Chapter 54 p1
Even though Ji Yang knew this day would come, she was still shocked by the number of these things. However, shock was shock. Her footsteps became faster, and she finally reached the fifteenth floor.
The higher she went, the fewer the dirty things. By the time she got here, there were much fewer.
Everything that could be taken away from the building had been taken away. There were no corpses or the like. The corpse on the seventeenth floor had long been taken away by the body collection team. With a lack of food, these things would naturally not gather too much.
This made Ji Yang breathe a slight sigh of relief.
She didn’t dare to open the door immediately, but first disinfected the entire corridor.
It was quiet here. There were no other people. It was her own territory, so she could make a big move. So, she directly took out a gas mask, as well as the concentrated insecticide and disinfectant she had specially bought, mixed them, and started spraying!
The effect was remarkable. A whole area fell wherever she passed.
She quickly sprayed the entire corridor and the two stairwells on both sides. After confirming that the surroundings were temporarily cleared, Ji Yang quickly took out her key to open the door and flashed into the house.
Then, she immediately scanned the place. As expected, there were still some cockroaches, but before she had left, she had stored everything she could and blocked everything she could. She had also placed all kinds of mothballs, rat poison, and the like in the corners of her house. The number of these guys was not large.
Ji Yang entered her space with peace of mind, cleaned her whole body, and threw away all her clothes and shoes. After disinfecting, she threw them in the trash can, and only then did she return home.
Xixi definitely couldn’t come out for the time being.
She rolled up her sleeves and started to work. The first step was to put all the furniture into her static space. Watching countless tiny insects being flicked out and falling to the ground, until the entire house was empty, with only a floor full of small insects and cockroaches, she then began to formally disinfect.
Wherever the insecticide passed, a whole area of insects and cockroaches fell. Fortunately, she did not see any rats. The sealing effect of this room was still good.
After the disinfection was over, Ji Yang turned on all the air conditioners in her house and chose the ventilation option. Only then did she flash into her space to rest for a while.
About three hours later, she went out again. The smell of disinfectant in the air had faded a lot, leaving only a floor of insect carcasses.
Ji Yang took out a broom and first swept up these obvious large pieces of garbage.
She had successfully filled half a trash can with insects.
Fortunately, it’s much less than in Hu City.
The passages that connected to the outside world had been sealed. It was still very useful!
Ji Yang rubbed her sore waist, took out the robot vacuum cleaner, added some disinfectant inside, and let the robot vacuum cleaner handle the rest.
She also went back to her space to have dinner.
It had no taste in the first place, and she had even less of an appetite in her space. She casually found a bun to fill her stomach, set an alarm for an hour, and closed her eyes to rest.
Ji Yang did not regret not moving to the base. There were two reasons why she was not going to the base for the time being. First, the power of the tornado was not certain. In her previous life, the tornado had directly swept away a large building in the base. In this life, even though she knew that the base had made full preparations, she still couldn’t be sure. She trusted herself more. At least she had her space. If anything happened while she was living alone here, her space would be her safety net.
However, she hadn’t expected Xie Muzhi to come over at that time.
Secondly, the base had fewer snakes, insects, rats, and ants for now, but it didn’t mean that these things would not be in the base forever.
You had to know that the base did not appear out of thin air on the water surface. It had countless pillars connecting it to the water surface, and there were also stairs that snaked down into the water.
At this time, it was just when these things were frantically reproducing. And it just so happened that the various carrion and leftovers outside were abundant, providing them with a stable food source, so these guys seemed a little more numerous here.
But the reproduction period of these things was short. According to her experience in her previous life and the number she had just seen, at most, in a week, they would have insufficient food due to the increase in their numbers.
Then what?
Naturally, they would turn their target to human settlements.
At that time, even if the base’s disinfection was in place, it would not be able to stop these things from rushing over like a tide. On the contrary, outside the base, with a lack of food, their figures would naturally decrease, just as the number of rats and insects she had seen had decreased as she had gone up the building.
It just so happened that there were many people in the base, and these things would rush over frantically. The various food damage and epidemics that came with it would also appear. Before the extreme heat, there would be several riots in the base.
