Chapter 28 Crisis
Liu Ying'an put his ear against the door, listening to the noise gradually becoming quieter until there was complete silence.
But the feeling of fear in her heart would never go away.
She bent her fingers and knocked on the heavy door, then held her breath.
It was still very quiet outside the door.
"It's time to go." Liu Ying'an got up from the ground, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, and cried again with joy.
Although I don’t know what they were shouting just now, it’s good that they don’t continue to block her door.
There was only a box of instant noodles, five catties of pork, two buckets of pure water, and a few packs of dried noodles left at home. Some of them were bought by her, and some were left by Mo Fei. If those people really broke in, they would definitely take away her things!
Without these things, Liu Ying'an didn't know if she could hold on until her fiancé came to rescue her.
Liu Ying'an was about to go back to his room to sleep, but before leaving, he glanced at the peephole again with a hint of despair.
The original white color has disappeared, replaced by a pool of red.
Blood red.
"I'm not in Baishi now, you should call the police and don't call me again..."
Before Mo Fei could finish his words, the phone was automatically hung up.
Mo Fei didn't know whether something happened to Liu Ying'an or whether Liu Ying'an's phone was out of battery.
She was very sleepy, her eyelids were fighting each other, and she just wanted to fall into a deep sleep.
But after having such a long talk with Liu Ying'an, she became much more sober.
She had previously told the property management that she was traveling with her family in order to avoid exposing her new address and avoid being noticed.
But now that they have moved out for such a long time, Mo Fei thought about it and opened the Jinshi Garden owners' group, wanting to send a message in it to clarify things for Liu Yingan.
Those people were just extremely hungry, not yet truly vicious. They would not trouble Liu Ying'an again after knowing that she had moved away.
The occupancy rate of Jinshi Garden is not high. There are only about 400 people in the owner group, most of whom are owners and a small number are tenants.
The owner group used to be deserted, but since things like supermarket closures and water and power outages started to happen, there have been more messages.
As soon as Mo Fei clicked on it, she saw a row of messages tagged her.
But these messages all show that they were from one day ago.
At this time, Mo Fei had not yet realized why the group was so quiet, and was just quickly scrolling through the messages.
To sum up the message, it is nothing more than telling Mo Fei not to be so selfish.
Since we have hoarded so much food and drink, we should give some of it out by practicing truth, kindness and beauty.
It’s okay for those who are young and strong, but the elderly and children will die if they don’t eat or drink.
Among them was the restaurant owner's message, and he was the one who tagged Mo Fei the most in the group. After all, he had personally received express deliveries for Mo Fei, and knew that many of the express deliveries Mo Fei bought were food. But when he went to the store next to the restaurant later, he found only a pile of express packaging bags.
Of course, there are many people in the group who tagged Liu Yingan.
She said that she was clearly in cahoots with Mo Fei, yet she was trying to cover up and lie.
The two are birds of a feather, so selfish at such a young age.
In addition to this, there are more news about bartering posted by some property owners.
Some people exchanged toilet paper for a steamed bun, some exchanged Coke for potatoes, and so on.
At first, some people were still bringing things out to exchange, but later there seemed to be an incident of robbery while exchanging things, and after that people were in a panic and almost no one paid attention to such news anymore.
I was afraid that I would be the next person to be robbed.
Mo Fei typing:
"To inform everyone, my family and I have moved out. Please don't bother my former landlord anymore. I will leave the group after sending this message."
After Mo Fei pressed the Enter key, he found that a small gray-white circle began to rotate in front of the message.
Anyone who is used to using WeChat knows that this is a sign that the device is not connected to the Internet.
Mo Fei immediately sat up from the sofa and swiped the interface of his mobile phone.
She originally thought that she had not turned on the data traffic, but the data traffic switch was clearly on and the phone still showed that the 5G signal was 0 bars.
Mo Fei tried to send text messages and call his parents' cell phone numbers, but to no avail.
After the entire city lost power, communication signals disappeared for a period of time.
The power supply of the base station signal tower was restored intermittently several times thanks to the emergency repairs of the power department.
Mo Fei also took the opportunity to download the complete episodes of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "Wulin Waijia".
It seems that the signal is cut off again this time.
Seeing that the message could not be sent, Mo Fei was too lazy to care about it anymore.
