After the fog, I became a birdman

A burst of noise woke Qi Jiang up, he slightly opened his eyes and looked into the dimly lit room, and after listening to a few casual words, he found that many people were shouting: "Bug, bug!"

Su Qing in her arms was sleeping with his arms flushed, Qi Jiang stretched out her hand and carefully tucked the quilt with some gaps, gently pulled out her hand and slid out of the quilt, and turned back to tuck the quilt carefully.

Su Qing opened his eyes vaguely, Qi Jiang bent down and pressed his lips to his forehead, his voice was a little low due to getting up early: "Sleep a little longer."

"It's so noisy." Su Qing looked out sleepily and yawned, "What happened outside?"

"I'll go and have a look." Qi Jiang bowed his head and kissed him again, "Sleep, wait until I make breakfast."

"Ah."

After Su Qing fell asleep, Qi Jiang went to the bathroom to wash up. He didn't make too much noise during the whole process, and he didn't forget to close the door when he left the room.

It was already dawn outside, but it was foggy. The poisonous fog of death hadn't dissipated, but it had faded enough that the road could be seen clearly.

He didn't know what time it was, so he could only guess the time based on experience.

A few days ago, the fog was very thick before the earthquake stopped at [-] o'clock, and the fog became much lighter after [-] o'clock, and it still didn't dissipate until noon.

Today the fog has become thinner again. Since the fog has not cleared, it should not be noon yet. There is no movement at the food distribution point, so it should not be too late.

The rain was heavier than last night. They came back in the early morning. It was probably moderate rain at that time, much lighter than during the day. Today’s rain was a little heavier than yesterday’s, and it was rushing and fast. Mixed with the whirring wind.

Qi Jiang went to the balcony and looked outside. There were some garbage floating on the water. The garbage was covered with dense insects. Other insects and insect eggs that could not land were drifting with the current. They were all different sizes. It seemed that there was no place to set foot. One can imagine how many insects there are.

Without opening the windows, they couldn't see clearly the situation on the first floor of Tianbi Garden, but Qi Jiang could see the opposite. Many people in the neighborhood not far away opened the windows to scoop water out. If you look closely, there are some very Tiny bugs.

According to the current hatching speed of the eggs, it is not known whether these insects were eggs or insects last night, or whether they hatched in the morning and floated in through the crack of the door.

Or both.

When Qi Jiangfei went out last night, he tried it with a stick, and the accumulated water almost reached his ankles, but today it has covered his calves.

It has been raining non-stop since the 29th, without stopping for even a second, and the rain is getting bigger and bigger. Thanks to Fengcheng's excellent drainage system, there is no water on the street before the 2nd, but Not so lucky after that.

The rain is getting heavier and the stagnant water is getting higher and higher. Yesterday at noon, it was only up to the instep, but today it has reached the calf.

Qi Jiang saw that the current rain was only heavy rain, not yet torrential rain, and felt something was wrong. Why did Fengcheng's drainage system collapse like this?

Is this really the best drainage system in the country?

Is this a misnomer or is there something else hidden?

Qi Jiang shook his head, looked at the insects that had fallen from the upstairs and lay on the gauze and was knocked off by the wind and rain, turned around and put the clothes back in the living room, and then lit a fire to cook.

All the supplies at home are placed in Su Qing’s space, and only some durable ingredients are left in the kitchen. Every day before and after dinner, Su Qing will also take out the next day’s meat and vegetables, so that the food can be eaten to a greater extent. maintain the freshness of food.

In the middle of the breakfast, several supply carts pulled by war pets appeared in the distance. Qi Jiang stood up and looked out when he heard the sound of wading.

According to the past time, it is about nine o'clock now. I used to use cars, but today I use war pets to pull the carts. It should be a little later than before.

Qi Jiang also encountered many bugs when he was in the wild before, but he also found that the fire-type mutated animals seemed to be innately deterrent to these bugs. When he saw the battle pet pulling the cart, the bugs on the water surface panicked and ran out. Know that these are all fire elements.

He continued to sit down to make breakfast, and when he arranged work at the food distribution point below, his breakfast was also ready.

Qi Jiang went in and asked Su Qing to get up, and told him about the situation outside. After Su Qing got dressed, the two sat outside to eat.

After eating, Su Qing went to the window to watch the rain outside. The balcony was cooler. He felt uncomfortable after standing for a while, and was dragged in by Qi Jiang after coughing twice.

