Henan Province, Luo City.
In the forests of Funiu Mountains in the south.
Natural cave.
The small hole in the center of the cave is deep and quiet.
Two rebars were welded horizontally and vertically at the entrance of the cave and frozen together with the ice and snow.
Behind the ice and snow is a steel door. Behind the steel door are piles of large and small stones, blocking the entrance to the cave.
Inside the cave.
Of the originally piled-up firewood and charcoal, only a small half remained.
The hole in the center of the cave was filled with frozen ice.
No one was talking in the cave, only the sound of snoring.
I don’t know how long I slept, but Zhou Dafu climbed up from the bed with a dizzy head.
He walked dazedly to the earthen stove and threw two pieces of firewood into it.
The originally weak flame immediately became stronger.
Zhou Dafu, wrapped in his clothes, shuddered.
He didn't have a watch and didn't know what time it was. He could only tell whether it was day or night by the light from outside shining into the cave.
They were so hungry that they had no strength left. In order to save food, they chose not to move as much as possible and tried to sleep lying down.
After sleeping too much, my head became groggy and I felt like I was dreaming.
He walked to the food area, dug out a bamboo basket, rummaged through it, and found nothing.
He took out the bamboo basket and picked up two frozen sweet potatoes from another bamboo basket.
On the way to the earthen stove, there were a dozen empty bamboo baskets placed next to the stone wall. These bamboo baskets used to contain sweet potatoes and corns, but now they have all been eaten up.
There was still some dirt on the surface of the sweet potato, but he was reluctant to wash it.
If the sweet potato is frozen for too long, the skin on the surface will easily fall off when washing.
And it also wastes water.
The entrance to the cave is closed, and the only way they currently have to get water is through the ice and snow that falls from above the cave.
Under the hole in the center of the cave, they dug a large pit specifically for storing ice and snow. Now the ice and snow have piled up into a small hill.
Squeak, squeak, squeak——
As the flames of the earthen stove burned, the ice melted and heat filled the air.
Zhou Dafu stared at the flames in the earthen stove in a daze.
"Dad, is it time to eat again?" Zhou Guang, who had woken up at some point, walked behind Zhou Dafu.
Zhou Dafu woke up from his daze, turned his head to look at his eldest son and nodded:
"Well, go count how many days it has been since it started snowing."
Zhou Chen nodded, took a piece of charcoal from the earthen stove, and walked to the edge of the stone wall on the right.
Use charcoal to add a horizontal line behind the rightmost character.
He counted the number of "正" characters: 1234527.
The blizzard disaster has lasted for 135 days, four and a half months!
Before they knew it, they had been staying in this cave for more than four months.
Time flies so fast.
"How many days?" Zhou Dafu's voice came from behind.
"135. Including today, it's 136 days." Zhou Chen walked over with charcoal, squatted down, and threw the half-burned charcoal in his hand into the earthen stove.
Zhou Dafu sighed, looked at the only hole in the cave, and said with emotion:
"It's been so long. Go wake up your mother and your brother and have something to eat together."
"After we finish eating, let's expand the pit together. When the snow melts, water will surely flow down from it."
"good."
Zhou Dafu used the firelight to look at the shelves in the grain area which were mostly empty, and felt a little worried.
I wonder if their food will last until the snow melts.
Oil city.
Buffer city.
Snowplows, plows, and trucks operate on the grounds of the buffer city.
After two days of excavation, the buffer city has cleared nearly 300 acres of space, and all the snow in this space has been cleared away.
also,
They also dug a passage from the snowy road between the trading market wall and the buffer city wall, and cleared all the snow on it.
The passage is about 20 meters wide, with several meters high ice and snow on both sides.
This passage was dug precisely to the upper wall pavement under the buffer city wall.
There is a road on the upper wall, with a small slope in the middle that you can drive up, and steps and sidewalks on both sides of the slope.
Ju Tianrui stood on the snow-covered buffer city wall, overlooking the buffer city.
There are many people and cars in the buffer city, like little ants standing on the snow.
"We've finally gotten through this side. Old Jie, what do you think we should do next?" Ju Tianrui looked at Jie Changshan beside him.
