Zhou Xiaoxiao took her food and headed back.

Arriving at the Death God Church's encampment, everyone's lives were clearly much more relaxed.

Without the daily forced migrations, nerves didn't need to be constantly on edge.

Even after what happened this morning, the expressions on people's faces remained quite light.

Compared to the previous migratory life, their current existence was practically heaven.

Today's breakfast was just a bowl of thin porridge, a cooked sprouted potato, some pickled vegetables, and a small piece of expired bread.

It naturally couldn't compare to Chen Ye's breakfast.

But Zhou Xiaoxiao was still satisfied.

For outsiders like them, getting these supplies was actually quite good.

Death God Church members could even get an extra slice of luncheon meat.

Just this benefit alone made many survivors envious.

Some survivors had already started contacting Death God Church members, asking about the conditions and procedures for joining the church.

Especially since those Death God Church members paraded around in light clothing in front of these survivors.

Compared to them still needing to wear bulky cold-resistant clothing, many survivors were already quite tempted.

Fortunately, these people still had some reservations about Old Bao.

Without Old Bao's approval, they didn't dare to rashly join the Death God Church yet.

After getting two portions of food, Zhou Xiaoxiao lowered her head and left Class 1, Grade 1.

The corridors were mostly empty by now, with most people having gone to the cafeteria to eat.

Zhou Xiaoxiao walked all the way to Class 2, Grade 3. When she pushed open the classroom door,

she saw a corpse hanging from the ceiling fan in the middle of the classroom. The corpse's face had two dark red hollows, looking particularly eerie. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Under the corpse's feet was an overturned chair.

"Ah~~~~"

A scream once again pierced through the entire Second Elementary School.

...

When Old Bao arrived at the classroom with his people and saw this scene, he didn't say anything.

He just had someone take Xiao Chao's body down.

Xiao Chao had already stopped breathing. Even if they fed him more diluted Death God Blood Tears, they couldn't revive him.

No one shed tears.

Everyone just silently watched Old Bao examine Xiao Chao's body.

They all knew why Xiao Chao had done this.

A person who had lost both eyes would have had a hard life even before the apocalypse, let alone in this apocalyptic world.

Everyone formed a circle, the silence terrifying.

Old Bao took a letter from Xue Nan's hand.

Xue Nan had found it in Xiao Chao's inner chest pocket.

Old Bao handed the suicide note to Zhou Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, you were closest to them before. You keep this letter!"

Zhou Xiaoxiao numbly took the letter, her fingers gripping it slightly too hard, her knuckles pale and trembling.

The simple memorial service only lasted ten minutes.

Xiao Chao's body was buried in the flower bed behind the school.

Several survivors, under Old Bao's direction, dug a shallow pit and hastily buried Xiao Chao's body.

They covered the surface with a layer of snow, piling it into a pointed shape as a marker.

Throughout the entire process, not a single Sequence Superhuman appeared.

Only Chen Ye seemed to be passing by, glanced from afar, then left with a cigarette in his mouth.

Several survivors stood mournfully in front of the small snow grave. Snow continued to fall, swirling down, gradually adding height to the snow grave.

Zhou Xiaoxiao took Xiao Chao's letter back to Class 2, Grade 3.

Class 2, Grade 3 was somewhat silent. No one had expected Xiao Chao to make this choice, and for a moment, they felt the grief of seeing one of their own meet a tragic end.

Xiao Chao had hanged himself from that electric fan.

In the past, this classroom would definitely have been uninhabitable.

But now, with the apocalypse having reached this point, who hadn't seen a few dead people? Cases worse than Xiao Chao's were everywhere.

Zhou Xiaoxiao took out Xiao Chao's letter and slowly unfolded it.

The letter began like this:

"Yuanyuan, I'm sorry, I should have come down to accompany you sooner..."

Yuanyuan was Xiao Chao's girlfriend, a girl with a round face whose eyes would turn into two curved crescents when she smiled, very cute.

When she first learned that Zhou Xiaoxiao was actually Zhou Lan's sister, the girl's eyes had shone brightly, grabbing her hand and talking for a long time, all about her sister Zhou Lan.

It was that time that Zhou Xiaoxiao developed a fondness for Yuanyuan, and consequently for Xiao Chao as well.

Seeing this opening sentence, Zhou Xiaoxiao realized that perhaps Xiao Chao had been planning this for a while, and today just happened to be the day.

"Yuanyuan, I'm sorry. That day, when someone told me you had fallen behind, I didn't believe it at first!"

"You had only been away from me for a little while, how could you have fallen behind!"

"I went back to look for you later, but in the vast desert, there was no trace of you."

"Many people fell behind in the convoy, I never thought it would be you!"

"But... but you were only out of my sight for a few minutes!"

"But... but I told you, you must stick close to me, no matter when or where!"

"But... but Old Bao repeatedly emphasized, the convoy's first iron rule: Don't fall behind! Don't fall behind! Don't fall behind!!!"

