Volume 1 Chapter 50 The Catastrophe of Annihilation
This year, the two highest-yielding crops were harvested, making the busy days back to a dull one, and finally a few days of leisure after a busy period!
The corn stalks from which the corn was broken were still standing in the ground, but they had already dried up and turned yellow after more than half a month of sunshine.
Today I am going to cut down all the corn stalks, and burn all but some of them to make fertilizer in the ground, except for some of them.
I don't know if it's another typhoon, and the weather outside is not very good, but as long as it doesn't rain, it's not a big problem to cut corn stalks.
In the absence of a weather warning, and with the reduced observation of the weather while busy in the fields, it was not until five or six o'clock in the afternoon that I was fully confirmed that another new round of typhoons was coming.
Because at this time, the air was filled with restlessness, mainly looking at the black oppressive sky in the distance and the slowly increasing wind.
Typhoons on the island seem to come too often, this is the third typhoon this year, and each time the wind is not small!
Knowing that the typhoon is coming, it will definitely not continue to chop the corn stalk stupidly, it is only about two hours before it gets dark, and all the preparations must be done during this period, otherwise it will be too late to prepare after dawn tomorrow, and there may be no chance to go out!
With the experience of the first few times, I have a lot more composure, although there are some minor apprehensions, I think that is just a normal reaction of human beings when they encounter the fear of the unknown, so I don't take it too seriously.
Two hours doesn't do much, but fortunately the corn is ripe and recovered early, otherwise the typhoon at this stage will almost certainly wipe out the whole army......
The green vegetable seedlings of the new season have not yet grown, so now the sheep's food is mainly to go to the woods every day to cut weeds, and they have been fed today, but thinking that the typhoon has been passing for a long time, they still cut two large bundles of sweet potatoes and threw them in.
There are not many fish in the fish pond, and it has been reinforced before, so it is not a waste of time to see, only a small amount of things placed outside need to be moved into the house, although the time is tight, but everything is in order!
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This typhoon is a slower-moving type, and although the wind strength has increased for more than 10 hours a night, it has not increased as much as expected, and I can barely go out the next morning.
I reinforced the sheep shed with a few more logs, just in case, it seemed to be more dangerous, and I was worried about it when I slept at night.
In the afternoon, the wind increased significantly, and I could only hide inside and listen to the roar of the wind outside, the wind became stronger and stronger, and the whistling and rain were getting higher and higher, and now even the sound of roaring could not be heard a few meters away.
It seems that you can only eat peanuts at night, because there is no fire at all, and the flames that come out of the fire fold are blown out by the strong wind in the house in an instant, and the drawback of the ventilation of the wooden house is also revealed!
The wind reached a new level after dark, and the houses were gently swaying with the gale.
At this point my mind was blank because I could only show despair and powerlessness in the situation......
After dark, I couldn't see my fingers, and in order to give me a sense of security, I had no choice but to sleep with a woolen blanket in a nervous mood, and of course I didn't fall asleep at all.
It's been a long time, especially in an environment like this, where every beat of my heart can be heard in my head clearly, like the sound of every second on a clock.
With the passage of time and the approach of typhoons, the wind has exceeded the maximum strength of the previous two typhoons, and the houses that used to be gently shaking are now swaying from side to side.
Although my eyes were black in the dark night, I heard the sound of "click~click~click~" from the structure of the house, and the heart that finally fell back into my stomach was raised to my throat again......
Shortly after dawn, the typhoon's maximum wind arrived, and the house began to crumble in the gale, and at this time, I had the intuitive feeling that "it's over...", and the house may not be able to hold on!
The prayers in my heart didn't work in the slightest, and this time Lady Luck didn't take care of me.
The disaster began with the roof slowly showing some holes, and then the roof of the kitchen was blown away like autumn leaves, even though it was rebuilt and specially reinforced by me last time, but it was the first to be killed in the farthest part of the roof.
The script is certainly not going to be done by blowing off a piece of the kitchen roof like last time, and this is just the beginning!
Immediately after that, less than 30 seconds, the roof of the second room was directly pierced by the typhoon, although it was not blown away, but it suddenly made the wind in the house loud, and the house was now like a dance!
At this moment, my heart is desperate, the current situation is like "there is a wolf in front and a tiger in the back", neither advance nor retreat, so I really don't know what to do, the whole person is like a fool!
I can only think that the damage caused by the typhoon to me is over here, and I can be magnanimously spared once.
But a minute later all the houses and the walls collapsed, and I could only watch as it fell towards me and could do nothing, the only thing I could do was to run in the direction of the wall and put the woolen blanket over myself......
