After playing in the rain for more than an hour, everyone who came back was greeted with a bowl of hot, freshly baked ginger soup after taking a luxurious shower.
Grandma Zhou, Grandma Yao, and Grandma Zhou each held a large spoon and smiled lovingly, "One bowl per person! Don't even think about escaping!"
Everyone: “…”
What else can I do? Drink it!
After drinking the hot and spicy ginger soup, everyone except Zhou Guangzong who barely maintained his expression turned into famous paintings - screaming!
This made Sun Yiqing and Yuanyuan, who were watching the show with their children nearby, laugh.
Yuanyuan, who is already half a year old, is becoming more and more adorable. Her big round black eyes blink, and she thinks everyone is making faces to make her happy. Her two chubby little hands clapped together, as if applauding the wonderful performance.
"cough."
Zhou Guangzong coughed lightly and said, "Yaozu, let's go take another look at the house." After that, he picked up the umbrella beside him and quickly disappeared into the rain curtain without waiting for Zhou Yaozu.
The others looked at Zhou Yaozu and didn't laugh out loud out of courtesy. Otherwise, the scene of Zhou Guangzong beating Zhou Xiang in the rain just now would make them grin when they recalled it.
——Forget it, forget it, give the village chief some face and delete this memory from your mind. This way you will be a dignified and steady village chief again!
The rain didn't stop until eight o'clock in the evening. After the rain, Zhoujiawu looked like it had been vacuumed. The air was exceptionally fresh and the temperature wasn't so hot.
After Lin Luo finished his inspection, he looked at the newly revitalized Xiaowu Mountain. In a good mood, he got three fresh and crisp lettuces from Grandma Zhou. As soon as he entered the door, he called out, "Yunshu! Let's have barbecue for supper!"
She had bought a home barbecue pan a long time ago, but had only used it a few times. She was in a good mood today, so she decided to try a different midnight snack.
Yun Shu: "Okay, do you want it spicy?"
Lin Luo thought for a second and said, "Just a little bit."
She thought that eating spicy food late at night was not a good idea, but she also thought that eating barbecued meat late at night was a good idea.
Yun Shu saw that Lin Luo was in a good mood and would not spoil his fun at this time. He took out a piece of meat that was frozen solid from the freezer and started to cut it with his knife, which was better than a slicer.
Pork belly slices, beef slices, bacon...more than ten plates full of meat.
Lettuce, potato chips, kimchi, pickled radish... several large plates, but unfortunately there were no mushrooms.
Lin Luo thought about the boxes of self-cultivated mushrooms he had bought that had not been opened yet, so he planned to make arrangements tomorrow and start by growing some easy-to-grow mushrooms such as enoki mushrooms and oyster mushrooms.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, Lin Luo and Yun Shu sat face to face at the small dining table. Between them was a rectangular baking tray with wavy patterns on it to prevent food from sticking to the pan.
Squeak——
Yunshu picked up a piece of beef and put it on to test the temperature. It immediately made a "tempting" sound, and quickly curled up and changed color. The temperature was enough.
So, four hands started working at the same time, and soon the baking tray was filled up with ingredients that seemed particularly rich.
Lin Luo likes to eat slightly burnt meat. She stares at the fastest cooked piece of meat with burning eyes. Tiny bubbles of oil are swirling on the meat, and soon the whole room is filled with the aroma of meat.
Seeing that the first few slices of meat were almost cooked, Lin Luo picked up a piece of lettuce, spread a little Yunshu's secret barbecue sauce on it, and then picked up two slices of meat that were grilled until they were charred but not burnt.
Round it up, round it up, ah, swallow it all in one gulp.
"Woo, good times!"
Lin Luo's cheeks were bulging, and Yun Shu didn't know how he could stuff such a large piece of meat into such a small mouth. He filled the empty space on the baking tray with a smile, and then did the same action as Lin Luo just now.
——Lettuce and barbecue are really a perfect match!
Even Xiao Hei, who was already asleep, was awakened by the smell of meat. He came to Lin Luo with his bowl in his mouth and put it down. He sat on his hind legs and put his front legs together. His whole body showed the word "I want to eat".
Lin Luo: "...Xiao Hei, do you still remember that you are a wolf?"
Little Black tilted his head, his eyes puzzled, as if to say, "What does this have to do with eating meat?"
Yun Shu glanced at Xiao Hei, who was even more dog-like than a dog, with disdain. "Lolo, leave it alone. Let's continue eating."
"Ouch!" (Asshole, don't eat alone!)
"You're already so fat. If you keep eating Xiao Bai, I'll dislike you!"
"Awoo!" (Nonsense, I'm not fat at all, I'm just strong!)
