Leo swallowed hard and felt a little nervous.
He quietly raised the pipe and prepared for a sneak attack.
But at that moment, the zombie glanced at him, and then...
It actually went around him and left!
"What's going on?"
Now Leo was completely stunned!
Zombies don't bite him?
At that moment just now, the distance between the zombie and him was only about half a foot. With just one lunge, it could have left a blackened tooth mark on his shoulder!
But the zombie actually took the initiative to go around him and ignored him directly...
Could it be...
Leo's eyes widened in shock, and he felt a little excited.
"Let me test this!"
Making a decision, Leo ran downstairs.
This time, regardless of the noise, he would attract a few more zombies to see if it was exactly as he imagined.
"Hohoho~ Hohoho~"
Hearing the movement of someone going downstairs, the zombies suddenly became excited, and faint roars came from everywhere.
Leo stood in the hall on the first floor, motionless, without making the slightest sound, waiting quietly.
Behind him was the main entrance.
If the test failed, he could run away immediately.
There were books on his body as armor. Even if he was bitten, he could at least have a buffer to resist.
Before long, zombies rushed out from the corridors, hallways, and utility rooms.
At least a dozen of them.
Leo's face became solemn, and his heart rose to his throat.
If he was surrounded by this many, he was afraid he would only be able to experience that bone-deep pain once again!
However, the imagined scene didn't appear.
A scene that surprised him happened!
The zombies rushed out, then looked around blankly. Seeing the strong light outside, they obviously hesitated for a moment, then they all rushed outside.
Completely ignoring Leo standing in the hall, they all went straight around him!
"My God!"
Leo couldn't help but slap his thigh.
He understood a little now. Maybe because Grandma Wang had bitten him, but for some reason, he didn't mutate into a zombie.
But his body was full of zombie toxins.
So the zombies regarded him as one of their own?
It must be like this!
There was very unfortunate news—he had been bitten by a zombie.
But there was also good news—he didn't turn into a zombie, and the zombies didn't bite him anymore!
This was very... nice!
Leo swaggered out of the hall.
In the residential complex, zombies were wandering. After seeing Leo, they all seemed stunned in confusion for a moment, then continued their previous actions.
It seemed that in that moment, the zombies were a little surprised to see a 'fellow kind' walking normally.
But Leo wasn't idle.
Wherever he went, his steel pipe fell with every swing.
Although these zombies didn't bite him, he couldn't treat himself as one of them.
More importantly, he couldn't let other survivors hiding in the shadows discover this secret.
He still wasn't sure if he was the only one who wasn't attacked by zombies.
But at least so far, several incidents of zombies attacking humans on the internet and in the community had proved that zombies were very sensitive to human scent.
Once discovered, they would pursue relentlessly.
They wouldn't stop until they bit their target and gnawed on flesh and blood.
Moreover, now that the apocalypse had arrived, he also had to train his ability to fight zombies. Only by becoming stronger could he take Elizabeth to live better in this apocalypse!
Walking out of the hall, Leo went straight to the convenience store in the community.
Separated by two buildings, the distance wasn't far.
At the door of the convenience store, many zombies were wandering. The owner's family of three had become part of them.
Leo sighed, walked freely through the zombie horde, and entered the store.
Because of these zombies, basically no one dared to touch the supplies in the convenience store.
But it wasn't that no one really dared to come.
At least the messy shelves proved that there must have been hungry survivors rushing in.
The food stored by a typical family could last about a week. If you couldn't maintain your rations, you had to find a way to eat.
However, perhaps most of those survivors had unfortunately become zombies guarding the store.
Leo wasn't a saint and couldn't take care of everyone.
He took a large suitcase from the store and stuffed it with all kinds of food!
Ten pounds of rice, various cooked foods, ham, biscuits... Anything nutritious and filling, he put it in.
He couldn't fit everything, so he shook his head regretfully and gave up trying.
Dragging the suitcase with a box of porridge on top of it, Leo passed through the zombie group and headed back to Elizabeth's apartment.
The house he rented was opposite Elizabeth's.
While moving, he symbolically beat a few zombies to relieve his boredom, mainly because he was worried that someone might secretly see the secret that he could move freely among the zombie hordes.
And indeed, someone had noticed.
Just as he walked downstairs, he heard a cry for help.
"Hey, buddy..."
It was a man's voice, which sounded very weak.
Leo dispatched the zombie in front of him with his steel pipe, then turned around and saw a young man wearing a white shirt with slightly curly hair waving at him from a window on the fourth floor of the opposite building.
Seeing Leo look over, the man glanced nervously at the zombies on the ground, then immediately raised a piece of cardboard.
[Can you give me some food? I'll give you money!]
Leo took a look, turned around expressionlessly, ignored it, dragged his suitcase directly, and walked into the building.
Only in front of Elizabeth would he appear a little enthusiastic and shy.
But in essence, because of his years of solitary life, he was actually a particularly cold person at his core, without much warmth to speak of.
If he was too busy taking care of himself, how could he still have the mind to care about the life and death of others?
Seeing Leo leaving mercilessly, the young man showed a touch of despair in his eyes, and then a fierce look appeared, staring at Leo's back sinisterly until he completely disappeared into the building.
When he returned home and glanced at Elizabeth, who was still sleeping, Leo showed a warm smile and went into the kitchen to start cooking.
But first, he poured two bottles of porridge into a pot and warmed them up.
Then he took out a bowl and brought it into the bedroom.
Elizabeth had been hungry for too long, so it wasn't advisable for her to eat hard vegetables and rice that were too greasy. He would first use porridge to warm up her stomach.
"Elizabeth, wake up..."
Elizabeth woke up in a daze, and after seeing that it was Leo, the panic from waking up subsided. She smelled a fragrance, which made her nose twitch involuntarily.
"Quick, eat something." Leo helped her sit up and lean against the headboard, then took the porridge and fed it to her spoonful by spoonful.
"Leo, did you go out?" Elizabeth swallowed while looking at Leo worriedly.
The sensation from her taste buds made her extremely nostalgic, but she didn't have the heart to savor it carefully. Instead, she swallowed quickly, her beautiful eyes full of worry and care, afraid that something would happen to him again.
"Silly girl, if I don't go out again, we'll both starve to death together. Don't worry, I was very careful." Leo teased, soothing Elizabeth's inner tension.
He didn't tell Elizabeth his secret.
Even though they had long entrusted their lives to each other, his personality was like this—he would always leave himself a way out.
It wasn't about trust.
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