Chapter 091 Chapter 91
The two looked at each other, needless to say, they already understood each other's intentions. Ji Yang took out the base station mobile phone that had not been used for a long time, thinking of trying to make a call first. However, as soon as he took it out, he found that there was no signal. Not only was the network signal gone, but he couldn't even make a call.
Seeing this, Xie Muzhi got out of the car with two sweet potatoes and called over an honest-looking man: "Brother, I want to ask you something, what are you doing?"
The man went back with an empty backpack, exhausted, and not very fast. When he was called over with sweet potatoes, his eyes widened and he immediately said, "Well, it's no longer habitable on the mountain. The base is moving down. We are porters moving things. Meals are provided, and we can even get two steamed buns a day as compensation."
"Uninhabitable? So serious?" Xie Muchi frowned. He remembered that when he looked from mid-air before, there were not many collapsed buildings.
The man said hurriedly, "It's not that we can't live here at all. Half of the mountain is tilted, so the house is also in trouble. The remaining half is enough for us, but we don't know what will happen in the future. If there is another earthquake, the remaining half of the mountain will also have problems. In addition, the base said that the next few major bases will be merged, and the people around will gather here, so the base chose another place."
Then the man added, "You guys also heard that the base was going to be moved, so you came here early, right?"
"Well..." Xie Muzhi said vaguely: "I don't know the exact time, but it happens to be relatively peaceful these two days, so I thought of coming here to find a place to stay first."
"Then you'll have to wait a little longer..." The man felt a little sympathetic. He came too early and had no place to stay. He comforted him, "It's okay. If you come earlier, you can reserve a house earlier. You can drive a car, so you can definitely buy a house."
The man smacked his lips enviously, holding two sweet potatoes in his hands, and asked eagerly, "Brother, do you have any other questions?"
"No, thank you." Xie Muzhi shook his head.
The man said again: "Then I'm leaving."
Xie Muchi nodded, and then hesitantly picked up the empty load and walked away quickly.
After watching the other party leave, Xie Muzhi watched for a while, found the soldier in charge of maintaining law and order and chatted with him for a while, then returned to the car, looked at Ji Yang, and said: "The base will be relocated as a whole, and Changnan Base will be rebuilt. The location is estimated to be not too far away, and the damage here is not particularly serious. It is a good location. However, if we want to go back, we have to wait until they have lunch break. Time is tight. Except for the one-hour lunch break, private vehicles cannot pass through at other times."
"The villa area is also good. Most of the problems are in the high-rise buildings, which are more affected by acid rain. But there is no problem living there. There will be no leaks and the quality is still very good."
Ji Yang immediately felt relieved: "It's good that we can go back. Let's wait for a while. It's still early."
Just as he finished speaking, a man carrying heavy construction supplies who was walking not far in front of them suddenly fell down and rolled directly to the ground. The people around him were so scared that they avoided him and sighed.
Through the slightly open car window, a passing survivor sighed without much emotion: "Another one has fallen. I guess he is sick and came here to work."
"Hey, I don't know when a cure for this virus will be developed. I can't hold on any longer..."
"You're dreaming. Even if you figure it out, can you afford it? Save your money, work harder, and save more food. At least you can provide more security for your family before you die."
Special medicine...
Ji Yang frowned again.
It's a pity that she was reborn but was unable to bring back the special medicine. Otherwise, with a ready-made answer, research and development would be much simpler. However, it is unknown when it will be developed.
The natural disasters in this life are more tragic than those in the previous life. The authorities have tried their best but still failed to save most of the survivors. Now the earthquake has come early and there is acid rain. Under the torture of these two terrible disasters, if effective medicines are not developed, mankind will lose another batch of people.
But they were also helpless and all they could do was to find a way to get more medicinal herbs.
Over the past year, Ji Yang has continued to grow herbs in the space. With the help of Xie Muchi, the efficiency of preparing medicinal materials has increased a lot. However, the growth of medicinal materials varies. So far, the number of medicinal materials added is not small, but the types are limited.
We can take it out after we make sure the earthquake and acid rain are over.
But for the officials, it is just a drop in the bucket.
But the higher the better.
The two of them closed their eyes tacitly and went back to their own spaces to work. There was no need to plant vegetables for the time being. After the weather improved, water would no longer be scarce. With the preparation level of the base, vegetables would definitely not be scarce anymore.
Therefore, at the Xihai base, after they exchanged all the dried vegetables for points, they stopped planting them. The original vegetable area was 850 square meters, but later because the staple food area was changed into a breeding area, the original vegetable area was moved to the planting boxes. Therefore, these 850 square meters have been planted with potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.
