The next day, Lin Jiawen woke up early and took the big bag of food from his room to the living room.
Bai Yichen also woke up very early. After all, in this world with a power outage, there was no entertainment at night. Although there were candles and other things, they had to be used sparingly. As soon as he left the bedroom, he saw a conspicuous large bag in the living room. He couldn't help but look at the thin man sitting there and asked, "What is this for?"
"Here, it's for you." The man glanced at Bai Yichen, and then quickly lowered his eyes for some reason.
Bai Yichen was not prepared to accept the food. After all, looking at the man's standard office chicken figure, he knew how much trouble he had gone through to collect these. However, seeing the man's repeated statements, Bai Yichen also felt the man's persistence. In the end, he just took a few things and said with a smile: "This is enough for the room fee."
How could this be? This was too little. Lin Jiawen originally wanted to argue, but when he saw the faint smile on the young man's dizzyingly handsome face, his cheeks quickly began to feel hot. Finally, he quickly lowered his head and dared not say anything more.
Bai Yichen looked at the thin man and lowered his head again. He thought that he agreed with what he said, so he took the things in his hand and walked back to his room.
Bai Yichen thought that after the man came back, he would stay in the room quietly and without any sense of presence every day, just like before. But who knew that the next day, the man said hello to him and then left...
God knows how surprised Bai Yichen was at that time, but although he provided the man with a place to stay, he did not have the right to restrict his freedom, so he could only nod to indicate that he understood, while being curious about what this thin man wanted to do when he went out.
All the doubts were answered when the man came back in a somewhat dishevelled state at night, but with a few packets of instant noodles in his hands. He had gone out to look for food.
After that, as long as the weather was good, the thin man would go out early every day and come back before dark. Sometimes he could bring back some food, but sometimes he was in a mess and got nothing. But no matter whether the man got anything that day, he would take out a portion of food and put it at Bai Yichen's door, calling it the "room fee" for the day.
Bai Yichen was surprised and a little helpless at the man's persistence. In fact, he had agreed to let the man come back with the intention of helping him. After all, although the man brought back a lot of food, it would only last for ten days. He originally thought that after the man finished his own food, he would help him for a while, but who would have thought that the thin-looking man was so aware that he not only went out early every day to find food, but also wanted to raise him as well.
However, although the man was highly conscious, Bai Yichen clearly remembered that the man couldn't even lift a bucket of water. It was too risky for such a person to frequently go out into the world full of zombies to look for food.
Bai Yichen tried to mention it to the man, but the man kept his head down and didn't say anything. However, he still insisted on going out the next day.
Seeing this, Bai Yichen didn't know what to say, but from that day on, he couldn't help but start paying attention to the direction in which the man went to find food. If he went out to practice with zombies, he would try to find a place closer to the man.
After a period of time, one day, the accident really happened. Bai Yichen could not describe how thrilling the situation was that day. If he had not happened to see the man, the man would probably have become a zombie that day and would never come back.
The man brought back by Bai Yichen looked pale, and his hands were still shaking from the thrill just now. Bai Yichen asked the man to sit on the sofa and gave him a blanket. Seeing the man wrap himself tightly with the blanket, he said again: "Don't go out again in the future."
This time the man didn't say anything. After a long time, he nodded slightly.
Only those who have almost experienced death know how terrible death is. Moreover, he knew clearly why he almost couldn't come back. He thought the zombies couldn't catch up with him, but the zombies caught up with him. He thought his stick could resist the zombies, but the zombies pushed his stick away. If the zombies now have such speed and strength, then if he goes out again, he will undoubtedly die.
After finally stopping his fear and trembling, Lin Jiawen looked up at the handsome boy beside him and couldn't help but say, "I feel like those zombies have become stronger."
Bai Yichen didn't expect the man to notice this. He couldn't help but look at him in surprise, and finally nodded in agreement with his point of view, "Yes, the current zombies are much stronger than before in terms of speed and strength."
In addition to training with zombies, Bai Yichen has also been trying to observe the changes in zombies. It may be because he trains with zombies every day, so the changes every day are not big and difficult to detect, but if compared with a month ago, there is really a big difference. According to his observation, the thin man is very cautious every time he goes out to find food, and rarely has direct contact with zombies, so it is not surprising that he feels a huge difference this time. Of course, the bigger reason may be that the man's strength is not very strong.
After analyzing the situation in his mind, Bai Yichen looked up and found that the thin man had a worried look on his face. He looked at him with even more worry on his face and even advised him, "The zombies have become stronger now. It's too dangerous to go out. You should not go out."
Bai Yichen was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help laughing and said, "Although the zombies are stronger now, I can still deal with them."
