"You eat it first for me to see."
The scientific researcher struggled.
"Don't want to, don't want to! Non-Awakened ones will die if they swallow crystals!"
Sob sob...
The burly man stuffed the crystal into his mouth.
Suddenly.
The scientific researcher's whole body convulsed. Viscous blood oozed from his mouth, eyes, nose, and ears. Seeing this, the group of mad survivors shouted loudly, like monkeys, clapping and watching.
The burly man looked at the scientific researcher's tragic state, "He was actually telling the truth. Non-Awakened ones really can't eat them."
The survivor who had just licked the scientific researcher was very upset.
"If I knew he was going to die, I would have chopped off his leg. We could still have eaten the leg meat."
The next day.
The survivors of Duong Quang residential area all put down the tasks in their hands, watching the busy Lam Pham. They only saw him grabbing the iron railings, heading towards the distance, then placing the iron railings far away, sealing off the road.
They knew this was to expand the activity area.
At the same time, some survivors also understood that Duong Quang residential area would truly become a home for living survivors.
While Lam Pham was busy.
Officer Hoang and Dong Dong leisurely walked over from afar, entered the Sunshine shelter, looked around, and stared at the busy Lam Pham.
"Officer Hoang, good morning."
Even if Lam Pham was very busy, when he saw Officer Hoang, he would still stop, smile, and greet him.
Officer Hoang glanced at him, then wandered away.
"Is Officer Hoang in a bad mood?"
Lam Pham pondered.
Thinking about it, it was understandable. Women have those few uncomfortable days every month; men would definitely have such situations too.
People should understand each other.
He certainly wouldn't get angry just because Officer Hoang didn't greet him.
"Dong Dong, good morning."
Lam Pham greeted Dong Dong again.
Dong Dong: "Meow meow."
Look, see? Officer Hoang is definitely in a bad mood. Didn't you see Dong Dong greeted me very friendly?
"Dong Dong, do you want to go to school with a group of little friends tomorrow?"
He believed that studying was something every little child should do.
So what if Dong Dong was a zombie?
He still had the right to study.
Dong Dong looked at Lam Pham, "Meow meow."
As if he could really understand, his tone was slightly higher than just now.
"Oh, very happy, very expectant. I'll arrange it for you tomorrow."
Lam Pham smiled, feeling he had done another good deed. Of course, this was definitely inseparable from Dong Dong's love for studying; otherwise, ordinary little children would definitely cry and refuse.
Thinking about it carefully, he found that the children in the Sunshine shelter all loved studying very much.
Under his arrangements, he hadn't encountered any little child who had ever resisted studying.
The surrounding survivors stared dumbfounded.
Is it that domineering?
Even after becoming a zombie, one still has to study.
Honestly, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't dare to imagine it.
Officer Hoang was indeed patrolling within the shelter. The survivors' fear of Officer Hoang had lowered to a minimum. Thinking that Officer Hoang wouldn't harm them, they also felt much more at ease.
Lam Pham had told them.
If conflicts arose, go find Officer Hoang to mediate. You might not trust others, but please trust Officer Hoang's fairness.
The group of people always told themselves in their hearts.
When dealing with people and matters, yield three parts. Don't get into conflicts, don't quarrel, otherwise, if Officer Hoang is really brought over, everyone will panic, okay?
After a while.
Lam Pham had arranged all the iron railings properly. The crystals accumulated during this period came into use, reinforcing the iron railings. Iron railings without crystal reinforcement, if they encountered Strength-type zombies or Bao Quan types, might collapse with a crash after just one hit.
"Brother Hang, it's all done."
These past few days, Brother Hang and the others had been working hard to fabricate the iron railings, precisely to take this first step.
Co Hang looked at the messy shops around and said: "Next, cleaning up the hygiene will be an important task. There are zombie corpses around here. If it were like in a game, where zombie corpses disappear after being killed, that would be great."
Lam Pham patted Co Hang's shoulder, "Reality, be realistic."
"Haha." Co Hang laughed, "Seeing the development of Duong Quang residential area, seeing more and more survivors gathering, there's truly a sense of satisfaction."
Lam Pham sighed.
"Yes, the former Hoang City is gradually returning in our hands. I think our efforts have never been in vain."
Co Hang looked at Lam Pham.
He knew Little Pham's thoughts and also firmly trusted him.
Chuc Thanh cunningly looked around. His ability was to assist in observing the surroundings, to see if there were any hidden zombies. Unfortunately, there wasn't even one.
He felt he was the most miserable Awakened one. Under Brother Lam's protection, even if he gnawed on crystals until his ability leveled up, he still didn't know what changes his ability had undergone.
Vuong Khai said: "Brother Lam, I'll arrange for people to clean up the environment later."
Lam Pham said: "Thank you for your hard work. The only relatively dirty thing is this pile of zombie corpses. After such a long time, they have already solidified."
Vuong Khai looked at a zombie corpse not far away. Honestly, it died a really tragic death. From his professional eyes, if he wasn't mistaken, it should have been killed by Brother Lam with a single sword strike.
"Brother Lam, with these words, how can we be considered to have worked hard? If you want to talk about hard work, you are still the one who has worked the hardest." When Vuong Khai said this, he searched for familiar figures. Not seeing A Hai and Quan Hao, his mood relaxed a lot.
Lam Pham smiled faintly.
Everyone had worked very hard.
"Brother Hang, I'll go out first," Lam Pham said.
"Go attend to your business. Leave this place to us."
Co Hang knew Lam Pham had many things to attend to: clearing zombies, and also liaising with other shelters. Now, the Sunshine shelter had undergone an earth-shattering change. With the joining of Awakened ones, and under Little Pham's crystal nurturing, their strength in all aspects had greatly improved. Perhaps they couldn't deal with large numbers of zombies.
But if they encountered scattered evolved zombies, it probably wouldn't be much of a problem.
Tu Trach base, rooftop.
Lam Pham looked at Duong Vinh, then at Duong Lo beside him, who wanted to speak but hesitated.
"You still choose to stay here?"
He had clearly explained the shelter situation to the siblings before him. It had already begun to expand, and in the future, it would be an area where the survivors of Hoang City could live in peace.
Duong Vinh looked at the dilapidated, desolate city in the distance and smiled, "Mm, I told you before, I'm staying here to guide other survivors to your side. Hoang City is too big, and Duong Quang residential area is located in that corner. Without someone to guide them, who would know? You see, just during this period, two more survivors found this place.
When they first arrived here, they were like beggars, thin and haggard, their eyes revealing despair towards the apocalypse. If there was no one here, how could they go to your side?
Let my sister go with them to your place. I'll stay here alone."
"The things you do, I can't do them. I don't have that kind of ability. The only ability I have is to stay here, waiting for other survivors to come."
He often lit materials that could burn and produce smoke, like wolf smoke signals. If any survivors saw it, they would know there were people here. Being able to reach here represented safety, represented being able to survive in the apocalypse.
Lam Pham admired Duong Vinh's actions. Perhaps if it were any other survivor, they would have returned to the Sunshine shelter with him long ago.
It was precisely because there were these people willing to give that hope existed.
"Brother, I'll stay with you." Duong Lo originally wanted to persuade her brother to leave together, but after hearing her brother's words, she understood that some things had to be done by someone.
Just as her brother said, this shelter needed someone to wait. Perhaps they could stick a note at the entrance, telling arriving survivors, "We are at Duong Quang residential area, you can go there to find us."
But... if her brother hadn't always been lighting up plants, causing thick smoke to rise, who would know this place was a shelter? And who passing by here would notice the reminder posted at the entrance?