When the signal is restored, she can naturally send out those words.
Thinking of this, Mo Fei finally felt sleepy again.
She got up to draw the blackout curtains and planned to lie down on the bed to sleep, but she found that the sky outside the window had turned green in an instant.
A green light shone through the window onto Mo Fei's face and also onto the entire world.
Aurora! Mo Fei's heart was excited.
The entire sky was a misty green, like the finest emerald, making everything in the world pale in comparison.
It is more like the eerie underworld, reaching out to the human world.
She had only seen skies like this on nature channels on TV and in wallpaper galleries online.
In Mo Fei's previous travel list, there was a plan to go abroad to Finland to see the northern lights.
She thought she would never have the chance to see the aurora in her life, but she didn't expect that the wish that had not been fulfilled in her original world would be fulfilled so strangely at this moment.
But the auroras usually only appear in high latitudes at the North and South Poles.
The fact that the aurora can be seen in Baishi, a region located at such a low latitude in the south, can only mean that this aurora was caused by an extremely severe magnetic storm.
Mo Fei couldn't explain how magnetic storms were produced, but he had been told in a geography class that magnetic storms would disrupt the magnetic field, causing the country's spacecraft to deviate from their course, interrupting communication satellite signals, damaging the power grid, and causing electrical instruments to malfunction.
Over the past half month, not only Baishi, but all parts of the country have been experiencing varying degrees of water and power outages and intermittent Internet outages.
Under high temperatures, the lines will malfunction frequently, and zombies and various mutated animals are roaming around, making it difficult for maintenance personnel to work even at night.
But these problems can still be overcome and the circuit can still be repaired.
But now that such a severe magnetic storm has occurred, I am afraid we will never be able to recover to the way it was before.
That's not the aurora outside the house, it's clearly a real signal of a natural disaster.
It seems that after this power outage, the power supply will basically not be restored. Mo Fei came to the conclusion secretly.
Fortunately, she prepared for a rainy day and installed solar panels on the roof and bought generators and batteries.
There is basically no problem with daily electricity use.
The fear is that after a few years or even more than ten years, the generator panels and generators will break down.
To be on the safe side, after moving to the villa, Mo Fei ran the ice maker 24 hours a day to make ice and then stored it in the space.
The ice balls and ice cubes piled up in the space were already as much as two or three rooms.
In addition to ice cubes, there were also hundreds of boxes of ice cream of various flavors that she purchased on the black market, and hundreds of cups of milk tea, coffee, taro balls and other sweet drinks ordered for takeout.
It is enough for a family to get through countless hot summers.
While Mo Fei was still staring at the extremely gorgeous aurora, she suddenly heard footsteps, followed by a soft knock on the door, like a kitten scratching the door.
"Mom." Mo Jiayue's soft voice sounded as the door opened.
She was wearing a Doraemon nightgown and standing at the door holding a teddy bear doll.
Mo Jiayue rushed over and hugged Mo Fei's waist affectionately: "Mom, I'm scared, I want to sleep with you."
"It's the aurora outside, don't be afraid." Mo Fei explained, touching her head.
"Yeah." Mo Jiayue glanced out the window and immediately retracted her gaze, burying her head in Mo Fei's body.
"Okay then. Sleep with me today, and be braver next time." Mo Fei didn't say anything else.
After she closed the blackout curtains, she turned the air conditioner to 27 degrees and lay down side by side with Mo Jiayue.
"Good night, Mom." Mo Jiayue snuggled in Mo Fei's arms, her little hands on Mo Fei's body, her breathing gradually calming down.
The mother and daughter fell asleep in each other's arms.
Mo Jiayue slept soundly in Mo Fei's arms, but Mo Fei fell into a long dream.
In the dream, she still traveled through time, but there was no apocalypse or natural disaster. The sky was blue, the water was clear, the temperature was normal, and people did not eat each other.
She also used her cooking skills to open a small restaurant in this world, and gradually expanded it.
Later, the business of the small restaurant grew bigger and bigger, and it opened several branches, and finally became a famous hotel in the city.
It's a sweet dream.
After waking up, Mo Fei still felt a bit aftertasteful.
It would be nice if the dream could come true. But the most important thing is to live a good life now.