When Lin Jiawen heard Bai Yichen's words, he immediately thought of the incident today when the other party rescued him and the zombie that almost killed him was easily dealt with by the other party. He couldn't help but blush for a moment.
Of course, Bai Yichen is not a person who gets carried away by success. He is very self-aware and said: "Don't worry about my affairs. When I feel that I can't deal with the zombies, I won't go out even if you ask me to."
Lin Jiawen looked at the young man's confident and determined appearance, and for a moment he couldn't help but feel dazzled.
In the days that followed, Bai Yichen went out every day as planned to practice with zombies and look for food, while Lin Jiawen stayed at home obediently. Since Lin Jiawen could not go out and get food, he spontaneously began to reduce his food intake and only ate very little every day. However, after being discovered by Bai Yichen, he was forced to change his behavior.
After failing to save food by starving himself, Lin Jiawen could do nothing but try to clean the house as much as possible every day. Bai Yichen did not stop him on this, because after so many days of getting along, he already knew that this thin man was not a bad person and would not have the audacity to take advantage of others. This kind of person would feel uncomfortable if you asked him to do nothing when he received help from others.
Time passed day by day, and Bai Yichen went out to practice with zombies every day as planned. He could clearly feel that the zombies were getting stronger day by day, and it was becoming more and more difficult for him to deal with them. As time went by, his face became more and more heavy, because until now, he had not shown any signs of awakening his superpowers.
Could it be that... he won't awaken his supernatural powers at all...
Bai Yichen couldn't help but have this thought in his mind, but he quickly dispelled it. Regardless of whether he would awaken his superpowers or not, he couldn't give up hope before everything was settled. At the very least, he should persist in doing everything that might increase the chances of awakening his superpowers.
In this way, Bai Yichen continued to go out every day to practice with zombies, and he also increased the intensity of his training plan. However, no matter how Bai Yichen trained his physical fitness, his physical fitness growth rate could not keep up with the zombies' mutation rate. Finally, after another month, Bai Yichen gradually felt powerless when facing the zombies.
After discovering this situation, Bai Yichen decisively terminated his trip to practice with zombies. He knew very well what he wanted. He could practice with zombies while maintaining his own safety and do anything that might increase the chance of awakening his superpowers. However, this could only increase the chance after all. Once there was a risk, everything would end immediately. He knew very well how to choose. In this situation, it was obviously not suitable for him to go out again.
After Bai Yichen stopped going out, the atmosphere between the two people in the house suddenly became a little depressing, because this meant that they really had no other source of food, and from now on they could only live off their savings.
Lin Jiawen felt very guilty about this situation. In his mind, he was a working adult, while the boy he liked was still in college and much younger than him. Logically, he should have been the one to take care of him, but he had been taken care of uselessly during this time and had not even left the house.
Before, he could still suppress his guilt and let the boy support him, but the current situation is no longer the time for him to be afraid of death. They no longer have any source of food, and the existing food is getting less and less every day. If he eats more, the boy will live one day less. He has never done anything for the boy he loves. Is he going to become a parasite sucking blood from the boy at this last moment
Thinking of this, Lin Jiawen's expression finally became firm. Maybe he couldn't do anything for the boy, but he definitely couldn't become a burden to him.
So the next day, Bai Yichen caught a thin man who wanted to go out to die, and then in order to prevent the man from going out to die while he was not paying attention, he locked the door with a key.
Seeing the man who started a hunger strike after being caught by him, Bai Yichen was both angry and amused as he force-fed him a meal. However, his originally heavy mood was interrupted by this interruption, and he felt much better. Seeing the thin man with red eyes, Bai Yichen felt complicated. Although he was in a heavy mood during this period, he was not desperate, because he couldn't help thinking in his heart that maybe he would awaken his superpowers. So although it was hard, there was always hope.
But in the man's eyes, the current situation was truly desperate, so no matter whether the man had taken the initiative to risk his life to find food before, or now wanted to go out and die and go on a hunger strike in order to save food for him, Bai Yichen had a new understanding of this man in his heart.
They were just casual acquaintances, but how many people in this world would voluntarily give up when faced with a chance to survive? Compared to the thin man's performance, I believe that most people would find a way to plot against him and then eat up all the remaining food for themselves.
I always feel that because of these actions of the thin man, he is no longer something that can be easily abandoned.
Because he got to know this man again, Bai Yichen's tone became much gentler when speaking to the man. While comforting him, he forced him to finish the food in his hand. After doing this, Bai Yichen considered the man's stubborn character and his eyes drifted through the living room in one direction, where there was a door that was always locked.
The door had never been opened after the man moved in. His food was usually taken from the food stored in his room, and the real big money was always locked there, so the man never knew his real financial situation and was always worried that the two of them would starve to death.
