Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 1678: Deep Mountains, Cave People

“Later, if that scary zombie finds us, I will hug that zombie and jump off the cliff. You run back quickly and don’t worry about me.”

"No, Da, I want to go with you!" Zhou Chen was shocked when he heard his father say this, and then he said firmly.

Zhou Dafu's eyes were firm, and his tone was unquestionable:

"Be good! Remember to bring a bucket of water. Your mother and the others won't last long without water."

"I won't!" Zhou Chen said stubbornly.

He couldn't just sit there and watch his father die in exchange for a chance of survival.

"Why are you so disobedient!"

Zhou Dafu was anxious, angry, and somewhat moved.

"If I die, you will be the pillar of the family. You will be the one taking care of your mother and your brother in the future."

Zhou Chen was about to speak, but his father glared at him and he was speechless.

He had never seen his father look like this.

He lowered his head, covered his mouth, and felt extremely miserable.

Zhou Dafu also felt very uncomfortable. It was extremely difficult for ordinary people like them to deal with creatures like terrifying zombies.

The last time I dealt with that horrible zombie, it was pure luck.

And this time, they can't guarantee that they will be as lucky as last time.

Wow!

There was a sound of water coming from the lake below. Zhou Dafu concentrated and listened carefully to the movement below.

This should be the scary zombie climbing up the cliff.

Wow!
The horrible zombies grabbed the rocks and climbed up. Some rocks became loose and rolled into the lake.

Splashing layers of ripples.

The zombies in the lake were startled, and the water began to churn like boiling water in a pot.

Ordinary zombies surfaced one by one, but no one knew where their target was.

I can only roar there.

This horrible zombie was extremely fast and climbed up the cliff.

Zhou Dafu could even see this horrible, wet zombie through the gaps in the bushes.

The horrible zombie got on all fours like a monkey, raised its head and sniffed the air hard.

But he didn't seem to smell anything.

Zhou Dafu and the other man looked at the horrible zombie, which was only five or six meters away from them.

I was so nervous that my heart was in my throat.

rustle--

The horrible zombie rushed to the plastic bucket on the right and sniffed it hard.

They grabbed the bucket with their hands, which still had some human scent.

However, this horrible zombie did not notice Zhou Dafu and the other man who were so close to it.

Zhou Dafu looked at the horrible zombies so close and clenched his teeth. He just came up with a new plan.

Instead of passively waiting for this scary zombie to discover them, he would rather take advantage of the fact that this scary zombie hasn't discovered him and suddenly attack the scary zombie from behind.

Although the reaction speed of the horror zombies is extremely fast, his method might work.

Just as he gripped the knife handle tightly and was about to attack.

The cry of a musk deer was heard not far away.

This kind of musk deer is a small deer animal, yo yo——

The horrible zombies rushed over quickly after hearing the sound, and after a dozen seconds, the musk deer let out a scream.

Then, plop!
There was a sound of water splashing from below.

The deer was hit by the terrifying zombies and accidentally fell off the cliff and into the reservoir.

The horrible zombie was also taken away.

The huge noise attracted the attention of other ordinary zombies, and they rushed over in a swarm.

Although wall-climbing zombies pose a huge threat to humans, they are not much of a threat to ordinary zombies.

They are all zombies and have no intelligence.

Ordinary zombies are not afraid of wall-climbing zombies.

The musk deer and the horrible zombie were surrounded by the zombies that swarmed over.

Sink into the water.

Zhou Dafu crawled to the edge of the cliff and saw the horrible zombie gradually sinking into the water. While sinking into the water, the horrible zombie was still biting the corpse of the musk deer in its mouth.

When Zhou Dafu saw this scene, surprise appeared in his eyes.

God really helped me, and the chance to escape came.

He did not stand up, but continued to crawl backwards. When he was a few meters away from the shore, he stood up with a hunched back and quickly walked to Zhou Chen's side carrying two buckets of water.

"Let's go back."

"Da, but it's a scary zombie."

"If he falls, he probably won't notice us for a while."

Zombies, whether mutant or ordinary, once they catch their prey, they will ignore everything else while eating.

The horrible zombie had already caught the musk deer and sank into the water.

With the lake water isolating them, it is estimated that they will not be discovered.

Zhou Chen was delighted when he heard this.

"Great!"

"Hurry up and leave here first!" Zhou Dafu shouted in a low voice.

At the same time, hang the rope on the shoulder pole to the hanging ear of the plastic bucket.

