Chapter 201 Return to the End of the World
Fourteen years after the apocalypse, zombies all over the world have disappeared, and humans have entered a new round of exploration of the world.
The surviving humans gradually gathered in various bases, and the population of Linfeng Base also experienced an explosive growth. Influenced by the population growth, the base actively started to expand the city outside the city, and the entire A3 area, including Chen Qian's home, was divided into the agricultural area of the new city.
In summer, under the clear blue sky, the newly reclaimed farmlands are densely covered with crops, and the newly built neat gravel road passes through the neatly planned farmlands and goes straight into the dense forest in the distance.
Chen Luo drove a bright red electric tricycle through the crisscrossing farmland. From time to time, the wheels rolled over the roots of green beans growing wildly on the ridges. Along the way, there were always people working who greeted him warmly.
"Hey, Lao Chen is back from the city. How is the price of green beans in the city recently? We are going to harvest some beans. Do you want to buy some?"
Chen Luo slowly parked the car beside the field. A group of people gathered around him. Well, it wouldn't be so easy to escape this time.
The sun in the sky was scorching. He squeezed out some saliva to moisten his dry throat, picked up two clumps of green grass from the edge of the field and covered the seat with them, then squatted in the field with a straw hat on.
"Hey, keep your voice down... Lao Li, I'm talking to you. Do you still want to know the market price in the city?" The voices around him were halfway down. "I'm telling you, everyone, let's not beat around the bush. We're all in A-rated movies, and we're all comrades in the same trench, right?"
They looked at each other with a friendly expression on their faces. Some time ago, an evil wind blew from nowhere, and the new immigrants to the base were jealous of them as fellow outsiders. At the instigation of several leaders, they gathered at the city gate to demonstrate, saying that the base should treat everyone equally. Why can these immigrants who came earlier occupy the position closest to the base in the new city, while those who came later can only reclaim wasteland outside the new city, and some can only live in makeshift shanty towns.
People worry not about the shortage of treatment but the inequality of treatment. If the treatment cannot be compared with that of the citizens in the base, then the treatment of the outsiders in Area A cannot be much worse than that of the outsiders in Area A.
Once this happened, the people who usually took care of their own business had to come together and discuss countermeasures under the leadership of more than a dozen district heads. Some of the hot-tempered ones slammed the table and told the ungrateful people to spit out the cold beans they had eaten, without even considering who grew the food subsidized by the government. Some of the rational ones analyzed the driving force behind this demonstration... In the end, it was the high-profile district heads who used their connections in the army to resolve the matter.
Although the new and old immigrants finally made peace, rumors continued to circulate outside the city - that the base's higher-ups wanted to exchange the land in Area A for their own relatives and friends, but they did not expect the residents of Area A to be so united this time, and they did not expect the district chiefs to act so quickly.
Seeing that everyone was listening quietly, Chen Luo explained the recent fluctuations in vegetable prices to them one by one. Chen's shop is a grocery store specializing in vegetable and candied pastries. After operating in the spring and summer, Chen Luo opened another branch in the inner city with his keen business sense. On weekdays, he would also collect some high-quality fresh vegetables in the A-shaped area.
Because the price they offered was slightly higher than the official unified acquisition price, the Chen family became one of the most popular families in the neighborhood.
After saying goodbye to everyone, the sun had already passed overhead and was moving faintly towards the west. Chen Luo swept the weeds off the seat and slowly parked the car in the open space in front of the yard.
As soon as I entered the yard, two babies in walkers came over, kicking their little legs. Their tender little faces were grinning with no teeth, and they uttered vaguely "Grandpa, Grandpa".
"Hey." Chen Luo's heart softened when he was called. He picked up the two babies, one in each hand, and walked into the house while facing their excited saliva.
Chen Qian and Chen Lan were making lunch in the kitchen. They were not surprised to see their grandfather and grandson looking grumpy. They just glanced at them and continued with their work.
Although Chen Luo built three small houses in the open space in the backyard and built two walls between the two houses with blue bricks, the backyard space also became a safe place for Mumu and Nuannuan to play.
Apart from the busy farming season, Chen Luo basically runs a shop in the city and is rarely at home on weekdays. Chen Lan has difficulty moving around, so the two families still eat together.
Playing with the baby in his hands, Chen Luo's eyes were full of smiles. His daughter was injured in the end times and could no longer get pregnant. It was rare that his daughter got along well with Chen Qian and became sisters with her. In this way, he would no longer have to worry about no one taking care of Lan Lan after his death.
"Sister Lan, watch the soup in the pot so it doesn't dry up." Chen Qian looked at the door and said, "I'm going to Aunt Yuan's house to see why Lin Xing hasn't come back yet."
It's time for dinner already, I'm afraid something has held me back.
"Okay." Chen Lan responded, "You can go and have a look. Dad and I are at home."