Su Qing obediently asked Qi Jiang to cover him with a blanket, sat on the sofa and looked outside: "Brother Jiang, don't go shopping today, there are so many bugs in the water, it's hard to guard against."

"Let's see when the time comes." Qi Jiang nodded, looking at Su Qing's hair that had grown a bit, "Did you get your hair cut today? I can't go out to find someone now, so let me cut it for you."

Su Qing glanced at him carefully: "Would you?"

Qi Jiang really didn't know how to do it, and shook his head with some guilt: "I haven't cut it, I'll try to be careful."

Their hair is really long, and it has already covered their eyes, and they have talked about cutting their hair several times, but they have no time. Now it is raining, and they can only solve it by themselves.

Su Qing prepared the stool, mirror, and apron, sat down obediently and handed the scissors and comb to Qi Jiang, not forgetting to tell: "Be careful."

Qi Jiang smiled and nodded, recalling how the stylist cut his hair in the past, he only felt that Mr. Tony in his memory helped him get his hair done in one quick operation, and he couldn't come up with anything after recalling it for a few minutes.

Comb Su Qing's hair with a comb. Qi Jiang carefully picked up a small strand of hair and cut it off. His movements were very slow, and Su Qing couldn't see how he cut it. He yawned after sitting for a long time .

After a long time, Su Qing was a little sleepy, looked at Qi Jiang who had just cut to the front, and said in a sleepy voice, "Are you ready?"

"Almost." Qi Jiang carefully cut off another strand, "It will be ready in about half an hour."

Su Qing: ...

"Why don't you just cut it casually." Su Qing was a little bit dumbfounded, "You don't have to be so careful."

Qi Jiang smiled lightly, and picked up a strand of soft hair: "Slow work and careful work, you can't cut it too ugly."

He said it took half an hour, but in fact it was almost done after 10 minutes, and it took another 10 minutes to trim, during which Su Qing yawned several times.

The hair on the apron was patted off, Qi Jiang picked up the mirror and put it in front of him: "How about the new hairstyle?"

Su Qing glanced at herself in the mirror, and nodded with a slight smile: "It looks good."

In fact, this hairstyle is really not good-looking, it can only be said to be quite satisfactory, and it is hard for Qi Jiang to cut it so carefully and carefully for an hour.

Qi Jiang carefully helped Su Qing get rid of the broken hair on his neck with a towel, and he sat down by himself after a few minutes.

It would be different for Su Qing to cut it. He probably remembered what Qi Jiang's hairstyle was like before, so he spent more than ten minutes trimming a similar hairstyle for him. The speed was so fast that Qi Jiang felt ashamed.

He cut Su Qing's hair in a satisfactory manner only by being careful. It can only be said that it is not ugly, it is supported by Su Qing's appearance and temperament, while Su Qing relies entirely on skills.

Qi Jiang looked at himself in the mirror curiously, his hairstyle was really similar to his before: "Su Qing, why can you even cut your hair?"

"I used to cut my grandfather's hair for him." Su Qing pursed her lips and smiled, "When I was in high school, my grandfather began to dislike my bad haircut, so I learned a few tricks from others."

Qi Jiang: ...So he is treated like a grandfather after giving Su Qing a sense of security?

This logic is so smooth that it makes one's scalp tingle.

Su Qing packed up his things and put them away, while Qi Jiang took a broom to sweep the broken hair on the floor. When he turned around, he found Su Qing pushed a box of books out from under the bed.

"This is?"

"I bought it from Grandma Zhou before." Su Qing opened the box, "Although these mental methods don't require specific blood like the family's mental methods, the fact that they can be passed down to this day shows that they have been widely spread before, and they must be high-quality products."

Qi Jiang didn't understand this either, so he squatted down with him, waiting for Su Qing to find a way for him.

I also told him about Su Qing's going to Grandma Zhou's place before, and only then did he know how capable his family Su Qing is. Others choose jobs from existing jobs, and he finds a job that suits him.

Thanks to his confession in advance, otherwise he probably won't know what's going on.

Su Qing found a lot of ideas from the box, including gold, wood, water, soil, and a book that doesn't stick to any attributes.

Because Qi Jiang said that he had no feeling for the beast pill of the fire element, he didn't give him a way to find the fire element.

"The first four books were mentioned to me by my grandfather. I heard that they were all left over from the previous great sect. They are more suitable for single spiritual roots, but now many people in the practice world are practicing for the name of the great sect. , it’s difficult to practice famous tricks, and these few books are not suitable for Duolingen, which is why most people can’t get started.”

