Recently, many soldiers and teams have come to the base from outside, but they have all been living in a newly built military camp outside the base, and they have not mingled with the people inside.
If they were here to support the base, it doesn’t seem like it.
But if these people were here to attack the city together, they didn’t bring any military supplies.
This has caused members of the base to chat and analyze the situation every day to pass the time and alleviate the depressing post-apocalyptic life.
A group of idle people gossiped on the street, but because the weather was too cold, they soon had to turn around and go into nearby buildings to keep warm and have fun.
There isn’t much leisure in the post-apocalyptic world, but if you’re willing to use your brain, there are still many things you can do to relax and have fun.
Many buildings in the vicinity used to have large dormitories on the ground floor for people to live in, but now they are forcibly occupied by some strong, powered individuals who stick together.
There are several stoves in the room, burning all kinds of furniture, firewood, and even some coal.
But because many of the wooden pieces are composite wood from before the apocalypse, the roof of the room is already blackened by thick smoke.
Now most of these rooms have a pile of big round tables with groups of men, women, and children sitting around them-playing cards.
Poker and mahjong are the only games on the table, and when it comes to playing mahjong, the sound of tiles clattering fills the air.
The poker tables are divided into different types, with large and small ones, such as Landlord, Upgrading, Texas Hold’em, and many unique regional variations.
The stakes on these gambling tables are different from before the apocalypse, and there is no smoking or money involved in gambling. Instead, they gamble with all kinds of goods.
Instant noodles, biscuits, potato chips, ham sausages, and even coats and clothes. There are baskets next to each table filled with all kinds of strange gambling items.
And the second floor of these buildings is not so quiet either. It is also a large dormitory room where, even during the day, there are singing and dancing performances… Yes, singing and dancing, similar to the pre-apocalypse small bars.
Although no one can get electronic equipment here to play music, some people can still play guitar for fun. In addition, there are many people who can only go up and sing loudly.
Most of these people can’t earn a penny all day long. Some lucky ones might get some food from some people who are doing well downstairs.
More people treat this as a place for self-entertainment and venting their frustrations.
These places are mostly entertainment venues for lower-level residents in the base. Although some time is wasted here, it is still better than having nothing to play with, and even if they gamble, they will only sacrifice two or three days of rations at most.
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However, the people who live on the outskirts of the base are naturally not qualified to enter those places.
The sound of playing cards in the room on the first floor continued. After a while, a man who had won a few small games carried a few bags of instant noodles and sausages he had won in his pocket, and sneaked out of the room when no one noticed him.
He quickly walked along the base of the wall towards his home.
It’s not that he had something urgent or was in a hurry to go home, nor did he steal something from someone else and was afraid of being caught. It was because he sometimes heard that some people who had earned money from the gambling den were knocked unconscious on the way out, and when those people woke up, not only did they lose the things they won, but their clothes were also stripped off!
If it were in the summer, it would be fine. Even if they were knocked out and robbed, they could just walk back home angrily.
But now it’s winter! Even if they still have their clothes on, whether they can wake up after falling asleep on the side of the road is still uncertain!
The man was walking hurriedly, just turned around a street corner, and was confronted with a dark figure.
The man’s reaction was quite clever. He quickly jumped back and was about to turn around and run, but he found that a burly man had appeared behind him at some point, holding a stick as thick as his arm, and was about to hit him on the head!
“Thunk!” The unfortunate man fell to the ground and couldn’t get up. The instant noodles in his arms were scattered all over the ground, and several sausages rolled out of his pocket.
“So much blood, is he going to die?!” someone asked in a trembling voice.
“Pah! If he dies, he dies! Don’t people die here every day?”
“Quickly pick it up, be careful not to get blood on you!” one person hurriedly bent down to grab the instant noodles and sausages.
“There are sausages! Lucky today! Ah, if only we could eat meat every day.”
When the companion expressed his admiration, the big man who had hit the other suddenly stared at the person lying on the ground with an unknown but terrifying look in his eyes.
“Ju-Ju Ge?” The gaze was so frightening that even those who usually hung out with him were scared and took a step back with a shiver.
“Ju Ge? What’s wrong? Is there something wrong with this kid?” A man standing next to the fallen man asked in confusion, not noticing the strange gleam in the big man’s eyes.
“Meat.”
“Huh?”