In the morning, Mo Jianian got up the earliest, went to see the incubator first and then waited for Mo Jiayue to go to the gym on the third floor to exercise. The brother and sister have now developed a good habit of getting up early and exercising for an hour every day. Mo Fei assigned Mo Jianian an extra task, asking him to use his supernatural power once a day to release the tentacles. Learn to control and use the tentacles.
In the morning, the family had dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork and milk. For lunch, Mo Fei planned to make roast duck.
Mao Roast Duck is a way of eating in Orange City, which emphasizes roasting the duck first and then steaming it.
Mo Fei took out a fat duck that had been plucked and gutted from the space, and rubbed salt all over the duck's body.
Then add dark soy sauce, cooking wine, ginger slices, chili powder and aniseed and marinate.
After the marinated fat duck is dried in the shade, brush the entire body of the duck with honey water.
The honey water is the key to getting crispy skin on the duck when baked in the oven.
Murphy wrapped the wing tips and duck legs of the fat duck in tin foil, put them in the oven and baked them for 1 hour.
In less than 10 minutes, the aroma of roast duck filled the entire villa.
The two children had already come downstairs, and they were standing in front of the oven, refusing to leave, under the pretext of going to the refrigerator to get popsicles.
Song Yi and Mo Zhicheng also frequently asked when it would be done.
In the end, Mo Fei blocked it all with a sentence: "You can eat at noon."
At noon, a pot of fragrant roast duck was served on the table.
The roast duck is cut into pieces and immersed in the red, spicy and shiny soup, and the bottom of the bowl is covered with side dishes such as enoki mushrooms, potato slices, lettuce slices, duck intestines, spicy duck blood, etc.
The top is sprinkled with coriander, a handful of chopped green onions and lots of freshly fried peanuts.
The spicy roast duck served with a big bowl of fragrant rice will make your tongue numb.
In addition, Mo Fei also made steamed scallops with garlic, shredded cabbage, cold kelp shreds and shrimp and tofu soup.
There were four dishes and one soup, and even Jianian and Jiayue, who couldn't eat spicy food, ate three big bowls of rice.
If Mo Fei hadn't been watching them, I'm afraid they would have wanted another bowl of rice.
After eating, the two children touched their round bellies and forced themselves to drink a cup of Magnum Dark Chocolate Ice Cocoa made by Murphy. Then they supported each other and went up to the third floor to play table tennis to digest the food.
Mo Fei put the dishes into the dishwasher and said, "Mom, why don't you pull my dad. He has a bad stomach. I specially prepared a dish without chili for him, but he refused to eat it and insisted on eating spicy food with us."
"How can I control him!" Song Yi couldn't even control herself, she had already eaten two bowls of rice.
"Who did you learn these cooking skills from? I think you can open a restaurant or become a chef. Do you remember the Xiangyu Restaurant we used to go to? It has become an Internet celebrity in recent years. There is a long line outside the door before dinner time. Once your uncle came to visit me on a business trip, and your father and I wanted to invite him to dinner there. Wow, he got a number and found that there were 200 tables in front of him. It was exaggerated. I think your cooking skills are better than his. If you open a restaurant, at least 300 tables will be lined up."
Song Yi spared no effort to praise Mo Fei's cooking skills.
If it weren't for this natural disaster, maybe she and her husband could have taken out their provident fund and let Mo Fei rent a store and open a small restaurant.
Isn’t it better than Mo Fei working as a receptionist and selling lunch boxes at a stall before the natural disaster?
But now these are just thoughts.
In the villa far away, Lin Jiyuan opened the window to get some fresh air, but he smelled the aroma of roast duck coming from his neighbor.
The fragrance had actually faded a lot by the time it reached here.
But Lin Jiyuan's five senses have always been much more sensitive than ordinary people.
He locked the window tightly.
What Mo Fei did not expect was that on the second day after eating the roast duck, three of the five members of his family fell down at the same time.
Except for her and Mo Jianian, everyone else in the family started to have a severe high fever. They took the temperature with a thermometer and it was around 39 degrees, exactly the same as Mo Jianian's temperature at the beginning.
"Mom, what should I do?" Mo Jianian also became panicked.
Mo Fei checked their nails and teeth, then pried open their eyelids and took a look. He found that apart from abnormal body temperature, there was nothing else unusual for the time being.
