Infinite Disaster Survival

Chapter 177 Chapter 177 (1/2)

Two medium-sized hand-cranked generators are placed on the floor of the guest room. The handles for shaking have been slightly modified and connected to the roller device by chains and gears, so that the birds inside the room can use their claws and wings to drive the generator.

The size of civilian hand-cranked generators is not large, and the energy consumed when shaking is not particularly large. Of course, it is still difficult for birds.

However, there are dozens of birds staying in the house. They are well fed and drunk every day. They fly around the house when they have nothing to do. It is better to contribute their energy. After Tuantuan spent more than half an hour teaching them, the birds took turns to work. Wen Zheng and Tuantuan also shook for a while when they had nothing to do. The electricity generated was enough for the lights in the house and the mobile phones.

The electricity problem can be solved, but the mobile phone signal and wireless network cannot be obtained. In addition, the power generation cannot supply the large refrigerator at home. Even if the temperature is low, some ingredients cannot be kept for too long. Wen Zheng and Tuantuan began to think about food every day.

On the enclosed balcony, the air is full of pickled and air-dried meats, and on the ground are specially made racks, on which are dried vegetables that have not been dried before the acid rain comes. The cabinets in the kitchen and living room are filled with bottles and jars of pickled vegetables.

The vacant places in the house are all placed with large and small flower pots. There are only a few ornamental plants that were planted by the original body before, and the rest that were planted later can all be counted as vegetables and fruits. Watering and fertilizing every day, the birds are trained to eat only insects and not peck at leaves randomly, and each one grows well.

A lot of water sources are stored inside and outside the house. After the volcanic eruption, the price increase of various water source evolution devices is slightly lower than that of food. Later, the state took action to control it and it did not rise too outrageously.

There are multiple water purifiers installed in the kitchen and bathroom. Wen Zheng also bought several boxes of water purification tablets. Drinking water especially needs multiple purification. A week of continuous acid rain has already polluted the water source.

It took a lot of time to prepare in advance, but it was not in vain. Now I am trapped in the house by acid rain. Even if I don’t consider the supplies prepared in the portable space, I feel quite safe just by looking at the full house of food and drink.

Two days after the power outage, there was a knock on the door of Wen Zheng’s house. When he opened the door, he saw that it was the neighbor next door. When there was no power outage, there was news from the outside world to divert attention. Now it is not upset. The family can’t stay at home, so they come out to visit.

The neighbor’s family is good, and the little girl in the family is well taught. Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan don’t hate to contact them. During the day, the door is open, and the two families move stools to sit in the corridor, doing their own things, and chatting when they have nothing to do.

After half a day, the other two families at the other end of the floor heard the noise and came out. There are more than eight adults in the four families. Unlike Wen Zheng, who has no parents, the other three families have invited their parents. The whole family must be together at the end of the world.

More than a dozen people gathered together, cooking large portions for lunch, sharing and tasting each other's cooking skills. Although the relationship between the neighbors in their building was okay, at least they all knew each other and greeted each other when they met, but it was really not so good.

Within two days, the neighbors who had become familiar with each other gathered in the corridor to play mahjong and poker. Wen Zheng did not participate in it, but sat next to watch the game. He also bought some wool from the old man on the same floor and learned to knit sweaters.

To be honest, after experiencing so many disasters, Wen Zheng really didn't have much contact with this skill. After listening to the old lady's explanation several times, he got started in a proper way, thinking about knitting two parent-child outfits for himself and Tuan Tuan.

The doors were all open, and Wen Zheng did not hide it deliberately. The situation of raising birds at home was displayed in front of the neighbors. They all knew that Wen Zheng took in a few birds when the acid rain came.

No one was allowed to enter the house. After sitting in the corridor, the lights in the living room were turned off. Tuan Tuan only brought out a few birds each time, and it was difficult for the human eye to distinguish the differences in the appearance of birds of the same species. So the neighbors thought he just had a few birds and didn't think too much about it.

After two or three days of peace, the residents in the entire building were no longer limited to socializing on their own floor, and began to wander upstairs and downstairs. With more people coming and going on the floors, it was inevitable that they would encounter a few annoying guys.

