End of the World

"Who are you?" Wu Bin looked the man up and down. He was 1.9 meters tall and he seemed not even as tall as his nose in front of him, let alone He Yuxin.

"I really have no ill intentions. I just escaped from the city!" The man couldn't help but feel nervous when he saw the gun in Wu Bin's hand.

"Downtown? Are you alone?" Wu Bin put away his gun after making sure he had no ill intentions. "Did you escape by car?"

"Uh, yes, I'm alone!" the man replied. It was a life-threatening escape from that crowd.

"My name is Liu Haifeng, and my friends call me Dafeng. I like people to call me Dafeng, because the name is too troublesome!" The man felt that Wu Bin did not seem like a bad person, so he introduced himself.

"Then I'll call you Dafeng! My name is Wu Bin, but I'm not as lucky as you, and no one has given me a nickname yet!"

"Haha, if you don't mind, I'll help you make one when I have the chance!" Dafeng laughed, forgetting what happened just now.

He Yuxin got out of the car only after seeing that the two had reached an agreement, and looked at Dafeng curiously.

Dafeng had vaguely seen that there was another person in the passenger seat, but he didn't ask. "Is your girlfriend?" Dafeng looked at He Yuxin and asked Wu Bin.

"Uh, just friends!" Wu Bin was stunned by the question.

"Her name is He Yuxin!" Wu Bin introduced her to Dafeng.

"Hello, just call me Dafeng!" Dafeng said to He Yuxin.

"Gale? Your name?"

"No, my name is Liu Haifeng, Dafeng for short." Dafeng laughed and asked, "Are you guys out here looking for food? I just happened to find some food in the car here!"

Wu Bin felt that Dafeng was quite straightforward. He told him directly that there was food here. If it were someone else, they might have hesitated.

"Dafeng, what are your plans for the future?" Wu Bin did not answer, but asked Dafeng.

"Alas, I don't know how long this situation will last, so I can't make any plans!" Dafeng sighed. He had experienced too many dangers along the way and almost lost his life several times. "Brother, I won't beat around the bush with you. If you don't mind, I want to talk to you!" Dafeng said sincerely.

He Yuxin looked at Wu Bin, and Wu Bin said, "It's not easy to live, and being together is fate. We have plenty of food, and from now on the three of us will live together. One more person means one more hope!"

"I have no objection!" He Yuxin followed.

"Haha, just because of what you said, you will be my brother from now on." Dafeng hit Wu Bin's shoulder and said.

"You were the first to discover this place, right?" Dafeng saw the armored car nearby and quickly thought of it based on the shotgun in Wu Bin's hand.

"Yes, a little earlier than you!" Wu Bin admitted.

"I thought the truck could only hold so many things, but it turns out that only half of them had been moved away!" This solved Dafeng's previous confusion.

"Don't worry about it, it all belongs to us anyway!"

"I feel relieved when you say this. I need no thanks for your kindness. If you can use me in any way, just let me know. I will never refuse!" Dafeng said, patting his chest.

"Hey, okay, let's move things quickly!" He Yuxin couldn't stand Dafeng's politeness and walked towards the truck.

With Dafeng's participation, the efficiency was much higher. He was so strong that he could do the work of two people and quickly filled the pickup truck.

"Brother Bin, how about I drive the armored car and follow behind?" When Dafeng saw He Yuxin calling Wu Bin like that, he followed suit. It seemed inappropriate to call him Brother Wu.

Wu Bin was somewhat helpless about Dafeng calling him Brother Bin, so he just let him do what he wanted. The damage to the money transporter was not too serious, only one of the headlights was broken. "If you can start it, drive it!"

Dafeng followed him back to the factory and as soon as he got off the car he found that this was a good place. There was a wall around it and there were no zombies. It could be considered a small shelter.

"This place is really nice. I finally don't have to worry so much!" Dafeng sighed. He experienced the dangers outside only two days after the disaster broke out. A place to live is so important.

"Yes, I didn't understand before that the most insignificant things are the most valuable!" Wu Bin also felt it, just like the air, it becomes valuable only when it lacks oxygen.

He Yuxin cleaned up the room, while Wu Bin and Dafeng unloaded the things from the pickup truck, and then returned to the truck to pull back all the remaining things.

Now, all the food added together, according to normal rationing, can probably support three people for about a year, which is enough time period. The shelf life of most packaged foods is one to two years.

"Dafeng, where did you escape from?" Wu Bin recalled the horrific appearance of the front of the black car he was driving.

Dafeng picked up a can of Coke and took a few gulps before speaking slowly, "It's downtown East City, that's East of Jiangzhun Avenue, and it's packed with people!"

"I know Donglin, but where is Jianghuai Avenue?" Wu Bin saw his classmates posting on WeChat Moments before, so he knew where Donglin was.

"Brother Bin, you are not from Dongzhou! Jianghuai Avenue connects to Shengxia Street in the south and to East University Town in the north!" Dafeng was a little surprised that Wu Bin didn't know Jianghuai Avenue. Jianghuai Avenue is one of the most famous places in University Town and it is also a popular check-in spot that many people who go to University Town must visit.

"What are you talking about?" He Yuxin finished cleaning, dried her hands, and walked over and asked.

