Chapter 41:

Jiang Miaomiao returned to the room and opened the small box Lu Qiming gave her.
There are seven test strips and a matching urine test cup.
She took a copy and used it in the bathroom. Following the instructions, she dipped one end of the test strip in the urine and took it out and placed it flat.
Check the result after a few minutes. There is only a clear red line on the white test strip.
Feminine, not pregnant.
She checked and compared it again. She breathed a sigh of relief, and kept the rest for future use. Then she couldn't wait to tell Lu Qiming the good news from the basement.
The other party was also very happy after listening, but insisted:
"Test again in a few days, it will be safer. You'd better not leave the room before, let alone run as fast as you do now."
She yelled.
"I have found that I am not pregnant, so what are you afraid of doing? Don't worry, we are not so lucky."
He frowned, "Miao Miao."
"...OK, well, I'll be careful."
She smiled and leaned over to look at the pot, "What did you eat this morning?"
There are only a few available ingredients, the recipes of the two are very fixed, either noodles or rice, and the dishes are the same.
Seeing that she was losing weight again, Lu Qiming wanted her to eat more, so he mixed a bowl of batter and poured it into a pan to eat.
The noodles were fried thinly and fragrantly, covered with a layer of acacia honey.
Jiang Miaomiao gnawed two pieces in one breath and gave him a thumbs up.
"You are so good at hand, how did you get it?"
The cakes just out of the pan have been eaten, Lu Qiming continued to fry, holding the spatula and said:
"When I was young, no one was at home. I learned to use coal stoves in the third grade, and I started to make food for myself. Later, I went to a closed school to stay. The food in the cafeteria was not good. The school was in a remote suburb and there were no restaurants around. During adolescence, I was always hungry at night. I and a few classmates often went out over the wall and set up a stove in the woods to make fire and roast bird eggs."
As Jiang Miaomiao listened, a picture suddenly appeared in his mind
Thirteen or four-year-old Lu Qiming is thin and small. He and a few of his classmates who are also skinny monkeys turned up the high wall in the middle of the night. The teenagers ran across the fields and graves like a gust of wind, vying for a few small birds in the woods egg.
She felt a little distressed suddenly, looked at the uneaten cake in her hand, and fed it to his mouth.
Lu Qiming asked: "What do you do?"
"I'll eat it for you. You are a chef, you work hard, hehe."
When Jiang Miaomiao looked at his broad shoulders and slender legs when speaking, it was really hard to imagine how he grew so tall in that difficult environment.
In contrast, she was born in an ordinary family, who had never been rich but had never suffered, and her height is simply ashamed of the food she ate in those years.
Lu Qiming finished the cake with her hand, and the heavy heart that was suspected to be pregnant was relieved a lot.
Three days later, Jiang Miaomiao tested it again.
The result was the same as last time, but it was negative again, without pregnant.
And the aunt came that night.
Now they were completely relieved and no longer had to worry about Jiang Miaomiao's life safety, but they were more cautious because of this.
Here they bothered about contraception, and over there the old and white couple hatched their eggs seriously.
Half a month later, a bird egg broke its shell first, and a faint cry was heard.
Then came the second and the third... The six eggs hatched a total of four little birds, two of them stinking.
When Jiang Miaomiao first saw the little crow, he didn't want to touch it.
Big head, small wings, big belly, fat butt.
The hair on his body is sparse, the skin is ugly black, thin like spring roll skin, and the internal organs can almost be seen.
They have very big eyes and big mouths. After breaking the shell, he does nothing but waits for feeding with his mouth open.
Once the feeding is late, the four birds will bark together, so noisy that people don't want to step into the room.
Lao Bai was so sick to take care of them, he visibly lost weight.
Old Bai's husband was quite responsible, always taking the baton when he was tired, and continuing to feed the child.
Jiang Miaomiao was worried that he would raise the little one and starve to death, so he made a confinement meal for Lao Bai.
The ham sausage, milk powder, green vegetables, etc. are stirred into puree and fed to a bird specially.
Old Bai became fuller and the little crow began to grow hair.
Not long after they came out of the shell, they had gone from being ugly to being a little freak who couldn't bear to look straight, and became a little bit birdy.
