The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 257 New News from the Military

Time flies and more than half a month has passed.

The main structure of the Huozhulin Shelter has been basically completed.

The shopping mall and supermarket complex base has also been basically completed.

The entire shopping mall complex adopts a semi-embedded structure.

That is, half of the main body is inside the mountain wall, and the other half is outside the cliff.

The structure inside the mountain is simple. We just need to carve out rooms and passages and provide reinforcement supports. Because it is a rock structure, we don't even need to lay the floor.

The outside of the mountain is still built with fire bamboo as the frame, the inside is regularized with wood, and the outer layer is reinforced with sand, soil and stones.

Because there was no cement, Ma Guocai and his team directly used mutant sea cucumber mucus as a strong adhesive when they first designed it.

The effect of this sea cucumber mucus is surprisingly good, and the adobe bricks made from it are no worse than concrete.

Ma Guocai also asked several older women to paint some patterns on the walls, inlay some bottles and jars, and plant some flowers and plants as exterior wall decoration.

Then the staircase is also designed in the bamboo building, and the complex has a total of four floors.

Each floor must be five meters high, and the distance between the floors is relatively large.

Firstly, there is a concern that if the digging is too close, the stones will easily collapse; secondly, the sound insulation is better, and the functional areas are different, so the independent environments are different.

The top fourth floor is the entertainment area, which includes a movie theater, billiard room, video room, computer rental, electronic product repair, etc.

The second and third floors are the daily necessities area, similar to a department store. Everything from clothes and shoes to hardware, soaps and bath products are displayed on this floor.

The first floor is the food area, which includes private shops and public canteens.

The reason why the food area is placed on the first floor is naturally because garbage disposal is convenient and setting up the sewer is also simple and labor-saving.

All in all, although the scale of this shopping mall complex is not very large, it is comparable to the time before the apocalyptic flood.

Now that a major flood disaster has broken out, let alone shopping malls and complexes, people outside may not even be able to get enough food and clothing.

Compared to this, the happiness index of people in Yangshan is absolutely off the charts.

The people in the four major shelters became even more anxious as they looked at the large four-story complex clinging to the cliff.

They really want to stay and don't want to leave at all.

Everyone can see that this valley will definitely become the center of the entire Yangshan Mountain in the future.

In the valley, not only is the complex basically completed, but several other areas are also being completed rapidly.

Although the heavy rain continued, it could not extinguish everyone's high enthusiasm.

In the planting base, Liang Yuan and Song Wen observed the growth of the mutant plants together.

Aunt Li and Zhuang Shuyuan also followed behind him, each holding a small notebook with the notes they had made recently.

Liang Yuan lowered his head and looked at the various mutant plants that were growing quite well, a sincere smile appeared on his face.

He asked: "Wenwen, what is the yield of these mutant crops?"

Song Wen shook her head: "The yield is still unclear, but the maturity period has become shorter. Compared with ordinary crops, basically all mutant crops can be harvested four times a year. Even mutant sugarcane can achieve this speed."

Liang Yuan couldn't help but laugh and said, "So, doesn't that mean we can harvest once every quarter?"

"Well, I estimate that we will be able to harvest the first crop in another month, but I don't know what the yield will be."

Liang Yuan thought about it, turned around and asked Zhuang Shuyuan beside Aunt Li: "How was the sugarcane production when Wuwangting stopped?"

Zhuang Shuyuan finally had a chance to talk to Liang Yuan. She quickly lifted her hair and said, "Mr. Liang, when Wu Wangting stopped the sugarcane, he didn't take care of it like we did. He just drove away the mutant beasts that were eating it."

"But even so, the annual output of these sugarcanes is amazing. Each one is as thick as my arm, and not much shorter than the fire bamboo."

As she spoke, she deliberately lifted up her sleeves, revealing her jade-like arms, as if to make it easier for Liang Yuan to understand.

However, this action made Song Wen snort.

Zhuang Shuyuan stopped when she saw that things were going well, and immediately put down her sleeves, saying with a smile, "That's why Wuwang Pavilion had enough sugarcane to make sugar cubes."

Liang Yuan nodded slightly, glanced at the woman meaningfully, and said, "It seems that the mutant plants can not only adapt to the flood, but also have a very impressive production capacity."

