Encounter the Ice Age

Being able to drink enough water is a beautiful excuse for lovers, and when they realize it, the two of them are starving.

Temporarily there were no bricks for Zhaoqing to build a stove, so he took out a large pot that was used as a stove in the brazier, and put charcoal fire to boil water to cook noodles.

While waiting for the water to boil, Zhaoqing cut some cucumbers and shredded radishes, and said, "I need to find time to marinate some sugared garlic."

"Even this?" Chen Yang was tidying up the garden near the small courtyard, pulling out weeds and adjusting the distance between the fences.They needed a place to drop the container so they could count and rearrange the contents.

In the yard, the location of the stove had to be planned, and the places for drying clothes and quilts had to be vacated. After careful calculation, there was a lot of work around the yard.

"I know many kinds of pickled vegetables. I have never liked to go out to eat. In Seattle, there are not enough ingredients and the taste is always wrong. There is no time to plant seeds, otherwise our breakfast dishes will be more abundant. I can also make salted duck eggs and salted eggs. Songhua I can't cook the eggs well, so the flowers won't grow. But...the chickens, ducks and geese are all gone, I should have raised some earlier."

"It's okay, there must be a substitute. We saw small animals coming in alone on the road. Over time, there will be everything."

"Okay, listen to you."

"I've decided, I'll take you back to Huaxia when I find my brother." Chen Yang's short-term goal is to find his family, and his long-term goal is to return to China. He also wants to go back to China for better food.

"Really?" Who wouldn't want to go back to their hometown, even if it is full of devastation, it is their hometown.

"I will definitely take you back." Chen Yang also wanted to go back and have a look. He and Chen Mo didn't just pop out from the cracks in the rocks, but they also had their hometowns.At that time, their status as mercenaries would not be accepted by Chinese society, but now that the world has been reshuffled by disasters, they should be able to set foot on that land again.

But there is too much to do right now.

"Little."

"Huh?" Zhaoqing scooped out the noodles and put the noodles in cold water.

"I took a look at the storage warehouse just now. After loading eight containers, it hasn't become smaller. The empty half will increase with your storage area. If you keep half of it empty, your storage warehouse may not have a limit on the amount of storage. .”

"Well, my thoughts are similar to yours. I haven't seen it full until now. Maybe there is indeed no storage limit."

"Small world storage space won't go bad, right?"

"Well, yes."

"I decided……"

"Huh? Decide what?"

"Decided to be greedy. This container building has a capacity of [-] to [-] containers. If we can remove the flooded ones, we can take them all."

The number of survivors of the heavy snow closure is very small, and the facts tell them that they may really enter the end of the world, and it will be difficult for the agricultural industry to restore the existing materials and become in short supply.Chen Yang doesn't know what's inside these containers, but he can't control his greed, everything is wealth, even if it's just an empty container, it will play a big role in the barren future.

"Is this... okay? Now that the temperature is low, many supplies will not spoil. If the government comes back one day, will they want to take back these supplies?"

"Not to mention whether the government can come back, there are too many medium-sized ports of this kind. Seattle is a tourist city, and its ports are transit stations with a medium container volume. A truly large-scale port counts at least one million tons." Chen Yang held the tar Haoshui noodles came into the room, and Zhaoqing brought side dishes in the back.

"But we don't know what's in it. What if it's all women's cosmetics?"

"It's just a matter of making a fortune. It's not rational for a woman to buy cosmetics." Chen Yang mixed a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and handed it to Zhaoqing.

"That's up to you. I don't know how long this ice age will last...Maybe that's all the handmade things we can get in our lifetime. These are non-renewable supplies, and it's not easy for people to live." Zhaoqing said I can't help but sigh, it is the feeling of incomprehension and the sorrow of heaven and earth.

Zhao Qing immediately adjusted her mood, changed the subject and said, "The more supplies we have, the better. We won't have to worry about how to live when we find Brother Mo and his family."

"Do you think I'm too greedy?" Chen Yang said as he poured himself a small glass of white wine, he knew that if he didn't mention Zhao Qing, he wouldn't break the inherent moral bottom line.

Chen Yang is not greedy for drinks, he used to drink a glass of beer with dinner at night.Huaxia's baijiu is not easy to buy in Seattle, so I asked Zhaoqing and opened a bottle after I knew there was enough leftover. After drinking it a few times, I found the baijiu more fragrant.

