Doomsday Allure

The Spring Festival is the most grand traditional festival in Huaxia Kingdom. Speaking of it, the festival only lasts for one day, but when the world is good, the festive atmosphere lasts for about 20 days.

But now, there are thousands of villages and thousands of households, and there is no festive atmosphere.

Because it was too deserted and busy, Wei Buzheng didn't realize that it was going to be a holiday in advance. When he saw his grandma pull out two dusty red lanterns and wipe them with Li Qingyuan, he only found out after asking.

Originally thinking that the decision to go back to the base in two days was temporarily overturned, Wei Buzheng went to Shouxing Peak with Shen Wei again in the morning.

He is more at ease at home now. Xiang Zhen and Gao Youxiang have been living here these days, and all the land in the orchard that needs to be turned has been turned over. The ground was overturned, and these families were very moved.

When Wei Buzheng was not at home, Gu Songyi performed the duties of the chief manager of the Wei family by himself, and arranged the affairs outside the house properly.

He falsely preached the imperial decree and asked Du Qiao to inform Si Dengyun that he had come to Duoyu Village. After the two had a conversation, Du Qiao, Xing Yifan, Guo Liancheng, and Si Tingyun would no longer go back to Jay Ferry every day. Dengyun sent them more than 100 catties of food and other daily necessities. These four people now live in the old courtyard of Weibuzhengjia at night. Zhao Zhe has cleaned up all the garbage there, and Du Qiao and the four built for themselves. A temporary housing, in this way, these four people can work for three or four hours more every day.

Wei Buzheng felt that this arrangement was not bad, and he didn't care about the small details. Now the four of Du Qiao and the others can drink the water he condensed every day.

There are a total of ten supernatural beings in Jay's Crossing, one of which has a water system, but the supernatural power is so weak that it can condense about [-] kilograms of water at most every day. After condensing, they can't do anything except headaches. Therefore, Although Si Tingyun and Du Qiao are supernatural beings, Si Tingyun is still Si Dengyun's younger brother. When they were at Songyaodu, they drank most of the water from the Wula River every day. Now, these boys feel that they are Very happy, working very hard.

The yard for water supply transfer has also been circled, and three thatched cottages have been built inside. Now, Wei Buzheng, Li Qingwu or Shen Wei can go there to condense the water that needs to be supplied at any time every day. A young man lives there, on duty 24 hours a day, and the one-stop water supply service is very mature.

There are still two days before the Spring Festival. After the Spring Festival, it will be a new year. At this time in a normal year, the temperature has begun to rise, and the breath of spring can be clearly felt, but this year's weather shows no sign of warming up. The Qingliu River was completely frozen, and the two sides of the Wula River were frozen for hundreds of meters. Only about 300 meters of water in the central channel was flowing.

It has been a month since Wei Buzheng first planted the wheat, and there is no sign of sprouting.

The day after tomorrow is a holiday, Wei Buzheng rushed the time at the base today, and completed the test on the remaining [-] soldiers in just over five hours.

He found three more people with spiritual roots. For his safety, like the previous three times, Shen Wei did not ask him to help those three people activate their spiritual roots today, but added an appropriate amount of water to the water for those three people Jasper Lake and Qingyu Stream.

What Shen Wei has shown in front of everyone is only water and soil abilities, because these two are the most needed and scarce, and the speed at which he can dig the foundation alone can outpace thousands of people.

With Li Qingwu, a little guy with a powerful water system, Shen Wei only supplies water for two thousand people today. After he completes the water supply task, he will help dig the foundation of the public house. come over.

After Wei Buzheng finished the test, he and Shen Conglan walked through the base of Shouxing Peak and went to Guining Garden on the south bank of Qingliu River. There, he saw a large area of ​​temporary housing that was not even a shack. The civilians chasing Shen Wei and the others.

