Chapter 208 Caijia Village
His first task was to have everyone move and settle in the central area of the village, near the village ancestral hall. Then he led everyone to collect supplies from each household.
The village was originally a food processing village, and many families had warehouses or cold storage facilities where they stocked up on large quantities of meat.
Because there was no electricity after the apocalypse, the village chief immediately ordered everyone to turn all the frozen meat into various kinds of cured meat, braised meat, and other easily stored foods.
There is a well in the village, and almost every household has installed a water storage tower on their rooftop to make food processing more convenient. The village also has its own water storage tower.
In other words, for a very long period of time, Caijia Village did not lack food or drinking water.
At the same time, Village Chief Cai also organized the surviving able-bodied men to build walls between the houses in the settlement.
After the apocalypse, their village produced five earth-type ability users, so they spent about two months building a fortress around their settlement of more than two hundred people.
During this period, only a dozen or so people died for various reasons, such as being suddenly attacked by zombies, being careless while working, or contracting serious illnesses. After that, there were no more casualties in Caijia Village.
This village chief Cai is indeed a capable person. He had thought ahead about all sorts of things that would happen in the future and made preparations in advance.
He even established security measures in the village.
This village is located in a remote area, backed by a mountain that is rare in the plains, and for a long time it was not disturbed by other humans or zombies.
In the apocalypse, the villagers lived comfortably for several months under the leadership of the village chief. During these months, the village chief even led them to build a vegetable shed and start planting.
If it weren't for a group of uninvited guests suddenly barging in.
Village Chief Cai is very capable, and his protection of everyone is both a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing is that most of the villagers have never witnessed the evil of humanity in the apocalypse, nor have they ever fought a bitter and fierce battle with zombies.
Most people still retain some of the rules and ways of thinking from before the apocalypse. The inner perimeter of the village is well-fortified, making it difficult for outsiders to invade.
Just yesterday, a mother and daughter came to the village begging.
A gaunt woman led two thin, yellow-haired girls. The two children looked to be six or seven years old, so thin they resembled refugee children from Africa.
They discovered the village and that there were people there, so they pleaded and cried under the gate, begging the village to take them in.
The woman said that as long as the villagers could give her and her two children a way to survive, they would do anything, even work like cattle or horses.
The people guarding the village entrance felt sorry for him, but they didn't make a decision on their own. Instead, they reported it to Village Chief Cai.
Village Chief Cai felt something was amiss. He wondered how such a thin woman, a widow and orphan, had managed to get into their village.
The woman's accent sounded like she was from City B, but it didn't seem like she was from any of the nearby villages. In any case, Village Chief Cai sensed something was wrong and decided to ignore the mother and her two children.
But the mother and her two children did not leave; they continued to plead at the door.
The weather had been freezing these past few days, and the mother and her two daughters were shivering so badly that they eventually couldn't even utter a sound. If this continued, the three of them would surely freeze to death.
Frustrated, the guards at the gate went to look for Village Chief Cai again. However, Village Chief Cai wasn't home; he had gone to check on the crops in the village's greenhouses.
Coincidentally, Village Chief Cai's daughter was at home.
To be fair, Village Chief Cai is a very capable person, but perhaps he's too capable. He takes on everything himself, so he hasn't raised his daughter very well.
She used to be like a spoiled city girl, willful and eccentric yet overflowing with kindness. She used to love bringing home cats and dogs, but she wouldn't take care of them herself, leaving them all to her parents.
Her mother couldn't take care of so many animals, and several died during that time. This caused quite a commotion in the entire village.
Village Chief Cai is good in every way, except for his doting on his only daughter.
When Miss Cai heard about the mother and her two daughters, she was immediately filled with sympathy.
She complained about her father's cold-heartedness, lack of compassion, and tyranny, while simultaneously calling to the gatekeeper to help her open the gate and bring the mother and her two daughters into the village, lest they freeze to death outside.
Ms. Cai also said, "It's just a skinny woman and two skinny children. What can they do? Could such people possibly bring danger to the village?"
That's a joke. If a woman and two children could destroy a village, then all their hard work in defense over the past few months would have been for nothing.
The gatekeeper was actually moved by compassion, which is why he came to ask Village Chief Cai repeatedly. His thoughts were similar to Miss Cai's; he felt that the three of you, mother and daughters, were too weak and small to cause any trouble.
On the contrary, it would be unsettling to watch them freeze to death at the door. However, without the village chief's orders, they dared not let outsiders into the village on their own initiative.
Now that Miss Cai has stepped in to cover it up, everyone knows that Village Chief Cai dotes on her. Since Miss Cai was the one who released the person, the village chief naturally won't blame them, and probably won't have the heart to blame Miss Cai either. It's a win-win situation.
And so, the mother and her two daughters were brought into the village. The gatekeeper and Miss Cai were very kind and invited them to warm up in the gatehouse first, and also asked them about their origins and discussed how to tell Village Chief Cai about this matter.
There were two other guards in the gatehouse at the time, making a total of four people including Miss Cai.
The incident occurred while the mother and her two daughters were trying to keep warm.
Two twin girls who looked only seven or eight years old suddenly sprang into action, unleashing ice blades that instantly killed the other four people in the gatehouse!
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