Chapter 1629 Drought and natural disaster, so thirsty...
It has not rained for more than four months, and the thick clouds have accumulated and it has never rained.
The recent hot weather may be because the clouds in the sky have changed from white to gray.
The sunlight is not that strong and the temperature has dropped a lot.
It has dropped from the 30s to the 20s, and continues to drop.
More than four months without a drop of rain have caused the originally lush fields to turn yellow.
The dry riverbed has cracked deep holes one after another, like scars on the earth, silently telling the severity of this drought.
The land has long lost its former moisture and has become as hard as iron.
The wells in the village have dried up, leaving devastated rocks exposed at the bottom.
Occasionally, a gust of wind blows up the dust on the ground, as if even the wind is complaining about the ruthlessness of this drought. The trees on the roadside have lost their vitality, with yellow leaves and dry branches. They stand quietly, like watchmen.
, waiting for the return of the rain.
More than ten kilometers southeast of Petroleum City, lies the Dabie Mountains.
A group of teams who were out searching for food and supplies were trekking forward in the mountains and forests.
"Teacher Chu, why don't we go back to the trading market first? All the water we brought out has been drunk." Gu Yongzhen swallowed his dry saliva and said in a hoarse voice.
Wang Beibei echoed:
"Yes, there are no lakes around here, so we can't replenish the water source. If this continues, we may die of thirst!"
They are the Rhythm of Plants team, and they are good at finding all kinds of food in the mountains and forests.
Pueraria lobata, yam, wild chestnut, wild hawthorn, chestnut, jujube, tea tree mushroom... are all the targets they are looking for.
Even the leaves of some plants can be eaten. They themselves are students of botany, and Chu Juan is the professor of botany before the end of the world.
After Chu Juan heard what the students behind her said, she rubbed her sore calves and looked at the sky covered with gray clouds through the gaps in the sparse leaves.
The accumulation of clouds and the prolonged drought without rain were beyond her comprehension.
However, zombie outbreaks simply do not conform to scientific logic.
well......
She turned around and looked at the students behind her. All of them had yellow faces, and they looked like they were malnourished.
"Okay, let's go back."
They were extremely helpless, as their harvest this time was far less than the last time.
Everyone was inexplicably excited when they heard that Teacher Chu agreed to return.
The group of people, with gray heads and faces on their backs, walked down the mountain carrying bamboo baskets on their backs.
Their harvest this time was very little, and it was estimated that everything in the bamboo basket was only worth a few points.
After so much effort and traveling so far away, there is still no big gain.
The drought lasted for such a long time that many plants died.
After more than 20 kilometers of mountain road, it is already afternoon, and we will definitely not be able to return that day.
However, they have been walking up the mountain along both sides of the road at the bottom of the mountain. After going down the mountain, they can find the main road. Along the main road, they can find houses. They can spend the night in relative safety in the shelter of the houses.
Most of the iron wolf traps on the mountain were withered, so it was much easier for them to go down the mountain than before.
In the past, when the Iron Wolf Ji was in full bloom, 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, standing on the mountainside, they could already see the main road down the mountain.
Everyone was thirsty, but they drank all the water they brought without leaving a drop.
The main road down the mountain was empty, not a single zombie.
"Let's go!" Chu Juan shouted to the people behind her.
Looking down from the mountain, it looks very close, but it will take a long time to walk down.
When they came down from the mountainside, it was already four o'clock in the evening.
Due to the accumulation of clouds in the sky, the sky at four o'clock looks almost the same as the usual azure and gray sky when the sun sets.
The road at the foot of the mountain is a rural road, and two ordinary houses still stand.
It's just that the white walls on the outside of these two buildings peeled off, exposing the bricks inside.
These two houses look a bit eerie, especially in this weather condition, as if they were places where old corpses from mountain villages lie.
In front of the two buildings is a small stream. The stream dries up, exposing the pebbles on the river bed.
Beyond that is a rural road, and they are on the opposite side of the rural road.
To get to those two houses, you have to cross rural roads and dry streams.
Tread——
Chu Juan and others came down from the mountain and looked at the long rural road with no one on both sides.
This place is so inaccessible that there aren't even any scrapped vehicles.
Zombies can't be seen either.
But this is a good thing for them. There are fewer zombies around and they are relatively safer at night.
After quickly crossing the rural road, they stepped on the concrete bridge over the dry stream and arrived in front of the two buildings.
These two buildings are located in a curved valley opposite a main road. The surrounding terrain presents a △ triangle shape, with strong winds and heavy Yin Qi.
When we came to these two buildings, they were only three or four meters apart, and each had a courtyard.
The yard is not high, only about one meter.
Chu Juan looked at Liu Zhuangshi behind her and said, "Zhuangshi, you and Wang Beibei go into this building to have a look, and they and I will go to another building."
Liu Zhuangshi is tall and long, and is the most powerful man in their team.
If it hadn't been for him, Chu Juan might have died in the mouth of a zombie during a zombie chase.
"Okay, Teacher Chu." Liu Zhuangshi carried the bamboo basket on his back, put the sickle in his hand into the bamboo basket, and then pulled out a woodcutter from his waist.
He found this woodcutter from a farmer's house and kept it with him for many years.
The knife was sharpened by him and he used it very easily.
The two of them walked to the door of the courtyard of this house and pushed open the large rusty iron door.
Liu Zhuangshi gently pushed the big iron door, which made an unpleasant creaking sound.
Boom!
The big iron door collapsed when 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, 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, raised her steps and walked into the yard.
The yard is full of fallen leaves, as well as some dry soil and gravel.
The moss in the corner of the wall also withered and turned into a black and yellow object.
The two of them clenched the weapons in their hands, leaned on each other, and walked towards the hall.