"By the way, Aunt Li, how about the ordinary plants?"

Aunt Li sighed when she heard this: "Many ordinary plants cannot adapt to the current weather and have withered and died. We have tried many ways but have not been able to save them."

Liang Yuan comforted him, "The world is changing, species are evolving, and plants are no exception. These ordinary seeds will be replaced by mutant plants sooner or later."

"However, the taste of mutant plants may not be as good as that of ordinary plants. Remember to crossbreed a batch and see if you can breed a new variety."

"In addition, the search for new mutant seeds must continue."

"Right now, the mutant plants we can use as staple food are still taro and lotus roots, which are really not enough. It would be best if we could find mutant rice, mutant wheat, mutant sweet potatoes, and the like."

Aunt Li heard this and sighed, "It's too hard to find mutant rice. Before the great flood, Yangshan was not a place for growing rice. But there might be wheat, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc."

She recalled and said, "I remember that there was a temporary residence for forest rangers on the road to Meishan. Before the flood, there were people on duty there."

"I know that man. He's an old man named Zhong. He reclaimed a small piece of land nearby and planted a lot of potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, leeks, eggplants, etc. Xiao Liang, if you have time, you can ask someone to look over there. Maybe some of the plants have mutated and you can find seeds to transplant them."

Liang Yuan heard this and remembered some things.

Before the flood, he had climbed Yangshan for fun. There were indeed some forest rangers and sanitation workers living on the mountain, who were responsible for cleaning up garbage on the mountain trails and guarding the forest.

Some of them stay for a whole day, and scenic area staff will come up to serve them meals.

However, many older people are not used to eating these and prefer to grow something themselves. Therefore, in many inconspicuous places, these people have actually reclaimed small plots of land and planted a lot of vegetables.

They don't want to sell them, they just grow some for themselves to eat.

The older generation always believes that vegetables outside are grown in greenhouses, sprayed with pesticides, and are not healthy at all, so it is better to grow them yourself.

This idea is not just one or two people, and some elderly people have even instilled it into the next generation.

Middle-aged people with good family conditions will also go to the nearby countryside on weekends to look for agricultural products and buy some eggs raised by farmers.

Many middle-aged people who have become parents no longer care about what they eat, but their children’s healthy diet is more important than them.

They would rather spend more time and money to find safer food for their children.

Since the elderly do not have the resources and channels, they can only grow it themselves.

Therefore, there is a very common phenomenon in the city that wherever there is a little vacant land, some elderly people from unknown family will plant some vegetables or something there.

Even the green belts may be dug up and replaced with vegetables.

"Well, I'll pay attention to this matter, and ask those who go out hunting to pay attention to it."

"Wenwen, tell Ding Yan to put these search missions on the mission hall and give them higher points."

Song Wen nodded: "Okay, I'll tell Sister Ding and Zhao Kai later."

The mission hall is also a part of the shopping mall complex and is located in the food area on the first floor.

In the food area, there is not only a place to eat, but also a bar area. The task hall is near the bar, making it convenient for passers-by to check or post tasks.

Some of the tasks above are issued by the Fire Bamboo Forest Shelter, while others are issued by the shelter members themselves.

As the only official one, the Fire Bamboo Forest Shelter attracted a lot of attention after it was released because it was given a lot of points.

Speaking of this points model, it has now been officially promoted.

Now the entire shelter knows the importance of points.

These points can be used to buy anything in the shelter, including food, drink, shelter, transportation, weapons, and even asking for help. Points are required.

The points now have financial attributes and are circulated among the more than 1,000 people in Yangshan.

This is a new monetary and financial system that circulates within Yangshan.

All in all, everything in the shelter is now gradually developing from a makeshift team to a formal one.

Liang Yuan is already building the basic framework, and he no longer needs to worry about the many remaining details.

For example, when it comes to searching for mutant plant seeds, a task can be issued and handed over to other people in the shelter.

Liang Yuan lives a very comfortable life now. He wakes up in a room between the three women every day, eats the loving breakfast made by Yangmei, goes to the slaughterhouse, collects points, and basically does not have to worry about other things afterwards.

