Chapter 127: The Water is No Problem!

"Holy cow, really, Brother Su, he really opened it!"

Lu Yubo had surprise on his face. Seeing that Pang Dakun had real skills, he stopped spraying him and gave a thumbs up, calling him awesome.

"Hehe, this level of lock has no difficulty, I could open it when I was thirteen!"

Pang Dakun was praised by someone and immediately scratched his head embarrassedly. Dandruff like snowflakes fell *swish swish* under the flashlight light.

"Fine, kid, didn't brag. Come, climb the house for me to see!"

Zhang Su had a happy face. At this moment, three bubbles appeared on Pang Dakun's head in his eyes: 【Loyal】, 【Greenhorn】, 【Three-handed】.

As long as there are no major shortcomings, survivors who possess the 【Loyal】 personality can be considered labor force to some extent when incorporated into the team.

【Greenhorn】 doesn't seem so annoying under the blessing of 【Loyal】 and natural 【Three-handed】.

Such talents might not be hard to find in the past, and warriors would come to the door if a reward was issued, but in the apocalypse, they are quite rare, and every skill has its use!

"Climb the house? Where?" Pang Dakun heard Zhang Su's request, pointed to the fertilizer store on the side and said: "Is it this house? I climb this fertilizer store every time I go out of the village, it's as simple as drinking water. Why not let me climb this car?"

Pang Dakun was very interested in the RV beside him. It was his first time seeing a legendary RV; he had only seen it on TV before, and the RV in front of him was so majestic.

"Fine, climb, let me see how you do it!"

Zhang Su raised his hand to signal Pang Dakun to show it.

The Mercedes VS RV was four meters high, higher than an ordinary apartment floor, and apart from the driver's seat and ladder, other parts of the car body were very smooth, making it difficult to find handholds and footholds.

"Alright, watch carefully, don't blink!"

Pang Dakun nimbly took out his flashlight to observe the car body, put away the flashlight, and tapped his feet lightly.

He saw him step on the tire and jump up, using his hands and feet to borrow strength on the car body, and his whole body seemed to float up without weight. He didn't see clearly how it happened at all, just felt him pull his body up easily, and his hand reached the edge of the roof.

"Lightness skill?"

Chen Hanzhou exclaimed in surprise.

No one answered, all focusing on watching Pang Dakun.

It's difficult for an ordinary person to pull their whole body up with one arm, but it was easy for Pang Dakun. His fingers buckled tightly onto the edge of the roof, his body swung and his feet braced, the other hand pressed on the protruding vent, and his whole body swung up in an extremely unexpected way, lying lightly on the roof of the car.

Following his set of procedures, unless the inside of the car was extremely quiet, it would be difficult to detect that someone had already climbed onto the roof!

"Uncle, how about it?"

Standing up and patting his butt, Pang Dakun wiped his nose arrogantly.

"Brother Su, this guy is definitely a talent."

Lu Yubo had a 180-degree change in his view of Pang Dakun. He only disliked the vegetable chicken that acted cool, and was very polite to capable people.

"Amazing..."

"This move is okay, dodging zombies, stealing food and drink, really don't have to worry."

"That's using great talent for small things, there are even greater uses!"

Everyone sighed at Pang Dakun's extraordinary skills.

"Come down!"

Zhang Su beckoned, signaling Pang Dakun to come down.

"Everyone dodge, dodge!"

Pang Dakun waved his hands spiritedly, and saw him open his arms and jump down like a big bird. An ordinary person would definitely roll a circle, but he just bent his knees, the force was resolved, and he stood straight and reached out to Zhang Su.

"Thermos cup!"

Zhang Su laughed, put the cup into Pang Dakun's hand, and then said: "Little Pang, what do you plan to do in the future?"

Speaking of this, everyone knew that Zhang Su intended to incorporate Pang Dakun into the team. Such skills were indeed rare talents. Others walked back to the RV one after another, not hindering the two from talking.

"Uncle, give me a cigarette..."

Pang Dakun tucked the cup into his arms and rubbed his hands.

"Go, let's talk in the store."

Zhang Su didn't go to educate Pang Dakun that he couldn't smoke at such a young age. It was the apocalypse, who would care about those dogmas.

