Stocking up in space: surviving in a world of crisis

Chapter 172 Chapter 172

When the temperature rose to forty-five degrees, the safety zone ushered in the first sandstorm.

Sandstorm is a symbol of desertification. Strong winds sweep the sand on the ground, which is one of the most harmful natural disasters.

A sandstorm swept in from the mountains three kilometers away. Wan Tao tapped a stainless steel pot lid with a stick, reminding everyone to close the doors and windows with the loudest voice.

Ye Fu moved the things in the yard back to the wooden house, and locked the shed and the sheep pen. Fortunately, Jiang Rong had done a repair before, and even the tenth strong wind could not blow it away.

Take out an oilcloth to cover the pond, pull out all the vegetables in the vegetable field, and put all the watermelons into the space.

In just ten minutes, the sky was covered by yellow sand, and the sound of "woo woo woo" sounded, and the storm passed through the trees and grass, and rushed directly to the safe zone.

Ye Fu whistled three times, and Doomiao and Luoluo finally returned home a few seconds before the storm arrived at the cabin. Ye Fu closed the door and watched the howling wind outside through the window.

The wind and sand were blown on the windows, and the clean glass was soon covered with thick sand, and the house was shaking in the storm.

Vaguely, Ye Fu also heard the sound of Wan Tao beating the stainless steel, as well as a few cries of children.

The first sandstorm lasted only an hour and ended. Ye Fu walked out of the cabin and saw the grass, woods, vegetable fields, and fields in the safe area, all covered by sand.

Ye Fu pawed at it with her feet, the sand was about [-] centimeters thick, she was wearing a mask and goggles, but she was still choking and coughing non-stop.

Yellow sand was flying all over the sky, two minutes after Ye Fu came out, his clothes and hair were covered with another layer of sand.

Jiang Rong took the fishing net, uncovered the tarpaulin, and fished up all the fish in the pond. The green vegetable field had turned into sandy land. The two of them cleaned up the fish as quickly as possible, and Ye Fu again After going to the backyard, the shed and the sheepfold are still strong, and the rabbit nest is also intact.

However, half an hour later, the second sandstorm came again.

With a click, the branches of the pine trees outside the yard were blown off by the wind, and a stone was blown up by the wind and smashed directly on the door of the wooden house. Ye Fu was washing the sand from his face in the bathroom, and Jiang Rong was shaking the bean sprouts. Drop the tail.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." the wind outside the house was howling and whimpering, the sound was ear-piercing and terrifying.

The second sandstorm lasted for about an hour and then stopped. The sand piled up outside became thicker, and people could no longer go out normally.

"I don't know when it will stop."

Ye Fu didn't know what was going on in the building, the main reason was that it was too fast. Jiang Rong heard a sandstorm a few kilometers away, and Ye Fu hurriedly informed Wan Tao. Wan Tao had no doubts, and tapped the stainless steel to inform others , In just ten minutes, the entire safety zone was swept by the storm and then buried by sand.

If there are no plants in the land outside, or if there are very few plants, then the probability of sandstorms will only increase in the future. This year's precipitation is zero, and the land will weather faster. In the near future, perhaps all the land will become into a desert.

Almost every half hour, a sandstorm will come, and it will last for about an hour each time. On the second day, the sandstorm begins to weaken, and it will come every two hours, lasting about half an hour. Come every four or five hours, and each session lasts ten minutes.

After the sandstorm weakened, residents in the safe zone had to go out to work and chose to coexist with the storm.

All the bamboos brought back from the mountain were blown away by the storm. Wan Tao organized everyone to cut down the bamboos to divert water again. This sandstorm injured [-] people in the safety zone and killed [-] people.

The three were swept away and disappeared. Liu Zhang took people out to search, and finally found the bodies of the three people five kilometers outside the safety zone.

Hundreds of chickens and ducks were swept away by the storm. Almost all the vegetable fields were destroyed by the sandstorm. Even many trees in the safety zone were damaged, and several meters of sand fell into the pond. There are only a dozen or so fish left alive.

Fortunately, most of the food was transferred to the cellar in time, which kept everyone's rations.

Residents can only put themselves in full armor and reorganize their fields and vegetable gardens.

The seeds of Sijiqing are blown away by the wind, and grass seeds may fall wherever the wind goes.

Although the losses of Ye Fu and Jiang Rong were not as heavy as the others, there was a thick layer of sand from the ground to the roof, and it took a long time to clean it up.

"Cough cough cough..."

Even if the head is tightly wrapped, wind and sand can still enter the nose, and intermittent coughing can be heard wherever there are people.

Jiang Rong cleaned the pond in the yard, and then put the live fish in the bucket into it.

"I also need to build a shed above the pond. Now there are sandstorms every day, so it's useless not to build a shed."

"Okay, do you want to grow the vegetable plot?"

Ye Fu shook his head, "Don't do it for now, I'll mow the grass. Fortunately, I have saved a lot of grass, otherwise the lamb and rabbit will starve to death."

Ye Fu took the sickle and carried the bamboo basket and left. If he wanted to mow the grass, he had to scrape away the sand that was pressing on the grass.

Ye Fu kicked the sand clean with her feet, and mowed a bamboo basket full with the fastest speed. On the way back, she also met other people who came out to mow the grass. sandy soil.

Ye Fu fed the goats and rabbits grass, and went around the perimeter of the safety zone. Many animals were hung on the barbed wire, all of which were blown by sandstorms.

In a radius of several kilometers, the grass that can be seen is covered by sand. Ye Fu is glad that he sprinkled a lot of tree seeds, which resisted a lot of sand and strong wind.

On the way back, Ye Fu dragged away a few branches that were broken by the wind.

As soon as he got back to the wooden house, Ye Fu saw Wan Tao and Liu Zhang standing in the yard, Jiang Rong was beside him, the three of them didn't know what to say.

"Ye Fu, you are finally back."

"what happened?"

"I want you to get some hemostatic powder, and come over to see how much you have lost." Wan Tao did not beat around the bush, and directly stated the purpose of coming here.

"Except for the vegetable field, there is nothing to lose. I'll get you the hemostatic powder right away."

Ye Fu entered the house, and Wan Tao's voice sounded again outside, "Jiang Rong, many people want to build wooden houses, can you go and guide them for a few days?"

Jiang Rong paused and agreed, "Okay."

He had read several books on architecture, and building a wooden house would not trouble him.

"It's very kind of you to agree. The building is uninhabitable. It's been shaking very badly these days. All the residents in the building have to move out. I looked around and found that your log cabin is relatively strong and can still Withstood such a big sandstorm, several other houses with bamboo floors and wooden houses were all blown down by the storm.”

Ye Fu went out with a can of hemostatic powder, Wan Tao sighed when she saw her, "Qi Yuan and the others suffered a lot this time, a lot of chickens and ducks were blown away, and Wen Wen lost one of her lambs, I When she came, she was still crying, but she was sad."

(End of this chapter)