Shen Conglan said: "Du Chenglong is probably crazy about his son who has aroused supernatural powers. Now it has been confirmed that after the initial corpse change period, if there is no external stimulation, most of the Wuchong people will die." He will not take the initiative to attack humans, and he is still conniving with Du Yitian to hunt and kill the Wuchong clan, even ordinary people who protect the Wuchong clan's family dare to kill."

Wei Buzheng said: "Uncle Shen, have you ever thought about it, when spring starts and the weather gets warmer, the situation may get worse."

Shen Conglan said: "Think about it, your aunt and Nie Weicheng have discussed this possibility more than once. Now the weather is too cold, and most people still have stored food, which can barely survive. Ordinary people, if they can’t go out, they don’t go out, and when the weather gets warmer, ah,” Shen Conglan sighed, “I can’t imagine what will happen? Do people eat people?”

Wei Buzheng looked at the pale sun in the sky and said: "If there is a heavy snowfall, the spring may be better; if the drought continues, even the weeds will not grow well in the spring, and that kind of thing may really happen."

Shen Conglan said: "I hope God can give human beings a way to survive. We should also learn the lesson. From now on, we should be better to God and the land under our feet."

The two returned to the base at exactly four o'clock.

Shen Conglan took the initiative to urge Wei Buzheng and Shen Wei to go back to Duoyu Village. He said to Shen Wei: "It's time for the festival. Elderly people like to have fun during the festival. I'm here. You don't have to come back so early these few days. Be with me more." grandparents."

Shen Wei said: "At least I'll come back tomorrow to help you dig that big tank."

It may be because the stone comes from the earth, and the soil ability can also act on the stone, but it is much more difficult to change the shape of the stone than they can easily turn the stone. Xiang Zhen dug a one-meter-high, one-meter-diameter It took two days for the tank, and I was still so tired that I got a headache.

The stone that Shen Wei wanted to dig into a vat was a large landscape stone in the garden of a resident here. It was originally more than five meters high, the widest part was [-] meters, and the thickest part was [-] meters. Shen Wei used it for three days. In his spare time, he divided this stone into six parts. He wanted to use the most beautiful piece to dig a large tank for his home. Now, the project is only two-thirds completed.

Shen Conglan said: "The two pots at home are enough for your mother and us, and we will dig the same pot after the New Year."

Shen Wei said: "The year is not good, and it's Chinese New Year. I don't have any gifts for you. I want to give you this tank."

Shen Conglan stretched out his hand and was about to pump Shen Wei: "You bastard, it's Chinese New Year, you actually want to give us a vat, or a big vat?"

Wei Buzheng laughed.

In the area of ​​Zhongzhou, there is a saying about taking the blame for others, it is called "sitting in a vat", Shen Wei's gift is really heart-wrenching.

Shen Wei jumped behind Wei Buzheng, and confronted his father through him: "This is what you said, you don't want this tank, when it is finished tomorrow, I will give it to Commander Nie."

Shen Conglan: "You dare."

Wei Buzheng turned his head to look at Shen Wei: "Where is that stone? Take me there to have a look."

Every time he comes, he supplies water at several fixed places, and he has never seen that stone.

Shen Wei pulled Wei Buzheng and left: "Over there, let's go, there are several beautiful stones there, you choose one, and I'll dig one for grandparents too."

The warehouse is in a sheltered valley in the middle of the mountain. It is so simple that it makes people sad. It is a semi-circular mountain depression and a large yard surrounded by rammed earth walls. Except for a few thatched houses that discharge grain, it is half of the yard. All kinds of landscape stones and barely usable furniture in a few rooms.

The stone that Shen Wei dug the vat was near the gate. The stone is very beautiful, with light orange and white intertwined patterns, and one side is an irregular semicircle. Shen Wei used this semicircle as the bottom. Such a beautiful plane.

Wei Buzheng glanced at it, and said to Shen Wei: "I can't tell, you are quite frugal."

Shen Wei dug slowly because he wanted to dig out the middle part in a whimsical way, and then he could dig out a smaller tank for the dug out part, and then continue, and finally dig out a set of tanks the size of a nesting doll. .

