◎Happy 59th Day: The Rich Class◎
"Do you want to go back to Nanshi?" Chu Buwen asked softly.
Jiang Muyun didn't hesitate at all: "Of course."
She was still waiting to go home and find an excuse to move some clothes and take them to Nanshan to steal ammunition.
Not to mention Chu Buwen.
His secret base is in the western suburbs.
Fortunately, when they left last time, Chu Buwen sealed up the shelter completely, otherwise the shelter dug in the middle of the mountain might have become a reservoir by now.
Jiang Muyun looked up at the sun and said, "When the temperature drops, we won't be the only ones who want to go out."
She, Chu Buwen, Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu, the four of them are free from any ties and can live here for the rest of their lives without moving.
But others are not.
They didn't know the situation of Wang Qingqing and the other three. Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan both had families.
Previously, due to the situation, either the weather was too bad to go out, or the land turned into sea and we couldn't find the way out, so we stayed together and no one mentioned going home.
Wait until the weather outside is a little more normal. Even if you have a lot of belongings and can't move immediately, you can still take some luggage and go home to look for your family.
After everyone cleared all the remaining locusts on the mountain, even the dullest person would have noticed that the temperature was wrong.
After entering the cave, the first thing everyone did was to take off their masks and drink Huoxiang Zhengqi water.
For a moment, Jiang Muyun couldn't tell whether the smell outside was worse or it was more unbearable to stay in the cave.
Zhao Jiahao sighed, "I've been searching all morning and haven't found a single green one. They're all inedible."
Zhao Jiahao suddenly remembered something and looked up at Jiang Muyun, who had left a bag of locusts to feed the chickens. He changed his words and said, "None of them can be eaten by humans."
Wu Xingyue looked at her watch and murmured, "It's almost nine o'clock, and I haven't fainted yet?"
Qin Shiwen took off his mask and hat and fanned himself: "It seems to be a little cooler than before?"
This coolness does not refer to the perceived temperature.
They covered themselves tightly and wore two layers of masks to hold their breath. How could they possibly feel whether it was cool or not?
Qin Shiwen made this judgment because everyone stayed outside until nine o'clock in the morning before someone said they were not feeling well and needed to rest.
Based on the previous temperature, there was no way they could stay outside in the sun for such a long time.
Not even the morning sun could do that.
This is very telling.
Jiang Muyun fanned himself twice. "It's a good thing the temperature is starting to drop. If it keeps getting this hot, I doubt anyone will be able to stay in the cave."
If they didn't live in a cave where the temperature is lower than outside, they wouldn't be able to stand here in one piece.
Judging from how hot it was a few days ago, Jiang Muyun conservatively estimated that the temperature under the sun was around 50 degrees.
The cave is cooler than the outside, and the door blocks the light. Jiang Muyun has measured that if there is no ice, the temperature inside the cave is around 35 degrees. If the cave is deep, the temperature may be even lower.
Living in a cave is probably like enduring the summer in central China without air conditioning. You can get through it if you just hold on.
If you don't live in a cave but in an ordinary residential building, the indoor temperature will be at least 40 degrees Celsius.
Living in an environment of 40 degrees for several months is not something you can just endure or tolerate.
The human body has never been subjected to such a beating and it won't allow it.
Jiang Muyun squinted at the sun outside and said, "If the temperature really drops later, I'm going to go back to Nanshi. What do you think?"
Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu didn't react much to this: "We should go back and take a look, but we can't leave together. After all, there are still so many things on the mountain."
They have a water reservoir, food supplies, and a bunch of daily necessities that they had fished out with great difficulty. It's impossible for them to just throw them away and run away.
Chu Buwen smiled and said, "Then we'll take turns going out, just like when we fished out the things. We'll go back to the mountain to reinstall the traps at night."
Zhao Jiahao kicked the ground with his toes. "Okay, let's take turns going back and leave someone to look after the house. This might become our base camp in the future."
Li Anxuan nodded in agreement.
Jiang Muyun was a little surprised, but she didn't dare to ask.
Jiang Muyun had met Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan in Nanshan before. They said that the government’s attitude was not right when arranging the evacuation of ordinary people.
No one else mentioned it, but Zhao Jiahao took the initiative to talk about it: "Our two families are both in Liu City, living in elevator apartments on high floors, and there are no mountains nearby... Let's go back and take a look."
Liu City is located to the east of Nan City, about 100 kilometers away. There are no mountains near his two homes, and he even lives in an apartment with an elevator, which is not within the military's priority rescue range after heavy rain.