After everyone walked away, the Corgi Lucky raised its head and looked at the bare car body, scurried up *swish swish swish*, stood on the roof of the car successfully, and hummed at the fertilizer store very arrogantly.

Inside the fertilizer store, Pang Dakun lit a cigarette and took a beautiful puff. He didn't answer Zhang Su's question, but sighed: "Uncle, your life is too great, big RV, TV, cartoon, it's simply a fairy life!"

"Fairy life is just this? Then being a fairy is nothing to be proud of..." Zhang Su shook his head with a smile.

Pang Dakun stubbornly said: "I just think this is a fairy life. Eh, Uncle, where are you going? How about staying in Shuwa Village?"

"This is just a temporary place to stay."

Zhang Su pointed to the north with the cigarette butt that was flickering with a slight fire, and said: "We are going to Qingxian, looking for a resort or farmhouse in the mountains."

"Holy cow, is it that awesome?" Pang Dakun had surprise on his face, but then he wilted again: "I want to go with you, but I can't go, I still have revenge to take."

Zhang Su raised his eyebrows, was silent for a moment, and then said: "Little Pang, to be honest, I think it's better not to take this revenge... Wait, don't rush, listen to me."

Seeing Pang Dakun about to speak, Zhang Su raised his hand to stop him, and then continued: "When the disaster broke out, you were hiding in Qincheng, and you should have seen the scene of zombies slaughtering. To put it bluntly, who can take care of whom among those who can escape from the village? Some people can't even take care of their own relatives, let alone an elderly person with leg disease who is unrelated..."

"From your perspective, you can completely resent the villagers who didn't take your grandpa to escape, but to say you want to take revenge on them, this definitely doesn't make sense. They just didn't save anyone, not deliberately harming anyone."

Pang Dakun sucked on the cigarette butt painfully and said: "Then Uncle, your meaning is to blame me, blame me for not rushing back in time, so my grandpa died..."

"Why do you have to feel that someone has to take responsibility for this..." Zhang Su felt that Pang Dakun's thinking was a bit twisted, which was really in line with the characteristics of 【Greenhorn】.

"This is a catastrophe for humanity. The whole city, various countries, the whole world is like this. I don't know who is responsible for this matter. If you have to blame someone, blame the virus..."

Zhang Su spread his hands, no one knew how the virus broke out.

"Uncle, what you said makes so much sense... not every matter has someone to take responsibility." Pang Dakun felt like he had been enlightened, looked up at the figure in the dark, and said: "Uncle, then can you take me with you?"

Zhang Su didn't expect the process of recruiting Pang Dakun to be so smooth, but instead, he couldn't let the process be so smooth.

"Cough, cough!"

Zhang Su cleared his throat and asked: "Why do you want to go with us? Aren't you living quite comfortably in Shuwa Village by yourself?"

Pang Dakun shook his head: "It's too boring, I don't know why the animals are all like dead, chickens don't crow, dogs don't bark, the little brothers are all gone, I'm so lonely."

Zhang Su could feel Pang Dakun's loneliness. The only things that could move in the dead village were zombies. This feeling was too terrible.

"Then aren't you afraid we are bad people?"

"You definitely aren't bad people!" Pang Dakun answered very quickly: "Bad people wouldn't watch Tom and Jerry, bad people watch TV shows about killing and arson!"

Zhang Su laughed secretly. This standard for judging good and bad people was really something. Then he pretended to be serious and said: "I feel you are particularly naughty and disobedient. Now there are man-eating zombies everywhere outside. What if you bring disaster to the team because you are disobedient?"

"This..." Pang Dakun jumped up in a hurry, then squatted down again and said: "Uncle, I'll change, I won't steal things anymore, and I won't climb the roof to watch women change clothes anymore, okay?"

"Holy cow, you even do these wicked things?" Zhang Su felt a toothache, not knowing what other broken things this mixed kid hadn't confessed.

"I... I won't do it in the future." Pang Dakun looked around, knowing these things were not glorious.

Zhang Su said: "Alright, these are mistakes of the past, just don't commit them again in the future. I ask you, have you killed zombies?"

"I haven't killed them, I think those are people. Master said that you must never kill people, killing people will be shot!" Pang Dakun shook his head repeatedly.

Zhang Su said in a deep voice: "What your master taught you is not wrong, but that was in the peaceful society of the past, a civilized society, not now. Now the whole world is in chaos..."

