Chapter 47 Chapter 47
Ye Xun watched the whole process, and after the crowd dispersed, he slowly followed the large group back.
Only the patrol team was left to clean up the scene. The base dealt with corpses by cremation. Even though they could no longer be identified as corpses, it was there to prevent people from disobeying the base rules and hiding some to eat secretly.
On the way back in the elevator, I met Xu Feng who was coming back from the farm. The base didn't need to be expanded now, and all the manpower had been transferred to the countryside to farm.
Because of his outstanding performance, Xu Feng is now the leader of their group, managing more than a dozen people, and can be said to be eating the official food.
But he still respected Ye Xun very much, and in order to take care of his injuries, he took the initiative to press the floor button.
"Brother Ye, it's rare to see you come out alone. Why isn't Brother Qin accompanying you?" The couple are usually very close and would follow each other wherever they go. But now that Brother Ye is injured, he is nowhere to be seen.
In his heart, Xu Feng actually respected Ye Xun more. He was in awe of Qin Wei, but the other party's figure and temperament were too intimidating, and he and Ye Xun were in a relationship.
In his eyes, Qin Wei can be considered a woman whose status is due to her husband.
"He accepted a mission to go hunting in the mountains with the patrol team. The rabbits in the base were not ready for slaughter yet, so he had to try his luck in the mountains. He will be back in a week."
Ye Xun concealed the fact that Qin Wei went to pick someone up. If others heard about such an important mission, they would think that the base had a close relationship with them.
Although he and Xu Feng are familiar with each other, they are not close enough to tell each other everything. When people get along with each other, they still have to keep some secrets.
Xu Feng was just about to ask where they were going and ask to take him with them next time, but they already arrived at the 10th floor. He had no choice but to swallow back the words.
After saying goodbye to Xu Feng, the elevator quickly reached the 15th floor.
The first step he took when he entered the house was to go to the kitchen and look through the trash can. As he expected, he saw a black mass of unknown substance in it and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Wang Yu had failed in cooking.
Ninety percent of the meals in the space were ordered before the end of the world, and the remaining ten percent were made by Ye’s father.
Seeing these dishes, Ye Xun thought that it had been half a month since he had spoken to Chencun on the phone. After the hailstorm, the signal became more and more unstable, and the calls he made either could not be connected or there was no signal.
I asked Chen Guoan, and he said they have lost contact with the capital, and it is still unknown when the signal will be restored.
After that, he dropped contact.
I just miss them a little, so I'll heat up some dishes made by Ye's father tonight.
Ye Xun cooked a pot of rice according to the amount for two adults, heated up three dishes and a soup in the microwave, and then went to call Wang Yu to come out for dinner.
When Wang Yu opened the door, she smelled the aroma of food in the room. The corners of her mouth, which had drooped due to making the dirty dish, almost stretched to her ears. She jumped happily to the table and reached out to grab a chicken wing and started to eat it.
Unable to bear the thought of someone being so unhygienic, Ye Xun simply picked up the chopsticks and hit her hand.
"How many times have I told you not to eat chicken wings without washing your hands? You ignored me, didn't you?"
Wang Yu cried out in pain after being beaten. He didn't dare to continue eating the chicken wings and ran to the kitchen to wash his hands.
"Okay, okay, I'll go now."
Ye Xun looked at her back as she skipped away and shook his head helplessly. He felt that Xiaoyu had become much more lively without Qin Wei around.
Wang Yu quickly washed her hands and stretched them out to show Ye Xun, "Look, I washed them very clean."
Too lazy to take another look, Ye Xun asked her to eat quickly.
There is only a shallow layer of bone callus at the fracture of my right hand, and I cannot use it flexibly yet. Now I use my left hand to eat.
He scooped a spoonful of vegetable with a spoon and ate it with a mouthful of rice. He was a little uncomfortable at first, but now he has mastered it. Occasionally, he would tease Qin Wei, saying that he must have been left-handed in his previous life and was reborn with the memory of his soul in this life.
Since Ye Xun was a disabled person, the job of cleaning up after dinner was given to Wang Yu.
But he couldn't sit still, so he strolled into the plantation room to see how the vegetables were growing.
He also grew the mutant plants brought back from outside the base, and because they were nutrient-rich using chemical fertilizers, they were much larger than those grown in the base's underground farms.
There were no pests in the room, and there was sufficient light and nutrients. Ye Xun had nothing to do, so he just watered the plants.
After finishing, I scattered some feed for the chickens.
