Chapter 40 p2
The newly-minted little couple was temporarily in the same space, awkwardly, because of the heavy rain.
However, even though their relationship had been confirmed, their familiarity had not yet increased. Perhaps because Xie Muzhi was forced to live here and was worried about causing pressure on Ji Yang, the two of them were very careful with their boundaries when they got along.
After dinner, they would chat for a while and then go to their respective rooms to take a bath and rest.
If he wanted to talk, he would use the walkie-talkie.
He would never go to her door to knock or open the door to disturb her when she was resting.
Ji Yang didn’t know how other new couples got along, but this method was very suitable for her. She herself didn’t have enough sense of security, not for herself, but for others.
After experiencing the apocalypse, it was still too difficult to easily trust a person.
If it weren’t for the fact that she had gotten along with Xie Muzhi in her previous life, and the moves he had taught her had saved her many times, she would not have gotten familiar with Xie Muzhi so quickly.
So, step by step was the best.
For a moment, both of them were very satisfied.
It was just Xixi. Perhaps because its territory had been occupied, it disliked Xie Muzhi even more. But now, it didn’t take the initiative to attack. It just showed a little more rejection. Normally, it would sleep in the living room, with the door ajar. This way, it could act as an alarm, and if anything happened, it could come in on its own.
But since Xie Muzhi had moved in, Xixi would directly drag its own bed and run to Ji Yang’s room at night.
Since there was another companion, the matter of the night watch would be left to him!
Xixi arranged it as a matter of course.
Ji Yang didn’t understand its thoughts, but she knew its meaning and was very welcoming.
Separated by a door, the two of them were also happy to communicate with the walkie-talkie.
At first, it was Xie Muzhi who started the topic. Later, Ji Yang remembered the matter of the three guns from last time.
She had just asked casually, thinking that he didn’t know. But Luo Laosan had reported in time, and Xie Muzhi actually knew. The guns had indeed come from Yun City. Xia Country’s geographical location was relatively superior, and its assets were also abundant. Its habit of hoarding grain was well-known. So, this time, many foreigners had taken the opportunity to sneak over, wanting to cause trouble in the chaos, wanting to force the government to be too busy to take care of itself.
Once they were given a chance, they might really rely on those weapons to become kings.
After the government had received the three guns, they had immediately strictly investigated all the survivors and had also caught many who were secretly possessing guns and robbing. At present, all the accomplices of that group had been sent to do hard labor, but the real mastermind had not been found.
As they were chatting, they talked about Xie Muzhi’s mission this time. “We’re going to Changyang Province this time. In order to get enough rubber boats and assault boats, so that during the floods, the survivors won’t all have to wait for the government’s relief. But it took so long because more than half of Hai City’s resources were controlled by a private base.”
Changyang Province was a coastal province. It also included the surrounding several small islands, so all kinds of sea resources were abundant, and the number of ships was countless. Changnan City could only be considered inland. If they wanted to survive better during the floods, they really had to go there to get some things.
But when she heard the latter part…
“A private base?” Ji Yang was shocked again. “What are they trying to do by establishing a base?!”
Xie Muzhi paused for a while before he said, “This global natural disaster has brought many previously strictly banned organizations to the surface. The predecessor of this private base was a pyramid scheme organization before the disaster. Their brainwashing was very powerful, and they had gathered many survivors. They firmly believed that Blue Star was undergoing a great cleansing, and they should adapt to this world. And the government’s frequent relief to the survivors was against the will of Blue Star…”
Ji Yang was puzzled. “What about them?”
Xie Muzhi’s voice turned cold. “That’s the scary part about that group of people. They are naturally double standards. They prevent the government from gathering supplies, and then they gather the supplies in their own hands, thinking that others don’t deserve to live, but they themselves have to live well.”
Ji Yang: “…”
The world is big, and there are all kinds of strange things.
Ji Yang asked, “What happened after that?”
