Doomsday foresight

"Where are you from?" A tall, big-eyed, dark-faced man asked Jinxi and the others.

"We are from the north." Jiang Chen replied while looking at those people. There were more than [-] people in this group, and their complexions were a little dark. They looked at them with vigilance. Several people looked at their sleds. A flash of greed.

"North, what are you doing here?" That man seemed to be the head of these people.

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, "We want to come to the beach to get some salt." He didn't hide their real purpose, but he didn't reveal the details.

Those people laughed a little when they heard Jiang Chen's words, as if they felt that he was a little whimsical.

"Get salt, huh, it's not so easy to get salt." The man laughed, but he quickly returned to normal and said to Jiang Chen, "I don't care what you are here for, but there are people on the beach. The land is divided. To the east is the site of Haisha Base, and to the west is the site of our Swordfish Base. You are lucky to be in the middle of our two bases. This site was originally left by our two bases. Come here We won't stop you, but have you seen the mountain? From the corner of the mountain to the west is our territory, to the east is the mountain, and from there to the east is the territory of sea sand. Don't cross the border, otherwise we will I disagree." The big man said and looked around.Then he squinted his eyes and glanced at the sled, turned around and said to the people around him, "Go back." After they walked for a while, Jinxi vaguely heard a person say, "Head, they got such old fish, let's go back." -"

"Shut up. Let's talk when we go back." The leader said in a low voice.

It took a long time for these people to leave before Jin Xi turned his head, "What do you mean by them? Are there really territorial divisions? What else can you get in this sea? Finding things on the ice depends on luck."

Jiang Chen shook his head, "Let's go back and talk about it first."

A group of people returned to the station in silence. It was not a good thing for them to meet someone. Now it is different from before. People are vigilant when interacting with people. In order to survive, everyone is cautious. People's hearts are unpredictable.

"Jin Lin, you and Chun Qiang will go to investigate tomorrow to find out the situation. These people seem to be living well, and the coastline between the other two mountains is not small. It stands to reason that neither of the two bases should be abandoned. It is best If you can find out the reason, we have built a base here, and everything must be investigated."

"Oh, let's not do it tomorrow. We're leaving today and staying outside at night. They're not close."

Jiang Chen looked at Jin Lin, "Be careful, you two, if they are too strict, don't go in and we can figure out a way." Both Jin Lin and Chun Qiang have been trained, especially good at sniffing out news.

"Why don't you go to the two of them more." Jin Xi felt uneasy.

"No, it's just the two of us, too much is of little use." Jinlin waved his hand, Chunqiang came to their village last year after fleeing from disaster, and he was the only one left when the whole family was hit by a disaster. They are very good at sneaking into other bases, and the two of them are used to cooperating. If others are added, it may cause chaos.

Jin Qi and Jin Lin are twin brothers, but the two have very different personalities. Jin Qi is more stable, and he is also good at himself, but he has some abilities that he did not join the city guards, but entered the internal affairs and managed some things. Jin Lin is more Jumping away, Xu is the youngest in the family, he has a very cheerful personality, and he is pleasing in appearance, and he can get along well with others very quickly. Xu has such a temperament, and it is always easy to inquire about news, and it is also because of Jiang Chen this time. Come out and bring him out.

Jin Lin and the two left after dinner, and traveling at night was nothing to them.

"These people may have the ability to catch fish in the sea." In the evening, Jinxi soaked two cups of dried fruit, and sat in the tent with Jiang Chen while drinking and chatting. They were very concerned about the people they met during the day.Those people leaked a lot of information, mainly because there are several bases here. They only knew the base in Yan County before, but although Yan County is close, it is also an inland base. They don’t rely on it to survive at all. They live by the sea.

"Well, you said that the sea water is frozen, which is different from the river water. You can't see if there are fish frozen on it from the outside, so they must not get fish from the ice. Could they also resist the tsunami?" Jiang Chen didn't understand either.

Jin Xi shook his head, "Forget it, we'll know when Jin Lin comes back. But should we add some safety facilities to our base construction?"

"What do you mean?" Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows.

"I want to say, should we build a tunnel, if there is an emergency, there is also a retreat." This idea came to mind when I saw the castle-like building.

Jiang Chen nodded, "We have to be on guard, so we can find someone to deliver the letter, and if there are more people, the construction of Yecheng is not in a hurry. We need to step up our efforts here. With the salt, we can get more things in exchange." No matter when salt is an important material.

Jinxi also agrees that their village has enough food this year, and they don't need to go hunting in the forest often, it's better to hurry up on construction.

