Chapter 088 Chapter 88
The neighbor brother was embarrassed by the praise: "It's just a few friends..."
Xie Muzhi had no choice but to say directly, "Yes, it's us."
A motorhome, a man and a woman, both of them are good-looking and have good conditions. I guess they are the only ones who meet the requirements.
But how did the other party know it was them?
Both of them were puzzled, but the neighbor patted Xie Muzhi's shoulder excitedly: "Wow, you guys are amazing! Awesome! So awesome! No, I have to drink a drink with you!"
Xie Muchi was pulled over directly.
And also call Ji Yang.
She rejected it.
She seldom eats with them, and since she refused, the neighbor brother didn't force her. He dragged Xie Muzhi to drink until she was half drunk, and reminded her: "The other party has offered a lot of rewards, so there are naturally many people who want your lives. You have to be careful."
Xie Muzhi was speechless and agreed without hesitation.
He turned around and told Ji Yang about it, then smiled and said, "We won't leave the base from now on, right?"
"I think so too." Ji Yang was also anxious: "It depends on how long they can wait."
The two smiled at each other, both with a hint of evil humor.
Hiring someone to kill someone sounds very grand, but in fact, it's just a transaction with a group of people who live on the edge of a knife for some supplies. It's not a martial arts novel. Will there be a skilled assassin running over and shooting at them?
But they can't enter the base whenever they want. The harder they try, the harder it is to get into the base. Once they get close to the base, they might be noticed and arrested by officials. They usually don't have time to arrest people, but they can't just ignore those who are sent to the door.
One way is to find ordinary survivors who have reached a dead end, but these people don't have the ability to rush into the villa area and kill them.
You have to know that in the current situation, although the authorities allow legal gun ownership, there are certain requirements. Not everyone can own a gun. Ordinary survivors cannot get in at all if they get a gun, unless they hand it over to the authorities for safekeeping and take it away when they leave.
As long as they don't leave the base, they are basically safe.
It just so happened that the two of them had no plans to leave the base for the time being. The extreme heat had already passed for most of the time, and the period before the temperature dropped was actually the most difficult to endure. A year and a half of extreme heat had exhausted everyone, and they were like firecrackers that could be ignited at the slightest touch.
There were fights and trouble everywhere.
Going out is a hassle all the way.
There are still a lot of terrible things to witness, so you might as well just rest at home and wait for the temperature to start dropping.
Now they have more than 100,000 unused points in the account of the West Sea Base. Whenever they need any supplies, they can just go to the base to buy them, and no one will be suspicious.
and……
According to Ji Yang's memory from his previous life, the temperature would drop by another half a year, and it would take three months to drop to a normal summer temperature. When everyone was breathing a sigh of relief, the epidemic broke out again.
After much difficulty, a specific medicine was developed, but the quantity was not enough for everyone to use.
This was the most chaotic period for the base.
After enduring this period, some died of the disease, some survived after getting the medicine, and after mankind was completely free from the suffering of the epidemic, an even more terrifying period of earthquakes began.
Therefore, although Ji Yang did not explicitly say what would happen next, he would occasionally give a hint or two. In addition, Xie Muchi knew a lot of inside information before, so the two of them hit it off and began to study where would be more suitable to live next.
They have to go back to Changnan Base to check if they are sick.
After that, I chose a plain area to live in temporarily, practice flying a plane and wait for the earthquake to come.
It has been so long. Even though Ji Yang would try to practice in the space occasionally, the space was limited and she couldn't really fly much. Almost four years had passed and she was really afraid that her hands would become rusty and she could only hide in the space at critical moments.
But entering the space is actually very passive, and no one knows whether there will be anyone around when you come out next time.
Or perhaps a post-earthquake abyss awaits them.
No matter which one, just thinking about it makes my eyes go dark.
Flying in the air and finding a safe place was the safest way she could think of.
"The Lichuan Plain has a very advantageous geographical location." Xie Muzhi pointed to a place on the map that was obviously flatter than other places and said, "And there is no volcanic eye. The largest earthquake recorded in previous data was less than magnitude 4. Relatively speaking, it is very safe."
