We Live In Nanjing

  Chapter 11 The City of Two Moons

Pinellia pacing along the coast of Xuanwu Bay, find delicious food and stuff it in a bag. The intertidal zone on the **** of the bank is often full of oysters, sea rainbows and barnacles. Sea cockroaches, they scattered when they saw someone coming by, and seagulls, which hovered in the sky, occasionally fell down and followed Banxia, ​​picking up what she didn't want to eat.

  To survive alone in this empty world, what is the most important thing?

  Eating is the most important thing.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to keep food for a long time in summer. Pinellia can not find a refrigerator that can be used, and there is not enough unlimited electricity, so most of the food can only be smoked or marinated, with salt or sugar. Pack the small fish caught by the beach and use it to make fish sauce.

Using discarded mosquito nets as a ground cage can catch a large number of small fish and shrimps. Most of these small fish are not as long as fingers. The small fish and shrimps that cannot be cooked separately are added with a lot of salt, and then sealed in a plastic bucket for fermentation. The carcass of fish and shrimp decomposes in an anaerobic environment, and finally a brown liquid is precipitated, which is fish sauce.

  Teacher said that it was the corpse water of fish and shrimp.

  The corpse water tastes salty and fresh, and can replace soy sauce.

  In this world, smart people will never lack food.

On the shallows near the shore, Pinellia can often catch flounder. The lure is used as the bait. The fishing tackle is hidden in a sheltered place by the sea. Take it and use it anyway. Anyway, except for her. The second person will come here. If Pinellia does not come to fetch it, the fishing rod can be left for tens of millions of years and the carbon fiber and plastic will be naturally decomposed.

In an empty world, if you are not disturbed by animals, only time can erase the traces of Pinellia's activities. Sometimes Pinellia puts a plastic bottle filled with water in the middle of the road. Look at it a month later, that plastic The bottle reduction sample stood there.

   Two months later, it is still standing there.

  Looking at it five months later, it is still there.

  It’s so lonely.

  It would be fine if it moved one centimeter.

The sun is slanting west, and the black moon has shown an edge on the horizon. The white moon has not yet appeared. It is time for Banxia to go back. She has estimated the time very accurately. It will be dark in about an hour, and she will be home just before dark. .

  Teacher’s Doomsday Survival Code, Article 4, when the bimonthly rises, never go out!

  This world is beautiful during the day, but dangerous at night.

I don’t know how many times, the teacher told me that you must never go out at night. From 7pm to 6am the next morning, the only thing Banxia can do is stay in her fortress, draw the curtains, and sleep with your eyes closed. Building 11, Zhongqinyuan, Meihua Villa, looks like an old residential building, but in fact it has long been transformed into a safe fortress by the teacher. She surrounded the building with a high-voltage power grid.

"Heart flies, and it's hard to stay. Don't chase it. Dreams are broken. Let me sleep more..." The girl hummed and rode through the city wall in the orange sunset. Caiyun is back, the whole life is exhausting."

   "You have to learn to face it at a young age. Some things really make us ashamed when we think of it."

  The frame of the bicycle creaked rhythmically, like a singing accompaniment. Pinellia raised the volume and sang happily.

  "You should learn to be fearless at a young age!"

  She has always been a very happy person.

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  When Banxia pushed his bicycle into the front gate of the community, the silver jade plate had just revealed half of his face from the dark buildings in the distance, and the white moon had just risen, just in time.

  I returned with a full load today. On the way back, she also picked a handful of kale. This thing is everywhere in Nanjing and you can eat it.

  She parked her bicycle in the canopy of the community, then carried a heavy bag across the grid and entered the unit building.

"I'm back-"

  Banxia suddenly stopped, and looked back vigilantly, the dark shadows of the complex buildings under the moonlight.

  At that moment, the girl's scalp suddenly numb, something is staring at her, her vision is like a python before the predation, cold, **** and dangerous, the feeling made her goose bumps crawl all the way from under her feet to the top of her head. Pinellia stood still in place, quietly holding the pistol in the holster with one hand, and then staring at the residential building and grass on the opposite side. In the darkness without moonlight, something was about to move.

what is that?

