Chapter 98

"Batteries?" Liu Xiaofeng frowned. "These things are in short supply right now, and may not be easy to replace."

Because there has been no electricity for civilian use, people have had to find various ways to survive.

Solar panels and various energy storage devices have now become the most sought-after commodities. Not only are they difficult to buy, but they are also extremely expensive.

"It doesn't have to be a battery, a high-power power bank will do. Power banks should be easy to replace, right? I remember they were not expensive in the past. If you can find one, buy a few more."

Chen Cong pointed to the food they had just carried up and said, "If there are not enough potatoes, you can exchange them for these food.

Gu Kai and the others are not at home, and we can’t finish all the food. If it’s still not enough, tell me and I’ll find a way.”

Seeing how much importance she attached to this matter, Liu Xiaofeng naturally did not dare to neglect it.

He nodded quickly and agreed, saying that he would go out and inquire about it now.

The other people in the family also sensed something was wrong from these words.

"Xiao Shen, doesn't our home have solar energy? And I remember we still have a few batteries. Is... something going to happen again?" Zhou Ying asked worriedly.

Although the couple have now been employed by the government and are considered formal workers with food rations provided by the state, they still have no idea about the affairs of the upper echelons.

There is no idea of ​​what might happen.

But Zhou Ying and Liu Xiaofeng were both smart people, and they knew that the Shen family they followed were all very capable.

I had already made up my mind to follow closely.

Seeing that Chen Cong had just gone out for such a short while and had come back to talk about the battery issue, I naturally began to worry.

"It's nothing, no need to be so nervous. I'm just worried that it will rain soon and the solar panels will not be very efficient. Besides, how much electricity is enough? It never hurts to save more." Shen Cong explained.

"Ah, it's going to rain? When will it rain?" Zhou Ying was overjoyed after hearing this!

He was so excited that his voice became louder and louder, and for a moment he forgot to ask about the battery.

"It should be soon, my dad said. The old man is good at reading the weather, you know that too.

He said that after the bugs left, the rain would come soon.

I thought we should make some preparations in advance, just in case."

"Yes, yes! What Mr. Gu says is always accurate! I heard from the young soldier in the room over there that it was the old man who predicted the severe drought and the insect plague. He is like a god!" Liu Xiaofeng interrupted.

Zhou Ying also excitedly said, "Not only that, do you remember when the first earthquake happened, it was Xiao Shen and the others who urged us to buy food reserves.

At that time, we were in the community square. If Xiao Shen hadn't reminded you, you would definitely not have thought of coming back the next day to check, and I would not have thought of taking Xiaoyu to the supermarket to shop.

If that were to happen, when a big earthquake comes, our whole family would fall into the cracks."

"Yes, it will never go wrong to follow the old man and Xiao Shen." Liu Xiaofeng sighed again.

The couple sang in unison, and without Chen Cong saying anything, they directly made up the unfinished details for her.

Although when he was at home, he also heard the old man mention that we should be careful of rain after the insects, but at that time his mind was on the insects, and Shi Chen didn't really take it to heart.

Hearing Chen Cong mention the old story again, Shi Chen was just as happy as the first time he heard it.

The little face, tanned by the sun, was full of joy.

Liu Xiaofeng was a straightforward person. Since Chen Cong had said so, he immediately took action.

Instead of taking the potatoes, he put on his tattered bag and left home on his second-hand bicycle.

Although he lost one hand, he adapted quickly and could ride fast and steadily even with one hand.

Several people stood on the roof and watched him quickly leave the community. His movements were quite cool.

"Xiaofeng is really capable." Chen Cong couldn't help but praise him.

"He has been neat and tidy since he was young. He was responsible for the hygiene of our store.

He originally hired a laborer, but he was disgusted by his laborer's sloppiness and made the house look messy, so he later decided to do everything himself.

Zhou Ying responded with a smile.

She was busy with things in her hands, but her eyes followed her husband's back until he completely disappeared from her sight.

It can be seen that the relationship between the two people is really good.

Seeing her like this, Chen Cong couldn't help but think of Gu Kai again, and felt a little restless.

If it were in the past, at least we had a mobile phone and could always find a way to get in touch.

It's really difficult to make a call now.

Liu Tuan said that they will be back in a month at most, so let's wait, wait another month.

Chen Cong comforted himself in his heart.

