Chapter 1678 Deep in the mountains, cave dwellings

"Later, if that scary zombie finds us, I will hug that zombie and jump off the cliff. You run back quickly and don't worry about me."

"No, Da, I want to go with you!" Zhou Chen was shocked when he heard his father say that, and then he said firmly.

Zhou Dafu's eyes were firm, and his tone was unquestionable:

"Be obedient! Remember to bring a bucket of water. Without water, your mother and others can't hold on for long."

"I won't!" Zhou Chen said stubbornly.

He couldn't sit back and watch his father die in exchange for his own chance of survival.

"Why are you so disobedient!"

Zhou Dafu was anxious, angry, and a little moved.

"If I die, you will be the pillar of the family. You will take care of your mother and your brother in the future."

Zhou Chen was about to speak, but he was speechless because of his father's glare.

He had never seen his father's eyes like this.

He lowered his head, covered his mouth, and felt extremely uncomfortable.

Zhou Dafu was also in a bad mood. It was extremely difficult for ordinary people to deal with creatures like horror zombies.

It was pure luck that they solved the horror zombie last time.

And this time, they could not guarantee that they would be as lucky as last time.

Splash!

There was a sound of water coming from the lake below. Zhou Dafu concentrated and listened carefully to the movement below.

This should be the horror zombie climbing up the cliff.

Splash!

The horror zombie grabbed the rocks and climbed up. Some rocks were loose and rolled into the lake.

Splashing layers of ripples.

The zombies in the lake were startled, and the lake water rolled like boiling water in a pot.

Ordinary zombies floated to the surface of the water, but they didn't know where the target was.

They could only roar there.

This horror zombie was very fast and climbed up the cliff.

Zhou Dafu could even see this wet horror zombie through the gap in the bushes.

The horror zombie got on all fours like a monkey, raised its head and sniffed the air vigorously.

But it seemed that it didn't smell anything.

Zhou Dafu and the other man looked at the horror zombie, which was only five or six meters away from them.

They were so nervous that their hearts were in their throats.

Rustle——

The horror zombie rushed to the plastic bucket on the right and sniffed it vigorously.

They grabbed the bucket with their hands, and there was some human breath left.

But the horror zombie didn't notice Zhou Dafu and the other man who were so close.

Zhou Dafu looked at the horror zombie so close and gritted his teeth. He just had a new plan.

Instead of passively waiting for the horror zombie to find them, it would be better to take advantage of the horror zombie not finding him and attack the horror zombie from behind.

Although the horror zombie's reaction speed is extremely fast, his method may work.

Just when he clenched the knife handle and was about to attack violently.

A deer's cry came from not far away.

This kind of musk deer is a small deer, Yo Yo——

After hearing the sound, the horror zombie rushed over quickly, and the musk deer screamed after more than ten seconds.

Then, plop!

There was a splash of water from below.

The musk deer was hit by the horror zombie and accidentally fell off the cliff and fell into the reservoir.

The horror zombie was also taken down with it.

The huge sound attracted the attention of other ordinary zombies, and they rushed up in a swarm.

Although the wall-climbing zombies are a huge threat to humans, they are not a big threat to ordinary zombies.

They are all zombies, and they don’t have much wisdom.

Ordinary zombies are not afraid of wall-climbing zombies.

The musk deer and the horror zombie were surrounded by the zombies that swarmed over.

They sank into the water.

Zhou Dafu crawled to the edge of the cliff and saw the terrifying zombie gradually sinking into the water. When the terrifying zombie sank into the water, it was still biting the body of the musk deer in its mouth.

Zhou Dafu saw this scene, and surprise appeared in his eyes.

God really helped me, and the chance to escape came.

He did not stand up, but continued to crawl back. When he was a few meters away from the shore, he stood up with his waist bent, and quickly walked to Zhou Chen with two buckets of water.

"Let's go back."

"Da, but the terrifying zombie."

"It fell down, and it is estimated that it will not notice us for a while."

Zombies, whether mutant zombies or ordinary zombies, once they catch prey, they will not care about anything when eating.

The terrifying zombie has caught the musk deer and sank into the water.

With the isolation of the lake, it is estimated that they will not be discovered.

Zhou Chen heard this, his face was full of joy.

"Great!"

"Hurry up, leave here first!" Zhou Dafu shouted in a low voice.

He hung the rope on the shoulder pole on the ear of the plastic bucket.

