After the May Day holiday, high temperature warnings were issued across the country. Coupled with the severe drought in the north, the scorching sun scorched the earth and the temperature further rose.
Several major cities have hit record high temperatures of 51 degrees. Even Hantan Village, which has warm winters and cool summers, is too hot, with temperatures soaring to 30 degrees.
Each of the seven households in the village does not have air conditioning, only electric fans, and the air blown out is hot air. It is too hot to sleep at night, so everyone carries a bench and a fan to sit by the well in Sumian's yard and chat.
"God, it's so hot."
"No, an air conditioner now costs 5,000 yuan, and it's not in stock yet. There are so many nearby villages, and everyone is queuing up to buy an air conditioner."
"Even if you buy an air conditioner, you can't find anyone to install it now. Installers have to go to the hospital due to heat stroke every day." Village leader Li Dali shook a tattered cattail leaf fan and patted the mosquitoes on his legs and said, "You know how to install it?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Su Mian ordered two plates of mosquito coils and placed them in the yard, washed a large basin of strawberries in the refrigerator, moved the electric fan to the yard, and said with a smile: "The village chief is right, now not only in our county, Air conditioners are sold out across the country, factory orders have been scheduled until next month, and air conditioner repairs now have to be booked three days in advance."
Aunt Six was so panicked: "Then we can't buy an air conditioner, so we're going to die from the heat? Our baby tiger is only seven years old, so we can't stay at my sister's house forever."
"If I don't leave, I won't have anywhere to go." Uncle Liu said sadly.
Su Mian's eyes were sharp: "It doesn't have to be air-conditioned. The water pool in the back mountain is very cool and the ice has not melted yet. Build a stone house in the back mountain and move there. You can live in the summer without air conditioning. The stone house can also be used for weatherproofing." The wild beasts in the mountains are very safe.”
"Hey, don't tell me, it's really okay. I can bring my sheep over. If we wait any longer, our sheep will be overheated to death." Village chief Li Dali patted his leg and applauded.
"Xiao Mian, how much does it cost to build a stone house?" Grandma Zhao at the end of the village said worriedly, "I raised chickens and sold eggs with your grandma last year and saved 3,000 yuan. Is it enough?"
Grandma Zhao lives alone in Hantan Village. Her husband died of overwork while working outside, her only son had a car accident, and her daughter-in-law ran away with her granddaughter and all the family money. The old man lives on the government's subsistence allowance every month. Last year, he raised chickens and sold eggs with Su Mian's grandmother, and he saved some money.
"Grandma Zhao, you can just live with our Huba when the time comes. There is no need to build another house." Aunt Six said cheerfully.
"That's right, we are not worried about you living alone. Then everyone will be crowded together." The village chief said naggingly, "It's true that you are not willing to eat the eggs yourself, and you even sell them."
Those who stayed in Hantan Village were all lonely elderly people, women and children. Because they had lived in the mountains for a long time and were isolated from the world, everyone was simple and honest and helped each other on weekdays. This was the main reason why Su Mian wanted to come back to help everyone.
"We can live with several families together, sharing a living room and kitchen, which not only saves money but also makes people lively. The construction team is ready. You decide which families will live together, and I will ask the construction team to help you build a house." Su Mian laughed. He said, "I won't charge you either. There is a severe drought now and there is no water to drink in the north. In addition, the harvest is not good in the high temperature fields. I estimate that the prices of firewood, rice, oil and salt will rise soon. You stock up on food and use it to pay for it when the time comes." That’s good.”
In fact, three large caves have been dug out at Hantan in the back mountain. Each cave is seventy or eighty square meters in size. They are built according to the specifications of three bedrooms and one living room. The project is nearing completion. Li Hongqi himself is a ceramic tile maker. The businessman also asked people to bring the best tiles, and now they are waiting to install the tiles.
Everyone was delighted when they heard this, and decided to live in three stone houses. Including Sumian's family, there were exactly three stone houses.
Everyone chatted until late at night before leaving.
"Did you deliberately ask everyone to move to the mountains?" Seeing everyone leaving, Grandma Su pulled Su Mian and whispered, "You kid, do you really believe in a dream?"
Su Mian hugged her grandma's arm and smiled coquettishly: "No one has suffered any losses anyway. We can move back when the weather gets colder."
"Okay, okay, I can't beat you." Grandma Su smiled lovingly.
The grandfather and grandson tidied up and went back to the house to sleep.
After Su Mian fell asleep, she felt in a daze that she had forgotten something very important.