I really can only go back and take a look.
What surprised Jiang Muyun was that Wang Qingqing and the others actually said that they would find time to go back to Nanshi, no matter early or late, depending on when it was convenient for Jiang Muyun and the others.
Perhaps the others' surprise was too obvious, so Wang Qingqing smiled and said, "If we could go home, we would have gone home when the temperature dropped. There's no point in staying in Nanshi with nothing."
Jiang Muyun and others had heard bits and pieces of what kind of life Wang Qingqing and the others had lived before.
But at that time, their friendship was not very close, so they just heard it and didn't delve into it.
But just as Wang Qingqing said.
The four of them were newly graduated young women with little savings. They lost their jobs when the temperature dropped, and have been relying on odd jobs to make ends meet ever since. Their lives have been miserable.
If I could go home, why would I have to endure it alone in Nanshi?
The other three were somewhat dejected. When Zheng Xiang talked about this, his words were the harshest, but his emotions were the calmest.
"If I want to go back to my parents one day, it must be because I want to take advantage of the fact that killing is not illegal now and stab them twice." Zheng Xiang spread his hands.
"My parents divorced and started their own families. They both found me annoying, and my relatives didn't want me either. When I was little, I took turns begging for food from both families. If I felt like I was dying, I'd move to another family. If they refused to let me stay, I'd go to the police station." Zheng Xiang smiled slyly: "My name is Zheng Xiang, and I changed it after I became an adult. My junior high school teacher's surname was Zheng, and she had been secretly supporting me. It's a pity that good people don't live long."
Zheng Xiang and her three companions have lived together day and night for several years without any major conflicts, which has a lot to do with their optimistic and generous personalities.
Their university dormitory was for six people, and the family affairs of the four of them were not known only to each other.
Most people who know about these things think that they are unlucky. Why do all those weird things happen to them?
But Zheng Xiang never thought so, and neither did the other three.
The fact that they were able to get into university and escape was already a case of extreme luck.
It's not because they have a good relationship that all the bad things happen to them. It's because they have similar experiences that they can understand each other and become friends.
Whether bitter or sweet, it is your own experience. Even if the past is a scar, it is a part of yourself and there is nothing shameful about it.
Without those past experiences, they would not be who they are today. They are quite satisfied with their present selves, so they never shy away from talking about the past.
Zheng Xiang spoke lightly, but the lead she had given was enough to make one's scalp tingle. Qin Shiwen wasn't prepared to listen to someone harping on his wounds, so he quickly changed the subject and talked about returning to Nanshi.
After a discussion among the few people, only Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan were ready to leave for a while.
Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen had to go back to the city and then to the western suburbs, which would take quite a long time.
Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu didn't care. Their attitude was similar to that of Wang Qingqing and the others. If they could go back, they would take a look at the residence and collect some supplies.
It doesn’t matter if I can’t go back, I brought all the important things with me anyway.
There is nothing to arrange here. Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan went quite far away, and their time is uncertain, so they are not included.
The remaining Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen formed a group, Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu formed a group, and Wang Qingqing and a group of four took turns returning to Nanshi.
On the fifth day after the locust plague, the outside temperature finally returned to normal.
It is still hot, but it is within the normal high temperature range of summer, which is not enough to cause a healthy person to suffer from heatstroke or sunburn after just a walk outside.
Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan simply packed their luggage, took water, medicine and weapons, and said goodbye to several people early that morning.
Jiang Muyun copied a copy of her map book for the two of them, covering everything from the topographic map to the traffic map, hoping that it would help them avoid getting lost.
After seeing Zhao Jiahao and the other two off, Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen also set off with their bags.
They left all four cubs to board with other people's homes.
If it was after acid rain when animals and plants began to mutate obviously, Jiang Muyun taking Xiaobai out might still be a deterrent, but not many people know about animal mutations now. Xiaobai and Dabai are just pets in the eyes of others. Taking them out in public is like writing the word stupid on your face.
Whether Jiang Muyun wanted to touch the armory or Chu Buwen's shelter, it was not something that could be exposed to others.
So they set out at this time, hoping to get back before most people could react.
It had taken them nearly a whole day to row from Nanshan to the mountain on the outskirts of Yi City, but the walk back didn't take long.
Anyway, the general direction is there. The mountains in the western suburbs are so large and they are not some unknown hills. It is impossible to find the right direction and miss it completely.