"Don't be afraid, they should be the same as you, and may be about to awaken their special powers." Mo Fei made a judgment.
It has been more than half a month since the first batch of original zombies appeared. If they were going to turn into zombies, they would have done so long ago.
What's more, Mo Fei knew that space water could strengthen the body and improve physical fitness, so he gave it to his family every day.
It was hard for Mo Fei not to suspect that their high fever was related to the aurora two days ago.
So, four out of five people in the family had a fever. But why didn't I have a fever?
Mo Fei was puzzled.
But in this situation, it's a good thing that she doesn't have a fever.
Otherwise, if Mo Jianian was left alone to take care of them, it would be very difficult.
In order to take care of three people at the same time, Mo Fei carried Mo Jiayue downstairs and placed her on the recliner in her parents' room.
Song Yi and Mo Zhicheng were lying on the bed, and Mo Jiayue was lying on the recliner.
The three of them were as red as boiled crabs, with their eyes closed, completely unconscious.
Mo Jianian pursed his lips and ran in and out, constantly replacing the wet towels on their heads. And according to Mo Fei's instructions, he kept pouring the slightly blue space water into their mouths.
The time he himself had a fever, he almost fell into a coma and didn't think it was serious.
But when he saw his grandparents and sister, all of whom looked extremely ill, even though he knew they would be fine in the end, he still wiped away his tears helplessly.
"Why are you crying when I'm here? I don't have time to cook today. There's some self-heating rice in the kitchen cupboard. Go eat it first. I'll leave this here."
Murphy raised his head from his thoughts and spoke calmly.
Three people were unconscious, and the amount of water that could be poured into the space was very limited.
Mo Fei planned to use a quick and effective method.
After Mo Fei went to the kitchen, he took out several buckets of water from the space and poured them into the bathtub.
The water is slightly blue and has a cool chill.
When the water was poured out, Mo Fei even felt that the temperature in the room had dropped significantly.
Mo Fei helped his parents and daughter in to take a bath one by one.
The magical effect of space water is immediate.
The body temperatures of the two older people, Song Yi and Mo Zhicheng, returned to normal after only five minutes of soaking.
Ten minutes later, they opened their eyes and had the strength to speak.
Mo Fei asked them to have a good rest and continued to take care of Mo Jiayue, the only one who had not woken up yet.
Mo Jiayue had been soaking in the water for 20 minutes, but her fever was still high and there was no sign of the fever going down.
After Song Yi and Mo Zhicheng changed their wet clothes, they gathered around the bathtub and looked at their granddaughter with a red face with heartache.
Mo Fei was also very anxious. Could it be that this river water had no effect on Mo Jiayue?
But she is the one who can least show panic now.
Mo Fei said calmly, "It's okay. She's a little weak, so she needs to soak in the water more to reduce her fever. Don't worry. Let's not talk about her for now. How do you feel? Do you still feel uncomfortable?"
Song Yi and Mo Zhicheng shook their heads together: "Except for feeling a little dizzy, nothing is wrong."
They had heard from Mo Fei when their grandson had a fever that many people who could survive a high fever could evolve into superpowers and become new humans in the natural disaster evolution period.
But after they woke up, they tried it several times and found that apart from their ability to withstand high temperatures and looking a few years younger, they didn't seem to have any other abilities.
Mo Fei comforted them that it didn't matter if they didn't have superpowers, the most important thing was that they were safe and healthy, and it didn't matter whether they had superpowers or not. It was more important than anything else.
Mo Jiayue soaked in the bathtub for three whole days.
During this period, Mo Fei changed the water in the bathtub every few hours and added a lot of ice cubes to cool it down.
Mo Fei used the space water to make a lot of ice drinks, and fed them into Mo Jiayue's mouthful by mouthful with a small spoon.
Despite these two measures, Mo Jiayue's body temperature did not drop at all, and Mo Fei even felt her hands were very hot when he held her.
Mo Fei carried Mo Jiayue back to the room on the second floor and continued to take care of her.
After three days, Mo Fei looked much more haggard than before. She had hardly eaten or slept. She had dark circles under her eyes and her hair was messy and greasy, sticking to her scalp.
