Chapter 44:

The gunshot in the dream was vaguely heard, but the two shots after waking up could be heard clearly. When the outside seemed to be quiet, Mu Nan withdrew from Qin Huai's arms, took out his phone and looked at it. At eleven o'clock in the morning, at noon when the sun outside was the strongest and hottest, Mu Nan calmed down and said, "Is it from our building?"

Qin Huai said: "It's from the trumpet side, and it should be on the middle floors, so the voice from our side can be heard more clearly."

I was woken up by the gunshots, so how can I continue to sleep? I listened for a long time, but I heard some shouts and cries vaguely, but their door was blocked tightly, and the sound transmission was not so clear. Mu Nan turned on her phone and checked the WeChat group to see if there was any news in the group.

As soon as he opened the group, the group was screened by various screens. He scrolled down from the top and saw that at the beginning, a resident on the 13th floor of the small building next door was calling for help in the group, saying that someone was knocking on the door outside. At first, it was quietly Unlocking the lock, but because there have been too many murders and robberies recently, the family installed two indoor locks, even if the door lock is picked, there are still indoor locks to guard against.

As a result, the indoor lock couldn't be opened all of a sudden, and the people outside began to smash the door directly. Even a sleeping pig was woken up. After a panic, he quickly blocked all the things in the house to the door, and put The only few knives at home were in my hands, and I kept calling for help in the group, desperately looking for the community, calling the police non-stop, listening to the sound of kicking the door outside, I was so frightened that my hands and feet went limp and wept tears The snotty ones, but those in the group are still awake at this time, and they can only help them call the police remotely, but now in broad daylight, the police call may not be able to come through.

I probably didn't expect that the main character of the news that I only saw on the Internet would come to their community. Even so close to them, the neighbors who heard the movement began to frantically block the door, wishing to put the refrigerator, TV and sofa all together. Carry it over and block the door. They can't do anything except pray desperately that the day will pass quickly and the night will come quickly, so that the gang of thugs will not stare at their home.

Unexpectedly, the sound of slamming the door stopped later, but there was the sound of fighting outside. Just when they thought it was a neighbor who couldn't hold back and went out to help, they heard gunshots again, but they didn't know that the gunshots were from the mob. Whose is it, and I dare not go out to check it. After a while, the commotion outside subsided, and then someone shouted that the thugs had been subdued, everyone should not panic.

Someone from the resident on the opposite floor of theirs had the courage to open the door to check, because there is a courtyard across, so there is no need to be afraid of being broken into when opening the door for the time being, and then saw a group of people in military uniforms in the corridor opposite the courtyard. Several people were suppressed to the ground, so they took photos and sent them to the group: "It's all right! The burglars were captured by the army brothers!"

The family whose door was kicked also saw the photos in the group, and then they were sure that it was really safe outside, and someone came to rescue them, so they opened the door quickly, and everyone was so excited that they almost knelt down to thank them. This time It was really a near miss with death. If these soldiers hadn't arrived in time, their family would have made the headlines of the social news tonight. They ordinary people have lived their entire lives, where have they ever seen such a battle, the worst they have ever seen is nothing more than some petty theft, even if they are saved at this moment, the three souls are still scared off by two and a half souls, unable to recover for a long time .

The outside finally calmed down, and Mu Nan was a little dazed: "Those doomsday thugs were arrested like this?"

Qin Huai smiled and said: "They only have knives in their hands, how can they do anything with guns in their hands, it was difficult to catch them before because they were running around and committing crimes, and now they can't go out during the day, which makes the investigation more difficult, now we can get it in advance News, that’s not easy to catch, to put it bluntly, those people are just a mob, but the extreme environment today has inflated their murderous ambitions.”

Qin Huai pinched Mu Nan's face as he spoke: "Fortunately, you recognized them. Look, you saved the lives of several other people's family. How did you see them in your dream?"

Mu Nan said: "I haven't met them face to face. I saw them when they were arrested and live broadcasted the execution on the Internet."

Qin Huai: "No matter what, this time is considered a crisis warning."

Mu Nan looked at Qin Huai: "But since the smog, I haven't had those dreams anymore. What if there is no way to warn of crises in the future?"

Qin Huai smiled lightly and said, "It's not that everyone has predictive dreams. If they can't dream of the future, don't they stop living? We can live as we want when the time comes, and pre-set all the environments to the worst preparations. It's not wrong, it's good not to have those dreams, I'm afraid if you do too much, you can't distinguish between dreams and reality."

