Chapter 43 Chapter 43
After dinner, everyone sat in a row on the sofa with their bellies bulging. After Qin Wei cleaned up the table, he walked over to Ye Xun and sat down. He put his big hand on his slightly bulging belly and whispered in his ear, "You look like you're pregnant."
What kind of nonsense is this? The person hasn't left yet, so Ye Xun can't get angry, so he raises his arm and gives him an elbow strike in a subtle way.
He pretends to be a cool boy in front of outsiders, but talks dirty and acts hypocritically in front of him.
After being punished for his talkativeness, Qin Wei shut up obediently. He liked teasing Ye Xun, but he had no intention of making him angry. He just wanted to know when to stop.
Xu Feng and the other two did not stay long. They sat and digested their food for a while before saying goodbye and going back. They were a family reunion, so he, an outsider, would not participate, otherwise he would feel sad.
After making sure the elevator had gone down, Ye Xun put the kitchen dining table into the space, placed a coffee table in front of the sofa, and then placed melon seeds, fruits and drinks on it.
There was no stove or air conditioner in the kitchen, and the temperature was much lower than in the room. It was inevitable to feel cold if one stayed still for a long time, so Ye Xun took out a few heaters from the space and turned them on.
After hanging a screen on the wall, they took out the projector and played the Spring Festival Galas of previous years that had been downloaded in advance. The three of them sat on the sofa and enjoyed the rare warm time.
Ye Xun was held in Qin Wei's arms, while Wang Yu and Bal leaned against each other, the single dog and the real dog kept each other warm.
The three of them looked at the familiar faces on the screen and suddenly had the illusion of returning to the world before the end of the world, but the coldness when the heater shook its head told them that the illusion was wrong after all.
I watched the entire Spring Festival Gala with unprecedented seriousness. When the voice of a female singer singing an unforgettable night came from the speakers, the same tune was also heard on the base's radio.
Celebrate the first year of surviving the apocalypse.
By the next day, the air was still filled with a joyful atmosphere, and the people on the construction site were swinging their sledgehammers with more energy. At this rate, the house would be completed the day after tomorrow.
Chen Guoan has already selected the new residents, picking out the top 2,000 people in terms of working hours and those with no record of slacking off from a population of nearly 5,000. The first three months will be a probation period, and if there are no offenses in three months, they can become formal residents of the H City base. Before that, they will only enjoy half of the food relief of formal residents.
The peanuts and cabbages that Ye Xun brought back last time were successfully cultivated and have now entered the expansion stage. In two or three months at most, the people at the base will be able to eat fresh vegetables and use freshly squeezed oil.
People feel refreshed when good things happen to them. Chen Guoan's face was beaming with joy the whole day.
The only problem at present is that the area of cultivable land in the base is limited, and the food is barely enough to eat, but there is no surplus. If there is another natural crisis, the base will be short of food again. After discussion among the leaders and experts of the base, it was decided to build an underground farm. In addition to growing sweet potatoes and vegetables, some docile vegetarian animals can also be raised, such as pheasants and rabbits, which are high-productivity animals.
On the Lantern Festival, an announcement about the base building an underground farm was posted on the bulletin board, and they began recruiting a large number of people.
The geology of city H is relatively soft, so even with manpower it would be difficult to dig deep. However, such geological conditions are prone to collapse, so the digging must be deep enough. The data from the construction of the city's subway must be referenced, and due to the frequent occurrence of natural disasters in the apocalypse, it may be necessary to dig deeper.
No one from Ye Xun's family signed up this time either. The three of them would not help advance the overall progress. It would be better for them to wander around the mountains more and see if there are any wild vegetables or rabbits that they can bring back. This would be of greater help to the base.
The time he went out with the patrol team a few years ago was too tight and the search range was small, so naturally there was not much harvest. This time, Ye Xun planned to go to the mountainous area of H City to take a look.
In this case, he had to take Wang Yu and Bal with him. He was worried about leaving them for too long. After all, Wang Yu had a criminal record, and after many days, the memory still came back to Ye Xun, making him angry.
The snowmobiles were in the hands of the patrol team, so they just had to say hello to Chen Guoan. There was no need to prepare anything in advance, just pretend to carry a mountaineering bag and a tent to fool outsiders.
Every time Ye Xun and his two companions went out, they would attract the attention of the neighbors. In their minds, this family either did not go out at all, or did something big when they went out.
When they arrived at the office, there were quite a few people sitting inside. Except for Chen Guoan, the others were all unfamiliar faces. They had only seen him once or twice on TV news. After all, Chen Guoan was the only person they often dealt with.
Seeing Ye Xun coming to the door, Chen Guoan asked kindly: "I see you are carrying bags, are you here to take back those two motorcycles?"
