Chapter 1631: Drought, so Thirsty

It has not rained for more than four months, and the thick clouds have not rained.

The recent high temperature may be because the clouds in the sky have changed from white to gray.

The sunlight is not so strong, and the temperature has dropped a lot.

It has dropped from more than 30 degrees to about 20 degrees, and it is still dropping.

More than four months without a drop of rain has made the lush fields turn yellow.

The dry riverbed has cracked one deep hole after another, like scars on the earth, silently telling the severity of the drought.

The land has long lost its former moisture and has become as hard as iron.

The well water in the village has dried up, and the bottom of the well has exposed the devastated stones.

Occasionally, a gust of wind blows up the dust on the ground, as if even the wind is complaining about the ruthlessness of the drought. The trees on the roadside have lost their vitality, their leaves are yellow, and their branches are dry. They stand quietly, like watchmen, waiting for the return of rain.

More than ten kilometers southeast of the oil city, the Dabie Mountains.

A team that went out to search for food and supplies was trudging forward in the mountains and forests.

"Teacher Chu, why don't we return to the trading market first? We have drunk all the water we brought with us." Gu Yongzhen swallowed his dry saliva and said in a hoarse voice.

Wang Beibei echoed:

"Yes, there are no lakes around here, and we can't replenish water. If we continue like this, we may die of thirst!"

They are the Plant Rhythm Team, who are good at finding various foods in the mountains and forests.

Pueraria root, yam, wild chestnut, wild hawthorn, chestnut, jujube, and tea tree mushroom are all their targets.

Even the leaves of some plants can be eaten. They are students of botany, and Chu Juan is a professor of botany before the end of the world.

After hearing what the students behind her said, Chu Juan rubbed her sore calves and looked at the gray sky through the gaps in the sparse leaves.

The clouds are piled up, and there is no rain for a long time. These are beyond her cognition.

However, the zombie outbreak is not in line with scientific logic.

Alas.

She turned and looked at the students behind her. Their faces were pale and yellow, and they looked malnourished.

"Okay, let's go back."

It was extremely helpless. Their gains this time were far less than the last time.

When everyone heard that Teacher Chu agreed to return, they were inexplicably excited.

The group was covered in dust and carried bamboo baskets on their backs, walking down the mountain.

Their gains this time were few. It is estimated that all the things in the bamboo baskets are only worth a few points.

After so much effort and running so far, there is still no big gain.

The drought lasted for such a long time, causing many plants to die.

It is now afternoon on the mountain road of more than 20 kilometers, and they will definitely not be able to return on the same day.

However, they have been walking along the mountain on both sides of the road at the bottom of the mountain. After going down the mountain, they can find the main road, and along the main road, they can find houses. Staying in the shelter of the houses can spend a night relatively safely.

The iron wolf dustpans on the mountain are withered in large areas, and it is much easier for them to go down the mountain than before.

When the iron wolf grass was lush in the past, it could reach as high as a person's waist.

They supported each other and walked down the mountain.

An hour later, after they climbed over a mountain, they could already see the main road at the bottom of the mountain from the halfway point.

Everyone was thirsty, but they drank all the water they brought, not a drop left.

The main road at the bottom of the mountain was empty, without a single zombie.

"Let's go!" Chu Juan shouted to the people behind.

Looking down the mountain from the top, it looked very close, but it would take a long time to walk down.

When they came down from the halfway point, it was already four o'clock in the evening.

Due to the accumulation of clouds in the sky, four o'clock looked almost the same as the blue and gray sky when the sun sets at ordinary times.

The road at the bottom of the mountain was a rural road, and two ordinary houses were still standing.

It was just that the white walls of the two buildings had fallen off, revealing the bricks inside.

The two houses looked a bit eerie, especially in this weather, like a place where an old corpse lies in a mountain village.

In front of the two buildings was a small stream, which dried up, revealing the pebbles on the riverbed.

Further on was a rural road, and they were just opposite the rural road.

To get to the two houses, they had to cross the rural road and the dried-up stream.

Ta-ta--

Chu Juan and others came down from the mountain and looked at the long rural road with no one on both sides.

This place was sparsely populated, and there was not even a scrapped vehicle.

