Another torrential rain poured down, and Wei Xuan stood in his home, gazing at the fine curtain of rain outside the window. His gaze seemed somewhat absent, as if he wasn’t focused on the rain itself, but rather something behind the rain curtain, somewhere in the buildings of the community.
In reality, he was concerned about what lay beyond the rain curtain rather than the rain itself. He had been busy with the icehouse in the underground parking lot. Just when he had finished preparing the ground, built the walls around the entire structure with bricks, and was ready for drying, the weather decided to rain heavily.
Normally, Wei Xuan always had a positive attitude towards rain, eagerly welcoming it as it added to the water storage project. However, at this moment, when he was in the midst of building his house, he couldn’t help but feel frustrated by this natural interruption. He needed to dry the underground parking lot, and the rainwater might cause some flooding, which would delay the drying process. Who knew when the wall bricks would dry completely with this continuous rain?
Moreover, what if the rain was too heavy and washed away the slope he had just built?
The expression on the face of the heavens never changed according to people’s desires. This rain had lasted for nearly two days, and Wei Xuan’s mood had been just as gloomy throughout. No matter how much Du Hang kissed and hugged him, it couldn’t improve his mood significantly.
Finally, when he woke up on the third day, the sky had cleared up after the rain last night. The sunlight shone brightly, reflecting a glimmering layer on the streets’ water, making it seem as if Wei Xuan was standing amidst numerous lakes and rivers instead of a post-apocalyptic city.
Wei Xuan didn’t even bother to eat breakfast, he immediately asked Du Hang to accompany him to the underground parking lot to check the situation. There were indeed signs of rainwater flowing into the ramp of the underground parking lot, and some places on the lower floor had traces of water.
Fortunately, the location Wei Xuan chose for the icehouse was closer to the inner side, and most of the rainwater flowed into the second floor along the terrain. Additionally, the sloping wall he had built outside the house had mostly dried up, so it hadn’t been washed away. This relieved Wei Xuan.
“As long as it doesn’t rain continuously for the next few days, it should be thoroughly dry within a week,” Wei Xuan said, walking around the house again, touching the walls to ensure they were intact. With his flashlight in hand, he and Du Hang then walked towards the direction of the second floor.
The situation on the second floor was similar to the first, there was some water in a few places, but it wasn’t severe. Most of the rainwater had flowed down to the third floor along the slope.
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After carefully confirming, Wei Xuan noticed that there was slightly more water on the third floor, but it wasn’t a significant amount. It only increased by a little compared to the mark he had made earlier. Originally, Wei Xuan had asked Du Hang to nail a golden rod as a marker at the water level, and now, with the flashlight’s reflection, he could faintly see the golden glimmer at the waterline.
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The house needed to be thoroughly dried before moving on to the next step. Wei Xuan used a relatively traditional method to build the walls, and with the underground basement’s ventilation not being very effective, it took him a whole week to complete the task.
Perhaps the house had already dried completely, but what could Wei Xuan do? He lacked experience, and time was relatively abundant. Regardless, after confirming the house was thoroughly dry, Wei Xuan enthusiastically led a few of the zombie subordinates and took Du Hang to the basement.
In the corners of the basement were stacked many steel plates, salvaged from the walls of the courier icehouse by the zombie subordinates and prepared for constructing the new icehouse. Before building the house, Wei Xuan had calculated the dimensions of the steel plates needed for each wall.
He had intentionally used steel bars as supports before building the walls to facilitate the installation of the steel plates, effectively using them as a “framework” for the installation.
Du Hang and the zombie subordinates each carried steel plates, metal cans containing the foaming polyurethane, and joined Wei Xuan in the room. They turned on flashlights already installed on the scaffolding as lighting. Wei Xuan then started trying to spray the foam from a spot in the corner using the nozzle and the spray switch. The white foam sprayed out from the nozzle and formed a large lump on the wall in front of him. Wei Xuan quickly adjusted the position and tried to evenly spread the foam on the wall.
It was like squeezing cream on a cake, making a hissing sound as the white foam formed a relatively uniform thermal insulation layer on the wall. Once an area was covered in foam, Wei Xuan immediately had Du Hang attach the steel plate.
One after another, Wei Xuan initially tried to spray the foam himself, but soon his arms felt numb and weak, and he found it difficult to control the nozzle due to the reaction force. So, reluctantly, he handed this job to Du Hang, only to find out that Du Hang was even better at it than himself, even though the zombies wouldn’t get tired and could keep their arms up for as long as needed. Once Wei Xuan specified the required thickness, Du Hang’s control over the foam was better than his own!