“After that, our several bases sent people over. With the suppression of weapons, although they had many people, they did not have many weapons. They were basically all stolen from the government. The matter was relatively easy, and we received a lot of supplies,” Xie Muzhi said with some regret. “It’s just that the government base in Changyang Province is too poor. We didn’t have the heart to ask for the supplies. We just took away some ships. After the floods are over, our side probably won’t be able to use them either. At that time, we’ll send people back to return them. They are by the sea. Even if there is an extreme heat disaster in the future, they probably won’t be short of food.”
Ji Yang laughed. With so many troublemakers around, it was normal for the government to be poor.
However, she was a little curious. “But it doesn’t have to take two months, right?”
Xie Muzhi chuckled. “You’re so smart. Besides this, the main thing was to help the survivors of Changyang Province evacuate. The government predicted that there might be a tsunami during the floods, but they were far from having enough manpower, so we helped out.”
“Some of the surrounding cities that were closer to the inland were also sent some. Most of them have been transferred. The remaining small portion, their own people can also handle.”
Ji Yang was relieved.
Her previous email had mentioned that coastal cities would experience a giant tsunami.
In her previous life, this disaster, by the time it had reached the Changnan Base, the extreme heat had already arrived. Everyone was busy surviving in this terrifying temperature, but it was still shocking enough that the base had been talking about it for a month, with a lingering fear.
When building houses in coastal cities, tsunamis, typhoons, and the like had already been fully considered. But the power of tsunamis and typhoons under a natural disaster was a hundred times that of a peaceful period, just like how the temperature had directly dropped to minus sixty degrees in the extreme cold.
This time, the floods and torrential rains, as well as the several other natural disasters in between, had already cut off the connection between the bases that had just been partially restored. They were all busy fighting for survival, desperately repairing the bases in the heavy rain, rescuing supplies, and rescuing everything that had been washed away by the flood.
So, no one knew that the coastal survivors had already encountered an even more terrifying attack. It wasn’t until the flood had receded and the Xia Country bases had contacted each other to communicate that they found that they couldn’t contact that side.
The loss of contact with one base was the base’s problem. The loss of contact with multiple coastal bases was not.
So, the surrounding bases all sent people to check the situation. Ji Yang was also in the mission team. As the government’s people got close to that side, they were shocked by the countless corpses.
Under a tsunami, nothing survives.
Not just humans, but also countless marine animals and land animals.
There were very few survivors.
This time, their mission had only encountered a dozen or so survivors who had been washed to the top of a mountain and had been stuck in the trees and had survived by accident. But they hadn’t lived for long. Their bodies were severely injured in many places, and they couldn’t be treated.
But they had also passed on the news to the other bases.
This tsunami had lasted for a full half a month.
One after another, giant waves had washed over this city, obscuring the sky. The high-rise buildings that had once been thought to be solid could not hold on at all and collapsed one after another. Countless people were washed into the sea and died after rising and falling with the waves.
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After learning this good news, Ji Yang also slept soundly.
Xie Muzhi, on the other side, no longer heard any movement and also put down his walkie-talkie, covered himself with a thin blanket, and fell asleep in the pouring rain.
It wasn’t until the middle of the night that another burst of dense and startling thunder woke up the two people and the dog at the same time.
Ji Yang clutched her pounding heart and looked at the world outside the window in annoyance.
The lightning would light up the sky from time to time. Through the thick curtains, there was still light that penetrated. In the thunder, there were occasionally some explosions. She didn’t know where it had struck and what it had detonated.
But Ji Yang was really sleepy, so after a brief breakdown, her mind automatically adapted to the sound, and she fell asleep again.
When she woke up the next day, after she had washed up, she went to the living room to eat breakfast. Her mind was already thinking about what to eat. Her nose smelled a light fragrance of noodles. She was puzzled. When she looked up, she saw a tall man appear in her line of sight.
She had almost forgotten that there was still a person in the house.
Xie Muzhi seemed to have woken up even earlier and was full of energy. Ji Yang was wearing the white short-sleeved T-shirt he had given her yesterday. She immediately looked several years younger and had a bit more youthful vitality.
Especially at this moment, she was cooking noodles at the gas stove in front of her. The pot was bubbling with heat, and steam was rising, making him look even more hazy and handsome.
At this moment, when he heard the movement, he said, “You woke up at just the right time. You can eat soon—” Xie Muzhi looked over, and the next second, his ears turned red, and he silently turned his head back. “You can eat.”
