Chapter 1744: Ten Days of Blizzard, Tree Bark Can Also Be Eaten!

The snow has been falling.

Due to the continuous blizzard, there are basically no traces of zombies.

Perhaps they are covered and buried by the snow, or perhaps they are hiding in some buildings.

As the snow on the ground collapses, the snow is also solidifying and hardening.

Outside the buffer city.

Due to the use of gasoline combustion, the snow collapses even more. After two days of blizzards, the height of the snow has increased to two and a half meters.

The wind and snow are mixed, and the outdoor temperature continues to drop. At this time, the temperature has reached minus thirty degrees.

Because they don’t know how long this blizzard will last, the buffer city is only 8.5 meters high, and they don’t know if they can defend the buffer city.

Therefore, the construction of the greenhouse in the buffer city is temporarily shelved for a while.

At least they have to wait until the blizzard stops before they dare to start building the greenhouse.

On the buffer city.

Luo Gui and Crazy brought the militia brigade to change shifts, and now they basically maintain three shifts.

Every time they are on duty, there will be two militia brigades, a total of 400 people.

Plus 2,000 volunteers from the trading market to help.

Ensure that there are always 2,400 people guarding the buffer city wall.

The blizzard has been falling for ten consecutive days, and nothing has happened for the time being.

The ultraviolet lamps are still on, but affected by the low temperature of the blizzard, several ultraviolet lamps were frozen, which also caused maintenance personnel to come up to repair them frequently during this period.

Later, in order to avoid being frozen again, they added protective covers and glass to the ultraviolet lamps.

This has reduced the range of ultraviolet lamps to a certain extent, but at least when the temperature drops again, there is no need to worry about the lamps being frozen and exploded all the time.

In addition, the number of ultraviolet lamps arranged on the buffer city is saturated, and the range of ultraviolet lamps overlaps with each other. Even if the range of exposure is reduced at this time, it still covers the wall 100%.

On the buffer city wall.

In the sentry tower.

Zhang Rufeng sat on a chair, with a small alcohol stove on the table and a mini pot on it.

There was also a plastic bag on the table, which contained frozen tofu, two corn tortillas, and a bag of braised meat.

Zhang Rufeng picked up the dagger, wiped it on his clothes, cut the frozen tofu a few times, and put it into boiling water.

After the frozen tofu was thawed in a warm room, it became easy to cut.

Tofu is a luxury in the end times.

But it is not difficult for the Dazhangshu base.

The Dazhangshu headquarters base produces food, not only staple food, but also some beans, such as soybeans, mung beans, peas, etc., which are important sources of plant protein.

In addition, there are vegetables, fruits and the like.

Now that conditions are good, it is natural to pursue a balanced diet.

If you only rely on staple food and do not take in protein and vitamins for a long time, your body will have problems, such as decreased immunity and muscle atrophy.

To ensure the combat effectiveness of the combat team, diet cannot be vague.

Tofu is simple to make, and the main raw material is soybeans, which can be stored for a long time after being dried, at least two years.

So it became one of the important food supplies transported from the headquarters base to the oil city.

This tofu is mainly consumed within the oil city, and one of the dishes in the restaurant is tofu.

In addition, a small amount of tofu is also sold in limited quantities in the trading market.

However, tofu is basically snapped up in seconds when it is put on the shelves in the trading market.

It is difficult for ordinary people to buy it.

Zhang Rufeng is an acquaintance of Lao Niu from the food supply and marketing department of the trading market. He bought a piece of frozen tofu at the market price, which is not considered illegal operation, after all, he also spent points to buy it.

The tofu rolled in the boiling water and cooked.

Zhang Rufeng picked up a piece of tofu with chopsticks.

The chopsticks in his hand can almost penetrate the soft texture.

The tofu melted in the mouth, first salty and fragrant, then sweet, and the mouth was filled with bean fragrance and heat. With every bite, you can feel the warmth and delicacy of the tofu, as if you have swallowed a cloud, soft and with a hint of bean sweetness.

Zhang Rufeng ate with satisfaction and drank a sip of tea.

The chopsticks knocked on the small pot.

He hummed softly: "After eating braised pork and rolled tofu, the city lord is not as good as me~"

He smiled and said to A Diao who was sitting opposite:

"A Diao, do you know who I learned this from?"

A Diao pouted and looked at the frozen tofu in the pot greedily,

"I don't know, but I know that a captain who only knows how to eat alone is not a good captain."

Zhang Rufeng pointed at him with chopsticks, "You damn it!"

"When I asked you if you wanted to eat it yesterday, you said no. Now I bought it, and you said you want to eat it again."

