“This is the taste!” As the temperature increased, the aroma of the beef in the pot gradually became strong.
Without worrying about getting burned, Wei Xuan quickly scooped up a piece and put it in his mouth. After chewing a few times, he swallowed it down—the rich aroma, the unique texture of the beef—it may not be as good as some restaurants, but it already had the feeling of braised beef!
The taste made Wei Xuan enjoy it so much that he squinted his eyes. He then grabbed two other large bowls from the side and poured in the sautéed potatoes and carrots.
Wei Xuan prepared a large quantity of potatoes and carrots for the beef stew, but this was also due to the relatively small amount of beef. Otherwise, who wouldn’t want to eat pure beef stew with rice?
After stir-frying for a few more times, Wei Xuan added some water to the pot, and depending on the situation, he added some dark soy sauce and a little salt. He then set it aside to simmer slowly.
In fact, he could have soaked various dried vegetables that he had previously sun-dried and added them to the pot to stew together. But thinking about it, he had already put so many potatoes and carrots in, which was already a bit unfair to the beef. If he added more, it would really become a pot of mixed stew! He’d rather handle those cans of bird meat and pork on his own.
Wei Xuan didn’t need to worry about the food in the pot for the time being. He checked the rice and saw that all the grains were plump from soaking in water, so he quickly turned on the rice cooker.
About half an hour later, most of the soup from the pot of beef and potatoes had been reduced, and the rice had already finished cooking. After confirming that the taste was fine, Wei Xuan then carried a bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetables to the living room to enjoy his delicious meal today.
“Well, the beef tastes good. I’ll try the canned pork next time, but there’s no rush…” The big pot of food he made today would be enough for Wei Xuan to eat for at least three or four meals.
And if he didn’t want to get tired of eating it all at once, he could freeze some of it and slowly heat it up later, and in the meantime, he could make some simpler dishes he usually made to mix it up.
Anyway, he wasn’t prepared to eat like this every day, especially since there was still so much bird meat left in the house.
After the variety of edible foods in the house increased, Wei Xuan’s anxiety about being in the apocalypse disappeared almost completely.
After dinner, he put some of the remaining food in the refrigerator and froze the rest in portions in his own freezer.
He had cleared out a drawer in the freezer in this room for other things, and the bird meat naturally went into the freezer on the second floor.
Wei Xuan lived a leisurely life after having meat to eat. Now, he would eat breakfast first thing in the morning and then take Du Hang for a walk around the community.
While checking that everything was normal in the community and that no zombies from this community were missing, he also fed Du Hang’s dad and went to see the two zombies.
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Fortunately, he was accompanied by Du Hang, a half-zombie with the same powerful strength as the zombie couple.
Putting the steel pipes into Du Hang’s hands, with Wei Xuan’s guidance, it didn’t take long for him to break all the pipes into lengths of about one meter by hand!
This length was not only convenient for the zombie duo to wield and even throw, but also easy for Wei Xuan to use.
After finding these alternative weapons, Wei Xuan directly led the two zombies out and let them carry their own weapons to another relatively intact top-floor room, and gave them a new dwelling.
Although the zombie couple seemed a bit uncomfortable at first when they were inexplicably given a new dwelling, they seemed to have settled down after walking around the room a few times.
What made Wei Xuan feel a bit helpless was that the young zombie seemed to have a fondness for the pink bed sheets and pink bedding in this new room. Unlike his previous habit of randomly turning around the window when entering the room, he always liked to sit on the bed.
Pink bed sheets and bedding… in a room with a pink atmosphere, the two male zombies sat side by side on that big bed… the scene was too beautiful, and Wei Xuan couldn’t bear to look at the short zombie who seemed to have triggered his inner girl’s heart. Whenever he came to visit these two guys, he became hasty and left quickly, never staying for long!
The weather became cooler day by day, and Wei Xuan continued his various repair work on the residential community in the crisp autumn days. During his free time, he washed, disinfected, sterilized, and dried all the feathers collected at home, and sewed them into non-woven bags previously collected, making feather pillows.
Because the feathers of those mutated birds are relatively coarse and not suitable for human use as pillows, Wu Xuan prepared these feathers as mats for blocking the wind and keeping rooms warm in winter.
On the other hand, as time entered November and approached mid-November, snowflakes began to fall again in the sky.
When Wu Xuan noticed that the sky outside had become a gray mass and snowflakes were falling, he couldn’t initially distinguish whether this was normal snow or strange snow.
Although it was about the third time this year for strange snow to fall, now it was also the time for normal snow to fall.
But after the snow fell, Wu Xuan noticed that Du Hang and the zombies around him all looked up and half-opened their mouths, looking at the sky. This confirmed that what was falling now was indeed the strange snow!
“Then we need to take action!”