She didn't know how long she slept, but it wasn't until there was an earth-shattering roar from the mountains that she woke up from her bed, remembering that the time of the mountain collapse in her previous life was one night in mid-May.
The two mountains in front of Hantan Village collapsed overnight. When the villagers woke up in the morning and looked at the suddenly clear view, they were so shocked that they could not close their mouths.
The mountain collapsed
Not only the two mountains in front of Hantan Village, but also many mountains in the mountains collapsed, and Anping County fell into unprecedented chaos. Fortunately, the garrison of the Southwest Military Region was not far from here, and troops entered the mountains that afternoon.
Hantan Village and several other villages were trapped. On the seventh day, troops from the Southwest Military Region finally cleared a mountain road and arrived at Hantan Village.
"First register the population, register the casualties, and register the losses." The leader was a handsome young man in his early thirties with tanned skin. The man looked sharply at the small village in the basin.
There are only a few scattered families in total. The houses are all old tile-roofed houses from decades ago. They are very dilapidated. These are lonely old people and left-behind women and children who are unwilling to move out. It is strange to say that there is such a big movement in this village. Surprisingly unscathed.
What a lucky fate.
"Hello, comrade, I am the village chief Li Dali." Li Dali came out with two thermos bottles and nervously came forward and said, "I'll pour some water for the comrades. The weather is too hot."
Everyone looked at the water bottles with shining eyes and licked their dry lips.
"Rest where you are." The man ordered, and the group sat down to rest.
"Comrade, these are the cucumbers we grow at home to relieve the heat."
"These are freshly boiled eggs."
"These are baked sweet potatoes..."
The villagers enthusiastically took out all the food at home.
Mu Ling and his men worked tirelessly for seven days to rescue. The mountain collapsed so badly that the strong men in their thirties and forties from other villages were so frightened that they lost half of their lives. Seeing that the villagers in Hantan Village had smiles on their faces, Calm and calm, he suddenly felt a little puzzled.
Why are they not worried at all when encountering such a natural disaster
"Thank you everyone, don't worry, the mountain road outside is being cleared, and traffic will be restored soon." The man said in a hoarse voice.
"We are not worried, we are self-sufficient, and we are not afraid if we don't have air conditioning."
"That's right, Xiaomian said, it's ten to twenty degrees hotter outside than in the mountains, and anyone who goes out will be roasted."
"All the animals in the mountains have been running away recently. Xiaomian took us to hunt a lot of prey. Comrade, you can stay for lunch later."
Everyone talked about it one by one, and almost everyone couldn't help but think of the word "Xiao Mian".
"Village chief, is Xiaomian here?"
"Xiao Mian went hunting in the back mountains."
"Girl? Going hunting alone?"
Everyone was dumbfounded. After the mountain collapsed, ferocious beasts were rampant, and some came into the village to bite people. Are the girls in this mountain so brave
"Village chief, take us to the back mountain for a look." Mu Ling stood up and gave instructions quickly, "The first team will follow me to the back mountain, and the second team will stay on standby to report the situation in the village."
Li Dali hurriedly took Mu Ling and others up the mountain, while the other villagers went home, took out all the meat and vegetables at home, and went to Grandma Su's house to make lunch.
Along the way, Mu Ling has basically understood the situation in Hantan Village. There are seven households with a total of eleven people. The village chief is Li Dali, but the person who makes the decision is a girl who has just turned 20. This girl is from last year. The top scorer in the provincial college entrance examination and a top student at BGI.
May is when college classes begin, and this little girl has been home for more than a month.
Mu Ling followed the village chief to the cold pond in the back mountain. He was shocked when he saw that in such a hot weather, there was ice on the lake and it was so cold.
Nowadays, high temperatures and deadly heat events are happening every day all over the country. Not to mention, the temperature in the southwest is already close to 50 degrees. There is such a natural summer resort in this isolated mountain village.
Not to mention it's hot in the mountains, if it's cold you need to wear a jacket.
"Village chief, are you under construction here?" Mu Ling's men saw three square caves dug out. Each cave was three meters high, spacious and bright, and there were gravel roads from the entrance to the cold pool.
"It was too hot, we couldn't buy air conditioners, and the circuits often broke down, so Xiaomian asked a construction team to build a stone house. We planned to move here to escape the heat." Village chief Li Dali said with a smile.
A month ago, this behavior would have been unthinkable, but after experiencing the high temperatures across the country and the temperature continuing to rise, digging caves and building houses is a life-saving measure.
"Grandpa Village Chief, why did you go up the mountain?" Su Mian went up to the mountain to hunt early in the morning. After the mountain collapsed, the animals in the mountain fled one after another, and the number of animals increased sharply. However, these weak animals were unable to withstand the coming apocalypse. Under the blazing flames, Will be burned directly to ashes.
