I survived with my sister in the doomsday

Chapter 129 The Decline of Daxing Base

After finding the crystal, Song Jue touched the crystal.

He said that he didn't feel that the crystal had the same effect on him as the time I touched it?

I answered him that this crystal is the crystal for your first level upgrade, it is definitely useless to you, and it is also useless to us. But it can help our friends upgrade.

At this time, Lin Lin was in a dilemma and discussed with me whether this crystal stone should be given to my younger sister or to Xiaobai.

This is a problem, the palms and backs of your hands are all made of flesh.

My sister is my relative, and Xiaobai is my good brother, so who should I give it to?

Lin Lin said, either you just say you didn’t get the crystal, keep it first, and when you find the next one you can take it out and give it to the two of them to use together.

I didn't say anything, I just thought that maybe it would be hard to get this thing again, what if I broke it in half?

Lin Lin asked curiously, "Did you treat this crystal stone as a candy?" But then again, since Xiaotian could bite it into pieces and eat it, it proved that the two halves of the crystal stone were indeed edible.

Then let’s go back and try.

It's getting late. If we return to the Banshan Base now, it will probably be midnight, and the road may not be safe. However, this place is very close to the Daxing Base. How about we stay here for the night and go back early tomorrow?

Lin Lin still agreed that it was much safer in the base than outside.

Without further ado, when we entered the Daxing base, we found that the scene here was in a state of decline. Although there were police officers on duty, it also gave people a sense of decadence.

Ask the security guards at the gate what exactly happened?

When the security personnel saw that we were ordinary people, the two men, a child and a girl immediately relaxed their vigilance and asked who we were looking for.

When he asked me this, I suddenly remembered the captain who gave us watermelons. I quickly asked Lin Lin, "Do you still remember the name of the captain who gave us watermelons?"

After thinking for a while, Lin Lin replied to me that her last name seemed to be Zhao Guangjie! Lin Lin used to be a salesperson and it was easy for her to remember other people's names.

I quickly told the security guard at the door that I was looking for Brother Zhao Guangjie.

The security guard at the door looked at us suspiciously and asked: Do you know Lao Zhao?

I nodded quickly.

Under the guidance of the security guard, we found Lao Zhao who lived in the dormitory building. He was obviously stunned when he saw us, then he recognized me and said with a smile: I recognize you, young man. A few months ago, you exchanged bread with us for watermelon. You have lost a lot of weight in these few months.

Obviously, he is still enthusiastic.

I chuckled twice embarrassedly and asked Lao Zhao if he was doing well.

Old Zhao sighed and shook his head.

Seeing the once prosperous Daxing base now so depressed, we were confused and asked Lao Zhao what happened?

Daxing Base was originally our base for growing grain and vegetables. If this area is in a state of decline, we will sooner or later run out of food, and we will soon face a food shortage crisis. By then, urban residents will have to face the threat of hunger, and some may even starve to death.

Lao Zhao said that he didn't know why, but the roots of the vegetables and crops planted in the base would rot within a few days, and the same thing happened when they were replanted. As a result, the tasks assigned by the higher-ups were never completed, and we were very anxious.

Logically speaking, Lao Zhao and his friends are farmers who have lived here all their lives, so they should have mastered the planting techniques, and things like this shouldn't have happened.

Old Zhao continued to complain: Especially the grain in the surrounding farmland, I don’t know what the impact was, the production has been extremely reduced. As for water shortage, if all the water in the city was brought into the base, it wouldn’t be that serious of a shortage of water.

I interrupted and asked: Is it because of lack of fertilizer or something else?

Lao Zhao said that there was indeed a shortage of fertilizers, but it was not that serious. They found experts in this field to study the soil and the earth's crust. They said that after the natural disaster, the earth's crust changed, causing a direct impact on the roots of plants, so it was difficult for plants to grow in a short period of time.

This is really a headache!

Lao Zhao said that this is not something that can be resolved in one or two years, and it may take three to five years.

I mean, what if we dig out the soil and grow it on a platform away from the earth's crust?

Lao Zhao replied that this method could only be tested on a small scale. Where would the financial resources and manpower be to carry out large-scale planting?

Yes, such a huge project can only be researched by the state machinery, and it won’t help at all for us little people to worry about it.

He quickly told them the purpose of coming here today, which was to stay overnight.

Old Zhao was very envious when he learned that we had settled down in the base halfway up the mountain. Although he could at least have enough food and clothing in this vegetable and grain base, his future seemed bleak.

I took out a pack of cigarettes and gave it to Lao Zhao, then thought about it and pretended to take two boxes of instant noodles from the car and gave them to him, saying that these were not valuable things and I hoped he could accept them as a token of my appreciation for him.

Old Zhao saw that it was getting late, so he chatted with us for a while and decided to arrange for us to rest. Seeing that Bian Hui was a girl, he allocated two rooms to us and let Bian Hui live in the other room. I was a little worried, but Bian Hui said it was okay and she could handle it on her own.

Remind her to be careful outside.

Lin Lin saw me lying in bed, feeling depressed, and asked me if I was still worried about the country and the people. We don't have the ability to save the world, so let's just live each day well first.

I pondered for a long time, thinking to myself: "All these abnormal phenomena and chain reactions seem to point to a terrible fact - the end of the world is approaching quietly. The current situation is like boiling a frog in warm water. Ordinary people may still naively believe that this disaster will soon be over, but in fact it is not that simple. This is more like a storm caused by the gentle flapping of a butterfly's wings, or the corner of an iceberg that has melted, and the curtain of a truly devastating catastrophe has just been opened!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but take a breath, and my mood became heavier.

But with our current abilities, as Lin Lin said, it is difficult for us to protect ourselves, and we have no ability to save the world at all. What should we do in the days ahead?

I saw that my weight in my space is 201.22. If I don’t eat tonight, I will reach 200 kilograms tomorrow. Let’s see if anything useful will appear at this point.

When my thoughts were drawn into the space again, I saw piles of pickled mustard greens! In packages, bottles, cans, and even loose packages... dried radish, side dishes, Wujiang mustard greens, kimchi, spicy cabbage, Yanbian platycodon, preserved vegetables, bamboo shoots, kelp... the items here are so varied and dazzling that it feels like being in the land of kimchi! Not only that, after careful observation, I found that every time this space is upgraded, the magnitude of the change after the upgrade is more amazing than the previous one. At the same time, the number and variety of goods are also showing an exponential growth trend.

What is even more amazing is that these goods seem to be transported here from some mysterious place. Although the goods on the display stand are already very rich, there are still a lot of boxes of goods piled up under the stand. The volume of each box is as high as one cubic meter. It is hard to imagine how much is packed in it!