zombie log

Bei Xinmiao discovered that he had lost a piece of memory.

He was sitting with Tang Guan on the bus to Mingling County.In a blink of an eye, he arrived at a hill surrounded by forests. Tang Guan was running panting behind him, and then holding onto a tree, he said intermittently, "I, I can't run anymore..."

"What are we running?" Bei Xinmiao asked in surprise.

Tang Guan had to hug a tree to stand upright. "Don't run away, don't run away, what can they... what can they do to us?"

"Someone is chasing us?" Bei Xinmiao looked behind them.

Tang Guan waved to him: "Don't be so obvious...you will be seen immediately."

Not far behind them, Bei Xinmiao saw several men in camouflage uniforms chasing them through the woods.

"Huh, it seems... Huh, there is really a secret here, otherwise why didn't you let us in..." Tang Guan sat down on the ground, gasping for breath, it seemed that he really couldn't run anymore.

Bei Xinmiao understood a little, he stepped forward and grabbed Tang Guan. "I'll carry you on my back."

"Ah?" Tang Guan was pulled up by Bei Xinmiao before he could react.

Five minutes later, they hid behind a rock and escaped the pursuit of those people.Tang Guan breathed a sigh of relief, and he relaxed all over.

"It's getting dark." He looked down from the rock.

"It's dark?"

……

Bei Xinmiao's last memory was in the car, and she just had a phone call with Xiao Zhengnan.Then Tang Guan exclaimed that his appearance had changed.He looked at himself in the reflection of the window glass.Appearing and disappearing from time to time, vaguely, he seemed to really feel the change in himself.

"Are you like the potted flower on my windowsill?" Tang Guan made a comparison without holding back. "I keep forgetting to water it and it's dying...I mean, you're like dying...and then you drink water and come back to life. You come alive. Your face changes too , are not like the original you..."

Bei Xinmiao has already found out.His face almost changed back to what it looked like when he was a teenager, the muscles and skin stopped loosening, and began to contract upwards.No longer pale, a kind of jade-like white.Although not yet bloody.

He gets excited.

"You've become so handsome..." Tang Guan said cautiously. "I'm sure there's something that puts you in a good mood. The books say being in love always works...of course it's about women, but I think men do too..."

He didn't listen to what Tang Guan had to say.He would rather close his ears.He didn't want to ponder the reasons for this change.If thoughtful, he always has a kind of worry.This worry is not for yourself, but for others.

Is this something that benefits both parties?

Or is he sucking the lives of others?

This idea came from the plots of those novels or movies he had read—those authors always wrote like that—ghosts or monsters could absorb people’s yang energy to achieve a certain purpose of survival.

He doesn't know whether real zombies can actually absorb the essence of living people as described in novels and movies...

He thought the idea was vulgar.

He has been a zombie for ten years, and his experience and novels have nothing in common with what is described in the movie.Not only do they have no supernatural abilities, they are even less powerful than humans.They are more like desperate species, in the cracks of an unknown situation, neither can die nor live.

But in his heart, it seemed like a flame had sprung up—what if the living could really give him hope?What if the living can really redeem his dead body?

He knew he couldn't resist the hope in front of him.He knew he couldn't stop what he was going to do.

……

Bei Xinmiao's memory only ends here - he was deeply troubled by the shock of that huge hope.He doesn't remember what happened after that.

"I was in the car... what happened then? I forgot." He asked Tang Guan bluntly.

"You fell asleep later." Tang Guan said.

Bei Xinmiao was taken aback.As a zombie, he actually... Impossible, he can't fall asleep!

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If he could sleep, he wouldn't be a zombie.

No movie or novel ever says that zombies need sleep.

Besides, he hasn't slept in ten years.

He believed he was not sleeping.Something must have knocked him off.Besides, the memory of the period after he and Tang Guan got off the car became very blurred.Tang Guan told him that the first thing he did when he arrived in Mingling County was to call Xiao Zhengnan while standing on the street.Then speak in a high-pitched and excited voice, begging the other person to come to him immediately.