The two set out in the morning light at around four o'clock and arrived at the western suburbs of Nanshi before the hottest time of the day.
When they entered the mountains in the western suburbs, Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen separated tacitly.
Chu Buwen thought Jiang Muyun also had a secret warehouse to store supplies. Since Jiang Muyun was not going to tell him, he naturally wouldn't ask.
Jiang Muyun knew about this, and she didn't refute it, so she just took it as her consent.
After all, the supplies she prepared really needed a place to be stored.
Before they parted, Jiang Muyun checked his watch and asked, "See you tomorrow morning at the parking lot at the foot of Nanshan Mountain?"
"No need. We can sleep in the shelter tonight. There are guest rooms in the shelter, which is safer than sleeping outside." Chu Buwen took out a small piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to her: "Didn't I show you the way last time? You should remember the way. When you feel the handle behind the wires at the distribution box, remember to press it in three times and then push it."
Jiang Muyun took the small note, on which was written a code.
Jiang Muyun waved the note in his hand: "Do you trust me so much? Aren't you afraid that I'll raid your house?"
Chu Bu Wen said with a smile: "We are on the same boat, so feel free to copy."
Jiang Muyun waved goodbye to him and said, "Don't mention grasshoppers. I feel sick just thinking about them. Let's see how things go tonight. I have a place to stay."
Thanks to the various scenic spots, big and small, in the western suburbs, even if Jiang Muyun didn't want to take the main road to Nanshan, there were small roads to go around, so he didn't have to waste time climbing over every mountain.
Jiang Muyun didn't know the exact location of the Nanshan Arsenal, but when they left Nanshan, they heard from Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan that it was near the path they were taking.
It was very quiet outside now. There were no trees blocking the view, and no insects or birds chirping. Jiang Muyun could easily tell if there was any other movement around.
There should be people living in the mountains in the western suburbs. Just now, when Jiang Muyun passed by a hill, there was obviously someone staring at her on the hill.
But the other party did not move and had no intention of attacking her. He should be just an ordinary person living here, who was a little wary when he saw her passing by.
Jiang Muyun was wearing a loose camouflage jacket, a hat, a mask, and sunglasses, all of which were normal sun protection equipment. It was difficult to tell his gender just by looking at his appearance.
Jiang Muyun just kept his head down and hurried along the way. He paused for a moment when he stepped on a patch of locust debris.
She lifted her foot and lowered her head, and after moving the debris away from her feet, she saw a patch of brown marks of varying shades.
Jiang Muyun was quite familiar with this kind of mark. It was formed when blood was spilled on the cement floor for too long.
It seems that this is why there are so many locust residues here.
Jiang Muyun looked up and around. Judging from the range of the locust remains, either many people had died here, or someone was performing performance art by deliberately squeezing the blood of several people and smearing it on the ground.
Jiang Muyun pressed down the brim of his hat, took off the safety of the gun he had taken from Chu Buwen, and put it behind his waist.
Nanshan is a paid scenic spot, and there is only one main road leading up the mountain.
When the tsunami hit, the water reached halfway up the mountain. You could just find a small path halfway down the mountain to get down. Now, if you don't want to go by the main road, you can only climb up the mountain.
Fortunately, Nanshan Mountain is not a dangerous peak. Without the shelter of trees, the gravel and loose soil on the mountain have been washed away by the water, so climbing the mountain is not difficult.
Before going up the mountain, Jiang Muyun hid behind a rock and observed with a telescope for a while. He only set off after making sure that no one was watching this place.
It’s hard to say about other places, but Jiang Muyun still remembers the direction they went down the mountain and the path they took.
After wandering in the mountains for a while, Jiang Muyun successfully found a half-repaired road.
When Zhao Jiahao and the others took them down the mountain, they said that the road was newly built and only half of it was built.
Although the end of the road was buried in water at that time, there should not be a second newly built road in a scenic area like Nanshan that has been developed for so many years.
Sure enough, after walking for a while, Jiang Muyun gradually found a sense of familiarity.
The arsenal is around this road. Jiang Muyun thinks the most likely place is where Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan buried the old men who died in the line of duty.
Li Anxuan said that when they buried those people, even their bones could not be put together.
At this point, there is no reason to take them some distance away before burying them.
However, after the locusts moved in, there was no trace of the mounds of earth left around.
Jiang Muyun followed his memory and searched repeatedly around the most likely section of road, and finally found a different color under a stone.
