Chapter 49 Chapter 49
"Base commander, why do you come to see me at this time? Is there something urgent?" Unless it was an extremely urgent matter, Chen Guoan would not have rashly come to disturb him.
Sure enough, the other party came to ask for medicine, "Xiao Ye, I am putting down my old face to beg you, hoping to exchange a few roundworm medicine pills with you. My daughter started vomiting blood this morning. If she doesn't take the medicine, I will lose her."
As a father, he would rather something happen to himself than to his daughter.
Ye Xun could afford a few anthelmintics, but he was afraid that if people knew about it, they would bother him endlessly. He said in advance: "I have anthelmintics for pets, and the effect is the same. It was customized according to my dog's weight. According to your daughter's weight, she only needs to take half a pill for a week, but."
After a brief pause, Chen Guoan's heartbeat seemed to stop for a moment.
"I can give you the medicine for free. If you don't finish it, it will go bad and be thrown away. But I don't want anyone else to know that the medicine came from me. If you accept, I can get you a few more boxes now."
The original budget had expected him to get two, but he didn't expect such a pleasant surprise. Chen Guoan was so surprised that he didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Xiao Ye, I will never let anyone else know where this medicine came from!"
"Okay, wait for me a moment."
"Okay, okay, no hurry." Chen Guoan was so excited that he couldn't speak clearly.
Ye Xun pretended to go back to find medicine, but actually took it out directly from the space. When ordering anthelmintic medicine for Bal, considering that he might find a wife for Bal to have children in the future, he ordered several thousand pills. Although he didn't find a wife, the medicine came in handy.
One box of medicine contained thirty pills, and Ye Xun took five boxes, a total of 150 pills. One pill weighed two hundred kilograms, and according to the weight of the children in the base, it could be given to at least four children.
Chen Guoan was holding five boxes of medicine, tears streaming down his face. Although he was over fifty years old, he still bowed to a junior who was the same age as his daughter.
Ye Xun was frightened by the sudden bending down, and he quickly dodged, "Go back and deliver the medicine. If you continue like this, I will regret it."
Chen Guoan stood up quickly. He knew that verbal thanks were empty. He would repay Ye Xun when his daughter got better.
Thinking of his sick daughter and wife at home, he said goodbye to Ye Xun again, then said goodbye and went home.
After arriving home, he took out two pills from the box and fed half a pill to his daughter and half a pill to his wife. Since he was heavier, he took one pill.
The insecticide took effect quickly, and two hours later, all three of them vomited up large numbers of dead insects. Yu Fei vomited the most, and the longest ones were almost three or four meters long.
With so many bugs in the body, no wonder you are so weak.
He took two more pills and saved them for a week before taking them again. The remaining 146 pills were left for the children in the base, who were weak and couldn't wait.
The next day, the radio sounded.
The general content is that children under the age of five in the base whose conditions are more serious should go to the open space in the office to get medicine, while others should wait for the base's medical team to develop a Chinese medicine formula that can kill insects.
At the end of the broadcast, Chen Guoan comforted other residents who had not received any medicine.
"The foundation will not give up on any resident. I will do my best to help everyone recover as soon as possible."
Within ten minutes, the office was filled with parents holding their children. They all looked listless, and even the adults had pale faces.
The medicine obtained from Ye Xun was divided into 584 portions in total. The survival rate of children in the base was low, let alone those under five years old, so the scope of medication was expanded to ten years old.
The workload was heavy, and even Yu Fei, whose health had just started to improve, helped distribute the medicine.
According to the instructions, you need to take the medicine again after a week to kill all the bugs in your body. Unfortunately, there is not enough medicine, so you can only make sure you finish taking it the first time, and then rely on Chinese medicine to slowly recuperate the next time.
The children who took the medicine today all experienced varying degrees of vomiting after returning home. After vomiting, their spirits improved significantly and they were even more energetic and asked their parents for toys.
After the roundworm incident, the base strengthened its health management. Xie Wei has been living in the laboratory for a week without going home. He finally developed Mengsha Insecticide, an insecticide with little harm to the human body.
He didn't study this major, so it's good enough that he was able to develop it. If someone gets poisoned, at most he'll have diarrhea, but he won't die. It's much better than vomiting bugs.
After handing over the research results to the office, he climbed back to the 15th floor with difficulty, his hair greasy in wisps. He didn't even have the energy to eat, so he fell asleep.
He slept for twenty hours straight, and Ye Xun even suspected that he had died suddenly from staying up too late. After all, doing scientific research is like this.
He knew that after Xie Wei came back, he knocked on the door three times, but no one responded. It was not until the fourth time when he was about to ask Qin Wei to kick the door open that it was finally opened.
Although the person was not dead, he was not far from death. His face, which was already lacking in blood, turned pale and his cheeks were slightly sunken, as if he had been dead for a few days.
Some people look dead, but they are still alive.
