Zhong Xiaoshan patted Zheng Xinyu on the back and said, "I really admire Brother Su for guessing that Skinny Monkey would cause trouble. By the way... Sister Xinyu, it’s been days since I last had a shower, and my head’s itching like crazy. How are you all dealing with this?"
Being asked about sothing else, Zheng Xinyu’s mood slightly improved and she said, "I’m the sa, I just wipe with wet wipes. There’s no choice, water is too scarce."
"Sigh, I’ve been away for three or four days, my popcorn must have run away..."
Zhong Xiaoshan pouted and swung the iron plate in her hand to help scrape the wall.
"Popcorn? Is it a puppy?" Zheng Xinyu asked curiously.
Zhong Xiaoshan seed to recall so amusing mories, a smile appearing at the corner of her mouth, and nodded, "A big orange cat, over three years old."
"That’s nice..." Zheng Xinyu showed a longing expression and then pouted, "I wanted to have a pet dog myself, but... the landlord, who is Brother Su, said I couldn’t!"
"Speaking of which... Sister Xinyu, what exactly was your relationship with him before? I could tell you guys weren’t sleeping together before, the bedrooms were separate."
Zhong Xiaoshan asked curiously.
Having survived hardships together, their relationship had beco much closer, and their conversations gradually delved into more private matters.
Zheng Xinyu’s hands didn’t stop as she rolled her eyes, "Zhang Su is the landlord, and he pretended to be a tenant to share a place with . I didn’t know at first and got sched by him all the ti. He’s so stingy and an. Before the disaster exploded, he even wanted to raise my rent!"
"Pfft..."
Zhong Xiaoshan couldn’t help but burst into laughter, then quickly covered her mouth and listened upstairs. After hearing nothing, she continued, "You young folks are really funny. You’re so beautiful, and he never made a move on you?"
"He said he changes girlfriends every few months outside, who knows. But indeed, he never did anything inappropriate, I even suspected he was gay at one point."
Saying this, Zheng Xinyu lowered her voice, her still-red eyes showing a mischievous glint.
"Brother Su is so manly, there’s no way he’s gay, eh..."
Suddenly, Zhong Xiaoshan’s expression turned serious, and she frowned, "Sister Xinyu, have you noticed sothing? Supposedly, there should be quite a few people in this community with pets, so why haven’t we seen any pets escape?"
Being the sa gender, Zhong Xiaoshan’s abrupt topic switch was easily accepted, and instantly got into the rhythm, frowning and thinking for a while, "Now that you ntion it, it does seem like there aren’t any cats or dogs, alive or dead, not even turned into zombies, that we’ve seen."
The two looked at each other, showing puzzlent.
Sitting in the room, Zhang Su, hearing the two won’s conversation, also frowned. It was getting dark, but he could still see downstairs. He quickly moved to the window, lifted the curtain, and took a peek. Indeed, not a trace of animals was seen. Recalling the past few days, he seed not to have seen any animals.
"Even the downstairs lady’s dog hasn’t barked. Could it be that pets were all bitten first or is there so other reason..."
While pondering, Zhang Su saw Zhong Xiaoshan entering through the door, and as expected, she shared her discovery with him.
"I don’t care if those cats and dogs are dead or ran away, I’m just worried if they could also turn into zombies. Anyway, it’s sothing to be cautious about. Be more careful in the future!"
Zhang Su said.
"Yeah, yeah, we thought the sa. So... Brother Su, I’ll go help Sister Xinyu."
"Mm, go ahead." Zhang Su nodded.
Zhong Xiaoshan smiled sweetly, turning and heading outside.
While waiting for the two won to finish with the wall and the bodies, Zhang Su wanted to conduct a straightforward hearing test but found it hard to quantify.
Human senses are like this, whether it’s hearing, taste, or sll. Even though there’s an eye chart to asure vision, in actual use, vision is influenced by environntal factors, leading to various changes.
Zhang Su just did a rough test with his phone. When separated by two doors, he could hear sound at three volu levels but couldn’t make out the content, guessing most of it.
Eventually, Zhang Su concluded with a vague range. If two people engaged in normal conversation, it could penetrate three standard apartnt walls and not exceed thirty ters. In a normal environnt, he could hear the sound of zombies’ footsteps about seventy to eighty ters away.
He had no concrete idea how much it improved compared to before, but this ability gave him a strong sense of security. Even without hearing Chongzi and Brother Xiang’s plans in advance, he wouldn’t have fallen for it, but dealing with it would be more complicated.
By the ti Zhang Su finished his research, Zheng Xinyu and Zhong Xiaoshan had finished their work outside and returned ho. The three of them then started to carefully tally their loot.
"No wonder those two guys had the nerve to resort to robbery!"
Zheng Xinyu emptied the contents of the black mountaineering bag onto the ground. There was hardly any food or drink, just a bunch of odds and ends, indicating the two were genuinely out of supplies.
"So many households are empty or have turned into zombies, if they searched randomly, they’d find sothing, yet they insisted on troubling ..."
Zheng Xinyu said very annoyed.
Zhang Su shook the empty pack. Although there was no food or drink, there were still so useful tools. Hearing Zheng Xinyu’s words, he laughed and said, "In their minds, you are much easier to bully, much easier than zombies."
"Hmph, let them find out the hard way, they don’t even have the chance to regret it now!" Zheng Xinyu clenched her fist, not that afraid anymore, realizing her own life was more important.
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