Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

When Zhou Yang left the space, it was almost 1:30 pm outside.

After leaving some spring water for Dahuang and the others, I went to check on Gu Yaoyao first. Thankfully, the little girl was still fast asleep.

However, he calculated that Gu Yaoyao had been asleep for almost an hour, and worried that she wouldn't be able to sleep at night if she slept too much, so Zhou Yang went over and woke her up.

The little girl was still half asleep when she was pulled up, until Zhou Yang touched her face with a cold towel, which jolted her awake.

"Hey, you can't sleep now, or you won't be able to sleep tonight."

"Um, okay."

Gu Yaoyao sighed, her little head drooping.

To ensure that Gu Yaoyao and he could both have a fulfilling afternoon, Zhou Yang specially found several children's books and educational materials suitable for a 5-year-old.

He planned to spend the afternoon reading with Gu Yaoyao, teaching her to recognize characters and do arithmetic.

His plans were ambitious, and the initial character recognition lessons went smoothly. However, when it came to the arithmetic stage, reality dealt him a heavy blow.

"Yaoyao, you already had 3 grapes. I gave you 4 more, but after you ate 1, how come there were no more?"

"One for Yao Yao, one for my brother, one for my father, one for my brother Xiao Zhou, one for my brother Zhi Yi, one for my brother Xing Ye, one for my brother Chai Jin, and that's all."

Gu Yaoyao counted on her two fingers and said firmly.

Zhou Yang sighed, looking at the few grapes on the table, on the verge of tears: "Yao Yao, these are all yours, you don't need to share them with others."

"But the teacher said before that good children should learn to share. The older brothers also shared their delicious food with Yao Yao."

Gu Yaoyao stared wide-eyed, her face full of incomprehension.

"Ah, okay, we won't use food to learn arithmetic. We'll use... soap to count!"

Zhou Yang thought for a while before coming up with something that had nothing to do with food, and then put it back on the table to teach Gu Yaoyao math.

Getting rid of food did help a little, but the effect was minimal.

Even Zhou Yang, who had been admitted to a 211 university and considered himself to have achieved some academic success, was still overwhelmed.

Zhou Yang finally managed to pack up the study tools that filled the table by evening.

Let's leave the teaching to Xu Zhiyi, the academic genius, next time.

He might not be a good fit.

As the sun was about to set, Zhou Yang guessed that they would be back soon, so he started cooking rice first, and then made a braised chicken in another rice cooker. As for the other stir-fries and soup, he would wait until they came back to make them.

Then he took Gu Yaoyao to the main gate of the base, intending to see what Xu Zhiyi meant by the brilliant plan.

Each of them carried a small mouse as a hand warmer. As they approached the gate, they saw several other teams of supernatural beings returning. However, they had likely only gone to nearby areas, so they hadn't collected many supplies.

Because of their comings and goings over the past few days, Zhou Yang and his group had become quite familiar with the squad leader in charge of guarding the gate. Knowing that they were there to wait for their teammates, they even managed to snag a seat on a small bench that the guards had placed near the gate.

The two little dumplings, one big and one small, sat at the gate for a short while before the two teams the army had sent out that day returned.

A dozen or so mutated military dogs pulled sleds to the gate in a grand procession, each sled also dragging a large military green supply bag behind it, clearly indicating that they were returning fully loaded.

After the military team finished unloading their supplies and left, the base gate closed again, and Zhou Yang still didn't see his teammates return.

Just as I was about to complain about how slow these people were today, I suddenly felt the ground beneath my feet tremble, which startled me. My first instinct was that an earthquake was about to happen.

But then I realized something was wrong; I didn't remember any major earthquakes happening after the apocalypse in my previous life.

Looking around, everyone was frightened and moved away from the corner, running to a more open area, clearly also feeling that an earthquake was about to occur.

Although he felt that the possibility of an earthquake was unlikely, Zhou Yang still picked up Gu Yaoyao and ran to an open area.

As soon as I stood still, I turned my head and saw a huge yellow dog head hanging above the base gate, looking at the little people inside the base.

"Damn it! What kind of monster is this?!" The captain of the guard team shouted in shock, and immediately pointed his gun at the dog's head.

