Chapter 22 Chapter 22
After Qin Wei was vaccinated that day, the temperature rose very steadily and soon reached 65 degrees. During this period, Ye Xun never saw Xu Feng again. Only one day after waking up, he saw a bag of food outside the door, which contained the ten kilograms of rice and instant noodles promised by Xu Feng.
Without follow-up, the results are likely to be unsatisfactory.
But other people's lives still have to go on. Due to the long-term high temperature environment, some people's bodies have gradually adapted to it. Those who cannot adapt will always stay in this scorching heat if they do not have excellent living conditions.
When the temperature rose to 65 degrees, the virus seemed to disappear out of thin air, and there were no cases of plague infection in the community for a long time.
The government has also begun to take action.
During one of his dreams, Ye Xun vaguely heard the sound of a radio broadcast coming from outside. At this time, the disadvantage of too good sound insulation appeared. It was difficult to hear the content of the broadcast without opening the window.
Fortunately, it was night time now, and the temperature was slightly lower than during the day, still within an acceptable range. Ye Xun got up and turned off the lights, then opened the window, and lay on the bed to listen with Qin Wei.
"My fellow countrymen, this is the H City Government. The city government plans to build a survivor base, and the base address will be set at Shuijing Jiayuan. For those who participate in the construction of the base, the government will provide two meals a day, or they can choose to take five tortillas home every day. If there is a 10-year-old child at home, they can get an extra tortilla every day. After the base is completed, the original Shuijing Jiayuan residents and those who participated in the construction of the base can bring their families to live there. I repeat..."
It’s time to build a base.
Ye Xun murmured.
"Yeah, it's getting lively soon." The voice was very soft, but it was caught by Qin Wei who was paying attention to him nearby, so he naturally continued what he said.
I didn't expect that my voice could be heard even though it was so small.
He opened his lips as if to say something, but in the end, nothing came out.
Ye Xun almost blurted out the harms of living in a group, but he held back at the last moment. How could he say that he knew about future natural disasters?
When there are more people, more problems will occur. When extreme cold comes, many people die in their dreams. Unlike extreme heat, corpses in extreme cold can be preserved for a long time without decaying due to the low temperature. Some people with evil intentions therefore set their sights on taking the corpses.
The base openly prohibits cannibalism, but they can't help but turn a blind eye due to food shortages. They are all a bunch of pitiful people. Are they going to kill the remaining living people just because of the dead?
The base's negligence caused things to develop further. Children began to disappear in the base and there was no need to worry about their whereabouts. When the temperature rose and the snow melted, the small skeletons hidden in the snow were exposed to everyone.
These are all things for the future. The only thing Ye Xun can do now is to grow the food in the space so that when the base runs out of food, he can use it to help the base tide over the difficulties.
However, the space is not like the one in the novel, where one can plant and harvest automatically with mental power. It still requires manpower. He cannot handle it all by himself.
He did think about asking Wang Yu to come into the space to help, but it was hard to explain why such a big person suddenly disappeared from the room.
Ye Xun's plan to further deepen his relationship came to his mind again. Since his attempt to promote Wang Yu failed, it would be better to promote himself.
It's not that he is narcissistic. From middle school to university, there are dozens of people chasing him, not to mention the line-up of people from country F. His appearance cannot be said to be that of an immortal, but at least he is at the level of a school idol. Moreover, he has food and space, his parents are in good health, and his sister is lively and sensible. If he and Qin Wei really start a relationship, it would be a clear case of marrying down.
All in all, Qin Wei made a lot of money.
Thinking of this, Ye Xun subconsciously straightened his back.
Once the idea came to his mind, he couldn't suppress it. He closed the window and the air conditioning in the living room escaped.
After sitting next to Qin Wei, Ye Xun propped his head up with his arm and looked him up and down with a pair of bright eyes, just like a gangster looking at a decent girl, which made Qin Wei inexplicably embarrassed.
Ye Xun looked at him for a while, and said lazily, "Qin Wei, what do you think of me?"
How is it? Qin Wei thought it was pretty good, and said so: "You are pretty good."
Ye Xun was not satisfied with the good evaluation, but asked: "Really? Then tell me about my strengths."
