Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

Even though the base had cleared all the snow around the base, the amount of water from the melting snow outside was still too much.

The floodwaters still managed to spread all the way to the base.

Fortunately, the moat acts as a buffer, so it shouldn't affect the base's interior in the short term.

However, the people in the base are temporarily unable to go out to search for supplies.

However, there is an even more pressing problem than finding supplies—

The 6 tons of grain that were originally stored underground could cause a major problem if they are not dealt with in time!

However, it's too late to move them now, and there's no suitable place to store them. Even several spatial ability users combined couldn't hold that much food.

Moreover, there will certainly be many natural disasters in the future, and we cannot rely on relocation to solve them every time.

After holding several emergency meetings, the base decided to further reinforce the underground grain warehouses and ensure a complete seal.

To this end, the base gathered all the earth-type and metal-type ability users within the base and transformed the underground granary into a waterproof, explosion-proof, heat-insulating, and cold-resistant place.

After providing enough food, they even sealed off the entrances and exits, intending to reopen them after the floodwaters receded.

The base was working day and night to seal off the underground grain warehouses when the moat was flooded by snowmelt.

No, that wasn't snowmelt anymore; it was floodwater mixed with a lot of silt.

Although the surrounding walls had been raised and reinforced, a gap remained at the base gate, which became a breach for the floodwaters.

A large amount of floodwater rushed into the base.

In just two days, the base was flooded, with water reaching up to an adult's thigh.

All survivors living in the basement or on the first floor were urgently evacuated to the stairwells of the high-rise buildings.

Some people who had always been reluctant to rent a place gritted their teeth and rented a high-rise apartment in the complex this time.

Several more people have moved into Zhou Yang's building.

Most of them live in the stairwells on the lower floors, but some have chosen to share an apartment.

All the empty rooms below the 13th floor of their building have been rented out.

Fortunately, Zhou Yang and his family lived on the 18th floor, which was several floors away from the 13th floor, so it didn't affect them too much.

As for the wealthy family on the roof, ever since they moved back after the extreme cold, for some reason, the male head of the household often leaves early and returns late, but he doesn't seem to bring back any supplies.

According to Yan Fei and the others, the couple had a huge fight in the middle of the night a couple of days ago, smashing things and yelling at each other, which scared Gu Yaoyao awake and made her cry. It took Yan Fei a long time to coax her back to sleep.

However, since the matter hadn't reached them, they didn't want to meddle. But if they were to scare Gu Yaoyao to tears again, they'd have to give that family a good beating and then put her near a zombie's mouth to wake her up.

Originally, it was just a flood, which wasn't too bad, since Baijishan is located at a higher elevation, so we could just bear it and it would pass.

However, a few days later, a dam or riverbank nearby broke, causing a large amount of water to overflow, and the water level, which was originally more than one meter, rose to almost two meters again.

With the increase in water volume, the air below also became extremely humid.

Even the second floor was steaming with moisture from the walls, making it uncomfortable to live there, so everyone started moving upstairs again.

As the floodwaters flowed rapidly, many zombies were also swept along by the current.

Outside the base, zombies, swollen into human-shaped buns from being submerged in the floodwaters, could be seen everywhere, still thrashing about in the water.

It probably smelled the presence of living people in the base, so it desperately tried to come over.

Although the base's perimeter wall has been raised to 5 meters, the military still sends out patrols day and night to guard against any zombies that approach the wall.

However, while the safety was temporarily assured, the water safety issue arose next.

With so many zombies submerged in the water, and even many dismembered remains, the virus from the zombies must have entered the water. Is this water still usable?

One of the patrol team members thought of this and immediately reported it to the organization.

The military immediately took it seriously and took several water samples, handing them over to the research institute.

Since it concerned everyone's lives, the two professors at the institute didn't hesitate, working overtime and producing their conclusions that very night. The report even included test results for the tap water that could be used again after the extreme cold.

Sure enough, the water now contains viruses, even the tap water. It seems that the viruses may have already invaded the ground after the flood.