"What? The whole, the whole world is, is like Shuwa Village and Qincheng?"

Pang Dakun sat on the ground.

"I just said this catastrophe affected the whole world, didn't you listen carefully..." Zhang Su was helpless. No wonder this guy couldn't read books. Listening to people talk was leaking, and he must be wandering in the clouds in class.

"Little Pang, I won't nag you. You can go with us, but you must kill zombies. Sometimes you have to kill people. I won't hide it from you, everyone on our side has human lives on their hands. The world outside not only has zombies eating people, but people also eat people!"

As if shocked by Zhang Su's words, Pang Dakun's expression was dull.

Zhang Su waited for Pang Dakun to digest it for a while, and said: "How about it, do you still want to go with us?"

"Go!" Pang Dakun came back to his senses, nodded very firmly, and then knelt in front of Zhang Su with a *thud*, saying: "Uncle, I'll follow you, you will be my Big Brother from now on, Big Brother!"

Pang Dakun was just about to kowtow when he was stopped by Zhang Su.

"Where did you learn these things, Uncle, Big Brother, what a mess!"

Pang Dakun said righteously: "I take little brothers and make them worship me like this. After worshipping Big Brother, they can never betray. Betrayers will be stabbed three times and have six holes!"

"Fine, fine, three stabs!"

"Alright, Uncle!"

Pang Dakun saw Zhang Su agree to let him join, overjoyed, wiped a snot that flowed out because of excitement, and said: "Uncle, can I go watch TV? I really want to watch Tom and Jerry."

"It's time to sleep, and you still want Tom and Jerry."

Zhang Su smiled helplessly. This half-grown kid missed his childhood, but unfortunately, there was no chance for him to make up for it.

"Oh..." Pang Dakun scratched his head somewhat depressed.

Zhang Su suddenly thought of one thing and asked: "Little Pang, you've been back in Shuwa Village for these days, what do you eat and drink? Those villagers who went to the other side didn't take everything away?"

"Eat grain, there's a lot in the village, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and Chinese cabbage, pickled vegetables, they definitely took some, but they left in a hurry, it's impossible to take all the food, many families have stored grain, I eat house by house, hehe!"

Pang Dakun said this very proudly.

"What about water? Is the well in the village okay?" Zhang Su asked the thing he cared about most.

Pang Dakun answered without hesitation: "No problem, but there is no electricity, only a few old earth wells can shake out water."

"Are you sure the well water is okay to drink?"

Zhang Su asked cautiously again.

"No problem." Pang Dakun patted his chest *bang bang* and said: "I drink it every day, it's just that the water is ice cold, and sometimes I get diarrhea after drinking it!"

"Where is the well, is it convenient to go from here?"

Zhang Su was very excited to hear this result. The various water tanks on the two RVs added up to nearly two thousand liters. If filled, he could solve everyone's hygiene problems.

"Convenient, just cross four households, no, three households, and there is an old-fashioned rocking well. Uncle, are you drinking water? I'll go get it for you, and then you let me watch another episode of the cartoon, okay?"

Pang Dakun immediately became energetic.

Zhang Su waved his hand and said: "There is a lot of water to drink, but the water tank on the car is empty. Can we drive the car over to fill the water?"

"That's definitely not okay... if the roadblock is removed, those zombie monsters will run out!"

Pang Dakun shook his head *hu hu*. He went in and out of the village every day by walking on the roofs of every household, with a wide field of vision and safety...

"Fine, I know about this matter. Where do you plan to rest tonight? There is a place in the car, you can stay if you want, but there is no cartoon."

Zhang Su stood up and patted his pants. Adding water wasn't urgent, he could wait until dawn to get busy.

"I'm going back, bury the cup next to Grandpa, and come over tomorrow." Pang Dakun touched the cup in his arms, and then grabbed Zhang Su's arm and said: "Uncle, you guys can't sneak away."

"I still have to go to the village to get water tomorrow, why would I leave!"

Zhang Su gave Pang Dakun a kick, but he dodged it nimbly.

"Uncle, give me a few more cigarettes."

Pang Dakun smiled with a face full of smiles.

Zhang Su took out the cigarette case and saw there were only four or five left, threw them directly to Pang Dakun and said: "Smoke less if you're okay!"