Xie Changshan looked at the snow outside the buffer city and said, "Let's clear the snow on top of the buffer city first, and then clear the snow on the steps. Then we can start building the buffer city wall."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Ju Tianrui nodded.
While the two were talking, several gunshots were heard around them.
Bang bang bang!
Dai Jiusheng, who was not far away, led the militia brigade and killed several zombies that were coming from outside the buffer city.
The buffer city is too large, and now the walls are buried in snow. There is no geographical advantage, so they can only send more guards to protect the people clearing the snow.
There were eighteen militia battalions, ten of which were stationed in the trading market, and six militia battalions with 1,200 people were deployed to defend around the buffer city.
On the Oil City side, the main force is composed of members of the Civil Armed Forces Department. There are relatively few combat battalions, only two battalions with 400 people.
The headquarters base is mainly composed of members of the combat brigade. There are a total of 10 combat brigade in the entire Dazhangshu force, and 6 of them are in the headquarters base.
In addition to the militia brigade guarding the buffer city, there were nearly 20,000 survivors helping to clear the snow.
This is just the first batch of recruits. After the greenhouse area is cleared, more people will be recruited to build the greenhouse.
Xie Changshan picked up the walkie-talkie and made arrangements.
Ask Fang Jingxin to drive the small bulldozer and drilling rig over to clear the snow on the buffer city wall.
Although the snow on the wall is now quite compacted, it is still quite dangerous for large vehicles to carry goods on the snow-covered wall.
Gunshots would rang out from time to time.
There were more than a dozen drones flying in the air, patrolling around the buffer city.
Once a large number of zombies are discovered outside, members of the Civil Armed Forces Department will gather together and concentrate on annihilating those zombies.
Seeing the small forklift on the wall, Xie Changshan said to Ju Tianrui:
"Director Ju, there is a lot of ice stored in the trading market now, enough for the trading market and Oil City to use for a long time. The remaining snow in Buffer City can only be transported outside."
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"What are you going to do?" Ju Tianrui asked.
It is not an easy task to transport the snow in the buffer city to outside the buffer city.
The buffer city must be built simultaneously. It will not work if vehicles hit the wall due to the snow and then fall over the wall.
Because now the snow outside the wall is even higher than the buffer city wall, how can we pour it from a low place to a higher place?
It would not be realistic to wait until the wall is built higher and then dump the snow directly over the wall.
First, we can’t wait that long, and second, the corners of the wall can’t hold so much snow.
Xie Changshan thought for a moment and said:
"Clear out an area from the snow outside the buffer city gate, make a slope, and then clean up the sand and stones on the buffer city gate. This way, you can avoid walking on the buffer city wall and directly transport the snow outside from the gate."
"It would be best to transport it to a place farther away from the buffer city, at least one or two kilometers away."
"Okay, let's do as you say." Ju Tianrui thought for a moment but couldn't think of a better solution.
It is also quite troublesome to clear the accumulated snow. There is a thick layer of ice under the snow. A mechanical drill is needed to drill a gap, and then a forklift is used to shovel out the broken ice.
On the construction site.
Shunfeng was holding a drill and drilling on the ice, his whole arm shaking along with the drill rod.
Click!
A large chunk of ice broke off from it.
"Damn, if we had this thing at the time, it would have been a lot easier to dig it out of the watchtower." Shunfeng looked at the ice on the ground and said to Biaozi next to him.
Biaozi squatted down, dragged away the fallen ice, lifted it aside, and said with a smile:
"This job is quite comfortable. Two tortillas a day is really solid! Isn't life going to be better?"
Shunfeng nodded and said:
"Yes, for a day's work, I get points. Although I didn't get them all, I used them all to pay off my debts, but the free meals are really good. Yesterday I heard some people complaining that the work was too tiring. It's really..."
"I've never experienced hardship before. Where can I find such a good job outside?"
"Who said it wasn't!" Nanshan was also carrying ice cubes while wearing gloves.
Only after they have experienced a harder life can they understand how luxurious and precious life is in the trading market.
On the construction site, there are many people like them who carry materials and drill holes by hand.
After all, there are a limited number of excavators and forklifts in the trading market.
Those who were left without machinery either had to drill holes with drills or carry ice blocks into trucks.