"Oh, even those with sagging bellies can mop the floor."
“Ouch!!!”
…
Lin Luo: ...Yunshu, when did you learn wolf language?
In the end, Xiao Hei got to eat a few slices of half-cooked meat as he wished. He howled excitedly to the sky on the spot, bringing the barbecue feast to a successful conclusion.
The next day, the Zhou family continued building the house while it was still not too hot in the morning. Their goal was to have some preliminary results before the end of the year.
However, it seems a bit difficult at the moment. After all, the project is too huge, and the leaders are all perfectionists, which makes the progress a bit slow.
Lin Luo estimates that the project will be completed by next year at the earliest.
But it doesn't matter. I have nothing to do now and there's no rush to move in. Since we want to create nature, we must make it the best.
Lin Luo also took advantage of the cool weather and drove his truck towards the city early in the morning.
Her destination today was not in the city, but a little further away, just in the opposite direction of Zhoujiawu, there was a sawmill.
Zhoujiawu is close to the mountains, so there is no shortage of wood. The polished wooden boards are still piled up in the warehouse in the town. What is lacking is the tools to process the wood. If we rely solely on manpower to polish and cut, I don’t know how long it will take.
The tools in the town are average and relatively backward.
So Lin Luo wanted to come here in advance and move some advanced machines back. Of course, if there was any good wood, she would not let it go.
Just as he drove onto the road leading to the sawmill, Lin Luo sensed that there was another car coming towards Wenjiang City from the opposite direction. There were six level three psychics in the car.
——It is definitely a strong team.
If the two sides continue at this speed, they will collide in about ten minutes.
Lin Luo had no intention of hiding. He drove the truck and continued to drive according to the original plan, killing all the zombies on the road.
Soon, the people in the pickup truck opposite also saw Lin Luo’s huge truck.
——Zombies can’t drive!
The few people who were leaning against the car windows and using their superpowers to kill zombies and clear the way were suddenly stunned. In addition to being surprised that there were still living people here, they were even more surprised by the "unobstructed" road opposite.
"Hey, little friend over there, we're the supply team from the South China Base. Are you a survivor from Wenjiang City?"
Since there were no zombies around, one of them just shouted out, and the result was...
Swish——
A gust of wind blew past his ears, and the big truck quickly passed by them, but showed no intention of stopping.
The driver on the opposite side acted as if he didn't hear anything and just drove away?
The team member who was calling out: "...Boss, what should we do? Should we follow?"
The man called Boss frowned slightly, looking at the dead zombies on both sides of the road. "No, continue driving as planned."
Nearly a year of apocalyptic experience has taught them countless times that it is better not to have unnecessary curiosity.
Especially in this bizarre situation, what if it was a trap? Even if it wasn't a trap, judging by the other party's attitude just now, it was clear that they didn't want to pay attention to them.
What if he approached him forcefully and angered him? He didn't think an ordinary psychic could cause such an effect.
Lin Luo quickly arrived at the sawmill, cleared out the zombies inside, and then used his mental power to move any useful ones up there, which was a big sweep.
Soon, the back of the big truck was filled. With Lin Luo's mental power, there was no need to worry about these things falling off during the journey.
It was almost ten o'clock and the temperature was starting to rise again. In order to make it in time for lunch, Lin Luo didn't delay any longer and started his return journey.
But when passing by Wenjiang City, he sensed that the small team not far away was clearing out zombies.
The base often issues tasks to clear out zombies. The more zombies you kill or the higher the level of the zombies, the more points you can get to exchange for supplies.
This small team is very skilled and brave. The competition pressure in the cities around the South China base is too great. It’s not that they can’t beat the other teams, but their efficiency is too low.
Now the points given by killing level 3 zombies in the base are very cost-effective, much more cost-effective than killing level 1 and 2 zombies. It just so happens that one of my teammates is from Wenjiang City, so after discussing it with a few of us, we feel that we can explore a new map.
All six of them carried a bag that did not leak any smells and could block most odors. It was a bag specially made by the base to hold a part of the zombie tissue and serve as proof of redemption for points.
Most teams would choose to bring a small finger or something, of course, there are also those with special "hobbies" who would dig out eyeballs or something like that.
Don't worry about someone only taking part of the tissue but not killing the zombies. Firstly, this is very difficult. After all, there are usually very few zombies that appear alone and you are asked to cut them up obediently. Secondly, the base is very strict in this regard. Once a deception is discovered, not only will the points be reset to zero, but there will also be a penalty task.
Anyway, at present, no one has dared to do this.
"Chengzi, is there such a small population in your hometown?"