Now Ji Yang is converting the planting boxes to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes. How far can he go?
It's the same with Xie Muchi. He set up shelves and filled them with planting boxes. He reduced the planting of vegetables and switched to planting medicinal herbs. He could harvest a batch every once in a while.
It just means they are a little busier.
Fortunately, all these things can be done with the mind, and you can finish all the work when you have time during your rest time.
The more troublesome thing is how to deliver these things they have obtained to the authorities without implicating themselves?
This is a story for later. Just do it now, you will always find an opportunity in the future.
It just so happened that they left the space and rushed to the base as soon as they woke up. Their daily tasks were not completed yet. They were now half lying in the car. There were soldiers from the base guarding them. No one dared to act rashly. The two men and the dog rested peacefully.
After finishing the tasks that needed to be done in the space, including feeding, harvesting, taking care of, and sipping, Ji Yang looked at the time and saw that almost two hours had passed.
But there were still nearly three hours until lunch break, so I could only keep my eyes closed.
This time, her consciousness floated to the small sea area.
Now, nearly a year has passed.
The killer whales that looked half-grown when they first entered the small sea area have now grown into the size of adult killer whales. The two skinny killer whales have also grown plump due to the abundant food in the small sea area and her occasional feeding.
More than a dozen killer whales were playing together in this sea area. Their round bodies jumped out of the sea one after another, turned into graceful arcs and then sank into the water again. Closer to the coast, several pink figures were playing with two small figures near the coast.
On the sea, many birds are also flying here, exploring the fish near the sea surface. Once they find the target, they will attack fiercely.
If you fail occasionally, you will become a drowned bird.
Consciousness spread to the sea, where countless large and small fish, shrimps, shellfish, crabs, jellyfish, octopus and other creatures were swimming around. There were even more things hidden in the densely grown water grasses. If they were slightly touched, they would be frightened and a nest of small fish and shrimps would rush out.
In deeper places, larger lobsters, crabs and tuna also appeared one by one, and their numbers were much larger than before.
Apart from some that they collected later, most of them depended on their own reproductive ability.
Nowadays, except for rare species such as killer whales, dolphins, and sharks, Ji Yang no longer interferes with their free hunting. These things sounded rare and expensive before the natural disaster, but in fact their reproduction capacity is unexpectedly strong. If it were not for the unexpected tolerance of the small sea area, she suspected that the food chain would collapse.
I don’t know whether the acid rain will have a big impact on the ocean.
There are also volcanic eruptions. How serious will the submarine volcanoes be?
This was something Ji Yang didn't dare to think about.
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After a short nap, I woke up again and was woken up by Xie Muchi.
At the hottest time of the day, the temperature reached 40 degrees Celsius. There was an hour's lunch break and the government provided meals, so most people went to eat and there were no large trucks passing by on the road.
The two drove inside immediately.
It is still a familiar road, but it is also particularly unfamiliar. The cement paved road is gone, and now it is a dirt road pressed out by large trucks. The large cracks passed by have also been filled to the point where normal driving is allowed.
Until we arrived at the gate of the base.
The tilted gate no longer had its former grandeur. The relatively good buildings that Xie Muchi had inquired about had actually all suffered varying degrees of damage, and none of them were truly intact.
Cracks in the walls have become a common sight.
The area near the gate was still as busy as usual. When they drove past, a staff member immediately signaled them to stop. The mechanical pole had broken down and the staff was very tired. Suntan was not the only problem, as they had obviously lost a lot of weight.
It is not just the ordinary survivors who have been tortured for so many days. Even those who work under the authorities cannot withstand such physical and mental torture.
I handed over my ID and the staff checked it and let me go without any further words.
Xie Muchi continued to drive very slowly. Even though it was noon and the sun was hot, it was a very good temperature compared to the extreme heat that had just passed. No one was resting; everyone was busy.
There are broken buildings everywhere on the roadside, and there are people responsible for dismantling and moving them. All construction items, even if they look like waste, can be reused. These are all good things.
Even the security guards who were in charge of supervision had to help get some things.
Having lost too many people, the base is clearly short of manpower.
A security guard noticed a car coming and took a curious look. He was stunned and waved and shouted, "Ji Yang!"
The glass window was not pry-proof, and she could tell who the other person was from the profile.
Hearing the noise, Ji Yang also looked over, and was immediately surprised, but also somewhat delighted: "Li Yi?"
One of the few people who left such a deep impression on her in this life. No one knows if they will be gone one day, but every time she sees them, Ji Yang always feels happy. Fortunately, they can still live well.
But why is she wearing a sheriff's costume?
