I survived the famine by scavenging and supported my family.

Every time, some foolish groups would come and try to seize the cave. The people of Wangli Village would go out to fight them. Smaller groups would know better than to leave when they saw the large group from Wangli Village.

They encountered an enemy force of roughly equal numbers once, and the enemy attacked head-on. Thanks to the traps and the Wen family, only a few people from Wangli Village were injured.

The Wen family helped defend against the enemy and also helped dispose of the corpses, so the people of Wangli Village grew to like them more and more.

Families with daughters have even secretly begun to consider marriage arrangements.

Some people were extremely envious when they saw Zhao Ningning and Zhao Qi practicing martial arts with the Wen family every day.

Early that morning, Zhao Ningning and her brother had just finished practicing basic moves with Wen Zike and hadn't even reached their mule cart when a woman jumped out from the side and stopped her, asking, "Wuya, how did you get them to teach you martial arts?"

"Huh?" Zhao Ningning said, "You're asking about that?"

"Yes, yes! My son is about your age. If he could learn even a move or two, we'd have some way to protect ourselves while we're fleeing famine, wouldn't we?"

She saw it for herself; that Wu Ya was wielding a big knife and could go and chop people up!

Zhao Ningning said, "I saved the life of the Wen family's young master before, so the Wen family made an exception and let me go to learn. If you want to go... I'm afraid they won't teach you!"

"Thank you for saving my life! No wonder you were willing to teach Wuya martial arts!" The woman looked embarrassed, gave a couple of awkward laughs, and left.

Zhao Ningning shook her head, pulled her brother back to their mule cart, and then disappeared back into her spatial dimension.

As soon as Zhao Qi got back, he went straight to his room and told Zhao Ningning to take a shower first.

Zhao Ningning didn't refuse. After a quick wash, she let her brother take his turn.

After getting ready, Zhao Qi stayed in his room to continue studying the walkie-talkie, while Zhao Ningning went out by herself to help her mother dry the firewood—that is, to keep an eye on the firewood so that it wouldn't be ignited by any sparks.

At noon, the four of them ate lunch in shifts. Zhao Ningning was sitting by the fire watching her father show her the small pieces of trash he had recently caught when Zhao Qi rushed out of the car.

Holding up his phone, Zhao Qi said, "Done!"

"This child, he talks incoherently, what's wrong?" Ning's mother waved and called him over. Zhao Qi got out of the car and handed his phone to Ning's mother.

Ning's mother took a look, and it was just an ordinary cell phone inside.

Zhao Qi explained, "I've converted the inside into a walkie-talkie. Open it up and take a look."

Ning's mother turned on her phone, and in addition to the usual apps, there was now a walkie-talkie app.

Open the walkie-talkie app; there are options to speak and send a text message.

Seeing these two features, Ning's father couldn't help but pick up the phone and ask, "How far can it go at the farthest?"

"If the data and design are correct, the longest distance is over ten kilometers." Zhao Qi scratched his head; this was the longest distance he could make using the parts he had on hand.

Ning's father stopped grilling and pulled Zhao Qi, saying, "Shall we go outside and try?"

It was still raining outside, but the two of them went out and did this for over an hour. When they returned and changed out of their wet clothes, Ning's father couldn't wait to share with the mother and daughter: "Xiao Qi is amazing at this! She can still have a conversation from four kilometers away! It doesn't lag at all!"

Four kilometers is not the furthest distance that a cell phone can reach, but the furthest distance he can walk!

It was raining, and he didn't want to walk more than ten miles just to test the walkie-talkie's functionality.

Zhao Qi blushed and asked Zhao Ningning to take him back to the space. She then took out two more phones, saying, "There are two more here, let's each take one."

After putting the phone away, Zhao Ningning curiously tried out the text messaging function. Just like sending a regular text message, her mother received it immediately after she sent it.

When Zhao Qi was working on the intercom function, he had already noted down everyone's name and created several channels.

There are public channels, and there are also channels where you can send a private message to a specific person.

Besides his phone, Zhao Qi also pulled out his ultimate weapon—a Bluetooth headset.

Each person put one on, and Ning's father secretly went out and fed them a few times. Everyone sitting next to their carriage could hear his voice.

Zhao Ningning pressed the "speak" button and said, "I can hear you."

Ning's father came back excitedly from outside, "Mine too!"

The three of them marveled at it for a while.

Zhao Qi opened his phone and said, "I've transferred some videos, music, and novels that I downloaded from my computer to my phone."

Zhao Qi continued to throw out surprises: "It also contains Plants vs. Zombies and the NES mobile game that I downloaded before I graduated from high school."

