The first accident was that Linden’s sister was desperate for two months. On the first day, her sister went out and never came back … It took her father a long time to see her naked body in a garbage disposal.
A month later, Linden’s father was ordered to repair a stalled propeller. Although everyone knew that no matter whether the propeller ark could be repaired or not, he could escape the fate of being swallowed up by a black hole … but in order not to let his family lose protection and food, Linden’s father took this.
Then the propeller exploded and the whole maintenance team went out.
Good Ark didn’t break his promise. Linden and his mother received Ann’s area and remained loyal to Ark’s soldiers to protect their mother. They had a thrilling two months.
When the ark passed through the wormhole, everyone’s consciousness stagnated for a long time. By the time Linden felt around, everything had returned to normal, and the ark had arrived in a completely strange universe.
While his mother melted a pool of minced meat less than three meters away from him.
The sadness didn’t last long, because the feeling of hunger was even more unbearable. Seeing that less and less food was rationed every day, Linden decided to join the ark repair workers in exchange for enough food to satisfy his hunger.
Relying on his own ability and knowledge, Linden stood out from all the subjects and successfully got a job as a propeller repairman-which made him think that during his father’s time, he never thought that he would have a father’s business one day.
This job is very dangerous. The damaged ark hull is the biggest source of danger, and once it comes from the truth and radiation outside the ship.
On the first day of work, one worker was killed by a steel beam that suddenly broke and fell, and another worker was killed by a high-voltage line that touched the ground.
The next day, when Linden, the leader of their maintenance team, pushed a jammed hatch, he didn’t expect that the cabin behind the hatch had been damaged and was directly sucked in. The other two suffered from serious radiation sickness because they didn’t wear protective equipment.
Linden got his first reward on the third day of work.
Workers’ wages are neither real money nor credit in accounts … but food, which has once again become synonymous with hard currency in this era.
Six packs of synthetic rations in small bags are marked with a weight of 50 grams per package, but Linden will know that no package is as full as possible if he doesn’t weigh it … The white powder in this package always reminds him of those illegal drugs that make people smell pale in the old times.
However, synthetic rations are not the highlight … Although this job is so dangerous, the biggest reason why people are still flocking is that there are two other things in this reward.
Meat and vegetables
Of course, this meat is not real meat, but synthetic artificial meat made of soybean protein … Compared with the artificial meat produced 499 years ago in the new era, this batch of artificial meat tastes like dehydrated dried beancurd, and it is salty enough to add seasoning. Before putting it, the shelf roots could not be sold, but now the garbage has become a treasure sought after by everyone.
I heard that the leader who hung up yesterday said that an artificial meat the size of a little finger was needed outside to make a beautiful young girl meet your requirements, but now Linden has got this piece in his hand, which is half the size of a palm.
What is more precious than meat is vegetables-even 499 years ago in the new era, vegetables have always been synonymous with "luxury" of the Ark. On whether planting vegetables in soil culture or hydroponics consumes a lot of precious resources, for the vast majority of the bottom people, meat may still be edible, but they may never have a chance to eat real vegetables once.
Before Linden, his family conditions were not bad, but he could eat one meal of vegetables in almost one day. The most common vegetable he ate was the one he got now.
"bean sprouts"
Low cost, extra fertilization, extremely low requirements for the environment except sunshine, suggested planting, rapid growth and short maturity period … All these advantages together make bean sprouts the most cost-effective vegetables during interstellar voyage.
What Linden got now was a bag of raw bean sprouts weighing about 100 grams. He carefully stuffed this bag of raw bean sprouts into his side pocket for fear of being seen.
Bean sprouts can be eaten raw, but I don’t know what. He suddenly had an idea to cook it.
Fanwaizhang Hunger Age ()
In this era, the word "cooking" can almost be equated with "luxury"
Everyone can’t fill his stomach because of lack of food … In this big environment, if you can find someone to eat, many people’s first reaction is to stuff them into their mouths before others find out … It doesn’t matter if they lack taste and taste.
