The mountains and forests are steep, and the moonlight shines through the dense woods on a small slope halfway up the mountain.
The small soil slope is covered with a thick layer of soil, which has been trampled very tightly. In the middle of the top, there is a steel chimney, which is slowly emitting white smoke.
In front of this small slope are six or seven large trees, which are tied up and down with three ropes to block the approach of ordinary zombies.
Below the small slope is a wooden door made of thick logs. On the left and right sides of the wooden door are grilled ventilation windows also made of wood.
There was a faint glow of fire inside.
Walking inside, you will find that the inside has been hollowed out and the ground is sunken.
This is quite similar to a hobbit's underground house, but much simpler, and more like a shelter in the jungle at night.
However, this shelter looks simple, but its defense can at least block the attacks of a small number of ordinary zombies.
The inside of the shelter is much larger than it looks from the outside, covering an area of more than twenty square meters. There are about ten people scattered and crowded inside.
This group of people is Xie Dongming and others who exchanged ultraviolet lamps from the trading market.
The biggest feature of their team is that most of the members were wilderness survival enthusiasts before the apocalypse, and several of them were even experts in wilderness survival before the apocalypse.
The simple earthen pit stove was well built, and the burning flames were dispersed through the chimney, almost not staying in this shelter.
Everyone ate cooked food, and the walls of the pits on both sides were covered with various black meats that had been prepared and smoked.
"Brother Dongming, we have been here in the Dabie Mountains for almost half a month. The wild animals we have captured and the wild plants we have excavated are enough to sustain us for a while. Do you want to return to the trading market to rest?" Zhu Ziming ate the cooking in his hands.
Ripe rhizomes, he said.
In these few years of the last days, there are still many animals that have escaped the zombies.
Especially in primeval forests, ordinary zombies walk slowly and can easily get stuck on vines in the primeval forest, which also gives many animals a chance to survive.
The Dabie Mountains are rich in materials and there are many edible plants and animals.
But most ordinary people don't know these plants and don't know whether they can be eaten.
And when it comes to some animals, I don’t even know how to set traps to catch them.
On the contrary, those who were wilderness survival enthusiasts before the apocalypse will live a more prosperous life in the apocalypse.
Xie Dongming tore open the strips of meat in his hands. The smoked pheasant meat was dry. After being smoked and dried, it was dry. When he tore it open with force, a lot of powder flew away.
He did not answer Zhu Ziming's question immediately, but asked his wife next to him:
"How much food do we have now?"
Xie Dongming’s wife thought about it carefully and replied:
"The pheasants, small civets, pangolins, and wild boars weigh about 500 kilograms, and the various edible plants also weigh about 300 kilograms."
"Half of it was hidden by Zihao in our secret underground storage room in Xin County at the foot of the mountain."
"Um."
After Xie Dongming thought for a while, he looked at Zhu Ziming and said:
"It's almost the same. No matter how much we carry, we probably won't be able to carry it down the mountain."
When everyone heard that Xie Dongming was planning to go down the mountain, joyful smiles suddenly appeared on their faces.
In the past half month, almost as soon as the sun came up, they went out with crossbows and spears to capture animals, while the women dug in the mountains and forests to collect edible plants, and processed the captured large animals.
Smokey.
They set up many traps, and the meat they caught was mainly due to the two fat wild boars.
They processed more than 500 kilograms, which were smoked and air-dried.
A three-pound pheasant weighs only one pound after being smoked and dried.
A ratio of three to one.
After smoked and air-dried meat, not only the volume and weight will be reduced to facilitate their transportation, but the shelf life will also be longer.
Although the taste is not as good as fresh meat, these are the end of the world, and being able to store food conveniently and for a long time is the first key consideration.
"Brother Dongming, shall we go back to the trading market tomorrow?" asked a man in the crowd who looked less than thirty years old.
Xie Dongming nodded, "Well, let's go down the mountain tomorrow. From here to the bottom of the mountain, it will take a day of walking. We should set off early tomorrow and try to reach the new county before the sun sets."
"Great!" The man took a big bite of the food in his mouth, imagining that after returning to the trading market, he would sleep all day and night.
Although they are used to living in the wild, they are always worried about the approach of zombies every night.
Although the number of zombies in this mountain forest is relatively small, the occasional appearance outside the shelter is enough to make people feel nervous.