The group carefully entered Wenjiang City and discovered something was wrong after a while. There were too few zombies... right?
"No way! My hometown is said to have a population of one million, so even if it's less than that, it's impossible. It's only this small."
The boy named Chengzi was also confused. There were quite a lot of zombies on the way here. They had prepared at least a week's worth of supplies this time, hoping to make a fortune. But how come the zombies in the city... are even fewer than those in the suburbs!
"Before, if you came here on weekends, there would be no cell phone signal. You'd be squeezed!"
They were now on what used to be the most prosperous street in Wenjiang City. At first, everyone just tried to explore the edge of the area, but they found that there were unreasonably few zombies. They became nervous and wondered if there was any big guy nearby.
But after a long time nothing happened, everyone slowly moved towards the city center while killing the remaining zombies, and then they found that there were even fewer zombies here!
"Look!" After killing three level one zombies neatly, a team member suddenly pointed at a small alley and exclaimed in a low voice, and everyone looked over there.
There were several broken zombie corpses.
There are generally two ways to deal with zombie corpses: eat them with mutated animals and plants, or occasionally some zombies will eat the corpses of their companions, but most of them will not do that.
Maybe it's because it tastes bad or zombies also have an unspoken rule of not eating their companions?
There are many people who keep pets in Wenjiang City, but they cannot take them with them when they flee, which leads to a lot of mutant beasts here, so the zombie corpses disappear relatively quickly.
Does the presence of corpses prove that someone is killing zombies?
Is that why there are so few zombies here?
However, the six people looked at each other and wondered how long it would take and how many people would have to kill together to achieve this effect.
It has been almost a year since the end of the world. If there are such powerful survivors outside, why don’t they come to the base? At least they have just had a preliminary look at the situation in the city. Without water, electricity and food, how can ordinary people survive?
I thought it would take a long time to get the answer, but unexpectedly, I heard the familiar sound of a truck starting soon.
If we don't go through the Wenjiang city center, we'll have to take a longer route. If it was before the apocalypse? Of course, we would choose the longer route. After all, the city center is so crowded and trucks are not allowed on the road. But now...
A large truck loaded with stuff sped past, stirring up some dust and causing zombies to fall like dominoes.
Six people: "..." Suddenly, they understood why there were so few zombies in Wenjiang City.
Chengzi swallowed his saliva and said, "Boss, is this the sweeping monk in the novel?"
Among the six people, the oldest is only thirty years old. Chengzi, for example, is still a college student. He used to like reading fantasy and martial arts novels.
The boss was silent for a moment, "Do you know where that direction leads?"
Chengzi thought for a moment, "There seems to be only one Changqing Town over there? Beyond that, there are only undeveloped mountains."
"Shall we follow?" This was the second time the same question was asked.
Unexpectedly, the boss asked back, "What do you think? Did he find us?"
The others opened their mouths slightly and finally nodded. If they really had that kind of power, they would have definitely discovered them.
Since their superpowers gradually upgraded, they discovered that although they were not physical superpower users, their physical fitness was much better than before, both in hearing and vision.
"Go back and report this situation and let the higher-ups decide." No matter how powerful these six people are, they are just a small team. The country has powerful weapons and a large number of talents. It is safer and more reliable to leave it to them.
The reason why this team has survived to this day is not only because of the talented players, but also because of the cautiousness of the leader.
Sure enough, after he said this, no one objected. After all, the zombies along the way were almost enough to offset the fuel consumption this time, so it was not a loss.
In the end times, nothing is more important than life!
Lin Luo drove back to Zhoujiawu and put the wood and machinery in the car into the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall, which was spacious and could shelter from wind and rain.
Then she got out of the car and walked towards her home, followed by some information she had collected from the sawmill, which she planned to give to the house-building team later, as it might be helpful.
But when he actually got home and sat on the sofa, Lin Luo couldn't help but think of what had just happened.
She did discover the team, and could probably guess what those people would do if they didn't catch up.
Given Lin Luo's dislike for trouble, her first reaction should be to change their memories or give orders not to talk too much.
Just like what we did to Yao Haichao's team.
But when Lin Luo heard about the South China Base, he suddenly thought of the next year in his previous life, which was the third year of the apocalypse, when the South China Base was destroyed.
A large number of level 4 zombies brought their minions to besiege the entire South China base. The South China base persisted in this battle for three days, but was ultimately defeated by the endless stream of zombies.
After the base was destroyed, only a small number of people survived.
Lin Luo was one of them, and Zhou Yaozu died in this incident!
Later, she lived with those who wanted to go to another base for a few days, but she still couldn't stand some things. After experiencing that tragic battle and successfully reaching level five in supernatural powers, Lin Luo took the initiative to leave and started the next ten years of wandering.
