Chapter 163: End of the World - Zombie Era (2) (1/2)

"The flu has been rampant these days. My sister told me that many children in their kindergarten have been infected, and the hospital is overcrowded. Even the roadside clinics are crowded with people getting injections."

"I saw a group of people wearing masks on my way to work. I guess they are afraid of infection. I heard that this flu is quite troublesome. No matter how many injections you get, the fever won't go down."

During the lunch break, everyone sat in their seats and talked after lunch. Ji Jiaqi asked for leave yesterday. Today, she had a lot of things on her hands. She sat in her chair and typed quickly on the keyboard with both hands while listening to them talking.

When she heard about the flu, she was a little worried that she would be infected. Fortunately, there were masks in the drawer. She would just wear the mask when she went back.

Because she was still thinking about Sister Yun, Ji Jiaqi was not in good spirits all day. When she got off work, she felt exhausted. Just as she was about to leave with her bag, her cell phone rang. It was her boyfriend's call.

She and her boyfriend were from the same orphanage, and they were childhood sweethearts. They both looked good and loved to study. Although they were admitted to different universities, they lived in the same city and had always had a good relationship.

Because they both looked good, their mutual friends who knew they were together laughed and said they were a perfect match. When they were studying, they were always the ones that people talked about.

They had always had a good relationship, but recently, she didn't know if her boyfriend was too busy with his studies. He hadn't contacted her for several days. Ji Jiaqi was busy with Yun Jie's affairs and business trips these days, and she didn't realize it until he called her.

Ji Jiaqi answered the phone, and her boyfriend Ji Hang's voice was gentle and caring: "Jiaqi, there is flu recently. Remember to wear a mask when you go out. Be careful not to be infected. I'm not busy recently. Let's have dinner together in the evening?"

Ji Hang is a medical student. Ji Jiaqi has been working for a year and he is still in school. Compared with Ji Jiaqi, who needs to strictly follow the company's regulations to go to get off work and get off work, Ji Hang is more free, so he has always been cooperating with Ji Jiaqi.

Ji Jiaqi felt a little guilty for not contacting her boyfriend for a few days, and immediately responded: "Okay, let's go to the old place tonight..."

"Do remember to wear a mask. Our teacher said that this flu is very troublesome and there is no complete cure yet."

Ji Hang was speaking gently, and Ji Jiaqi suddenly felt a little itchy in her throat. She couldn't help coughing twice, and the voice on the other end of the phone stopped for a few seconds.

"Jiaqi, you didn't catch the flu, did you?"

Ji Jiaqi felt her throat was dry, picked up the water cup and took a sip of water to moisten her throat, "I don't know, maybe I stayed up late last night and got a little angry, and my throat was uncomfortable."

Ji Hang was silent for a few seconds again.

The precursor of this flu is an uncomfortable throat, a cough, and then a high fever. Even if you keep getting injections, you can only lower your body temperature to 38 degrees at most. Although no one has died, how can there be no problems if the fever continues?

Ji Jiaqi didn't notice her boyfriend's unusual silence. After she felt her throat was much better, she continued, "Then I'll hang up first, go back and pack up, see you tonight."

After she hung up the phone, she walked out with her bag and mask on. As a result, she received a text message just as she reached the company gate.

[Ji Hang: The student's parents want me to continue tutoring tonight, so I won't go tonight. ]

Ji Jiaqi didn't think much about it. Both of them were orphans. Without the support of their parents, they could only work hard to survive after adulthood. Ji Hang has been working as a part-time tutor, and she knows it.

Because in big cities, prices are high, Hang's part-time time is short, and he can't make much money. The burden is all on Ji Jiaqi, who is already working formally, so she works so hard to get a promotion and a raise.

Fortunately, Ji Hang is about to graduate, and the pressure on her will be greatly reduced, otherwise she wouldn't want to keep a cat.