After putting the prepared shoulder pole on Zhou Chen's shoulders, he carried two buckets of water in one hand and held the shoulder pole and rope in the other hand and hurried to the back.

Water must be taken away.

Otherwise they would die of thirst in the cave!
This trip has been in vain. It is impossible to return empty-handed after taking such a big risk.

The two ran back quickly.

After walking a few hundred meters, Zhou Dafu couldn't bear it anymore.

He held two buckets in one hand. Not to mention the weight, it was also difficult to carry.

So he stopped, threaded the rope, and then put the pole on his shoulders.

Finally, he put the knife behind his waist and put it aside so as not to affect his walking.

Because they had just experienced such an incident, the two of them returned very quickly.

They ran back as fast as they could. The leaves on the mountain were piled up layer by layer, and they kept slipping while carrying the shoulder poles. Fortunately, the plastic bucket was tightly sealed, otherwise the water inside would have flowed out.

An hour and a half later, the two disheveled men finally arrived at the entrance of the cave.

Zhou Dafu opened the wooden fence outside the cave, and over the past few years, they have reclaimed the area around the cave.

A wooden fence was built to form a semicircle around the cave.

It is about two hundred square meters.

They planted some crops in these two hundred square meters.

Even now some crops have not yet been harvested.

Four ridges of land, half sweet potatoes and half pumpkins.

Both of these crops have very low water storage requirements and only require sufficient water in the early stages of planting.

Moreover, pumpkin fruits are large and the yield is high.

For several years, they have relied on the spring water in the cave to irrigate their crops.

If the spring in the cave had not dried up a month ago, they would not have gone down the mountain to fetch water.

However, pumpkins and sweet potatoes were planted before the spring water dried up.

At that time, there was still a lot of spring water in the cave.

These two plants need water in the early stages, but now that they are mature, they basically do not need watering.

On the right side, there is an earthen kiln built with mud, which can be used to bake food or make charcoal.

Making charcoal using the clay oven method.

At this time, there was a young man sitting in front of the clay stove.

When he heard the noise coming from the fence, he turned around immediately.

When he saw his father and elder brother, he ran over with excitement on his face.

"Da! Brother, you guys are back!"

After looking the two men up and down, I found that their trouser legs and shirts were dirty and covered with dust, and there were even several holes in their trousers.

"What's the matter? Did you encounter zombies?" Zhou Guang asked.

Zhou Dafu carried the plastic bucket in, let Zhou Chen in, turned around, closed the wooden fence, and then wrapped it with iron wire a few times.

Although this wooden fence cannot resist wall-climbing zombies, it is more than enough to block a small number of ordinary zombies.

"Let's go into the cave first." Zhou Dafu waved his hand, telling his son not to ask any more questions.

Seeing that the two were not in a good state, Zhou Guang hurried over to help his father carry the bucket and walked into the cave. In the cave, a woman was cutting a pumpkin with a knife. She cut the pumpkin into pieces of 2×3 cm in size and then put them on a wooden board to dry.

This cave is leaking air everywhere, with at least seven or eight gaps.

But the gaps are not big, the largest one is only the size of a head.

These gaps were sealed with stones or soil and would be opened when ventilation was needed.

The biggest gap is the hole at the innermost top.

Zhou Dafu came in carrying water. When the woman saw them, she quickly stood up.

"Finally you're back. Come over here and pour it into the tank."

In the corner of the cave, there is a large vat.

After Zhou Dafu entered the cave, he did not pour the water into the tank immediately.

Instead, he turned around and inserted the iron rods into the holes in the wall one by one.

Each iron rod is as thick as two fingers, and the distance between the iron rods is about five centimeters.

He filled it all up from the top to the bottom.

This forms a door.

Then he placed a piece of wood next to it against the iron door.

"Xiaochen, come and help me."

Together, the two of them carried several large stones behind the wooden board and piled them up.

The entrance to the cave was sealed.

The entrance to the cave was sealed, and half of the cave became dark in an instant.

"Hey??? What are you doing?!" The woman looked at her husband doing this, confused.

Huhu——

Zhou Chen took two breaths and said to the woman:

"My mother, Anda and I almost didn't make it back!"

"What! What happened?" The woman looked worried. She walked over, took her eldest son's hand, and checked him up and down.

But it was too dark inside the cave, especially the exit was closed.

So the woman took her eldest son’s hand and went deep into the cave.

There was a hole at the top of the inside through which light shone, allowing the woman to check if he was injured.

