Chapter 17 Natural Disaster Crisis
After Qin Muxue returned, she went to the space again to collect some fruits and vegetables, and then began to watch the workers decorate the door of the house.
The door she chose this time is a very sturdy and durable anti-theft door. If someone tries to pry the door open, an alarm will sound and the alarm will be sent to the sensor here without disturbing the thief.
The ordered materials were quickly produced and transported, and with the help of Qu Yanbai, the workers quickly installed them.
Qin Muxue looked at the newly renovated house. Even if she left here, she would take the house with her. If she found a suitable place to live, she could just move out of the space.
In addition, Qin Muxue also ordered other furniture, a simple dark gray sofa, which is both dirt-resistant and comfortable. When placed in the living room, one can sit on it and watch movies or TV series comfortably, or do anything else.
We also made a special oven that can be used for heating and cooking, so nothing will be delayed.
The kitchen is also fully equipped, decorated according to Manman's preferences, with all kinds of pots, pans, and utensils.
So they had a simple home.
Qin Muxue also specially decorated a pet room, which was equipped with cat climbing frames, dog toys and everything in between. Zhenzhu and Baozhu also had their own exclusive areas.
The two of them also decorated their rooms according to their own preferences. Qin Muxue's was a cool gray, while Ding Manman's was a tender pink. Ding Manman couldn't help but sighed, "I finally have my own room."
Originally, at her uncle's house, she slept on the sofa in the living room and had no room of her own.
Qin Muxue went to inquire about it and found out that the several pieces of land here were now wasteland with no owner. Based on the principle of not wasting anything, Qin Muxue went to the fields overnight to collect a lot of black soil for planting in the space.
I also bought some rice seeds from my neighbor so that I can grow food in the space later.
The cellar was filled with vegetables such as cabbage, green peppers, scallions, onions, and a lot of pickled meat.
Every day at dawn, Qu Yanbai would ask the two of them to get up and go out for exercise, and they developed good work and rest habits.
Not only that, Qu Yanbai will also teach them some basic wilderness survival knowledge and grappling techniques.
Qin Muxue, with her long arms and legs, learned quickly. On the contrary, Ding Manman, who had a weak constitution to begin with, seemed very frustrated. Qin Muxue encouraged her that everyone has his or her role to play, just like she is good at cooking, but Qin Muxue is not good at it. What she needs to do is to improve her strength as much as possible.
In addition, Qu Yanbai also began to train Baozhu. As a retired military dog, she can play a greater role.
The harsh training every day made Qin Muxue feel a little distressed.
However, Qu Yanbai told her seriously, "I trained her not to protect humans, but to enable her to protect herself without human protection."
Qin Muxue knew very well that what he said was right.
Pearl is one of the earliest creatures to evolve. Her size can grow larger than an adult Siberian tiger. When she grows bigger, her claws become extremely sharp, but she often cannot control them.
With Qu Yanbai's help, Pearl can now grow or shrink freely.
The few of them developed a good understanding after spending many days together, and Qin Muxue also discovered that Qu Yanbai was not a bad person, but she felt that one should always be cautious of everyone, so she didn't reveal anything about his supernatural powers.
But Qu Yanbai, one day, when several people were training, he suddenly controlled the branches of the tree to break by themselves, and explained to the two people: "This is my ability. Anyway, you have passed the probation period here with me. I don’t know if you can trust me."
Qin Muxue hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "My ability is space. No one except me can go in to take items. I am like a mobile warehouse, but as long as I die, no one can enter."
Qu Yanbai's eyes lit up, "The space ability is very useful now. I have a lot of things that I can't take with me, so I can put them in your space."
She doesn't mind having more things in her space, but she definitely can't have less things. "Okay, if you have any important items that you can't take with you, you can leave them with me."
It was still summer in Dajiang, but the temperature suddenly dropped by more than 20 degrees overnight and it snowed all night.
When Qin Muxue opened the door, she saw a thick layer of snow, which was up to her knees when she stepped on it. The snowplow in the yard came in handy. Qin Muxue put on a thick down jacket, snow boots, a scarf and a hat, drove the snowplow, and cleared all the snow at the door.
The temperature dropped sharply and there were few people outside, but Qin Muxue still insisted on running a lap before coming back.
She covered her ears. Even though she had taken protective measures, the cold outside was still a little hard for her to accept.
Fortunately, Ding Manman had already burned firewood on the kang. The two of them sat on the kang, gathered around a small table, and ate hot pot.
Pearl was very afraid of the cold. She curled up in a ball and slept in the corner of the kang, not moving a single muscle.
Ding Manman asked as she ate mutton: "Why is it so cold today? The weather forecast didn't even report it?"
Qin Muxue explained: "The weather forecast is no longer accurate from now on."
With Qin Muxue's memory, she only knew that there would be extreme cold at the beginning, but before the extreme cold came, there seemed to be many other disasters, and the drop in temperature was just one of them.
