Survival [End Times]

The mountain army came suddenly, but fortunately, Laokang Village was not unprepared and thus resisted in time. There were snipers at the entrance of the village and in the direction of the mountain behind the village, and there were also artillery positions. The roofs of the tall buildings in the village were requisitioned as observation platforms, and there were usually people on them using telescopes to monitor the surroundings. Laokang Village has a good geographical location, with the mountain behind it and low hills on both sides. Later, the village built a wall, and if a stranger approached, it would be easy to be discovered.

Therefore, the remnant army was discovered when they came down from the back mountain, and the patrol immediately passed the news down. Zhou Qingrong happened to be at home that day, patrolling the village with nothing to do. The news was immediately passed to him, and he immediately went to the nearest building to use a telescope to see. After years of logging by villagers in the back mountain, even the sparse bald forests were cut down. At this time, looking over, you can see people moving in the forest farther away, and their movements are strange. Zhou Qingrong also saw a gun.

Gun!

He immediately felt something was wrong. Even if the nearby villagers went up the mountain to hunt, it was impossible for them to come down from the back mountain of Laokang Village. Even Wujia Village, the closest village, is far from the back mountain of Laokang Village. And with so many people, it doesn't look like they got lost! He immediately thought of the mountain army that was driven into the mountains last month. It is a well-known fact that the mountain army is vicious. There have been so many cases of mountain army harming people this month. He thought that his village didn't encounter them because the mountain army was active in the mountains far away from Laokang Village, and they were lucky.

Unexpectedly, the mountain army came as soon as they said they would, and they were aggressive. Seeing that those people kept approaching, Zhou Qingrong quickly ordered the villagers in the back mountain to start loading and preparing to fire artillery shells.

Yu Heng was a little worried when he heard the bursts of artillery fire from the back mountain at home. Mingming said that he would go out to take a look. After an hour, Mingming came home with a smell of gunpowder and said that everyone was caught.

"Mountain army?" It's no wonder that Yu Heng felt strange. According to the news sent back by the villagers who were outside to scout for information, the area where the mountain army was rioting was indeed far away from Laokang Village. How could they suddenly come without any warning?

"Brother Qingrong is interrogating them, but it doesn't seem to be going well." Mingming sighed, "People who serve in the army are different, they keep their mouths shut."

"Then I'll go and see."

Yu Heng went to the grain drying field to help with the interrogation, and found out that they came for the snow cover. Someone told them that there was something strange about Laokang Village. They always got sick when they were collecting grain, but they got better after the cold wave. Besides, Laokang Village is located in the middle of the snow-free area, so there must be something wrong.

Laokang Village is not the village in the center of Xiangya Town. After opening the protective cover, Yu Heng said that Xiangya Town was a snow-free area, but in fact, it also covered a little area of ​​the neighboring town. Therefore, it is correct to say that Laokang Village is located in the middle of the snow-free area.

"I don't know who is talking nonsense!" Zhou Qingrong was very angry, "People from the government came to check several years ago, and there was nothing in our village! Why are you putting the blame on us for the snow cover again!" Zhou Qingrong actually called the protective cover a shit pot, which shows that he was very angry about this sudden disaster. That year, the investigation team searched the village over and over again but found no clues. This is why the saying that Xiangya Town has no snow is "God's blessing" has become popular. The snow cover on TV has not moved for so many years, which makes people believe that it is God's blessing that has caused no snow. Zhou Qingrong also thinks so.

"Don't be angry, let's deal with those people first."

Hearing Yu Heng say this, Zhou Qingrong exhaled fiercely: "I understand, mom, I will send people to the garrison in the town early tomorrow morning." The garrison in the town came in the spring of the third year of the apocalypse, and they get along well with the villages-in this day and age, as long as they don't collect food or rob, they are good people. Therefore, Zhou Qingrong said that sending the captives to the garrison in the town is indeed the best decision.

The sudden attack of the mountain army did not cause too much loss to the village. The hard work of Zhou Qingrong and others was not in vain.

The next day, Zhou Qingrong sent people to the town. In order to eliminate the suspicion that Laokang Village had a snow cover, he even took the initiative to invite the garrison in the town to send people to sit as witnesses and checked the village again. There was indeed no snow cover.

This matter just passed. Whether there are still people who don't believe it, Yu Heng can't care. He has more important things to do. The rice that the whole village has carefully tended is about to mature. He is worried about this matter and can't think of other things. This batch of rice is of great significance. If it fails, it will be too hurt.

In order to take good care of this batch of rice, he ignored the dissuasion of Zhou Qingrong and others and spent the night in the cave many times.

While the small town of Xiangya Town in the far south is struggling to survive, the places outside the protective cover are also doing their best to survive.

At the beginning of the second year of the apocalypse, the top leaders of Kyoto left Beijing with the second batch of southward migration teams, and the research institute was also in this batch. Unexpectedly, one of the high-level forces rebelled and stole the snow cover. Not only that, the rebels also took away 20,000 Kyoto garrisons and abducted all the researchers, experts and professors of the institute, forcing the country's top secret research to be interrupted. After leaving the main force, the rebels went straight south and emptied several local granaries along the way, causing the local material rescue work to be cut off and the trapped people had no food to eat at home.

The cold winter took away countless lives, but the country has a large population base, so the number of survivors is not small. The rebels finally settled in a place in the southwest. After the protective cover was opened, a snow shelter was built on the spot, called the Anxiong Snow Shelter, and then the production line was restarted. Kyoto hated such acts that undermined national interests and had been negotiating with the Anxiong Snow Shelter. In order to stabilize the overall situation, it even acquiesced to the rebels' behavior of starting a new business and only made one request: that is, to continue researching the snow cover.

