Zombieland: This Isn't the End

Lin Qingqing felt that she should have been dead at this moment. The feeling of being out of breath last night was so real that her scalp tingled when she thought of it.

She remembered that there was so much air around her, but she couldn't inhale a little.

It was not until her body gradually became numb and her consciousness became more and more blurred that she finally realized that she was really going to die.

…

However, what was going on now? Could it be that a dead person would still have consciousness?

Lin Qingqing lay on the bed in a daze for a long time. For a moment, she couldn't react. "Is the sunlight shining on my face fake?"

"Then am I in heaven or hell?"

She opened her mouth and felt that her throat was very dry. No one answered her question. The surroundings were quiet and strange.

The next moment, Lin Qingqing suddenly closed her eyes. After a long while, when she was sure that she was still conscious, she opened her eyes carefully.

Looking around, the bed and the wall were still the same, and even the curtains and the dolls hanging in the corner of the dressing table were still the same.

"I'm not dead. I'm really not dead!"

After making sure that she was still in the world, Lin Qingqing was extremely excited.

"What should I do now? Should I go to the hospital for further examination? Maybe, maybe..."

Maybe what? Maybe I had been cured suddenly? Or maybe the doctor's diagnosis was wrong before. I was not sick at all, and all the medicine I had taken for the past few years was useless?

Lin Qingqing gradually came to her senses, but the shadow brought by death had not yet dissipated. She lay in bed and looked at the ceiling, not knowing what to do for a moment.

She had fallen ill three years ago. The doctor said that she would not live for more than three years. In the past three years, she had lived in fear and caution, but who knew that she would still end up dead in the end.

"Oh, If I had known..., I should have gone out for fun in the past three years."

Lin Qingqing sighed and felt a little sad.

At this time, the sun was shining on her face. She felt a little suntanned and wanted to raise her arm to cover her face, but she failed twice in a row.

At this moment, she felt that her limbs seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and she couldn't lift them at all. Her whole body seemed to have become an old machine that had been placed for too long and would fall apart if she moved.

After a long while, Lin Qingqing, who looked like an "old machine" that had just been restarted, slowly sat up and then struggled to move her legs from the bed to the ground. It was such a simple move, but it was extremely difficult for her to do it. She gasped for breath. She felt that she would have to accumulate more strength if she wanted to stand up.

"Is that what it feels like to be an old man in his eighties or nineties? If I continue to be like this in the future, I'm afraid I won't be able to live for long before I die again," Lin Qingqing thought self-deprecatingly.

"Forget it, there's no need to think too much about it. Since I am not dead, let me just keep living."

As she couldn't move for the time being, Lin Qingqing sat on the edge of the bed obediently.

It was noon, and the winter sun was warm but not strong. It shone on her through the glass window, making her feel warm. She tried to empty her head and then narrowed her eyes in enjoyment.

…

"Ah! Ah! Help! Help! Help!"

Just as Lin Qingqing was in a daze, a sharp female voice suddenly sounded outside the window.

The sudden and harsh scream instantly broke the silence. Lin Qingqing couldn't help frowning and shaking her head irritably.

"It's either robbery or domestic violence. Bear with it for a bit. The security guards will deal with it soon."

She was in a bad mood and in poor health, so she could only turn a blind eye to the woman's screams.

However, after waiting for a long time, there was no other movement. The sharp scream of the woman gradually turned into wailing and incoherent curses.

Lin Qingqing couldn't hear what she was scolding. She was a cripple now and didn't even have the strength to watch the fun.

After a while, the wailing disappeared, and the surroundings returned to peace.

"Whew~~ So noisy!"

As soon as she breathed a sigh of relief, another scream suddenly sounded.

This time, it was a man, and his voice was much louder than the previous woman's. Lin Qingqing turned her head and suspected that this screaming man lived next door.

She only had one neighbor, a newlywed couple who had just moved in half a year ago.