There were no zombies to be seen.

But this was a good thing for them, as there were few zombies around, and they were relatively safer at night.

After quickly crossing the rural road, they stepped on the cement bridge over the dried-up stream and arrived in front of the two buildings.

The two buildings were located in a valley opposite a main road, and the surrounding terrain was a triangle, with strong winds and heavy yin energy.

When they arrived in front of the two buildings, the two buildings were only three or four meters apart, and each had a yard.

The yard is not high, only about one meter.

Chu Juan looked at Liu Zhuangshi behind her, "Zhuangshi, you and Wang Beibei go into this building to take a look, I will go to another building with them."

Liu Zhuangshi is tall and long, and is the most powerful man in their team.

If it weren't for him, Chu Juan might have died in the mouth of a zombie in a zombie chase before.

"Okay, Teacher Chu." Liu Zhuangshi put the sickle in his hand into the bamboo basket with a bamboo basket on his back, and then pulled out a chopping knife from his waist.

He found this chopping knife in a farmer's house and has been with him for many years.

He sharpened the knife very sharp and it was very easy for him to use.

The two walked to the door of the yard of the house and pushed open the rusty iron door.

Liu Zhuangshi gently pushed the iron door, and the iron door made an unpleasant creaking sound.

Boom!

The iron door collapsed directly after he pushed it so lightly.

Liu Zhuangshi quickly said to Wang Beibei next to him: "I just pushed it lightly, but I didn't use any force."

"I know that this door is probably on the verge of collapse. Even if you don't push it, it will probably collapse in two days." Wang Beibei didn't care, and walked into the yard.

The yard was full of fallen leaves, as well as some dry soil and gravel.

The moss in the corner of the wall also died and turned into a black and yellow object.

The two men clenched their weapons, leaned on each other, and walked towards the hall.

"There should be no zombies in this house. The door has not been opened for so long." Wang Beibei whispered.

There was a stench in the house. The two smelled the stench and found the source of the stench.

In a room on the east side, they saw three corpses, and only bones were left of the corpses.

It looked like a group of zombies had come and eaten these three people.

Looking at the white skull, Wang Beibei walked over and pulled out a dagger from the bone.

Shaking the dust off the dagger, Wang Beibei said:

"It seems that these three people should kill each other..."

"Not necessarily, it is also possible that this person was bitten by a zombie, and then the other two people killed him to prevent him from becoming a zombie, and then the zombies entered." Liu Zhuangshi said.

"Let's go and see if there is a basement." Wang Beibei put away the dagger and walked out of the room.

The whole house was in a state of disrepair. The cabinets were broken by insects and ants, and the floor was full of wood chips.     Liu Zhuangshi walked into the kitchen and saw a row of knives hanging on a shelf in the kitchen. His eyes lit up.

He walked over quickly and picked up a boning knife.

"Not bad, Wang Mazi brand knives!"

After five or six years, the knives were slightly rusty, but they would be good to use as long as they were sharpened with water.

There were six knives in total, a vegetable cutting knife, a boning knife, and a bone chopping knife.

Liu Zhuangshi put all six knives into the bamboo basket.

This thing can be used by himself, and can also be sold at the trading market.

Especially the bone chopping knife, which is not light and feels very useful when you use it.

After searching around on the first floor, I couldn't find the basement.

This house is a very ordinary residential house. There is a shrine in the center of the first floor, and in front of the shrine is the dining room.

There is a small room connected to the back, which is the kitchen.

There are two rooms on each side of the hall.

After searching the first floor, the two went to the second floor.

The second floor had been renovated and tiled, but after so many years, the tiles were full of dirt.

Footprints were formed when they stepped on it.

There was a sofa near the wall, which was severely damaged, and even the wood inside was exposed.

The layout was the same as downstairs, with four rooms, but the door of the first room on the left was locked and could not be opened.

Seeing the closed door, Liu Zhuangshi suddenly became excited.

It has been six years since the end of the world, and almost all the places that can be found have been searched.

This kind of unopened room is likely not to have been searched.

No survivor would open the door and lock the door after eating.

