End of the World Cycle

After two weeks of heavy rain, there was a knock on the gate of her yard. The visitor was Liu Chuanyu, the owner of the chicken farm. Zhang Mingfang put on a raincoat and went to open the door.

"Brother Liu, why are you here? Come over here in such heavy rain." Zhang Mingfang led Liu Chuanyu to the carport nearby.

"Girl, I see you haven't been out for two weeks. Is there enough food at home?"

"Rice and flour can still hold out for a while, but the rest is nothing."

"In that case, do you want to buy some chickens? It's been raining so hard that many of the chickens in my chicken coop are dying. A mudslide in the middle of the mountain washed away the road, so I can't transport them out. My family can't eat all of them. If you need them, I can sell them to you at a lower price."

"Okay, Brother Liu! I was just about to go find you to buy it. Now that you're here I'll definitely buy it."

"How many do you want? I have more than 2,000 chickens in my chicken coop, and 700 to 800 are dying. I've kept the rest indoors so they're fine for now. My family has killed more than 500 chickens in the past two weeks and made them into pickled chicken. We don't have any more salt if we want to make more."

"I have a freezer at home, but I don't put anything in it. How about you kill fifty more chickens for me and give me fifty more salted chickens." The daughter had anticipated that there would be no place to transport the chickens from the chicken farm, so when she bought freezers to store the meat, she bought five large freezers, and specially reserved one that would definitely be able to hold a hundred or so chickens.

I thought I would have to wait a little longer, but I didn't expect it to come today.

"These are mountain chickens. The wholesale price in the market used to be 100 yuan each. Now that it's a special period, I've processed them all. How about 71 yuan for you?"

"Brother Liu, I don't know when the rain will stop. I don't dare go down the mountain because of the heavy rain. I only have 8000 yuan left in my card. How about you sell me a few more chickens, chickens, yuan, is that okay with you?"

Liu Chuanyu had thought that Zhang Mingfang would bargain, so at 60 yuan per piece he would not lose money. Although the profit was not much, it was better than losing money.

"How about this? I'll give you ordinary chickens for all 130. Salted chicken is too troublesome to make, and I need more salt and labor. I'll lose money this way. But if you have salt at home, I can tell you how to make it. You can pickle some, and the rest should fit in the freezer if you squeeze in."

"Okay. Then please prepare it and send it to me."

"Okay, do you want more chicken offal?"

"Yes, okay. I'll pack it up for you in bags when I'm done."

With more than a hundred chickens, plus the four freezers of fresh meat stored previously, and nearly a thousand kilograms of bacon and sausages hanging in the attic, the family will definitely not lack meat to eat.

Not to mention their family of three, even if there were two more people, it would be enough for three years.

Two days later, Liu Chuanyu delivered the chicken.

The electricity and internet were completely paralyzed in the second month of the rainy season. The last piece of news Xie Qin saw on his phone was that the coastline was rising and all the coastal cities were submerged.

Most of the survivors were migrating inland in the rain. Many people wanted to go to higher ground. Just like what I had thought at the beginning, Yunchuan, which was close to the coastal cities and had high terrain, became the first choice for many survivors.

Yunchuan has a high terrain, mainly hills and plateaus. The place where Xie Qin and her friends are located is just an unknown small town. The shallow river they came from is now a vast ocean, blocking people who want to come here. The mudslides in the mountains have blocked the way into the mountains, which undoubtedly adds another barrier to Xie Qin and her friends.

Xie Qin had only seen the scene of the northward migration in books: 10,000 people walked along the highway all the way north, carrying all their belongings and covering a distance of nearly 1,000 kilometers for a full month. This was a short sentence in the book, and curiosity prompted her to see it with her own eyes.

After climbing over the hill behind the house, you can see a section of the highway. For several days in a row, Xie Qin observed and found that the rain was the lightest between 12 noon and 2 o'clock every day. He carried a basket, wore a raincoat, and went out when it rained.

When seeing it with his own eyes, Xie Qin couldn't help but sigh. The road was packed with people. Everyone was wearing raincoats and carrying large bags. There were also many people pushing carts made of wooden boards. There were foam and some empty bottles tied to both ends of the carts. Old people and children were sitting on the carts.