He put the shoulder pole on Zhou Chen's shoulder, then he carried two buckets of water in one hand, and the other hand held the shoulder pole and rope, and hurried to the back.

The water must be taken away.

Otherwise they will die of thirst in the cave!

This trip was in vain, taking such a big risk, it is impossible to return empty-handed.

The two ran back quickly.

After walking a few hundred meters, Zhou Dafu really couldn't bear it anymore.

He held two buckets in one hand, not to mention the weight, it was not easy to carry.

So he stopped, threaded the rope, and then carried the shoulder pole on his shoulder.

Finally, he pinned the knife behind his waist to the side so as not to affect his walking.

Because they had just experienced such an incident, the two of them returned very fast.

They ran back at the fastest speed. The leaves on the mountain were piled up layer by layer. They slipped from time to time while carrying the shoulder pole. Fortunately, the plastic bucket was tightened to seal it, otherwise the water inside would flow out.

An hour and a half later, the two people finally arrived at the entrance of the cave.

Zhou Dafu opened the wooden fence outside the cave. Over the past few years, they have reclaimed the area around the cave.

A circle of fences was built with wood, forming a semicircle along the cave.

It is about two hundred square meters.

In these two hundred square meters, they planted some crops.

Even now, some crops have not been harvested.

Four ridges, half sweet potatoes and half pumpkins.

Both crops have very low water storage capacity, and only need to be watered in the early stage of planting.

Moreover, pumpkin fruits are large and have high yields.

They have relied on the spring water in the cave to irrigate crops over the years.

If the spring water in the cave had not dried up a month ago, they would not have gone down the mountain to fetch water.

However, pumpkins and sweet potatoes were planted before the spring water dried up.

At that time, there was still a lot of spring water in the cave.

These two plants needed water in the early stage, but now they are mature and basically do not need watering.

On the right side, there is an earthen kiln built with mud. This earthen kiln can be used to bake food or make charcoal.

Making charcoal with the mud stove method.

At this time, there was a teenager sitting in front of the mud stove.

Hearing the movement on the fence, he turned around immediately.

Seeing his father and eldest brother, he ran over with excitement.

"Da! Brother, you are back!"

Looking up and down at the two people, he found that their trouser legs and shirts were dirty and covered with dust, and even their trousers had several holes.

"What's the matter? Did you encounter zombies?" Zhou Guang asked.

Zhou Dafu brought in the plastic bucket, let Zhou Chen in, then turned around to close the wooden fence and wrapped it with the wire on it a few times.

Although this wooden fence cannot resist the zombies climbing the wall, it is more than enough to block a small number of ordinary zombies.

"Let's go, let's go into the cave first." Zhou Dafu waved his hand and told his son not to ask any more questions.

Seeing that the two were in a bit of a bad state, Zhou Guang hurried over to help his father carry the bucket and walked into the cave.

In the cave, a woman was cutting pumpkin with a knife. She cut the pumpkin into pieces of 2×3 cm in size and then put them on the wooden board to air dry.

There were leaks everywhere in this cave, with at least seven or eight gaps.

But the gaps were not big, and the largest was only the size of a head.

These gaps were sealed by them with stones or soil, and they would be opened once ventilation was needed.

The largest gap was the hole at the top of the innermost part.

Zhou Dafu walked in carrying water, and the woman stood up quickly after seeing them.

"Finally I'm back. Come here and pour the water into the jar."

There is a big jar at the corner of the cave.

After Zhou Dafu entered the cave, he did not pour the water into the jar immediately.

He turned around and inserted the iron rods one by one into the hole in the wall.

Each iron rod was as thick as two fingers, and the distance between the iron rods was about five centimeters.

From the top to the bottom, he inserted them all.

This formed a door.

Then he leaned a piece of wood next to it behind the iron rod door.

"Xiaochen, come and help me."

The two of them lifted several large stones behind the wooden board and piled them up.

The entrance of the cave was sealed.

The entrance of the cave was sealed, and half of the cave was instantly dark.

"What the hell??? What are you doing?!" The woman looked at her husband doing this, with a puzzled look on her face.

Huhu——

Zhou Chen took two breaths and said to the woman:

"Mom, Anda and I almost didn't make it back!"

"What! What happened?" The woman looked worried, walked over and took her eldest son's hand, and looked up and down.

But the cave was too dark, especially the exit hole was closed.

So the woman took her eldest son's hand and came to the depths of the cave.

