Chapter 985: Mineral Deposits

The male zombie unfolded his nets along the beach, stuck branches in the nets, and sat down on the beach. The zombie dog and the little boy zombie sit on the side.

The tide ebbed and flowed, and when the sun rose the next day, the nets were full of struggling and jumping fish, which were clean and intact, much stronger than the broken nets of the male zombies in the bay on the other side of the island.

The male zombie and the young boy zombie ate a meal of fresh sea fish and brought back a lot of fish to the camp.

The zombies in the camp came to the beach one after another, guarding the fishing nets and collecting fish to eat.

But that's not enough, protein, zombies need more protein.

The male zombie looked at the fishing net in a daze, watching the zombies bend over to pick up fish in the net, accidentally knocked down by a wave, and then he was also caught in the net, such an unlucky guy had to struggle in the net for a long time before he could be lucky to get out of trouble.

The male zombie suddenly stood up and walked towards the camp, the little boy zombie followed closely, and there were several zombie dogs, for some reason, the zombie dogs in the camp instinctively obeyed the command of the male zombie.

The male zombie returned to the camp, dragged a large net out, and then walked to the lake, where he hung the net on the bushes in a low-lying area.

The male zombies, the little boy zombies, and the zombie dogs lay motionless on the edge of the lake.

A herd of wild deer slowly drinking from the lake, the deer are alert by nature, and at the slightest movement, they will jump away from the water's edge, jump and flee with grace.

The male zombie suddenly stood up, roared, and rushed towards the herd of deer.

The male zombie was too far away from the deer herd to wait for him to get closer. The deer turned around and ran, but the male zombie did not stop chasing, he and the zombie dog chased after him, faintly enveloping the left and right sides of the deer, and the little boy zombie stumbled and followed.

The deer jumped and easily shook off the male zombie and the zombie dog, but while jumping over a bush, a deer suddenly gave up its front hooves and fell into the bushes, its front hooves. I was entangled in something in the bushes. It was the fishing net laid by the male zombie.

Fishing nets can entangle fish, they can entangle zombies, they can entangle leopards, and they can entangle other animals. Male zombies have learned to draw inferences. Learn what you have done before. Learn from experience.

Fishing nets in the bushes caught three deer.

When the zombies in the camp returned from the beach, they immediately pounced on the dead deer whose throats had been bitten by the zombie dogs.

The male zombie pushed the zombies away heavily. Roaring at them, the zombie dogs also stopped the zombies from rushing up to grab the deer corpses.

The male zombie turned and walked out of the camp, and he walked towards the foot of the volcano.

At the foot of the volcano, scorching magma flows down from the top of the mountain and into the sea, which is half sea and half fire, billowing white smoke all year round, and occasionally the lava will flow to the nearby bushes, igniting trees and weeds, and then burning to ashes.

The male zombie stood in front of a small burning tree, reached out to break the trunk, and then held the burning tree aloft and headed back to the camp.

The male zombie strode through the jungle and the grassland, and everywhere he passed, the torch held high in his hand startled countless birds and beasts, and even those powerful beasts that could easily tear apart the zombies looked at the zombie holding the fire high in horror and shrank aside.

The male zombie was like a god who stole fire from heaven, strode forward, came to the camp, came to the zombie group, his hands, because of the fire, the skin and flesh were opened, revealing white knuckles.

When the zombies in the camp saw the fire, they had already left the deer corpses and gathered at the gate of the camp, watching the male zombies return with the fire, something slowly waking up in the depths of their memories.

After the male zombie put down the still burning fire tree in the center of the camp, he turned back to the grassland and jungle, and picked up many dry branches and came back.

The male zombie brought back a large number of branches and leaves from the jungle, and he was still reckless in his actions, and threw all the wet branches and leaves still with dew on the small burning tree, fortunately there were large pieces of pine resin, which were very flammable, and the fire burned more and more in the camp square.

The male zombie found a large cauldron from the kitchen of the camp - the original design of this camp, in order to avoid unnecessary waste, was to use a centralized dining system, so there were a lot of large utensils in the kitchen.

