Chapter 236: Chapter 250 Water Surface
The days gradually returned to normal.
The prison has also completely absorbed Woodbury's strength, population, and supplies.
The prisons are becoming more powerful and their population is increasing, which in turn brings with it many more problems in life.
But these had little to do with Carl. Since that day, Carl no longer wanted to pay attention to anything.
Every day, apart from taking a walk with Bucephalus and Beth, he would either help Hershel grow some vegetables or help Meru herd horses.
Well, it is worth mentioning that the scope of the prison has been expanded. Originally, the prison was also very large. Now, there are less than 200 people in the prison, and the living environment is completely sufficient.
But since bringing back the horses, the grassland area outside the prison has become a little stretched.
Coupled with the increase in population, Herschel suggested that it would be necessary to grow some real food, which would also require area.
So the prison was expanded, and the way it was expanded was very simple. They built another layer of fence outside the prison, the kind made of wood and iron wire.
It is similar to the one on Hershel Farm, but taller, two meters, and the wire is denser, so its defensive power is just about as good as the original barbed wire.
If possible, no one would not want to build a reinforced concrete wall, but it's not that easy.
Although some materials were intentionally collected, it was still far from enough. The original circumference of the prison barbed wire was already several thousand meters. After the expansion, the circumference was much longer.
The area of the grassland has almost doubled, and part of a small river has been included in the range of the new wire fence, which makes it much more convenient.
However, the original barbed wire was not destroyed. An extra layer of defense is always good, and now the prison has three separate areas.
The innermost is the building area, where people live. The second layer is grassland, where all vegetables and grains are planted, occupying more than half of the second layer.
There were also some animals, such as pheasants, wild ducks, rabbits, roe deer, etc., all of which were captured by Daryl More and his men.
There were even two wild boars, one of which weighed three hundred pounds and the other just over a hundred pounds.
According to Daryl, they are one male and one female. Although Carl doesn't know how he can tell them apart, it's always a good thing.
But in Moore's words.
"Shit, it takes me enough time to kill ten of them to catch one!"
Indeed, capturing someone alive is definitely more difficult than killing him outright, but it is necessary. Even More was laughing and cursing when he said that.
In the grassland of the second area, in addition to crops and these animals, there is also a much-expanded stable, but the horses only stay here at night.
Their activity area during the day is the third area, which is the newly fenced-off area. It can even be said that this area was originally created for these horses.
This took dozens of people several days of hard work, but it was worth it.
In addition to the horses playing around here, Meru also trains horses or teaches people how to ride horses.
The horses also have a safe place to run wild.
As usual, after lunch, I would either take a nap with Beth or go out to accompany Bucephalus.
Today, Carl chose the second one, walking aimlessly on the grass holding Bucephalus.
The weather is good today, the sun is bright, and it is already autumn, so the air is less hot and more refreshing.
"Hey, Carl, good lunch, have you eaten?" Telsey greeted him as he walked towards him, holding a sharpened steel bar in his hand.
"I have eaten. Hello, Telsey, it's time for you to eat too." Carl nodded politely in response.
"Yeah, I just changed shifts, and now I'm going to eat."
"Then go ahead and stop talking."
"Well, see you later."
The expansion of the prison area naturally has both advantages and disadvantages. For example, the team that originally patrolled the barbed wire is now responsible for dealing with the zombies lying on the barbed wire.
Now the scope of their responsibility has become much larger. The captain of this team is Tyree, who is always busy.
In addition to the patrol team, there are several guards in several directions. To be honest, with a population of less than 200 people, it seems a little undermanned to occupy such a large area.
But there is no other way, the population can only be absorbed slowly. However, there are fewer and fewer survivors left outside. Except for the incident in Woodbury, the prison population has not grown for some time.
Before they knew it, Carl was leading Bucephalus to the edge of the wire fence. Outside the fence, there were some scattered corpses of zombies.
Such bodies are usually burned, but only once every night.
There was nothing noteworthy. Carl was familiar with everything here. He was just taking a walk with Bucephalus.
Carl patted Bucephalus' neck and said, "You're growing up so fast."
Then Carl was pushed. Carl smiled helplessly and continued to lead Bucephalus and walk along the edge of the wire fence.
Suddenly, Carl stopped, loosened Bucephalus's reins, took a few steps forward, drew his dagger, squatted down, and used the dagger to push aside the grass.
A bloody, skinned dead rat appeared in front of Carl.
Karl frowned slightly, and memories came flooding in like a tide.
It's a small matter, something that doesn't matter whether you care about it or not.
Carl stood up, returned to Bucephalus, patted Bucephalus' body, and said, "Good boy, I won't take you there today. Go find Meru by yourself."
Bucephalus blinked, then lowered his head and nudged Carl's chest, snorted in dissatisfaction, and then turned and left at a leisurely pace.
Carl looked at Bucephalus' back and smiled. Of course, training is needed for Meru. Meru is really good at training horses and understands horses very well.
When Meru first saw Bucephalus, he couldn't help but praise him.
"There aren't many horses that understand human nature so well. I can see the arrogance in its eyes. I'm sure it will be a brave and good horse that is no less brave than Muhammad in the future."
When Karl said Bucephalus' name, Meru's eyes changed again when he looked at Bucephalus. He said,
"The honor of Bucephalus will never be dishonored by you."
For this reason, Carl fell in love with Meru and safely handed Bucephalus over to Meru for training. However, Bucephalus had more freedom than other horses.
After watching Bucephalus leave, Carl continued to walk along the edge of the wire fence, squatting from time to time and pushing aside the grass to take a look.
Not all of them were there, there were just some bloodstains in some places. Carl's face remained calm until he parted the grass again and found that it was not a mouse.
When he saw the corpse of a little chicken, Carl couldn't help but frowned. It was a bit too much.
Originally, this incident just reminded Carl of another thing, but Carl felt that it was still necessary to take care of it, at least to give him a reminder.
Use a dagger to dig a small hole in the ground, put the chicken's body in and bury it.
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