Chapter 4343
Solar lights are installed in the yard and light up when it gets dark.
As long as the curtains are not drawn, the light can shine into the bedroom through the window at night, lighting up the entire bedroom, like a full moon night.
On sleepless nights, the zombie could only lie on the bed and read a book, which was a bit boring. Fortunately, Wen Jiuze didn't sleep for long every day. He fell asleep late at night and woke up at dawn.
Once he woke up, Xue Ling rarely felt bored.
As soon as Wen Jiuze opened his eyes in the morning, Xue Ling made his appeal.
"Can I go out for a walk while you sleep from now on? I don't want to lie in bed anymore."
Wen Jiuze agreed immediately: "Okay."
Xue Ling was delighted, thinking that people's minds are indeed confused when they just wake up.
Wen Jiuze added calmly, "If you are taken away by a tiger, leopard, or wolf in the forest in the middle of the night, remember to leave marks along the way so that I can follow the marks to find you when I wake up."
Xue Ling: “…”
"Are there tigers, leopards and wolves here?" Xue Ling was a little scared by what he said.
"This house is so close to the mountain. Have you forgotten that we saw a tiger last time?"
Even though it was a leopard that escaped from a nearby zoo, it did add some persuasiveness to Wen Jiuze's words. What if there was also a leopard that escaped from a zoo here?
Xue Ling gave up the idea of going out alone in the middle of the night, but she suggested: "Let's go to the mountains during the day to see if there are any large beasts."
Wen Jiuze sometimes couldn't figure out whether Xue Ling was brave or timid.
Seeing that she was thinking about it so much, Wen Jiuze still followed her for a walk up the mountain.
Xue Ling went there with a basket, while Wen Jiu carried an axe.
He chopped some firewood and it was more convenient to boil water in a large pot on a clay stove.
There were only birds in the low forest, and not a single large animal was to be seen.
Xue Ling, who said he was looking for a large beast, kept his head down, searching among the pile of dead branches and leaves.
"Why isn't there even a single mushroom?" she said in great disappointment.
Although there were no mushrooms and Xue Ling returned with an empty basket, she was in a good mood after walking around the hill. Wen Jiu was dragging a piece of firewood down the hill, and she also helped drag a smaller one.
The freshly chopped firewood gave off a cool woody scent, and the branches rustled as they dragged across the frosty autumn grass.
Wen Jiuze took two steps and then stopped to wait for her.
Wen Jiuze went back and cut off the branches, preparing to chop firewood. Xue Ling was also eager to give it a try.
Wen Jiuze chopped for a while and then gave her the axe. Xue Ling lost interest after chopping two pieces of wood. She watched Wen Jiuze continue. She was so hot that she took off her coat and her vest was slowly soaked with sweat.
She found it for him, an old man's vest.
After chopping wood, "Old Man Wen" saw that it was almost noon, so he went to the kitchen to cook. Xue Ling watched him, but she was not hungry at all.
Because the edible food and dishes are very limited, it is not as good as before when I could buy whatever I wanted in the supermarket. The simple big pot stew made by Wen Jiuze does not look very delicious.
After preparing three meals a day, you still have to clean up and prepare daily necessities, and the day often passes like this.
It may seem ordinary and dull, but it swallows up time, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
Xue Ling went to check on her "vegetable garden" as usual. She looked at the land which had remained barren for the past half month, and finally confirmed that the winter cabbage they had planted had not grown.
"Why? Is it because it's too cold? Are we planting it the wrong way?"
Wen Jiuze said: "The seeds must have gone bad. They have been stored for three years. It is normal that they cannot grow."
What he said makes sense. It definitely has nothing to do with their planting. It’s just that the seeds are bad.
Before going to bed at night, there is a daily communication activity. Xue Ling looks forward to the vegetable garden next spring and asks Wen Jiuze to see if there are any good vegetable seeds when he goes to the base. She wants to exchange some and then build a self-sufficient ecological vegetable garden.
Xue Ling has been learning how to grow vegetables on a tablet, and believes that by next spring, she will be able to put the skills she has learned into practice.
