"Oh, the sea! Mother Qiao, look at the sea!"
Shao Shengfei broke the silent and oppressive atmosphere. He squatted down to scoop up some water and turned back excitedly, "It's really the sea, just like on TV!"
Qiao Songzhi forced a smile and said, "It's the sea. Feifei, be careful not to fall in."
"Okay!" Shao Shengfei took two steps back and squatted down to play with the water, feeling very happy.
Qiao Songzhi looked at Qiao Qingqing: "Qingqing, shall we go over there by speedboat?"
Qiao Qingqing took out a telescope to observe the distance, but when she heard this, she put the telescope down and shook her head slowly and painfully: "No."
"But Sheng An and the others might be on the other side of the sea - is there something in the water?" She took the telescope and looked herself, and happened to see something black swimming in the water. She didn't react until the thing turned and swam to the other side. She recognized it as - a shark's fin?
"Shark, shark?!" Qiao Songzhi was shocked, "There's a shark in the water!"
"Not only sharks, mom, look carefully, there are many whirlpools in the water. Speedboats are not enough, we need boats or planes." Qiao Qingqing pursed her lips. The soldiers in the camp told her that there might be planes in other camps, but the strange thing is that she hasn't seen any planes take off recently. She thought about it and it seemed that she saw a lot of planes during the two days of the earthquake, but she really hasn't seen any recently...
"This is too difficult. Let's go to other camps. Didn't you say there might be planes in other camps? And Sheng An and his men might not be on the other side, but in a camp over here. They're just far away from us so we can't see the flares."
"Okay. Let's make a sign. Not everyone has a telescope like us."
Qiao Songzhi nodded quickly: "You're right! If someone uses a kayak to cross the sea, and then finds a shark after entering the water, it would be terrifying to think about it!"
Qiao Qingqing found a piece of canvas from the space and wrote the words "There are sharks in the water" on it with a waterproof oil pen. Shao Shengfei went around to find some wood and used it to prop up the canvas. Qiao Songzhi tied a few stones under the canvas to prevent it from being blown away by the strong wind.
After finishing, Qiao Qingqing called Shao Shengfei: "Brother, let's go."
"Okay! Here I come!" In fact, Shao Shengfei really wanted to go fishing, but he could see that Mother Qiao and his sister looked a little sad, so he didn't dare to continue playing in the water and followed them obediently.
At night, they set up a tent to spend the night. Only a thin layer of water remained. Qiao Qingqing observed that the water was flowing towards the sea.
There was a sudden loud noise in the night and Qiao Qingqing woke up immediately.
She opened the tent door and looked out. She saw that the sky to the south was all red. She didn't know what accident had happened.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, just continue sleeping!" Qiao Songzhi comforted Shao Shengfei.
Qiao Qingqing couldn't fall asleep in the second half of the night. When she got up in the morning, she felt a headache. She checked her body and guessed that it was the sequelae of the previous head collision, which caused her occasional blurred vision, headache and insomnia.
After breakfast, Qiao Qingqing gave acupuncture to Qiao Songzhi first, and then to herself.
Seeing that the number of needles on Qiao Qingqing's head was twice as many as when she was given acupuncture, Qiao Songzhi was very worried but did not dare to show it.
Today, Qiao Qingqing took twice as much medicine as before, and she also did not tell Qiao Songzhi.
Shao Shengfei packed up the tent and they set off again. As they walked along the road, Qiao Songzhi suddenly saw something and stopped in surprise: "Is that a plane?"
"It's a plane! It's a plane!" Shao Shengfei shouted excitedly.
Qiao Qingqing quickly looked up and saw a plane flying in the sky in the distance, shaking and trembling. Qiao Songzhi also noticed it and wondered: "Why is the plane shaking? Is it a new driver?"
Knowing that her mother was referring to the new pilot, Qiao Qingqing did not correct her and continued to look up. The drizzle brought a cool feeling to her face, and soon she felt her heart cooling down as well.
The plane shook and crashed. She was far away and should not have been able to feel the sound of the plane hitting the ground, but at that moment her heart was trembling.
The words that the soldiers in the camp said to her a few days ago rang in her ears again. She wondered what had happened in the world again. The crash of this helicopter was definitely not an accident.
"What a pity! I wonder if the driver inside is okay." Qiao Songzhi was extremely worried.
"I just saw a small black dot. It must be the pilot who escaped with a parachute."
Qiao Songzhi felt relieved after hearing what Qiao Qingqing said: "It's good that he's okay. I saw on the news that some children who studied and flew airplanes were very good, and they had to undergo strict physical examinations. If something happened to such an excellent child, the parents would be very sad."
Because of that plane, Qiao Qingqing decided to change the route. Since there were traces of planes over there, it meant there might be a military camp.
On the way, they met many people who were also heading that way. It seemed that many survivors were still wandering in the wild. The camp had limited manpower and could not conduct a comprehensive search and rescue. There must be many survivors who did not know the location of the camp. The movement brought by the plane pointed the way for the survivors.
