"Yesterday, the signal on the mobile phone was cut off again, and they were repaired for nothing last time." While eating barbecue leisurely and enjoying the snow outside the window, the two talked about what had happened in the base in the past few days.

Fortunately, Luo Xun and the others went out of the base at the beginning of this month and hit a lot of crystal nuclei, otherwise they would not have had a chance to leave the base at the end of the month.

"Originally, I heard that this year's Spring Festival will be the same as last year, and the Spring Festival Gala will be broadcast on the loudspeakers, but now it seems that at least there is no chance for the solar calendar year." Yan Fei's gaze swept to the road behind the community, where there were originally shelves with loudspeakers hanging on them. But now there is no trace of the wooden shelves with the horns, and it seems that they have all been stolen back and burned as firewood, not to mention the horns on it? It disappeared 800 years ago.

"By the way, I'll try the radio!"

The two of them rummaged through the radios that had not been used for a long time - because after having mobile phones, unless there was no signal, the base would send messages to all the survivors who had mobile phones every day, from water safety to some of the latest regulations of the base, and they could also check the records afterwards, so few people who were used to using mobile phones still listened to the radio.

So some background music was added to the barbecue dinner date between the two of them...... In fact, there are still some useful messages on the radio. For example, in the past few days, it has been repeatedly broadcast how to keep as warm as possible at home, and be careful not to be poisoned by carbon monoxide, how to deal with frostbite and other precautions.

When the two of them ate the lamb skewers, the message on the radio changed from safety on a snowy day to something like that - it was actually broadcasting information about the Anomaly Squad.

The two looked at each other in surprise, and hurriedly pricked up their ears to listen carefully to the news inside.

Previously, in order to limit the expansion of the ability team and reduce the huddle of survivors in the base, the barracks took a series of measures to address these problems, such as allowing each team to increase the monthly payment of materials, crystal nuclei, etc. That's why Luo Xun and the others took the risk at the beginning of the month and hurriedly went out. And now, seeing that the end of December is approaching, the base has finally made a final decision in response to this news - because of the frequent occurrence of extreme weather in recent days, this regulation has been postponed to February next year, and the team that has already paid the materials and crystal nuclei in accordance with the regulations will not need to pay again in February next year. However, each team still has to complete the corresponding tasks every month according to the rules before the restructuring......

According to the previous rules, the most junior squads like Luo Xun and them don't have to do any special tasks at all, and only the upgraded base has requirements for them.

The two looked at each other and laughed: "Sure enough, it changed again." ”

"Well, after February, there will be a lot more time, but the number of people leaving the base will increase significantly."

Luo Xun has no opinion on this: "Even if there are no these regulations, there are absolutely no people who want to go out of the base after the beginning of spring, this year's heavy snow is beyond everyone's expectations, before last year's winter, everyone still has the things collected from the city before the winter can last winter, this year, all the food left before the end of the world is no longer edible, and the amount of food in the base is also limited, even we feel that life is tight, let alone other people's homes?" ”

This is still the case that Luo Xun's family has crop output, and those who can only rely on points and crystal nuclei to exchange huàn food in the window every day can be imagined.

A few days after the new notice of the base was issued, the entire base ushered in the public New Year. In terms of lunar calendar, this year's Lunar New Year and Public New Year are both in the same month, both in mid-January. In order to reassure the people and deepen the cohesion of the base, the military decided to make everyone feel the atmosphere of the New Year in this month - of course, it is still not allowed to fire artillery, whether it is private or official.

On New Year's Day, Luo Xun turned on all the broadcasters in each room, and everyone could hear the music, cross talk and other programs played in turn whether they were in the usual room or in the corridor.

Li Tie's harvest a year ago was very good, and they tirelessly moved almost all the resources they could find to their homes, and they piled up a large box of hard disks for storing information, and there were many information materials that they didn't even know what their own.

Sometimes, they will also throw some temporary transit folders marked with more urgent and important documents into their hard drives...... Ahem, everyone has curiosity or something. And they don't really have any bad intentions, and they don't really have time to go through these things when they get home.

During the Spring Festival, Li Tie and his department specially gave them three days off, and Xu Mei and Song Lingling began to make peace early in the morning -- this was still what they had saved in advance before the new grain was brought down at the base, and now there was no flour to sell in the base, and there was only rice in the window. Many people, even if they still have crystal nuclei in their hands, have no place to change flour. Even Luo Xun and his team only had enough dumplings for everyone to eat twice.

They are going to divide the flour into two portions, use one portion today, and eat it again at the end of the month for the Lunar New Year.