In fact, they couldn't talk about much before going to bed. After all, Xue Ling was very slow at writing or typing on her tablet. If she wrote a long paragraph, Wen Jiuze would fall asleep while waiting.
Listening to her vegetable garden plan, Wen Jiuze fell drowsy again.
Suddenly, Xue Ling screamed, she got up, opened the window and looked out.
Small snowflakes are floating under the light of the solar lamp.
It’s snowing!
Wen Jiuze was excited by her stepping on the ground, and he woke up and looked out the window. In just a short while, the snowflakes grew larger visibly.
There is no weather forecast now, but based on experience, it will be a heavy snow.
Before the apocalypse, there had not been a heavy snowfall in the area around Yucatan for nearly ten years, with only two or three light snowfalls each year. After the apocalypse, even the weather changed, and heavy snow began to fall in the area around Yucatan.
Xue Ling remembered that last winter, when it started snowing, she had not yet reached Anxi City.
Because zombies are not afraid of the cold, she did not hide when it snowed. She walked in the snow, and the snow would not melt when it fell on her body, but would only accumulate thicker and thicker.
If it rains outside, Xue Ling will probably find a house to hide from the rain and wait until the rain stops before leaving, but if it snows outside, she will definitely go and experience a walk in the snow.
In fact, it was quite interesting. The whole world was filled with silent snow, and the snowflakes stuck to her body, making her feel like she was walking in another dimension.
Xue Ling and Wen Jiuze share their experiences last winter.
On a snowy day, she walked into a city full of zombies. The city was covered in snow, and the streets were full of snow with no one cleaning it up. The zombies on the streets moved slower than usual.
Each zombie was covered with thick snow, and some even turned into snowmen.
Imagine the streets full of snowmen moving. Xue Ling can guarantee that not many people have seen that scene.
She was bored at the time, so she picked up a stainless steel basin and knocked on it with a hammer. The loud sound echoed between the high-rise buildings and as she walked through the streets, it attracted many zombies wandering on the streets to follow her.
Although some zombies gave up as they walked because they could no longer smell the human scent and gradually fell behind, new zombies joined along the way...which also allowed her to organize a parade of thousands of people in the city as the New Year was approaching.
After telling his own experiences, Xue Ling asked Wen Jiuze where he was and how he survived when it snowed last winter.
Wen Jiuze put his hands behind his head and thought for a long time: "It seems that he is in Heyang City, doing a base mission with a convoy."
He didn't remember much about it at the time; the time and weather seemed to be about the same.
Over the past three years, he has traveled alone half of the time and with different convoys the other half.
Following the convoy is usually for earning supplies. After all, he can't just walk into the streets full of zombies like Xue Ling to exchange medicines and gold for supplies. He can only exchange them by completing tasks.
He went back and forth between the various bases looking for people. There were often various missions in the bases, requiring scavenger teams to go into the city to kill zombies and find things. There were also some wealthy people who wanted to travel and would hire a lot of people for protection.
Wen Jiuze usually only considers the reward when accepting missions, and he will accept any type of mission, so he is well-known in many bases.
There are very few people as brave as him who dare to take on extremely dangerous missions, let alone those who are so skilled, so he asks for more compensation than the average person.
Usually, the teams he had followed would want to recruit him, or hope that he would sign a contract to follow the team for a long time, but Wen Jiuze always refused without hesitation. Because of this, he had unpleasant conflicts with many teams.
Last winter, he was with the base convoy, scavenging in a small town, looking for supplies the base needed, and they met a convoy from another base.
Both sides were fighting for the same batch of things in the warehouse, and neither side was willing to give up. It just so happened that the other base convoy was the one that Wen Jiuze had followed before.
Of course Wen Jiuze helped whoever his supplies were given. When the gunfight broke out, someone in the opposite convoy shouted angrily that they had never expected him to be such a cold-blooded and heartless person. They had killed zombies together before, but now he would fight them for supplies.
Wen Jiuze almost laughed out loud. He couldn't even remember who the person he was talking to was.