Jiang Miaomiao is a face-controller. Since then, the more I look at it, the more I like it, and often go in and touch it.
She has Lu Qiming, Lao Bai has a husband and children, but Jiang is lonely, always forgotten by everyone, standing in the corner wagging his tail pitifully.
When the little crows can walk all over the ground, summer has passed.
They finally don't have to turn on the air conditioner 24 hours a day, and the electricity saved is shared with the induction cooker. In the future, there is no need to regenerate the fire, which saves a lot of trouble.
Sometimes I’m too lazy to cook, so I turn out the electric stew cooker and cook a pot of shiitake mushroom scallop porridge with mustard for a day.
The little crows grow up very fast, and seeing that they will be able to eat meat soon, the two of them face a very troublesome problem.
After all, the supplies in the supermarket are limited, so eat less.
They consume rice and noodles very slowly, as long as they are preserved, they should be eaten for two to three years, but mineral water cannot last that long.
Since the air-conditioning was installed, they tried to minimize the number of baths and only kept their bodies fresh.
When it rains, they will also find all the containers and place them on the balcony to receive water for mopping the floor and washing dishes.
If so, the amount of water storage still decreases day by day.
By October, the remaining water can only support them for another month.
There is electricity and food here, Jiang Miaomiao doesn't want to leave.
So the only way is to go out and find water to bring it back.
Choosing a cool day, the two were ready to go out.
Since moving out of the villa and coming to the mansion, Jiang Miaomiao has never gone out. He is nervous and looking forward to this matter.
And because of previous lessons, she repeatedly warned Lu Qiming not to temporarily change his mind and leave her behind.
The other party agreed that it was not enough, and she held his hand tightly during meals and sleep.
If you want to keep her in the room, unless you leave this arm!
Under such strict precautions, Lu Qiming could not find the opportunity to leave early, so he had to fulfill the agreement and take her out together.
At eight in the morning, the sun was shining.
The two stood by the window, each carrying a bag on their shoulders, full of weapons and food, and were tying ropes to their bodies, planning to leave the building using Lu Qiming's previous methods.
The old white couple were feeding the little crows in the bird house. Jiang Rourou noticed their behavior and walked around, wanting to walk with them.
Jiang Miaomiao squatted down and gently touched the dog's head.
"Fuck, you stay at home and don't run around, okay? I will bring you delicious food."
Although the whole city is soaked by water, there are always some locations that cannot be soaked, such as the building where Lu Qiming found solar panels before.
Other foods have better sealing properties, such as canned foods, which have a long shelf life and should be edible.
If you can’t find water, it’s good to find new food.
Jiang Miao Miao specially brought a large storage bag to hold things.
To comfort Jiang Rourou, she stood up.
Lu Qiming had tied the rope and came to check the rope around her waist.
"Are you sure you dare to climb down from here?"
He asked with his eyes down.
The supermarket is located on the 20th floor, with a height of more than 60 meters. They need to descend five floors, that is, climb from more than sixty meters to more than fifty meters.
For Lu Qiming, this is just a common meal, but for Jiang Miaomiao, it is as difficult as the sky.
She has no experience, physical strength, or skills.
Jiang Miaomiao took a deep breath, raised his eyes and said:
"As long as you are there, I dare."
Lu Qiming raised his mouth, tied her backpack and rope a bit tighter, and tied the waists of the two with a climbing rope, leaving about three to four meters in length.
So even if she falls while climbing, he can hold her in time.
After doing this, he opened the window, picked up a large bundle of ropes piled beside him, held the tail and threw it out.
The rope stretched out in the air, extremely long, hanging down to the windows on the fifteenth floor, swayed by the wind.
Lu Qiming put the end of his hand on the shelf full of rice, tugged, and said to her:
"All right."
Are you really going down? so high.
She stood by the window and looked down. The height she was accustomed to tomorrow, but now she was dizzy and her legs were weak.
Lu Qiming noticed her eyes and proactively said:
"You still have time to regret now."
"No."
She refused, grabbing the window and saying: "Don't seduce me anymore, I won't give up."