The male zombie fetched water from the lake in the camp and put the cauldron of water in the fire - well, his rude behavior caused the fire to smoke again, but the zombies gathered around watched the male zombie do whatever he wanted, and the fire seemed to attract their attention.

After the male zombie dismembered the deer corpse, he threw it into the cauldron, and the fire was raging, and the water in the pot began to boil, and the fragrance came out.

The male zombie fished a large piece of meat from the pot and stuffed it into his mouth, as if sending a signal, the zombies rushed up and reached out to grab the cooked meat from the hot pot and eat it.

For several days, the flames in the camp have never been extinguished, and the fishing nets on the seaside and the fishing nets in the bushes by the lake provide a relatively stable source of food for the zombies, although it is not enough for them to fill their stomachs, but they don't have to go hungry every day, especially those old and weak zombies who are disabled and can't hunt with the young zombies, they can only eat the leftover food eaten by the young zombies before. Now, at the insistence of the male zombies, all the food can only be eaten after being brought back to the camp and cooked, and this new eating method has virtually distributed food among the zombies more fairly.

The male zombie and the zombie dog stayed in the camp for a few days, hunting and sharing food with the aboriginal zombies, the male zombie found all kinds of crops on the large plains by the lake, and the crops had been carefully cultivated before, but when all the living people escaped, turned into zombies and became zombies, they were abandoned, and many were eaten by the animals, and only a few survived.

The male zombie let the little boy zombie who had been following his ass and the zombie dog in the camp guard this vast farmland and drove away birds and beasts, the little boy zombie didn't know why the male zombie let him do this, but he faithfully carried out the zombie's orders. In addition to returning to the camp regularly to eat, he took the zombie dogs to wander around the farmland gradually. Several other small zombies in the camp joined the group.

Zombie children are very suitable for this job, because their relatively light bodies do not trample on crops when they move through the fields, and children seem to be naturally able to distinguish between crops and weeds, and when driving away birds and beasts, they will actively avoid those crops that thrive.

The male zombie and the zombie dog stayed in the camp for a while, then abruptly left the camp and returned to the cave on the other side of the volcano.

The female zombie did not behave abnormally against the male zombie's return, in fact, she was disgusted with the sudden disappearance of the male zombie and the zombie dog for so long. I don't care. It was the she-wolf, who rushed towards the zombie dog and bit its back fiercely, as if to punish it for leaving home.

Male zombies eat, sleep, and sleep. It was some time again. Leaving the cave again. Head to the camp on the other side of the volcano, this time, except for the zombie dogs. The female zombie followed him.

The fire in the camp is still burning, and the zombies in the camp have learned very well from the male zombies, they have found a large number of branches from the forest to keep the flames burning, and of course, they have also learned the rude practices of the male zombies. So when the female zombies followed the male zombies to the camp, they looked at the messy fire in the center of the square, the cauldron that burned directly in the center of the fire, and the billowing smoke, and immediately roared and drove the zombies away from the fire - because they kept throwing wet wood into the fire.

The female zombie found stones, set up a simple stove, and then served the cauldron, and divided the branches into two piles, dry and damp into one heap, only the zombies in the camp were allowed to throw dry wood into the fire in an orderly manner, and whichever zombie did wrong, the female zombie would yell at him.

The first to learn how to take care of fire was still a few female zombies in the camp zombie group, perhaps with the unique care of women, who perfectly mastered the art of dancing with fire spirits.

In fact, there was a short-haired camp female zombie who, on a thunderstorm night, inadvertently did something great - she kept the tinder.

The male and female zombies are in the cave, so they don't have to worry about the rain, but in the camp, because the fire is burning in the uncovered square, and the climate on the island is humid and rainy, although the zombies have prepared a large number of branches to help burn at any time, but one day a sudden heavy rainstorm still extinguished the fire.

The fire was extinguished, which was nothing to the male zombie, and he was about to set off to the foot of the volcano to bring back the fire, when a short-haired female zombie came out of the container where she lived, holding a burning flame in her hand.