"Ziming, Wang Jing, and Sun Peng, you three will take turns on the night shift tonight." Xie Dongming explained to the three of them.
"Okay." The three nodded.
Xie Dongming looked at the others and asked: "Others, please rest early. It will not be easy for us to carry these things on the mountain road tomorrow."
Everyone nodded, then finished the food in their hands and leaned against the earth wall behind to rest.
Zhu Ziming has three shifts, and Zhu Ziming takes the first shift.
He holds a spear and a UV flashlight next to him.
They only used this UV flashlight once.
It was their first night after coming out of the trading market and arriving in the new county at the foot of the mountain.
That night they spent the night in a secret warehouse in Xin County. A wall-climbing zombie smelled them, came over, and violently banged on the door of the warehouse.
Finally, I turned on the ultraviolet light and frightened away the wall-climbing zombie.
No one wants to fight wall-climbing zombies at close range at night.
Most ordinary people have no choice but to die when encountering wall-climbing zombies at night.
Wall-climbing zombies are extremely agile, have amazing jumping power, and can also crawl. They often appear behind you without you noticing, making them difficult to guard against.
They have been reluctant to use up the power in this UV flashlight. If they didn't encounter wall-climbing zombies, they would never open it easily.
Once the battery is used up, they can only rely on physical combat against wall-climbing zombies, and they don't know whether they can survive.
Time passes.
A small purr came from the small shelter.
After Zhu Ziming was on duty for three hours, he stood up and walked inside.
"Sun Peng, wake up, it's your turn to keep vigil."
Sun Peng looked disgraced. Perhaps it was because of the flames burning in the earthen stove in the shelter that his mouth was dry and his lips were chapped and turned white.
"Oh, okay."
Sun Peng rubbed his face vigorously, trying to wake himself up.
He stood up and took the spear from Zhu Ziming's hand, and walked towards the wooden door of the shelter.
When he was a little sleepy and had just sat on the wooden post behind the wooden door in a daze, there was suddenly a clanking sound outside.
hiss!
For a moment, Sun Peng got goosebumps after hearing this voice.
"Something's happening!" he shouted loudly to everyone in the shelter.
Zhu Ziming, who had just sat down, immediately got up, took a crossbow and some arrow feathers from the wall, and rushed to the door.
Everyone in the shelter woke up, but they didn't move.
When they built this shelter, in order to minimize construction work, they built it semi-underground.
The shelter is in the shape of a long strip. There is only one door out of the shelter, and the window is only two meters long.
Once they move erratically, not only will they not be able to help, but they will also cause trouble for those in front of them.
"Don't get up, I'll go over and take a look." Xie Dongming, who was in the center of the shelter, picked up the spear and hurried to the door of the shelter.
Zhu Ziming was holding a flashlight and shining it through the wooden grille to check the situation outside.
"Have you seen what it is?" Xie Dongming asked nervously.
Zhu Ziming looked serious, holding a flashlight and shining it left and right.
"I didn't see it, I don't know what it is."
At this moment, there was a sudden movement above their heads.
Bits of dirt fell from the top of my head.
On the first floor, they used a row of thick tree sticks to support the top, covered it with a layer of tarpaulin, spread a layer of leaves, and then spread a thick layer of excavated soil.
It won't collapse even if a person stands on it.
But this movement is obviously definitely heavier than the weight of a person.
"It broke through our rope, above our heads!" Zhu Ziming said in horror.
Boom!
There was another loud noise above the head, and the wood supported above made a clicking sound.
One of the supporting logs was broken.
"I'm afraid it's a big guy! I don't know if it's an animal zombie!" Xie Dongming's eyes were slightly cold.
In the mountains and forests, although the number of zombies is relatively small, you can occasionally encounter zombie animals, and encountering large zombie animals is the most troublesome.
The current situation is that the big guy above may be a brown bear weighing several hundred kilograms, or it may be a zombie brown bear.
If it's a brown bear weighing several hundred kilograms, they're lucky. Once they get rid of this brown bear, they can get several hundred kilograms of meat again.
But if it’s a zombie brown bear weighing several hundred kilograms, then...it’s going to be big trouble!
They would rather not encounter brown bears and these meats than encounter such an unexpected situation at night.
Tread! Tread! Tread!
Every step of this big guy above his head caused the dirt above his head to fall, and for a while the entire shelter was filled with dust.
Boom!
Suddenly this big guy landed outside their shelter.