"It's broken, I can't measure it." Song Yi frowned.
The thermometer has finished measuring the temperature.
The upper limit of the mercury thermometer is 42 degrees. For a normal human being, 39-40 degrees is considered a high fever. A body temperature over 41 degrees means that the body has lost its ability to regulate temperature. A body temperature over 42 degrees will cause permanent brain damage. Once it reaches 45 degrees, death is a matter of a blink of an eye.
The whole family gathered in the bathroom, looking at Mo Jiayue who was burning with fever, wishing they could bear the pain for her.
"Go to sleep for a while." Song Yi put his arm around Mo Fei's shoulders and urged him.
Mo Jianian stood beside Mo Fei, looking at him eagerly. Although he hoped that his sister could wake up soon, he knew that Mo Fei, the "mother", had done her best.
Mo Zhicheng also said: "If you fall down, Yueyue will cry for three days and three nights when she wakes up and can't see you."
"Okay. I'll go to sleep for a while." Mo Fei finally gave in.
She instructed wearily, "When the ice in the bathtub melts, pour these buckets of water into the bathtub to replace it."
There were several plastic buckets next to the bathtub, filled with water that Mo Fei had taken out from the space in advance.
Mo Fei did not sleep well.
When she woke up, she opened the curtains and saw that the sunlight had turned orange.
After the aurora, the network was disconnected and I could no longer check the time.
We can only roughly guess what time it is based on the sunlight and temperature.
It must be around six in the afternoon, Mo Fei thought.
She remembered that it was almost noon when she went to bed, and six hours of sleep was exactly the amount of sleep an adult needed.
Mo Fei went to the bathroom, washed his face and rinsed his mouth, and his fatigue was slightly relieved.
In the mirror, her face and lips were frighteningly pale.
Plus, she had no expression at all and her eyes were empty, making her look like a female ghost.
The female ghost Mo Fei tore off a face towel to wipe the water droplets off her face, drank a glass of space water, and then wanted to go and see Jiayue's situation.
Pushing open the white bathroom door, Mo Fei couldn't help shivering at the low temperature of 18 degrees inside.
But there was no sign of his parents and son inside. Only Mo Jiayue was still soaking in the blue water, with her eyes tightly closed, cutting off all contact with the outside world.
"Dad, Mom? Jianian? Where have you been?" Mo Fei closed his daughter's door and started shouting in the villa.
When she walked out, she found that her family were all at the door of the villa, talking to someone through the big iron gate.
"Who's here?" Mo Fei asked softly as she walked into the courtyard. When she got closer, she saw that her parents were holding kitchen knives in their hands, and they were very cautious.
"Mom. These people outside the door have been trying to get in." Mo Jianian said angrily.
"Sister! Is that you, sister?" The person outside the door seemed to have heard Mo Fei's voice and shouted in surprise.
When Mo Zhicheng saw Mo Fei coming, he pulled Mo Fei over and asked quietly, "Do you know these people?"
Mo Fei was confused: "Who?"
"He just called you sister." Mo Zhicheng looked solemn.
"Shouldn't you call me sister? I should ask you and my mom if you gave birth to a younger brother behind my back." Mo Fei was in a rare mood to make jokes.
"Stop talking nonsense." Mo Zhicheng lowered his voice and recounted what happened after Mo Fei fell asleep. "Now there is no signal, so we can't watch it. They knocked on the door at first, and I came out to see what was going on after I heard the sound. They told me they wanted to come in and ask for a glass of water, and wanted me to open the door. They refused to leave even though I agreed. I heard there were at least six of them, but I just looked through the crack in the door and saw only one man and two women. I don't know where the other three went, but they are in the same group and must not have gone far. We live in such a remote place that no one has come for more than half a month. But they happened to say your name, so they must be coming for you."
After Mo Fei understood the whole story, he rubbed his forehead and said, "I know, Dad. I'll ask them who they are. You and my mom can go into the house and look after Jiayue first."
Then she took the kitchen knife from her parents and signaled them to go upstairs with her eyes.
Mo Zhicheng and his wife looked at each other, understood what their daughter meant, and immediately went into the house one after the other.
But the purpose was not to go in and enjoy the air conditioning, but to go to the top floor of the villa to see where the three people who had gone to an unknown place were.