"Yuxin, do you know Jianghuai Avenue?" Wu Bin turned around and asked. He Yuxin is a student of Dongzhou University.

He Yuxin was stunned by the question, and then answered: "I know! It's on the east side of the university town. I used to go there often during holidays. In addition to Jianghuai Avenue, the nearby Nansheng Road and Yuandong Road are also good. It's a pity that there are zombies everywhere now, otherwise I could take Brother Bin there to play!"

"Are you from the university town?" Dafeng asked.

"Yes, from Dongzhou University!" He Yuxin nodded.

"No wonder, Dongzhou University is not far from there." Dafeng suddenly realized, but was a little curious about how He Yuxin escaped from the university town, and asked: "Then how did you get out?"

"Of course it was Brother Bin who saved me!" He Yuxin winked at Wu Bin.

"Ahem!" Wu Bin coughed lightly. He didn't know what He Yuxin wanted to do. He wanted to speak, so He Yuxin said, "If it weren't for Brother Bin, I don't know if I would be alive today."

"By the way, how is the situation in the university town?" He Yuxin asked Dafeng.

"It was quite lively. I almost got left behind when I passed by there!" Dafeng smiled bitterly. If he was unlucky, he would have died there. His scalp tingled every time he thought about it.

He Yuxin sighed lightly and walked away silently. She must have been in a bad mood thinking about the situation at school.

After He Yuxin left, Dafeng came over and asked, "Brother Bin, is what she said true?"

"Half of it, she is indeed a student from Dongzhou University, but I met her near Shilin North Road!" Wu Bin spread out his hands.

"She's quite lucky. The situation in the university town is very bad. There are fires in several universities. I guess the fires haven't been put out yet!"

He Yuxin was getting ready to have lunch, and Wu Bin and Dafeng put all the food in the warehouse. The storage conditions in the warehouse were the best, so the two of them sorted them out and put them neatly, especially those with a short shelf life, which were placed separately.

Lunch was rice porridge with canned fish. It was simple but the best food, better than instant noodles. It would be even better if there were some pickles in the porridge. Wu Bin didn't know whether He Yuxin and Dafeng were used to it or not. He just liked the taste, just like when he was a child in his hometown, plain and peaceful.

"Yuxin, can you cook?" Wu Bin wondered if he could go out and get some vegetables in the afternoon.

"Yes, I am the only one who cooks well in the dormitory when I am in school, and I usually cook for myself when I go home on holidays. Brother Bin, you can't cook?" He Yuxin tilted her head and looked at Wu Bin and asked.

"It's not that I don't know how to cook, it's just that my cooking skills are not very good and I don't know how to control the heat and the taste!" Wu Bin replied. Cooking is really not his forte. His cooking is not as delicious as others', so the food he eats is just like that.

"Brother Bin, do you want to go out and get some food?" Dafeng seemed to understand what Wu Bin meant.

"But where can we find vegetables outside? Will it be dangerous?" He Yuxin didn't want Wu Bin to go out and take risks. She felt that everything was fine now.

"There are vegetable fields beside the national or provincial roads, so it shouldn't be dangerous." Wu Bin remembered that when he came out with He Yuxin, he saw some vegetable gardens not far from the roadside.

"Okay, be careful when you go out!" He Yuxin knew that she couldn't persuade him, so she warned him. Now that Dafeng was here, Wu Bin would definitely not agree to let her go out with him.

Wu Bin took out a shotgun and gave it to He Yuxin so that she could deal with emergencies at home alone.

"Brother Bin, you guys need to go out more than I do." He Yuxin wanted to refuse.

"Take it!" Wu Bin forced it into He Yuxin's hand with an unyielding tone, and taught her how to turn off the safety, load the bullets and shoot, and told her how to avoid getting hurt because of the recoil of shooting. Wu Bin had learned all these from watching some military videos before, and although the movements might not be standardized, it was better than shooting randomly.

He Yuxin held the cold shotgun in her hand, and a warm feeling surged through her heart. Not everyone would do this, and not everyone would be nice to you in a world where order has collapsed.

Wu Bin estimated that the vegetable garden by the roadside was not very dangerous. Firearms should never be used unless absolutely necessary. There were not many bullets in the two shotguns.

After everything was ready, Wu Bin said hello to Dafeng and He Yuxin and drove out in the pickup truck.

He Yuxin watched the pickup truck disappear at the intersection, tightly gripping the gun in her hand. It felt good to be cared for. She was an orphan. Her parents died early, and she had been living in her second uncle's house. After all, she was not her second uncle's biological daughter. Her grandfather and grandmother did not love her. After graduating from high school, her second aunt would no longer support her on the grounds that she was an adult, and gave her 20,000 yuan to let her move out.

At that time, He Yuxin was admitted to Dongzhou University with excellent results, breaking the college entrance examination score history that had remained for many years and becoming the pride of her high school. The principal of the high school learned about her family situation and could not bear to let her lose the opportunity to go to college because of financial factors. He helped He Yuxin apply for academic subsidies and privately supported her to continue her studies.

He Yuxin only needed to fulfill her moral obligations for the support from her second uncle's family. When her parents died, the family property was seized by her second uncle's family and not given to her. As for her high school principal, He Yuxin was full of gratitude and secretly vowed in her heart to repay his kindness in the future, but this disaster disrupted all her plans.