So, in this life...will this zombie wave appear again? Can the South China Base, which is much more powerful than in the previous life, withstand it?
When she was weak, the South China Base gave Lin Luo a shelter, allowing her time to grow.
This was also one of the reasons why Lin Luo's attitude was relatively gentle when Yao Haichao and others appeared.
Lin Luo didn't know the reason for the zombie tide, so she couldn't avoid it from happening. If it were still the same in this life... she should be able to reach level seven by then unless something unexpected happened.
A seventh-level psychic has officially entered the ranks of advanced psychics. His destructive power is unimaginable to current psychics. He can definitely play a key role in such a siege, but once he takes action, there will be a lot of trouble afterwards.
So Lin Luo decided to let nature take its course and see how this matter would develop.
——Can’t imagine doing it again? In my lifetime, I will take the initiative to consider such things.
Lin Luo mocked in his heart, leaned back, and stared blankly at the chandelier above his head, obviously in a daze.
Why think so much? This life is given to her extra. Just live the way she wants and be happy.
At eleven o'clock, Yunshu came back and brought back a good thing - two ripe watermelons!
"Grandma Zhou used some of her special powers to speed them up. Normally, it will take another week before they can be eaten."
Yun Shu explained and put the two watermelons into the refrigerator.
Lin Luo likes watermelon, and especially likes the seedless, crispy, and chilled ones. Not only Yun Shu knows this, but several elderly people in Zhoujiawu also know a little about it.
Even though the weather was so hot, Grandma Zhou brought the melons to Lin Luo in advance.
"This is the first watermelon of the year!" Lin Luo stood up, "I'll finish it this afternoon!"
Yun Shu looked at Lin Luo with amusement, "Okay, they're all Luo Luo's." There was a hint of doting in her tone.
But Lin Luo didn't seem to hear it. He waved his hand and said magnanimously, "That's not necessary. There are two, right? We can each have one."
Can? Yun Shu didn't know whether he should be "touched" by letting Lin Luo share the watermelon with him. He walked into the kitchen with a smile. He had mentioned yesterday that Lin Luo wanted to eat cold noodles for lunch.
The chewy and translucent cold skin is paired with cucumber shreds, peanuts, bean sprouts, and topped with Yunshu's signature garlic sauce. Lin Luo can eat a whole bowl by himself!
Tired of eating hot meals in the summer, why not have a meal like this occasionally? It’s also good. Paired with Lin Luo’s favorite bayberry juice, the heat is instantly gone.
No one went out during the hottest part of the afternoon; it was simply unbearable. After lunch, Lin Luo returned to his room for a nap, while Yun Shu went up the mountain to exercise. No matter how busy he was, he would always find time to push himself to the limit.
Lin Luo hadn't tested Yun Shu's ability for a while, and didn't know if there had been any changes recently, but she believed that with Yun Shu's level of hard work, God would not let him down.
Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Yun Shu went home to change his clothes and planned to go to the "construction site" to continue working. He wanted to build the house quickly, and with Yun Shu's physical fitness, this little exercise on the construction site could even be considered a relaxation.
Lin Luo also felt inspired today and wanted to go with Yun Shu to see the progress.
Seeing that the sun was still scorching outside, and the fair, tender and "delicate" Lin Luo, Yun Shu did not stop them, but chose to bring a few more things.
Awning, folding table and chairs, a small rechargeable fan, half a watermelon and a small spoon.
Zhou Yaozu and others who also wanted to do more but accidentally saw these equipments: "..."
Are you here for vacation?!
Yun Shu didn't care about that. He found a relatively clean place and put everything away. "Lolo, just watch here. Call me if you need anything."
A spoon was stuffed into his right hand. Lin Luo met the "jealous" gazes of Hong Hu and others, and suddenly he felt at ease and dug up the middle part of the watermelon and swallowed it in one gulp.
The sweet and cool watermelon juice instantly exploded in his mouth. Lin Luo waved at Yun Shu who was looking over at him, "Yun~ Shu~ Come on!"
Yun Shu pursed her lips, a bright smile appearing in her eyes.
The next second, he easily lifted up five bags of cement and was about to move them to the other side. When he was about to make a second trip, he found that the pile of cement had been picked up "out of thin air" by someone and quickly placed in the designated place.
Who here has this ability? It goes without saying.
Yun Shu looked at Lin Luo, and they both smiled. There was an air of indifference surrounding them, even though they hadn't said a word.
Others who suddenly felt that they were redundant: "..."
My body is already exhausted from building a house, why do I need to use mental attacks!
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