The chickens were raised at home, and the stewed chicken soup smelled so fragrant that Qiao Qingqing's stomach growled even louder after smelling it.
"No, I just ate my fill. Feifei, come and get some chicken soup."
Shao Shengfei happily responded and took out his own bowl and handed it over. Qiao Songzhi served him a bowl and then served Qiao Qingqing. Fearing that she might have an upset stomach, she didn't scoop out chicken nuggets for her, but only served her a bowl of soup.
The chicken soup tasted delicious, and Shao Shengfei was drooling before he even took a sip. The diet he and Qiao Songzhi had these past two days couldn't be said to be bad. Qiao Qingqing left a lot of supplies, including vegetarian and meat food, as well as a portable gas stove and several bottles of gas. The only drawback was that the meat couldn't be kept fresh. Qiao Qingqing only took canned meat. Canned meat was of course delicious, but chicken soup was still more fragrant!
"Mom, you eat too." Qiao Qingqing shook her head and refused. If Qiao Songzhi didn't eat, she wouldn't eat either.
Qiao Songzhi had no choice but to take another bowl and fill himself with half a bowl of soup, explaining: "I'm really not hungry, I just ate until I was full."
After drinking a bowl of white porridge to fill her stomach, Qiao Qingqing drank a bowl of chicken soup. She felt that her stomach was still good, so she ate two pieces of boneless chicken. Only then did she feel much better. She asked if there was any danger in the past two days. Qiao Songzhi shook his head: "There was no tornado. It was just like before you fell asleep, raining! It was very annoying. Look, the water level is still rising. I don't think the situation is optimistic."
Looking up from under the tent umbrella, the sky was not as scary as it had been a few days ago, but it was still covered with dark clouds. The rain continued and the air became more humid. Qiao Qingqing asked again, "Didn't you meet any strangers?"
Qiao Songzhi's expression changed a little, and Shao Shengfei raised his hand quickly: "There are strangers! There were two bad guys who wanted to rob our boat, but we chased them away!"
"We've met five people in the past two days. As Feifei said, two of them had bad intentions, but we chased them away." Qiao Songzhi smiled bitterly, "This place is not safe anymore. If you don't wake up, I plan to wait until I have a rest and replenish my energy, then I will let Feifei carry you and we will leave this place."
Qiao Qingqing understood what her mother said. Her mother was still afraid of those people who knew that she had "magic" and space, and she wanted to stay as far away from them as possible. Qiao Songzhi was already very uneasy after being stranded here for two days.
"Then go now, I'm fine."
The temporary camp where they stayed for two days was dismantled, and the two kayaks were put away. The three of them regrouped and set off again in one kayak. Before leaving, Qiao Qingqing even took the big rock and put it into the space. An hour after they left, a group of people came here. More than ten of them had weapons in their hands, either knives or sticks, but they came up empty-handed.
"You guys are not lying, are you?"
"That's impossible. This is the place. There's a big rock, three kayaks and a big umbrella - they're gone! Damn, they ran away!"
"Do you take me as an idiot?" The leading man kicked the young man in dissatisfaction, causing him to groan.
"Run away? Can you even carry the big rock you mentioned? Quickly think about whether you have taken the wrong road. Damn, it's too troublesome to find the way in the water."
The young man rubbed his buttocks and said bitterly: "I am not mistaken, this is the place, I was shot by an arrow here, if I hadn't dodged quickly my neck would have been pierced, yes, it is here!"
The leader didn't believe it: "Where's the stone? Where's the big stone you mentioned?"
The young man turned around again, but there was no trace - Shao Shengfei listened to Qiao Songzhi and gathered all the garbage together and took it away before leaving.
On the other side, Qiao Qingqing and the others had already rowed very far away.
These two days, Qiao Songzhi changed the bandages for Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengfei's hands. Shao Shengfei's hands recovered better and he was now full of energy, paddling vigorously. Seeing him like this, Qiao Songzhi breathed a sigh of relief. The three of them worked together to paddle the kayak away. An hour later, Shao Shengfei stopped paddling and shouted in a direction.
"There are two people in front! Brother Jun!"
His eyes were sharp. He saw a soldier in military uniform, wading through the water carrying a survivor on his back.
The soldier looked up and saw the kayak and Qiao Qingqing and the other two on it. He was a little surprised and happy, and waved to Qiao Qingqing and the others.
"Help me, there are injured people here!"
Qiao Qingqing asked Shao Shengfei to help her turn the kayak around and let it swim over. "Great! You actually have a kayak! Help carry this person up, she fainted."
The soldier said as he lifted the person he was supporting onto the kayak. Qiao Songzhi hurriedly lent a hand, pulled the soaked girl up, and then reached out to the soldier: "You come up too—"
The soldier waved his hands, holding the kayak with one hand to prevent it from spinning, and wiped the water off his face with the other hand. He looked around and said, "I won't go up. I'll push you. The terrain here is still relatively low. Let's go to a higher place. Sorry, where did you originally want to go?"
