Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus-Chapter 166 - 158: 20 Days of Torrential Rain

The mountains were fraught with storm and rain, and occasional flashes of lightning illuminated the ink-dark night.

The night lingered, wrapped in terror. The forest, once verdant green, now seemed like a gaping maw of blood every time lightning streaked across the sky. As if it was about to engulf people whole!

The rain continued to pour, the atmosphere far from harmonious.

Rain had been falling for 20 days straight. Previous storms lasted around 10 days, but this one had persisted for much longer, leaving the air damp and everything feeling sticky all day.

Every day in this torrential rain, we fought against the zombies, constantly battling to drain water.

Facing these terrors, always...

Even the people inside the base, with electricity, hot water, steaming food, and 16 hours of rest after 8 hours of fighting zombies, were far better off compared to others struggling to survive in the post-apocalyptic storm.

But still, being soaked daily and facing the hideous zombies inevitably brought a sense of gloom, dampening everyone's spirits.

Even the usually cheerful Li Hang was feeling downcast.

Rainy weather always has a certain impact on people's moods.

More than twenty days of heavy rain inundated many places. Li Yu and his group had already harvested the vegetables from their fields on the fifth day of rain.

A drizzle or a downpour after a drought might nourish vegetables and fruits. But relentless torrential rain could cause their roots to sit in water and rot.

After harvesting, some of the vegetables were pickled, others were stored on the second floor with two dehumidifiers maintaining a dry environment in that space.

Aside from the dehumidifiers on the second floor, Li Yu also placed around five large dehumidifiers in the storeroom, which required emptying the water every few hours.

When the storeroom was initially built, it was constructed to consider the hot weather and the heavy moisture from storms, preparing for various extreme weather conditions. So, the entire base of the storeroom was set low, with many waterproof and heat-insulating measures in place.

Li Yu went down by the wall and sat quietly beneath the villa as the rain rushed down from the sky.

Grandpa, too, had moved a small stool next to him and sat down.

"If this rain continues, we'll likely miss the season for planting rice. We plant late rice in June, and it's almost the end of May now. Yu, when do you reckon this rain will stop?" Grandpa asked, puffing on his old pipe.

Li Yu was also concerned. In his memory, the post-apocalyptic world and the heavy rains were closely linked, with major disasters often heralded by downpours.

In the five years before he was reborn, he endured countless storms; he remembered one that lasted for months. After the rains came drought.

Human survival was extremely difficult!

He recalled that in the first year when the apocalypse broke out, there weren't any storms that lasted more than a month, so after 20 days, this one should be nearing its end, too.

So he said, "Grandpa, it should be ending soon, I guess."

Grandpa glanced at Li Yu but didn't say much. His question was not really seeking an answer from Li Yu but rather, it was like talking to himself.

Without weather forecasts, after the apocalypse arrived, it's been impossible to predict whether it'll rain tomorrow or what the weather will be like.

Some of the elderly, most of the time, were very familiar with the 24 solar terms and could simply look at the sky to know if it would rain tomorrow or if the sun would shine.

However, with the arrival of the apocalypse, that kind of experience has largely become useless.

Because, this world, is filled with uncertainty.

Li Yu looked in front of him, where the rain fell like a curtain, cascading down like a waterfall.

Suddenly, thinking of something, he walked towards the drainage outlet. The outlet was quite large with a diameter of one meter twenty. These concrete pipes were mixed with reinforced steel and stone, thoroughly stirred to solidity, sun-dried, and then soaked with water until hard, repeatedly. This made the concrete pipes extremely hard.

Rain fell from the sky, water flowed down from the mountains, converging into a stream that was neither too big nor too small, rushing rapidly towards the drainage outlet.

The drainage outlet had already been welded with steel bars, leaving only a hole about 3 centimeters in diameter between each bar.

This drainage outlet, standing about three meters above the ground like a well, now had its water level less than 1 meter from the ground due to the influx of the water.

Li Yu thought for a moment, then moved a large stone over the ground surface, like capping a well, and placed it over the opening.

Lastly, he weighed it down with a few more large stones before leaving.

Meanwhile, Li Hang, who was still heroically slaughtering zombies on the wall today, spiritedly lifted his spear then with focus, thrust it swiftly, piercing the head of a zombie.

Then, he skillfully withdrew the spear.

His movements flowed as naturally as cloud and water.

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Not only him, over these twenty-plus days, everyone had been continuously using spears to kill zombies, and they had even researched a better method.

This involved tying a sturdy rope to the tail end of the spear so that when thrown, much like a javelin, it could kill zombies from farther away.

However, this also posed certain risks. If one was slow to withdraw the spear, it could easily be grabbed by other zombies.

This demanded everyone to be quick, accurate, and ruthless. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Now accustomed to this method, the efficiency of killing zombies increased more and more.

It was like assembly line workers, whose mechanical motions led to a much higher degree of mastery over certain actions. In the rain, everyone continued to twist their waists and hurl the spear.

Whether it was precision, physical strength, or understanding of the zombies' weak spots, there had been a significant improvement.

After dealing with the drainage outlet, Li Yu was ready to go back for a rest.

Yesterday, he had replaced his father, covering an additional four hours for him. He had only slept for six hours and had just eaten something.

Taking advantage of the time, he could sleep a little more now.

Returning to the villa, there weren't many people living in this building. It was just Li Yu, Li Hang, Li Yuan, along with their parents, and grandma and grandpa.

Li Yu was about to go back to his room when passing through the small living room on the third floor, he saw Li Hang's computer on the table, still on, with the screen still lit.

"This Xiao Hang, if it weren't for the hydroelectric generator providing electricity, the base's power supply would be tight. Now he's not even trying to conserve energy. Sigh," Li Yu muttered.

Having said that, he was about to shut down the laptop and close it.

But before he could shut it down and close it, he saw a line of text written by Li Hang on the computer screen.

"Bad weather, but I must maintain happiness! Research on inner strength, focus on oneself, and write down your own strengths."

Seeing this, Li Yu felt suddenly curious, but he did not want to snoop on his younger brother's private matters.

..........Dividing line

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