Chapter 26 Chapter 26
In weather of minus 70 degrees Celsius, the heating effect is far from being achieved by relying on several air conditioners at home. Ye Xun's idea is to build a kang in the living room and throw away the original bed. The kang can be slept on all year round and is also sturdy.
Sleeping is a matter for three people, and he also needs to ask Qin Wei and Wang Yu.
Qin Wei naturally had no problem with this. He was from the north and had slept on a kang in his rural hometown when he was a child. It was indeed warm with a fire underneath, and he could even roast sweet potatoes underneath.
If two people agree, Wang Yu’s idea will naturally become unimportant.
Wang Yu, who was excluded, didn't know that the two men were planning to make a bed behind her back. She came back after watching the hanging. The training task assigned by Qin Wei had not been completed yet, so she didn't dare to rest at all.
The biggest problem now is the lack of materials for building a kang. There is plenty of cement in Ye Xun's space, but the bricks in the space are all specially made, so it is not cost-effective to use them to build a kang.
If he remembered the time correctly, there would be a magnitude 9 earthquake in a week, and he could go and look around in the ruins then.
The earthquake occurred during the day, and people were still asleep at this time, but were awakened by the violent shaking.
Ye Xun had not slept at all. When he saw the furniture in the house start to shake, he knew that an earthquake had begun. He quickly woke up Qin Wei who was still sleeping next to him, and then ran to knock on Wang Yu's bedroom door.
The chickens on the planting side were so panicked that they kept chirping in a sharp and piercing voice.
Bal was also in a restless mood and kept digging the ground with his front paws.
After the three people and the dog got up, they gathered in the planting room. If the house collapsed, they could immediately store the vegetables and the chickens along with the people in the space. Ye Xun had already stored the things in the storage room.
It’s a pity that the five solar generators on the balcony cannot be stored in the space because the air conditioner needs electricity to operate at night.
When the salesperson took Ye Xun to see the house, he said that an earthquake below magnitude 10 would not be able to shake the building. I didn't know whether it was true or not, but now I can verify it.
After the pre-rock ended, the whole house began to shake violently. Everything on the table was thrown to the ground, and even the lighter furniture was moved.
It was unknown how long the shaking would last. Ye Xun did not dare to relax. He held the hands of the two people tightly with both hands, and would immediately enter the space if something went wrong.
As time passed, the shaking gradually decreased, but it was unclear whether there would be aftershocks, so the three of them did not dare to act rashly for the time being.
By the time he could no longer feel any shaking, the sun was about to set. Even Qin Wei could not bear to maintain the same posture for several hours, so he stood up to stretch his muscles and rub his sore thighs and shoulders.
Ye Xun collapsed directly to the ground, due to lack of exercise. Wang Yu was much better than him. After a slight muscle massage, he was able to move again.
"Give me a hand." Ye Xun stretched out his hand weakly towards Qin Wei.
Qin Wei pulled the person out of the ground with one force, just like pulling a carrot, pulled her into his arms, and hugged her slender waist.
After he stood firmly, Ye Xun walked to the window, opened the curtains and looked out. All he saw was a ruin. Only the buildings in Shuijing Jiayuan were still standing. The cries of crying and shouting for help from outside continued to reach his ears, making him feel so depressed that he couldn't breathe.
This is nature. In the face of natural disasters, humans are like a mantis trying to stop a chariot and have no ability to resist.
Countless people died in this earthquake, and the bodies began to rot in just half a day.
The government sent out a rescue team, but there were far from enough people, so they began to recruit volunteers, just like they had recruited construction workers before, providing them with two meals a day, a box of masks and disinfectant.
With this level of death toll, especially in such a hot summer, it is very easy for an epidemic to break out.
Ye Xun and his friends didn't care about the food, and they decided not to work in the plantation or on the construction site for the time being to avoid getting sick.
There are ruins everywhere now, and materials for making kangs are picked up everywhere. Ye Xun directly pulls the camper from his home to the community outside the base.
Bricks were placed on the bottom layer and covered with some food found in the ruins to create camouflage.
There were many people searching for things in the ruins, and they all focused their attention on the three-acre land in front of them. No one paid attention to what Ye Xun had picked up. Moreover, when he came, the long Tang sword on his waist told others directly that he was not easy to mess with.
The night is short, only six hours, and the time spent on the road going back and forth, plus the time needed to pick out the drill bit, usually means only about three trips. Plus, the camper is too small, so it can't hold many bricks in total.
