Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

As soon as she ran out and turned a corner, she saw a few people kneeling in the distance and crying. Su Yun hurried forward and pulled up Xiao Jing who was kneeling on the ground. It turned out that her parents-in-law had fainted from heatstroke, and the child was also very weak.

After long-term malnutrition and climbing mountains and wading through water for such a long distance, they have indeed reached the limit of their physical strength. Su Yun took out clean mineral water and asked Wang Zhihui to help feed them. Wang Jie stood aside holding an umbrella for several people, especially the baby in Xiaojing's arms, who was so thin and pitiful that even his crying sounded listless.

Xiaojing held her child and cried in front of her mother-in-law.

The two cousins ​​and the younger cousin were also there to help shield the people from the sun with their coats.

There were ice cubes in the space, but it was inconvenient for Su Yun to take them out now, so he had to get a pot of ice water, soak a towel and give them cold compresses. After a while, the two of them woke up slowly, and he found a cool place for them to rest and replenish their strength.

Wang Zhihui, Xiaojing, Xiaoxingxing, Aunt Wang, Uncle Wang, eldest cousin, eldest aunt, younger cousin and cousin, a total of 9 people finally reached the base.

They were darker and thinner than during the extreme cold, and in very poor physical condition. Their clothes were so dirty that you couldn't tell their original color, and nobody knew what had happened to their hair, which was now a patchwork mess.

Hearing the rumbling sounds from the people's stomachs, Su Yun took out a pot of iced bayberry juice to cool them down, and also took out a few whole-grain cakes to fill their stomachs.

Xiao Jing cried while eating, and the little Xingxing in his arms also cried because of hunger. Wang Zhijie took out the bottle from his bag and used the remaining milk powder to feed the child. In the beginning, Aunt Wang and Uncle Wang were beaten by Brother Quan and others in order to save the remaining can of milk powder. Now, it has taken all the strength to insist on walking here.

After eating and drinking, Wang Jie and Su Zhangming, carrying Aunt Wang and Uncle Wang on their backs, caught up with the group of people queuing to enter the base. The older sister who took Su Yun's bottle of water saw that group of people catching up again and couldn't help gossiping: Are you their relatives? Have you been living in the base for a long time? Are the houses in the base free? Are food distributed every day?

It was already hot outside, and the elder sister kept asking questions. Su Yun felt that she was really noisy and it was very troublesome.

With the care and company of three people, the wait became less unbearable. Most of them regretted not following Su Yun last time, otherwise all the supplies would not have been snatched away, and they would have to start all over again.

It was almost dark before it was their turn to fill out the information. The people in front of them had already gone in and chosen a house to live in. The other people in Xinxu Village drove the stolen cars and most of them chose the Dumpling House in the south. There were eight people in a single room, and they had to use the public kitchen and public toilet for bathing and cooking.

When it was Xiaojing and the others' turn, Su Yun took the opportunity while they were processing their identity information to walk to the lobby and the window to get the latest information from Sister Peng. He then learned that disaster victims had been entering the base every day recently, and all the beds in the east area had been occupied. Only the high-rise buildings in the south were left, and there were some rooms with poor layouts in the west area waiting to be rented out. There were no vacancies in Lingyun Community.

The population of the base is as high as 25 and it is about to reach saturation, but the victims from outside are still coming in continuously, sometimes there are one or two hundred and sometimes there are five or six hundred. Large-scale migrations like today have happened before, but Su Yun was in the mountain and didn't understand it at all.

In just three months, the population of Gui K Base has rapidly increased from 10 to 25, and the roads have become visibly much busier.

I took Xiaojing and the others to Lingyun Community and pushed open the door of Room 702. It was empty and very clean.

Su Yun had already moved the ping-pong table in the living room of 702 to 701, and placed simple wooden beds in each room. The living room also placed the Su family's wooden sofa, the dining room had a table with four chairs, and the kitchen had two bags of rice with names written on them in marker pen, one bag for each family. There were also two sets of basic pots and pans, four buckets, and a large plastic bucket filled with water. There were nine people accommodated in three rooms, and they could arrange how they wanted to sleep.

Su Yun always believed that one would cherish more what one has worked hard for. If one prepares everything by oneself, then friends will become enemies over time.

If you don't have furniture, work hard to earn it back. If you don't get along well with each other, then move out and find your own house. Be a good person, but not a pushover.

Except for the dirty backpacks they were carrying, all the other furniture and luggage were robbed on the road. They originally thought that they could only sleep on the cheapest beds when they entered the base, but they did not expect such good conditions.

