Apocalypse: the Most Ruthless Person

“Damn, I’d rather face a zombie horde once a month than deal with three or five every day, just annoying rather than deadly!”

Zhao Dezhu shook off the grime on his machete in disgust.

His thought is like preferring to have surgery once a month rather than get an IV drip every day.

“Come on!” Zhang Su shook his head with an exaggerated expression, “It’s better to keep things gentle like this…”

Thinking back to the times they encountered zombie hordes, the sense of oppression lingered in his mind. Sometimes long-term pain isn’t better than short-term pain; short-term pain can be too intense to bear.

They returned to the safe camp, and everyone came out to help count the supplies, filled with a sense of happiness, resembling the massive shopping spree during the New Year’s festivities.

“Look at this, surveillance cameras?”

Tianji, seeing the complete surveillance equipment, was thrilled, more excited than an old perv spotting a Banana Magazine.

“The rest is up to you!” Zhang Su stood aside smoking, organizing supplies wasn’t the search team’s job.

“Brother Su, if we work fast, two days, slower maybe three, we will need a new position, haha!”

Liu Tianji eagerly counted the surveillance equipment.

“Surveillance operator, right?” Zhang Su laughed, “Now we need three people on watch each time, later just arrange two people per shift to monitor, it’ll free up a laborer. High-tech is so damn good!”

Qi Xiaoshuai said, “Brother Su, it’ll free up more than one laborer. Watching the monitors isn’t tiring; you can do other stuff at the same time and even water the greenhouse after work.”

“Not that I’m saying… Xiaoshuai, do you delivery guys always like to overachieve? Clearly, after monitor duty, you can rest, but with your plan, who’d want to partner up for monitor duty and suffer?”

Wu Lue glared at Qi Xiaoshuai, starting the anti-overachievement movement with himself!

“You lazy bum, see how others do it! This isn’t a company; there are no bloodsucking capitalists here. We’re building our own home, and every extra effort creates happiness for oneself. Luezi, I see you’re ready to slack off!”

Zhang Su ruthlessly exposed Wu Lue’s little scheme and told everyone, “Keep an eye on him. Damn, he’s the slacker king, watching videos every night shift. Really ought to be educated by the cyber police!”

“Brother Su, you say that… There’s a record on my computer, you’ve seen it!”

“Buzz off!”

Everyone chuckled, the atmosphere was lively, completely different from the days spent on the road. Almost everyone wore a smile.

The next day, Liu Tianji and Wang Xin were the first to start researching surveillance installation positions.

The two roamed on the Celestial Horse Island, climbing high and low, using human eyes to simulate surveillance areas, trying not to leave any blind spots.

“Climbing so high, be careful!”

Just as Wang Xin stood on the Qingfeng Xiaozhu’s second-floor railing, gazing afar, suddenly a female voice came from the side, causing both him and Liu Tianji to pause.

“Hey, Zhang Ya, weren’t you over at the greenhouse watering veggies?”

Liu Tianji smiled and greeted Zhang Ya.

With her hands behind her back, Zhang Ya smiled and said, “Finished there, came over to see if you need any help. Wang Xin, can you see outside from up there?”

Wang Xin leaned out and looked far into the distance, then smiled and said, “You can see far into the fields, unless you chisel that big rock over there, definitely can’t cover the road.”

“Is that so, would the view over there be better?” Zhang Ya pointed to another spot and started to walk towards the stairs, clearly intending to join Wang Xin in pondering the surveillance installation spot.

“Damn, so unfair!”

Liu Tianji grumbled to himself, being a clever one, he noticed Zhang Ya’s attention clearly focused on Wang Xin, his mind instantly understanding but feeling a bit frustrated, realizing his good friend was probably about to get a girlfriend soon.

“Hey, Wang, you guys watch here, I’m going to study the mountain road, don’t fall!”

As a good brother, Liu Tianji naturally wouldn’t stay here being a third wheel for Wang Xin.

“Hey, hey, okay!”

Wang Xin wasn’t clueless either, seeing the situation, feeling secretly happy yet a bit nervous.

He was introverted with slight social anxiety, previously never having a significant other at work, unexpectedly, in the apocalypse, having a girl taking the initiative to get close, he couldn’t be happier.

With a male-female pair, as long as the work’s done well, the efficiency is indeed very good.

“Hey, Brother Liu, why are you alone, where’s Brother Wang?”

Feeling depressed, Liu Tianji headed towards the mountain road, just in time to bump into Wu Lue collecting chicken and duck eggs.

Liu Tianji made a strange expression and pointed towards Qingfeng Xiaozhu: “Your Brother Wang is over there doing research. I’m going to check the mountain road, want to get some surveillance that can cover the provincial road, at least the self-built road.”

