Chapter 016 Chapter 16
When the heaviest hail fell, three of the eleven people who had returned from chopping wood had died and one was injured, but they had all managed to survive.
This time is probably only half an hour.
Three lives disappeared right before everyone's eyes.
Not to mention those invisible places.
“Wow, wow, wow—”
"husband!!!"
“…”
The wailing sounds echoed throughout the entire community, from every building. Ji Yang felt suffocated listening to them, so she closed the doors and windows, lay back on the sofa, closed her eyes, and used her consciousness to water and fertilize the thirty square meters of cabbage she had planted.
She made the fertilizer using kitchen waste following a video tutorial. The smell is... hard to describe. Fortunately, she can use her consciousness so she can't smell it.
Not to mention, even with her half-hearted operation according to the book, the cabbage has grown very well. As for the medicinal herbs, they have just begun to emerge and look good.
When the hail outside stopped for a while, some people thought about taking this opportunity to run back, otherwise they would freeze to death on the mezzanine floor.
Fifty or sixty degrees below zero is no joke.
Some of the remaining people agreed and some disagreed. After discussion, the three who wanted to leave took a deep breath and rushed towards their own building.
Unfortunately, the distance between the buildings is large, and there are many holes in the snow, making it difficult to walk. If you walk fast, you will stumble and fall easily.
But as time goes by, half the journey is completed.
When the remaining people who dared not leave were feeling somewhat regretful, one of them suddenly cried out: "Oh no! There is hail again!"
The others quickly used their hands as megaphones and shouted at the top of their lungs: "Run faster, run faster!!"
"The hail is coming again, run!"
The people who were walking halfway also noticed it at the first time. Their faces changed drastically and they kicked their legs as fast as they could, wishing they could go back.
The next second, I felt a pain in my back.
The man groaned, got up and continued forward.
There were two others who were lucky enough to avoid the early hail and overtook him. Seeing that they were only 20 meters away from their own building, and with their family members watching them, they suddenly gained unlimited strength and continued to move forward.
"Ah!" A scream rang out unexpectedly.
One of them turned his head and saw that the person who was just walking side by side with him had a hole in his head and fell down, still twitching.
At that moment, the hairs all over his body stood up. Soon he stepped into a hole and fell to the ground. He was hit on the back several times and his face turned purple in pain. However, he still managed to get up with difficulty.
The last ten meters...
The family members who were waiting on the first floor finally couldn't help but run out and said, "Come back soon!"
Finally, the family hugged each other and hid in the safe house. They looked at each other and smiled as if they had survived a disaster.
And next to him, there was a burst of crying.
“Hey, don’t be impulsive—” someone shouted, and a woman with tears on her face ran out frantically, stumbling all the way to the man who was lying more than 30 meters away: “Husband! Wuuuuu… I was wrong, I shouldn’t have let you go to chop wood, old—”
Soon, hailstones fell on her head.
The sound stopped abruptly.
The Ping'an family could no longer smile. Looking at the tragic scene outside, they felt horrified.
——
It was not until late at night that the hail completely stopped and no longer fell.
But in the end, only four people were able to return to the community smoothly, because among the remaining five people who hid in the mezzanine floor of the opposite building, two people still froze to death silently even with some charcoal sent by kind neighbors.
By the time their family came looking for them in the middle of the night, they were already dead.
The remaining three people were only breathing their last breath, their faces were pale, and they looked like they would die at any time.
As for the other people who went out during the day, only a small number of them came back one after another.
Needless to say, the rest is gone.
For a while, there was constant crying in the building. In one family, only a pregnant woman was left; her husband and the younger brother who came to pay New Year's greetings were gone.
Due to these circumstances, no one in the community dared to go out for the next few days.
They would rather hide in their beds shivering, using the remaining coal to exchange for a faint warmth, than go out, hoping that officials would come to distribute relief food.
But they didn't come yet.
Ji Yang remembered that in his previous life, the authorities had divided several groups of people into groups to collect supplies, build bases, distribute supplies, carry out emergency rescue, dig coal and burn charcoal, and bring back compatriots who were stranded abroad... There were simply not enough people, and they encountered frequent bad weather, which led to various progress being interrupted and destroyed, and even the selective abandonment of some tasks.
The government suffered the most losses in the natural disaster, because eighty to ninety percent of the people still outside were from the government.
Many task forces lost contact, and when the extreme cold passed, there was no news of them either.
Under such circumstances, it is normal that relief food cannot be distributed in time.
But for other property owners in the community, it was not normal. The failure of the authorities to show up in time increased their panic, and there were many more quarrels in the building.
Only Ji Yang avoided this group of people and went out twice.
The main point is that she dares to go out when others don’t dare to.
With space, she could hide for a while even in extreme situations. As a result, her space increased by another 350 square meters after these two efforts. So far, her space has reached 1,200 square meters!
The 200-square-meter breeding area is completely sufficient for the moment, so Ji Yang allocated the extra space to the Chinese medicinal materials area. There is no such thing as too much of these things.
But up to now, she has already visited most of the jade shops she had noted down. For the rest, she will have to go to other jewelry stores to look among the pile of gold and silver.
It’s a bit troublesome, and relatively speaking, the average quality of jade in these stores is definitely worse.
Ji Yang gave up decisively and didn't go out.
At the same time, the cabbage she planted was ready to be harvested.
It has only been two months since it was planted, but it is growing well. We have harvested all the thirty square meters of land, and obtained more than six hundred kilograms of cabbage. It is a huge harvest!
However, after this harvest, she did not plant cabbage on the next 30 square meters of land. Instead, she chose fruit trees, including cherry trees, durian trees, orange trees, persimmon trees...she planted one of each.
The land was fully planted.
Time flies by while she is busy.
