At the back door, Li Hang looked at Li Yu with a grievance on his face. He glanced at the food in his hands, which was wet from the rain, wanting to say sothing. However, seeing Li Yu's utter disregard for him, he felt slightly upset.
Having been very hungry, he chose not to say more and then climbed down the protective wall, entering a small shelter below it to start eating his al.
Li Yu stood atop the protective wall, watching the zombies outside continuously crowd towards it, yet unable to break through the sturdy barrier.
But in recent tis, due to continuous rain and the relentless clawing of the zombies, who didn't care if their fingernails were exposed or even broken, so parts of the wall were slightly damaged.
However, with the wall over two ters thick, reinforced with tough steel plates and a mixture of steel rebar and concrete, it was essentially impossible for the zombies to break through.
"You go ahead and eat, I'll check the front," said Li Yu to Li Hang below the wall, then nodded to Yang Xiaozhu, who had been watching him attentively ever since he arrived.
"Be careful," he added.
Yang Xiaozhu had just taken her turn on the wall. Hearing Li Yu's words, she felt a bit shy and lowered her head, then said, "Brother Yu, you too."
Li Hang, who was down below eating, choked upon hearing Yang Xiaozhu's tender voice and her words, nearly spitting out his food. But food was too precious, and he forcefully swallowed it down, his face turning red, almost splitting into a grin that reached his ears.
Li Yu glared fiercely at him and then headed towards the front entrance without further attention.
He had walked less than 20 ters when he thought he heard the sound of wailing cries.
"Li Hang, you little kid, I think you're really asking for a spanking!" Yang Xiaozhu instantly roared like a lioness, hurried down the wall in a few quick steps, and grabbed Li Hang by the ear, her voice full of enduring rage yet clearly very angry.
"Ow ow ow, Sister, Sister, it hurts..."
"Sister?"
"I'm done eating, I'm going back on the wall..."
...
Li Yu saw from a distance that although the two had argued for a dozen seconds or so, they quickly ran back up the wall, prompting him to nod in approval.
At the front gate.
The zombies were still swarming densely, and Li Yu took over Uncle's post. He started using a spear to kill zombies.
...
On the sixth day of the torrential rain.
The wind seed to ease up gradually.
The thunder went from the initial booming to muffled thunder and eventually stopped.
By five o'clock in the afternoon.
The rain had weakened, from the sound of pouring rain to a light patter. The thick clouds which blanketed the sky seed to have been torn apart by an enormous hand, revealing the light from within.
Little by little, light scattered across the earth, and the sky slowly beca brighter.
The rain continued to lessen until it turned into a gentle drizzle. The zombies no longer exhibited their previous frenzy; instead, they beca listless as if their energy was cut in half. Gradually, in the distance, the horizon began to show a rich hue of red and yellow.
It was the ti of sunset, and this touch of red was like a drop of ink spilling onto paper, slowly spreading outwards. The dark clouds in the sky began to fade away, replaced by an evening glow.
As the sun set, an endless dusk unfolded; the rain had stopped and the sky was now clear. The tide of zombies gradually receded.
Everyone looked towards the horizon and saw a magnificent rainbow arched over the treeline, with a backdrop of reddish-yellow sky, as if these colors had dyed the adjacent clouds.
The view was breathtakingly beautiful!
"It's so beautiful," Li Tie said.
"So pretty," Li Gang said.
"Holy smokes! Stunningly beautiful!" Yang Tianlong exclaid.
"Horizontal smoke on the autumn water, sparse rain in the sunset. Birds beneath tall trees on the mountain, insects flying over the level wilds. I should wait for the full moon, to share this scene with you from a thousand miles away," Lai Xiyue mumbled as she gazed dreamily in a certain direction, her lips slightly parted.
"....."
"....."
"F**k"
In a building in the County, a five-story building.
Several won collapsed to the ground after the Zombie Tide had receded.
"Sister Song, we, we finally made it! I knew we could do it. Hahahahaha, we've finally succeeded!"
"Sister Song, look at that sunset, how beautiful it is!"
"Ah, so beautiful!"
"Sister Song?"
The four won called out several tis, but still got no response from Song Min, and they all gathered around to see that Song Min had fallen asleep.
"Stop calling her, Sister Song has been up for 48 hours straight, she hasn't been sleeping well recently, she's exhausted. Don't wake her up," said a slightly chubby but handso woman, although she wasn't that noticeably plump anymore.
"Then let's carry her downstairs, the floor here is all wet, I'm afraid she'll catch a cold."
Everyone nodded and carefully carried Song Min downstairs.
The retreat of the zombies felt like a huge weight had been lifted from everyone's heart. Although the crisis of the zombies had been resolved, for many of the Survivors who had managed to endure through the Zombie Tide, a new problem was waiting.
Hunger!
So Survivors had endured hunger during the Zombie Tide and were lucky to survive; so starved to death; others were discovered by zombies, could not resist, and were ultimately dismbered and eaten.
Not everyone is like Li Yu and his group who have sturdy walls, ample food, and trustworthy partners to unite against the Zombie Tide.
So, not long after the Zombie Tide receded, so people went out to look for food and supplies.
80 kiloters away from Li Yu's base in the city center, so people also dispersed to collect supplies from the surrounding areas.
Early on in the apocalypse, after killing the Village Chief and others, Li Yu's group conducted a quick search of nearby supplies but didn't scout much farther.
Initially, Uncle and the others such as Li Tie, Li Gang, Yang Tianlong, Third Uncle, and the part-ti workers hadn't arrived, and there weren't enough hands at the base. Plus, the base's supplies weren't critically low. To avoid the base being overtaken by outsiders, there wasn't a large-scale search for resources conducted.
But now, the population of the base had reached 45 people, including many strong young n, so people could be spared to search further afield for supplies.
The day after the Zombie Tide ended, Li Yu and his group prepared to go out and look around, partly to replenish the base's supplies, and partly for Li Yu to train the troops and observe the part-ti workers again.
These part-ti workers had been in the base for so ti and their acceptance of the base had increased considerably. After all, so of their families were in the base. Protecting the base ant protecting their families.
They also clearly understood that Li Yu's control over the base was unshakable. Besides, they had no motivation to destabilize it, nor did they dare to - especially considering Li Yu was their savior.
This ti, Li Yu planned to take a few part-ti workers, along with Li Tie, Zhao Dapao, and a few others.
So early this morning, they drove out.
And in the north, out of their sight, 80 kiloters away in the city, another group was also heading towards Xin City.
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