Li Tie and a few people helped chop the mutton filling, in order not to be heard outside, they deliberately ran to room 1603 to set up two large boards, one for chopping mutton and one for chopping vegetable filling.

Luo Xun and Yan Fei took Zhang Su with them, and went to the agreed place with the other teams early in the morning to trade vegetables - for the Chinese New Year, these teams were also going to buy more vegetables and go home so that the team members could eat a full meal.

On the way to the end, the three of them put down two groups of eight people who wanted to rob. When I arrived at the destination, I met a few guys who came over to inquire about the situation and were directly bombed by Zhang Su.

No way, who let them pull things behind them, and at a glance they know that there is material in those black boxes? Those who block the road and rob also have to celebrate the New Year!

As soon as the handover was completed, someone secretly put a cold gun on them in the snowdrift of the snowy sidewalk next to them, yes, it was a cold gun, if it wasn't for Yan Fei's vigilance at any time, the gun would have hit Luo Xun who was holding the crystal nucleus!

With a "snort", Zhang Su raised his hand and counterattacked with a wind blade, directly cutting off the man's hand holding the gun, the man was startled, wailed and dropped the hand and the gun in his hand and turned to run.

This sudden situation made the expressions of the members of a certain team who had just finished trading with a few people on the opposite side stiffen, and they laughed dryly: "I didn't expect there to be robberies in broad daylight." ”

Luo Xun smiled at him, his expression looked so kind and kind: "We are all used to it, and we have to see blood every day when we go out." The security outside is not as good as that in the new area. ”

The man didn't know what to say, so he smiled awkwardly, loaded the car with his own things, and left.

"It's all over?" The contents of the metal box were all empty, and Yan Fei confirmed it with Luo Xun.

Luo Xun nodded and looked through the messages on his phone: "It's all over, let's go back." ”

"Don't have any groceries in the cafeteria?" Zhang Su picked up the gun with blood on it, and kicked the severed hand to the side of the road without looking at it - this thing is a trophy, and now it can be sold for the price of a few bags of instant noodles.

"The canteen only came to buy it the day before yesterday, and it is estimated that I will have to wait until after the Chinese New Year to ask for anything." Luo Xun stuffed the phone back into his pocket and patted Zhang Su's shoulder, "Add buff!" "The reason why Zhang Su came out with them? Because of his wind ability, of course! If it weren't for the fact that he himself slipped out last time, Luo Xun still didn't know that Zhang Su would have been able to bless the upper hand ability for people who were relatively close to him, reduce the weight of the other party, and speed up the speed of the other party's walking in places with strange terrain.

Zhang Su waved his hand helplessly, he could only bless this ability with three or four people other than himself at a time, and once there were more people, it would not make any difference, at most a few times at a time. Because he was afraid of trouble, he had never mentioned it before, and he knew that once Luo Xun knew about it, he would definitely squeeze his labor! Now look - sure enough?

When a few people returned home, the minced meat had already been chopped and tasted. Xu Mei and everyone were squeezing water for the cabbage, and when she saw Luo Xun and a few people coming back, she hurriedly greeted: "Do you want to see if the noodles are good?" We've got the stuffing ready. ”

"Okay." Luo Xun answered, washed his hands and checked the condition of the dough. Yan Fei divided the crystal nuclei into different bags and piled them on the shelves next to the door of the room, and said to everyone: "The crystal nuclei are all divided, and everyone will take their own when they leave in a while." ”

"Oooh!"

The sound of music on the radio sounded in the room, and Xiao Xinran first played with the little one, and after a while, she rode on its back, and let a certain dog that had been transformed into a mount take her all over the house. The laughter of children and the laughter of everyone made the sound of the music program on the radio almost inaudible, but this heart-warming atmosphere really warmed everyone's heart.

The base also began to work overtime for the two holidays of the month - clearing the streets of heavy snow.

It is unrealistic to sprinkle salt, because it is temporarily impossible to produce salt, and all the salt in the base is obtained from several places that specialize in transiting and transporting salt before the end of the world, although there are a lot of them, but they dare not squander them unscrupulously.

Fortunately, there are a few snow plows in the base, and the overtime and manual removal in the past few days have finally cleared the snow on several major roads.

Listening to the broadcast on the radio, in the next few days, they will work overtime to clear the heavy snow in the surrounding small streets, encourage everyone to contribute to the maintenance of their homes, and go to the streets together to clear the snow in the community and nearby streets, etc.

The dumplings stuffed with mutton taste very fragrant, and everyone ate them with round stomachs on New Year's Day, and they still taste the taste when they get home.

When the three days passed, Li Tie and the others went back to work in the barracks, and when Luo Xun and Xu Mei were studying whether duck meat could be made into meat filling and what vegetables were more suitable for it, music came out from the mobile phone hanging on the hanger.

