Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Cai Min looked at her with a look that said "as expected", and then she quickly tried to smooth things over: "Well, I thought you two were a perfect match, the man is handsome and the woman is pretty, and it turns out you are indeed a perfect match."

Cai's mother poured herself a small cup of rice wine with some embarrassment. "I'll drink this cup. I didn't realize that the two young people were a couple. I'm old and my eyes are blurry. Please don't laugh at me."

"Auntie, it's okay. I'll toast you with this glass of wine, too." After Gu Tongwan finished speaking, he whispered into Chen Yanxi's ear, "I'll just take a small sip, it's okay."

The joke on the table soon passed. After eating and drinking, the young people were planning to play cards, but a voice came from outside the Cai family yard: "Old Cai, is Old Cai home?"

It was 7:30 in the evening and the lights were already on, but it was obvious that the lighting equipment in the camp did not cover the entire area. At least when looking out from the Cai family yard, it was still dark outside. Standing in the yard without the lights from the house, it could even be said that "you couldn't see your hand in front of you."

Usually at this time every household would be warming themselves by the fire at home, and those with slightly better conditions would be watching TV at home, so when the shouting was heard outside, it did not attract Cai's father's attention, and he even thought it was an illusion.

"Dad, it sounds like someone is calling you outside." Cai Min had just taken out a playing card from the cabinet. Because she was sitting on the kang, with a window behind her facing the yard, she could hear the voice more clearly.

"Mr. Cai, are you there?"

Just as Cai Min finished speaking, shouting was heard outside the yard again, and this time it was obviously more urgent than before.

"Dad, it sounds like Uncle Wei's voice. How about I go downstairs and take a look?" Cai Min said as she tried to get off the kang, but Xue Xuesong was quicker than her. He put on his clothes and said, "I'll go out. It's cold outside. Don't get cold."

Xue Xuesong left the yard and heard another knock on the door. Only then did he confirm that it was indeed the voice of Wei Li from next door.

There are three families living near the Cai family. Although they are called neighbors, in fact, each family lives at least 70 or 80 meters apart. Because each family is responsible for its own farmland, their homes are not next to each other. Even walking around in a circle takes several minutes.

Wei Li is one of the households living behind the Cai family. Wei Li lives with his wife and children. Although he is about the same age as Cai's father, Wei Li settled down and started a new family after the apocalypse. It seems that his previous wife was lost and could not be found. After entering the camp, Wei Li was introduced to a woman who was about 20 years younger than him. They both happened to be single, and the woman had no one to rely on. Wei Li had some savings before the apocalypse, so the woman agreed to live with Wei Li. Last year, the woman gave birth to a daughter for Wei Li, and the family of three lives a happy life.

The Wei family has a pretty good relationship with the Cai family. Wei Li and Cai's father are from the same village. Normally, if Wei Li has any extra things at home, he will send some to the Cai family, and the Cai family will also send vegetables from the farmland to the Wei family.

"Uncle Wei, what's the matter? Why are you coming to our house so late?"

As soon as Xue Xuesong opened the door, he saw a short man standing outside the wall, shivering and breathing heavily.

Wei Li stood outside for a while. The temperature outside was low and he was almost freezing. He rubbed his hands and stamped his feet to try to keep himself warm. "I came here just to ask, have the ridges of your fields been turned over by anything?"

"What do you mean? Uncle Wei, the ridges were turned over?" Xu Xuesong was really confused by the question, so he asked, "Uncle Wei, can you tell me specifically what happened?"

"Well, how can I tell you this? Why don't you come with me? You won't believe it unless you see it with your own eyes." Wei Li pulled Xu Xuesong and walked out.

Xu Xuesong didn't even have the time to say a word to Cai Min in the house before he was half-pulled and half-pushed by Wei Li to the ridge of his own field.

It was dark on the ridges, with no lights at all, and there was snow on them, making it wet and slippery to walk on. But Wei Li suddenly seemed to see something, pointed at a field not far away and shouted, "Well, it looks like your family is in trouble too!"

Although visibility was limited at night, Xu Xuesong still saw in the dim light of the flashlight that an area in front of him looked like it had been pushed by a bulldozer. The place where a lot of sweet potato leaves were originally planted was turned over from the inside out, and all the sweet potato seedlings were spread out on one side. This immediately reminded Xu Xuesong of the "crop circle" incident abroad.

