Using the wood stove to keep warm, Chaoying and Chaoying each held a hot water bottle in their arms. Sam nestled next to him, his head hanging on the ground without making a sound. This was the first time Gu Zhuo had left the Doomsday Fortress since the apocalypse.
At this time, the Doomsday Fortress was being upgraded. Although it looked unchanged on the outside, Gu Zhuo could clearly sense through the mechanic that the energy around the Doomsday Fortress was fluctuating slightly.
In his ears, he could even clearly hear the "click" sound when the parts were spliced and moved.
Fortunately, the coldest period has passed. Now there is no such low temperature that can freeze people to death. With the equipment Gu Zhuo brought out from the car, he can survive for a few days without any harm.
Eating compressed biscuits, the two chatted casually.
The originally quiet walkie-talkie suddenly rang with the "sizzling" sound of electricity. Gu Zhuo pressed the walkie-talkie and heard a man's voice coming from the walkie-talkie:
"Little brother, how are you doing on your own? Do you really not need a few of us to help you?"
Gu Zhuo replied:
"Just wait for us outside, the four of you. If you don't have enough supplies, tell me and I will go out and deliver supplies to you. Everything else is just as I told you. Don't worry."
Hearing this, the man on the other side let out a muffled voice: "Okay." Then there was no sound.
"Gu Zhuo, what do you think the world will look like after the cold winter is over?"
Chaoying asked suddenly.
Gu Zhuo shook his head, sat on the ground with his upper body propped up, and answered her:
"I don't know, but what is certain is that the temperature now is obviously not as cold as before. If possible, I hope the end of the world will end soon."
Hearing this, Chaoying's eyes darkened, and the expression on his face was uncertain:
"It seems that the extreme cold is over, but I always feel uneasy and feel like something is coming."
"Harmful."
Gu Zhuo sighed and looked at his doomsday fortress:
"No matter what happens next, I just hope that it can happen again after my Doomsday Fortress is upgraded, so that I can still have some confidence."
The two of them felt the weight of this topic and stopped talking.
Gu Zhuo swallowed the last bite of the compressed biscuit and raised his hand to look at his watch. It was already three or four in the morning.
"It's already so late, Chaoying, you should go to sleep first. I don't deserve to sleep at this point. I'll keep watch."
Hearing this, Chaoying asked puzzledly:
"Vigil? Hasn't Liu Yihu's biggest hidden danger been solved? Why is there still a vigil?"
"The four people outside are, after all, outsiders we just met today. If we both let down our guard, what if they really have evil intentions? After all, we can take out so many supplies at once, and they have so many people.
If many people are targeting us, human nature at this time is the most terrifying."
Hearing what he said, Chaoying had no other objections. Besides, her mood had been ups and downs a lot today, and she had spent so much energy and energy designing the design of the Doomsday Fortress. She took a nap on the Doomsday Fortress in the afternoon, and now she was already exhausted.
Extremely.
She told Gu Zhuo to be careful, then got into the tent, nestled in the sleeping bag, and soon fell asleep.
Looking at the sleeping Chaoying and Sam, the heat from the wood stove was rising on Gu Zhuo's face. Gu Zhuo clenched the gun in his hand. Although he still didn't know what the future would bring and what challenges he would encounter tomorrow, at least for now,
He must try his best to hold on to what he can still hold.
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"There are no special circumstances outside, it's not snowing, and it's not getting colder. It's just that the weather is a bit gloomy, which makes people feel uncomfortable and stuffy."
On the intercom, the man outside was reporting to Gu Zhuo how the situation was outside.
After listening, Gu Zhuo replied to him:
"I understand. You can continue to wait outside for a few days. If anything happens, be sure to notify me as soon as possible."
After hearing the answer from the man opposite, Gu Zhuo turned off the intercom channel.
Gu Zhuo stayed up all night. He hadn't gotten any good sleep in the past two days, and his complexion became visibly worse.
Chaoying had woken up earlier, and when he saw Gu Zhuo hadn't slept all night, he wanted to persuade him to take a rest.
Gu Zhuo politely declined her kindness. For him, if the Doomsday Fortress is not upgraded, he will have trouble sleeping and eating.
The water in the hot water bottle is already cold, but Gu Zhuo has no intention of refilling it. It is not as cold as yesterday. At night when the temperature is lower, a hot water bottle may be needed. Now it is enough to wrap it up thickly.
