The rain continued for a long time, and an unspeakable feeling permeated the air.
It was oppression, despair, and sorrow.
Li Tie and the others went into the building and finished off all the zombies one by one, then came up, still with some rainwater on them.
Drip, drip~
The rain outside the window drifted into the building.
"Alright, you guys go rest first. My Third Uncle, Hao Ran, and I will watch here for now. You all can come over for your shift later," Li Yu said.
Li Tie and the others nodded, then everyone left for Xiao Shan's house in the back.
Night fell.
Yu Tong stayed by Li Yu's side for a while before also leaving to rest in the house over there.
Li Yu looked at the rainy night and slightly shifted his body to the side. Rainwater drifted in, sprinkling into the building.
The building remained bright, with one lamp lit to save power.
The lamplight shone down on the main entrance. At the main entrance, Li Tie and the others had roughly blocked it with an iron gate and piled up some other discarded items.
Originally, they wanted to drive a car in to block the gate, but the height and width didn't quite match, so they gave up.
They decided to set up a simple barrier for now, so that if zombies came, it could at least delay them for some time.
"Hao Ran, you should rest in the sleeping bag," Li Yu said, seeing Li Haoran standing by his side, holding a spear, with a serious expression.
Li Haoran shook his head and said, "Big Brother, I'm not tired. Let's watch together. We still need to be careful outside. Isn't this why you asked me to stay, so there'd be an extra person watching?"
Li Yu smiled and didn't retort, "Alright."
Third Uncle pulled another apple out of his bag, crunching on it.
Third Uncle's bag was like a treasure pouch, always able to produce some fruit, but Li Yu wasn't surprised, because Third Uncle had always been quite fond of eating fruit.
Li Yu then looked at the night sky outside, which was pitch black.
He always seemed to suddenly feel emo at certain moments, always becoming sad out of the blue.
Li Yu lit a cigarette in front of a window.
Sizzle, sizzle~
The cigarette crackled as it burned in the flame.
The smoke was disrupted by the rain, dancing and drifting away.
Li Yu suddenly felt a little sad, for no reason.
He didn't know why, but in this faint sadness, Li Yu's brows furrowed slightly.
His values had been reshaped countless times. Before his rebirth, when he was all alone, he had developed a beast-like temperament.
Cold-blooded, brutal, ruthless.
He was as arrogant as a lone wolf, and in the darkness, in danger, he felt a thrilling excitement. In the face of danger, he became excited, and he once thought he was a pervert.
After his rebirth, his family and friends warmed his parched heart. He began to retract his sharp edges, treating the people in the base with the warmth of a gentle breeze.
A sense of inexplicable loneliness. He remembered before his rebirth, during an escape, a person he thought was his best friend, someone with whom he had already shared life-and-death experiences.
Yet, during a zombie tide, he was pushed forward by that friend to buy him time.
Li Yu was lucky; he didn't die that time.
However, it became difficult for him to trust others again. Just like now, he always felt that everyone around him couldn't be trusted, yet he had to force himself to trust them.
Because he even had thoughts flash through his mind, thinking that even his parents couldn't be trusted.
This made him suffer, made him despair. If he couldn't even trust his parents, what was the meaning of his current life, what was the meaning of protecting?
He was adjusting himself, forcing himself to move past those world-destroying thoughts.
Contradiction, conflict.
He was clearly a warm person, he was clearly someone who was easily soft-hearted.
But this was his nature, this was his gene.
Yet, in this situation, he was also extremely cold-blooded, full of hostility.
The two merged, and in the end, he actually became calm.
He took a deep drag from the cigarette.
"The world is beautiful, protect my family," Li Yu murmured.
"Ice cold through the ages, all things still. Mind and spirit calm, I am the sole deity. Mind and spirit as one, qi flows in harmony, intertwined like remnants, unmoved by myriad changes." He silently recited the Taoist calming mantra several times.
In less than a few minutes, Li Yu returned to normal.
That state of doubting everything and wanting to destroy everything occurred occasionally, but he quickly eliminated it.
At He Park, everyone was having a difficult time.
Because of the rain, because of the night.
Resisting zombies was exceptionally troublesome. Although they had some lighting equipment like flashlights, the quantity wasn't sufficient.
Especially since there were still a few zombies that had broken into the base, which made it difficult for the people in He Park to feel at ease.
At night, they were still resisting the zombies, and some people hadn't eaten a single grain of rice.
They were already unbearably hungry, but they could only hold on, because retreating meant ruin.
Everyone was fighting. It was precisely because of the lack of supplies that they would go to the place Slanting Bangs mentioned.
But they didn't expect that once they went, they wouldn't return.
Mr. Wang also went with the scrawny man to search for hidden zombies; this was a bomb that could explode at any time.
It had to be dealt with as quickly as possible.
Under the rain curtain, things in the distance couldn't be seen clearly by the spotlights.
Suddenly, a furious curse was heard: "Damn it, you dare to ambush your grandpa!"
It came from the left, and everyone rushed in that direction.
They saw a zombie lying next to a tall, muscular man. The zombie's limbs had been cut off by the man, and its head had been chopped in half.
Mr. Wang looked at the man's body and, seeing no wounds, said, "Lao Zheng, you weren't bitten, were you?"
Lao Zheng touched his body and said with lingering fear, "It was close just now, luckily I reacted fast enough. Don't worry, I wasn't bitten. Damn it, there are still zombies inside the base! If I hadn't been careful after the alarm sounded, I might have been bitten just now. How many more are there?"
Mr. Wang heard Lao Zheng's question and didn't know how to answer for a moment, because he also didn't know how many zombies were left in the base.
Thinking of this, Mr. Wang glared resentfully at the scrawny man beside him.
Although the zombies getting in this time had no direct relation to him, he was just very frustrated.
"Let's go search first. We need to deal with all the zombies as soon as possible," Mr. Wang said.
The few people continued to search around He Park, braving the rain. After searching a circle in He Park, they subsequently found two more zombies.
This meant four of the intruding zombies had been dealt with.
However, everyone still didn't dare to stop. The number of zombies outside the perimeter wall had gradually decreased, and the people guarding the iron fence could finally breathe a little easier.
Although this place was large, it had one drawback: because it was large and only had one layer of fence to block zombies, defending it was particularly difficult.
Although they also wanted to add another wall, the issue of food was more severe and more important.
Thus, it was repeatedly put on hold, and collecting the materials to build this wall around them was particularly troublesome, making the labor input a big problem.