These few riots were mainly the final madness of the people who were infected with epidemics and viruses and had no cure for the time being. They had endured too much, and under the collapse, a portion of them, incited by people with ulterior motives, had thought of retaliating against society.
Why should others live well while they had to watch themselves die?
With the huge base of the base, the number of this portion of people was very scary.
In her previous life, Ji Yang had not been reborn and did not know the future. The government had also been fumbling forward and had gone through many wrong paths. In fact, the number of survivors was far from as many as now. However, even at that time, the number of rioters was very considerable.
The degree of terror was probably—even if you were careful, a person who had just been talking to you in a good-natured way might suddenly bite you or cut you with a knife, or even splash dirty water on you.
Those in the rich areas were their number one target.
It was completely impossible to guard against.
From then on, the last advantage of the base was gone.
On the contrary, although there were a few more insects here, they were easy to deal with.
Besides this, moving was also a big deal. The persona she had created was that of a rich household with many supplies, so she had to be fully prepared when moving. Moving with an assault boat and a rubber boat would require at least a dozen of them. She definitely couldn’t do it alone. If she wasn’t careful, her things would fall into the water, or the boat would capsize, or she would be sneak attacked. However, finding too many people to help would also easily cause problems.
She had a boat, but this thing was too big. It was too dangerous to take it out casually. Although there were few people outside the base, there were still some. The rubber boat and the assault boat were small and could be inflated. If she found a place to hide, it would not be eye-catching to take them out. If such a big thing suddenly appeared and was noticed by someone, she would be done for.
Furthermore, at this time, moving also required renovation. At present, all the villas were only basic rough houses, with nothing. If it were a large flat, it would be even worse than here. She didn’t even know how many neighbors she would run into up and down.
So, no matter how you compared, it was more cost-effective to stay away from the base for the time being.
At the very least, when the extreme heat arrived, and the extreme heat appeared, many viruses would automatically disappear due to the high temperature, and the epidemics would also seem to be cured without medicine. The extreme situations would be greatly reduced. In addition, with the terrifying high temperature, the viruses would die as soon as they left the body, and the safety would be greatly increased.
Otherwise, the base would still be very dangerous. There were too many survivors there. Even if she was prepared, she could not be sure who would suddenly attack her.
If she was not careful, she would be hit.
Even if she could get a specific cure, it would be very painful.
She just hoped that with her advance notice, the base could make some preparations in this aspect. But she also understood that the human heart was the most difficult to control. No matter how perfect the base was, it could not control the human heart, unless the base could now produce enough specific cures to treat everyone.
Estimating the time, Ji Yang flashed out.
The robot vacuum cleaner had already rested, and the room was filled with a faint smell of disinfectant. She didn’t let Xixi out. She put the furniture out one by one. Seeing the house become as warm as before with her own eyes, she showed a satisfied smile.
There was also a small reason. She liked it here. Although it lacked the human touch of before, here, she had spent the happiest and most relaxing days of these years.
She had a space, countless supplies, and lacked nothing.
Oh right.
On the way back, she had put the two bags of jade into her space. This time, the stock had directly filled the remaining four hundred-plus square meters, and the pond had officially reached ten thousand square meters!
It sounded quite big, but it was actually a 100m*100m cube.
This was the result of Ji Yang’s consciousness detection. At the same time, she also found that there was a long stretch of plants in the shallow water area of the pond, which looked like lotus roots, and there were some that she couldn’t tell what they were.
They were all too small, and they had only grown for a few days.
The water plants in other places were also growing quite well. She had been insisting on feeding the fish. Although it was a bit troublesome, at present, these water plants and the like had not been eaten by the fish and shrimp.
The shrimp in the pond had gone through a round of reproduction. After half a month of growth, they had also grown a lot, which had greatly filled the gap in the pond.
It just so happened that the time was up. Ji Yang had sent the pile of salted duck eggs in the living room to her static space to keep them at their best taste. The five bird’s eggs she had gotten from Jiang Jing and Li Yi had also long since been placed in the incubator.
She had used a flashlight to check. They were indeed all alive. The weather was already hot, so it was lucky that these eggs had not lost their temperature. She just didn’t know when they would hatch. She had to pay attention at all times.
