"Brother Luo Yan, please come here." Xia Jie, Xia An'an's father, warmly beckoned Luo Yan down the stairs.

Descending the stairs is a hall converted from a storage room, which is not dimly lit and is lit by beams of sunlight.

But Xia Jie and others opened the skylight on the ground and used the glass collected in the village as the window, so that the underground space was not dim during the day, and they were not afraid of water entering the rainy day.

They also installed their own ventilation ducts to allow fresh air to be injected into the ground through the air intakes on the ground floor without getting stuffy.

These seemingly simple arrangements, but Luo Yan knew that it was not simple at all. After a natural disaster, there will be basically no electricity supply in a surface survivor camp like this.

Add to that the lack of tools. To achieve these current arrangements, you should know how much hard work Xia Jie and others have put in.

In Xia Jie's introduction, Luo Yan knew that this village called 'Ximen Village' used to have a permanent population of 2,000.

But now, all of them add up to less than a hundred, only 78 people. Before the Falcon Base was destroyed, the men in the village would take turns to go to the base to earn a living because the West Gate Village was close to the base.

In exchange for living supplies, so that the elderly and children here can survive. It can be seen that the living conditions of the residents of Ximen Village are very difficult.

Even so, they still have hope. Right now, it's in the hall. An old man in his early sixties, dressed in plain clothes, was teaching a few children to read.

"That's Mr. Liu Guo."

"He is a retired teacher and one of the survivors of natural disasters."

"In the past three years, he has been catching the children's enlightenment education."

He said that no matter how many natural and man-made disasters there are, they can't cut off their children's way to school. Xia Jie saw that Luo Yan was looking at the reading corner in the hall, so he enthusiastically introduced.

and pushed his daughter: "Go, An'an." ”

"Take Xiaohu and Chubby and them to study."

"Okay." Cheyenne grabbed the hands of the two little boys and staggered to the reading corner. Xia Jie led Luo Yan to continue the visit.

Coming out of the hall, there is a passage, and on both sides of the passage, some caves have been dug. Because there are no tools, these caves are naturally large and small, and they are not uniform.

There is no decoration inside, only various furniture collected from the village. These caves are the 'homes' of the survivors of Ximen Village!

"When the natural disaster came, at the beginning, everyone was just crowded into the hall where they just entered."

"Little by little, we opened up the corridors and these caves."

"Although they are simple, at least, everyone has a 'home' again." When it came to 'home', Xia Jie looked happy.

It seems that for this man, as long as the home is still there, there is still hope in life.

"Brother Luo Yan, this is my home, please come in." Xia Jie led Luo Yan into a cave. Walking into Xia Jie's house, Luo Yan found that this cave was larger than the others, and it even had two small rooms.

The entrance serves as a living room, while the other two are bedrooms.

"This is my bedroom, this is An'an's." Xia Jie introduced. Luo Yan glanced at each other. Both of these bedrooms are not big.

As soon as you enter, there is a bed set up, and there is almost no room to move. However, a small skylight was made on the top of the room.

In this way, lying in bed, at least you can see the world outside. In addition, in Xia Jie's room, a large map was pasted on the uneven wall, and circles were drawn on it with red oil line pencils.

Xia Jie stood at the door and smiled: "When I go to work at the base, I will inquire with people who come and go to the base. ”

"Gather some information on where it's safe and where there are other camps."

"One day, I will leave here with An An."

"It's hard, but I still want to give her a better life as much as possible." Speaking of this, Xia Jie said excitedly: "I heard some adventurers say that in some places, huge underground cities are being built. ”

"There is mecha protection, and in those cities, you can live the days before the disaster."

"I've already contacted a few capable people, as long as I save enough money, I can get them to send me and An An in."

"When I get to the dungeon, I hope to send An An to school."

"Of course, I don't think Teacher Liu Guo is bad, in fact, I am very grateful to him."

"But I hope to give An An a better education, she shouldn't live in this kind of place for the rest of her life." Looking at the light in his father's eyes, Luo Yan nodded: "An An is a smart child. Seeing Luo Yan praising his daughter, Xia Jie was even happier.

Soon it was evening. In the evening, Xia Jie and a few men walked around the activity center, and after confirming that there was no danger, they returned to the ground.

They closed a large iron door in the hall, which was installed later, and it took Xia Jie and others a lot of effort just to disassemble it and transport it to the underground hall.

Every night, they close the gates and block the exits. Next is dinner time. Dinner was served by the women, who cooked in a corner of the hall with a chimney leading to the ground.

The exhaust fan is manually started, and it is simply modified with a fan, bicycle, etc. Some older children take turns stepping on the exhaust fan to let the various fumes from the cooking take away.

The survivors of Ximen Village range from the elderly to the children. Everyone has a job to do, and they work together to survive a natural disaster.

A moment later, a bowl was placed in front of Luo Yan. It was a bowl of porridge, although Xia An'an had tried her best to give Luo Yan as much as possible, but this bowl of porridge still looked like there was still too much soup.

As for the others, there wasn't much rice in the bowl at all. Xia Jie said apologetically: "Recently, the base said that there was a large-scale military operation, and it is temporarily closed to the public. ”

"Those of us have no jobs and can only eat what we left."

"I don't have much food left, so I can only save a little food."

"I'm sorry we can't even get something decent." Luo Yan shook his head, picked up the bowl, blew on it, and then took a sip of rice juice.

Then he opened his rucksack and took out several of the field rations inside.

"An An, take it and share it with your little friend." Luo Yan smiled. Xia An'an saw that there was canned meat in it, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she swallowed involuntarily.

But she sensibly didn't take it, but looked at her father. Xia Jie smiled and said, "Take it, but you can only take one can." ”

"Give the rest to my brother." Xia An'an nodded, picked up one of the cans, ran to Wang Xiaohu's children, and shouted proudly: "Look, this is the canned meat I told you." ”

"Brother Luo gave it to me."

"Now you believe it!"

"I'm telling you, this canned meat is delicious."

"You're blessed today!"