"Fluttering ......" As the man's slightly heavy footsteps sounded in the street, two pheasants nearby were alarmed, jumped up from the grass more than half a person high, rushed into the sky with their wings in fear, and then relied on gliding to fly out a hundred meters away, and landed in another piece of grass.

"Quack quack...... Several black and shiny crows stood on the roof of the building, looking down at the tiny human on the ground, and let out a gloating cheer.

Once upon a time, they could only hide in the city, picking up the garbage discarded by humans. But in the thirty years of Hexi and thirty years in Hedong, since the human race was unlucky, all the cities, villages, mountains, and lakes in this world have become the world of animals.

Fly casually, make nests casually, and no one will bother with slingshots and guns anymore. And, of course, you won't be able to eat the delicious food that humans have discarded. Whether this change is gained or lost, with the crow's brain capacity, must not be able to figure out.

The earth never turns slower or faster because of the lack of a person, and even if it loses more than 90% of its population, stubborn nature still operates according to its trajectory, stable and unforgiving. Spring goes to autumn, cold comes and summer, and in the blink of an eye it is a sunny spring.

The man ignored the crow's ridicule, ignored the pheasant that had just landed, and carried the corpse a hundred and ten meters into another building. Peel back a few broken panels to reveal a mountain bike, and despite the mottled patent leather, the rim and chain are still new and shiny.

"Bang dang...... It took ...... few minutes to tie the body of the Blue Devil to the back hanger, the man took out the water bottle from his backpack and took two sips, touched his trouser pocket, and took out a copper-colored metal box, which opened it with half a box of yellow and green plant scraps and a newspaper printed with words.

"Huh......" skillfully curled up a cannon, lit it with a big sip, and then spit it out with a long sigh of enjoyment. It was as if the exhaustion and troubles of the whole body had been dissipated with the faint smoke.

"I don't think anyone has searched here, but I don't know if I can find something useful...... his uncle, Du Nyima is in the last days, and there is inflation! But the next muttering shows that this mouthful is not enough, and the troubles are still there.

After smoking, the man looked at the surrounding buildings with some reluctance, took out the atlas from his arms, looked for it, and made a mark on it. Buckle back on, sink your whole face into shadow, and kick up the mountain bike along the seemingly non-existent road away from the ruins, towards the main road in the distance.

"Squeak...... Squeaky ......"

The mountain bike's obviously modified front and rear suspension filtered out potholes from the ground well, but it still moaned involuntarily. It should be a reminder to the owner that they are not used for heavy loads, and now the weight is a bit large.

In the light of the rising sun, the vast ruins of the city cast a jagged and strange shadow, and flocks of crows flew up and down in a desolate and monotonous cry.

A gust of wind blew, bringing up the sand and dust on the road, and swirling into the air. A shepherd, riding a mountain bike on a road that has been covered by sand and dust, is extremely lonely except for the elongated shadow.

There are relatively few plants on the main road, but there are more and larger cracks in the ground. The width of the road and the shape of the barrier in the middle indicate that it was supposed to be a relatively high-grade highway in the past.

It's a pity that with the bad luck of human beings, they have also become waste that no one takes care of like those high-rise buildings. However, the guardrails in the middle and on both sides of the road are still there, not as clean as in the human-occupied areas, and not even a single screw remains.

After ten years of hard work, the survivors managed to occupy several large cities with relatively rich resources and partially resumed production. Unfortunately, there is still a shortage of raw materials, and all metals that can be re-smelted are hard currencies that can be exchanged for food, medicine, weapons, fuel, and other daily necessities.

Buildings, buildings, roads, and all metal in the vicinity of the base were demolished. In recent years, as resources have become more and more scarce, some people have started to recycle waste steel bars for a living.

They recruited people from the homeless population at a very low price, that is, food that would keep one or two people from starvation, and attacked the steel bars in high-rise buildings. Sledgehammers and steel drills are used to get steel bars out of cement blocks in the most primitive way, and then sell them to second-tier dealers in the base.

Yes, that's right, it's the spring of 2031, ten years after the zombie outbreak. Survivors from all over the world have gradually migrated and merged, forming dozens of large settlements on several continents.

There are seven in Asia, four of which are within China. The Renaissance Alliance, which occupies North China, parts of the Northwest and Inner Mongolia, has taken over the North after annexing the Four-Province Alliance last year, and has simply changed its name to the East Asia Alliance.

The strength is also true, with a registered population of more than 40,000 and a vassalage population of more than 100,000, making it the second largest giant base in the world in terms of the number of survivors in Mumbai, India.

The remaining three are located in Chengdu, Yining, and Changsha, and their spheres of influence are mainly in the southwest, Xinjiang Province, and inland areas south of the Yangtze River, with populations ranging from 30,000 to 60,000.

In addition to domestic survivors, these populations include many foreign survivors who have migrated from East and Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central and Eastern Siberia.

It is said that the population size should be able to continue human civilization, even if it cannot go back to the Internet age, there is no problem in maintaining it in the late industrial age. In fact, the survivors only developed at a high speed for a short period of time before suddenly slowing down, and even regressed on a large scale.

The reason for this may be that everyone summarizes differently, such as energy, population, natural environment, raw materials, etc., and in the end it is actually two words, time!

It probably took the survivor group more than five years and hundreds of battles to clean up the zombies near the base. He also used air superiority and long-distance artillery fire to eliminate most of the living corpses at fixed points, temporarily eliminating the possibility of a large-scale zombie tide.

Although there is still a long way to go before the goal of completely eradicating zombies and restoring human homes, it has also managed to make the situation a little more controllable. To put it bluntly, neither the survivors nor the zombies have the strength to launch a large-scale attack on each other.

The survivors are due to the fact that the consumption of weapons and ammunition is too large and the sustainability is insufficient, and the remaining weapons and ammunition can only be used for self-protection.

On the zombie side, the living corpses were cleaned up too much by the air power of the survivors, almost to the point of extinction. Even those who escaped the search by thermal imagers, drones, and helicopters could no longer join forces to gather large forces.

However, when everyone felt that weapons, ammunition and energy were becoming increasingly scarce, it was too late, and after years of wind and rain, most of the machinery was rusted into scrap metal. Coupled with the gradual deterioration of oil, the survivors suddenly found that large-scale coal mining had become a luxury.

Without mechanical assistance, there is not so much labor force by manual labor alone, so you can't do nothing to dig coal, what to eat? There is no adequate energy supply, let alone oil extraction, refining, smelting and machining.

Of course, there are smart people all the time, and some groups still look a little farther away than others and make some preparations in advance. Unfortunately, due to the incomplete industrial chain, no one can take into account the project and output.

Or just work in a separate industry. For example, coal mining can form a certain output, and in addition to meeting its own needs, it can also take out a part of it for exchange. Either it is in full bloom and doing everything, but the output can only be hehe, and most of the products can't even meet their own needs.

It's a vicious cycle, and the longer you drag, the fewer resources you have. In order to fill their stomachs, the survivors had to spare more people to work in agriculture.

At this time, not to mention airplanes, even automobiles have become luxury goods, almost all industrial products are in short supply, and the development of science and technology is extremely unbalanced.

Ordnance and ammunition, vehicle radios, and pharmaceutical products can only be counted, and the consumption is a little less. Cold weapons, horses have been rejuvenated, and steam power has re-entered the stage and become more and more important.