Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

The education in Guangming Village is gradually getting on the right track.

On the other side, those who returned to Changle Village from the town fell into a desperate situation.

Let’s go back to a month ago, when the village chief of Changle Village escaped from the town with this group of people. They originally thought that the people who stayed in Changle Village would come out to greet them, but what they saw were collapsed houses covered by ice and snow. There were less than a dozen houses still standing.

The village chief of Changle Village looked at all this in astonishment. Where were the rest of the people? Where did they go?

"Village Chief! Let's all look over here. It seems that Third Uncle and his family are all gone. There is no one in the remaining houses that have not collapsed. There has been no sign of life here for a while!"

Several villagers who went to investigate the situation brought them this unbelievable news after checking the village.

"Where will they go? They can't be going to town to find us, right?" one of the villagers couldn't help but ask.

“But we didn’t see them on the way back, and we didn’t hear of any new villages coming to town,” said Villager A.

"Where else can they go? They can't just leave their houses empty and live in the mountains!" said Villager B.

Everyone discussed this phenomenon endlessly. One of the villagers who had been rescued by Shi Anan before said weakly: "Will they go to Guangming Village?"

The villagers who were discussing the matter all looked at him, their eyes expressing how this was possible?

The villager shut his mouth under the gaze of everyone, and everyone missed the correct answer.

"Okay, everyone is tired after escaping back. It's so cold now that we will freeze to death outside. Let's find a place to rest first." The village chief of Changle Village interrupted them and said.

"But village chief, there are less than a dozen houses left here. How are we going to live?" The villagers asked a soul-searching question.

"How else can we live? We can only squeeze together. It's good enough to have a place to avoid the wind and snow. Do you want a room for each of you?" said the village chief unhappily.

"Also, send someone to investigate nearby to see if they can find out where the third brother and the others have gone." The village chief pondered for a moment and continued.

The other villagers wanted to ask why you didn’t go look for it yourself instead of letting them go out to look for it in such a cold day, but when they thought about the age and status of the village chief, they shut up again.

However, after this incident, it was inevitable that the authority of the Changle Village Chief in the hearts of the villagers had declined, and the villagers did not trust him as much as before.

As the temperature gradually dropped, even though there were houses that could barely block the wind, the people in Changle Village still couldn't stand the cold.

Not to mention that freezing snow began to fall in the next few days, which made their snow removal work even more difficult. The consequence of not being able to remove the snow in time was that most of the few remaining sturdy houses collapsed one after another.

The villagers, who had no houses to shelter from the wind and snow, shivered and gathered in front of the village chief.

"Village chief, we can't go on like this! My little girl froze to death yesterday!" a woman cried.

Her daughter is only three years old and can't stand such cold weather. Now their only remaining house has collapsed. How can they survive in this ice and snow?

"Village chief, and my mother, she is already old and in poor health. She has no house after a trip to town. Now she has to endure the cold outside. She can't bear it anymore!"

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The villagers of Changle Village cried and screamed, but what could the village chief do? He himself was almost frozen to death.

He forced himself to ask, "Has anyone found any traces of Lao San and the others? It's impossible that so many people left no traces at all. Where did they go?"

"No! Even if there were any traces, they would have been covered by such heavy snow!"

"If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have gone to town. If I had stayed in the village, at least the house wouldn't collapse so quickly, and there would still be a chance to survive."

"How long can your house hold up? With such heavy snow, even a brick house will collapse if it is not cleaned in time."

"What's wrong with my house? If I had been home the whole time, I could have at least delayed it from falling down!"

"So what if you're at home? Didn't you see that Third Uncle and the others are no longer here? They must have found that they couldn't survive here and left."

The villagers were in a noisy state. In such an environment, the darkness in people's hearts would be infinitely magnified, and everyone was anxious about how to survive.

The village chief of Changle Village didn't have the energy to do anything when he saw this scene. He felt like his whole body was frozen and he couldn't feel any warmth from inside to outside.

The village chief's abnormality was not noticed by others in time, and everyone was arguing, as if this would be a way out. It was not until the village chief fell to the ground with a thud that the noise stopped abruptly!

The village chief of Changle Village was also frozen to death!

This news was like a bucket of cold water poured on everyone's head, making them feel the chill deep in their bones even more in this cold weather.

How could the village chief die? He was their leader. He took them to the town and then back to Changle Village. He hadn't led them to find a place where they could live in peace yet, so how could he die?

Although they felt a little resentful of the village chief for being nosy and for insisting on going to the town, and they didn't respect him as much as before, they really didn't want him to die.

The chief of Changle Village used his life to buy a brief period of peace for the villagers. Now that the chief is gone, it is useless for them to make trouble here. No one will give them advice, and no one will make decisions for them. They can only rely on themselves.

The villager who had been wondering whether others had gone to Guangming Village couldn't help but whispered, "I plan to go to Guangming Village to take a look."

After hearing his voice, everyone's reaction was not as intense as before. Only one man who had a good relationship with him asked, "Shi Tou, how can you be sure that Guangming Village is definitely a way out?"

The villager named Shitou replied, "During the first hailstorm, I saw Doctor Li and a girl treating people together. Although I don't know the girl's name, I think she is not an ordinary person. It is said that she is from Guangming Village."

"Before we went to the town, we heard that Mr. Li took his father to Guangming Village to seek medical treatment. Now there is no other place to go. We will die wherever we go. We might as well try our luck in Guangming Village."

After hearing what he said, everyone remembered that Doctor Li and his family had gone to Guangming Village to seek medical treatment. At that time, they thought that they must go to the town to seek medical treatment, but Mr. Li took them to a remote place near Guangming Village, and they even made a bet on whether he could save Doctor Li.

"Yes, why didn't I think of that? Li Xiucai is the smartest person in our village. He must have gone to Guangming Village for medical treatment for reasons we don't know. Even if we can't find Third Uncle and his family in Guangming Village, Doctor Li and his family should be able to find them."

"If we're lucky, maybe Third Uncle and his men also took people to Guangming Village because Doctor Li is in Guangming Village?"

The villager who had a good relationship with Shitou thought more and more that it made sense, and the others also nodded as they listened.

"Then there is no time to lose. Why don't we go to Guangming Village today while it's still early?" Shitou stood up and asked. In his opinion, they should go directly to Guangming Village to look for people on the day they return, as the temperature at that time would not be as low as it is now.

"Okay, I'll go talk to the others and see if anyone wants to go with us." Everyone dispersed and prepared to go to Guangming Village.

At this time, Guangming Village also encountered their first crisis since the beginning of winter.