At the same time, she also made up her mind that if Gu Kai and the others didn't come back by then, she would go find Liu Tuan and have a good talk with them.

In order to divert attention and to start and finish early, Chen Cong started to work with a few people.

The rooftop was too hot, and even though Cancan and Xiaoyu both wanted to come up to help, she stopped them.

She took out a bag of peanuts she brought back from home and gave them to the two little ones, asking them to peel them, and promised to cook braised peanuts for them at noon.

Then he took out a tablet and placed it on the table to play animations for the two of them.

They can watch cartoons and help adults with work at the same time, which calms the two children down immediately.

Seeing that they were no longer making a fuss, Chen Cong, Zhou Ying and Shi Chen went back upstairs.

The work to be done today still mainly depends on Chen Cong. She has to dismantle all the iron nets on the top floor.

The bugs are gone, so there's no point keeping these iron nets.

It’s okay to be exposed to the sun now, but if it rusts after the rain, it will be more trouble than gain.

"I forgot to ask Xiaofeng to buy some more anti-rust paint." Chen Cong felt a little regretful.

"What do you want to buy anti-rust paint for?" Shi Chen was puzzled.

"I want to take back these nets and rebuild them into a tin house. Then if it rains, we won't have to move the vegetables into the house," Shen Cong explained.

When he was living in the community, Chen Cong had thought about building a few tin houses on the roof of his house, but his father refused.

But no matter how she thought about it, she felt that her suggestion was actually a good one.

Since her father doesn't agree, she will do it on her own territory!

Now no one can make any comments.

Having just heard her say that there might be a long rainy season, Shi Chen naturally would not ask such stupid questions as why the vegetables should be kept in the house.

He thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Liu may not be able to buy anti-rust paint, as it is a limited supply product now.

Auntie, let's unpack it first. I'll go to the base in the camp tomorrow to see if they have any. If they do, we can buy some from them."

Because Shi Chen and the old man have been in charge of the formation maintenance work in the entire Beining area, he is now very familiar with the personnel in each base.

Moreover, he is young, has a good personality, and is in charge of important tasks, so people in those units treat him differently.

Not to mention, if the goods are really in limited supply, Shi Chen would be more efficient than Liu Xiaofeng.

The three of them worked together for a whole day to remove all the barbed wire.

This is because the young soldiers come back at night and everyone helps out, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to finish the work in a day.

Perhaps they had received instructions from Captain Liu, so after returning, the young soldiers filled up several large water tanks on the roof used for watering the flowers without saying a word.

They also wanted to fetch water for the family, but were firmly stopped by Shi Chen and the others.

Then the young soldiers helped them put the dismantled barbed wire together, and helped them shovel the soil spread on the ground to dry back into the flower bed.

Chen Cong did not stop them while they were doing these things. After all, if the three of them really had to do these tasks, it would be a bit too much.

Another point is——

The top floor is the top floor of four houses, and what they are doing now is already far more than what two households should do.

Although no one will care about this little thing, having someone to help will really improve efficiency.

Originally, Chen Cong had already prepared to work overtime at night, but before it was completely dark, he had already finished all the work that could be done.

When the little soldiers heard that Chen Cong was going to use his supernatural powers to build a tin house tomorrow, they immediately became excited.

Some of them are in the group's production base, but many of them are in other jobs.

There was no chance to see a psychic using his supernatural powers before.

The reason these young soldiers were chosen to live here is because of their excellent personal conditions.

The group hopes that they can have more contact with formations so that they have the opportunity to stimulate their super powers.

But dozens of days passed and not a single lucky person emerged among them.

Now that they heard that Chen Cong was going to use his supernatural powers, several young soldiers immediately requested to come over to help with the work tomorrow, and some even took the responsibility of applying the anti-rust paint as well.

Seeing the boys' eagerness, Chen Cong had no choice but to agree to let them meet on the top floor at six o'clock tomorrow morning.

You know, she had never thought about getting up so early before!

What Chen Cong didn't expect was that these guys also gave her a big surprise.

When she pushed the door and arrived at the top floor at six o'clock, the guys had not only watered the entire vegetable garden on the roof, but also brought her anti-rust paint.

It turned out that in order not to delay her use of the paint, the young men went back to the camp last night despite the hard work and went back to get the paint.

