Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 528 - 264: Return to North Town (Part 2)_2

Chapter 528: Chapter 264: Return to North Town (Part 2)_2

There was no other choice, since the hospital ward could not be moved, they had to move Shana instead. Shana reluctantly walked into the pond, sat in the midst of it drenched by the rain to receive remote treatment. Lin Wu reached the second floor of the cattle shed from the slanting ladder and found several bundles of packed hay. He lit a fire with a lighter on a dry spot on the first floor and then found a rice cooker inner pot, rinsed it with rainwater, and began to cook wolf meat soup with the collected rain.

Knowing that they were in for a long journey, Lin Wu also brought some salt, because no food could do without it. The backpack was tough too, but its waterproofing was powerful, so salt and even spare clothes were not a problem, as they were dry.

Lin Wu started boiling water and went upstairs to change into dry clothes, returning just as Shana finished her treatment. She glanced at Lin Wu entering the cattle shed, expressing her dissatisfaction with her eyes: "I’m soaking outside while you’re quite enjoying yourself". After a light punch, Shana returned to normal and went to change into dry clothes herself. The two sat down on the ground and enjoyed a delicious meat soup meal.

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"Do you have a bad feeling about this?"

"Yes," Shana raised her hand, a beam of sunlight appeared in her palm. Both of them looked up to the sky, the rain was still pouring, but the blue sky had emerged, slowly nibbling away at the dark clouds. This meant that the rainy season brought by the typhoon was about to end, which also meant that the zombies would return to their posts.

The two quickly had another gulp of soup from the inner pot and set off immediately, even without changing back into their wet clothes.

After smoothly passing through the familiar Sentry Card, the rainfall began to slowly diminish, and the clouds were nearly dispersed. When the two reached the church on the mountain top, the skies had cleared, and the sun shone brightly. The zombies were all emerging from buildings to clock in for work.

Since fate was not on their side, they had no choice but to accept reality. Although the presence of zombies had increased, the density of zombies in North Town was very low, posing no significant threat to them. Revisiting old sites stirred up emotions, and after a discussion, they decided to take a stroll through the commercial street.

To their surprise, there were still players on the commercial street; three of the five shops had a player base each. The players were quite surprised to see Lin Wu and his companion as it had been a long time since they had seen outsiders. They were all familiar old players and in the conversation with Lin Sha, they learned that North Town currently had three player gathering areas.

The first gathering area was their three shops, with a total of fifteen players. Their main food source came from the two acres of land they cultivated. Unlike Stone’s fields, they were actually growing crops. They had to dig their own holes, fertilize by themselves, and deal with pests on their own. However, the harvest times were the same.

Because it was not a system farm, it didn’t receive system protection, and zombies would trample over the farmland, which also suffered from various insects and small animal disturbances. Therefore, they had designated people to keep watch over the fields. They had also set up a group of ducks in the river and placed an iron wire fence around the free-ranging area, but due to the floods, they had suffered great losses. Currently, they were incubating a batch of chicken and duck eggs.

Shana traded an assault rifle for five duck eggs and five chicken eggs. The players told her that she could build an incubation room, where in just 48 hours, she could hatch chickens and ducks with a 100% hatching rate.

In addition to this, they also created homemade mousetraps, placing them near piles of zombie waste, catching over a dozen mice daily, currently their main food source.

Life was not very satisfying, as they only had a one-kilogram daily food ration per person and it was basically pumpkin stewed with rat meat. Even so, they remained hopeful for the future. They planned to expand their planting and breeding, using the low intensity of zombies in North Town as an advantage to survive here.

Why not move to the church on the mountain top? They had surveyed the area and found that the conditions for planting and breeding were not as good as around the shops.

The second gathering area was in North Town, with a total of 12 players, who had taken over a courtyard on the edge of Blood Mist.

The third gathering area centered around Invincible Base, with a total of 30 people. They were scattered around buildings near Invincible Base, engaged in a dangerous mutual aid alliance. They lived off farming, fishing, and hunting on a daily basis, and last month there were multiple violent disputes over resource looting.

After bidding farewell to the players, Lin Wu led Shana back the way they had come. Why didn’t Lin Wu hurry directly to the safety house in Nightmare? Because Lin Wu didn’t know the way. He had to first get back near the church on the summit and follow the roads to find the safe house.

"The harsher the conditions, the more united the people." Shana said, "Do you believe that?"

Lin Wu shook his head, "I don’t know." He had no right to speak without experiencing tough living conditions.

Shana: "Actually, it’s because they have a core pursuit to live on that they are united. Once they have the ability to survive, there will inevitably be a class division among them, with some people doing less and less while getting more and more. It forms a miniature society."

"We’ve arrived," Lin Wu pointed into the distance.

Shana stood on her tiptoes to look, but didn’t see any building. She looked at Lin Wu questioningly and he explained, "I was just subtly hinting for you to shut up."

"Hmph." Turning her head, she gave him her side profile to show that she was angry.

Lin Wu said, "Mainly because I can’t understand such deep content. For example, if someone asks why there are wild boars near the town, I would tell them it’s because the boars come out to search for food. Your answer would be because the disorderly expansion of humanity has destroyed nature, putting pressure on the boars’ living environment, which is why they come to more dangerous places in search of food."

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