Li Zhen was stunned, laughed a few times, and did not immediately ask, but changed the topic.

There is no urgency in everything. Originally, he was speaking as Guo Jinyuan's senior brother, but at this time, he was staring at the affairs of Wanzhou and asking questions, which would be strange to normal people.

So he picked out some general empty words at random. For example, when he met Guo Jinyuan in the cafeteria one day, or when he was talking to the vice president of so-and-so, he heard the other party praise Guo Jinyuan - all of what he had seen and heard in that school before, supplemented by his own processing, sounded quite credible and did not reveal any suspicious details.

These words made the couple cry and laugh, and only the little girl flickered and blinked, looking here and there for no reason.

When the love was strong, Li Zhen stopped and said no more, letting the emotions ferment in the hearts of these two.

When a person is emotional, he is always a little sluggish to changes in the external environment. And when the excitement calmed down - for example, now that Guo Baorong wiped his eyes, he felt a little embarrassed.

In any case, it is embarrassing for two people in their forties to cry in front of a young man in his twenties.

So Li Zhen tried to turn to another topic to "ease this embarrassing atmosphere right now."

He coughed lightly twice and said in a low voice: "What did you just say that there are more people in Wanzhou, what's going on?" ”

Guo Baorong was obviously quite satisfied with this young man's "sensibility", so he followed his words: "I just said it, I don't know very well - I just think so." You know, after that thing came. A lot of people died – so a lot of houses were vacated. ”

Li Zhen nodded.

The barrier does come during the day, and most people are outdoors. As a result, many people never returned home. Today, there are a large number of vacant houses in the middle of Yuzhou, which has become a paradise for those who used to be homeless or illegal immigrants who have no fixed residence.

Guo Baorong continued: "In the first two years, the neighborhoods near my house were so deserted that they were haunted, and there were only a dozen or so households in one building at night. As a result, in the past two years, more and more people have lived in the building, and now at night it looks the same outside as before. Sometimes I wake up at night and look out, and I feel like I'm back in the old years—"

"Have you figured out who they are?" Li Zhen showed a surprised expression on his face, "This is really strange. How can there be more and more people in this kind of world? Refugees on the run? ”

"Not refugees, not refugees." Guo Baorong waved his hand, "It looks more like being a soldier." ”

At this time, the little girl in the woman's arms cried out softly: "Mom, I'm hungry." I'm tired ......."

So the woman touched her head. He looked at the side of the road and whispered, "Let's rest for a while." ”

The man looked at Li Zhen. So Li Zhen laughed: "I'm also tired - then rest for a while." ”

It's always good to take a break. Because a few people sit somewhere, it's not good to talk about nothing. They had walked nearly 100 meters, and the buildings on both sides were still empty. So when looking for a place to stay, Li Zhen asked: "Here...... Why can't you see people? Is it that all the people here have gone to your Wanzhou? ”

Guo Baorong waved his hand: "No." You don't know. The people here are all on the south side. Because there's no water here. There is water only in the south. ”

He approached the door of a cold drink shop, dusted the glass door and looked inside, then tried to push the door. The door opened. The house is fairly clean and tidy. So he beckoned his wife and daughter to come in, and tried to press the electric light on the wall. However, the power supply seems to have been cut off, so they have to take a window seat.

Li Zhen also sat down an aisle with their family of three and asked, "Is there a shortage of water in Yuzhou?" ”

He hadn't heard of it yet. Or maybe I didn't pay much attention to this kind of thing in the General's Mansion before. All the trivial tasks were assigned to those officials by Pang Feihong, and the only thing he cared about most was information related to that one or the same species. If there is a shortage of water here, then the situation on the other side will not be too good. He may not feel much in the city center, but the more remote areas are probably the same as here.

He couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart. I knew that Lu Dao was inexperienced and could not assume the responsibility of being the leader of one city and one place, but he didn't expect to be so derelict in his duties.

But as he asked before, how can there be a shortage of water in Yuzhou?

It is important to know that Yuzhou is near the Yangtze River, and it is the Yangtze River, the second largest river in the world. If there is a shortage of water here, will there be people alive anywhere else?

Guo Baorong seemed to see his doubts, took out the bottled water in the suitcase, took a sip, and handed it to Li Zhen. Li Zhen smiled and waved his hand. So he went to feed his little daughter, and said as he fed: "Yes, no one can think of it." No one would have thought that the Yangtze River was going to be cut off! ”

Li Zhen's first reaction was because of the influence of the isolation zone. It's possible. There is turbulence of time and space in the barrier – time turbulence is easy to say. If it's space......