The sound insulation effect of the synthetic board used as the partition wall in the living room was poor, which somewhat affected the couple's world of two. Qin Wei made a request that since the kang was going to be built, they might as well re-paint the wall as well.
In this way, a large number of bricks are needed.
The three of them worked together. Ye Xun and Wang Yu went out to find bricks and steel bars, while Qin Wei worked as a cement worker at home.
After the earthquake, there were too few bricks available, and it took the two men a week to gather the required bricks, searching and sorting them as they went. Once all the bricks were found, the walls and the kang were also completed.
The kangs in the two compartments are connected, but they are separated by a wall underneath, and a layer of sound insulation board is specially added in the wall. As long as there is no noise, you can generally not hear any noise.
All the ceramic bowls and plates at home were broken in the earthquake. Although there were spare ones in the space, Ye Xun wanted to try to integrate into the end of the world and feel the end of the world. It was like eating hardship without any suffering.
Shuijing Jiayuan is a high-end residential area in H City, surrounded by various supermarkets and convenience stores. Ye Xun took Qin Wei there to try his luck and see if there were any intact ceramic bowls.
Before leaving, he and Qin Wei put on N95 masks and simple protective clothing to reduce contact with the outside world.
The road was covered with gravel and tents filled with wounded soldiers. The number of casualties was too great and medicines were in short supply, so they basically had to hold on.
Ye Xun felt that strong empathy was the most useless thing. He didn't dare to look up and walked through the tents and ruins with his head down.
Walking out of the ruins is the commercial street.
In the dilapidated convenience store on the roadside, all the edible items had been picked up, and the tableware was the kind that no one patronized. Ye Xun actually found a few unbroken bowls, a few non-stick pans, and a ceramic pot, which were perfect for making soup when the weather got cold.
I was lucky enough to pick up a few bottles of detergent and soap. After wiping off the dust on the surface, they looked like new.
On the way back, many people noticed them, but they were intimidated by Qin Wei's tall and strong figure and Ye Xun's Tang sword on his waist, and did not dare to get close.
While they were looking at each other, Ye Xun was also looking at them.
After the earthquake, many refugees came to the vicinity of the base, most of whom were from City H. People from other cities did not have the conditions to travel thousands of miles in such weather.
There is a prison in City H, which is likely to have collapsed in the earthquake, and the criminals inside may have escaped.
He had just seen a man among the group of people looking at them. There was a horrible scar on his face from the upper eyelid of his right eye to his chin. There was a suspicious bulge in his trouser pocket that looked like a pistol.
This person gave him a bad impression. He had a pair of cold eyes with three white sclera, and his temperament was as if his hands were stained with blood. The feeling he gave Ye Xun was more in line with the image of a mercenary in his mind than Qin Wei. He was a man who licked blood on the tip of his knife and regarded human life as worthless.
Worried about arousing suspicion, Ye Xun told Qin Wei about his discovery after they walked away. "Among the group of people just now, there was a man with a scar on his face. He had something hidden in his trouser pocket. It looked like a gun. He might have escaped after the prison collapsed."
"Do you think I should tell the government?" Ye Xun turned his head and looked at the man beside him.
"If you want, go ahead." Qin Wei often does things without considering whether he should do it or not, but rather his own ideas. Otherwise, he would not have become a mercenary after graduating from the National Defense University.
Ye Xun thought about it again and again and decided to go.
He described the other party's characteristics and approximate number of people to the staff, refused the reward, and pulled Qin Wei out of the sales office.
"I hope we can capture these people successfully." Ye Xun sighed on the way back.
Qin Wei said nothing and reached out to rub his head.
As a result, something happened that night, but not inside the base, but outside the base, among refugees from other administrative districts of City H.
A family of five, including an infant, were all killed, leaving no one alive.
The circumstances were so horrible that Ye Xun, who knew about it, almost gritted his teeth. He even thought that if he and Qin Wei had gotten rid of this group of people at that time, no one would have died.
This incident also accelerated the pace of the government's expansion of the base. New ID cards were quickly produced. The ID cards for owners were black, the ID cards for tenants were blue, and the ID cards for refugees who were arranged to move in were white. There was a magnetic disk inside, which was used for card swiping to register when entering and leaving the base.
The first group of people to get the ID cards were the original residents of the community who had previously done the population registration. As the owners, Ye Xun and his friends’ ID cards were naturally black.
In addition, foreign refugees must work to get working hours, which can be exchanged for supplies and housing. Of course, they can also use food to offset the labor. The government would rather receive food than these meaningless working hours.
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