Seeing that Chen Yang wanted to drink, Zhao Qing took out the beef jerky from the warehouse and tore it up, mixed it with the old godmother, and served Chen Yang a drink.

"No, you must have your reasons for doing things. I have never survived in such an environment. I will listen to you." Zhaoqing said very naturally.

"No, I'm just greedy." Chen Yang said truthfully.

Zhaoqing raised her eyes and looked at Chen Yang after hearing this, and asked carefully: "Ah Yang, will you do something bad? Like in a movie novel, after having a lot of supplies, you will want to build your own base. There are slaves... slaves Something like that." He felt absurd as he said it, and laughed embarrassedly.For those of them who have come in peacetime, the word slave is like a joke.But in their free lives, people forget that the abolitionist movement has only been in the past few decades, and people's hearts are easy to go back to the old way.

"Slave...slave? You mean I support other people and let them work?" Chen Yang discovered another point, Zhaoqing's brain is different from others, her divergent thinking is very strong and cute.

"Maybe, you have so many weapons, and you need a lot of daily necessities." Zhaoqing scratched his head, and he didn't know what he wanted to ask.

"Your husband, do I seem so idle? Now there is a lot of snow outside to support people, digging snow? I won't let outsiders come in your small world. We have to do these jobs by our own family."

"Yeah that's right."

"It's hard for me to raise wedding candy, and I still have so many mouths? I just need to eat enough, and I care so much about others."

Chen Yang doesn't want a life of ups and downs, killing and making decisions, and he doesn't like that kind of luxurious life.Although he always laughed at his brother for thinking too much, he had to admit that he also wanted a peaceful life, otherwise who could really force someone to return to society.

Zhaoqing laughed and said, "But you were quite enthusiastic when you were a policeman."

"Doing one thing is one thing. When my brother and I are on missions, we also kill people and chop vegetables." Chen Yang said truthfully.

It is their instinct for Chen Yang to blend into any environment like a chameleon. He is used to fulfilling his due obligations and fulfilling his tasks in his current role.Besides, without this layer of camouflage, how could Zhaoqing be tricked into her own life.

"I lied to you a lot, but it's too late now."

Zhaoqing couldn't imagine Chen Yang's violent appearance. Although Chen Yang's face was cold and fierce, but to him, Chen Yang was very gentle.

"It's okay, I can accept it. I... If you want your future, accept your past, just be open and honest with me from now on." Zhaoqing said with a smile, since she decided to love someone, she needs to accept her lover's various appearances.

When Zhao Qing was with Chen Yang, he didn't know about Chen Yang's past. Since he and Chen Yang were already in the same family, he couldn't just accept Chen Yang's light and not accept Chen Yang's shadow.Furthermore, when Chen Yang and Zhao Qing talked about the past a few days ago, Zhao Qing was distressed by Chen Yang's instability in the past. If people can have a stable life, who would be willing to be shot in the flames in exchange for the future.

"..." Chen Yang stared at Zhao Qing who was speaking touching words, raised his head and drank a glass of wine, he reached out and touched Zhao Qing's cheek lightly: "Well, I will tell you everything."

"Well, another bowl?"

"it is good."

"You are more and more able to eat now, that's a good thing." Zhaoqing laughed as he said, a person who can cook naturally likes to feed the people around him, and he is also happy when he sees his family eating deliciously.

Chen Yang looked at Zhaoqing's gentle eyebrows and thought to himself: My most important identity in the future is Zhaoqing's lover, Zhaoqing's family, Zhaoqing's backing, Zhaoqing's reliance, Zhaoqing's safe haven, and Zhaoqing's last line of defense .

Chen Yang is very selfish, there are very few people he can let go of in his heart, he can only live with Zhaoqing, his brother who can die at any time, and his friends who have died every now and then.He wants to have the present life for a long time, to have the food he wants to eat when he is hungry, to have the right wine when he is thirsty, to face the person he loves...and then die of old age.

If this life can be like this, it's too fucking perfect.

Chen Yang ignored his nasty thoughts and said: "We are both 30 years old. We can live to 50 years old without any serious diseases. There are still 60 years in the future. The current situation is not that the society has regressed for hundreds of years. But the overall social function is zero. If there are people around the equator? How many can there be? We have been out for two days, and almost no survivors have been hit. I am not optimistic. There is a high probability that there is no oasis on this earth. Compared with those [-] With a population of [-] million, it’s hard to say whether the remaining people have the fraction behind the [-] million.”

