All day long, the water and frozen ice originally stored in the community were mostly transported to the underground parking lot next door. Wei Xuan specifically went to check the situation next door in the evening, avoiding the morning awkwardness.
The entire underground parking lot had been transformed by their own zombie minions. Most of the uniformly sized houses in rows inside were now filled with ice blocks. However, because there were too many cold storage rooms, they hadn’t even filled all of them yet.
In the morning, his zombie minions were busy handling and arranging these ice blocks. By the afternoon, they happily used all the intact containers that hadn’t been broken by the ice blocks to collect snow and clean snow. By evening, most of the snow on the rooftops in the community had been cleaned up by them.
Tomorrow, with more work, Wei Xuan estimated that their pots and pans at home would probably be filled by the diligent zombie minions again.
Wei Xuan stood by the window, satisfied as he surveyed the scenery outside the community, then turned and walked to the bed. He now had night vision, so unless he was planning to play games at night, there was no problem with the room being completely dark at night.
A good night’s sleep – and a few times he had to stop Du Hang from getting handsy, continuing the shameless activities from the previous few nights. Wei Xuan felt particularly energetic after getting up in the morning.
After getting up, he marveled at the strength of the zombie body (he had clearly prevented someone from attacking several times last night, yet they were still so spirited in the morning). After washing up and having some snowflakes to eat, Wei Xuan went downstairs with Du Hang to arrange work for the zombie minions today.
All the snow on the rooftops in the community had been collected, so today they needed to collect the cleaner snow on their own ground and in the corners of the walls. In addition, some of the minions had to collect clean snow from nearby communities, and the rest had to heat the collected snow, purify the melted snow water, put them in suitable containers, freeze them, and store them in the remaining space in the underground ice cellar, while some would be kept in the building for daily use.
After receiving their new tasks, the minions started working enthusiastically, exuding cheerful emotions as they busied themselves inside and outside the community.
Wei Xuan’s community was busy collecting snow and purifying snow water after the heavy snowfall. The zombies within a radius of at least a kilometer were peacefully sleeping under the thick layer of snow, as if they were covered with a white quilt, enjoying the cozy winter time.
However, outside of the one-kilometer radius, all the zombies that could move freely in the winter were busy.
They energetically cleared away the white snow on the ground, digging holes in the soil where there was no asphalt cover. If they uncovered a sleeping beauty zombie, they would pull those guys out and dig holes in the ground beneath them.
The zombies that were pulled out would first look bewildered and dazed until they realized that the zombie digging next to them had unearthed a delicacy… Yes, they had dug out a delicacy from under their sleeping “bed”!
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Afterward, through a deep communication that only zombies could understand, another minion would appear next to the hole-digging zombie, learning along the way and then digging their own holes…
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Fortunately, the zombies only needed a limited amount of snowflakes each day, and as long as they dug deep enough and there was no rain to wash it away, these snowflakes would stay in place for a long time.
Some clever zombies even carried containers they had picked up from who knows where, collecting the hard-earned snowflake crystals (and of course, the soil that came with the snowflakes) from the holes they had dug.
Under the heavy snow, the activities of these zombies were quite conspicuous, especially for those who lived in higher places. As long as you looked outside, you could see the dark figures bending over and working hard in the snow pits.
“What do you think they’re doing?” One person furrowed their brow and gazed at the zombies in the community and beyond who were bending over and toiling in the snow pits.”
Nearby people shook their heads repeatedly, looking utterly bewildered. If they knew the truth, they would no longer be human but zombies!
“Are they searching for something?”
“Maybe they’re looking for zombies? Look, there are zombies crawling out of the places they’ve been digging!”
“Yeah, but why would zombies dig up other zombies?”
The crowd exchanged puzzled glances, not that they couldn’t understand, but the actions of the zombies were truly perplexing.
“Hey, there’s something happening over there!” Someone on the other side of the room suddenly exclaimed loudly, causing everyone who had been gazing at the Western scenery from the balcony window to rush in the opposite direction. “What’s going on?”
