◎Happy 127th Day: Getting Back on Track◎
Jiang Muyun's first reaction after hearing what Captain Yu said was to look outside the door.
It was pitch black at three o'clock in the afternoon. The heavy rain was accompanied by lightning and thunder. They had to keep their ears open while eating outside, paying attention to the warning post at the transfer station to avoid being trapped here by a sudden flood.
"Going to the capital at this time?" Jiang Muyun's face was a little shocked. "Brother, we've lived to this point, what else can't we get through?"
The cafeteria staff carried trays of food to the group. Captain Yu stepped aside and said with a puzzled look, "It's not like we should go now. We don't know when the flash flood will come. I have to wait until the flash flood passes, right?"
Jiang Muyun picked up a piece of fried shredded carrots with chopsticks, leaned his elbows on the table, and said nothing more.
Having considered everything up to this point, Captain Yu seemed to have planned it carefully, and it didn't seem like he was acting on impulse.
Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen exchanged a glance, and Chu Buwen asked, "Are you planning to go alone? Or with the caravan?"
Captain Yu put the mashed potatoes into his mouth and said in a slurred voice, "I'm not going to join the caravan. I'm going to find someone to form my own team."
Jiang Muyun's hand that was picking up food suddenly stopped.
"Brother, let me confirm with you first. Today's meal wasn't treated by you. The three of us just happened to have a meal together, right?"
Captain Yu just suddenly said that he wanted to treat them to a meal, and now he said that he was going to find someone to form a team and go north. This made it difficult for Jiang Muyun not to think too much.
Jiang Muyun finally had a stable life, and she didn't want to sell herself out for a meal.
Based on Jiang Muyun's understanding of the company commander, she felt that Company Commander Yu would definitely not admit it at this time.
But as long as she insisted on not taking any risks, the two of them would just joke around a few times and the matter would be over.
Although it would be quite disloyal to just give up like this, compared with his life, Jiang Muyun was still willing to give up this little bit of face.
Chu Buwen had the same idea as Jiang Muyun, so he took the initiative and said, "If you send us a team invitation now, we will just pretend we didn't hear anything."
Captain Yu didn't look surprised at all. He smiled at the two of them and said, "Let's talk about it later. Let's eat first. I've been hungry all day. Let's talk after dinner."
Captain Yu was acting very abnormally today, and Jiang Muyun would be lying if he said he wasn't curious.
But they were in the cafeteria right now. There were no customers in the cafeteria, but there were employees sitting behind the window. If there was something important, it would be inconvenient to talk about it here.
Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen weren't particularly hungry to begin with, so they ate a few bites and were done. Captain Yu, on the other hand, had been hungry for a long time, so he wolfed down his food, quickly finishing several dishes.
After eating and drinking his fill, Captain Yu looked much more energetic: "Come on, let's go to your place and talk in detail."
To be honest, Jiang Muyun had a bad feeling at the moment.
The calmer Captain Yu was, the more she felt that he was confident about getting the two of them to join his gang.
Jiang Muyun racked her brains but couldn't figure out how Captain Yu could convince her and Chu Buwen to follow him and take the risk to go north when they had clearly stated that they wanted to stay home safely.
Facts have proved that Captain Yu really did have it.
It’s Professor Chen.
In the past few years that the Nanyi Base has been rooted in the vicinity of Nanshi, in order to support Professor Chen's research, it has searched almost all surrounding universities and known research institutes to get the equipment Professor Chen needs.
However, although there are many universities in Nanshi, it is not a major agricultural province after all, and Professor Chen does not know much about the agricultural research institute in Nanshi.
Scientific research is not something she can achieve results on her own. Even soil research involves more than just agronomy.
Therefore, apart from giving some advice on crop planting and pest control, Professor Chen has made almost no research progress in other areas.
It would have been fine before, but Professor Chen has been doing scientific research all her life, and she knows too well that hard work alone won't produce results, and there are many researchers who cannot produce any decent results in their entire lives.
There are even cases where you are celebrating with joy over the results you have just achieved, but tomorrow you have to face the unfortunate situation of seeing someone else's paper published in a journal.
Professor Chen is already at this age, what else can she be upset about?
But it’s different now.
She had clearly already prepared the soil so that normal crops could be grown.
She clearly knew that the current dilemma could be solved.
As long as the composition of the powder can be analyzed.
She can then identify the key elements that change the soil.
This doesn't require invention, it just requires discovery.
The finished product was right in front of her, and even the research direction was very clear, but she was still limited by the equipment and could not make any progress.
Professor Chen couldn't sleep or eat well.
"I was originally hesitant about whether to tell you this," Captain Yu admitted. "But look at today. Isn't this a coincidence?"