After doing all this, I really can’t think of anything else to do. I can only sit on the bed in the bedroom and watch TV series.
There is a calendar hanging on the wall, and someone tears it off every day, without interruption for several months. Even if they come back from outside, they will make up for the few days.
March 21st was printed on the black and white paper, and it had been more than a month since New Year's Eve.
I can't remember the prophetic dream at the beginning, but fortunately I recorded it every day. Ye Xun opened the memo on his phone and found the recent major events according to the timeline.
'On April 30, the global temperature rose and extremely hot weather returned, the ice and snow melted, the glaciers melted, triggered tsunamis, and coastal areas were flooded.'
That is next month. Ye Xun couldn't help being anxious. Every time he was anxious, he would bite the dead skin on his lips until it bled.
In the past, Qin Wei would stop him, but this time he was not around, and Ye Xun soon tasted the fishy-sweet taste.
Two-thirds of country Z's territory will be destroyed in this tsunami. The best time to migrate is when the snow melts and the sun dries up the snow water. It may be too late if you are late.
He stood by the window, looking at the wall door, wondering how Qin Wei was doing now.
t city.
As soon as Qin Wei arrived at the outer wall of the base in City T, he saw tents of various sizes standing on the open space outside. Disheveled refugees were crowded inside, coughing from time to time.
Almost everyone has this condition, and it's more like some flu than a common cold.
Qin Wei silently took out the mask and put it on. It is always better to be cautious.
About ten minutes after the gatekeeper went in and informed the base commander that someone had arrived from the H City base, the gate opened.
The guards watched carefully, not letting the refugees in, but those people just watched coldly, with no intention of moving.
The leader of City T is a tall and thin middle-aged man. From his appearance, Qin Wei came to a conclusion that life in City T is far worse than that in City H, otherwise how come even the top leader has so little flesh on his cheeks?
On the contrary, those people who came from H City were strong and healthy. Apart from the frost on their faces, there were no signs of hardship.
The head of the T city base, whose name is Liu Haomin, was so excited when he saw Qin Wei and the others that he grabbed the hand of the team leader Zhao Wenjie and refused to let go.
"You're finally here!" Liu Haomin turned sideways, revealing the silent Xie Wei behind him, "This is Xie Wei, you should leave for H City now, and don't stay in T City."
Zhao Wenjie turned his gaze to Xie Wei, a thin and handsome young man wearing elegant gold-rimmed glasses. His face was pale, his eyes were dark, and his hair was a little long, covering his ears.
He looks haggard, but his cheeks still have some flesh, and he is well taken care of in the base.
He is also a scientific researcher. Such talents will be valued everywhere.
But he didn't understand what Liu Haomin meant. Was he going to chase them away without even treating them to a meal? That was too cruel.
Qin Wei, however, had some idea of his intention. Something might happen in City T, and the cause was related to an infectious disease.
For those refugees outside the wall who cough like they have tuberculosis, it is only a matter of time before an epidemic breaks out. With so many people in the base, it is unrealistic to move them to City H, and they will bring the virus over.
At this time, Xie Wei spoke in a slow tone: "Wait for me to go back and get something, then leave."
As the team leader, Zhao Wenjie was responsible for the mission objectives. He said to Xie Wei, "Okay, I'll go with you."
Xie Wei looked at him, then nodded and turned back to his residence.
The house assigned to him was very small, with only a bedroom and a bathroom. He had to light a fire in the bedroom to eat, but in the extreme cold, such a small space actually had a good effect of keeping warm.
He didn't have anything to bring. Since the H City base came to pick him up, they would definitely take care of his food, clothing, housing and transportation. He only had one thing to bring.
He lifted the mattress and found a flat tin box underneath. Xie Wei took it out and put it in his pocket, then looked at Zhao Wenjie who was waiting for him with his arms folded.
"I'm fine, let's go."
Then, the two of them went out one after the other.
The team had rested and everyone ate some tortillas they brought with them to fill their stomachs.
Before leaving, Liu Haomin handed Qin Wei a sack and said, "There are all kinds of vegetable seeds in it. I heard that the planting technology of the city base is very good. You can take these away. It would be a waste to leave them here."
Qin Wei took it solemnly, "I thank you on behalf of the people of the base. Won't you come with us?"
How could he get away? Liu Haomin smiled bitterly: "If I leave, what will happen to the people here? We need someone to take charge. I have no ties, so it doesn't matter. But Xie Wei can't do that. He has a talent for plant research, and he can only play a role in your hands."
