Chapter 1001 - 433 Entering Winter_2
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In the last few days of autumn, other than a further increase in the number of zombies, life was dull. At the terminal station of the hand-cranked car, swarms of zombies could already be seen, and the road below the bridge had been blocked.
Everyone once again witnessed Dawn’s shamelessness. The temperature at 23:59 of day 135 was 18 degrees Celsius, dropping to 16 degrees precisely at 24:00 of day 136, and then falling at a rate of 2 degrees every ten minutes, until it reached minus 20 degrees. Snow began to fall from the sky, and a blizzard covered the entire city.
Xiao Jing joined the cook’s team, and with Little Knife and Xiao Wen, went to car number 12 at six in the morning to boil water and cook noodles. Maya was checking the snow accumulation and water storage at this time. On duty were Lin Wu and the Little Girl, around a hundred meters away from the camp. They hid in the last carriage of the tractor.
The rear of the last carriage was shaped like an archway, with fixed sentry positions on both sides. The carriage, along with the sentry posts, completely blocked the road. There was a coal stove inside the carriage, but for safety reasons, it had to be ventilated. The wind and snow mixed in, and only the lower half of the body near the stove could feel some warmth.
Even with the help of the spotlights on the roof of the carriage, visibility on a blizzard night was only around 15 meters. Judging by the spent shell casings at their sides, they have probably killed quite a number of zombies during their hours on duty. These dead zombies would be dragged away by other zombies, not to save them, but to use them as food. Though they would not die without eating, each bite was still counted as sustenance.
The blizzard also had its benefits, as the noise it created masked some of the gunfire, making the current situation relatively relaxed. There were basically no problems during the daytime; Maya was more worried about a zombie attack at night. If the sentry got distracted for even a moment, it would likely be game over. The worst thing was when it cleared up during the day, with Dawn’s nature, clear skies by day meant trouble was inevitable at night.
Maya then went to the infirmary. Xiao Zhuan and Blood Meng who were scheduled from midnight to four in the morning were originally in the outdoor sentry post but were later moved to the carriage sentry post, resulting in frostbite on their feet. In addition, Shana and Stone both caught colds, suspected to be a result of the temperature difference when going to the toilet before sleep.