The flood waters began to recede
Su Heng slowly fell onto the bed and found a comfortable position to lie down: "Didn't I tell you before that the upper limit of my spiritual power usage was increased after I met you?"
"Well, I thought you just wanted to emphasize that time point with me."
"No."
He explained the reason: "There is an absolute domain around you. The closer I am to you, the less oppressive power this world brings to me."
"In short, you are not subject to the world's rules and regulations. In our world of immortal cultivation, there is a phrase that suits you very well, called the Chosen Girl."
"Chosen by Heaven?" After being reborn, it was indeed God's choice.
"I see."
Now that the misunderstanding was resolved, Jiang Miao did not stay long. He told him to have a good rest and that he would be back in the second half of the night, and then left again.
I was anxious to get Li Chongyu treated, as the matter of Lushan Villa had not yet been resolved.
Su Heng looked at her receding back, keeping his consciousness on her until she disappeared, and couldn't help but let out a sigh.
Actually... I have a little fondness for it.
At 3:30 in the morning, the temperature dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius, the coldest time of the night.
The streets were deserted. Occasionally, a dark shadow was visible on the ice under the headlights of a car. When I got closer, I saw that it was a body thrown on the side of the road waiting to be collected by the municipality.
Su Le asked: "How is the little Taoist's injury? Is he okay?"
"The bullet has been removed and bandaged."
Su Le sighed and said, "Next time we go out, we still have to bring Fang Yang with us. With him, we won't fall into such a big pit."
Jiang Miao agreed: "Indeed."
Su Le: "His premonition ability is really amazing. If this were a TV series, God would have given him the role of the male lead."
The two drove the car back to the foot of Lushan Mountain and returned to Yuan's house.
It was freezing cold, and even though more than a dozen people died in a villa, the smell of blood was not very noticeable.
It just smells gloomy and cold and fishy.
Jiang Miao looked at the corpses all over the ground and finally had time to ask what happened down there.
Su Le said: "It was Li Chongyu. He ran into a maid who was still awake and stealing supplies. The two of them bumped into each other and the maid screamed and fainted."
As Jiang Miao and Su Le were talking, they returned to the underground first floor. The place that Li Chongyu described was already empty, and there was no sign of the maid at all.
Still let one get away.
The door of the supply storage room was ajar. Jiang Miao walked in with his gun in hand and when he felt that there was no one inside, he called Su Le in to move the supplies.
This storage room is nearly 50 square meters and is filled with a wide variety of supplies.
It can only be said that even if the richest man's family is at the end of the world, their quality of life is not compromised at all. They have Queen strawberries, Queen cherries, Miyazaki mangoes, Ruby Roman grapes, green lychees...
He has a complete selection of these luxurious fruits which are not very common in normal times.
The other vegetables and meats were all pretty normal, all grassland beef and mutton, as well as crispy and tender green vegetables.
But it doesn’t have to be expensive to get this kind of fresh and essential need in the doomsday, and the fruit price is low.
Due to the constant temperature setting in the storage room, the fruits and vegetables were frozen hard shortly after being taken out. The two men used snakeskin bags to drag six sacks.
After dragging the child into the car, Su Le stayed inside while Jiang Miao went back again.
This time she only took meat and vegetables, and put the fruits that she couldn't take away into the space.
Afterwards, he wandered around the villa and put away everything he saw, including the large mahogany dining table, pearwood sideboard, ancient Roman murals, European floor lamps, luxury bags, and expensive Patek Philippe watches.
Although her space had all these things, there had to be a reason to support the death of so many people in a villa.
The Yuan family is no small fry, and they will definitely get to the bottom of this.
The villa was looted without any notice, and the criminal police team will definitely judge it as a crime committed by a professional theft gang.
However, the Yuan family’s headquarters is in Beijing, and the news is slow to get there. It will take five days for them to send people over. The first people to arrive at the scene must be those from the Municipal Bureau.
So Jiang Miao came to the study, knocked left and right and finally found the secret room where Yuan Yiwei mentioned the gold, silver and treasures were kept.
Jiang Miao did not touch any of the things in there. She only kept the documents, materials, and stationery that she had taken away from the Qinglong Gang and the Yulong Army. She hid them in a cabinet and even locked it to make it obvious.