"Shh." Mo Fei gestured to his son to keep quiet and asked him to stand where he could not be seen by the gap in the iron gate.
Watching his parents go upstairs and his son standing obediently by the side, Mo Fei, holding two kitchen knives, glanced at the door with sharp eyes.
Her slender figure suddenly gave her a more murderous look.
"Who is your sister?" Mo Fei's voice floated out from the gap in the big iron gate.
"It's me, sister. I'm Xiao Luo." The person outside the door heard Mo Fei's reply and shouted while knocking on the door.
"Luo Yonghe?" Mo Fei was stunned. Wasn't this the agent who helped her find a house?
She rented, sold and bought houses from Luo Yonghe, making him a lot of money in agency fees.
During that period, Luo Yonghe was extremely enthusiastic towards her. Even though he was a few years older than her, he still called her sister and asked about her well-being from morning till night.
But since Mo Fei bought the villa, he never responded to Luo Yonghe's messages, and never thought that they would meet again in the future.
I didn’t expect that Luo Yonghe would come to my door with his men today?
Perhaps it was because when he went out to look at houses before, Luo Yonghe heard her answering several courier calls and knew that she had stockpiled supplies.
Mo Fei felt very uncomfortable, and his voice was filled with impatience: "What do you want from me? Wasn't the agency fee settled long ago?"
She stared at the iron gate with her eyes fixed, concentrating her attention, and at this moment her magical power was activated.
Although I couldn't see what was happening outside the iron gate, I could hear two women talking in very faint voices outside the gate.
They said to Luo Yonghe: "Hurry up and get her to open the door."
Coax? It's a very interesting word.
Mo Fei couldn't help but want to laugh.
But she said nothing, just waiting to see how Luo Yonghe could deceive her.
Luo Yonghe's voice was a little more pitiful, "Sister Mo, you don't know, something big happened in the city. There are gangs everywhere, and there are zombies that eat people. My colleagues and I risked our lives to escape. We didn't sleep for three days and three nights, and we didn't eat or drink. One of my colleagues got heatstroke, and another friend's hand was cut by glass and has been bleeding. We are lucky to run here, and I just remembered that you live here, so I brought my colleagues and friends here to try our luck. You were not here just now, and those uncles and aunts thought we were bad people. Fortunately you came. I just wanted to buy some water and food from you. You are so beautiful and kind, you will definitely agree."
Mo Fei nodded: "So miserable. Then what are you going to buy from me? Money should be worthless now, right? So gold bars or jewelry?"
The three people outside the door were stunned, especially Luo Yonghe.
Shouldn't this be given to them for free?
After all, they have already described themselves in such a miserable way.
"Didn't you say she was very nice and easy to talk to? That's it?"
One of the short-haired women outside the door pushed Luo Yonghe angrily.
Her lips were chapped and she looked like she hadn't had water for a long time.
"Sister Mo, we didn't take anything with us when we ran away, so I can write you an IOU..." Luo Yonghe said awkwardly.
"Oh. Then go ask somewhere else. I don't have many here." Murphy said regretfully, "There's a small park over there. You know, you told me about it. You can try your luck there."
There was a fierce knock on the door, followed by the panicked cries of a man and a woman.
Luo Yonghe shouted, "Sister Mo, you can't just stand by and watch her die. My friend has passed out from dehydration!"
"Mom, that auntie seems to have really fainted." Mo Jianian took a look through the crack in the door and spoke to Mo Fei through mouthing words.
Mo Jianian was taught from a young age to be brave and helpful.
When a weak person appears before him, the idea of justice begins to prevail.
Seeing that Mo Fei didn't say anything, Mo Jianian hesitated and said, "Mom, why don't you give them a bottle of water?"
Murphy looked at him steadily.
"What they want is not food and water." Mo Fei also responded by lip-syncing.
Mo Jianian didn't understand what Mo Fei meant, but he didn't insist on his own idea anymore and just continued to stay aside quietly.
Mo Fei sneered at the outside and said, "In fact, I could have given you water. Even bread, sausages, and instant noodles. But you are dragging me here, aren't you just trying to get your accomplices to dig a tunnel in?"
After these words were spoken, not only did Mo Jianian's face change drastically, but even the cries for help outside the door finally quieted down.
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