Qu Yanbai called several people out. Zhenzhu was very resistant at first, but when she really walked in the snow, she suddenly had a strange feeling. Her wildness awakened and she began to have fun in the snow.
Several people were in the empty back mountain, which was relatively deserted. Qu Yanbai began to teach the two how to protect themselves and save themselves in the ice and snow.
"I only have memories of snowing when I was a child." Ding Manman was looking at the snowflakes falling above her head and was suddenly hit by a snowball.
"How about, let's have a snowball fight!" Qin Muxue rode on the giant Pearl's back. It was soft and furry, and her body was very warm.
Pearl moved very fast, even Baozhu couldn't catch up with her, let alone Manman.
Manman threw snowballs and shouted, "Stop!"
It had snowed heavily the day before, but from the next day it started to rain heavily and strong winds. People standing outside were almost in danger of being blown away.
The two were watching a report from Xuanwu TV. In the report, the reporter was standing on the beach with surging waves behind him. "According to the meteorological department's monitoring, Xuanwu City will face a super-large typhoon that is rare in a century. Everyone still remembers the last typhoon disaster..." Before the reporter finished speaking, the camera was washed away and the TV signal was interrupted.
"Xiaoxue, look, there's another typhoon in Xuanwu City."
The last typhoon was the most serious disaster in Xuanwu City in recent years. The two spent their time in a top luxury hotel. At Qin Muxue's warning, the two left Xuanwu City. They did not expect the second typhoon to come so soon.
Qin Muxue fell into deep thought, because the super typhoon in the previous life did not come so quickly. Now that the typhoon has come, the tsunami will come in another half a month, and by then Xuanwu City will be reduced to a vast ocean.
She has already reminded some of the people who needed to be reminded, and as for the others, she wishes them the best of luck.
A super typhoon hit Xuanwu City, and the rain washed away the soil in the small bamboo forest. The body of the victim in a homicide case involving dozens of people was finally found.
The police wore raincoats and looked at the dozens of bodies dug out in the wind and rain. "Captain, these bodies have been dissected. Only one man had a head wound caused by a knife."
The captain frowned and said, "Take them all back to the police station for forensic examination."
Although the rain washed away the body, it also destroyed more evidence.
Soon, Qin Muxue received an investigation call, "Is this Miss Qin? We found that the deceased Yan Xu had close contact with you before his death, and then he disappeared. We have something we want to consult you about."
Yan Xu? Was that guy really murdered? No wonder we couldn't find them no matter what. It turned out that he was murdered.
Things were taking an increasingly bizarre turn.
Qin Muxue had a remote video call with the police. There was no other connection between the two except the grudge between them and Sang Xi. As for the day when Yan Xu asked her out, she did not see him. Qin Muxue answered truthfully.
Indeed, apart from these, the other victims had no connection with Qin Muxue, and the police had no conclusive evidence and could not arrest Qin Muxue.
Qin Muxue had more ideas on her mind. She asked her acquaintances to find out some information and only then did she learn the list of victims.
She looked at the list of victims and felt a chill down her spine. These were all lists of people with superpowers. She knew a few of the future superpowers in Xuanwu City. In other words, the murderer only killed people who would mutate in the future.
Sang Xi did evolve his superpowers, and although Yan Xu's superpowers were useless, he was still considered a person with superpowers.
The reason why she and Manman did not suffer the tragic consequences was because they did not evolve any superpowers in their previous lives.
She was a little scared, wondering if the murderer would roam around the city and commit crimes again.
However, she and Manman do not have special powers for the time being, so they should not become that guy's target.
There are more and more reports about disasters in various places in the news. There has even been a volcanic eruption abroad. The scene was very tragic, but people around the world are unable to take care of themselves.
In South Korea, the entire peninsula was submerged due to a tsunami.
At the beginning of Little Days, there were many mutants and mutated creatures, but their mutations were not mutations of superpowers, but mutations in morphology. For example, there were dogs with five legs and cats with two heads. All kinds of newborn creatures had morphological mutations, and even 50% of newborns were deformed.
This is the consequence of over-development. Due to the impact of nuclear pollution, the virus in the Japanese country developed extremely rapidly, and soon the creatures in the ocean began to mutate.
Small earthquakes have begun to occur in many parts of the country, and typhoons have continued to hit coastal areas.
Only the Northeast region is relatively good, with only floods occurring so far.
The villagers began to rush to buy supplies. The nearby small supermarkets had already been sold out, and the prices of many supplies in the larger supermarkets farther away began to increase exponentially.
This caused public outrage, and the increase in prices of necessities made many citizens feel unaffordable.
The price of vegetables changes every day, the price of rice has increased fivefold, and pharmacies are almost sold out. Even if there is a purchase limit, there are still long queues every day.
Nowadays, the most popular live broadcast programs are survival programs, which challenge people to survive in the wilderness for a month, to eat only one meal a day, and to survive in a disaster. People have begun to enjoy watching such programs and hope to learn some knowledge from them.
Wilderness survival kits have become popular online, and many live broadcast rooms have started selling survival kits.
