Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

The fifth day of the apocalypse.

The snow kept falling one day and stopping the next, and it mostly fell at night.

Gu Tongwan needs to clean the snow in the yard almost every other day. Aoao and Tutu will also help, but the two dogs use their big heads to push the snow into the corner. But it must be said that the effect is very good.

Gu Tongwan had tried wearing the tights before and found that it had no warmth-keeping effect, but had good wind-resistance. However, since it had no warmth-keeping effect, there was no need to wear it.

When they came to Xiaoxi Village before, Zhang Youfan and his family saw that she was pulling a large suitcase and a large backpack behind her electric bike. Even Aoao and Tutu had a lot of luggage bags hanging on their bodies. They never suspected where the thick winter clothes she wore came from.

After getting up in the morning, she habitually glanced at the temperature in the room. At this time, the temperature in the bedroom was seven degrees. She had turned on the air conditioner to thirty degrees, and placed a small shaking sun in the corner. The skirting board was placed under the window sill. Although the whole bedroom was not warm, it was at least cozy compared to the temperature of minus fifty-seven degrees outside.

Although it was a painful thing to get up from the still warm electric blanket and bedding, Gu Tongwan still got up slowly, and then quickly put on the cashmere sweater and cashmere pants placed at the end of the bed.

Today I am wearing a mink coat that I bought earlier, and thick outdoor sports pants underneath, and a pair of deerskin mid-calf boots. These shoes are as warm as good quality snow boots, and even better. Even if you step on the snow for a long time, you won't feel the biting cold.

She wore a mink hat on her head, and the round brim of the hat made her fair, oval face look even more delicate.

She climbed onto the roof with the ladder that Zhang Guoming had specially made for her, stood on it carefully, and shoveled away the snow on the roof with a shovel in her hand.

Fortunately, when the house was built, they insisted on using cement to cap the roof directly, instead of using bricks and tiles like other single-story houses. Otherwise, the heavy snow would easily crush the roof. Yesterday, two old houses of nearby families were damaged. It is said that they are rushing to repair them in the past two days.

Standing on the roof and squinting at the white Xiaoxi Village, the nearby mountains have lost all green, and there is nothing but silver frost and snow within reach of the naked eye.

The whole world seemed to merge into one. A soft ray of sunlight shone down from the sky. It was not warm, but still chilly. Even when breathing through a mask, the cold air still made the lungs tighten.

In my previous life, I could only hide in an abandoned old building at this time. I was only wearing a thin autumn coat and an old cotton coat stripped from a dead person, and wrapped tightly with old newspapers and waste paper. I huddled in a corner, shivering, and ate only stale steamed buns. My ten fingers were covered with frostbite and were swollen beyond belief. Even at that time, I had to compete with vagrants for territory just to survive in the extreme cold.

Thinking of this, the hand holding the shovel tightened a little, and Gu Tongwan exhaled white air from her mouth and nose, covering her face in a layer of smoke and blocking the dim light in her eyes.

In this life, I can have a small home in the extreme cold, can smoothly enter Xiaoxi Village, and have no worries about food and clothing. Even if I am alone in the future, I have to live well.

When she had almost cleared the snow off the roof, someone called her from downstairs.

They are Zhang Youfan and his son.

I saw two people carrying bamboo baskets on their backs and holding axe in their hands.

"Uncle Zhang, Brother Guoming, are you going into the mountains?"

After knowing each other for a while, she could feel the simplicity and kindness of the Zhang family. As their relationship became more familiar, the way she addressed them gradually changed. Liu Jinhua felt sorry for her, a girl living in Xiaoxi Village, and wanted to treat her as a goddaughter. Yang Mei even joked that her daughter-in-law's position was not as high as hers.

During this period, as long as it is not snowing, many villagers will go into the mountains to chop firewood. After all, if the family does not have firewood prepared in this kind of weather, they will not be able to survive the extreme cold.

Zhang Youfan wrapped himself up almost like a bear, wearing a military coat from many years ago. However, the clothes at that time were made of solid materials and were much warmer than many so-called down jackets. He wore a cotton mask and a woolen hat on his head, which he didn't know if it was made in a hurry at home in the past two days. Every time he spoke, white air would rise from his mouth.

"Hey, I've made an appointment with some acquaintances in the village to go up the mountain together. Wanwan, give me your basket and I'll get you some firewood."

A few days ago, Liu Jinhua sprained her ankle, and Gu Tongwan went to apply medicine to her. The medicine was collected in the back mountain before the extreme cold. After being ground into residue, it was applied to the sprained area, and the swelling went away that evening.

In fact, she had medicine for bruises and injuries in her space, but taking it out rashly would cause trouble, and she also wanted to try the efficacy of the herbs.

She also knew that as the village chief, Zhang Youfan would be the person who would have the most dealings with the inspection teams sent by the government in the future. Now she had a close relationship with the Zhang family, and it would be beneficial for her to have more contacts with them. Moreover, she really needed someone to guide her to integrate into Xiaoxi Village.

However, ever since she gave acupuncture to Fang's daughter-in-law last time, she started to gain some fame in Xiaoxi Village. In addition, she rejected Xu Feng's matchmaking proposal for Huang's family. The whole village was laughing at the Huang's youngest son for being a toad wanting to eat swan meat. For this reason, they all looked up to Gu Tongwan, saying that this girl was not a greedy person.

"Uncle Zhang, how can I trouble you? How about I go into the mountains with you?" As she said this, she climbed down the ladder swiftly and walked out of the yard.

Zhang Guoming stamped his feet to keep his body temperature and blew air through his hands, saying with a smile: "We can just go. How much can you cut? This kind of physical work should be left to the uncles."