Qiao Qingqing said: "We want to go to the new community and find a building that has not collapsed to avoid the typhoon rain." They don't know whether there are still standing buildings there after the tornado, but they have no other choice.
"That's a good idea. I heard the squad leader and the others say that they want to move the camp to the new community. Unfortunately, there are too many people in the camp, and there are many patients, so it's difficult to move... So, can you help me send this girl to the front first? There is a high ground ahead, and all the survivors are there. I really don't have the strength anymore."
Qiao Qingqing nodded.
The soldier showed a tired smile. He felt his body and found half a piece of compressed biscuit soaked in water. He stuffed the biscuit into Qiao Qingqing's hand.
"We have food." Qiao Qingqing stuffed the biscuits back to him, not letting him stuff them back, and changed the subject, asking him, "Is the high ground ahead a camp?"
The soldier had no choice but to put the biscuits away again and replied, "It's not the camp, but the temporary gathering place for the survivors. My comrades and I sent all the rescued survivors there. It's quite a distance from the original camp. Damn the tornado."
"Is it really a tornado?"
"It was a tornado for sure." The soldier's face looked very ugly, and he obviously recalled the situation at that time.
"It was very windy at the time, and suddenly a whirlpool formed in the middle of the camp. It took only a few seconds for the whirlpool to become very large, and it expanded like air! It rolled up the entire camp in an instant. I grabbed the tent at the time, but it was useless. Everything was swept in. When I woke up, I was thrown out of the camp. No, I'm not sure where this is. Maybe this is far away from the camp, or maybe it's the location of the camp, but everything was swept away and thrown away..."
Recalling the situation at that time, fear filled the soldiers' eyes.
It was so horrible, everything was so unbelievable. The tornado suddenly appeared without any warning, and people were thrown into the air before they could even react.
Qiao Qingqing and the others were in the tent when it happened, so they didn't see it. Qiao Qingqing could imagine the shocking scene when the tornado suddenly formed, and pursed her lips: "I felt like I was rolling in the air for seven or eight seconds."
Even though she told herself that anything could happen in this world and that the laws of natural science had long been gone to hell, today's experience still made Qiao Qingqing feel horrified.
Can humans really survive?
After this thought came to her mind, Qiao Qingqing immediately shook her head, trying not to let the pessimistic mood invade her.
"Everyone should be optimistic. Let's go to the high ground first," said the soldier.
Qiao Songzhi asked him his name, and he said his name was Su Cong and he was twenty-nine years old.
"You'd better come up. The water is so cold."
Su Cong climbed up only after Qiao Songzhi insisted. Qiao Songzhi covered the girl with an emergency blanket to protect her from the rain, and took out a raincoat for Su Cong.
"No, no, I'm already wet." He waved his hand.
"Put it on, we have extra."
In the end, Su Cong put it on and said thank you.
"You are lucky to have managed to keep these supplies. Many people are left empty-handed. The tornado came too suddenly, and we didn't have time to prepare for anything!"
Qiao Songzhi smiled but said nothing. On the way, they met another survivor, but the kayak was a four-seater, and it was already crowded with five people, and adding another person was really a stretch.
"Why don't you let this big guy get down? He's so strong, what's there for him to fear from the water?" The man who spoke was thin and had a hole in his forehead. The bleeding had stopped, but his face was as pale as a ghost. When he spoke like this, Shao Shengfei looked around and pointed at himself hesitantly: "Me?"
"It's you, isn't it? You're so big and strong that you take up too much space. Get down here--" the man said as he tried to pull Shao Shengfei away.
"This is our kayak, and this is my eldest brother!" Qiao Qingqing opened his hand and stared at him, "Are you mentally ill?"
Su Cong was unable to stop it just now and was very unhappy at this moment: "Why are you like this! Let go! Don't capsize the kayak."
"Why are you hitting me? I'm just saying that I'm seriously injured... Hey, soldier, come down and let me sit. Do you have anything to eat? I'm starving these past two days. There's nothing in the water. I almost ate a dead rat."
Su Cong, who was about to get off the kayak, stopped.
He is indeed honest, enthusiastic and responsible, but he is not a fool who has no self-respect when being ordered around as a matter of course.
He sat back and handed him the half compressed biscuit: "These are all we have."
The man cursed, "How much do you order? It's not enough for everyone." He ate all the cookies in one gulp and urged, "Come down if you don't hear me."
This was the first time Qiao Qingqing had encountered such a shameless person. She immediately took out her knife and warned him again: "Don't touch my kayak."
The blade was sharp, and the man quickly took his hand away.
"Brother, keep rowing."
"Oh oh!" The kayak moved forward, and the man was left behind, shouting. Su Cong was angry just now, and now he felt a little uneasy, looking back frequently.
Qiao Qingqing put away the knife and took up the paddle to paddle together. The three of them paddled together and the kayak went faster. Su Cong opened his mouth and took the paddle from Qiao Qingqing: "Let me do it. I see you have a wound on your hand."
"I'm fine." Qiao Qingqing let him take the paddle and took another one herself.
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