On July 2, 2020, in a rented house in a suburban town far away from City D.
"How can we live like this?"
Looking at the display on his mobile phone showing that the highest temperature today had reached 43 degrees, Jiang Feng, who was shirtless and wearing slippers, couldn't help but sigh deeply. July is the hottest time of the year.
It was already noon, but Jiang Feng had no desire to eat at all. He had already drunk three large cups of iced cola from morning till now. Looking at his round belly, Jiang Feng leaned limply on the chair and stared at the ceiling in a daze, thinking of some things in his past.
It has been more than a month since I fired my boss last month and started living a life of idleness and waiting to die.
Born in the countryside, he finally got admitted to a second-rate university after more than ten years of hard study.
In college, Jiang Feng and several roommates decided to enjoy life in their freshman year, study slowly in their sophomore year, and work together to build a big career after graduation.
But in the end, my freshman year was really over, but I couldn't stop in my sophomore year. It was the prime time of my youth, so how could I waste my time in the endless ocean of knowledge?
So those who play games continue to play games, those who read novels continue to read novels, and those who like anime continue to catch up. As luck would have it, Jiang Feng has all the strengths of everyone, playing games, reading novels, and following anime to arrange his day steadily.
Just like that, four years later, I had nothing but a certificate of completion.
When he finally found a job in a small company, he discovered that his job was nothing more than running errands for the boss, helping his superiors organize documents, and sometimes even having to take the blame for others. His life was simply miserable.
However, while working like this, because the equipment was inexplicably damaged last month, the boss scolded Jiang Feng so badly that he almost cursed his ancestors for eighteen generations.
Jiang Feng was furious. It was hot weather, and he was still fuming. He lashed out at his boss, "Who the hell knows how your equipment went on strike? Who the hell knows how you, with your two or three thousand yuan a month salary, can treat me like a grandson? I'm quitting. I don't want this month's salary. I'll use the rest to buy you a coffin!"
In the end, if someone hadn't stopped them, they would have had to fight.
In order to relieve the depressed emotions, Jiang Feng resigned from his job in a fit of anger. He rented a house in a small suburban town far away from the city and lived the life of a stay-at-home, wanting to completely let himself go.
He has been living his dark life like this until now.
"I'm almost done with the food at home. Let's go buy some food this afternoon." After saying that, he continued to browse the forum, listening to light music, and lazily browsing various web pages.
Suddenly, a news item popped up on the webpage. The camera showed heavy rain pouring down. The rain in the city had risen to more than one meter high. Even the roofs of cars were almost flooded. Crowds of people holding umbrellas and wearing raincoats were fleeing everywhere.
"Tsk tsk, the country has been hit by so many disasters this year! There are floods and droughts everywhere, and the climate is getting weirder and weirder." After reading for a while, Jiang Feng closed the news and sighed in his heart.
However, after seeing this news, Jiang Feng felt that the city was really not very safe. After all, there were too many people and any small problem could lead to a major disaster.
Finally, after thinking about it, he opened the wilderness survival forum he often visited and watched various friends bragging about their rich wilderness survival experience. However, most of them were nonsense. When he had nothing to do, Jiang Feng would also post in the forum.
According to his idea, if he encounters something one day, he can live freely by relying on his excellent "wilderness survival skills". Although he is a otaku, he also has a restless heart.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, a new post appeared on the forum. It began with the impending doomsday, listing various details, such as sudden climate change, restless pigs, cattle, dogs, and rats committing suicide, and so on. One of the messages in the post was quite convincing, urging the public to stockpile food and acquire firearms for self-defense.
Jiang Feng found it amusing; after all, this kind of doomsday talk was commonplace on this forum. Besides, food was fine, but getting guns and ammunition could land you in jail in a matter of seconds.
Sure enough, there was soon a wave of mocking posts, and people started criticizing and engaging in a war of words. Some people also started calling on the administrator to delete the posts.
Within two minutes, the post disappeared, and the farce ended. Jiang Feng felt bored again, so he simply closed the webpage and started watching a movie.
After a very boring movie, the sky suddenly darkened. When Jiang Feng walked to the windowsill to look at the sky, he found that the sky was gloomy and the dark clouds that had not been seen for a long time were beginning to gather.
"Haha, it's finally cool down!" Jiang Feng felt happy looking at the sky. This was really a timely rain for the middle of summer.
"Oh! Oh no, I haven't bought anything yet!" Jiang Feng felt annoyed when he thought that this rain would turn into a flood like other places, so he quickly put on his clothes and went out to buy things.
Fortunately, the market is not far from home, only a few minutes away, and it only requires crossing a main road.
After this round of lockdown, Jiang Feng bought ten kilograms of rice, five kilograms of noodles, a dozen eggs, and two kilograms of pork. The rest was just some vegetables, seasonings, and snacks. These were enough to last him for a long time.
It took more than ten minutes to buy everything, and when he walked back, it had already started to rain sporadically.
"Huh, looks like we'll have to wait for the red light."
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