely find a way to save you.

Let’s not give up, okay?

Be good, don’t think about leaving me, and don’t think about ending your life. You just need to stay by my side peacefully, like before, and leave everything else to me, okay? Trust me, I’ll take care of everything.”

“Okay~!”

“Good, go to sleep.”

It wasn’t that Luo Shuyou hadn’t thought about leaving, but he knew clearly that even without those things attacking him, in the end of the world, he couldn’t support himself. And Luo Shuyou without Xie YunChuan… didn’t want to support himself either.

Let it be like this, anyway, he had always been selfish, hadn’t he? Then allow him to be selfish one more time.

In the following period, they did as Luo Shuyou had said before, going to the underground parking lot every day to kill the zombies that came out to bask in the sun. After the large-scale slaughter on the first day, the amount each day was very small, which was relatively easy.

After killing them, they followed Luo Shuyou’s instructions to search the homes of those they hadn’t been to before for supplies.

They finally understood why Luo Shuyou hadn’t let them in before because in these homes they entered later, they saw all kinds of tragedies.

There was a family of three whose child had been completely devoured, a couple where one had turned into a dried corpse and the other into a zombie…

Many, many more. Through the scenes in the rooms, Xie YunChuan and the others could imagine the tragedies that had occurred at that time.

They once again realized the cruelty of this disaster, and they were undoubtedly among the lucky ones.

There were also those who lived in the same room with zombies. Lovers and relatives had turned into monsters, which no one could accept, and not everyone had the courage to kill the person they had spent day and night with.

Even more, there were those who used their own flesh and blood to feed those things, eventually dying with their bodies covered in sores and blood. And those things were still howling and struggling, wanting to devour his last bit of flesh and blood.

After shock, fear, and grief came numbness.

In the end of the world, the gradual annihilation of humanity was an inevitable result. Being able to retain the last bit of kindness was already not easy. Retaining too many emotions such as sadness, regret, sympathy, and reluctance would only drown oneself in this man-eating world.

Xie YunChuan was originally a cold person. All his emotions, love, and affection were given to Luo Shuyou. He couldn’t empathize much with what happened to others.

Lu Yunzhou went through a period of reshaping his values, becoming numb and indifferent.

After a month covered in heavy snow, on this morning, Lu Yunzhou was awakened by the sunlight shining directly through the window, feeling a long-lost warmth.

After being dazed for a while, he suddenly shook himself awake, got out of bed, ran to the window, and opened it. Stretching out his hand to touch the sunlight, it was warm and comforting on his palm, and he seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

Excited, thrilled, and joyful, he excitedly knocked on Xie YunChuan’s and Luo Shuyou’s bedroom door, “Xie YunChuan, Luo Shuyou, haha, the sun is out, the sun is out!”

Xie YunChuan frowned and got up, “What are you going crazy about? Doesn’t the sun come out every day? What are you so excited about? Has your brain been frozen?”

Seeing that Luo Shuyou hadn’t been awakened, he covered him with the quilt and quickly pulled Lu Yunzhou, that idiot, outside.

Lu Yunzhou was in high spirits at this time and didn’t care about Xie YunChuan scolding him. He hurriedly dragged him to the window, “No, feel it carefully.” He asked with a face full of joy, “Well…! What’s different?”

Xie YunChuan paused for a moment, calmed down, and carefully felt it. His cold hands gradually warmed up, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face.

Lu Yunzhou knew at a glance that he had felt it, and said with some pride, “See! Isn’t it surprising, worth going crazy for?”

Xie YunChuan saw a drop of melted snow falling down, leaving a deep pit on the flat snow surface, and murmured, “Is it going to return to spring?”

Lu Yunzhou: “Of course, there’s no mistake about it.”

“Ah! More than a month, I’ve been freezing for a whole month! Look at my injuries, I didn’t die in the mouths of zombies, but I almost got frozen to death by this damn weather.”

Bathing in the warm sunlight, he couldn’t help but sigh, “Finally, my spring is coming!”

Lu Yunzhou, who was only focused on being happy, didn’t see Xie YunChuan’s increasingly furrowed brows. Xie YunChuan didn’t express his worries at this time either.

He simply said, “Prepare, as soon as the snow melts, we’ll leave here.”

After speaking, he didn’t wait for Lu Yunzhou to react and strode back to the bedroom.

“Ah? Why…?”

No one answered his question. Xie YunChuan didn’t give him time to ask at all and closed the door.

Lu Yunzhou: “…”

Damn! If we’re going to leave, then what was the point of cleaning up the zombies so hard all this time? Just to find something to do for ourselves?