This is more difficult than Xiang Zhen turning the inside into powder, Shen Wei is taking this opportunity to practice his fine control over the soil ability.

Shen Wei grabbed the side of the stone and said proudly: "I'm very good at living, poor and rich, I can live better than others."

Wei Buzheng didn't answer his words, and looked around the stone: "Come on, let's go together, let's give this gift out today, and don't rush to give it during the holidays, it doesn't feel so bad."

Shen Wei rolled up his sleeves happily: "Success, the old devil doesn't want it, so I want to give it to him."

Originally, I could have returned early today, but because of this big tank, the two of them had to leave again with the sky full of stars.

When Wei Buzheng placed the large vat with beautiful patterns in the corner behind Shen Wei's house from the space, Tian Wenjun was stunned: "My God, this is too beautiful."

The shape is irregular, but the inside is a very standard oval shape. The bottom of the tank has been dug into the shape that is easiest to clean without dead ends. The upper edge of the tank has been carefully ground to a rounded shape. landscape stone.

When Wei Buzheng took it out, it was already full of water, and through the clear water, the patterns on the bottom could be clearly seen.

Wei Buzheng said: "My grandfather knows how to weave baskets and baskets. When I turn around, I will ask my grandfather to weave a cover."

Shen Conglan touched the tank and smiled like a black man: "Hey, this tank of water is enough for your mother and us for half a month."

Wei Buzheng said a little embarrassedly: "It just takes up too much space, the room is not big."

Shen Conglan said: "Oh oh oh, don't say that, I welcome two more of you, at worst we can add another house, water is worth money now."

Wei Buzheng bid farewell to Shen Conglan and Tian Wenjun, rode Qingzao with Shen Wei, and arrived home in 10 minutes.

At the gate, they seemed to see the backs of Gu Tongren and Li Gaofu. The two walked through the woods in front of Wei's house and entered the village.

Wei Buzheng and Shen Wei have always walked from the west along the road along the Qingliu River. They actually took a detour. The best route is to go directly through the village to the east, but Wei Buzheng is unwilling to go from the village. walk.

So they happened to be staggered with Gu Tongren today.

Shen Wei said: "If they are interceding for someone who has been blacklisted for you, just refuse."

Wei Buzheng said: "Probably not. Uncle Tongren is a very rare person, so he would not make such a request."

Facts have proved that it is Wei Buzheng who knows the people in his village better.

Gu Songyi hasn't left yet, he came here after arguing with his uncle.

Gu Tongren and Li Gaofu wanted Wei Buzheng to supply about [-] more barrels of water when the day after tomorrow was celebrated. They discussed with the chief manager Gu Songyi, but Gu Songyi disagreed, saying that there was an agreement that Wei Buzheng would not be forced to provide more water unless he voluntarily. Gu Tongren and Li Gaofu found Wei's house by themselves.

Wei Buzheng was very happy that the chief manager did not turn his elbow outward. He smiled and said, "Thank you! However, I originally planned to increase the water supply. Make it up, in the future, I will provide one hundred barrels of water to the village every day.

From tomorrow until the fifteenth day, I will supply an extra [-] barrels a day and give it to the village office. How to use it, you can discuss it with your colleagues, and I will not participate. "

Gu Songyi looked at Wei Buzheng for a long time: "Are you serious, you didn't give a bucket to the villagers' families, but to the village office?"

Wei Buzheng said, "Yes."

In today's world, the biggest survival problem that people face is not food or water, but the complete loss of restraint and order, which makes everyone's life safety insecure.

Wei Buzheng can't control other places. He hopes that order can be restored as soon as possible in his village. The creators and maintainers of order need to establish prestige and status through ability. Dozens of buckets of water are nothing, but they can make people The village office has partially recovered its prestige in the eyes of the villagers. With prestige, there is a basis for management and restriction.

Gu Songyi gave Wei Buzheng a thumbs up: "I know why God gave you such a good ability. Well, the water problem in our village is settled, and I will tell you something about other villages."

Shen Wei raised his eyebrows: "Other villages, what do you mean?"

