The three of them exchanged glances, each seeing a trace of vigilance and apprehension in the others’ eyes.

The danger level of Longevity Village this time was several degrees higher than that of Xinghua Town.

And this was just a village.

“Let’s go in, we’re running out of time!”

Chen Ye flicked his cigarette ash, speaking in a somewhat low voice.

Iron Lion, carrying a huge backpack, strode into the courtyard without saying a word.

Nana followed closely behind, her long legs striding and ponytail swaying behind her.

Chen Ye took a deep drag of his cigarette, raised his hand crossbow, and followed.

Just as Zhou Lan was about to enter, she saw a slightly stooped figure moving even faster than her and her sister, closely following Chen Ye.

“Young man, do you understand what respecting the elderly and cherishing the young means?”

Zhou Xiaoxiao looked and saw it was the old woman who had previously clashed with Chen Ye, instantly getting so angry she wanted to curse!

Zhou Lan reached out and pulled her sister who was about to argue with the old woman, indicating now wasn’t the time for quarrels.

Only then did Zhou Xiaoxiao suppress her anger with a pout.

If you only looked at the exterior, the village chief’s large house was much more impressive than the other villagers’ houses.

The interior decoration was also considerably more luxurious than other villagers’.

Upon entering, there was a huge European-style leather sofa that looked very imposing.

In the middle of the sofa was a marble coffee table, the stone’s texture appearing natural and clear.

If it were before the apocalypse, this sofa and coffee table set would have been quite valuable regardless of authenticity.

Flashlights swept around the interior.

The indoor environment was visible to everyone.

“Everyone search around, speak up if you find supplies.”

“Time is running out, move quickly!”

Nana’s flashlight continuously scanned the surroundings.

The first place everyone searched was naturally the kitchen.

The village chief’s kitchen was very large, nearly twenty square meters—bigger than many rental apartments that city workers rented.

Soon everyone found flour, rice, two large packs of dried noodles, and some other ingredients in the kitchen.

Although they had some gains, these findings weren’t enough to satisfy everyone.

The Eavesdropping Radio had mentioned that the Big Willow Tree Small Supermarket and the village chief’s house had sufficient supplies.

If this was all there was, it probably wouldn’t be nearly enough.

Everyone continued searching persistently.

Soon someone went up to the second and third floors.

Unfortunately, the second and third floors yielded little results.

The second floor had a large living room with a billiards table in the middle, sofas on both sides of the table, plus two bedrooms.

The third floor had a tea room and a bedroom, and nothing else.

They didn’t find even a trace of supplies on these two floors.

They did find plenty of clothes and bags though.

Among them were many luxury items.

It seemed this village chief had made quite a fortune in the village.

Before the apocalypse, these things would have been very valuable.

But now nobody was interested in these items.

In the survivors’ eyes, these luxury goods probably couldn’t even compare to a piece of bread.

Chen Ye did find a smartwatch in the third-floor wardrobe.

Before the apocalypse, these smartwatches were very popular, many young people liked to wear one on their wrist.

Compared to traditional mechanical watches, smartwatches had powerful functions, many interesting features, and could sync with phones, making them very popular among young people.

Before the apocalypse, this smartwatch would have cost at least seven or eight thousand, something Chen Ye definitely wouldn’t have splurged on.

He never expected to find one here.

“I used to have one of these watches too, but now it’s the apocalypse, without charging it’s just trash!”

Nana said somewhat regretfully while looking at the smartwatch in Chen Ye’s hand.

“Doesn’t matter, I’ll treat it as a souvenir of human civilization!”

Chen Ye shrugged and directly stuffed the smartwatch into his pocket.

When he eventually gets the solar charging panel from Chu Che, this smartwatch might become usable.

In the apocalypse, every resource has its purpose.

Especially a timekeeping smartwatch.

Finding nothing on the second and third floors, everyone went back downstairs.

It was already 2:30 now, only an hour and a half left before they had to leave the village.

Back on the first floor, everyone searched again unwillingly.

“Over here!”

A surprised exclamation attracted everyone’s attention.

Everyone looked over.

They saw a bespectacled youth holding a steel pipe excitedly pointing at a cellar door next to a staircase.

The cellar door was already open, a pitch-black opening visible where the youth was pointing.

“There’s a basement here!”

Nana flashed over to the youth’s position.

Others also gathered around.

Several flashlight beams shone into the basement, but they could only see darkness, nothing visible.

“Why would the village chief’s house have a basement?”

“What’s so strange about that? Most villas have basements!”

“Could the village chief have hidden supplies in the basement?”

“Possibly, should we go down and check?”

“Why don’t you go down?”

For a moment everyone discussed excitedly, but nobody dared to enter the basement.

Basements generally represented confined spaces.

Many horror movie scenes took place in basements.

Although everyone had suspicions, when it came to actually going down, nobody was brave enough.

Chen Ye also frowned.

Clearly the basement definitely contained something.

“I’ll go down first to check!”

Without another word, Nana jumped down first.

They could see flashlight beams moving around in the basement.

Soon surprised exclamations came from below.

“Chen Ye, Iron Lion, there are lots of potatoes down here!”

“So many!”

Hearing this, expressions of delight appeared on everyone’s faces.

“I’ll go down to check!”

The youth who discovered the cellar door quickly said.

Before anyone could react, the youth was the first to jump down.

“Sis, you watch from above, I’m going down!”

Zhou Xiaoxiao followed closely behind the youth.

Soon, survivor after survivor jumped down.

Even the old woman jumped down without hesitation.

Her nimble movements were no less agile than a young person’s.

In this apocalypse, supplies were everything!

“Chen Ye, Iron Lion, you two stay up there guarding, I’ll pack potatoes and you receive them from above.”

“Okay!”

Soon a backpack filled with potatoes was handed up to the cellar opening.

Iron Lion single-handedly crouched at the opening and easily caught it.

If Chen Ye had to catch this backpack, it wouldn’t have been so easy.

Soon another large bag filled with potatoes was caught single-handedly by Iron Lion and brought up.

Zhou Lan was also helping.

“Thank you, Brother Iron Lion!”

This was Zhou Xiaoxiao’s sweet voice of gratitude.

Chen Ye stood guard beside Iron Lion, holding his crossbow.

A drop of cold sweat trickled from Chen Ye’s temple to his chin, finally dripping onto the ground.

In Chen Ye’s pupils, a stooped figure stood at the first floor’s main entrance, just smiling eerily while watching this group of people.

“Whoosh!”

The crossbow bolt in his hand fired!

Hearing Chen Ye’s firing sound, Iron Lion tensed up and turned around, vigilantly scanning the surroundings, but found nothing.

“Yezi, what did you see?”

Zhou Lan beside him also looked around with a frightened expression.

“Nothing, Iron Lion, hurry up, I have a bad feeling! We need to leave here quickly!”

Iron Lion looked around but didn’t notice anything unusual, muttering: “Yezi, you’ll scare someone to death like that!”

After saying this, the big fool continued taking potatoes out from the cellar opening.

Only his movements became much faster.

But the tension on Chen Ye’s face didn’t ease in the slightest.

After the crossbow bolt was fired just now.

Chen Ye’s system received a notification.

[You dealt damage to the Hunchbacked Old Puppet, you gained Slaughter Points +100.]

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