The entire mountain forest was covered by ice and snow, the trees seemed to be frozen in cold time. The dead branches and decaying trunks made a desolate sound in the cold wind, as if telling a story of death.

.......

Time flows like water, softly and silently. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

In the blink of an eye, it was December 2nd.

The snowstorm had lasted for nearly two months.

The whole world was unusually quiet, with only one color on the earth.

Extremely pure, the cars on the city roads were buried in snow, and many low trees and bushes were directly covered by the snow.

The temperature remained at minus sixty or seventy degrees, outside there were only some zombies, no other living creatures could be seen.

Many places were buried in snow, as the snowing duration lengthened, the snow slowly hardened, the freshly fallen snow being a not densely packed crystal, giving a fluffy sensation. Later, due to partial gravitational pressure, a portion of the snow absorbed heat and melted, transforming into water and sublimating, with others turning into ice as temperatures dropped, making it slowly harden.

The core reason is gravity, making the snow become harder and harder.

Having snowed for so long, the snow had accumulated over three meters thick, in the city some houses' second floors had become first floors.

On this day, the snow stopped.

The wind also lessened considerably.

And without snowflakes to carry, the wind's force also weakened greatly.

After snowfall, the air did not become humid but rather drier.

.....

Big Camphor Tree Base.

Many people in the outer city were shoveling snow with spades.

The heavy snow had fallen for so long, the snow depth grew continually higher.

The original greenhouse roofs would let snow slide to the ground beside them, coupled with the pressure of snowfall, the snow slowly surrounded the greenhouse perimeter.

Soon, huge snow piles formed around the greenhouse, initially Li Yu and the others thought these could enhance the insulation of the greenhouse sides, but as time passed, snow continued, the height of the snow began to reach the height of the greenhouse.

An Ya noticed this and promptly found Li Yu, the snow on the rooftop could no longer slide off the sides, so the snow could only accumulate on the greenhouse roof.

As time went, with increased snow weight, it could likely collapse the greenhouse roof.

Li Yu thought for a moment and thus instructed the extra staff of Outer City No.1 and cooperative personnel of No.2 to daily send people to clear the snow on both sides of the greenhouse and shovel out a pathway for walking.

Performing these tasks, these people had no complaints, nor did they dare to complain, from the moment they stepped out of the greenhouse, experiencing the extreme cold, they knew how treasured staying inside the greenhouse was in such temperatures.

Leaving, they were likely to freeze to death.

....

The snow stopped.

People in the base rushed outdoors to see the world clad in silver and white, cheering joyously.

Before doomsday, snowfall was something beautiful to the Southern people.

But after doomsday, the endless snow for over a month felt like a prolonged night of discomfort.

"The snow stopped! The snow finally stopped!" Zhu Xiao thrust his shovel into the snow, spreading his arms and cheering.

Zuo Ruxue also unraveled the scarf covering her mouth and nose, the cold air blushing her cheeks red, chapped pores showing.

Suddenly, someone made a snowball and threw it at the nearest person.

Snow fight!

The stop of snow seemed like pressing a pause button.

Also like pressing a start button, uplifting everyone's somber spirits.

Li Haoran and Li Tie on the wall watched the people running in snow below, a subtle smile forming on their faces.

But.

Before their joy could last long, bad news arrived.

"Zombies, more zombies outside the wall!" Shang Xue'er shouted in terror, while watching outside the wall.

Li Tie immediately turned around, looking outside the wall.

He saw, emerging from the snow-clad forest, a large group of zombies was walking over the hardened snow!

Although the snowstorm did not freeze these zombies, the consecutive snowfalls did hinder their movements.

And after the snowstorm, zombies from near and far began moving towards places with larger human congregations.

The sun was soft, almost giving no warmth when shining on the body.

Li Tie hurriedly activated the walkie-talkie alarm switch, pressing this button would alert all base members carrying walkie-talkies.

Watching the people below the wall, Li Tie urgently said to Li Haoran beside him, "Go tell them to stop fooling around, quickly get into the greenhouse. Shang Xue'er, wait here for Second Uncle and the others, I'll climb up the observation tower to see further."

With that, he remembered the drone in the guardroom.

So he stopped and walked directly to the guardroom.

Li Haoran, holding a gun, immediately went down to inform He Chao and the others.

Buzzing——

The drone ascended from the wall, flying higher and higher.

Yet, the scenes the drone transmitted worsened Li Tie's mood further.

Though zombies were few at the moment, he could see zombies continuously swarming from the national highway and forest towards their place.

The target was clear, these zombies were heading towards Big Camphor Tree Base.

Moreover, the higher he flew, the farther he could see, spotting zombies coming towards them from far along the national highway.

During the snowfall, although some zombies had approached, possibly due to the storm's influence, not many came.

But now, all nearby zombies were heading straight to Big Camphor Tree Base.

"What happened?" Li Yu hastily rushed to the wall and asked Shang Xue'er.

"I don't know what happened, only just ten minutes after the snow stopped, zombies outside the wall increased, Li Tie is flying a drone to inspect," Shang Xue'er nervously explained.

Li Yu, observing the ever-growing number of zombies outside the wall, showed no panic but calmly and decisively said, "Don't panic, call Old Lv and Second Uncle over."

"Alright." Feeling the immense confidence in Li Yu's tone, Shang Xue'er found reassurance as if finding her anchor.

She rushed towards the base, but after only a few steps, she encountered Li Gang, Second Uncle, Old Lv, and others.

Seeing the hastily approaching Shang Xue'er, Second Uncle asked, "The alarm, what's going on?"

Noting their presence, Shang Xue'er showed joy and said, "Many zombies appeared outside the wall suddenly. Director Li is over there and told me to fetch you all."

Second Uncle nodded slightly, remaining calm, knowing it wasn't the first time Big Camphor Tree Base faced a zombie tide, having overcome such threats time after time.

Continuing to proceed toward the wall with the others.

In the guardroom, Li Tie suddenly spotted a strange thing, zoomed the view for a closer look, discovering it was a zombie pig.

Hiss——

They'd seen zombie tigers before, but this was the first time they encountered a zombie pig.

Step step step——

The guardroom door was pushed open by Li Yu, Li Tie looked up at Li Yu, excitedly saying, "Big brother, found something new, see if this thing is a pig?"

Li Yu took three steps in two, quickly heading over.

Looking at Li Tie's screen, his eyes slightly narrowed, white skin, a lean belly, limbs, and two tusks thrice as long as ordinary pigs.

"It's a pig!" Li Yu instantly recognized the zombie pig infected by the zombie virus.

Li Tie's eyes flickered with speculation, and somewhat fearfully, he said to Li Yu, "Big brother, will the zombie virus infect other animals too? If so, then, then, then....."

A scene flashed through his mind, zombie birds flying everywhere, densely shadowing the sky, diving down.

Li Yu placed his hand on his shoulder, calmly stating, "No need to worry, things aren't as bad as you think."

Footsteps came from the doorway.

Li Yu turned to look, seeing Second Uncle and the others arrive.

Li Tie, holding the drone control equipment, joined and walked out of the guardroom.

On the wall, Second Uncle watched the zombies below.

As the zombies moved post-snowstop, the snow fell off them, their tattered clothes stood out distinctly against the white snow ground.

Some zombies, with completely shredded clothing, appeared entirely white, blending into the snow if not observed carefully.

The number of zombies under the wall increased, as did the people on the wall.

But while zombies were unafraid of cold, humans were.

.......