First, a child ran down from the upstairs, saw the magpie perched obediently on Tuantuan's shoulder, and shouted "little bird, little bird" in his mouth, and stretched out his hand to catch the magpie.

Tuantuan moved quickly and dodged with a move. The child missed and hit his hand against the wall, which helped him stabilize his body that was about to lose balance and fall. But the child was not happy. He stood up and took back his hand, looked at the bird perched on Tuantuan's shoulder, sat down on the ground and burst into tears on the spot.

The adults who were busy playing cards were startled. Before they could figure out what was going on, they heard quickened footsteps at the stairs. A man and a woman ran over and hugged the child on the ground. They said, "My dear son, why are you crying when I haven't seen you for a while? Did someone bully you?"

As he spoke, his eyes scanned the children next to him.

"Dad, Mom, they bullied me." When the boy saw his parents coming, he stopped howling without red eyes and started to complain to his parents.

The parents next to him were not happy. Our children have been playing together for several days and there has not been a big conflict. Although I didn't see what happened specifically, it was less than two minutes since the boy ran down. Whose child bullied him?

"It's him." The boy pointed at Tuantuan and continued to howl, "He didn't give me the bird and made me fall against the wall."

"You're talking nonsense! It was you who wanted to take the bird away, and you didn't see clearly that you hit the wall." Before Tuantuan could speak, the little girl from the neighboring house retorted first. The rest of the children were a beat slower. After the little girl spoke, they immediately helped Tuantuan and accused the naughty child.

The naughty child couldn't argue with so many children, so he pulled his parents to continue crying. The two naughty parents were anxious and immediately reached out to pull the group of children. As soon as he stretched out his hand, it was blocked by someone, and then he didn't know what was going on and was pushed back two steps. There was a man in front of the child opposite, and this man was holding a half-knitted red sweater in his hand.

"Sure enough, the naughty kids are all handed over by their naughty parents. The few-year-old kids pretend to cry and spread rumors when they can't grab the birds raised by others. The parents spoil them indiscriminately. I don't want to see garbage at the door of my house. Please go downstairs honestly in the future and don't turn inside randomly." Wen Zheng shook his head.

The father's face turned red with anger at what Wen Zheng said, but he didn't dare to do anything because of Wen Zheng's push just now and the many people around him. Finally, he pointed at the red sweater in Wen Zheng's hand and said, "A grown man is really shameless to knit a sweater here."

"What are you talking about!" Tuan Tuan was unhappy when he heard someone say that his father, and walked two steps to Wen Zheng and scolded him. Feeling another hand coming out towards his shoulder, Tuan Tuan's eyes turned cold and his head moved slightly.

The naughty child's hand was empty again, and this time not only did he not catch the bird. He also scared the bird off Tuan Tuan's shoulder. The naughty child looked up following the trajectory of the bird's flight, and before he could see clearly, two balls of cold things dripped on his face.

He reached out and touched it, and saw that it was bird droppings. He stopped pretending and burst into tears on the spot.

The bear parents were also anxious at this time. The mother quickly held the child and took out paper to wipe the bird droppings. As a result, the bear child was rarely wronged and kicked around unwillingly. The father finally mustered up some courage and took a step forward towards Wen Zheng, but the neighbors around were not blind.

"We all saw what happened just now. It was your child who was naughty and tried to catch the bird. The bird is a rectal animal. It was scared and pooped unhappily. Your child started first and then raised his head. Why do you still want to make trouble? We haven't asked you to clean up the corridor yet."

A circle of people gathered around. The bear parents knew that it was difficult to win from this posture, and they didn't know why they felt a little cold in their hearts. The man reached out and took the bear child from the woman's hand. He endured the force of his child kicking and hitting him. He swept around the people around him, gritted his teeth and turned away. The mother hurriedly followed behind.

The man still thought he was bearing humiliation, but before he could vent his anger, he moved his fingers when he turned around, and a small stone followed the kick of the naughty child and hit the man's knees.

"Hiss!" The man took a deep breath, bent his knees and knelt on the ground.

The naughty child in his arms was startled and stopped crying. As a result, his father raised his hand and slapped him on the buttocks as soon as he recovered, cursing: "You only know how to cry and make trouble for me, why don't you kick others..."