Finally, he restored the door of the secret room to its original state and checked the scene again to make sure there were no traces left. Then he returned to the car with the four sacks.
Add in the two bags of cake snacks he got on his first visit, and as long as he eats sparingly, it will definitely be enough for 1101 to survive until the extreme cold is over.
The two drove back and woke up Fang Yang while there was no one in the corridor before dawn. The two of them worked together to carry the supplies back.
"Brother Yu is injured?" Fang Yang exclaimed, "How serious is it?"
Jiang Miao carried Li Chongyu down from the building: "There is no danger to his life."
The three of them divided the supplies equally into four portions. According to Jiang Miao's special request, she took more fruits and less vegetables and meat.
The preciousness and market price of these luxury fruits are much higher than meat and vegetables, but for 1101, the flashy and watery fruits are far less substantial than the protein-rich meat.
It just so happened that she had plenty of vegetables and meat in her own space, but lacked luxurious fruits like this, so everyone got what they needed and both parties were satisfied.
Holding the extra meat, Su Le sighed, "Although the senior sister looks cold, she is actually very soft-hearted. I really like this kind of contrast."
Fang Yang also said: "Yeah, I thought my sister really hated me for sticking to her."
"Senior sister has a sharp tongue but a soft heart."
"Sister treats her enemies like autumn wind blowing away fallen leaves, but treats us like spring."
"Senior is the most protective of her shortcomings."
"Sister is the best!"
The two Miaochui flattered each other and woke up the unconscious Li Chongyu. He struggled to express his opinion: "I, I don't agree - Cuiyan Miaomiao, she is a ruthless person with few words."
You can believe in Sister Miao, but you cannot be superstitious about her.
An alien appeared in the crowd, and the two of them ignored him tacitly and changed his medicine.
The tragic incident in which dozens of people died in Lushan Villa caused an uproar in the Municipal Bureau!
Not only was there a large number of deaths, but the death of the protagonist, Yuan Yiwei, the eldest son of the Yuan family, also alarmed the city's top brass, who ordered Xie Lin to lead an investigation in person and make sure the murderer was caught and severely punished.
Director Xie brought people to the scene and initially determined that this was a case of murder for money.
The Yuan family had already packed a batch of luggage and was on the road. The entire villa looked like it had been swept by hornets. Except for the big white walls, doors, windows and lamps, all movable objects had been looted!
This action is simply terrifying!
The physical evidence team and the forensic doctor conducted a preliminary inspection of the scene and the body. Xie Lin led the criminal police team to check around the villa and asked, "Why haven't Lao Liu's people come yet?"
The person from Team 1 answered, "I heard that a breakthrough has been found in the case of the NSER workstation and it will be closed soon. I asked you for leave and will come back an hour later."
Several people wearing gloves acted separately and searched upstairs and downstairs, but the criminals cleaned the scene too thoroughly and they could not find anything useful.
At this time, the criminal police who had been visiting the surrounding areas also came back.
Director Xie took it and looked at it. The rest had no nutritional value. Most of them were unclear and unknown. Those who lived close to the Yuan family said that they heard faint gunshots, but they were in a daze and didn't know the exact time.
Only a resident living at the edge of the villa area wrote a statement describing that the group drove there and back again, making two trips in total, with about an hour in between.
Through the crime scene, the initial forensic examination and the visit report, Xie Ling can preliminarily determine that this is a professional burglary gang of at least seven people.
He was skilled in killing people, capable of cleaning up scenes, and bold and careful. He even dared to return to the crime scene an hour after leaving it.
In other words, this case is very difficult to solve.
Especially in the end times when various technical conditions are restricted.
The forensic and on-site investigation tasks were nearing completion. Director Xie leaned against a large bookcase and thought about how to write the report, how to fool his superiors, and how to explain to the Yuan family.
Suddenly, my peripheral vision caught sight of an ornament in the lower right corner of the large bookcase that seemed to have not been taken away.
He tried to reach out and take it, but found that it seemed to be nailed down and could not be moved.
"Thank you, Director! Captain Liu is here!"
The winter clothes were heavy and he stood up with difficulty: "You come now? Everything is done, and he can't even have a sip of soup."
Captain Liu walked in and said with a chuckle, "This case has been stuck at the military district for two months. Now it's finally closed. I'm speeding up the case to reduce the burden on my superiors."
