Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 1631: Drought, I'm so thirsty
It hadn’t rained for more than four months, and the thick clouds that had accumulated meant that no rain had fallen.

The recent high temperatures may be due to the clouds in the sky turning from white to gray.

The sunlight is not as strong and the temperature has dropped a lot.

It has dropped from over 30 degrees to around 20 degrees, and is still dropping.

More than four months without a drop of rain has turned the once lush fields into withered and yellow.

The dry riverbed was cracked with deep gashes, like scars on the earth, silently telling of the severity of the drought.

The land has long lost its former moisture and has become as hard as iron.

The wells in the village dried up, revealing the devastated stones at the bottom of the wells.

Occasionally, a gust of wind would blow up the dust on the ground, as if even the wind was complaining about the cruelty of the drought. The trees on the roadside had lost their vitality, their leaves were yellow and their branches were dry. They stood quietly, like watchmen, waiting for the return of rain.

The Dabie Mountains are located about ten kilometers southeast of the oil city.

A small team out searching for food and supplies was trudging forward through the mountains and forests.

"Teacher Chu, why don't we go back to the trading market first? We have drunk all the water we brought with us." Gu Yongzhen swallowed his dry saliva and said in a hoarse voice.

Wang Beibei echoed:

"Yeah, there's no lake around here, and we have no way to replenish our water supply. If this continues, we might die of thirst!"

They are the Plant Rhythm Team, who are good at finding various foods in the mountains and forests.

Pueraria root, yam, wild chestnut, wild hawthorn, chestnut, jujube, and tea tree mushroom are all their targets.

Even the leaves of some plants are edible. They are students of botany themselves, and Chu Juan was a professor of botany before the end of the world.

After hearing what the student behind her said, Chu Juan rubbed her sore calves and looked at the gray-cloud sky through the gaps between the sparse leaves.

The accumulation of clouds and the long drought without rain were beyond her understanding.

However, a zombie outbreak does not conform to scientific logic.

Ugh.
She turned around and looked at the students behind her. They all had pale faces and looked malnourished.

"Okay, go back."

It was extremely frustrating that what they gained from this trip was far less than what they gained from the last time.

When everyone heard that Teacher Chu agreed to return, they were extremely excited.

A group of people, covered in dust and dirt, walked down the mountain carrying bamboo baskets.

Their harvest this time was meager, and it was estimated that all the things in the bamboo basket were only worth a few points.

After all the effort and travel so far, I still didn't get much.

The drought lasted so long that many plants died.

It's more than 20 kilometers of mountain road, and it's already afternoon. We definitely can't return that day.

However, they walked along the road on both sides of the mountain. After going down the mountain, they were able to find the main road. Along the main road, they were able to find houses. They could stay in the shelter of the houses and spend the night relatively safely.

A large area of ​​the iron spider vines on the mountain had withered, and it was much easier for them to go down the mountain than before.

In the past, when the iron wolf dustpan was lush, its height could reach as high as a person's waist.

They supported each other and walked down the mountain.

An hour later, after they had climbed over a mountain, they were able to see the main road below from halfway up the mountain.

Everyone was thirsty, but they drank all the water they brought, not a drop left.

The main road at the foot of the mountain was empty, without a single zombie.

"Let's go!" Chu Juan shouted to the people behind her.

Looking down the mountain from the top, it seems very close, but it takes a long time to actually walk down.

When they came down from halfway up the mountain, it was already four o'clock in the evening.

Due to the accumulation of clouds in the sky, the four o'clock looked almost the same as the blue and gray sky when the sun sets at ordinary times.

The road at the foot of the mountain is a country road, and two ordinary houses are still standing.

It's just that the white walls on the outside of these two buildings have fallen off, revealing the bricks inside.

These two houses look a bit eerie, especially in this kind of weather, like a place where old corpses lie in a mountain village.

In front of the two buildings is a small stream. The stream has dried up, revealing the pebbles on the riverbed.

Further on was a country road, and they were just opposite the road.

To get to the two houses, you have to cross the country road and the dry stream.

Tread-

Chu Juan and others came down from the mountain and looked at the long country road with no one on both sides.

