Back then, Qiao An'an and her group sailed a boat to land in the suburbs of Y City.

Instead of simply abandoning the yacht, they hid it in a nearby rocky cave.

The university in the suburbs of Y City is about 100 kilometers away from the city center. Although the zombies in the school have been cleared out, there are still zombies in the city and suburbs.

For safety reasons, after discussion, everyone decided that Shen Zhou, Li Jianguo, Yan Ling, and Fang Yuyang would take Ye Jing to drive to retrieve the yacht.

Grandpa Gu was making bows and arrows with Ya Ya, Chi Xiaoyu, and Gu Bei in the dormitory building.

Qin Chengguo continued to sort through the medical equipment and medicines he had brought back.

Several girls stayed behind to boil water and cook, and took the boiled water and cooked food to the back mountain for the people who were working.

Qiao An'an led the male students to dig a canal on the back mountain.

After the division of labor was clear, Shen Zhou and the others left early the next morning after breakfast in Zhou Fang's car.

Qiao An'an also led everyone to the back mountain.

The 90-degree slope on the back of the mountain was not easy to climb, and it took the group quite a while to climb down the slope.

Upon arriving at the location, Qiao An'an began measuring the ground with a tree branch. She remembered that when Grandpa Yan introduced the yacht, he said it was over thirty meters long and about nine meters wide. She thought the ditch was just to facilitate the yacht's quick entry into the sea in an emergency, and as long as the yacht could pass through, there was no need to dig it particularly wide.

So she set the width of the ditch at ten meters.

After drawing lines with twigs, the group began digging. To prevent water from entering and making digging more difficult, they planned to dig from the cave into the sea.

Fortunately, I had taken quite a few farming tools before.

In addition, these children are young and strong, and they are all good at working. Before long, the irrigation canal began to show results.

The rocky hill is less than 200 meters from the sea. By noon, more than 30 boys had dug down to within 10 meters of the sea.

Just then, Grandpa Gu arrived with several girls to deliver the food.

Grandpa Gu stopped the people digging the canal in time: "Stop digging."

The crowd was puzzled: "Why don't you dig?"

Grandpa Gu explained, "The beach is just ahead. Once you dig this channel to let in water, it will soon be filled back up by the sand as the seawater laps against it."

That seems to make sense.

Everyone stopped what they were doing: "So, did we work for nothing all morning?"

Grandpa Gu: "It's not like we're working for nothing. We can finish digging the front section. Just don't dig the back section yet. Expand the cave first, and then use the stones we dug out of the cave to pave the remaining ten meters or so of the channel on the beach and on both sides. Then we'll widen the sides with stones so that when the seawater comes in, it won't bring the sand from both sides back into the channel."

It's true that having an elder in the family is like having a treasure!

While eating, everyone gave Grandpa Gu a thumbs up: "It's a good thing that Grandpa Gu brought us the food, otherwise we would have worked for nothing."

Qiao An'an was digging the canal in full swing.

Shen Zhou and his group also arrived in the suburbs of Y City. Shen Zhou and Fang Yuyang did not know the location of the hidden yacht. Li Jianguo and Yan Ling were both terrible at directions, so they could only rely on Ye Jing's memory to find it slowly.

The group searched for a long time on the rocks on the beach before finally finding the hole where the yacht was hidden.

Just as everyone was about to enter the cave and push the yacht into the sea, Chen Zhou stopped them because he had found footprints around the yacht.

He warily led everyone to the edge of the reef: "There are people on the yacht."

Following Chen Zhou's gaze, Fang Yuyang also saw the footprints beside the yacht and immediately pulled out his pistol: "Can you tell how many people are inside?"

Shen Zhou: "So far, we have only seen two kinds of footprints, one large and one small. But the ground here is so wet, so it must have just been low tide. Even if there were footprints before the tide went out, they would have been swallowed by the sea. What we can confirm now is that two people, one large and one small, came here after the tide went out."

Li Jianguo thought Shen Zhou and Fang Yuyang were quite troublesome: "If we want to know how many people are inside, why don't we just storm in and see for ourselves? Why are we guessing here?"

Shen Zhou also felt it was necessary to go in and confirm it personally.

However, he did not agree with rushing in rashly. He asked Yan Ling to wait for them outside the cave with Ye Jing, while he, Fang Yuyang, and Li Jianguo sneaked into the yacht to check the situation.

Ye Jing and Yan Ling wanted to sneak in together: "Why aren't you taking us?"

Shen Zhou explained, "Because you can't put all your eggs in one basket. If the people inside are very capable, and we get discovered and captured as soon as we sneak in, at least you can be our backup plan. Besides, Xiao Yezi, you are currently the only one among us who can control the sail. If something happens to you, even if we manage to seize the yacht, it will be useless."

Ye Jing thought it made sense, so she stopped insisting on going along.

The three men, including Chen Zhou, crept into the cave by hugging the inner wall of the rocky cave.

The three men went around to the back of the yacht and crept onto it.

They carefully surveyed the deck and found no one there, nor any sign of anyone having been there. So they gripped their guns and pushed open the cabin door.

The group had just pushed open the cabin door.

Then a big axe came from inside and chopped it down.

The axe was aimed straight at the person who opened the door's head. Chen Zhou instinctively dodged backward, narrowly avoiding the blow.

The axe was incredibly sharp, gleaming with a chilling light in the dark cave.

Seeing this, Li Jianguo, who was behind Chen Zhou, kicked the man in the stomach. The man let out a miserable howl, and the axe flew out of his hand and became deeply embedded in the wooden floor of the deck.

The sight of the axe piercing deep into the wood sent chills down everyone's spines. If Shen Zhou hadn't reacted quickly enough, he would already be missing.

Li Jianguo stepped forward, picked up the person he had kicked down, and was about to punch the person in the face when a sharp pain shot through his foot. Looking down, he saw a baby who had appeared out of nowhere, holding a fruit peeler knife, and had stabbed it into the back of his foot.

Fortunately, the baby doesn't look very big.

His boots were thick enough.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been just a simple stinging sensation on the instep.

Li Jianguo threw the person he had lifted towards Chen Zhou and the others, and picked up the baby in front of him.

Li Jianguo was willing to kill zombies and wasn't afraid to kill bad guys, but this was just a baby. Even though his instep was painfully pierced by the baby, his moral bottom line wouldn't allow him to beat the baby. He could only scold the baby and ask, "Didn't your parents tell you that children can't play with controlled knives?"

In the apocalypse, without the constraints of law, the living are often more terrifying than zombies.

The man who had been pushed aside by Li Jianguo saw Li Jianguo pick up the child and, thinking he was about to harm the baby like the murderers and robbers he had encountered before, yelled and lunged at Li Jianguo, shouting, "Stop!!!"