Chapter 9 Villagers Calling For Help

On the second day, the rain had indeed subsided, and there was a hint of clearing in the sky.

Last night, Fu Jingmo still occupied half of Lin Mu’s bed and skillfully found Lin Mu’s clothes to change into.

Anyway, the end of the world was approaching, so Lin Mu didn’t bother to argue about these things.

The internet signal had not recovered all day, and perhaps it would not be restored for a long time…

Who knew if the people maintaining the network had already turned into zombies? Can you really rely on zombies to help you connect to the internet…

Lin Mu found some amusement in his misery and couldn’t help but laugh at the thought.

Fu Jingmo was tinkering with something downstairs, saying that he was waiting for a mission and had not set off yet.

Lin Mu was skeptical, but having someone with him also made him feel a bit strangely reassured, even though this person was a bit strange…
He went downstairs and asked, “What do you want to eat today?”

Fu Jingmo raised an eyebrow at him, “Can you still eat?”

“Of course, didn’t you say that most people who come into contact with rainwater will get infected with the virus? Maybe I have already been infected, so I shouldn’t waste the things Uncle Zhang gave me before I die.”

When he didn’t know before, he wasn’t so calm. Now that he knows most people can’t escape virus infection, Lin Mu has decided to lie down and stop struggling.

Fu Jingmo chuckled and glanced at him.
“Eat, eat more, so you won’t turn into a zombie and I won’t have to use you as their food.”

“…”

Lin Mu remained silent, realizing that he shouldn’t have bothered with him.
He walked straight into the kitchen and started cooking seriously.

He stewed chicken and potatoes, braised the chicken pieces, diced the chicken legs for a spicy chicken dish, and also made salt and pepper corn and a tomato egg soup.

He served two bowls of rice and called Fu Jing Mo to come and eat.

Lin Mu was good at cooking, and the two strangers quietly ate their meal at the dining table, emitting an inexplicable harmony.
After finishing their meal and coming out of the kitchen, the rain had stopped.

For a moment, there were no thunder or lightning, only the sound of raindrops falling from the trees or the eaves, creating a quiet and unfamiliar atmosphere in the mountains.

The two stood under the eaves, and Fu Jing Mo seemed lost in thought. “It may not be a good thing that the rain has stopped.”

After a brief thought, Lin Mu’s gaze sank.

The weather cleared up, and people wouldn’t stay at home anymore. Whether it was seeking help and refuge or going out for supplies, it undoubtedly accelerated the spread of the zombie infection.

At that time, what would the world become? Nobody knew, and Lin Mu found it difficult to imagine.

“Lin Mu, actually, you…” Fu Jing Mo was about to say something but suddenly his expression changed and he stopped. “Go upstairs and take a look, there’s someone.”

The two quickly went upstairs and looked from the corridor. Lin Mu listened carefully and faintly heard cries for help coming from the direction of the highway.

Fu Jing Mo glanced at him. “They’re coming this way.”
The highway was only a couple of hundred meters away, and Lin Mu could get a rough idea even through the branches.

Six or seven people stumbled and ran up from the highway, yelling for help.

The fastest runner among them looked somewhat familiar to Lin Mu.

Just as Lin Mu was wondering who that was, he saw that instead of running up the road, they followed the leading young man and pushed aside the branches that Lin Mu had thrown at the intersection, turning into this direction.

At that moment, Lin Mu finally saw clearly that the young man was Uncle Zhang’s son, who occasionally came along with Uncle Zhang to deliver things.

“There’s something chasing them,” Fu Jingmo said calmly, leaning against the fence.

Lin Mu instantly thought of those videos. “Are you saying… zombies?”

Fu Jingmo chuckled and looked back at him. “What else could it be?”

“…Why are you still able to laugh?” Lin Mu thought to himself, feeling a headache.

In the midst of their conversation, the group of people had already reached the front yard and started banging on the door frantically.

“Brother Lin Mu, Brother Lin Mu, help us! Help us! There are so many monsters, so many monsters!”

From the direction of the highway, they could now see roughly twenty to thirty zombies, chasing after them and heading this way.

Their eyes were vacant, just like the zombies in the videos.

A few of them tripped over the stones Lin Mu had scattered on the road, fell by the roadside, but got up without any awareness and continued forward.

Some of the people downstairs had already started crying and screaming frantically, “Save us, save us! They will eat us! They will eat us!”

Lin Mu was also feeling a bit uneasy. Without thinking too much, he went downstairs and led the people into the yard.

As soon as these people entered the yard, they collapsed on the ground, clinging to the water tank in the yard and gulping down a few mouthfuls of water.

The yard gate was closed, and Lin Mu turned around to look at Uncle Zhang’s son. He remembered that his name seemed to be Zhang Qiang.

His expression was serious, and his gaze swept over each person.

There were a total of seven people who had arrived, five men and two women.

Their clothes were already filthy, as if they had rolled in mud, panting heavily on the ground.

The two women had tears streaming down their faces and were trembling as they hugged each other.

“Brother Lin Mu… Thank you, thank you.”

Zhang Qiang looked at Lin Mu gratefully. He was also quite frightened, his face pale.

“What’s going on… How can there be so many zombies? What about Uncle Zhang?”

“My dad… My dad…,” Zhang Qiang burst into tears. “He got bitten, and not long after, he turned into one of those monsters.”

“I don’t know what happened either… Sob… Most of the people in town have turned into monsters… We were being chased, and I only remembered that you live here…”

Lin Mu knew that the monster he means was a zombie, but without thinking much, there was a crazy banging sound outside the door.

Several townspeople were scared and huddled together in screams. Lin Mu had a headache as he looked at the scene in front of him.

There were about twenty or thirty zombies. The door of the yard could hold for a while, but he didn’t know how long it could last.

He wasn’t afraid of suddenly turning into a zombie himself, but he didn’t want to be torn to pieces by the zombies outside…

“The zombies you brought, deal with them yourselves, or else you can only hide here for so long.”

A voice came from the second floor. Lin Mu looked up, and Fu Jingmo looked at them coldly.

Seeing Lin Mu trying to maintain composure while being surrounded by the others in the yard, Fu Jingmo felt somewhat uncomfortable for some reason.

“Just chop their heads, and you can clean them up.”

He kindly reminded them again.

Upon hearing this, the people in the yard screamed, “No, we can’t do it!! We’ll die! We’ll die!”

“Shut up,”
Fu Jingmo impatiently uttered two words.
Lin Mu thought he was mistaken, as he seemed to see a layer of black mist enveloping Fu Jingmo for a moment, and then it disappeared.