The autumn sun is still strong, but the coolness in the wind is also deepening, making all life in this land realize that the bitter winter is not far away, whether it is the humble weeds or the humans who once ruled the world, and even the race that has just been born in the apocalypse, they all grasp this last warmth to accumulate the strength to survive.

The arrival of new neighbors has brought a touch of restlessness to the quiet life of Meng Qingqiang's family, but it is undeniable that the "popularity" in this small surviving place in this corner of the city is also increasing.

The happiest of all is Meng Le, the little guy has a little friend, which makes him completely like a hard-working little bee who has been very lonely during this time, flying around the "flowers", he took out his beloved toys and shared them with Xiao Xinyu, telling her about the comic books he collected, in short, he tried every means to make Xinyu happy, who had been depressed, and with his tireless efforts, Xiao Xinyu's face gradually showed a long-lost smile. This made Meng Le even happier. He is a big ghost, not very old but very sensible, and his mother Bai Ying secretly told him that Xinyu's parents are no longer there, which is very pitiful. After listening to his mother's words, he remembered how he felt when he almost lost his father, and felt that he should do something, so he tried hard and even exaggerated to help Xinyu.

His careful thinking can't hide from people, the couple saw through their son's thoughts, and they both felt very pleased, Meng Qingqiang felt that his son had really grown up, like a real man, knew how to take care of others, and understood the responsibilities of men. In addition to being happy for his granddaughter, the old man Chen Zhonghan also felt really fortunate to meet such a kind family, so he tried his best to contribute to this small collective in the following days.

As the old saying goes: if there is an old family, if there is a treasure. Recently, Meng Qingqiang has a deep understanding of this sentence. At the beginning, he was just very happy about the addition of Chen Lao and the others, after all, human beings are still social creatures after all. There are many people, especially in such an era, it is even more precious to be lively, but he does not feel that the addition of the old and weak can bring other help to life. But he soon realized the shallowness of his thinking.

Meng Qingqiang collected a large number of various materials, but there is a kind of thing that is relatively lacking, that is, fresh vegetables and fruits, especially fresh vegetables, although thanks to the hard work of the uncle and aunt, Meng Qingqiang collected a lot at the beginning of the establishment of the surviving place, but first, the fresh ones cannot be preserved for a long time, and the second is that they are in the city after all, no matter how hard the uncles and aunts are, there are not many places for them to plant, plus Meng Qingqiang is only himself, the workload is large, and there are many types of materials to collect, and he is a standard urban white-collar worker who knows nine out of ten for farming, and he doesn't know anything. As a result, the production of the few remaining small vegetable gardens is declining sharply every day, and some are even deserted. This made him a little distressed. The weather is getting cooler day by day, and it is impossible to tell when a heavy snow will fall, and at that time, it will be even more difficult to continue.

After learning about Meng Qingqiang's distress, Chen Lao laughed and said to him: "Xiao Meng, the situation is not as serious as you think, vegetables are actually all over the ground. Then he took the puzzled Meng Qingqiang to the barricade that was already overgrown with weeds, pointed to some plants, and explained to him, dandelions, plantain, gray cabbage, purslane, wild garlic, etc., which surprised Meng Qingqiang, he didn't expect this stubble at all. And Chen Lao's next operation was even more eye-opening for him.

In the following days, with the help of Meng Qingqiang, the old man quickly turned the grass outside the back window of the hardware store into cultivated land, and found long bamboo strips and large pieces of transparent plastic sheeting, as well as some quilts, and built two plastic greenhouses, and then looked for suitable vegetables to transplant under the protection of Meng Qingqiang, and soon the greenhouses were full of tomatoes, carobs, and eggplants. Peppers, leeks, spinach, etc., and even some strawberries were planted in one of the corners, and after finishing the greenhouse, the old man dug a cellar nearby to store apples, sweet potatoes and other things, and finally worked with Meng Qingqiang to repair a strong wooden fence around the greenhouse.

"Huh. In the future, the matter of farming will be handed over to me, a genuine old farmer, you can leave it alone, and ensure that we have fresh vegetables and fruits to eat," Chen Lao, who was smoking a cigarette, said to Meng Qingqiang on the side with a smile. And Meng Qingqiang, who saw the fruits of his labor, also admired the old man.