Su Yun said that the 7th floor was hot, but they were not afraid. Which place was not hot now? The foot bed and the dumpling building were hot, stuffy and smelly. Even if 702 was hotter than other rooms, they could bear it.

Su Yun said there was no furniture, which was no problem at all. They could sleep on the floor. Besides, there was a bed in every room and a sofa in the living room.

Su Yun said that since there were too many people, they should squeeze in. They didn't think it was crowded at all. In other people's dumpling houses, eight people slept in a room, and the space was only as big as their living room. How could it be crowded?

Su Yun told them to arrange the rooms themselves, and they didn't have to think about it for long before they came up with a new plan. The two families each had a bedroom, and the remaining room was for the elderly. The wooden sofa in the living room could also sleep one person. So Xiaojing and her husband slept in one room with their children, the eldest cousin's family of three slept in another room, the youngest cousin, an older single man, slept in the living room, and Aunt Wang and Uncle Wang slept in the smallest room.

After two months of living together and supporting each other, the two families have begun to treat each other as relatives and partners. They cherish the hard-earned peace now even more.

In addition, he had just lost both his parents, so he was particularly respectful to Aunt Wang and Uncle Wang.

Seeing that they were almost settled, Su Yun went downstairs to room 602 to pack some daily necessities, including basic toothbrushes, toothpaste and washbasins, as well as three cans of milk powder for the children and whole-grain biscuits that could last for several days, and brought them upstairs.

The smell on them is really pungent. First, take care of personal hygiene and make sure that Xiao Xingxing doesn't go hungry. By the way, tell them that the temperature has been high recently and the wells will be controlled soon, so let them find a way to store water. Although the base has basic food, they have to cooperate in completing tasks. The tasks are different every day. Sometimes they are temporary tasks assigned by the top management of the base, and there are also regular tasks. The current regular tasks are to build a wall for the base, make a meal of porridge a day, and earn half a pound of rice.

Li Yimin knew that if the temperature continued to rise, the wild animals in the mountains would come down to find a way to survive. The Shiwan Mountains were not short of wild pythons, tigers, hungry wolves, etc. The soldiers who were sent out to collect mountain products last time said that there were not many small animals in the mountains, and most of them were eaten by the big guys.

They need to raise and thicken the wall surrounding the foundation in advance, making it at least 3 meters high and one meter thick so that people can walk freely on the wall.

Since there were no suitable bricks and tiles, they used local materials and piled up mud.

The Gui K base covers an area of ​​200 million square meters, equivalent to the size of 250 football fields. Currently, building a wall can only be done by manpower.

Reinforcing the wall is one of the base's regular basic tasks. Anyone with a little physical strength, regardless of gender, can participate. Salaries are paid daily. Work starts at 7 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m., with an hour's break and food to eat. The work must be done at least 10 hours a day. Anyone who is caught cheating will be put on the blacklist, and it will be difficult for them to continue to take on tasks from the base in the future.

After explaining the precautions at the base, Su Yun took Xiao Xingxing for a walk in circles in the living room of Room 702. Everyone else was packing their things, although there was really not much to pack, as there were very few things, so they could just put them aside randomly.

However, my cousin and several other men went downstairs with buckets, washbasins and clean clothes to find Wang Jie. They wanted to go to the well to wash up late at night and get rid of the dirt on their bodies. Wang Zhihui also carried a bucket. He not only had to wash himself but also had to find his way. One of the two elderly people was deaf and the other was injured, and Xiaojing was very weak. He was the only qualified labor force in the family. Tonight, while everyone else had gone to bed, he would get some more water back.

However, he was wrong. When Wang Jie led his men to the ancient well, they saw three long queues at the three wells. Every household was waiting for dark when the temperature was not high to come out to fetch water. The large amount of water drawn caused the water level in the wells to drop significantly by half a meter.

After bringing the people to the place, Wang Jie did not stay any longer. When he went out, he had already shown the way home to several people, so it was impossible for them to get lost.

He also had to hurry back to sort out the water tank and batteries in 701. He had just vacated 702 in the morning, and the water and electricity layout of the house had to be replanned.

The water and electricity used for daily use in the home are placed in the smallest room, and sound insulation cotton is pasted in the room to minimize noise when using batteries or generators.

The water tank takes up more than half of the area. This is the water used by the Su family for washing and drinking. The water is taken directly from Su Yun's space.

Fortunately, the windows were covered with sound-proof cotton, so it looked pitch black inside from the outside. However, in the small room 701, Wang Jie had already taken out the outdoor night light and plugged it in, so it was as bright as day in the small room.