Qin Wei could tell Ye Xun's advantages even with his eyes closed: "You are good-looking, have a good figure, have positive values, and a lovely personality. You are easy to feed, not picky about food, and kind. I am short of words, so I can only say these, I hope you don't mind."
Of course he didn't mind. These comments were beyond Ye Xun's expectations. Some people actually said that he was cute and had a positive outlook. If someone else said that, he would think that the other person had a problem with his brain.
But if it was Qin Wei, then he had good vision.
"Then what if I become your partner? We have the same sexual orientation, and the three of us may live together for a long time in the future. I think a closer relationship will help the development of our team. If the apocalypse never ends, I will take you to live with my parents. If the apocalypse ends and you want to separate, I don't object."
Ye Xun told Qin Wei his thoughts. He felt that with his conditions, no one would refuse him. In the last days, there should not be many families who have enough food and drink and can enjoy air conditioning.
He was waiting for Qin Wei to nod in agreement.
"No," Qin Wei denied it, leaving Ye Xun stunned. Before he could catch his breath, Qin Wei continued, "Two people are together for a lifetime. There is no principled mistake. I don't accept the idea of getting off the bus halfway."
Ye Xun breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that it was not a rejection.
In fact, he also agreed with Qin Wei's statement. In the late stage of the apocalypse, the space matter would definitely be exposed, and it might not even wait until the late stage. If Qin Wei wanted to separate the two of them in the future, Ye Xun would definitely not let him leave alive. He would never let others know about his family's reliance.
Ye Xun said: "Of course I feel the same way."
"In this case, can we consider our relationship confirmed? No, I have to set a probation period for you."
Qin Wei naturally took his hand and put it in his palm to play with his fingers. "Don't tell me you still want to default on your debt?"
Ye Xun's hands had never been used for heavy work, so unlike his own hands which were covered with calluses, they were quite delicate, especially the palms, which he could not help but pinch gently.
The itchy feeling on his palm made Ye Xun want to laugh a little. He said in a light tone: "Of course not, I just want to confirm with you to ensure that our understanding is consistent."
"Well, how long is the probation period going to be?"
Three months? Just like the probation period for workers, in some ways, he really wanted to date Qin Wei because Qin Wei was really useful and an all-rounder.
Ye Xun tentatively gave a deadline, "Three months, what do you think?"
"I'll listen to you." At this time, Qin Wei's attention was not on what Ye Xun said, he was just playing with Ye Xun's hands with great interest.
Seeing him so silly, Ye Xun felt that he should not stop Wang Yu from finding a partner in the future. First love at this age can easily reduce a person's IQ to zero.
From the outside, Qin Wei seems like the type who has no shortage of people around him, but looking at his current appearance, it can be determined that he is a novice.
The new guy is pretty good and easier to control emotionally. Ye Xun feels that he can trick him into losing everything.
"Do you want to participate in rebuilding H City? I don't know what your family situation is like. If it's not far away, we can drive them over. There are many empty houses now. No one lives next door to us, so we can let them move in."
I only know that Qin Wei has a brother, but I know nothing else.
"They are in the capital, don't worry about them, we will live our life."
Ye Xun found it a little funny when he heard his words. He didn't expect that Qin Wei was the kind of person who forgot about his mother after getting a wife. He was really in love.
"I'll sign up for the reconstruction then."
"We have enough food at home, so we don't need these little things. Why do we have to go out and suffer?" Ye Xun didn't understand why some people would endure hardship without any effort.
Qin Wei was not a person who was determined to endure hardship. He naturally had his own plans. The three of them lived in a small house here and could not receive any news from the outside world. Over time, it would only do harm and no good.
Besides, his current status has changed, from an employee to a boyfriend, and he has to support his family as well. It is not right for him to rely solely on Ye Xun to support them.
The latter thoughts were his selfish thoughts, so he naturally wouldn't tell Ye Xun about them. He only told Ye Xun about the former thoughts.
After hearing what he said, Ye Xun admitted that his idea had its drawbacks and had to agree.
The two young people who had just confirmed their relationship spent some time together tenderly and then went back to work.
Qin Wei was going to sign up. Ye Xun wanted to make some long-lasting food and ask Qin Wei to bring it to the construction site. The water quality outside was not good, so Ye Xun didn't dare to let them eat it.
If that doesn't work, he can just deliver meals to Qin Wei every day.
