Author: Cucumber mixed with lettuce

I listened carefully, but I could only hear the sound of wind outside. It rained a few days ago and it has been so hot during this period. I wonder if a typhoon is coming.

"It's true. Listen carefully." Tian Li's eyes were very sure.

I got up and walked to the window. There was no one around the house, and even zombies rarely wandered around here.

I sat on the edge of the bed and asked, "What did you hear?"

"I couldn't hear clearly. He kept talking and his voice was very low, but I could hear it." Tian Li covered his ears in pain.

"But those five people beat Lao Gao half to death today..." I was also a little worried. We didn't deal with Lao Gao later. We didn't know whether Lao Gao was dead or something happened.

"Lizi, wait a minute. I'm going to ask Lin Kai and dad. Didn't they go to Lao Gao's house again later?"

I opened the door and saw Lin Kai standing at the door.

"Why are you here?"

"I didn't hear anything. I just wanted to go to the toilet and I happened to pass by." Lin Kai deliberately spoke louder, then tried to look inside, and then pulled me out of the door.

I closed the door of Tian Li's room.

"Sister Xiaoqi, let's talk downstairs." Lin Kai took me downstairs.

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"What? Lao Gao is dead?" I suppressed the shock in my heart, and then asked: "How could he die?"

"Xiao Zhang and those guys didn't do anything serious. Lao Gao was beaten half to death. The weather has been so hot recently, so Lao Gao was left there like this. After grinding the beans, Uncle Xue and I wanted to take a look. He did this dirty thing.

It's a matter of fact, but we can't do it even if we just let him die.

The two of us went to look for him in the bamboo forest, but Lao Gao was not in the bamboo forest at all. We didn’t know if he wanted to crawl home after being beaten. We found Lao Gao in a nearby place where the sun was shining.

The weather has been so hot recently, and I don’t know if he died from the sun. Uncle Xue reached out to touch Lao Gao’s nose, and he found that he was out of breath.”

"Oh my god, those five people took another life..." I said blankly, "But just now Lizi said that she heard Lao Gao's voice." I guessed: "Could it be Lao Gao's ghost?

"

Lin Kai is a staunch atheist. He asked back: "Sister, why do you still believe in this? If there are really ghosts, then there will be so many zombies in this world."

"Then what sound did Li Zi hear? Did you hear it?"

"Lao Gao is dead, and he will definitely not be able to make a sound anymore." Lin Kai continued: "I think Li Zi probably has stress trauma disorder. The environment has changed so much, and suddenly it has changed again.

Being molested..."

"This is a mental illness." I have seen this term on the news before. "Is there anything we can do about it?"

Lin Kai shook his head.

"Now that we can communicate, can you contact Fang Zhijiu? See if there is a psychological counselor at the shelter and see if it will be better with treatment. Or prescribe some medicine, we can go to the hospital in the city to find one!

"

"I can contact you, but it would definitely be better to take Lizi to face-to-face treatment with the doctor..."

"Then how did you dispose of Lao Gao's body?" I thought of Lin Kai just saying that Lao Gao was sunburned to death alive.

"We didn't have time to deal with it. We just dragged Lao Gao to the bamboo forest. Uncle Xue said he was a little dizzy, so we hurried back. I'll go out tomorrow and dig a hole to bury him."

"Okay," I thought about my dad's appearance in the afternoon, but I didn't notice anything strange about him. "Did dad have a heat stroke?"

"Probably, since the weather has been so hot recently, it's better for us to reduce our time outside."

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The next day, Lin Kai went out to bury Lao Gao's body.

The weather was extremely hot for a long time, and the indoor thermometer on the wall had climbed to the highest level. I quickly put it in the freezer to cool down, not knowing if it would explode if I left it outside.

Everyone's energy and spirit were crushed by the high temperature, and they lived each day helplessly.

The ground outside is terribly hot. If I had an egg in my hand and hit it on the ground, I'm sure it would be cooked immediately.

There has been no rainfall for a long time, and the land has become dry and cracked. The crops and other crops in the farmland have not been watered for a long time. I wonder if they will wither due to lack of water.

Due to the fires some time ago, the water storage on the mountain has been significantly reduced. Even daily drinking water is a problem for us, and there is no extra water for watering. Even the vegetable garden in our safe house is abandoned.

We have been keeping the bottled water in the cellar. We can’t imagine what will happen to us in the future if we drink all the bottled water here and the temperature continues.

The hot sun is scorching the earth, and it’s too hot to stay on the first floor during the day. When we went to get ingredients from the cellar, we found that the cellar is a good place. I don’t know if it’s because the temperature underground is at least several degrees lower than above.

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But the space in the cellar is limited, so we can only stay in the cellar in rotation.

We had stocked up on a lot of anti-heat medicine, and we drank tube after tube of medicine to avoid heat stroke. The villagers had already suffered from heat stroke several times, and they used Chinese herbal medicine and smeared white wine on their bodies to relieve the heat.

Lin Kai and Fang Zhijiu kept in touch, and we were able to learn about the situation in the shelter.

But the situation over there wasn't much better. Although they were in a huge venue, shaded and shaded by huge buildings, supplies were in short supply, and many people were so hungry that their chests pressed against their backs.

The rescue teams went out again and again to search for new food, but brought back only a drop in the bucket and a few survivors.

They also tried to open food factories or reclaim land to increase food. But they all encountered the same situation as us, that is - lack of water.

The shelter was built right on a plain, with no mountains or reservoirs. As soon as we went out, we could see an unobstructed view of the wasteland, which was even worse than what we have here.

My father is worried about my mother's situation every day. His white hair has grown a lot and he has lost weight.

We thought the communication had been restored, but what was restored was only the special satellite signal from the rescue team.

Dad never received the message from the mobile phone, and the civilian signal here has never been restored. There is not even a signal.

The hot weather, the dazzling sunshine, I even felt like there was a solar storm on the sun.

Only now do I really feel that the end has really come.

If the previous zombie virus was a huge attack, now the shortage of water resources, high temperature weather, and food shortage are enough to wipe out mankind.

However, the road is boundless, and waiting will eventually bring about a turn for the better.
Chapter completed!