The guard that had just risen in Ji Yang’s heart immediately dissipated a lot. She said speechlessly, “Okay.”
With that, she was about to sit down.
As she walked, the smooth hem of her skirt brushed against her calf, and it was cold. She paused. She had almost forgotten that she was wearing a nightgown to sleep, and she wasn’t wearing a bra. Her footsteps immediately changed direction, and she quickly disappeared from the living room.
Xie Muzhi pursed his lips, his gaze fixed on the bubbling noodles in front of him.
After a while, when Ji Yang came out again, the two of them were no different. Xie Muzhi handed her this bowl. “I made the noodles myself. Have a taste and see how it is.”
Ji Yang took it. “What about yours? There’s no more in the pot.”
Xie Muzhi: “I didn’t know when you would wake up, so I only made one portion. It’s just right for you to eat first. I’ll cook some more later, it’s the same.”
Ji Yang nodded and didn’t say anything more. Last night, while he was taking a bath, she had taken out a lot of food and drink and placed them in the living room, to avoid having to pretend to go to the storage room in the future, which was too troublesome.
These things were also resistant to storage. Rice, flour, seasonings, eggs, and the like, as well as some meat, fish, and shrimp, were placed in the refrigerator. The frozen vegetables were still in the freezer. She had pretended that she had moved them out and had placed them all in the living room.
At the very least, it was enough for the two of them to eat for half a month.
After about half a month, the rain would stop for a while. After that, Xie Muzhi would definitely have to leave. He had a lot of things to do.
Ji Yang felt that this was not bad. They would get along for a while and then separate for a while. They would cool down from time to time, and when they met again, it would be even more of a surprise.
Of course, she didn’t say this, but she had just imagined it.
The most important thing now was to eat breakfast.
The steaming hot breakfast was no longer the various cooked food she had packed from restaurants, but a very light clear soup hand-pulled noodles, with a fried egg on top, two pieces of lettuce leaves, and a little bit of chopped green onion.
The first bite did not have so many seasonings, only the light fragrance of the noodles. After savoring it, there was also a sweet taste.
Ever since the gas could not be used, the living room had become her dining room. Not long after Ji Yang had sat down, Xie Muzhi also came over. Perhaps because their relationship had been confirmed, he was a little bolder and did not sit on the single sofa again, but directly came to Ji Yang’s side.
His tone was natural as he said, “I looked outside this morning. The water level is already close to the seventh floor. The heavy rain didn’t stop all night, and the rate of rise is too fast.”
Ji Yang, on the other hand, was calm. She had already experienced it once and was not flustered. “If even my fifteenth floor can’t hold on, then the base will probably have a hard time.”
Fortunately, in her previous life, she remembered that the water level in Changnan City had only submerged to about the ninth floor, which was about the same as the highest point of the flood.
Xie Muzhi nodded and began to worry about the base again.
However, he did not say this, for fear of making Ji Yang worry with him.
He could only hope that the geographical location of the base was high enough, and the drainage system was strong enough.
After the meal, Xie Muzhi found that she was installing a solar panel and took the initiative to go over and help. However, this thing, Ji Yang had already assembled more than half of it, and only the final fixing was left, which did not take much time.
After this was done, Xie Muzhi was idle again.
In order to find something for him to do, Ji Yang took out a pile of fish and shrimp from the storage room and asked him to help fry them.
These things, after being processed, coated with a layer of flour paste, and then fried, and sprinkled with a little salt and pepper, would be very delicious!
Her theoretical knowledge was full, but she had never practiced it, and she didn’t want to waste the ingredients. It was definitely not that she was lazy. Now that there was finally someone who could do it, anyway, these things could be stored for a long time. She would secretly throw them into her space, and when she wanted to eat them, she could take them out at any time, and they would definitely still be crispy.
Xie Muzhi: …
He was being used to his full potential.
He looked at the pile of fish and shrimp in front of him, smiled, and then rubbed the head of the person in front of him in annoyance and started to work.