"Know it!"

As the words fell, Pang Dakun scurried away from the fertilizer store like a large gecko.

Zhang Su walked out of the store, shone the flashlight, and saw Pang Dakun scurrying onto the roof of the bungalow next to the roadblock like a large gecko, waved at him, and then disappeared into the night.

Seeing Pang Dakun's skills, and thinking of the river not far away, Zhang Su felt that it wasn't difficult for Pang Dakun to cross the river to find trouble with those people.

Although the bridge was gone and cars couldn't go, people still had ways to go back and forth.

"Big Brother, is that kid not planning to go with us?"

Seeing Zhang Su return alone, Zhao Dezhu, who was picking his fingernails with a dagger, asked in surprise.

"Going together, the little guy is quite filial, going back to bury the cup on his grandpa's grave, and coming over tomorrow."

Zhang Su took the water bottle from Zheng Xin and drank a few mouthfuls, then said: "I have good news to tell everyone."

"Good news?"

"Hurry up and say it, finally there is good news."

"Brother Su, what good news?"

Hearing there was good news, everyone became energetic. 【127-1

"The good news is that Shuiwa Village will become our excellent training ground. Tomorrow, you will conduct live-combat training in the village; you must clear out a portion of the zombies!"

Zhang Su waved his hand grandly in the direction of Shuiwa Village.

"Tch..."

"Oh."

"Go to sleep, go to sleep."

After hearing this news, the group immediately lost interest. To sum it up in one point: killing zombies—this was hardly what you'd call good news.

Only Zhao Xue, Wu Lue, and Zheng Xin, who knew Zhang Su best, were still waiting earnestly, as they knew there had to be more to come.

Just as Zhang Su saw that most people were looking rather dejected, he spoke again: "As a reward for clearing the zombies, you get all the crops in the village—corn, sweet potatoes, yams, whatever. In short, there's plenty of everything. Load up as much as you can carry!"

"Huh? Oh, right! Only a very small number of those villagers could have survived, so there must be a lot of stored food they couldn't take with them."

"Yeah, we're rich now! We just have to be careful when clearing the zombies; it's still dangerous!"

"Who cares about danger when there's food? Let's just do it! There's still room in the vehicles—load it up, load it up!"

Hearing that food was plentiful, the group's spirits rose significantly. All the fighting and killing was for a bite to eat, but who knew the real surprise was still to come!

"Food is only part of the reward. The most important thing is!" Zhang Su's gaze swept across everyone's faces, and seeing that their appetites had been sufficiently whetted, he said: "Water. The well water in the village is safe. Not only can you drink it, but you can also take a bath!"

"This... is it true? It must be true!"

"Damn, that really is good news!"

"Crap, I really am reeking. I have to wash up properly!"

Hearing this news, not only were the women incredibly excited, but the men were also very happy. No one wanted to be stinking all the time; after smelling it for too long, even combat effectiveness would drop.

Women surviving on their own had to forcibly disguise themselves as ugly to avoid being targeted by lecherous predators, but now that the team was powerful, they were fully capable of taking care of their personal hygiene.

"So, everyone get a good rest tonight—well, except for those on guard duty. Then, tomorrow, put some energy into clearing out the zombies. Of course, no matter how excited you are, safety comes first, understand?"

Zhang Su gave a pep talk.

"Understood, understood!"

The group agreed one after another, and then a group of them got up to return to the Faulkner Mobile RV to prepare for sleep.

Zhang Su stood at the vehicle door, and when Zhang Ya was about to get off, he reached out to block her path. Looking at her with an unreadable expression, he said: "Have you done what you were supposed to do?"

"Ah?" Zhang Ya was startled by Zhang Su's sudden question. She smiled with a stiff expression on her face and said: "W-what, Brother Su? I don't have anything to do."

Tan Huajun, who was following behind Zhang Ya, looked at Zhang Su and Zhang Ya with some surprise, not understanding what had happened between the two of them.

Zhang Su stared at Zhang Ya for several seconds, then continued: "If you haven't done it, then is there anything you want to tell me?"

"N-no, there isn't." Feeling several gazes from behind, Zhang Ya lowered her head awkwardly. Suddenly, she saw the arm blocking her way retract, and she quickly hurried off the vehicle.

