The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 61 Reinforcing the Villa

When Qin Yuan and Lin Yun returned to the villa around four o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Yuan and his team had already built a defensive wall that was half a person high. Without taking a break, they took off their clothes and got to work.

As it was getting dark, the defensive wall outside the villa was already taller than a person. Gu Nanfeng saw that it was about the right height and then directed Lu Yuan to bring out the bulletproof glass. Before starting the work, they had studied all the materials needed to reinforce the yard. However, none of the seven of them knew how to install bulletproof glass on the roof.

Fortunately, the bulletproof glass in Lu Yuan's space was large enough that four pieces could cover the front yard of the villa, and two and a half pieces were needed for the sides and backyard. Since they didn't have the tools to cut the glass, Gu Nanfeng studied it and decided to make it beveled. Then, he used concrete to bond the glass against the wall. It was a bit ugly, but it was sturdy. The joints between the glass pieces were sealed with silicone sealant.

By the time they figured out how to work on the glass, it was almost dark, and everyone's stomachs were rumbling. Lu Yuan and the other five in the villa were fine; they each ate a bowl of noodles in the afternoon. Qin Yuan and Lin Yun went to deliver supplies, so they just ate a few biscuits on the way.

Now that the courtyard wall is built, there's no need to worry about anyone or any zombies breaking in. Lu Yuan simply placed the glass he took out in the courtyard. However, they still put the shovels and other items back in the basement. After all, the glass on the roof hasn't been installed yet, and if someone climbs over and takes these, it's the same as getting weapons.

Back in the house, the seven people, covered in dust and dirt, went to their rooms to shower. Qin Yuan was left to use the shared bathroom on the first floor. Everyone was hungry today, so they quickly took showers. They were all too tired to put any effort into eating, so Lu Yuan simply took some cooked food from his spatial storage, and they wolfed it down.

Considering the water supply issue later, Qin Yuan and the others, who wanted to exercise to aid digestion after dinner, went up to the balcony on the third floor of the villa and placed a large-capacity water tank in a corner of Lu Yuan's space.

"This balcony needs to be sealed off too, it'll be safer." Qin Yuan took his binoculars and stood on the balcony, looking around. He was surprised to find that quite a few houses in this villa area of ​​the university town had lights on. It seemed that there were relatively few zombies here, and some people fleeing the disaster had chosen to stay here temporarily.

“There are more people here than when we left.” Gu Nanfeng glanced around as well. When they first arrived, there weren’t many people here. Now it seems that many people have come here to temporarily avoid the zombies because the detached villas here are equipped with solar panels. After all, there is electricity here.

"Humans are much more dangerous than zombies." Qin Yuan recalled what the young soldiers had said that afternoon about the few people who stole supplies from the base and ran away. In the apocalypse, nothing is more frightening than humans.

Gu Nanfeng nodded and went back inside with Qin Yuan, where he told everyone about the need to reinforce the third-floor balcony.

Although the water tank was installed, it hadn't been connected yet. However, the seven people had gone through a zombie apocalypse last night and spent the whole day building infrastructure today. They were too exhausted to continue and were all lying on the sofa in the living room on the first floor, doing nothing.

It was Lu Yuan's old-fashioned radio, crackling and sporadically broadcasting information about the G City security base, but it was unclear how many people could hear it now.

Exhausted from the day, all seven of them fell asleep in the living room that night…

DAY79

At 8:30 in the morning, when Lu Yuan woke up groggily, Lin Yun was already cleaning the refrigerator in the kitchen. He had asked Lu Yuan before if there were any vegetables or anything in his space, and after receiving an affirmative answer, Lin Yun decided to make use of Gu Nanfeng's large refrigerator.

Gu Nanfeng hadn't lived here since the renovation was finished, so the refrigerator was all new. Lin Yun woke up early in the morning, thinking he would deliver supplies to the base later. He figured he wouldn't be back until the afternoon, so he started cleaning the kitchen first. That way, when Lu Yuan and the others woke up, he could fill the refrigerator and cook for them when they got back. This would reduce the amount of cooked food Lu Yuan had in his space, since no one could guarantee that the disaster would end that day.

Lu Yuan saw this but didn't say anything. He went back to his room on the second floor to wash up, then set out breakfast on the dining table. While eating, he prepared to go to the underground garage to load supplies.

Lu Yuan was loading supplies, and Lin Yun couldn't help much, so he simply woke Qin Yuan up to wash up. They wanted to leave as early as possible and come back sooner, as there were still many places in their villa that needed reinforcement, and they had to rush back to help.

When Qin Yuan finished washing up and took breakfast to the underground parking garage with Lin Yun, Lu Yuan had already neatly arranged the two trucks of supplies. Based on yesterday's experience, he felt he had packed even more things today.

Lin Yun used a walkie-talkie to notify the new captain of 0922 that they would hand over the supplies at the same location as yesterday in half an hour. Then he and Qin Yuan each drove away in a car.

When Lu Yuan returned to the living room, Gu Nanfeng was already having breakfast. Pei Sihao and Yang Xiao were not in the living room; they must have gone back to their rooms to wash up. Without Yang Xiao's support, Zhong Qiang's sleeping posture on the sofa had changed, and he was snoring loudly.

Considering that Zhong Qiang had exhausted himself moving the bulletproof glass around yesterday, the others didn't wake him up. Moreover, it would be difficult for Zhong Qiang, Pei Sihao, and Gu Nanfeng to install the bulletproof glass roof on the first floor by themselves. They would have to wait for Qin Yuan and Lin Yun to come back and lend a hand. So the four of them went up to the third floor to do the preliminary work for sealing the third-floor balcony.

Their solar panels are currently on the roof of the house. Gu Nanfeng is worried that animals might damage them later, so he plans to use bulletproof glass for the roofs of the first and third floor balconies and then place the solar panels under the glass.

For safety reasons, the walls of the first-floor garden were made of three layers of bricks, while the third floor could be entirely made into a glass room. None of the group had much experience, but fortunately, Lu Yuan searched his spatial storage and found all the necessary materials for enclosing the balcony, including glass and alloy frame fittings. He took them out one by one, and Gu Nanfeng studied them for a while, eventually figuring out the method.

So when Qin Yuan and Lin Yun returned, the four of them had already enclosed the bulletproof glass windows of the third-floor balcony. Now all that was left was to finish the roofing work on the upper and lower floors.

When Lin Yun and Qin Yuan returned, Qin Yuan looked rather grumpy. Lu Yuan tried to ask what had happened, but they wouldn't say. They only said that they didn't need to deliver supplies again tomorrow, so Lu Yuan and the others didn't press the matter further.

Zhong Qiang finally woke up at lunchtime. After the seven of them finished lunch, they worked together to seal the glass roofs on both the upper and lower floors. By almost dark, their villa was finally reinforced. After the second viral rain, there was no sign of rain. The daily high temperatures of 40 to 50 degrees Celsius quickly dried out their protective walls.

They didn't remove the temporary shelter panels outside the first-floor wall, treating it as an extra layer of protection. Finally, they installed solar panels in the garden and under the glass roof on the third floor, and hung blackout curtains. After Qin Yuan and Lin Yun connected all the domestic water pipes in the house to the large water tank that had been installed the day before, Lu Yuan began filling the tank with domestic water from the space.

The seven of them were busily reinforcing the villas, but they were all being watched by other shrewd individuals lurking in the villa area.