新石器时代

Gu Xiaolu was so tired that he sat at the foot of the mountain for a long time before he was willing to follow Ji Huaifeng up.Fortunately, the col is not high, and the road is not difficult to walk.In a few minutes, they reached the col.Looking down, it turned out to be an empty, desolate small valley.

The small valley is not big, and beyond it is another mountain depression—but it is higher than the one under their feet.

Gu Xiaolu let out a sigh of relief: "Now I have seen it, can I go back?"

Ji Huaifeng seemed to have discovered a new continent: "Look here, it hasn't been dug yet."

"So what?"

"Think about it, people used to be everywhere, and as long as there was a bit of soil in the countryside, it was cleared up for farming. This place is a little small, but it is not a small piece of land. Let's go down and have a look , maybe you can find something."

Gu Xiaolu could only drag his feet to keep up.Fortunately, the weeds were all frozen and dried up in winter, and the newly grown grass was still short.They walked through the green weeds, and indeed they could distinguish the furrows of the former farmland on the ground.Ji Huaifeng brought a small hoe with him, and started digging into the ridges with the hoe.

After digging for a long time, nothing was dug.

Gu Xiaolu yawned: "The things I planted in the past were probably annuals."

Ji Huaifeng was not discouraged: "There is none here—maybe there are over there?" He pointed to the opposite mountain col.

Gu Xiaolu began to regret coming out with him.

The col on the opposite side is not low, and there is not even a ready-made road.It took them twice as long to climb to the top.

"Uh"

"what"

They looked at each other at the same time: "What's going on, this is—"

On the other side of the col is a deep valley - in the middle of the deep valley is a deep pool.

There is a neat circle of stones around the pool.Circles and circles around the pool, there are neat crops growing in the ground - and green vegetables!

Ji Huaifeng and Gu Xiaolu were dumbfounded.

Look carefully-the reflection of a small house is printed on the pool.The small house was hidden by a few big trees, so you couldn't see it unless you looked carefully.

"someone"

"live here"

Look at those crops and vegetables growing well, there must be someone taking care of them every day.

Gu Xiaolu trotted down, Ji Huaifeng took a few steps to catch up with him: "Hey - don't go -"

Before he finished speaking, Gu Xiaolu yelled, "Ah—" the whole body fell forward in an instant!

Ji Huaifeng pulled Gu Xiaolu's arm back desperately.Gu Xiaolu's body flew back and pressed on him, and the two of them fell together.Ji Huaifeng got up quickly, and looked around vigilantly—whether Gu Xiaolu stood up or not, he dragged him behind a big rock!

Ji Huaifeng listened carefully for a while, but he didn't hear any sound around him, so he helped Gu Xiaolu up.Looking around, I saw a dark and deep moat where there was a weed and leaf just now.

He sighed: "I'll just say it. These days, a place where a family lives alone, how can there be no defense at all." As he was about to get up, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Little scull?"

Gu Xiaolu leaned against him, closed his eyes tightly, obviously passed out.

In the past, he would jump in a hurry.The so-called thing is nothing more than three things, now when he saw Gu Xiaolu fainted, he was already very calm.He put Gu Xiaolu flat on the ground, got up and walked towards the deep trench by himself.Looking closer, there are dense bamboos stuck upside down at the bottom of the pit-one end of the bamboo is sharpened.Thinking about the scene just now, I couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

Ji Huaifeng visually observed that the deep trench was dug about 1.5 meters wide, no matter what, it would not be able to cross it, and it would be enough to guard against people and animals.The owner here must have spent a lot of effort on this.

He took a step forward and put his hands on the horn: "Hello—is there anyone? Is anyone at home?"

After shouting for a long time, a figure finally appeared in the house.Ji Huaifeng was overjoyed, and added more strength to continue shouting: "Dude—do me a favor—someone fainted here!"

When the man got closer, Ji Huaifeng saw clearly that it was a man in his thirties, wearing an army green long-sleeved jacket, and holding a long gun in his hand.Although the gun looked crude, Ji Huaifeng knew that it could blow his head into pieces in an instant.

Ji Huaifeng stood up straight with great understanding, and then raised his hands high.

But the mouth continued to shout: "Dude! Do me a favor! My brother fainted!"

Holding a gun, the man slowly approached step by step: "Get lost."

Ji Huaifeng knew that he was serious, and it was wrong to trespass on other people's territory, so he didn't insist anymore.

"Okay, okay - calm down, we came from Niu Niu Village, looking for something to grow everywhere, and came here by accident - look -" Ji Huaifeng untied the little vine hanging from his waist basket, and show him the weeds they had dug up on the road. "We've been searching all day, but we couldn't find anything we could grow. We just dug up a few wild vegetables—"

The man glanced at it, and the guard in his eyes relaxed a little.

