Weird Apocalypse: Rebirth Starts with Trillions of Ghost Money

Chapter 1463 The Desperate Apocalypse

Reminded by Chen Mu, Xiao Ye cautiously and carefully pushed open the bathroom door.

Xiao Ye remained on guard, and he could already conceive of some possibilities in his mind.

Only the mother and daughter hanged themselves in this family, so where is the male head of the household?

The most likely explanation is that the male head of the household is hiding in the bathroom.

Or rather, he was locked in the bathroom by the mother and daughter.

As for why they were locked up, the reason is quite simple.

In a zombie apocalypse, the male homeowner mutated into a zombie and was locked in the bathroom. The mother and daughter were too afraid to go out and eventually starved to death inside the house.

Xiaoye had already sketched out the logical chain in her mind.

His strength is currently suppressed, but he still possesses physical attributes. In particular, his military service has equipped him with many combat skills.

Dealing with a zombie... if the zombie is just like in the movies, biting people and yelling, it shouldn't be too difficult.

Thanks to the boss's reminder, being prepared is much easier than being ambushed by zombies when unprepared.

Xiaoye took a deep breath and prepared herself mentally.

He slammed his head against the bathroom door, trying to break it open.

However, things didn't go as Xiaoye expected.

As soon as Xiaoye exerted force, the entire bathroom door was pushed open and slammed against the wall behind it with a "bang".

The bathroom door appeared to be closed, but it was actually unlocked!

That doesn't make sense. If there are zombies locked up, how could the door not be locked?

Xiaoye walked into the bathroom, puzzled.

Chen Mu, meanwhile, was in the bedroom searching for other clues. He left the bathroom to Xiao Ye, reassured.

At this moment, Hong Wenli also entered the bedroom. He had been studying the living room, and the three of them were working together.

After searching the living room without finding anything, Hong Wenli came to Chen Mu's side.

"What are you two doing..." Hong Wenli hadn't finished speaking.

Xiao Ye, who was in the bathroom, called out to Chen Mu, "Boss, there's a skeleton in here! This skeleton... is a bit strange."

"Hmm? The bones are strange?"

Chen Mu put down his work and led Hong Wenli to the bathroom.

The bathroom is quite spacious, with a sink, a toilet, a shower, and even a bathtub.

However, there was no separation between the wet and dry areas; the toilet was right next to the bathtub.

The "strange bone" that Xiaoye mentioned was located in the bathtub.

"Why is it another corpse lying in the bathtub?" Hong Wenli muttered to himself. The cannibal in the last wooden house probably left him with psychological trauma.

Chen Mu went to the bathtub and looked at the corpse inside.

Just as Xiaoye said, the corpse was indeed a bit strange.

To be precise, it was a skeleton.

However, it is not the white skeleton commonly seen in movies, nor is it a weathered pure skeleton.

Rather than a skeleton, it's more accurate to describe it as... a skeleton with a lot of flesh cut off and some remaining flesh.

There was still a lot of rotting flesh attached to the bones. These pieces of flesh were uneven and stuck to the white bones.

However, the remaining pieces of meat had been corroded by maggots, turning into puddles of rotten flesh.

From the edge of the rotten flesh, Chen Mu could see the sharp cuts that had once been there.

Chen Mu could imagine that someone had once taken a knife and cut off the flesh from a man's body, slice by slice.

What's even stranger is that the head of this skeleton was left behind.

The person cutting the flesh deliberately avoided the head, not cutting any flesh from it. However, the head had been pierced by a bullet and was now being gnawed apart by maggots, making it impossible to see the original appearance.

Xiaoye couldn't help but say, "This male skeleton must belong to the male head of the household."

Hong Wenli said, "This man died so tragically, he was torn to pieces. What deep-seated hatred could have caused this?"

“It might not be as you think,” Chen Mu said. “We can actually guess where the flesh on this skeleton went.”

As Chen Mu said this, he looked towards the bedroom.

Xiao Ye and Hong Wenli immediately understood Chen Mu's meaning.

Looking at the skeleton in the bathtub and the rotting corpse hanging in the bedroom, a scene involuntarily appeared in the minds of the three of them.

As the apocalypse approached, this family of three prepared a house, sealed off the doors and windows, and turned their home into a fortress.

However, as time went by, the family's supplies gradually ran out.

When supplies were running out, did this family feel fear, anxiety, despair, or all three?

The three people in front of me had all experienced the bizarre apocalypse and could better understand the feelings they had experienced.

In this family of three, emotions are suppressed and despair is spreading.

Until a certain critical point, when resources are exhausted, a choice must be made!

The male homeowner made a decision.

He was driven by despair and wanted to commit suicide to escape all of this;

Or do you want to be "food" for your family?

No one knows what the male homeowner was thinking at the time.

However, Chen Mu might be able to glean some insight into the male homeowner's mood at the time from the subtle clues in the bathroom.

The male homeowner committed suicide by shooting himself in the face while in the bathtub.

The bullet holes in the bathtub wall prove this point.

Why did he choose to commit suicide in the bathtub?

Because blood is also a scarce drinking resource at this time.

Only by dying in the bathtub can all the blood that flows out be caught.

It sounds terrifying, and it is indeed a desperate situation.

After his death, the mother and daughter who remained survived on "food" in despair.

The pot next to the window may have once cooked "food".

Even from the fact that the head of the skeleton in the bathtub was not cut open, one can still discern the emotions of the carnivore.

No one knows how long the mother and daughter held on.

However, the flesh on the bones revealed that the mother and daughter eventually suffered a mental breakdown.

With food still available, the two chose to hang themselves.

Just imagining such a life is suffocating and despairing.

This is why Chen Mu initially said that he sensed the apocalypse.

Compared to the current prosperous yet bizarre post-apocalyptic world, if Chen Mu hadn't appeared, if Chen Mu hadn't turned the tide...

So perhaps this kind of despair is the most prevalent phenomenon in the apocalypse.

Xiaoye sighed, "Boss, of all the weird missions I've done with you, I think this mission to deliver the letter is the one that made me feel the most depressed and desperate."

Hong Wenli didn't speak because he saw a gun lying in the corner of the bathtub.

A gun? That's a good thing!

Just as Hong Wenli was about to go up and pick it up, Chen Mu said, "No need to pick it up, it's probably broken."

"How do you know?" Hong Wenli was skeptical, since the gun looked quite new.

The gun was just covered with a layer of dust.

With this gun, dealing with zombies should be much easier.