End of the World Cycle

After closing the book, Xie Qin still found it unbelievable that the place where he lived was just a world of a book.

I am just an unknown passerby in a corner of this book. The only sentence that the family appears in this book is that the bodies of the four of them appeared on TV a week after their death. And the next piece of news is the official beginning of this book (red warning for heavy rain)

Then the world was hit by six months of heavy rain. One third of the entire continent was submerged. Many people were drowned in the heavy rain before they could react.

Saturday, July 2023, 7 This was the news on that day, and there was still a month to go. If this was true, then they were reborn a month before the disaster.

Xie Qin wanted to show the book to her mother, but when she lowered her head again, the book disappeared. The contents of the book seemed to have become memories, engraved in her mind in every detail.

Ever since what happened with my stepfather, my mother has had a very high level of trust in me. When I told her about the end of the world, she didn't doubt me at all but worked with me to find a solution.

I had originally thought of using the 500,000 yuan in compensation to buy a stent for my brother, so that he could stand up with the help of an instrument one day. But now it seems that this cannot be realized.

Xie Qin was cautious and did not blindly believe what was written in the book, but verified it. Three days later, the capital of their country would be hit by the largest hail in history. The hail would fall overnight and destroy everything that could be destroyed.

On the day the hail came, Xie Qin seemed to be relieved. The man was really helping her. Perhaps this was the first kind person Xie Qin had met since she grew up who helped her without asking for anything in return. A long time later, this man became the last bit of kindness Xie Qin kept in her heart in the end times where people were eaten without leaving any bones.

After a night of discussion, the mother and daughter decided to head north.

They are now in a small town on the coast. Once heavy rain comes, the coastline will rise and it will probably only take a few days for them to be flooded. One month after the heavy rain, the world will gradually fall into chaos. They are the most vulnerable group, and hiding away from the crowd is the best choice.

"Mom, we need money, lots of money, the more the better."

Zhang Mingfang lowered her head and thought for a moment, then nodded gently. Now, apart from her own child, there was no one else in the world that she cared about or who cared about her. She just wanted to protect her child and stay alive.

Although Zhang Mingfang has not received higher education, she is only 32 years old. In a week, she borrowed a lot of GLD by asking around and borrowing a lot of online loans from various platforms. The small bungalow she lives in now also became her own after the man died.

In the end, the house was sold for 93 yuan, and they borrowed yuan from various loans. Together with the yuan pension, yuan was all their savings.

They didn't have much time, so Xie Qin researched for a long time and the mother and daughter decided to buy an RV and head north.

The money was not much, so after comparing many options, they finally bought a second-hand light truck RV. Why did they choose this? It was because they needed to store a lot of supplies during the apocalypse, and ordinary RVs could not hold much stuff. In addition, my mother used to drive a truck with my father, so a light truck was the easiest for her to drive.

Not many people buy RVs these days, and even those who do buy them regret selling them at a lower price. Therefore, the mother and daughter only spent 180,000 yuan to buy a light truck RV with a very high cost performance.

When others modify their cars, they try to add things to them, but Xie Qin only wants to remove things.

The interior of the huge RV only has a stove, toilet and a two-meter by two-meter bed at the rear. The space under the bed and the rest of the space can all be used for storage.

The tires were modified and replaced with durable heavy truck tires. Four spare tires were bought and one was hung behind the car, and the rest were placed under the bed.

The next thing to do was waterproofing. Two layers of rainproof plastic sheets were laid on the entire vehicle, and the original 720W solar panels on the roof were also removed. But Xie Qin did not throw them away, but bought a lot of solar panels, a total of pieces, and filled the RV bed before stopping.

Although the installation master told Zhang Mingfang how to install it, it was Xie Qin who secretly took notes. He even recorded it with his mobile phone before leaving the modification base.

I bought a motorhome and modified it, and bought solar panels and tires. The total cost was 25 yuan. The rest was for purchasing supplies.

Rice, flour, grain and oil were not expensive, but they were daily necessities. In order to save space, Xie Qin bought rice and flour in bags of 100 kilograms. There was not much space left after loading 1,000 kilograms of rice, 1,000 kilograms of flour, 500 kilograms of oil, and 500 kilograms of bacon and sausages into the car.