"If you said you wanted to eat it earlier, I could buy more."

She glared at him and scolded:

"I don't have chopsticks to share with you, figure it out yourself!"

Unexpectedly.

A Diao took out a pair of chopsticks from her arms and wiped them.

She smiled and took the largest piece of tofu from the small pot, and stuffed it into her mouth without caring about the burn.

He grimaced because of the burn, swallowed it in one gulp and asked:

"Brother-in-law, who did you learn this from?"

Zhang Rufeng stared at this scene in amazement, with a very complicated expression, which made him not know what to say to this A Diao, who even picked the biggest piece to eat.

"Fuck, A Diao, you are really amazing!"

Zhang Rufeng quickly picked up another piece of tofu with chopsticks, tasted it and swallowed it before saying leisurely:

"I've watched a TV series before, in which there was a man named Wang Ganju, who ate tofu like this, eating boiled tofu in the cold weather. Wow, I was jealous at the time."

"But, I didn't feel anything when I bought it before, but now in this apocalypse, I can taste the taste."

"Yeah." A Diao didn't reply, and ate the tofu with chopsticks.

Swallowed up everything.

Zhang Rufeng lowered his head and was about to speak when he saw that there were only three pieces of tofu left in the pot.

He pulled A Diao's chopsticks away with one chopstick.

"Fuck you! They are all mine, you starved to death!"

A Diao looked embarrassed and said with a smile: "It's delicious."

Zhang Rufeng rolled his eyes and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

A Diao and Gui Tou followed them all the way from Sanshan Village. They lived and died together, and did many things together, and walked step by step to the present.

Without A Diao and Gui Tou, Zhang Rufeng would not have his current position.

Although he is the captain now, A Diao is still the same as before.

One of the reasons is that A Diao is You A Mu's cousin.

You A Mu was Zhang Rufeng's wife in Sanshan Village. You A Mu died, but Zhang Rufeng is still A Diao's cousin-in-law.

Because of this, A Diao dared to be so bold and dared to grab food from the leader's pot.

Zhang Rufeng ate slowly, a piece of tofu, two pieces of meat, and three bites of corn cakes, drinking a sip of tea from time to time, looking at the snow outside the window, and the warm room.

It made him feel comfortable.

When he squinted his eyes and tasted the last piece of tofu.

Hula——

The door was pushed open and someone came in.

Zhang Rufeng suddenly opened his eyes and was shocked when he saw the person coming in.

He quickly swallowed the tofu, stood up and said:

"Brother Gui, are you taking my shift?"

Luo Gui saw the situation in the sentry tower and smiled:

"Captain Zhang is very leisurely and elegant, and the small hot pot is ready."

Zhang Rufeng rubbed his hands and replied awkwardly:

"It's cold, eat something to warm up during lunch time, and it's not alcohol, if you don't believe me, just have a sip."

Luo Gui shook his head and said:

"Look at what you said, I didn't say anything to you, why are you so nervous?"

"How about I wait for you to finish eating, and then I'll wait here for you to finish eating before taking over?"

"No, no, I've finished eating." Zhang Rufeng waved to A Diao.

A Diao was also quite smart, quickly turned off the fire, and then packed up the things and stuffed them into the bag.

Although Luo Gui and Zhang Rufeng were both captains of the Civil Armed Forces Department, Luo Gui's qualifications were much deeper than his and his status was relatively higher.

Luo Gui saw that they had all packed up, and didn't say much.

He opened the logbook at the door, checked the records filled in it, and handed it to Zhang Rufeng for his signature after finding that there was no problem.

Before he entered the sentry tower, he had already checked it on the wall, and there was basically no problem.

The handover of duty must be signed, so that if there is a problem, the responsibility can be clearly defined.

Zhang Rufeng picked up the pen and signed his name.

A correct version in the 16-9 book bar!

Putting on his hat, carrying a gun, he said to Luo Gui:

"Brother Gui, I'll go first."

"Okay, go back slowly. There is a pit on the main road of the buffer city. Be careful when you go back, but there is a warning sign there. I guess the workers will go over to fix it in a while." Luo Gui looked at Zhang Rufeng and reminded him.

"Okay."

Zhang Rufeng pushed open the door of the sentry tower, and a cold wind blew.

The cold wind was biting and slapped his face mercilessly.

Every breath he exhaled was a white mist visible to the naked eye.

The cold air made his head clear instantly.

Pick up the intercom and contact the people under his command to line up and retreat.

The guards on the wall were changing shifts. They lined up from both sides like greedy snakes. The team changed from one person to two people.

