After a severe cold spell, most of the Northern Hemisphere was tightly covered by dense white snow. Due to the heavy snowfall, many people who were struggling to survive in the apocalypse froze to death.
Many remote communication devices that were still usable before were damaged and even roadside power lines were crushed by the snow.
All the ferocious and terrifying zombies that chased after humans and wouldn’t stop until they tasted flesh were buried in the snow.
Fortunately, in some cities like T City where Wei Xuan lived, the snow was heavy but still allowed people to venture outside.
Wei Xuan stayed at home for three full days, during which he only went downstairs to feed Uncle Du, retrieved a bucket of ice from the sixth floor to warm up, and replaced the depleted battery with a fully charged one.
He didn’t move from his spot and didn’t even go to the house where the zombie couple lived across the street.
After three days, when the dark clouds dispersed and the bright and dazzling sunlight shone through, Wei Xuan looked down from the top floor at the surrounding buildings and couldn’t help but exclaim: “I didn’t expect the snow to be this heavy…”
He couldn’t quite remember what the first snow in the apocalypse looked like from his previous life. After all, even he didn’t want to leave the base and tried to live with ordinary people in the base for warmth and companionship during the winter.
Otherwise, even with his strange abilities, he couldn’t resist the extreme cold once a snowstorm hit.
However, in the base, despite the snowfall, there were people living there, and there were quite a few of them. Once some snow accumulated, the management personnel in the base would quickly gather and clear it away.
Especially since snowfall could also supplement the water supply problem, there would naturally not be a large accumulation of snow.
But in the city, it’s different. Look at the stunning white scenery before your eyes, as if the entire city, which was almost a ruin, has been completely covered by this white “blanket”, giving the world a picturesque feeling.
“I think we should remove some of the snow.”
After admiring the beautiful snow for three days, Wei Xuan finally made up his mind to take action.
To be honest, although the days of staying at home were quite enjoyable and relaxing, watching TV shows, playing games, and reading novels for three days in a row made him feel uneasy.
Although he didn’t have to work hard every day like in his previous life to make a living, he tried his best to keep himself busy and organized in his daily life, otherwise, he would feel restless.
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But if the snow on the roof was too thick, it would exert pressure on the building itself, and over time, problems might arise.
In this situation where it was neither feasible to clean nor to leave the snow as it is, Wei Xuan put his mind to work and finally found the most reasonable solution he could think of after taking a nap.
With some containers – plastic buckets he usually used to collect rainwater and snow, Wei Xuan found the broom and shovel he collected from the hardware store and brought Du Hang up to the roof.
The snowfall this time was not small. Although it was not the largest snow disaster Wei Xuan had experienced in his previous life, it had accumulated to a thickness of more than one foot.
If this thick snow kept piling up on the roof, and the next heavy snowfall came down… even the most solid building couldn’t withstand this kind of pressure over time.
And even if nothing happened in the first or second year, after three or five decades, these old houses in the urban area would slowly disintegrate and be destroyed by these harsh natural environments.
Wei Xuan can’t think too far into the future, all he can do now is to slowly clean up the effects of each snowfall after it happens, trying to make at least his own living space more comfortable and safe.
So this time, although he came to take away some snow to melt and use at home, he didn’t plan to completely clear the roof, but only took away the top layer.
If he takes away around 70 to 80 percent of the snow from the top, won’t the rest still be a spotless white? If something flies over from above, it will still be inconspicuously white like every other building in the city.
Actually, it’s not just Wei Xuan. Survivors like him living in the city, if their base is not large enough or not afraid of being discovered, it’s best to handle the snow as carefully and inconspicuously as possible, like he did.
Otherwise, will it attract friendly cooperation, or malicious looting and killing?
Wei Xuan spent more than a week dealing with all the accumulated snow from three days of snowfall.
There was no other way, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to do it quickly, but… it was all snow! Snow is not rain! To make it usable and drinkable, you have to first melt the snow into water and then use a filtration device to process it.
