I hacked through the chaotic world with my blade
Chapter 123 - 080: Do You Really Think He’s Abnormal?_5

Chapter 123: Chapter 080: Do You Really Think He’s Abnormal?_5

"Li Mei, I don’t need it, let the kids have some more," Lin Fan didn’t take the bowl, thinking that there were quite a few children among the neighbors; if he took a bowl for himself, there might not be much fish soup left for the others.

Li Mei seemed to know Lin Fan would say something like that.

She simply placed the soup bowl on the shoe cabinet.

And hurried off.

Lin Fan, feeling helpless, looked at the steaming fish soup, picked it up intending to return to the kitchen, then suddenly remembered that Yan Nini across the hall had relatives visiting and was suffering from stomach pains. Should he offer the fish soup to help her recover?

After pondering for a moment,

He felt it was not such a good idea; when women have relatives visiting, they should be taken care of by their boyfriends, either by drinking more hot water or more brown sugar water.

That’s something a boyfriend should do.

If I took the fish soup to her door and told her... "Have some fish soup,"

Upon careful consideration, it would definitely seem a bit off, easy to lead to misunderstandings.

Yan Nini is a big internet celebrity, young and beautiful, with a good figure; wouldn’t she possibly get the wrong idea that I, Lin Fan, was trying to hit on her, or might she think I was some sort of sycophant trying to win her favor?

Hmm... after a moment of reflection,

He closed the security door. Better to drink it himself.

In his mind, whether Yan Nini drank the fish soup or not, the outcome would be the same; her stomachache would still hurt. It wouldn’t change anything because of a bowl of fish soup.

At the dining table,

"It’s really delicious, Li Mei’s cooking skills are somewhat better than mine," Lin Fan commented as he enjoyed the warmth brought by the fish soup.

Such a standard of living should be considered decent in an apocalyptic world.

Having rice, stir-fried dishes, and fish soup.

Life was precisely this tranquil.

No lavish meat or fish.

But he was already quite content with his current life.

After the meal,

Washing dishes,

He planned to clean the bowl Li Mei sent over and return it.

After sorting out these matters,

He sat on the bed, took out his notebook, wrote something with a pen, then lay on the bed, gazing at the ceiling, and closed his eyes for an afternoon nap.

...

In the afternoon,

The cake shop,

Lin Fan looked at the cakes neatly packaged and displayed outside; he hadn’t expected the job to be done so quickly.

He tapped lightly on the window,

"How much?"

He asked about the price. Although he had a figure in mind, it would be best to get a clear answer.

There was no response from inside.

Su Xiaoxiao still held a knife in her hand. She had finished the cakes early and, while there was nobody around, had set them outside, reluctant to have any contact with strange and frightening people.

She was very nervous now,

With her hand holding the knife shaking.

She had no intention of responding.

But remembering what had happened earlier, she worried if she didn’t speak, what if the person decided to break the window and come in?

"No charge, no charge, just go," she said.

She truly couldn’t understand what was going on with him. Why did he insist on asking about the price? Now was the apocalypse. Please, just don’t bother someone to the point of madness.

Outside,

Hearing that there was no charge, Lin Fan shook his head.

The kindness of people nowadays.

Did they know it was the apocalypse and thought that because people had no work or income sources, they were willing to give things away for free?

He respected them deeply.

Even if the cake shop owner might not be able to bear much,

In terms of character, she was indeed commendable.

Lin Fan thought about how he couldn’t just not pay. He had no such bad habit. He took out two hundred yuan from his pocket, placed it on the windowsill, and also placed a stone on it to prevent the money from being blown away by the wind.

Inside the shop,

Su Xiaoxiao pricked up her ears, listening to the noises outside,

"Is he gone?"

She didn’t know if he had left.

She heard a thud,

The sound of something hitting the ground.

After waiting quietly for a moment,

Su Xiaoxiao nervously lifted the curtain. It was safe outside, with no one around, which made her sigh in relief. The apocalypse was really frightening to her. To this day, she hadn’t felt the terror of the zombies as much as the terror of the survivors.

She thought about the scenarios described in novels.

Humans, in a time of moral collapse and legal oblivion, were more terrifying than any other beings.

Suddenly,

She saw two banknotes under the stone.

It left her staring, dumbfounded.

She was somewhat stunned, clearly not expecting that he would actually leave money for her.

At the same time, she looked into the distance,

There was that figure, holding a cake and standing there, unmoving, looking around in all directions. What was he trying to do?

Lin Fan, leaving the cake shop, surveyed the surroundings. He thought the cake shop owner was quite nice, so he wanted to see if there were any zombies nearby.

If there were zombies, he thought of perhaps helping her by driving them away a little.

It would be his way of thanking her for her kindness.

This is how it is between people; when you are kind to me, I think of ways to repay you. It’s mutual.

"Cough cough..."

Lin Fan coughed, not too quietly.

He didn’t want to shout, "Zombies, come out!" That would sound arrogant, disrespectful to zombies, like he was deliberately provoking them.

But coughing is a normal thing.

Everybody coughs, and it’s hard to control the volume. So, if my cough sounds a bit loud, that is entirely reasonable, with no problem at all.

Listen, there’s a noise.

It could be the sound of running.

Or the sound of something being smashed.

Suddenly, there were zombies appearing from around the corner of the shop, not too many of them. Counting carefully, there seemed to be about ten. Watching the speed of these running zombies, it was indeed faster than before.

He believed it was due to the zombies’ regular exercise,

Since they wandered outside every day, chasing cars when they saw them, chasing people when they saw them, running daily, pursuing daily. Naturally, their running speed was straight up improving.