Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus-Chapter 949 654: Snowflakes Drift, Zombies Roar (Part 3)

After all, the area is so large, plus he saw a tomb built with stones yesterday, and there were thousands of them.
Moreover, he saw traces of repairs on a wall that seemed to have been smashed open by some large vehicle.
In this medium to large winery, there are typically thousands of people.
Based on his guess, this place originally had at least over five thousand people.
But now, there are less than five hundred people left.
Perhaps due to the impact of the natural disaster....
Among these four to five hundred people, some have firearms, and the mix of members is quite complex, with some wearing military uniforms, some wearing factory clothes, and some wearing ordinary people's clothes.
A significant characteristic among them is that they all appear emaciated, with slightly sunken faces, suggesting they have food, possibly not much, or perhaps some event occurred internally, causing class division, with food controlled by a few...
From the various types of clothing worn by these people, it can be inferred that they are likely all gathered here from different places after the outbreak of the Doomsday.
Wayne feels somewhat helpless; he and Gan Hu brought only dozens, maybe hundreds of men. Now they have to forcefully break in and then seize food.
This isn't something they can solve!
Not to mention, within just this winery, he saw over a hundred armed individuals.
How can they fight?
It's incredibly difficult!
It's possible that all of them could get trapped here.
Gan Hu also followed along, sneering at Wayne's decision to investigate.
Although he's hot-tempered, he's not brainless, so he also agreed to observe first.
This observation made him feel like they came for nothing.
Regarding timing, the weather is a brutal twenty-degree blizzard.
In terms of location, they want to attack and break through the wall.
Regarding manpower, the ratio is four to one, maybe even five to one.
How can they fight?
Wayne and Gan Hu's anger was vented on Old Zhuang and Big Cat.
Old Zhuang was trailing the Zhou Liu families, out of reach.
So the anger could only be vented on Big Cat.
Big Cat was miserable; in the past few days, he received countless scornful looks.
Gan Hu, in a rage, simply beat him up once.
Big Cat's eyes are still blackened now because he didn't understand the situation over here and hastily said he'd come.
Big Cat had said, "Not many!"
What the hell, not many!
Thinking of this, Gan Hu got angry again, couldn't help glaring at Big Cat.
In the freezing weather, since attacking wasn't possible, they could only return.
The key is, in such cold weather.
It's miserable!
.......
Speaking of Old Zhuang.
His situation now is somewhat pitiful too.
He's been following the Zhou Liu families, needing to maintain distance without losing them and not getting discovered, which requires great skill.
Fortunately, it started snowing in the past few days, and covered by the snowstorm, at least they didn't lose them.
However, regretfully, yesterday he watched the Zhou Liu families enter a fortress, while he could only stay outside.
If this fortress were before the Doomsday, it might've been easier to find.
But after the Doomsday, especially after heavy snow, returning the same way out is terribly difficult.
After the Zhou Liu families entered the fortress, Old Zhuang and others originally wanted to climb high to observe the situation inside.
But after days of travel, coupled with Old Zhuang not being a young man anymore, yesterday he got off the car, climbed halfway up the snowy mountain, slipped into the snow pile, got buried, nearly suffocated.
With no choice, he returned to the car, shivering all over, developing a slight fever.
Misfortunes never come singly.
Perhaps because the mountain roads here are difficult, the heater isn't as effective.
Even turning the vehicle's heater to maximum, it only maintained an inside temperature of minus ten degrees.
In the end, Old Zhuang looked through the car window at the distant fortress, muttering, "Remember this place, we'll descend the mountain and return to the alliance."
The accompanying subordinates couldn't wait to return, hearing Old Zhuang's words, they were moved to tears.
Descending the mountain.
The roads are slippery, with a risk of overturning.
They didn't overturn, but sped down the mountain, crashing into a large rock, the car's front got dented.
Looking around, there were no other cars in this remote place, so they continued, wanting to see if there's any car ahead they could use.
But they understood most cars outside had endured wind, rain, sunlight, acid rain, possibly even flooding.
Finding a usable car is very difficult.
Old Zhuang curled up in his seat, wearing many layers, yet still felt bone-chilling cold.
Especially the seat cushion beneath him, it felt exceptionally cold.
A constant stream of clear mucus flowed from his nose, bothering him to death; he breathed heavily, like a bellows.
....
A place five kilometers away from the Big Camphor Tree Base.
A convoy hurriedly heading toward it, with several vehicles hauling a large piece of equipment.
This equipment is a large industrial boiler.
The boiler is one of the core components of a power plant, generating steam through coal or gas to drive turbines for electricity. It's an energy conversion apparatus, converting chemical energy from fuel, electrical energy, and heat energy from high-temperature exhaust gases into steam, high-temperature water, or organic heat carrier with certain thermal capacity.
In heating, boilers are key in heating systems, generating hot water or steam, distributing heat through radiators, floor heating, etc.
It's a crucial item on the exchange list of Big Camphor Tree Base.
Also, it's desperately needed by the base; it can stabilize and balance the base's heating and irrigation systems, providing substantial help in other areas too.
Due to its nature as specialized equipment, it's difficult to find, mostly at small thermal power stations or large factories.
Currently, the base is using some particularly small boilers.
They just returned from another province; the delay was due to fetching this equipment.
Yu Lei, the man who had his leg broken by Gan Gaojie.
Since being saved by Li Yu, especially after witnessing Li Yu smash Gan Gaojie's head with an iron stick, he became Li Yu's ardent fan.
When exchanging supplies last time, upon hearing Li Yu casually mention how it'd be great to have a larger boiler at the base.
The speaker was unintentional, the listener took it seriously.
He remembered, so he took his team, along with 10th group's Old Fei, who he had good relations with, out to procure a boiler!
......
Blizzard.
In the convoy, 10th group's Old Fei saw the roadside trees blown by wind and snow, helplessly shouted to 8th group's Yu Lei in another vehicle, "Old Stone, I'm going down; your legs aren't convenient, stay put."
Yu Lei, unclear, shouted loudly, "You... lock.... what?"
Old Fei loudly repeated himself.
Only then did Yu Lei shout back, "Be!!! Careful!!!"
The snowstorm raged, veritably blowing people off their feet.
Old Fei, true to his name, not as fat as before the Doomsday but still hefty, stood firmly where others faltered in the blizzard.
He took big strides, braving the wind and snow, holding his hat fast against the threat of being blown away, heading toward the fallen roadside trees in the national highway.
In the snowstorm.
The view obscured by snow and wind, perfect conditions for zombies.
Ten meters away, unseen to Old Fei, about a dozen zombies with white skin were slowly approaching him.
The wind roared, Old Fei unable to see or hear the zombies' cries.
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