Like how the first town they're in was suddenly flooded to the 15th floor of a tower building for days when it never happened before. The author explained how the area was basically shaped like a basin, and the flood control had to be done every year by the human workers. Because of the zombie outbreak, there's no one doing the job and it flooded.

As someone who studied civil engineering I found that logic to be extremely s*upid. Flood control is always done in long term with physical buildings to manipulate the water flow. In this case, there would be a dam that had been built years ago and had at least been enforced a year ago in preparation for this year. Even if the dam could somehow magically break waay outside of the previous calculations (which would mean the water flow is at least 2 times more than predicted based on the data gathered years before, a truly unsual feat unless there's a tsunami), it would not, I repeat, would not suddenly make all the support structures collapse and cause a 15-floor level of flood for days in the city center. There's no case of that ever happening. A dam is not made out of wood, its tons and tons of concrete, even more so if it has an important role to control the water flow of the so called basin-shaped city.

There's also the fact that the last civilization and military base is located in the harsh terrain of Tibetian mountain where there's practically heavy snow and blizzard every now and then, impossible for producing food, and has very little daylight time with extremely low heat. It simply doesn't make sense. A major military base would never, I repeat never, be located on a location that made it extremely hard to fly a plane / helicopter. Even more impossible is locating a long-term refugee shelter over there, since the resources needed are huge (like snowsuits, quilts, reinforced buildings, etc) with no possibility of food production. There's also the fact that the zombies are practically thriving there with the damp and cool environment. Isolated military bases with safety zones are always located in secluded areas with abundant food, mostly took on secluded islands like what MC and ML did.

In fact, the first 3/4 of the novel is focused solely on the MC, ML, dog and zombies. The city that they occupy has them as the only survivors.

You should read the novel to know why :P

The reason that I cried is that when ML notices the sign that he will turn into a zombie. He decided to send MC to the base for her safety. He didn't tell her about his plan because he knew that she will stay with him 'till the end.

"I had a dream last night."

"What?"

"I dreamed that the zombies were all dead, and human beings returned to the city. You and I found our respective families, got married, had children, and started a family. On the day of your wedding, you wore a beautiful wedding dress and the diamond ring I gave you. That look is really beautiful..."

His eyes didn't focus, he seemed to be recalling the dream state described, with a faint smile on his face.

Jiang Miaomiao said: "That's just a dream."

I cried to that. Big fat ugly tears coming out from my eyes. I can't help but curse the damned author of why on this settings? Why have you to be so cruel? I know I'm being overreacting but I can't help it y'know?

But I truly applaud of the author's creativity. You couldn't just see it in any other apocalypse novels. The main characters usually were OP and can plan things out, but on this, the characters have to think of what to do and think on the consequences.

I might be on bias now because my emotions on overdrive on Chap. 44.

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like why not just go directly to the island from the start; first, it's real far and they didn't have grenades at that time

She had her su*cide all planned out by using gas to smother herself. Later, she also considers setting herself on fire during a moment when she thinks the ML has died.

It is not until she thinks he has left her that she decides she doesn't want to be alone or to die. From there, she begins to take lessons in being a badass. Too bad the ending turned her into a school teacher (not that there is anything wrong with teachers but it was just a wtf change) and eventually a farmer.

There is a subplot where she fakes out an army general by providing information that would make it seem like she was his daughter (who died but would be around her age) so that she could temporarily escape with the ML. She does reveal that she is an as*hole and only did that because she knew "rumors" (story from the book) about the guy's past and his missing daughter. And that she's willing to prove she's not his daughter by getting a paternity test done. However, this guy refuses as he doesn't want to know that it is most likely negative and wants to live in the delusion that his daughter didn't die and that the MC is her.

Unfortunately, we're not given enough time to find any kind of attachment or meaning to the above subplot and it just feels forced.

He has the zombies all figured out from the beginning and then reveals to her how he has been getting around without them catching him. He's also super agile, strong and far more capable than the average person should be. From there, a grievous wound heals within a month even though the MC could see bone. This happens twice but the MC never really thinks about it. She only chalks it up to him being a military man and tougher than most guys.

All that aside, we gradually learn that he was a mercenary who was sending money back to his parents to get his father's business out of debt and to cure his sick mother. Unfortunately, his parents split after all that and ended up having new families and pretty much cut ties with him. Not that it really matters in the end anyway.

Because he is patient zero and has been frozen for years as people intended to discard him after creating the virus. This also means he's almost fifty.

She suddenly remembers so much more about the book, including about the random nameless Joes on the ori-FL's rescue team. She plays this off as being able to predict the future with palm readings and tarot cards. Just before that, she remembers the experiments the army was doing and tries to tell the ML not to go out just in case (which she puts down as not wanting to get caught in the experiments and mutating).

While I understand the choice as he only had a few more months with her, he never talked to her about it beforehand. Just immediately decides to become a human guinea pig (again). This, of course, does give her a happy life (eventually) and allows humans to return to the cities long before they do in the books. It also shows a rather rapid change in his personality because of her where he was willing to do what they say just based on their word when the only person he knows is someone who betrayed him before.

I also found it weird that the government actually kept their word in this (or mostly anyway as they kept him for more tests and experiments after they developed the vaccinations). Perhaps other more horrific stories have ruined me but the government was actually good in this story.

Also, their Island getaway reminded me of the found footage from the Dawn of the Dead movie but with a happier result for the ML and MC.

taking the ML in for experiments for years and leaving the MC behind.

Then later on, her father.