Seeing that he was on his last breath, Ye Xun couldn't bear it, so he went back and got him a wild ginseng, and handed it to him along with the lunch box in his hand.
"Although the experiment is very important, you still have to take care of yourself. If you die suddenly, the lamb will become an orphan."
Xie Wei felt that what he said was right. He couldn't let his daughter lose her only father. If Chen Guoan urged him like this again next time, he would definitely kill him.
Not having the energy to speak, Xie Wei blinked a few times at Ye Xun to show his gratitude, then picked up the lunch box and floated back into the house like a soul.
Qin Wei was very unhappy when he saw his wife delivering food to another man and he needed an explanation.
"Why are you so concerned about your senior brother? It's been a long time since you cared about me."
"Of course it's because it's very useful," Ye Xun explained seriously, "With him here, we don't need to go out to look for mutant plants anymore. Haven't you noticed that the base commander is looking for you less frequently now?"
"Such a useful tool, except for speaking too bluntly, there is almost nothing wrong with him, so don't find fault with him."
Suddenly, Qin Wei felt a little sorry for this senior brother. His body had been drained by the experiments, and yet Ye Xun was still thinking about him. It was too miserable. He decided to be nice to him next month.
"Then I'll listen to you. I've made your favorite chicken wing hotpot for you. If you don't go now, your sister will have eaten it all." This was the latest dish Ye Xun ordered before going to bed. Qin Wei specially got up early to prepare the spices, marinated the chicken wings, and cooked them until the meat was soft and tasty.
"Ahhh my chicken wings, Wang Yu, shut up!" Ye Xun screamed and ran to the dining table, covering his right arm as he ran. His back looked somewhat funny.
Qin Wei had a hard time holding back his laughter behind him, fearing that if he laughed out loud he would not be able to sleep in bed tonight.
Fortunately, Wang Yu was not a fast eater and there was still a large portion of the shark fin in his bowl. Ye Xun simply used a large colander to scoop a full bowl of shark fin into his own bowl, then lowered his head to enjoy the food.
With Xie Yan's participation in the base, the harvest doubled. Not long after Ye Xun sent him food, Xie Yan developed a nutrient to replace organic fertilizers, and the infection rate of roundworms dropped sharply.
The medical team also successfully developed a Chinese medicine formula. Except for a few people who were severely infected and had other underlying diseases, most of them recovered. They were just physically weak and needed some time to recuperate.
The food reserves in the base were increasing day by day, and the leaders and residents had happy smiles on their faces, but Ye Xun was becoming increasingly anxious.
Watching the calendar on the wall getting thinner day by day, the temperature rising step by step, and the signal from Chencun being disconnected, he would wake up several times just when sleeping at night.
Qin Wei and Wang Yu couldn't comfort him, so they could only try their best to make him happy.
Finally, in mid-April, a piece of news was passed to City H, and along with it came the migrating team from the capital.
When we were less than five kilometers away from the base, the satellite phone rang. The phone had been like a decoration for two months, and this was the first time it had rang since the New Year.
Chen Guoan answered the call excitedly, and when he heard the long-awaited voice, he couldn't help but burst into tears.
After receiving the call, he immediately climbed up to the observation tower on the wall and looked into the distance with a telescope. Sure enough, between the sky and the earth, he saw a dark mass, which was the marching team.
After rushing for a long time, the team finally arrived at the base before dark.
Ordinary people have a natural yearning for the capital and will beautify everything about it. They will not raise any resistance to their entry into the city.
But there are many kinds of people, so we should be vigilant. Moreover, Ye Xun couldn't help but frown when he saw the wolf-like eyes they cast on the residents of the base. They were not easy to deal with after traveling more than a thousand kilometers in such bad weather to come to H City.
It looks like the power grid will have to be turned on before tonight.
Chen Guoan, overwhelmed by joy, didn't think about these things and quickly stepped forward to greet the leaders of the Capital Base.
"Comrade, what's your name? My name is Chen Guoan."
"Zhang Hongyuan, you can just call me Lao Zhang."
The man named Zhang Hongyuan is the same age as Chen Guoan, but if you really count, he is a few months younger and his birthday is in the second half of the year.
But his hard life made him look at least five years older than Chen Guoan, with deep and numerous wrinkles on his face and chapped lips.
During their conversation, Chen Guoan learned that new extremely hot weather was about to arrive, and the glaciers on the sea were moving to Province F under Province Z. The melting of the glaciers would cause a tsunami, and all coastal areas would be submerged.
"So we plan to rest and recuperate at your base for a while, and then move to Province Y after the ice and snow on the land melt and the snow water dries up."
"We brought our own food, so you don't have to worry about taking up your food." Zhang Hongyuan was worried that the other party would refuse him because of the food issue, so he quickly added this sentence.
Chen Guoan doesn’t think food is a big problem, but “after finally having a stable life, we have to be displaced and move to a foreign land. Sigh~ When will this apocalypse end?”
"Ah~" Zhang Hongyuan also sighed.
