Chapter 54 p2
A rainy day was the most suitable for sleeping.
For the next few days, Ji Yang basically ate and slept, and slept and ate. Worried that Xixi was not getting enough exercise, she would send it to her space to discipline the pigs, cattle, and sheep, or send it to the rabbit hutch to catch rabbits.
Yes, she had come up with a new way to walk Xixi.
Catching rabbits.
The accumulated water was severely polluted. It was not like on the ice surface, and she could not go out at will. There was also a pile of snakes, insects, rats, and ants outside, full of bacteria. Every time she let Xixi slap the cockroaches, she had to wash its paws once, not to mention those rats and snakes.
So, when Ji Yang had found that the rabbits had expanded their family again, and she was catching rabbits, she had suddenly seen Xixi, so she had thrown it in and ordered it to catch.
Xixi did not let down its bloodline. As soon as Ji Yang had ordered, it had immediately reacted. It ran around in the huge rabbit hutch, and it only picked the fat ones. Once it had bitten, it would directly kill it and bring it to Ji Yang to show off.
Ji Yang had roasted it on the spot.
She had skinned the rabbit, smeared a layer of oil on it, and slowly roasted it on a charcoal basin. After it was cooked, she didn’t have to give any other seasonings and just threw it to Xixi.
The second time Ji Yang had thrown it into the hutch, the rabbit it had targeted was even fatter.
It was just that there was a side effect to doing this. Rabbits were timid. Such a big guy had run into their hutch and had caused a ruckus. After a round of fuss, several half-grown rabbits had been scared to death, which had made Ji Yang’s heart ache for a long time.
They hadn’t even grown up yet.
But after doing it twice, the rabbits might have gotten used to it. They knew that this big guy would only catch one a day, and they had slowly gotten used to it.
After a few times, a total of more than ten rabbits had been lost, and after that, no more rabbits would die.
However, Ji Yang was firm in only giving Xixi one rabbit to eat each time.
This way, it would not catch more rabbits for the sake of eating, which would eventually lead to the extinction of the rabbits.
Ji Yang deeply praised herself for her wit. Xixi was also happy to be able to eat meat again and wagged its tail. It had gotten enough exercise and had also eaten. This move was really brilliant.
Besides that, she was also experimenting with the idea of using chickens to eat cockroaches and other insects.
The room had been completely disinfected by her once. At present, there were very few cockroaches. She didn’t know which crack they had crawled in from, but they were all very small. Ji Yang was usually very careful. The things she needed were basically stored in her space. For example, the sofa, she would take it out when she wanted to sit and put it away when she got up. It was not troublesome, but it could make the cockroaches have nowhere to hide.
It was just that the mosquitoes had not been completely eliminated, but she usually put a lot of ice in the room and then turned on the air conditioner. The temperature would drop, and those mosquitoes would not be used to the temperature, so they were not very active.
Therefore, she only brought out one male and one female chicken. She put the mask she had used before on the back of the two chickens to catch their droppings and then let them wander around the house.
Cockroaches mostly appeared on the windowsill and on the ground. At first, they probably didn’t know what this thing was and just looked at it with curiosity.
But as they looked, in a short while, their instincts awakened. They flapped their wings and rushed over, pecking one with each peck, and eating one in a few bites. It seemed that they had tasted a good delicacy. The two chickens immediately became energetic, and their small, mung-bean-sized eyes quickly patrolled inside and outside the house.
Even the ones on the windowsill, they could fly up and eat them. In a few days, it felt that these two chickens had also become plump and strong.
At this time, Ji Yang was very glad that she had bought free-range chickens, the kind that could fly a little.
Besides cockroaches, they also liked the mosquitoes flying in the air and some small poisonous insects in the corners. They would eat whatever came their way. Every morning, noon, and evening, Ji Yang would let them out. When the insects were almost eliminated, she would put them back into her space.
She still had to build a temporary chicken coop in the area where she was raising the fruit trees. This way, if they got sick, they wouldn’t infect the other chickens.
But what surprised her was that these two chickens were always energetic. It was even possible that because they had eaten a lot of insects, they looked even stronger than the other chickens, and their feathers were even more beautiful.
After all this fuss, when she came to her senses, the heavy rain had been falling for eight consecutive days.
The rain had been particularly heavy for the first few days. It had started to get a little lighter on the fourth day, and it had gotten heavier again on the seventh day. By the eighth day, Ji Yang had vaguely heard a rumbling sound that shook the mountains.
Xixi was so scared that it rolled over, ran over with its tail between its legs, and wanted her to hold it.
