Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus

Brother Sun’s words resonated with everyone present.

Indeed.

Survival is tough.

Brother Sun looked at Tan Guohua again, sighed, and began to pack and tidy up after giving a few instructions to the others. They needed to set off quickly, heading for the wholesale city across the river.

Soon, everything was packed up. In fact, they didn’t have much to pack—after this harsh period, they owned very little.

After packing up, Brother Sun approached Tan Guohua: ”Brother Hua, should we head out?” He was cautious as Tan Guohua seemed off at the moment.

Tan Guohua’s eyes, bloodshot, looked somewhat bewildered. However, after the initial confusion, he came to and asked, ”Where to?”

Brother Sun sighed before responding: ”Brother Hua, we’re getting ready to leave this place and head to the wholesale city across the river to search for supplies.

Brother Hua, let’s try the other side again and see if we can find some medicine you can use. You’ve got to stay strong.”

Hearing this, Tan Guohua clung onto it like a lifeline. Hurriedly getting up, he moved quickly yet didn’t jostle his daughter in his arms, gentle and careful.

Beads of sweat dripped from the tip of his nose.

He hoisted his daughter onto his back, supporting her with one hand and holding up a sun umbrella with the other, shielding her from the sunlight as they walked towards the river’s opposite bank.

Under the scorching sun, there were many others like Tan Guohua.

...

In the city, things were also extremely hard for Director Zhang. After last month’s torrential rains, the ensuing high temperatures brought about severe losses.

Just in terms of personnel, they had lost over thirty people. During the storm, the eastern gate had been breached. Even though they managed to seal it eventually, they had suffered heavy losses.

Now, with the blazing hot weather, they faced trouble. Without air conditioning indoors, trying to find relief with just fans was futile.

Initially, they could go to the river to cool down, but as the temperature rose and endured longer, the river gradually shrunk, turning almost into a stream, and even the water began to get murky.

The riverbed’s sediment was exposed, and the water level had never been so low for many years.

Due to the operations of sand mining companies over the years, the riverbed’s sand had been excavated, and now the water quality was terrible.

In Jiefang City, inside a gray house located towards the rear right.

”Captain Lv, isn’t it just too hot today? Look, my freshly changed clothes are soaked through again,” said Director Zhang, wearing a white shirt, his beer belly making it bulge.

Glancing at the shirt clinging to the body, clearly showing the undershirt inside, Captain Lv replied to the sweat-drenched Director Zhang: ”Another one of the duty officers got heatstroke today; that makes it the third one. I checked the river, and the water level is getting lower and lower. Ah, such a drought!”

He also hadn’t been sleeping well lately; even though the temperature dropped slightly at night, it was still over 35 degrees, making the sleep quality poor. The daytime’s even higher temperature meant that they hadn’t had good rest for a long time.

”It’s just that our supplies are getting lesser recently. Logically, with such high temperatures, Zombies should be less active, so shouldn’t gathering supplies be more convenient when you go out?” After some small talk, Director Zhang quickly moved on to the main topic.

Captain Lv had a troubled look on his face. He said, ”The temperature now... outdoors it has reached 48 degrees, and even indoors it’s around 43 degrees. So much of the food has started growing bugs directly. With this kind of temperature rising higher and higher, it’s really difficult to manage...”

Captain Lv continued, ”The same item, let’s say a can, it doesn’t matter if it’s past its shelf life, we would still eat it. But now, some of the food we find is already infested with bugs. I think what Old Ma said before was right, we still need to plant our own food.”

Director Zhang sighed. He could guess some of it, but he didn’t expect it to be this serious.

”Old Ma’s suggestion, we’re also working on it here in internal affairs. We’ve mobilized some people to plant some corn and vegetables and such. With that downpour, everything’s gone. And now look at how dry the weather is, Old Ma also said, without water, we can only be finished!” Director Zhang sighed.

Both men furrowed their brows, the water on the table was somewhat turbid, but this was already filtered by them. This water came from the river, and now the river’s water is getting shallower and has turned into a very narrow stream.

It’s unknown when it will dry up, and in order to solve the water supply problem, they are preparing to drill a well recently.

...

Xin City, across the river.

Tan Guohua and others arrived on the opposite bank from the big bridge.

On this side of the river bank, everything was in ruins.

Wholesale City, the people searched around here for a while, and finally gathered dispiritedly in the middle of an open space.

Wholesale City, although there were a lot of items, everyone knew that there was a lot here, so many Survivors had scavenged here, round after round, and the items were already very thoroughly picked over.

Digging three feet into the ground, they only found a bag of bread that had already expired and half-eaten by bugs, and two pieces of smoked bacon that were hanging from the rafters, turned black. Besides these, no food was discovered.

There were some other supplies, like a pile of blankets and quilts, but that’s not what they needed at the moment!

”Where’s Brother Hua? Brother Sun.” A young man asked.

Brother Sun wiped the sweat from his forehead, glanced at the slowly setting sun, and asked with a bit of confusion, ”Didn’t you see him?”

”We all split up to look for supplies. We had just arrived at the Wholesale City here and then dispersed,” said a woman.

”Could he have gone to the pharmacy? Around the Wholesale City, there seems to be a civilian pharmacy. Didn’t we talk about coming here to find medicines when we first came to the Wholesale City?” Another man said.

At this time, a middle-aged woman walked out from a nearby place that was ventilated and seemed slightly cooler. She was pulling a long bamboo chair on which Tan Guohua’s daughter Xiaoyuer was lying.

On her forehead, there was also a wet towel.

However, Xiaoyuer seemed to be in very bad condition. The middle-aged woman taking care of her next to her also looked very anxious.

”Brother Sun, Brother Hua asked me to take care of Xiaoyuer while he went to the pharmacy. He’s looking for Shidian Water, Ren Dan, and Huoxiang Zhengqi Water to treat her, to see if there’s any of these things,” the middle-aged woman said.

After she finished speaking, she added with great worry, ”Xiaoyuer has such a frighteningly high temperature, what can we do now? At such a young age, to suffer like this!”

While she spoke, she took the towel from Xiaoyuer’s forehead, rinsed it in water, and then lightly placed it back on Xiaoyuer’s forehead.

Her movements were practiced, looking like she had done this many times before. After doing all this, she picked up a fan and waved it, trying to make Xiaoyuer a bit more comfortable.