Moreover, some places are not suitable for machine excavation and can only be handled manually.
As time passed, the sky gradually darkened.
Drop~
The sound of sirens rang out over the buffer city.
This is the whistle for the end of get off work.
The workers on the construction site lined up in order and returned to the trading market.
After a day's work, a nearly two-kilometer section of road had been cleared on the buffer city wall.
It is estimated that all the snow on the buffer city wall will be cleared in two or three days.
There are many people and machines in the trading market. Thanks to the efforts of 20,000 people, the amount of snow in the buffer city is decreasing every day.
The garage in the trading market is filled with many vehicles owned by the survivors.
Oil City requisitioned their vehicles for hauling snow, offering free refueling.
So there are nearly two thousand vehicles of various types on the entire construction site.
Two days later.
The snow on the buffer city wall and the snow within ten meters outside the buffer city were cleared.
Five days later, the buffer zones under the east and west gates of the city were opened, and the snow within dozens of meters around the gates was also cleared.
They built a downward snow slope inside the buffer city gate and an upward snow slope outside the buffer city gate for vehicles to enter and exit and transport the accumulated snow out of the buffer city.
During these five days, more than 700 acres of area were cleared in the buffer city.
Once the snow on the buffer city walls was cleared, defense became much easier.
At least the area ten meters outside the wall is lower than the wall. Relying on the wall, they can defend against zombies more conveniently.
There were also guard teams protecting the transport convoy as it transported the snow away.
These people were stationed outside the buffer city.
During this period, they even used ice to build eight ten-meter-high watchtowers on the snow outside. Snipers standing on high places could see farther and snipe approaching zombies.
Day 6.
They dug through to the construction site of the previous greenhouse, and found that the original greenhouse frame had been deformed in many places.
The insulating plastic shed was completely flattened, leaving only a lump of plastic film condensed with ice.
Xie Changshan looked at the greenhouse construction site ruins that were constantly being dug out and picked up the walkie-talkie to contact Lao Huang.
"Manager Huang, we can start recruiting a new batch of workers!"
(asking for monthly ticket)
In the forests of Funiu Mountains in the south.
Natural cave.
The small hole in the center of the cave is deep and quiet.
Two rebars were welded horizontally and vertically at the entrance of the cave and frozen together with the ice and snow.
Behind the ice and snow is a steel door. Behind the steel door are piles of large and small stones, blocking the entrance to the cave.
Inside the cave.
Of the originally piled-up firewood and charcoal, only a small half remained.
The hole in the center of the cave was filled with frozen ice.
No one was talking in the cave, only the sound of snoring.
I don’t know how long I slept, but Zhou Dafu climbed up from the bed with a dizzy head.
He walked dazedly to the earthen stove and threw two pieces of firewood into it.
The originally weak flame immediately became stronger.
Zhou Dafu, wrapped in his clothes, shuddered.
He didn't have a watch and didn't know what time it was. He could only tell whether it was day or night by the light from outside shining into the cave.
They were so hungry that they had no strength left. In order to save food, they chose not to move as much as possible and tried to sleep lying down.
After sleeping too much, my head became groggy and I felt like I was dreaming.
He walked to the food area, dug out a bamboo basket, rummaged through it, and found nothing.
He took out the bamboo basket and picked up two frozen sweet potatoes from another bamboo basket.
On the way to the earthen stove, there were a dozen empty bamboo baskets placed next to the stone wall. These bamboo baskets used to contain sweet potatoes and corns, but now they have all been eaten up.
There was still some dirt on the surface of the sweet potato, but he was reluctant to wash it.
If the sweet potato is frozen for too long, the skin on the surface will easily fall off when washing.
And it also wastes water.
The entrance to the cave is closed, and the only way they currently have to get water is through the ice and snow that falls from above the cave.
Under the hole in the center of the cave, they dug a large pit specifically for storing ice and snow. Now the ice and snow have piled up into a small hill.
Squeak, squeak, squeak——
As the flames of the earthen stove burned, the ice melted and heat filled the air.
Zhou Dafu stared at the flames in the earthen stove in a daze.
"Dad, is it time to eat again?" Zhou Guang, who had woken up at some point, walked behind Zhou Dafu.