Xie Muzhi stopped the car, Ji Yang thought for a moment and opened the door. Seeing this, Li Yi's hesitation immediately disappeared and she trotted over. Her increasingly thin figure made her look petite, but her steps were steady and she stepped over the architectural obstacles one by one with great skill.
"You're back!" Li Yi's eyes were filled with obvious surprise. "I went to look for you after the earthquake, but couldn't find you. I was scared to death. Fortunately, someone told me that you had left the base a long time ago."
Ji Yang curved his eyes and said, "Yes, I left before and was about to come back when I encountered an earthquake. Fortunately, we were lucky. The earthquake was not too strong where we were, so we were lucky to escape. Are you a security guard now?"
Li Yi nodded vigorously and said with a smile: "It was Sister Jing. She said that it is not enough to fight alone now. It just so happens that the government is short of people, so we applied for the job. She is in charge of security in District 3. If she knew you were back, she would definitely be very happy!"
Ji Yang's heart warmed as he thought of Jiang Jing. Her life was even more difficult as she had a child, but she was apparently still living well. Ji Yang suddenly realized why he had been paying attention to them.
Jiang Jing is very tenacious, smart and has a bottom line.
She instinctively hoped that such people could live a better life.
After not seeing each other for a long time and after the earthquake, Ji Yang felt a little touched. He thought that he just wanted to know the situation of the base, and this was a ready-made candidate. After hesitating for a moment, he invited her in the other's happy eyes: "We just happened to bring back a lot of things. How about we go over for dinner tonight?"
Li Yi was obviously interested, but was too embarrassed to agree.
Ji Yang said frankly: "It just so happens that we just came back. We have been away for a few months, and there are some things I want to know."
When Li Yi heard this, he said, "Okay!"
Although they shouldn't come over due to the shortage of supplies at that time, Ji Yang's invitation seemed sincere and didn't seem polite. He also wanted to know about the base, which she and Jiang Jing could really help them with, so she shamelessly agreed.
Ji Yang smiled and said, "Well, remember to invite your uncle, aunt, and Jiang Jing's child as well. Don't forget."
"Isn't this a bit too much?" Li Yi felt embarrassed when he heard that the family was involved.
Ji Yang said: "What's wrong with that? Anyway, I made so much, and if people can't finish it, it will just be wasted."
Li Yi didn't want to waste the word, so he said quickly, "No, I'll take care of it! You should also make less, we don't eat much."
Ji Yang looked at her with amusement. Not a big appetite? How is that possible?
But she didn't say much, so as not to make Li Yi even more embarrassed.
The two of them made an appointment. Just then, there was a quarrel at the back, and Li Yi said goodbye and went to deal with it. Ji Yang watched for a while, then got back into the car and said in a good mood, "I just invited them to dinner."
Xie Muzhi also smiled and said, "That's great, I can show off my skills and see how many compliments I can get."
"I'll join in too." Ji Yang said hurriedly. She couldn't cook, but she could help. She was very good with a knife, especially chopping chicken, which she did very skillfully.
The car started again and headed in another direction.
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After Li Yi dealt with the quarrel, he sighed heavily, subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of Ji Yang's car, smiled with ease, and murmured in a low voice: "It's great that we are all still alive..."
In fact, she really missed Ji Yang a little.
The relationship between the two parties was not very deep and they did not contact each other often. Later, when they got mobile phones, they left their phone numbers to each other. Ji Yang also said that he could call her if he needed anything.
But they never fought once.
Their abilities are okay. Not the best, but they can live better than most survivors and don't need any help.
It’s just that maybe Ji Yang is too powerful. In Li Yi and Jiang Jing’s hearts, she is different.
For example, at this moment, the ordinary survivors on their side were so thin that they were almost skin and bones, and she herself was not much better, but Ji Yang was the same as always.
Her skin was obviously darker now than before, compared to the glowing white before. But if you compare her skin closely, you can find that Ji Yang's skin is nothing at all.
She always takes good care of herself.
As a result, the two of them simultaneously developed an anchor in their hearts, an anchor of yearning for the life before the natural disaster. It seemed that with her around, things would never be so bad, and no matter how terrible the natural disaster was, it would not be a dead end.
Before they saw him, they were secretly worried, wondering if something had happened to Ji Yang.
If even someone as powerful as her could get into trouble, what about them? Would they also die soon?
Until this moment, when Li Yi saw the living Ji Yang with her own eyes, she seemed to be still the same. Just one look at him made her feel at ease. Even if their lives were not so good, if they kept working hard, they would eventually see the day when everything would end...
*
The car drove slowly, carefully avoiding the crowd.
