Chapter 18
It wasn’t actually too long since I had been separated from Ye’s mother. In March, when Ye Xun passed through Myanmar, he went to Chen Village to stay with her for a few days.
But when he heard the familiar voice again, Ye Xun couldn't help but feel a little dazed. He had never experienced these before, so even though he knew that the end of the world was coming, he didn't have too many feelings. But now it's different. He just wants his family to be well.
At that time, the couple was sent to Province Y because the altitude there was high and the area was large, so they were less affected by certain disasters and were more conducive to their survival.
The country's power is basically concentrated in the coastal areas and the capital. Ye Xun stayed to seize the initiative for the Ye family in the future.
He will take Wang Yu with him to follow the main force. As for Qin Wei, he may have his own family or not, so he cannot control whether others stay or go.
Ye Xun's mind was full of thoughts. He didn't want to make his mother worry. Besides, his life was pretty good now. He had enough food and drink. If he wanted to have fun, the three of them could team up to play Landlord. It wasn't much different from before the apocalypse.
"Mom, Xiaoyu and I are doing fine. We've been exercising every day lately, and we've gained a lot of weight. My friend lives with us now. He knows a little bit of martial arts, and he looks tall and intimidating, so no one comes to bully us."
Every parent hopes that their children can live a good life. After hearing what Ye Xun said, Ye's mother finally felt at ease.
"What about your friend? Is he reliable?"
Ye Xun looked up at the tall figure busy cooking in the kitchen, thinking that he must be reliable. If he was not reliable, he would not have spent money to hire this guy in the first place.
But he didn't say that to Ye's mother, "Are you still unsure of my judgment of people?"
Ye's mother: "Your ability to judge people is fine, but in this world, people's hearts are fickle."
Ye Xun: "Don't worry, if anything happens, I will take Xiaoyu into the space and hide."
Only then did Ye's mother calm down, and the mother and son chatted about some family matters. They hung up the phone because it was getting late.
After the call ended, Ye Xun came out of the room.
Carrying a bag of insect repellent and strychnine in hand, I sprinkled them around the windows and doors, and then turned on all the air purifiers at home. The air outside is filled with bacteria and viruses, and a plague is inevitable sooner or later. When it is not suitable to open windows for ventilation, high technology can only be used.
The water level has now receded to the second floor, and the temperature has reached as high as 45 degrees. At noon, no one can be seen outside, and even the corpse recovery team has gone home to enjoy the air conditioning.
Ye Xun and the other two moved to the room separated from the living room to sleep as soon as the temperature reached 35 degrees. Every day they enjoyed the cool air from the special air conditioner they bought before the end of the world.
There is one machine placed in each of the two connected rooms to prevent the vegetables and rutabaga from being killed by the high temperature.
Due to the weather, Ye Xun hasn't exercised for two days. He was worried about heat stroke. Now if he gets heat stroke, there is no hospital to go to.
When I’m bored, I lie on the bed and check my phone to see the chats in the group.
When the temperature reaches about 55 degrees, the Internet on the earth will disappear, the electricity will be cut off, and the power bureau will be gone. Where will the electricity come from?
Ye Xun was naturally not afraid since he had a generator, but he was helpless against Internet outage. The only thing he could do was to surf the Internet more often before that day came.
An owner sent a link to the group, and the title attracted the attention of everyone in the group, including Ye Xun.
The title is: H City Government, what are you hiding?
Ye Xun clicked on the link and saw a video, only 15 seconds long. It showed several people in protective clothing carrying a dead body with extensive bleeding spots on the body's limbs.
At the end of the video, the men in protective suits discovered that someone was filming secretly. They instantly ignored the corpse in their hands, threw it away casually, and chased in the direction of the person filming. The video shook violently a few times and then ended.
Ye Xun wanted to play it again, but the webpage showed that the video had been deleted and the person who posted the video also disappeared from the owners' group.
When do you need to wear protective clothing? The first reaction is infectious diseases. Combined with the recent crazy biting rats, these people are not fools and immediately guessed that it is likely plague.
What is plague? It is a highly contagious disease that spreads very quickly and has a very high mortality rate. It was difficult to cure before the flood, let alone now when medical conditions are scarce.
Everyone started to panic. Floods, abnormally high temperatures, and deadly infectious diseases. Is this really the end of the world?
The group started to go crazy, with some people filling the screen with messages cursing the government for its inaction from beginning to end, saying that they took taxpayers' money but were not accountable for them. Others cursed the injustice of heaven.
Some even went worse by live-streaming their suicide in the group.
