I survived with my sister in the doomsday

Chapter 120 Government Control

Lin Lin said that we should hurry up and dig out the crystal today, as it will be increasingly difficult to survive outside in the current world. If we dig up the crystal today, we should not come out again for the time being.

I fully agreed with Lin Lin's idea, so I drove to the location we estimated and asked Lin Lin, "Can you drive an excavator?"

Lin Lin said that he had also done car repairs before, and that he was good at all these things, and that he should be able to use it after some study. He tried it, and turned the handles back and forth, and then he said with certainty that there was no problem.

I took out the barrel of diesel and put it into the chassis of this small excavator.

Lin Lin was very smart. After a few attempts, she was able to basically use the excavator. Although she dug the land clumsily, she saw initial results. She was amazed at how powerful the machine was. After a while, when it dug to a depth of two meters, the arm of the machine could no longer exert any strength, but we could feel that the crystal was giving us a stronger induction.

Lin Lin had no choice but to dig a little wider on the top layer, and continued to dig deeper until the pit was more than three meters deep. I waved to stop Lin Lin, and immediately jumped into the three-meter-deep pit. Excitedly, I used my hands to dig away the soil at the bottom of the pit, and found this shining little crystal!

This crystal is actually half the size of the crystal I got from the ruins of my supermarket. That crystal was about the size of a tennis ball, while this one is only as big as a ping-pong ball. I have finally achieved the purpose of coming out today!

I played with the crystal in my hand. Obviously, this crystal is useless to people like us who have absorbed larger crystals. I can only take it back and try to give it to my younger sisters to see if it can work.

I took back the crystal and put the excavator into the space. I paid for this machine with my life, so of course I had to keep it well. The main reason was that an excavator was very useful in the current environment. Then I took out the Bingo car, got in, and headed straight for home!

I stepped on the accelerator all the way and quickly returned to the Mid-Levels Base. After passing the iconic 4S car shop business district outside the Mid-Levels Base, I found that most of the workers were working on the construction. They had brought cement and some steel plates from somewhere, and were preparing to build a wall around the entire Mid-Levels Base.

When we set out early in the morning, we also saw the recruitment information posted by the government department, but we didn't expect them to start working so quickly. There was no one there in the morning, but when we came back, they were already working hard.

The workers were required to work in two shifts, day and night, 24 hours a day, and the isolation zone had to be built within one month.

The government promised to pay wages on working days, 500 yuan per person per day.

Currently, one thousand yuan can buy 50 kilograms of rice, but the price is still rising rapidly. We previously stockpiled 100 bags of 50 kilograms of rice and 100 bags of flour. At that time, we thought it should be enough, but now looking at the situation and the expansion of my grandfather's space, we should stockpile more while there are places to sell them.

You can earn half a bag of rice in one day, which is considered a high-paying job. Many people are scrambling to sign up, and the government is also anxious to speed up the project. So they hit it off and started construction quickly. If the speed is fast enough, it can be completed in a month.

After returning home, Xiaobai told me that today some government workers were counting the number of registered people in each residential building, and that from now on, no outsiders would be allowed to live there. If there was a real need for relatives to move in, they had to first register at the population registration office of the government department. In addition, each person had been restricted to a fixed residence and was not allowed to change their address at will.

I mean, what's the basis for this? If someone has multiple houses, they can't live in another one?

Xiaobai answered the staff member and explained that no matter how many houses you have bought before, they will now be under the control of the government. As long as no one lives in a house in the next two days, the house will be confiscated immediately, and relief food will be distributed to each household in the future.

Lin Lin asked in surprise: No money, just give it to me for free?

Xiaobai took out a few paper receipts. I took them and looked at them carefully. The paper receipts looked like passbook paper, and more importantly, they were stamped with the red seal of the Mid-Levels government. Xiaobai said that after registering each household, receipts were given according to the number of people, regardless of gender or age. Everyone could use the receipts to go to the reception desk of the government's temporary office to receive a bag of rice and a barrel of soybean oil.

I never imagined that in such a difficult and resource-scarce time, the government would be so generous in providing such tangible and generous assistance to ordinary people. It really makes people feel deeply moved!