When Ji Jiaqi took the subway back, she saw that most people were wearing masks, and there were coughs from time to time in the crowd. It seems that this flu is really troublesome.

She went to the supermarket downstairs to buy some food, picked up Sister Yun's express delivery, and then went upstairs.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw the ragdoll cat lying on the sofa watching TV.

Even though she was tired all day, seeing a little cutie in front of her as soon as she got home still made Ji Jiaqi feel a little better. She went forward and touched the ragdoll cat: "Hengheng, are you good at home today?"

Ragdoll Heng raised his head and looked at Ji Jiaqi with a noble and cold look. His eyes did not stay on her face for even a second, and he turned his attention back to the TV.

Ji Jiaqi was also used to it being like this. She got up and planned to add cat food, water and shovel cat litter, but she was stunned before she walked over.

The cat food was still as much as when she left in the morning, but the water did move a little.

Has Hengheng not eaten all day?

Ji Jiaqi looked back at the ragdoll cat worriedly, and went to the balcony cat litter box to see that there was nothing in the cat litter box.

Not eating, not going to the toilet, stress?

Cats are sensitive and fragile creatures. If they are severely stressed, they may scare themselves to death due to the high mental tension. This is especially true for pet cats that have been raised in the palm of their hands and have never suffered any hardship. They need their owners to pay attention to them all the time.

Ji Jiaqi was a little panicked and quickly started to search online. Now that Sister Yun was not here, she had to rely on herself for everything.

After checking the information, she was still worried. Just as she was about to take the ragdoll to the pet hospital, Ji Jiaqi suddenly noticed that the apple she had placed on the table was pitted and only an apple core was left.

She didn't eat it, so who else could have eaten it?

Ji Jiaqi looked back at the cat lying on the sofa with a blank face.

Cat... eat apples?

Don't cats eat fruit? ? ?

"Hengheng, did you eat it?"

She took the apple core to the sofa and waved it in front of the ragdoll cat.

The ragdoll Heng, who had not made a sound since he came home yesterday, glanced at the shit shoveler.

"Ah."

Ji Jiaqi: Ah? ? ? ?

Isn't it a meow? ?

And what's the matter with this short cry? Didn't Sister Yun say before that Hengheng always made a long and sweet meow when he called?

Next, Ji Jiaqi found a bag of egg yolk pies that had been bitten open at home, and a small cake in the bedroom. All of these were unexpectedly killed.

She was so amused that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After she put aside her worries about the ragdoll cat not eating, she sat on the sofa and muttered: "Are you a little fool? Cats can't eat these things, do you know? What if they have problems?"

Ragdoll Heng: "Ah."

"Don't you like cat food? Can I open a can for you?"

"Ah, ah."

Ji Jiaqi really opened a can. She wanted to eat it just by smelling it. However, the ragdoll on the sofa didn't know if it was full. It squinted its eyes and continued to watch TV without even turning its head.

Wait...

Ji Jiaqi suddenly remembered that she didn't turn on the TV when she left! !

She was trying to rack her brains to remember whether she had turned on the TV before she left, and the WeChat notification sound on her mobile phone suddenly rang.

Ji Jiaqi put aside her thoughts for a moment and read the message. It was a high school classmate. They were very close at that time, but after graduation, they went to different universities and gradually had less contact. They only said happy birthday to each other on each other's birthdays every year.

[Jiaqi, are you still with Ji Hang now? ]

After not contacting for a long time, Ji Jiaqi suddenly received such a message. Her heart sank and she had a bad premonition.

She pursed her lips, comforting herself in her heart that maybe it was okay, and replied: [Yes, we are still together. ]

After seeing the message, the classmate sent a few photos.

It was a photo of Ji Hang and a beautiful girl walking hand in hand on the road. Although the two did not do anything else except holding hands, they were wearing couple clothes.