“That building, the one where it seemed like someone moved in a few days ago?” The person observing the situation in the opposite direction held up binoculars, pointing towards a high-rise community in the distance.
The people in their base had been living in this community since the beginning of the apocalypse. Of course, a few individuals had escaped to the vicinity and were assisted by the people in the high-rise base to survive after the initial period.
After living here for a long time, while they still longed for the pre-apocalypse life and occasionally fantasized about what life would be like for those who escaped the city and lived in the base, as time went on, no one was willing to risk leaving and living in places with uncertain conditions. They also had no interest in communicating with people from other bases or accepting new members.
Especially after one of their own had turned into a zombie and was thrown down below, they became even more afraid that strangers would come here and slaughter all the zombies surrounding the high-rise. They couldn’t bear to kill their former comrades themselves, as well as those zombies that clearly retained memories of them. How could they possibly be willing to let others come and kill them?
Therefore, a few days ago, when they accidentally discovered that lights were on in a high-rise community not far away at night, they immediately realized – someone had moved in there!
These people definitely hadn’t been living in that community from the beginning! They had been living here for three years, and they were well aware that there were no other people living in the nearby high-rises and buildings.
Upon discovering that someone had come to live near their base, all the members of the base instantly became alert. They carefully hung curtains on all the windows facing the direction where there were people, even in rooms facing other directions, to prevent any inadvertent light from leaking out at night.
Fortunately, due to the scarcity of resources after the apocalypse, they were reluctant to even light candles, and while it was winter, they needed to use fires for heating, most of the fire would be contained in homemade stoves and wouldn’t produce visible flames. They usually tried to rest as early as possible after dark, unless those people had binoculars and had carefully observed the situation in the high-rise, the chances of them being discovered were not very high.
The arrival of those people was strange, and their identities were also very confusing. Although some in the high-rise base were curious and wanted to find out more about the situation, after careful consideration, they gave up on this approach – they had no guarantee that their people could make it to the other side without alerting the zombies along the way. They also couldn’t guarantee that those people would be as well-intentioned as they were and wouldn’t attack anyone trying to gather information.
So, for the past few days, they had been sending people to keep a close eye on that direction, just in case something happened.
Now, it seemed that something was indeed happening over there.
“What’s going on?” One person snatched the binoculars from the person in charge of observation, but was astonished by what he saw.
“What happened? What happened?” Others quickly asked, and someone else grabbed the binoculars from him.
“They… are they kidnapping people?”
“That doesn’t make sense! Even if there’s infighting, why would they be kidnapping people from the building to the outside?”
The person who had been monitoring sneered, “Tsk, I’ve been watching from the beginning, you guys didn’t see it just now. Three people were already kidnapped from that building.”
“What’s happening? Tell us!”
“Yeah, spill the beans!”
After receiving the news, people resting nearby rushed over. They saw this guy teasing them and some impatient ones were close to smacking him on the head.
The person in charge of monitoring finally explained, “I’m not entirely sure, but I saw zombies from outside enter that building, and then people were being taken out!” Their observation point had a good angle, giving them a clear view of the entrance of the building where people were living.
Upon hearing his words, the group exchanged puzzled looks once again.
“People being taken out by zombies… but where are they taking them?”
“Could it be that the zombies are going in to capture people to eat?”
“No, wait! After they were taken out, there were no zombies on the street coming after them?”
“What’s going on? What’s the situation? Are the people who were taken out still alive?”
Once again, the group was astonished. They hadn’t witnessed the scene when those people entered the area, so they had no way of knowing if the zombies had attacked them upon entry. But since they were lighting fires at night, they should be living people, right?
Even without binoculars, they could see people being dragged out of the building in that area, and then it seemed like someone was carrying a person and running off quickly into the distance. Afterward, one person after another was lifted and quickly left that area…
After a while, the group exchanged puzzled looks once again, wondering, “What on earth is happening?”
Wait wait, is the girl’s group becoming a hoa?
I…was thinking…where’s an HOA when you need one…but that was for all the hole-digging zombies. Never thought they were the eviction police…