Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

Yan Fei truly lives up to his reputation as a superhuman; despite such severe injuries, he was able to walk freely at home after only two days of lying down.

This gave everyone a direct sense of the resilience of superhumans, which is indeed far superior to that of ordinary people.

However, since he had nothing to do during the two days he was lying down and no one was letting him go out, Yan Fei was really bored. He finally finished making the metal crossbow that he had promised Zhou Yang for a long time but had only completed half of.

As soon as Zhou Yang got his hands on it, he quickly found several iron plates of varying thicknesses to use as targets and tested them one by one. Sure enough, they were more lethal than the wooden ones he had used before.

Moreover, this crossbow is small and portable, and its weight is within his tolerance range, which makes Zhou Yang very fond of it.

Moreover, the metal made by Yan Fei's special ability is more durable than ordinary metal. He scratched it hard with a knife, but there was no scratch.

No wonder I saw so many people in my past life spending countless points and resources to commission weapons from metal-powered individuals.

It's incredibly useful.

Zhou Yang plans to wait until Yan Fei's abilities are upgraded a bit more before asking him to make a few more machetes, military knives, boning knives, etc. Otherwise, it will be difficult to cut down the evolved zombies with ordinary knives.

However, in that case, the matter of improving one's superpowers needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

How about we take on a mission and go out for a while? He was planning to go out and dig up a zombie anyway.

However, no matter how anxious he was, he had to wait until the snow stopped, otherwise it would be inconvenient to travel in such heavy snow.

While Yan Fei was recuperating, Gu Yaoyao was also sent over by Gu Tianqi.

The main reason was that the little girl overheard them talking about Yan Fei's injury, and she asked him several times a day if her brother was better. He was so tired of hearing it that he simply brought it over for her to see for herself.

As soon as the little girl arrived at Yan Fei's bedside, she said she would blow on his head to relieve his pain, which made Yan Fei both laugh and cry. Everyone else couldn't help but laugh too.

Gu Tianqi was incredibly jealous of his daughter, who no longer wanted her father after having a brother, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Finally, after receiving a wave goodbye from her daughter, she left, turning back every few steps.

Fortunately, it's snowing heavily outside, so most people in the base are staying indoors. His main task now is to find a way to contact the capital, so he has a lot more free time and can come to see his daughter more often.

The group returned to their stay-at-home lifestyle, and to pass the time, Zhou Yang and his friends would try different ways to cook at home every day.

In order to avenge his previous humiliation, Shen Zechuan pestered Zhou Yang to learn how to cook every day. Seeing this, the others also followed suit every now and then, but of course, they ate most of what they made themselves.

Zhou Yang, on the other hand, cooked a special meal for Gu Yaoyao, and found it incredibly amusing to watch the others eat their meager meals with such poor expressions.

However, after going through this process, the group made rapid progress. After all, none of them were particularly unintelligent. Cooking only involved a few basic techniques, and once they became familiar with them, it was simply a matter of controlling the heat and seasonings. Gradually, they were able to cook quite well.

At least they've reached the level of cooking a proper meal in a large pot.

Staying at home like this is indeed quite nice, but there's one thing that's troubling Zhou Yang.

Because of his communal living situation, he hasn't had a suitable opportunity to manage his space for a long time.

Although we can usually control and store chickens, ducks, geese, and eggs, it seems that the number of chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and rabbits has increased a bit now.

So every day when he went to the bathroom to use the toilet, he would lock the door, go into his space to catch a few poultry and livestock to kill, and then take them out to cook.

Fortunately, he had the cheat code of space; otherwise, he might not have been able to catch these much smarter creatures, let alone kill them.

However, after he cooked the chickens, ducks, and geese, Zhou Yang discovered the key point after tasting them.

The meat of these poultry and livestock in the space seemed to be better than that of free-range or wild animals sold outside before the apocalypse, and the soup made from them was also particularly delicious.