"I don't want to engage in any moral kidnapping. To be honest, I thought about this when we first got Xiaofen, but I never dared to think about it in detail, for fear that one day I would have to make this choice."
That’s true.
The distance from Nanshi to the capital may not be as long as from Xishi to Nanshi, but it is still about a thousand kilometers.
Their lives now are countless times better than those of ordinary survivors.
They are not the ones who will starve to death if they cannot grow food in the fields.
They have nothing better to do than take this risk for someone who has nothing to do with them.
Captain Yu said with some self-mockery, "Professor Chen knew it in her heart, so she didn't even think of telling us at the time."
She simply taught her granddaughter more attentively, and spent several months writing down everything she could think of about crop diseases and planting.
At the same time, he did his best to exercise, secretly packed his luggage, learned various wilderness survival knowledge, and even hid a small hand-gun.
She even prepared a letter asking Captain Yu and Tang An to take care of her little granddaughter Chen Cheng, as well as supplies for them as child support.
Captain Yu squatted at the cave entrance like a scoundrel, all manners gone. He laughed as if he was about to cry as he spoke: "You said she was a little old lady, walking around there with a bag on her back all day. I thought she was just tired of being locked up, but it turns out she's thinking about training herself to become the Tianshan Child-Fairy."
How ridiculous this is.
An ordinary old lady who is over 70 years old and has never done any physical labor in her life actually wanted to run from Nanshi to the capital alone at this time.
"I say, you're a national treasure scientist after all. When the country was still around, they sent dozens of people to protect you, fearing that something might happen to you. Now, look, you're not afraid of being killed halfway."
"Do you know what Professor Chen said?"
"She said, these things in my head are treasures only when they are useful. You protect them, and I have to protect them too. When they are no longer useful, I will be like those survivors who starved to death outside before the rain." Company Commander Yu touched the pocket on his chest, took out a grass stem from it and put it in his mouth.
Professor Chen felt somewhat helpless when he was discovered by Captain Yu, but he still had the same smiling face as before when he spoke.
Professor Chen said, "For me, it doesn't matter whether I die on the way or stay here. If I really go to the capital, I'll be the one who needs to be protected."
"I'm old, and nothing can stop me. This time I just wanted to make this trip because I was unwilling to accept it. But I can't let you get into trouble. You all have good lives, and it's not worth it to make a trip for my ridiculous idea and get hurt."
Professor Chen said: "The lives of all the people in the world depend on me. If I live here peacefully and do not die, then if all the people die, why should I live?"
After hearing this, Captain Yu could only smile bitterly.
He wanted to refute it.
What would it matter even if we could create soil that could be used to grow normal crops?
What if this key element is extremely rare, difficult to obtain, or very expensive, making it impossible to mass-produce and promote it?
What if the soil problem is solved, but the weather continues to deteriorate and agriculture cannot be developed even if there is soil?
How come the lives of all the people in the world depend on her?
Captain Yu had millions of reasons in his mind to persuade Professor Chen not to think so.
But he couldn't say it.
Because Professor Chen said all these words.
Not only did he finish his words, he also advised him to think more about the base and the transit station, and not always think about going out to explore the world.
Professor Chen, this old lady, can be quite stubborn sometimes, and her words almost made Captain Yu angry with her.
Why am I such an unreliable person in your heart?
After all, I was once a Chinese soldier!
Jiang Muyun stood on a large rock at the entrance of the cave, looking at the continuous rain outside, with a wry smile on his face that was almost identical to Captain Yu's.
"Brother Yu, you are really something." Jiang Muyun scratched his frizzy hair in annoyance.
If Captain Yu hadn't brought it up, she would have deliberately blurred the matter and stopped herself from thinking about it.
Not only her, but also Chu Buwen, Zhao Jiahao, Qin Shiwen and others, everyone in the South One Base who knew that Professor Chen could prepare soil suitable for planting, everyone knew how many people could be saved if this matter could be studied thoroughly.
But no one dared to mention it.
No one even dared to think about it.
Including the large caravans in the late apocalypse that Jiang Muyun had encountered in his previous life, no one would run so far even if there were huge profits dangling in front of them - the bandits who enslaved a few small bases on the road to use as supply stations and then half-robbed and half-traded along the way did not count.
Jiang Muyun swore that she had never been so embarrassed in her two lifetimes.
Captain Yu smiled and said, "It's okay. This is a personal invitation from me. You can take your time to think about it. I just thought that in today's world, it's better to bring dogs than people, so the people I contacted are basically people who raise mutant animals. To be honest, no one has accepted my invitation, and many people have told me to get out. I'm quite happy that you two didn't ask me to get out."