"These dozens of books are less difficult to practice and are suitable for multiple spiritual roots, but the combination is complicated. Now I don't know what your spiritual root is, so I suggest not to choose lightly."

"This "Tianwutongfa" doesn't stick to any spiritual root, it is a very basic mental method, and it will be convenient if you want to switch to other mental methods in the future."

Su Qing roughly talked about the pros and cons of these books, and also gave his own suggestions: "Now the practice world is no longer able to test people's spiritual roots like before. I suggest you not to choose rashly. Let's use "Tianwutongfa" first. Introduce Qi into the body, and then switch to practice later, many people with family traditions also do this."

Qi Jiang naturally chose to listen to Su Qing, nodded slightly, took "Tian Wu Tong Fa" and read two pages, seeing that it was full of traditional characters and classical Chinese, he felt a little headache.

Su Qing put away all the other books, and Qi Jiang asked curiously: "Su Qing, what spiritual root are you?"

"I used to be Fire Spirit Root." Su Qing replied.

"Before?" Qi Jiang was puzzled, "Can the spiritual root still change?"

In case the spiritual root changes, it is too dangerous if the mentality remains unchanged.

Su Qing chuckled: "Many methods based on bloodlines don't look at spiritual roots. These are called aristocratic families, but most of the population of the aristocratic families has withered until now, and there are only a single seedling left. sharp."

"Then when did your spiritual roots change?"

"When it mutated." Su Qing shook his head helplessly, "After that, I discovered that there were two more spiritual roots of Feng Shui."

Qi Jiang asked some more questions about spiritual roots. The opinion of the practice community is that a single spiritual root requires less resources to cultivate than multiple spiritual roots, and it is faster to cultivate, so the fewer spiritual roots the better, but now that the spiritual energy has recovered, There is no need to worry about the issue of spiritual energy. The more spiritual roots there are, the more methods you can use. It is really hard to say whether it is better to have more spiritual roots or less spiritual roots.

Anyway, Su Qing heard from his grandfather that a long time ago, when there were many sects, there were not many spiritual roots, so there is no stable way to say this.

Su Qing spent two hours explaining "Tianwu Tongfa" to Qi Jiang. When he was about to speak, he heard someone knock on the door, and Qi Jiang put away the book and went out.

Outside was Brother Chen who was fully armed. After Qi Jiang came out, he closed the door and did not open the door to talk to Brother Chen.

There were many bugs in the corridor outside, and the door behind Brother Chen was also closed, and he was holding a vegetable basket: "Brother Qi, are you going to buy vegetables?"

"The water is so deep, the food distribution point is still open?"

Brother Chen nodded helplessly: "They said they were queuing at the stairs, but there were many bugs in the water and they kept climbing up the stairs. I was not at ease. I guess you would not let Su Qing go down, so I wanted to call you together , take care of each other when the time comes."

Qi Jiang nodded slightly: "Then wait for me for a few minutes, and I will change my clothes."

Brother Chen responded, and after waiting for a few minutes, he saw Qi Jiang come out dressed, and the two went down together.

When they reached the fifth floor, they heard a burst of noise and screams from below. The end of the line was the corridor on the fourth floor. When Qi Jiang walked past, he saw someone he knew and asked him.

"Brother Fang, why is the line so long? Do other communities come here to line up?"

Brother Fang is short-sighted and wears glasses, and shook his head kindly: "The corridors below the second floor are full of bugs. Everyone is separated by a long distance to wait in such a long line. Other communities also buy vegetables like this, so you don't need to go out."

"What's the situation on the first floor now?"

"I heard that we are going to move to the top of the building. Isn't there a few vacant houses left? We will live in them all. I heard that if the water continues to rise in the back, the ones on the second floor will have to be moved."

The notice hasn't come out yet, and I don't know what the specific regulations are. Qi Jiang nodded his thanks and thought about it.

When they got to the stairs on the third floor, which is the junction with the second floor, there were indeed a lot more bugs on the ground. Everyone kept stomping their feet, and many bug corpses were left behind.

In addition, there were soldiers shaking torches on the ground, and the stench lingered for a long time, even if Qi Jiang was wearing a mask, he felt it was very pleasant.

On the second floor, the line was sparse, and several soldiers kept boiling the water to crawl up the bugs. The closer to the first floor, the more bugs, and the more soldiers holding torches.

In front of the stairs on the first floor, there was a battle pet car, which was only loaded with rice and meat, and there were no other supplies.

Originally, there were scarce ingredients such as fruits, eggs, and seafood from the 1st to the 3rd of each month, but now it seemed that they were not available, so Qi Jiang gave up the idea and quickly said a few things he wanted.