The two men's brows were furrowed more and more tightly, as if they were having a boxing match.
Human beings are fighting against nature like a mayfly trying to shake a tree. The only thing Chen Guoan can do is to make his future escape more comfortable.
From that day on, a new project started at the base, which people called the 'Sky Garden'.
Within a month, we had to speed up the planting and harvesting of the farm and build a ten-meter-high aerial farm. Fortunately, there was a lot of available labor at the capital base, so progress was not a problem.
The more people there are, the more trouble there will be. It is inevitable that there will be a few troublemakers who refuse to obey the management. Especially now that labor is urgently needed, if there are no mistakes that violate the principles, they will at most be punished and then let off lightly.
This also encouraged their momentum. At first, they only committed petty thefts, but when their appetite grew, they started to pick locks and steal. Because they did not have residence permits and did not need to punch in, they naturally could not be caught.
After several successful crimes, their confidence was at an unprecedented high. Finally, during one of their crimes, they happened to meet the homeowner who got up to go to the toilet. The owner was about to shout, but the thief who got there first covered his mouth.
During the argument, I didn't control my strength and accidentally smothered the man to death. At this time, my rationality was slowly disappearing, and I thought that killing one person is killing one, so it would be better to kill them all to prevent the family from seeking revenge.
The last young couple, their parents and young son were all brutally murdered.
Their bodies were discovered at the base three days later, but suspicion was aroused because they had not gone to work for three days.
The murderer could not be found for a while, and the residents of City H turned their attention to the Capital Base. Even Zhang Hongyuan did not dare to defend his own family, because he also felt that it was someone from the Capital who did it.
The residents of City H have plenty of food, so there is no need for them to risk being discovered and harming others for such a small amount of money. Isn't that killing a thousand people and harming yourself a thousand?
As expected, one of the participants in the robbery was exposed. It was his first time participating in such an operation, and his psychological endurance was far inferior to that of others. He was startled every day when he heard the slightest movement, and it was hard not to arouse suspicion.
The residents of City H who were in charge of cultivating the same land as him noticed his abnormality and immediately reported it to the patrol team.
When the patrol team came to arrest him, there was no need to interrogate him. Just looking at the gun on the other party's waist, his legs went weak and he confessed everything.
Following the clues, the five people behind the scenes were arrested and all sent to prison and will be executed at a later date.
The people from the H base and the Capital base were at loggerheads because of these bugs, mainly because the H base was sarcastic and the Capital base was too ashamed to resist.
They hated these six people so much. They had finally had a few days of good life, but they were all ruined by these bastards. How could they hold their heads up in front of the people in H City?
Therefore, at the execution ground, the most angry people were not the victims, but the people in the capital base, who were eager to rush forward to eat their flesh and sleep on their skins.
Killing someone means paying with your life. It has been like this since ancient times.
After six gunshots, several people fell to the ground, blood gushing out from the blood holes between their eyebrows, and they stopped breathing in an instant. Their bodies were taken away and thrown into the incinerator to be burned.
If the ashes are not collected after death, they can only turn into wandering ghosts and repent for the sins they have committed.
Ye Xun did not see the execution scene because Xu Feng suddenly appeared and pulled him to an empty corner to talk.
"Brother Ye, I heard that there's only a single man living across from you. I have two children at home, and I'm worried about living on the tenth floor without protection. What do you think about me moving to the house across from you?"
He had inquired before coming. The person living next door was Ye Xun's senior brother, and they had a good relationship. If Ye Xun agreed, then the matter would be settled.
The news of the base's relocation has spread, and he doesn't want any accidents to happen at the last minute.
After hearing his words, Ye Xun felt a little headache. Why did everyone around him think so highly of him? That house was not under his name.
But he and Xu Feng are half friends, so he will help if he can, but he can't guarantee whether Xie Wei is willing to do so.
"I can ask my senior brother for you. If he agrees, I have no objection."
Xu Feng was very satisfied with the answer he wanted, and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, Brother Ye, I will treat you to a housewarming dinner!"
What about the housewarming dinner? Forget it. The bacon is so sticky that he feels it gets stuck in his teeth. Let’s leave it for the brother and sister.
"Don't talk too early. Just wait for my news at home." Ye Xun told him the unpleasant truth in advance.
Xu Feng didn't care. In his mind, this matter was already 90% successful, and he would definitely agree if nothing unexpected happened.
In the evening, when Xie Wei came back from the laboratory, he met Ye Xun who was blocking the door early, so he looked at him puzzledly.
Ye Xun relayed Xu Feng's request to Xie Wei: "Xu Feng is a reliable person, and the two children are obedient. If you agree, I will let him move in tonight."
Who to live with was never a problem that Xie Wei cared about. He only cared about whether these three people moving in would reduce his quality of life. When he heard that they had enough food and knew how to pickle bacon and pickles, he immediately agreed.
"You can move in if you want, but you have to make me a plate of bacon and green peppers, otherwise I won't agree."
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