"Isn't it just a kick, why do you hit the child!" The naughty child's mother who was following behind hurried over to stop him. The man's legs hurt and he was angry. He threw the mother and child on the spot and limped upstairs.

The naughty child couldn't stop crying on the ground. This time he knew not to kick people randomly after being beaten. His mother finally carried him on her back and followed him upstairs.

The people in the corridor who watched this farce didn't know what to say. They kept reminding their children to avoid this family as soon as possible next time they saw them. It's not that they were afraid of them, but it was really annoying to deal with such people.

They were having fun, but this farce ruined all their fun. They packed up their things and went home first. Before leaving, they told Wen Zheng to call them if this family dared to cause trouble again. Everyone was watching what happened today.

Wen Zheng smiled and nodded in agreement, but he knew in his heart that this family would not come downstairs again in a short time.

Tuan Tuan's beating just now, plus the kick from the child, the injuries were not light. This family still lives upstairs. Now the power outage has stopped the elevator, and the process of climbing the stairs is a toss. At least half a month, the legs will not be able to walk properly, not to mention going downstairs. The naughty child probably won't be comfortable either.

Although the naughty kid is annoying, Tuantuan is not going to attack a child. It is enough to let the bird help scare him. But the man dared to say something to Wen Zheng, which really offended Tuantuan. The pain for half a month is a minor punishment this time. If he dares to come again, it will not be so light.

Wen Zheng patted Tuantuan's shoulder soothingly, took Tuantuan home, closed the door and drew the curtains, turned on the lights, and continued knitting sweaters in the living room.

When it was time to cook dinner, Wen Zheng mixed some dough and planned to make pancakes that did not require leavening. Two days ago, the pork that could not be kept for a long time was fried, and the fat was refined into half a basin of lard, and there was a lot of lard residue. He found a bag of brown sugar in the cabinet. This is the method that Wen Zheng learned from the zombie world, using brown sugar and lard residue to mix stuffing and pancakes.

The gas pipeline in the building has not been shut down. When the pancakes are done, the smell of flour comes out. Wen Zheng, who is not afraid of heat, hands the first pancake to Tuan Tuan, who is also not afraid of heat. He blew twice and stretched out his hand to break the pancake. The sweet smell immediately suppressed the smell of flour. His mouth was drooling crazily, and he had to be careful to prevent the brown sugar in the pancake from flowing out.

The melted brown sugar in the pancake was very hot. Tuan Tuan, who was not afraid of heat but afraid of mouth, waited patiently for a while. When he felt that the heat had almost dropped, he lowered his head and took a bite.

The pancake skin was thin and crispy. There was still some crumbs when bitten. The teeth continued to bite down and touched the slightly hot brown sugar. The sweetness immediately flowed into the mouth. After chewing again, the crispy lard residue after frying became soft and rotten under the entanglement of brown sugar, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it is.

After taking a bite, Tuantuan quickly stuffed the other half into Wen Zheng's mouth. Wen Zheng nodded after tasting it, approving of his own craftsmanship. The father and son stood in the kitchen, eating one pancake after another, and no pancake could successfully survive to the living room.

The combination of high fat and high sugar is simply a calorie bomb, but it is really satisfying to eat. After eating, Wen Zheng and Tuantuan forgot the unpleasantness they encountered today and had a good sleep.

The rest of the neighbors were affected by the trouble caused by the naughty child, especially the many neighbors who visited upstairs and downstairs every day, and they paid attention to their own children when they played.

Wen Zheng still knitted sweaters by himself, and was not affected by the words of the naughty parents. Knitting sweaters has never been said to be limited to women. Wen Zheng also plans to learn more tricks. Anyway, the weather will get colder and colder in the next few years, and there will be no shortage of opportunities to wear sweaters. After the acid rain stops, you can buy some thicker wool.

After the first one was knitted, the second one was much faster. I worked overtime in the evening. Tuan Tuan learned it and sat next to Wen Zheng to help knit, while Wen Zheng knitted Tuan Tuan's.