After seeing off Captain Yu, Jiang Muyun was stunned for a while.
"What do you think is the current situation in the capital?" Jiang Muyun suddenly asked.
It is no exaggeration to say that West City and the capital are located at the two ends of China, while South City is right in the middle.
Jiang Muyun didn't meet anyone from the capital on the way from West City to South City, or maybe she did but she didn't communicate with them, so she didn't know what the current situation in the capital was.
But it is the capital of a country after all.
It is no exaggeration to say that the buildings hidden underground in the capital can withstand even a nuclear bomb plowing the land.
As long as the continent has not fallen apart and the land where the capital is located has not sunk into the sea, these places will most likely be preserved intact.
Putting aside special circumstances such as high-risk biochemical laboratories that must be located in remote areas, the capital is indeed the only place Professor Chen can think of that might meet all her needs.
"The road is very dangerous." Chu Buwen answered the question irrelevantly.
But when Jiang Muyun asked this question, he knew that Jiang Muyun was really persuaded.
What the situation in the capital is no longer important to Jiang Muyun.
Just like Captain Yu said, even if it's only a one in ten thousand chance.
Chu Buwen handed the Dabai in his arms to Jiang Muyun. Jiang Muyun stroked Dabai's sleek fur and unconsciously said, "Compared to what we did before?"
The straight-line distance from Nanshi to the capital is nearly one thousand kilometers.
If you really go further, you can only go further.
How difficult is it to walk more than a thousand kilometers in this world?
Just look at the ten years between Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen in their previous lives and you will know.
Yes, they were unlucky. They couldn't even find a bicycle on the road and could only travel on foot. They didn't even have a map. If they went astray, it might take them a year to get back on the right track.
After all, the time they can travel outside is only the ten days or so during the new spring when plants and animals are everywhere. If they are delayed, they will have to wait until the next new spring. If they are slow on the road, they may delay the whole year.
If they were in their current conditions, the road would not only be filled with motor vehicles, but there would always be a few bicycles for transportation. If they encountered sand, they could let Xiaobai lead the team and run as fast as they could.
Moreover, they must have sufficient supplies. They can spend all the time they can on the road. If they run out of food and water, they can go to a nearby base to exchange them instead of spending time stockpiling them. Their travel speed is much faster than in their previous lives.
Jiang Muyun raised his head and let out a long sigh.
From the various rules and regulations established at the transfer station, it can be seen that Captain Yu is a bit ruthless in some aspects, and he is not a good person in the traditional sense.
But it is undeniable that this person has never made any mistakes when it comes to justice.
From risking his life to protect Professor Chen's grandson and his family all the way from Hai City back to Nan City, to considering the safety of the base members, he gave up the early excavation of Xiaofen that would bring huge benefits to the Nanyi Base and took the initiative to postpone the excavation of Xiaofen.
A person who is usually sophisticated and smooth, but can always show a youthful spirit at times like this.
But Captain Yu was not the only one who was impressed by Professor Chen's childish plan.
Jiang Muyun jumped off the rock and breathed a sigh of relief. "I never thought that after all these years, we would have to start our journey again."
She really didn't think of being a savior.
But when an opportunity to save millions of people was placed in front of her, she couldn't just walk away without looking back and pretend she didn't see it.
Before the apocalypse, she didn't dare give a warning about the natural disaster because if she showed any signs, the rebirth would be impossible to hide from the country. And if her prediction really came true, then the existence of the reborn would be difficult to hide from the world.
The war will definitely break out before the end of the world planned by Blue Star for mankind actually comes.
When natural disasters and man-made disasters strike at the same time, the number of deaths will definitely be more than it is now.
Jiang Muyun knew that what she did was right, but if she asked herself, did she really not feel guilty even for a moment?
Actually, there are.
People are so twisted. They know they have done nothing wrong intellectually, but they just can't get over the emotional barrier.
So when faced with the company commander's invitation, she hesitated.
She knew there was no comparison between the two things, but she couldn't help but ask herself.
If I say no, will I feel guilty again?
Jiang Muyun thought, she would.
The lives of all the people in the world depend on me. If I live here peacefully and survive, and all the people die, why should I live?
The author has something to say:
Note 1: Adapted from "History of the Song Dynasty: Biography of Tang Zhen", the original text is "The lives of the people in the city all depend on me. If I listen to you and can avoid death, but the people in the city die, how can I face death?" The general meaning is: The lives of the people in the city all depend on me. If I listen to you and can avoid death, but the people in the city die, how can I face death?
I’m afraid that everyone has forgotten the plot because it’s been too long, so the reason why we can’t report to the country before the end of the world is explained in detail in Chapter 46.
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