  The girl held her breath, concentrated and listened to the movement.

  She slowly pulled her pistol out of the holster and opened the safety.

She doesn't know where the other party is, but Pinellia can be sure that the thing is staring at her, and her sight has not been removed. This is an intuition that she has exercised over the years. She is extremely sensitive to the gaze behind her, especially the gaze of the hunter. .

As time passed by, Pinellia's limbs gradually tightened, and she quickly planned the corresponding means in her mind. Although the grid was separated, the grid would only be energized after she returned to the house, so at this moment, the grid cannot be activated. In terms of protection, she did not spare bullets when her life was threatened. Just as the girl was considering whether to shoot at the opposite side to scare the thing, she quietly moved away from her gaze.

  Banxia breathed a sigh of relief and squeezed the clothes on her body, only to find that she had been sweating in the cold for just two minutes.

  She went upstairs with the bag, poured all the caught fish into a large plastic basin, cleaned it up with scissors, and poured a lot of salt on it.

  Do all this, it's nine o'clock in the evening.

The pinellia, which smells like fish and sweat, had to take a shower first. The wind blew on the beach all afternoon, and her body was sticky. She threw all the dirty clothes on the sofa and then drilled. Going into the bathroom to wash, the shower has long been useless. It is a great torture for girls not to be able to take a comfortable bath. So she and the teacher tried to install a water tank and pump on the roof, but in the end they didn’t. become.

  Nowadays, if you want to use hot water, Pinellia can only be boiled right now, using a briquette stove, boil it, and pour it into a thermos.

   After taking a shower happily, the girl put on her clothes, wiped her wet hair and sat in the room. She hurriedly settled these trivial matters, and even had no time for dinner, because she wanted to contact the person last night as soon as possible.

   "Parents, wait for my good news!"

   simply hugs his parents—the parents are still so hard to the touch.

The black ICOM725 radio is on the table. This thing is very old. Its age is older than itself, even older than the teacher’s age. I don’t know how long it can last. It can be heard on mobile radio in Banxia. There was a metal clinking sound inside, maybe some part has fallen off.

  But Pinellia didn't dare to open it. She wouldn't be able to repair this thing, for fear that it would not be repaired if it was opened.

  The girl sits on a chair with her knees on her knees, her thick jet-black hair is scattered, she stretches out her white hand, and presses the power with a light "click".

  The radio is powered on, and the amber LCD screen lights up.

  14.255MHZ.

  Press the SSB button again to enter the single sideband mode.

  Press the TUNER button to turn on the sky tuning.

   Banxia step by step methodically, she wants to restore everything to the state of last night.

  Put on the headphones again and plug in the microphone.

  Hands are a bit trembling, and the plug of the hand microphone has been plugged in several times but failed to get in.

  The more I get here, the more nervous Banxia's heart becomes.

  She may contact other survivors in this world again, or miss them. As the only two fish in the sea, if she misses it, she will never see each other in this life.

   "Teacher bless you."

  Banxia held the pendant on her chest. It was a coin, which was left to her by the teacher.

  Put on the headset again and hold the microphone.

  There is a sizzling current noise in the earphones.

  "This is No. 66, Mufuyuan Street, Qinhuai District, Nanjing. I am Pinellia. Can anyone hear me? Please answer when you hear it."

  Call a sentence, wait five minutes.

  Call a sentence and wait another five minutes.

  Call another sentence and wait another five minutes.

  "This is No. 66, Mufuyuan Street, Qinhuai District, Nanjing. I’m Banxia. Can anyone hear me? Please answer if you hear... Can someone please answer."

  I don’t know how long this has been repeated, and Banxia can’t remember how many times she called, maybe fifty times, maybe a hundred times, or maybe a thousand times, until she heard the voice in the earphone again:

  "CQ! CQ! CQ! ThisisBG4MXH, Bravo-Golf-Four-Mike-Xray-Hotel, callingcqandwaitingforacall!"

   Tears burst out uncontrollably all at once.

  (End of this chapter)