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"Bad news again?"

"Um"

"So do you want me to cheer you up again?"

She pouted.

lip.

Lucas sighed and calmly changed the subject:

"Shouldn't you be more worried or more horrified?"

Emily: "???"

She blinked. "Why?"

Lucas folded his hands and said angrily, "All this! We have been dragged into a disaster! We may never be able to return to that world!"

"Hmm..." The girl tilted her head and thought about it.

It looks so playful and cute, I want to... No, I don’t want to!

"You are with me, my mother is with me, and more than two hours ago, my friend was with me... No, I am not worried."

Emily smiled brightly at Lucas.

"But what about your studies? What about your idol career? You signed a three-year acting contract and you've only fulfilled one year!?"

"Can't a high school student be Mrs. Yang? Although I also think that our future children will be more proud to say that I have a college degree... but never mind, isn't it already like this? As for the idol career..."

Emily stuck out her tongue. "It's just bad luck for Disney. If they can find us, I will definitely continue to fulfill the contract. Hehe..."

Lucas was stunned, looking defeated. Then he moved his lips and asked in a low voice:

"What are you going to call our future child?"

"The boy will be named Rudy, Zeludik, or my great-grandfather's name, Douglas, and the girl will be named Lydia, Maria, or Morgan. Anyway, we will have many children, and we can name them one by one when the time comes."

Lucas: "..."

……

Meili acted quickly, connecting all the communities covered by the "fog" in just one morning. The entire Crown Eagle Mountain community was made up of many small settlements, which were divided according to family financial resources and the degree of land ownership.

The largest community is a series of streets centered on Elm Street, where thousands of middle-class households are densely distributed. The smallest community has less than ten households, which cannot be said to be the smallest. It just has the smallest population but the area is not small at all. Maggie, Naomi and Carolina live there. Maggie and Naomi's families each own thousands of acres of land there for raising livestock and growing grapes. The Carolina family owns a large mansion, or manor, there.

Merry himself has a certain background. Through the previous "Misty Realm" rescue operation, he became the talk of the town and is the most popular successor to the old sheriff of the county bureau after his retirement.

Today is the weekend. The old sheriff went into town last night and no one knows what he was doing. The same is true for the mayor's office. Now Merry is in charge of the county bureau.

Following Lucas' instructions, she organized the most basic street security defense teams in various communities, bringing together people with military experience or active people on the streets. She issued armed permits in her name, distributed communication devices for organizing contacts, and elected volunteers through simple nominations in the designated streets to do statistical management work on residents' family conditions and various social living supplies.

Roadblocks and checkpoints have also been set up on major roads to avoid law and order problems.

Most of the police officers in the county bureau were assigned by her to stay in various places to supervise the actions of the street security joint defense teams.

At the same time, she also won over the wealthy families in the upper district, and all the residents who owned farms and ranches expressed their willingness to donate some food or livestock when the entire community was short of supplies.

But they refused to implement the rationing system and surrender their armed forces. There were many workers on the ranches, farms and estates. Compared with Merry, these wealthy families united with each other and armed the manpower they had.

In Merry's view, this matter was a natural and normal operation. It was a social progress that they could donate some supplies. But if Lucas was the one who handled this matter, he would think that this was a manifestation of class division and a sign of cracks in the community.

Well, everything is still unclear now. Even if Lucas is in charge of this matter, he will wait until the fog clears before taking any action.

Besides, Lucas's current personal condition is not very good. It's not that he is full of brains, but he is very depressed...

For more than a year, he can be said to have devoted all his energy to how to take root in the "Flower Kingdom Plane World". He settled here, built his own villa here, founded industries and factories here, and tried his best to integrate himself into the Flower Kingdom society, and he was very successful. Not only was he successfully accepted by the community, he also became a relatively upper-class person here.

He also found love here, although he still hasn't figured out what a teenager like Emily likes about him.

It can be said that everything is perfect. Just wait another two years until Emily becomes an adult, and it will be a happy ending.

Who would have thought that once we returned to the time before liberation, all these efforts and hard work would become nothing.

So after returning home from his explorations outside last night, he was in his comfort zone. The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became. The more he thought about it, the more unlucky he felt. The more unlucky he felt, the more upset he became.

The business that was developing well was gone, and in the peaceful world... at least in the peaceful country... well, at least the future community was relatively peaceful, and he planned to move to the mysterious country to settle down if he had the chance in the future. Under such conditions, the wonderful life basking in the sun was gone.

Although all this was not enough to destroy him,

But it made him lose the enterprising spirit.

For several days, he lived in a very decadent state.

He doesn't shave or take a bath, and has completely given up on taking care of his body. He no longer does morning exercises or controls his daily diet. He can stay in his bedroom all day with two bottles of fat house happy water and a bag of potato chips.

If there is any good news in the past few days, it is that except for a few unlucky guys who were not paying attention in the first two days and drove their cars outside the fog, falling into an abyss of unknown magnitude and being completely swallowed up by the fog, no threatening alien species or magical creatures were found.

