Chapter 58 Disaster
November 27th.
Daytime temperature: 17 to 24 degrees Celsius, wind force 3, light rain.
There are about ten days left before the next routine apocalypse mission card is opened.
Since the day when the system announced that the apocalypse disaster was covering G Blue Planet, it has been raining for three consecutive days.
Fortunately, the rain has never been heavy, it is always this kind of drizzle, which stops from time to time, and occasionally the sun will come out for a few hours. Except that the ground is always wet, there is nothing wrong with it.
This made Youxi gradually rule out the idea of a flood apocalypse.
Afterwards, she bought test strips to test the acidity and alkalinity of rainwater. After several tests, the pH value was between 6 and 6.5, and it never dropped below 5.6. It couldn't be better.
Acid rain corrosion and other apocalypse events were gradually ruled out.
In the past few days, she has been paying attention to natural disasters and man-made disasters around the world on the Internet, but many earthquakes, typhoons, rainstorms, and volcanic disasters have already happened. As for building collapses, there are also news reports, but the investigations in various places are different, and they cannot be used as a criterion for judgment.
When the system announced the fact of the apocalyptic disaster that day, she asked the Star House system what the four words "covering" meant. As she expected, covering does not mean that it has already arrived. Just like the last apocalyptic world she visited, there will be a precursor period before the apocalypse officially arrives.
She felt that the huge earthquake in the neighboring island country last month, the tornado at the beginning of the month, and the previous bridge accident could all be attributed to precursors.
So, the question now is, what kind of apocalypse will come on this real planet where she lives?
And how long will this relative peace last?
[Host, when that moment comes, you will naturally know.]
She was not particularly surprised by the system's answer. Some things, you will get used to them slowly. At least this time the system gave her a word, instead of just keeping silent like before. At least
she now knows that the apocalypse will not come quietly, and the movement that she can detect immediately should not be small.
The peaceful world is about to become a thing of the past. You Xi must be resistant in her heart, but no matter how resistant she is, she has to cheer up and accept the facts. Just sighing and resisting are useless and can't help at all.
She has never been a pessimistic person.
No matter what, she is luckier than anyone else on this planet because she has the Star House. Although she has to go through a doomsday mission every month and doesn't know what other doomsdays are waiting for her in the future, it is worth it.
However, given the confidentiality of the Star House, it is not ruled out that there are other people on this planet who are also tied to the Star House. Aren't there many people in Lin Wu's system?
The Star House allows her to prepare a retreat and protect her two most important relatives safely when the disaster strikes.
She does not have big ambitions or prospects, she just hopes to protect her own little home when the wheel of the doomsday rolls over.
So, apart from waking up every morning to browse the Internet for an hour, paying attention to news from all over the world, and observing the situation, she still lives her life as she did before.
After several rounds of stockpiling, the Star House Warehouse has become saturated. Some things that will not expire, such as half a box of gold, diamonds and jade, more than a dozen boxes of clothes and shoes, two generators, sanitary napkins and paper products, sticks, shovels, ropes, climbing tools, car repair tools, spare tires, etc., she moved them into the Star House again, leaving some space in the Star House Warehouse where time has stopped.
She left this space for items unique to peacetime: several latest laptops, tablets and mobile phones with large memory.
The remaining empty spaces were reserved temporarily to prevent the need to decorate the space with local specialties when arriving at the mission world—no, it was to prevent the need to put in items that could not fit in the space…
In addition, some important items and daily necessities in her small apartment were temporarily placed in the Star House through the Star House warehouse.
For example, there was a coffee machine, certificates and trophies of her award-winning works, dozens of picture albums, cameras, tablets, paper books, professional books, jewelry boxes filled with various expensive or inexpensive items, perfumes and lipsticks she had bought before, cosmetics she liked, various beautiful cups and dishes, and all the edible food and drinks in the small apartment…
When she bought the apartment, she decorated every corner very carefully.