This place is so deserted that there is not even a scrapped vehicle.

The zombies can't be seen either.

But this is a good thing for them. There are fewer zombies around and they are relatively safer at night.

After quickly crossing the country road, they walked on the concrete bridge over the dry stream and arrived in front of the two buildings.

The two buildings are located at a bend in a valley opposite a main road. The surrounding terrain is in the shape of a triangle. The wind is strong and the yin energy is heavy.

When we arrived at these two buildings, we found that they were only three or four meters apart and each had a yard.

The yard is not high, only about one meter.

Chu Juan looked at Liu Zhuangshi behind her and said, "Zhuangshi, you and Wang Beibei go into this building and take a look. I will go to another building with them."

Liu Zhuangshi is tall and is the most powerful man in their team.

If it hadn’t been for him, Chu Juan might have died in the mouth of a zombie during a zombie chase.

"Okay, Teacher Chu." Liu Zhuangshi carried a bamboo basket on his back, put the sickle in his hand into the basket, and then pulled out an axe from his waist.

He found this axe in a farmer's house and it has been with him for many years.

He sharpened the knife to a very sharp point and it was very easy for him to use.

The two men walked to the gate of the house and pushed open the rusty iron door.

Liu Zhuangshi gently pushed the big iron gate, and it made an unpleasant creaking sound.

Boom!
The big iron gate collapsed when he pushed it so lightly.

Liu Zhuangshi quickly said to Wang Beibei beside him: "I just pushed it gently, but I didn't use any force."

"I know, this door is on the verge of collapse. Even if you don't push it, it will probably collapse in two days." Wang Beibei didn't care and walked into the yard.

The yard was full of fallen leaves, as well as some dry dirt and gravel.

The moss in the corner of the wall also died and turned into a black and yellow object.

The two men held their weapons tightly, leaned on each other, and walked towards the hall.

"There shouldn't be zombies in this house. The door hasn't been opened for a long time." Wang Beibei said in a low voice.

There was a foul smell in the house. The two men followed the smell and found the source of the smell.

In a room to the east, they saw three bodies, with only bones left.

It looked like a group of zombies had come and eaten these three people.

Looking at the white skull, Wang Beibei walked over and pulled out a dagger from the bones.

After shaking off the dust on the dagger, Wang Beibei said:

"It looks like these three people are killing each other."

"Not necessarily. It's also possible that this person was bitten by a zombie, and then the other two people killed him to prevent him from becoming a zombie, and then the zombies came in." Liu Zhuangshi said.

"Let's go and see if there is a basement." Wang Beibei put away the dagger and walked out of the room.

The whole house was in a state of disrepair, the cupboards were broken by insects and ants, and the floor was full of wood chips. Liu Zhuangshi walked into the kitchen and saw a row of knives hanging on a shelf in the kitchen, and his eyes lit up.

He walked over quickly and picked up a boning knife.

"Not bad, Wang Mazi brand knives!"

After five or six years, the knife is slightly rusty, but it can be used again after being sharpened with water.

There are six knives in total, a kitchen knife, a boning knife, and a bone chopping knife.
Liu Zhuangshi simply put all six knives into the bamboo basket.

You can use this thing yourself, or you can sell it in the trading market.

Especially the boning knife, which is quite heavy and feels very easy to use right away.

I searched the first floor but couldn't find the basement.

This house is a very ordinary residential building. There is a shrine in the center of the first floor, and in front of the shrine is the dining room.

There is a small room at the back which is the kitchen.

There are two rooms on each side of the hall.

After searching the first floor, the two men went to the second floor.

The second floor has been renovated and tiled, but after so many years, the tiles are full of dirt.

Step on it and footprints are formed.

There was a sofa near the wall, which was severely damaged and even the wood inside was exposed.

The layout is the same as downstairs, with four rooms, but the door of the first room on the left is locked and cannot be opened.

Seeing the closed door, Liu Zhuangshi suddenly became excited.
It has been six years since the end of the world, and almost every place that can be found has been searched.

This kind of unopened room is likely to have not been searched.

No survivor would open the door, eat his fill, and then lock it again.

"Stand back, I'll kick the door open!" Liu Zhuangshi's face was excited. He had already begun to imagine finding all kinds of useful things inside after kicking the door open.

