At the foot of the mountain is a small village with about a hundred households. Now that the apocalypse has arrived, the houses are mostly empty.

There are zombies in the village, but they are scattered here and there.

Wang Bin didn't fire this time because they were going to stay in the village for the night. If they fired, they were afraid of attracting zombies and revealing their whereabouts, which would attract unwanted attention.

Everyone here had survived the apocalypse and knew what to do and when. They remained silent, following closely behind Wang Bin and Officer Miao. Guan Xiaoyue stayed behind to cover the rear, while Li Chengping protected the women and children in the center.

Of course, the others also had guns. Although their marksmanship was average, the guns they held intimidated many people who were interested.

Occasionally, zombies would chase after them on the road, but Wang Bin would kill them all with his machete.

For safety reasons, Wang Bin and Officer Miao chose a house on the outermost edge of the village. It was a three-story building, big enough for them to live in, and it was also some distance away from the other houses, so they didn't have to worry about anyone from the other houses trying to take advantage of them.

The front door of the house had been damaged by others. In order to prevent zombies from running in at night, the people brought in a wardrobe from another room to block the front door, and then moved two sofas to block the wardrobe.

Even so, people still need to be on guard duty at night.

After everyone tidied up the house, they started preparing for dinner. Wang Bin took out a bag of rice, a piece of ham, and some fresh vegetables and began cooking.

Wang Bin and the others didn't need to worry about cooking at all; the other two women could handle it.

Dinner was ready in no time, and everyone sat around the fire, chatting and laughing as they ate. The atmosphere was quite pleasant.

However, at this moment, more than twenty people had gathered outside the house, holding various knives, and were hiding in the nearby farmland.

The farmland is now abandoned, and the weeds growing there are mostly as tall as a person, making it difficult to spot someone hiding inside.

"Can you smell it? They're cooking!"

"I smell it! It smells like ham!"

"My God, where did these people come from? Their backpacks are bulging; they must have a lot of food!"

"So what if they have guns? They have guns!"

"We're afraid it's us. We have guns too, don't we?"

"How can our muskets possibly defeat their rifles?"

"I've observed them just now. There are only two men, and one of them is lame. It'll be easy for us to take them down!"

"That's right, once they're fast asleep, we'll sneak in and take them out!"

"Okay, do you agree or not?"

"agree!"

"Since everyone agreed, let's go back first and come back at three in the morning!"

"Okay, let's go!"

After saying this, the people quietly left and went back to their respective rooms.

These people were the survivors of the village. Since every family had stored up enough food to last them for one or two years, and many of the men in the village were hunters who could go hunting in the mountains, many of them survived.

When the apocalypse broke out, they cleared out zombies while organizing people to grow food.

Just as the grain was about to ripen, people from other places learned that they had grain here and came to plunder it. They fought several times for the grain, and the villagers were killed and wounded. In the end, only fifty or sixty people survived from the village of five or six hundred. Later, some died from disease, and others went to find the legendary gathering place. In the end, only twenty or thirty people remained in the village.

The survivors are very united. They often rob passersby and can also find wild vegetables and hunt some prey in the mountains, which is how they have managed to survive until now.

Wang Bin and his men were spotted before they even entered the village. They only noticed that the men had guns and hid to observe from the shadows.

Now that they see Wang Bin and his group haven't left but are staying in their village, these villagers want to rob them again.

After dinner, Wang Bin and the others gathered around the fire, listening to songs playing on their phones and chatting.

Since Wang Bin joined the team, everyone has solved the food problem, and now that they have guns, they feel very safe and their mood has improved a lot.

After everyone's mood improved, they started talking more.

However, Li Chengping didn't talk much. Most of the time, he just listened to everyone talking while smoking and smiling.

Even though Wang Bin gave him a pack of Da Zhong Jiu cigarettes, Li Chengping still couldn't bear to smoke them, and he would only take one out to smoke after dinner.

Wang Bin doesn't smoke, but he likes to drink. He enjoys a little beer when chatting, but he doesn't drink much, at most one can.

This isn't to say he has a low alcohol tolerance, but rather that he's afraid of making mistakes by drinking too much.

In this apocalyptic world, very few people can have food and vegetables every day, and even drink and smoke. Wang Bin has helped them achieve this, and everyone is very grateful to him.

Especially the two little boys, Abao and Xiaonan, who used to idolize Officer Miao, now stick to Wang Bin all day long.

There was no electricity at night, so there was little entertainment, and everyone went back to their rooms to sleep around nine o'clock.

Li Chengping was on the first shift at night, while Guan Xiaoyue took over the second half of the night.

For safety reasons, everyone lives on the third floor.

During the first half of the night, Li Chengping did not notice any movement. At two o'clock in the morning, he woke up Guan Xiaoyue and went back to his room to sleep.

After Guan Xiaoyue got up, she hugged Wang Bin's rifle, which was equipped with a night vision scope.

To save electricity, it is not usually turned on.

Wang Bin also brought a battery with him this time, which had already fully charged the night vision scope. However, no one was willing to use it, and they would only turn it on when they spotted a situation or during a battle.

In order to observe what was happening outside, Li Chengping moved a sofa to the window when he was on night watch. When it was Guan Xiaoyue's turn to be on night watch, Guan Xiaoyue also sat on the sofa, wearing a coat and chewing gum while staring outside.

For the first hour, nothing happened, but around 3 a.m., it started to drizzle outside.

Is it raining?

Seeing that it was raining, Guan Xiaoyue stood up and stared blankly at the light rain outside. Just then, she noticed many dark shadows moving quickly in the weeds downstairs.

Upon seeing these dark figures, Guan Xiaoyue's mind cleared considerably. She activated the night vision scope on her gun and looked over, only to see more than twenty bright spots gathered in the weeds outside.

It's so late, and so many people have gathered outside, they must be here for them. Guan Xiaoyue quickly went to wake up Wang Bin and the others.

"Brother Wang, there are more than twenty people outside, and it seems like they're coming for us!"

"Okay, go wake Officer Miao up, Uncle Li and I will be right there!"

"OK!"