Five months into winter, another earthquake struck nearby, causing cracks in two mountains. Fortunately, although Li Ke and his group were affected by aftershocks, the damage was not significant.
In this awful weather, going out is a death sentence. Even hiding downstairs is terrifying, but nobody wants to go out.
Li Ke still maintains her habit of going out for two hours every day. The snow is still dirty, but she still collects snow and ice, and after exercising, she climbs up the wall to observe the surroundings.
During the last two months of winter, the polar night occurred, sometimes lasting five or six days, sometimes half a month. During this period, many of the people who had been injected with the "miracle drug" reached the end of their lives. Jin Ce was depressed for a long time because of this.
Lin Nuo also died in agony. Lin Shuang and Qiu Chen were still receiving injections of the Golden Book's medicine, but they were only sixteen years old, and their hair was almost completely white. Their bodily functions were severely deteriorating. Although Qiu Feng was very disappointed in them, he still couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
For every life lost, a new life arrives. Newborns are born at both Qiu Feng's and Song Xian's bases. Qiu Feng's base has one hundred relatively healthy newborns, and nearly two hundred pregnant women carrying fetuses with deformities or defects. Some of these died prematurely, while others miscarried. More than eighty were born, but only fifteen survived.
After life stabilized, many men and women remarried, which was allowed at the base, but not many chose to have children.
For the next two years, spring and autumn practically disappeared; the trees on the mountain were all cut down, and the resources that could be found at the foot of the mountain were almost completely plundered.
The underground dwellings were also under construction. Qiu Feng and Song Xian's bases were also partially excavated, and both sides began to develop underground transportation.
There are very few people on the ground anymore, and almost no one comes to join them. Every year, many people still die from disease in the base, and the birth rate continues to decline.
Li Ke's physical fitness improvement also seemed to have stagnated. Their mountaintop seemed to have become the last gathering place in the world. No one came in, no one went out, and there was no outside news.
Everyone lives silently underground, and their greatest fear is a sudden earthquake. Last year's earthquake caused groundwater to suddenly gush out of Qiufeng's base, destroying a quarter of the buildings and killing many people.
Everyone was reluctant to leave, but they could also feel the increasingly frequent earthquakes approaching them. Niu Dazhuang and Song Xian had already discussed finding a new base to settle down in.
Li Ke had no objection to this. In the past two years, Qiu Shan and Song Xian have been developing on their own, and Li Ke has not provided much support.
Just over a month into the third winter, after a series of heavy rains, some green plants began to appear on the ground.
Song Xian and Qiu Feng chose a new base in a neighboring city, which is even further away. They have already sent half of their people there, and work has been underway for half a month.
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