The villa next door, because Li Xin'er had told her before she left that she wouldn't be coming over for dinner that night.
They tidied up and put their things away properly before starting to cook with Chef Sun.
Only then did everyone sit together and enjoy a hot meal in a lively atmosphere.
Outside, it was still a world of ice and snow, and the sky seemed to have a hole in it, with the heavy snowfall showing no sign of stopping.
Compared to Li Xin'er and the others, the others were not so lucky.
S City Base
Fortunately, Qi Hongshen and the others listened to Lu Jin'an's advice and hurried on their way, finally escaping the risk of being trapped on the road and returning to the base.
Meanwhile, the base was unusually busy and chaotic.
The team that went to retrieve supplies was almost completely wiped out, and Qi Hongshen and his team only managed to recover less than one-fifth of the original supplies.
Fortunately, they had enough supplies that they had bought on credit from Li Xin'er to cope with their current predicament.
Braving the heavy snow, the base staff quickly divided the work and distributed supplies to the survivors in the safe zone.
Lu Chen put on a thick military overcoat and stood on the upstairs corridor, looking out at the snow-covered landscape with a deep, melancholy gaze.
"I wonder if the other bases are prepared."
After receiving the news from Li Xin'er, they sent out teams to notify all the bases they could reach.
Upon hearing this, Assistant Wang, standing behind him, did not dare to speak at that moment.
Because they didn't know whether the message had been delivered or not, and even if it had, how many bases would actually obey? In any case, Assistant Wang felt that it was really hard to say.
However, that is indeed the case.
Including the Xinghuo Base, there are a total of 16 locations for sending messages out of the country, which is the limit of what Lu Chen can arrange.
He had intended to send messages to these bases so that the message could be transmitted to even more distant locations.
As a result, most of these 16 locations failed to arrive before the snowfall due to various reasons along the way.
Finally, six bases were delivered, including the Xinghuo Base where Lu Zheng was located, which he completely trusted.
None of the other five bases believed the news.
Some people just gave a perfunctory response, said they understood, and then forgot about it.
Some people directly mocked them, asserting that the temperature there was over 30 degrees Celsius and it was impossible for it to snow.
The sudden snowfall caught everyone off guard and served as a timely slap in the face.
When the blizzard hit and the temperature plummeted, it was too late for them to regret it.
H City Base
The safe zone hasn't even been cleared yet, and hundreds of thousands of people are still crammed into a small military base.
Because the temperature here is high all year round, before it snows, many people without tents sleep on the ground in the open.
At this moment, the entire base was filled with deafening cries. There were only a few buildings, and everyone on the playground wanted to squeeze in.
"Let us in! Let us in!"
"My child has a fever, please, please let my child in..."
"You'll freeze to death outside sooner or later!"
"That's right! Since the base doesn't care about us, let's squeeze in! Our lives are in our own hands! It's better than dying out there!"
"Ah...don't push..."
"I can't breathe."
With so many people, it's impossible to manage them all. When people crowd together, chaos ensues, and stampedes occur repeatedly.
When one person falls, a whole throng of people follow, collapsing to the ground, crushed and trampled, until they stop breathing, unable to get up again.
Seeing this, the managers were powerless; no one listened to them, and they didn't have enough force to suppress the situation.
They could only sit in the office, anxiously watching those below, some even plotting their escape routes, ready to flee with their belongings at any moment.
Besides those who are desperately trying to squeeze into the base building, there are also those who have given up and simply leave the base.
I was afraid to leave the base before because I was afraid of the zombies outside, but now...
It's better to go out and find a house to hide in than to freeze or be crushed to death.
Before the snow, there were still people patrolling and guarding the main gate of the base. But as soon as the snow started, people were almost frozen to death, and those people had long been transferred back indoors.
This gave the survivors the opportunity to leave.
Within hours of the snow falling, a base collapsed and fell apart.
Scenes much the same as this are playing out everywhere.
Haishi base.
While the situation here isn't as good as the base in S City, it's much better than in H City.
Importantly, their safe zone is expanding rapidly, and almost everyone has a room to stay in.
It's better to be inside a house than outside in the freezing cold.
Li Feng was crammed into a small single room of about ten square meters. Because he had never revealed his identity as a superhuman, his life was not easy.
Four bunk beds were squeezed into this tiny room, accommodating eight people.
Li Feng was wrapped in thick cotton clothes, sitting on the upper bed near the window, with a pink cartoon quilt half-covering his legs.
Even indoors, sitting on the bed, he was still wearing a black baseball cap, the brim pulled low, almost covering his eyes.
Under the brim of his hat, one could vaguely see a thick layer of black grime and stubble on his face, completely obscuring his originally handsome features.
By the faint moonlight from the window, he was carefully wiping a long knife with his head down.
This is the one Li Xin'er gave him before, and he has always cherished it.
Getting out of bed, a man, equally dark-skinned and looking like a homeless person, muttered a complaint:
"This awful weather! The snow just started falling like that, and it's piled up so thick. I'm afraid we won't be able to go out and clear out the zombies tomorrow."
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