The construction work at the base is managed by people like Song Wen, Wang An, and Lao Ma.

Zhao Kai, Ding Yan and others are in charge of patrolling and hunting.

The mining area was handed over to Han Xiangman and others, and a fixed amount of supernatural stones were delivered there every week.

Liang Yuan would take time out every day to continue trying to explore his own evolutionary abilities, and he also needed to take time out to study rune technology with Old Man Yang.

He also had two fire runes in his hand, one of which was dug out from Tian Wei's skull.

The other piece was dug out from a mutant wild boar that Ding Yan had killed.

Now there is one more piece, the explosive rune in old man Yang's hand.

Therefore, Liang Yuan spent a lot of time studying these runes.

"Brother Liang, Brother Liang!" As soon as he left the valley and walked out of the fire bamboo forest, he saw Dong Yan waving at him from the bamboo building outside the fire bamboo forest.

She was even calling out to herself instead of notifying herself with her mind link ability.

Liang Yuan immediately realized that she must have something urgent.

At that moment he leaped up, touched the air with his toes, and began to run wildly in the air. His appearance was like the light Kung Fu in martial arts novels!
Ignoring the terrain, he quickly reached the bamboo building at an extremely fast speed.

This is not some kind of light skill. In fact, Liang Yuan uses his mental power to form a spiritual carrier that carries his own weight, thus forming the ability to hover in the air.

He actually had the idea of ​​this move a long time ago.

But at that time, I didn't have enough mental strength and it was difficult for me to even lift the steel bars.

After his mental power broke through fifty points, his mental power increased several times in both quality and capacity.

He was finally able to keep himself airborne with ease.

Of course, supporting the entire weight of one's own body consumes a lot of mental energy, so it is impossible to fly for a long time and can only stay in the air for a short period of time.

Liang Yuan has made a new improvement during this period, which is that he does not have to support his entire weight.

Instead, a mental power wall is condensed in the preset air, which only requires a support point the size of a foot.

Then he used his powerful muscle explosive power to step directly on the place where the mental power was, and instantly bounced out.

By repeating the operation, you can achieve the effect of running and jumping wildly in the air.

In this way, there is no need to stay in the air all the time, which greatly reduces the consumption of mental energy.

At this moment, he landed on the bamboo building easily, came to Dong Yan, and asked quickly: "Yan Yan, what's the hurry?"

Dong Yan didn't bother to marvel at Liang Yuan's cool demeanor, and quickly pulled his arm, saying, "Xiao Jie asked me to quickly inform you that the military broadcast has released a shocking news this time, and asked you to hurry over."

Liang Yuan was suddenly startled and immediately walked quickly towards the cave room.

Dong Jie, Zhao Kai, Ding Yan, Gu Feng and others are all here!
Everyone looked very serious and unusually dignified.

Liang Yuan quickly sat down and looked at the radio they were gathered around.

"Then Professor Pan, can I understand that the heavy rain will stop soon?" The host's voice sounded, still that familiar voice, that of a decisive female military host.

An elegant voice sounded. It was the professor named Pan Xin, whom Liang Yuan remembered very clearly.

"From the data, it is true. We have reason to suspect that the heavy rain will stop soon."

"This is good news. After nearly half a year of continuous rainfall, many parts of Linjiang City have been submerged. Only a few high-rise buildings are still above water."

"It is indeed good news. Our country is not flat. Although Linjiang was flooded, other places with higher terrain may not be flooded."

"Maybe we can try to contact the outside world then."

The female host asked: "Professor Pan, what is the reason for the decrease in rainfall this time? What should we pay attention to and be alert to in the future?"

Professor Pan Xin said solemnly: "In fact, our expert group has conducted a detailed analysis. The decrease in rainfall this time is likely related to the upcoming winter."

"winter?"

"Yes, with the arrival of winter, the temperature drops, the air becomes drier, and it is normal for the amount of rainfall to decrease."

"Our expert group predicts that the heavy rain will stop completely soon, but..."

"but what?"

“But that’s not necessarily a good thing.”

"What do you mean?" the military hostess immediately asked.

"We may be experiencing an unprecedented cold snap!"

"What?" the military hostess exclaimed.