Chen Qian took off her apron, tidied up her hair, changed into going-out clothes, opened the gate and turned in the direction of Yuan Yuan's home. On the way, she passed by Wang Yan's home and was stopped by her enthusiastically. She said that she had made braised rabbit meat and asked her to take a bowl back for a snack.
Well, the man didn't find it, so he took the bowl of meat home first. The beef and potatoes on the stove were stewed soft, so he poured the rabbit meat in the bowl into the plate, filled another bowl of beef and potatoes and sent it back.
After returning the dishes, I saw Lin Xing as I walked out of Wang Yan's house. The couple chatted about family matters and went home together.
The days to come will be just like today, trivial, plain and beautiful. There will not be the ups and downs of the protagonists in the story books. There will only be two or three good friends, a spouse by their side, and children to take care of them. Although there will be quarrels and disagreements, the main theme of life will be like a trickle in the mountain stream, flowing along the rugged mountain road, flowing over the dark rocks at the bottom of the stream, and finally moving towards the end step by step.
After all, she was ten years older than Lin Xing. Before her death, Chen Qian stared at the little wolfdog holding her hand tightly, and said with a forced smile: "I... I guess I have to go downstairs to wait for you first, you stay upstairs." She then turned her head to look at her children and grandchildren who were surrounding the bed, "Mumu, Nuannuan, you... all have to stay well..."
At the last moment before she lost consciousness, she vaguely heard the weeping in the room.
That's really strange.
She thought, wasn’t I dead? Why do I feel warm now?
"Host——, host——"
I could hear the crackling sound of electric current.
It's so noisy.
I want to sleep.
Who has been so annoying?
"Host, wake up quickly--" 003 looked at the consciousness that did not respond and felt a little anxious.
Huh——Chen Qian, who was woken up, was very impatient. Why didn’t the underworld let people, no, it didn’t let ghosts sleep well?
Isn't it said that you don't need to sleep for a long time when you are alive, because you will sleep forever after you die?
So it’s a scam?
003: "Host, are you awake?"
Chen Qian was stunned. She looked at the system space that had changed drastically. All the redundant memories from the past flooded into her mind. After digesting the memories for a while, she said, "003, what happened? Are you completely disconnected from this world?"
What system, what time travel? She thought they were all imagined experiences after staying in the mountains for too long. If her swordsmanship had not been so advanced later, she would have thought she was crazy.
"Host," 003 explained, "as soon as I entered this world, I received a target signal from the interstellar world. Planet M13 is too far away from us, and the target signal is at risk of being annihilated by interstellar dark matter at any time. If the coordinates of the planet are not located this time, the next target signal may appear several centuries later."
"The situation was too urgent, so I didn't have time to explain to you..."
Chen Qian interrupted it: "So you have found your way home now?"
"Of course, don't you see who I am? This system will definitely not fail." 003 immediately became proud, and then changed the subject, "But, host, do you want me to go back to the interstellar world with you? If you don't want to go to the interstellar world, I can also send you to the world you want to go to first, and then I will go home."
003 looked at the host in front of him with some trepidation. It had to say that this was the most worry-free host it had ever met. This host would never take advantage of the special status of an outsider to interfere with the progress of the original world. He really regarded himself as an ordinary native resident and lived an ordinary life before growing old naturally.
003: Where can I find such a worry-free host?
Chen Qian was stunned and murmured, "What world do I want to go to?"
Then his eyes lit up: "Then can you send me back to the most primitive world?"
003 sorted out the host's complicated memories: "The first world? Blue Planet?"
"Yes!" Chen Qian's eyes were full of anticipation.
"Of course you can." 003 was a little reluctant, "But host, you can go back to the star with me first. With the mission points you have completed, you will definitely be able to sign a contract with Wenchuan Star to become a formal employee. Then we can work together and I will take you home, isn't it good?"
Chen Qian thought about it and said, "It's not impossible."
It's just that the order in which they go home is changed.
003 continued to kidnap people: "The benefits of Wenchuan Star Interstellar are very good. Host, if you successfully sign the contract, you can also redeem some magical medicines to take back for your relatives and friends..."
Chen Qian: "Okay, okay, I'll go home with you first. Besides, I've been curious about the magical M13 for a long time. Didn't we say we were going back? How are we going to get there now?"
She looked left and right, but didn't see any magical devices appearing in the system space.
After dealing with the host, 003 finally breathed a sigh of relief. In the background of the system that Chen Qian could not see, balls of energy flashing with orange-yellow light exploded from the storage tanks and quickly swam towards the locked coordinates on the display screen.
"Host, are you ready? We are about to set off!" 003's tone was filled with anticipation. "In order to save energy, we will fall into sleep mode when we jump between planets. But don't worry, we will be there as soon as we wake up."
As soon as she finished speaking, a strong sense of sleepiness came over Chen Qian's heart. When it dissipated for a moment, she seemed to see the starry sky in the vast universe.
In the silent night sky, a flying star is escaping the pull of gravity, streaking across the sky and disappearing among the mysterious nebulae.
A new journey is about to begin!
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