The stone was not small, and Jiang Muyun took a lot of effort to move it away.
The familiar Chinese knot was covered in dust, making its color much darker.
Jiang Muyun smiled and picked up the dusty Huaguo knot: "We are quite destined to be together."
She dusted off the dust on the Huaguo knot and put it into the space.
Jiang Muyun didn't want anyone to know that she had come back, so no matter how destined this Huaguo knot was to be with her, she could only put it into the space and never see the light of day.
Jiang Muyun took Hua Guojie and prepared to leave, but found that the texture of the ground under his feet was wrong.
She stamped her feet again, somewhat uncertainly.
Flat.
This piece of land is indeed flat underneath.
Jiang Muyun looked down at the ground beneath his feet.
There are pieces of rubble half-buried in the soil, and they look no different from the surrounding ones.
But Jiang Muyun, who has been living in the mountains these days, can say with certainty that even if there are places on the mountain covered with soil and look very flat, the feeling of stepping on them is completely different from now.
Jiang Muyun took down the engineer shovel hanging on the bag with his backhand.
The first shovel hit nothing, only lifted up a piece of loose sand mixed with gravel.
Jiang Muyun did not stop and continued to go down along the same path.
After a few shovels, the engineer shovel in Jiang Muyun's hand hit a hard object.
Jiang Muyun shook the engineer shovel back and forth, feeling the shape of the hard object from the tip of the shovel, and Jiang Muyun smiled.
In order to prevent herself from being buried in the sand, and to make less noise when doing bad things, Jiang Muyun collected all the gravel and sand she shoveled out into the space.
When the warehouse door was almost completely exposed and the surrounding area was no longer sand but stone walls, Jiang Muyun stopped.
The sun gradually set and the sky gradually darkened. Jiang Muyun leaned against the edge of the pit and picked up the telescope again to observe the surroundings.
When the last ray of light disappeared, Jiang Muyun relied on the night vision function of the telescope in his hand to scan all the places around him where people might be hiding.
After making sure that no one could notice her actions, Jiang Muyun pressed her hand on the metal door.
Jiang Muyun closed her eyes, and she could clearly perceive the shape of the door in her mind.
It is square and there is no visible crack from the outside. Apart from the exposed part, at least half of its volume is embedded in the mountain wall.
At this level, if someone wants to steal the munitions, the chances of success are higher if they blow up the mountain directly rather than attacking from the door.
But Jiang Muyun has a cheat device.
She could just retract the entire door into the space.
The moment the door was retracted into the space, Jiang Muyun's feet were empty and he fell down.
Jiang Muyun was prepared. He rolled on the ground to relieve the force, stood up, and turned on the flashlight with his palm.
With the faint light coming through his palm, Jiang Muyun closed the door again.
The heavy door firmly separated the inside and outside of the warehouse. Jiang Muyun simply took an emergency light in his hand.
At first glance, the underground space does not seem to be particularly large. The overall shape is a narrow and long oval, with a slight slope from the entrance to the interior, like a big downhill slope.
Unlike the scene Jiang Muyun had imagined of various weapons lined up in rows, perhaps because the military had moved to Nanshan temporarily, half of the warehouse was filled with boxes and the other half was filled with canned oil drums.
Jiang Muyun checked the fuel first.
The tanks were painted white to indicate their types: gasoline and diesel. It must have been the strange temperature difference that had happened before, but there were all sorts of tanks here, even several cans of -50 diesel.
Considering the temperature at the time of the flood, the military did not forget to bring the -50 diesel when they moved. It seems that they were in a lot of trouble after being tormented by Blue Star.
Now all this fuel is cheaper for Jiang Muyun. With this fuel as a guarantee, Jiang Muyun instantly feels that her life has gone from being well-off to being wealthy.
After collecting the fuel, Jiang Muyun began to check the boxes containing ammunition.
Some of them were sealed well, but those placed on the outside had basically been opened, and many boxes were empty. The contents might be on a soldier's person or accidentally washed away by the current.
Jiang Muyun checked all the boxes that had been opened. Most of them were bullets of various calibers. Most of the guns were rifles, but there were also quite a few pistols.
Looking at the large boxes inside the warehouse, Jiang Muyun felt that there should be heavy weapons here as well, but she couldn't recognize the specific models, so she only pried open a few boxes to take a general look.
Jiang Muyun didn't think there would be a day when she would need to use heavy weapons, but she didn't want these things to fall into the hands of others.
