This was a surface camp. Because there was a base nearby, the camp was relatively safe, so quite a few people lived there.
It was called a camp, but it was actually a village. The villages of the past had roads extending in every direction, but now a high wall had been built around it to defend against Giant Beast parasites.
Watchtowers and firing positions had also been added to the high wall. If anything happened, the camp could detect it in advance.
If the residents' lives were threatened, they could also hide in the underground shelter. However, in the few years since the disaster, the weather here had been favorable.
Giant beasts occasionally passed by in the distance, but they had never visited this place. After all, there was a base not far away. Usually, before the giant beasts could even get close, they would be driven off or eliminated.
Only a few parasite outbreaks had occurred here, and none of them had been serious.
The weather was fine today, and the camp's residents had risen early. It had snowed the night before, leaving every household's doorway covered in silvery white.
After getting up, the residents shoveled snow while greeting their neighbors.
Wang Shi was fifty-eight that year and still in robust health. Wearing a military overcoat, he went outside and began shoveling the snow in front of his home.
On the other side of the courtyard, his neighbor Lin Jiang blew warm air into his hands and rubbed them together. "Old Wang, you came out to shovel snow by yourself? Where's your son?"
Wang Shi smiled and waved. "He went to work."
"I heard recently that they're building some kind of Great Wall Base not far from our camp."
"There's more work there than anyone can finish. Not