Ji Yang held the fat dog with one hand and pulled the curtains with the other, trying to see the situation outside.
At this time, it was only past five in the morning, and the sky was just getting light. On the contrary, it looked a little better than the previous few days. Outside, there was still a turbulent stream of water, and it seemed that there was no difference.
Where was that sound from?
She couldn’t figure it out, so Ji Yang decisively stopped thinking about it. After watching for a while and confirming that everything was as usual, she went back to sleep.
When she woke up again, the rain had become lighter, and it was already considered a light rain. The water level had reached the eleventh floor!
It was the highest level of accumulated water so far.
Ji Yang thought of the group of people two kilometers away and then looked at this weather. She decided to do a good deed. She took out a drone, tied a bag of small bread on it, and then controlled the drone to fly out from the balcony. She also closed the balcony door at the first moment.
It had been raining for these few days, and there were fewer crawling insects outside, but she couldn’t be careless.
Soon, the drone swayed into the rain. The rain was not heavy, and it actually stabilized. It seemed that the merchant had not lied to her. It was indeed waterproof.
Xixi was on the balcony, curiously looking at the flying thing, its dog eyes full of shock. Why can this thing fly?
Ji Yang stared at the image transmitted back by the drone and controlled it to continue forward.
She advanced to the vicinity of the residential building that these few people had entered that day. She first looked up and down, but she didn’t see anyone. The windows were also closed. She didn’t know if they were afraid and didn’t dare to open the door, or if… in these few days, the people were gone?
Ji Yang decided to wait for three minutes.
If she didn’t open the window all along, she would go back.
Just as she was hovering up and down, one of the windows suddenly opened.
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At this time, inside the house
Shi Xinyou was the first to notice a drone in the hazy light rain.
In these times, the first thing to do when you encountered something unexpected was to be vigilant. So, he had called up his few brothers who were still asleep, hid behind the wall, and observed the situation through the window.
He had thought that it was either a toy made by some bored young master, or that this was the territory of some private base, and they thought that they had occupied their position and were coming to show their power.
But who would have thought that one person would point at the thing hanging on the drone and be stunned. “Brother Shi, isn’t that bread hanging on it?! I just looked, and it seems to be a bread packaging bag!”
Shi Xinyou: ?
He was full of vigilance, and his first reaction was that it was impossible. But it just so happened that the drone had descended. He looked down and happened to see a shadow of a packaging bag in the gap. It was the common small bread style from before.
He was stunned, and his mind turned. On the one hand, he felt that it was incredible. There were still people who would deliver food to their door in these times? On the other hand, he felt that it seemed… understandable. At this time, to be able to play with a drone, they were definitely not ordinary survivors, so they naturally had the extra energy to do some good deeds.
They had come to fish eight days ago and had been unexpectedly trapped here. The little bit of dry food they had brought with them had long since been eaten. The few small fish they had caught had also long since been roasted and eaten by them. Even if they had eaten as sparingly as possible, they had long since finished it. It had been four days since they had eaten anything, and they had been relying on rainwater to fill their stomachs.
In order to save energy, they had all been relying on sleeping to get through it, and they had long since been red-eyed with hunger.
In the past year, Shi Xinyou had seen too many terrible things. After humans were extremely hungry, they were no different from animals. Etiquette, righteousness, integrity, morality, and law were all thrown to the back of their minds. They saw everything as food.
Therefore, he had always maintained a trace of vigilance, for fear that he would never wake up after a sleep.
Only then could he notice the existence of the drone at the first moment.
At this time, looking at the thing hanging on it, he swallowed his saliva and almost lost his reason and pounced on it. But he quickly came to his senses. “Calm down first. It’s not necessarily a good thing…”
Before he could finish speaking, he saw a person who was extremely hungry directly open the window. “Brother, I’m too hungry. No, I must eat something! I have to eat even if there’s a trap!”
With that, the drone came in through the window and stopped in mid-air.
The plastic bag hanging on it was right in front of them.
The person directly went forward to take it down.
The drone did not react. It wasn’t until the plastic bag was taken away that the drone suddenly became lighter and rose a little, but it quickly returned to its original height, quickly turned in a different direction, and rushed into the drizzly mid-air. It circled around this residential building twice and disappeared from Shi Xinyou’s sight.
Gone?
It was really here to deliver food?
By the time Shi Xinyou had come to his senses, two small bread rolls had already been stuffed into his hand. The young man who had opened the window said while gobbling, “Brother, you should eat quickly!”
