The Tight Embrace of the End Times

It was still late at night, the full moon hung in the starry sky, and the surrounding scenes were not clearly revealed in people's sight.

There are broken walls and ruins everywhere, and the surroundings are surprisingly quiet, and the sound of the waves hitting the shore is particularly prominent.

A group of people were not familiar with the terrain here, so they decided to find a place to stop first, and then act when the sun rose and the line of sight was not obstructed.

Finally, I found a place at the foot of a small hill, which separated the sea from the vehicles, which inexplicably made people feel more at ease. Everyone sat in the car and closed their eyes until dawn.

Gu Leng slept for several hours. When he woke up, he felt refreshed and exhausted from the journey. Looking in the back seat, Yuan Yushu and Gu Hai were both sleeping soundly. Xiao Qiao was also sleeping soundly on the steering wheel. Leng thought about going down for a walk, hesitated for a moment, and lightly patted Xiao Qiao's shoulder a few times, unexpectedly Xiao Qiao opened his eyes immediately, showing no sleepiness, which startled Gu Leng.

Gu Leng whispered: "So you didn't sleep?"

Xiao Qiao raised her eyebrows: "No, I fell asleep."

Gu Leng had an expression of disbelief: "I just patted you so lightly and you woke up? Look at your face, it doesn't look like you're awake at all."

Xiao Qiao laughed and said, "I'm sensitive to you, I know your every move."

Gu Leng curled his lips, he couldn't talk to Xiao Qiao, "Poor mouth, I want to go down for a walk, will you go?"

"Go, of course go".

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Gu Leng took a closer look at the terrain here. Both sides of the sea are surrounded by continuous hillsides. The grass and trees on those hillsides are sparse. It may be that they are blown by the sea breeze all the year round, and the land salinization is relatively serious. This makes the hillside look like All bare.

The place where Gu Leng was standing was a mouth of the sea several kilometers long without hills surrounding it. From a distance, there were some houses near the sea mouth. Gu Leng took Xiao Qiao and walked over. These houses were all washed away by the tsunami. Now, none of the walls are intact, and there are some fishing nets made of thick rope among the broken walls, but it is a small fishing village.

In a piece of black and gray building debris, Gu Leng found a white wall and white load-bearing columns. Gu Leng thought of the small European-style white building that Beggar Chen mentioned. This is probably Beggar Chen's house.

Turning around and looking forward, a smear of red gradually appeared on the horizon, Gu Leng pulled Xiao Qiao and motioned him to look.

First it is a corner of the red sun, then it is a semicircle, then a full circle. Finally, the sun is like a naughty child struggling to earn its way up slowly from the sea level. The sea is instantly radiant. It is really an amazing sunrise.

Usually after sunrise, the temperature will rise rapidly in a short period of time, and it is not suitable to stay outside.

But Gu Leng felt it now. Although the temperature is high, it is not unbearable. It is probably because this is Haikou. The wind blows from the sea surface and rushes into this Haikou together. The wind takes away the temperature. It is also possible to move.

There are many dangers in activities at the seaside. The tsunami mentioned by Beggar Chen is the most dangerous kind of shipwreck. Did you survive on the hillside?

Gu Leng thought of Chunshui Town, the apocalypse is ruthless, but nature's uncanny workmanship leaves a glimmer of life.

Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao wandered around the beach, turning a blind eye to those beautiful shells and conchs, looking for some small fish and shrimps that were brought ashore when the sea tide was high.

At that time, the two were just going to go out for a walk, and they didn't bring buckets or other utensils for small fish and shrimp, so Xiao Qiao took off his T-shirt and carried small fish and shrimp.

Xiao Qiao's body seems to have gotten better during this period of time, Gu Leng blushed a little, he hadn't made out for a long time, and he was with his companions all the way.

Gu Leng ran over to touch Xiao Qiao's abdominal muscles, whether it's eye addiction or hand addiction, Xiao Qiao smiled and followed Gu Leng, and kept moving closer to Gu Leng, while constantly showing off his strong and powerful arms Gu Leng blushed and felt that it would be all right after a few touches, and Xiao Qiao came over shamelessly again.

So, in silhouette at sunrise, by the shore,

Xiao Qiao and Gu Leng, one kept moving closer to the other, the other kept pushing away, and bent down from time to time to pick up small fish and shrimp.

Gu Leng adjusted his expression and went back with a bag full of fish and shrimp. Everyone woke up. Gu Hai shouted, "Brother Xiao Leng, where have you been? Come together and you will disappear."

Gu sneered and said, "Go to the beach and pick up some small fish and shrimp for your meal, here." He showed Gu Hai a bag full of small fish and shrimp.

Gu Hai exclaimed strangely: "Wow, I haven't eaten seafood for a long time, I like seafood the most."

Gu Leng directly stuffed a bag of seafood to Gu Hai: "You like to eat it so much, you will definitely cook it, so you can handle it."

Gu Hai became anxious: "Hey, Brother Xiao Leng, I'm only responsible for eating, I really don't know how to cook, you can't just ignore it."

Yuan Yushu leaned over and said, "Gu Hai, go and take care of it, I'll do it."

