Chapter 3: Nationwide artificial snow
"Xiang Yu, lunch is about to start, where are you going?" Chang Ming had a gentle smile on his face, and his eyes, looking at Xiang Yu, were filled with endless tenderness, as if water could drip out of them.
Xiang Yu met his gaze and almost vomited the next second. The camera in the branch of the big tree on the left turned and looked in the direction of the two of them.
Having been in the apocalypse for five years, Xiang Yu has always been very alert to any movement within fifty meters of her. She doesn't know when Chang Ming started hooking up with Xiang Wan.
But judging by how close they were, they might have been doing it secretly for a long time.
Chang Ming is one year older than her. He should have just come out of the library at this moment, holding two books in his hands and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, looking very gentle.
Many girls passing by the two men cast their eyes on Chang Ming.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the snow was piling up on his shoulders. Chang Ming walked forward a few steps, stood beside Xiang Yu, and stretched out his hand to brush off the snow on Xiang Yu's shoulders.
In the past, Xiang Yu would have been touched by his thoughtful gesture. Seeing Chang Ming's hand about to rest on her shoulder, Xiang Yu slightly turned sideways and avoided Chang Ming's hand.
Chang Ming looked stunned, and after two seconds he took his hand back.
"Xiang Yu, did I do something wrong?" Chang Ming asked in confusion. Xiang Yu's attitude towards him was really strange. In the past, she was always very enthusiastic when she saw him. When did she become so cold?
Xiang Yu looked at the heavy snow falling from the sky. She had no time to waste here with Chang Ming. She only had a week.
The most important thing right now is to hurry up and stock up on supplies.
"Xiang Yu, my birthday is next month. I have booked a private room at the Venus Hotel. You will come, right?" Chang Ming wanted to continue to pester Xiang Yu and even wanted to hint that she should buy him a gift.
For example, there was a watch he had always liked but he just didn't have the money. However, he hinted to Xiang Yu many times and believed that Xiang Yu, the bootlicker, would definitely buy it for him on his birthday next month.
"Get out of here, you stupid idiot..." Xiang Yu was too lazy to waste words with him, and didn't even want to pretend. He looked at Chang Ming with disgust in his eyes.
Chang Ming was stunned by the scolding. Did he hear it wrong just now? Xiang Yu actually scolded him.
When meeting Xiang Yu's gaze, the smile on Chang Ming's face froze. Did Xiang Yu know something?
The next moment, Xiang Yu rode away on his bicycle without looking back. When he was near the corner, Xiang Yu turned his head and looked at Chang Ming with a serious look.
There is still a long time to come, and she will not let Chang Ming and Xiang Wan die so easily. She wants them to experience the endless pain, despair and unwillingness brought by the end of the world.
It is too easy to end their lives, but letting them live in pain is torture.
Without her help this time, will Chang Ming and his uncle's family still be able to live a comfortable life in the apocalypse?
Standing at the school gate, Xiang Yu opened his mobile phone, took a taxi directly to the high-speed rail station. While waiting for the car, Xiang Yu turned his head to look at the college behind him.
[Ivy League College in City A], Xiang Yu looked at the big words on the stone tablet. In her previous life, she was also one of the people trapped in the college.
The stone tablet in front of him gradually overlapped with the stone tablet in his memory. Blood dyed the stone tablet red, and corpses were everywhere on the ground.
Beep, beep, beep, his thoughts were interrupted. A car came and Xiang Yu got into the car without looking back. Pop music collided with rock DJ, and there was continuous singing in the car. The driver drove at a rapid speed on the avenue to the rhythm.
"This historic moment deserves to be recorded. City A has welcomed a once-in-a-century heavy snowfall. But please don't panic, this heavy snowfall is artificial. You also know that City A has been experiencing high temperatures this year..."
The driver switched the channel. It was no longer a happy song, but a city live broadcast. Listening to what the host said, the driver laughed and said, "We knew it was artificial snow."
As he spoke, he started chatting with the man sitting in the passenger seat. The two of them seemed to know everything about national affairs from their conversation. Xiang Yu sat in the back seat and listened quietly.
The driver would chat with Xiang Yu from time to time to liven up the atmosphere in the car. After sending Xiang Yu to the high-speed railway station, the driver helped Xiang Yu move her luggage out. "Little sister, give me a five-star rating, thank you."
The high-speed rail ticket is from City A to City K. City K is her home.
After the riots started in her previous life, she never had the chance to return to her hometown.
Sitting on the high-speed train back home, Xiang Yu was excited. He took out a notebook from his bag and started to make a doomsday list with a pen.
There was no shortage of water resources for a long time after the blizzard. Food was the top priority, followed by medicine. One month after the blizzard, the temperature began to drop rapidly.
During the coldest time, the temperature dropped below zero and lasted for half a year. Many people were frozen to death, so you had to prepare cold-proof clothing.
Thinking about everything that happened in the end of the world, Xiang Yu wrote down everything he had encountered in his previous life but didn't have. After checking that there was nothing missing, Xiang Yu looked out the window.
The man sitting next to him glanced at the notebook Xiang Yu placed on the table from time to time with curiosity in his eyes. He seemed to have vaguely seen that it said 20 tons of rice on it just now.
This person can't be a wholesaler, right?
It was still snowing heavily outside the window. Not only City A, but also several other cities along the way were completely covered with snow.
"It's snowing in City M and City N as well. You see, this heavy snow seems to be nationwide, but the project is a bit big"!
"Yes, I watched the news too. The official said this was artificial snowfall across the country."
The four people sitting in the back seat were talking. Xiang Yu listened to their conversation and knew in his heart that this was just a delaying tactic to slow down the riot.
When the stored food is eaten up and people begin to panic, these words will be overturned by their actions.
It was already the afternoon of the next day when we arrived in K City. After exiting the high-speed rail station, Xiang Yu looked at the sanitation workers sweeping snow on the street. He could see a sanitation worker sweeping snow almost every fifty meters.
Both sides of the street were filled with snowmen of various sizes. A dozen children, accompanied by their parents, were playing snowballs and having snowball fights. The surrounding vendors even set up stalls to sell Christmas items.
A young lady dressed in Christmas clothes walked out of the alley with her boyfriend's arm around her. The dessert shop launched snowman-shaped cakes.
All this warmth seemed like a completely different world from the end of the world in Xiang Yu’s memory.
Dragging his suitcase, Xiang Yu quickly left the busy street.
[Yangdeng Community], Xiang Yu took out the access card, entered the community, and went straight to the third building, 401.
When the key is inserted into the keyhole, a huge bookcase appears in the entrance hall and the scent of cypress fills the nostrils.
There were a lot of materials piled on the bookshelf. Xiang Yu could still seem to see himself writing furiously on the desk at the back. The Ivy League University in City A was considered one of the most prestigious universities in the country.
She worked hard for a long time to get in.
There were two portraits of the old men on the wall of the bookcase. The two men in the portraits had serious faces and looked very stern, but Xiang Yu knew that they were the only two people in the world who treated him the best.
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