It’s important to note that at this time, the mobile switch blade is only a little more than one meter above the snow.

To protect the mobile switch blade, Li Yu and the others simply closed the first layer of the mobile switch blade and lowered it to prevent deformation from the weight of numerous zombies.

The entire world, especially in some relatively lower areas, has been completely covered by snow.

The originally ten-meter-high trees now look only six or seven meters tall.

After the second snowstorm, the Big Camphor Tree Base closed the first layer of the mobile switch blade and opened the second layer.

Whenever they walked in the Inner and Outer City, they felt a bit amazed.

For no other reason than that the mountains seemed shorter, and the trees within the base also seemed shorter.

Moreover, after the snow was shoveled around the gymnasium, the surrounding snow ended up being six meters higher than the ground.

It creates a strange sense of absurdity.

It feels as if they are living beneath the snow.

They divided all their energy into two parts, one mainly for external defense, duty and vigilance, while the other focused mainly on the greenhouse.

During the second snowstorm, a greenhouse almost collapsed.

The greenhouse’s lowest point was only 4.5 meters, and even though the middle part was much higher, it couldn’t withstand the overwhelming snowstorm.

Although there was an automatic snow remover on the greenhouse top, if the surrounding snow reached 4.5 meters height, snow removal became futile.

The greenhouse they built was in a curved triangular shape, which could effectively prevent snow collapse.

But even so, they still underestimated the snowstorm.

On that day, Li Yu organized manpower to clear the snow around the greenhouse throughout the Inner and Outer City.

Furthermore, he had He Chao and Old Qin from the Outer City personally schedule, ensuring cooperative personnel and extra staff cleaned the snow around the greenhouses twice daily.

They poured tremendous effort into protecting the grain-producing crops.

Li Yu also didn’t neglect the cooperative personnel and extra staff, distributing a certain amount of grain to them as previously agreed.

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The power of the second snowstorm was immense.

Reducing the world’s surviving population once again.

Not only humans but also other creatures not infected by the zombie virus.

Perhaps the warmth of the Big Camphor Tree Base attracted many birds to nest here.

Some birds even nested in two nearby mountain caves, and there was even a nest under the eaves of the duty room.

Every time Li Yu and the others opened or closed the door, warm air flowed from the duty room attracting two birds to nest here.

During times of icy and snowy weather, time passed especially quickly and slowly.

In the blink of an eye.

There were less than three days left until New Year’s Eve.

Li Yu stood on the wall, looking at the zombies piled below with a sigh, as this would be their third New Year’s Eve in the apocalypse.

The first year during New Year’s Eve, they hid from the first wave of zombies at the Big Camphor Tree Base, when the zombie outbreak had just begun three months prior, and they survived using the walls.

In the second year, when it was equally freezing, the base population had just reached over one hundred during that New Year’s Eve.

This year’s New Year’s Eve, excluding extra staff and cooperative personnel, the Big Camphor Tree Base’s Inner and Outer City population has reached nearly 400.

Moreover, they achieved self-sufficient and surplus grain production, which was truly remarkable.

For this achievement, they invested immense effort in building indoor farms and greenhouses to ensure no impact on grain yield from weather changes.

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Inner City.

Li Yu sat in a rocking chair on the balcony, warm air blowing, maintaining indoor temperatures around twenty-five degrees.

With recent snowstorms and cold outside, aside from duty and handling some affairs, he mostly stayed within the villa.

Remaining indoors made him feel much lazier.

With New Year’s Eve approaching, a new year would soon arrive.

Li Yu often read books while sitting in the rocking chair, frequently falling asleep.

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Outer City.

Zuo Ruxue held a dagger, carving a wooden sculpture.

During the long and cold winter, time was abundant.

After completing snow shoveling tasks daily, they had time left, not knowing how to spend it.

Later, these cooperative personnel helped the base make arrows, and after crafting many, Zuo Ruxue began carving unused wood.

She carved out small animals like rabbits and puppies.

This slow carving process made her feel very peaceful.

Others more or less found activities they enjoyed to pass the time.

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New Year’s Eve arrived quickly.

On this day.

Li Yu had Aunt Zhou and the others prepare some New Year’s dishes, distributing some to the extra staff and cooperative personnel.

In this apocalypse, it counted as celebrating the year.

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Time slowly flowed.

After the second snowstorm, temperatures remained around minus fifty degrees.

After the year, temperatures slowly began rising.

Suddenly, it was the end of January.

By then, three months had passed since the first snowstorm started!

Temperatures started rising.

From minus fifty degrees, rising at a rate of one degree per day on average, the outdoor temperature gradually returned to minus thirty degrees.