During the week of the mountain closure, Su Mian went hunting in the mountains every day, storing as much bacon as possible, and also caught some pheasants and hares to raise in the yard.
Mu Ling and others were stunned for a moment when they saw her.
The twenty-year-old girl was wearing a floral plate-buttoned gown, her calf trousers were tucked into her boots, and she was carrying a bamboo basket and a bow and arrow. She looked very heroic, but she was extremely beautiful, with skin whiter than ivory, and dark pupils like those of a wealthy woman. Holding a pool of clear water, the water is crystal clear. No one would have thought that the little girl who goes up to the mountain to hunt every day looks like this.
"Xiao Mian, this is the comrade who came to the rescue. I heard that you went hunting alone in the mountains, so I came here to take a look." Liu Dali smiled.
Su Mian nodded, put down the prey in the bamboo basket, wiped the sweat and said: "I'm fine. I hunted a squid today, which weighs thirty or forty pounds. Grandpa, the village chief, will braise it for everyone later." Give it a try.”
Everyone looked intently and saw a hornless squirrel, several pheasants and hares in the bamboo basket. They immediately looked at each other. How could they hunt so much game with bows and arrows? A master.
They old men are worried for nothing.
"Huzi is a nationally protected animal." Mu Ling said with a frown.
"Now that natural and man-made disasters have occurred, people have become the bottom of the food chain. Who can care about it?" Su Mian said coldly.
Su Mian was speechless and Mu Ling was speechless. The team behind him couldn't help laughing when they saw the captain shivered and said: "Captain, just think that this boy was crushed to death by a mountain collapse. When we were marching in the wild, I haven’t eaten less either.”
"Come on, sister, let me help you carry the bamboo basket. This bamboo basket must be heavy."
everyone said enthusiastically.
After finding Sumian, the group went down the mountain and returned to the village.
Farm food and braised pork belly for lunch.
Mu Ling and others adhered to the principle of not taking advantage of the common people, but they didn't eat, and the villagers didn't eat either. In the end, they had to spend a few hundred yuan to buy this lunch.
The game in the mountains tastes amazing, and with Grandma Su’s good cooking skills, everyone had the best meal since the rescue, no, the most delicious meal since they were so old.
When Mu Ling saw that the meat of pheasants and rabbits, as well as wild lamb and pork legs hanging under the eaves of the Su family's house were dried, he nodded secretly. No wonder the villagers were convinced that this little girl had good skills and a smart mind. One was worth ten. .
"Now that the mountain is collapsing, it's not safe here. Do you want to move to your relatives' homes?" Mu Ling reminded him when he saw the simplicity of the villagers.
Mu Ling's position in the army is not low, and he knows many unknown inside stories. Today there are natural and man-made disasters, and everywhere is unsafe. Today there is a mountain collapse, and tomorrow there may be earthquakes and forest fires. There have been hundreds of major disasters across the country this month. , all of them have been suppressed and not released to avoid panic among people. As for foreign countries, there are more.
"We're not going anywhere." Aunt Six shook her head and said.
"This is our home." Grandma Zhao said.
"Comrade, we are all people with one foot in the coffin. If we don't want to make people uncomfortable in front of our son and wife, we just stay in the mountains. Hantan Village is fine." The village chief grandfather said proudly.
Su Mian looked at Mu Ling thoughtfully, confirming that she had never seen him in the previous life. Thinking that after the end of the world, the soldiers who were at the forefront and suffering heavy casualties were the soldiers, and she felt a little respect in her heart, and said: "Captain Mu , I read on the forum that there are disasters all over the country now, and the outside may not be safer than in the mountains. If you have a holiday, you should go back and see your family."
Maybe, there will be no chance in the future.
Mu Ling looked at the young girl sitting among a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled, and felt strange. She had amazing beauty and extraordinary skills. She was a top student who should have been studying at Huada University, but now she was digging caves and building houses in the mountains. , hunting and farming, this little girl named Su Mian is unpredictable in everything she says and does.
There is also a frozen cold pool on the mountain.
Mu Ling felt that he had grasped something very important. He believed in his intuition. This thing passed down in his blood had saved his life many times.
After lunch, everyone took a nap. The man walked to the big tree at the entrance of the village and dialed the mysterious number engraved in his bones under the scorching sun: "Mu Ling, the eleventh generation collateral descendant of the Mu family, please apply for a call."