Such sincerity really leaves one speechless.

In fact, Chen Cong did not make many external movements when she used her supernatural powers. Most of the time, she relied on her thoughts to accomplish it.

It was just like when she weaved those wire meshes. She could skillfully weave them very finely through her mind, and the holes in the middle were so small that not even a bug could crawl in.

But in fact, her hands are not that flexible. If she were asked to braid it with her hands, she would not be able to do it like that.

Faced with the admiring eyes of the young men, Chen Cong had to change his usual habits.

While displaying his super powers, he also explained to them in detail some ways and methods of displaying his super powers. Based on his own experience, he also carefully described some of the changes that the body will experience at various stages when the super powers are stimulated.

At this time, she just casually talked about her own experience, but she didn't know that these words played a crucial role for several of the young soldiers.

The first rain of the year in Bac Ninh City came on October 25th, exactly 20 days after the last insect left.

It has been more than two years since the first earthquake.

When the first drop of rain fell on the ground, the whole city seemed to be paused. It was silent in an instant and everyone was stunned.

Then, no one knew who screamed first, and then everyone went crazy, and the whole earth was boiling!

Everyone screamed, jumped, dropped everything they were doing, rushed out of the house and went outside, looking up to accept the cleansing of the rain.

Everyone was so happy that they didn't know what to do. Many people simply took off their clothes and stood in the rain, letting the rain wash over their bodies.

Although some people have realized that it is wrong and have loudly dissuaded people from going home quickly and not staying in the rain.

But it has been too long since we saw rain. Most importantly, the fear of water shortage that has been suppressed deep in our hearts for too long has made people a little forgetful, and no one will listen to those dissuasions.

Until suddenly a child's cry was heard from the crowd: "Mom, my eyes hurt!"

Then someone else started shouting, "I have water in my eyes! The rain is so blinding!"

"I'm itchy!"

“This rain is yellow!”

…

As the noises grew louder, people were finally awakened from their ecstasy. They then realized that the rain was not the nectar they had thought it was, but was actually poisonous.

"This is acid rain! Run!"

"Ahh, it hurts when the rain hits my body!"

"It's acid rain. It's poisonous!"

The crowd instantly became chaotic.

The more surprised I was at the beginning, the more panic I felt at this moment.

When the government received the notice and came out to evacuate the crowd, most people had already fled and the streets were no longer crowded with people.

Everyone hid under the eaves and in the rooms, looking at the drizzling rain with infinite fear and sadness in their hearts.

Some people were wiping their bodies desperately, some were crying almost to the point of collapse, and more were staring at the drizzle with numb expressions.

Everyone has lost hope for the future due to these disasters that have occurred one after another.

That afternoon, many people suddenly flocked into the hospital, which was already operating at full capacity.

Most of them felt uncomfortable because of the rain.

Most of them suffer from eye pain, throat pain, and skin allergies.

Of course, some symptoms are very serious. People may feel chest tightness, nausea, severe coughing, and vomiting.

Many people who already suffered from lung disease, heart disease or high blood pressure had their conditions aggravated by the sudden acid rain.

Within three days, the death toll from this acid rain reached 103 in Bac Ninh alone.

This number alone does not seem to be a lot, and if compared with the number of deaths in previous earthquakes, it is almost negligible.

But now it has been two years since the earthquake, and people's lives are gradually getting back on track.

Even with the drought, famine, and even insect plagues that followed the earthquake, the death toll in the entire Bac Ninh region has never been so high in a single week.

As soon as this number came out, the whole city fell into panic again.

The government was not prepared for the sudden acid rain.

Although it hasn’t rained for a long time, the air pollution in Bac Ninh is actually not serious.

Even though there have been land subsidence, high-rise building collapses, and even land pollution caused by spraying pesticides.

But first of all, there are no volcanoes here, let alone high pollution sources such as large chemical plants.

So no one expected that acid rain would occur under such circumstances, and there were really no preventive measures at all.

Chen Cong never expected that the rain he had been waiting for for so long would turn out to be acid rain.

At this moment, she could only be thankful that she reacted in time and held back several people at home, preventing them from running to the top floor.

She also didn't realize at the time that rainwater could be corrosive.

She just felt that it hadn’t rained for two years, and the first rain would bring down all the dirt in the air, how dirty it would be!