While they were building their home, his wife Bai Ying was not idle, in addition to taking care of the "family", she had been taking care of the injured Wang Yan, who had not woken up after falling into a coma, and the double blow of body and psychology made this strong girl completely collapse. Fortunately, there is no shortage of medicines and medical equipment here, and Bai Ying's medical skills are also very high, that night she treated Wang Yan's whole body, debridement, suturing, bandaging, and then gave her an intravenous drip, and left her and Xiao Yuxin in the back room, while Chen Lao moved a bed and Meng Qingqiang and slept in the outhouse.

Wang Yan, who was in a coma, had been burning, and the situation was very dangerous, Bai Ying, as a doctor, had been taking care of her day and night, and the two children often worked on the side to do what they could. Thanks to the careful care and treatment and her excellent physical fitness, the fever subsided after three days, and her condition finally stabilized, out of danger, and should wake up soon.

The "grandfather" who has been busy with "farm work" recently was very happy after learning the news, and the old man thanked God for his eyes and praised Bai Ying's medical skills.

In the following days, Meng Qingqiang, at the suggestion of Chen Lao, opened up the walls of the hardware store and the shops on both sides on the left, installed the doors that were removed from elsewhere, changed the two rooms into four rooms, and opened the back wall of one of the shops, so that you can directly reach the vegetable greenhouse in the backyard from the inside, and you don't have to go far. But in the case of greatly improved living conditions. The old man still lives with Meng Qingqiang, and in his own words, it's good to live together and can't sleep at night and still chatter.

With the increase in personnel and the end of the renovation project, Meng Qingqiang has recently added up another thing, the problem of combat effectiveness, although the small surviving place is now a paradise, but no one will forget that they are still in the apocalypse. In the past, with Meng Qingqiang's strength, it was not a problem to carry the children and protect his wife when he had something to do, but now that there are many people, it is inevitable that he will not be able to take care of it by himself. Although Chen Lao's combat effectiveness is not low, he has recently been equipped with a ready-to-open and sawtooth assembled sapper shovel sponsored by the hardware store owner Lao Wang, upgrading from a peasant to an armed farmer, but after all, he has not gone beyond the scope of people, and there is no way to compare with Meng Qingqiang, so how to improve the combat effectiveness of the small group itself is urgent. And Chen Lao's description of being a soldier when he was young also reminded him, and he thought of a weapon that he hadn't paid attention to before, a gun!

In fact, when Meng Qingqiang collected supplies on weekdays, he also found traces of this weapon, but first, he was just an ordinary person before, and he had no contact with the gun, that is, he did not have it and would not use it, and secondly, since he mutated and woke up, his physical fitness is far beyond that of ordinary people, and his huge strength and super defense power have made him always enthusiastic about fighting with cold weapons, so the gun has never appeared in his mind, and now with Chen Lao, who has been a soldier, he remembers this stubble again.

Just do it, after a few days he collected supplies, while carefully searching, he also really got those real guys, when it comes to guns, the first thing he thought of was the police station, but unfortunately he didn't find a lot of weapons as he thought, only found a few pistols and pistol cartridges, however, handcuffs, tear gas, batons and stab-proof suits did find a lot. Then, he looked for a cash truck that he had found before, and in the car he had a harvest.

Meng Qingqiang first came to the overturned cab, unfortunately, the driver has become a corpse, the first time to overturn the car launched an attack on the co-pilot, and killed the co-pilot, now the two corpses are trapped inside, he easily killed the two unlucky eggs, harvested the first spear and a helmet, and the co-pilot carried five rounds of ammunition, and then he came to the back door, with Meng Qingqiang's current great strength to open the cash truck from the outside, it is also effortless. After opening the door and eliminating the two corpse escorts who were also trapped, he obtained two more guns and ten rounds of ammunition, as well as two intact body armor and two helmets, inspired by the cash truck, and then visited several banks and also obtained several of the same guns and some ammunition.

On the way back with these weapons, Meng Qingqiang realized that guns were not far away from ordinary people, so would people in the last days be able to find these like themselves, and what would these powerful weapons bring to ordinary people like themselves.