Aunt Fang and Zhou Ya have been staying on the sixth-floor rooftop for over a week.
The building where Zhou Ya was located had a very good view. From the front window, one could see the small courtyard across the street and the mountain behind it. From the back window, one could see the highway and several main intersections not far away. At the major intersections, there were wrecked cars and zombies wandering around aimlessly.
The only problem is that the area behind the mountain is forest land, with almost no people living there, and consequently, there are no resources for survival.
You could check out the factories behind the highway exit.
Although Aunt Fang was unwilling to steal other people's things, she also realized that it had been two or three months since the eastern suburbs shelter was captured, and the relevant departments had not given any news. They did not know when they would be rescued, so they had to make long-term plans.
Aunt Fang then said, "Factories usually buy their own filters to filter water. You can go to the factories behind the highway and see if there are any large factory filters. If you can find one or two, we can filter the rainwater we collect directly into drinkable water."
Without filters, such a large factory would certainly store a lot of purified water.
The group didn't go to the factory behind the highway exit to look for supplies because there were too many zombies at the highway exit, and it was too dangerous to cross the highway exit to get to the factory behind it.
Everyone felt it was impractical: "It's too dangerous, and there's no guarantee we'll find water and a filter. Instead of risking our lives to go so far away, we might as well just go across the street and rob a whole well—it's inexhaustible!"
Aunt Fang said confidently, "Are you sure you can beat Chen Zhou and Li Jianguo? Even if you can, many people will die or be injured. Which of you is willing to be killed?"
Nobody wanted to, but everyone still felt it was too dangerous to go to the factory to get water.
So someone suggested, "Song Chi just mentioned a well, why don't we dig one too?"
Song Chi immediately switched to teacher mode and began to educate everyone: "The underground of the community is full of latrines and drainage pipes. Digging wells is time-consuming and laborious. In fact, before digging a well, it is necessary to survey whether there is groundwater. There is indeed groundwater in this place, but it is quite deep below the surface. In the past, we used professional drilling tools to drill more than 20 meters in the small courtyard before we found groundwater. However, the deepest we can dig by man is only 10 meters, otherwise we will lack oxygen. Therefore, digging a well is not realistic."
Aunt Fang looked at Song Chi with admiration: "I didn't realize you knew so much at such a young age."
Before the apocalypse, Song Chi was a senior high school teacher, a popular figure among parents.
After being praised by Aunt Fang,
Song Chi's sense of superiority immediately rose: "I am not very talented, but I used to be a senior high school teacher, so I know a little bit about geography."
Aunt Fang suffered from a lack of education when she was young.
Many opportunities for promotion and salary increases were snatched away by her less capable colleagues.
She respects her teachers the most.
Upon hearing that Song Chi was a senior high school teacher, she immediately praised him, saying, "No wonder you know so much, you're a teacher."
Young people today show the opposite respect for teachers as the older generation did.
What they hate most is the teacher. The teacher doesn't teach during class and insists that parents pay for extra lessons outside of school. A single lesson costs several hundred yuan, and if there are one or two lessons a week, no family can afford it.
This is why people nowadays are unwilling to have children.
When people heard that Song Chi was a teacher, they all gave him a cold shoulder.
However, they had no choice but to agree to Aunt Fang's plan, since no one wanted to confront Shen Zhou and Li Jianguo head-on.
Qi Feng and Li Jianguo then lifted Song Chi up on either side, saying, "His extensive knowledge is perfect for accompanying us to the water and filter area!!!"
Not long after returning to their residential compound, Chen Zhou and his group drove away again.
Qiao An'an and the others in the courtyard were all puzzled.
Qiao An'an clearly saw Song Chi pointing at her yard and talking for a long time. Although Qiao An'an couldn't hear what Song Chi was saying, she could guess that he was talking about the resources in her yard.
She asked in surprise, "Logically, these people should have come to rob our courtyard, so why did they leave again?"
Ya Ya innocently asked, "Could it be because they are all good people?"
Qiao An'an pinched Ya Ya's cheek and said earnestly, "Ya Ya, remember this well, this is the apocalypse, there aren't that many good people now, we can't easily trust others."
Grandpa Gu Bei also said, "Although we can't hear them, judging from their expressions, they really wanted to take over our courtyard. The people behind them almost got into a fight with Shen Zhou. I don't know what Li Jianguo said, but they stopped."
Gu Bei nodded seriously: "So Li Jianguo is a good person."
Qiao An'an and Grandpa Gu Bei exchanged a helpless glance. Why were all the kids they raised so naive?
Chi Xiaoyu did not participate in the discussion. Instead, she turned off the electric fence on the wall early in the morning, climbed up the wall, and used her homemade magnet to attract the arrows that were shot out.
She used quite a few of her arrows to help Li Jianguo this time.
She was afraid that if people from the neighborhood came to cause trouble for their courtyard in the future, she would be left with no options.
However, the arrows were deeply embedded in the zombies' skulls and could not be pulled out at all.
She tried to pull back an arrow for a long time but failed, which only caused a commotion among the zombies on the road.
A zombie with a face covered in maggots nearby even rammed its head against the wall.
Fortunately, for her own safety, Qiao An'an had made the courtyard wall 50 centimeters thick, so even though the zombie crashed into it and its head was smashed and its brains spilled out, it only left a shallow dent in the outer wall.
However, this action attracted the attention of other zombies. If all the zombies came and frantically rammed into the wall, it was hard to say whether the wall could withstand it. So she was frightened and dared not do anything rash, and climbed down the outer wall.
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