Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Luo Mei's father had already run to the farmer's market, but the market he went to was not the largest market nearby, but a small farmer's market slightly closer to home, less than one kilometer away from the fruit and vegetable store where Luo Mei worked.

Luo Mei's father rode a bicycle there and it took him more than ten minutes to reach the market. There were still people coming and going in the market at this time. It was probably because it was just noon, so there were still crowds of people inside.

Did everyone receive a notification from the community and know that several blocks here are about to be sealed off, so they all rushed out to buy supplies before the lockdown?

Luo Jun was wondering, and was about to push his bike inside when the phone in his pocket rang.

As soon as I picked up the phone, I heard my daughter's anxious voice: "Dad, where are you? Come home right now. You don't have to buy any supplies. My boss sent us some supplies, enough for our family to eat for a while."

Although Luo Jun didn't understand the purpose of rushing him to go home, he thought about the secretive expressions of the community people before he went out and the hesitant look of the staff behind him, and the need to seal off the entire block. This showed that the situation was at least not optimistic, and it was very likely that some serious impact would occur, and it was not just as simple as the infectious disease that the community said.

Although the farmers' market ahead was very close, Luo Jun finally turned around and rode his bike back. Unexpectedly, he heard a huge explosion behind him just after he had pedaled a dozen meters.

Yes, it was indeed the sound of an explosion. Luo Jun could even feel the heat wave of the explosion rolling in behind his ears.

Luo Jun immediately stopped the car and looked up in the direction of the explosion. He found that black smoke was billowing not far away and flames were constantly rising.

This should not be a simple explosion, because he saw sharp shouts coming from the market, and after a while people kept running out, shouting: "Someone went crazy and blew up the gas tank."

But Luo Jun vaguely saw someone being knocked down in a store in front of him, and then someone pounced on the fallen person like a vampire and kept biting him.

Luo Jun frowned immediately after seeing this scene, but he knew very well in his heart that this was not the time to watch the fun. His body's instinctive reaction was faster than his brain, and he immediately pedaled his bicycle towards home.

The residential area where the Luo family lives in the Farmers' Market Bureau is actually only a little over two kilometers away, and it only takes about ten minutes to ride a bike to get there. However, the snow has just melted recently, so the road is inevitably slippery. Luo Jun dare not go too fast, for fear that he would suffer if he bumped into something on the road, so he could only maintain a constant speed.

There were still shouts from the crowd in the market behind, but this time Luo Jun did not look back. Instead, he left behind many people who were running towards the farmers' market to watch the excitement.

Fifteen minutes later, Luo Jun arrived downstairs breathlessly. The two siblings of the Luo family, who had been standing at the stairs, rushed up as soon as they saw Luo Jun.

"Dad, what happened? Are you okay?" Luo Cheng took the bicycle from Luo Jun's hand and asked with concern when he saw that Luo Jun looked nervous.

Luo Jun wiped the hot sweat from his forehead, turned his head to look at the now empty community, and then lowered his voice and said: "Let's go back first, and talk about it when we get back."

In the siblings' impression, Luo Jun was rarely seen panicking. Even when the apocalypse broke out, Luo Jun still assumed the responsibilities of a husband and father, and survived the apocalypse with his wife and children.

But when he recalled the scene he had just seen at the farmers' market, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and then he and Luo Cheng carried their bicycles upstairs.

As soon as he returned to the room, Luo Jun locked the door, and confirmed it several times before he felt a little relieved.

When the community was first handed over, all the gates were made of steel. However, Luo Jun was worried that he would work on the construction site for a long time and the safety of his wife and daughter would not be guaranteed, so he went to the building materials market in person and installed an iron door outside the gate. There was a movable baffle in the middle of the iron door, so he could flexibly pull out the baffle to check the situation outside.

Now both doors were locked by Luo Jun. Luo Mei noticed something when she saw this scene. So she walked to Luo Jun, handed him the warm water that Zhou Ruochu had prepared, and asked, "Dad, did something happen outside?"

Luo Jun drank a whole glass of water, and then said with lingering fear: "Something did happen. Come over here, I have something to say."

Luo Cheng pulled a bench. He was only eleven years old and was at the age of curiosity, so he didn't think the situation was serious. Instead, he looked very interested.

Zhou Ruochu also felt the change in Luo Cheng's attitude, so he sat on the sofa as well.