Qin Muxue watched these live broadcasts. She had already stockpiled a lot of them in her space, and it was a problem whether she could ship them out now.
Fortunately, this is a rural area, and every household has stored food, so they are not short of rice. They also grow their own vegetables in the fields, and they raise some livestock at home.
Qin Muxue naturally didn't have to worry about these problems, as she and Ding Manman were still eating barbecue.
She usually likes to eat barbecue, and she has stockpiled a lot of Wagyu beef in her space. While grilling meat, she reads the overwhelming voices in the mobile phone forum.
Originally, she was a nobody in the class group, but now someone @ her and said she was very visionary.
Classmate A: "It's almost the end of the world, why are you still studying? Qin Muxue and Ding Manman are more far-sighted and dropped out of school a long time ago."
Classmate B: "It seems that the two of them have left Xuanwu City!"
Student C: "Xuanwu City is almost submerged. We are now taking shelter in the school library."
Student A: "It's not bad. We came to the university in Dajiang to do a project. The situation here is not bad. It's not that bad."
Qin Muxue watched them chatting idly and ignored them. Instead, she ate the barbecue happily.
After eating the barbecue, she cooked some chicken breast and carrots as a snack for the dog. The cat Pearl ate a lot of freeze-dried chicken and was grinding her teeth. Her teeth had been itching recently. Qin Muxue checked and found that her teeth were abnormally sharp.
The previous apocalyptic theory was suddenly pushed to the forefront, and almost half of the people began to believe in the apocalypse.
This year is very different from previous years. Natural disasters of all sizes are so severe that even rice has been destroyed in a locust plague. The locusts have increased three times in size than in previous years. Even ducks will be bitten when they see them, and they will run away in panic.
Most of the people in the village are elderly. They often sit together and say, "I have lived for so many years and have never seen such a scene. The world has changed."
There is often no TV signal, and when there is a signal, it is broadcasting news from all over the country.
For example, an earthquake occurred in a certain place, a volcano was about to erupt in a certain place, or a riot broke out in a certain place over food.
Many people initially felt that this was far away from them, after all, it was just a plot on TV.
Until that day, Ding Manman turned on the TV as usual and found that the overwhelming reports were all from Xuanwu City.
"A once-in-a-millennium tsunami is about to hit Xuanwu City. Please take precautions, citizens of Xuanwu City."
The camera captured the sea not far away. A huge white curtain was about to hit. Some people who did not believe in the superstition were still swimming at the beach. When they saw the tsunami coming, they were so scared that they peed their pants and their legs were shaking and weak.
The calm sea level of the previous second is completely different the next! Huge waves roared and crossed the coastline with great force.
However, it was too late to escape at this time, and people were swept into the sea like ants.
The entire city was soon turned into ruins by the surging sea water. The camera was also washed into the water by a wave and the TV lost its signal.
Ding Manman looked at all this in a daze, "Xiaoxue, did you see that? Our home is destroyed."
Although we have imagined this scenario countless times, everyone feels uncomfortable when they actually see it.
Besides, they had just seen so many people shouting and screaming in the tsunami, but they were soon wiped out, which was equivalent to watching people die.
Soon the TV station got a signal, "An urgent news interruption, the largest tsunami so far has occurred in cities along the coast of our country, and so far the rescue teams have been unable to carry out in-depth rescue operations."
A helicopter in the sky took pictures of the vast ocean below. There were many people struggling in the water, but as the waves came, they disappeared into the ocean.
No one could have predicted this tsunami. Even she, who was reborn, discovered that the tsunami occurred some time in advance.
"Xiaoxue, it's a good thing we left there, otherwise we would have been buried in the tsunami." Ding Manman now has 100% trust in Qin Muxue.
Taoyuan Village is considered lucky. Although there are frequent earthquakes outside, the temperature here has only dropped slightly and a storm has begun.
The room of Qin Muxue and Ding Manman was still relatively warm. When there was sunlight, she would fully charge the solar energy storage device.
There are hundreds of large and small storage batteries in the space, which are enough even if there is a power outage.
Tonight they had army hotpot, which was made with kimchi base, fish cakes, some hotpot meatballs, cheese rice cakes, some pork intestines and beef, and some ramen noodles. Bubbles were bubbling in the pot, and there was a spicy taste in the mouth.
Then the two of them sat on the kang, petting the cat and dog, and Pearl made a snoring sound, looking very comfortable.
There is no worry about food and drink here, and the two little ones have gained a lot of weight.
Qin Muxue took out some philosophy books and medical books and read them with great interest.
But it was very strange. She couldn't concentrate on reading books before, but now she felt that all the knowledge was engraved in her mind after reading it, and it was very clear. Moreover, she could easily understand the knowledge that she originally thought was obscure. Could it be that this spiritual spring water can also make the brain smarter?
Now thinking about the stupid things I did in my previous life, it’s simply ridiculous.
Most of those who hurt her are now dead. Now all she needs to think about is how to survive in the apocalypse.
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