This Wave of Zombies is No Good - Chapter 18

After this inquiry, Yu Jingtang was transferred to a regular ward. The ward was a double room.

Zou Lang, as his roommate, said he had been waiting for him for a long time.

During the days when Yu Jingtang was in a coma, he missed a warm father-son meeting. Coupled with Zou Lang’s sweet talk, several young nurses had already been won over by him. In this hospital’s special ward, Young Master Zou enjoyed the highest level of privileges and care.

Yu Jingtang felt that he had never been so idle in his life. His daily task was only to recuperate.

He started with only drinking clear water and rice porridge, and gradually transitioned to eating some light and easily digestible food.

In the blink of an eye, another half month passed, and Zou Lang received a re-examination notice.

He obediently went for a CT scan. The doctor looked at the film and said, “The healing is good, you can go home and rest. But remember, it takes a hundred days to recover from a bone injury. It’s best not to do intense exercise in the near future.”

Hearing this, Zou Lang felt as if he had been released from prison. With his personality, being trapped in the hospital for nearly a month was simply a non-human torture. Fortunately, even if there was nothing else to play with, he could still play with Yu Jingtang. At this moment, he most wanted to share this news with Yu Jingtang.

The other person was more seriously injured. Although the surface of the wound had healed, the internal injury probably still needed a long time to recuperate. He didn’t know when he could be discharged. Once he was outside, he would naturally come to see him often, bring him all kinds of delicious food, and if the relationship progressed smoothly, he would negotiate with him, retire and go home, buy a small house, keep the wife in a splendid abode, and do whatever he wanted.

He quickly planned a sweet future. But when he pushed open the door, he was stunned. The hospital bed was clean, covered with plastic cloth, and had been vacuum sterilized. It was already empty.

Zou Lang had a moment when he thought he had entered the wrong room. He went out and looked again, but there was no mistake.

Zou Lang grabbed a nurse who was coming out of another ward and asked her abruptly, “He’s gone? When did he leave?”

The nurse was startled by Zou Lang’s changed face, “Just now, when you went for a re-examination, someone took him away.”

“Why didn’t anyone tell me in advance?” Zou Lang asked anxiously.

The nurse, frightened, held the tray in her hands, afraid that the things on it would fall, and timidly said, “I thought…you knew…”

Zou Lang ran to the window to look down, but there was no sign of him.

He turned back and asked the nurse, “Did he leave anything for me?”

“I didn’t find anything, and he didn’t say anything.” The nurse had just helped clean up the bed. From beginning to end, Yu Jingtang was cold and didn’t say a word. In the end, he changed into a military uniform, looking handsome and upright.

Zou Lang’s eyelashes trembled, his eyes were hot, and he suddenly felt as if something was stuck in his chest, as if he would cough up blood if he opened his mouth again.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, not a word, not a note.

He had originally felt that Yu Jingtang was already in his bag, but he didn’t expect him to leave without saying goodbye.

And he left so cleanly, as if those feelings had never existed.

Doesn’t that person have a heart? Is it just a good-looking shell like a walking corpse?

Zou Lang didn’t believe it. Even if he didn’t admit it verbally, all the details of their interactions during this period were clear in his mind. How could it be just his own wishful thinking?

He suddenly remembered the conversation between the two of them yesterday and realized that there had been signs.

At that time, he was humming a song, and Yu Jingtang leaned against the head of the bed and asked him, “Can you be quiet for a while?”

Zou Lang stopped singing and answered him, “I’m not bothering you, I just don’t know anyone else here, I’m bored.”

After a while, Yu Jingtang said again, “Can you stop making food for me?”

“Is my cooking not good?”

Yu Jingtang shook his head, his face didn’t look unhappy, he told the truth, “It’s quite delicious.”

“Afraid of owing favors?”

“No.”

At that time, Zou Lang laughed, “Free volunteer work, you don’t use it, are you stupid? Where else can I find someone to serve you, young master?”

He thought he was just being proud for a while, and he was being pretentious because he had been in the hospital for a long time and had nothing to do.

Now he understood, Yu Jingtang just wanted to say, ‘if we can’t be together, please don’t be so good to me’.

This had always been his own game. From beginning to end, Yu Jingtang didn’t respond to anything, nor did he promise anything.

And because of Yu Jingtang’s special identity, even after getting to know each other, he didn’t leave a phone number.

Leaving was breaking up.

Zou Lang walked outside the hospital alone with his bag, without asking anyone to pick him up.

The most joyful long-awaited discharge from the hospital turned into the most sentimental farewell.

He was lost, he had dated boyfriends and girlfriends over the past twenty years, each relationship started passionately, and ended naturally, but he had never been so desperate and worried. He didn’t know what Yu Jingtang was afraid of.

But he seemed to also understand something, recognizing the reality, that was an eagle with wings, even if it had been hurt and defeated, it could not break its wings and be content to be a canary. His so-called beautiful tomorrow was not suitable for “them”.

Only when he saw this point clearly, Zou Lang seemed to feel that he had suddenly aged a lot. It turned out that feelings between adults were so tiring.

Yu Jingtang had just hurriedly seen his mother, and now he was sitting in a military off-road vehicle heading to City B, looking out the window. Although this passage had been cleared, everything revealed a sense of defeat. The reconstruction work had just begun and might continue for a while.

Just after leaving, he began to miss the pumpkin soup made by Zou Lang, guessing that he would never have the chance to taste it again.

This departure was planned by Yu Jingtang for a long time. He wanted to ruthlessly erase the name “Zou Lang” from his life before everything developed irreversibly. They were originally two people with no intersection, like two straight lines intersecting at a point, regardless of right or wrong, good or bad, but they each had their own lives.

He had rejected Zou Lang because he was unwilling to believe and entangled.

That accidental injury, he once had the thought of never returning, which allowed some feelings to grow.

They were still young, they couldn’t be trapped forever in that place where zombies gather, they couldn’t be trapped forever in this hospital.

Zou Lang was the kind of person who was absolutely optimistic before things happened, and he was the kind of person who considered the worst case.

He remembered the conversation yesterday, and when he got to the end, he really wanted to make everything clear, his eyes were sad.

“Zou Lang, don’t you understand? I can’t love you, no matter how good you are to me, I can’t love you, I can’t be with you. Once we leave this hospital, you and I will be strangers with no intersection. Not all things in this world will be rewarded if you work hard, and not all things can be achieved as you wish.”

From beginning to end, he couldn’t bear this love. The more serious Zou Lang was, the more he pressed step by step, the more fearful he was in his heart, and he retreated step by step. But now he was standing on the edge of a cliff, and if he took another step back, it would be a deep abyss, and he would fall into pieces.

They were like a couple with different dreams in the same bed, one thinking, we should always be happy. One thinking, if one day we break up, how to end it.

He didn’t expect anything else, just remember him. He would rather Zou Lang hate him, that was also a kind of emotion, placed between them, it was more suitable than love. When they get old, they can recall each other, touch the scars in their hearts, and think about the people they once had in their lives when they were young.

Yes, everything was his fault, he was selfish, timid and hesitant.

He didn’t love him enough.

He was wise and self-preserving, he only loved himself.

The car finally stopped at a place.

Yu Jingtang stopped his thoughts and got out of the car. The setting sun was shining, and this place looked like a solid fortress.

It was precisely because of the existence of this army that the country had been able to survive in this disaster.

Under the military flag, Yu Jingtang saluted, “K Division, Lieutenant Colonel Yu Jingtang returns to the team.”