The axis of time is moving extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it has entered the cold winter. Since he was born, Wei Yi has never seen such a large snowfall in the Huai River Valley. Snowflakes in the sky, like catkins, floated all over the sky.

Between heaven and earth, there is a line between water and sky, full of gloom. Snowflakes, which were bigger than goose feathers, fell on Wei Yi's hands, and in a moment's effort, they melted into a large pool of water. It seems that this world has also begun to have some unknown changes.

As far as Wei Yi's vision could see, it was already all white. The sky and the earth were one color, and the air was filled with a bone-chilling chill. It was the first time he had spent such a cold winter in his hometown.

Once upon a time, when he went north to study, he also experienced a similar winter. But it is located in the extremely cold Siberian Plain in the north, and it is not comparable to the Huaihe Plain in the northern temperate zone.

Moreover, this is the third heavy snowfall since the beginning of winter. The snow that fell on the first two occasions had not yet completely melted, and the whole land was covered in a thick layer of snow. This made Wei Yi's exploration journey more and more difficult.

Wei Yu was wrapped in a thick winter coat, and he couldn't stop exhaling white air from his mouth and nose, forming one white mist after another. Large expanses of white mist, in this vast snowfield, sometimes even obscured his vision. The biting cold wind did not stop raging between this world and the world for a moment.

Wei Yi had to lean over, and in the flying goose feather snow, he struggled to move forward one foot deep and one shallow. The sound of "squeak, squeak" kept ringing. Behind him was a long footprint, embedded in the vast snow. But soon, these traces of him were completely covered by the heavy snow that fell.

In the past six months, Wei Yi has searched almost the entire boundary of Huainan City, but still has not found any signs of human activity. And with the onset of winter, the real problem they face is becoming more and more serious: they are running out of food.

In order to save food, in order to make Shen Xiaoman eat a little more, Wei Yi and Shen Cheng both had a very tacit understanding to eat as little as possible. Adults can go hungry, but never children. This is something that Wei Yi and Shen Cheng unanimously agreed.

The smart and clever Shen Xiaoman, how could he not know their plans? This kind boy knew very well that he would never be able to persuade these two extremely stubborn adults. She knew that she couldn't save it, so she secretly saved it.

Wei Yi peeked at it more than once that Shen Xiaoman secretly got up in the middle of the night and secretly changed the food allocated the next day. The ones that should have been given to her were secretly reduced. She secretly divided the reduced part into two parts and stuffed them into Wei Yi and Shen Cheng's food boxes.

Sometimes, Wei Yi would also see her, holding a food box, walking to a corner of the house, and eating alone. And every time Wei Yi wanted to help her clean the food box, she would refuse. And after a while, Wei Yi will find that there will suddenly be something more in his food box. And when you open Shen Cheng's food box to check, it's the same.

He knew all this, but he couldn't bear to pierce it all. Sometimes, he will see what he used to be in Shen Xiaoman's body. The innocent, kind, and obsessed with his parents gradually became clear in Shen Xiaoman's body.

And the same thing, he will also see it in Shen Cheng. That quiet fatherly love made Wei Yi miss his parents who were uncertain about their life and death all the time. He grew more and more eager to find the survivors. Perhaps, he could find out some news about his parents from those people.

He went out day and night to look for it. Walked everywhere you could explore. But all for nothing.

To make matters worse, there was less and less food he could find along the way. Even the occasional ones are completely moldy. Looking at the increasingly thin bodies of the Shen family's father and daughter, and seeing the guilt in their eyes every time he returned from exhaustion, Wei Mi's heart became more and more impatient. He went out day and night, looking for all the food that could be eaten, and exploring all the areas that could be explored.

Fortunately, he found some edible plants one after another, which finally temporarily alleviated his urgent needs.

But sometimes, he also makes some low-level mistakes, which leads to the loss of food that he can get his hands on. He remembers that not so long ago that autumn he had found many crops in the woods that were about to ripen.

At that time, he was overjoyed. He had not found food for two whole days, and he shouted excitedly, as if he had obtained the most precious thing in the world. That night, he slept soundly and sweetly. It was one of the few times he remembered getting enough sleep.

However, with no farming experience, he was careless and did not take care of them in time. As a result, a sudden heavy snowfall froze all those crops to death.

It's more than a month of food, that's enough food for the three of them to eat for more than a month, and it's gone. He was heartbroken and wept. He fell to his knees in despair, staring blankly at the long-dead crop in front of him. He felt that there was nothing he could do about it. Why did this damn snow come so early? God, why can't you let them live in peace?

That night, he tossed and turned, and he couldn't sleep. Shen Xiaoman sensitively noticed his abnormality and asked him with concern for a long time. But he didn't want them to know all this, and he didn't want them to carry this heavy burden on their backs. He lied. But Shen Xiaoman seemed to be completely convinced.

She said softly to Wei Yi: "Brother Wei, as long as you are here, my father and I will definitely be able to live." I believe in you, and you have to believe in yourself. ”

Wei Yi looked at Shen Xiaoman's sincere and concerned eyes, he could no longer allow himself to have such cowardly thoughts. He secretly swore in his heart that even if he took his own life, he would take the Shen family's father and daughter out of here safely.

But since then, he has been able to find fewer and fewer mature crops. Winter has come completely. With the arrival of winter, all the plants in the outside world withered, and the only food source was completely cut off.

After Shen Cheng recovered, his physical functions had not fully recovered, and he was drowsy every day, so he could only stay in his temporary residence and stay with Shen Xiaoman. Wei Yi has invisibly become the pillar of the three of them.

Faced with such a predicament, Wei Wei did not flinch. He knew that he couldn't stop looking. He can't lose his faith in life, because if he falls, the two people behind him will completely lose the courage to live in an instant.