Wow, this young master Yuan Yushu can also cook, it's really unexpected.

Gu Hai asked, "You can cook, so why didn't you talk about it along the way?"

Yuan Yushu said: "I can only make one fish and shrimp porridge, that is, after the fish and shrimp are processed, put it into the porridge and add some salt."

"Okay, you basket me, I have taken care of the fish and shrimp, you just need to pour water and add some salt?"

Yuan Yushu touched his nose: "It seems to be, but if you don't need it, just pretend I didn't say it."

"It's late, you take care of it, I'll make fish and shrimp porridge." Gu Hai chuckled, and stuffed a bag full of small fish and shrimp into Yuan Yushu's arms.

Yuan Yushu had no choice but to deal with the fish and shrimp resignedly.

The first meal when they came to the beach was the fish and shrimp picked by Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao, Yuan Yushu took care of it, and Gu Hai finally made the fish and shrimp porridge with corn kernels.After the first meal, everyone sat together and discussed what to do next.

Since the temperature at the seaside was acceptable, everyone decided to act during the day, sleep at night, and return to normal work and rest.

The place where everyone rests is still here, on the back of the hillside. Everyone also imagined the danger they will encounter. Since they are only planning to operate on the coast or shallow sea, the biggest danger they will encounter is a tsunami. If a tsunami does occur, the first For a while, he fled to the hillside.

Wang Shuo said: "Next, let's talk about the purpose of our trip, which is to dry the salt. We have never dried the salt, but it is relatively simple. It is to dig a few large pools and inject seawater into it. Next, inject new seawater every day and wait for the seawater to dry. Do you agree?"

Everyone nodded, and they thought so too.

Wang Shuo continued: "It's one thing to think, but another to do it. It's hard work to dry salt. I hope everyone is prepared, but as long as we think about it and get enough salt, we can go back to our hometown. That is No amount of suffering is worth it, isn't it?"

Everyone nodded and said yes.

Once the plan is made, it is time to act.

Gu Leng opened the trunk and took out the shovel. It was really foresight. Gu Leng was secretly proud of himself.

Xiao Qiao said: "Everyone, there is a small fishing village over there, which was destroyed by the tsunami and turned into ruins, but you can look for shovels, or cloth and bags, which are used for drying salt. .”

Gu Leng was not satisfied, and went to a small fishing village to "treasure" with others.

I searched around in the ruins, and I found three shovels, and some bed sheets, which were tangled up, but they should still be usable after washing.

I also found a lot of plastic bags, which were soaked in sea water and exposed to the scorching sun, and they shattered when pulled lightly.

Eight people worked in groups of two, chose a place on the coast, and started digging.

Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao had great strength, and they dug effortlessly. After only one hour, they dug a sun-dried salt pond 1.5 meters deep and [-] meters long and wide.

Gu Leng stepped across the silt that was more than ten meters long, washed the sheets in the sea water, and spread them to the bottom of the pool after washing.

The next step is to inject seawater, which can only be injected manually with buckets.

But this is not a problem for Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao, they did it quickly and well. When the others were still digging the pond, Gu Leng and his salt drying pond had already been filled with water, and they were done.

Gu Leng thought about it, wondering if there is enough salt in a pond?He simply dragged Xiao Qiao to dig a pond next to him.

Wang Shuo dug five ponds, and Gujia Village dug a total of four ponds.

At the end of the day, although I was very tired, my sweat had formed solid grains of salt and rubbed against my back, but looking at a total of 9 sun-drying salt ponds, the results of my efforts were obvious.

Next, on the one hand, we have to wait for the sun to dry the water in the pool, and on the other hand, we still have to continuously inject seawater into it every day.

However, the daily workload is much less. Everyone decided that in the evening, they can pick up small fish and shrimps in the silt, or they can catch fish in the shallow sea. In short, food is precious, and you can hoard as much as you can. How many.

In the evening, everyone saw the beautiful scenery of the infinite sunset and red clouds. In the evening, everyone saw the real scene of "the bright moon on the sea coexists with the tide". For Gu Leng, the sunrise in the morning, the sunset in the evening, and the bright moon in the evening are all It's so exciting, refreshing, and these points alone make this trip worthwhile.

The next day, Gu Leng got up very early as usual, and took Xiao Qiao to watch the sunrise, and to see the results of drying the salt yesterday.

There was still some time before sunrise, Gu Leng looked at the salt-drying pools one by one, and sure enough, the sea water in the pools had dropped a lot and needed to be replenished. There were crystals on the wall of the pool, and Gu Leng stuck one of them with his fingers. , It really is salt.

Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao simply filled up the salt drying ponds one by one, and a red light appeared on the sea level. Gu Leng knew that the sun was coming out, so he put down the bucket, stood side by side with Xiao Qiao, and watched the sunrise quietly.

After admiring the sunrise, Gu Leng was about to go back, when he suddenly found seven small black dots coming out from the other side of Haikou, getting closer and closer, and they looked like seven children.

Why are these kids here?There aren't even many people in Yanghai City anymore. Have these children been living here?