With the help of nurse Deng Yuanyuan, Chen Ke and the others, who had been trapped in the supermarket for three days and three nights without any water or food, were finally out of danger.
Upon seeing everyone again, several people couldn't help but shed tears, and the scene was filled with sobs, which made Xiao Shan wipe away her tears as well.
They all knew that the reason they were able to withstand the attack by the refugees was entirely due to Lu Yuan. If it weren't for Lu Yuan, it would be good if half of the people on site survived.
With the help of others, Song managed to throw all the corpses in front of his house into the field and burn them.
In order to find out exactly how many people were left in Zone 3, Chen Ke specifically kicked out all the people who didn't respond from the group chat. Now there are 32 people left in the group chat.
After inquiring, it was found that, including some elderly people and children without mobile phones, there were only 55 people left in the entire Zone 3. The Zone 3, which originally had more than 300 people, has been reduced to just over 50 people in less than a year, which is quite remarkable.
Despite this experience, several families still decided to flee the famine, as they could no longer endure living in constant fear.
The next day, people were still queuing up at the supermarket at the main intersection to collect water. The supermarket owner had informed the water distribution personnel about the refugees the day before, and they said that water would be supplied normally that day.
A group of more than ten people walked and cried as they said goodbye to the people in line. They clearly did not want to leave, but they had no choice.
No news came back from those who went out, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive, but this still could not stop the people's belief in surviving in the East China Sea.
Lu Yuan waved goodbye to everyone else, but this goodbye might mean never seeing them again.
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As the year drew to a close, with Lu Yuan's help, the remaining thirty-odd people finally survived the first year of the apocalypse. Lu Yuan did not tell them that the seeds he gave them were brought from a dimensional space. Instead, he said that these things were nutrient solutions. In fact, the nutrient solutions had already been used up, but Lu Yuan added some dye to some water and gave it to them as nutrient solutions.
The reason I'm risking exposure to help these people at this time is because Lu Yuan needs their help. Actually, this story goes back to a news story from some time ago.
The family was enjoying a pleasant dinner and getting ready to rest when a news report on television suddenly caught everyone's attention.
Although television is filled with all sorts of true and false news every day, making it difficult to distinguish what is real and what is fake, Lu Yuan knows which is real and which is fake.
For example, according to relevant meteorological departments, the average temperature in China has dropped recently. Experts analyzed that this is because the prolonged high temperatures have caused a large amount of water to evaporate into the sky, resulting in thicker cloud cover. The high temperatures are expected to return to normal in the next few months.
This news is certainly true, but the expert's analysis is utter nonsense. The high temperatures have lasted for more than half a year. If the temperature were going to drop, it would have dropped long ago, not after more than half a year. Clearly, this is just trying to fool some people who lack common sense.
Of course, there are some real ones, such as: due to the influence of global climate, the long-term high temperature has caused the glaciers in the Arctic region to melt on a large scale. Since the beginning of the apocalypse, the countries in the eastern part of the continent have not been affected, while the sea level in the northern part of the continent has risen by more than 30 meters. Many countries in the northern part of the continent have suffered severe disasters. Recently, due to the influence of the Earth's circulation, the water level in major sea areas will continue to rise.
Lu Yuan was unsettled after seeing this news. Looking at the time, he realized there were only two months left until the second year.
So Lu Yuan made a decision to donate more of his resources to support the people in District 3.
Of course, things can't be given away for free; you have to exchange them for something or work for yourself. But the things that could be exchanged have long been used to buy food, and now almost every household can be described as destitute.
Driven by the desire to survive, everyone had no choice but to sell their labor to get food. They cleaned up the two houses in Zone 3 and turned them into dry toilets. Every day, someone would go to clean them. After all, the landlord's surplus grain was running out. One of the large water tanks that originally stored several hundred tons of water had been used up half a year ago. The remaining large water tank was barely enough under Lu Yuan's control, so they could no longer use the toilets in their homes to flush water.
The second point was to build a drainage system, which left everyone somewhat bewildered. When Lu Yuan proposed this idea, many people scoffed at it and were quite disdainful.
But in the end, they succumbed to hunger. No work, no food—are you scared yet? So, apart from the children who could barely walk, everyone in the district's thirty-odd people who could move went to work. Although they were always confused while working, wondering why they needed to build drainage ditches when there was no water, did Lu Yuan have some kind of brain damage?
Even Lu Yuan's family members weren't very optimistic about him. After all, it was the season of severe drought, there was no water, and online experts were making various predictions that the drought could last for many more years, so there was no need to build drainage channels!
However, he insisted that the problem with the irrigation canal must be solved. What if it really rained? What if a flood really occurred? After all, the floods of the second year of the apocalypse were about to begin, and he couldn't quite remember the exact date when the floods would start, so he had to make plans as soon as possible.
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