Finally, Wen Zheng added a rough pattern to the sweater. On Tuan Tuan's sweater was a bird that others thought was a phoenix pattern, and on Wen Zheng's sweater was an ordinary bird. Only the father and son knew that the two patterns were Tuan Tuan's true appearance when he was young and when he grew up.

On the day when the clothes were worn, the acid rain that had recently weakened finally stopped. After being trapped in the house for half a month, the wind and rain outside suddenly disappeared, and many people did not notice it.

But once someone noticed it, it would spread to the neighborhood immediately.

"The rain has stopped!!!" The excited voice of splitting legs spread in the corridor, and the people playing in the corridor immediately pricked up their ears.

"Did someone say the rain has stopped?"

"It seems that there is really no sound of rain outside."

"I'll go open the window and see."

The windows of the corridor are full of traces of rain hitting them. The rain from the acid rain is not clear and transparent, but a turbid liquid of yellow or even black, which has stained the outside of the window and made it difficult to see the situation outside.

"Hey, wait, wait until we cover our noses before opening them." Someone shouted hurriedly, and everyone present quickly stretched out their arms, even took off their coats and put them in front of their noses. Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan took out masks from their pockets and put them on.

It's not that no one cleaned the windows of the staircase before, but they gave up after the first few times. First, they had to guard against the acid rain from outside, which was troublesome. Second, they were stained by rain again not long after cleaning, which was in vain. Finally, every time they opened the window, the smell from outside came in, and it would not dissipate for a long time after closing the window, which was pungent.

Later, even if they felt that the smell in the house was not very good, no one was willing to open the window connected to the outside, because the smell outside was much worse than that in the house.

As soon as the window was opened, it was still a little dark outside at 8 or 9 in the morning. However, during the days of power outage, everyone's eyes have adapted to the darkness to a certain extent, and they can see that the acid rain that has lasted for a long time has really stopped, and they can finally go out.

Before they had time to get excited, the smell outside drifted to everyone. It was not possible to cover the nose with the arm, the gap was too large, and the nose began to feel uncomfortable as soon as I breathed. I quickly switched to mouth breathing, and my throat began to feel uncomfortable.

"Close the window quickly, this smell is really unbearable." Several people urged, and as soon as the window was closed, they couldn't help sighing. How could they go out like this outside?

This acid rain lasted for more than ten days, but it completely destroyed the environment.

Wen Zheng and Tuantuan returned to the house, put on thick masks for their sensitive noses, opened the window and looked outside.

The stainless steel windows in his house were fine, but the aluminum windows downstairs had been severely corroded. The trees planted downstairs, which should have been green, turned yellow and curled under the ravages of acid rain. Nearly half of the leaves had fallen, and the green lawn had basically turned yellow.

There were no birds or insects outside, no pedestrians or vehicles on the road, and the sewer seemed blocked. The acid rain in the past half month probably caused the drainage system to collapse. The water on the ground was not shallow, and some low-lying areas had gathered into small ponds. The eyesight of both of them had been enhanced, and they could see that there was not only garbage floating on the water, but also many animal corpses, and even fish were floating on the water with their bellies turned upside down.

If these garbage were not cleaned up early, these corpses would sooner or later cause another disaster.

On the second day after the rain stopped, the electricity and the Internet had not been restored. A voice amplified by a loudspeaker sounded downstairs. I leaned on the window and looked out. The convoy on the road was all police cars. Every time they arrived at a community, a police car would stop. The loudspeaker on the car played repeatedly, and the content of the shouting was to recruit volunteers to clean up the city.

Wen Zheng and Tuantuan finished their breakfast quickly, found the prepared clothes and put them on. They put on thick rubber boots that reached their knees, put on a raincoat, put on two layers of masks on their faces, and put on a hat on their heads. They wrapped themselves tightly and tried not to affect their movements, then went out and walked down the stairs.

On the way down, you can see a lot of people who heard the noise and went out, but they were all wearing home clothes. They looked at Wen Zheng and Tuantuan's outfits and cast a lot of surprised eyes. Some people were reminded and ran into their homes to rummage through the cabinets.

When they opened the door of the building, Wen Zheng and Tuantuan had not walked out yet, and the police driving the car noticed the noise and looked over. Wen Zheng took the initiative to sign up at the first time: "Let's apply to be volunteers."

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