More and more people were traveling together. Although there was no communication between them, Qiao Qingqing liked this state of no communication. While satisfying her vigilance, it also made her feel a magical emotion. She seemed to be much calmer. She had also experienced this emotion in the previous human camp.
Humans are indeed social animals. As long as they see that there are other people of the same kind still working hard under this sky, the future does not seem so hopeless. Their family is a small group, but this small group needs a large social group to stay. Qiao Qingqing does not want to be left with only her family by her side in the future. That would be a very terrifying thing, meaning that mankind has reached the end of the world. She and her family may be able to survive for a few more years with the food in the space, but they will surely perish in a few years - and Qiao Qingqing knows that this is impossible. If a catastrophe comes and exterminates all mankind, how can she and her family escape?
Apart from sleeping in a tent, Qiao Qingqing's family was no different from other survivors. They also looked for supplies, food, wild vegetables, large roots, mice, and clean water to filter... Qiao Qingqing's family did all this along the way. Qiao Qingqing hoped that after leaving the space, every family member would have the ability to survive in the wild. If the food and water obtained from the wild were not enough, she would take food and water from the space to supplement her meals.
That night, they found a flat and higher place to pitch their tent as usual. Fortunately, the rain had stopped and the humid air that had been there for many days had eased a little.
Shao Shengfei was very skilled at setting up tents, so he waved his hand to prevent Qiao Qingqing from intervening tonight: "I'll do it myself."
Qiao Qingqing had no choice but to step away with a smile: "Okay, big brother, do it yourself." She looked around and saw her mother was carefully peeling the skin of a large root, so she picked up a bucket and went to find water. She found a small puddle with clear water. Without thinking too much about where the water flowed through or whether it flowed over the body, she carefully scooped the water into the bucket with a spoon and carried the water back.
Seeing that the water had been brought back, Qiao Songzhi signaled Qiao Qingqing: "Let's use the sand in Feifei's bag today."
"Yeah." The three of them had a Coke bottle tied to their backpacks. The bottom and top of the Coke bottle had five layers of cloth, and the middle was filled with fine sand, one layer of sand and one layer of cloth. In this way, the whole large Coke bottle was filled. There was a hole the size of a nail hole at the bottom of the bottle, which was also blocked with a piece of cloth. This was a simple water filter. Qiao Qingqing built a simple tripod, fixed the Coke bottle vertically, placed a stainless steel bucket underneath, and then slowly scooped the water she had just taken into the Coke bottle one spoonful at a time.
The water slowly soaks the sand and cotton cloth used for filtering, leaving behind impurities, and finally flows out from the nail hole at the bottom of the bottle and drips into the bucket.
This is simply filtered water.
The sand in the bottle is carefully selected by them to ensure that there are no large particles of sand, and it is boiled back and forth with hot water three times for disinfection.
Filtering takes a long time, but Qiao Qingqing is not impatient at all, and even feels reassured by this barely "fine" work. She slowly scoops water into the filter bottle, and then filters out half a bucket of water. This half bucket of water is put on the portable stove to boil. After boiling, Qiao Songzhi throws in the chopped large roots, adds salt and washed wild vegetables, and cooks them into a pot of paste.
The three of them shared the pot of porridge. Qiao Qingqing felt that she was only half full, and for Shao Shengfei, it was just an appetizer. After eating, they cleaned up the stove, washed the dishes, and cleared the kitchen waste, and then went into the tent to continue eating dinner.
Qiao Songzhi felt that she was only 80% full, which was enough, and was willing to eat only one more steamed bun. Qiao Qingqing stuffed a chicken leg into her mouth: "One for each person, don't waste it." She ate an extra chicken leg and a bowl of rice, and Shao Shengfei added another bowl of rice and two steamed buns to her meal.
Night fell completely. Qiao Songzhi lit a kerosene lamp, hung it on the tent, and placed a basin of water underneath to prevent fire.
"Another day has passed." Qiao Songzhi patted her waist. Qiao Qingqing stretched out her hand to give her a few pinches. She exhaled and dodged Qiao Qingqing's hand. "Okay, no need to press. You should take a break too."
"Mom, take the medicine. Big brother, reach out your hand. I'll change the medicine for you."
After the sky cleared up, the wound healed faster. Qiao Qingqing happily announced: "The wound is almost healed!"
Shao Shengfei cheered. He actually hated the gauze wrapped around his hands. It made it inconvenient to play in the water, and it was not fun to play in the water through gloves.
The same goes for her own hand. It healed very well. It is a little ugly, but as long as the fingers are not disabled, ugliness is not a problem.
"It's almost eight o'clock." Qiao Songzhi reminded.
The three of them opened the tent door, came out, and began to wait until eight o'clock in the evening.
At 19:59, Shao Shengfei prepared the flare.
At 20:00, three red flares lit up in the air simultaneously in different directions.
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