Doomsday: I am ten times stronger than my peers

"Hey, live well, what else can I do?" Zheng Hao said indifferently.

"Hey! If it weren't for this damned apocalypse, I would still be enjoying a good life in the barracks!"

After Li Ping finished speaking angrily, he grabbed the bacon on the grill with his bare hands and stuffed it into his mouth.

Facing the baked bacon, which was burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, he didn't even chew it, and swallowed it whole.

Zheng Hao, who saw this scene, shook his head and said with a smile: "Why are you like Zhu Bajie, and there is no one here to snatch you."

"Brother Hao, you don't understand. It's more practical to eat like this. It's only cultivated and rich people who eat like you eat slowly."

"When I was young, my family was poor, and when I caught up with delicious food, I would fight to eat it with the children in the same village. At that time, if you were slow to start and eat slowly, the good things would be eaten by others."

While sucking his oily fingers, Li Ping told Zheng Hao about his childhood anecdotes with relish.

"Is it because the family is poor, so you came to join the army?" Zheng Hao asked softly.

"Hey, there are reasons for this, but it's more about trying to look like a person." Li Ping said embarrassedly, rubbing the back of his head.

"If you want to look like a human being, why don't you continue on the road of going to school instead of becoming a leader?" Zheng Hao said after taking a bite of the barbecue.

"Brother Hao, to tell you the truth, my grades in junior high school are not bad. If I continue to study, I can go to high school. After high school, I will work hard to pass the subject ability test and the designated subject test, and I may go to university. "

"Then why don't you continue to study? Don't all rural people hope to have a descendant with a high degree of education, so as to honor their ancestors?" Zheng Hao asked puzzled.

"Hey! Brother Hao, you can't use the thinking of the older generation to look at today's social development. In today's social background and economic situation, if you are not one of the top-ranked universities, what can you do as an ordinary undergraduate? ?”

Seeing Zheng Hao who was speechless, Li Ping continued: "My cousin is from Fu Jen Catholic University, the one that ranks in the top ten best universities in Taiwan all year round. If it is placed in the whole of China, it can be regarded as Top notch university."

"How about it? Is it awesome? My cousin has graduated for a whole year, but the salary he can get every month is only 3500 yuan. And what about me? I have been in the army for eight years, and now I am a first-class soldier on active duty. The wage subsidies add up to more than one hundred thousand."

"Brother Hao, you also know that I don't smoke or talk about girlfriends. I like to drink at most. But with the prohibition on alcohol, I can't drink a few times a year, so I don't spend much money."

"So, I have saved nearly 30 yuan in the eight years in the army. Although it is not much, I can buy a good car or pay a down payment. But on the other hand, my cousin who is the same age as me, we are the same age In the same place, the family circumstances are similar."

"You said that his parents worked hard to support him to study and go to college, but now he really can't give back to his parents immediately with his personal ability and financial strength. Whenever his parents are seriously ill or the family needs money urgently, you What else can he do besides borrowing money and taking out loans?"

Hearing Li Ping's words, Zheng Hao thought for a while and replied: "You can't blame him. After all, if poor people want to change their lives, the only shortcut is to study. If you want to make a lot of money by other means, besides cheating, That’s robbing banks and kidnapping rich people.”

Having said this, Zheng Hao paused for a moment, and then continued: "But these, it is not the right way! Once you do these things, you are lucky if you don't get caught. But once you are caught, you don't go to jail It's the death penalty!"

"After all, this era is not like it was 40 or [-] years ago. In the past, when you started a business or encountered a storm, you could take off directly. But what happened before the end of the world? Capital monopoly, class solidification, economic downturn, and constant conflicts... "

"Under this situation, if you have no resources, no connections, and no background. If you want to gain a foothold in society, you must either learn a skill and work for others, or pass a formal examination to become a national civil servant. Other than that, there is nothing else to do. He can't."

Speaking of this, Zheng Hao suddenly remembered something, and he hurriedly added: "Oh, by the way, you can also continue to study and follow the academic path. You have successively become a graduate student, a doctorate, a postdoctoral fellow, and even a top celebrity in the entire industry! Moreover, this industry cannot be chosen solely on the basis of one's own enthusiasm, but must be linked to the basic national conditions and situation of the country."

"But people who can really do this are rare in our country and even in the whole world. And once they do this, they can't simply be called ordinary people."

"So, Xiaoping. On the premise of choosing the right direction, if you are just an ordinary person who doesn't work hard, no matter what your background is, you will not have a good life." Zheng Haoyu said earnestly.

"Brother Hao, to put it bluntly, no matter what era you live in, if you want to live comfortably, it all depends on the favor of fate!" Li Ping concluded.

"Yes, didn't we have a saying before the end of the world: this is an era of fighting for fathers. In fact, what this sentence says is to let everyone fight for their lives. Of course, I don't mean that kind of desperate. The "fate" here It refers to a person's fate, which is what he is born with."

"Among them, the most intuitive ones are a person's family background, physical condition, etc. On the premise that everyone is in good health, what we have to fight for is the connections, financial resources, and resources of each other's parents and grandparents. Before the end of the world, what we often say about wealth This is the principle of the second generation and the second generation of the army."

"So 'fate' is both fair and unfair. What is fair is that everyone has only one life, and what is unfair is that everyone's 'fate' is completely different. Isn't there a saying , The gap between people is sometimes bigger than the gap between humans and dogs!" Zheng Hao shook his head and smiled wryly.

"That's right, Brother Hao. There is a saying in numerology before the end of the world: first fate, second luck, and third feng shui. This 'fate' is determined by God! Whether it is before the end of the world or after the end of the world, we cannot escape the shackles of fate." gone."

After hearing Li Ping's words, Zheng Hao was greatly surprised. He asked in amazement: "I thought you would say that the coming of the end of the world is an opportunity for ordinary people to change their lives against the sky?"

"Hahaha, Brother Hao, I am also a person who has been in the army for eight years, but I am not as naive as you said. On the surface, the end of the world has indeed changed the life trajectory of each of us. For example, as soon as the end of the world comes, 80% of people became zombies, and nearly 10% of them converted into zombies."

"I'm not good at judging whether becoming a zombie is good or bad. After all, after removing those unlucky zombies killed by the evolutionaries, the other unharmed zombies have not only advanced, but even gradually regained their sanity? If those who only know how to devour flesh and blood We can still call them the walking dead. But these intelligent zombies, we can’t just call them the walking dead.”

“After all, humans are called 'humans' because, compared with other animals, they have highly developed brains, complex abstract thinking, language, self-awareness, and problem-solving abilities. Zombies with intelligence and mobility, in a sense, they are also a kind of 'new human beings'."

"So, whether it's zombies or new humans, they are not within the scope of what I am talking about. Our sample group or research object is the rest of the surviving humans."

"Although survivors can become stronger by killing zombies and mutant beasts, you and I both know that although the method seems uniform and fair. But that is on the premise that everyone starts at the same, but the key is due to the difference in 'fate' , everyone's social roles and personal abilities determine who can survive better in the last days."

"For example, soldiers can use fighting skills or firearms to kill in the crowd of corpses; boxers can use fighting skills to take the lead in the last days; parkour enthusiasts can use their vigorous skills to avoid the siege of zombies. But an unarmed What can college students do?" Li Ping asked.

"Xiaoping, I think what you said is not so much a 'innate destiny', but rather a personal difference caused by acquired choices and learning. After all, social occupations such as soldiers, boxers, and parkour enthusiasts If ordinary people are willing and willing to work hard, it can be achieved." Zheng Hao put down the skewers in his hand and said solemnly.