I survived with my sister in the doomsday

Chapter 130 Survival Crisis

I looked at the time on the space and it was already past six in the morning.

Last night, for convenience, I only took out a few boxes of instant noodles for the three guys to eat. Now, with the appearance of instant noodles’ companion - pickled mustard tuber, the food on everyone’s table will be more abundant in the future!

I was going to go out for a run early in the morning, firstly to exercise my body, and secondly to see what the situation was like inside the base.

Since there is no shortage of water at the Daxing base, you can take a cool shower in the morning. Then you can take out daily necessities from your own space and brush your teeth. Of course, you have to brush your teeth with your back to others.

Hey, put on a new set of sportswear, which is actually the school uniforms, but I still have them! They are so comfortable and cool to wear! They are more comfortable than any other clothes, and you don’t have to worry about getting them dirty.

The original greenhouse base was so magnificent. The greenhouses in the base were closely connected and planned into neat horizontal grids like manuscript paper in the vast fields. When viewed from the side, its curvature formed waves, undulating one after another. The roof reflected and shone with silver light, like a silver ocean, rippling slightly in the morning sun.

I randomly found a greenhouse and could feel the rich vitality as soon as I stepped into it. The aroma of fruits and vegetables filled the air. The temperature in the greenhouse was just right, but the plants looked withered and decadent.

It can be seen that the workers are still trying their best to ensure the growth of the plants. They even started to seal the ground with cement and then continue to fill the soil for planting. Obviously, the process is more complicated.

I asked an aunt who got up early to go to work: Why did it become like this now?

The auntie squatted on the ground in work clothes. She first looked up at me, then shook her head and sighed and answered me, "This is a disaster!" The young man listened to the auntie and said, "Store more food. The end of the world will soon come when we won't have enough food."

I asked curiously, "Can't you just dig up the land and pile it on a platform for planting?"

My aunt answered me bitterly: I have thought about this idea, but if we just plant it like that, the investment will be high, and the labor and costs will increase. How can we meet the food needs of so many people?

I completely understand what she meant. Just like cabbage, its growth cycle is usually about three months. However, if the difficulty of artificial cultivation is greatly increased to a certain level, then for millions of people in the future, this vegetable that was once common will become extremely rare and expensive, and it is definitely not a food that ordinary people can easily taste. Even the most common dishes on the tables of ordinary people in the past are facing such a dilemma. Humans are indeed on the verge of extinction.

Young man, have you noticed that the towering trees that used to grow tall have now begun to wither, and the center of the trees is hollow. In our old saying, this means disaster is coming.

I was shocked. Yes, although I often find weeds growing on the ground recently, many trees are indeed withering and dying. I used to think it was due to the season, but now it seems that this...

I didn't have the patience to keep running so I went back to my residence, pulled Lin Lin and Song Jue together and told them that we should leave as soon as possible. I kept feeling inexplicably uneasy and flustered.

I asked Song Jue to call Bian Hui who lived next door. Although Song Jue stuttered, he was very quick in running errands. He quickly put on his shoes and went to look for Bian Hui. After a while, he came back and told me that he didn't know where Sister Bian Hui had gone and couldn't find her.

I'm curious why this little girl ran around without following instructions?

Just when I was anxious to find her, Bian Hui came back by herself. She said she wanted to see what happened to the crops in the greenhouse. I found that there was plenty of sunlight and the plants were not lacking in photosynthesis. It was indeed as Brother Zhao said, there was something wrong underground. Maybe it was caused by the earthquake. After the earth's crust was shaken, some substances underground were drawn to the surface. These substances would affect the roots of the plants, so the trees began to wither.

I said this is not a problem that we mortals can solve, so let’s go home.

When we went out and said goodbye to Lao Zhao, he warmly invited us to have breakfast in their cafeteria. We couldn't refuse his kindness, so we followed him.

The breakfast was simple, just a bowl of porridge and a small plate of pickles per person, but what surprised us was that he actually got a boiled egg for each of us.