0031

When Lucas got up in the morning, he opened the curtains and looked at the sunlight outside.

On the fifth day of being cut off from the outside world, the fog was dissipating and a distance of more than a hundred meters could be seen outside the window. Although the dome above the sky was still unclear, Lucas was sure that this was the space of the "Realm of Fog".

The special "photovoltaic panel" generates electricity very quickly, and the power of his homemade "power storage device" made of dry batteries has been maintained at around 95%.

Especially with the improvement of visibility, ordinary "photovoltaic panels" have also reached the minimum power generation conditions. Sometimes the panels have to be disconnected from the "power storage device" and grounded to avoid power accidents.

Although no harmful creatures or phenomena appeared, new problems also arose. As the fog dissipated, the temperature outside became lower and lower. Although Lucas' family had no worries about heating and could even take a hot bath anytime and anywhere, residents in the surrounding areas of Crown Eagle Mountain were increasingly affected by the cold temperature.

The main means of heating here in winter is electricity. Large houses with independent entrances and exits certainly do not have central heating facilities and pipelines. The power supply company is not located in Guanying Mountain. After the lines are physically cut off, residents generally have no water and electricity, and lack fuel, food and other daily necessities.

This situation is somewhat similar to the California snowstorm in 1202 in another time and space. Unfortunately, there is no 200-fold increase in electricity for residents to use.

Including the upper wealthy areas, although they have generators, they are short of fuel, and all the fuel has to be reserved for vehicles.

Fortunately, large houses with independent entrances in the town generally have a fireplace. Merry organized manpower to cut wood in the Corved Forest, and also "raised funds" for some heating fuel from the wealthy families in the upper class area. He gathered the residents who had no heating facilities at home to the church, which solved the urgent problem.

But it is just a temporary solution.

Currently, in this roughly circular space, the total population is **

** people, counted by Meili, with an error of less than a few hundred people, mainly due to some underreporting by wealthy households in the upper class areas.

Two-thirds of the space is mountainous. Fortunately, it is a relatively high-end community, and the spread-out living style keeps the population here relatively small. Otherwise, if it were placed in a middle-income community, the population would have to triple or quadruple.

It is winter now, and apart from a few cougars, white-tailed deer, hares, squirrels and other animals, there is basically no food available in the mountains. To have hunting grounds and woodlands that can support the long-term consumption of more than 20,000 people, at least the existing mountain area would need to be expanded five or six times, and that would be possible only in summer.

Currently, the radius of this space is about 15 kilometers. In the ordinary world, even in the rich tropical Amazon rainforest, if food is obtained solely through fishing and hunting, this area can only support a primitive tribe of thousands of people at most.

Unless there are some extraordinary production facilities here, or the dozen or so wealthy families who own ranches and farms start growing crops immediately and work together with the ordinary residents in the lower areas, they can overcome the difficulties...but not to mention that farming operations cannot be carried out in this kind of temperature, even if they can, these wealthy families probably won't go to provide disaster relief.

The disaster occurred late Friday night and early Saturday morning, and most families had not completed their weekly weekend shopping (Note: ordinary families would go to supermarkets to buy supplies and food for the week every week). In other words, except for the farms and ranches in the upper area, many households in the upper area did not have enough food to last for a week.

Therefore, it is foreseeable that if the food problem is not solved, riots will break out in this area in a few days at most.

……

Lucas lowered the curtains and just by looking at the sky outside, he thought of all the above things. He had electricity and food here, and he had been closing the curtains these days to prevent anyone from discovering the situation at his home. Fortunately, the top of the hill was relatively flat, and there was a circle of trees that were common in California to block it.

Apart from him, everyone else in the family was also cautious.

At the foot of the hill, Meili even set up a roadblock. Now is the early stage of the disaster and the situation has not yet worsened, so these measures are very useful.

Back in bed, Emily in the quilt probably woke up too. She hugged his waist in a daze and complained in a sleepwalking tone:

"Lucas...how long are you going to be decadent?...I'm tired of Claire's pancakes...I don't want to eat Zoey's scrambled eggs with tomatoes...or Laurel's rice balls...I want to eat three fresh vegetables...I want to eat leek dumplings...I want to eat boiled fish...mm...mm..."

The girl climbed up, arched her arms around his waist and began to rock, humming as she did so.

"What Laurel made is called sushi, not rice balls..."

Lucas grunted, swaying from side to side.

It wasn't him who cooked these days. To be honest, Claire,

Laurel and Zhuo Yisi's cooking skills were OK, not as good as the best but better than the worst. Their food was home-cooked and Lucas found it quite delicious. But Emily's taste had been completely spoiled by him, and she probably wanted to cheer herself up by cooking.

He bent down, reached out, grabbed the waistband of her pants from behind her back, and pulled her out from under the blanket.

