"Michael, can you be quiet for a while? If you mess with those living corpses again, I will break your dog's paws."
The young man stood in front of the car with a few tools in his hands, looking fiercely at the big red dog in front of him who was trying to kill living corpses again. He wiped the sweat from his head and put down the hood. The blue Mercedes-Benz B200 in front of him was in perfect condition. There were no blood stains or mutilated corpses in the cab. The keys were still generously inserted on it. It is estimated that the original owner jumped out of the car and ran away when he saw something was wrong, and even rushed to bring some emergency supplies prepared in the trunk. However, the battery of this car was out of power, so he needed to take out the battery from the Cherokee to recharge it, and the four tires also needed to be inflated.
"Ho ho~ we're finally riding in the Mercedes-Benz." The big red dog cheered, spat out a piece of living corpse limbs in his mouth, jumped into the already started Mercedes-Benz, and pressed the button on the dashboard like a dog. The next second, the air conditioner in the car blew out a refreshing cool breeze mixed with some dust. The big dog narrowed his eyes in contentment, and his two big pointed ears twitched happily.
The young man stood outside the car and drank half a bottle of mineral water. He glanced helplessly at the big dog enjoying himself in the car. Although he had raised this dog since he was a child, he really didn't know how this hellhound could worship money so much. Neither did his own owner, but it would not give up even a second of enjoyment even on Doomsday.
Jumping into the car, stepping on the accelerator, the B200 started slowly. The dead town behind him slowly moved away, and one person and one dog once again embarked on an unknown journey.
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"Whose heart is it, left alone, that I love so much…"
A beautiful and melodious song was joyfully sung by a stunning woman with a graceful figure. While singing, she carefully washed every possible corner of her body in the pool, as she hadn't bathed for over half a year due to water shortages. A few days ago, the heavens finally showed some mercy and brought a localized heavy rain to this cursed area, which bizarrely lasted for half a day before it ended, resulting in the rare sight of rainwater in the half-filled pool before her.
This place is on the edge of the city, officially referred to as the urban-rural fringe, but in the eyes of city dwellers, it is a typical suburb, a countryside area. Looking around, 40% of the view is farmland, and even on normal rest days, it's hard to see many vehicles passing by in an hour. Thus, fewer cars mean fewer people, and fewer people mean fewer living corpses; the girl bathing is well aware of this.
"A-Xue, stop singing! Be careful not to attract those things. Hurry up, it's my turn to wash!"
"Okay, I'm almost done!" The girl in the pool turned to glance at her impatient companion waiting nearby, smiled gently, squeezed the water droplets from her long hair, and jumped down from the more than half-meter high pool. Her delicate breasts, resembling two porcelain bowls, gently shook, and under the reflection of the water droplets, the two points on her peaks shimmered with a proud light pink. The girl playfully patted her companion's butt, urging her to hurry up.
"I can't believe you still have the mood to sing. That old man Ma only gave us fifteen minutes. If we delay, who knows how much he'll take advantage of us!" A girl around twenty muttered as she climbed into the small pool, eagerly stripping off her already minimal clothing. Looking at the murky pool water, she didn't mind and squatted down to wash her hair first. Her hair was almost covered in a sticky white substance, and up close, a strong fishy smell was quite disgusting, contrasting sharply with her fair and delicate skin.
"Lingling, wouldn't it be great if we could take a bath once a week from now on?" The girl named A-Xue wrung out the water from her hair and picked up her dirty underwear from the ground, leaning against the edge of the pool to wash it carefully.
"Hey, can you wait until I finish washing my hair before you wash your underwear? It got in my eyes!" Lingling in the pool moved aside but didn't seem too bothered, just lowered her head and said, "Stop dreaming. If it weren't for the two of us making that old guy comfortable, Old Ma would have hidden this water long ago. Would we even get a turn?"
"Sigh~ I know, I'm just thinking about it!" A-Xue sighed helplessly, her hands weakly rubbing the already darkened underwear in the pool. Just a year ago, she was a pure girl who had to bathe at least twice a day and had a bit of a cleanliness obsession. But time has changed, and now she can swallow any man's essence without batting an eye.
In nature now, aside from the freshly fallen rainwater, the water in rivers, lakes, and seas is all highly corrosive. It's not only undrinkable but also impossible to even wash up. Thinking about how she looked before bathing, she figured even a miner would probably be better off than her.
"Water is life now; the allocated water is getting less and less. Didn't you see that even the women around Old Hu can only wipe themselves with wet cloths? Just like that fox spirit named Cao Mei beside him, her cleanliness obsession is even worse than yours used to be. But when I saw her this morning, she still had last week's stains on her head!" Lingling looked up at the numb-faced A-Xue and sighed helplessly, saying, "Sigh~ At this rate, whether we can even drink water will become a problem, yet here we are bathing!"
"Forget it, Lingling. Let's not talk about this anymore. Who told us that we had to live on, even if it meant living like animals?"
A-Xue smiled sadly, looking at her old classmate. She thought about how they used to be the kind of students that everyone chased after, but now they were constantly worried about how to survive. Remembering the dirty things that entered and exited her mouth and body every day, A-Xue could only sigh helplessly. Although she felt deep down that all men were incredibly filthy, it was precisely those men who allowed her to survive.
She had long forgotten when it started, but the innocent her had already learned to skillfully handle those old men's things and even swallowed down the protein that once made her vomit uncontrollably! A-Xue shook her wet hair, forcing herself not to think about it. When she looked up, she was surprised to see a young man leisurely sitting on a mound of dirt ahead, smiling at her.
"Ah... Lingling, there's someone!" A-Xue screamed, taking a step back in fright. Her feminine instincts made her instinctively cover her exposed parts.
"Where? Where?"
Lingling stood up straight in the pool and followed A-Xue's gaze. She saw a young man wearing a white baseball cap, a black polo shirt, and khaki casual pants, sitting on a raised mound of dirt not far from them. However, the man was wearing a pair of brown sunglasses, so it was hard to tell if he was looking at their beautiful bodies. What was strange was the large red dog beside him, which seemed to have a somewhat lewd gaze.
"Tch~ A-Xue, don't be so dramatic. It's just a person, not some monster!" Lingling, standing in the pool, gracefully twisted her slender waist and even deliberately squeezed her ample chest towards the man, licking her lips with a provocative expression.
"I... I was just startled!" A-Xue said, feeling a bit awkward as she looked at Lingling, who was intentionally flaunting herself.
Indeed! Given their current situation, what man left alive here hadn't seen or touched their bodies? Even wearing clothes had become a habit; otherwise, being naked didn't seem to matter. So what was there to hide? But to pose like Lingling in such a seductive manner, she... still found it hard to let go!