Luo Jun was probably thinking about how to start the conversation, so he pondered for a long time before frowning and saying, "I just went to the farmer's market in the east, and there was an explosion there."

"Ah? Explosion? Is it serious?" Luo Chengli immediately asked curiously.

Luo Cheng shook his head first, then nodded: "I don't know, I didn't go in, but the fire was five or six meters long, I guess it should be serious, but..."

Luo Cheng's eyes widened, his face full of curiosity.

Luo Mei lowered her eyes, with unclear emotions in her eyes, and her fingers were tightly twisting the corners of her clothes, because she could probably guess what Luo Jun was going to say next.

"Do you remember when the community came here and told us that there was an outbreak of an infectious disease at the base recently? I guess this infectious disease may be more serious than they said, and even spread to a wider area."

"It's the zombie virus." Luo Mei raised her head at this time, with an unusually cold light flashing in her eyes.

Zhou Ruochu and Luo Jun were somewhat surprised by this statement. Although both of them were born in the 1980s, they were busy with work before the apocalypse and didn't know much about zombie movies. Therefore, they were not as surprised as Luo Cheng who was standing next to them and immediately widened his eyes when he heard it.

Although Luo Cheng is only eleven years old, he watched a series of zombie movies in Europe and the United States with his neighbor's older brother when he was in the first grade of elementary school. He was deeply impressed by the zombies in the movies that would mutate and bite people once they were infected with the zombie virus. He still remembers that if he wanted to kill a zombie, he had to shoot it in the head. He also played a similar PC game at his neighbor's brother's house, shooting at all kinds of zombies.

"Sister, you said it's a zombie virus, is that true?" Luo Cheng was not afraid, but slapped his thigh, and then said excitedly: "I said it, animals are mutating, humans are mutating, and zombies will appear in this world sooner or later!"

"Luo Cheng, why are you so happy? Is this something worth being happy about?" Luo Mei sneered, then became dissatisfied with her brother's ignorance, so she couldn't help but scold him.

Luo Cheng wanted to say something, but he heard Luo Mei look at Luo Jun: "Dad, go on, what did you see at the farmers' market?"

Luo Jun nodded and continued talking about the biting incident. "I've never seen anyone with such great strength. The girl looked skinny and small, but she was able to pin a 1.8-meter-tall man to the ground and bite him. That's definitely not rabies. I've seen rabies attacks in the countryside before, but they didn't bite people like that. But how can you be sure that this is the zombie virus?"

Luo Mei took a deep breath, then took out her cell phone and played the video that Cai Huan had sent her before. In the video, the people who were bitten became bloody and some began to mutate in a short while. The whole scene became very chaotic.

Seeing this scene, the originally excited Luo Cheng also fell silent, because the scene was too bloody. He even saw an old lady in her seventies being knocked down by zombies because of her inconvenient legs and feet, and then she looked at the people in front of her in despair as they ran into the store and pulled down the rolling door. During this process, no one was willing to lend a helping hand to the old lady.

Under such circumstances, the indifference and numbness of human nature are fully displayed in everyone. There is no so-called bravery, and no heroes fall from the sky.

Although the video was only one minute long, everyone in the Luo family fell into a brief silence after watching it.

Finally, it was Zhou Ruochu who broke the tense atmosphere. "Luo Mei, you said this virus is called the zombie virus, which means that the infected people will become irrational and can only bite people. But I observed why some people lying on the ground did not become zombies?"

Zhou Ruochu was referring to those people who were lying on the ground and did not mutate immediately.

Luo Mei shook her head and frowned as she replied, "Sister Minmin and I discussed this on the way. We speculate that the speed of mutation may be related to a person's physique, or the site of infection. If the bite is on the neck, the mutation will be very fast, taking several hours at most or even minutes at the fastest. But if the bite is on the arm, calf, or other parts far from the brain, the mutation will be very slow and there will be an incubation period, which is about a few hours to 24 hours. However, this still needs to be officially certified. These are just our guesses."

"I think my sister's guess is correct. A certain game I played before mentioned that the person who was bitten has an incubation period."

Zhou Ruochu glanced at his son in surprise, "Game? When?"

Luo Cheng became nervous and coughed a few times before changing the subject. "By the way, Dad, was the neighborhood already blocked when you came back?"

"No, the neighborhood near us hasn't started yet, but I did meet a lot of community workers wearing armbands. I estimate that the lockdown will begin by the evening at the latest."