Where did those rivers get somewhere else?!

Realizing such a big problem for the first time, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

No wonder. It's been nearly a week since he returned to this world. However, for seven days, in a place like Yuzhou, there was not a single rain. The ground was hot from the sun and the air was dry. He thought that the summer in Yuzhou should be like this, but he didn't expect it to be due to the lack of water.

Guo Baorong sighed: "Not only is there a shortage of water, but there is also a severe drought and high temperature. Wanzhou is now more than 40 degrees every day, and no one is walking around on the street. My community's community is near Prince Lake, and even Prince Lake is about to bottom out. ”

Li Zhen frowned, always feeling that something was wrong. But his thoughts were a little confused, and he was thinking about some other things, so he had to put aside this thought for the time being, and brought up the incident just now: "So, just now you said that there are a lot of people over there, and you look like a soldier?" ”

"It looks like. It's all like a mold carved out of a mold - his face is cold, he doesn't smile or like to talk, he wanders around the roadside day and night, and he looks at it. At first, I thought they were spying on me......" He shook his head with a wry smile, "and then I learned that the people didn't take me seriously. ”

Li Zhen felt as if he had vaguely grasped a sign, but it was not exact. He watched as the couple lowered their heads and fed the little girl something, and after a while asked, "So those people—are they walking around the Prince Lake near your house?" How big is that lake? ”

The reason he asked this was because he realized that he had just thought something strange.

If the Yangtze River is going to stop flowing because it is affected by the isolation zone, then what about Taizi Lake?

The area around Yuzhou was one of the four major furnaces of the empire, and it was not "extremely rare" for the temperature to reach around 40 degrees in summer. But if it's just because of the high temperatures, a lake is going to bottom...... This seems to be a bit unreasonable. Even if there is no river inflow due to the drop in the water level, it will take a while for it to evaporate, right?

What's more, he said that the lake is in the community, and it is not necessarily connected to the Yangtze River.

Guo Baorong looked at Li Zhen strangely, frowned, and asked, "Why are you ......?"

Li Zhen realized that this time he couldn't use the excuse of "small talk" to prevaricate the past. So he lied again.

"That's what I'm doing." He smiled, "After I graduated, I was admitted to Yuzhou University as a graduate student, and I was engaged in atmospheric dynamic control——"

He made it up. It sounds mysterious, but it can always be related to the natural environment and other things.

"I just want to see more of it. You know that thing, the barrier, we can't just look at it, we have to think of something. He smiled slightly, scratching his head, "I know that I may not get much progress on my own, but I have more opportunities to learn more." ”

Guo Baorong showed a sudden look on his face and nodded approvingly: "You're right." Ambitious. ”

In this way, he said it in more detail. There are many things that Li Zhen doesn't want to ask, so he added them one by one.

However, after Li Zhen heard this, his brows furrowed even tighter.

It's really weird......

Taizi Lake is connected to the Yangtze River, but the area of the lake is not small. Judging from Guo Baorong's account, the waterway between the two has not been cut off to this day, and there is still river water pouring into the lake.

So the current situation is that the water in the river on this side, although it is not very large, is flowing in, and the water level in the lake area is declining day by day. It is said that in some places the bottom of the lake has already been seen.

And the strange-looking people in Guo Baorong's mouth do live in the community buildings around the lake.

His wife added another thing - she had seen one of them one day when she was out of town. It is said that he has a lot of strength. It was so big that when you kicked it on a lamppost, the iron sheet was slightly dented.

Then there is the ability one.

A large number of capable people ran there......

"A large number of capable people". And it all looks like "carved out of a mold".

Li Zhen first remembered the biochemical warriors he had seen in Lingxian. This means that there may be something hidden in that strange Prince Lake.

Able, drought...... The two seem to be hard to connect. This means that a crucial link is missing in between. He thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out, so he had to put aside the thought in his heart for a while.

So now he was faced with a choice - Siberia was in the north, and Wanzhou was geographically south. Would you like to go there and have a look?

It is almost certain that Wanzhou is also inextricably linked to the Siberian group, and this connection was established even earlier than Xiao Heng. Bai Xiaodang also told him that the infiltration in Wanzhou was a bit serious, which showed that before Xiao Heng was transformed, the center of gravity of that group of people was in Wanzhou. (To be continued......)