They were not at home during the day, and they could only hear all kinds of sounds coming from next door at night. Sometimes they played the guitar and sang, sometimes they quarreled, and sometimes there were some ambiguous movements.

Lin Qingqing didn't mind the noise. Her house was too quiet, and it was good to occasionally take advantage of the atmosphere from the neighbors.

"Could it be that he was beaten up by his wife after his private money was discovered?" Lin Qingqing thought wickedly.

She had heard a lot of quarrels between the couple, but today's situation seemed to be a little different from usual. The man's scream contained extreme fear, and even his ending voice was trembling slightly.

Lin Qingqing felt a little uneasy. Her heart suddenly beat faster, as if there was a shadow of death looming over her. She couldn't tell why, but this feeling was very familiar, because she had just experienced it last night.

The wall that connected her house to her neighbor was on the other side of the bedroom. After thinking for a while, Lin Qingqing struggled to stand up, held her dizzy head, and moved her legs trembling, intending to get closer to listen carefully.

But when she passed by the window, she suddenly remembered the screaming female voice from before.

"I wonder if the security guards have dealt with it?" Lin Qingqing thought to herself and then subconsciously looked out of the window.

？？？ Wait, what's that?

At this time, there were three figures on the lawn downstairs. They were lying on the ground like dogs, their heads constantly shaking. It didn't look like he was doing something obscene, but more like he was... eating.

Hmm? Eating?

Lin Qingqing suddenly realized something. Then she put her face on the glass and looked downstairs carefully with her eyes wide open.

The appearances of these three "eaters" were incredibly peculiar. Their bodies were gaunt, their movements rigid, and their skin was a peculiar greenish-gray. Furthermore, even the "food" they were talking about looked like a person.

Such a strange and familiar scene reminded Lin Qingqing of something often seen in horror movies-zombie!

"Are they zombies? Doomsday? No way!" She muttered to herself.

"Ah!" At this time, the man next door began to scream again.

"Ah!" At the same time, Lin Qingqing also screamed in fear.

The man's scream mixed with the clanging of the furniture made her completely sober up.

She swallowed hard, and what was happening next door unconsciously appeared in her mind.

In the morning, the man opened his eyes and suddenly found that his wife beside his pillow had turned into a zombie. Her lovely face had become ugly, ferocious, and rotten. She even opened her big mouth and wanted to eat him.

She had no sense, no emotions, and no memory. He was no longer her lover, but her food.

He had no time to break down, no time to be sad, and no time to stop it. He could only run desperately, scream, or resist.

And the final result would be that he would either kill her or eat her, or he would become a zombie and couple with her...

Lin Qingqing blinked. At this moment, she didn't dare to move and silently waited for the end of the neighbor next door.

Seconds ticked by...

When the room next door was completely quiet, she seemed to hear the sound of bones being chewed.

Lin Qingqing shivered violently and collapsed to the ground with her head in her hands.

"How many people have become zombie outside?"

"What should I do?"

"Who can save me..."

She gasped for breath, and her mind was in a mess.

They really couldn't imagine what had happened today. The doomsday that had only existed in human imagination had come quietly? Where was the government? Where was the army? Are they still here?

"Yes! Call the police for help! No matter what, it must be right to call the police first!" Thinking of the government and the army, she hurriedly took out her mobile phone under the bed.

“110、120、119，10086”？

"What else?"

Lin Qingqing held back her tears of fear, turned on her mobile phone, and dialed all the numbers she knew one by one. In addition to the calls to various departments, she also called several familiar friends one by one.

"Beep, beep, beep."

"Beep, beep, beep."

…

Although she was already mentally prepared, when she heard the busy tone, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart.

"Are they all zombies now?" Thinking of this, her heart suddenly sank to the bottom.

She didn't know who else she could call. After thinking for a long time, she finally dialed a familiar but strange number with trembling fingers.

"Beep...beep...beep..."

"Hello?"

"...Dad?"