Beside the beach in Q City lay the Dragon Bay Villas District.
It was a newly developed villa district that had been hugely popular before the apocalypse.
Before this project, another seaside villa development had been just as popular: the Number One Garden Villas.
But later, land had been reclaimed from the sea and the Dragon Bay Villas built on it, and suddenly, residents of the former Number One Garden Seaside Villa could no longer see the sea when they stepped outside.
Most buyers of the Dragon Bay Villas were not locals, but wealthy people from nearby major cities.
The money that bought a seaside villa in Q City would not even buy a small studio apartment in their own cities.
Few locals bought homes here, because it was not suitable for year-round living.
The seaside was humid, and even in the hottest summer weather, dampness was a problem.
That went without saying for the winters with their bone-chilling winds; locals would not choose to live by the sea.
The Dragon Bay Villas District, bustling in summer, became a ghost town in winter.
Yet after the apocalypse broke out, quite a few people actually lived here.
The population density by the sea was low, and there were fewer zombies. The sea's natural cleansing ability erased the "human scent" of those living here, so zombies rarely wandered this way on their own.
And Shen Jin was not the only one who knew food could be gathered along the shore. Experienced shore foragers and local residents knew it too.
Especially after Q City's fisheries were left unmanaged, large numbers of sea creatures broke through the nets and escaped. Without humans fishing them, marine life reproduced in abundance, and every day, some unlucky creatures were washed ashore by the waves.
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