As soon as he finished speaking, someone in the car quickly counted out the corresponding rice and meat. A soldier beside the car rode over and put the things into Qi Jiang's vegetable basket, and then deducted the corresponding points from the bankbook with a pen and stamped it on it. chapter.

When paying the bill, Qi Jiang asked by the way: "Brother, the water is so deep. I had a war pet in my family who was sent for assessment before. Today is just the time to pick her up. May I ask if we should pick her up at the police academy?"

The little brother returned the passbook to him, and quickly said: "All the pets will be arranged uniformly, and they will be sent back after the water recedes."

When they were shopping, there were two soldiers standing on the left and right at the stairs, holding torches and burning bugs non-stop. Brother Chen was in line behind Qi Jiang, and people kept asking why there were no fruits and seafood for sale. Feeling irritable, I can't wait to go back immediately after buying food.

After he finished shopping, he and Qi Jiang walked away quickly. After leaving the queue, he said dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter with these people? If you don't have it, you don't have it. If you have anything to ask, you won't be afraid of being bitten by insects after staying for so long."

"People want to die, others can't stop it." Qi Jiang shook his head while holding something.

"The key is to block the way and drag others to death." Brother Chen was very upset, and couldn't help sighing after speaking, "I don't know when the rain will last."

"It's raining, the key is the bugs in the water." Qi Jiang frowned, "A lot of people were bitten on the first floor in the morning, and the soldiers stationed at the food distribution point waded to the hospital. I don’t know how many times I was bitten, and no one has come back now, even the soldiers who came to take over the distribution of supplies are not all riding horses.”

Brother Chen paused, looked left and right to see no one, and then asked in a low voice: "Are you afraid that you won't be able to deliver the supplies later?"

"If the rain continues."

Hearing this, Brother Chen suddenly felt that the stairs were impossible to climb, he hesitated for a few seconds and put the things in the vegetable basket on Qi Jiang's side: "Brother Qi, help me take it back, I'll go and buy up my family's quota,"

Qi Jiang nodded: "Then be careful."

Brother Chen responded, and ran down three steps at a time. Qi Jiang went back to the ninth floor to deliver the things to Sister Fang, and said a few words, fearing that the insects would run in and not stay for too long before returning home.

"How is it?" Su Qing came out from the balcony with a spatula in hand, "Have you heard any news?"

Qi Jiang put down his things and went to help, and answered Su Qing's question by the way, and then they all found that the other party's worries were different from their own.

Qi Jiang was worried about the follow-up injuries and supplies, while Su Qing was worried about water resources.

From Qi Jiang's point of view, the supplies can still be placed in a high place, and they can be delivered if they think of a way, not to mention that many people have a lot of food in their homes, so that everyone will not starve to death.

However, Fengcheng used to have a lot of clean water resources, but now it is raining heavily, the water in each lake is polluted, and there are a bunch of bug eggs on the water surface.

You know, the sale of mineral water in Fengcheng has long been discontinued, that is to say, the water stored by each household should be regarded as the only clean water resource left in Fengcheng. If you are lucky, maybe the lake with high terrain still remains. But there are so many people in Fengcheng, and the overall terrain is also low. Even if one or two lakes survived, it would be a drop in the bucket.

After Su Qing said this, Qi Jiang realized what he had overlooked. He looked at the living room that had been emptied by them, and hurriedly said, "Su Qing, put those empty water storage tanks in the living room."

"How much water is there?" Su Qing's eyes flashed, "Brother Chen's family and Grandma Chen's family have a good relationship with us, especially Grandma Chen's family has a large population, we can..."

He didn't finish, but Qi Jiang understood what he meant.

"I will pay attention, first put three boxes of water, and empty the remaining boxes."

Soon, the living room near the entrance was filled with water storage tanks, and only the three tanks closest to the balcony had water.

When everything was ready, Su Qing went back and continued to watch the fire, looking at the braised pork stir frying in the pot: "Brother Jiang, let's cook more food these two days."

Qi Jiang put the recipe in his hand aside: "Okay, then you go to marinate the meat now, we will start cooking after dinner."

While everyone was still discussing the rain and bugs, Su Qing and Qi Jiang had already prepared for the worst.

The money is not revealed, they are only going to live their little life behind closed doors, and they are not going to make it public, so they have taken the opportunity to cook a lot of meals in the past three days.

Although it was not much, but under the preparation that they kept the fire for almost three consecutive days, these meals were enough for them to eat for half a month.