These people must have been rushing here in the water, which made sense as to why no one was driving a car. Looking at those people moving like ants, Xie Qin felt how lucky he was.

She understood the principle of being prepared for danger in times of peace. Now that she knew what would happen in the future, she had to make longer-term plans.

Xie Qin is not a person who is content to live in mediocrity. Since God has let her survive, she wants to live a good life. Except for the news, everything about her in the book is unknown. After the zombies appeared, a small half of the people awakened their superpowers, while the other half who did not awaken their superpowers will become the lowest existence in this world.

She didn't know whether she and her family could awaken their special powers, so she had to make plans early. After six months of rainy season, six months of dry season, and another six months of cold waves, various natural disasters would come.

Although this place could allow them to survive for a year or so, if they wanted to withstand an earthquake, not only this house, but even this mountain would be full of dangers. They had to leave and go to a safe place.

In Xie Qin's eyes, she could only change her fate by studying. When she returned home and sat on the sofa, she felt that her ideas were not comprehensive enough. Looking at the study materials she had hoarded before the end of the world, she thought that at this moment, studying was still the only way to protect herself and change her fate.

Although she was young and had little experience, she still had time to learn and watch. From then on, except for eating and sleeping, Xie Qin spent all her time studying. No matter what aspect, she put everything into her mind without distinction.

During the rainy season, many people died of disease, starvation, and robbery. When they arrived in Yunchuan and other places to receive government assistance, they lost another one-third of their population.

Due to the continuous heavy rain, there was no chance to build shelters. Those who had relatives to seek shelter were fine, but those who didn't had to squeeze into shopping malls, stadiums, and schools.

Xie Qin couldn't care about what those people did. He could only hide in the mountains by himself, curled up in the warm bed, listening to the sound of rain and reading a book before falling asleep.

After the power outage, Xie Qin's family did not use electricity at night, but only used a small generator to generate electricity for cooking and charging electronic devices during the day. After all, it was not known whether there would be a shortage of electricity during the dry season and severe cold. Although they had enough diesel in stock, it was always right to save some.

In the third month of the rainy season, Liu Chuanyou knocked on their door again. Zhang Mingfang hesitated whether to go downstairs or not, but Xie Qin spoke up.

"Go, mom. There are so many chickens in the chicken farm. They are definitely not here to borrow food because they are hungry. As long as the birds don't die for food, they are not dangerous to us."

Zhang Mingfang nodded, put on her raincoat and went out.

"Brother Liu, is that you?"

"Yes, sister, I came here today to ask if you have any extra rice or flour. My family has run out of rice and flour a long time ago. We adults are fine, we can eat meat and eggs, but this child can't stand it. He is sick every day. If you can spare a few pounds to me, I will buy it from you at a high price."

"I didn't buy much of this. I just bought two bags of rice at the foot of the mountain when I moved here. But there isn't much rice left for our family of three. If I sell it to you, we won't be able to survive for long. If you know, I also have two children."

"Then I won't buy it. I'll trade it with you. Is that okay? Fresh eggs and wild vegetables. You probably don't have them, right? One hundred eggs and two kilograms of wild vegetables, in exchange for five kilograms of rice. Do you think that's okay?"

"Okay, go get it and exchange it with me."

They had not prepared fresh eggs and wild vegetables. The eggs were not stored for long, and Zhang Mingfang only bought a few dozen eggs at that time, and they were almost eaten in two months. Wild vegetables are equivalent to fresh vegetables, and green wild vegetables are definitely much more nutritious than potatoes and cabbages.

Since both children are growing up, balanced nutrition is the best.

Heavy rains have been washing for six months in a row. Due to the weather, there is no other sound outside except the sound of rain. People are hiding from the rain and surviving. The rainy season is the mildest in this doomsday. As long as people have enough food, they have basically survived the rainy season.

They spent the entire autumn and winter in the heavy rain, but the temperature was always between 15 and 20 degrees Celsius for the entire two seasons. On the morning of January , Xie Qin was awakened by the glaring sunlight. She squinted her eyes and looked out the window at the clear sky, and she knew that the dry season had come.

