The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

Brothers Lin Liang and Lin Quan were just in their early twenties, and they had been working in City G, but they had nothing to do recently, and the old lady said that the rice at home had to be harvested, and the old lady couldn't collect it anymore, so they returned home.

Unexpectedly, a sudden high temperature almost killed the two of them. Although the two brothers survived the high temperature, their mother did not have such good luck.

Now both of them have nothing to worry about, their closest brother is by their side, and seeing the bustling city outside, they don’t want to stay in the village all the time, and they feel that there is an army and a government outside, even if there is a disaster, It will also recover faster than the village, maybe they can bring people back to help the village.

Lin Ye was even more confused. He was only 15 years old and had just graduated from middle school this year. He had an early summer vacation and was sent by his parents in the city to accompany his grandparents in his hometown. He was not unhappy, but the sudden disaster was this Young boys can't bear it at all.

He saw with his own eyes that his grandparents died of thirst in order to save him a sip of water. The corpses of his grandparents rotted and stinks beside him... When he was rescued by the villagers, he could no longer speak, and he is still dumbfounded until now. Yes, but he always had a thought in his mind, he was going to the city to find his parents, he wanted to go home.

The hot weather has been exposed to the sun for a few days, but the village is not currently short of water. The springs on the water have not completely stopped flowing, but the water pipes burst and they need to go up the mountain to fetch water themselves.

You can fetch water without entering the mountain village. There are several deep wells in the village that you can drink. In addition to drinking water on the road, the few people who are going to go out have to prepare food rations for the road in advance.

The high temperature makes the food stored by the villagers deteriorate, but there is no rice without molting, but the weather is too hot, the rice is roasted into powder, the rice bran is sifted out, the powder is mixed with water, sugar or salt, and put outside After drying it, it becomes a rice cake. Lin Ye, who never cooks, can make such a simple thing.

Water, dry food, salt, self-defense knives... Several people imagined everything that needs to be considered on the road, and they decided to leave the village together after the preparations were completed.

There is only one road out of Lianhua Village, and you can go out by walking straight along the cement road. The five people thought it would not be difficult, but when they reached the entrance of the village, they realized that the straight and flat cement road in their impression had long since become a thing of the past.

The concrete road was first exposed to the sun and cracked, and then it was struck and squeezed by violent lightning. There were many and large piles of rocks rolling down the mountain, jammed in the middle of the road, and there were occasional collapses. Going out on your own legs is a big problem.

"Why don't we wait for someone to come to the village to find us?" Lin Liang scratched the back of his head, exchanged glances with his brother, and said to the others: "If there is nothing wrong outside, they will find out that something is wrong with our village sooner or later. Unlike our two brothers, no one outside is concerned about it, maybe Lin Ye, your parents will find you soon."

But in fact, no contact for so long actually shows a big problem. Liu Mingxin has already prepared for the worst. No matter what, he has to see it with his own eyes before giving up. Even if he crawls today, he will crawl out.

The reason why Lin Liang and Lin Quan were persuaded by Wang Qianming was because there was really nothing to miss in the village, but when they found that the road outside the village was not as easy as they had imagined, they all backed out by coincidence.

But the other three were very persistent. After hesitating for a while, the two brothers raised their legs and rushed up. They decided to go to Qilinao to have a look. There are their uncles and brothers, everyone sees each other without looking up, there is always a kind of love, and it is easier to hang out in the village than outside.

Before going out, several people thought that they had considered all the problems they would encounter, but they didn't expect that the first problem was their shoes.

The five of them walked for two days and one night for a distance that could be covered in 15 minutes by car, and the shoes they brought out were almost worn out during these two days and one night.

In order to travel smoothly, they considered clothing protection, water and food, and accommodation, but they never thought that the shoes under their feet would be scrapped so quickly.

It's not that they didn't think about the shoes, it's just that they didn't expect that the shoes were broken before they left the village, and after walking for three days in a row, each of them was exhausted and their feet were all covered with blisters.

After all, Wang Qianming was old and had a lot of life experience. He slowly took off his shoes, but with the blisters on his feet exposed, his expression became more and more serious.

"It's not a blister from walking, it's a scorching bubble, just like the one that was scorched by fire or high temperature." Wang Qianming frowned tightly: "The temperature outside the mountain is much higher than that in the village, much higher than the one we were trapped in before. Almost at home."

