Chapter 269: Floating City Relocation
When the old man heard what Chen Peiqiong said, he said, "Xiao Pei, is this really your friend?"
Chen Peiqiong nodded, "Uncle Fei, this is Xia Xiaoman who often buys wild vegetables from me. Xiaoman, this is Uncle Fei. Some of the wild vegetables you bought were picked by him."
Uncle Fei looked Xia Xiaoman up and down and muttered, "He is such a rich man that he even dares to raise wolves. He is not afraid of them eating him into poverty."
Maodan seemed to understand what the old man was saying and bared his teeth and snorted at him.
Uncle Fei was not angry at all. He smiled and said, "This wolf is good and smart." Then he threw the biscuit he had just cheated back to Xia Xiaoman and said, "Take it back! Since you are Xiao Pei's friend, I won't charge you for the consultation fee."
"What consultation fee?" Chen Peiqiong asked puzzledly.
"Nothing." It's better not to mention the embarrassing thing. Xia Xiaoman changed the subject and said, "I have something to ask you. See if it's convenient now. If it's not convenient, I can come to you after you get off work."
Chen Peiqiong said, "Wait a minute, I'll be off work in 20 minutes. The people above are in a hurry to plant the crops, so they're keeping a close eye on me."
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The weather was very hot, Xia Xiaoman's cheeks were sunburned red, and sweat was pouring down like a waterfall. Maodan was also overwhelmed by the heat, sticking out his tongue and panting.
The sun was hanging high in the sky, and there was no place nearby to provide shade. Xia Xiaoman searched in the space for a while, found a worn-out umbrella, and took it out from her backpack.
She found a place nearby and sat on the ground with an umbrella, while Maodan lay beside her, looking a little listless.
Seeing that it was too hot, Xia Xiaoman secretly stuffed an ice cube into its mouth. With the ice cube in his mouth, Maodan felt a little more energetic.
After waiting for more than 20 minutes, Chen Peiqiong came over with a plastic box. She sat next to Xia Xiaoman, opened the plastic box, ate the porridge inside and asked, "Xiaoman, where have you been all this time? When the whole city was relocated, I wanted to find you but couldn't find you."
"I saw so many people died in the earthquake, and it rained again. I was worried that there would be a plague after the rain stopped, so I brought Maodan into the mountains. During this time, Maodan has been catching steel-toothed rabbits to feed me."
As soon as Xia Xiaoman finished speaking, Chen Peiqiong said admiringly: "You really got it right. After the rain, a plague really broke out in Fucheng."
After the earthquake, the floating city suffered countless casualties, and the military lacked medical care and supplies. They sent out all the people who could move, some to rescue others, some to dig for supplies, and they were so busy that one person almost worked as two people. There was no time to deal with the bodies, and there was not enough wood to burn the bodies.
The corpse had been exposed to the sun for seven or eight days and had begun to rot. After the rain and exposure to the sun again, the rot became even worse. Every place in the floating city was filled with a strong stench of corpses.
In such a dirty and messy environment, someone was infected with the plague. The plague spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and soon more and more people were infected with the plague.
After many discussions, the military finally decided to abandon the land and take all the survivors away from the floating city to the suburbs or even further away.
The city had become a ruin, and even if there was no plague, it would be very difficult for them to rebuild their homes on this ruin. It would be better to leave the city, which would not only keep them away from the plague, but also allow them to immediately grow a new batch of food and build houses.
"The day after we moved here, a planting area was planned. I am a long-time employee in the planting area. When I heard that the planting area was recruiting, I came here to apply. I started working on the day I applied, and I have been working for seven or eight days now."
Xia Xiaoman was not interested in this. She was more worried about another problem. "If you move here, what about the people infected with the plague? Have they moved here too?"
Chen Peiqiong nodded, "People infected with the plague have also been moved here, but don't worry, they are all locked up separately, a few hundred meters away from the station. No one except medical staff can get close."
Xia Xiaoman felt a little relieved after hearing this, "So are you planning to live here forever?"
Chen Peiqiong hummed, "Someone up there has explored the area nearby and found a place suitable for building an underground city. They plan to start arranging people to build an underground city after everyone has recovered."
Xia Xiaoman blinked, "Are they planning to build an underground city?"
Chen Peiqiong nodded, "Yes! It says that the underground city may be our last habitat. If we don't build the underground city, we may all become extinct in the future."
"I heard that the higher-ups are planning to wait until the plague is over before sending people back to the ruins to clean out the steel bars and cement, and store them for use in building the underground city in the future."
"If this news is true, I plan to go back and find steel bars and iron sheets to sell to the trading point. This will not only earn me some supplies, but also allow them to collect materials for building the dungeon as soon as possible."
Xia Xiaoman heard this and checked the supplies in the space. She didn't find any construction materials, but there were some items like shelves and iron pipes, and she didn't know if the trading point would accept them.
"Have you eaten yet? Do you want me to ask the cafeteria for a bowl of porridge for you? But after you eat, you have to help with the work. A bowl of porridge is equivalent to half a day's salary."
Xia Xiaoman came back to her senses after hearing what Chen Peiqiong said, and waved her hand, "No, I have something to eat." Then, she looked at the dark brown paste in Chen Peiqiong's hand and asked, "What is your paste made of? Why is the color so weird?"
"I don't know. These pastes are all made by the official canteen. The canteen gets whatever ingredients, grinds them up, pours them into water and salt and boils them. Sometimes if you're lucky, you get potato paste, and sometimes it's just some random stuff mixed together."
Supplies were scarce, and it was good to have something to eat. The official canteen only had to make sure the porridge they cooked was filling and had enough water and salt. They were not responsible for the taste or anything else.
Xia Xiaoman was puzzled when she heard this. "Didn't the planting area harvest a new batch of grain before the earthquake? How could they be so poor?"
"We just harvested a new batch of grain, but our floating city has a large population, and the grain was gone in half a month."
There were more than 10 million people in Fucheng before the natural disaster. Before moving out of Fucheng, the authorities sent people to count the number of people, and there were still more than 2 million people left.
In the ten days after the earthquake, the people above were busy rescuing people, and all they ate was the newly harvested food. The food could only last for half a month, and now there was no new food, so all they ate was the supplies dug out from the ruins.
Xia Xiaoman felt heavy-hearted when he heard this. No wonder they were so anxious to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land. It turned out that they had reached the end of their rope.
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