In the past, in the end times where one must be on guard against others, it was understandable for him to do this, but now that he has decided not to abandon this thin man, and he has already recognized his character, Bai Yichen decided that he should give him some reassurance to prevent him from wanting to starve himself to death.
So Bai Yichen thought carefully and said to the thin man with red eyes: "I'll show you something."
As he spoke, Bai Yichen took the man to the living room, then took out the key and opened the door that had been locked. When the man saw the food and drinking water filling up most of the room, he was indeed stunned.
Bai Yichen said to him: "Now you know, we still have enough food to last for a long time, so don't go on a hunger strike like this."
Lin Jiawen was indeed excited when he saw so much food, but he soon calmed down again. He said very rationally: "Although it looks like a lot, there will always be a day to finish it."
Yes, no matter how much food there is, it will eventually be finished, not to mention the seemingly considerable amount of food and water. According to his estimation, if one person really eats it, it can probably last for more than half a year, but if two people eat it together, it will not last more than a few months.
The thin man's words left Bai Yichen speechless for a while, but he felt very happy that the man didn't seem to change at all after seeing so much food. This meant that he was not wrong about him.
Bai Yichen thought for a while and said, "You also know that there will always be a day when you will finish eating, so dying early or late is just waiting to die. If you go to die alone, it will only make me live a few more months waiting to die alone. Is this interesting? Compared to waiting to die alone, I would rather have someone accompany me."
I don’t know what Bai Yichen said that touched him, but the thin man seemed to have finally figured it out. He never mentioned the hunger strike again and he obediently accompanied Bai Yichen for meals every day.
Seeing that the man was so easy to coax, Bai Yichen could hardly hold back the smile in his heart. He didn't know why, although this world was full of dangers, his mood was much brighter than in the previous world. Maybe it was because of his healthy body in this life, or maybe it was because violent acts like beating zombies were really stress-relieving, or maybe it was because the thin man he met could easily make people feel better.
In fact, how could he be waiting to die? Maybe he has awakened his superpowers. If he has awakened his superpowers, it would be easy for him to support someone. Bai Yichen even thought about telling the thin man in advance that superpowers would appear in the future, but at the last moment he still forced himself to hold back the words that were about to come out. Before he was absolutely sure, he never spoke big words. After all, there was a possibility that he did not have superpowers, and this possibility was not low. The original Ling Mengchen died at the beginning of the apocalypse, and no one knew whether he could awaken superpowers after surviving.
But if he really didn't have any superpowers, as he said, waiting to die alone would be too miserable, and it would be a good thing to have someone to accompany him. What he would lose would only be a few points of living a few months less.
Of course, the most important thing is that the thin man he met was of such a good character that if he gave him up for a few points, he would probably feel guilty for the rest of his life.
Isn't the purpose of living to live at peace with one's conscience
In this way, Bai Yichen continued to calm down, patiently waiting for the possible awakening of superpowers every day.
However, one day passed, one week passed, one month passed, two months passed...
During the long wait, the hair of both Bai Yichen and the thin man grew a little longer due to lack of care. Bai Yichen's food, which originally filled a room, was also used up by a small half after being consumed by two adults.
What was decreasing even faster than this was Bai Yichen's confidence in his ability to awaken, because he knew clearly that according to the timeline, at this time, most of the first generation of superpowers in this world had already awakened...
The truly powerful people of this doomsday are almost all from the first generation of awakened superpowers, and later on, the chance of an ordinary person awakening into a superpower will become very small, one in ten thousand. Later, the main continuation of superpowers are the descendants of the first generation of naturally awakened superpowers.
Although the principle is unknown, there is a chance that superpowers can be inherited. Therefore, after the new order is established in the end times, people with superpowers and ordinary people will become people from two completely different worlds, and can enjoy completely different lives. The span is much greater than that of nobles and civilians in feudal society.
Because he clearly knew what kind of life ordinary people lived in the survivor base after the apocalypse, Bai Yichen did not choose to escape to the survivor base built later as his first choice. Because if he could not awaken his superpowers, even if he escaped to the base with great difficulty, as an ordinary person, he would live a life without any status or dignity, and he might not even be able to live in peace. He might accidentally anger a superpower and be thrown out.
So if he really didn't have any special powers, then he wouldn't have to consider the survivor base. From now on, he could just count his food and wait for death...
Even though he had thought about this possibility, Bai Yichen still felt that he needed to prepare himself mentally.
However, just when Bai Yichen had almost accepted that the countdown to his death had begun, the thin man living with him developed a high fever without any warning.
Author's words: Bai Yichen is very confident that he can awaken his superpowers, but...