After the disaster

The gate of the base slowly opened, and Qiu Cheng followed the flow of people, and walked out into the outside world. Five years have passed since the day when the X virus broke out. It took five years for human beings to finally completely defeat this terrible virus. , Xinnan City, where Qiu Cheng is located, also ended militarized management, opened the gate of the temporary base, and let the citizens go home.

Go home... Where is home?

Standing on the hillside, Qiu Cheng overlooked the entire Xinnan City. This once-prosperous city has now become like ruins, covered in dust everywhere, collapsed buildings can be seen everywhere, and the spacious roads have also been destroyed in the continuous battle. Make holes one by one.

Five years ago, the X virus broke out one after another around the world, and no country was spared. The patients infected with the X virus were bloodthirsty and aggressive, completely losing their minds, and this virus was extremely contagious. Before they were prepared, a large number of people had already been infected.

This is an arduous and long battle. Infected people appear one after another. There is no vaccine. This is an endless disaster. Until two months ago, a female scientist named Phyllis did When it arrived, she successfully developed the vaccine, which brought an end to this battle.

Over the past two months, all survivors have been vaccinated, and all armies around the world have conducted a joint sweep to completely encircle and suppress those infected with the incurable X virus hiding in the dark. The alarm was lifted one after another, allowing the people to return to normal work and life, and actively carry out post-disaster reconstruction work.

Qiu Cheng walked along the familiar streets on his way home. He grew up in this city since he was a child, and this is his hometown, which carries all the memories of his childhood and youth.

On the wall by the roadside, in the shops with wide-open doors, the dark red bloodstains that have not faded are silently telling the tragedy that happened in this land. Qiu Cheng's eyes are red, like a wronged child .

Not far away, there were people cheering, some crying, and some people running wildly on the street in groups, but Qiu Cheng just wanted to go back and have a look at that small suite that was neither spacious nor luxurious. A place I miss a thousand times.

Qiu Cheng's father died young, and his mother remarried when he was in his second year of high school. After marriage, Qiu's mother sold their old house to her son for high school and college tuition and living expenses, and then went to live with her second husband. A coastal city.

There was nothing wrong with Qiu Cheng eating and drinking in those years, but whenever the school was on holiday, his classmates and teachers went home, he was always alone and had no place to go, the feeling of being homeless was not good, so he Working part-time and studying frugally, in his senior year, a real estate was developed next to Xinnan University, and he paid the down payment to buy a small apartment of more than 50 square meters.

Five years ago, after the initial turmoil, Qiu Cheng tried to contact his mother, but was unable to contact him. Later, when local governments counted the number of casualties and posted obituaries on all temporary bases, Qiu Cheng knew about his mother. has passed away.

After a while, life will be easier, maybe he should go to his mother's grave once, Qiu Cheng thought as he climbed the stairs.Thank God, their building is still there, but the reconstruction work in Xinnan City has just started, there is no electricity, no elevators to take, so they have to climb up with two legs, his house is on the fourteenth floor.

There was not enough food in the temporary base. After living in it for five years, Qiu Cheng was so thin that he was almost skinny. He has carried corpses around the wall, and he has also followed the government’s call to go outside to collect supplies. If he doesn’t have a lot of strength, skills, and no backing, it doesn’t matter. He can’t live safely with the little rations that are distributed for free every day. until now.

The stairwell was empty, and there was no sound at all. At this moment, he was probably the only one in the whole building. When the chaos broke out, their building had just been handed over, and the occupancy rate was very low.Qiu Cheng climbed to the fourteenth floor and walked to the door of his house. He saw a few scars on the door, but they didn't get in. The locks were still intact.

Qiu Cheng turned his head and saw the rough-made room opposite his house. The thin door was wide open, and there were traces of a bonfire inside. Someone hid in their building, and it is unknown how long they hid here. Fortunately, there was no blood stains around, and it seemed that no one had died here.

Qiu Cheng took out his key to open the door and went in. The house was still fine, and everything remained as it was when he left. Because he had closed the doors and windows tightly before he left, there was not much dust on the furniture. There was no food at all. When it was their turn to transfer to this area, Qiu Cheng had been hiding at home for several days, eating everything he could eat. When he finally left, he even packed away the seasonings and left nothing behind. Anything that can be imported.