If it weren’t for Shi Xinyou coming to pull him that day, and he had been delayed for a moment, the heavy rain and strong wind might have left him in the water. So, just now, Shi Xinyou had not been the first to grab the food. He had quickly helped to grab two. The quantity was not large, but this kind of small cake was sweet and syrupy, and it was enough to supplement sugar. It would definitely be enough to get through this heavy rain.
Shi Xinyou’s eyes were slightly moist. He tore the packaging with a trembling hand. He had no strength, and he had torn it several times before he had torn it open. In an instant, a milky fragrance of a small cake wafted to his nose, and he instinctively stuffed it into his mouth.
So sweet!
It was the first time he had found this kind of small bread so delicious. It was a pity he hadn’t eaten a couple more in the peaceful era.
Shi Xinyou was regretful, but as he ate, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The help at this time was really precious.
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Everything went smoothly. There was no situation where the drone was destroyed and the kindness was repaid with malice. Ji Yang showed a happy smile and carefully controlled the drone to circle a large circle and return to her side.
Her supplies were abundant, and she didn’t mind sharing a portion, but the premise was that she could hide herself.
One-on-one help was easy to cause problems, so she had not planned on helping Jiang Jing at the beginning. But with Xixi’s interruption, she still had a soft heart. Fortunately, her luck was not bad at present, and the ones she had met were all quite good.
On the second day after it had turned into a light rain, the rain stopped at noon.
Ji Yang was still thinking that it had been more than ten days, and she would go to the base first. She heard Xie Muzhi’s voice from the walkie-talkie. “I’m here. I’ve brought you something.”
“Okay,” Ji Yang immediately lay down again.
Now that’s better. She doesn’t have to move.
But after lying down for a while, she got up again. She had to clean up the things that shouldn’t be there, such as the extra dehumidifiers, the two chickens that were diligently coming out to eat insects, and the ice cream that had been taken out to cool down…
After checking everything, she waited with peace of mind.
It was already within thirty kilometers when she could talk, so in about twenty minutes, Ji Yang heard the sound of an engine from downstairs. After waiting for a while, Xixi’s ears twitched, and it quickly went to the door.
Ji Yang went to open the door. It just so happened that a familiar tall figure appeared. He was even carrying an assault boat on his shoulder, wearing a raincoat, and there was a large bag in the raincoat. His clothes were a little wet, clinging to his muscular chest and waist. His handsome face showed a beautiful smile the moment he saw her.
It was just…
This handsome man had stepped on two cockroaches that were trying to crawl into Ji Yang’s house without changing his expression. The sense of suaveness immediately dropped a lot.
No matter how handsome a handsome man is, if he steps on cockroaches, it’s very cooling.
She quickly made way. “Come in!”
Xie Muzhi said “mm,” carried the assault boat in, quickly closed the door, and then quickly stepped on three more with his sharp eyes and quick feet. He changed into the slippers at the entrance and then said, “Where’s the disinfectant? I’ll go and wash my shoes.”
Ji Yang took the disinfectant and gave it to him. She watched him go to the toilet to be busy and quickly brought a bucket of water over.
Xixi followed him, its dog eyes staring at him with a tiger-like gaze.
Xie Muzhi was a little flattered. “It’s been a long time. Do you miss me?”
Xixi: “Woof!”
Where’s your prey?
After it had barked, it even licked its mouth.
Xie Muzhi, who understood the hint: “…”
He rubbed the dog’s head in annoyance and then, in its dissatisfied eyes, handed over a piece of smoked meat. He watched as Xixi turned its head and left.
What bad thoughts can a simple little dog have? A small piece of meat is enough to satisfy it. How cute.
Xie Muzhi shook his head and smiled, quickly brushing the soles of his shoes. He caught a glimpse of Xixi diligently handing that piece of meat to Ji Yang.
After it had given it, Xixi trotted over again and continued to look at him.
The owner has it. What about it?
Xie Muzhi laughed, took out another piece of meat, and handed it over. This time, Xixi went to its nest to eat.
He continued to brush his shoes with a laugh. After he had finished brushing, he poured out the dirty water and very familiarly went to boil water to prepare for a bath.
Ji Yang saw his posture and was amused. “Are you planning on not going back?”
Xie Muzhi said seriously, “Even the donkeys in the production team have holidays. I should at least rest for a few days.”
Ji Yang thought of Xie Muzhi’s retirement during the extreme heat in her previous life. Now, it was not far from the extreme heat. Everyone was busy hoarding grain, and the rich were even more aware of the crisis. They might not be willing to trade. So, she asked, “Could it be that there’s no business recently?”
Xie Muzhi, who had been stabbed in the heart: …