Because I have a slight obsession with cleanliness, I forced them not to go out. Unexpectedly, I managed to escape a disaster because of this.

Fortunately, the rain did not last long and gradually stopped after three days. People could finally leave their houses and start their lives again.

After going out, everyone realized what kind of disaster this short acid rain had brought to them.

The metal on the outdoor buildings has become mottled due to the erosion of acid rain.

Because the interfaces between electrical wires and street lamps had been corroded, the already few street lamps in the city had become even darker, and the city was once again plunged into semi-darkness.

Some of the vegetables that were snatched back from the mouths of insects were now full of potholes and some were even burned to death.

Land pollution has once again become the biggest problem.

People in government agencies are once again busy and overwhelmed.

Chen Cong and Shi Chen also became busy.

They began to travel back and forth between various planting bases, and started to build greenhouses and add iron roofs.

Do your best to minimize the losses.

The current Chen Cong can no longer make any predictions, as the development of things at this moment is completely contrary to that of the previous life.

In my previous life, it did rain after the insect plague, and it rained for a long time, but it was definitely not acid rain.

She had never even seen what acid rain looked like, let alone knew that it could cause such great harm to people.

There were originally three children living in the building where they lived in Fulin Community. In addition to Cancan and Xiaoyu, there was also a little boy living on the twelfth floor.

The boy was younger than the other two, about three or four years old.

You don’t have to think about how much the children who can survive a natural disaster are cherished by their families. The whole family must have worked together to raise them and provide them with the best things.

But the night before yesterday, the child was gone.

The reason was that the child wanted to go out to play because it was raining, but the adults didn't stop him and took him running around outside for a while.

The rain triggered the child's asthma.

That night, everyone in the building saw the child's mother crying her heart out, and heard her blaming herself over and over again, saying that she had lost her mind and asked why she had brought the child downstairs.

Chen Cong thought that this mother might never forgive herself in her life.

That night, Chen Cong almost did not sleep all night, and went to find Liu Tuan early the next morning.

She applied for the use of a satellite phone for personal reasons, which was rare. She found Wei Yan and asked him to go to her house to ask about everyone's situation.

Fortunately, Wei Yan was in the community at the time, working with experts from the working group to study how to reduce land pollution caused by acid rain.

Wei Yan smiled immediately after receiving her call and said to her: "Don't worry, second sister, no one in our family will be in trouble. Don't you know my aunt? She is so particular!

I heard from my eldest sister that as soon as my aunt knew it was raining outside, she took a rolling pin and sat at the door, saying that she would hit anyone who dared to go out!

Tongtong and Shanshan were so scared that they didn't dare to make a noise. Even my uncle just stood in the room and looked outside, not daring to step out of the door. "

Chen Cong couldn't help but smile when she heard this, thinking that this was something only her mother could do.

Wei Yan didn't even need to explain, Chen Cong understood why her mother did this. She must be like her, disliking the first rain in two years because it was too dirty.

Knowing that his family was fine, Chen Cong felt relieved and was able to start working without distraction.

She couldn't get any news about her husband now, and could only persuade herself in her heart that no news was the best news.

At this time, work became a means for her to reduce her wandering thoughts.

Anyway, whether she was willing or not, they were very busy for a long time afterwards, and she and Shi Chen rarely even went home.

Not only did he have no time to take care of any household matters, he even had to leave Cancan to the care of Zhou Ying and his wife.

Chen Cong and Shi Chen both had the same idea, which was to do as much work as possible in the limited time and try to do better preparations before the rainy season arrives.

The two people often work for a whole day. Sometimes they work during the day and have to travel to the next production base at night.

The two of them were so busy that they were like spinning tops and couldn't even tell how much time had passed.

When they had built a tin house at the base farthest from Bac Ninh, which was also the last stop of their trip, and were preparing to return, a young soldier inadvertently said, "The Chinese New Year is coming soon."

Only then did they realize that it had been more than a month since they came out.

It's almost the end of December, and there are only a few days left until the end of the year.

And Chen Cong then remembered the promise Liu Tuan made to her.

Liu Tuan said that Gu Kai and his team would be away for a maximum of one month and would definitely be back by then.

And now, even if we count from the day he spoke, it has been more than a month.

But what about Gu Kai?

Where are the people?

How come there is no news at all?

Chen Cong suddenly felt a little eager to go home.

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