Chapter 324: Desert Merchant Travel (2)
When Ling Chen heard this, he nodded, for him, it was not difficult to restore the environment of the world, but if the human heart was completely broken, it would be difficult to recover, and all he could do was to re-cultivate and re-educate from the baby.
Now they can still help those who meet in Pingshui, which means that they still have some basic kind of help, and they can be saved.
"Butterfly effect, let's see if we can be artificially manipulated in this world" Ling Chen decided to help them, and the huge spiritual power he had accumulated extended out, and he saw the sandstorm hovering in the distance.
He stirred up the nearby air currents slightly, causing the sandstorm to move in a different direction from theirs.
Early the next morning, just some caravan people with sand and dust on their faces, all felt a kind of aftermath of the catastrophe, sandstorm is one of the natural enemies of the caravan, most of the time, even if people live, the goods are basically lost, after a loss, the whole caravan will collapse, if there is no external support or heritage, there is no comeback.
"Teacher Sang is really still you experienced, you can judge so accurately, fortunately you are prepared, otherwise even if you don't face the sandstorm head-on, you can't be sure that there are people who are keeping watch in the night and causing big problems," the eldest lady of the caravan praised.
"This is what an old man should do," those who are still trying to survive in the caravan, and those who are over fifty are out-and-out old men.
"Well, after going back this time, Sang Lao's share plus Yicheng" The eldest lady of the caravan gave a promise, no matter what, the other party also allowed the caravan to avoid a possible panic and reduce the appearance of danger. as well as losses.
"Yes, that's how it should be, thanks to the fact that we hired Mr. Sang in advance."
A caravan that escaped. I didn't know where my luck came from, and even Mr. Sang didn't know that he himself was just a kind heart by chance, and he avoided a disaster.
The caravan continued on its way, only to find that the sandstorm was very large, and the front was in shambles, and some poplar trees were completely obscured. The sand looked like it had just been raised.
"Teacher Sang, look, the two people in front are still there." A man rode a camel and followed Mr. Sang, and pointed to the two people in front of him.
"It's really lucky, maybe we also took advantage of their luck, and waited until the next city to meet them." Mr. Sang, an old businessman, is very obsessed -- I believe it. How did this kind of good luck come about, he felt that it might have something to do with the two unexpected people.
Of course, he won't know what's going on, but it doesn't prevent him from being strange to wanting to get to know each other now, and people's psychology is very amazing.
I walked all the way and walked for more than ten days, taking advantage of the morning and evening to hurry up. After resting at night and noon, I finally arrived at the next town.
Wood Night Town. A small town with only two or three hundred people, said to be a small town, is actually a place where many cement buildings have been buried by sand and dust, and are the places where the townspeople live.
"Okay, let's replenish the water and grass dry food here, and then rest for two days, and then set off" The eldest lady of the caravan asked Teacher Sang, adding an extra day of rest, because he had just experienced a sandstorm, although he was lucky to escape, but everyone was still a little uneasy, and they just happened to be able to settle down in this town.
Mr. Sang found a deserted building to house everyone, which didn't cost much money, and he didn't look for a hotel, all that was consumed was profit.
Then he went to look for Ling Chen and the others, the town was not big, and it was not the first time he had come, and Ling Chen and the two of them had such outstanding faces, so they quickly inquired about where they were.
"Master, look at the text of the monuments here, it is probably Hangzhou City in the 21st century, I didn't expect such a prosperous city, now it has been reduced to a desert town, this city is already very close to the sea, it seems that the world environment has changed very much, it is said that the sea water should not disappear, how can such a coastal city be desertified" Ling Qi was eating and talking with Ling Chen.
"Let's find someone to collect information first," Ling Chen ate a roasted sausage, and then said.
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Ling Qi stood up, "I'll go and have a look first"
Ling Chen nodded, and soon the old man who had been there came in.
"The two of you are disturbed," the old man was Teacher Sang of the caravan behind, and he came in first to salute and bring some food in his hand.
"I don't know what happened when the old man came here?" Ling Qi asked while letting people in, the place where they were at this time was also a ruin, the upper floor of a building that was mostly covered by the desert, there was no one in this town at all, everyone was just like a village, gathered to live, and no one managed such a large place, those people in the town mainly lived in a few buildings, and the rest of the town lived at will, as long as they didn't come to rob them of their food and water, no one came to ask.