But to melt the snow, you have to use heating methods in the current severe cold.
However, in the apocalypse, where can you get so much heating equipment to waste?
Wei Xuan’s two vegetable planting machines, a pile of refrigerators and freezers, daily use of electric stoves, electric heaters, and even gaming machines, computers, and televisions… which one doesn’t require electricity?
Moreover, he had to be careful not to use too much electricity when it was overcast and unable to collect solar power.
In summary, over a week has passed and the neighborhood where Wei Xuan lives is still covered in white snow.
Even after half a month, the situation remains the same. By the end of December, there have been two more snowfalls, and the snow on his roof has not decreased but instead continues to accumulate.
This leads him to ultimately throw in the towel and decide not to do it anymore!
At this point, Wei Xuan is faced with another difficult choice, which is: “Should I go or not?”
In this snowy landscape, Wei Xuan has no interest in leaving his building to go next door or to the home of his neighbors. Asking him to venture out and travel far is akin to asking him to risk his life.
Although the place he wants to go to is not too far away, it would take nearly a whole night to get there if he were to go before winter set in.
He really isn’t enthusiastic about leaving his warm home, trudging through the thick snow, and making a round trip to the cold meeting point.
What Wei Xuan is struggling with at the moment is the meeting place he went to last month and where he retrieved a bunch of diaries.
He had promised those two crazies that he would try to go there again at the end of this month and exchange information with them.
Although the road conditions are not good, it is still considered sunny and clear weather, except for the thick snow on the streets. If he doesn’t make this trip and those two guys really have something to ask of him, he would feel bad about breaking his promise.
“Sigh, let’s just go.” Wei Xuan, who fundamentally is a good person, struggles but ultimately decides to bring Du Hang along.
Fortunately, he had found a lot of warm pads and other items like that while wandering around in various shops before, so even if he goes out in the freezing cold, he will be prepared.
“Report! The special mission team from Base 54 reporting for duty!” A person wearing a thick military cotton coat, almost wrapped into a ball, stood in the snow and saluted the group in front of him.
Behind the person, not far away, there were soldiers who had just come down from military trucks, tactical command vehicles, and military armored vehicles. At this moment, they had already lined up neatly and stood in the vast snow.
The person who welcomed them also returned a military salute to the captain and nodded, saying: “Comrades, you have worked hard!”
After speaking, he turned to a soldier beside him and said: “Take these comrades to the camp for rest and wait for the joint training tomorrow morning.”
The slogan sounded, and the person who came to welcome them hurriedly led this team of people towards the city wall not far away, got into a car after entering the city, and drove towards a certain direction.
“Another team has come!”
“Really! There must be at least three to five hundred people? How many people are there now, including the ones who came before?”
“What are these soldiers here for? If they are here to join our base, why did they all go to the newly built base outside? The wall over there is not as thick as our base’s.”
“Who knows.”
“Hey? Do you think the base is organizing manpower to attack and reclaim lost territories in the city?”
“Possible! Possible!”
“But isn’t the number of people a bit too small? So far, these teams that have come, plus the soldiers in our base, at most a few thousand people, what can they do with such a small number? There must be at least several million zombies in the city!”
“Do you know anything about modern warfare? We have guns and artillery in our hands!”
“Hmph, how much ammunition is left?”
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A group of idlers unwilling to leave the base in the dead of winter squat at the street corner, passing time by chatting and secretly sizing up potential targets to lure into a narrow alley for a robbery, while gossiping about the latest news from inside the base.
Thanks for the update
I miss the snow, thank you for the chapter !
Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️❄️
Thanks for the chapter! I’m so glad it’s sunny at home right now, all that snow, so cold…
Thoughts about snow are back….
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I hope our MC remembered to loot snowshoes before winter came 😂
Thank you for the update! ❤️
I simply won’t survive this. Even 14°c I already shiver and wrap myself like a burrito. Ill accept my 31°c every day thank you..