"There should be no zombies in this house. The door hasn't been opened for so long..." Wang Beibei said in a low voice.
There was a putrid smell permeating the house. The two smelled the putrid smell and found the source of the smell.
In a room to the east, they saw three corpses, with only bones remaining.
From the looks of it, a group of zombies must have come and eaten these three people.
Looking at Bai Sensen's skull, Wang Beibei walked over and pulled out a dagger from the bones.
Shaking the dust off the dagger, Wang Beibei said:
"It seems like these three people are killing each other..."
"Not necessarily, it's also possible that this person was bitten by a zombie, and then the other two people killed him to prevent him from turning into 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 entire house was in dilapidated condition, the cabinets were chewed to pieces by insects and ants, and there were wood residues all over the floor.
Liu Zhuangshi walked to the kitchen and saw a row of knives hanging on a shelf in the kitchen, and his eyes lit up.
He quickly walked over and picked up a boning knife.
"Not bad, Wang Mazi brand knives!"
After five or six years, there is some slight rust on the knife, but as long as it is polished with some water, it will be easy to use.
There are six knives in total, kitchen knives, boning knives, boning knives...
Liu Zhuangshi directly put all six knives into the bamboo basket.
This thing can be used by oneself, or it can be sold in the trading market.
Especially the bone chopping knife, which is quite heavy and feels very useful once you get started.
I searched around the first floor but couldn't find the basement.
This house is a very ordinary private 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 the two searched the first floor, they walked to the second floor.
The second floor has been renovated and tiles have been laid. However, after so many years, the tiles are full of dirt.
Step on it with your feet to form footprints.
There was a sofa near the wall. The sofa was so damaged that even the wood inside was exposed.
The layout is the same as downstairs, four rooms, but the door of the first room on the left is locked and cannot be opened.
Seeing the closed door, Liu Zhuangshi became excited immediately.
It has been six years since the end of the world, and almost all the places that can be found have been searched.
A room like this that has not been opened has most likely not been searched.
No survivor would open the door and then lock the door after eating and having nothing to do.
"Back off, I'll kick the door open!" Liu Zhuangshi looked excited. He had already begun to imagine that after kicking the door open, he would find all kinds of useful things inside.
Wang Beibei curled her lips and walked aside.
She knew what Liu Zhuangshi was thinking, but she felt that after so many years, there would definitely be nothing good left.
Liu Zhuangshi took a few steps back, charged, and kicked him.
Click!
He kicked a hole in the wooden door. He took his foot back and kicked it hard again.
Wow——
The door was opened.
But when he saw the situation inside, his originally smiling expression froze.
"Damn it..."
Wang Beibei came over. There were only two ordinary zombies in the room who had been there for who knows how long.
These two ordinary zombies were extremely thin, looking like skeletons, and seemed to have never eaten.
But even so, the two zombies were still not dead, they just lay on the ground, raising their hands and then putting them down again.
Bang!
Bang!
Liu Zhuangshi walked over and trampled the two zombies to death.
These two zombies are too fragile. They haven't been exposed to rain for a long time, and they haven't eaten any living things. They have been trapped here for a long time, and they look like mummies.
Liu Zhuangshi was a little unwilling to give up, so he searched in the closet.
The clothes inside were all moldy and unwearable.
There was only one blanket left that looked slightly better.
He picked up a corner of the blanket and shook it vigorously.
The dust on the blanket was shaken out and instantly filled the entire room.
"Cough, cough, cough, what are you doing..." Wang Beibei covered her nose and coughed.
"Sorry, let me shake." Liu Zhuangshi said with some embarrassment.
Afterwards, the two of them went up to the third floor. There was nothing useful on the third floor.
There is no basement, and the windows are just ordinary aluminum alloy windows with no iron bars on the outside, which is not very safe.
Wall-climbing zombies can crawl in through windows.
After they came out of this house, they went to the house next door.
There are no zombies in the house next door, but there are also no useful supplies.
Fortunately, the windows of this house are equipped with anti-theft nets.
Generally speaking, basements are the safest.
The next best thing is to choose a house with a security net 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 quite solid, made of fine steel, and has remained intact for so many years.
Everyone closed all the doors and windows of the 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 stop 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 and rest.
"Do you want to eat chestnuts?" Gu Yongzhen took out wild chestnuts from the bamboo basket behind his back and handed them to everyone.
Everyone waved their hands and said no.
Liu Zhuangshi sat on the scrapped sofa and said:
"The more chestnuts I eat, the thirstier I become. I would rather be hungry. I just want to drink water now..."
His lips were covered with white dead skin, and his eyes were looking at the ceiling with a somewhat vacant expression.
Gu Yongzhen also threw the chestnuts back into the bamboo basket with some lack of interest, 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 the water supply. Come on, everyone, hold on!"
Wang Beibei raised his fist and waved it to express his support.
She was so thirsty that she felt like she was consuming more saliva every time she said a word.
The feeling of dry mouth and tongue makes the throat extremely uncomfortable. It feels like the mucosa on the throat wall is stuck together, making it dry and painful.
Everyone slumped feebly on the sofa, chairs on the floor, and stopped moving to conserve energy.
Night falls quietly.
Quietly, there was the sound of wind outside the house,
The sound of rustling leaves,
There was no sound of zombies roaring or cars passing by.
This place is so remote that not a single zombie comes to their place at night.
After a thirsty night, they woke up the next day and immediately got up and rushed towards the trading market.
They haven't had any water for 36 hours. If this continues, they will really die of thirst.
If it weren't for the fact that the weather wasn't too hot and they didn't have to face the bright sun now, they might have died of thirst before they could even return to the trading market.
After a twenty-kilometer journey, they had to return to the trading market before dark.