The real environment is already bad enough, if he experiences it again in his dream, he is really worried that Mu Nan won't be able to bear it, as time goes by, no matter how strong the mentality is, people may face collapse. Therefore, he really hoped that Mu Nan would never have this kind of so-called predictive dream in the future.

Mu Nan breathed a sigh of relief, it was indeed a lie, and there were countless lies to cover it up.

Qin Huai suddenly moved closer to Mu Nan, looking at him seriously: "Nan Nan, do you still have something to hide from me?"

Mu Nan pushed him away with a guilty conscience: "What can I do, no matter what I do now, I'm watching right under your nose."

The point of not daring to look into people's eyes because of a guilty conscience, really hasn't changed since childhood, Qin Huai sighed silently, there really is a little secret.

Such a big thing happened on their side. As long as they are not deaf, they are probably awake now. Jian Chu looked at the news that was constantly updated in the group, and suddenly said to Yu Zibo: "Do you think Qin Huai found something? He The reminder before going home was a bit strange." Yu Zibo was also terrified, but fortunately this crazy thug was caught: "Maybe, anyway, our neighbor's brother is quite mysterious, and we haven't seen him since we lived here. However, I came back suddenly now, and it seems that I won’t leave after returning, and now it’s such an environment, the time is a little bit stuck, and it’s just about time.”

Jian Chu wiped his face while dampening the washcloth with water: "It's good to have a little ability, but in this world, it's hard for those with weak ability to survive."

After washing the face, they put the face towel on the shelf. Now they can’t even use the towel. One towel is too absorbent, so they can only use one face towel repeatedly. One for washing the face and one for wiping the body. Now they don't ask for anything under this condition, it's already pretty good to be a little bit clean like a human being.

At this time, Jian Chu regrets a little: "You said why we didn't buy more wet wipes at the beginning. When food was expensive, the price of wet wipes didn't seem to increase much." How difficult is a wet wipe now? Please, one sheet is equivalent to taking a shower, saving water.

Yu Zibo said: "Who would have thought of going up there, they were all busy grabbing food at that time."

Jian Chu sighed, rubbed her stomach, couldn't help but look a little uncomfortable and said, "I don't want to go downstairs to go to the bathroom."

It’s been a while since they’ve been to the bathroom at home. There’s so much water shortage. Where can there be water to flush the toilet? It’s so saved that even washing their face and taking a shower is tightly wiped with a face towel. How can there be so much water to flush the toilet? , but people always have to go to the toilet, and if they can't go to the house, they can only go outside. There is a public toilet in their community. Since the lack of water, the pits have been full, but the level of nausea in it can make people spit out stomach acid before they get close, and people who just pass by can be smoked and burst into tears. , no matter how much Jian Chu and the others endured, now they can't bear it anymore, and even prefer not to eat in order not to go to the bathroom.

Yu Zibo said, "Why don't you use cat litter?"

This cat litter was dragged back from Xu Ming Clinic back then. They wanted to set up a stall to sell it. After all, they didn’t have any cats. What kind of cat litter did they want, but Mu Nan asked them to keep it, saying that they would definitely use it? day. Looking at it now, it's about to be used.

Jian Chu was a little embarrassed: "This is too much."

Yu Zibai looked for a basin with a calm face, opened a bag of cat litter and poured some into the basin, found a plastic bag and put it in the bathroom, then pushed Jian Chu in: "Go, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. of."

When Jian Chu closed the door of the bathroom with a bitter face, Yu Zibo couldn't help but burst out laughing. It seems good to have a nagging cat.

The existence of doomsday thugs has a great impact on today's world. It will make some people with weak legal awareness break through the last moral bottom line and embark on a path that endangers society. There are also a group of supporters on the Internet, who feel that the world is already like this, and one day counts as another day, if you don't act presumptuously to make yourself happy, maybe you will be aggrieved for the rest of your life.

Most of this kind of people have all kinds of troubles in their lives, or have suffered blows, felt the injustice of the society, and have been depressed for a long time in the past. Once the constraints from the society are gone, this kind of people will explode out of their hearts. Such people are not in the minority.

Therefore, in order to sound a wake-up call to the world, and to make people realize that the present is no longer the peaceful society with the rule of law, the trial of the doomsday thugs was finalized very quickly. After several accomplices of the thugs were captured together , a total of nine people were executed without exception, and just like Mu Nan's last life, the entire execution process was broadcast live on the Internet.

