Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

Seeing that Zhou Yang had subdued the three weasels in the blink of an eye, everyone else silently gave him a thumbs up, their eyes filled with admiration.

Wow, that's amazing! He tamed the mutant animals just like that.

After establishing the rules for the weasels, Zhou Yang gave them new names so they would be easier to identify in the future: the father weasel was called Big Yellow, the mother weasel was called Second Yellow, and the baby weasel was called Little Yellow.

The three little creatures started yelling and squealing again, which he couldn't understand, but he took it as them liking it.

Seeing that their calls were futile, the three weasels finally gave up. "So what if they're just Big Yellow, Second Yellow, and Little Yellow? As long as there's magic water to drink, they don't care what they're called!"

After resting for a while and waiting for the advance team to recover, the two teams regrouped and set off again to continue their exploration inside the granary.

Although this is not the largest national grain depot, it is still among the top ten, and is known as the "Number One Grain Depot in Jiangnan".

The single storage area covers 138 acres, with a total of 38 square warehouses, and the maximum grain storage capacity can reach 8 tons.

With three weasels who had taken over the grain storage area as their guide, Zhou Yang and his group quickly ascertained the grain reserves, which totaled more than 6 tons.

Fortunately, they didn't see any rats invading or stealing their grain, which was probably partly due to the three weasels.

After all, rats are number one on a weasel's menu.

The grain has been found; the next step is to bring it all back.

The two groups of people only brought a total of 18 of the largest trucks in the base, plus 10 military vehicles.

Even disregarding load capacity, large trucks can probably only carry a maximum of 200 tons, so 18 trucks would carry 3600 tons. Military vehicles can probably only carry a maximum of five or six tons, so that would be around fifty or sixty tons.

In total, it only amounted to a little over 3650 tons, enough to empty at most two or three warehouses...

They definitely can't bring back more than 6 tons of grain on this trip alone; they'll need to send more people to the base.

Song Lian immediately reported the matter to the base via satellite phone. The base immediately said that it would send people and vehicles to transport the grain, and instructed them to leave some people to guard the grain depot and to provide support for the follow-up teams.

After hanging up the phone, Song Lian immediately made arrangements for everyone. A portion of his team members were to transport the grain back to the base with the advance team, while the rest would continue to guard the grain depot until the base's reinforcements arrived.

Zhou Yang, Shen Zechuan, and the others were also kept behind, but they didn't have any objections.

Seeing that it was getting late, everyone hurriedly loaded the grain onto the cart.

Zhou Yang stopped carrying just one bag, realizing he'd gone mad. Why was he being so foolish as to carry bags of things around when he had his own spatial ability?

So he waved his hand and put about six or seven cubic units of grain into his space. Then he grabbed two bags of rice, carried them to the truck.

After tossing two bags of rice to the soldier who was receiving them on the truck, he waved for him to move aside, and then with another wave of his hand, more than half a ton of rice appeared directly on the truck.

The soldiers in the car were stunned, and it took them a while to realize that spatial abilities could be used in this way.

Following Zhou Yang's example, another soldier with spatial abilities also realized the need and began using his spatial abilities to move food.

This was much faster; the 18 large trucks and 10 military vehicles were quickly filled.

Bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, the grain transport team set off to return to the base.

After seeing off the grain transport team, Zhou Yang and his group finally had some free time.

After a busy day, they had only eaten one meal and were starving.

Song Lian then ordered someone to take out two large iron pots that had been prepared earlier from the car, dug out an underground stove on the spot, and started cooking.

The army's communal meals have always been simple, and now that it's the apocalypse, they're even less particular. One pot contains washed rice, along with hard-to-cook green beans, corn, dried bamboo shoots, cured meat, and sausages, making wild vegetable rice. The other pot contains the simplest seaweed soup.

The situation is much more complicated for Zhou Yang and his group.

Zhou Yang took out a set of outdoor multi-person folding dining table and chairs from his space. After Shen Zechuan and the others set them out, he took out a set of kitchen utensils.