"Yeah, I saw one or two people standing at the window, but compared to the world full of people, there are too few survivors."

"You're right, the supplies can be stored for a longer period of time after being frozen there, and maybe they can serve more people. But I have a worry, will this ice...will it melt?" Chen Yang drank the last sip liquor.

"!!!" Zhaoqing's brain followed Chen Yang to the unknown, "You mean the ice melted?"

"Yes." Chen Yang couldn't stop the hole in his head, and said, "It's the same for us to store this ice and snow for 200 years or to melt it tomorrow, no matter which one is unbearable. At least we can do it now." Walking on land, can there be land when the ice cover is so thick? I can’t imagine the latter, but at least there can be more seafood.”

Like the human beings who lived in the warm world before them, they dreamed of the lost continent, the beautiful future and the unpredictable and painful life day and night. Who would have thought that the world could be changed in one day.

"It used to be reported that the melting of the Arctic would flood nearly one-third of the land, if now?..." Zhaoqing was so shocked that the noodles on the chopsticks fell off.

"We looked around, the ice cover was nearly ten meters along the way, and the best case scenario is to keep everything we have heard on the radio before. There is still a small piece of Eden, but I can't think of any possibility that Eden will last forever. Will the ice and snow disappear and evaporate suddenly after melting? If the snow melts and disappears immediately, we should also disappear.” Chen Yang wiped his mouth after eating the second bowl of noodles, and said: “We are not professional , maybe we won’t see snow and ice melt in our lifetime.”

"Either of the two you mentioned is quite..." Zhaoqing didn't continue, because they were both difficult.

"Xiao Xiao, we can't hide in the small world and live until we die. The government may restore its ability to operate, but it's hard to benefit all the refugees on this earth. In your situation, it's not enough for me to take you to hide from the crowd. , do you think I will lead you into the pile of human spirits that were first protected before I am ready?"

"Well, you're right." Because of the existence of the small world, Zhao Qing didn't dare to make close friends with anyone before the end of the world, and the more familiar she is, the easier it is to expose it.The Connors need not say that they are his parents, and Chen Yang's existence is his partner.

There is a saying that Yi Zhaoqing is very confident, except for these three people, no one knows the existence of his small world. Of course, a few days before the end of the world, he may have leaked a lot of falsehoods by making a lot of purchases, but all traces were covered by heavy snow.

"You don't have to follow suit, you and I can't resist the changes in the whole world. The left and right are just me trying to persuade you to indulge my greed. Let's eat."

"Ayang, I don't know what you are thinking, anyway, I want to live with you! Let's live to the end with our backs to the small world and facing the cold natural environment." Zhao Qing lowered her head and laughed because Filled with love words but unable to speak out smoothly because he doesn't like to express, he suffocated his cheeks to heat up. He looked at Chen Yang and said in his heart: I want to go to the end of time with you and see what the future looks like.

Chen Yang couldn't hear Zhaoqing's heartfelt voice, but he could read the friendship in his lover's eyes, so he couldn't help touching Zhaoqing's neck.

Chen Yang pointed at Zhaoqing's throbbing blood, he said: "I am selfish and greedy, but you can only bear with me because we are married."

"You... If you are a criminal, I am willing to be your accomplice." On this deserted island of ice in the world, I can be with my lover, no matter what burdens I am willing to bear.

Zhaoqing said again: "Do according to your ideas, I will follow you."

Chen Yang heard that he kissed Zhaoqing's forehead devoutly, whoever is unlucky is whoever is lucky.They are not philosophers, not holy sons who benefit the world, but ordinary people who are selfish and greedy.

Chen Yang returned to his seat, raised his glass and bumped it against the wine bottle, drank half of it and handed it to Zhao Qing, saying, "Cheers to Greed."

Zhaoqing took the cup and drank the rest of the wine, burning her throat like poison or nectar.

"Hey, it's so spicy!"

"I'll find you some rum later."

"Okay, it will be safer if we find a way to get a boat. Plant it well in the small world. After we find Brother Mo, we will head back to China, and collect all the way. You take me, and I take the wedding candy."

"Success, the first family meeting has come to a successful conclusion! Givemefive!" Chen Yang raised his hand, and the two of them high-fived.

The criminal seduces the lover and has an accomplice.Creatures find companions and fellow travelers.