"Wow!" Zhao Ningning couldn't sit still any longer. She opened her phone and swiped to the back, and sure enough, she saw games on it!

As she opened the game, Zhao Ningning exclaimed, "Brother! You're an angel!"

Zhao Qi blushed, "Luckily, back in high school, it was popular to download mobile apps on a computer and then copy them to your phone, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to create many apps out of thin air."

"It wasn't like this when I first finished it. I used my 'fix it and it's still usable' skill to fix it, and then the system restored it to the appearance of a normal mobile phone."

When it was first made, it looked like a mountain of crap, with all sorts of parts piled up at the back, making it impossible to close the phone's back cover. After repair, it looked no different from a regular phone.

These past few days, Zhao Qi has been saving up his skill refreshes and getting all four phones working before bringing them out to show his family.

Regardless of what her son was saying, Ning's mother first hugged him tightly and gave him a good rub.

Ning's father stood in line behind, and after Ning's mother finished massaging him, he grabbed Zhao Qi by the armpits and swung him around.

Zhao Ningning sat on the side watching her brother being played with like this, laughing until her stomach hurt.

After Ning's parents calmed down, Zhao Qi sat on the stool, feeling dizzy, and said, "Remember to charge Ning when the battery runs out. This phone is made from my old phone, and the battery isn't very good."

Ning's mom was planning to buy a new phone before taking the two kids on a trip in a couple of days! Who would have thought she'd time-travel!

"It's okay, this is enough." Zhao Ningning held her phone and eagerly opened the camera. As soon as Ningning's mother saw that there was a camera, she immediately posed behind Ningning.

Zhao Ningning moved her phone up and took a picture of the family of four warming themselves by a fire on their way to escape famine.

After taking the photos, Ning's mother asked curiously, "Can you hear the intercom between you two in the space?"

This really stumped Zhao Qi. He immediately took his phone and went into the space. While Zhao Ningning was talking outside, he could also make calls on his end.

Zhao Ningning's space does not affect the conversation.

There's no need to test Ning's mother's space; it's static. Even a clock wouldn't move if you put it in, and a phone wouldn't be able to communicate normally either.

After Zhao Qi came out, Ning's mother asked again, "Won't this phone be refreshed by the space?"

Zhao Ningning shook her head: "No, my brother took this phone apart and added things before reassembling it. It won't be stored in the storage space."

The phrase "space not to be collected" amused Ning's mother. The four of them carefully set a lock screen password for their phones, so that if the phones were found by ancient people, they wouldn't be able to see what was inside.

After putting away the phone and earphones, Ning's mother enthusiastically took out some fabric she had bought earlier from her storage space and cut out a few pieces to make a bag for the phone.

Their clothes are loose, so if you put your phone directly in your arms, it's easy for it to fall out.

Zhao Qi sat to one side and was constantly praised. In the end, he couldn't stand it anymore and hid behind Zhao Ningning, asking his sister to help him resist his parents' "care".

Zhao Ningning was overjoyed and pulled him into the space.

After entering the space, Zhao Qi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's a good thing you brought me in."

Zhao Ningning chuckled and joked, "We're friends who've been through thick and thin together!"

Zhao Ningning left her brother to roam freely in his room while she rolled around on the sofa, clutching her phone.

—That's wonderful! That's wonderful!

—You can use your phone now!

After the initial excitement subsided, Zhao Ningning left the space. The two internet-addicted adults were sitting by the campfire, engrossed in reading the novel that Zhao Qi had downloaded to his phone.

Ning's mother no longer cared whether it was a modern romance novel or not.

Ning's father no longer cares whether the historical novels are ones he likes to read.

The two of them just kept watching, occasionally poking at the firewood drying nearby. Once it was almost dry, Ning's mother put it into her space and took out another batch of wet firewood to continue drying.

It was incredibly pleasant. When Zhao Ningning came out, her mother pulled her aside and said, "Ask your brother if you can add an automatic voice reading function to the novel, so I can listen to it."

Zhao Ningning sighed helplessly, "Okay..."

In the evening, it was Ning's parents' turn to go out on duty.

After dinner, before leaving the house, Ning's mother told Zhao Ningning and Zhao Qi to remember to go back to their space to sleep that night, so that if anything happened outside, the two of them would have time to react.

Zhao Ningning and Zhao Qi readily agreed.

Ning's mother was relieved and went out.

