Chapter 86 Chapter 86
He stood up suddenly, not caring about the fishing rod, and ran straight into the cabin.
When I bought the cruise ship, I took a fancy to the entertainment room. The quality of both the projector and the audio system were very good.
So when they were not fishing, Chen Guoan would take everyone to watch movies in the entertainment room. Now that the network had not been restored, the movies they watched were naturally the ones that Ye Xun had copied before the end of the world.
When he saw Ye Xun's anxious look, he thought he had caught a big fish and was showing off. He was about to ask, but Ye Xun's words made him lose his composure.
"Uncle Chen, when I was fishing just now, I noticed that the sea level has dropped a bit. At this rate, it won't be long before we can see land."
In his excitement, Chen Guoan accidentally knocked over the water cup on the coffee table, but he did not wipe it dry immediately. Instead, he walked to the fishing rod that Ye Xun was holding to experience it himself.
Sure enough, the fishing rod hit something hard, and there was a black shadow under the water. What Ye Xun said was almost correct.
I originally thought that I might have to drift on the sea for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect that there would be a turning point.
This group of people, whose combined age is almost 100 years old, couldn't help but shed tears. As the water level dropped, the day when they could reunite with their families was not far away.
According to the navigation on the monitoring equipment, they are now in the eastern coastal area. The mountains here are not very high, and the tops of the mountains are about to emerge from the water. The sea water in Province X and Province Y may have already receded.
Ye Xun decided to change his route and head to Province Y, where the environment was more suitable for long-term living, whether it was the fertile soil or the more pleasant temperature compared to other provinces.
Everyone supported his decision, and the cruise ship, which had been stranded for more than a month, finally started to move.
The distance was still more than 2,000 kilometers, but this time with the cruise ship, it only took half a month, even though we drove and saw the scenery along the way.
Life suddenly became hopeful, and the smiles on everyone's faces increased visibly, especially Chen Guoan. The wrinkles on his forehead were smoothed out, and he happily fished on the deck every day.
The leftover fish can be marinated with sea salt so that they can be eaten for a while even after being brought ashore. After all, the future is still unknown.
When the cruise ship docked, Ye Xun and the others still felt like it was a dream.
When he stepped on the ground, he suddenly felt something being pulled out of his body. He felt a little dizzy for a moment. Qin Wei saw that he looked strange and quickly supported him, otherwise he would fall to the ground.
After the discomfort passed, I found a little green on the ground under my feet. At first I thought it was an illusion caused by dizziness, so I blinked my eyes violently, and found that the green area was constantly expanding.
Everyone noticed the magical scene here and looked at Ye Xun with surprise.
With him as the center, the green extended outward at a speed gradually increasing, and finally formed a grassland.
Looking at the familiar cattle, sheep and farmland, Ye Xun finally knew what he had just escaped from: space.
I don’t know why the space came out of his body and exists in the outside world, but this is a good thing for both humans and him.
The space has been exposed. Firstly, the time bomb on his body is gone, so he doesn't have to worry about Chen Guoan and others coming to him for help in the future.
Secondly, with these farmlands, the food source has been solved, not to mention the poultry, cattle, sheep, and rivers in space.
What he thought of, others could naturally think of as well, and they were suddenly full of hope for the future.
But the home still needs to be rebuilt, and they are short of manpower, so they can only take it slow.
The breeding space was gone, but the storage space was still there. Ye Xun did not say anything and quietly pulled Qin Wei away.
The two came to the vicinity of the integrated house.
Once they have land to survive on, other people will gradually come here, so before that, they must build the wall first.
Resource shortage is a long-term battle. After the tsunami, many human technologies are no longer usable and we have regressed decades, which makes agriculture extremely important.
Therefore, the defense of residence is still very important. In addition to preventing natural disasters, we must also be vigilant against man-made disasters.
"Brother Qin, how much stone and cement will we need to enclose our three integrated houses and add a piece of land to grow vegetables and raise chickens?" Ye Xun didn't know much about construction, so he had to ask Qin Wei, who had worked as a construction worker at the base for some time.
This question stumped Qin Wei. He was just following the orders from the base at the time. He said he was a construction worker, not just repeating an action.
He had to tell Ye Xun the truth, otherwise the other party would think he was very capable. "Don't count on me. I'm just a beginner. Let's build the wall and dig stones at the same time. There's no one here now and we have a lot of time. Let's take it one step at a time."
Fence the area before anyone comes.
This is the only way. Apart from the two young men, the rest are leaders of the same age as Ye's father. It is not realistic to ask them to help as they also have their own houses to build.
Ye Xun and Qin Wei took the tools they took out from the RV, actually from the space, and went to a nearby hill to dig stones at dawn every day.
The dug-out stones are then pulled back using a camper.
Finding that this was a bit slow, the two divided the work, with Qin Wei digging stones and Ye Xun building walls.
Qin Wei gave Ye Xun a crash course, teaching him how to mix cement and how to build a solid wall.
I was a little unfamiliar with it at first, but I became proficient after a few days. Soon, a one-meter-high wall was built around the integrated house.
Chen Guoan and his team were also quite fast. They worked together to build the house. After more than ten days, the first house had taken shape. Some details and hardware needed to be improved.
Now everything is in short supply, and we can’t create the same surprises as before, so we can only build a bare-bones house.
There is a Kang (bathbed for heating) in every room. No matter whether it is extremely hot or cold, the Kang is the most useful.
There are no windows in the house. Firstly, there is no glass, and secondly, this will double the thermal insulation effects.
Ye Xun's wall-building speed was much slower than Qin Wei's stone-digging speed. The stones Qin Wei dug filled up the courtyard, but he only built a wall about 1.5 meters high.
"You're a little slow. From today on, I won't go digging stones. I'll help you build the wall first." Qin Wei's hands and feet were quick and he fixed a stone with cement in just a few moves.
The cement was taken from the space. Ye Xun explained to the outside world that it was taken from the cruise ship warehouse. Chen Guoan turned a blind eye and did not investigate further.
It's good to be a little confused occasionally.
With Qin Wei's joining, the construction was completed as if the acceleration key was pressed in a month, and the four-meter-high wall was completed.
Chen Guoan and his team also built five houses, distributing them according to the number of people, with three people in one room.
On the day they moved in, they invited Ye Xun and Qin Wei to dinner. There wasn't anything delicious to offer, just some seafood caught at sea.
I thought it was just an ordinary meal, but it tasted surprisingly good. As soon as Ye Xun put a piece of fish into his mouth, the thumb of his left hand immediately stood up.
"Wow, the cooking skills of the chef today are pretty good!" It's not the same style as Qin Wei's. It has the usual taste of coastal cities, which is light but retains the freshness of the food.
Zhang Hongyuan pointed the chopsticks in his hand at Chen Guoan, whose smile never faded. "Old Chen made this. It's a housewarming gift, so I have to show you my cooking. Thanks to you, otherwise you wouldn't be able to eat this old guy's cooking."
It was unbelievable. Ye Xun had known Chen Guoan for more than a year, but only today did he know that he could cook. He was a little unhappy.
"Uncle Chen, why are you still hiding your cooking skills? Why don't you let us taste them earlier?"
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