The World Turned into Zombies, So I Went Back to the Countryside to Farm 60p2

Chapter 60p2: Departure

Jiang Zao was busy preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, working part-time, tutoring, and looking for a job, while Chen Jianing was immersed in her sweet love with Little Yu and couldn’t extricate herself, just as she had said in high school.

“I’ll try to stay in Linhai City after graduation, marry a rich man, and never come back to this poor and remote place!”

Some things were destined from the beginning.

Jiang Zao gradually put this matter to the back of her mind in her day-to-day busyness. Moreover, she didn’t dare and didn’t want to ask, for fear of losing this most important friend in her life, the person who had once saved her from the darkness, the person who had brought her warmth in her youth.

Jiang Zao had long understood that you can’t feel happiness if you live too clearly.

It wasn’t until her death in her previous life that those past events flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern.

This time, she finally asked the question.

Chen Jianing looked into her eyes and suddenly started to cry and laugh. “Hahahahaha… Jiang Zao… you also have times when you’re afraid… how does it feel… to be betrayed by the person closest to you…”

Her expression was already close to madness. She spat out the cruelest fact for Jiang Zao, word by word.

“I have never treated you as my friend. That time in the computer room, I didn’t go to find you on my own initiative. It was the teacher who asked me to check the hygiene. I got close to you just because you were good at studying, and I helped you for my own outstanding class cadre evaluation!”

“I have always just treated you as a dog by my side that I can order around, a follower, a pastime when I’m bored, a dispensable piece to make me look better…”

Before she could finish, a snow-white blade had passed through her chest. Chen Jianing coughed, and bloody foam came from the corner of her lips.

She looked up at her former friend’s face and suddenly smiled. This time, she had won.

She had left a deep and colorful mark on Jiang Zao’s life with her own death. Jiang Zao would remember her, this “friend,” for the rest of her life.

Jiang Zao gritted her teeth, trembled, and forcefully pushed the hilt of the knife in again, until the blade had completely passed through her chest.

Chen Jianing held onto the blade, and countless amounts of bloody foam mixed with black fragments came from the corner of her lips. She looked down at the bundle in her arms, her eyes wide, and called out her name for the last time:

“Zao… Zao’er… to be able to… die at… your hands… I, I am also… relieved.”

As her arm fell, a familiar iron heart-shaped locket fell out of the bundle and was half-buried in the snow.

The heavy snow covered her eyebrows.

Jiang Zao forcefully pulled out the blade. Chen Jianing fell to the ground with a thud. As she looked up at the heavy snow, a tear also quietly slid down her cheek.

“Zao’er, let’s go! The zombies are in the village!”

Jiang Wuni’s anxious call came from her ear.

Jiang Zao lit the lighter, didn’t even glance at the bundle, and threw the lit lighter on Chen Jianing’s body.

The flames slowly burned from head to toe.

The entire Qian family’s house was also engulfed in a raging fire because of the bomb that had been thrown in the corridor.

They ran towards home in the sea of fire and the horde of zombies.

Wen Zhao rushed into the bedroom with Li Mi in her arms. Jiang Zao pushed Jiang Wuni in and was the last to bolt the door, ignoring the zombies that were pounding on it.

“How is she?!” Jiang Zao also rushed in.

Wen Zhao cut the dead knot that was tied on Li Mi’s shoulder. Blood gushed out again. She poured the iodophor on it. “Gauze!”

Jiang Zao handed her the gauze.

Wen Zhao balled it up and stuffed it into her exposed wound with her fingers. As she was stuffing it, she turned her head and said, “Tourniquet!”

Jiang Wuni didn’t know which one it was among the many in the first aid kit and was in a panic. Jiang Zao snatched it, tore open the packaging, and handed the tourniquet to Wen Zhao.

Wen Zhao quickly passed the tourniquet under Little Mi’s armpit in the same way, pressed it tight near the heart, and then tied a slipknot.

Jiang Zao looked at her actions and couldn’t help but have red eyes again.

“The bullet is still stuck in Little Mi’s body. Aren’t you going to take it out?”

Li Mi’s chest was already soaked in blood. Even Wen Zhao’s hands and cuffs were covered in blood.

The strong smell of blood filled the entire room.

After Wen Zhao had done all this, her lips moved, and her hands fell limply. She glanced at the unconscious Little Mi on the bed, her eyes also red.

“With our current medical conditions, I can only stop the bleeding for her. The bullet is stuck in a blood vessel and is blocking the blood circulation. If we take it out, she will die immediately.”

“And… I’ve only learned first aid. I don’t know how to do surgery at all. We need a professional surgeon and surgical instruments.”

As soon as she said this, tears immediately welled up in Jiang Zao’s eyes. Things like surgical instruments and medicine, even if she had to risk her life to find them in a hospital, she would find them for Little Mi.

But in a situation where there were not many survivors left on the ground, doctors were a truly scarce resource, and a surgeon at that.

Wen Zhao’s words were undoubtedly a fantasy.

“Then is there no other way?! Are we… are we just going to watch Little Mi die in front of us?!”

A silence fell over the room.

Jiang Wuni turned away and secretly wiped her tears.