Lu Qiming chuckled and patted her ass.
"I will go down first, and you will follow."
After speaking, he grabbed the rope and jumped down. When Jiang Miaomiao could see clearly, he had reached the nineteenth floor.
"Huh... don't be afraid, there is nothing to be afraid of..."
She can knock down zombies, carry the sofa, and raise crows. She is no longer the same.
It's just climbing upstairs, what to be afraid of.
Jiang Miaomiao did enough preparations, bit his scalp and grabbed the rope... and slowly slid down against the wall like dumplings.
Lu Qiming shouted below:
"Don't be afraid, I will catch you when you fall."
She didn't want him to pick it up, she could do it.
With her entire body hanging outside the window, Jiang Miaomiao tried her best not to look at the scene around her. Following the method Lu Qiming taught her before, he looped the rope around her arms and legs.
After the body stops, raise your hand to close the window.
Jiang Rourou ran over and licked her hand.
She was afraid that it would fall, and said hurriedly, "Go back!"
"Wow!"
"Hey, go back."
After finally letting Jiang Rourou leave, she closed the window, her back was already sweaty.
Lu Qiming didn't move. He was still waiting for her below. When she saw that she was starting to crawl down, he slowly slowed down following her.
Jiang Miaomiao had never been so focused in her life. There were only ropes in his eyes, completely ignoring the possibility of falling into a pool of flesh.
There is only one goal in the mind—decline, decrease.
She is like a big caterpillar, moving slowly on the climbing rope.
I don't know how long it took, and there was a chuckle over my head.
"Where are you going down?"
She looked up and saw Lu Qiming standing behind the window, looking at her with a smile.
After a few seconds, she reacted and asked in surprise: "Is it reached the 15th floor?"
Lu Qiming nodded and stretched out his hand.
"Yes, you are better than I thought."
Jiang Miaomiao grabbed his hand and climbed up, landing on both feet, feeling extremely secure.
"Hey, let's go."
She walked forward with confidence, and after walking two steps, she found that they were still tied with a rope at their waists, which was troublesome and ready to untie.
Lu Qiming blocked her.
"Don't understand."
"what?"
"What should I do if I accidentally lose it when I take the kids out?"
she was? Kid? I look down on people too much.
Jiang Miaomiao curled his mouth in disgust, but drew his hand to untie the rope obediently.
The two walked downstairs side by side with backpacks, and quickly left the building.
October, early autumn.
The sky is high and the clouds are pale, and the unmanaged road for half a year is full of withered leaves.
It is a pity that they missed the ripening period of the peaches.
Now there are only wild weeds left in the green belt, and bushes that grow longer and scrawl.
Since he didn't wear protective clothing or wiped zombie blood, Jiang Miaomiao was very vigilant and didn't have time to appreciate the scenery, always paying attention to changes around him, ready to draw his gun whenever there was a zombie.
But after walking several hundred meters, not a single zombie was seen.
The city soaked by water was deserted and quiet, as if it really became a dead city.
"Did you encounter zombies the last time you came out?"
She asked Lu Qiming.
The other nodded.
"It's weird, why don't you have any one today."
"I guess I knew you were going out, so I was scared away."
"...I will die if you don't be sarcastic."
Lu Qiming was about to speak when he suddenly saw a convenience store and was about to walk in.
There are bottled water in convenience stores, and the bottled water is generally well sealed. As long as it is not washed away by the flood, you can still drink it.
The two walked in one after the other, and the store became completely unrecognizable after the flood.
The shelves were all down, the paint was cracked and rusty.
The food on the shelves is everywhere, like a garbage dump.
She searched the left and Lu Qiming searched the right, always keeping a distance of about three meters.
Jiang Miaomiao picked up an iron box of fruit candy, shook it, and opened it.
The sugar inside is sticky into a big pile, all colors are mixed together, and the smell is pungent.
She frowned and threw away, looking at others.
Potato chips, biscuits, candied fruit, chocolate... the snacks she once loved were either emptied by insects and soaked by the flood. Either it's so bad that it makes people afraid of bad hands.
Not to mention the bentos and sandwiches whose shelf life is only a few days and there is no time to sell before the end of the world.