The word death penalty for doomsday thugs instantly became the hottest topic on the Internet. You must know that the government, which has to mosaic to block even the slightest bit of blood, actually broadcast the death penalty live. This also made people deeply realize once again that the world really It is no longer the world they used to live in. Perhaps the weird heat this time will not disappear suddenly like the smog. Maybe this will be the normal state of their lives in the future.

And what kind of consequences this normality will bring, many people dare not even think about it. Among other things, the food and water sources alone have already left people without a way to survive.

Although it is not yet time for the execution of the death penalty, since the announcement has been issued, there will definitely be no changes. When Mu Nan went downstairs again to collect water and supplies, he found that their neighborhood had become quieter. Before, there were sporadic older people taking a walk downstairs. Now let alone walking, even passing by acquaintances. They all looked in a hurry and didn't even say hello.

The doors and windows of every household are closed more tightly, and the vigilance is directly drawn to what information is exposed in the process of talking to strangers or people I have known before, causing trouble.

The changes of the residents are getting closer and closer to what Mu Nan remembered in his previous life, and those who snatched things from online supermarkets are all wrapped tightly in black plastic bags, and they are even careful like thieves on the way home. I am afraid that people will see me buying things. Nowadays, people can’t wait to dig a cellar at home to hoard things, but at the same time, they are afraid that people will know that they buy too much.

Qin Huai and Mu Nan stopped shopping a long time ago, and their money was almost spent, with a few thousand yuan left, and now they can't buy anything with a few thousand yuan. When everyone starts to be cautious, that's when they start to keep a low profile behind closed doors.

There is still a queue to receive the supplies, but now the distance between the queues is getting farther and farther. Ming, Yu Zibai and the others really panicked for a while, and they even had a panic that the country might not be able to survive this time.

Jian Chu was also more silent than the last time I saw them. Mu Nan glanced at them, but didn't speak. This kind of silence was indeed a bit too depressing and suffocating, but when the familiar world was broken, this is another must experience. the process of.

After Qin Huai received the supplies, the soldier he was looking for last time gave him a look, Qin Huai followed the man to the side and talked, Mu Nan saw that the man gave Qin Huai something, but when Qin Huai came over , He didn't ask much, the outside is not a place to talk.

On the way back, Jian Chu couldn't help but finally said: "You guys think, will this be the case in the future?"

What Mu Nan thought was that it would only get worse, but he definitely couldn't say it out, but he said with relief: "Maybe it will become a nighttime world, and then a huge energy shield will be erected in the city where people live due to technological development. Resist the excessive heat of the sun outside, and slowly develop into a technological city, no matter what, as long as human beings do not go extinct, they can always find an adaptive way of living."

Hearing his imaginative words, Jian Chu smiled, and said instead: "Thank you for reminding us to leave the cat litter last time."

Mu Nan looked at Jian Chu: "Is it easy to use?"

Jian Chu's face turned slightly red, but she still nodded: "It's easy to use." Compared with going to the public toilet, it's much easier to use, and you don't have to endure non-human torture anymore. Even if there is not too much cat litter, you have to use it sparingly , and plastic bags. Fortunately, I saw an event before and bought a box of garbage bags, but I have to save them. These days are too difficult.

After returning home, Mu Nan hurriedly asked Qin Huai, "What did that person ask you for?"

Qin Huai said: "The clue I provided has a reward on it. He gave me a contact information and asked me to add him."

Mu Nan: "Reward? What can be rewarded? Shouldn't it be rewarded with money? We managed to spend almost all the money."

Qin Huai shook his head: "Money should not be rewarded, the money is worthless now, if it is money, we don't want it, lest we have to go out to get it, Nannan, you dreamed about the government The base, have you ever dreamed about what it looks like inside? Then if everyone enters the base, will all the houses like ours that were not damaged in the later earthquake be vacant?"

Mu Nan said: "Not all are vacant, not everyone chooses to live in the base."

As Mu Nan spoke, he turned on the computer and found a real map of their city. According to his memory, he searched out the base that was later planned by the government: "This is it."

Mu Nan roughly drew a circle on the computer: "Probably this area. You can see that there are houses under construction here. These houses are all equipped with floor heating equipment, but they are installed with gas heating. It seems that they are being converted into electric heating. , I remember seeing this side later, it was almost bulldozed, and then a solar power station was built to supply power to this area.”

Although Mu Nan joined the government's base in his last life, he went there late because he joined a private base at first, but the private base was only treated well at first, with water and electricity supply, but it was private after all, and it was not stable at all. , Later, he had no choice but to follow others into the government base, but at that time, the places with better accommodation conditions were already full, and he was alone, with limited labor, and he could not take out the food in the space to exchange new currency with others Pay rent, so can only live in a shed on the ground.