Professor Pan Xin continued: "According to our predictions, this cold wave is likely to be the largest cold wave ever seen in human history. Its impact will be beyond our imagination. Humanity may enter an ice age!"

This time, not only Liang Yuan and the other people who were listening to the radio were stunned in shock, but even the female host was silent for a few seconds.

Then the female host asked an extremely important question!

"Professor Pan Xin, then... as ordinary people, what should we do to deal with this cold wave?"

"Keep warm and store food!"

"The cold winter is coming. The floodwaters may freeze and form a thick layer of ice. The mutant creatures in the water may temporarily hibernate. This is both a good thing and a bad thing for everyone."

"If the underwater mutant creatures go dormant, it will be much more difficult for the survivors to obtain food."

"At the same time, the flood will freeze, and the mutant beasts in the mountains and forests will come out of the mountains and forests and start hunting."

"Of course, the good thing is that humans can finally get out of the trapped building and find shelter and companions."

"If that happens, we once again call on everyone to rush to the Guangfu military base as soon as possible. There are complete living facilities here. We welcome all people of insight to join us and jointly resist this human catastrophe..."

……

No one continued to listen when the female military host and Dr. Pan Xin promoted the various conveniences and benefits of the Guangfu Military Base.

Everyone was distracted, shocked by the sudden news.

Liang Yuan stood up and looked at the heavy rain outside.

He turned his head to look at everyone and asked, "Has the rain slowed down?"

Ding Yan stood up and nodded, "It's indeed smaller now, not as fierce as it was in the summer."

Zhao Kai also said in a deep voice: "Yes, the raindrops used to be as big as beans, and it hurt a little when they hit our bodies. The rain now is indeed not as heavy as it was then."

Liang Yuan took a deep breath and said, "So, the news about the cold wave announced by the military is very likely to be true?"

Dong Jie couldn't help but say, "I do feel that the temperature has dropped a lot recently."

Many people present are highly evolved psychics, and many of them are no longer afraid of cold or heat, so they actually pay little attention to this aspect.

At this time, they were reminded by Dong Jie and came to their senses.

Liang Yuan walked outside the bamboo building and reached out to catch the rain.

The rain is slightly cold, and is indeed much colder than in summer and autumn.

He was used to using a mental barrier to protect his body from getting wet by the rain, but he actually overlooked this point.

"Brother Liang, if what the military said is true, should we also prepare for winter?" Zhao Kai couldn't help but say.

Ding Yan said in a deep voice: "I think it is necessary, especially in terms of cold-weather supplies, we are seriously short of them."

Liang Yuan was not worried about the shortage of supplies. Although when he raided the Hang Lung Building before, the clothing stores were full of summer clothes, but he had a system that allowed him to draw supplies.

Moreover, when he was looting the building, he emptied people's closets door to door, and there were many cotton-padded jackets and leather clothes inside.

In comparison, he was more worried about what the military said, that the water surface was freezing and forming an ice field.

By that time, it will be difficult for everyone to catch fish. How can you earn points?

This problem is fatal because the system lottery relies entirely on points.

As for the mutant beasts running away from the forest, Liang Yuan was also very worried about it.

Once these mutant beasts in the mountains and forests can leave Yangshan, won’t there be even fewer mutant beasts on Yangshan?
These are all his points.

Liang Yuan's eyes turned deep.

Another point is that once the river freezes, humans can walk out of the building and move around on the ice.

I'm afraid that all kinds of shelters will appear soon.

Many people will rush to the military base, and the military base will surely grow rapidly.

Mountain tops like Yangshan, as they are higher than the horizontal plane, will naturally be targeted by many people.

In the past, because of floods, people from far away might not dare to come.

But won’t they come over when the water freezes?

What should we do if these people come over?

Store them all?

But Yangshan is so small, how many people can it accommodate?

Among these newcomers, there will definitely be many powerful people with awakened special powers, and there will probably be many who want to take the lead in causing trouble.

Liang Yuan frowned, fearing that there would be a lot of annoying things at that time.

He was not worried about anyone causing trouble, but he was annoyed that he had to waste his energy on this, which was really a waste of time.

Yangshan must be my own private land in the future, and I must not mess it up.

It seems that we need to find a way to plan defense construction in advance.

(End of this chapter)