Zhou Chen walked over and explained:

"When we were at the Luhun Reservoir, we encountered a terrifying zombie, the same kind of zombie that almost bit me before!"

The woman looked shocked:
"How is this possible? Don't zombies like that only come out at night? They came out in broad daylight!"

"Da, is it true?" The youngest son Zhou Guang looked at his father next to him.

Zhou Dafu walked to the center of the cave with a gloomy face.

He sat down on the wooden bench, "It's true."

"Damn it, I was thinking about this when I came back. The appearance of scary zombies during the day is something unusual."

"Then I figured it out. The weather has changed recently. You see, the sun can't even be seen in broad daylight, so the scary zombies naturally crawled out."

"The days ahead will be tough!"

Zhou Dafu's eyes were full of worry. What would they do if the horrible zombies came out during the day?

They stay in the mountains all year round and never go out, and basically do not communicate with other survivors.

So we don’t know why the wall-climbing zombies are afraid of the sun because they are afraid of ultraviolet rays.

Use ultraviolet light to repel wall-climbing zombies.

However, they don't know this.

Hearing this, the woman asked in horror:

"Heda, what should we do then?"

Wall-climbing zombies will appear during the day, so doesn’t that mean that they are outside the cave and may be bitten by the wall-climbing zombies at any time.

Although they stayed in the deep mountains and forests, there were relatively few zombies, let alone wall-climbing zombies.

But this kind of thing can only be a gamble on probability.

Zhou Dafu thought for a moment and said:
"From tomorrow on, we will not leave the wooden fence, set traps for hunting, or collect tree oil!"

"No, try not to leave the cave!"

"Tomorrow we will harvest the pumpkins and sweet potatoes and quickly dry them for storage."

"The charcoal must be made quickly. After the harvest, make charcoal with all your strength!"

Upon hearing this, the woman said:

"That's fine. The sweet potatoes and pumpkins are ripe, so it's a good time to pick them up."

"Together with the corn and potatoes we grew before, it will be enough for us to eat for a long time."

Zhou Dafu nodded and said:

"Well, it's getting late today. Let's go dig the sweet potatoes tomorrow."

Then he looked at Zhou Guang, "Xiao Guang, you can't go out hunting anymore. I know you sneak out sometimes."

"Now is not the time to play around. If you run out and get bitten to death by zombies, what are you going to do with us?"

The man's tone was serious.

Zhou Guang also realized the seriousness of the problem and quickly replied: "Okay, Da, I understand."

Zhou Dafu rubbed his aching shoulders and said to the woman:

"Mom, boil some water, I'm so thirsty after running all the way back!"

"Okay." The woman was perhaps a little nervous and picked up the plastic bucket in a hurry.

I almost spilled it when pouring it into the water tank.

She scooped a few spoonfuls of water and poured it into the small round well next to the iron pot.

This is a stove they built themselves with mud, with a big iron pot in the middle of the stove.

An iron bucket was placed in the small round pit next to the iron pot.

When cooking, you can boil water at the same time to save firewood.

Moreover, their beds were right next to the stove, and the area under the stove was connected to the underground of their beds.

Cooking and making fire can also make their beds warmer.

The woman put the potato pancakes in a circle around the iron pan.

Then she stood up and walked to the right side of the cave.

The firewood on the right was piled up like a mountain, and at the highest point it was almost six meters high.

All the firewood was chopped into arm-length pieces and stacked neatly in this corner.

The woman picked up some firewood, walked to the stove, took out the flint and started the fire.

This firewood was obtained in recent months.

I spend some time chopping wood almost every day.

After all, I have had several years of experience in the end times. I use firewood to cook, and when it gets cold, I use firewood to cook. I also have to boil water to drink.
Firewood is their most important energy source in the apocalypse.

They have no access to oil or other energy sources.

Firewood was the only energy they had available.

It is still renewable.

In recent months, a large number of trees in Funiu Mountain have died, and they don't even have to spend the effort to cut down the big trees.

Combined with the previous exposure to the sun, the trees are very dry and very suitable for preservation.

wow~
The woman lit the flame and the match burned.

The firelight made her face red.

It also illuminates the cave.

There are three beds in total, connected to each other, and on the left side of the cave is a wooden support.

Clothes and shoes are placed on the racks.

There are solar panels and chargers next to it.

The light has been too dim recently, and the solar panels can only generate a few kilowatt-hours of electricity a day, so I just put them away.