Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

When Zhou Yang woke up in the morning, her face turned bright red as she thought about what happened last night.

Although it was just a kiss and Shen Zechuan helped her a bit, Zhou Yang had only dated someone like this once in her two lifetimes. It was her first time getting married, so she was naturally very embarrassed.

But even though he desperately wanted to find a place to calm down, he didn't have the chance.

Because after the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Yang and his group had to go out of the base to fight zombies again.

After all, in the apocalypse, there's no such thing as annual leave.

The Lunar New Year can only be a memory now.

Once Lunar New Year's Eve is over, the rest of the days will go on as usual.

The other survivors in the base were already busy trying to survive on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The army also started fighting zombies early on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Since the snow was cleared from the base, the base no longer accepts credit for the extreme cold relief meals it provides.

Adult workers must pay the corresponding points in order to redeem a meal, and any points previously accumulated on credit must be paid off as soon as possible.

In order to earn points, a large number of survivors had no choice but to leave the underground parking lot and find work in the base to support themselves and pay off their debts.

Fortunately, many of the base's infrastructure facilities were destroyed by snow and now need to be rebuilt, which has created many more jobs.

Because the repair jobs are relatively easy, they are snapped up as soon as they are announced.

Fortunately, not long after the New Year, the temperature began to rise significantly.

Around the Lantern Festival, the temperature had risen from minus fifty degrees Celsius to around minus thirty degrees Celsius.

On the Lantern Festival, the base cooked several pots of glutinous rice balls, which were distributed free of charge to the survivors as a welfare benefit. Each person received two.

Zhou Yang and the others didn't go to collect it; instead, they chose to cook two pots at home themselves.

One pot of sweet, colorful glutinous rice balls, and another pot of savory glutinous rice balls with vegetables and meat, guaranteed to satisfy everyone's taste.

Even after the Lantern Festival, the temperature continues to rise.

Gradually, some survivors who could no longer tolerate the filth and disorder of the underground parking lot and who also had proper houses began to move back.

This group mainly consists of powerful superpowered teams living in villa areas, but ordinary people still can't withstand the cold outside, so most of them remain in the underground parking lot.

By early March, temperatures had risen to above minus twenty degrees Celsius.

More and more people are moving back to their rented apartments from the underground parking lot.

Zhou Yang and his team also began to eliminate some of the heaters and electric fans, keeping the room temperature around minus ten degrees Celsius.

Although they have enough resources, they cannot live too pampered a life.

Moreover, if the room temperature is too high, food that is not easy to store will easily spoil.

With the elimination of the significant electricity expenditure for heating equipment, Zhou Yang and his family no longer had to worry about running out of electricity every day, and the batteries no longer needed to be changed daily.

As temperatures rise, most of the survivors at the base begin to form teams and venture out to search for supplies.

After searching the surrounding areas, the freely formed superpowered teams began to focus their attention on places that had not been cleared by the military and were teeming with zombies.

As a result, it's inevitable that some people will find crystal cores in the heads of zombies while searching for supplies, and many people will even take the crystal cores to the service center to inquire with the authorities.

The base then took this opportunity to issue a notice:

After enduring extreme cold, the zombies have collectively evolved, and the military has discovered several zombies that have evolved superpowers. Survivors are urged to be vigilant when facing zombies.

The crystal cores that develop in their brains can be used to upgrade their superpowers, and the base will recycle the crystal cores indefinitely.

Below is a price list for recycling crystal cores of different attributes and grades.

Zhou Yang and his team also took the opportunity to start acquiring crystal cores.

Along with the crystal core, the issue of mutated plants was also announced, as well as the fact that the core can only be used for upgrading plant-type ability users.

After the research on the mutated ivy core was completed, with the consent of Zhou Yang and others, it was allocated to the plant-powered warrior who cooperated in the research for upgrades.

At the planting base, it was thanks to this young man that most of the vegetables were able to survive.

The base also realized the importance of plant-based abilities. In addition to transferring a small number of plant-based ability warriors whose combat strength was not up to standard to engage in planting, it also recruited several plant-based ability users from the entire base after the weather warmed up.

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The zombies have collectively evolved, and there have even been cases of superhuman zombies. Once this was announced, all the survivors in the base went crazy.

The superpowered team was ecstatic, for they had found the path to becoming stronger.

Most ordinary people are now in an even more desperate situation. The zombies they encountered before were already terrifying, so how could ordinary people possibly deal with these evolved ones?

Of course, some people also saw business opportunities and the motivation to survive. When they went out in teams to search for supplies, they also began to look for zombies to dig out crystal cores.

A basic, lowest-level crystal core is worth 2 points. If you mine a few more a day, you can not only solve your basic needs but also save some money.

Over time, that's a considerable sum of money.

The ordinary people who were originally cowering in the base, after seeing that other ordinary people who were willing to go out and fight zombies actually managed to get crystal cores and bring them back, finally mustered up the courage to go out with them.

Fortunately, most zombies are now frozen in the snow. Even if they are not in the snow, their functions have deteriorated due to the low temperature. Although their skin is much harder to cut than before, two or three people working together can still take down an ordinary zombie with a few more powerful cuts.

And so, a zombie-hunting craze swept through the base.

In just one month, the survivors had basically wiped out all the zombies within a few kilometers of the base.

Taking advantage of this surge in popularity, the base cleared the snow around its perimeter, raised the surrounding area again, and deepened and widened the moat.

By mid-to-late March, the temperature had already dropped to several degrees below zero.

But then the problem of storing supplies arose.

The warmer weather means that many foods will no longer keep well.

Fortunately, after a period of continuous zombie fighting and crystal core acquisition, the entire Qianlong Squad has reached level 3, and Shen Zechuan and Yan Fei are already striving for level 4.

Unfortunately, even when the low-level crystal cores are saturated, they still cannot break through. It seems that we must use high-level crystal cores to break through.

Given that Zhou Yang's space has also been upgraded to "Level 3", his space has expanded several times over, and now he can easily fit all the supplies on both sides.

All the items that don't keep well have now been stored in Zhou Yang's space.

It is said that most of the superhumans in the military have now reached level 2, and the two special forces teams with superhumans have even had all members reach level 3.

By the end of March, the temperature finally reached the edge of 0 degrees Celsius.

The snow outside is starting to show signs of melting.

As temperatures rose again, half of the three- to four-meter-deep snow receded in just a few days.

The water that turned into sediment gradually formed a large pond.