After the snow was much lighter, Chen Xiaowu ran out of the duty room, carried the corn in the shed into the house as Bai Ying said, and fell to the ground.

Bai Ying tried to move his left shoulder a few times, although his left shoulder could not exert force, but he still squatted down, tried to hold a corn cob with his left hand, tore off the leaves on the corn cob with his right hand, and rubbed the corn downward, but it was deducted for a long time, and only a few grains of corn were deducted.

Seeing this, Jiang Xiujing hurriedly snatched the corn cob in her hand, and picked up another corn cob from the ground, the two corn cobs overlapped, and rubbed them up neatly.

Chen Xiaowu has to go out every day to break the corn cob, and the burden of cooking falls on Jiang Xiujing's body.

After Chen Xiaowu put down the pile of corn cobs, he walked out of the house again, and poured out more corn cobs from the shed and moved them into the duty room, back and forth

A few people chattered until it was completely dark and they couldn't see the corn in their hands clearly.

Chen Xiaowu turned on the solar light, and the bright light illuminated this small duty room.

I saw that in the bucket next to Jiang Xiujing, there was already a bucket full of cooked corn kernels, and at this moment, the snow outside the window had stopped, and the temperature had plummeted, under the miserable white light.

The transpiration of water vapor in the bucket is particularly conspicuous.

The three of them were still wearing single clothes in early autumn, and at this time, looking at the fog in the duty room, even the air exhaled by several people was visible to the naked eye.

Chen Xiaowu felt a layer of goosebumps gradually rise on his body. Hair also builds up in gradually decreasing temperatures.

"I'll see if I can light this stove."

Seeing that Bai Ying and Jiang Xiujing's lips under the light were already a little purple from the cold, Chen Xiaowu couldn't help but think of the small boiler in the corner of the kitchen.

It is used by the sand factory to boil water for the radiators in the office and the floor heating upstairs, and it is usually circulated by a circulating pump.

A few days ago, when I was researching distilled water, I also thought about this thing, but there were no suitable tools to disassemble the pipes and stoves, and the heating pipes were too long, and the water released was all rust, so Chen Xiaowu dispelled the idea of dismantling it.

At this time, after the snow had fallen outside, the temperature had plummeted, and it was a good time to use this boiler, so I picked up the dried leaves from the corn cob and walked to the kitchen.

Due to the lack of electric drive of the circulating pump, the water in the boiler boiled quickly, but there was not a trace of heat on the radiator.

Chen Xiaowu scratched his head, it seemed that he could only use this boiler as an ordinary stove.

Then he brought in a pile of firewood from the yard and carefully put it into the boiler of the burning ground.

Even though the heating wasn't hot, the stove in the kitchen quickly raised the temperature in the cabin.

Jiang Xiujing took off the futon from upstairs and spread it on the wooden bed in the duty room.

In the face of this sudden drop in temperature, Bai Ying and Jiang Xiujing had to choose to come down and huddle with Chen Xiaowu in the kitchen and duty room downstairs.

Chen Xiaowu got into his sleeping bag and gave up the bed to the two female comrades very consciously, and he spread corn leaves under the sleeping bag to isolate the cold on the ground.

Jiang Xiujing turned off the solar lantern and slipped into the quilt of the white warbler, there was only this quilt in the entire sand factory, and in the cold night, the two girls were huddled together, and they could warm each other with their bodies.

In the dark room, there was no steady breathing sound after a long time, and this first snow was both reasonable and unexpected at once.

The snow was definitely going to fall, but I didn't expect it to come so early.

In the past 20 days, the originally intensive and frequent human activities have dropped to freezing point in an instant.

It has been advocating low-carbon and environmentally friendly life for more than ten years, and it has been thoroughly implemented and implemented on the earth at this moment.

The dead roam aimlessly through the streets and corners, occasionally screaming and chasing after living humans and other animals.

The living are hiding in dark corners, without cars, planes, trains, traditional fuels and greenhouse gas emissions, and the earth is freeing itself from the control of the greenhouse effect at an unimaginable speed.

So that the first snow in the north came more than ten days earlier than usual.

"I don't want to leave here." In the quiet night, Chen Xiaowu said this sentence, but he didn't wait for any response from Bai Ying.

He is just a small citizen, a little ruffian who lives at the bottom of society, crawling around and waiting for death.

This is what Sister Shiyin's boyfriend said, but at this moment it has become his positioning for himself.

If he worked hard enough, maybe even if he was born in an orphanage, he would have been able to get a good grade.

If he is desperate enough, then even if he goes to society, he should have already gotten ahead after more than ten years.

If he is good enough, then Sister Shiyin will not be engaged to that man, and give up her childhood sweetheart.

Once in that predatory society, he was a dick and a loser, and now he doesn't think he can change anything in this apocalypse.

