Chapter 211 Midnight, When Will the Apocalypse End?
"Brother, try it. The fried locusts taste very good."
Zheng Yan made the recommendation enthusiastically with a sincere expression.
And when he smelled the aroma of fried locusts, Zheng Yan almost drooled.
If these two bowls had not been bought for Meng Ci and Shen Que, he would have eaten them long ago.
Shen Que stopped in front of Meng Ci, then reached into his trouser pocket, actually taking out a plastic bag from his space.
"Thank you very much."
"It's just that there are too many locusts. We can't eat them all at once."
"It's better to put it in your pocket and let us eat it slowly when we get back."
Shen Que only talks more when he is facing Meng Ci or talking about things related to him.
It was the first time that Zheng Yan heard Shen Que talk so much, and coupled with his unpleasant face, he could only obediently pour the locusts into Shen Que's open plastic bag.
"Two brothers, I'm going to go return the bowl first, you guys take your time shopping!" After saying that, Zheng Yan was afraid that Shen Que would hit him, so he ran away quickly.
Meng Ci looked at Chen Que, then at Zheng Yan's hurriedly leaving back, and felt that Chen Que's stern face was sometimes quite useful.
The two exchanged some water and food and went home.
And Shen Que fed two portions of locusts to Eggplant and Eagle.
A few days after the locusts passed, the polar day quietly arrived.
The end of the world has lasted too long, and many people no longer have clocks or other objects to tell time, so they often rely on the rising and setting of the sun to judge the time.
On this day, everyone felt that they had been working in the fields for a long time but had not yet seen the sun set.
At first, everyone thought they had remembered the time wrong, but when they were starving, two hours had passed and the sun was still in the sky.
Finally someone noticed something was wrong.
"Have you noticed that several hours have passed and the sun has not shown any signs of moving?"
"I discovered it a long time ago."
"I thought it was my eyes that were blurry and I was mentally confused and remembered it wrongly!"
"Let's go to the item exchange point and see if there is a clock there."
…
A group of people left the fields and came to the item exchange point. They were all shocked to see that it was already seven o'clock in the afternoon.
"What's going on? It's already past seven o'clock and it's not even dark yet!"
"Damn it, it was polar night before, it can't be polar day now."
"Damn it! How can we live like this?"
…
Because there were so many people, the discussions were noisy and loud, and after hearing the noise, residents who were originally doing other things or resting rushed to the item exchange point.
After seeing the time of the item exchange point, everyone was shocked.
It’s still so bright outside, how come it’s already past seven in the evening?
This is unreasonable. Could it be that some strange natural disaster is coming?
Before, during the locust period, some people heard rumors that the end of the world was created by the country, and no one took it seriously.
After all, at that time, except for the temperature being around 40 degrees, the sunrise and sunset were normal.
Everyone thought that the apocalypse was over and they could live a good life.
Now, hearing that the polar day is coming, many people can’t bear it and feel like they are going to have a mental breakdown.
Residents flocked to the government building at the Xishanye Base and asked them to come out and explain what happened at the end of the world!
"MD, get out here, you guys who don't do anything practical, can you give me accurate information about when the apocalypse will end?"
"You guys can create the apocalypse if you want, but can you please care about the lives of us ordinary people?"
…
Several staff members came out of the government building, holding loudspeakers to comfort people.
But it didn't help at all.
Instead, they picked up the tools in their hands and smashed the government buildings.
Soon, Lu Chen from the military district received the news and brought soldiers over to maintain order.
However, the grief-stricken residents naturally would not listen and continued to do as they pleased.
It was not until Lu Chen took out a gun and fired two shots into the air that the restless crowd calmed down.
Lu Chen picked up the loudspeaker and calmed everyone down.
"The end of the world is a natural disaster. Use your brains to think about it. Can we humans control natural disasters?"
"We are already doing our best to minimize the losses and help everyone overcome the apocalypse."
“No one wants the end of the world to come…”
“After the polar day, the apocalypse may end, or there may be other disasters. Only by working together can we achieve the final victory.”
Lu Chen made some grand remarks and implicitly told everyone that there might be more dangerous disasters in the future.
Over there, armed soldiers had surrounded the residents.
They used a method that was half forced and half persuaded to calm the residents down.
However, when the relevant leaders were seen asking who had smashed the government gate and windows, these residents took advantage of the soldiers' inattention and fled in all directions.
The deputy mayor in front of the town gate, who is also the current top leader of the Xishanye Base, breathed a sigh of relief.
This deputy mayor, who was quite wealthy before the end of the world, now has sunken cheeks. He worked day and night to catch locusts in the past few days, and there is still a hint of blue under his eyes.
"Lu Chen! Thanks to you this time!" Deputy Mayor Hua Jianghai patted Lu Chen on the shoulder, feeling very pleased.
"Mayor Hua, thank you for your praise."
The two exchanged pleasantries and left.
After all, they still have a lot to deal with.
Before leaving, Lu Chen also dispatched several soldiers to guard in front of the government building to prevent any other accidents from happening.
Meng Ci and Shen Que didn't know about this. At this time, they were dealing with things in the fields in the space.
The stalks of wheat, rapeseed, corn and other crops that were cut previously are still in the fields and need to be pulled out one by one before other crops can be planted.
After dealing with the things in the field, the two men began to dig.
"Chen Que, do you think Zheng Yan can find tools for plowing the land?"
Meng Ci pounded his waist and sat on the ground.
Although the temperature in the space was normal, the two men were still sweating profusely due to the exhaustion of digging.
Therefore, Meng Ci remembered that he had seen someone use that kind of machine to plow the land before.
Although Shen Que had good physical strength, he had never plowed the land before, and he didn't know how to do it, and he was very tired.
Hearing this, he nodded repeatedly.
“You can go and ask.”
Meng Ci put down the hoe in his hand, walked to where the drinks were placed, took a glass of iced lemonade, ignored Chen Que's advice, and took a few gulps.
Then he stuffed another cup into Shen Que's mouth.
Chen Que, who usually had no interest in these things, felt his throat roll when he saw the water droplets on the wall of the cup. He took the lemonade, drank it in two gulps, and immediately felt refreshed all over.
This time when entering the space, Meng Ci brought Eggplant and the Eagle in as well.
The eagle suddenly found itself in a strange place and became alert in an instant.
Later, no one knew what Eggplant said to the Eagle, but the two little guys began to play around in the space.
Eggplant also took the eagle to see the sausage that it had hidden outside the box.
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