Jiang Miaomiao had been whimsical.
There is no one else in the city, and all the resources belong to her. As long as the zombies do not come back, maybe she can rely on these resources to live to the end of the end times.
It's naive to think about it now.
The fact that the resource is not moved does not mean that the food will wait for her to eat as it is.
Every day, countless foods will rot in the silence.
At the current rate, if she has stayed here for several years in a row and has not found a substitute, she can only wait to starve to death.
"Did you see the water?"
Lu Qiming asked.
She recovered and shook her head, "How about you?"
Lu Qiming shrugged and said that he did not. Look at the furnishings in the store, and found a door that was soaked in water, probably leading to the warehouse, and he was going to walk over.
There was a rope between the two, he moved, and Jiang Miaomiao also moved, walking faster than him.
She stopped abruptly, her entire face wrinkled, as if she had seen something disgusting.
"what happened?"
"There are zombies, vomit...too smelly."
She pointed to the back of a shelf, covering her eyes with her hand, reluctant to look.
Lu Qiming approached a little bit, and as expected, there was a rotting corpse lying on the ground, densely covered with maggots. The picture was quite heavy, no wonder she refused to look at it.
He brought a billboard, planned to cover it, bypass it and continue to the warehouse.
When he was about to start, he stopped and looked at the corpse motionlessly.
Jiang Miaomiao asked curiously: "What are you looking at?"
"This corpse... is a bit wrong."
"Have it?"
She looked through her fingers, tried to ignore the disgusting maggots, and watched the zombies.
This should be a male with a height of over 1.7 meters and wearing a full suit, tie, and shoes.
During his lifetime, he was either a financial elite or an insurance seller.
His flesh
body was almost eaten by maggots, only a little flesh on his face and fingers, and worms wriggling in his leather shoes.
The maggots have been crawling, occasionally revealing the bones underneath.
The bones of the zombies have rotted for a long time, and most of them are gray-black, and a few are white.
He was faintly red, and he didn't look like a zombie. It was like the big bones of pigs that were only sold in the market in the morning, giving people a very fresh feeling.
There were maggots in front of him, and when the word "fresh" flashed in his mind, Jiang Miaomiao almost didn't vomit it out.
She clutched her throat and said, "Isn't he a zombie, a normal person who has just died?"
Lu Qiming didn't know. He took a few pieces of paper from the ground, took out a lighter, lit it, blown it out, and smoked the maggots.
They scattered and fled, Jiang Miaomiao hurriedly climbed to a high place and stood, for fear of climbing on him.
The maggots dispersed, revealing a complete skeleton.
From the skull to the toes, everything is pale pink.
The pale pink bones... why are they so familiar? Was it written in the original text?
Jiang Miaomiao had a vague impression, but time passed so long that she couldn't remember anything, and patted her head in annoyance.
Lu Qiming watched for a long time without seeing any secrets, lost interest, and proposed:
"Leave it alone, look for water."
"it is good."
The two opened the warehouse door, and there were a dozen boxes full of boxes, of which a dozen boxes were all mineral water.
The outer plastic film was soaked and shattered when touched, but the bottled water inside was well preserved and was drinkable.
Jiang Miaomiao was very happy.
I found it so quickly, and it seems that I don't need to go farther.
A dozen boxes of water can give them an extra month.
But... how do I get it back?
Lu Qiming looked for boxes everywhere. She saw a handle in the corner, grabbed it and dragged it out. It was a single-layer trolley that used to see employees loading goods in supermarkets.
The structure of the cart is very simple, with only four wheels, a heavy iron table, and a handle like a chair back.
There is no chain, so it can still be used after rust, but it is very slow to push.
She called to Lu Qiming, who took out a screwdriver from the backpack and inserted it into the wheel to remove the rust on it.
After a while, the trolley returned to its flexibility before rusting.
They worked together, piled the water on the cart, and prepared to go back.
When passing by the corpse, Jiang Miaomiao tried to recall the details in the book, but unfortunately he found nothing, and then thought of other things.
"A convenience store has so much stock of drinking water. Let's find a few more stores and move them all back. It will last at least another six months."