Drinking this water containing the virus directly could potentially cause infection.

However, after multiple filtrations and boiling, it should be fine to use as domestic water.

If you must drink it, it needs to be filtered multiple times and then purified before boiling. However, this is only for special circumstances and is not recommended for long-term consumption.

Upon receiving this conclusion, the base immediately issued a notice prohibiting survivors from drinking tap water or simply filtered floodwater, as it contained a small amount of zombie virus and could potentially cause infection.

The news caused panic among everyone.

Food shortages are bad enough, but now there's not even water to drink. What are we going to do?

As a result, many people thought of the abilities of water-based ability users and immediately sought help from the nearest water-based ability user.

Unfortunately, once the news broke, these water-based ability users were either recruited into private ability teams or recruited by the government, leaving very few in the general population, which was far from meeting the needs of so many people.

Fortunately, within two days, the base began distributing a set of water purifiers and purification tablets free of charge to groups of 10 people, which temporarily solved everyone's urgent problem.

Most of these water purification devices were collected by the base's military itself, while some were donated by Zhou Yang and his team.

Zhou Yang also donated the large-scale water purification system he collected from the waterworks to the base.

Anyway, he has his own space and spring water, and he has stored a lot of water. His team also has Lu Xingye, so there is nothing to worry about.

It would be a waste to leave this device in his space.

He didn't think much of it when he first took it out, but then he remembered that he had said the space wasn't big, and it turned out that the space contained such a large device...

My head was buzzing, and I felt like I was doomed.

But when he saw Shen Zechuan and the others, who were all looking down at their noses, mouths, and minds, pretending not to see anything, he touched his nose and smiled.

Fortunately, he was lucky to have a second chance and met a group of good teammates with whom he could confide.

Upon returning that day, Zhou Yang voluntarily confessed that his space had been vast from the beginning, and his subsequent evolutionary direction was different from others.

Other spatial ability users, upon evolution, besides expanding their space slightly, might also develop some offensive skills. However, his space was entirely dedicated to storage. His space was several times larger than that of other spatial ability users of the same generation, and the items placed inside remained completely unchanged.

At first, I was afraid that if I said it out loud, my body would be dissected and sliced ​​up, but later I felt that there was no need to explain it in detail.

Shen Zechuan and others expressed their understanding.

Previously, it was a bit strange why the food Zhou Yang took out from his space was always piping hot, and he never worried about the ingredients going bad, even though the spaces of other space-type ability users could only temporarily delay spoilage.

However, they all tacitly refrained from asking any further questions.

Later, after many people in the army reached level 3, they heard that the military's space ability users could use space to kill zombies, but their Zhou Yang could only store things. They were secretly worried about this for a long time and didn't dare to ask Zhou Yang, for fear of upsetting him.

Now they finally understand why.

It doesn't matter if they don't attack, their team's combat strength is already sufficient. Zhou Yang's huge and constant space is more suitable for them, and they won't have to worry about the spoilage of supplies anymore.

The happiest person among them was Lu Xingye.

I've been worried lately that many of his snacks are about to expire. He wants to eat as much as he can, but he's also worried that they'll all be gone once they're gone.

Now that he heard that Zhou Yang's space can be preserved permanently, he immediately said that he would hand over all his snack inventory to Zhou Yang for safekeeping.

Everyone was stunned as they watched him dig out snacks from every corner of the house, eventually filling an empty space.

Why do you have to hide snacks so carefully? Aren't you tired?

"Hmph, it's because someone won't let me eat it! I can only eat it secretly!"

Yan Fei pinched his brow and closed his tired eyes: "That's because you ate too much. There are no dentists now, what will you do if you have toothaches later? You already have one tooth that's starting to get cavities."

Zhou Yang nodded knowingly, then put all the snacks into his spatial storage: "Understood, from now on I'll only give him one bag of snacks a day at most. I'll definitely keep an eye on him!"

Lu Xingye stared at the vanished snacks on the floor, then at Zhou Yang, his face filled with despair: "???!!!"