The winter wind is gradually fading, and the warm sun teases the senses.
The temperature slowly rises above zero.
The accumulated snow gradually lts, though not quickly.
But it is indeed lting.
Li Yu stands atop the observation tower on the mountain, thinking of the people he encountered yesterday, those residents who fled from Jiefang City.
After giving them the list of supplies in exchange, there was so controversy.
Yet food was the most critical, so they didn't dwell too long and eventually dispersed.
From the observation tower, one can see every place within the entire base. Many little corners are fully visible.
Li Yu, with headphones on, listens to the song "Closure" coming through the headphones.
l got no cards up my sleeve
i wrote you a song but you sang off key
Call it wrong if it's what you need
....
The wind at ten in the morning is warm under the high sun.
Lately, he's been constantly busy, occupied with various matters within the base.
The base is now on the right track, whether it's Uncle, Third Uncle, Second Uncle, or Li Hang, Dapao, Li Gang, Li Tie, and the like, they can all now stand on their own.
A base of over a hundred people, all equipped with firearms.
It has beco a not-so-weak force.
12-ter-high walls, topped with electric fences, caras—security within the base has significantly improved.
Li Yu slowly exhales, suddenly besieged by an inexplicable irritability.
Lately, images of several near-death experiences before his rebirth keep flashing through his mind.
Also, he dread last night of the base being breached, watching helplessly as everything was destroyed.
All this has made him sowhat anxious these past two days, as if he has a premonition that sothing bad is looming.
Often, he becos unexpectedly irritable and indifferent at certain monts.
But every ti when this happens, he finds a place to be alone for a while, so as not to accidentally harm family and friends.
The headphones now play Yung Lean's "Miami."
Li Yu's mind flashes to a person, soone he once trusted entirely.
But during a flight for survival, that person abandoned him, taking all the food with them.
In a post-apocalyptic world, he could sohow understand.
But to lock the escape door and take the food, leaving a friend behind was bad enough.
Knowing full well there were so many zombies below and still closing the door, it was obviously an attempt to kill him.
In the past, Li Yu had saved him so many tis.
And all this was t with no gratitude, only betrayal.
When the disparity between giving and receiving is vast, the hatred intensifies.
Kill!
Thinking of this scene, Li Yu growls in a low voice.
If he ever encounters that person again, it's a must kill!
His hands grip the railing tightly, the iron bending slightly under his grasp, veins popping on his arms.
Then he looks up.
Li Yu's eyes are bloodshot, devoid of emotion, just like a demon's.
He never considers himself a good person; after experiencing betrayal, despair, and a cruel reality, sothing about him is off.
He keeps trying to redeem himself, his kind-hearted inner self continually trying to convince him.
He recalled a saying, "There is only one kind of heroism in the world: to love life deeply despite having recognized its true essence."
Thinking of this made Li Yu feel like exploding.
To have seen the true essence of life—what essence? The rule of the strongest? Misery as the norm of life?
To still love life, as Li Yu understood, didn't an to pretend to be optimistic. It ant facing the discomfort within and finding a way to let it out.
....
The sun has been scorching recently, and the many batteries obtained from the electronics market last ti allowed for extra power storage.
As a result, electricity usage at the base beca quite ample.
So in the underground plantation, the basents of the other two rows of houses were cleared out and used for growing crops.
In these spare chambers, tasks were mainly handled by the tanned An Ya, Uncle, and others.
Among the cultivated crops were mainly corn, sweet potatoes, and rice, with so wheat being planted as well, but not much.
The least planted were potatoes, which don't have an extended shelf life. Unlike other crops that, once processed, can easily be stored for over five years.
Rice, when unhusked and kept in a vacuum, can be stored for up to ten years!
After composing his emotions and returning to normal,
Li Yu continued his patrol around the base.
Just as he entered the basent, he saw An Ya, Uncle, the ever-optimistic Xiao Han, and others busily working.
Li Yu noticed An Ya spreading sothing she just scooped out of a large barrel onto the seedbeds, which emitted a foul sll, but An Ya's expression remained unchanged.
Li Yu asked, "What are these? Why do they sll so bad?"
An Ya looked up, saw it was Li Yu, and calmly replied,
"We don't have matured organic fertilizer, but at least we have a substitute. This is poultry manure, like chicken droppings, so it slls a bit strong."
Li Yu watched as she nonchalantly scooped it out and spread it evenly on the nursery bed.
Seeing Li Yu's gaze, An Ya explained, "I'm just seeding and nurturing. This nutrient soil is intended for the seedbed."
Li Yu nodded, then noticed Uncle working on a daylight lamp. This reminded him of his cousin, Li Suxin, who was daydreaming in class on his way here.
Uncle's wife had passed away a few years ago.
And Uncle, being sowhat wooden, isn't very good at expressing his thoughts and spends little ti with his youngest daughter, Suxin.
So he said, "Uncle, if you have the ti, try to spend more of it with Suxin."
Upon hearing this, Uncle montarily paused, seeming a bit nervous, "Is sothing wrong with Suxin?"
Li Yu shook his head, "Nothing's wrong. It's just that, she's still young, and Auntie passed away early. If you can, spend more ti with Suxin."
Uncle nodded, "That girl is closer to you. She seems to ignore whenever I try to engage her. Sigh."
Li Yu responded, "Uncle, Suxin is very smart. Sotis, you don't actually need to say much, just spending more ti with her is enough."
Uncle, with a hint of guilt in his eyes, affird strongly, "Sure!"
Li Yu took a deep look at Uncle and sighed.
Ever since Auntie passed away, Uncle had not been in a good state, seemingly indifferent to everything.
But after the apocalypse began, he seed to return to a more normal state.
After wandering through the basent, Li Yu went back to the surface.
There was still so snow on the ground, along with many patches of water, all resulting from the lted snow.
Strolling slowly, he saw Father Li and Ding Jiu, along with so workers, constructing a gymnasium not far from the residential area.
Now that there were more people in the base, even though there was a park with space for exercise and so simple equipnt for physical training, there was still a shortage of indoor sports facilities.
Currently, the base only had an underground training room of over a hundred square ters beneath Li Yu's villa.
A couple of days ago, during the base's construction planning, the proposal to build a new gymnasium was brought up.
The gymnasium would include basketball courts, badminton courts, table tennis courts, and others.
It was a massive project, but there wasn't any hurry. They had plenty of ti and could take it slowly.
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