Xiaobai saw what I was thinking and said coldly: Don't be moved yet, the staff said that this is the last time the government will provide free food, and the next step is to enter a self-sufficient stage. Ordinary people can barter goods, or participate in the physical labor of building the wall, or they can work in the Mid-Levels government's experimental field in the super-large stadium on the south side of the Mid-Levels. It is said that the stadium will be demolished and the vacant land will be left to grow crops.

That area was where two large sports stadiums were built at great expense before the earthquake. At that time, they were said to be large stadiums in line with the world, each covering an area of ​​20 hectares. Now it seems that competitive activities will no longer be possible within the next ten years. The government's biggest responsibility and goal is to consider how to ensure the survival of the 200,000 people in the base.

I said that even if he could grow food, it wouldn’t be enough to feed so many mouths. Besides, isn’t the Daxing base used to grow food?

Xiaobai shook his head and said that the main crops in the Daxing base are vegetables and fruits, and this year is a disaster year. The farmers in the surrounding areas have all suffered from the disaster. The crops in the fields either collapsed and were destroyed completely after the earthquake or grew slowly due to lack of water. The rice fields were not harvested until November, and the grain produced was less than one-tenth of the past. Fortunately, many people died after the earthquake, which guaranteed the free distribution of grain this time. Even the government will have difficulty controlling what will happen in the future.

Therefore, the government may set up a place to sell food in a separate place. Next, they intend to firmly control the key factor of food and start to hoard food on a large scale. The purpose of doing so may be to control the overall situation with food, or to manage food as an important resource for strategic considerations. Whatever the reason, it will have a significant impact on all the survivors, and our future days will be more difficult!

It seems that I have to give up the idea of ​​buying more food. Hey, I suddenly thought of Lao Xiao. Does he have any channels for us to stockpile more food?

I told Lin Lin about my idea, and she agreed to go to Lao Xiao's place with me tomorrow since I had nothing to do all day anyway.

Xiao Bai is still talking to us nonstop: Sun Zhibin downstairs wants to buy food coupons from someone. He thinks he is the only smart person in the world and everyone else is stupid. He will stop selling food and trade it for goods. What is the use of RMB in the end? Money can't be eaten, and it's too hard to wipe your butt.

Suddenly, grandpa said to me earnestly, Xiaofei, we have so much food. If one day in the future you really see many people starving and begging for food until they starve to death, or killing each other for food, how will you face it?

I have also thought about this question. I have so much food, but I cannot help others without considering my own ability. I feel guilty. But I am not a savior. I do not have the ability to feed everyone. If someone discovers my ability one day, I may not even be able to protect myself. I am like a wealthy businessman with no money. If there are robbers all around, wouldn't I be the first person to be slaughtered?

I looked at my grandfather solemnly and answered seriously: Grandpa, first of all, the fact that they are starving and even killing each other is not caused by us. We do not have the ability to rule the world. To put it mildly, if things get really chaotic, I may not even be able to protect you guys. The most important thing for us right now is how to protect ourselves.

Then, I took a deep breath and told everyone in detail how Lin Lin and I had almost been killed today. I sighed that perhaps this catastrophe was intentional by God to cleanse the world of evil people. In this case, let those demons resign themselves to their fate and destroy themselves!

Grandpa patted my shoulder and said to me with appreciation: Xiaofei, you are right, grandpa is afraid that you are soft-hearted and kind-hearted and expose your abilities and bring disaster upon yourself. Remember, you are not a savior, you just need to take care of yourself and your family. If you don’t have greater abilities, you just need to protect yourself. People should protect themselves first before they can think about protecting others. This is the right thing to do.

Hearing my grandfather's words of comfort, I suddenly burst into tears like a child. I secretly vowed in my heart that I must exercise well, support this family, and protect my grandfather and sisters.

I decided to take good care of myself for a while, and then I wanted to go find my mother. Now I have an off-road vehicle, plenty of gasoline, and enough food. All the conditions are ripe. No matter what, I will try to go to Tarim. Even if I fail to find my mother in the end, as long as I try my best, I will have no regrets. I really don't want to continue to stay here and wait indefinitely...