Chapter 66 24K Pure Gold Dog Eyes

June 30, 2025.

Five days ago, after Liu Caifen and Zhang Xiulan's families were chased by zombies while stealing vegetables in the middle of the night, three more zombies appeared in the village.

Liu Caifen and her husband, and Lin Cheng.

To be precise, it was two and a half bodies. Lin Cheng's zombification process was very slow; he only began to zombify after other zombies had half of his body eaten away.

It was missing half of its face, with its scarlet and blackened brain matter exposed. There was almost no undamaged flesh on its upper body, and dark red blood had congealed on its hanging internal organs.

It's disgusting and horrifying.

Just looking at it from afar, you can almost smell the stench of decay.

At first, everyone was curious about how Zhang Xiulan and Lin Jie felt when they saw Lin Cheng's appearance.

After a few days, the question of survival dampened people's curiosity and desire to watch the spectacle.

The family's food supplies are gone, and the vegetables we secretly went out to pick a few nights ago are all gone. It looks like we're about to run out of food again.

When Lin Xi heard the familiar surveillance alarm at night, she knew that someone couldn't resist sneaking out to steal vegetables under the cover of darkness.

She couldn't even be bothered to look, since no one was bothering her and no one remembered her as a "lunatic" hiding in a "birdcage".

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July 10, 2025.

Ten more days passed. During these ten days, several more zombies appeared in the village.

Even if zombies are less mobile at night, and even if they try to be as quiet as possible, the outdoors at night is not 100% safe.

There are always a few unlucky ones who happen to run into zombies.

Going out to pick vegetables is a risky activity usually done by middle-aged and elderly people.

Firstly, they are familiar with the terrain and produce in the fields; secondly, they always want to pave the way for their descendants and protect them as much as possible.

Middle-aged and elderly people are not as agile as young people, and once they are targeted by zombies, they are basically doomed.

Therefore, the mortality rate for people going out to pick vegetables has increased significantly.

Lin Xi watched anxiously, feeling that if all the able-bodied young men in the village united to wipe out the nearby zombies, wouldn't everyone be able to live in peace for a while?

But she could also understand why these people didn't do it.

Humans are prone to taking chances. You might not encounter zombies while hiding from them and harvesting vegetables, and if you're lucky, there's almost no danger.

However, actively attacking zombies guarantees encountering them, and you never know which one you might be unlucky enough to die. Moreover, people in the post-apocalyptic world are extremely selfish, their hearts are not united, and teammates are not necessarily reliable.

Naturally, everyone would choose a relatively safer way of life.

With everyone working day and night to harvest the crops, the fields were soon barren, with no crops to harvest. Even old vegetable leaves and wild vegetables that were not usually eaten were dug up.

If this continues, everyone will starve to death sooner or later.

But the working people are wise and hardworking, and at night they still sneak out to form teams to farm.

That was incredibly exciting and tense—

The thrill of stealing crops is strong, but I never imagined that the thrill of stealing crops planted at night would be even stronger.

Everyone looked furtive and suspicious, even stranger than zombies.

Lin Xi picked up the binoculars again and secretly studied planting techniques.

Although she had practiced farming for two years, her yield was still low and could not compare with those who farmed regularly.

While others secretly planted vegetables, she secretly learned how to plant them.

Water spinach has a short growing cycle and quickly sprouts seedlings, bringing life to the once barren fields.

The water spinach inside the birdcage grows better than outside because the villagers are always in a rush when planting vegetables. Even if they have planting skills and experience, they don't have time to properly care for the seedlings before they hurriedly rush home.

Inside the glass wall covered with one-way privacy film, Lin Xi meticulously tends to the plants every day, wearing sun-protective clothing, watering and fertilizing them.

Leftover food can be thrown into the fields as extra organic fertilizer.

Besides water spinach, some villagers also planted other crops, which grew very slowly and poorly. Lin Xi compared the pictures in the agricultural encyclopedia and identified them as taro seedlings and sweet potato seedlings.

Because it wasn't the best season for planting and they didn't receive proper care, the seedlings barely survived, and it's uncertain whether they'll be able to grow fruit.

When there were no vegetables to harvest, the villagers lowered their quality of life by pulling up all the trees and weeds nearby.

This is better than in the city.

In her previous life, Lin Xi lived in the city, where there were no gifts from nature or the fruits of hard work; she could only rely on charity and finding her own resources.

However, the city is teeming with zombies and has a large population, making the competition for supplies fierce. Even if you manage to evade the zombies and find supplies, you may still encounter other people looking for supplies, inevitably leading to a struggle.

The struggle attracted the danger of zombies.

Moreover, supplies are essential for survival, so no one will easily give them up. The fewer people fighting for them, the more supplies there will be, and there are quite a few cases of people killing and stealing for survival.

Therefore, many people are afraid to go out, and with limited supplies at home, there are other ways to conserve resources:

Yang Xin downstairs put this method into practice—personally reducing the number of people distributing supplies.

They even eventually resorted to cannibalism.

In the apocalypse, people go crazy.

However, Yunxiang does not seem to have developed to that point yet. Although there have been some losses, they are not severe. Everyone is trying to survive and has not done anything to harm their fellow human beings except for stealing vegetables.

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July 25, 2025.

When the water spinach was half-ripe, some people, unable to bear their hunger, secretly... on a dark and windy night.

They pulled up almost half of the tender water spinach that was growing in someone else's field.

This field belongs to Zhang Xiulan again.

Lin Xi saw the person who stole Zhang Xiulan's vegetables in the surveillance footage, but she didn't recognize him.

I don't know how Zhang Xiulan has managed to get by in the village these past few years; everyone loves to steal her vegetables.

Zhang Xiulan was furious when she discovered that half of the vegetables were missing. On another dark and windy night, relying on the iron fence around her house to keep out the zombies, she started cursing loudly.

At that time, several families went out together to find fields to cultivate or to steal vegetables. No one knew exactly what they were going to do, but they were all bold and agreed to look out for each other.

They didn't call Zhang Xiulan's family.

Zhang Xiulan immediately suspected that the person who stole her vegetables was among that group. A surge of revenge arose within her, and her howl made everyone tense. They all scanned their surroundings to see if any dark figures would suddenly appear.

A few timid people had already run home, and with the panic spreading, everyone started to flee.

The shadowy figure did indeed dart out following Zhang Xiulan's voice, but fortunately everyone ran fast and made it home safely.

Zhang Xiulan was smug, feeling that she had gotten revenge for her stolen vegetables.

But at the same time, she offended the group of people who were just about to leave.

Her scream almost killed everyone!

So the third dark and windy night came, and Lin Xi yawned as he looked through binoculars at the villagers' movements.

They were all holding hoes and blocking Zhang Xiulan's house, trying to attack her.

Seeing this scene, Lin Xi couldn't help but think: Look, everyone is cowardly when facing zombies, but they are exceptionally united and powerful when persecuting their own kind.

Although this fellow one really deserves a beating.

Zhang Xiulan was whispering something inside the iron gate, and the two sides argued in hushed tones for a while.

Zhang Xiulan suddenly raised her hand and pointed in the direction of Lin Xi's house.

Lin Xi saw that the group of people, including Zhang Xiulan, all turned their gazes toward her. In the night vision binoculars, those eyes looked like 24K pure gold dog eyes.

Through the glass covered with a one-way privacy film, Lin Xi met those eyes from afar.