Ji Yang curved her eyes and said, "I think this place is nice too. It's not far from Changnan Base. We can get there in an hour and a half by helicopter."
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The destination has been agreed upon, and the next period of time will be just a few days of leisure.
The two of them lay flatter.
In addition to regular sparring sessions every day to maintain my body's agility, I spend the rest of my time strolling around the community. Occasionally, I go out of the community to look at the stalls at the night market and buy anything I find interesting.
He refused to leave the base.
Every once in a while, the neighbor would happily come over and share the latest gossip he had heard with them: "It's so funny. The people who wanted to buy your lives got anxious and offered a bounty to have people sneak into the base to cause trouble. Not long after they entered the base, the security guards noticed something was wrong and arrested several people."
"Oh my god, didn't you guys notice when you guys went out to play? Several of them were following you and were planning to attack you!"
Xie Muzhi looked innocent: "No."
In fact, every time they went out, they were immediately followed and protected by several plainclothes officers, and other people really couldn't touch the corners of their clothes.
The neighbor sighed and said, "It's a good thing they didn't find out. Anyway, they were caught by the authorities before they could do anything."
A few days later, the neighbor came over and said, "The man who bought your life had his house robbed!"
The neighbor's eldest brother put his hands on his hips, gloating: "The food they moved in advance was emptied. Now they are searching the streets with a few men. When they encounter tough guys, they beat them up and throw them out. It's probably because they were too conspicuous and exposed the location of the food."
"I am dying of laughter. I thought they could act recklessly with the support of the Qingtian Gang. Who can survive outside the base without some tough guys? Just ignore them!"
"I heard that the few bodyguards who followed him before have all run away. They have lost all their supplies. Why are they still following him?"
"Now that we have no supplies to buy your lives, it's hard to save my own life either. Who doesn't know he's from the Qingtian Gang now? Those survivors who want to pay for their loved ones hate him to death!"
Xie Muzhi and Ji Yang: "..."
This series is much more exciting to listen to than the TV series.
In the end, Ji Yang also knew who bought their lives.
There were a few naive people who I met at the gathering place for water exchange. One of them happened to be Yu Ling, the son of a high-ranking member of the Qingtian Gang. However, because he was well protected and very few people knew about cannibalism, he had no idea what his family had done. As a result, when the matter was exposed, he was not implicated, but at the same time, his family was destroyed.
It's funny, this group of people went out to play, and two of their companions were betrayed by the scattered minions of the Qingtian Gang. They even wanted to cause trouble for them, driving a car and holding weapons, but they couldn't beat them. Finally, when they were about to burn those things, they dared to ask to go in and take a look.
I didn't expect that I would suffer the consequences.
Yu Ling's family left him a way out in advance, and there were several people around to protect him.
If he kept a low profile, he could have survived for a long time. However, after Yu Ling realized that the culprits for the death of all his relatives were Ji Yang, Xie Muchi and the West Sea Base, he immediately wanted to hire someone to kill someone.
In this world, hiring assassins is a common occurrence and the authorities are too lazy to take any action.
It's totally out of control.
However, it is impossible to do this in the base, so as long as you are in the base and are careful, you will be safe under normal circumstances, especially Ji Yang and Xie Muchi who rarely even leave the community.
We stayed there for two months and gave out a lot of supplies, but there was no effect at all.
As Yu Ling began to get anxious, the bounties became longer and longer, to the point where the places he frequently went in and out to collect supplies were all taken away.
Those forces outside don't care about courtesy. Whatever they see is theirs, especially food.
In the end, the supplies were gone before they could really play their role. All that was left were a few weapons in our hands, which we carried with us, and were not taken away.
However, in the past two days, his weapons were also snatched away. Yu Ling was completely penniless and without the confidence of the ceremonial guard. On the same day, he was beaten to a bloody pulp by those who had been eyeing him covetously. He didn't die, but it was enough to torture him.
A few days later, Yu Ling ran to the gate of the base in a rage and wanted to rush in and die together with Ji Yang and Xie Muzhi.