Before this, Wu Xuan had estimated roughly when the strange snow should fall. So all the pots and pans on the roofs of the buildings in the neighborhood had already been laid out, waiting for this snow.
Now that he confirmed that this was the strange snow he had been waiting for, Wu Xuan immediately went downstairs to start a new round of collecting the strange snow.
He was now using a planting machine to grow some plants that required water dissolved from snowflakes for watering. Therefore, his consumption of snowflakes had increased significantly recently.
The previous method of collection was no longer suitable, so he had to find a way to increase the opportunities to collect snowflakes.
Fortunately, the zombies would stand still and wait for the strange snow to fall into their mouths during the snowfall.
In this way, even if some pots and containers are placed in the areas where zombies roam around in the neighborhood to collect snow, they will not be knocked over or contaminated by the wandering zombies!
Recently, when Wei Xuan was tidying up the area near the neighborhood, he had already collected a batch of pots and containers and placed them in the hallways or rooms on the first floor of each building, which could now be used!
As soon as Wei Xuan moved, Du Hang, who had been waiting for snowflakes with his mouth open, stopped his action without any objection and followed closely behind Wei Xuan, as usual.
When Wei Xuan discovered the strange snowfall, he had even untied the rope around their waists, but when he found that Du Hang had still followed him downstairs, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly and said: “It’s okay if you don’t follow me today, it’s a special day.”
Perhaps zombies would have a different effect from eating this natural snow than they did from eating crystallized snowflakes. Wei Xuan did not want to affect Du Hang’s normal evolution.
Unfortunately, Du Hang obviously still couldn’t understand what he was saying and continued to follow him obediently.
However, after the two of them walked out of the building, Du Hang half-raised his head and continued to open his mouth to catch snowflakes, although he still followed Wei Xuan in his actions.
Wei Xuan couldn’t help but laugh when he noticed this, but he didn’t force Du Hang to stop his actions and let him do whatever he liked.
After taking out the pots and containers that were hidden in various buildings, Wei Xuan placed them in some places in the neighborhood where snow could be collected but would not affect the activities of the zombies. After finishing his work, Wei Xuan returned to his home to continue his work.
The snowfall this time lasted as long as the first strange snowfall, from three o’clock in the afternoon on the first day to twelve o’clock noon on the next day before stopping.
Wei Xuan did not sleep well in the morning because he was worried about the containers outside and woke up several times to observe the situation outside. So as soon as the snow stopped and the zombies resumed their normal activities, he hurriedly got up and went downstairs again.
This time, he not only had to tidy up the containers placed on the roads in the residential area, but also collect as many unmelted snowflakes as possible in buckets, and melt and dry them together later.
Snowflakes were very important to Wei Xuan now.
But he had no chance, nor the strength to collect them the first time strange snow fell.
The second time, when it was hot, even if Wei Xuan wanted to collect more, the snow melted too quickly for him to have the chance.
But now the weather had cooled down, and this snow wouldn’t melt away easily!
So he had to collect as much of the relatively clean snow in the residential area as possible before it melted!
Wei Xuan’s figure was busy running around the residential area. He prioritized collecting the snow near the containers into those containers, compacting and filling them, and then carrying them into the nearby area, avoiding the paths where zombies roamed.
Then he climbed onto the roof and collected the relatively clean snow on the roof into those containers.
After that, Wei Xuan took his zombie Du Hang and wandered around the residential area with a large water bucket, collecting all the visible snow on the surface that was relatively clean into the bucket.
Wei Xuan knew that collecting the snow near him so quickly after the strange snowfall would easily attract the attention of passing people or creatures.
But now he had no better way, and he couldn’t immediately run to a farther place to collect it slowly.
So he could only take it step by step for the time being.
What Wei Xuan didn’t expect, and what he didn’t pay attention to in his past life, was that these strange snowflakes seemed really different from ordinary snow!
Ordinary snow in such cold weather would remain visible for a long time before it completely melted away.
But this strange snow disappeared without a trace the next morning after it fell, leaving Wei Xuan stunned when he woke up – there was not a single trace of snow outside!
Thanks for the update
Quick snow shoveling operator… why is this starting to sound like he is a cat owner? Ahem. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️❄️👀
Du Hang wants to eat snow, but doesn’t want to leave his boyfriend
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Thanks for the chapter! You know, he keeps busy, so he doesn’t have time to dwell on doom & gloom, instead, he’s doing positive things to improve his life & the lives of his little zombie family & friends.
Oh, & little zombie liking pink is just too adorable, 😊!
Thank you for the chapter🩷❤️💜
Ahah, even the little zombie is getting more and more human, that’s great!
Thank you for the update! ❤️
Pink was originally a masculine color. Regardless, gender bias in color preference is a bit absurd, especially in the setting.