There was a hole at the top of the cave, and light shone from it. The woman used it to check if he was injured.

Zhou Chen walked over and explained:

"When we were at Luhun Reservoir, we encountered a terrifying zombie, the kind that almost bit my little brother before!"

The woman looked shocked:

"How is it possible? Can't that kind of zombie only come out at night? This one came out in broad daylight!"

"Da, is it true?" The youngest son Zhou Guang looked at his father next to him.

Zhou Dafu walked to the center of the cave with a gloomy face.

He sat down on the wooden bench, "It's true."

"Damn, I was thinking about this when I came back. The appearance of scary zombies in the daytime is unusual."

"Later I figured it out. The weather has changed recently. You can't even see the sun in the daytime, so the scary zombies will naturally crawl out."

"The days ahead will be hard!"

Zhou Dafu's eyes were full of worry. What would they do if the scary zombies came out in the daytime?

They stayed in the mountains all year round and didn't go out. They basically didn't communicate with other survivors.

So they didn't know that the reason why the wall-climbing zombies were afraid of the sun was because they were afraid of ultraviolet rays.

Ultraviolet lamps can repel wall-climbing zombies.

However, they didn't know this.

Hearing this, the woman asked in horror:

"Tada, what should we do?"

Wall-climbing zombies will appear during the day. Well, that doesn't mean that they are outside the cave and may be bitten by wall-climbing zombies at any time.

Although they stayed in the deep mountains and old forests, there were relatively few zombies, let alone wall-climbing zombies.

But this kind of thing can only be a gamble on probability.

Zhou Dafu thought for a moment and said:

"From tomorrow onwards, we are not allowed to leave the wooden fence, set traps for hunting, or collect tree oil!"

"No, try not to leave the cave!"

"We will harvest the pumpkins and sweet potatoes tomorrow and quickly dry them and preserve them."

"The charcoal must be made quickly. After harvesting, go all out to make charcoal!"

The woman heard this and said:

"That's okay, the sweet potatoes and pumpkins are ripe and just in time."

"Including the corn and potatoes we grew before, it will be enough for us to eat for a long time."

Zhou Dafu nodded and said:

"Well, it's getting late today. Let's go out for sweet potatoes tomorrow."

Then he looked at Zhou Guang, "Xiaoguang, you can't go out hunting anymore. I know you sneak out sometimes."

"Now is not the time for joking. If you run out and are bitten to death by zombies, what do you want us to do!"

The man's tone was serious.

Zhou Guang also realized the seriousness of the problem and quickly replied: "Okay, Da, I understand."

Zhou Dafu rubbed his sore shoulders and said to the woman:

"Mother, boil some water and drink it. I'm so thirsty after running all the way back!"

"Okay." The woman, perhaps a little flustered, hurriedly picked up the plastic bucket.

I almost spilled it when I poured it into the water tank.

She scooped up a few spoonfuls of water and poured it into the small round pit next to the iron pot.

This is the stove they built themselves with earth, and there is a big iron pot in the middle of the stove.

An iron bucket was placed in the small round pit next to the iron pot.

When cooking, you can boil water simultaneously and save firewood.

Moreover, their beds were right next to the stove, and their beds were connected to the ground beneath the stove.

Cooking and lighting a fire can also make their bed warmer.

The woman placed the potato pancakes in a circle around the iron pot.

Then she got up and walked to the right side of the cave.

The firewood on the right is piled up like a mountain, and it reaches the highest position, which is almost six meters high.

The firewood was chopped into arm lengths and neatly stacked in this corner.

The woman carried a few pieces of firewood, walked to the stove, took out the flint and started a fire.

These firewood were obtained in the past few months.

Basically I spend some time chopping firewood every day.

After all, I have experienced the end of the world for several years. I have to burn firewood to eat. When the weather is cold, I have to boil firewood and drink water.

Firewood is their most important energy source in the apocalypse.

They have no way to get oil, and they have no way to get other energy sources.

Firewood was the only source of energy they had access to.

Still renewable.

In recent months, a large number of trees in Funiu Mountain have died, and they don't even bother to cut down the big trees.

Coupled with previous sun exposure, these trees are very dry and very suitable for preservation.

Wow~

The woman lit the flame and the match burned.

The firelight made her face red.

It also illuminates the cave.

There are three beds in total, connected to each other, and on the left side of the cave are supports made of wood.

Clothes and shoes were placed on racks.