As usual, they arrived at their destination, took out stools, and sat down. After the person handing over the work left, they took out the watermelon that Zhao Ningning had cut in her spatial dimension. While eating, Ningning's father said, "If it weren't for the fact that we could get some fresh air and eat something away from people, I really wouldn't want to come out and suffer like this."

"Stop talking nonsense. You can only walk this far by following the group. Otherwise, if it were just the two of us with the child, we would just wander around aimlessly." After scolding Ning's father, Ning's mother picked up a piece of watermelon and ate it.

They had just finished dinner and weren't very hungry, so they didn't eat anything else after finishing the watermelon.

It's dark now, so we can't use our phones. Dad gave one earphone to Mom and wore the other himself, listening to music on his phone.

With soft music in one ear and the patter of rain in the other, Ning's mother stared at the large tent and said, "Listening to music like this reminds me of when we were in school."

Her words immediately brought back memories for Ning's father: "Yes, back then we used music cassettes and played them on Walkmans."

The two reminisced for a while, and as the night deepened, Ning's father, who had been sitting for a long time, got up to stretch his muscles.

Suddenly, something, I don't know what it was, came flying through the air with a "whoosh".

Relying on his intuition, Ning's father looked down, and the thing disappeared behind him.

Ning's father grabbed Ning's mother's hand from behind and whispered, "The enemy!"

After saying that, he led Ning's mother away from where they had been.

The two had only taken a few steps when the campfire that had been extinguished near the large tent suddenly lit up again!

As a result, torches were lit one by one in the area that Wang Licun usually kept an eye on!

"Don't let them escape!"

"Chase!"

Someone was chasing them. Ning's father subconsciously looked back and saw at least a hundred torches scattered behind him!

—That group is going to attack the cave tonight!

—We need to find a way to notify the people in the cave!

Ning's father whispered, "Tell Ning Ning through the walkie-talkie."

Ning's mother nodded, took out her phone from her pocket, and pressed the walkie-talkie button. "Ningning! They've made their move over at the big tent! There are about a hundred of them!"

After Ningning replied, Ning's father led Ning's mother and ran towards another road in the night.

The people in the large tent originally planned to eliminate the person keeping watch, and then launch a surprise attack on the cave without anyone noticing.

Unexpectedly, these two were so cunning that the first arrow missed its mark, which instead made them wary.

A small group of men gave chase for a few steps before Huang Biao called them back: "Stop chasing! Attacking the cave is the priority!"

Lord Jia wanted to take over the large cave. They had taken in some passing refugees for the past few days, but food supplies were becoming increasingly scarce. If they didn't dig into the cave soon, the refugees would starve to death, which is why they chose today to take the risk.

The men who had chased after them returned with torches, and Huang Biao led his men menacingly toward the cave.

When they were almost at the cave, he ordered his men to stop and extinguish the torches.

The people in the big cave were watching them, and they were also watching the people in the big cave. Huang Biao knew that there were two other people on duty at the entrance of the cave.

And there are many traps outside the cave!

This time, he took matters into his own hands, bypassing the trap, intending to sneak over and knock the person unconscious. Unexpectedly, the two people who were originally guarding the cave entrance were asleep tonight!

This is great. We can act without alerting the people inside. Huang Biao retreated and shouted to the people behind him to rush forward, pile the wet leaves they had collected over the past few days at the entrance of the cave, and set them on fire!

Thick smoke drifted into the cave, forcing those inside to come out and fight!

Huang Biao was pleased with himself and stood outside waiting for people to come out.

After waiting for a while without any movement from inside, Huang Biao grew anxious. "Damn it, could everyone inside have been smoked to death?"

After waiting and waiting without seeing anyone, Huang Biao realized something was wrong. "They know we launched a sneak attack, this is bad!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than rocks began to fall from above the cave with a series of crackling sounds. One of the rocks, about the size of a palm, struck the head of the person next to him, causing him to stagger and fall to the ground.

"There are people up in the cave!"

"ah--"

"it hurts!"

Huang Biao took a few steps back and looked up at the cave. The dim red light outlined the sharp cliff top above the cave. On the cliff top, many people stood with torches in their hands, and the people next to him were throwing stones down one by one!

Zhao Ningning stood at the very front, not idle either. Zhao Qi passed the ball from behind, and she threw it from the front. Standing so far away, it didn't matter how accurate she was, as long as she could hit someone. When they got tired of throwing, the two of them would take turns.

Behind them, villagers continued to carry stones up the mountain. Putting everything else aside, this rocky mountain lacked everything except stones, and even large stones!

Wen Zichuan stood there for a while, then asked, "Miss Zhao, when you saved me before, you threw stones like this, right?"