Zhang Mingfang stuffed the food in and slowly sorted it out until she found a space that was just big enough to fit a large freezer. Finally, she bought another 500 kilograms of fresh pork and some fresh corn, peas, and broad beans and froze them.

After shopping around, I ended up buying these daily necessities for less than 60,000 yuan.

In the next two days, the mother and daughter left Xie Ran at home with some snacks, and the two borrowed a battery car and carried 20-pound diesel barrels to buy oil at various gas stations. They did not stop until the storage compartment outside the RV was fully filled.

On the last night, Zhang Mingfang packed up her own and her two children's clothes, as well as pots and pans, and stuffed them all into the space where the headboard had originally been.

The two children squeezed into the passenger seat and drove away from the city before dawn.

Zhang Mingfang didn't dare to take the highway, as her car was already overloaded and she had two children sitting in the passenger seat. She had no choice but to take the smaller roads with her children.

Because of the detour, Zhang Mingfang would pass through many towns, so she would stop to buy some potatoes, cabbage, sweet potatoes and other vegetables that are easy to store. When she came across a gas station, she would take out the oil barrel and buy two more barrels of diesel. Although she would be looked at twice by others along the way when driving a light truck, they would think she was traveling with her children and no one asked much.

By the time they arrived at Yunchuan, they found that the supplies they had prepared were not less at all, but even more, filling the entire RV.

Every night when I went to sleep, I had to go around to the back of the car, open the trunk and get into bed. There was only a narrow gap to get to the toilet.

The journey was supposed to take one day and one night, but the mother and her two children took four days to arrive.

On June 13, there were still seventeen days until the heavy rain came.

Xie Qin was flipping through the new tablet her mother had bought for her. It was filled with maps of towns and villages surrounding Yunchuan County. Finally, Xie Qin chose a town with the highest terrain.

Lijia Town.

Only after arriving at the place did Xie Qin feel that he had made the right choice. The town looked like it was halfway up a mountain. Although there was a river at the foot of the mountain, it was very shallow and wide. Because it was the hot summer season, it was even a little dry.

This town is very remote and not well developed, but when the RV drove onto the street, it did not attract much attention. After a while, Xie Qin discovered that there were bicycles parked outside the scattered shops on the street, and there were RVs on the open space farther away. Then she understood.

Although this place is not the only way from the coast to the Zangshen Temple Plateau, it is not far from the main road and national highway, and occasionally a few people pass by here.

Zhang Mingfang found an empty space to park the car, then pushed Xie Ran and Xie Qin on the street. There were few people in this town, and it took them a long time to see a small restaurant. Fortunately, the proprietress was enthusiastic and liked to chat, so Zhang Mingfang got some information.

"As you can see, my child is not in good health, so I wanted to take him out for a walk. But after walking for a few days, I felt tired and wanted to find a place with better scenery and quieter weather to stay for a while."

"Then do you think our place is good? I'm not bragging, the scenery on this mountain is amazing and quiet. A few years ago, a big boss even built a sanatorium on our mountain."

"Oh, is it so?"

"It's just that the transportation here is not very good, and there is no publicity, so the place was abandoned later. I heard that it was sold to a chicken farmer at a low price, and a chicken farm was built on it."

Xie Qin, who was standing by, felt that this place was a good choice. After dinner, Xie Qin asked her mother to drive to the place.

The road along the mountain was very narrow, and there was almost no space for the RV to drive on it. It took more than 20 minutes to drive along the road before we saw the so-called sanatorium.

From the outside, there are more than a dozen small villas, but now they are surrounded by iron fences. As soon as I walked in, I smelled the smell of chicken shit, which was very uncomfortable.

The sound of the RV startled the three guard dogs, and the dogs barked extremely ferociously. After a while, a man about fifty years old came out.

"Is there anything wrong with you coming here?"

"Excuse me, big brother. I'm here at the nursing home."

"A sanatorium? This sanatorium closed down three years ago. It's a chicken farm now."

"Ah? How could this happen? I lived here a few years ago, and I don't know when it closed down. What should I do? I came all the way here. My child is almost sick from exhaustion."