In addition to the obvious temperature changes, as they got farther and farther away from the village, the sense of oppression and suffocation in the hearts of the five people became stronger and stronger, so strong that they wanted to lift their legs and run back.

Wang Qianming's heart to go out also gradually faded from the fiery enthusiasm. Although the outside is good, everything is not as important as his own life. He decided to go to Qilin'ao, and when he found that the outside situation was not right, he went back and behaved honestly. Really stay in the village, not going anywhere.

But this discovery was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Liu Mingxin and Lin Ye. They couldn't believe that they had experienced such terrible things in the village, and the environment outside the village was even more unbearable than the environment in their village.

There is no clear explanation in the village as to why this mountain is called Qilin Pass. Some old people said that the top of the mountain here looks like the ancient mythical beast Qilin.

There is also a theory that a unicorn appeared here, which is even more nonsense, but after all the strange things that happened in the village before, everyone is now half-believing in this theory.

Qilinao is composed of several large loops. Whenever people from outside the village drive by here, there are always people who complain that the road repairers are incompetent. Can’t you just straighten it? If you understand, you will overturn.

But when the five of Wang Qianming climbed to the top of the mountain, they found that the winding road was completely gone, and the mountain was almost shattered by lightning strikes. They wondered if they could walk along the cement road as before. possible.

Wang Qianming swallowed: "I remember that this col is not too long, right? It only takes seven or eight minutes to drive." He has a car at home, and he is barely an old driver, often driving by here.

He asked the others: "How long do you think it will take us to keep going?"

Liu Mingxin walked forward in a daze, pondered for a while and replied: "The road is different now. If we go in the right direction, we can walk out in an hour or two at most."

But everyone knows in their hearts, is Qilin'ao so easy to turn over?

If it was in the past, without the guidance of the "road", these people would probably be trapped here to death, but after the protective formation of Lianhua Village is broken, this place is no different from an ordinary hilltop, and the leftover formation may be destroyed. Some hindrances for the unsteady minded.

There are scorched black traces left by various lightning strikes along the road, and it seems that they can still feel trembling when they touch the body. The more they walk, the more dizzy they are, as if they were stunned by electric shock or confused by heat. It was too late to tell where he was walking, so he walked forward with a burst of energy.

"This, this... we came out!" Several people suddenly regained consciousness, and then found that they had already walked out of Qilin Col, but the situation in front of them surprised everyone.

The land was dry and cracked, and it seemed like two worlds inside and outside the mountains.

After several days of high-temperature baking in Lianhua Village, large areas of plants on the hilltops in the ground were dead and browned, but if you look carefully in the forest, there is actually hidden greenery. Everyone can see that the trees and land in the mountains are still alive , as long as it rains, it can quickly restore its former verdancy with the nourishment of rain.

It's completely different outside the mountain. The hot sun stretches out its tongue of fire and licks every inch of the ground under your feet. The air and the sun burn together, and things in the distance are distorted and refracted.

Yesterday's lightning strike also left all kinds of winding black scars like centipedes on this land, and scorched earth was everywhere.

It's over, absolutely no one can survive in this environment!

"I, me, shit!" Lin Quan was shocked. After recovering, he grabbed Lin Liang and hurriedly said, "Brother, let's go back to the village!"

Mad, this is outrageous and terrifying. Even the most powerful government and army can't deal with this kind of natural disaster. Even if they find someone in this living environment, will they help him or will they help him? !

He wants to go home, my mother is right, the gold nest and silver nest outside are not as good as his own kennel, he will burn incense for the mountain god when he goes back, and the mountain god will bless him, three sticks a day, kowtow when there is no incense, on the tenth day of the lunar new year Five kill chickens, no no no, there are no chickens in the house now, but he will take good care of the mountain god...

Lin Quan was nervous and incoherent: "Brother, let's go back, I'm so scared to see this..." Will anyone still be alive outside?Or are there still people alive?

"Dad, Mom!" Lin Ye cried out in despair.

The 15-year-old child was paralyzed on the ground as if he had been drained of energy. In the past two days, no matter how hard it was or how difficult it was, he gritted his teeth and followed the footsteps of the others without saying a word, but now, His belief in going out to find his parents was all gone.

Impossible, his parents, maybe most of the people could not have survived such a high temperature. Their Lianhua Village was already a fluke, but how could there be so many flukes in the world.

"Wife, son..." Liu Mingxin knelt on the ground blankly, gone, all gone.