The people in the live broadcast room tied up the hands and feet of their parents, wife and children, poured gasoline on themselves and them, and then set them on fire with a lighter.
The flames engulfed the bodies of several people. They screamed in pain and rolled around on the ground frantically trying to put out the flames, but to no avail.
The arsonist shouted and laughed in the fire: "The end of the world is coming! You! And me! We are all going to die! Hahahahahahaha."
Just a few minutes after he fell, the live broadcast equipment stopped because it was burned out.
Since then, few people have talked in the group, only some people are borrowing food and trading.
Ye Xun didn't believe that the H City Government would really do nothing. There must be some plans in private, but it was not convenient to make them public for the time being.
The water level had completely receded, but people were not as happy as they had expected to be when they saw the ground revealed again.
I thought the sky would clear up after the rain, but it turned out to be another rainstorm. High temperatures and plague, each of which is fatal, the more urgent issue is how to fill your stomach.
On the day when the flood completely receded, the first person to try to eat crabs appeared. He was Xu Feng, who had previously rented a kayak to Ye Xun. He and several strong young men formed a search team to look for food in the abandoned shopping mall.
If you go outside, you might get infected with the plague and die. If you hide at home without food, you will starve to death. It is better to give it a try.
They were very lucky because the mall had not been ransacked at that time, and many of the vacuum-packed foods and canned items inside were still intact and edible after being soaked in water for more than a month.
This made the young men, who had only been eating rice and dried vegetables for half a month, very excited, and they searched for the food faster.
The sacks and carts that several people brought were almost full.
Just as they were preparing to return home, Xu Feng pulled out a few iron bars from under the rubble and handed them to them, "Take them all, it may not be safe when you go back."
Several people understood what he meant immediately and subconsciously clenched the iron rods in their hands.
Sure enough, halfway through the journey, they met a group of people whose number was almost three times theirs. Maybe they were too confident, but they dared to rob people with nothing in their hands. In the end, they were beaten badly by Xu Feng and his gang. One of them was seriously injured and had his head cut open. He escaped with the help of his companions, covered in blood.
Xu Feng and the others were not seriously injured. They only had some minor skin injuries and their clothes were stained with some blood from the group of people just now.
Five or six tall young men were walking side by side, each holding an iron rod with blood and tissue stains on it. They looked very scary, but no one dared to stop them from the rest of the way.
Ye Xun stood by the window, watching this group of young people returning with great harvests, and he also felt itchy to collect supplies.
But the little gain is not worth the risk of infectious disease.
When the supplies were collected, there happened to be a plague vaccine among the vaccines collected. Ye Xun and Wang Yu had already been injected with it. Except for Qin Wei, Ye Xun could not make up any excuse to explain the fact that there was a vaccine at home. He was full of flaws and like a sieve, and Qin Wei just cooperated with him to play a fool.
It seems that he still needs to go out. This time, Ye Xun wants to go to the hospital to see if he can get some medicine and equipment.
The Internet and electricity will be cut off in five days, and Ye Xun plans to set off that evening.
They used the few days to modify the windows at home. Otherwise, when every household had a power outage and only their house had the light on, they would be like a target.
There were several shutters in the house, which were very easy to install. Ye Xun installed them on one-third of the windows in the house by himself.
After installing the blinds, replace them with special light-blocking and heat-insulating curtains. Once they are hung up, the room will instantly become dark, and no light from outside can come in. Naturally, there is no need to worry about the light in the room escaping.
Out of caution, Ye Xun still instructed Qin Wei to replace all the light bulbs in the house. The original ones were too bright, not only conspicuous but also wasted electricity.
After all the light bulbs in the room were replaced, the light suddenly became dim, but Ye Xun felt at ease.
The light bulb in the bathroom is still the original one. First of all, there was no window when this place was designed, so there was no need to worry about light exposure. Secondly, because of Ye Xun's habit, he likes to take a bath in a bright environment so that he can see clearly whether the stains on his body have been washed clean.
The weather was getting hotter day by day, and all three of them had given up on exercising, reducing heat production by doing less exercise every day.
The one who was most troubled by the high temperature was Bal. Ye Xun had shaved all the hair off his body with a razor, leaving only the head. Despite this, Bal was still feeling very hot.
Recently, it no longer sleeps next to anyone, but sleeps in Planting Room 1, which is Qin Wei's original room. There are many green plants here, and it is cooler than Ye Xun's room when the air conditioner is turned on.
As the temperature rose day by day, it soon reached 55 degrees, and Ye Xun planned to go to the hospital.
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