It turned out that this short-haired female zombie was extremely concerned about fire for some reason, and when she was not hunting, she would always sit in front of the fire and watch the fire blankly, she was so obsessed with fire that she brought a piece of burning twigs back to the container where she lived, and used dry twigs to keep the fire burning every day, although the fire was small, but it never stopped.

After that, the fire in the camp was extinguished by heavy rain several times, each time the short-haired female zombie took out the fire and rekindled it, one day the male zombie was about to go out hunting with the zombie group, the short-haired female zombie was about to follow, the male zombie suddenly stopped, he yelled at the short-haired female zombie, pointing to the fire, and pointing to the container where the short-haired female zombie lived.

After so many times, the short-haired female zombie stopped, stared blankly as the hunting party left, and turned around and returned to her container. The short-haired female zombie stared at a flame burning in a glass on the table, and next to the table, there was a pile of dry branches and leaves, and, a pile of books, yes, books, the short-haired female zombie had stumbled upon the best combustible fuel for the fire, paper.

The short-haired female zombie saw that the flame in the glass was faint, so she tore a piece of paper from a thick book next to her and put it in the glass, and on the cover of the book was marked "Encyclopedia Britannica" (Encyclopedia Britannica).

In addition to heavy rain, some accidents can also extinguish the fire.

One day, the soup pot that was sitting on the stone suddenly collapsed, and the soup inside extinguished the fire at once.

The female zombie yelled at the aboriginal female zombie in the camp who was responsible for taking care of the fire, and then put the soup pot back up, but the soup pot had just been placed on the stone and it toppled over again.

The male zombie suddenly stepped forward and picked up a stone from the fire, a stone that had been used to support the soup pot, but it was not a stone, it was just a mass of ash.

The hard stone that was originally picked up by the female zombie and used to support the soup pot is now just a ball of ash, and it is precisely because the stone has become a weak ash that the soup pot will lose its balance and suddenly overturn.

The male zombie turned over and over and looked at the ashes in his hand, and was stunned again.

The female zombie ignored the actions of the male zombie, she took a few female zombies from the camp who took care of the fire to the grassland, found a few big stones and moved them back, still used stones to set up a stove in the center of the fire, took the fire from the short-haired female zombie, and relit the fire.

The fire was burning, and the male zombie had been watching by the fire, suddenly, he threw himself into the fire, and pulled out a stone from under the soup pot, his movements were too violent, and he almost overturned the soup pot, and the female zombie yelled at the male zombie, and the male zombie ignored her, he just stared at the stone in his hand.

The stone is burning.

It was a black shiny stone, when it was placed on the fire, it was no different from other stones, there were many pumice stones from volcanoes in this area, which were also black, and very light, and could even float in the sea, and the female zombie used such a stone as a support.

But now in the hands of the male zombie, this black stone is glowing red, the red light of the flame, it is burning, and the scorching temperature burns the fingers of the male zombie.

A stone that burns.

The male zombie put the burning stone aside and kept staring at it, the female zombie stopped yelling at the male zombie and stared at the stone, and the short-haired female zombie also crowded next to it.

The stone burned for a long time, longer than a branch of the same size, and the fire was stronger, and when it was finally extinguished, the male zombie reached out and grabbed it, pounced, and the stone turned into a cloud of ash and scattered in the male zombie's hand.

The stone was a piece of coal, a piece of coal from an open-pit natural coal mine.

The female zombie found more stones from the field, black stones, and after continuous burning, she finally confirmed that some blackened stones could burn on their own, and the male zombies, led by the female zombies, came to the place where the black stones gathered.

It was a cliff, the rock collapsed due to weathering, revealing a black coal seam inside, the coal seam was very shallow, directly exposed to the ground, and some coal fell to the ground, which was picked up by the female zombie and returned to the camp.

In fact, there were traces of artificial mining in this coal seam, which was done by the personnel of the Ark, and they also discovered this coal seam, but because wind power and solar power were still operating normally at that time, it was only used as a backup energy source. (To be continued......)