The mandarin duck bath that should have been shared by two people, became a weird “three person” bath due to a weird white dumpling1white ball = dumpling = Tuanzi. It has a few different names.. Fortunately, the hot springs had a great effect alleviating their physical soreness, so they ignored the small discordant factor.
“I’ll go out for a while to see if there is anything happening these past two days.” Yesterday the two hadn’t been out for a whole day due to the space’s upgrade. Fortunately, there was a monitor outside, which was what He Zizhong was going to check.
“Okay, I’m going to stay and cook.” Fang Hao folded his arms on the pool’s edge, and laid his chin lazily down on his arms. The white dumpling was jumping around on his back, and the soft touch felt like a massage.
He Zizhong glanced at the white ball with some irritation, so he the person into his arms, touching his wet soft hair with his chin, and contemplated—dual cultivation… If there was nothing outside, it would be fine to give it a try tonight.
Outside the space, the villa was exactly the same as before entering they entered.
The monitor showed that no one came to visit yesterday. As for the work of shoveling ashes? What they originally signed up for was to try it for a day or two. Other could understand when they didn’t go yesterday. After all, the work required dealing with zombies, dead people, and ashes, and it was normal if they couldn’t continue.
After confirming things were fine, he returned to the space again. Fang Hao had already placed the prepared breakfast on the table. The white ball round eyes were open wide, eagerly watching the meat bun on the table as round as it, with little stars in its eyes.
Fang Hao was sitting at the dinner table, frowning and looking at the white ball.
“What happened?”
“I was thinking… after eating a wonton yesterday, it slept for a whole day… Can it not eat human food?”
He Zizhong’s eyes lit up, and he walked to the table calmly, looking pensively. After a while he pointed to the pitiful big eyes that were almost dripping water and said: “Can we give it a little less to try? Maybe it was a coincidence yesterday? And even if it had an impact, it would just be another sleep.”
Fang Hao still hesitated, but Tuanzi seemed to understand He Zizhong’s words, his eyes lit up, and his fleshy body hopped and hopped around the table, physically expressing his willingness to try.
“Then… try it?” Fang Hao nodded hesitantly, and saw He Zizhong picking up a bun, breaking off a bun that was definitely much larger than yesterday’s wonton, and placing it in front of the ball.
The bouncing dumpling immediately jumped up and slammed on the bun with a “puff”, and then…then…it moved away. The bun vanished, and within three seconds, it fell down with a puff and fell asleep on the spot…
“Ah! It really became dizzy again!”
With a meaningful smile on his mouth, He Zizhong comforted the worried Fang Hao: “It’s okay, maybe it must go to sleep when digesting human food? After all, we don’t know what it usually wants. Maybe whenever it’s like this whenever it eats?”
Fang Hao, who was persuaded by He Zizhong, gently put Tuanzi on the sofa beside him, and covered it with a small blanket, and the two of them sat at the dining table for breakfast.
After breakfast, he mentioned going out to the base to find supplies.
It’s not that He Zizhong had to go out to take risks, but the resources outside are limited after all, and many things have time constraints. If he cannot collect enough while zombies are not yet evolved and too weak to threaten their survival, they will face even more dangerous situations when venturing out in the future.
If he wants to live in the base, but does not want to attract the attention and doubt of others, He Zizhong feels that the life of searching for materials was the most suitable for them at present. Especially now that Fang Hao can freely enter and exit the space, which increases the safety factor.
“Zizhong, I want to study those manuals first…” Fang Hao was corrected several times by He Zizhong, and after acquiescing on what to call him, hesitatingly suggested his idea.
“Well, let’s study it in a while, and choose what’s suitable according to our own situation…” He Zizhong suggested. “Those books all mention using ‘qi’ and the cultivation of ‘qi’…”
Was achieved through dual cultivation.
Fang Hao lowered his head, nodding. Even if there were other ways to cultivate “qi”, he wouldn’t reject dual cultivating with He Zizhong. What’s more, the method was the most suitable for both of them. In addition, through this kind of practice, their relationship and compatibility in certain aspects can be improved…
It was said that when two people are together for a long time, certain activities will be reduced. But when this kind of exercise that cultivates qi is combined with daily practice…cough cough cough, there is no need to worry about such a thing happening.