The captain's teammates behind him also raised their guns.

Just as a fight was about to break out, Zhou Yang, who was looking at the dog's head and finding it increasingly familiar, hurriedly shouted to stop: "Wait a minute, this looks like my dog!"

Upon hearing this, the captain looked over suspiciously: "Hmm? We saw your dog this morning, and it wasn't this big."

"Ahem, we only discovered its new skill yesterday—it can change size. Wait a minute, I'll call it to try it out."

"Alright then. You give it a try first."

Seeing that the guards didn't seem to be making a move, Zhou Yang took two steps forward.

"Pea, is that you? How did you get so big? You're scary, you know? Change back right now!"

Upon hearing Zhou Yang's words, Pea excitedly twitched its ears and barked, then another head popped out from its head—it was none other than Lu Xingye, who had gone out with it this time.

He was holding Pea's big ears and swaggering around on top of it: "Hey, Yangyang, do you want to come up and sit for a bit? It's so cool to sit on Pea!"

Upon seeing Lu Xingye, Zhou Yang and the guards breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why did you climb so high? Did you all come back from harvesting peas? Where are Shen Zechuan and the others?"

"No, we used sleds. I waited until we got there before climbing up. I also asked the guards to open the gate for us. We have a lot of supplies."

Upon hearing this, the guard captain ordered his men to open the gate immediately. After all, the Hidden Dragon Squad was not only their leader's junior, but they also frequently sold or donated supplies to the base at half price, so they had benefited from it and were naturally happy to take care of them.

When the base gate opened, Zhou Yang finally saw Pea's entire body.

At this moment, it was sitting on the ground, like a small hill five or six meters high. Zhou Yang had to crane his neck to see its chin when he stood under it.

Behind the pea, there were five iron sleds linked together, each about the size of a small truck, with Shen Zechuan and others sitting in the first one.

This is clearly a transportation tool that Yan Fei made on the spot.

666! You guys actually came up with this!

Zhou Yang gave Xu Zhiyi a thumbs up, then handed Gu Yaoyao over to Yan Fei before consciously stepping forward and storing all the sleds and their cargo into his spatial storage.

After packing everything up, Zhou Yang was about to ask Lu Xingye to come down and then turn Pea back to normal when the military's superpower team arrived.

It turned out that as soon as the pea's big head was hanging above the base gate, the guard captain gestured to send a junior member to call the superpowered team to prevent any accidents.

Sure enough, as soon as they heard that a huge mutant dog had arrived at the base, Song Lian and Zhou Xian rushed over with their men.

When they arrived, they found that although the dog was indeed a big dog, it wasn't there to attack the base.

Having made a blunder, Song Lian and the others didn't rush to leave. Instead, they circled around the big yellow dog, Pea, and asked curiously, "How can it grow so big?"

"I discovered it by chance yesterday. I was just saying it was too big and I was worried it wouldn't be able to fit into the house, so I asked if it could change size. I didn't expect it to actually work."

Thinking of the dozens of military dogs in the army, if they also had this ability, it would be much more convenient to carry supplies on missions in the future. Song Lian's eyes lit up and he continued to ask, "Then can the mutant military dogs in our army also change size?"

Zhou Yang blinked, unsure: "Um, I'm not sure about that, how about... you guys give it a try?"

"That makes sense! I'll go back and have the trainers try it out!"

Song Lian and Zhou Xian exchanged a glance, then Song Lian and his men rushed back immediately.

That night, the trainers were all incredibly excited, and they started researching whether the dogs they were training could grow bigger or smaller.

The poor military dogs, having finally finished their work, were gathered together again, where their personal trainers spent the entire night nagging them in their ears like a monk chanting sutras, asking if they could grow bigger or smaller.

The military dogs, thoroughly disturbed, howled on the ground:

Aww! Not all of them have this skill! Please have mercy!

However, perseverance pays off, and they eventually found three military dogs that could change size.

Although there were only three, the entire army was excited. They could learn from the Hidden Dragon Squad's example today and bring back supplies, instead of just sending out two teams with one spatial ability user on each side.