Their family has 100 acres of land, and it seems that at least three or four acres of farmland have been affected by such strange things.

Wei Li felt relieved at this time. After all, it was not only his family's farmland that was destroyed. Even Cai's farmland was affected. He was afraid that many people in the camp would be in trouble.

"Uncle Wei, what on earth is going on?"

Xu Xuesong had never seen this phenomenon before, so he looked at Wei Li, trying to get some useful information from him.

Wei Li just shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this, and it's too late to investigate at night, but I remember I was in the house at the time, and the sound came from the ground far away. At first I thought it was a mouse, but the noise got louder and louder. When I went out, I seemed to see a black shadow, but I'm not sure whether it was a human or a mutant animal."

Wei Li's home is right next to his own farmland, less than twenty meters away. This is also for the convenience of discovering and taking measures as soon as possible when a thief comes to the field to steal at night. After all, the crops in the field have been carefully cultivated for several months or even a year. If they are stolen by thieves, it will be a waste of time.

Cai Min waited for more than half an hour but didn't see anyone. Just when she was worried that something had happened to Xu Xuesong, she heard some noise outside the door.

Xu Xuesong had been out for half an hour and there was some frost on his shoulders. Cai Min felt sorry for her husband so she quickly handed him some boiling hot ginger tea.

"Why did you take so long? Is there something wrong, Uncle Wei?"

After Xu Xuesong put on his slightly damp coat and drank two sips of hot ginger tea, he felt that the coldness in his body was almost dispelled. He then mentioned what had just happened in his own field.

"We don't know whether it was done by humans or mutant animals, but logically speaking, there are high-voltage power lines near our camp, so low-level mutant animals shouldn't be able to get in."

Gu Tongwan was quite curious about what Xu Xuesong said, so he asked, "If it was man-made, then at least it was done by a superpower. If it was just a simple revenge, it would be understandable, but now not only your neighbors but also you are affected, and using superpowers at such a close distance is impossible not to be noticed by other superpowers."

"It feels quite creepy to talk about this so late at night." Xiaoli couldn't help but complain.

Cai Min was more concerned about the damage to her own farmland, so she asked, "What about our farmland?"

"There are about three or four acres of land that have experienced that situation, but fortunately those two plots of land are planted with sweet potato leaves. We just harvested a batch of sweet potatoes last time, and this batch is just tender seedlings. The loss should not be too serious." Xu Xuesong did not seem too anxious, which meant that the Cai family did not suffer much loss at the moment.

Cai's father and mother seemed a little worried. After all, too many things had happened that day. Cai's mother stood up and went back to her room. "I'll call Cai Xing and tell him not to send him food tonight. It doesn't feel safe outside. Ask him to come back quickly on Monday."

"Mom, don't be too anxious. Maybe nothing happened. It's hard to see clearly at night. Maybe it's just a mouse that caused the problem. Uncle Wei is making a fuss." Cai Min shouted anxiously as she looked at her mother's figure.

In fact, Cai's mother's worries are not unreasonable. After all, at least half of the hundreds of acres of farmland are planted with a lot of cold-resistant potatoes and sweet potatoes, and there are also several acres of land planted with some out-of-season vegetables. No matter whether it is caused by human beings or mutant creatures, once the farmland is destroyed, the Cai family will be the biggest victim.

However, Cai Min also knew that it was impossible to go to the farmland to check the situation at night, so he could only go out early tomorrow morning.

After this incident, Cai Min and his wife lost interest in playing cards. After two people were missing, Chen Yanxi and Yan Fan were not very lively among the remaining people, so the others also seemed to lack interest after playing two rounds of cards. Before nine o'clock, everyone went to wash up and rest.

Fortunately, the network in the camp was usable, and Liao Yunyun, who was sleeping on top of it, was so engrossed in watching something on her phone.

Of course, Gu Tongwan was also checking her phone at night, so Liao Yunyun even joked that since she and Chen Yanxi had just started dating, why didn't they stick together and go on a date or something.

"It's minus 40 degrees outside, where can we go on a date?"

When Gu Tongwan responded with this soul-searching question, Liao Yunyun shut up appropriately.

