Chapter 651: Can’t Just Sit and Wait
Daji seemed to be hesitant to speak before leaving, but he left after all. Jingshu secretly took note of this person.
Jin Baba looked at Jingshu with disdain. He couldn't understand why his uncle valued Jingshu so much. In the past, his uncle clearly looked down on Jingshu: she was just a young girl, no need to take her seriously.
This was Junjia’s previous evaluation of Jingshu.
The truck was parked safely on Li Yuetian's property. The driver stood guard with full alertness. Jun Jia finally spoke: "The situation is serious. We must save ourselves. This is not a solution."
"I'll do whatever you say."
Jingshu nodded. The situation was certainly serious. Just think about how the building had been floating in the mudslide for days. Without GPS or a location, even she herself didn't know where she was! For the search and rescue team to find them would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
I don’t know how her family is doing. They must be extremely worried when they heard the news of her disappearance!
Jun Jia sighed, his face full of worry. He used to live a life of luxury, but now he seemed to have aged a lot in the past few days. He even had a lot more white hair, and his once fat and fair face had turned into a thin and dark one.
"We're planning on using your insect cakes. We've already searched the building for any possible food caches today. As you can see, even with some more green algae, it won't sustain over 2,000 people for long. Right now, we can only passively wait for rescue, and we don't know how long that will take..."
There is a high possibility that they will starve to death before being rescued.”
Jing Shu touched her chin and pointed at the soil in the ground and said, "If all else fails, you can mix the worm cakes with the soil. This will delay the process for a while. Even if the worm cakes are all gone, you can still eat the soil."
What is worth being proud of is that Jingshu's insect cakes are made of pure meat cakes made by cooking chopped insects and adding salt. This is considered a high-standard pure meat cake in the apocalypse.
Add the insect cakes to the soup and you will have a fragrant broth.
Jun Jia shook his head. "The soil from the debris flow here has some evil properties. We originally didn't want to use your insect cakes. We also found a chef and asked him to make some earth cakes and bake them like they do in Wucheng... We found ten volunteers to test it, but the soil here is too sticky.
Even if it's filtered more than a dozen times, the earth cakes made with the finest soil are not digestible at all. Some people died after eating three meals, and some people's stomachs almost burst after eating one meal. So I'm afraid the earth cakes are no longer edible."
In fact, if we calculate by time, the soil in most parts of Wucheng should be frozen due to the weather. It is now much more difficult to make earthen cakes that were easy to make in the past, but at least it will not cause people to die from eating one meal.
In fact, if you eat too much earth cakes, you will have a big belly, because there are more or less indigestible elements in them. In the end times, you can see many skinny people with big bellies, because they eat too much earth.
But in the future, we may not even be able to eat soil, because the cold winter is coming.
"I understand. The insect cakes are our last food. Once we use them, we have to think of a backup plan. We can't just sit there and wait to die. Once we finish eating the insect cakes, it's really over." Jingshu said calmly, understanding the purpose of Junjia calling her here today.
Jun Jia glanced at Jing Shu with admiration and sighed, "I never thought that more than two thousand of us would have to rely on your insect cakes to save our lives. Although the insect cakes are enough for us to eat for a month or two, we really can't just sit there and wait for death. Besides, we're almost out of fuel. In such cold weather, it's easy to freeze to death."
"Does Boss Lu have any backup plan?" Jingshu finally asked curiously.
There was silence all around, and Jin Baba snorted even more disdainfully.
"We can't push him too hard. I heard he has an armory filled with banned weapons, food, and weapons. It would be bad if they turned against each other. Our goal now is the same. As long as we don't wait until we are almost starving to death, we should all be at peace. Today I asked people to plunder everyone's food, which can be regarded as a way to reassure him." Jun Jia explained to Jing Shu.
An armory? Jingshu was a little curious, just a little bit.
"Then what should we do next?" Jingshu asked the most crucial question.
"We gathered people, experts in various fields, ship repair people, whether they had experience or theoretical knowledge, and we either tried to stop the building or make it move in the direction we wanted.
We must at least be sure of where we are now, or where we are going.”
The last trace of red light in the gray sky disappeared, and the sky became completely dark. A cold wind blew by. Jingshu wrapped her cotton jacket tightly and nodded involuntarily. Junjia was right. It was time to take action.
"It's getting dark."
Jingshu said, but she could see the surrounding scenery clearly, which was still the same, as if she had entered the black sea in endless mode, drifting endlessly, with no end in sight and no destination to which she would drift.
This place is not even an isolated island.
"Do you need to tell me that?" Jin Baba snorted unconvincedly. This woman was increasingly valued by his uncle, but he always felt that she wasn't that great.
Jun Jia glared at Jin Baba and said, "Baba, how can you talk like that? From now on, I have to entrust you to Jing girl. Apologize quickly."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Jin Baba said reluctantly.
Jun Jia turned around and asked kindly, "It's dark. The sky has always been dark. Since the end of the world, the sun has never appeared. Isn't this normal?"
Jingshu shook her head: "It's different."
Perhaps because she can see the scenery outside clearly, she has the ability of night vision, so she can better sense the weather.
"Why is it different?" Jun Jia seemed to realize that Jing Shu wanted to express some insights.
“Even if the end of the world comes and there is no sun, the earth will still rotate.
There will still be dark nights with plummeting temperatures, and dim days with faint glimmers of light.”
Junjia nodded, so he could still tell whether it was day or night.
Jingshu took out a small notebook and handed it to Junjia: "This is the time of dawn, daytime temperature, dusk, and nighttime temperature that I have recorded every day since we were trapped."
The notebook contains the detailed date, temperature from morning to night, as well as the time of dawn and dusk.
Junjia frowned.
Jin Baba frowned.
Jun Jia glanced at it and said awkwardly, "Jing girl, just tell me directly. I... don't really understand these things."
Jingshu smiled and said, "Every region has a time difference. For example, there's a two-and-a-half-hour time difference between the Imperial Capital and our Wucheng. This is due to geographical reasons. If we really were driving at 30 kilometers per hour, how far would we have traveled after more than ten days?"
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