Director Xie waved his hand: "Come here, Xiao Qin, come and take a look at what this ornament is and what it means. It looks like something you young people play with..."
"A figure."
"Yes, come and take a look."
After giving the order, Director Xie finally had time to ask, "What happened in the end? When I asked you before, you said it would be done soon, but there is no concrete news."
Old Liu took a deep breath and sighed helplessly: "All the researchers at the workstation died in the high temperature in the first year of the doomsday."
"The temperature underground was high, and by the time the guards found the bodies three days later, they had already rotted. But in order to continue to keep this leisurely and easy job, they concealed the news from their superiors.
After all, all the researchers are dead, so their guard duty becomes meaningless and they will be recalled by the troops and assigned new tasks.
Therefore, they arranged a few fixed people to pretend to be researchers and send telegrams to the researchers at regular intervals to sign for the logistics convoy. "
"Since our municipal government and military district were busy with disaster relief, the entire city was full of holes that needed to be filled, so naturally the team from the Academy of Sciences was neglected, which led to the breeding of such a large borer."
For more than a year, more than 20 young men stayed in the deep mountains and forests. They had food and drink every day and did not have to go to the front line. In addition, they received two rations from the researchers to support their lives. It was so comfortable.
Director Xie also sighed, saying that in the end times everyone can protect themselves except soldiers.
"What about the murder?"
"They exaggerated the case to apply for more supplies from the logistics department. We even found out that no supplies were stolen. Only a bald thief came that night and ran away without stealing anything."
"Greed is insatiable and the snake swallows the elephant!" Before Director Xie finished speaking, he saw the bookcase suddenly start to move, and a secret space slowly appeared, which scared both of them!
Xiao Qin was at a loss: "I, I just twisted left and right."
"Xiao Qin deserves a great contribution!" Director Xie walked in hurriedly and looked at the dazzling array of collectibles inside. There was no sign of movement at all, and he was sure that the criminals had not been here.
After all, how could a gang that didn't even let go of the carpets resist the temptation of so much gold, silver and treasures?
The physical evidence team began to work overtime, and soon several thick documents were delivered to Director Xie.
He flipped through it and couldn't help but sneer. What kind of report is this? What a bullshit explanation!
The Yuan family was anxious to sever ties with this young master and never have any contact with him again.
After all, there is such a shortage of manpower now, and people are needed everywhere in national construction, but the mob in the cave was still sentenced to death and executed immediately. You can imagine how powerful the anti-terrorism efforts are!
As long as this evidence is submitted to Beijing, the Yuan family will be in big trouble if not dead!
Jiang Miao had sufficient supplies and didn't plan to go out unless necessary.
It's so warm to turn on the heater at home and lie on the electric blanket.
Sometimes when I feel too lazy to lie down, I go to the large balcony to sweep the snow. Instead of dumping the snow downstairs, I pile it all into snowmen and put them in the space, together with those exquisite handmade ornaments.
It's also pleasing to the eye.
The days passed slowly, and if she ignored the biting cold wind, she could start her retirement life early.
It's the end of another year.
This year's New Year was even more miserable than last year. There was no atmosphere at all in such a big city. However, there were several volunteer stations where New Year supplies were distributed to the surviving citizens.
Zhao Jiang Miao felt that this was more useful than the flashy headlights and ribbons.
The plain New Year's Eve arrived, and 1101 invited Jiang Miao to have the New Year's Eve dinner downstairs, but she refused.
She made a mutton hotpot by herself around the stove. Since it was made with charcoal, she didn't dare to do it in the airtight room.
So we moved to the living room, sat by the fire in the copper pot and used a small solar heater, and we didn't feel cold at all.
The familiar Spring Festival Gala, the familiar host, and the joyous BGM of the Spring Festival Gala are needed to create the atmosphere of the New Year.
Jiang Miao served the food with his left hand and held the chopsticks with his right hand, enjoying it very much.
Hearing the voice, Immortal Su Heng also woke up in a daze. He walked to the living room and saw such a lively scene. He sat down unconsciously and asked: "What day is today?"
"New Year's Eve, New Year." Jiang Miao stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth and asked in surprise: "Don't you celebrate New Year there?"
"It was, but not as lively as this." He looked at the densely packed audience and dance troupe on the screen and sighed, "There are so many people."
