Coming out of the basement, eating, and napping, time passed as slowly as a snail.
Li Yu greatly enjoyed this relaxation after a period of busyness and tension.
Li Yu stood on the balcony, gazing up at the starry sky, which held a serene beauty with its scattered stars.
For a moment, his thoughts flew, and he considered many things:
Killing is a complex matter, but it is also the simplest.
In this apocalypse, what is justice and what is evil sometimes becomes unclear.
When a person’s heart is broken, good and evil no longer matter; he needs to find the meaning of existence.
Human nature is inherently evil; if one has no expectations of the world, then any warmth encountered is a surprise.
Contentment brings happiness; lowering one's demands makes happiness easy to obtain.
Li Yu no longer distinguished between good and evil in his heart; he only wanted to protect his family and loved ones, and live a stable life.
After sweating profusely, a refreshing shower is a joy; after being busy for a long time, eating delicious food made by his mother is a joy; when you occasionally feel down, a hug from the person you like is a joy.
If none of these are available, then just live life. The daily necessities of food, clothing, and shelter, washing clothes, cooking, cleaning, and managing time efficiently, is a way of life. Although it can be tedious, once you do it, at least there is a quiet joy in your heart.
As night deepened, it was now mid-to-late October. The weather would soon turn cold. According to his memories from before his rebirth, this winter would be difficult.
He remembered that before his rebirth, during that winter, he almost froze to death. The zombie crisis, food crisis, and weather crisis simultaneously overwhelmed many people.
In that winter, many people died, not from being bitten by zombies or from starvation, but from being frozen to death due to the extreme cold.
Preparations must be made in advance. Although Li Yu had already had his second uncle and others cultivate some indoor crops in the thousands of square meters of basement in the bungalows, he felt it was still not enough.
Solar energy could provide them with heating, but if the heating was kept on all winter, it would consume too much electricity. In the past, heating in the north was provided by burning electricity or coal.
Although there was some coal, there was a house in the Bamboo Forest that stored some miscellaneous items, including some coal.
When the heating system was built in this base, neither Li Yu's parents nor the construction workers could understand why, as this was in the south, where temperatures could reach over 30 degrees Celsius in warm winters and stay above 0 degrees Celsius in cold ones. Generally, winter temperatures ranged from seven or eight degrees to over twenty degrees.
Temperatures below zero degrees were very rare, extremely uncommon.
Therefore, many people found it difficult to understand Li Yu at the time, but Li Yu ignored their opinions and had the heating installed. After all, Li Yu paid for the installation himself, so others couldn't interfere.
And the heating system built back then could now be put to good use this winter!
In his memory, there were some days without sun during this winter, and without sun, there wouldn't be enough electricity, even with the added wind power generation.
However, there were quite a few places in the base that used electricity. Now, refrigerators, freezers, cold storage, and daily electricity consumption, plus the newly built indoor growing facilities, also required heating and grow lights.
All of these required electricity.
Although there were batteries to store electricity, it was best to make more preparations.
It was now October, and there were some dead branches in the base's mountain forest, but they were relatively scarce within the base itself.
However, outside the base, there were many such dry trees.
For example, there was a dense forest surrounding the base.
“It’s time to stockpile some wood,” Li Yu muttered to himself, tightening his clothes.
In October, the evenings were already a bit chilly.
Overnight, as Li Yu had just gotten up, Li Haoran came looking for him.
Li Haoran had been on guard duty at the gate last night, and Li Yu looked at him curiously: “Weren’t you on duty? Why are you here now?”
Li Haoran had clearly run over, and after catching his breath, he immediately said, “Big Brother, someone came to the gate looking for you. He said he knew you, and his surname is Lü. And there are two other people.”
Upon hearing this, Li Yu immediately brushed his teeth twice more, rinsed his mouth twice, then cupped some water to wash his face, and ran towards the gate.
On the way, he asked Li Haoran, who was behind him, “Did they say what it was about?”
Li Haoran shook his head and said, “They just said they wanted to see you. As soon as I heard that, I came to find you. Hao Xian is still down there, and Zhengping is also watching over there now.”
“Mm.”
Li Yu walked quickly, reaching the main gate in just a few minutes.
Li Yu stood on the wall and saw the people below.
One of them was Captain Lü, next to him was probably the Lao Xie he had mentioned before, and the other person seemed familiar from before.
At this moment, Captain Lü and the others were circling the wall, exclaiming in wonder. It was their first time here. Although they knew the general location, they had never come before, and if it weren't for an urgent matter, he wouldn't have rushed over so rashly.
“Captain Lü!” Li Yu called out.
Hearing the voice, Captain Lü looked up, saw Li Yu, and without any pleasantries, went straight to the point: “Mr. Li, we’ve discovered strangers appearing in the surrounding area.”
Upon hearing this, Li Yu thought for a moment and said, “Strangers? Are there many of them?”
The wall was quite high, and Captain Lü, below the wall, spoke with his head tilted back at a ninety-degree angle, which was inconvenient. So, he took a few steps back and said, “There are two vehicles in total, but we saw a familiar person. This person was from Liberation City before! The destruction of Liberation City is somewhat related to him.”
Upon hearing this, Li Yu’s eyes gradually turned cold.
He then saw that Captain Lü and the others were uncomfortably craning their necks below, so he thought for a moment and said to Li Zhengping, who was behind him, “Zhengping, open the main gate and let them into Weng City.”
After hearing this, Li Zhengping did not hesitate much. Although he was also worried about outsiders entering, he had a blind worship and trust in his elder brother.
Click, click, click~
The main gate gradually opened.
“You all come in first,” Li Yu said from atop the wall.
Captain Lü and his two companions had not expected to be able to enter the base, but they had always considered joining Li Yu and his group. Now that Li Yu let them in, it seemed to send a signal.
Captain Lü slowly walked towards the gate, with Lao Xie and the other person following closely behind him.
After the three entered, they realized that the area inside was somewhat empty. Li Yu glanced at the three of them.
Upon entering Weng City, the three of them voluntarily placed their weapons near the gate.
“I’ll go down for a moment. You all stay up there and keep watch, then call Second Uncle over,” Li Yu said.
Li Yu then walked down, but Li Haoran on the wall picked up his firearm and subtly aimed it at the three people.
Li Haoran had not seen these three people before, and Li Yu did not stop him from doing so, as it was a good and cautious thing to do.
