Chapter 139: Chapter 139: Li Yunjia’s Change in Thought Process

It was actually funny just thinking about it.

“Panpan, what are you laughing at?” Aunt Li asked when she heard her niece-in-law laugh so suddenly.

“I just thought of something funny. Don’t you think our family is like a cult? We are a cult whose main goal is to survive in the apocalypse and every member who joins must go through an initiation ceremony.

Lu Tao’s initiation was yesterday and today, it’s your turn.

It feels funny thinking about it.” Leng Pan explained her thoughts and the other women laughed themselves to tears.

It indeed felt like their family was a cult. It was just that they didn’t know if others would join their cult in the future and also undergo the same initiation ceremony.

“I hope we find a gas station near the factory so that we can fill the tanks of our cars and possibly get some fuel to take back.

The way things are at the moment, it won’t be long before gasoline becomes gold. Without gasoline, it will be difficult to go out and look for supplies.

The zombies are getting stronger and if people don’t have the means to resist them, running away is the best choice.

Without vehicles or other faster means of transportation, it would be a dream to escape from zombies.

So, it is better to have a backup plan even if we feel that we are getting stronger. Moreover, I have a feeling that soon we won’t just be fighting zombies but also fellow humans.” Leng Pan said with a sigh.

Of course, she had a lot of gasoline in her space. After all, Lu Zhen had ordered a lot of it before the apocalypse started.

The only issue was that gasoline was consumed faster than food when the need for use arose.

Her mother-in-law had already said that the next disaster to come, which was most likely the extreme cold, would require them to keep the house heating on twenty four hours a day.

They could choose to heat some parts of the house and leave others like that, but it affects the overall temperature of their environment.

The bodies of humans are delicate and sudden changes in temperature could lead to sudden death. Leng Pan wanted to avoid that at all cost, especially since there were elders at home.

Therefore, the more fuel they had, the better.

Li Yunjia noticed that her daughter-in-law seemed to have a lot of thoughts in her mind and she decided to ask what the problem was.

“A problem shared is a problem half solved. You and Lu Zhen shouldn’t put so much burden on yourselves. We are a little older, but we are not invalids.

I am not even fifty years old yet. Treating me like an old woman who needs to stay at home and wait to be served makes me feel like I am closer to my grave.

So, please let us feel useful as well and share some of your burdens.” Li Yunjia said after hearing what her daughter-in-law had to say.

Indeed, Leng Pan realized that she and her husband had taken over all the duties at home regarding everything that has to do with surviving the apocalypse.

It was indeed good to be able to share their problems even if it would just give them psychological relief.

Thus, Leng Pan shared her worries with the two women in the car and indeed, the older the ginger, the spicier it is.

“Why don’t we search for places that sell charcoal or wood as well. We can also get charcoal stoves for use in the extreme cold.

I believe that if we combine the heating installed in the house with other means of heating, we won’t have to worry about being unable to survive.

Charcoal and wood are the most economical ways of heating compared to gasoline. Since gasoline is so important in the future, we can’t waste it now. We can still get some now from gas stations since people haven’t started going out in large numbers yet.

Even though the emergence of zombies has significantly reduced the population of humans, I am sure that the consumable supplies will still be in short supply in the future.

Therefore, it was better to start collecting more now.” Li Yunjia suggested this not because he knew what would happen in the future, but because in the short drive from their apartment community to where they were near the city center, she had seen enough to understand the predicament of humanity.

Watching some people breaking into shops to look for supplies, watching zombies chasing people and biting others who immediately turn into one of them, and even seeing how Leng so calmly ran over zombies while driving when she and her sister-in-law almost screamed in terror had instilled a new understanding in her.

This was no longer the same world as before and from the looks of it, it would never be the same again.

The zombies were no longer humans but walking corpses. That means that the population that had already turned into zombies were already dead.

They couldn’t be saved even if an antidote was developed in the future. Looking at how many zombies were running rampant around compared to the number of humans, one didn’t need to be a scientist to understand that humans were far less than zombies in population.

And as she had seen how easy it was to turn a totally good human into a zombie, it wouldn’t be long before the population of humans dwindled even further.

No wonder Leng Pan and Lu Zhen had insisted on having them learn how to fight and defend themselves. If they found themselves in a situation where they had to fight, they could easily be turned into zombies if they didn’t have experience.

She remembered the first day after the meteorites fell and zombies appeared. People could still run while filming them and broadcasting live.

However, now some humans can’t outrun the zombies. It showed how fast they were evolving.

It wouldn’t be long before people had to fight whether they wanted to or not.

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