Now, there are only some empty furniture left inside, and even these furniture were all selected and purchased by her personally, and each piece is full of memories.
Looking at them now, she can still recall the mood and longing when she first decorated the apartment.
If there was enough space in the Star House Warehouse, she really wanted to put all the things in it.
She thought that she could live here for many years, and if she met a boy she liked and had a relationship, she would have a place to live alone.
But now, the time for a peaceful world is counting down, and no matter how much she likes and longs for it, she can't keep many things.
She originally thought about whether to list the house with an agent, sell it for money, and use the money to stock up.
But later she thought about it and gave up. She has collected so much gold and jade, so this is not a big deal. What's more, the Xingwu warehouse is full now, and Xingwu has placed a lot of things. It's useless for her to have so much money, and there is no place to put the things she bought.
**
At the end of November and the beginning of December, two cross-river bridges in other cities had accidents one after another.
The situation of one bridge was similar to the one experienced by Youxi. The bridge deck collapsed. It was not the end of the working time, and there were not many cars on the bridge deck. There was no stampede when the crowd retreated, but it also caused a wave of panic and chaos.
The problem with the other bridge was the bridge pillar. This situation is more terrible than the accident on the bridge deck, because there is no way to detect it in the first time.
The incident happened at noon. The cracks on the bridge pillars gradually expanded without anyone noticing. The hard reinforced concrete seemed to have osteoporosis. The cracks and vertical gravity eventually broke half of the bridge pillars. Huge concrete blocks fell into the river and almost hit the passing ships.
The people on the boats were stunned by the huge splashes. It took them a while to think of calling the police. After that, the people and cars on the bridge were evacuated in time, and no casualties occurred.
These two cities are a certain distance away from S City. The only thing in common is that they span the same river.
Therefore, in addition to the city’s own investigation team, an expert group was also formed to help, specifically responsible for investigating this matter and sharing data, hoping to find the problem together.
Because of these three bridge accidents, the people who knew about them were panicked and had a psychological shadow on bridges, especially such tall cross-river bridges. They basically avoided them whenever possible, taking detours or choosing to take ferries.
Of course, there are many more people who don't know about this. Even if they see the related hot searches, they just curse it as a shoddy project and that's it.
After all, there are so many unexpected disasters in the world. If you really want to count them, there are disasters of varying degrees happening all over the world every day and every hour. Many things are just not seen. Two days
into December, a big thing happened in the You family.
It is said that You Li and her husband Zhao Hua had a fight in the street. Not only were they watched and filmed by passers-by, but the incident also made the local social news.
That day, You Feng came back and told them that it was not You Li's fault this time. It was Zhao Hua and his mistress who went to a hotel and were caught by You Li, which led to the subsequent events.
Now You Li is clamoring to divorce Zhao Hua and is threatening to kick him out of the house.
You Feng also knew his younger sister's temper. Although she hated Zhao Hua deeply, it was a big deal for people of his generation to ask for divorce in middle age.
He would not blindly persuade You Li to consider the overall situation and not get divorced, but he still hoped that she could think it over before making a decision, and not ask for divorce today and be persuaded to remarry tomorrow.
As long as she made up her mind, it was not an impulsive decision, and she would not go back and forth later, he would not interfere with her marriage.
How could she know that You Li was angry, and she would not listen to You Feng's words even if he stood up like this. She questioned whether he was biased towards Zhao Hua, and said that men were all the same, and whether he was also involved in this matter by helping Zhao Hua like this, and scolded You Feng indiscriminately.
No matter how good-tempered You Feng was, he didn't want to be mad at her, so he stopped trying to persuade her and just left her there and went back.
You Li was You Feng's biological sister. Although Fan Qi didn't like You Li very much, given her personality, she didn't like to do anything that would make her look bad. Anyway, as long as it didn't harm her and You Xi, You Feng would do whatever he wanted and she wouldn't interfere too much.