It seems that drinking too much spring water does have some effects; it's estimated that this is more nutritious than eating regular chicken, duck, or goose meat.

Therefore, Zhou Yang decisively replaced all the meat and vegetables with poultry from the space.

Shen Zechuan and the others noticed the difference at first, but they didn't think much of it. They just assumed that they had been eating their own terrible cooking for too long, and now that they were suddenly eating Zhou Yang's food, it felt like they were eating a delicacy.

Later, I found that the meat dishes I made were starting to taste much better. I just thought that my cooking skills had finally improved a little, and I was so excited that I never thought it was because the meat had changed.

Two more months passed, and finally, in late December, the heavy snow that had been falling for more than two months stopped.

All the buildings below the second floor in the base were covered with snow, and only the top one and a half floors of the houses in the villa area remained, with even the roofs covered with thick snow.

If it weren't for the fact that the base had raised its walls several times during the snowfall, we probably wouldn't even know the extent of the base by now.

After the snow stopped, the base began organizing people to clear the snow from the base.

When it snowed before, the army did daily shifts to clear the snow, but they were only targeting the main access routes within the base, and they couldn't spare manpower for other areas.

Now that the snow has stopped, it's important to clear it away before it melts and freezes again. Otherwise, once the temperature rises and the snow melts and freezes, it will be much more difficult to clean up.

Moreover, with so much snow, the melting of it will directly lead to floods.

Because the cleanup work is so extensive, all able-bodied young people in the base are required to relocate and participate. The base will provide a free meal and award points to anyone who relocates.

Because of this, most of the survivors in the base also participated.

The entire base was busily clearing snow, but the subsequent handling of the snow also became a problem.

After all, there was a lot of snow outside, so leaving it piled up outside wouldn't work; it had to be transported to a more distant place.

Currently, the most convenient means of transportation are undoubtedly spatial ability users. One of them was killed in the military, and now there are only two spatial ability users left.

So the military issued a notice at the base to recruit spatial ability users into the army, while offering them generous benefits.

Zhou Yang was astonished by the benefits: free room and board and monthly points. In the apocalypse, this was indeed a secure job.

With such generous treatment, many survivors in the base wished they were space ability users, but unfortunately they were not.

That same day, a petite girl went to apply for a job with the military amidst everyone's envious gazes. After the military verified that she was a space ability user, they approved her application directly.

However, considering that she was a girl, the military arranged a separate room for her to stay in and did not let her train with the soldiers every day. She was only allowed to accompany the team on missions.

In addition, there's Zhou Yang, who isn't considering enlisting but is helping out voluntarily, making a total of four space-age ability users.

Their daily task was to ride sleds back to transport snow to places far from the base.

Of course, it wasn't safe for just the four of them, so a military superpower team was sent as an escort.

After finally clearing the snow from inside the base, the base had to start clearing the snow around the perimeter. Then, earth-elemental ability users were tasked with digging a moat 5 meters wide and 3 meters deep, about 4 or 5 meters away from the base wall.

At the same time, another ditch should be dug at one end, leading to the river, to prepare for potential flooding and to minimize the damage to the base.

The excavated soil will be used directly to raise the ground level between the moat and the wall. Of course, preparations will also be made to raise and reinforce the ground level inside the base in the future.

It took almost half a month in total to complete the whole process.

While clearing the area outside the base, they unearthed quite a few zombies frozen solid, like rocks.

Unfortunately, the military moved them all to one place and burned them together, so Zhou Yang never had a chance to check whether these zombies had generated crystal cores.

Only after completing the transport task and finally having some free time did Zhou Yang find an opportunity to look around at the place where the zombies were burned.

However, the weather was so bad that the burning was incomplete, and the flesh and skin were burned into dried corpses that looked blackish-red, making him hesitant to do it.

Forget it, I'll just go out and find someone frozen stiff and smash their head.

So, while everyone was having dinner together that day, Zhou Yang brought up the idea of ​​going out to do a mission.