"Well, this kind of party only has atmosphere when there are many people."
Su Heng took out a fruit wine that was lighter than Zui Hua Yin, and drank a few glasses with the girl to celebrate the New Year together.
Then his eyes seemed to be glued to the curtain. He asked about the origin of this and the meaning of that, making Jiang Miao talk non-stop.
He patiently answered the old immortal's sudden thirst for knowledge, and this New Year's Eve was unexpectedly lively.
Then, the clock struck twelve, and the new year had arrived. The shadow hanging over humanity had not yet dissipated, and the future would still require a struggle to survive.
Jiang Miao looked up at the sky and made a wish.
——I only hope that in the future I can see a day when there are lights in thousands of homes.
There really aren’t any exciting activities during the days of staying at home, and the dull life makes me feel that the pressure of doomsday has lessened.
Jiang Miao would do some fitness and boxing every day, and occasionally she would be asked to join the mahjong game when there was a shortage of one person. Most of the time, she would play chess and swordplay with Su Heng at home.
Su Heng taught Jiang Miao how to play Go, and Jiang Miao taught him how to play Gobang. They both found the other's chess very interesting. Jiang Miao even found chess records from the library's books to study.
The days passed leisurely and comfortable. Finally, when the temperature warmed up to minus five degrees Celsius in May, the daily municipal government brought shocking news to the citizens - the base was established!
The municipality explained the announcement:
1. The temperature has warmed up and the extreme cold has passed. The provincial official base has settled in Jile Mountain, Ancheng, and construction will start today.
2. In the neighboring city D, there is a military base that specifically accommodates military families and young people who intend to join the army. It provides good benefits and high treatment, and they are uniformly accommodated and trained.
3. The establishment of the official base requires human help. Those who have made outstanding contributions to the establishment of the base can obtain priority access to the base.
4. Others need to pay for supplies to enter the base. It can be grain, oil, rice, flour, steel, bricks, etc. Different supplies can be exchanged for different contribution points. For details, please check the notice board of Jile Mountain.
5. Unite as one and fight the natural disaster together.
There is a funeral home on Jile Mountain. It is at a high altitude, covers a large area, and is located in the urban area, making it very suitable to be used as the prototype of the base.
No matter whether the flood recedes after the extreme cold, and how long it takes to recede, this place can be used for attack or defense, without any delay on either side.
Jiang Miao must enter the base in this life. She has supplies that can be exchanged for contribution points, and her life is much better than wandering outside, always on edge and worried about safety.
1101 also has this meaning.
It’s just that Li Chongyu wants to go to Jile Mountain to work in advance to obtain the qualification to enter the base. Su Le suggests collecting supplies to exchange for contribution points. Fang Yang doesn’t take sides and suggests asking his sister.
The three of them couldn't reach an agreement and knocked on the door of 1201 together, asking Jiang Miao this question. At that time, she was playing chess with the Immortal King.
Jiang Miao held the chess piece in his hand and pondered for a moment: "After the hail, there will be extreme heat, and after the flood, there will be extreme cold. We don't know if there will be other natural disasters after the extreme cold, so my suggestion is to stock up on supplies, and stock up on supplies that will not be used after entering the base."
The materials that are not needed are construction steel, rebars, bricks, and river sand. Jiang Miao's suggestion is to give priority to rebars and steel. If there is still a shortage, go to the industrial park in the north to get river sand.
But all this will have to wait until the flood recedes a little.
Three votes to one, Li Chongyu obeyed the organization's arrangements.
In early June, the ice began to melt.
A few playful kids saw that the weather was not so cold anymore, so they ran to the ice to have a snowball fight. They ran and jumped on the ice, but they stepped on empty air and could not get up again.
There hasn't been a newborn in this world for two years.
The municipal government was extremely saddened by the loss of hope for three future lives, so that night they took their speedboats to break up the no longer solid ice surface.
The extreme cold ended, the floods began to recede, the water level became lower day by day, and the buildings that had been hidden in the flood ice for nearly a year slowly emerged from the water.
Old and dilapidated.
1101 Come to borrow a kayak again, same old rules, one fifth of the supplies rental fee.
Through the rent that 1101 returned to her every day, she could also guess what 1101 had gained that day.