“This is meat.” The big man pointed at the man on the ground, dead or alive, his voice was so cold that it could ooze out ice shards.
“Ugh… but, but he…”
“Hmph, I heard that during the famine in the past, this kind of thing was not uncommon, and besides…” The man coldly scanned the people around him, “how much food do we have left? This winter is probably going to be tough…”
His words made everyone present tremble, while also causing the same thought to emerge in their minds – actually, as long as they don’t think too deeply… what difference does it make in what meat they eat?
Moreover, many of them are lucky to have one or two meals a day. Since the apocalypse, who can eat their fill in one go? And how many people haven’t tasted meat in so long?
As these thoughts were brewing in everyone’s minds, suddenly the person on the ground twitched.
“He, he’s still alive!”
After a moment of stunned silence, one of them gritted his teeth and whispered: “Kill him!”
Before he could approach, suddenly the person on the ground grabbed the ankle of the person closest to him and let out a “heh-” sound from his mouth…
“Zombie!!”
“Gok, gok…” The sound echoed on the vast snow-covered ground.
With each step he took, Wei Xuan swayed like a huge and clumsy bear. In fact, he was already regretting it before he even walked out of his residential complex.
Once he walked out of his neighborhood, this regretful feeling surged like a torrential river, almost sweeping him back home.
Of course, if he could really be swept back without having to walk step by step, he would be very happy about it.
Unfortunately, reality is cruel, whether it is to the place he needs to go, or back to his and Du Hang’s hideout, he needs to do it personally, step by step.
Therefore, since he has already come out, he naturally won’t turn around and go back home immediately.
Because he knows that those two crazies are fools, so he can only try to fulfill his promise and agreement as a fool.
Therefore, he can only face the chilly winds, step by step, through the ruins of the snow-covered city, wearing strange modified shoes that are difficult to walk in.
He and Wei Xuan’s shoes have been modified, each sole has a large piece of bottom unloaded from some kind of basin, round and large.
This thing is used to increase the foot area, so that people don’t sink into the snow with every step on the snow-covered ground.
It’s not that he thinks walking on snow is difficult, of course, walking difficulty is also one of the reasons.
In addition, he needs to minimize the traces he and Du Hang leave when walking – footprints in the snow are too obvious. In addition, he has to be careful not to step on zombies.
The zombies will sleep when night falls.
The previous three snowfalls lasted at least a whole day.
The accumulated snow from heavy snowfall can be thick enough.
Although light can pass through the snow, it is not too strong.
Therefore, when Wei Xuan went out on a snowy day, it was very likely that he would accidentally step on a zombie that was sleeping in the snow like a blanket…
If he stepped on a stone or brick, it would be okay, but those zombies would not die! If he accidentally got clawed by them, would his legs still be intact?!
Wei Xuan and Du Hang spent two full nights on the road, taking each step like sumo wrestlers, although he didn’t step on anything strange or get attacked by zombies along the way, he was exhausted and aching all over.
When they finally arrived near their destination and found a room to rest in, Wei Xuan immediately fell asleep in Du Hang’s arms with a hand warmer.
Although Du Hang’s body temperature would be low on such days, he was wearing a thick layer of clothing and Wei Xuan was wrapped in a thick blanket, so he wasn’t afraid of freezing.
After sleeping through the night, Wei Xuan woke up the next day at noon, went out and rubbed his face with clean snow by the wall in the chilly wind, and decided to go to the meeting point to see what was going on before having breakfast.
When he and Du Hang arrived at the shop and climbed to the second floor, he was stunned on the stairs when he saw two humanoid figures dressed in colorful clothes like walking cotton balls.
“Potato!” one of them suddenly yelled in the direction of the stairs, his voice full of excitement.
“Roar…” a low growl came faintly from the snowdrift on the street outside the window, indicating that the zombies who were in a state of hibernation had been “awakened” by the sound of human voices.
So how did these two guys get here without alarming any nearby zombies?!
Stuck with this nickname…haha!
I really want them all to cohabitate the neighborhood as chaotic as that sounds
Potato is a cool name
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That was Karma happening fast for people.
Potato!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you look like one!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME!!!
Look. They even started thinking to eat human meat AFTER they robbed him. Just become a zombie at that point 🤦 what’s the difference between a human and a zombie if the humans also eat human meat