Wu Lue nodded in a crafty way, approached Liu Tianji with an egg basket, and smiled slyly: “Brother Liu, how about giving me two surveillance cameras, the smallest, most compact type, a pinhole camera, do you have them?”

Upon hearing Wu Lue’s request, Liu Tianji glanced sideways and said: “Kid, you must be up to something shady, come clean, are you trying to spy on someone?”

“No, how could that be… just kidding, hehe, just kidding, I’m leaving now, goodbye!”

Seeing the situation was not good, Wu Lue quickly slipped away.

“Up to no good…”

Liu Tianji watched Wu Lue’s back, feeling speechless. No need to guess, wanting such covert cameras is either for the toilet or the bathroom!

Chop, chop, chop.

Beside the mountain stream entrance near the inn area, several people, including Yuwen and Jia Shiqin, were cutting down trees. They chose trees at least as thick as a bowl, without good tools, using axes and saws.

Although it’s quite laborious, fortunately, the group’s hands-on skills are strong enough that this task doesn’t stump them.

“Good Fortune, do you feel like eating fish?”

Zheng Xinyu squatted by the fish pond with the dog, beside her was a feeding bucket, watching the fat fish swimming in the water, enjoying the tranquility in her own way.

The group found some fish feed in the inn, Zhao Dezhu personally prepared it, adding some other grains. When thrown in, the fish would eat happily.

Woof!

Good Fortune responded excitedly, pawing at the water, eyes bright as it looked at Zheng Xinyu, seemingly asking, can I catch them now!

Zheng Xinyu shook her head with a strange expression: “Nope, you have to wait for everyone to eat together. You can’t sneak around catching fish, understand? If Black Heart Ghost finds out, he’ll spank you, spank your butt!”

Woof… sigh…

Good Fortune actually knows who Black Heart Ghost is, laying down in reluctance, watching the fish swim back and forth in the pond.

“Hey, by the way, if the temperature keeps dropping, will the fish pond freeze over? That’s a problem, I should go ask Teacher Yu!”

Acting on her thought, Zheng Xinyu grabbed the bucket and ran towards the mountain stream, Good Fortune naturally followed, keeping pace step by step.

Zhong Xiaoshan’s work environment wasn’t as nice as Zheng Xinyu’s. She was inside a dim warehouse, with two camping lamps on, meticulously inventorying the medicines.

Food supplies are easier to count, but the countless boxes of medicine are hard to sort.

When they initially took the medicines from the pharmacy, they stuffed them into boxes with no time for classification, so many medicines are known to be there but finding them is quite a hassle.

Fortunately, it’s not just Zhong Xiaoshan working hard; Lü Leiyang is very obedient and helps out, and Mo Qianlan also pitches in after finishing her tasks.

Since Zhang Su’s group settled on Celestial Horse Island, although the number isn’t large, it has brought some vitality here.

Three days passed quickly, and if you looked daily, there was not much change within the safety camp, but compared to when they first arrived, there have been considerable changes.

The most noticeable are the many lines between the houses…

In these few days, Liu Tianji, Wang Xin, joined by Zhang Ya whenever she had time, climbed up and down everywhere installing surveillance cameras and wiring. Fortunately, they had enough materials from Niuquanzi Town, encircling the Celestial Horse Island inn area with sixteen cameras, and set up a monitoring room in an unoccupied guest room at Wangshan Inn.

Through daily interactions, the relationship between Wang Xin and Zhang Ya slowly warmed up, you could clearly see the smiles of a couple in love on their faces.

Liu Tianji didn’t exactly feel jealous, but he was somewhat depressed and ended up reporting Wu Lue, saying he had secretly requested pinhole cameras for unknown purposes, resulting in Wu Lue getting severely scolded by all the female members.

Three days later, wood was piled up in the parking lot. According to Yuwen, it was mainly for making cheval de frise; without metal, they had to use wood instead. But fortunately, for him, wood was more versatile!

The greenhouse vegetable garden was well managed, with Zhang Ya helping Wang Xin set up surveillance, and Wang Xin would occasionally busy himself in the garden.

Poultry feeding also went well, steadily providing chicken and duck eggs as food supplements. As for the fish pond, it’s currently only simply fed, and construction hasn’t yet begun in earnest, but they will certainly take care of it in the future, as fish are a very important food source.

Zhang Su led the search party, and for these days they did not idle around. Every day they went to Niuquanzi Town, steadily clearing zombies from the street, bringing back plenty of supplies to Celestial Horse Island, and even found a batch of very important materials – cement and steel.

In an uncleared district shop, there was a pile of construction materials for rural houses, including steel, bricks, etc.; you could tell it was of considerable scale, estimating that many people from nearby villages would buy from that shop for housing construction.