Gu Songyi said: "My eldest uncle is from Hulipo. The day before yesterday, my uncle came to see me with his elder brother and younger brother. They heard that some people in our village have the ability of the water system. They wanted to ask if they could provide them with some clean water. They said that they can forget about it, and they can’t bear to let the old people and children drink the water of the Wula River every day.”

Wei Buzheng asked: "Isn't Fox Poe a person with supernatural abilities?"

This is a question that Wei Buzheng has been perplexing recently. After he came back, he had never heard of any supernatural beings appearing in any of the nearby villages. According to what he experienced all the way from the west, the appearance rate of supernatural beings should not be so high. Low.

Duoyu Village is the smallest village in Qingmang Town. Before the end of the world, it had a population of more than 500 people. It’s fine if there is no one. Dali Village and Qiujiafang are both large villages with a population of nearly 3000 people. is a bit abnormal.

Gu Songyi said: "My uncle said that there was a seven-year-old child in their village. At first, the family members came out and said that water would come out of his hands one by one. Later, they said that the child lied to him, and the family now He moved away, and I heard that he went to join the Tao family in Qingmang Town."

The Tao family in Qingmang Town, Wei Buzheng knows that the richest man in Qingmang Town, like the Gu family, is in business and politics. After ten years of land privatization, some private land transfers are allowed according to the law. Their family bought more than 1000 yuan at once. Mu, the Tao family is the first one in Qingmang Town to obtain the certificate for building a house on forestry land.

Shen Wei asked Gu Songyi: "Hey, you didn't promise them for Buzheng?"

Gu Songyi said: "Of course, I refused at once, saying that it is very difficult to supply the supply to our village, and it is impossible to increase production. In order to help me, my grandfather and family members said that the two buckets of water that our family gets every day will be given to me. A barrel from my uncle's house."

Luo Chong said regretfully: "If Qingwu is still at home, I can supply them with some, and exchange some land for our family."

Grandpa waved his hands again and again: "Enough is enough. In our land, a dozen or so people are enough to support us. No matter how many people there are, you will all be too tired."

Xiang Zhen said: "If it's just digging the ground, it won't be a problem to add another three to five thousand acres. I have continued to improve my abilities by digging the ground, clearing the stones, and repairing the stones these days; I don’t even have a sickle, how can I take it?”

Wei Buzheng said: "Maybe, I can try, but with fruit trees in the middle, the efficiency will not be too high."

His ethereal root has the same air ability as Shen Wei, which can form a high-pressure or negative-pressure state in a specific space to collect mature wheat, but his control over the air is still quite rough, if there are other items mixed in, They will be harvested together. In this way, the fruit trees will be miserable and all will be bald.

Grandma was happy when she saw Wei Buzheng and Shen Wei come back, she cut a white radish in her hand and said, "It's time for the festival, don't think about these things, grandma will make dumplings for you tomorrow, with two kinds of stuffing, celery and egg stuffing, radish stuffing Rabbit stuffing, whichever you like to eat."

Wei Buzheng planted all the vegetable seeds in his grandmother's hands in the responsible field of Qingyu Space. The celery has just grown to the size of coriander. For the festival, he cruelly made two bundles.

The two super big rabbits that Ye Xingchen caught that day opened a new door for everyone. It may be due to the lack of food. Recently, there are frequent rabbits in the orchard. Xiang Zhen has covered three of them with soil these days, but none of them were found. Ye Xingchen caught the big ones, the biggest one was eight kilograms.

It was already dark, and candles are very precious now, but grandma felt that the dumpling stuffing for the festival had to be chopped at night, so everyone accompanied grandma and worked in the kitchen together.

Shen Wei was chopping meat with a knife in one hand, Gao Youxiang and Li Qingyuan were dicing the celery together; Xiang Zhen was blanching the white radish, when he finished blanching, Luo Chong started to chop the stuffing.

