The roaring sound of the car woke me up.

At this moment, I was tied to the back seat of the car.

Wenning met my gaze through the rearview mirror as I woke up.

A trace of astonishment flashed in his eyes, followed by a long-lasting guilt.

"How did you wake up so quickly...

"I'm sorry, Zhuzhu."

Wenning said, stepping on the accelerator.

I sat up unsteadily and looked back in the direction we were leaving.

Hordes of zombies surged into the quarantine zone.

Mom stood quietly in the middle of the parking lot, neither hiding nor leaving.

In the midst of the zombie horde, I saw Xu Tao.

He reached out his hand to my mom like a king.

"Welcome to the new world--"

"Boom--"

Almost at the same moment, my mother pressed the lighter in her hand.

Flames rushed into my eyes, oppressing every nerve in my body. I felt my eyes weighing a ton.

I desperately wiped away the tears from my eyes, but I could no longer see my mother's figure in the flames.

"Mom--"

I shouted with all my strength.

Tears poured down like rain.

I choked and wanted to swallow, but my throat lost the courage to move.

Throughout the day, we only encountered a few stray zombies and never encountered a horde again.

Wenning found a relatively safe place to restock.

"Have some bread, and we'll see if we can find something else ahead."

I refused to eat or drink.

I sat in the back seat of the car, like a walking corpse.

"Auntie left you a letter."

I slowly turned my head, gesturing for Wenning to give me the letter.

Instead, he tore open the bread packaging and opened the bottle of mineral water in front of me.

"Eat the bread, drink the water, and I'll give it to you."

Dark clouds hovered in the sky, obscuring the not-so-intense sunlight.

I jumped out of the car with a murderous aura and fought with Wenning.

"It's all because you were unconscious. I should have just left you behind! You wouldn't have died anyway!

"If I had arrived at the quarantine zone two days earlier, I could have reunited with my mom.

"She would have boarded the evacuation vehicle as soon as I arrived... she wouldn't have died!"

I punched Wenning again and again, but he didn't fight back.

"If only I hadn't let my mom know I was safe.

"She thought she could leave earlier if she thought I was dead."

Wenning took out a note from his pocket and handed it to me:

"Read it, and you better eat your meal obediently."