Qin Wei had already walked downstairs. Even though it was night, the temperature outside was over 50 degrees.
The registration point was at the sales office of Crystal Garden. When he got there, a long line had already formed. There was a generator inside, and the lights were on very brightly, illuminating the entire sales office. He spotted Xu Feng, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, in the line. In Qin Wei's memory, Xu Feng was still a sunny and handsome young man. He didn't expect that in just over a month, he looked ten years older.
The other party also saw him, but was in no mood to exchange pleasantries, so he just nodded at him as a greeting.
When it was Qin Wei's turn, the soldier in charge of registration handed him two forms to fill out. There are two types of reconstruction work, construction work and farming work. Farming is easier, so more women and older men signed up.
As a strong man, he naturally would not compete with these vulnerable groups for jobs, so he went to work in construction.
The main content of the work is to build walls and bungalows to accommodate more victims. After the construction of Shuijing Jiayuan is completed, the base will be expanded with this place as the center.
Registration does not mean that you can start working immediately after submitting a paper form. You must also pass a manual review. Those with serious underlying diseases or criminal histories will not be accepted. However, this can only be applied to residents of H City. Without the Internet, the data can only be manually reviewed, and a group of soldiers spent two days.
Those who passed the review did not start working immediately. The government was worried that without these people, the walls of the houses they built would not be solid, so a simple training session was organized before work began.
In addition to providing two meals a day, the construction site also provides free drinking water, which is well water. The government has dug several deep wells in the sales office to solve the daily drinking water problem.
However, each person is limited to only 500 ml of water, and work cards are required to fetch water, which effectively avoids the problem of repeated fetching of water.
But there are always people who take advantage of the situation and sell water-drawing qualifications, then go to fetch river water themselves, go home and filter and boil it using traditional methods.
At the beginning, only a few people did this. After a while, it was found that these people were all good, and naturally more people followed suit.
But there are still some people who value their lives and would rather drink less every day than drink river water.
Xu Feng was one of them. The medicine he got from Ye Xun did not save his son's life. His wife blamed him for this and went back to her parents' home in H City, taking away the only remaining food in the house.
In the end, he survived thanks to Ye Xun. He used the medicine to exchange for food. When he heard the other party's offer, he realized how much of a bargain he had gotten.
It was impossible to say that he was not moved, but now he had no ability to thank him and faced Ye Xun speechlessly.
One day, he found Qin Wei who was building a wall, and when others were not paying attention, he secretly handed the well water he had saved to Qin Wei, "Brother Qin, this is my share of water. I give it to you. Thanks to Brother Ye for giving you the medicine last time, although you were not saved, you should still be thanked. After all, I took such a big advantage of him."
Qin Wei truly realized how precious water resources are during his time working on the construction site, but he could not accept the bottle of water. It was not because he was noble, but because he had water specially prepared for him by Ye Xun.
Including the meal prepared by Ye Xun, it should be here soon according to the usual schedule.
It is lunchtime now and many people on the construction site have already started eating. Most of them choose to eat from the lunch boxes provided by the government. Inside is a thumb-sized piece of pickled meat, a few dried vegetables, and a little soy sauce. It tastes surprisingly good.
Suddenly, one of the people who was eating the box lunch suddenly held his stomach violently, fell to the ground and convulsed, his lips were pale and his face was sallow, and later he even started to vomit blood. As the blood on the ground increased, his breathing became weaker and weaker, and it looked like he was about to die.
When Ye Xun came to deliver the meal, he saw a large group of people gathered together, but Qin Wei was standing alone on the side. He walked over and wanted to see what was going on in the crowd.
As soon as he took a step forward, Qin Wei grabbed his arm and stopped him, "Don't go over there, there's a dead person over there."
In one sentence, Ye Xun's curiosity was successfully curbed.
"What's going on? Is it so dangerous to work on a construction site?" If that's the case, Qin Wei would be advised not to do it.
Qin Wei denied: "It's not dangerous, but some people are trying to kill themselves."
He briefly told Ye Xun about the workers selling water, and Ye Xun's only reaction after hearing it was speechlessness.
He didn't die in the flood or extreme heat, but he killed himself because of this little profit. It would have been fine if he had just died, but he also instigated others to sell water with him, harming both others and himself.
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