As he spoke, Xie Qin had already put away the wheelchair and carried his brother down, looking at the man pitifully.

"You guys should hurry down the mountain. There is a hotel in the town. Rest for a few days and go back. There is no sanatorium here."

"Brother, I'm really sorry. It's getting late now. The mountain road is difficult to drive. I'm a woman and my driving skills are not very good. I'm afraid I'll die if I crash into the mountain. Can you take us in for one night and we can leave tomorrow morning?"

"Okay. It's really not safe for you to be with two babies. Come in, we'll leave tomorrow."

"Thank you, thank you, brother." Zhang Mingfang walked forward, took out three hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to the man.

"Please give us a clean place to sleep."

"Forget it, you keep it. I'm too busy feeding the chickens. You can take the kids to live in the small building at the edge. It's farther away from the chicken farm and the smell is less strong. There's also a yard for you to park your car. I have relatives who come over and stay there occasionally, but they haven't been here for a while. You can clean up and stay there for one night. Just clean up for me when you leave."

"Okay, thank you, big brother." Zhang Mingfang didn't hesitate, but went back to the car to get a bag of freshly bought apples and forced it on the big brother. The big brother couldn't refuse and accepted it anyway.

Zhang Mingfang drove the car over to the yard, which was only a hundred meters away. The yard was not big, with no walls but only a cement floor. The car took up most of the yard.

The house was a two-and-a-half-story villa with yellowed walls and an old exterior. There were also a lot of weeds growing around it. Xie Qin went in first without locking the door.

The house is not big. The first floor is the living room and kitchen, and the east side is a large bedroom. Although it is old, it is not too shabby. There is a lot of dust, but it can still be lived in after cleaning up.

The second floor has two bedrooms and a study. Each bedroom has an independent bathroom and large French windows, which is a good viewing position.

Further up is a half-floor attic, which is only 1.5 meters high. It is empty and has nothing in it except for a window each at the front and back, which are sealed very well.

"How is Qinqin?"

"Yes, this place is not in the ravine, the terrain is very high, and the surrounding trees are relatively thick, so it should not cause mudslides. There is a bedroom on the first floor, which is convenient for my brother to live in. The attic is dry and airtight, and the space is large, which is perfect for storing supplies. The second floor has a good view and you can observe all the surrounding areas."

"You're a considerate person. If you think it's okay, then we can live here. I'll find a way to rent this place later."

"Buy it. Buy it."

"Buy? Didn't you say the rainy season is only six months? After that comes the dry season. During the dry season we still have to go back to the south, otherwise we will definitely have no water to drink."

"There is a kind of fish in the seabed, which is called the corpse fish in the book. The corpse fish followed the waves to the inland and ate a lot of corpses. Those corpses were infected with the virus. After the rainy season, many floating corpses that were not completely eaten were left on land. After being exposed to the sun, the virus in the body grew wildly due to the promotion of light and controlled the corpses."

"Controlling corpses?"

"Yes, those corpses were transformed into monsters that drink human blood and eat human flesh because of the virus. Do you know what zombies are?"

"You know, the kind shown in foreign movies?"

"I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but according to the description in the book, it should be that thing. So our best option is to stay here. After the dry season comes, experts predict that it will last for six months like the rainy season, so people migrate south. Since then, a large number of people have been bitten and infected with the zombie virus. By that time, there will be less than one-third of the people left in the country and even the world."

"Then what should we do?"

"Stay here, reinforce the house, store water, and survive the rainy season, the dry season, and the zombie tide. And..."

"What else?"

"Severe cold, acid rain, sandstorms, earthquakes. Too many. From now on, this world is filled with only disasters." As Xie Qin's voice fell, Zhang Mingfang was so scared that he fell to the ground.

"Mom?" Xie Ran didn't understand, but he knew his mother was frightened, so he reached out his little hand to hold her hand worriedly.

Zhang Mingfang looked up at her youngest son, then at her daughter. She couldn't be afraid because she still had children and she had to protect them.

Xie Qin also squatted down. Zhang Mingfang held her son in one hand and her daughter in the other and took a deep breath.

"We will all live and live well."