Qiao Xuejun originally wanted to go up and find the location to connect the water pipe, but now this is definitely not possible.
Are these two people here for the potatoes?
The shirtless young man asked again: "Then shout, he doesn't seem to be home."
As he spoke, he began to shout in the yard: "Qiao Xiaomei! Qiao Xiaomei! Buy some potatoes, can't you stay at home?"
So I wanted to buy it.
If Qiao Xuejun had extra, she would be happy to earn the money, but she didn't have any now. She didn't even have enough potatoes to trade for land, so how could she have any extra to give to others?
There was no response. The two men who had been staying in the yard started to move. The shirtless man walked to the small building and looked inside through the window.
"No one's home." He looked for a while and said.
The old man with the basket on his back walked around the house and said, "Let's see where she put the potatoes. I'll pick up a basket and take it home. When she comes, I'll return the money to her."
Qiao Xuejun: ...You think of taking it away when the owner is not home, isn't that stealing? Are you so self-righteous?
The shirtless man said, "Okay, let's go look for it, otherwise the pigs at home will starve to death. The logistics are non-stop, and the pig feed I bought online has not arrived yet. I can't wait."
So the two grown men walked around the yard looking for it, but of course they didn't find it.
"Could it be in the house?" said the old man with the basket on his back.
The shirtless man pushed the door open without saying a word, but when the Qiao family left that day, they closed the door, so it was not pushed open.
The old man with the basket on his back said, "Old Qiao clearly said that his granddaughter was at home and told us to just come in. Why is there no one here?"
It was Old Deng from the Qiao family again. She said that although it was close to the end of the world, it had not yet reached that point, so how could someone break into the house so openly?
The shirtless man failed to push open the door, but he suddenly had an idea and pushed open the window. The window was not closed tightly and was also pushed open. The man climbed into the house through the window.
Looking at this scene, Qiao Xuejun couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Now that everyone is not out of ammunition and food, some people have forced their way into her house to search for supplies in order to feed the pigs. If they are really desperate, what will these people do? Will they do whatever it takes to find her? After all, the whole town knows that she has so many potatoes.
For the first time, Qiao Xuejun felt the urgency and necessity of upgrading the shelter.
The small building was not big, with only two floors, and it was empty with little furniture. The two men quickly determined that there was nothing in the house, let alone potatoes.
So the two of them came out of the house.
The shirtless man closed the door, but suddenly paused: "Is there a cellar under this house? Are the potatoes stored in the cellar?"
Hearing this, Qiao Xuejun's heart began to rise. Would he be discovered?
The man with the basket on his back waved his hand and said, "No, this house was built decades ago. I was a bricklayer at the time. If there was a cellar, I would definitely know it. His house doesn't have a cellar."
The shirtless man gave up: "Forget it, I guess it's really sold. Let's go to other places to see if there is any pig feed."
Only after the two men walked out did Qiao Xuejun breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they did not really come to check whether there was a cellar.
Qiao Xuejun: "System, pay attention, if anyone approaches here, be sure to alert me."
She planned to connect the water pipe.
Qiao Xuejun spent a day to finalize the plan for connecting the water pipes, choosing a route that required the least construction. It took several more days to lead the water pipes from the original route to the underground shelter, and the route was all obvious. It was quite ugly, but very convenient.
On the 15th day, when the potatoes were in the seedling stage, Qiao Xuejun watered the potatoes as he wished.
But during the few days when she was busy, the situation outside was completely different, and the high temperature disaster was obviously more serious.
Qiao Xuejun saw on the Internet that deaths from heat stroke were becoming more and more frequent, and almost all work and production were forced to stop. Experts and professors came out to explain the causes of the extreme high temperatures and called on the public to use electricity scientifically.
The power outage caused the death of a large number of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep on the farms. There were rumors that many people were guarding the incinerators that handled the heat-killed chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and they took the heat-killed animals home to slaughter and eat. Due to the short-term shortage of supplies caused by the hoarding rush, there were quite a few people picking up the corpses.
Experts and scholars have called on the public not to pick up these animal carcasses because, in addition to the majority of animals that died from heat, some also died of disease. If people pick up the carcasses of diseased animals and eat them, they will also get sick.
But there are still people who do what they want to do, and they still pick up what they want to pick up - after all, they don't eat it themselves, but they can process it for others to eat, and the food can also be sold at this time. There are even some elderly people near the farms who know that the animals died of heat stroke, and such animals are not sick, so it won't be a big problem to eat them. It would be a pity if these healthy animals were to be incinerated.
So some people still go to the incinerator to pick up these animal carcasses.
[Fuck, this is something that people can eat? I will never go out to eat again.]
[I can’t help it. I live nearby. My old man wanted to go out and pick up the food, but I persuaded him not to. I can’t help it. He really thinks it’s a waste and told me that they ate everything fifty years ago.]
[When will the temperature drop? It's only early April and it's already so hot. It's incredible. Do we have to wait until summer is over before it cools down? ]
[I watch the weather forecast every day, but the reports say it's getting hotter every day, and it's even 48 degrees. What the hell is going on? Is this Earth?]
[Work has stopped. Our company has delayed paying our salaries this month. I am desperate. I am going to stop paying my mortgage and car loans.]
【……】
Qiao Xuejun was reading netizens’ comments, but suddenly it started loading in circles and no more comments could be loaded.
No signal?
Qiao Xuejun: "Xiaotong? Is the signal bad here underground?"
System: "No, host, there is something wrong with this base station. Because of the nearby wildfire, the base station has been paralyzed."
Qiao Xuejun: "Wildfire?"
System: "It was caused by the high temperature. The forest was dry and caught fire spontaneously."
After a few hours, the signal was restored. Qiao Xuejun checked the local news and found that there was a wildfire nearby. Although it was quickly put out by firefighters, it affected nearby base stations and caused network disconnection.
After the network signal was restored, the online comments became more impatient and panic.
[The end of the world is not really coming, right? There are so many wildfires, it's like God has set fire to the world. ]
[The temperature is so high, the glaciers in Antarctica are going to melt again, please save the penguins. ]
[I have been at home for a week and I want to go out! I want to go out! When will the temperature drop? @National Weather Forecast]
[I want to stock up on some more stuff. I have a bad feeling that the temperature won’t drop anytime soon.]
[No, I heard that someone got mad cow disease because he picked up a dead cow and ate it at home...]
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