When he was stopped by the officials, he started swearing and cursing them at the gate of the base.
Xie Muzhi was dragged over by his neighbor's eldest brother to watch the fun for a while.
I didn't dare to get close and mixed in with a group of people. I also recorded a video for Ji Yang and took it back to watch. Ji Yang watched it for a long time and saved it silently. It may become a highlight of the documentary in the future.
After cursing for a while, the man was taken away by the base. He was looking for trouble and destroying unity. Then, the neighbor came to tell them: "Yu Ling is dead. He was so delicate and tender, and he was not good at work. His body was covered with wounds. He died of infection in two days."
Ji Yang and Xie Muzhi looked at each other, both speechless.
This guy is probably looking for death.
The matter was easily resolved, and the gossip that the neighbor brother came over to talk about changed to other topics. Moreover, this brother had a wide range of friends. Xie Muchi had known him for a short time and he had already made many more friends.
There is no need to work, just joking around every day, and life is rare and relaxing.
Until the end of October 1963, when Ji Yang got up at 5pm to wash up, she glanced at the temperature. It was just a casual glance, but suddenly she stopped and realized something was wrong. She stared at the thermometer attached to the outside of the car window.
Sixty-two degrees.
At this time of day, the sun hasn't set yet at five o'clock and the temperature should still be around 65 degrees.
Occasionally the temperature will fluctuate a bit, but that seemed to be the case yesterday!
Generally, the fluctuation only lasts for one day.
Ji Yang was quite alert to weather changes, and immediately pulled Xie Muzhi aside and asked, "Do you remember what the temperature was yesterday?"
The thermometer is always placed outside, and they usually just take a quick look at it and don't remember it specifically.
Xie Muzhi shook his head when he heard this: "I didn't notice, usually this point is around 65 degrees."
Ji Yang took out a notebook and wrote down the time and temperature, then set an alarm for the same time the next day: "I'll check it in the next few days."
At the same time the next day, Ji Yang woke up and checked the thermometer. It was still 62 degrees.
But now we are still about three months away from the two-year hottest season!
Is this ahead of schedule again?
The temperature dropped only a little, but it was still comfortable for the human body, so other people soon noticed it. At the same time, the base also issued a notice that the extreme heat might be over.
I hope everyone will stock up as much food as possible. There may be another earthquake next time, and before that, the West Sea base will be evacuated.
Otherwise, once an earthquake occurs, a tsunami will definitely occur again.
They currently do not have the ability to save tens of thousands of survivors from a giant tsunami.
As soon as this news came out, the base launched a massive stockpiling campaign. The price of salted fish, which was usually quite affordable, doubled. Even in the villa area, the smell of salted fish was everywhere. At a glance, countless salted fish were drying in the yards of every household.
Ji Yang and Xie Muzhi's place was unusually empty.
The neighbor even came over to persuade them to stock up more food, because these things are real only if they are held in their hands, as the points belong to the base, and once the base becomes poor, they won't be able to buy anything even if they want to.
Both of them were vague about it, but still took out a small amount of fish and shrimp and followed their example in drying them.
However, the cooling is still slow.
Over the next half month, the temperature dropped another degree.
Many people are getting anxious because of the slow pace.
Ji Yang and Xie Muzhi were also discussing that they should go back when the temperature dropped to 50 degrees. However, they waited and waited for another two months before the temperature dropped to 55 degrees.
When the sun set in the afternoon, the temperature reached 46 degrees.
Once the temperature changes, the surrounding environment is the most obvious. Green gradually reappears in the field of vision. There is not much, but it is these scattered points that are particularly eye-catching.
In a corner of Ji Yang's yard, where the sun usually cannot be seen, there is a green grass. No one knows where the seed came from.
As a result, the price of vegetables dropped slightly.
There was a little more laughter and hope in the base, and even the fights became less frequent. Everyone was busy collecting supplies.
Ten days later, the temperature reached fifty-three degrees.
Ji Yang and Xie Muchi decided to leave.
