Natural Disaster Apocalypse

Chapter 165:

After playing skateboarding for a while, Jian Chu and Song Jia finally pulled the trailer filled with buckets of water, and Mu Nan took Niu Niu and Qin Huai who were sitting on the skateboard to walk home side by side. I bought two lumps of plateau red, but it’s rare to relax like this. It’s more enjoyable than hiding at home and eating hot pot.

Song Jia, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around and said, "Have you seen the news about that wolf before?"

Mu Nan shook his head: "Are there wolves again?"

It was winter when animals attacked people before. After the weather got hot, I didn’t hear such news, and not many people went hunting. This is different from winter. Go out in winter and hide in the cold. No matter how long you stay in the car, you can endure the heat. Now during the day, if you can’t find a shelter, you can’t endure it at all. Even if you have a shelter, the heat in the daytime will be difficult for those with a slightly weaker body, so I dare not Just go out.

Song Jia: "It's not there again, it's always been there, but those animals are also afraid of the heat, so they dare not come out during the day, and at night our side is full of reconstruction sites, the industrial noise is too noisy, unlike in winter, when the sky It’s too cold to start work and it’s very quiet. Animals seem to be naturally afraid of these sounds and dare not approach them, so there are no animals in the residential area, but there are still some, just that group of people , boys in their twenties went to Monkey Mountain, saying that there is a cave in Monkey Mountain, and they can hide in the cave to avoid the sun even if they can’t come back during the day, but none of them returned. When they were found, the corpse was incomplete, with wolf fur .”

Jian Chu wondered: "Isn't Monkey Mountain sealed off? The cave above has become a warehouse, and there are soldiers guarding it."

Song Jia shrugged: "I don't know either, I just saw someone else posting it before, and I don't know if it's true or just a gimmick made up."

Mu Nan: "Are there any photos, or are they just words?"

"No photos, just the kind of gossip group chat information, not even soft articles."

But when it comes to Monkey Mountain, Jian Chu said: "Now the mountain has been breeding for a whole winter, isn't there a lot of rabbits and pheasants?"

Mu Nan: "During the flood, I didn't see any animals in the mountains."

Others would never go out if they could stay in the cave every day. After the rainstorm stopped, he and Qin Huai wandered outside every day in order to secretly eat, and even climbed up the mountain, but they didn't see any animals at all. I don't know if it was Because they have been on the edge of the mountain and have not entered the mountain. Anyway, the imagined scene of hares walking everywhere has never been encountered.

Jian Chu sighed: "It's useless. If we really want to, we probably won't be able to do it. I don't know what those people who went to the city to pan for gold gained. Thinking back to the joy of picking up things in the business district back then, I don’t know if there will be in this life.”

Song Jia who pushed open the courtyard door and walked in broke Jian Chu's sweet dream: "Don't think about it, there probably won't be an earthquake in this life, unless you still want an earthquake of that scale."

Jian Chu immediately poohed: "The bad ones are not good, the good ones, can you say something nice."

Song Jia also poohed a few times, and patted his own mouth: "Tongyan Wuji, Tongyan Wuji."

Mu Nan on the side smiled happily: "It's almost three, what a big boy hahahahaha."

As soon as he entered the yard, Niu Niu, who was sitting on the skateboard, jumped off and waited in front of the gate of his house flicking his tail. Mu Nan saw that it didn't stick to her little white-eyed wolf at all, so she couldn't help but go over and grab the dog. Ear: "I will give you food and play with you, but in the end I still want my own home. I love you for nothing."

Song Jia laughed, waved at them, and each went into the room.

As soon as the door was opened, a gust of cold air rushed towards him, and Mu Nan sighed comfortably: "One second is heaven."

Qin Huai put the skateboard away for him, and brought in the water bucket: "I'm afraid of the heat and still playing outside, so I don't want to go back."