While Xie Muzhi was driving, Ji Yang observed the surrounding situation and found that the situation was much better than she thought. Not many houses were collapsed by the earthquake, and most of them had some relatively large cracks and became dangerous buildings. The acid rain seemed to be very powerful, turning the ruins of the city into powder, but it did not seem to have such a strong power here, and most of the houses were intact.
The biggest losses are still in the roads.
As far as the eye can see, most of the walls are pitted, the houses have cracks, and some buildings are obviously tilted. The survivors are skinny, but it is obvious that they are still in good spirits. They are tired but have goals.
The target is...those abandoned houses.
These houses were inhabited before, but now that they have collapsed, even if the people inside left early, they would not take all the supplies with them. Everything they found in the abandoned buildings belonged to them, so those who were unable to work for the official government came here to find food.
This is even more dangerous. If you are scratched or crushed by rocks, your life may be in danger. However, wealth and honor are achieved through risk, and people who are still alive today don't care too much about these things.
We walked through the crowded streets and arrived at Area 1.
The villa area is still the same, but many places have been damaged and it looks messy. The security guard has also been replaced, so it looks a little unfamiliar.
The security guard didn't dare to let them in at first. When he saw them driving a car, he called the patrol team until they produced the property certificate and identity information.
Ji Yang's small courtyard was the same as usual.
The heavy iron gate was almost completely corroded, the courtyard wall was full of potholes and had shortened a lot, the stone slabs at the gate were revealing the reddish-brown soil, and the wall was in a mess.
But the whole thing was not damaged and is still intact.
The doors of the houses are also good.
Along the way, most of the houses are basically like this, including those in other places. They are corroded, but only the surface is corroded. Ji Yang was not worried about the quality of the houses, but he considered the possibility of his house being stolen.
I didn't expect it to be so intact.
That's right.
Those people in the villa area are life-threatening. After experiencing those terrible things, the control over entry and exit has become even stricter. The remaining people who can move around here are those who have no shortage of supplies, and no one will come to pry open the door of a house that has already left.
Perhaps the official construction took into consideration the acid rain caused by the earthquake, so the main door of the house is recessed inward. Therefore, except for a point under the eaves that was attacked by acid rain, the gate is intact.
Ji Yang took out the key to open the door. As soon as he opened it, the floor was filled with smoke and dust.
When I left, I put away all the things here. There were not many rats and cockroaches because there was no food and the weather was hot. I guess the few that were there came here to avoid the acid rain.
The two of them opened the door and waited for a while before carefully entering the house.
Stopping Xixi who wanted to have fun, Ji Yang first sprayed some disinfectant here. Xie Muchi took a broom to sweep away some obvious dirt. Then Ji Yang took out the sweeping robot and left the cleaning job to it.
Then they closed the door again, and the two of them took Xixi to continue sitting in the car for a while. About half an hour later, the living room was cleaned and the windows were opened again for ventilation. Only then did they officially begin to prepare for the short-term stay that was to follow.
First step: Release the mouse and cockroach!
The second step was to clean up the kitchen and take out the refrigerator. Acid rain was something many people had not expected, and the solar panels were probably also severely damaged. However, they had already put away all the solar panels at home and outside before they left, so it was normal to take them out and use them again now.
It's just that the sun isn't as extremely hot, so the efficiency will be much lower.
It doesn’t matter, as long as others don’t doubt it.
It's still early, so there's no need to cook. I just put away the things that need to be taken out, and then go to deal with the basement. No one has lived there for a long time, and there's a musty smell in the basement.
Ji Yang did not take the bed away, so it was a good opportunity to take it out to dry in the sun. The quilts and other things in the space could also be dried in the sun. Finally, he reinstalled the air conditioner.
In the next few days, they will live on the first floor. The weather is still hot, so the air conditioner has to be used.
After finishing the housework, Xixi and Wangwang just happened to clean up the cockroaches and rats, and placed them neatly in front of Ji Yang to take credit.
A cat and a dog sat in front of her, with their heads held high, looking extremely proud.
Ji Yang also praised them generously: "Wow, you caught so many, you are amazing, right?!"
The exaggerated tone of voice made the two cats feel relaxed and comfortable. Xixi's tail was like a propeller, and Wangwang also held his tail high, revealing a bit of coquettishness in his elegance: "Meow~"
Ji Yang used tongs to collect all these things into the trash can, prepared a sumptuous meal for the two cats, and after putting in the cat bed, dog bed and litter box, let them move freely.
Xie Muchi went to the base supermarket. It was almost time, so he pretended to buy something and asked about what food was available in the base.
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Less than half an hour later, Xie Muchi came back with a black bag in his hand.