Fan Qi didn't say much and just put the food on the table to indicate that they were going to eat. These days, the girl is even more exaggerated than before. Not only does she stay at home every day, but she also follows her when she goes out, even if it's to a nearby supermarket to buy some vegetables.
Fan Qi was annoyed by her clinging and asked her why she didn't follow You Feng to the unit when she had so much free time. At least there were a few good young talents in the Metrology Bureau. If they went there, they could at least chat and develop some future possibilities.
You Xi didn't say anything.
The metering bureau where her father works is near her home, a five-minute drive and a twenty-minute walk. You Feng doesn't have any entertainment activities and only goes to work every day.
With her current speed, if something really happens, she can just run over and bring the person back.
On the other hand, Ms. Fan Qi occasionally meets with people from her former residential community for tea, occasionally has a meal with old sisters from the art troupe, and occasionally goes shopping at the mall by herself... If she doesn't follow, sometimes she doesn't know where she is when she goes out.
Fan Qi and You Xi cooked dinner together, spicy pot-fried pork slices, intestines and lungs soup, braised potato shreds, golden soup with fatty beef and enoki mushrooms, and shiitake mushrooms and Chinese cabbage. It was just four simple dishes and one soup, and the family of three ate happily.
While eating dinner, You Xi turned on the TV and switched to the news channel.
When they were halfway through their meal, the news broadcasted a story about an orangutan injuring someone in a local zoo. It was said that the victim was a keeper who had been raising the orangutan for two years. Normally, the orangutan was very close to the keeper, and no one knew why it suddenly attacked and injured someone.
The orangutan that injured someone has been put under temporary supervision, and the keeper was sent to the hospital.
You Feng glanced to the side and talked about something he heard at work today. It was told to him by a colleague in his department.
That colleague had a relative who worked at a chicken farm in the suburbs and was also half a boss. No one knew what had happened to their chicken feed, and this time, two deformed chickens were found among the chicks that broke out of their shells.
This matter really worried them. After all, they didn’t know which batch of feed caused which hens to have problems, and then gave birth to such deformed chickens...
Fan Qi became interested: "What kind of deformed chicken?"
"I heard that it seems to have grown four wings..."
"Four wings!" Fan Qi sighed, "I think we can take the chicken to check. If the chicken is healthy and there is no problem, the chicken with four wings is actually good. Usually we only eat chicken with two wings, but now there are four, how great! Your daughter likes to eat roasted whole wings the most. If the chickens in the market all have four wings in the future, they can be cut and put on a plate directly!"
Youxi: ...
The first reaction was not fear or worry, but to eat. As expected of her mother!
After dinner, Youxi went online to check the news about animals.
There are few such news in China, but there are many in foreign countries, which have happened one after another in the past one or two months.
A large-scale fight broke out among deer in an ecological park in Country M.
The cats in a cat cafe in Country F disappeared collectively.
Thousands of butterflies gathered together in a rainforest in Country B and did not disperse for several days and nights...
They seemed unrelated, and perhaps similar things had happened somewhere before.
But at this juncture, Youxi had to think more.
She took a pen and wrote a few
words on the sketchbook: Plants? Animals? If these were also precursors, she believed that the expert team investigating the bridge problem should have had some clues by now.
If she could get the survey data, she might be able to make her guess more accurate.
But it was still a peaceful time, and she couldn't ignore the law to steal data.
In the middle of the night, she was awakened by a strange sound.
At first, there were only a few occasional sounds coming from far away, and then the sounds got closer, and then the same sounds were heard around her apartment.
Was that... a dog barking?
No, it was indeed a dog barking near her apartment, and although the tone was prolonged, it was audible.
But the first few sounds that came from far away were - wolf howling! ?
But how could there be wolves in the city?
You Xi climbed out of bed, opened the window, leaned half of her head out, and listened carefully again with her ears tilted.
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