Mu Nan put the bucket into the space, so as not to have to carry it up to the third floor: "Every year, I feel that the heat resistance has really improved a lot. How much is it today? Is it sixty degrees? Back then, When the weather gets to 40 degrees, we can’t even step out of the door. Now it’s 50 or 60 degrees at night, and we can still play outside. If the heat continues year after year, maybe I can evolve to 50 or 60 degrees It’s so cool that you don’t even need an air conditioner.”

Qin Huai laughed and said, "Don't worry, you won't evolve to that level in your lifetime."

Back in the cool place, Mu Nan couldn't wait to take a shower. He didn't take a shower to cool down. He felt that he was going to be cooked from the inside to the outside. He didn't feel it when he was playing. The stamina has come up, and even breathing is fire-breathing.

When the temperature had completely cooled down, Mu Nan collapsed on the bed. Qin Huai came out of the shower, saw his body being hollowed out, and sat beside him with a smile: "You're just playing for five minutes, and it takes three days to charge it. ?”

Mu Nan turned over and calculated the time: "Did the temperature start to cool down at this time last year?"

Qin Huai looked at the time on the phone: "It's not cooling down, it started snowing at this time last year."

Last year, the temperature dropped almost in June, and within a few days after the temperature dropped, continuous blizzards began. The intermittent cold winter lasted for half a year before it ended, but this year it is already July.

According to the previous normal climate, July just started to heat up, but from January to now, it has been extremely hot for seven months. As for the rain, except for the flood, the number of rains can be counted on five fingers come over.

Mu Nan said: "Is it going to be hot again this year? It's like the first year when it got hot, and then it will be a rule in the future. It will be hot for a year and a half, snow in the second half of the year, and it will be hot for another year and a half. .”

Qin Huai nodded his forehead: "Who knows, the weather is no longer regular. If it is hot, it will be too hot, and if it is cold, it will be too cold. However, we still need to prepare firewood and coal."

There is no firewood, and the survival rate of plants is too low now. There are still a few green dense forests on the side of Monkey Mountain, but there is only a little green left, let alone green lotus, which can be seen at the top of the mountain at a glance. It's green, it's all burned up now, it's cleaner than Monkey Mountain, if you want wood, I'm afraid you have to go to the city center to find it.

Coal can be bought, but you need to make a reservation. It is estimated that many people are counting the time, thinking that last year it was cold in June, and this year may also be the same. Therefore, in May, the price of coal rose to sky-high prices. Of course, the price will increase. All of them are smuggled from personal relationships. The official does not increase the price, but they are all waiting in line. When they are in the line, I am afraid that the winter will be over and they will not be able to buy them at all.

As a result, until the end of June, the temperature did not change at all. Although it did not continue to climb, it did not drop for a while, and the heat of rushing to buy charcoal dropped.

Regardless of whether winter will come this year, Qin Huai feels that coal can start to be stored.

When Qinhuai contacted the person who delivered the coal last year to inquire about the availability and price, the price of coal dropped a lot due to the impact of the downtown market.

Having experienced such a severe winter, many people would rather prepare more supplies for the winter this year than to squeeze into a large greenhouse. Although they can’t freeze to death in it, the life of thousands of people living in groups for several months is no better than the cold winter. How much to boil.

Those people who go to the city center to pan for gold, those with power and teams, aim at some industrial objects, such as machinery and steel, and other valuable things, if they can come across, it will be some extra income.

But in addition to teamwork, of course, there are also some individuals, or three or two people panning for gold together, and the goal of these people is to put fuel wood.

Wood is not afraid of the sun. Even if it has been soaked in water, it can be burned when it is dried. In the urban area, whether it is office or housing, most of the furniture is made of wood. These can be burned as fuel after treatment, and they are free. We are stuck on a timeline that arrived last winter, and the market is still huge.

A large pile of wood was transported, and a few people were invited to split it manually, and then sold by the catty, so many people bought it.

Wood impacted residential areas, and the price of coal naturally dropped. There was cheap wood to buy, so who would be willing to buy expensive coal, but no matter how low the price of coal was, it was no lower than the free wood in an entire urban area.