Tan Huajun smiled at Zhang Su with a normal expression and was just about to get off the vehicle when Zhang Su gestured for her to come closer. She hurriedly leaned her ear in.

"Tonight, have the people on your side keep an eye on Zhang Ya!"

"??!!"

Tan Huajun's eyes were filled with doubt and surprise. She nodded and then walked off the RV.

Inside the vehicle, everyone except Zheng Xin and Zhong Xiao quickly shifted their gazes and busied themselves with their own tasks. In their view, it was better not to gossip about the boss's private affairs.

The two RVs had a total of four beds. In the Mercedes RV, Zhang Su, Zheng Xin, and Zhong Xiao slept on the large master bed—no one competed with him for it. The other slightly smaller double bed was made by unfolding the sofa in the living room, which belonged to Zhao De, Yu Qing, and Yu Wen.

Many more people could sleep inside the Mercedes RV; the carpet, the driver's cab, even the aisle would be fine, but because there was another RV, there was no need to be that crowded.

Inside the bedroom, the ambient lighting spilled over the bedding like moonlight, the soft glow intoxicating. Zhang Su was pillowing his head on his arms, the clean and soft bedding making him feel like it was all unreal. He was just listening to the faint sounds of chatting around him when he suddenly noticed a pair of big eyes staring at him from the side, and he immediately felt a bit unnerved.

"You guys aren't sleepy, are you? If you aren't sleepy, go to the village and kill zombies... Why are you staring at me?"

Zhang Su asked, speechless.

"You're interested in Zhang Ya."

Zheng Xin said out of the blue, straightforward and without any beating around the bush.

Zhang Su rolled his eyes and said softly: "Do you really think I would trust Zhang Ya so easily? She's not some blockhead like Pang Dakun. Are you guys stupid?"

"I, I didn't say anything."

Zhong Xiao felt a bit aggrieved; she hadn't said anything at all.

Zheng Xin blinked a few times and said, confused: "Then do you think there's something wrong with Zhang Ya?"

"It's not a matter of thinking; replace 'thinking' with 'knowing'," Zhang Su said, shifting his body.

"You know there's something wrong with Zhang Ya!?" Zheng Xin was shocked. She sat up halfway and said: "Then if you know there's something wrong with her, how... how could you still let her join the team? And even tell us to be good to her."

"Brother Su, do you have some kind of plan?" Zhong Xiao asked softly, while giving Zheng Xin a look, then added: "If it's inconvenient for us to know the plan, then don't tell us."

"You two are both drama queens, it doesn't matter if I tell you," Zhang Su smiled and said: "If I'm not mistaken, Zhang Ya is a mole sent by Liang Xiao!"

"Oh?"

"My god..."

Both women's eyes went round. Not just them, but the Corgi, Lucky, lying at the bedroom door, also perked up its head to listen carefully.

"It's not the thief you fear, but the thief who has his eyes on you. Liang Xiao is in the shadows now, and I don't want to spend time digging him out, so I'll just play along and wait for Zhang Ya to make her move. However, she hasn't done anything yet, and I don't know what method she's going to use to contact Liang Xiao."

Zhang Su said slowly, while listening to the people in the next RV chatting. It was nothing substantial, just gossip about former celebrities...

"Then what should we do?"

Zheng Xin asked.

Zhang Su said: "Nothing to do, and nothing we can do. Just wait, and guard against her causing trouble, but don't let her notice. That's it."

"Mm!"

The two replied softly.

Afterward, the vehicle fell into silence. There was no hanky-panky, and after a while, low snoring could be heard. Even if they had some ideas, everyone knew that in the current environment, it wasn't the time.

The three of them didn't know that as soon as they finished chatting, the Corgi, Lucky, quietly left. It slipped out through the passenger window that had been left open for ventilation and then sneaked into the Faulkner Mobile.

The number of people on guard duty increased from one to two. Excluding Zhang Ya, there were twelve people, enough to divide into six shifts, but Zhang Su still kept to three shifts a night; otherwise, frequent guard changes would easily lead to lapses.

After the incident with Pang Dakun, the guards didn't dare to relax at all. Even when chatting, they would stand back-to-back, not daring to let their eyes leave the monitored area.

(End of chapter)