"I've seen two, I'm really relieved to see two of them safe and sound, before the sandstorm, I'm also worried that something happened to the two, and it was a warning, but unfortunately there was little light in the middle of the night, and I didn't find it, fortunately, we were lucky, we all survived, we also have a lot of hardship, here brings a little water and wine, let's have a drink" Teacher Sang said, raised the wine jug in his hand, and these two people are extraordinary at a glance, and there is no harm in making friends.
Ling Chen was a little strange, this old man probably saw the extraordinaryness of the two of them, otherwise how could there be such an enthusiastic person in this world?
"Thank you for being so enthusiastic, then let's have a drink together," Ling Chen said, and then the three of them sat on the ground and ate and drank together.
"You're not from this neighborhood, are you?" After a few glasses of wine and the name of Guò, Teacher Sang asked.
"Well, we are from an underground shelter, and we haven't been in contact with anyone on the ground for a long time," Ling Qi said, in the little time just now, Ling Chen found some information and made up a source, as for whether the other party was suspicious, he didn't care.
"Oh, I see," Mr. Sang didn't inquire more, and he didn't want to ask more about other people's privacy, but he really had to ask about the origin.
"Elder Sang seems to know a lot about the local area, so why don't you introduce us to one or two," Ling Qi also asked.
"Of course, I begged for a living in a caravan, and I traveled north and south on weekdays, and I saw a lot of places," Mr. Sang is a natural person, and he is a good man, and he brushes over the affairs of his caravan, but talks about the customs and customs of various places.
"The largest city, of course, is still Beizhong, where more than 100,000 people live, there is a large oasis, and there is underground water, other places can't support so many people, and now there is no country, all organizations are controlling the place, a small town of two or three hundred people like Muye Town, it has no value, and it is far away from other places, it can only be used as a resting place for caravans, and there are no big organizations to look at, but the locals themselves form a committee to manage some chores, and there are no doctors, Once you have any illness, you can only drink more water, and then sleep, and if you are fine, you will die," Mr. Sang said with a little helplessness.
"The life of the people on the ground has been strict to this journey?" Ling Qi had questions.
"Yes, compared to the good life more than half a century ago, it is really like hell now," Mr. Sang is in his fifties today, and he lived a modern life for a while when he was a child, so he naturally sighed.
"I remember when I was a child, not only did I live in an air-conditioned house, I kept all kinds of fruits every day, I could eat whatever I wanted, and my family was not very rich, but also a middle-class family, except for serious illnesses and terminal diseases, there was no need to worry about general diseases, and only the people at the top could continue to live my life as a child," Mr. Sang said with nostalgia.
"I believe that the days should get better," Ling Qi accosted, and at the same time, Ling Chen was silent all the time.
"It's very difficult, technology can solve a lot of problems, but the environment is getting worse and worse, the precipitation is getting less and less, the desert is getting bigger and bigger, I went to Beizhong City once in the first half of the year, listening to the latest news, the world's last ocean, the Pacific Ocean is also going to disappear, there is no water, no matter how powerful human technology is, there is no way to recover, can only survive." Teacher Sang said helplessly.
"I see, but why did the ocean disappear, and where did all the water go? It's not going to evaporate into space, is it? Ling Qi was a little puzzled, the water might be polluted, but as long as the mass of the earth did not decrease, the earth's gravity could ensure that the vast majority of water molecules were still on the earth, and it was impossible for such a large ocean to disappear completely.
"No one knows this, scientists racked their brains to give an answer, the desertification of the world, partly due to pollution, but the disappearance of the ocean, but can not be explained by pollution and human activities, it can only be said to be some kind of mysterious phenomenon, because of this mysterious phenomenon, in just a few decades, 99% of people died, food production was greatly reduced, a famine swept the world, that era is really difficult to describe" the old man said, and fell into that terrible memory again.
"So that's the case" Ling Qi got an answer, he didn't quite know how this mysterious phenomenon could happen, but this was the key to their restoration of the world to its original state.
"But you young people, it's normal not to know, these histories, many people don't mention them anymore, human beings are dying, it's all a day by day, fortunately, our generation can still get through it, so no one wants to have children, no one wants to have children, let them face the fate of extinction, this is another reason why the population is getting smaller and smaller."
Ling Chen listened to the two chatting on the side, he got a lot of information, and he also understood the general structure of this world, and he quickly determined a plan. (To be continued......)