In her despair, Wen Zhao thought of the supplies that had been airdropped before.

“Maybe… maybe the survivor base in Dongyuan City has a doctor who can save Little Mi. But although this is the closest survivor base to us, it’s still nearly a thousand kilometers from Luohe Town.”

Wen Zhao glanced at the barely breathing Li Mi again.

“I just don’t know if Little Mi can hold on.”

Jiang Zao made a decisive decision.

“I believe in Little Mi. She definitely can!”

She looked at Jiang Wuni again. “Grandma, you just…”

Before she could finish, Jiang Wuni had already stood up.

“I’ll go with you. Little Mi got into this state to save me. I can’t just abandon her.”

The pounding on the door outside had not stopped.

According to what Chen Jianing had said, the hordes of zombies all over China were moving from east to west, and Yuanxi Village would not be safe sooner or later.

She also didn’t feel at ease leaving Jiang Wuni here alone.

“Then Grandma can go and pack. I’ll go…”

She was about to say “check the car,” when Wen Zhao had already stood up.

“I’ll go and check the car. Little Zao, you watch Little Mi. Be sure to pay attention to her pulse and temperature. If there are any changes, come and tell me. There’s no time to lose. We won’t wait for dawn. We’ll set off as soon as we’re packed.”

Jiang Zao was about to say more, but the two of them had already started to move. She could only sit back down, touched Little Mi’s pale and bloodless cheek, and gently pulled the quilt over her.

“Little Mi, we will definitely find a way to save you. Promise big sister, you must… you must hold on, okay?”

Little Mi’s tightly closed eyes, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and a tear rolled out.

The Hummer was originally sturdy and durable, and they had also maintained it regularly. The condition of the car was still very good, but there was not much fuel, only enough to run for more than five hundred kilometers. At that time, they could only see how things were on the road and find a place to refuel while they were running.

Wen Zhao was already praying that they would meet a kind surgeon on the road before they reached the survivor base.

She also took out some iron sheets from the storage room, which were left over from when Jiang Zao had renovated the house. She used these iron sheets to seal all the rear windows, nailing them tightly.

The windows on the left and right sides of the driver’s seat were also welded with wire mesh, which was enough to protect their bodies and also to stick the gun barrel out to shoot.

The front hood was also wrapped with iron sheets.

The remaining bit of iron sheet was all cut into sharp serrated shapes and used on the four wheel arches and the front bumper. In addition, with the Hummer’s strong power and huge body, it was enough to shred the surrounding zombies into meat paste in an instant.

While Wen Zhao was busy modifying the car, Jiang Wuni was also fumbling to pack.

She took out some clothes from the cabinet, and the statue of Guanyin, which had been torn by Jiang Zao and then glued back together by her and Little Mi and had never been hung up again, also fell out.

Jiang Wuni picked it up from the ground, opened it, and looked at it. In the end, she put it back in the cabinet.

She casually took a few warm clothes, stuffed them into a bundle, and was about to go downstairs when she seemed to remember something and went up to Little Mi’s room on the third floor.

The clothes were packed. Next was the food.

Jiang Wuni didn’t know how long they would be gone. She packed up all the existing, portable, and still edible things in the house that could be used and stuffed them into Jiang Zao’s large bag.

After doing all this, Jiang Wuni looked around the almost empty storage room and remembered another thing.

She slowly went out, went down to the cellar, and moved the rabbit cages out one by one. Wen Zhao also came over to help, watching as she opened the cages one by one.

“Good rabbits, go, go quickly. It’s a dead end to stay here. Although there are zombies outside, at least you have a chance to live if you fight.”

Watching the rabbits hop towards freedom, a hint of a smile also appeared in Jiang Wuni’s eyes.

She stood up and looked up at the house she had lived in her whole life.

The well at the kitchen door, the stone table under the locust tree, the vegetable patch in the courtyard, every brick and tile, everything in this courtyard was built by her own hands.

All her life’s thoughts were here.

“Time flies so fast… when I married into this family, there was nothing. In the blink of an eye, the house is built, life is better, and we have everything, but now we have to leave…”

Wen Zhao knew that of the three hardships in life, the most bitter was to leave one’s hometown in old age. She looked at Jiang Wuni’s already white hair, and her eyes also turned red. She went over and hugged her.

“Grandma, when Little Mi is better, we’ll come back.”

Jiang Wuni came to her senses, patted her back, and also nodded gently.

“Eh, alright.”

The group hurried to pack. It was already slowly getting light when they were ready to set off. The morning sun had risen from the horizon.

Wen Zhao carried Little Mi into the car and secured her in the back seat.

The snow wolf had followed them back to the courtyard and had not left. It wasn’t until Kele had nuzzled its neck that it jumped into the car without looking back.

The snow wolf raised its head and let out a loud and mournful call.

Kele also responded with a long howl.

Jiang Zao checked her equipment and looked around this place where she had been born and raised for the last time, then slowly opened the courtyard gate.

A few zombies were still wandering at the entrance. Jiang Zao jumped into the car, and Wen Zhao stepped on the gas and ran them over.

They moved the obstacles on the country road and drove north, heading for their unknown journey in the dawn.