Chapter 77 Chapter 77
After this acid rain, residents' activities gradually moved underground.
Not only is the temperature lower than on the surface, but people can also go out and move around during the day and return home after dark, and their daily routines gradually return to normal.
At this time, two months had passed since the day when the person in charge of City S had talked with Chen Guoan, and only the second ship had been built.
Chen Guoan was so anxious that blisters appeared on his lips. He had no choice but to send more people to Province X.
Other bases followed suit, and almost all the men in the bases were sent to Province X, and only the elderly, the weak, women and children remained in the bases.
On weekdays, they either farmed and fed chickens or chatted with neighbors. But there were only so many people in the base, and after gossiping, there was nothing to do.
When people have free time, they like to daydream. A few middle-aged women gathered together and chatted about all sorts of things.
Soon a rumor spread in the base that the people sent to Province X were not going to build ships, but spaceships, and the top leaders of the base were going to abandon them and fly to another planet to live.
Some people even say that they are aliens, and the reason why the earth has become what it is now is that they want to destroy humans and then occupy the earth.
Chen Guoan was so angry that he almost laughed. If he were an alien, he would have used missiles to blow up the person who spread the rumors!
Ye Xun happened to come to visit and was very happy after hearing what he heard. These people have very rich imaginations.
"Uncle Chen, if all else fails, just take a picture of the ship and show it to them. They'll see it sooner or later anyway."
You were hiding something, and now you have been expelled from the society by these people.
Although Province X is adjacent to Province Y, it is still several hundred kilometers away. It is difficult to reach there without a vehicle, not to mention the altitude sickness, which is enough to make them sick. Anyone with a normal mind would not think of walking to Province X.
There was really no other way, so Chen Guoan did as Ye Xun said. When the ladies saw the giant ship take shape, they stopped saying anything.
Those who have children at home all hope that their children can board the ship. They don’t care about it, as they have had enough of these decades. But the children are still young and have not seen the world properly.
Before, they were afraid that the base was deceiving them, but now that they have seen it, they feel at ease and work honestly again. They also scolded the first person who made up the rumor.
Xia Lihua didn't dare to leave the house these days, because the rumors spread outside came from her. She didn't expect that someone would actually believe her random complaints. If she had known that these people were so stupid, why would she say these things?
But the family's grain barrel is empty. She is over 60 years old and still has to work outside every day for her 40-year-old son in exchange for some sweet potatoes. However, Xia Ruolin can live in such a luxurious house with endless food and electricity.
They are obviously sisters, why is there such a big difference between them?
She looked at her son who was still sleeping soundly on the bed, and became so angry that she quickly walked to the bed and slapped him in the face. While he was confused, she pointed at his nose and scolded him.
"Why did I give birth to a useless thing like you? Look at Ye Xun, he makes Xia Ruolin, that bitch, eat and drink well. And look at you, at your age, you still need your sixty-year-old mother to feed you."
After she finished cursing, she turned around and was about to take the remaining sweet potato away.
"From today on, you have to earn your own food. I will no longer be responsible for it."
Xia Lihua put the sweet potatoes into a sack and wanted to take them away, but her son would not let her. If he let his mother take these things away, what would he eat?
The two had an argument and fought over a few shriveled sweet potatoes. Even though the man was useless, he was still in his prime with all his limbs intact. Xia Lihua was no match for him at all.
During the jostle, he accidentally pushed Xia Lihua to the ground, with the back of her head hitting the ground. She rolled her eyes and lost consciousness.
The man tremblingly put his finger to the tip of his nose, but could not detect any breath. Knowing that something was wrong, he ran away in panic, and before leaving, he did not forget to take the bag of sweet potatoes.
The man left home and never came back. Xia Lihua's body lay on the ground until it rotted and the stench drifted outside and was smelled by the neighbors, and then it was dealt with.
The autopsy results showed that she died of suffocation. The injury to the back of her head was only the cause. The impact caused respiratory depression in her body. If someone had performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on her in time, Xia Lihua would not have died.
The missing son, the empty grain barrel, and the neighbors' comments about her son made it obvious who the murderer was.
Right now is a time of population shortage. If it was an ordinary homicide, he might be sent to dig rocks, but matricide is too serious and must be sentenced to death directly.
Chen Guoan said that if the man could be captured, he would be rewarded with 200 kilograms of food.
If two hundred kilograms were all sweet potatoes and cooked into porridge, it could feed a family of three for at least a month.
After doing the math in their minds, everyone present was moved.
Men lie in bed every day and do not work. Their physical fitness is no match for the women working in the fields. If Xia Lihua was not old, it would be easy for her to beat her son with her strength.
As soon as the wanted order was issued, everyone became excited and vowed to catch this ruthless and ungrateful man and get the 200 kilograms of grain.
The man hid, knowing that the most dangerous place was the safest place, so he hid in Ye Xun's garage. Normally, no one dared to mess with their family, so they subconsciously ignored this place.
That day, Ye Xun suddenly had the urge to do a thorough cleaning of the RV. However, before he got close, he saw a pair of men's shoes exposed from behind the wheel.
Thinking of Xia Lihua's son who had escaped, he instantly understood who was hiding behind the car.
There was no one nearby, so he took out the Tang sword from the space and slowly approached.
The man hid behind the car, praying to himself that he must not be discovered.
Unfortunately, luck was not on his side.
Ye Xun was already standing behind him, and he was still craning his neck to look around until the icy cold handle of the knife was placed against his neck.
He turned around slowly, fearing that the blade would be scratched. Even if he didn't know the value of the knife, he knew that a knife that Ye Xun liked must be able to cut through metal like mud.
"This is the first time we meet, maybe I should call you cousin."
Ye Xun spoke in a flat tone, without emotion.
"Cousin, grandpa and grandma only have two of us grandchildren. If you like men and die, the Xia family will be extinct."
The man tried to use the blood relationship to beg Ye Xun not to hand him over.
As far as he knew, Ye Xun was still a college student before the end of the world. During the past year or so since the end of the world, he had been living a life of luxury and was very popular.
He looked at Ye Xun with praying eyes and saw him take the knife off his neck. Just when he thought he had escaped, he felt a sharp pain in his wrists and ankles the next second.
"Xia Lihua is my aunt after all, so as her nephew, I must avenge her. But you are her only son, so I cannot kill you. Just wait here for the patrol team."
Ye Xun wiped the blood off the Tang sword and left to find the patrol team.
Xia Lihua is not nice to others, but she is really nice to her son. She is in her sixties and would rather work hard herself than let him go out to work.
As a result, he raised such a heartless thing, he really deserves to die.
He didn't kill him out of respect for his grandparents, but he wouldn't let him live either.
It’s a pity that today’s plan to wash the car was disrupted.
The patrol team that received the news quickly rushed to the scene and stopped the bleeding of the man's wound. The person who did it was very measured and avoided the blood vessels, only cutting the tendons of his feet and hands.
After simply cleaning up the scene, they took the man away.
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