Fang Hao, conscious that his thinking was developing in an unhealthy direction, was embarrassed to look directly at the upright and magnanimous He Zizhong in his mind. Led by hand to the bedroom on the second floor, under the guise of increasing strength, he was eaten cleanly inside and out.
The secret manual, or cheat book, was really useful. Although it was necessary to control desire during practice, it could only be completely released after a stage is completed. Although the perseverance in the middle was a bit overwhelming, after trying it once, both of them felt this kind of “cultivation” made the emotional exchanges between them more flavorful than usual.
Not to mention that after practicing, they could feel the ‘qi’ mentioned in the cheat book flowing in their bodies!
Although not much qi was cultivated, they can already try the martial art ‘cheats’ for actual combat. However, the sequelae of exercise in bed caused them…
“Zizhong… in the future, let’s do dual cultivation at night before going to bed?”
“OK.”
Even with the recovery of space and hot spring water, their bodies were still soft and they were unable to exert themselves. It seriously affected their ability to practice the martial art manuals, and instead, they were ‘sick in bed.’
Early the next morning, the refreshed pair woke up early, drove their cart out of the community, wearing large backpacks as a disguise.
The two went through formalities and accepted the task of going out to find supplies.
The staff reminded them after registering: “After going out to search for supplies, you must quarantine for 24 hours in the outer quarantine area. When quarantining, your vehicles and bodies must be sprayed with disinfectant before entering the base.”
He Zizhong nodded calmly and asked, “How is the situation outside now?”
The staff member shook his head. “I don’t know, it’s quite messy. This safety zone was just finished. We can’t mobilize people to recover the urban area yet.”
People say its to support the urban area, but everyone knew how exaggerated the urban population was. Early in the apocalypse, because the mutation happened in the middle of the night, most zombies mutated at home. Even if people are harmed, it was just one’s own family.
Even after so many days passed, those zombies are tireless. Some of the restless dead would persistently bump doors and windows, and eventually break out of the room after a long time.
For those who have escaped from the city, the journey on the road has become increasingly difficult. Especially for people living in densely populated residential areas in the middle of the city, almost no one can escape alive.
Most people who were still alive hid in their homes and dared not come out, relying on the food and water left in their homes to make ends meet, waiting hopelessly for rescue.
“This is the tentative price list of our safe zone. The exchange prices for different items are different. People who go out to do tasks must hand in one-fifth of the collected items every time they come back.”
“One-fifth?” Fang Hao widened his eyes in surprise. Wasn’t it a bit too much?
The staff glanced at the youth who was more eye-catching than a lady, and explained: “This is no way. There are too many people in the base. This rule was only mandated a few days ago. Now, when new people come to the base, they must hand in half their supplies.”
The management of the base found that although the troops brought a lot of food and supplies when they evacuated, because the situation was not optimistic, they must be prepared for a long-term resistance. As a result, the prepared food and materials were not enough.
However, although half of their materials need to be turned in to enter the base, most people who enter could find a job as long as they are willing to work. Most jobs in the base will take provide at least three meals.
Nowadays, building city walls and adding fortifications were jobs people could do everyday. People who don’t have much food at home have to go out and do previously unwanted jobs like brick moving in order to survive.
People like He Zizhong who are willing to go out to find supplies were definitely a minority. How does the zombie virus spread? How can it be prevented? Is it curable? Everything is inconclusive. Going out now meant close contact with zombies, and was undoubtedly an act of seeking death.
Today, the only people who dare to go out were those who were more fierce before the apocalypse, those with abilities after apocalypse, and those with no way to survive and want to desperately find some food back to support their families.
Pocketing the sign with the base registration information, He Zizhong quietly collected it into the space after leaving the city. With it, they only needed to pay one-fifth of their materials when they returned. Otherwise, even if they had a house, they would need to pay half of their supplies without it. Those people guarding the door don’t care what documents are shown, supplies were the real benefits.
The entrance facing the urban area does not allow people to pass through at this time, because it faced a city of zombies. To avoid a zombie beseigement, the east gate was closed, and there were countless machine guns and cannons facing the bridge outside the gate. The gate to the north was where people who fled to the base went. The south gate was a military passage and a special passage for transporting ashes. The west gate, which was the farthest from the city, was the dedicated passage for leaving.
Driving across the river and detouring around to the east, the two of them could see the originally prosperous city from a distance.
And they’re off to beat zombies…
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