Xiao Li and Lan Cen slept on the double bed opposite each other. Seeing Liao Yunyun's fingers tapping on her phone so quickly, she asked curiously, "Sister Yunyun, what are you looking at so intently?"

"Check out the forum of our base." Liao Yunyun replied.

"Are you going to look at the gossip section or the lifestyle section?" Xiaoli also likes to browse the base forum, and is happy to share all kinds of interesting content she sees on the forum.

In fact, the forum sections and the base forums of various cities have formed a general forum. The general forum is divided according to the city. You can not only filter the local forum content, but also see the national forum exchange center. Here you can not only see interesting and fun things in other cities, but also understand the current situation in other cities. For some people who want to move to other city bases to live, they can get the information they want in advance.

At present, the forum gives people a feeling similar to Weibo before the end of the world or Mouban, Xiaohongshu, etc., which covers various sections such as politics, life, military, food, shopping, etc.

"I'm looking at the living area, and the section about the Wanderer's Base Camp." Liao Yunyun was sitting on the upper bunk with her legs crossed, looking relaxed and at ease.

Gu Tongwan knocked on the upper bunk and asked, "Isn't this the base forum? Why did it get to the homeless base camp?"

Liao Yunyun pulled the edge of the bed and poked her head out, smiling and saying, "You may not know, but the forum was integrated some time ago. It seems that because many people from the Black Market and the Wanderer Base Camp left messages on the forum, the base administrator simply set up sub-forums for the Wanderer Base Camp and the Black Market Camp to facilitate information exchange between the several organizations. From there, you can learn a lot of news about the two places, but conversely, many people also know the current situation of our base."

"Oh, I didn't really notice it. The main reason was that the internet fee at the guesthouse was overdue for those two days and I didn't pay it, so I didn't go online much."

"Hurry up and take a look. Someone posted the pictures and news about the mutant black fish in the camp today on the forum. There are already hundreds of comments. Now [Fairy Lake] has become a hot topic. Someone even revealed that there is more than one mutant black fish under [Fairy Lake].

"What? Everything that happened in the camp today can be posted on the forum? It should have been uploaded by someone in the camp, right?" Xiaoli supported herself on the bed with one hand, her body turned sideways to face Liao Yunyun and Gu Tongwan, her eyes wide open.

Lan Cen listened quietly to the conversation between several people. She was a shy person, and the mobile phone she bought only had call and broadcast functions, so the information she learned on a daily basis was all from Xiaoli.

Gu Tongwan originally planned to read a novel and then rest. After all, she was a little tired after a day. She temporarily arranged the two dogs in the living room closest to their room. Because she was worried that they would scare the people of the Cai family, she let the two dogs sleep at the door of their room, so that the people of the Cai family would not be scared in the living room when they got up in the middle of the night.

After opening the forum, I saw that the layout had been changed a lot. The biggest intuitive change was that each section was clearer, and there was a city switching button in the upper right corner of the forum, so you can check the cities where bases are currently built at any time.

Find the [Wanderer Base Camp] section and click on it to see the popular posts.

From the popular posts on the right, we can see that the fourth post is the one with the keyword [Fairy Lake Mutated Big Black Fish].

The poster of this post is anonymous, but you can see that the photo is very clear, and even captures the moment when the mutant black fish reveals its sharp teeth.

The next picture is a picture of security team members hunting mutant black fish. There are seven or eight pictures in total, three or four of which capture the security team captain using a long knife to cut off half of the mutant black fish's head. The comments below are also varied.

"Sister Xiaoli, I want to take a look too. Can you bring your phone closer?" Lan Cen moved his body and looked at Xiaoli's phone curiously.

"No problem, come closer and let's watch it together." Xiaoli handed over the phone generously.

"Hey, look at the comments below, they're so interesting. These keyboard warriors can say anything." Liao Yunyun was so excited after browsing the forum.

The reaction to these pictures was like a tsunami that caused a thousand waves. The Fairy Lake incident not only attracted the attention of the residents in the camp, but also made more people outside start to pay attention to this magical lake.

It has only been seven hours since the incident occurred, but related posts have already occupied three positions on the hot posts list, making more people curious about what other creatures exist in the lake.