Yu Qingxian did not feel that such things were the stuff of dreams and fantasies.
After all, throughout history, many incurable diseases, through human effort, were able to develop vaccines.
Treatments were discovered.
Some diseases have even been eradicated from this world.
So Yu Qingxian felt that, given some time, humans might truly be able to defeat the Zombie virus.
Yu Qingxian thought of the existence of the crystals.
Perhaps something could indeed be discovered from those crystals to resist the Zombie virus.
As for Yu Qingxian herself, she did not consider herself among the infected who were still alive.
Only her consciousness remained.
In fact, she had been dead for a year now.
After Yu Qingxian stopped leading the way, the Tyrannosaurus Rex did indeed wander idly.
Looking around here, digging around there.
It was quite relaxed.
Sometimes Yu Qingxian would take out dog food and ask the Tyrannosaurus Rex if it wanted to eat, but it would refuse.
It was unknown whether it realized the dog food was scarce, or if it truly wasn't hungry.
In any case, the Tyrannosaurus Rex went from eating twice a day previously, to now only eating once every three to five days.
Yu Qingxian sometimes worried that the Tyrannosaurus Rex might be sick.
Was it because she sometimes left it outside without lighting a fire?
But seeing the Tyrannosaurus Rex in good spirits every day, Yu Qingxian thought she might be overthinking it.
As long as the Tyrannosaurus Rex was in a good mood, Yu Qingxian didn't worry.
It was only when Yu Qingxian opened the map that she realized she was less than thirty kilometers away from the Official Base.
In other words, the Tyrannosaurus Rex was heading in the direction of where the humans were.
This gave Yu Qingxian a start.
Although the Tyrannosaurus Rex had followed her for half a year without interacting with humans.
But dogs love humans very much.
Even if deceived by humans a hundred times, they would still trust humans the hundred and first time.
So the Tyrannosaurus Rex following her must have been quite lonely.
As Yu Qingxian thought this, the Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly turned and went in another direction.
It was clear that the Tyrannosaurus Rex ended up here by accident.
Yu Qingxian pulled her head back and said "I'm sorry" to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex looked back at Yu Qingxian in confusion, not understanding why she was apologizing.
Seeing the Tyrannosaurus Rex's clear big eyes, Yu Qingxian felt that dogs were still pure and simple.
Humans tended to overthink and assume the worst.
And she was no exception.
The clouds above began to thin out in late December.
Yu Qingxian was a little dazed when she suddenly saw her own shadow.
After all, she hadn't seen the sun for half a year.
But even when the sunlight penetrated the clouds and shone on the ground, there was no sign of the snow melting.
Yu Qingxian took out her phone to check the temperature.
It was still around minus fifty degrees Celsius.
Although it had risen a few degrees from before, it was still cold compared to August and September.
Just as Yu Qingxian was about to put her phone away, she found that her phone had received a non-official unified message.
She didn't know who had sent it to her.
The text was very short.
'What are you doing?'
It was followed by a cute little emoticon.
This made Yu Qingxian stare at it for a while before confirming that someone had indeed sent a message to her phone number.
Because after the apocalypse, phone numbers were assigned with codes.
In other words, it would be impossible to find her number with just the normal eleven digits.
Not to mention that her number was obtained from the Black Market.
Without official approval, it was impossible for anyone to know this number.
So Yu Qingxian's first thought was that the sender might be that Black Market guy?
As they say, those Black Market people would secretly keep records of customers' numbers for potential future collaboration.
'Replying to your message.' Yu Qingxian thought about it and replied.
As long as she didn't make calls, video calls, or voice calls, Yu Qingxian felt she could still communicate well.
Three minutes after sending the message, there was a response from the other side.
'I mean, what are you doing right now, like eating or working?'
Yu Qingxian looked at the question and glanced around at the snow everywhere.
She should be considered a tourist.
But this kind of tourism wasn't suitable to tell a human about.
After thinking about it, Yu Qingxian replied with two words: walking the dog.
Although now it was more like the dog was walking her.
Because the Tyrannosaurus Rex would take a few steps and then turn back to see if she was following.
Only Yu Qingxian didn't know who this person messaging her was.
The number also didn't show the area.
After five minutes without a response, Yu Qingxian thought the other person might not reply anymore.
Just as she was about to put her phone away, it rang again.
Yu Qingxian took it out and saw that the other person had sent a selfie.
It looked like a six or seven-year-old little girl.
'I'm at the Base, my family's dog passed away, but can I trade my selfie to see your dog?'
Yu Qingxian didn't expect that the other person was a child.
From the background, it seemed she was beside a window, and outside the window, she could see the tall, dark walls in the distance.
This little girl was indeed at a Base.
Yu Qingxian thought about how nowadays, humans could only live within the Bases.
Each Base might only be the size of a county or small town.
But they needed to accommodate hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.
At most, a family would be allocated a tiny ten-square-meter room.
But being able to survive was good enough.
Yu Qingxian thought about it and called over the Tyrannosaurus Rex to take a picture of it and send it over.
That was the most she could do; if the little girl wanted to touch the Tyrannosaurus Rex, there was no way to make that happen.
Yu Qingxian didn't want anyone to know about her situation, so she sent another message: Also, don't tell anyone about me, okay? Don't tell your parents either.
The reply came quickly.
'Don't worry, I won't say anything, because my parents have passed away. My sister and I were rescued to this Base, and she's studying and working at the school in the Base now. I'm the only one at home.'
'I'm at the Central China Base, which Base are you at?'
Yu Qingxian looked at the little girl's message, slightly taken aback.
It turned out this little girl's parents had passed away.
She was dependent on her sister.
Her sister must be in middle school or high school if she was still studying.
Yu Qingxian did not reply to the little girl.
But the young lady continued to send several more messages.
First, she complimented the Tyrannosaurus rex, then, after not receiving a reply from Yu Qingxian, she sent a few more messages.
One of them made Yu Qingxian stare at it for a while.
'Please reply to me, I dare not contact anyone except my sister. I've sent out so many messages like this, and you're the only one who replies to me.'
Yu Qingxian stared at this message, replying somewhat helplessly: If I reply to you, then what will you do?
For some reason, after seeing that she dared not contact others, Yu Qingxian thought of herself.
It's just that she and this young lady were completely different.
Because Yu Qingxian's childhood was still relatively happy.
Although various disasters were happening in the world, none of them affected her.
And when the apocalypse occurred, she didn't panic too much or suffer much hardship.
But the children nowadays are completely different.
What they have to face are zombies that could devour them at any time.