Finally, after about twenty days, even though going out was dangerous, but staying out would mean death, some people still mustered up the courage to go out.
At this time, the outdoor temperature has dropped by five degrees again without anyone noticing. The lowest temperature at night has reached minus 65 degrees Celsius. It will be slightly better during the day and will rise to around 6 or 7 degrees.
This time, we basically went out in a group and brought enough equipment to ensure that even if we encountered a disaster and were trapped outside, we would not freeze to death.
Before going out, the two building managers knocked on every door and asked if they wanted to go out together.
Maybe the stock was really running out, and many people were willing to sell it, including the one at 1501, but Ji Yang still refused. Although this was quite sociable, it was too useless for her.
With her current weapons and equipment, she could escape unscathed as long as she wasn't surrounded by a large gang, so it wouldn't be a big deal if her neighbors knew she had some supplies.
Although it snowed heavily this time, everyone in the building returned safely, bringing back a small amount of supplies and a lot of firewood, which finally brought some laughter to the building.
Ji Yang also had good news—all the chickens, ducks, geese, quails, and roosters she raised in the life space, except for the chickens, had started laying eggs!
From this, it can be inferred that the speed of time flowing inside is actually only one-fifth to one-quarter faster than outside.
Because normally, free-range chickens start laying eggs at six months old.
It's less than four months old and not yet old enough to lay eggs.
I estimate that it should be ready in another month.
The originally planned 100 square meters of pasture grass has already grown, and Ji Yang found time to expand the entire breeding area. Currently, the breeding area is a total of 200 square meters, in which male and female pigs, cattle and sheep are raised separately.
Getting pregnant too early is bad for the body, and she is not a veterinarian. If there is a difficult delivery, there is nothing she can do.
Therefore, we can only intervene artificially to strive for late and good-quality births.
But you don't have to think so much about poultry.
Ji Yang was happy to pick up eggs every day, but she didn't like to eat them, so she put some of them in a static space, left some for them to hatch on their own, and pickled some of them.
She pickled the salted duck eggs meticulously, strictly following the tutorial. If the weather was too cold, she would put them in a space in the house, where time is flowing, which is just the right time for pickling these things.
There were a total of forty eggs in the first batch of pickled eggs, which was not a large number and each egg was of a different size. However, Ji Yang believed that since they were all eggs, there was nothing wrong with pickling them together, so he put them all together.
Just as I finished pickling this batch of eggs, another batch came out.
These are the freshest eggs, which were laid just a while ago. Ji Yang had nothing to do, so he chose to make various fried eggs or bombs.
It will definitely taste good if you put it in your spicy hotpot, hotpot or snail noodles.
Ji Yang immediately set up the stove and started frying eggs.
She is not very good at cooking, but she can still make something like this that does not require too many steps. She starts by making fried eggs with quail and roe deer.
It only takes a small egg to make a fried egg, but she needs many of them. She doesn't throw away the eggshells, but puts them in a garbage bag. When there are a certain number, she roasts them in the fireplace, breaks them up and feeds them to poultry and pigs to supplement calcium.
The main focus is recycling and no waste.
Ji Yang, who had experienced hard times, was thinking very carefully.
After stirring the eggs, she turned on the fire to heat the oil. She didn't use a large iron pot, but a small electric cooker for fear that the egg liquid would splash onto her. When she saw that the temperature was about right, she immediately poured the egg liquid in little by little.
The tender yellow egg liquid was immediately spread into a "pancake" on the oil, and stopped when it filled the entire small rice cooker. Soon the aroma filled the air, and she calculated the time and carefully used chopsticks and a spatula to help flip the egg over.
In just a few minutes, a fried egg is ready.
Back then, she didn't dare to eat these calorie bombs just to maintain her slim figure.
Looking back now, I just feel extremely regretful for missing out on so many delicious foods!
Suddenly, Xixi, who had been squatting beside her watching her busy, moved her ears, and then immediately rushed to the door, alert as if she was ready to fight at any time.
Ji Yang was not surprised by this.
At the beginning, it was fine. Every family had surplus food and had food and drink. But as time went by, many things could not be replenished after being consumed, such as the various delicious seasonings for cooking. Even if there was no shortage of food, the taste was bland.
She eats delicious food every day. Even if the house is sealed as much as possible, it cannot be completely sealed. So if a scent drifts out, it won't spread far under normal circumstances. Even the house next door may not be able to smell it.
But those people downstairs who have been living alone for a long time have noses as good as dogs and can smell the slightest hint.
Therefore, people often "passed by" her house during this period, but Ji Yang was not afraid. This situation would happen sooner or later. After all, everyone else only ate half full or went hungry, but she could eat every meal and had a rosy complexion. As long as people saw her, they would basically know that her family was not short of supplies. This was bound to happen sooner or later.
If she really reaches the point of being penniless, even if her house has no food, she will still be targeted unless she opens the door wide and lets them come in to raid the place.
In my previous life, because I was alone, I was watched as soon as I arrived at the base. I had to do everything in secret, for fear that someone would smell something, so I couldn't eat or sleep well.
Since she has the ability in this life, she will definitely not let herself be wronged.
Ji Yang continued to do his own thing without being disturbed, but Xixi was not the same. Once it noticed something, it would go to guard the door, fearing that someone would break in. The silly dog didn't know that the door was very strong.
Perhaps because they still had some fear of the law, even though they had many ideas in their minds, they did not really implement them; they just came to take a look.
But don’t people usually come at mealtime?
Ji Yang was wondering, could it be that he was attracted by the smell of her fried eggs? But she didn't add any seasoning, who has such a keen nose?
At this time there was a knock on the door.
Xixi's fur exploded immediately, and she roared fiercely: "Woof woof woof!!!"
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