She placed her hands on the rows of boxes that looked heavy, and put them all into the space. Not a single bullet was left, and she only put a few boxes of bullets for police pistols in her bag.
Dangerous goods are safest when kept in your own hands
After Jiang Muyun emptied the entire armory, he put away the light and repeated the same trick.
First he put the door into the space, then he climbed up the stone wall lightly, then he released the warehouse door and landed on the door silently.
The first thing Jiang Muyun did after coming out was to take the telescope.
She squatted in the pit and observed with a telescope for a full hour, confirming again that there was nothing unusual around her. Then she climbed out of the pit and piled all the gravel and sand that she had previously collected into the space back into the pit and flattened it.
As for Chu Buwen's suggestion of sleeping in the shelter, Jiang Muyun was really not planning to go.
It was one thing for Chu Buwen to tell her the truth, but using someone else's secret shelter as his own base was a bit too intimate with Jiang Muyun.
Jiang Muyun thought for a while and found a suitable adjective to describe this matter - failing to distinguish between public and private.
Chu Buwen was willing to tell her about the shelter, and in Jiang Muyun's mind, this was out of sincerity in his cooperation.
If one day they needed to enter Chu Buwen's shelter for survival, Jiang Muyun would not refuse, because the content of their cooperation was survival.
But going to Chu Buwen's shelter when there was no disaster or misfortune, in Jiang Muyun's mind, was a personal relationship. Jiang Muyun felt that his personal relationship with Chu Buwen was not that good.
The roads in Nanshan are all flat, unlike the bumpy mountain roads in his hometown. Jiang Muyun can walk on the mountain under the moonlight without turning on a lamp.
Jiang Muyun could have spent the night in the armory, but the warehouse door was in a pit, and she couldn't fill the soil outside without going out.
If someone suddenly came out for a stroll in the middle of the night and discovered the existence of the warehouse, Jiang Muyun would have no choice but to dig his way out of the mountain with his bare hands.
But the arsenal is gone, and there are other warehouses.
At this time, the warehouse left by the military should have been emptied long ago. It shouldn't be a problem for her to find a place to stay for the night... right?
Jiang Muyun retracted his legs that were heading towards the warehouse.
The smell was so strong that Jiang Muyun could smell it from a long distance away, so he didn't even need to see what was going on inside the warehouse.
It is likely that a conflict occurred when moving supplies, leaving corpses in the warehouse. When the locusts came, they were attracted by the corpses and finally rushed in in a swarm.
They couldn't stay in the warehouse, and they probably couldn't stay in the fairy cave where they had previously hidden from the tsunami either.
When the sea of fire passed through the Immortal Cave, many people died. Who could we rely on to collect the bodies at that time?
After so many days, the cave is probably filled with a pile of locust remains, as well as a few hard bones that even the locusts can't chew.
The homeless Jiang Muyun sighed and was too lazy to run down the mountain. He simply found a big rock as a shelter to set up his tent.
This rock is at an angle to the mountain, so it's not very comfortable to sleep on at night, but it's also hard to detect its existence from the outside, so I'll just have to make do with it.
The next day, when Jiang Muyun saw Chu Buwen in the parking lot at the foot of the mountain, Chu Buwen looked a little listless.
Jiang Muyun yawned without thinking too much. She hadn't slept well either. After a long day of traveling yesterday, it was normal to feel a little tired today.
"I'm going home first. Is there any place you want to go?" Jiang Muyun asked while flipping through the map.
Chu Buwen looked over and said, "Let's go look for a bicycle first. If there's one that's still usable, we won't have to walk all the way. We can also take anything we find on the way."
"You are so arrogant, Mr. Chu." Jiang Muyun laughed, but did not object to Chu Buwen's opinion. He just pulled out the gun from his waist and loaded it into his chamber.
Chu Buwen drew his gun and loaded it almost in sync with Jiang Muyun: "I'm just cherishing my life. Two wheels are always faster than two legs."
There are more people than supplies outside now, and the supplies are still far from being completely looted, so no one has been forced into a desperate situation.
Fights over supplies were common, but outright robbery without searching for supplies was relatively rare. Over 90% of these incidents involved the same level of the seven-person group that delivered the package that day.
The more they think killing people at will is a great thing, the more they fear people who are more vicious than themselves.
Being timid and evasive when facing such people will only stimulate the evil thoughts in their hearts.
Making it clear that you are not easy to mess with can actually save you some trouble.
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