Ye Xun answered him: "Well, we plan to go to a farther place to see if we can find some wild vegetables or rabbits to bring back for breeding. There is still too little food in the base."
"Okay, okay, I'll have someone drive the car back to you right now." After hearing their purpose, Chen Guoan decided to move the meeting to the back row. He used the intercom to call the guard outside to drive the motorcycle out of the garage and also asked him to fill up the gas in advance.
Ye Xun did not hide the words "Come on" at the end. In front of food, oil did not seem so precious.
The three men who got the motorcycle said goodbye to the big guys in the office and embarked on a short journey to find food.
After the magnetic field was disturbed, the navigation software lost its function, and now they rely on maps and compasses to travel. The direction they were heading was located in the southwest of H City, close to the inland. The mountains and forests here were deeper and deeper. They were virgin forests that had not been mined by humans. The area was not ranked among the virgin forests in China, but it was rich in species and more dangerous.
Therefore, when they arrived at the outskirts of the deep forest, Ye Xun sprayed mosquito and snake repellent on himself and them, and put on a biochemical mask to prevent poisonous insects from flying into their facial features.
Even Baal was armed from head to toe. Since there was no suitable mask for him, he was given goggles instead.
The group walked into the snow-covered woods and lined up in a row. Qin Wei led the way with a Tang sword in hand, and Bal walked at the end of the team, detecting sounds in the woods that human ears could not capture.
The woods were silent, with only the occasional sound of birds flapping their wings high above.
Qin Wei tilted his head to listen, trying to judge the number of birds. He could only hear about five birds, but could not tell their exact location.
With a pair of 5.0 glasses, he saw a wild bird preening its feathers on the branch of a tall tree in front of him on the right. He gently raised the crossbow in his hand, aimed at the bird's chest and abdomen, and shot.
Although they brought guns, bullets are now a non-renewable resource, so they had to save them as much as possible. The crossbow is powerful at a short distance and is more than enough to kill small animals.
After the wild bird was shot by an arrow, it fell from the branch onto the snow. Bal consciously ran to pick it up.
Qin Wei took the dead bird from the dog's mouth, pulled out the arrows from it for recycling, and threw the body to Ye Xun for him to keep.
This scene was repeated in the woods until Qin Wei pulled out the crossbow arrow that was piercing his body more and more shallowly, and stroked the gradually blunt arrowhead.
I didn't see any creatures running on the ground along the way, only flying in the sky. These things are hard to tame even if we catch them, and their small bodies are enough to make them fill our teeth, so we can only take them back to eat as a snack.
The three of them sat down next to a tree with a trunk diameter of about one meter. Moving in their heavy clothes was too tiring and their stomachs had already started to rumble.
It was safe for the time being. Ye Xun took off the mask on his face, dug a two-meter-wide hole in the snow with a shovel, and took out a portable stove to make a fire.
They caught a lot of birds today. They looked okay in size, but there wasn't much meat after plucking the feathers and removing the internal organs. After roasting more than ten birds, it was only enough to make them 70% full. In the end, they still had to nibble on the pickled vegetable meat patties made by Zhang Qinwei.
Produced in Space, it’s just like fresh out of the oven, savory and salty, and the outside of the pancake is still crispy.
After eating, Ye Xun was thinking about something. The main purpose of this trip was to find edible plants to take back and plant. There were so many rabbits and chickens in the space that they were almost a disaster. He might as well catch a few and trick Cheng Guoan.
But you can't say that watermelons and blueberries were found outside. These fruits cannot survive in cold weather, let alone bear fruit. If you want to deceive people, you have to be credible.
The three of them rested for a while, recovered their strength, and continued to walk deeper into the forest.
After walking for a while, the road into the mountain began to become steeper, and occasionally squirrels could be seen jumping between two branches. Ye Xun looked up and saw a big furry tail on top of its head. It was much thicker than the tails of squirrels he had seen before. It was all an evolution made to adapt to the environment.
The value of squirrels in artificial breeding is too low, and they are beyond Ye Xun’s range of catching them, so he is too lazy to do it.
The squirrel, unaware that it had escaped death, was chewing a pine cone while curiously observing what the three two-legged animals on the ground were doing.
The sun moves westward, and at this time, the sky gets darker faster.
But their current location was not suitable for camping. The woods were dense and there were too many obstructions. Their strength would be weakened at night, which would affect their observation of the surrounding environment. They had to find a relatively spacious place.
Finally, before it got completely dark, they found such a place, and Ye Xun quickly took out the tent.
After taking the tent out of the packaging bag, open it with a snap, hammer the four corners to fix them, put on the moisture-proof mat and sleeping bag, and the tent is ready.
It was completely dark, and only a little bit of the sun's afterglow could be seen on the western horizon.
Ye Xun hung the lamp at the highest point in the center of the tent, and the entire space instantly became bright. The uneasiness brought by the coming darkness was dispelled by the light.