But Mu Nan is not at all interested in cheap firewood. It's not that he is rich in supplies and not short of money, but who knows if a certain piece of wood has ever killed someone or had close contact with a corpse, he would rather use more expensive coal. .

When he said this, Jian Chu and Song Jia, who were eager to buy wood, gave up the idea.

Thinking about the family's money, Song Jia sighed: "Forget it, it's expensive, so let's spend money to buy a safe."

Although I know that the government has unblocked the urban area, it proves that the urban area is safe and there will be no more viruses, but it is probably a psychological shadow. When so many people died of illness, when they migrated all the way, many people walked After falling down while walking, I couldn't get up again.

I also met a group of them passing by, and rushed to ask for help with a sickness. The person's body was full of ruptured pustules, his face was so red and swollen that his facial features were distorted, he didn't have the courage to die, he could only live in pain.

The man's appearance was so impressive, so Mu Nan said that if the wood dragged from the urban area was infected with some disease, wouldn't the loss outweigh the gain, even though the wood would eventually be thrown into the fire, and if it could be burned It must have been processed when it was brought in, but it must be taken by hand before burning, and it must be piled up in the place where they live. After thinking about it, it is still too dangerous, so I will not be greedy for such a small gain.

This time the girls also joined the ranks of joint venture purchases. It is estimated that their inventory is really running out. The first two years of staying behind closed doors should have been consumed. This year, they began to work hard to make money and adapt to life outside. As for the Cai family , Still struggling to buy or not.

They don't really hope that winter will come so soon this year. Wu Zheng's brothers are pretty good people, but in summer, living upstairs and downstairs doesn't affect each other very much, but if it's winter, it's okay to have electricity and floor heating. If there is no electricity, how will they survive? They won't be able to build another heated kang in other people's homes.

I don’t know when the house I applied for here will be approved. The speed of building the house will not be able to support the entire population of Kangyun without a house in the short term, so I struggled a lot. The Cai family decided to buy a little, not too much. .

If winter does come, they will find a way to get a stove to keep warm.

Watching the big trucks drive into the community, Qin Huai and Yu Zibai were counting the quantity there, Song Jia couldn't help but said to Mu Nan: "To be honest, did your brother settle it long ago?"

Mu Nan didn't understand, so he asked, "What is it?"

Song Jia: "For the market, when we bought it last year, I remember that it was points, and it hadn't been exchanged into new currency. It was ten catties for one point. If it was converted into money, it would be one yuan and ten catties of coal. One coal weighs two catties. Now The highest private price before was five yuan for ten catties of coal, which is equivalent to one yuan for a coal, which is outrageously expensive and in short supply.”

Mu Nan: "That can't be helped. Some people need to eat for three days for a dollar, and some have a family who are willing to buy a coal for a dollar for the winter and don't want to live in a collective greenhouse."

Song Jia: "That's why I said whether your brother expected this before. It was so expensive at that time, and many people rushed to grab it. They were afraid that they would not be able to grab it if they were too slow. We also asked whether we should buy some. It was expensive. , It’s better than freezing to death. Your brother said to look at the situation first, so we didn’t take any action. As a result, it’s only been a while since the city was opened up, and wood hits coal, and the price of coal has fallen. Of course, it’s not as cheap as before. But two yuan and ten catties, we can afford it anyway.”

Song Jia felt that Qinhuai was completely waiting for the wood to hit the coal before making a move. Regardless of whether this winter comes or not, the price of coal should not be lower than the current price. What's more, because the wood brought back from the city, many people Originally ordered coal, but now turned to buy wood, resulting in the loss of a large number of coal orders, the accumulated inventory was in the hand, and had to be sold at a low price.

But the wood in the urban area is just that. As long as the trees cannot be planted, the wood is equivalent to a non-renewable thing. When the urban area is emptied, the focus of subsequent heating resources will still be on coal, and the price will definitely rise again at that time. So there is a very delicate timing in the middle, it is estimated that there will be no more low prices in the future, but Qin Huai just happened to be stuck at this point to buy.