What was even more exasperating was that the zombie subordinates easily attached the steel plates to the areas Du Hang had foamed, and the result seemed even better than when Wei Xuan directed the work!
“…I suddenly feel so useless,” Wei Xuan helplessly covered his face. He now needed to wear a gas mask to isolate the smell emitted by the foamed plastic in this room. Compared to the zombies, he seemed more like someone just observing and not contributing.
The subordinates were just too capable, and it really made the boss feel hurt.
It didn’t take long for the ceiling to be finished under Du Hang’s leadership. Wei Xuan pondered for a moment and decided to let them cover the floor with steel plates as well. Since it was an icehouse, why not make it fully enclosed?
With the zombie subordinates taking charge, the job of placing steel plates indoors was completed in just a few hours. At this point, Wei Xuan could comfortably return home, have a good lunch, and take a nap.
After circling the icehouse again and confirming that he was indeed useless, Wei Xuan had no choice but to leave with Du Hang and the zombie subordinates. Since these tasks didn’t require his involvement, he decided to head home. At home, all the bottles and jars were once again filled with purified rainwater. Although he had plenty of refrigerators available, Wei Xuan could have easily used them to freeze some ice and store it in the icehouse.
However, Wei Xuan had planned to do it the same way as last year, using plastic organizing boxes to freeze the ice blocks. During winter, he could take advantage of the external temperature to keep the icehouse below freezing. But now, he needed to cool down the ice blocks within the icehouse, and directly freezing the organizing boxes with water in the fridge was not a viable option. So, he had to abandon the idea for now and wait until winter to use the natural “fridge” for freezing.
“Forget it, let’s leave these tasks for later and have a meal first.” After pondering for a while, Wei Xuan gave up on the idea of creating an icehouse in advance. After all, the icehouse had just been completed, and it needed a few days to air out and remove any odors before putting anything inside.
Thinking this way, he opened the fridge and looked at the frozen food and other items. Wei Xuan once again worried about another matter—”There’s not much meat left…”
After a year of consuming the meat from those big birds they caught last year, there wasn’t much left now. Despite eating it generously throughout the year to prevent the meat from spoiling due to prolonged freezing, Wei Xuan still felt disheartened to see that there was not much left. He hadn’t found a way to supplement the meat yet.
“I can’t just go over there to hunt for meat.” Feeling a little regretful, he took out a piece of meat to thaw. Wei Xuan unconsciously looked in a certain direction. He had heard from those two lunatics that there were numerous and diverse mutated animals outside the villa base.
Apart from the bizarre animal species that escaped from the zoo, many were edible! If he could catch one…
Suddenly shaking his head, Wei Xuan dismissed the thought. He desired meat, but he didn’t want to risk anything just for a piece of it. He didn’t want to expose Du Hang’s uniqueness or have direct contact with other survivors.
It’s just meat, right? Even if he couldn’t find any prey later, he still had plenty of dried meat to eat!
The sound of roaring engines echoed as a convoy departed from Base 7 and headed toward the city center. In the middle of the convoy, the personnel responsible for this mission sat inside an armored vehicle, all with serious expressions, studying an enlarged map of City T.
“The situation deep inside the city is unclear, but we can confirm from the latest satellite photos that the target building is still intact.” One person pointed to the location marked with a red pen on the map and said to the others.
The rest nodded, equally serious.
“We don’t know if the equipment inside is still there.”
“We can only find out after we arrive.” The first person took out a pile of documents and looked through them.
“Before this operation, the base had already compiled a list of the recent teams that entered the city. The casualty rate has decreased significantly compared to two months ago, and there are fewer reports of complete annihilation. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have assigned us to this mission. However, we still can’t let our guard down, especially since the missions entering the city have become much more dangerous since the beginning of spring this year.”
Everyone nodded in agreement. If not for the decrease in casualty rates and fewer reports of complete annihilation, some of the people in their group wouldn’t have agreed to participate in this mission. After all, most of the teams were now only searching for things on the outskirts of the city; hardly anyone had ventured deep into the city.
I’m sure if you casually mention wanting another bird you would find a dead one outside real quick after your boyfriend went missing.
He casually mentioned meat and then looked in the direction meat is while Du Hang was presumably present. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next chapter starts with him waking up to find a much-to-large dead thing in his kitchen.
Go hunting with the boyfriend or just point out a giant edible critter and have the zombie corp take it down…hahahaha. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
Oh noooooo they are going to have visitors. I hope that they have a friendly meeting and collaboration together