Chapter 4: Outbreak
Gu Sirui took the cup in her hand, slowly drank the water in the cup, and watched the news report on TV.
It's good to have clean water now, but after a long time, clean water has become a scarce resource, after all, it costs a lot of resources to purify and filter polluted water sources.
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On January 5, 2131, acid rain had been falling for five days in a row.
Now the people around me are talking about acid rain.
"Eh, I don't know when it's raining, my clothes and quilts are all damp and damp, I can't dry, and there is a strange smell."
"Mine too."
"I heard from the son of a distant relative who works in the government, "This rain may be a long time coming. Don't you see that it's all about it on the news now? ”
"That's not good, if this rain is going to keep falling, then it's going to have to be. Many people are now in the hospital for drinking water polluted by rainwater. Hospital beds are running tight right now. ”
"No, people don't dare to get sick now."
Nowadays, people definitely did not expect that it might be more bitter in the future, not only is there no clean water source, but even fresh vegetables and animals are gradually decreasing.
Now that the news is vaguely revealing that this change may not be good.
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One month later, the Earth officially entered the Age of Corrosion.
Gu Sirui looked at the news in the group chat that she had joined at her previous job, and people began to worry.
"I heard from relatives in my hometown that the vegetables in my family have begun to rot and their roots have been corroded because they have been drenched in acid rain. And the land watered by acid rain is no longer able to grow food. ”
"Oh, no."
"What's not, now the chickens and ducks and those domestic animals have drunk acid rain, and they have also died of illness."
"So, does the state say how to solve it?"
"Not yet, eighty percent won't work either."
"Then I have to stock up on some food, otherwise what if something goes wrong."
"Xiao Li, take me one."
The people in the group kept popping up, one by one worried, and the thinking of the Chinese people was that no matter what happened, it was necessary to store food.
However, it is too late to stock up on grain, and it is estimated that the government has also begun to do it.
At present, there are basically only supermarkets designated by the government to sell things, which is also to appease the hearts of the Chinese people, otherwise all of a sudden the food will be gone, which will cause the Chinese people to resist.
With such a large-scale move by the government, few people will still think that this is a trivial matter, and they will no longer endure it as ordinary small disasters and small disasters.
Nowadays, many people are concentrated in the supermarket, especially those aunts and uncles, who are trying to move more things to their homes, even if there is nothing to sell one day. Although I don't want to say it, it is precisely because of this behavior that many people will have food at home in the next month, so that they will not starve to death.
In order to avoid being so abrupt, Gu Sirui also took her bank card and mobile phone, and went out to the supermarket with her usual backpack.
Gu Sirui couldn't help but cover her eyes as she watched those aunts desperately put several packets of salt, a few bags of rice, and a few boxes of mineral water in their shopping carts. I admired them a little in my heart, she was prescient, unlike her in her previous life, who didn't know anything.
However, can they really carry such a thing home?
At this time, Gu Sirui should have ignored the shopping cart that was stuffed with her.
Probably.
Maybe.
It is the opposite of things.
I was too miserable in my previous life, and I wanted to make my life better in this life.
But that's about it.
She has no obligation, nor does she have the ability to be a hero for the benefit of all mankind.
After paying the bill, Gu Sirui looked down at the box of things under her feet and was silent.
"Let's take a taxi. I was definitely not buying much. ”
Absolutely nothing.
Something about wood.
Gu Sirui took out her mobile phone and called a Didi taxi, sat in the car and enjoyed the cool air conditioning, but fortunately, the country still persisted in providing electricity to the people in the days that followed.
"Eh, little girl, why did you buy so many things, you can't eat them and you have to waste them."
The middle-aged uncle sat in the driver's seat, glanced at Gu Sirui from the rearview mirror, and asked suspiciously, obviously preparing to chatter.
"I was a little panicked when I saw this situation, and I bought it with those aunts, so I was prepared."
Gu Sirui didn't want to continue chatting, so after answering, she closed her eyes and rested.
"In this case, then I'll ask my wife to buy some too."
Seeing Gu Sirui close her eyes, she muttered and stopped talking.
"Here we are, little girl. A total of 35 yuan. ”
Gu Sirui took out her mobile phone to scan the code to pay and got out of the car. When I got home, I asked someone nearby to help me carry my things home.
As soon as the door closed, Gu Sirui observed the surroundings, no one should have noticed here, and after closing the curtains, she immediately put the boxes of things piled up in the living room into the warehouse in the space, leaving only a little to hide people's eyes.
Sure enough, a week later, the government began to ban the sale of grain completely.
Although the acid rain has stopped temporarily, Gu Sirui knows that the real disaster has just come.
In the face of a growing population, the decline in food production is a fatal wound. And because of the corrosion caused by acid rain, a series of consequences will only make more and more people in the future unable to eat.
Even if you don't even have to eat the bugs, after all, the bugs have to eat to survive.
With the advent of the era of corrosion, it is not only food that is corroded, but also people's hearts.