There was one well-known fact that only the residents of Qingxi Village knew about.
The dead didn't rise in Qingxi Village.
No one knew why, and after almost a year, most people had stopped asking.
At first, they thought it was luck. When the first man died, everyone crowded into his bedroom with knives, axes, and one old shotgun that probably hadn't worked before the apocalypse. They waited for his eyes to open or his fingers to twitch, but nothing happened.
Instead, he surprised everyone by staying dead.
A few weeks later, a woman fell from the roof of one of the farmhouses and broke her neck. Her husband refused to let anyone damage her head, so they locked her inside a shed and waited until morning.
Only… she stayed dead too.
After that, people started whispering about Qingxi Village being different. By the time the tenth body was carried out to the pit, no one bothered whispering anymore.