Chaoying took out paper and pen, sat in her tent, lowered her head and counted something.
Seeing that he had nothing to do, Gu Zhuo took out a book he brought from the car and read it casually.
This is a doomsday survival guide, which provides detailed instructions on how to deal with various critical situations. This is the first time Gu Zhuo has opened this book since he bought it back.
There is nothing new in what he learns in the book. Gu Zhuo has already seen it from the survival guy. As for some of the survival skills and some investigative techniques taught in the book, Gu Zhuo learned them in the army.
I came back with a full load and learned much more than what was written in the book.
In addition to various natural disasters, the book also lists a situation where biological mutations occur and zombies break out.
Gu Zhuo has always felt that this possibility is very nonsense, especially the so-called zombies, who are extremely mentally retarded.
After all, the combat effectiveness of the army and the strength of modern technology cannot be overshadowed. Zombies are still mortal bodies in the final analysis, and one cannon blast can kill a group of them.
If you want to destroy human society by relying on this kind of thing, then you underestimate the ingenuity and ingenuity of human beings to this day.
What can truly destroy human society, Gu Zhuo firmly believes, is only more powerful technological power, or such natural disasters that cannot be avoided or predicted by humans.
Because of the chapter on zombies, Gu Zhuo decided that this was a useless book. He threw the book aside, held a pistol in his arms, looked in the direction of Chaoying, and became bored.
He didn't know how long his mind had been empty. Sam, who was lying on the ground and wagging his tail leisurely, suddenly stood up alertly and raised his head.
The moment it stood up, it immediately bared its teeth and looked at the locked warehouse door with a fierce look in its eyes, as if there was some enemy over there.
Sam's unusual behavior pulled Gu Zhuo back from his spiritual world.
"Sam? Sam!"
Gu Zhuo tentatively called Sam a few times, but Sam did not answer him and still looked at the warehouse door with hostility.
At the same time, it opened its mouth wide and howled in that direction. Gu Zhuo had never heard Sam howl so ferociously.
Just when Gu Zhuo wanted to step forward to comfort Sam, the "sizzling" sound of electricity suddenly came from the quiet intercom. This sound made Gu Zhuo jump out of his wits and quickly pressed the answer button.
Before he could ask a question, the man outside asked Gu Zhuo tremblingly in a very frightened tone:
"Little brother, you, do you know what time it is now?"
His voice sounded a little stammering due to too much panic.
Gu Zhuo raised his watch and took a look. It showed that it was now half past one in the afternoon.
"It's half past one, what's wrong?"
"Outside, it's suddenly dark outside! The moon, the moon, the moon has risen!"
When he said this, the man outside sounded even more frightened, as if he was crying.
"What happened to the moon!? Tell me clearly!"
Gu Zhuo was still asking anxiously, but there was no sound on the intercom. He could only hear the sound of electricity passing through, which seemed very noisy.
Gu Zhuo, who had no idea what was going on, looked at Sam's strange behavior and had an extremely bad feeling in his heart.
At this time, Chaoying also noticed that something was wrong. She raised her head and looked at Gu Zhuo.
Gu Zhuo swallowed and clenched the pistol in his hand.
"Chaoying, can you use a gun?"
Hearing this, Chaoying shook his head:
"I only know theoretical knowledge, but I have never fired a gun myself."
"Here is this gun for you. It is loaded. If anything happens to you, just shoot!"
"Remember, don't put your finger on the trigger, never! Otherwise you may be too nervous and shoot yourself!"
Gu Zhuo gave her several instructions and briefly and quickly told her all the points he could think of to pay attention to. Finally, he continued:
"You wait for me here while Sam and I go outside the warehouse to see what's going on."
After saying that, he took Sam directly towards the warehouse door regardless of whether Chaoying agreed or objected.
Chaoying originally wanted to go with him, but seeing his decisive attitude and thinking that he could not even fire a gun and might be a hindrance to Gu Zhuo, he had no choice but to stay where he was and wait for Gu Zhuo.
Although Chaoying stayed where she was, like Gu Zhuo, her heart was already in her throat.
No one knows what is going on outside.
Gu Zhuo walked to the warehouse door, inserted the pistol and air gun into his waist, and then slowly opened the warehouse door.