Ji Yang was curious: "What did you buy?"
Xie Muzhi raised his eyebrows: "Can you open it and take a look?"
Ji Yang took it, it was heavy, and when she opened it, she saw that it was sections of purple sugar cane. She was surprised: "Sugar cane?"
Xie Muzhi smiled and said, "Yes, we're selling some of the sugar cane used to make sugar. It doesn't taste very good when eaten directly, but the juice is very good. I heard from the salesperson that it's selling very well. If I hadn't happened to run into a restock, I wouldn't have been able to buy it. I can use this as a drink later."
"Okay, okay!" Ji Yang nodded immediately and took out the juicer with great interest: "I'll make some juice. I was just thinking about drinking some mung bean soup, and now it's just right to drink sugarcane to supplement the sugar."
Sugar is a strategic material. When Ji Yang was stockpiling sugar before, she couldn't buy too much, even if she was abroad. But she just didn't like these things very much, so she didn't think about it.
It is common to grow sugarcane to make sugar.
Originally, Ji Yang didn't have much expectation for Xie Muchi to go to the base supermarket. When supplies were scarce, nothing good could be found. They couldn't just take ordinary supplies and compete with others for survival resources.
I didn't expect this surprise.
Xie Muzhi saw that she was busy and happy, so he didn't disturb her and went into the kitchen to start preparing the dishes.
The situation at the base was much better than they had imagined. Although life was difficult, the authorities had made sufficient preparations. They collected food at the beginning of the natural disaster, and after the disaster, they tried every means to produce food. With the support of other bases and... a large number of survivors who had died, there was no shortage of food for the time being.
The prices of some whole-grain breads have dropped by one or two points.
It just so happens that a new base is being built now, and they are preparing to accept survivors from other bases in the surrounding area, which requires a large amount of labor. The official is short of people, so they use food as compensation. The survivors are short of food, so they work in exchange for food. This is considered to have reached a pretty good balance.
In addition to some common coarse grains, there is also a lot of dried fish and meat. Fifty kilograms of it can be added at irregular intervals every day to provide some protein for the survivors. There is also a small amount of fresh meat that needs to be robbed, the most of which are rabbit meat, chicken, and pork.
Ordinary survivors who cannot loot or afford meat can go to the base cafeteria to eat. The price is slightly more expensive than coarse grains, but you can occasionally get some meat.
Or you can work for the government, with free meals, and manual laborers can get a piece of meat every day.
In this case, they are already rich people in the eyes of others, so they don't need to be too restrained.
It was the first time that Ji Yang had friends coming over for dinner. Xie Muchi knew them a little bit. They were from the same building and had helped each other. Although they were not close friends, they kept in touch. After some thought, he took out a plump grass carp and asked Ji Yang for a big fat chicken.
Grass carp can be made into grilled fish, and some lotus root slices, dried tofu and baby cabbage can be added as side dishes.
Here comes a delicious and nourishing chicken soup.
And a few side dishes, salted duck eggs and preserved eggs to go with rice, steamed eggs for children, and stir-fried vegetables.
While Xie Muzhi was still preparing the dishes, in the living room, Ji Yang also took out a brand new juicer. After cleaning it, he peeled the sugarcane and threw it in according to the steps. Just as he pressed the start button, there was a sudden loud noise: "Buzz--"
Xixi and Wangwang were lying in their nest to rest after being busy and tired. They were frightened by the noise and screamed "Awooo!" "Meow!" in surprise, and the hair on the tips of their tails stood on end.
Ji Yang was also stunned, and quickly comforted the two: "It's okay, it's okay, don't worry about it."
The two looked at each other with suspicion, but seeing that Ji Yang was not in danger, they did not come over.
Cats and dogs have better hearing than humans, and this loud noise might be a torture.
When Ji Yang looked up, Xie Muchi also came out of the kitchen, with a look of surprise on his handsome face, as if asking why he bought such a crappy juicer when he was so rich?
Kitchen rookie Ji Yang looked up at the sky speechlessly: "...This is new, I haven't used it before, and I didn't expect it to be so bad!"
But since everything has been thrown in, just use it as it is.
Xie Muzhi couldn't help laughing: "It's okay, the house is so quiet, it's nice to have some fun."
Ji Yang: “…”
Fortunately, although it makes a bit of noise, the juicer is still very effective. The juice is squeezed out. From a whole piece of sugarcane, half a pot of juice can be squeezed out. Then put a few ice cubes in it to dilute it a little and cool it down at the same time.
She put the kettle in the refrigerator, washed her hands, and went into the kitchen to help Xie Muchi.
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