Until this day, they handed back something in a dark brown industrial bottle. The logo on it had long been damaged by water, but the word "Ti" was engraved on the seal.
She immediately took the bottle and found 1101: "Where did you find this?"
Su Le said: "It's near my home, at the northernmost end of the industrial park. There used to be a lot of steel mills there, and our machines were custom-made there."
Fang Yang guessed her intention: "Sister, do you want to go too?"
"Yes." Jiang Miao held up the glass bottle and said, "The contribution points for this kind of item are not listed on the notice board, but its value is much higher than ordinary steel bars."
Li Chongyu was in a dilemma: "But what if the staff won't replace the items that are not on the notice board?"
Jiang Miao: "I got inside information. When we officially enter the base to liquidate supplies, we will update a more detailed and comprehensive contribution point exchange announcement, and these rare precious metals will be among them."
Fang Yang, a former top scorer in science in the college entrance examination, also explained: "These rare metals are commonly known as industrial condiments. Just adding a little bit to conventional materials can achieve unexpected effects, such as changing their hardness, brittleness, flexibility, etc."
In other words, the exchange price of this kind of thing on the public notice board will definitely not be low!
Su Le immediately asked: "When we went there today, there was no one there. So when is the best time for us to go there?"
Jiang Miao looked at the sky outside: "The sooner the better."
After several months of extreme cold, the two floors had long run out of extra food. In addition, the Immortal Lord had not been well-fed with his spiritual energy since he came in, so the important task of guarding the house was given to him alone, and all members of 1101 were mobilized.
It's five o'clock in the afternoon and several people are coming down from the top floor.
This was the first time Jiang Miao went downstairs after the flood began to recede.
The tiles, putty walls, skirting boards, etc. in the stairwell that were soaked in the flood all rotted on the ground, and the cement inside was swollen and seemed like it would fall apart at the touch.
Jiang Miao stopped where he was, frowning.
Fang Yang glanced at the exposed steel bars in the wall and sighed, "We have been looking for a place to live on the ground floor these days, but we haven't found anything suitable."
Su Le also said: "Lushan Villa has been sealed off. I don't know if it was done by a private person or the municipal government."
"We really need to move out as soon as possible." Jiang Miao gently crushed away some debris, "If it collapses, we won't have time to escape."
The four of them went out through the window of the first-floor stairwell and got on the kayak.
Now the flood has only submerged the first floor, and in places with slightly higher terrain you can even see the muddy and silt-clogged ground.
It took only two days for the flood to reach the eighth floor, but it took a full two months for the flood to recede.
After a while, Su Le said with a look of disappointment: "In fact, my factory should still be habitable. My father personally supervised the construction of this factory, so the quality is absolutely guaranteed."
Her father's death in the factory was an everlasting pain in her heart. Afterwards, she never dared to go there even once, for fear of facing it.
Just because their family makes sexy lingerie, and the Qinglong Gang's boss needed these clothes for his birthday party, they deliberately found an excuse to provoke and kill him.
Li Chongyu didn't know how to comfort her, so he said, "After we move our things, we'll go to Su Le's house and take a look. If it's suitable, we can just store the things there."
Fang Yang also agreed.
As the water level dropped and the garbage floated, the four people paddled for more than an hour before finally reaching their destination.
There are indeed very few people here, and I can't see a single person when I look around.
It's getting late now, and the dead vines and branches all around cast shadows, giving it a bit of a horror movie atmosphere.
Four men got out of the kayak, tied it to the railing with a steel cable and locked it.
Although I didn't see anyone, I still couldn't let my guard down.
Su Le said, "It's here. I remember this place used to be a steel park, so I brought them here to stock up on some steel bars. Who knew we'd find these things by accident?"
The building is four stories high. The things inside have become soft and brittle due to being soaked in water and frozen for such a long time. There is almost no value in stocking them.
The four of them went all the way up to the top floor and successfully found the place where they took the glass bottle.
Li Chongyu said shyly: "I didn't think it was anything important, I just picked up a few bottles because they were sealed and not soaked."
Fang Yang applauded: "It is a great achievement to be able to discover this!"
Move all these things downstairs. After all, Jiang Miao has so many intrusion experiences. As soon as he sees these small bottles and jars, he knows that they are just samples to show to customers.
The real big ones may still be soaking in the water.
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