The Anxiong Snow Shelter agreed, and Kyoto withdrew its troops and found a place to settle down nearby. Originally, they planned to escort the research institute south to a certain city. Now that the snow cover has been taken away, the team can no longer support the journey without the protection of the snow cover.

Yu Heng had no way of knowing these things in Xiangya Town, but he had already guessed it, which was actually not far off. Two years after the end of the world, the first severe cold wave that lasted for a month roared from the extreme north and swept the entire country from north to south.

This time, the population of survivors dropped sharply. Many of those who stayed behind were as strong as Mingming, and after that severe cold wave, they seemed to be less afraid of the wind and snow.

The wind and snow and the cold winter were no longer the biggest obstacles to their progress. The bright snow-free area in Anxiong Safety Zone had long aroused the desires of others, and this time, they seemed to have the capital to fight for it...

The cold winter could not extinguish the beating hearts, and artillery fire and rain of bullets were chaotically staged in the silent snowy day for many years.

In short, in the middle of the sixth year of the apocalypse, when happily harvesting rice in a cave in the territory of Xiangya Town, the struggle that lasted for several years finally came to an end, and the research on the snow cover was also completed in a stumbling and intermittent manner in the chaos of many years.

In the seventh year of the end of the world, a snow shelter with light snow was slowly erecting an invisible barrier, which blocked the snowflakes outside. The window that had not been opened for a long time was pushed open vigorously by a pair of cracked hands, and a pair of eyes that looked lifeless due to long-term indoor living stared blankly at the sky.

The snow was getting higher and higher, until it could no longer be seen. The radio outside called for people to go out and sweep the snow. It snowed every year, and there were only a few days of light snow or no snow during the New Year. The snow outside could not be swept away day and night. But now it can be! Now it can be!

Those eyes were stained with spirit, tears moistened the eye sockets, soaked the eyelashes, and then slid down the cheeks that were frozen dry and wrinkled.

In Xiangya Town, Yu Heng was eating. After the newly harvested rice was milled, their family cooked a pot of rice. The long-lost rice fragrance tickled the taste buds, and it was full of sweetness when it was chewed. "This rice tastes good, fragrant!" Mingming praised Yu Heng, "Our mother Shufen is really amazing, she can be named a rice king."

Everyone laughed so hard.

The Zhou family was having lunch happily, and suddenly someone came to Zhou Qingrong: "Brother Rong, there is news from the town!"

Zhou Qingrong put down his bowl and went out. When he came back, his eyes were confused as if he had heard some incredible news.

"What happened? Why do you look like you have lost your soul?"

"There is news in the town that the snow cover is being put into use nationwide and will soon be in our province."

Everyone at the dinner table was stunned by the news. Zheng Han's hands were shaking, so he simply put down the bowl and asked, "Can you say it again?"

Zhou Qingrong finally laughed, and he said word by word, "Xiaohuan heard from General Chen's men in the town that the corps received news from outside this morning that snow shields were put into use in various snow shelters, and a batch will be shipped to the province soon." He said loudly, "The snow will stop all over the country!"

With his excited and joyful shout, the sound of gongs in the village rang loudly, and this good news was passed to every corner of the village.

At Zhou's house, Yu Heng finished the rice slowly, wiped his mouth and looked at everyone, and said with a smile, "If you are happy, eat quickly, the food is cold." This meal was really rich, and it would be a pity if it got cold. "After eating, there is still work to do."

Mingming asked, "Aunt, what else do you need to do?" Snow shields are available all over the country, so life can be lived again, and they don't have to be so hard anymore. Is there anything else to do?

Zhou Qingrong understood: "Mom is right! I will make arrangements after dinner. When everything is restored, the guns in our village will not be very good. We are all good citizens, so we don't have guns."

Yu Heng also smiled: "Yes, you pack up some of the ones that have been used for a long time and send them directly to General Chen's camp." In the past, they had no choice but to do it. The garrison in the town would not say anything if ordinary people carried guns. As long as you don't make trouble, no one will bother you. It will be different now. They have to make some gestures. The civil forces are complicated, and they must not be that dazzling sand.

This good news spread throughout the town like wings. Zhou Qingrong acted quickly and soon expressed his feelings to the garrison in the town. He was praised for "obeying the law" and returned satisfied.

After the surface work was done, Yu Heng was relieved to wait for people from outside. He was really looking forward to the finished product of the snow cover. He didn't know what it would look like after so many years of delay. Another half a month later, the snow cover was finally laid into the province, and three days later it was laid to Xiangya Town. The two protective covers intersected, passed through the snow-free area of ​​the snow shelter, and finally connected to Xiangya Town.

The closed Xiangya Town, which had been closed for several years, finally had the day to connect to the outside world. Several major corps in the town began to make frequent moves. Zhou Qingrong had been sending people to run around outside to get information. He knew that his family was just an ordinary family, and only those corps could really control them. If he could grasp the movements of the corps in time, his family would not be swept away without any resistance. Therefore, he knew when several major forces in the town began to move, and said to Yu Heng: "They are all heading to the town, and it feels like they are bowing to General Chen."

As long as the actions between the corps did not affect ordinary villagers, Yu Heng only heard about it. His mind is now on the outside world, waiting to go out and take a look after everything is settled.