Ji Huaifeng went over and hugged Gu Xiaolu horizontally, and tried to walk a few steps but it didn't work.The mountain road was rugged, and he stumbled.It doesn't matter if you fall, just be afraid that Gu Xiaolu will stumble somewhere.After thinking about it, he still put Gu Xiaolu down.

Turning around, he said, "Brother, I really can't walk like this—"

Originally, I wanted to tell that person to stay here until Gu Xiaolu woke up before leaving.Unexpectedly, the man said, "You bring him here."

Although he was released, he still held the gun tightly in his hand and did not let go.

The deep moat is circular.To get out, the people inside put down a small suspension bridge at the other end of the valley.Ji Huaifeng walked over from above with Gu Xiaolu on his back, looking at the bamboo standing in the deep trench, he couldn't help feeling terrified.

After crossing the suspension bridge and walking for a while, we came to the house.The house was of brick and tile structure—red bricks and cement walls, and the roof was covered with tiles that were common in the past.When I got closer, I realized that the "hut" was really not small, at least as big as two of theirs.Ji Huaifeng thought, this is probably left over from before the disaster.Who can find bricks, tiles and cement after the disaster?

The man stepped back to the front of the room step by step with the gun in hand, and said in a deep voice, "Lin Xu, open the door."

Ji Huaifeng was taken aback: "Huh?"

The door of the hut opened with a "squeak", and a head poked out from inside.Ji Huaifeng understood that the person holding the gun was asking "Lin Xu" to open the door just now.

Lin Xu was also the same as that man, wearing a clean army green coat and neatly dressed.He saw Ji Huaifeng and Gu Xiaolu at a glance, frowned and asked, "What's going on with them?"

Ji Huaifeng hurriedly said: "My name is Ji Huaifeng, he is Gu Xiaolu, and we are from Niuniu Village—" Then he repeated what he had just said to the gunman.Lin Xu said "Oh" and said again: "I remember, I've seen you—you burn charcoal, right? Yiping, I bought the dozens of catties of charcoal I went out to buy last time, I bought it from him. "

After saying this, Ji Huaifeng also remembered: "You traded a piece of clothing for me—"

The muzzle of the black hole was finally lowered.Lin Xu asked Ji Huaifeng to put Gu Xiaolu next to the firepit in the kitchen.There was a warm fire burning in the firepit, and a pile of soft hay was spread beside it. Presumably the two owners of this house often sat beside the fire.

The owners of the house also introduced themselves.The person who opened the door was called Lin Xu - I've heard of it just now.The one with the gun was called Fan Yiping.Fan Yiping was an astronomer before the disaster, and they understood the seriousness of the problem better than ordinary people.So when most people were still hesitating whether to go out to avoid disaster, they bought this hut from a villager very decisively, and then spent almost all their savings to buy everything that could be used in the future. Get the things, and then hire people to transport here.

Ji Huaifeng looked around: "How many things did you buy after spending all the money?" But looking at this room, there is nothing superfluous except for daily use.

Lin Xu smiled without saying a word.Ji Huaifeng understood that they must have other places to put their things.The clothes that Lin Xu exchanged for charcoal with him were old, maybe they were worn out by themselves.

Ji Huaifeng put Gu Xiaolu down.Lin Xu stood up and pressed a button with a "snap".The originally dark room suddenly lit up.

Ji Huaifeng was almost taken aback.Although the light from above his head was not bright, it was enough to shock him.This faint white light--the light that can only be emitted by electric lamps!

These two can actually use electric lights!That means they should have electricity here!

Lin Xu didn't notice Ji Huaifeng's shock at all, and said to himself: "It seems a little dark" and walked over to shake the handle on a small machine.After a while, the light really became brighter.Ji Huaifeng understood that what they used was a hand-operated electric generator.Lin Xu shook and said, "Yiping, let Gu—— have a look, Ji Huaifeng has warmed us all winter!"

He was exaggerating.Ji Huaifeng laughed out loud, and comforted them in turn: "Actually, it's nothing serious. He used to faint like this before, and he woke up by himself after a while. I was just afraid that he would catch a cold outside."

The two nodded and let him go.Ji Huaifeng sat down by himself, picked up Gu Xiaolu, and slowly massaged his temples.Lin Xu came over to look at him curiously: "I didn't expect such a quiet person."

Ji Huaifeng knew that he was talking about Gu Xiaolu's stab wound to Zhou Limin, but he didn't expect it to spread so far.So he shook his head and said frankly: "He is sick." After speaking, he felt a little sad, and said in a low voice: "I don't know what to do." He touched Gu Xiaolu's head with his hand, and his voice was full of sadness. It is helpless. "Recently, he seems to be getting more and more serious."

At this moment, Gu Xiaolu suddenly yelled: "Huaifeng!"