Doomsday foresight

"Hey, come here, I found something good."

Just as Jinxi was about to fall asleep, she heard Vic's voice from the communicator.

"What?" Jiang Chen sat up.

"Good stuff. Come on."

Jiang Chen shrugged, "This guy doesn't stop at night."

The two rushed to Zhang's house. Most of Vic's items had been sent to the new house, but some instruments were still here.

When Jinxi Jiangchen entered the room, Zhang Zhong and the others were in the east room surrounding Vic's computer.

"Can the computer still work now?" Jin Xi asked in surprise.

"Internet connection is impossible. Some parts in it lose quickly and are affected by the magnetic field, so they have to be replaced frequently. Let's not talk about that, just look at this." Vik danced excitedly.

"What is it?" Jinxi looked at the computer screen, "Is this the satellite map of the Aquamarine? Are there still satellites in operation?"

"It's unbelievable. All satellite signals have disappeared shortly after the meteorite rain, but I caught one a few days ago. I thought it was an illusion, but you see I found him." Vic was very excited, "Although it is not How stable, but with it maybe we can communicate with the outside world."

Jiang Chen shook his head, "This possibility is too small."

"Yeah, not to mention how many places you can use computers now, it is already very difficult to capture this satellite signal. Unless you are a professional."

"I've checked that it's an early spy satellite because the programming in it was easy for me to decipher, and I've found something, it could be an abandoned satellite, a piece of space junk, just don't know Why is it running again, and the transmission speed is very slow." Vic said, typing on the keyboard with his hands, and after a while, he opened a file with several directories in it.

"Then what can it do?" Jinxi asked.

"At present, due to the influence of magnetic field and radiation, most of its functions have disappeared. Only imaging remote sensors can be used, and then the pictures will be sent back through digital image transmission. We can use it to take pictures." Vik said that he will just receive file opens. "Well, look what I have received."

"This is our satellite image?"

"Yes, it's not very clear, but I can distinguish it." Jiang Chen took a closer look, "This is the location of our village. Here is the forest."

"This was taken yesterday?" Jin Xi frowned.

"Yes." Vic nodded, "There are only three, I can't transmit more signals, but I have issued an order, it will always run, if the receiver on my side is not broken, it will always be affected by it Image file. Not very stable though, it was an order from yesterday."

"What are you thinking about?" Jiang Chen noticed that Jin Xi had been in a daze.

"Look at this photo, we are here, and then here is Dongshan, here is a forest, do you think we are about to be surrounded by forests? Look at this is Caotun, is this a forest, although I don't know, but this is not a field .” Jinxi pointed to a place not far from Caotun.

Jiang Chen looked along Jinxi's finger, this satellite photo is actually very difficult to distinguish, most of it is covered by snow, only a few villages are still obvious, but people who are not familiar with the terrain here will not find anything.

Caotun is closer to the woods than they are. The fields of their village are in the north. Because of the snow cover, the fields are obviously white. There is nothing but snow. Although the woods are also covered with snow, they can still be seen from the satellite photos. Come out, there will be some shadows there.

"Look at this again, Dongshan was burned that year, but now the trees have grown. How long has it been since we entered the mountain?"

"I went to make charcoal in October. There were indeed a lot of saplings, some of which were as thick as bowls." Zhang Zhong recalled, "If you don't tell me, I really didn't pay attention. According to this speed, it will take less than three years for Dongshan to grow. Restore former prosperity."

"It doesn't matter whether it's returning to the way it was before, but these plants grow too fast. The seeds will fly around with the wind, and after a winter, the seeds will germinate and grow rapidly. It won't take long for our village to devoured."

"Isn't there a conclusion already?" Zhang Cheng didn't understand.

"But this speed is faster than we thought. Caotun may be swallowed up next year, and Dongshan may be covered faster in our village. At that time, animals in the forest will appear around our village, except for small animals. , and jackals, and that bear.”

"We can't wait for the snow to melt. We have to prepare now and create a isolation zone. Do a good job of protection."

The next morning, Jiang Chen went to look for Uncle Six, who was very anxious when he heard that, the land is their foundation, the trees covered the village, people still live in it, and they can be safe with a wall around them, but If the land outside is covered with trees, they can't farm it.

He had seen the seeds he had planted before, and he didn't know what the vegetables were like, but the wheat had sprouted and grown four inches long.Moreover, the germination rate is extremely high, and it seems that it can be harvested.

Regardless of other vegetables, if the wheat planted last year has a good harvest, they will have enough seeds. If they plant it next year, the villagers will not go hungry, but if there is no land, what is the use of having those seeds? .

"Don't say anything, the convener will start digging."