Killing fish, cutting fish pieces, deveining shrimp, removing shrimp heads. The shrimp heads could be kept to make soup, and the rest could be ground into powder, which was also a good way to supplement calcium. Seeing that Ji Yang didn’t want the shrimp heads, he decisively said, “Then I’ll keep them and take them to the base. If you don’t want the fish heads, I’ll take them all.”
A mosquito’s leg is still meat. These things could be sold to the base, and then the base could sell them to the survivors who were having a harder time, or give them as an extra meal to the ordinary survivors who were doing hard labor, which was very good.
Ji Yang naturally didn’t mind. On the contrary, looking at the free labor, she was a little guilty. Xie Muzhi would definitely not accept a reward, so she chose to provide food and drink. The drink… was the milk tea that Xie Muzhi had cooked. The ones he had given her last time, she had not used them.
But this was something she had brought from the refrigerator!
The fumes from frying were heavy. Xie Muzhi didn’t want to smoke Ji Yang, so he moved the gas stove to the kitchen, very smoothly replaced the gas stove with a gas one, and then plugged the range hood into the battery, so the range hood could also be used.
Xie Muzhi felt that he had done a good deed and subconsciously looked at Ji Yang, with a hint of a pleasing expression.
Ji Yang glanced at him twice, nodded, and remembered. And here, after Xie Muzhi had left, she would have to seal it with cement, to prevent strange things from drilling in.
She didn’t feel Xie Muzhi’s gaze at all.
Xie Muzhi lowered his eyes in disappointment, started the fire to fry the skewers, oh no, to fry the fish and shrimp. He heard a “da da da” sound, and then a cup of milk tea with a straw was brought to his mouth.
He turned his head, and the girl in front of him had a teasing smile. “This is your reward. I’m serving you personally. How about it?”
Xie Muzhi: !
He also smiled, a little embarrassed from being exposed, but he still moved a little closer, took a big sip of the sweet milk tea, and then continued to fry. He even said enthusiastically, “See if there’s anything else you want to fry. We can just use this pot of oil to fry it all. If you can’t think of anything, just think of what you want to eat at a fried skewer shop.”
Ji Yang really thought of something. “A lot. You wait!”
Crab claws coated with batter, chicken steak, chicken legs, chicken feet, chicken racks, lotus root slices… there were so many!
So, this day, apart from sparring for two hours in the afternoon, the rest of the time was spent frying skewers. Ji Yang put them all in the storage room. As soon as she entered, she threw them into her static space, for fear that if she was a step slower, the crispy skin would be softened by the humidity in the air.
The next day, the heavy rain was still not stopping.
Fortunately, on the third day, when the heavy rain had reached the top of the seventh floor, it finally slowly became lighter, turning into a moderate rain, and then a light rain. As the rain subsided, the rain curtain naturally faded a lot, and the situation where you could barely see the building opposite had also improved, and the visibility had improved a lot.
Xie Muzhi thought that this rain would probably stop soon.
For a moment, he looked at the girl beside him with some reluctance.
She had just eaten and drunk her fill, and her face was flushed. She was holding a pillow and was curled up in the sofa. Normally, she was cold and detached, but at this moment, she was very lazy. Her fair arms were holding a dark pillow, which was exceptionally dazzling.
However, he still had a lot of things to do, so he had to go back early.
When the weather is better next time, he’ll come over again.
But just as he had finished speaking and was about to leave, he got up, and Ji Yang also sat up and pulled him. “Wait a little longer. Let’s talk after the rain really stops.”
Xie Muzhi held her hand back and obediently sat back down, his eyes sparkling as he looked at her.
Ji Yang ignored him and looked out the balcony.
Xie Muzhi was puzzled, but he also followed her gaze. After looking for a while, there was nothing.
Just as he was about to look away, a sky-splitting thunderclap suddenly appeared again.
The rain had not yet become heavier, but the sound of thunder was continuous. Suddenly, Xie Muzhi’s breath hitched, and he stared intently at the balcony. In the instant that the lightning lit up this world, he saw a terrifying thing forming!
Ji Yang also noticed it. She slowed her breathing, as if she were afraid of disturbing the giant creature outside, and said softly, “A tornado is coming…”