Yan Fei got up and walked to the hanger to help him take out his mobile phone, and after scanning the caller's name on it, he raised his eyebrows in surprise: "It's Han Li calling." ”

"Han Li?" Didn't a few of them go to work early in the morning? How can you suddenly call back? Luo Xun hurriedly took the phone, and heard a somewhat low voice inside: "Brother Luo, we are packing up our things and will go home in a while." ”

"What's wrong?" Luo Xun's heart moved, but he didn't directly ask his conjecture.

“…… We're out of work. Han Li's voice was visibly lowered again, and there was a self-deprecation in his tone, "Let's go home and help you farm...... Our otaku squad is really worthy of its name right now. ”

He didn't say the specific situation, but Luo Xun and they could also guess that eight or nine are not far from ten, and after hearing his words, Luo Xun smiled: "Then come back quickly, Sister Xu is saying that she wants to sew socks with the cotton cloth at home, and you will sew your own socks." ”

"Oooh!" Han Li also understood what Luo Xun meant, smiled and hung up the phone, turned around and walked back to the place where they had worked for a whole year.

Seeing him come back, Li Tie glanced at him and asked in a low voice, "Have you said hello to Brother Luo?" ”

Han Li nodded and said, "Well, Brother Luo said let's go back and sew socks." He couldn't help but laugh as he spoke, and the two of them slowly packed up their respective things together.

Over there, He Qiankun's fat fingers were rapidly tapping on the keyboard, and Han Li and Wang Duo were dangling around him, blocking the view of others looking at the screen.

The four of them gathered around He Qiankun's table and pretended to pack up their things slowly, and after He Qiankun finally breathed a sigh of relief and pulled a USB flash drive from the chassis, everyone sped up to pack all the things they had left here, and after saying goodbye to their former colleagues and leaders, they turned around and left.

The newcomers who replaced Li Tie and a few of them stood at the door, watching the back of a lost dog leave. Some people are happy, excited, and disdainful, and some people are melancholy and emotional.

In a separate studio deep in the computer room, several engineers who had been hired by the military alone and arranged accommodation in the barracks were working in these rooms, and most of the people did not react after hearing that Li Tie and them had been dismissed - Li Tie's job here was just to do chores for them, to do some repetitive work, and not to consume too much energy, and this job could be replaced by whoever did it.

And some people frowned, suppressing the unhappiness in their hearts: "Exchange a few proficient, learned computer languages, and professional counterparts in exchange for a few two knives, how long will it take for them to learn these things?" Can you afford to put the loss of a few more days off for those five boys? ”

The staff who brought in the information and told the other party Li Tie that they had left the news hurriedly smiled after hearing the news: "This is also a helpless thing, isn't it?" Who told the five of them to live too far away, and it would be inconvenient to call them over if something happened in the computer room......" he said and leaned over to the engineer and whispered, "More than half of the new ones are specially arranged to come in, and four are the direct nephews of the base leaders, Yang Gong, you should take care of it more." ”

The person known as Yang Gong spewed out all kinds of breath from his nose, unhappily clicked a few articles and folders, and thought for a while to send an email from the group: "Let these uneasy people sort out these things first...... One week! ”

The messenger sneered in a cold sweat and turned to leave, those things ...... Even if Li Tie and the five of them are busy, they won't be able to complete it in less than half a month......

Hearing that the five-member group had been fired, all the homebound members of the otaku squad decided to greet the five poor, unemployed babies at home. Compared with voluntary resignation, passive resignation is absolutely different from the psychological blow and damage.

Sure enough, after Li Tie and the five people came back, Wang Duo hugged Zhang Su and rubbed on his neck, begging for comfort and caressing.

Li Tie's love was also relatively low, and even He Qiankun's eyes were a little red.

A few people briefly explained, saying that as soon as they arrived at the barracks today, they received a notice to pack up their things and go home, and they didn't even have time to prepare before.

Wu Xin expressed great indignation at this: "Why didn't they say it earlier? We were given three days off before, and we thought that we would be able to work for a while after the New Year! There are several TV series that haven't been copied yet! "Why do you always feel that what he complains about the most is that the TV series is not finished?

Wang Duo was still holding Zhang Su's neck at this time, squeezing on a chair with him to show affection, and after hearing the words, he raised his head to spread his morning results to everyone: "I secretly asked a few people, and they said that yesterday and the day before yesterday, our leaders called them and asked them to work overtime for two days, and teach a few newcomers to learn what we usually have to deal with in our work!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Today, there are three people we haven't met before, sitting in the same place where we used to work! He Qiankun also remembered that he had something to deal with in a hurry today, and it was only after a few people managed to fool the person sitting in front of his desk away...... In other words, fortunately, they were only allowed to pack their things after they were fired, otherwise they would be dismissed directly after a busy day, and they would not even have time to deal with things on the computer, which would be even more troublesome.