At present, the three spaces: the static space, the planting space, and the freshwater pond, had all reached their maximum level. The three cubes were next to each other, and it looked like there was only one empty space left.
This one empty space probably needed countless times more jade than the pond.
Ji Yang was not very looking forward to it.
After the base had wiped out the private base on the Yun City side, she would just go directly to the Southern Province to secretly loot.
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Lacking human touch, Jiafu Community was a bit too quiet.
Ji Yang had lived in the Hu City base for a while, and she had also lived in the Changnan Base for two days. When she returned to this little nest, there was not a single person around, and not a single human voice could be heard, which made her feel a little bit of a subtle disappointment.
The main reason was that compared to her previous life, the base in this life was obviously better built and managed. It was quite like a residential building before the disaster. If it were the base in her previous life, it would be different.
She habitually sat on the balcony and used her binoculars to observe the surroundings.
The water level was dropping by about fifty or sixty centimeters every day, and the temperature was stable at forty-five degrees and had not risen again. It was a little hot, but it was still barely tolerable.
But the piranhas had probably appeared in large numbers. Ji Yang found that the number of people who came here to fish was increasing day by day. It was estimated that they couldn’t even find a normal fish on the base’s side.
But even so, the crowd was very scattered, and basically no one was close to this side. If it weren’t for her binoculars, she wouldn’t have been able to see them.
The survivors would come over in the morning, find a place to rest at noon, and when the temperature was a little lower, they would fish for a while and then hurry back.
After all this tossing and turning, they could only catch two or three jin of fish.
There were no big fish. They had either died long ago or had been caught. The three or four liang ones were considered to be of a good size.
In the blink of an eye, five days had passed, and the water level had dropped to the sixth floor. Just as Ji Yang was wondering whether to go to the base for a look, at a little past ten in the morning, the sky suddenly changed.
The survivor closest to Ji Yang was about two kilometers away.
The person also noticed that something was wrong at the first moment and began to call his friends to find a place to hide. Soon, they entered a residential building. One of the young men seemed to have gotten a good thing and was reluctant to leave. He was so anxious that his paddle was sparking. He rushed over and pulled the person away.
Just as the two of them had climbed up and were pulling the boat up, the sky had completely fallen into darkness.
The feeling of a tornado coming again made breathing feel difficult. The strong wind followed, and the howling wind was getting louder and louder. The sky in the southernmost was as black as ink, as if the whole thing had been swallowed, and it was still spreading towards them.
About a few minutes later, bean-sized raindrops fell with a “thump, thump” sound, hitting the windows and walls. In almost two breaths, the visibility had dropped to the point where it was impossible to see.
Ji Yang put down her binoculars and looked at the rain that was almost falling like a waterfall. She began to recall the situation in her previous life. How many days had it rained? She couldn’t remember at all.
She always felt that this momentum, it didn’t look like it would end in one or two days.
After thinking for a while, a particularly thick bolt of lightning suddenly flashed across the distant sky, briefly illuminating the terrifying sky. Ji Yang happened to be staring in that direction and seemed to have vaguely seen a touch of black, like a piece of cloth, covering half the sky.
Even the lightning could not break it.
The rain was still getting heavier. Ji Yang was too lazy to look anymore. With such a heavy rain, all she could see was rain. She couldn’t see anything else.
She drew the curtains, looked at the time, and it was just time for her workout. She quickly went to change into her sportswear and laid out her yoga mat.
It wasn’t until three hours later that Ji Yang collapsed from exhaustion.
Xixi brought the towel over. “Woof!”
Ji Yang’s eyes curved. “Thank you, Xixi. Xixi is the most formidable little dog!”
Xixi let out a proud “awoo” and lay down beside its owner.
After resting for a while, Ji Yang went into her space to take a bath. When she had finished her slow and deliberate tidying up and came out to eat, it was already evening. The rain was still not getting lighter, and it was still pouring down like water was being poured on the human world.
Now she was done for.
The water level, which had just dropped, had to go up again.
The base had to hold on!
Ji Yang was quite worried about this, but the heavens were only raining and blowing wind, and had not created any terrifying creatures. It could be considered gentle. She had no hope for this.
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