Chapter 200 There is no unchanging destiny
The temperature has really dropped.
By the afternoon, everyone could sense the sudden change in temperature, either slowly or keenly, without the kitten having to confirm it by tapping the button.
"The temperature has dropped, it's dropped! It's really dropped!" someone shouted excitedly with sweat and a flushed face.
Some people turned around and hugged their loved ones and cried with joy, "The temperature has finally dropped. In two days... can we go home?"
go home?
yes……
When the temperature drops, they no longer have to hide in this hot and humid underground parking lot and live their lives day and night.
They can go home.
Everyone was cheering with joy.
It seems to be true.
Except for the official team that Tang Jin and others are in.
Listening to those people's enthusiastic discussions and expressions, the team members looked at each other and read in each other's eyes the worry about the future and the bitterness about the present.
It's true that the temperature has dropped.
But this also means that bigger and more disasters are about to come.
After the temperature drops, there will be earthquakes, and immediately after the earthquakes, there will be extreme cold and snowstorms. So what happens after the snowstorms...
That was a "future" that even Song Qianyi, who was reborn and had a golden finger, did not know.
It is a fog filled with natural disasters and murderous intentions.
The country can still cope with it now, but what about the future? What about the future? What if more unpredictable and unpreventable natural disasters continue to strike?
Tan Zhaozhao looked at the happy smiles on these people's faces, and for a moment he felt that the world had become extremely abnormal since the moment Song Qianyi appeared. All of this... seemed like an extremely absurd and terrifying dream.
So, will there ever be a day when the nightmare ends?
Or will she and the others suddenly lose their lives one day in this dark nightmare, never to wake up again?
Tan Zhaozhao didn't know.
She only felt the excited voices of the crowd reaching her ears, and all of them turned into a heavy weight pressing on her heart.
She lowered her head, gently stroked the kitten in her arms, and whispered, "Sometimes, isn't ignorance a short-lived and ridiculous happiness?"
What's the use of foresight? Whether it's her, Song Qianyi, or the country, don't they all have to struggle to survive in the continuous natural disasters?
If I had a choice, would I... be like these people, unaware of all this and just enjoy the happiness and relaxation of the moment?
Tan Zhaozhao shook her head rationally, rejecting the naive and weak thoughts in her mind.
She is luckier than many people because she can foresee the future.
At night, the temperature drops more significantly.
Even though it was still very hot, everyone started trying to go outside when night fell.
Tan Zhaozhao did not go out.
She sat at the small desk, holding a pen, and still writing today's diary word by word under the company of the stars.
Over the past two months, the tails of the stars have grown a lot longer.
It no longer looks like a full-month kitten. It has become a little bigger, but it is still a kitten that likes to stick to its mother and stay with her.
When Mom was writing in her diary, Xingxing lay in a corner of the small desk with the tip of its tail hanging down, swaying slowly from side to side in the air.
It didn't look at what was written in its mother's diary.
Instead, he tilted his head and looked at his mother as she lowered her eyes and wrote, with an exceptionally gentle and peaceful expression on her face.
Mom really is like mom.
Xingxing thought quietly in her heart: Mom is the most mother-like human being, a more perfect mother than the one she had imagined in her childish and naive imagination.
But mother's love is carried by two kittens, Xingxing.
If Mom appeared in another apocalypse, would she still love another little zombie star?
No.
Xingxing gently shook the tip of its tail, rested its round little head on its two paws, and stared straight at its mother's profile with its light green cat eyes. The moment the question popped up in its mind, it gave the answer without hesitation.
But the stars are not greedy at all.
When it saw its mother finally put down her pen, it stood up too.
"Meow~"
Want to go out and play.
The kitten raised its paw and pointed outside.
Tan Zhaozhao smiled and gently poked the kitten's forehead, "Don't worry, wait another two hours and mom will take you out. The temperature outside is still a little high now."
Not only outside, but also inside, where else is the temperature lower?
It's just the difference between difficult and even more difficult.
Whenever someone died due to the high temperature, Tan Zhaozhao would secretly give himself and Xingxing a lot of cold water to drink.
In fact, she was very afraid that death would take away the people around her and the kitten in her arms.
She was also afraid that her death would leave the kitten without shelter.
So she was more cautious and afraid of death than anyone else. Even at a moment like now when it was worth relaxing, she would rather wait a little longer and wait two or three hours more patiently than others.
After hearing her arrangement, the kitten, who originally wanted to go out for a look, immediately stopped urging her. Instead, he jumped lightly off the small table and followed her feet to watch her while she made dinner.
It was an extremely simple dinner, consisting of half a bottle of water mixed with a few remaining biscuits and a little milk powder to make a paste.
