Chapter 1767 - 961:

Ding!

She drove the dagger into the table again.

Rubbing the surface of the pig-head canned meat, the metal was practically polished to a glossy patina by her fingers.

"This must be something really precious to him too..."

A one-jin military canned pork, with a shelf life of up to five years. With such good sealing, as long as it doesn’t mold, you can still eat it after more than ten years.

In this food-shortage Doomsday, being able to eat until full is already a luxury.

Let alone a can of pork like this!

It’s no exaggeration to say that in a critical moment, this one can of pork could keep her going for a week.

Inside their Southern Paradise, other than Mr. Hu, she hadn’t seen anyone else with something like this.

"I don’t know what you meant by this, but... thank you..."

Ma Yingxue watched the torrential rain outside, muttering.

...

Big Camphor Tree Base.

Li Yu returned to the Inner City and changed out of his soaking wet combat uniform.

His mother boiled him a cup of ginger tea to drive out the dampness.

After drinking a steaming cup of ginger tea, Li Yu felt heat rising all over his body.

He went upstairs, took a hot shower, and was just planning to get a good sleep.

When he heard his Uncle’s voice coming from the walkie-talkie he’d put on the table: "Xiao Yu, get over here, the Zombie Generator’s gone wrong!"

Bang!

Li Yu sprang straight up from the bed like he’d been catapulted!

The Zombie Generator’s gone wrong!

This was bad!

Right now most of the base’s power supply came from the Zombie Generator, and the amount of electricity the base needed was enormous.

All those greenhouses, the underground planting base, plus lighting, water heaters, the mobile switch blade, and even some automated equipment, all needed electricity to run.

If the Zombie Generator malfunctioned, that was a catastrophic disaster.

Li Yu hurriedly grabbed the walkie-talkie and asked, "What’s going on? Is it serious?"

His Uncle looked at the now idle Zombie Generator, his expression somewhat anxious: "All the Zombie Generators have stopped working. The zombies are fine, they’re still walking around, but the indicator light for power generation down below never comes on."

If the indicator light doesn’t come on, then no power is being generated.

Li Yu quickly threw on his clothes, tugged them into place, and asked in a rush, "What about He Bing and Zhou Ran? Have they gone over yet?"

"I’ve already called them." His Uncle saw He Bing walking in from the doorway and quickly said, "Come take a look."

"They’re already here."

"Mm." Li Yu pulled on his coat, grabbed a gun and clipped it to his waist, then dashed out into the rain.

Mrs. Li watched him rush downstairs, baffled.

"Raincoat, put on your raincoat—this child, he just got back and now he’s running out again in a hurry. What on earth happened?"

Mrs. Li was worried, her heart uneasy.

Not caring that it was already night, she went straight into the bedroom, flipped back the quilt, and patted the soundly sleeping Father Li awake.

"Stop sleeping, Xiao Yu just got back and now he’s run out again in such a rush. Go see what’s going on, I can’t rest easy."

"Huh? Huh?" Father Li was half asleep, half awake.

Bang!

"Still sleeping!"

Bang bang bang!

"What are you doing? It’s the middle of the night." Father Li complained.

"Are you awake yet?"

"Awake, what’s the matter?" Father Li muttered.

"I said, go to the Outer City and check on Xiao Yu, I’m afraid something’s happened out there!"

"Ah? Okay, I’ll go right now."

Once Father Li fully woke up, he hurriedly got up and put on his clothes.

....

Li Yu rushed to the Third Outer City.

From a distance he could see the lights in the largest building in the Third Outer City.

Thud thud thud—

Li Yu was drenched head to toe by the driving rain, water dripping steadily from his body onto the ground.

"Xiao Yu."

"City Lord."

"City Lord."

"Bro..."

...

On the first floor, Li Hang, his Uncle, Li Haoran, Luo, He Bing, Zhou Ran and the others were all there.

Li Yu’s face didn’t look good. He didn’t respond to them, just stared at He Bing and Zhou Ran and asked, "Well? What went wrong? Can it be fixed? How long will it take to fix?"

He Bing saw Li Yu’s expression and glanced at Zhou Ran beside him.

Zhou Ran spoke up, "Our preliminary assessment is that aging wiring caused a short circuit, and all our Zombie Generators are connected in series, so it led to a collective shutdown."

"Fixing it isn’t that big of a problem. It’s just that I was talking with He Bing just now—after we replace the wiring, it might still be prone to issues later on. With this thunderstorm weather, the lightning protection resistor devices have to channel the lightning into the ground, otherwise we can’t avoid lightning damage to the grid."

"Also, there’s the issue of everything being in series. Me and He Bing mainly focus on mechanical engineering. If we want a thorough fix, I’ll need support from a senior electrician or a power specialist."

As soon as he finished speaking.

Li Yu frowned and asked, "Just say who needs to come over to solve it!"

He Bing said, "Lao Zhou has a senior electrician under him named Tian Shu, he can come over to help.

And that Old Dong, he’s a power expert, this kind of thing should be easy for him."

Li Yu fell silent for a moment when he heard that.

His sharp eyes locked on the two of them.

The Zombie Generator had always been top secret inside the Big Camphor Tree Base.

Aside from Li Hang, Zhou Ran, and He Bing, who invented the Zombie Generator, among the Outer City personnel who knew about it there were only a handful like Luo.

That Old Dong had been with the Big Camphor Tree Base for quite some time already, but he’d never understood where the base’s energy came from, and no one had told him.