"Don't worry about this, Uncle Six. The ground is freezing right now, so we can't dig it ourselves. Today we're going out to see if we can get diesel and gasoline. We have a permafrost digging machine here, so we can use diesel. It will be easier then. Uncle Six had to organize the people in the village before, but this time we have to work together. After all, the area to be surrounded is too big. We don’t have so many bricks and stones. Zhang Zhong and I They did some research, and they used trees for the wall, and the cut trees had to be burned, and the two layers were sandwiched with mud. It’s simple but strong enough.”

Uncle Six nodded, "Okay, I'll go and gather people right away. No matter what, the fence must be finished before spring comes."

Jiang Chen took a few people to find gasoline.Jinxi helped Uncle Six arrange work. Although the Chinese New Year is coming soon, they don't have much time. It is foreseeable that some vines and herbs will invade the field next year, and the seeds of those grasses and plants will take up the nutrients in the field. Pull them out and the seeds will remain, and people watching them every day can't stop the invasion.Unless they are isolated.Although this may not work, at least this wall isolates the beasts outside.

Every time she thinks that there will be wild beasts outside the fence in the future, Jinxi will think of the zoo in the past, when people locked up the animals and watched them outside.

Jiang Chen led the team out to search for gasoline, but it didn't go very well. It took five days, and finally went to a very remote town to find a gas station, and found some diesel inside.There are not many, so I can only save it.

It was already the 28th of the twelfth lunar month when they came back, and there were two days before the Chinese New Year. That day was also the day when Vic, Zhang Cheng, and Liu Gang got married.

Maybe life was hard, but the village attached great importance to this wedding. The three weddings were held together. The village set up a wedding shed in the open space southwest of the brigade headquarters. The villagers let go of their hands and feet and celebrated on this day.

The women rescued from Xiliushu Village also attended the wedding. Perhaps because of the village's care for them and the comfort of the women, these women stood up again.Ready to find a new life.

The people in the village are quite happy about this, but the sixth uncle asked the women from various families to take a good look at it. These women have experienced a lot, and they don't know much about their personalities. If they don't observe carefully, what happened to the family when they married Not good.Character is the most important thing.

"Xiaobao, here you are." Sitting on the edge of the long table, Jin Xi watched Jiang Chen wrestle with four people in the middle of the field, a freshman and a senior.Dabao ran over with the plate.

"What?" Jinxi asked.

"Barbecue, made of willow leaves. It's delicious." Dabao's saliva almost flowed down as he spoke.

Jinxi looked to the other side and saw Liu Ye busy by the fire, "Eat it. I ate a lot just now." They prepared a lot of things for the wedding banquet, but it was different from before, two big dishes, Stewed vermicelli with wild pork and stewed fish in a big pot. Since there are not many staple foods, I prepared some raw meat of potatoes and sweet potatoes. Whoever wants to eat them roasted by themselves. Now no one is wasting food, and all the cooked ones will be eaten.Young people like it very much and are more comfortable.

"I will make willow leaves for me." Dabao said with a very happy smile on his face, as if he was a little proud.

"You have a good relationship with Liu Ye?"

Dabao nodded, "The food she makes is very delicious. She even plays with me."

Jinxi smiled, and reached out to touch Dabao's face. Dabao had changed a lot. He seemed to be ignoring him a little bit. Before, Dabao was very clingy to him. Now Dabao's intelligence has improved a lot, and he can talk to him normally, without coaxing him like before. It seemed that he couldn't think of taking care of him anymore.

"How about we go skiing in Dongshan later? It's not windy today. Wear more."

Dabao's eyes lit up, "Okay, okay, how about bringing willow leaves?"

Jin Xi nodded, "You like her very much?"

"Well, she played with me." Dabao said with a smile.

"Dabao's barbecue is ready." Liu Ye called from the other side.

Dabao jumped up and ran over there, Jinxi couldn't help frowning as he watched the two eating and laughing together by the fire.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Chen put a few people down and returned to the table, looked at Jinxi frowning, followed his gaze to see the one named Liu Ye, and felt a little unhappy. Is Jinxi too old? Follow that girl.

Jin Xi shook her head and recovered, "You won?"

"You don't need to ask." Jiang Chen said with some conceit.

"Be careful, they are making rapid progress." Jin Xi divided the barbecue meat on the plate into two and handed one to Jiang Chen.

"It tastes good. Who baked it?"

"Willow leaves."

Jiang Chen choked on a mouthful of flesh, and Jinxi would misunderstand if he spit it out now, so he choked on it after thinking about it.

"Uncle Six said that construction will start next year. There are a lot of things to do this year. I'm afraid we will be too busy."

"I'll go to Ye Qiu later and ask him to make a list and mark the order according to the priority." Jiang Chen pushed the plate aside.