If the pot at home is not too small, they can prepare more.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to the [-]th, the wind outside was like a giant howling at all times, the majestic heavy rain covered the sight, and the poisonous death fog that "accompanied" everyone for more than April finally lost its trace in the heavy rain.

In the past, it was the poisonous fog of death that hindered travel, but now it is heavy rain and stagnant water. Now, looking at the bugs everywhere on the water, it is better to think about the poisonous fog of death.

Now the water has completely flooded the entire first floor. Although the second and third floors have not been flooded, the corridors and windows are covered with layers of bugs, and the residents of these three floors are forced to move to the top floor.

There are only four suites on the top floor of each building in Tianbi Garden. There are usually two households on the first floor, plus ten households on the second and third floors, but the number of people is not as many as imagined.

Many of the residents on the lower floors were bitten by insects, and some were bitten while shopping for vegetables. They were all sent to the hospital by the army, and very few survived.

Not only the residents lost a lot, but even the soldiers lost a lot. Although the latter insisted on continuing to rescue, they couldn't withstand the ruthlessness of the natural disaster.

Now the corridors and walls of the lower floors are full of bugs. The food distribution point no longer delivers supplies from the lower floors, but from the top floors. Because the delivery of supplies is difficult, the purchase quota is reduced almost once a day, and the water is even more so every day. People only have half a bottle.

Although many people complained, after a few people were taken away to serve as coolies for transporting supplies, all those who had opinions were honest.

On the [-]th, the water in the sky seemed to open the sluice, and it poured down, flooding the entire second floor within a day, and the water level was close to the third floor.

Before the rain, most of the people who were bitten by the bugs could come back after prescribed medicine. After the rain, the poison of these bugs was enhanced like hormones, and the number increased. These days, the people who were bitten almost lost consciousness very quickly. After being sent to the hospital, he never came back.

Moreover, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the soldiers who sent supplies at the food point had also changed two batches.

Seeing that the water was about to flood to the door of the house, people on the fourth and fifth floors finally couldn't sit still and moved up one after another, but the vacant rooms had long since disappeared, and a conflict broke out on the top floor soon.

The smell of blood drifted down the stairs, accompanied by a few screams, and suddenly a person fell from the 20th floor into the water below, splashed a few times and drank a few mouthfuls of dirty water with bugs. , With a shiver, he sank into the water with a blue face.

The people in the community management office were all bitten by insects and sent to the hospital two days ago. The time of the conflict was in the evening.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Ahhh! I'm fighting with you!"

"Give back my father's life, I'll kill you!"

After the death, many people on the floor below knew what had happened. Qi Jiang and Su Qing were meditating at first, but after the commotion became louder, they ran to the balcony to look at the water and listened to the chaotic movement above. No body was found on the water.

Pfft!

They just turned around and went back when a black figure fell from upstairs again and fell into the water with a thud. Qi Jiang and Su Qing ran to the window to watch, only to see countless insects swarming up, a black mass surrounding the still struggling figure , Before I could tell whether the person was a man or a woman, I saw him sink into the water.

"What's going on?" Qi Jiang's heart beat violently, "Why did such a big thing happen all of a sudden?"

"If we continue like this, I'm afraid the conflict will expand and it will be bad if it spreads downstairs." Su Qing swallowed worriedly.

Stopping the conflict is definitely necessary, but without two people at once, the people above must be red-eyed. Qi Jiang dare not go up, so he can only find the person who distributes the food.

His eyesight was not as good as that of Su Qing, so he couldn't find the boat and asked, "Have you seen the boat at our food distribution point?"

Su Qing looked into the distance, it was raining too much outside, he could only vaguely see a lot of orange hovercraft wandering on the water in the distance.

After a few seconds, he found that one of the ships was marked TB01, which was the ship of their Tianbiyuan food distribution point.

"It's too far away, too late."

Hearing this, Qi Jiang glanced around and saw that there seemed to be a few figures in the rain curtain, so he pointed and asked, "Is that a boat?"

Su Qing looked in the direction, nodded immediately: "Yes, the distance is not far, we..."

"Your wings are too small, you'll probably get wet as soon as you go out, I'll go." Qi Jiang interrupted him, opened the window first and flew out, quickly closed it before the bugs ran in, and then plunged into the heavy rain.

Ten minutes later, several gunshots rang out from downstairs, and an extremely angry male voice yelled upstairs through a loudspeaker: "What are you doing upstairs?! Stop the fuck!"