It’s not terrible, but it’s definitely not delicious either.
Tan Zhaozhao ate this, and Xingxing also ate this with her mother.
Ever since Xingxing started to grow up, the cat and he had been eating these things in the underground parking lot. Sometimes it was biscuits soaked in water, and sometimes it was a small piece of dry and hard bread...
After more than two months, everyone is different from when we first met.
There was no follow-up supply of materials, no fresh vegetables and meat, and even clean drinking water became scarce.
In addition to the heat rising from the high temperature, everyone's head was also shrouded in the shadow of death at any time due to lack of supplies.
The further it got, the more cautious Tan Zhaozhao became.
She was even so cruel as to stop taking Xingxing upstairs to cook for them, because changes in people's complexions were visible to the naked eye. If everyone became thin and haggard, and they were the only ones who remained normal, it would be particularly eye-catching.
Tan Zhaozhao was careful enough and would never write any information that would expose the stockpiled materials even in her diary.
The only thing that was out of the ordinary about her was that she had a cat.
But the stars themselves can dispel some people's little thoughts because they are too mysterious.
So during these two months, Tan Zhaozhao lived a relatively normal and stable life.
She hoped... that this peace and stability could last forever, even if one day she ran out of food and ammunition, no one would be the first to think of her.
Although she also knew that this was just a delusion.
Tan Zhaozhao quietly drank the biscuit paste in the bowl. Although he seemed calm, his mind was actually racing with thoughts.
At any time and in any place, she just wants a stable life.
She couldn't avoid natural disasters, but she hoped that man-made disasters would come later.
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The drop in temperature has caused people to feel uneasy, but overall, it is indeed a good thing for the moment.
The next day after noticing the temperature drop, people started moving out of the underground parking lot one after another.
At the same time, Tang Jin and others who had been almost completely out of touch for the past two months finally resumed communication with their superiors.
The situation outside was more serious than that in Ancheng, because the natural disasters suffered by various urban areas were not the same at the beginning. Before the high temperature, Ancheng had experienced heavy rain for more than 20 days in a row. The underground water storage capacity of the entire city was enough for the only survivors in the city to barely survive the high temperature.
Other cities are not as lucky as Ancheng. Almost three-quarters of the country's area is shrouded in high temperature disasters. Even though the authorities have tried their best to rescue, the number of deaths due to high temperatures and other reasons is still shocking.
"The next earthquake..." Tang Jin looked at Song Qianyi and others, seeming to be hesitant to speak.
He was hesitating whether he should, for the sake of absolute safety, evacuate them and other survivors out of the earthquake range of Ancheng within these few days.
But before he could finish his words, Song Qianyi interrupted and rejected him.
Song Qianyi said firmly: "No, I'm not going anywhere, I'm just staying in this building!"
"...Is the scope limited to this building?" Tan Zhaozhao asked her suddenly.
Song Qianyi was startled, and suddenly realized the hidden meaning in her words. She looked at Tan Zhaozhao in confusion.
Tan Zhaozhao did not dodge or avoid, his expression was gentle and calm. Seeing that she did not answer, he continued: "If the scope is only this building, then I think we should evacuate. After all, there is no unchanging fate. If there is... then the wings of a butterfly cannot fan the storm and will still be easily blown away by a gust of wind."
This statement is absolutely clear.
Song Qianyi suppressed the shock and suspicion in her heart. After her expression changed several times, she gritted her teeth and said, "No, the scope is not this building, but... this is the safest place!"
She thinks it is the safest.
"Why?" This time Bai Yichen asked thoughtfully.
Song Qianyi held her breath for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "Because as far as I know, in most of Ancheng, only this place has the highest terrain, and the main structure of the building is the strongest. No shoddy work was done back then, and it didn't collapse even in a major earthquake."
In the previous life, after the earthquake, the aftermath continued, and the entire Ancheng almost became a dead city, with collapsed buildings everywhere. Tan Zhaozhao fled in panic, and in the end, most of the people who were still alive in Ancheng were concentrated in Chaoyang Community.
Only here, looking at the buildings that did not collapse during the earthquake, can they feel a little reassured.
This community and these buildings have withstood the scouring and soaking of heavy rain and puddles, the high temperature and scorching sun, and the earthquake and its aftermath, until she died in that extreme cold snowstorm... This community still stands here firmly, becoming the only remaining island in the devastated Ancheng.
As she slowly told her story, something flashed through Tan Zhaozhao's mind.
It was like a bolt of thunder suddenly struck her mind, and the bright lightning dispersed all the fog in that instant.
Just as the arc was about to dissipate—
She caught it!!!
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