Zhou Dafu woke up from his daze, turned his head to look at his eldest son and nodded:
"Well, go count how many days it has been since it started snowing."
Zhou Chen nodded, took a piece of charcoal from the earthen stove, and walked to the edge of the stone wall on the right.
Use charcoal to add a horizontal line behind the rightmost character.
He counted the number of "正" characters: 1234527.
The blizzard disaster has lasted for 135 days, four and a half months!
Before they knew it, they had been staying in this cave for more than four months.
Time flies so fast.
"How many days?" Zhou Dafu's voice came from behind.
"135. Including today, it's 136 days." Zhou Chen walked over with charcoal, squatted down, and threw the half-burned charcoal in his hand into the earthen stove.
Zhou Dafu sighed, looked at the only hole in the cave, and said with emotion:
"It's been so long. Go wake up your mother and your brother and have something to eat together."
"After we finish eating, let's expand the pit together. When the snow melts, water will surely flow down from it."
"good."
Zhou Dafu used the firelight to look at the shelves in the grain area which were mostly empty, and felt a little worried.
I wonder if their food will last until the snow melts.
Oil city.
Buffer city.
Snowplows, plows, and trucks operate on the grounds of the buffer city.
After two days of excavation, the buffer city has cleared nearly 300 acres of space, and all the snow in this space has been cleared away.
also,
They also dug a passage from the snowy road between the trading market wall and the buffer city wall, and cleared all the snow on it.
The passage is about 20 meters wide, with several meters high ice and snow on both sides.
This passage was dug precisely to the upper wall pavement under the buffer city wall.
There is a road on the upper wall, with a small slope in the middle that you can drive up, and steps and sidewalks on both sides of the slope.
Ju Tianrui stood on the snow-covered buffer city wall, overlooking the buffer city.
There are many people and cars in the buffer city, like little ants standing on the snow.
"We've finally gotten through this side. Old Jie, what do you think we should do next?" Ju Tianrui looked at Jie Changshan beside him.
Xie Changshan looked at the snow outside the buffer city and said, "Let's clear the snow on top of the buffer city first, and then clear the snow on the steps. Then we can start building the buffer city wall."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Ju Tianrui nodded.
While the two were talking, several gunshots were heard around them.
Bang bang bang!
Dai Jiusheng, who was not far away, led the militia brigade and killed several zombies that were coming from outside the buffer city.
The buffer city is too large, and now the walls are buried in snow. There is no geographical advantage, so they can only send more guards to protect the people clearing the snow.
There were eighteen militia battalions, ten of which were stationed in the trading market, and six militia battalions with 1,200 people were deployed to defend around the buffer city.
On the Oil City side, the main force is composed of members of the Civil Armed Forces Department. There are relatively few combat battalions, only two battalions with 400 people.
The headquarters base is mainly composed of members of the combat brigade. There are a total of 10 combat brigade in the entire Dazhangshu force, and 6 of them are in the headquarters base.
In addition to the militia brigade guarding the buffer city, there were nearly 20,000 survivors helping to clear the snow.
This is just the first batch of recruits. After the greenhouse area is cleared, more people will be recruited to build the greenhouse.
Xie Changshan picked up the walkie-talkie and made arrangements.
Ask Fang Jingxin to drive the small bulldozer and drilling rig over to clear the snow on the buffer city wall.
Although the snow on the wall is now quite compacted, it is still quite dangerous for large vehicles to carry goods on the snow-covered wall.
Gunshots would rang out from time to time.
There were more than a dozen drones flying in the air, patrolling around the buffer city.
Once a large number of zombies are discovered outside, members of the Civil Armed Forces Department will gather together and concentrate on annihilating those zombies.
Seeing the small forklift on the wall, Xie Changshan said to Ju Tianrui:
"Director Ju, there is a lot of ice stored in the trading market now, enough for the trading market and Oil City to use for a long time. The remaining snow in Buffer City can only be transported outside."
The latest novel is published first on Liu9shuba!
"What are you going to do?" Ju Tianrui asked.
It is not an easy task to transport the snow in the buffer city to outside the buffer city.
