Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

In Xiaoxi Village, village chief Zhang Youfan watched his wife Liu Jinhua changing the wick of a kerosene lamp, and couldn't help asking, "How much kerosene do we have left?"

"There's not much left. I probably still have about half of a Coke bottle. If I use it sparingly, it will only last a few months." Liu Jinhua sighed and carefully pulled off the cotton wick, trying to squeeze out every last drop of oil before throwing it away.

Their village is not too worried about the water outage because every household in Xiaoxi Village uses groundwater. Even during flood season, the water source is not polluted because the village is located on a high hill.

The weather has been abnormally hot during this period, and groundwater and well water have gradually dried up. Every household has started to store water in water tanks. As long as they use it sparingly, it's not a big problem. The only problem is the power outage. First, the electrical appliances cannot be used, and then there is no network on mobile phones. In addition, landslides during the heavy rain caused damage to several houses. I originally wanted to contact the county government for support, but I didn't expect that even the phone couldn't get through.

Due to the heavy rain and extreme heat, no one is working in the fields now. But Zhang Youfan is fortunate that the village had already harvested a batch of crops in August, and the heavy rain happened to come, so the family had not had time to sell their stored grain, so there is enough food for everyone to eat for a year or two.

But it is indeed very inconvenient to be without electricity. The most serious thing is that we are cut off from the outside world. We have to stay in the village all day long and have no idea what is happening outside. The mental pressure is much more stressful than the physical one.

They organized a group of people from the village to go out and investigate the situation, but halfway through the drive they discovered that the road leading to the county town had been submerged by a sudden mudslide, with many broken trees and branches blocking the road on both sides, making it impossible to move forward smoothly. As the road was rugged, they finally changed to walking, which was even worse. Perhaps wild dogs in the mountains came out to look for food, several villagers were bitten one after another, and the group had to return the same way.

The weather has been unusually hot in the past two weeks, and people dare not go out easily. Older people will get sick due to the heat after staying outside for a few minutes. At the beginning, at least half of the children and the elderly in the village suffered physical abnormalities due to the extreme weather.

It was past eight o'clock in the evening and Liu Jinhua's family had just finished dinner. Without the TV to relieve their mental stress, and in such hot weather they couldn't do anything, they could only sit in the dark house and wait to fall asleep.

Liu Jinhua's daughter-in-law Yang Mei was so hot that she kept fanning her son Zhang Jinbao with a palm-leaf fan. Children have high body temperatures and are more afraid of heat. At this moment, he felt the hot wind and looked listless.

"Dad, how long will this situation last?" Yang Mei couldn't help but look at Zhang Youfan. After all, Zhang Youfan was the village chief and the backbone of the family, and his words did give people some confidence.

How could Zhang Youfan have predicted a natural disaster? Moreover, he was just a small village chief. His face seemed to have aged ten years in the past few months because of worrying about various things. At this moment, he held a cigarette that he had just smoked twice yesterday. He smoked the rest of the cigarette hard until there was no cigarette butt left. Then he shook his head and said, "I don't know. It depends on what God thinks. If God gives us a way, we can survive. If God doesn't give us a way, there is nothing we can do."

Zhang Youfan's son Zhang Mingguo was chopping wood in the yard. Although the temperature outside was very high, firewood was needed for cooking during this period. There was no shortage of firewood in the back mountain, so Zhang Mingguo took advantage of the fact that he had nothing to do recently and got up at four in the morning every day. He went to the back mountain to chop wood early while the outdoor temperature had not yet gradually returned to the sixty degrees Celsius at noon.

Zhang Mingguo was not the only one who had this idea. There were also many people who entered the mountain at four or five in the morning.

Xiaoxi Village did not experience forest fires, probably because there was abundant water in the mountains and the vegetation was resistant to high temperatures.

Zhang Guomin stopped the axe in his hand, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a light in front of him, so he squinted his eyes.

Ever since the power outage, the whole village has been very quiet at night. All you can see is pitch black, and the moonlight in the sky can only vaguely illuminate the mountains not far away.

A few days ago, the daughter-in-law of the Ma family wanted to go back to her aunt's house after dinner. It was only a five-minute walk, but because it was too dark, she fell and fractured her jaw on the road she had been walking for more than 30 years. Now she is still lying in bed recuperating.

Therefore, the sudden appearance of a bright light in the darkness was very strange, even rare, in Xiaoxi Village.

Gu Tongwan rode his electric scooter and it took him a while to find Zhang Youfan's home. This was because there was no light in the village at that time. After passing by many houses, he could only vaguely see faint candlelight.

Zhang Mingguo walked out. At that time, the headlights of Gu Tongwan's electric scooter were still on. He looked for a long time before he realized that the person riding the scooter was a girl. After looking carefully a few more times, he recognized that it was Gu Tongwan, whom he had met several times before.

Previously, Gu Tongwan returned to the village to deal with land issues and met Zhang Mingguo's family. In addition, she donated 80,000 yuan to Liu Xuechang, a fellow villager, during the heavy rain the following year. She became famous in the entire Xiaoxi Village and also severely slapped the faces of some villagers who made excuses for not being able to come up with even a few dozen yuan.

"Ms. Gu?" The surprise on Zhang Mingguo's face suddenly turned into embarrassment, mainly because he was shirtless and had nothing on. It was no big deal for him as a farmer, but he was worried about giving people a bad impression.

Fortunately, Gu Tongwan didn't care about these things and asked, "Brother Zhang, is the village chief here?"

Zhang Youfan probably heard the noise and followed out, shouting, "Mingguo, who is here?" As a result, he saw a woman standing next to Zhang Mingguo, and his brows immediately frowned. But the next moment he heard the woman's cold voice, and the figure of a person suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Ms. Gu?" Zhang Youfan asked uncertainly.

"It's me, village chief. I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you guys?" Gu Tongwan took off his mask, revealing his fair and clean face.

The village chief was about to speak when he suddenly caught a glimpse of two wolf-like and dog-like creatures, one black and one white, squatting beside Gu Tongwan. He was so frightened that he stopped moving forward.

"It's okay. This is the dog I raise. It won't bite people randomly." Gu Tongwan could only explain.

Zhang Mingguo also smiled and said, "Dad, don't worry, Miss Gu's dog really doesn't bark randomly, it's very well behaved."

As if to verify this statement, Aoao immediately raised his head and rubbed Gu Tongwan's calf affectionately.

Zhang Youfan had no choice but to nod awkwardly, but then he seemed to remember something and frowned again and asked, "That's not right, Miss Gu. How did you get here in such weather outside?" Although he also saw the electric car on the side, Jiangcheng was hundreds of kilometers away from Xiaoxi Village, and the situation outside was so serious, it was simply unbelievable that a girl like her came here with two dogs.

"It's a long story. Someone took me halfway there." Gu Tongwan briefly recounted the current situation in Jiangcheng and the process of his arrival at Xiaoxi Village, mainly exaggerating the role of the military's speedboat escort. As for the pig farm and driving, he did not mention a word.

When he learned that Jiangcheng had turned into a water city and even the order had begun to collapse, he was like a madman. His mouth moved a little and he finally sighed: "Ah, God won't give us a way to survive..."