Two portable double-burner gas stoves, two bottles of gas, two frying pans, one large stew pot, and one frying pan.

They didn't plan to cook rice, because Song Lian had said he would cook their portion as well, so Zhou Yang only planned to cook some side dishes to go with the rice.

The reason he brought out so many kitchen utensils was that he planned to make more and then share it with Song Lian and the others.

He plans to stew some braised pork, stir-fry two pots of vegetables, and make some pan-fried spare ribs.

The task of picking and washing the vegetables was naturally left to Shen Zechuan and a few others. Once they had finished preparing the vegetables, Zhou Yang began to cook them quickly.

The first thing to make is braised pork belly, because it takes a long time to stew afterwards.

After caramelizing the pork belly with sugar and putting it in a stew pot to simmer over low heat, Zhou Yang began making the pan-fried pork ribs. Because the quantity was quite large, Zhou Yang divided it into two batches to finish.

He saved two vegetarian dishes for last: stir-fried wood ear fungus and shredded pork with eggs, both of which were refreshing and appetizing.

By the time Zhou Yang finished, the wild vegetable rice and seaweed soup that Song Lian and the others had made were also ready.

The two groups ended up eating together in an empty warehouse.

Holding a bowl of wild vegetable rice topped with large chunks of meat and vegetables, along with a bowl of seaweed soup, the soldiers ate with tears in their eyes, saying it was the best meal they had eaten since the apocalypse.

Hearing this made Zhou Yang feel a little sad. The soldiers in the apocalypse had it tough. Many of them were about his age, but they all shouldered everything and stood in front of everyone.

Although he had a less than ideal life in his previous life, most of the soldiers at that base were good people. However, the military there was only a few thousand people, and they naturally couldn't control the teams of superhumans at the base in the later stages. As a result, they were somewhat powerless to manage the base, which led to the base becoming more and more chaotic.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they helped clean up the pots and pans and tidy up the place. Then, they hung up outdoor lights and started setting up the tents.

Since it was indoors, there was no need to hammer nails to secure it, and everyone quickly set it up.

Zhou Yang and his group set up a large three-room tent, which was just the right size for two people to sleep in one room without feeling crowded. Yan Fei and Lu Xingye shared one room, Chai Jin and Xu Zhiyi shared another, and Zhou Yang naturally shared a room with Shen Zechuan.

The pea was too big, so it slept outside. However, Zhou Yang still gave it the biggest ice mat to sleep on. The weasel family also slept next to the pea on the ice mat.

After a long day, everyone was exhausted and fell asleep almost as soon as they lay down.

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The next morning, Zhou Yang and the others were awakened by the sound of a car moving.

Upon exiting, they found that the follow-up troops dispatched by the base had arrived. This time, they sent a small regiment of a thousand men, followed by a long line of trucks and vans, including many heavy trucks like those from yesterday.

Zhou Yang estimated there must be at least several hundred vehicles; it seems the base plans to transport them all back.

But is there any place to put it in the base?

Zhou Yang thought to himself and blurted it out.

Li Li, the team leader who was leading the group, heard this and immediately cleared up his confusion: "The commander is currently having earth-type and metal-type ability users build an underground granary together. To prevent snakes, insects, and rodents, two layers of protection have been built using concrete and steel plates."

Zhou Yang nodded upon hearing this, saying that would be acceptable.

After a quick breakfast, Zhou Yang and the others started helping to move the grain.

Even with Li Lituan bringing two space-age ability users and Zhou Yang, they only managed to move half of the 6 tons of grain by sunset.

It was unsafe for so many trucks loaded with grain to remain parked outdoors, so Li Li and Song Lian discussed it and decided that Song Lian should take some of the team members and the convoy that had already finished loading back to the base first.

Song Lian then left Zhou Qi and three other team members behind, while he led the rest of the team to escort the convoy back to base overnight.

Of course, the two soldiers with spatial abilities that Li Li brought also stayed behind, since they would be needed to help load the truck tomorrow.