Xie Muchi went to say goodbye to his neighbor, and Ji Yang took Xixi to say goodbye to the puppy he knew. Maybe Xixi was too smart. Usually, Ji Yang would tell it directly if there was anything. It seemed that it understood the meaning of parting. This time, it was particularly reluctant to see its dog friend, and even the old dog was in a low mood.
When the two dogs were playing together, they didn't fight with each other. The old dog kept licking Xixi, as if he wanted to remember it. Xixi also responded very enthusiastically, but when it was almost time, it took the initiative to return to Ji Yang and rubbed against her.
Ji Yang smiled, said hello to the old man who raised the dog, and left with Xixi.
When I got back to the car, Xie Muchi just came back.
He looked a little depressed and was not in a good mood. Seeing this, Ji Yang simply didn't let him drive. He stuffed a cup of milk tea into his hand and drove the car himself.
That's why she doesn't associate with people.
She likes being in the bustling city, but hates separation, especially separation during natural disasters. This farewell will be the last one.
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The car started slowly, left the community silently, drove out of the base, and returned to the road it came from.
The road near the base was fine, often traveled on, and relatively clear. It was already five in the morning when they left, and the sun came out soon after. They could clearly see outside, with the sky full of yellow sand and scattered green spots as far as the eye could see.
This time, Ji Yang still chose to drive during the day.
Although the temperature has dropped, everyone has become accustomed to a life of staying out at night and staying at home during the day, and has not changed immediately. The highest daytime temperature is in the early 50s, which is very hot. Relatively speaking, there are not many obstacles.
For example, right now, we are less than two kilometers out of the base and the temperature has reached the lowest point, 39 degrees. Normally, everyone would have gone home to lie down for fear of heatstroke, but now they are still trying their best to rob.
Seeing their car coming, he was not afraid at all and shouted at the top of his voice: "Stop! Pay the toll!"
Xie Muzhi, who was just emo in the back, immediately turned cold, and appeared at the passenger window with a shotgun, pointing the gun at them, and shouted, "Get out of the way!"
The robber: "..."
The ordinary pistol in his hand suddenly became nothing more than rubbish.
He immediately smiled and said, "Okay, okay, we'll make way. Big brother, please go in!"
As he spoke, he did not forget to ask people to remove the roadblocks blocking the road.
Ji Yang stepped on the accelerator and rushed forward.
Along the way, Xie Muchi did not put the gun away, but just placed it on the window. The threat from the gun made most of the people who blocked the road retreat voluntarily. There were also a few stubborn ones who were shot. Those who could survive the shotgun shooting were lucky.
After the shooting is over, go down and clear the roadblocks.
However, because of this, the two of them were not very fast.
Firstly, they were in no hurry to travel and basically stopped and walked; secondly, the temperature dropped and there were too many robbers on the road, so they had to open fire from time to time, which slowed down their speed even more.
It took three days to drive and we covered about half the distance.
It was almost noon, which was their usual lunch break time. Xixi had already started scratching the door. Ji Yang was half lying on a chair, drowsy from the shaking of the car. Hearing the scratching sound of the dog's paws, he reminded her, "Xixi, you can't do that!"
"Ouch..." Xixi called out reluctantly and paused.
But he soon scratched the door again.
Ji Yang frowned and called out seriously, "Xixi!"
The scratching sound stopped, but soon the sound of running water made her confused for a moment. Ji Yang sat up quickly and looked at Xixi who was peeing in the car in astonishment: "Xixi!"
"Woof!" Xixi shuddered and stopped peeing immediately. She then tucked her tail between her legs and looked at her pitifully.
In the corner of the car, there is a cat litter box for Xixi and Wangwang. Xixi has always used cat litter since she was a child. She occasionally urinates in the wild, but she has never done this. She felt something was wrong and threw a used rag to cover the urine. She hugged Xixi and said, "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Ouch..." Xixi tilted its head, and its eyes seemed to be clearer. Then it picked up Ji Yang's clothes and led her to the car door.
At this time, Xie Muzhi also parked the car and came over. Seeing this, he frowned and asked, "Xixi is sick?"