You know, this meal was considered very valuable during that period.

Looking at the pitiful little pickles, I asked Lao Zhao, "Are these pickles very scarce?"

Lao Zhao said, "Yes, there are not enough fresh vegetables to hand in, so where can we find spare vegetables to pickle? But this is government-subsidized, so eat it." He looked at us lovingly.

I asked curiously: What do you have that is more self-sufficient?

He answered us that there are indeed still a lot of eggs at present, because the largest stock in the grain warehouse is the chicken feed made from millet husks, so they built a large greenhouse and raised a lot of chickens.

I got excited when I heard that, because eggs were scarce when we first started to stock up, so we didn't save much. Isn't this a good business opportunity? Now there are plenty of pickles in the space, and we can use them to exchange for eggs!

After I told Lao Zhao about my idea, he agreed with it. He was in a dilemma now: how to make the exchange reasonably?

I said, can I exchange a box of pickles for two hundred eggs from you?

After finishing my meal, I pretended to go back to the car and fiddled with it for a long time to move a one cubic meter box of bottled "dry food" from the car. Wow, this box is very heavy, and it takes Lin Lin and I to move it. When we lifted it in front of Lao Zhao, he was shocked and asked me, "Is the box you mentioned so big?"

Originally he thought it was a small cardboard box packaging, and he began to say embarrassedly: Aren’t we taking advantage of you?

I said that maybe I would come here to exchange eggs in the future, and I can get these pickles, so you can take them first.

Old Zhao put two hundred eggs in bamboo baskets, filling up two large baskets.

Those are free-range eggs, and they look so pleasing to the eye with their red color.

On the way back, Song Jue asked me curiously: Brother Huo, how many good things do you have?

I would say that what I have is not a lot, but for some reason I have never been given any real food or oil, only some not-so-useful side dishes.

Bian Hui, who is immersed in the panic of doomsday, will start to sigh: Have you ever thought about how much impact the entire ecosystem will have if dark matter reactions occur in the earth's crust? We have already clearly felt the decline in the number of insects. If even important pollinators such as bees cannot pollinate nectar plants in the future, the huge roots of towering trees that have grown for dozens or even hundreds of years will be polluted and gradually wither and rot. In this way, without plants constantly producing oxygen, the entire environmental system of the earth will inevitably fall into chaos...

I retorted: Maybe the situation is not as bad as you think. Have you observed those strange-looking weeds you have seen recently? I think they may be new species. This means that the substances emitted from the interior of the earth's crust still contain elements suitable for plant growth, but they are not suitable for the original plants. Then this will be a large-scale elimination.

I pulled out my tablet from the space. Although I couldn't find the old information, I had downloaded an encyclopedia. After some searching, I found some interesting information and read it out loud to the people around me:

"In general, there have been several large-scale extinction events in the long history of the Earth. One of them occurred at the end of the Ordovician period about 4 million years ago. Paleontologists generally believe that this mass extinction was caused by a sudden cooling of the global climate. Another occurred about 3 million years ago, and that mass extinction lasted for more than 200 million years or even longer! According to legend, marine life at that time suffered an extremely severe blow, with as many as 78% of marine life perishing. This was followed by a thrilling mass extinction event, which occurred about 2.5 million years ago. According to scientists' estimates, this catastrophe caused up to 76% of species to disappear from the Earth forever. Speaking of this, I believe everyone is familiar with the Cretaceous extinction event? It was the second largest mass extinction event in the history of the Earth! At that time, about 75% to 80% of the biological species on Earth suffered a catastrophic disaster. This long and tragic species extinction lasted for a full 1.6 million years, and also marked the end of the era when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

It seems that perhaps we are facing the threat of mass extinction on Earth.

If this speculation is correct, then new species will replace those that came before. However, where will humans go? In this possible new era, can we survive safely? Or will we, like many other species, be swallowed up by the torrent of time?

It seems that all these abnormal phenomena should be left to scientists to study!