But seeing Mu Nan's bewildered expression, Song Jia said helplessly, "Forget it, I don't know if I ask you, as long as we can buy cheap coal."

Mu Nan: "So why do you ask?"

Before Song Jia said anything, Jian Chu on the side laughed out loud: "Now I'm sure, you are definitely not biological."

Mu Nan: "I can tell, you are mocking me, what you just said is proof!"

This time they bought a lot of coal, but the unloading speed was much faster, because a special unloading elevator was built, and the freight elevator was directly mounted to the garage. Slide down the **** and slide directly into the garage to put them in stacks.

The garages of the four families were almost full, because Qin Huai's family still had a car, so they moved half of it to the living room on the first floor. Jian Chu and his family have piled up the coal of the two families. Although Xu Ming is not there, Xu Ming gave Jian Chu the money when they bought coal, so Jian Chu's garage is almost unable to fit.

Looking at the garages piled up in front of him, Jian Chu prayed: "I hope there won't be another flash flood, otherwise we will really suffer heavy losses."

Mu Nan patted him on the shoulder reassuringly: "Don't worry, I'm afraid it won't be able to rain so much with the current degree of sun exposure."

After working in the middle of the night, everyone was dirty, especially Xiao Zhu. I don't know if he was instigated by his uncle or his aunt. In the basket, when it is full, get out of the car and empty it once, then continue to climb up to load it.

It is really embarrassing for an adult to do this kind of thing, so I can only let a child do it, which also leads to the fact that only Xiao Zhuhei has no white skin all over his body.

When Aunt Yin came out and saw a big briquette, Cai Wentao ran all over the yard after chasing it with a broom: "You are such a big man and you don't want to teach it! The white and clean children are so dirty by you! You don't want you to wash the clothes, do you?" !"

Cai Wentao is hiding all over the yard, isn't he teaching Xiaozhu to be diligent and thrifty in housekeeping, why not teach him a little bit, those broken cinders can be burned, okay? There are so many baskets, they are all piled up into a hill.

Mu Nan took a shower very carefully inside and out, because he helped carry it, and now even the seams of his nails are black, he also took out a small brush and brushed it to make sure that there was no black coal left. Just came out refreshed, and heard that Cai Wentao was still making trouble in the yard with Xiaozhu, he was hiding from Aunt Yin's attack, Xiaozhu was being taken into the shower by his mother in the yard, and he was beaten while laughing Come on uncle.

The whole atmosphere is quite warm and lively.

After Qin Huai also took a shower, Mu Nan took out the fascia gun: "Come on, let me relax your arms."

Although there is a freight elevator, the freight elevator can't reach the room. They still moved hundreds of catties of coal to the room. It's been a long time since they did this kind of repetitive manual work. They need to relax their muscles and bones, otherwise they may be handicapped tomorrow. It's so sour that I can't lift it up.

Qin Huai was lying on the bed enjoying Mu Nan's service, and from time to time, he gave some verbal rewards. Mu Nan who praised him became more and more motivated. He originally just relaxed his arms, but ended up with a whole body service. He even contributed himself.

Qin Huai felt completely relaxed from the inside out. With a contented expression, he lowered his head and kissed the forehead of the person curled up on the bed: "Today's technician service is full marks, I am very satisfied, what's your badge number? I'll pay you back next time." point you."

Mu Nan: "...Kneel down and rest on your knees."

Qin Huai smiled, covered him with a small blanket, then got up from the bed, and went to make dinner for the hungry and crying person, but this order is almost equivalent to dinner and supper, it can be a little richer, after all, just now After moving the coal and exercising hard, I have to make up for it.