Wang Beibei curled her lips and walked aside.

She knew what Liu Zhuangshi was thinking, but she felt that after so many years, there would definitely be nothing good left.

Liu Zhuangshi took a few steps back, charged forward, and kicked.

Click!

He kicked a hole in the wooden door, then he pulled his foot back and kicked it again.

wow-

The door was opened.

But when he saw what was going on inside, his smiling expression froze.

"Fuck you chicken"

Wang Beibei came over. There were only two ordinary zombies in the room, and no one knew how long they had been there.

These two ordinary zombies were extremely skinny and looked like skeletons, as if they had never eaten.

But even so, the two zombies were still not dead. They just lay on the ground with their hands raised and then put them down.

Bang!

Bang!

Liu Zhuangshi walked over and stomped the two zombies to death with his feet.

These two zombies were too fragile. They hadn't been exposed to rain for a long time and hadn't eaten any living things. After being trapped here for so long, they looked like mummies.

Liu Zhuangshi was a little unwilling to give up, so he searched the closet.

The clothes inside are all moldy and can't be worn at all.

There was only one blanket left that looked slightly better.

He picked up a corner of the blanket and shook it hard.

The dust on the blanket was shaken off and instantly filled the entire room.

"Cough, cough, cough, what are you doing..." Wang Beibei covered her nose and coughed.

"Sorry, I'm shaking." Liu Zhuangshi said a little embarrassedly.

Afterwards, the two went up to the third floor, but there was nothing useful there.

There is no basement, and the windows are just ordinary aluminum alloy windows without iron railings outside, which is not very safe.

Wall-climbing zombies can easily crawl in through the windows.

After they came out of this house, they went to the house next door.

There are no zombies in the house next door, but there are also no useful supplies.

Fortunately, the windows of this house are equipped with anti-theft nets.

Generally speaking, basements are the safest.

If you have to choose the next best thing, you must choose a house with anti-theft nets in the rooms.

They finally chose the house on the right and closed the door to the first floor.

The door on the first floor looks quite solid. It is made of fine steel and has remained intact for all these years.

Everyone closed all the doors and windows of the house and chose to live on the second floor.

The second floor is relatively safe. If ordinary zombies rush in from the first floor, they can use the narrow corridor on the second floor to block the zombies.

After they closed the doors to the first and second floors, they gathered in the lobby on the second floor.

Sit on the ground and rest.

"Would you like to eat chestnuts?" Gu Yongzhen took out wild chestnuts from the bamboo basket behind him and handed them to everyone.

Everyone waved their hands to indicate no.

Liu Zhuangshi sat on the scrapped sofa and said:

"The more chestnuts I eat, the thirstier I get. I'd rather be hungry. I just want to drink water now."

There was white dead skin on his lips and his eyes were looking at the ceiling with a somewhat empty look.

Gu Yongzhen threw the chestnuts back into the bamboo basket with some boredom, because he felt that what Liu Zhuangshi said made sense.

Chu Juan swallowed her dry saliva and said to everyone:

"We will return to the trading market to replenish water tomorrow. Come on, everyone, hold on!"

Wang Beibei raised his fist and waved it to show his support.

She was so thirsty that it seemed like she was consuming more saliva with every word she spoke.

The feeling of dry mouth and tongue makes the throat extremely uncomfortable, and it feels like the mucous membranes of the throat walls are stuck together and are dry and painful.

Everyone sat down on the floor, sofas, and chairs listlessly, not moving anymore to conserve energy.

Night falls quietly.

It was quiet, and there was the sound of wind outside.
The sound of rustling leaves blowing,
There was no sound of zombies roaring, nor the sound of cars passing by.

This place is too remote, so no zombies come to their place at night.

After enduring a thirsty night, they woke up the next day and immediately headed towards the trading market.

They haven't had any water for 36 hours. If this continues, they will really die of thirst.

If the weather wasn't too hot now and they didn't have to endure the scorching sun, they would probably have died of thirst before they could get back to the trading market.

It was a 20-kilometer journey, and they had to return to the trading market before dark.

(Ask for monthly ticket)