She and her mother filled hundreds of water barrels with water a week in advance and filled the entire house. After the reservoir and swimming pool were filled, they were covered with nylon cloth.

Xie Qin had calculated countless times that as long as they didn't waste it, the water would be enough for them to last until the end of the dry season, and they could even take a simple bath every two days.

It was not until the next day when the sun came out that Xie Qin saw Liu Chuanyou's family. She didn't understand why Liu Chuanyou was the only one who went out every time, until today she realized that except for him, the rest of Liu Chuanyou's family was not very normal.

Xie Qin stood in front of the French window on the second floor and looked at the road not far away. There were two tricycles loaded with things. A young woman was sitting on the first one. In the tricycle were two sleeping children who looked about five or six years old. Next to them stood Liu Chuanyu and a tall man. The man should be his son. Even though he was sitting, Xie Qin could see that the man was very tall and strong. He just looked problematic. He had his mouth open and was drooling. His eyes looked one high and one low, and the distance between them was very wide.

It was obvious that this person had a mental problem. The woman would occasionally gesture to Liu Chuanyou excitedly. After so many times, Xie Qin also realized that the woman was deaf-mute.

Liu Chuanyu and the woman looked pale and thin, and it seemed that they had not had a very good time in the past six months.

There was only one tricycle, and except for the space where the two children were lying, the rest was filled with pickled chicken. It looked like they wanted to leave. I thought they would leave directly, but I saw the tricycle parked in front of their yard.

Liu Chuanyu got out of the car alone, carrying two large bags of things and came to the gate of their house.

Zhang Mingfang went to open the door, and Xie Qin also stood sideways on the other side, so that people outside the door could not see her.

"Brother Liu, why are you here?"

"Girls, are you planning to leave soon?"

"We originally live in Linhai, and we probably won't go back during this period of time since it's flooded by heavy rain."

"That's good. I want to trouble you with something. I won't let you do it for nothing. Take these pickled chickens, wild vegetables, and eggs. My two grandsons are sick, and my daughter-in-law and I have to take them to the hospital. My son is mentally ill, so I hope you can give him two full meals a day. When I come back, I will bring you some rice and flour. Is that okay?"

"This……"

"Don't worry, my son is an obedient one. He doesn't hit or scare people. I'll take you to explain it to him. You just need to deliver two meals to him every day."

Zhang Mingfang rubbed his hands in embarrassment and glanced at Xie Qin out of the corner of his eye. Xie Qin gently shook his head.

"Brother Liu, you know, we have two children at home, and I am not able to take care of them. I am afraid that I will not be able to take care of one more person. Besides, although we will not leave for the time being, if the weather is good and the water recedes, we will definitely go back. I don't know when you will come back, so I dare not promise you casually."

Liu Chuanyu sighed helplessly, but did not make things difficult for Zhang Mingfang. He casually said "OK" and left with his things.

It's not that Xie Qin was unwilling to help. He knew very well the importance of children in a family, so they would definitely leave here. As long as they left here, the chances of coming back alive would become slim. If they agreed to take care of his mentally retarded son for him, once they died outside, it would become a responsibility that they could not get rid of.

Finally, Xie Qin watched the family leave, but the tricycle was piled high with pickled chickens to be sold and two children were sleeping on it. The tall man was trotting behind the tricycle.

She had already checked it with a drone yesterday. Although some parts of the road were blocked by mud that collapsed from the mountain, the number was not large. There were five covered sections all the way to the foot of the mountain. After proper clearing, a small tricycle could still pass through.

I thought I would never see Liu Chuanyou's family again, but four nights later, Xie Qin's family was awakened by crazy knocking on the door.

Xie Qin stood in front of the window on the third floor, and could only look at the person outside the door with the help of the moonlight. It was that big fool, holding two children in his arms, who had no extra hands to knock on the door, and was banging the door with his head frantically. Xie Qin's first reaction was that something had happened.

Her family had survived with great difficulty, not only she, but also her mother was not a soft-hearted person. But when she saw the two children lying limply on the shoulders of the big fool, who was banging his head against the door desperately, she suddenly remembered that morning, the god-like man.

Perhaps it was the last bit of kindness in her heart that was left by the man, so Xie Qin opened the door.