Ji Yang shook his head, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. He said solemnly, "There is a problem. Maybe he is a little uneasy. There was a tornado before, and Xixi's condition was not right. Let's find a hidden place to enter the space!"
I don't know what will happen, but I will immediately enter the safe space.
Xie Muchi looked serious and quickly went back to start the engine. Soon the car started moving. Ji Yang took Xixi back to the space, and then he noticed Xixi returning to the space. He was dazed for a moment, and after sticking close to Wangwang who came over, he returned to his previous calmness and just looked for Ji Yang everywhere.
Ji Yang couldn't go in at this time, so he gave it a pot of meat.
Xixi's expression immediately relaxed and she lay there eating the meat.
Outside the space, Xie Muchi had already gotten off the highway and was about to reach an overpass. The area under the bridge was a good shelter and there was no one around. Ji Yang used a telescope to check the surrounding situation.
Suddenly the car shook on the ground, as if the whole car was bumped left and right.
Ji Yang almost poked his eyes with the telescope.
"Earthquake!" she shouted subconsciously.
Her mouth was faster than her brain, and she realized that Xixi's abnormal behavior might be because she sensed danger.
What is this danger?
She was not sure, but after she said it out loud, her brain quickly analyzed the situation. Through the telescope, the scenery looked ordinary, but if you look closely, the surface covered with yellow sand seemed to be moving, rather than simply the air being distorted by the high temperature.
Ji Yang's heart suddenly tightened.
There is still about half a year before the earthquake period, why now? !
Xihai City had originally planned to evacuate before the earthquake, but now it is too late to evacuate.
What happens next?
Ji Yang subconsciously recalled the horrific scenes from her previous life. Earth-shaking was no longer an adjective. The landslide and cracking of the ground were imminent before her eyes. The fear of being swallowed by the crack made her body begin to tremble.
No matter how hard she tried to avoid thinking about it, she was still most afraid of earthquakes.
"It's okay, we're almost there!" Xie Muchi spoke in a low and firm voice, his handsome face serious. He stepped on the accelerator almost until it smoked and just rushed under the bridge.
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The car stopped suddenly.
Both of them leaned forward suddenly, holding on to the car tightly to stabilize themselves, and then looked at each other. Xie Muzhi: "To the space?"
Ji Yang: "Helicopter!"
Xie Muchi chose to listen to her. When encountering an earthquake, the two had agreed that a helicopter would be more appropriate. However, this place was not suitable for using a helicopter, and Ji Yang had not practiced in advance, so he said that they could enter the space.
Since she insists, so be it.
The two men divided the work and got out of the car quickly. One parked the car while the other went to the open space next to it to get the helicopter. In order to facilitate use at any time, the helicopter had been stored in a static space in a state where it could be started at any time. Now that it was taken out directly, the helicopter's dashboard was still lit.
In just a short period of time, another wave of shaking came, and the helicopter shook visibly.
In this situation, it must be an earthquake!
"Hurry up!" Ji Yang shouted and got on the helicopter first.
Xie Muchi also ran over quickly and followed him up. The moment he came up, the ground began to shake again, this time much stronger than before, and Ji Yang's hands even shook.
Her whole body was tense and her face was pale. She kept taking deep breaths and told herself not to be afraid. At worst, she could enter the space. She still had the space as a retreat. She had to stay calm!
Such hints are useful.
Ji Yang's brain calmed down quickly. His body was still shaking a little, but he was able to clearly follow the steps to start the helicopter.
After a few seconds, the helicopter began to move shakily.
The huge wind force blew up the surrounding dust, blurring the vision to a certain extent, and the roar was deafening, as if nothing could be heard. But the moment the helicopter took off completely, Ji Yang's heart suddenly relaxed.
As long as she was off the ground, no matter how terrible the earthquake was, it would have nothing to do with her for the time being.
At the same time, a shocking noise seemed to be heard in my ears.
It sounded like something huge collapsing.
The cabin door was tightly closed, and the wind outside could not reach here. She seemed to be isolated from the world. She calmly raised the helicopter to the appropriate height step by step. The only thing in her sight was the control panel and the sky in front of her.