Lu Qiming couldn't help but laugh.
"Isn't it uncomfortable for you to stay in it every day?"
"It's not uncomfortable, eating, drinking, birds and dogs are much better than I expected."
He nodded, "Well, it's better to live than to die."
"It's mainly luck to find a supermarket that big without being flooded. If it were..."
She talked and walked out, and from the corner of her eye suddenly saw a zombie rushing towards this side, she took out the gun from the backpack without thinking about it, pointed it at it and pulled the trigger.
boom--
After the loud noise, she was driven to Lu Qiming by recoil.
The bullet flew through the air at least ten centimeters away from the zombie and hit the wall behind it.
It was stunned by the loud noise, and continued to charge after reacting.
Lu Qiming sighed, let go of the trolley, held her gun holding hand with both hands, leaned her chin on her shoulder, and taught her to aim.
"Don't aim at your head, aim at your chest. The probability of hitting is higher, like this."
There was another loud noise, and the zombie's chest exploded with flowers.
His body fell to the ground like a broken branch.
The spine is broken, it can't stand up, but it's not completely dead, staring at them with muddy eyes, trying to crawl in their direction.
Jiang Miaomiao didn't want to look, put away the gun and planned to leave.
Lu Qiming remembered the strange bone, took out the knife and walked towards the zombie, stepped on the zombie's hand with the sole of his shoe, and cut the meat on its arm to expose the bone.
The faint pink is very eye-catching.
The city is still quiet, and these scattered zombies are not enough to threaten their lives.
But there seems to be a huge danger hidden around him, if you are not careful, they will be swallowed completely.
The two went back to the building and used a rope to lift the water up and put it into the inventory.
I originally planned to collect supplies in the next few days, but I didn't expect heavy rain to begin the next day. It just saved the door and moved all the containers on hand to collect rainwater.
After all, the area of ​​the basin and bucket is too small to receive much in a long time.
Jiang Miao thought of a way and went to the office area to find a waterproof advertising cloth the size of half a wall, and spread it with a fishing rod.
She and Lu Qiming held aside and handed them to the outside of the balcony.
The advertising cloth has a large area and can receive a lot of rainwater.
They put a bucket underneath, and the water flowed like a waterfall. After a while, they filled a bucket, and when it was full, replaced it with a new bucket.
After being so busy all morning, the results are very impressive. The inventory has increased by more than forty buckets of water, filling a whole room, which is just right for washing clothes and bathing.
Both of them were exhausted, and no one had the energy to cook at noon and ate biscuits to satisfy their hunger.
The heavy rain was still falling, Jiang Miaomiao sat behind the floor-to-ceiling windows, eating butter cookies while enjoying the rain.
The raindrops are very dense, like a fairy pouring water from the sky.
Pour water... by the way!
She slapped her thigh sharply.
"I remember!"
Lu Qiming, who was watching Journey to the West with a kindle, was taken aback by her, and then asked:
"What do you remember?"
She finally knew why the bones of the two zombies were pink!
In the original text, although the government led the people to flee the city temporarily, it has never given up the goal of returning.
While relying on the army to establish a safe base, experts are also working hard to research drugs against zombies.
The research is divided into three groups.
One is a vaccine to help normal people resist infection, the other is a special medicine to restore zombies to ordinary people, and the third is a toxin that accelerates the death of zombies.
It is always harder to save people than to kill. The last of the three directions made the fastest progress. The first batch of products was developed less than a year after the zombie outbreak.
They selected a few cities with a small number of zombies as pilots for easy control. The toxin is dissolved into an aerosol and sprayed from the air by an airplane.
The plane she saw more than a month ago was here to do this. No wonder it flew so low.
Jiang Miaomiao finally figured out what was bothering him, his expression became more solemn, and he rushed to grab Lu Qiming's hand.
"We better stop going out recently."
The latter is puzzled.
"Why? Didn't you say that you should go to find water after the rain stopped?"
Jiang Miaomiao was embarrassed, not knowing how to explain to him, but he had to convince him.
After all, in the original text, the description of this pilot operation is a complete failure.
She should not be the victim of the experiment.
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