The team gradually expanded and formed a long dragon.

They lined up and went down the buffer city wall.

In their place, it was Luo Gui and the madman and his people.

The eastern part outside the buffer city.

A traffic artery five kilometers away.

There was a watchtower on the traffic artery.

After ten consecutive days of heavy snow, the bottom floor of the watchtower was covered with snow, about three and a half meters high.

The windows on the bottom floor were closed.

Biaozi opened the chain on the door of the watchtower, and then took a small awl to dig the ice and snow.

The snow has weight. The lower the snow is, the more solid it is. Even the bottom floor is almost as hard as ice.

The door was blocked by snow again.

It was blocked very tightly, without a single gap.

Fortunately, this door opens inwards.

If it were to be opened outwards, they would be doomed and would not be able to get out.

After hammering with the awl for a long time, Biaozi pushed the dug snow behind him.

"Brother Biao, let me do it." Yan Sheng, who was helping to move the snow aside, said.

"Okay. Move slowly. The snow on top is loose. Don't move too much." Biaozi reminded.

"Okay."

After they took turns digging, they finally successfully dug a passage outside the watchtower door to climb up after three hours.

The whole passage was triangular, getting narrower as it went up, but at least it could accommodate a person to walk out.

Biaozi stepped on the snow and climbed up tentatively. He had compacted the snow under him with his body.

But the snow outside is so thick that it is easy to sink into it, and even the whole person will sink into the snow.

So he did not rush out, but turned his head and said to the people behind him:

"Okay, go call Shunfeng and Brother Chang and tell them that it is through."

Yan Sheng nodded and hurried upstairs.

Because the stairs in the sentry tower are all hollow steel frames, they make a clanging sound when walking, which is very noisy.

Yan Sheng hurriedly ran up to the third-floor sentry tower.

In the third-floor sentry tower, there was a stove burning, and a ventilation pipe was connected to the window to blow away the burning ash.

The ground in the southeast corner was filled with various tree barks and condensed berries, grass leaves, ground skins, and fern roots.

It looked like a small mountain.

Two people took a millstone, smashed the bark and leaves, ground them into powder, and poured them into a bucket next to them.

This is their staple food.

They were unable to enter the trading market that day, but Dongfeng kindly pointed them a way.

In the first two days after they came here, they tried their best to search for plants around them. It had just snowed at that time.

They were a group of people with a lot of survival experience, and they had experienced a lot in the end times.

They knew what to eat and what not to eat, not because they were survival experts before.

But it was the experience summed up from the lessons of death.

Some people ate the wrong things, got upset, and some died of diarrhea.

The people behind knew which bark could not be eaten and which bark was fine to eat, at most constipation.

Bark, lichens, roots, and if you are lucky, you can find rhizomes containing starch.

And so on.

They collected a lot.

Eating these things may also cause death, but that is a probability problem.

If you don't eat them, you will definitely die.

They adjusted the proportions and put only one corn tortilla in the porridge every day, grind it into powder, and mix it with the root and bark powder.

This is the fairest way.

No one has any objection.

Everyone ate the same food, even their captain, Chang Yichang.

In addition.

Since nothing unusual had been found in these days,

there was no need to report to the people at the trading market.

It was freezing cold, snowing, and especially in the last few days, there was no sign of a zombie.

They only ate 15 of the 50 corn tortillas Dongfeng gave them, leaving 35.

They even ate only a quarter of the deer leg they had luckily gotten on the way here, and hung the rest on the ceiling where everyone could see.

They hung in the air with a hook, and every time they ate bark powder, they looked at the meat.

Thirst quenched by the sight of plums.

After Yan Sheng ran upstairs, he quickly shouted to Chang Yichang: "Brother, Brother Biao said they had gotten through."

Chang Yichang was making skis at this time, and they cut and polished the wood they had moved in before.

They made skis and sleds.

These days, the sentry tower burned firewood 24 hours a day, consuming a lot.

Although there is still fire now, it seems that the blizzard has never stopped.

So they wanted to get some firewood around and see if they could find any food.

But the snow outside was too thick. If they walked out, they would definitely not be able to do so. They could only make skis and sleds by themselves.

Chang Yichang fixed the skis, "Okay, the skis are also made."

He looked at the two men next to him: "Shunfeng, Dongbao, let's go."

The three of them walked downstairs.

After reaching the bottom floor, Chang Yichang went out of the door and stepped on the hardened snow. It was quite thick.

Turning his head to Dongbao, he said:

"Dongbao, you watch here, I will go out with them."

(asking for monthly tickets)