The buffer city must be built simultaneously. It will not work if vehicles hit the wall due to the snow and then fall over the wall.
Because now the snow outside the wall is even higher than the buffer city wall, how can we pour it from a low place to a higher place?
It would not be realistic to wait until the wall is built higher and then dump the snow directly over the wall.
First, we can’t wait that long, and second, the corners of the wall can’t hold so much snow.
Xie Changshan thought for a moment and said:
"Clear out an area from the snow outside the buffer city gate, make a slope, and then clean up the sand and stones on the buffer city gate. This way, you can avoid walking on the buffer city wall and directly transport the snow outside from the gate."
"It would be best to transport it to a place farther away from the buffer city, at least one or two kilometers away."
"Okay, let's do as you say." Ju Tianrui thought for a moment but couldn't think of a better solution.
It is also quite troublesome to clear the accumulated snow. There is a thick layer of ice under the snow. A mechanical drill is needed to drill a gap, and then a forklift is used to shovel out the broken ice.
On the construction site.
Shunfeng was holding a drill and drilling on the ice, his whole arm shaking along with the drill rod.
Click!
A large chunk of ice broke off from it.
"Damn, if we had this thing at the time, it would have been a lot easier to dig it out of the watchtower." Shunfeng looked at the ice on the ground and said to Biaozi next to him.
Biaozi squatted down, dragged away the fallen ice, lifted it aside, and said with a smile:
"This job is quite comfortable. Two tortillas a day is really solid! Isn't life going to be better?"
Shunfeng nodded and said:
"Yes, for a day's work, I get points. Although I didn't get them all, I used them all to pay off my debts, but the free meals are really good. Yesterday I heard some people complaining that the work was too tiring. It's really..."
"I've never experienced hardship before. Where can I find such a good job outside?"
"Who said it wasn't!" Nanshan was also carrying ice cubes while wearing gloves.
Only after they have experienced a harder life can they understand how luxurious and precious life is in the trading market.
On the construction site, there are many people like them who carry materials and drill holes by hand.
After all, there are a limited number of excavators and forklifts in the trading market.
Those who were left without machinery either had to drill holes with drills or carry ice blocks into trucks.
Moreover, some places are not suitable for machine excavation and can only be handled manually.
As time passed, the sky gradually darkened.
Drop~
The sound of sirens rang out over the buffer city.
This is the whistle for the end of get off work.
The workers on the construction site lined up in order and returned to the trading market.
After a day's work, a nearly two-kilometer section of road had been cleared on the buffer city wall.
It is estimated that all the snow on the buffer city wall will be cleared in two or three days.
There are many people and machines in the trading market. Thanks to the efforts of 20,000 people, the amount of snow in the buffer city is decreasing every day.
The garage in the trading market is filled with many vehicles owned by the survivors.
Oil City requisitioned their vehicles for hauling snow, offering free refueling.
So there are nearly two thousand vehicles of various types on the entire construction site.
Two days later.
The snow on the buffer city wall and the snow within ten meters outside the buffer city were cleared.
Five days later, the buffer zones under the east and west gates of the city were opened, and the snow within dozens of meters around the gates was also cleared.
They built a downward snow slope inside the buffer city gate and an upward snow slope outside the buffer city gate for vehicles to enter and exit and transport the accumulated snow out of the buffer city.
During these five days, more than 700 acres of area were cleared in the buffer city.
Once the snow on the buffer city walls was cleared, defense became much easier.
At least the area ten meters outside the wall is lower than the wall. Relying on the wall, they can defend against zombies more conveniently.
There were also guard teams protecting the transport convoy as it transported the snow away.
These people were stationed outside the buffer city.
During this period, they even used ice to build eight ten-meter-high watchtowers on the snow outside. Snipers standing on high places could see farther and snipe approaching zombies.
Day 6.
They dug through to the construction site of the previous greenhouse, and found that the original greenhouse frame had been deformed in many places.
The insulating plastic shed was completely flattened, leaving only a lump of plastic film condensed with ice.
Xie Changshan looked at the greenhouse construction site ruins that were constantly being dug out and picked up the walkie-talkie to contact Lao Huang.
"Manager Huang, we can start recruiting a new batch of workers!"
(asking for monthly ticket)