Gu Tongwan put the shovel aside and said with a smile, "I just wanted to go in with you guys. It's been a while since I last went to the back mountain." After a pause, he continued, "The soil and water in Xiaoxi Village are very nourishing. I have been in good physical condition recently, and my physical strength may not be worse than you men."

After spending some time together, Zhang's father and son roughly understood her personality. The girl looked weak and gentle on the surface, but in fact she was very stubborn and sometimes made people feel that she was a little cold.

He went back to the house, got a scimitar, with a Mitsubishi military bayonet stuck in his waistband, and walked towards the back mountain with Zhang's father and son, carrying the bamboo house on his back.

There was thick snow under my feet, and every step made a rustling sound.

At this time, the snow on the road is about ankle-deep, leaving a footprint when you step on it, but in less than half an hour, the snowflakes floating overhead will cover these footprints again, as if no trace had ever been left.

There is only one road leading to the back mountain of Xiaoxi Village. The other way is to go around another valley, but the road there was previously blocked by a mudslide, so everyone takes this road to enter the forest.

There were seven or eight people from the same village who went into the mountain together. They had a good relationship with Zhang Youfan. Among them, there were some people whom Gu Tongwan had met in the mountains when it was extremely hot.

Seeing that Gu Tongwan was also going into the mountains, Liu Dawei asked in surprise, "Doctor Gu is also going into the mountains?"

She didn't know when it started, but many villagers started calling her "Doctor Gu". She explained several times that she was not a doctor at all and had not reached that high level, but these people believed that Gu Tongwan was "good at it", which made her laugh and cry.

Another villager nearby frowned and whispered, "Doctor Gu, is it okay for a little girl to come with us? If she encounters a wild beast or something, we won't have the time to protect her."

Gu Tongwan turned to look at the man and asked, "What beast?"

Zhang Youfan held a cigarette in his hand, which he rolled himself with dry tobacco. In the past, when the village had no money, everyone smoked this. Some time ago, when he was tidying up the room, he found a box from the old house. He smelled it and didn't find it had much of a rotten smell, so he tried smoking it. It can help him relieve his boredom when he is feeling upset.

After taking two puffs of the cigarette, he told Gu Tongwan that the reason he didn't want her to go into the back mountain at first was because of this reason. Since the extreme cold, most of the animals in the mountains seemed to have died, and no one knew what the remaining ones that survived were. Previously, some villagers were attacked after entering the mountain. The thing looked like a cat but not a dog, with a mouth full of densely packed fangs, bald hair on its face, and a foul odor all over its body, just like a dead corpse. Last time, a man from the same village was only scratched by that thing, and he developed a high fever that night. Black stains kept oozing out of the wound, and the next morning his family found him dead in the snow, shirtless, in a weird diving posture.

According to his family, he was sleeping soundly in the house at night, but he kept muttering "I'm so thirsty" from time to time and his mind was a little unclear. They thought he was confused due to the high fever, but they didn't expect him to run out in such weather.

The people who went into the mountains with him at the beginning speculated whether it was related to that strange "beast". Not only did that thing look very creepy.

Gu Tongwan thought that it might be a new type of mutation after a natural disaster, but it was hard to say what kind of mutation it was.

Liu Dawei was afraid after thinking about it, but when he saw so many people going into the mountain together, he became a little braver and interrupted, "So Dr. Gu should not go into the mountain with us. What if something happens?"

Gu Tongwan tightly grasped the scimitar in his hand, his tone was calm, and he only said: "I won't be a drag. I have practiced some self-defense skills in the city before, and my hands and feet are nimble enough. If there is real danger, I will try my best to handle it myself."

"Doctor Gu has two dogs at home. Let's take them out for a walk. They can even clear the way for us." Some people thought of the two ferocious-looking giant dogs at her home and complained that she didn't bring the dogs with her.

The corners of Gu Tongwan's mouth turned cold under the mask, and then his voice was mixed with ice chips, "It's just entering the mountain. If you are really afraid that you need a dog to lead the way, then it's better not to go in."

At first, she was reluctant to let Aoao and Tutu follow her because she wanted to know whether she could handle it alone without the cooperation of the two dogs. After all, fighting alone happens occasionally, and she always has to adapt slowly.

"Okay, do you think Dr. Gu is incompetent? Have you forgotten that she was able to go into the mountains alone before? Don't think that she has to hide behind men just because she is a little girl. But you, the last time you just entered the mountains, you were scared by a pheasant and ran all over the mountain. You have the nerve to criticize him with your little ability."

Zhang Youfan naturally knew what Chen Dawei was planning. He was simply worried that everyone would only care about Tong Wan and no one would take care of him. He was scared last time, but he was the only able-bodied man in his family, so he had to bite the bullet and follow him up the mountain, but he also wanted everyone to take care of him.

Don't spoil this kind of person!

Chen Dawei didn't dare to offend Zhang Youfan. After all, he was the village chief. So he could only shut up.

The group of people packed up briefly and went into the mountain. The mountain was not as dark as they had imagined. The snow was mixed with withered leaves. The sound of everyone's footsteps mixed together, and the atmosphere was surprisingly harmonious.

I didn't see any animals in the mountains, perhaps they all hid themselves. All I could see were some unknown vegetation and the branches above me that were frozen with snow and frost.

The place where people in the village usually chop firewood is in the middle of the deep forest. There are many small branches there, in large patches, and they can be chopped off with just an axe or a machete.

Just when the group had been walking for less than ten minutes, the person in front suddenly stopped, causing the people behind to look at him in confusion.

"What's wrong?" someone asked from behind.

The leader suddenly clenched the machete in his hand, stared at a bush, and said in a low voice: "There is something over there!"