The team from the H City base stayed in T City for less than an hour before leaving, which was shorter than everyone expected.
When Zhao Wenjie was bored on the way, he asked Xie Wei, "What's going on in your base? They all look unhappy."
"It's the flu." Xie Wei was worried that they couldn't hear him clearly because of his low voice, so he repeated, "There's flu in T City. It suddenly appeared. People outside the base have more severe symptoms because of their poor physical fitness."
"Flu? Then why did you let us come? Aren't you harming people?" Zhao Wenjie's roar almost overturned the car. If he didn't have some military manners, he would have pointed a gun at Xie Wei's forehead.
Xie Wei was very calm, and his tone did not change: "No one can escape. I studied the morphology of this virus. It is like a tiny dandelion. As long as there is wind, it can float tens of kilometers."
"Although it is a virus, it has a capsule and is not afraid of high or low temperatures. The only effective things are disinfectant and ultraviolet light that can kill the virus. Unfortunately, these things are gone after the end of the world."
"But you don't have to worry too much. If an individual without underlying disease is infected, he or she will not die without treatment."
Qin Wei asked: "What will happen if we don't get treatment?"
"It's just irreversible damage to the lungs." Xie Wei said truthfully.
"That's all?" Zhao Wenjie was so angry when he heard him talk about the dangers of influenza so casually.
"What evidence do you have to prove that everything you said was not a lie?"
"Of course there is." Xie Wei took out the iron box he brought from under the bed and handed it to Zhao Wenjie. "Before the satellite signal was disrupted, this flu had already appeared in multiple bases. There was no personnel interaction between the bases, so there was no contact infection. Moreover, once a case appeared in a base, infected people would soon appear in the surrounding area. Even if the bases only communicated through telephone calls, it is impossible that the virus can be spread through signals."
Zhao Wenjie opened the tin box, which contained several USB flash drives. He looked up and motioned for him to explain what they were used for.
"It contains the flu transmission logs of the T City Base and other bases. I have proposed to build a transmission model for it. If the computer in your base is still usable, you can open it and take a look."
Xie Wei explained it to him, but there was no need to go into more in-depth details because these people wouldn't understand it anyway.
"Your doctoral field is botany, how do you know these?"
The person asking the questions was Qin Wei, who still expressed doubts about what Xie Wei said.
Xie Wei was unhappy. "Because I didn't pass the interview for the virus-related major I applied for, I took the botany exam at the same school."
"Can you tell me which school?"
"S is big."
I'm from the same university as Ye Xun. I'll go back and ask to find out whether it's true or not.
After this topic was over, the car fell into silence.
Not long after driving, the patrolman driving the car suddenly said, "Boss, there's a big bird in the sky. It looks like a vulture. Do you want to shoot it down?"
How big can a vulture be? Why is there so much fuss? Let's take it down and have a taste. Zhao Wenjie was about to say yes, but Xie Wei, who closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, got there first.
"No, this vulture followed me. It's very well behaved and won't attack anyone."
"Yours? Why do you keep this thing? It looks ugly. Okay, okay, forget about the bird and drive your car."
It is less than 300 kilometers from City T to City H, but it takes more than a day to drive there, because the daytime hours are only about five hours long, which is one hour less than when Ye Xun and his friends went to catch rabbits.
Finally, we arrived at the H City base before the car ran out of gas.
After the end of the world, it was the first time Xie Wei went to another city. This place looked much better than T City. Not only the five-meter city wall, but also the mental outlook of the people in the base. Although they were thin, they were energetic and full of vitality.
In comparison, City T is a lifeless ghost town.
The patrol team finally saw the vulture clearly. If someone knew, they would recognize it as a lappet vulture, a female, larger than a male. Xie Wei's vulture was even larger, with a wingspan estimated to be 3.5 meters long.
With a body weighing more than 30 kilograms, it thought it was a small bird. Its two sharp big feet stood on Xie Wei's head, making him shorter by several centimeters.
But Xie Wei still had an expression that said although his life was hard, he had long been accustomed to it.
The patrolmen wanted to laugh when they saw this.
Ye Xun was listening to the radio and ran downstairs immediately in his indoor slippers without even having time to change his shoes.
Before he could get close, he was stopped by the patrol team.
Just when he was about to ask what was going on, he saw Qin Wei's helpless expression. He didn't expect that he would have to be quarantined for seven days after returning and could only go back if there were no problems.
If you show the same symptoms as people in City T after seven days, you will be very unlucky. Unless there is influenza inside the base, you will not be allowed to leave.
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