He can't fall, he can't fall, he has to move forward firmly.

"Whew"

He rubbed his hands together and put them in front of his mouth, and he couldn't stop snorting at them. The hands that were a little stiff from the cold were only slightly relieved under his actions.

He traveled all the way to a highway in the northernmost part of Huainan City. A few months ago, he had spotted some extinguished charcoal fires here. But at that time, the dense weeds brought him a lot of difficulties. There are also many extremely aggressive plants, hiding in the grass, which poses a great threat to him. This time, without the dense weeds, maybe he could make some new discoveries.

He pulled out his feet deep in the snow and walked slowly on the highway. There are many abandoned cars along the way, quietly covered in heavy snow. Wei walked a short distance through a large pile of car wreckage, and soon found the place where the charcoal fire was found.

There were a few lone iron pipes, stuck diagonally next to a car. A tattered garment flew out of nowhere, hanging on one of the pipes, dancing helplessly with the cold wind.

Wei Yi walked there slowly and observed the situation around him. Seeing that there was silence around him and nothing unusual, he leaned down and pulled away the thick snow with his hands, revealing a pile of black charcoal fire under the snow.

"I've searched everywhere I can, and now I can only start from here." He muttered to himself in a low voice, his hands peeling away knee-deep snow from the ground.

After a while, he pulled out a large area along the charcoal fire. Soon, he found some abandoned food packaging bags, and some household garbage.

These things are neatly organized and packed in several packages. This gave Wei Yi a hint. These people are obviously of high quality, and under such conditions, they still do not forget to collect the garbage in different categories and pile it up in an orderly manner. Such a person must not be an ordinary person.

He raised his head and looked at the white and empty land in the distance, and once again the light of hope ignited in his heart. And the next discovery also strengthened the idea in his heart. Those people must be ahead.

He was about a hundred miles away from the previous pile of coals, and found another one. In the parcels around the charcoal fire, there is still a detailed classification of household garbage, and it is increasing unabated.

At this time, he was really happy, and hurriedly followed this road and continued to search. Along the way, he found several charcoal fires one after another. Almost every time, you can see some neatly stacked household garbage.

But this situation, after going on for a while, suddenly began to change. In some places, there are only charcoal fires, but there are no neatly stacked household garbage; In some places, there are only some messy household garbage, but there are no more charcoal fires; To make matters worse, in some places, there was neither, but some torn clothing and some abandoned packages began to appear.

It was in those abandoned packages that Wei Yu found some food. There are compressed foods, canned foods, and some quick drinks. Among the packages containing food, he found several information disks with fingerprint locks and an identity card.

He didn't have time to look closely, but he gathered them all together. He found a detached car door, tied the packages firmly to the door with a rope, turned around and pulled the rope tied to the car door, and hunched back as fast as he could.

Winter nights come especially quickly. In the blink of an eye, everything around me turned from a silvery white patch to a dark night. Wei Yi cautiously observed the movements around him, and at the same time hurried back without stopping, not daring to delay for a moment.

But he went just too far. It wasn't until the second half of the night that he dragged his tired body back to his temporary residence.

When he knocked on the secret door of his residence, Shen Xiaoman rushed out from the inside, grabbed Wei Yi's hand tightly, and asked in a trembling voice, "Brother Wei, why did you come back?" We were all scared to death. ”

"Xiaoman, let Xiao Wei come in first, it's strange cold outside, he must be frozen. Quick, first-in, first-in. Shen Cheng was inside, urging Wei Yi and Shen Xiaoman to hurry into the house.

Wei Yi touched Shen Xiaoman's head lovingly, and said with a smile: "Look, what I brought you back." ”

As he spoke, he untied the rope around his body and beckoned the two people in the room to help carry his things. When the Shen family's father and daughter saw dozens of backpacks full of food, they were almost stunned.

They were stunned for a moment, and then they helped Wei Yi with joy and moved all the packages into the house.

When everything was ready, they sat together around the improvised fire. Shen Xiaoman looked at Wei Yi with bright eyes, and asked with a smile: "Brother Wei, tell me quickly, did you find a supermarket and bring all the things from other people." ”

Wei Yi shook his head with a smile, took the hot water handed by Shen Cheng, took a sip, and slowly explained today's experience to the Shen family's father and daughter in detail.

After hearing this, Shen Cheng was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "You mean, it is likely to be a large army, so if we follow the traces they left behind, can we find them?" ”

Wei Yi pondered for a while, and said uncertainly: "It's hard to say this, those places later, are a bit chaotic." I guess they may have been in some kind of trouble, or they may have been attacked. However, with such a direction, it is always good. ”

"Shall we go together tomorrow? Seeing that you came back so late, you must have walked a long way. Let's go together. Xiao Man was so anxious that he circled around the room. I'm too worried. Shen Cheng picked up the conversation and continued.

"Nope." Wei Yi didn't think about it, and refused in one bite.

He drank the hot water in the cup in a few sips and said slowly: "It's still uncertain what the situation is, in case they encounter any danger and the whole army is wiped out, then we will go, and we will probably encounter danger." I can't let you take this risk with me. ”

Shen Cheng was just about to speak, but Wei Yi stretched out his hand to intercept his words and continued: "It's okay for the two of us adults, but you have to think about it for Xiao Man. What if something happens to you and you let her? ”

When Shen Cheng heard this, he sighed helplessly, and had to swallow the words back in his mouth. His current body is not as good as before, and he really can't be brave anymore.

This night, Wei Yi and the father and daughter of the Shen family talked for a long time, and it was not until dawn that they went to bed.

A few days later, Wei Yi packed his bags, said goodbye to the Shen family's father and daughter, and hurried all the way to the north. This time, he's going to have to find those people anyway.

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