It was still winter at that time, if he hadn't avoided people every night and ate some high-calorie food to keep warm, he might not be able to survive that winter. But even if he survived the winter, he couldn't survive the summer. It's rare for someone who has the space to be like him.

After rebirth, it’s not that he didn’t think about buying a house or renting a house in the area surrounding the base, but the ones he remembers are currently under construction, and they haven’t opened yet. The others don’t know whether they were rebuilt after the earthquake, or later. It has been remodeled by someone, but it is different from what he remembers anyway, so he dare not buy it. What if the place he bought or rented collapses due to bad luck.

Qin Huai looked at Mu Nan who was silent with downcast eyes: "What are you thinking?"

Mu Nan looked at Qin Huai: "I was thinking, without you, I would have a miserable life."

Qin Huai smiled and said: "Obviously because of you, I can live well, but now I rely on you to support me."

Seeing Qin Huai asking about the base, Mu Nan returned to the main topic and said, "Do you want to trade with them for a place in the base?"

Qin Huai said: "Except for this, we don't really need anything else at the moment. If the house on the base can be heated, it must be better to live in it. No matter how effective the heating over there is, it's better than the chilly here. I just don't know. What kind of regulations will there be at that time, whether the house can be bought or rented."

Although Mu Nan is not clear about the specifics, most of the bases were rented later, and he probably became more and more uneasy about the continuous occurrence of natural disasters, especially after such a big earthquake, in case he bought a house after going bankrupt It’s gone again, that’s really no way to survive, so many people rent houses and use the new currency newly planned by the government later. The new currency can be earned by searching for materials outside or finding jobs at the base. But how long can the materials outside be searched for? If you find a little, you will get a little less, and it is impossible to regenerate on your own, so most people still work hard at the base. After all, this does not require technology. As long as you are not afraid of being tired, you will not starve to death. .

After learning about some things about the base in the future, Qin Huai took out the note with the phone number on it, and first added the other party's WeChat. He was probably waiting for him over there, so he passed quickly. The profile picture on WeChat is a figure from the back in a military uniform. The name seems to be his real name, Shi Yuanfei. As soon as Qin Huai's friend application was approved, the people over there sent a message. Shi Yuanfei: "Hello, my name is Shi Yuanfei. Thank you for the effective information you provided this time. The higher authorities have decided to reward the informants accordingly. Of course, if you have any special needs, you can also mention them, and we will report them as appropriate."

Qin Huai: "Hello, my name is Qin Huai. I would like to know what rewards you give if there is no special need?"

Shi Yuanfei: "In the current situation, most of the rewards are food, maybe five thousand catties of rice."

Five thousand catties of rice, if it is based on a person's ration, this reward is really quite realistic. But if the population is not large and the rice consumption is not fast, the five thousand catties may be full of worms in a short time, and even taking home so much rice is simply a shining target. No wonder they said that they can replace it with special needs After all, after the crazy hoarding of goods some time ago, although there are not as many people in their cities as they hoard food in the countryside, food is not so scarce at present.

Qin Huai: "Can this reward be kept temporarily? If so much rice is given to me, it will be difficult for me to keep it."

Shi Yuanfei: "Yes, you can contact me at any time if you need it. If I am transferred, I will hand over your affairs well in advance."

Qin Huai thanked him, and ended the conversation neatly. Mu Nan watched the whole process from the sidelines, and sighed: "Five thousand catties of rice, I didn't expect to have such an unexpected harvest. Are you telling us, people?" Or do we have to work hard to be a good person?" Five thousand catties, even a large family can consume it for several years, and even trade it for other things. If it is converted according to the previous value, five thousand catties will look like There is a lot of money, but it doesn't cost much, but now, this is a huge wealth, and the top is really generous.

Qin Huai said: "I want to be a good person according to my ability, let's do that first, I don't need rice for now."

Mu Nan hesitated for a while: "If no one can be found after the earthquake, will the rice be gone?"

No wonder he thinks so, the earthquake is not about their region, nor their province, not just about their country, there is always a contingency in everything, and the communication is cut off after the earthquake, so they have to Where can I find someone?

Qin Huai said: "Don't worry, as long as the government is not messed up, someone will always be found. He is gone, and there are others."

Mu Nan saw that Qin Huai had made a decision, so he didn't say any more, anyway, Qin Huai always thought about things farther than him, which saved him from worrying.