When the matter was finally settled, Wen Jiu heard that some people in the team also said that he was scary, saying that they didn't expect him to be so cruel in killing zombies and also in attacking humans. They even ran to suggest to the team leader not to keep people like him in the team.
If he hadn't been ruthless and hadn't scared off the oncoming convoy, more people would have been killed or injured on both sides.
But Wen Jiuze was too lazy to explain to these people, nor did he care what they thought. He completed the task the next day, took the agreed supplies and left.
He remembered that it seemed to have been snowing for two days. He was a little lost while driving in the snow and wind, so he got out of the car and cleared the road signs on the roadside.
He leaned against the road sign, looked at the words on it, and thought of Xue Ling.
…
"As if? You can't even remember what happened a year ago?" Xue Ling stopped looking at the snow and turned back to look at him worriedly.
"My memory is getting worse at such a young age. What should I do in the future?"
"What else can I do? I will suffer from Alzheimer's and live off others," Wen Jiuze said.
It's not a problem for him at all!
"It's great to find a place to live before it snows," Xue Ling wrote.
She also felt that it was nice to lie in the warm quilt when it snowed, and it was also nice to have Wen Jiuze beside her.
Wen Jiuze patted the quilt like a master and said, "Stop looking at me. Come here and let me hold you while you sleep."
Xue Ling threw her pillow to him and continued to lie by the window looking out. Suddenly, a big hand grabbed her wrist.
Xue Ling turned away angrily, while Wen Jiu grabbed her wrist and fell asleep with his eyes closed without moving.
Xue Ling: “…” You’re sick.
Because of a heavy snowfall, the original trip to the New Fourth Base was postponed for a few days. We waited until the snow on the road had almost melted before we went.
Xue Ling also went there. She was wrapped in a thick cotton jacket, and wore a hat, scarf, gloves, and goggles. Anyone who saw her would think that she was too afraid of the cold.
In winter, zombies can be better disguised.
Wen Jiuze was wearing the blue hat and a large cotton jacket.
Before setting off, he put his gun into the holster on his waist and gestured with his dagger. He felt that this big cotton jacket was too inconvenient, but since Xue Ling insisted on him wearing it this way, he had no choice but to make do with it.
The New Fourth Base was very lively, with many people gathered at the base gate.
With Xue Ling in tow, Wen Jiuze did not approach casually. He found someone on the roadside to ask.
The man took the cigarette he passed over, looked at his car, and said, "A new detector has been installed at the gate of the base. They said it was shipped from a large base in the north. If someone passes through there, they can tell if they are infected with the zombie virus. Everyone is watching in wonder."
"I heard that there was a base somewhere. A scavenger team went out and one of them was scratched by wire outside. He was also infected. It was not obvious at the time. There was a latent period of several days. When they returned to the base, they suddenly turned into zombies. Many people died."
"This new machine can even detect the incubation period."
The New Fourth Base is a base with strict entry and exit inspections because in the early days of its establishment, there was a second zombie wave in the base and the base was almost destroyed. The leaders of the base learned a lesson and are now working hard on this aspect.
After Wen Jiuze finished chatting with others, he drove to find a place to stop.
He looked at Xue Ling, whose eyes sparkled and he held up the writing board: "Has that machine ever been free? Go check if there is any potential zombie virus lurking in it!"
The heaviness in Wen Jiuze's heart disappeared: "Do you think the hospital provides free physical examinations?"
"Last time I came here, they told me that there is a street here where vendors sell goods in the winter and it is very lively. I wanted to take you in to have a look today."
"I won't go!" Xue Ling still refused. If she was discovered, it would be over. People were having a rare time having fun, why would she scare them?
"Forget it, let's go back today. I'm not going either. There's nothing to change." Wen Jiuze said as he was about to drive away.
Xue Ling immediately stopped him and told him solemnly: "You must go to a barber shop in the base and have your hair cut. I can't stand it anymore."
Wen Jiuze: "Last time I told you to just shave your hair with a knife, but you refused."
Xue Ling wanted to scream: "No! Cut it properly!"
It is she who benefits from having a handsome haircut!
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