The backpack Jiao Lizhi had used to hold the supplies was her old one. It wasn't big and had several tears from years of use. When people saw it, they assumed the boy had scavenged it from a trash pile.
It took the boy twenty minutes to run to the back of the villa. This area was desolate and used to house the sick.
This group came from a small village and didn't know much about the zombie virus. So, when people got sick one after another and most of them died from high fever, they thought it was a contagious flu.
With the lack of medicine, food, and water, no one dared to get sick. Because of this, they isolated the sick in the backyard. The building used to house them was a small warehouse once used by the villa's owner for storage.
Before, there had been more than twenty sick people. Now, only two remained inside, his sister and their neighbor's brother who had grown up with them.