There was a loud bang, and my mind was in chaos, and I didn't think about anything at this time, because the whole person was stupid, and I could only be forced to accept the destruction of fate on me.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, the good news is that I'm alive, there is a lot of bad news, one of which is being crushed under a fallen roof!
For such a disaster, I once again realized the fragility of human beings, and fortunately because I was quick to get hit by the falling wall.
And because the roof was supported by the crooked trees of the wall, only one piece of wood hit me, and it didn't seem to hurt me much, but only scratched the skin.
At the moment, there was no better place to go, so I planned to stay inside and wait for the typhoon to pass before coming out of it, but the typhoon stretched out its claws again......
As soon as I calmed down a bit, the roof was blown away by the typhoon, and if I hadn't grabbed the wood on the fallen wall urgently, it might have been blown away.
The ground is a mess, even if it is not blown away, even if it is just blown to the ground and rolled, it is possible to be pierced by various sharp parts of wood and lose your life!
The current situation obviously can't stay here anymore, a bad one will be blown into the sky by the debris, in order to save his life at this time the brain is spinning rapidly, thinking about what to do next.
The typhoon didn't make me think too much, and seeing that it was even more dangerous in the back, I had to pull the stump that had fallen to the ground and crawl to the kitchen, and pried up a stone slab the size of a basin on the kitchen floor.
Image and demeanor are no longer important, life is the most important.
Crawling directly on the ground with the stone slab on my feet, the target was a well thirty or forty meters away, and now it seemed that it was the only one that could save my life.
What is usually half a minute away is like a world away at this time, and every second is a huge challenge for me mentally and physically!
One minute, three minutes, eight minutes ......, after a great torture, I finally grasped the edge of the well, during which the process was not smooth, it can be described as frightening and dangerous, before I had climbed ten meters, I was hit by a small tree that was the thickness of an arm's length that swept into the sky......
But fortunately, there are still many branches and leaves on the body of the tree to slow down the damage, but it was smashed and it hurt and not injured, maybe it was just a joke that God played on me!
The back legs were almost blown off the ground by the typhoon, and if you didn't hold the slate tightly, the situation would be very dangerous, and it once again showed the wisdom of holding a slate!
Due to the location of the well, the angle between the two sides of the mountain wall is not far away, this special location makes the wind here much less, and it itself is a cave dug into the mountain wall, so the safety problem should be safe.
The temperature in September was usually very hot, but the temperature plummeted under the strong wind and rain, and my stomach was empty and soaked, so I felt unusually cold when I stood in the well water!
Although it is not cold at all compared to the danger of life, the typhoon will still be raging for a long time, and squatting in the cold and biting well water all the time is no different from killing me.
After soaking my whole body in the well water to wash off the sludge on my body, I could only keep holding water outside with both hands, so that I could still warm up a little bit.
I didn't give up until there was only water left at the bottom of the well, carried the stone slab by the well to the well, sat down on the stone, and then there was only a long wait!
Waiting is a very irritating thing, and waiting in the cold wind with a hungry stomach can no longer be described as torture, it is simply torture......
You can see the sheepfold not far away, and it is also a mess inside, but fortunately the sheepfold has not been blown down, but the straw shed has fallen.
And the sheep all slept together, enduring the wind and rain, and although I was very worried, I could not do anything about it; Daoist friends suffer from this calamity, and the poor Dao itself is difficult to protect!
This experience should have been the most exciting in more than a year on the island, even more exciting than when the boat crashed in the first place, when I fainted shortly after, and now I am completely awake and face it all head-on!
I don't need to count the losses anymore, I don't need to think about it to know that it is extremely heavy, so it can be said that I returned to the pre-liberation period overnight, but I hope that the corn and peanuts have not suffered too much loss, so that the post-disaster reconstruction can also provide me with some support.
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In fact, I also considered the issue of typhoons before building a house, because I had seen a typhoon in a cave before building a house.
But at that time, it was really limited to the backwardness of the tools, and it had to be built to the current state, and if there was a chance to start over, it might not be particularly improved!
Of course, if the cave does not collapse, maybe the house will be built after the iron is smelted, and it should be more stable with iron, especially with axes.
If you look at the second room now, you will find that its level of wind resistance is obviously one level higher than that of the first room, but it doesn't make sense to say that now!
Once again, I was faced with the problem of building a new house, and it had to be able to withstand a strong typhoon head-on.
If a slightly stronger typhoon collapses every time, it is obviously not acceptable to me, and it is not always as lucky as today, the house collapses during the day, what if it is night?