When he first flew into the air, Ji Yang did not dare to move around randomly, but instead flew around an area to get used to the feel.
Xie Muchi also didn't care about anything else. He looked at the map. The compass in his hand had started to spin wildly. The earthquake had changed the magnetic field, and the compass stopped working. He could only determine the approximate direction based on the terrain, while looking underground from time to time. Various buildings collapsed, landslides occurred, birds fled in panic, and some wild animals that were originally struggling to survive all ran out at this time, looking for a safe place.
It's the first time since the natural disaster that things are so lively, but everyone is trying to escape.
But in the face of natural disasters, where is there a safe place?
Three minutes later, Ji Yang, who had completely adapted to the rhythm of flying a plane, signaled that it was okay, and Xie Muchi immediately pointed out the direction.
She began to fly steadily in the direction Xie Muzhi said.
After driving for more than ten minutes, she finally relaxed a little, and was then surprised to find that the sky in front of her was no longer the endless blue as before.
It was not as dark as during the previous rainstorms and hail. Against the blue background, the clouds seemed to be evenly shaken and arranged in lines across the sky. The dazzling sunlight shone through, making the clouds half bright and half dark.
Some of them look like the snow on the roof being shaken off and falling down piece by piece.
Fortunately, they are still far away and will not actually fall.
Ji Yang glanced down unintentionally.
The rumbling sound of the helicopter blocked her ears, so that she seemed unable to hear the movement below. At this time, at an altitude of five or six hundred meters, the buildings on the ground became very small, but she could still see at a glance the surface that became more turbulent due to the violent movement of the earth's crust.
At this moment, buildings collapsed into pieces.
The viaduct they had just passed was also broken into pieces.
But this is not the epicenter.
The epicenter...Based on the severity of the damage to the surface, it can be roughly estimated that...
"The epicenter may be at the Lake City base." Xie Muzhi held the telescope and observed for a long time before coming to this conclusion.
They were about to pass by there at this moment, and they could clearly see that the closer they got to the Lake City base, the louder the movement on the surface became.
Ji Yang immediately thought of Changnan City. In her prediction, the earthquake did not come so early, and she herself was caught off guard by the sudden earthquake. Changnan City is so close to Hu City that they can feel it here, but she doesn't know what the situation is at Changnan Base.
However, the epicenter of the earthquake was over there, so the West Sea Base might have escaped the disaster.
Just as Ji Yang was thinking about this, Xie Muzhi spoke again: "There may be more than one earthquake source. The degree of damage in the direction of the West Sea Base is also relatively high. On the contrary, the area where we parked just now is the safest."
But the safest is only relative.
Even though the two epicenters are far away, the horror of the earthquake cannot be underestimated.
Time was urgent and there was no time to observe. Ji Yang headed towards the Lichuan Plain. On the way, he gradually saw many other helicopters. The largest number at one time was a helicopter fleet.
There was no set route, and everyone was afraid of collisions, so they avoided each other from a distance.
The plane had been refueled when it first came out, and Ji Yang drove all the way to the plain. An hour and a half had passed, and the earthquake seemed to have subsided long ago.
As the helicopter slowly landed, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the Lichuan Plain might really have its geographical advantages. The traces of earthquakes here were smaller than in other places. Due to the high temperature, the landform had changed. There was yellow sand everywhere. Only a few dead trees persisted in growing new buds, which were twisted by this wave of earthquakes, but not a single tree fell down.
"Let's stop here." Xie Muchi looked around and confirmed with Ji Yang.
Ji Yang nodded, and the plane landed completely.
Then the two of them got off the plane to refuel. Everything had to be in the best condition so that they could leave at any time if there was any danger.
They had just finished refueling and were about to rest for a while on the plane when suddenly there was another shaking under their feet. Ji Yang's face changed slightly and he reflexively took off again. The shaking disappeared again.
It was an aftershock, and it was still small.
Ji Yang relaxed a little, but when he looked at the sky, his heart tightened again. The sky had become dark without him noticing. What was he going to do? !
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