"Stand back, I'll kick the door open!" Liu Zhuangshi's face was excited. He had already begun to imagine that after kicking the door open, he would find all kinds of useful things inside.

Wang Beibei pouted and walked aside.

She knew what Liu Zhuangshi was thinking, but she felt that after so many years, there would definitely be no good things left.

Liu Zhuangshi stepped back a few steps, charged, and kicked.

Crack!

He kicked a hole in the wooden door, and he pulled his foot back and kicked it hard again.

Crash--

The door was opened.

But when he saw the situation inside, his smiling expression froze.

"Fuck!"

Wang Beibei came over. There were only two ordinary zombies in the room who had been in there for who knows how long.

These two ordinary zombies were extremely skinny and looked like skeletons. They seemed to have never eaten.

But even so, the two zombies were still not dead, just lying on the ground, raising their hands and then putting them down.

Pah!

Pah!

Liu Zhuangshi walked over and stepped on the two zombies to death with his feet.

These two zombies were too fragile. They had not been exposed to the rain for too long, and they had not eaten any living things. They were trapped here for a long time and looked like mummies.

Liu Zhuangshi was a little unwilling to give up, so he searched in the closet.

The clothes inside were all moldy and could not be worn at all.

Only one blanket was left, which looked slightly better.

He pinched a corner of the blanket and shook it vigorously.

The dust on the blanket was shaken out and instantly filled the whole room.

"Cough, cough, cough, what are you doing..." Wang Beibei covered her nose and coughed.

"Sorry, I'll shake it." Liu Zhuangshi said a little embarrassedly.

Then, the two went up to the third floor, where there was nothing useful.

There is no basement, and the windows are just ordinary aluminum alloy windows, without iron railings outside, which is not very safe.

The wall-climbing zombies can easily climb in through the windows.

After they came out of this house, they went to the house next door.

There were no zombies in the house next door, but there were also no useful supplies.

Fortunately, however, the windows of this house were all equipped with anti-theft nets.

Generally speaking, the basement is the safest.

If you have to settle for the second best, you must choose a house with anti-theft nets in the room.

They finally chose the house on the right and closed the door on the first floor.

The door on the first floor looks pretty solid, made of fine steel, and has been intact for so many years.

Everyone closed all the doors and windows of this house and collectively chose to live on the second floor.

The second floor is relatively safe. If ordinary zombies rush in on the first floor, they can use the narrow corridor on the second floor to block the zombies.

After they closed the doors on the first and second floors, they gathered in the lobby on the second floor.

Sit on the ground to rest.

"Do you want to eat chestnuts?" Gu Yongzhen took out wild chestnuts from the bamboo basket behind him and handed them to everyone.

Everyone waved their hands to indicate that they didn't want them.

Liu Zhuangshi sat on the scrapped sofa and said:

"The more chestnuts I eat, the thirstier I get. I'd rather be hungry. I just want to drink water now."

His lips were covered with white dead skin, and his eyes looked at the ceiling with a bit of emptiness.

Gu Yongzhen also threw the chestnuts back into the bamboo basket with some disinterest, because he felt that what Liu Zhuangshi said made sense.

Chu Juan swallowed her dry saliva and said to everyone:

"Tomorrow we will return to the trading market to replenish water. Come on, everyone, hold on!"

Wang Beibei raised her fist and waved it to indicate that she was going to cheer.

She was so thirsty that she felt that she was consuming saliva every time she spoke.

The feeling of dry mouth and tongue made her throat extremely uncomfortable, and it felt like the mucous membranes of the throat walls were stuck together and dry and painful.

Everyone slumped down on the sofa and chairs on the ground weakly, and stopped moving to conserve their energy.

Night fell quietly.

It was quiet, with the sound of wind outside,

the rustling of leaves,

no zombies roaring, no cars passing by.

This place was too remote, so no zombies came to their place at night.

After a thirsty night, they woke up the next day and immediately got up and rushed to the trading market.

They hadn't had water for 36 hours, and if this continued, they would really die of thirst.

If the weather was not too hot now, and they didn't have to stand in the scorching sun, they would probably die of thirst before they could get back to the trading market.

It was a 20-kilometer journey, and they had to get back to the trading market before dark.

(Seeking monthly tickets)