She immediately changed her position. She no longer rode on his face and banged his head like Komari did, but instead she sat astride his legs, hugged him, and twisted and trembled all over.

"Well - I want to eat - well - go and make it -"

The magic sound fills the brain.

Lucas felt that he didn't need to wait for her to have a child in the future, he had a daughter now.

"You want to eat boiled pork slices so early in the morning. I think you want to get hemorrhoids. Although I have Mayinglong here...Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you. Don't shake it anymore. It will fall apart if you shake it again..."

"What is mayinglong? A new recipe?"

After a while, Emily finally woke up completely. She placed her hands on his chest, kept a distance from him, and looked at him with her big eyes blinking.

"One that makes you feel good..." Lucas thought about it. Although the foreign reviews he read back then did say "fxcking awesome", he couldn't think of a more elegant way to say it, so he simply changed his words to: "...Ah, an ointment for treating hemorrhoids that makes people feel very comfortable."

"Oh...how do you know it will be comfortable? Could it be that you..."

"Shut up, when you get that, I'll apply the medicine on you myself, and then you'll know."

“I don’t have that.”

"Yes, yes, you are a beautiful girl, you can't even poop."

While bickering, the two got out of bed, went to the mirror in the bathroom, picked up the electric toothbrush side by side, squeezed toothpaste, put it under the faucet to collect a few drops of water, and then put them into their mouths in unison, "buzz buzz buzz".

Emily and he both wore pajamas, which were a little loose and didn't show their figures. Otherwise, their figures were too tight for each other, and it would be easy for them to have sex when they slept together at night.

After being friends with Emily for the past few months, Lucas felt that he had better control over his body. Maybe she had raised his Slaanesh threshold.

After washing his face but not shaving, Lucas touched his chin in front of the mirror. He still felt listless, but he had indeed laid down enough in the past few days. He let out a long breath, turned around and unbuttoned his pajamas while walking. When he reached the bathroom door, he took them off and threw them into the laundry basket on the lazy man's washing machine.

Suddenly a small hand touched his chest, and Emily giggled, rubbed it up and down and pinched it twice.

Then she hugged Lucas from behind. She stood on tiptoe but still couldn't reach him, so she jumped on his back and kissed his cheek: "I love you——"

Without waiting for Lucas to respond, she let go and fell back, staring at him with a smug look in her eyes: "I have to change my clothes too, I don't mind you watching me, hehehe——"

Lucas looked at her with innocent eyes, but in his heart he swore fiercely: "You wait until this time next year..."

……

Lucas' return has boosted morale in the villa.

He stayed in his room for the past few days, and the atmosphere in the villa was a little depressing. Claire and Hope were fine. The two, one big and one small, just cautiously observed the outside world from behind the curtains.

Zhuo Yisi and Laurie were in a very low mood. Their parents were both in Rossanki City, so they inevitably missed each other and felt separation. In addition, Lucas looked very depressed. Not only did they lose contact with their family, they were also trapped here. It looked like the end of the world was coming outside the villa.

Worried, frightened, and having wild thoughts...

The only consolation was that Lucas's villa was a very comfortable shelter. Although the two of them never stepped out of the room, they were always listening to the radio conversations between Merry and the others, as well as the radio information and TV programs that could still be received at this time.

Regarding what happened in the outside world in the past few days, including but not limited to "Crown Eagle Mountain", all other places that can be communicated with each other are in the same situation - trapped in the foggy space.

We all know that the Flower Country is a country where people need to carry weapons when performing rescue operations or disaster relief, otherwise it is difficult to ensure the safety of their lives and property. Regardless of whether they are black or white, as well as some uncivilized Asians, they are all keen on zero-dollar shopping.

There are many places like Guanying Mountain in the radio station. They don’t have a traverser who is familiar with disaster response and proficient in handling affairs in critical moments, so riots broke out in many places.

Happiness and security are the result of contrast. After listening to what was said on the radio, Luo Ruier and Zhuo Yisi immediately felt a sense of belonging, and it was overwhelming.

The two girls were originally very impressed by the fact that Lucas, an Asian, could make a fortune and join the ranks of the Anglo-Saxons and interact with them on an equal footing. After these few days, if loyalty was an attribute, the two girls would probably have scored over 90 or 95.

……

At seven o'clock, Merry returned to Lucas.

When she saw Lucas, she hugged him, went to the bathroom in the living room to wash her hands, and came out to sit down and eat with him.

The breakfast was a bit light, the staple food was rice porridge, and there were eight dishes, two cold dishes, two pickled dishes, two stir-fried dishes, and two mixed dishes. Meili was not polite and ate the dishes first. After drinking two small bowls of porridge, he slowed down and talked to Lucas:

"I heard that you have been

Quite decadent”

"Yes, the factory and business are ruined. More than a year's hard work."

"Haha, that's right. Hope has become a pauper again."

Hope, who was eating from a bowl and whispering to Emily, rolled his eyes at his mother and said, "Thank you, Mommy."