Zhu Ziming shined a light on it and saw a dark guy with a mane all over his body.
Judging from its size, it definitely weighs over 250 pounds.
"Black wild boar?" Zhu Ziming quickly handed the flashlight to Sun Peng next to him, and prepared to shoot an arrow.
The wild boar slowly turned its head. Its long tusks and red pupils revealed that it was a wild boar zombie.
Hululu——
The zombie boar let out a low roar.
He used his hind hooves to push back toward the soil on the ground, obviously intending to rush over.
Whoosh!
Zhu Ziming closed one eye and took aim with the other eye. He pulled the compound crossbow back to the top and released it gently.
The arrow feathers exploded from the wooden fence window.
Fly straight towards the head of this wild boar zombie.
歘!
Just then, the wild boar zombie launched an attack and rushed towards the wooden door.
Phew!
The arrow feather was inserted into the belly of the wild boar under its head, and it was inserted extremely deep.
Due to the movement of the zombie boar, the arrow that could have hit failed to hit.
Wild boar zombies are the same as ordinary zombies. As long as they do not cause fatal damage to the head, they will not die if they attack other places.
After the wild boar zombie was hit by the arrow, it was only delayed for a second, but it did not stop the wild boar zombie from attacking.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Ziming couldn't help but cursed An: "Fuck!"
So he quickly nocked his arrow again and prepared to shoot again.
But it's too late!
"Back off. Back off!" Xie Dongming shouted, and at the same time he pulled Zhu Ziming, who was shooting arrows, back.
The people inside quickly moved back, leaving more space for those at the door to retreat.
As soon as they retreated, the wooden door in front of them was hit by the wild boar zombie.
Boom!
The wooden door did not fall down directly. At least the lower part of the door was made of wooden piles that they dug out to a height of nearly half a meter using 40- to 50-cm-diameter wood.
This is also a method thought of considering the possibility of encountering zombie attacks. It is more troublesome to enter and exit every time, and you need to climb out from above.
but!
The upper part of the door was not protected by the soil and was directly knocked open by wild boar zombies.
A huge pig head broke through the upper part of the wooden door. Its sharp and ferocious fangs almost pierced Sun Peng's neck and even tore his clothes.
This zombie wild boar became even more excited after seeing the human inside, and struggled to get inside.
The pig's head is huge.
It's too late to say it, but it's soon.
Xie Dongming rushed towards the wild boar zombie without hesitation, used all his strength, held the spear tightly with both hands, and stabbed it into the nostril of the wild boar zombie.
The spear, which was nearly one meter long, was mostly submerged.
The head of this wild boar zombie was directly pierced.
die!
Xie Dongming inspected the wild boar zombie and said to everyone:
"died!"
Huhuhu——
After hearing that the wild boar zombie was dead, Sun Peng quickly checked his neck and groped up and down. When he saw the small hole in his arm sleeve, he quickly took off his clothes and checked his arm.
"Look at it for me, look at it for me."
Zhu Ziming picked up the flashlight and checked him, but found no wounds.
"It's okay, you are lucky."
After Sun Peng heard the word "It's okay", he collapsed on the ground and gasped for air.
The fangs of the wild boar zombie were just a hair away from piercing him.
thrilling.
Survival.
So thrilling!
Xie Dongming looked at the wooden door and saw that the wild boar zombie was stuck in the crack of the door. It was difficult to move such a heavy wild boar zombie corpse.
The door is blocked!
"Brother Dongming, we have to find a way to get this wild boar zombie out, otherwise we won't be able to get out tomorrow." Zhu Ziming said with a frown.
After Xie Dongming thought for a while, he raised his head and looked at the dented wooden stick above his head.
He looked at the person behind him and asked, "What time is it now?"
"1:30 in the morning."
After some calculations, Xie Dongming said to Zhu Ziming:
"There is no need to get it out. If you want to get this wild boar zombie out from the crack in the door, you will definitely not be able to push it open if you just push it. It will be stuck."
"We can only remove the wooden fence windows on both sides, but if we remove them, what if zombies or zombie animals approach us in the middle of the night? We also have to repair the door. It takes less than three hours to complete these things.
There are still risks to be taken in the meantime.”
"What should we do?" Zhu Ziming asked.
Xie Dongming said calmly: "Just stay here and don't move. When daybreak, we will remove the top and go out directly. We are about to return to the trading market, and this shelter is useless."