Taking into account the differences between men and women, Ye Xun took out a square piece of cloth and pulled a curtain between Wang Yu and the two of them, separating the two spaces.
People on both sides felt much more at ease.
The tent has a very good windproof effect. No matter how cold the wind is outside, not a single breeze can get in. But it is still not warm enough, after all, the temperature is minus seventy degrees Celsius.
Ye Xun took out the portable power supply and two heaters in the space. After turning on the power, the two heaters blew warm air. The temperature in the tent rose sharply to about minus ten degrees and then stopped rising.
After doing all this, Ye Xun crawled into the sleeping bag, which was warmed up by Qin Wei, who had gone in early, with his body temperature. After he got in, it was like a small stove.
In the woods at night, the courtship calls of nocturnal birds could be heard from the sky, clear and melodious. Ye Xun gradually fell asleep amidst these calls.
Because the fabric used to make the tent had such strong light-blocking properties, the three of them opened their eyes at noon. Ye Xun looked at the watch on his fair and slender wrist and realized that it was already ten o'clock.
Time flies by without a trace in the mountains. It was already eleven o'clock when we finished preparing breakfast for three people.
Ye Xun squatted beside Qin Wei, slurping noodles, and asked him something: "Do you feel that the daytime has become shorter? When you wake up, the sun has just risen from the top of the mountain, and it's dark before four o'clock."
Qin Wei added a spoonful of chili to his bowl of noodles and stirred it evenly. "I do have this feeling, but I haven't properly counted the time during the day before, so I can't make a comparison."
"It's too exhausting to count the time and have to work day and night. When I go back, I'll ask the base commander to recruit people to do it." Ye Xun knew that he couldn't do this job himself, so he let professionals do it. The people in the research institute were very good.
There are only five hours left until dark, so we are in a hurry today. After dinner, we will pack up and continue heading into the mountains.
He didn't stop to rest along the way, and he only walked a quarter of the way. It was all white, which not only affected his pace, but also his vision. Later, Ye Xun felt that his eyes were going to be ruined.
"No wonder people say snow rescue is difficult. Whose eyes can handle it?" Ye Xun closed his eyes, leaning against a tree trunk, waiting for his eyes to feel better before setting off again.
In fact, the team only walked in the mountains for three hours, but everyone was sweating profusely. They were wearing too many clothes that were not breathable, and their autumn clothes were soaked.
Qin Wei put a hand warmer filled with hot water on his eyes and expressed dissatisfaction with his behavior: "I told you to look at the map, but you insisted on looking at it yourself. Now you know how uncomfortable it is."
Ye Xun was not angry after being scolded, but still cheerfully said, "You are our force leader, just leave this matter to me, I also want to show my value."
Qin Wei didn't respond, but poured out the cold water in the hot water bag and replaced it with hot water. After about fifteen minutes, Ye Xun finally felt that his eyes were much better. He learned a lesson and put on his sunglasses obediently.
The map in his hand was very detailed, with latitude posters and some signs on the mountains. The mountains in the south were mainly hills. The mountain under their feet was not high, only one thousand meters, like a little baby in front of the high mountain known as the roof of the world. Their current location poster was only three hundred meters. If it was before the end of the world, it would be possible to climb to the top of such a mountain in one day.
The higher we went, the more creatures appeared in the woods, even roe deer running through the woods. We wanted to get closer to take a look, but then they jumped away.
Ye Xun looked at the short tail that was gradually moving away and thought, no wonder it was called a silly roe deer. If it came any closer, he would just shoot it.
There were quite a few wild rabbits in the forest. Compared with the wild rabbits they had met before, they were not only bigger in size, but also had more exaggerated fur on their bodies. They looked like an oversized gray sea urchin, with their eyes tightly covered.
Ye Xun and Qin Wei only knew how to catch rabbits with crossbows, and there were basically no survivors, so the job of catching live rabbits was left to Bal.
As a natural shepherd dog, hunting rabbits is also engraved in its genetic instinct. After biting two rabbits to death, it has mastered the strength to make the rabbits unable to break free, but at the same time, the sharp teeth will not pierce the skin.
Female rabbits can give birth to babies, but male rabbits are only useful for breeding. Ye Xun pulled apart the hair on the underbelly of each wild rabbit, keeping one male rabbit, and the rest were all female rabbits.
We don’t want those with testicles, those who are not yet adults, those who feel like bones, or those who are obviously in a bad mental state.
In the end, a total of thirteen rabbits were caught, one male and twelve females. A female rabbit gave birth to eight or nine cubs, and twelve rabbits could give birth to at least a hundred. Rabbits grow fast, and in less than three months, they will become a disaster. It would be hard for the only male rabbit.
Rabbits probably never imagined that one day they would be forced to form a harem by humans.
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