"Did I say that? Let him come to me..." Bei Xinmiao couldn't believe it.His memory of this place is very erratic, he only remembers that he was very excited and happy when talking with Xiao Zhengnan, completely unlike his usual self, as if he was dominated by another consciousness.

"Yes." Tang Guan said expressionlessly. "You said to Teacher Xiao on the phone 'I miss you.'"

Bei Xinmiao was dumbfounded.

After a while, Bei Xinmiao asked Tang Guan again. "Did he say he would come?"

Tang Guan nodded.

"Did you say when to come?"

Tang Guan shook his head.

Bei Xinmiao stopped asking.

They went down the mountain before dark.Find a small hotel to stay first.I plan to go to Yushan Company tomorrow to find out.

"Why did we go to that forest?" Bei Xinmiao asked before going to bed.

"You said it. You said you knew how to get into that wood."

"How would I know?"

"You were like an excited deer at that time." Tang Guan laughed, "Your movements were much more flexible than usual. I ran so fast in front alone that I was exhausted from chasing them. Then we went up the mountain along that small river .But it was discovered..." He sighed. "I can't think of any secrets on that mountain? Why are there guards."

"That mountain is the operation area of ​​Yushan Food Company, and it is private territory. Of course, no one is allowed to enter it casually." Bei Xinmiao said. "The question is, if it's just the special mountain food they sell, is it necessary for people not to visit?"

"Anyway, just find a way to go in and have a look." Tang Guan turned his back on Bei Xinmiao and fell asleep. "Tomorrow morning, we will pretend to be reporters and go to Yushan Company for interviews as planned."

"Pretending to be a reporter is a bit too much." Bei Xinmiao said. "You're just a kid. I don't look mature the way I am."

Tang Guan said: "Otherwise we will all dress up more maturely tomorrow. I'll go blow my hair back and put on my beard."

"It's even more ridiculous. Otherwise, you can pretend to be a reporter from the University Student Daily. There must be such a newspaper in City A."

"There are in Beijing."

"Then let's say they are from Beijing."

"Just do it."

Bei Xinmiao glanced at the cell phone next to her pillow, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and Xiao Zhengnan didn't call.He also didn't come to Mingling County to look for him.Bei Xinmiao really couldn't remember what she said to Xiao Zhengnan on the phone after getting off the car.Maybe his sudden abnormal tone scared Xiao Zhengnan.Instead, he dared not even make a phone call.

"Teacher Xiao has an important meeting today." Tang Guan said like a roundworm in his stomach. "Certainly not today. Don't worry, he will be here tomorrow morning."

Bei Xinmiao slowly turned her head to Tang Guan, only to see his back, curled up on the other side of the bed, like a lobster.

"I never thought you would like Teacher Xiao." Tang Guan murmured.No tone. "However, when I know, I also understand that you really like him. The kind you like very much."

"What do you know, kid?" Bei Xinmiao didn't want to talk about this topic with him.

Tang Guan turned over to face Bei Xinmiao. "I know a lot more than you think. It doesn't matter if I don't know, I just need to know what I want. I just need to know what I like. I also know that I haven't lost."

"Win or lose?!" Bei Xinmiao frowned. "What does that have to do with winning or losing?"

"I mean..." Tang Guan rubbed his hair. "You and Mr. Xiao are like the kind of relationship that suddenly exploded. I mean, I understand that this is an overwhelming feeling, but it will pass quickly. Have you ever seen a bomb that can keep going off?" ?It’s always a short time. Teacher Xiao is just a passerby. Because he is a normal person. And you are not. Neither am I. In the end, it’s just the two of us left.”

"What nonsense. Sleep!" Bei Xinmiao turned off the bedside lamp.He turned his back to Tang Guan.Tang Guan stopped talking, and was as silent as a cat behind him.

Bei Xinmiao looked at the cell phone next to her pillow in the dark.He felt as if there was a thorn in his chest, and he reached out to touch it several times but couldn't feel it.

The phone rang suddenly, deafeningly, and Xiao Zhengnan's number jumped on it.