Although the fire in the earthen stove is very strong and a thick cotton curtain is hung on the door, the temperature is too low and the kitchen is not very warm. After sitting for a long time, the feet will still be numb from the cold, but the room is full. The lively festive atmosphere made Wei Buzheng feel warm and comfortable.

It was almost nine o'clock, and finally the busy work was over. Everyone went back to the house to rest. Grandma refused to let Wei Buzheng go to treat her again today.

Wei Buzheng gestured to Xiang Zhen, Gao Youxiang, Luo Chong and Li Qingyuan, and went back to his room with Shen Wei.

Now the nights are long and the days are short, and everyone works from sunrise to sunset, and the nights are as long as thirteen hours a day, so he has a lot of time to do his own things.

No matter how busy he is during the day, he will practice exercises outside for two or three hours at night, so that everyone living in this yard can benefit from the high-definition spiritual environment he released.

In addition, he will practice alone with Shen Wei for one to two hours. During this process, the energy of chaos contained in his running Qingling will be much higher, because this process is a one-on-one full-scale The process is closed, so there is no need to worry about the escaping of the chaotic power, causing unconcealed anomalies.

Today, Wei Buzheng finished the first stage of cultivation, and did not start the second stage right away, he threw an apple to Shen Wei and said, "I need to discuss something with you."

Shen Wei: "No need to discuss, I agree."

Wei Buzheng gritted his teeth: "That's good, I want you to start tomorrow, don't follow me back every day."

Shen Wei chewed the apple crisply, and said with a smile: "You don't want to discuss this with me, the one you really want to discuss."

Wei Buzheng was helpless: "I want to use water and exchange land with the people from Huhupo. The more the better."

Shen Wei stopped eating apples: "Why?"

Wei Buzheng didn't answer his question, but said: "Shen Wei, I think you should also consider how to own some land. I don't know how long the current situation will last. After the national grain depot runs out of grain, How do you feed so many people? You can be sure that the government agencies in most places have been paralyzed. In the future, no one will collect public food and supply you.

What's more, without chemical fertilizers, the future food production will definitely decrease, and the production per mu will be half of what it used to be. But after the end of the world, the population will be reduced by about half, and a lot of land will be abandoned.Military reclamation has existed since ancient times. You don’t need to seize other people’s land. You just need to integrate those lands that have lost their owners and make them your food supply base. In this way, you will have your own stable rear in the future, and you will not increase the burden on ordinary civilians. . "

Shen Wei put the apple to Wei Buzheng's mouth: "Take a bite."

Wei Buzheng slapped him away: "I'm telling you something serious, I have a hunch that the situation will not get better in spring, but may even get worse."

Shen Wei stopped making trouble, and returned to his usual expression: "I have always had a place in my heart, which is particularly unsteady, but I have never been able to find out what it is, and now I know, it is what you said, retreat, or in other words, Solid rear.

I grew up in a military compound. My dad and the people around me are all soldiers in the frontline combat forces. We are used to having a huge country behind us as our backing. With the army and food depots, we will not be in a predicament of starvation for a while. I am lucky in my heart, so I can't see clearly the reason for my panic.

Now that I know it, I feel more at ease. Knowing where the biggest crisis is in the future, I know what to do next.

These days, don't look at me being busy. In fact, I feel that I have no roots. I don't know what to do next after I have been busy for a while.In fact, I'm in a panic all day long, so when I'm with you, I feel more at ease. "

Wei Buzheng picked up the apple and pressed it to his mouth: "Eat it quickly, practice after eating, go to bed early after practicing, grandma's nails are long, she can't make dumplings, and tomorrow's dumplings are still counting on you."

"You don't have to worry about this, leave the dumplings to me." Shen Wei took a big bite of the apple and said boldly, "Everyone loves the dumplings I made, you sleep until eight o'clock tomorrow, just sit on the bed Let’s wait and eat big stuffed dumplings with thin skins and plenty of stuffing.”

The next morning, Wei Buzheng looked at the dumplings on the plate, and it took him a long time to say: "Shen Wei, are these dumplings you made, or shoes?"