The next day Jiang Chen sent a team of people to send the fish he got yesterday back to Yecheng and call someone over by the way.

Jiang Chen and the others didn't go out to look for fish that day, so it's better to be careful if the situation is unknown.

It was already three days later when the two of Jin Lin came back.As soon as the two of them came back, they were reincarnated like starved ghosts, holding dry food and eating.

"Eat slowly, you two, the meat is stewed in the pot, we will eat later." Jin Xi looked at the two of them, as if they had been hungry for several days.

"Oh my god, I'm starving to death." Jin Lin ate a few mouthfuls of the dry steamed buns brought by Ye Cheng, and it took him a while to recover.

"The two of us brought food for two days, and we lost our food when we sneaked into the base. There is not even a rabbit in this place, but we starved to death."

Jinxi saw that the stewed vegetables in the pot were almost done, so he quickly put a pot for the two of them, pork stewed potatoes, thanks to the fact that the village raised some pigs at the beginning, and those pigs were kept for breeding. Now there are pig farms in the village. There were more than 200 pigs. Before they came out, I killed one and took it with them. Although they often hunt wild animals, the freshness has passed. The pork and chicken that I used to eat are still my favorite.

When the two of them had almost finished eating, Jin Lin slowed down, broke the steamed buns into small pieces, and ate them with vegetable soup.

"The two of us originally wanted to go to the west base, but we thought they knew about us, so we turned halfway to the east. The east base is not too far away, just behind the mountain ridge on our side." Jin Lin gestured For a moment, "The management of their base is very strict. It may be a former village, and the outside is also surrounded by walls. It is quite xenophobic. The two of us observed from the outside for a day, and we just caught up with two people who went to defect, but they didn't even open the gate. .”

Jin Lin slowly talked to Jin Xi and the others.

The two of them saw that the base could not enter, and after discussing it, they decided to turn over quietly at night. The two of them first inquired outside, there are no cameras or anything here, and the defense depends on people, and the wall is only a meter away. The two of them were very easy and went in easily.After entering the base, they found many problems. There were many nets inside the base.Just like the old fishing village.

There is a large open space on the base where some women are working, as if handling fish.Those fish are very big, each at least ten catties.Seeing these two people, I suspected that these people had a way to fish in winter.The two of them came in secretly, and they couldn't ask, they could only investigate secretly.

That night the two of them hid in an empty house in the base. Before dawn the next day, they heard the sound of people and dogs barking in the village. It was very chaotic. They climbed to a tall building only to find some men carrying sleds ready to go.The two of them left quickly, ready to follow these people.It's a pity that this group of people was carrying the sled very fast, and they didn't keep up. Fortunately, there is snow on the road now, and the traces are still obvious.

The two of them followed the trail of the sled all the way to the sea, and walked more than ten kilometers, and then found that the gang had dug holes in the sea and fished in the sea.

"Why didn't you say we didn't find out? Isn't the freezing of sea water the same thing as freezing in our lake? It doesn't necessarily mean that the top is frozen and the bottom is frozen. Tsk tsk, you didn't see them, but they caught a lot Fish, crabs and so on. The harvest is not small." Jin Lin was very greedy.

"It's not that easy." Because there is salt in the seawater, it is not easy to freeze, and even if it is frozen, it will be frozen little by little. They have seen before that the seawater freezes in layers, not all at once. , the shallow place is okay, it is very cold, and the situation becomes more complicated as we go in, maybe that foot will be missed.

"Do you know why they don't come to us?" Jiang Chen asked.

Jinlin shook his head, "I don't know too well, but we saw that they went east when they fished, and they didn't go our way at all. The ice holes they fished were different every time. We took a look. , are all on the east side, not crossing the boundary at all, logically speaking, it shouldn’t be like this.”

Jiang Chen nodded, "There must be some reason here."

Someone over there inspired that they could catch fish from the sea, and Jinxi and the others were very excited. According to Jinlin, the fish in the sea are very big now, while the fish on their shores are all small fish. That’s how each one weighs about seven or eight catties. If it goes into the deep sea, it will be even bigger.If you can catch fish in winter, then the village can increase its income, whether it is eaten by yourself or made into fish fillets, it is very good.

But the situation was unknown, and they didn't dare to take risks. It was the sea, and they had to be careful.Not to mention that they are not good at water, in such a cold day, it is a miracle that they can survive even if they are fished out of the sea, so they can't take risks.

Finally Jin Xi decided to go in and have a look, maybe he could sense something.This time they went out to explore, they only went to seven people, and the rest stepped up to dig the foundation. This stronghold seemed to be more important to them.