"Why couldn't you do it?"

"You idiot!"

At this point in the letter, it seemed like he paused for a long time.

Then there was a blank line before continuing.

There was no date, no salutation, but when Zhou Xiaoxiao read this far, she realized Xiao Chao had written this several days later.

"Yuanyuan, I dreamed of you last night."

"Have you ever experienced waking up with your face covered in tears?"

"I have! It was like washing my face."

"I haven't washed my face in months."

"Sometimes I think, if only I could have been with you that day!"

"Even if someone fell behind, it should have been me!"

"Surviving might be my greatest punishment..."

The following content was mostly about Xiao Chao's torment, regret, and self-blame during this time!

This letter was more like something Xiao Chao wrote to his girlfriend Yuanyuan, something that could never be sent.

The final part was from last night.

Xiao Chao told his girlfriend Yuanyuan that Fourth Brother He had agreed to teach him driving skills.

As long as he found a car, Xiao Chao would set out back to Yanzhou to search for his girlfriend Yuanyuan.

Zhou Xiaoxiao silently put the letter away and placed it in her backpack.

This was the reality for ordinary survivors in the apocalypse.

Zhou Xiaoxiao had seen similar things many times.

Even though Old Bao repeatedly warned everyone not to fall behind.

People still fell behind.

However, this small episode among the survivors didn't affect the Sequence Superhumans.

Chen Ye saw a Death God Church member in a black robe and cloak go up to the fifth floor.

The expression on his face was very excited, as if something good was about to happen.

Chen Ye watched as this black-robed church member walked all the way to the other side of the fifth floor, his figure disappearing behind the corridor partitions.

The fifth-floor corridors were all tightly blocked off with wooden boards or plastic sheets, not letting any light through.

Even all the windows were completely sealed.

From the outside, it was absolutely impossible to see what was inside.

Although Chen Ye was curious about what was on the fifth floor.

He had no desire to investigate.

Those male and female leads in horror movies mostly died because they were too curious.

Chen Ye took this lesson very seriously.

In the following time, Chen Ye never saw that black-robed church member come down again.

It was as if the black-robed church member had never appeared.

Chen Ye didn't ask anyone about it either.

Because he had more important things to do at the moment.

After obtaining the Death God Blood Tears, Chen Ye immediately spent five thousand Slaughter Points to upgrade them.

In a few hours, the Death God Blood Tears upgrade would be complete.

While he still had time, Chen Ye planned to modify his Apocalyptic Pickup Truck.

In this school's playground, several vehicles were parked—these were the transportation methods Death God Church members used when going out to gather supplies.

Chen Ye didn't think they could live here forever; leaving was just a matter of time.

Before leaving, Chen Ye planned to properly modify his vehicle, without using the System.

Of course, for the parts he needed, Chen Ye planned to strip them from these vehicles.

He believed no one would dare to say anything.

Another problem was that there had been no sun for days, and the solar charging efficiency had dropped to its minimum.

This would have to wait for later.

Sure enough, when Death God Church members saw Chen Ye removing the seats from their off-road vehicle to install in his own vehicle,

they glared angrily, but no one dared to come forward and say anything.

The foundation of Chen Ye's Apocalyptic Pickup Truck was still that chopped pepper fish head.

Although the seats of the chopped pepper fish head were relatively comfortable, they still left something to be desired. Chen Ye had his eye on a neon-manufactured off-road vehicle.

And the air conditioning and sound system in this vehicle.

Chen Ye also planned to take several spare tires from this vehicle for his Apocalyptic Pickup Truck.

In case of a flat tire in the future, he'd have replacements.

As for whether the parts from this vehicle would be compatible,

Chen Ye with his System wasn't worried at all.

Spending some Slaughter Points, these forcibly installed seats and air conditioning would be more authentic than the original factory parts.

When Xue Nan saw Chen Ye busy working, he eagerly came over to help.

Chen Ye didn't stand on ceremony either, directing Xue Nan to do this and that.

The newly installed seats wobbled left and right when sat on, even making "creaking" sounds.

Unable to achieve compatibility, Chen Ye temporarily tied the seats down with ropes, waiting for the System to free up Slaughter Points for compatibility.

Then there was the air conditioning problem.

Chen Ye directly stuffed the air conditioning into the dashboard. After some work, the interior looked even more broken.

Air conditioning was important. When leaving later, without air conditioning providing warmth in the vehicle, even Chen Ye would be very uncomfortable.

"Hey, Yezi, this... is too rough, isn't it? There are so many vehicles outside the school..."

Chu Che finally couldn't stand watching anymore and came over to remind Chen Ye.

Chen Ye curled his lip: "Bro, you know what the situation outside is like! Going outside would be suicide!"

Chu Che had no choice but to say: "Tomorrow morning I plan to gather some fuel and supplies. Are you coming?"

"What, planning to leave?"