The 8th day of the Lunar New Year is usually a big day for everyone, as people should be returning to work after their holiday. However, today is also a big day because the internet is down.
I noticed the network signal was weak a couple of days ago, it was intermittent and slow, but at least it would pick up eventually. Today, however, there's absolutely no network at all.
When you can't reach your friends and family who you used to contact every day, you feel a sense of emptiness.
Previously, we could know the current situation through the network, but now we only know what's happening in this surrounding area. Without the network, network-based surveillance is no longer usable.
Everyone felt as if they had gone blind and deaf, and couldn't help but feel panicked.
Ye's mother contacted her relatives and friends every day, but now that she couldn't reach them, she felt uneasy. She stayed on the roof, hoping that the signal would be better up there, but when she couldn't get a signal at all, she finally gave up and came down to the living room feeling depressed.
"Mom, don't worry, they were fine yesterday, and they'll be fine in the future."
"Everything else is fine, but I'm worried about your sister. Their neighborhood fell even faster than ours. Our zombies are all outside, while theirs are all inside. If they stay trapped like this, they'll eventually run out of resources."
Ye Yunyi remained silent for a while. She knew that her mother was right, but she couldn't let her mother continue to be so depressed.
“Didn’t we send the address to our sister? Zhao Yong is quite shrewd. We had already discussed it, and they would come looking for us if they sensed something was wrong.”
"It's such a long journey, and given the current situation, how difficult it is to get here."
"Mom, don't worry, there will always be a way. My sister must be worried about us too, so we have to be strong and make this place a good place. If my sister and the others come, this place can provide them with a safe haven and a peaceful life."
In this apocalyptic world, after spending 10 days with zombies, everyone became more resolute.
After a moment of silence, Aunt Ye said, "That's true. I checked on the vegetables we planted yesterday. They'll be ready to be transplanted in a few more days."
"Yes, that's great. Once it's ready for transplanting, we'll transplant it and then we won't have to worry about how much we can eat each day anymore."
In these eight days, several more residential areas have seen their residents infected and turned into zombies due to the invasion of cats and dogs. Cats, in particular, are adept at climbing walls, and this skill has become even more powerful after they become zombies. Previously, in Xingfu Residential Area, because there were many stray cats in the area, the cats were also infected after the zombie invasion. They climbed into open windows, which led to the rapid fall of the area.
Many families who own pets either cruelly kill their cats and dogs, or, unable to bear it, throw them away, or, if they really can't bear it, tie them up and keep a close watch on them.
The Maple Forest Villa where Ye Yunyi lives has remained untouched by zombies due to its location and proper management, but the number of zombies around the villa is increasing.
Since the day after the zombie virus outbreak, Ye Yunyi's family has been exercising and practicing self-defense every day, and their physical condition has improved significantly. Even Wang Zixiang, who was the weakest, has become much more energetic.
Seeing the increasing number of zombies, Ye's father said we needed to prepare some long-range weapons. We had previously prepared some wooden sticks, daggers, iron bars, and stones. However, killing zombies only involved damaging their brains. These weapons were too difficult to achieve that goal.
Zhao Yong had already learned archery, and he demonstrated it in the video to reassure Ye's mother. These past few days, besides exercising while keeping watch and checking on the vegetables, there wasn't much to do, so Yuan's father found some tools and materials in the storeroom to make some bows and arrows and targets.
Seeing her father do this, Ye Yunyi had a sudden realization. If she mastered this technique, she could accurately shoot into the zombie's brain without getting close, which was indeed much better than daggers and sticks.
Because the villa was surrounded by electric fences and the windows along the walls were sealed off, they weren't worried about cats and dogs breaking in. However, they couldn't monitor the surroundings through surveillance cameras, so everyone took turns patrolling the house and yard day and night. The others practiced archery in their spare time. Ye Yunyi and Wang Xuanxuan were the best at archery.
Ye Yunyi knew she had a talent; she was particularly accurate at throwing crumpled paper scraps before, but she lacked strength, making the work a bit strenuous. Ye's father then made several bows and arrows suitable for women. Back in his hometown, Ye's father often made things himself, and he could learn many things just by watching. Although he had never made bows and arrows before, apart from the first one being slightly ugly, the later ones were quite good. Seeing everyone's great interest in bows and arrows, Ye's father also used wood and bamboo he had stored for making fences to carve arrows.
The target was made using a wooden frame and some old clothes, with circles drawn on the clothes with ink. It was placed in the living room, and everyone practiced whenever they had a spare moment. Even Aunt Ye practiced from time to time.
However, the neighbors in the Maple Forest Villa area could still contact each other. Wang Zixiang, who happened to be studying communications, noticed the network was slow and intermittent a couple of days prior and knew it would eventually break down without maintenance. So, he spent time in his study setting up a local area network (LAN). The day before the network was completely cut off, he shared the LAN's IP address in the group chat. Therefore, even after the network was completely disconnected from the outside world, everyone could still share updates within the LAN. If any zombies entered the villa area, they could be detected immediately and alerted to be on guard.
Because of this, everyone is very grateful to and respectful of Wang Zixiang.
Seven more days passed, the rainy season ended, and the weather gradually warmed up. The chives planted earlier had fully taken root and were growing very quickly, forming clusters. Mom used them to make chive and egg stir-fry, chive and pork stir-fry, and also made chive dumplings. They were all very delicious.
The seeds they planted had all grown and were ready for transplanting. Ye Yunyi's whole family pitched in, planting spinach and bok choy, whose roots weren't well-developed, on the rooftop. They planted some more in the yard downstairs than on the rooftop. The potatoes they had planted earlier had sprouted, and the sweet potatoes had grown many tender, long seedlings. They cut the seedlings and planted them in the soil they had prepared earlier.
The sweet potato seedlings we planted earlier are growing well. The temperature in the greenhouse is just right, and the seedlings are slowly spreading out their vines, looking lush and green. Mom Ye can't bear to pick the tips to eat, so she just plucks one or two leaves from each sweet potato vine. Just one leaf from each vine is enough to make a stir-fry.
The garlic and scallions are growing very well, but the garlic has to be kept, as Mother Ye can't bear to touch it. The scallions grow better and better the more they are picked after they die.
After transplanting the bok choy and spinach, Ye's father planted chili seeds, cucumber seeds, and eggplant seeds in the original seedling area.
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