Currently, the only people who can use electricity in the base are government departments and some households with solar panels. A few years ago, it became popular among locals to install solar water heaters on the rooftops of their homes. They could save money on hot water at home when the sun shines, but only a very small number of people actually install solar panels.

Late at night, Wang Zhihui washed up at the well, and walked back with his eldest cousin, carrying buckets full of well water. When they got home, Xiaojing was so tired that she fell asleep.

Wang Jie held the child and changed his diaper before going to his parents' room. The temperature on the 7th floor had dropped a lot late at night, and there was no wind outside the window. Wang Zhihui lay on the side of his parents' bed, covering his face and crying. It is said that men do not shed tears easily, but they have not yet reached the point of being sad. Over the past thirty years, he has overturned his perception of enduring hardships. He couldn't sleep for many nights of fear, fearing that the group of beasts would harm their family in the middle of the night. They have been at the end of the team all the way. It is said that many children and women in poor conditions in the team have disappeared. Others did not know the inside story, but he knew that a group of man-eating demons had emerged in the disaster relief team. Once, he got up in the middle of the night to change his child's diaper and encountered that group of people who directly kidnapped the child, disemboweled him, cooked him, and roasted him for food. The women were also raped and killed and used as food.

In order to avoid being targeted by that group of people, he couldn't sleep well every night and was always alert. Once a stranger approached, he would wake up his cousin and others around him.

I can finally sleep well tonight. He cried and then laughed again. Tomorrow he will go to the base to sign up for missions to earn food to support his family.

The next day, Su Zhangming was also very curious about how the basic tasks of the base were done, so he got up at 5 a.m. and took Wang Zhihui, Su Zhibang and their families to sign up for work.

Wang Jie and Su Yun were preparing to install solar panels at home. They had never used the solar panels they bought before, so they spent a whole morning studying the instructions to figure out how to install them. Xiao Jing had a good sleep and felt much better. Even Xiao Xingxing, who had eaten her fill, did not cry or make a fuss, and was very quiet.

Su's mother loved the baby so much that she brought him down from the 7th floor to the 6th floor to play with him. She also gave some of Su Bowei's childhood clothes to Xiao Xingxing.

The weather was too hot, and Qiqi and Tangtang were reluctant to go out. Every day, they stayed at home with their cousins ​​and followed Su Xiaogu to grow vegetables on the balcony. When they were bored, they ran to the living room of 701 to play table tennis, or else they tinkered with sandbags and treadmills. Sometimes, when Su's father saw that the weather was good, he would take them for a walk in Lingyun Community. When they were strolling downstairs, they often met Li Yimin's children. Li Yimin's wife Zhao Min had a good impression of the Su children. They were neatly dressed and polite. They knew that their husbands were the people in charge of the base and would not flatter them. They would do what they were supposed to do.

Ever since she knew they all lived in the same building, she especially hoped that the children could play together so that the two naughty kids at home would not be bored. However, it seemed that the children in the Su family were very busy and only went downstairs to play a few times. She didn't know what they usually did at home and how they could stand the loneliness. Her two naughty kids would make a fuss if they didn't go downstairs to play every day. However, she didn't want to take the initiative to knock on other people's doors. After the natural disaster, every household would not invite others to visit, as if a new rule had been formed. Moreover, she rarely met the mysterious heads of the Su family. It was said that Aunt Su's son and daughter were very capable. They went up the mountain to find mountain products every day. They were a very good group of young people.

Like today, the temperature outside was as high as 46 degrees, and the two children at home were too hot, so she could only turn on the air conditioner in the room and let them sleep for two hours. She heard the sound coming from outside the door again, and thought about opening the door and going out to say hello to the upstairs. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Xiaojing and Aunt Wang carrying buckets of water and walking home. In the morning, Su Ma took Xiao Xingxing away, and the two of them picked up the buckets at home and started to line up at the well to fetch water. Su Yun said he would give them a tricycle, but Xiaojing didn't dare to take it, fearing that their van would be robbed like last time, so she would rather work harder to walk to fetch water.

The population density in the northern area is relatively low, and you can get water in no more than 2 hours. You can also take a seat next to the well and refill water while washing, just like going to a cafe to drink coffee with unlimited refills.

When Zhao Min saw that it was a strange face, she asked suspiciously: Have you just moved here?

Xiao Jing nodded and said "hmm" in response. Aunt Wang was deaf in one ear and couldn't hear clearly, so she didn't answer.

Zhao Min also nodded and stopped talking. Alas, it was so boring.