It was already 03:30 in the afternoon, and he still had two tortillas in his arms. Qiu Cheng decided not to do anything today, but to lie down on the long-lost spring bed and sleep.Before going to bed, he opened the door and went to the house opposite, and took all the boards and books on the ground back to his home. He didn't know when the water, electricity and gas would be connected, maybe he would need to use these things to light the fire.

The quilt on the bed was dusty and a bit damp, but these were tolerable. Compared to the conditions in the temporary base, this was not bad, at least the bed and quilt were soft.

Qiu Cheng didn't feel sleepy, so he took out the few books just now and flipped through them casually. He saw the words "Muxiu's Notes" written in ancient Chinese on the cover of a book. He thought it was a cultivation novel, but he opened it Looking at it, I found that all the content inside was also written in ancient Chinese, and the content was not like a novel, but more like a practice handbook of a wood-type ascetic.

According to this book, the spirit of plants and trees is the root of all living things in the world. Only when plants and trees produce a large amount of spiritual energy can there be thousands of creatures in this world. If the spiritual energy is sufficient, all things will prosper; sluggish.

And the cultivation method introduced in this book is to let the ascetics use the spirit of plants to cleanse their bodies, integrate more spiritual energy in the body than ordinary people, and expel the filth in the body, so that the mind is clear and the body is healthy and long-lived...

The more Qiu Cheng looked back, the more serious the expression on his face became. In the end, he simply turned over and got up from the bed, found a woven bag from the kitchen, grabbed the key, and rushed downstairs like the wind. Try to see if what this book says is true or not.

In "Wood Xiu Notes", in addition to the practice of mental formulas and other content, there are also several formations recorded, one of which is called Spirit Gathering Formation, which can gather spiritual energy. It is said that meditating in this formation will get twice the result with half the effort. These plants will grow fast and well.

As for the material used to arrange this formation, spiritual stones are the best, followed by jade, and ordinary stones are also acceptable, but the formation method arranged with ordinary stones has low effectiveness.Qiu Cheng doesn't have so many jade stones now, and he doesn't know where to get spirit stones. He plans to try using ordinary stones first. If it is really useful, he will find a way to get jade stones at that time.

Xinnan University is close to the suburbs, and there are many farmlands opposite the school. Now these farmlands are deserted, and the fields are overgrown with weeds.Qiu Cheng searched on the ground and found a place with dark and soft soil. He opened the woven bag and filled most of the bag of soil. After looking down for a while, he finally found some green onions.

In the first year when they lived in the temporary base, the city government even organized people to harvest the crops. Later, because the place was a bit far from the base, infected people were everywhere and it was very dangerous, no one came to sow the seeds in the second year. The fields are all barren, and the number of infected people has decreased in the past two years, but people often form teams to dig wild vegetables.

Qiu Cheng climbed up to the fourteenth floor with half a bag of soil on his shoulders. No matter how strong his physical strength was, he still felt a little tired at this moment. He sat on the sofa to rest, and when his physical strength recovered a little, he got up again and looked for the soil from a cabinet in the kitchen. After getting out the toolbox, I used the few wooden boards I just brought back from the opposite room to piece together a wooden basket.

Then he found an old T-shirt from the closet, cut it open, sewed it according to the shape of the wooden basket, and put it in the wooden basket. The green onions were planted inside, after thinking about it, he poured the half bottle of water left over from his drink into the soil. He had learned how to farm in the temporary base in the past few years, and he knew that the first water after planting was called fixed root water. It has a great influence on the growth of crops.

Qiu Cheng moved the wooden basket to the terrace, and took out a few stones from his pocket that he had just picked up on the side of the road, followed the pattern drawn in the book, found the right direction, and laid the gathering cloth according to the gourd painting. spiritual array.

By the time he finished all this, it was already dark. Qiu Cheng stood by the railing and looked towards the direction of the city center. Over there, several buildings had already been lit up. It seems so invisible in the middle, but so full of hope.