This was the number that his grandfather told him before he died. His surname was Mu, and he was the eleventh generation of the Mu family. He was sent out of the world by the family. If one day, when he feels the crisis and is desperate, he can apply to return. Get the protection of the family.
Mu Ling didn't believe it at first, until after his grandfather was cremated, the ashes were not buried in the cemetery, but were picked up by two young people. The two people seemed to be ordinary in appearance, but they had an indescribable affinity with them that made people unable to understand. Resistance arises.
"The children of the Mu family will be buried in the family cemetery. Mu Ling, if one day you encounter something that cannot be solved, you can come to us."
The two people returned home at night, as if they had never appeared before. Now Mu Ling felt the same aura as the Mu family's children in Su Mian's body. This is the perception that comes from his blood.
There was a busy tone on the phone, and no one seemed to answer it until five seconds later, the call was connected.
"Identity confirmed, do you need to return to the family?" The woman's voice on the phone was full of vitality and affinity.
"No." The man looked at the isolated, quiet and beautiful small mountain village in front of him and said in a low voice, "I exchanged my lifelong right to asylum for the right to know. I applied to speak to the head of the family."
He is a soldier because he is a descendant of the Mu family and can get the protection of his family, but what about his brothers? What about these millions of ordinary people? He wanted to know what was going on with the world.
"Please wait a moment, we are transferring you."
After waiting for less than a minute, the call was transferred successfully.
"You are the first person in hundreds of years to exchange asylum rights for insiders." The man's gentle voice sounded, "Mu Ling, I am Mu Gui, the eleventh generation head of the Mu family. What do you want to know?"
"I am on a mission. Since this month, hundreds of major disaster accidents have occurred across the country. I want to know what happened?"
Mu Gui was silent for a moment and said gently: "Knowing the truth will not help you. Mu Ling, I can reject your application. If the disaster continues to expand next month, I will send someone to take you back to the family."
"I am a soldier." Mu Ling refused. "I don't know why my family wants to hide from the world, but I like this real and passionate world. As long as I live, I will protect it. Escape is not what soldiers do."
Mu Gui remained silent for even longer this time.
"The world you see is not the whole world. After all, the earthworm cannot see the sky above its head."
"But no matter how small a fox is, he still knows how to protect the people he wants to protect." Mu Ling thought about this lonely village with only eleven people, and that a twenty-year-old girl could take care of the entire village with her own strength. What is there to fear
He wanted to know where the real safety was, and he wanted to help them.
"Tell me, what happened?"
Mu Gui sighed lowly: "We speculate that the global high temperature is coming, and the temperature may reach hundreds of degrees Celsius in the near future. The flames are coming, and the end of the world is coming. The world is so vast that there is no safe place. Guiyin Mountain Forest may still have a glimmer of hope. .”
This is the result jointly deduced by the four major families. The power of the elements of heaven and earth is rioting, and disasters are happening one after another. The end of the world may really be coming. I think that the Mu family has always had no desires and desires, living in seclusion in the mountains and forests. The children of the family who have been sent out over the years It was also laissez-faire, and there was no so-called industry. It was not as good as the Luo family, let alone the Feng family, and it was considered penniless.
Now that the crisis is coming, he plans to take back all the disciples who have been sent abroad, and rely on the dignity of their ancestors to attach themselves to the Luo family and jointly resist the apocalypse.
Mu Ling's body trembled, and his whole body was filled with chills. He lost his voice and said, "How is this possible?"
The end of the world is coming? Global heat? Mu Ling looked at the isolated small mountain village in front of him, and thought of the frozen cold pool in the back mountain in the scorching summer. He suddenly felt like he was struck by lightning. If Mu's prediction is true, then this place will be one of the best in a thousand. of safety.
Mu Ling asked numbly: "Master, can the cold pool that is still frozen in the scorching heat withstand the high temperature of the apocalypse?"
On the phone, Mu Gui's voice trembled slightly: "How old are you?"
"The size of a football field."
"Mu Ling, report your location. You saved the Mu clan, no, you saved more people." Mu Gui took a deep breath to calm down, his hands trembling with excitement.
Mu Ling remained silent. He was not the one who saved her, but Su Mian saved her. This Hantan Village is his blessed place and the Mu family's blessed place.
Su Mian had no idea that the officer who came to the rescue was a descendant of the Mu family. She also didn't know that the young officer had compassion on him and wanted to help a village of young people. As a result, the Mu family was involved, and she didn't know that the head of the Mu family, Mu Gui is now on his way to Hantan Village.
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Su Mian: I didn’t expect that the first person I saw was you.
Mu Gui: Ahem, little sister, are you dating
Luo Hansheng:? ?