summer.
It's still summer when there's no electricity and we can't turn on the fan or air conditioner.
The air was so hot that it couldn't circulate.
People were so hot that they became dehydrated.
Qiao An'an was there because she was guarding a well.
There is no shortage of water at home.
Moreover, the well water was warm in winter and cool in summer, and drawing a bucket and placing it in the house could relieve the heat, so she and Ya Ya did not find the summer in the apocalypse particularly unbearable.
But the situation is different for the residents in the opposite neighborhood.
The bloodstains and bits of flesh left behind by zombies in the neighborhood corroded rapidly under the high temperature, and the foul smell made people afraid to open their windows.
But it's stuffy and uncomfortable if you don't open the windows.
These are not the most difficult things to endure. The most difficult thing is that the water in the human body evaporates very quickly under high temperatures, and a lot of water needs to be replenished to alleviate the problem. However, water resources in each household are extremely limited, and some families with water shortages even save their own urine.
If this continues, even if we don't get bitten to death by the zombies downstairs, we'll die of thirst.
A young man in the community couldn't take it anymore, so he went into the underground parking garage through his building entrance, got in his car, and tried to drive out.
The people upstairs saw the young man drive his car out of the underground parking garage and a glimmer of hope arose in their hearts. If the young man could escape, did it mean that they could escape in the same way?
The young man drove the car out of the garage amidst the expectant gazes of the crowd.
But as soon as he drove out of the garage, the sound of the engine attracted the surrounding zombies. Even though he floored the accelerator, the car was still surrounded by a large group of zombies. In the end, the car went out of control, crashed into the roadside guardrail, and exploded.
He and his car were burned.
Those watching from the window fell silent upon seeing this.
It's unlikely they'll risk driving out, but without water they'll all die sooner or later!
One extreme young man even opened his window, preparing to jump off the building to end it all!
Just as he was about to jump, a cold drop landed on his face. He touched his face in surprise and found it was a water droplet.
How can there be water droplets in this sweltering heat?
As the young man looked on in surprise, he saw the second and third drops of water fall on his face one after another, followed by more drops hitting his face without warning. He finally saw clearly that these were water droplets falling from the sky, and it was going to rain!
He tilted his head back and gulped down the rainwater, shouting excitedly, "It's raining! It's raining! We're saved!!!"
The rain was heavy.
Raindrops pattered down on the ground, stirring up the dust that had dried for days, washing away the remaining bloodstains, and carrying away the foul smell of rotting flesh in the air. They brought a touch of coolness to the unbearably hot crowd and also brought hope to the residents of the community.
This is truly a timely help!
The surviving residents in the community opened their windows and took out various pots, pans, cups, bathtubs, and anything else that could store water to collect the hard-won rainwater.
Qiao An'an, who lives across the street from the community, carefully counted that there were twenty or thirty households with their windows open to catch rainwater. This means that there are still twenty or thirty survivors in the community across the street. This does not include the girl's home on the top floor of Building No. 3, whose curtains were always tightly closed.
This is fine too.
With water available, these people can survive a little longer on compressed biscuits, and perhaps rescue will arrive soon.
When Qiao An'an looked at Building No. 3 through her binoculars, she vaguely thought she saw a window open on the fourth floor of Building No. 3.
Are there any other residents in Building 3 besides the archery girl?
Did she cause any harm to the residents when she lured the zombies in?
She instinctively looked behind her through the binoculars again, only to find that the window was actually closed.
Could it be because it's raining that I can't see clearly and I misread it?
Qiao An'an wanted to take a closer look, but was interrupted by Ya Ya who came running over: "Mommy, Mommy, the baby chicks ran away!!!"
Qiao An'an followed Ya Ya's gaze and saw that the box containing the chicks had been overturned by the chicks themselves at some point, and about ten chicks were scattered all over the room. Inside the cardboard box lay a dying rooster.
The little rooster was the smallest of all the chickens. Its comb was very red. It seemed that the space inside the cardboard box was too small, and because it was the smallest, it was trampled by the other chickens.
The chicks, which are about a month old, have already grown to over a pound.
Its feathers have fully grown in.
Qiao An'an scattered some rice in the yard to lure all the chicks out of the house. She then took the dying chick to the eaves on the first floor to get some fresh air and see if she could revive it.
Then we started working on building the chicken coop.
Qiao An'an had originally planned to move them to a new home in the next few days, but it had been too hot, and Ya Ya hadn't been feeling well. She was going to wait until the weather cooled down before building the chicken coop, but it seemed she couldn't wait any longer.
She originally planned to place the chicken coop near the courtyard wall, which was a bit further away from the house.
The chicken smelled awful.
But they were also worried that the crowing of chickens would attract the attention of the zombies outside.
Although she had made a collar for the rooster as instructed in the book, the hen still made noise. So she decided to put the chicken coop under the eaves of the living room, leaving a considerable distance from the gate. As long as the chickens didn't squawk extremely loudly, they wouldn't attract the attention of the zombies outside the gate.
She didn't actually have any experience building chicken coops, but even if she hadn't eaten pork, hadn't she seen pigs run?
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