"It's four, there are four new people in the past two days, and one of them hasn't come out of Li Gong's office since we arrived, and it is said that they are all relatives and sons of the leaders of the base school." Wang Duo raised his hand again.

After Li Tie and the others heard this, their anger soared again - they were replaced by colleagues who knew some technology, were from military backgrounds, had a relatively easy base to find, and had cooperated for a while, although they would be angry, but they were just angry. But being replaced by a group of related households who have never even seen each other before and are shoehorned in to replace them with public food based on their connections, it really makes them feel disgusting!!

Luo Xun saw that the expressions on Li Tie's faces became ugly, and hurriedly played a round: "Don't worry about their affairs for now, it just so happens that you are all back, let's first get the things we have to be busy with recently and the things we need to do, and then see if we can find a way to find more things after the beginning of spring." ”

The food at home is barely enough to feed everyone today, but if you can eat it on your stomach, the harvest of these things will never be enough - especially food.

And Li Tie and they have no job, which indirectly means that they have no other income from extra money, and although everyone's life can be maintained only by selling vegetables, it is definitely not good.

So, they have to find a way...... It's better to have more space to grow. Unfortunately, the community is now basically filled with people, and those empty houses that have frozen to death because of the harsh winter are now temporarily occupied by those outside who have no place to live because the earthen houses have collapsed due to heavy snow. At present, it is not possible to rent a house for the time being, and this matter has to wait for the beginning of spring to find a way to deal with it.

In order to distract Li Tie and the others and make them no longer so uncomfortable, the otaku team decided to carry out the first entertainment and finishing activity in which the otaku team participated, sewing activities - sewing socks!!

The cotton cloth was the cotton cloth that Luo Xun, Li Tie and others went to the curtain city next to the home city together, and everyone drew the shape, cut and sew the socks under the leadership of Mr. Luo, Mr. Xu and others......

Anyway, I wear my own socks, but if I make too many threads and I have to endure it myself.

As for the shape of the cut-out, the size is wrong, and the needle pierces the hand...... Anyway, it's good to get used to it. No one expects them to learn how to make clothes with this little bit of three-legged cat kung fu, so that they can be distracted and distracted, and when the next batch of vegetables at home is ripe and harvested, they can be busy, so that they can not take care of these idle things.

The otaku team began to work hard to keep all the members busy, and then everyone happily accepted the common goal of staying at home, busy, and living together. After returning to their respective rooms, Luo Xun began to complain: "I thought why was the name 'Otaku Squad' so weird? Now that I look at it, the name of this squad has actually become a crow's beak and flag! ”

Yan Fei smiled and shook his head: "I remember that this name was given by Li Tie and them......" Saying that, he suddenly remembered something, and asked Luo Xun for confirmation with a little doubt, "Li Tie said that they saw a post on the Internet about the coming of the end of the world before the end of the world, and the author seems to be called an otaku, did you send that post?" This question has long been in his mind, but he has not confirmed it with Luo Xun for various reasons before, but he didn't expect it to be delayed until now.

In fact, he had long suspected that post, because he had seen the content on it on Li Tie's mobile phone before, and almost all the information and gadgets mentioned above could be found in Luo Xun's home.

Luo Xun was stunned for a while before he remembered the post he made before the end of the world, and touched the back of his head with some embarrassment and smiled: "I sent it...... But at that time, I wasn't sure if the end of the world would come...... "He didn't dare to let go completely because of this concern, otherwise, if he could be sure that the end of the world would come 100%, he would simply apply for a loan mortgage, get a few more credit cards, and desperately brush up on money to buy things before the end of the world."

Yan Fei said that he understood, even if he had a similar experience with Luo Xun, he probably wouldn't dare to desperately think that the end of the world would really come. It would be bold to spend all the cash in advance to make these preparations.

The two returned to the room and Luo Xun began to prepare dinner, Yan Fei checked the crops planted on the first floor and then went up to the second floor to check, and when he arrived on the terrace to check the crops on it, he suddenly found that some of the mutated plants that were transferred by Luo Xun before actually bloomed at some point!

When they returned to the first floor, they called Luo Xun, and the two ran to the terrace on the second floor together.

"I didn't notice it a few days ago, but this thing actually bloomed?" Luo Xun hurriedly checked the label on the outside of the pot first, and it was actually a mutant seedling of strawberries!