I bought coal at home, so there is no big thing to prepare for later. I have thick winter clothes and quilts. Even Song Jiajianchu’s house has replenished the quilts that were put outside to keep out locusts and ended up being gnawed. The online shopping mall is online in limited quantities. When they were in bed, they snatched two beds by one of them with sharp eyesight and quick hands.

But the Cai family has no supplies for the winter. They go to work, take care of the housework, and watch the growth of the mushroom bag in the mushroom room. They don’t have so much time to take their mobile phones every day to browse the forum or go to the forum. Going to the mall, and by the time you know that there are winter clothes for sale, they are already sold out online.

So Song Jia, who poured the vegetables and cleaned the chicken coop every day, helped them keep an eye on the movement on the line. Even Jian Chu and Mu Nan said hello, if they see it, buy it first, and if the Cai family thinks it’s too expensive, don’t wait. In winter, you can earn a little by selling them.

It's just that Mu Nan looked at the white sun on the ground, and couldn't help but sigh: "I always feel that this winter is so far away, it doesn't look like it's coming at all, brother, you said last winter will Will it be the last winter of our lives?"

Qin Huai walked by his side and rapped on his head: "He will always come when it's time, what are you thinking about doing in winter now, thinking about Maodong so much?"

Mu Nan rubbed his head: "Isn't it because I'm afraid that if it gets hotter, the earth will spontaneously ignite without fire. Come winter to cool down, let's take a look at it."

Mu Nan didn't dare to look outside for too long, even opened the door to look at the ground for a while, his eyes would get dizzy, if he looked up directly at the sun in the sky, he might be blinded, felt the warmth of the sun for three seconds through the window, and turned the inside and outside Put down all the stalls, lie back on the sofa and chat with them in the small group while browsing the forum.

Qin Huai started cleaning. Mu Nan doesn't like to wear shoes, especially in the bedroom, so Qin Huai always cleans the floor tiles in the bedroom very clean, and wipes them with a rag every once in a while for the convenience of the sweeper. For work, even the sofa is placed in a slightly European style, with slightly higher feet, just enough for the sweeper to get in and mop.

It was clear that the sweeper had been working diligently in the morning, and now seeing Qin Huai coming over with a basin of water and a rag, Mu Nan turned over on the sofa: "My hardworking brother has started to emit the shining light of labor again. .”

Qin Huai threw the slightly damp rag to the floor and wiped the tiles: "If I hadn't raised a brother who is lazy and salty and doesn't like to wear slippers, I wouldn't be able to work hard like this."

Mu Nan put on a shy smile: "You don't need to thank me so much, it's so embarrassing."

Qin Huai made a gesture to throw the rag in his face, Mu Nan quickly grabbed the pillow to cover his face, but after waiting for a long time, he pulled the pillow down and took a tentative look, but the person who was squatting on the sofa wiping the floor just now was gone.

Mu Nan subconsciously got up to look for someone, and as soon as he turned his head, he was attacked head-on by Qin Huai who ran to the side of the sofa at some point, and the wet towel that had just wiped the floor slipped from his face, It landed on his lap with a snap.

Mu Nan frowned instantly: "Qin Huai! You really threw it away!"

Song Jia, who was greedy and came over with two eggs and was going to ask Jian Chu to help him make some egg cakes, was so frightened by the roar that his hands almost slipped. It's okay to slip, but he couldn't drop the eggs he had saved so hard.

After hastily putting the eggs in the bowl, he couldn't help looking at the upstairs next door: "What's going on?"

Jian Chu calmly made preparations: "It's okay, the couple's love is just a daily routine, just get used to it."

Song Jia's expression suddenly became indescribable: "The sound insulation effect of this room is so bad?"

Jian Chu smiled: "Actually, it's pretty good, the premise is that Qin Huai doesn't make a fuss."

Song Jia was a little curious: "I really can't tell that Qin Huai is such a stable person."

Jian Chu smiled and said nothing, people are two-faced, and Yu Zibai is also gentle and calm on the surface, who would have thought that taking a bath together in private would make his ears blush. Anyone who reads it will go against it.