There is food, shelter, and water. No one will bother here, no one will ask about income, no one will ask about work, no one will ask about girlfriends.

There's no need to be a die-hard 9-to-5 mediocrity here, and there's no need to flatter yourself and put any mask on yourself here.

Here he is himself, he is to live, to live.

When Liu Jianbin died in front of him, he was deeply shocked and awe-inspiring by Lao Liu's courage to sacrifice, and he also made an oath to complete the task on behalf of Lao Liu.

But now that Bai Ying has appeared, the promise of bringing Jiang Xiujing to himself to Lao Liu can be regarded as complete. As for how much completion there is, how many points can be evaluated, and what is the significance to yourself?

If he had known that this task represented nine deaths, he would definitely have slipped away as soon as he hung up.

As for the original strain of the virus that I don't know if there exists, what does it have to do with myself!

Chen Xiaowu kept convincing himself in the dark.

"......" may have only passed for a moment, or it may have been a long time, and a deep sigh came from the direction of Bai Ying and Jiang Xiujing.

For a long night, Chen Xiaowu lay quietly in the dark for a long time, on the one hand, he was worried about Bai Ying's decision, and on the other hand, he began to think about how he would live better in the sand factory next.

Go and collect more grain first, if you collect all the corn in the corn field, store it in the basement, and it should be enough to eat yourself for a few years.

Then I went to pick some rice ears, and then slowly studied how to get rid of the husk.

The diesel generator in the basement doesn't know if it can start, and even if it does, it won't be a long-term solution. I modified him to install a fan blade under it, can it be changed to wind power?

He tried not to let himself think about the white warbler's sigh, and began to plan all kinds of possible or impossible life in the sand factory, to avoid the light sigh that seemed to echo in his ears over and over again.

When the sky was getting brighter, Chen Xiaowu in a daze heard the sound of getting up.

The drowsiness in his mind disappeared in an instant, and Chen Xiaowu's whole consciousness was awake, but he still closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep, and tried to maintain steady and regular breathing.

Then there were footsteps of two people in the room, Bai Ying whispered a few words to Jiang Xiujing, and Jiang Xiujing also responded in a low voice.

Both of them spoke English, and Bai Ying knew that even if the volume was raised, Chen Xiaowu would not understand, so she muttered quietly at this time, but she still subconsciously didn't want to wake up Chen Xiaowu.

She explained Chen Xiaowu's choice to Jiang Xiujing, and when she saw that Jiang Xiujing's face also showed a confused look, she hurriedly didn't look at her.

In the past, when the male team members had emotions or resistance to her orders, she looked at the other party silently with a cold face like this, until the other party avoided her sight because of the soldier's duty to obey the order.

Such a gaze often not only omits her explanation of the male team members, but also invisibly increases the majesty of her captain.

But this time, in the face of this little North Korean girl who had just grown stubble on her head and had a beautiful appearance, she took the initiative to avoid her eyes.

After a short exchange, the two picked up the backpacks that had been packed and parked last night, gently pushed open the door of the duty room, and walked out.

Outside the courtyard, I remembered the rustle of footsteps falling on the snow, and as the two left, the rustle gradually disappeared. Eventually, complete tranquility was restored to the house.

Chen Xiaowu opened his eyes, his bright eyes stared at the roof of the kitchen full of fly droppings and oil smoke for a long time.

Until he could no longer hear anything from outside the door.

Chen Xiaowu got up from his sleeping bag expressionlessly.

The quilt in the duty room has been neatly folded into tofu blocks, and the large flower quilt that was popular in the 80s is covered with stains and oil.

If it was the years before the end, Bai Ying is soldier would not care about this, but Jiang Xiujing would never cover such a quilt, and such a beautiful and individual two girls spent nearly a month with them in this wilderness.

Although he knew that the fantasy of the beautiful scenery of hugging people left and right at midnight would not appear, before today, he had never imagined that the three of them would be separated in such a scene.

Is it really that he is too cowardly, not even as good as a girl?

No, no, no, Chen Xiaowu shook his head nervously, as if he had thrown this thought out of his mind.

The backpacks that the three of them packed up last night in the duty room have disappeared, and the * automatic rifle and the pistol from the basement that were placed by the windowsill have been taken away by Bai Ying.

Only the pistol that Chen Xiaowu took out from Liu Jianbin was left, and it was still placed there, which was the weapon that Bai Ying left for Chen Xiaowu to defend himself.

Chen Xiaowu picked up the pistol casually, as if he had seen this gun for the first time, looked at it carefully, wiped the black and shiny body with his hand, licked his somewhat dry lips unconsciously with his tongue, and exhaled deeply.

You'll only be left with yourself here! Then you have to live well!

He jerked the gun into his pocket and turned and walked out of the duty room.

I don't know if it was because of the excessive force, the door was slammed.

Chen Xiaowu walked in the direction of the cornfield without looking back.