[My younger brother is studying in this university. I came to see him on a business trip. As a result, I saw Ji Hang and a woman I didn't know like this. I heard the woman call him Ji Hang. I shouldn't have recognized him wrongly. Anyway, you should be careful. ]

Ji Jiaqi stared at the photos on the phone for a long time.

She actually knew that her classmate was not mistaken. Ji Hang had worn this dress in front of her, but she didn't expect that it was actually a couple's dress.

Her classmate was willing to tell her, which was very worthy of her. After all, people these days are not willing to meddle in other people's business. She could just pretend that she didn't see anything.

Ji Jiaqi raised her fingers heavily and pressed on the phone: [Thank you. ]

She didn't give herself too much time to be sad, and sent the photo to Ji Hang directly.

[Let's break up. ]

There was no reply from the other side for a long time, and it was not until the evening that they replied again: [Okay. ]

Looking at this short word, tears flowed from Ji Jiaqi's dry eyes, and she cried again while hugging the quilt.

But before she cried for a while, her phone suddenly received a bank notification sound, indicating that all the money on her card had been withdrawn.

Ji Jiaqi's card was linked to her own online banking, so she gave it to her boyfriend for her to use, because every time he used it, she would receive a text message. Ji Hang didn't use this card very often, and he would tell her in advance every time he used it.

The two grew up together and have been together for so long. It can be said that Ji Hang is the person Ji Jiaqi trusts the most. Even if she knew that he cheated, she was just sad and didn't think about revenge.

But human hearts are so terrible.

After they broke up, Ji Hang directly transferred all her money.

Ji Jiaqi was so angry that she trembled and called to question without thinking.

Ji Hang tore off the gentle mask and said confidently on the phone: "We share the card. I occasionally deposit money from my part-time job into it. Why can't I use it? And didn't you want to open an online store last time and asked me to buy you a room full of food? Consider this money as buying those food."

Ji Jiaqi's voice was trembling with tears: "It was obviously you who wanted to open an online store and put these things with me. And you only deposited the money from your part-time job once, and then you said you wanted to buy a mobile phone and took it all away. The money in this card is obviously my salary!!"

"Do you have evidence? Otherwise, go and sue me, but I remind you that the money you spend on hiring a lawyer to sue may be more than this money."

Ji Hang said this because he was sure that Ji Jiaqi was timid and good-tempered and would not cause trouble.

They grew up together, and he knew her. She was the one who didn't dare to fight back and could only hide and cry when someone slapped her.

She was an orphan again, and had no one to back her up. He was willing to coax her into taking the money willingly before, but now that it had been exposed, there was no need for him to pretend anymore.

Anyway, Ji Jiaqi was so timid and cowardly that she would definitely not dare to sue, and at most she would just cry out of anger.

"You, you!!"

Ji Jiaqi was indeed crying out of anger again. She was still shaking until the other end hung up the phone. She couldn't believe why a person who was fine during the day suddenly became so vicious.

Puppet Heng lay on the sofa, listening to the wailing coming from the bedroom, with a blank expression on his cat face.

This was the third time.

On this side, Ji Hang, who had hung up the phone, looked at the money in the account with satisfaction, thinking about what to do with the money.

He did plan to open a Taobao store, but the money he earned from buying goods was not as much as this money. It was just some food, and he could buy it whenever he wanted.

Just give it to Ji Jiaqi.

****

The next day

Screaming and car crashing were heard.

Ji Jiaqi opened the curtains and stared blankly at the doomsday scene downstairs with swollen eyes.

Lin Shiheng stretched, reached out and touched the cat ears on his head, looked back at the long tail on his buttocks, and put on the shirt left by Ji Hang.

The cat-eared boy, who looked only fourteen or fifteen years old, ate an apple and knocked on Ji Jiaqi's door.

On the first day of the apocalypse, Ji Jiaqi had a safe house, a room full of food, and a supernatural beast that could protect him.

And Ji Hang, who lived in the dormitory of the university next door.

Only money.