It is enough for that thing to satisfy hunger.
But it is very difficult for the ark to find food.
If famine breaks out on the earth, people can choose to go deep into the mountains and forests to find food … Although it is dangerous to do so, there must be a living place anyway, so they can certainly find something to eat, but this colonial ship can be seen with metal and concrete even if people dig three feet.
Almost all food sources are in the hands of the government and a few powerful people.
A few months ago, some people in the black market would sell steel bars and string dead mice, but now even cockroaches are almost extinct in the ark
People are short of easy food.
Before the disaster, although the materials were also insufficient, at least most people could be fed and clothed … Many people miss their former life, but they also know in their hearts that that kind of life can’t come back … Less of their generation will definitely not see the Ark restored to its former state.
Linden walked quickly through a narrow alley with his head down in his arms.
There was a sallow and emaciated old man sitting at the corner of the lane. His eyes closed and his arms drooped, and his sides seemed to be asleep.
In front of the old man stood a bowl full of sunken aluminum bowls.
When Linden approached the old man, a disgusting smell of corpse suddenly got into his nose, and he realized that the old man had been dead for a long time.
Whether he starved to death or died of something else is unknown to Linden.
No one comes to restrain the corpse, and the people in the sanitation department can’t get enough food. After completing the division of labor, these people want to have a rest to reduce the heat consumption as much as possible … I’m afraid this corpse will not be disposed of until it is completely decomposed.
Of course, it may also be dragged away secretly by some people who "break the bottom line"
"Cannibals" have long since appeared in urban stories. Last month, the military executed a group of people arrested for cruelty and cannibalism, and watched the execution process on the big screen of Linden Shopping Mall.
Those cannibals are tied up and curled up with their limbs tied up. Their bloodshot eyes are protruding outward, their lips are full of ulcers, and their hair is hanging over most of them … It doesn’t look like people, but the monster hidden in a dark waterway in a horror novel and called "ghouls"
According to the new law promulgated by Ark, the corpse eater will be put to death.
But there will always be people who choose to take risks because of hunger.
Linden stopped looking back at the old man’s body and chose to speed up his steps again.
After half an hour, he finally returned to his residence safely.
Since the ark came out of the wormhole, the original "security zones" protected by the army have been cancelled, and Linden has moved to a shed in the East Fourth District.
The East Fourth District used to belong to the Ark-level area, where commercial streets and luxury residential areas are all beautiful, but even before the disaster, Linden’s family lived in the East Sixth District … Compared with the rent and land price of the Six Districts, the East Fourth District is more than twice as expensive.
However, in the process of crossing the wormhole, the whole East Sixth District has completely become a legal life and death. According to the official budget, it takes less than 20 years to restore these deaths to their original livable samples.
Don’t say that just repairing the damaged hull, removing radiation, reconnecting gas and water pipelines and lines will take years of statistical units, not to mention that Ark Root can’t afford so many resources and manpower to repair a residential area with no strategic value.
The buildings in the East Fourth District were also seriously damaged during the crossing, but at least the basic life-support facilities were not greatly affected, and there was no problem with the tightness and oxygen supply, but it was not a big problem
More than 50 mobile searchlights are distributed in every street corner of the East Fourth District to illuminate the equipment, but in order to save energy, these searchlights are on for one third of the day, and most of the time, residents in the East Fourth District have to live in the dark.
This shed area used to be a high-grade residential area in a prime location, but in the secondary disaster caused by the destruction of expensive mansions, fortunately, the military cleared up building materials from the ruins and built simple sheds to accommodate refugees who moved from the damaged areas where they lived in other ways.
Linden checked a simple homemade lock on his door to make sure that it had not been pried, then took out the key from his pocket and locked it, and then put the lock on the other side of the door to lock it.
With a little excitement, he went to the sleeping bag in the corner of the room and put his hand into the sleeping bag for a long time before he pulled out a small plastic bag with crystals.
This is an essential seasoning salt for every family before the disaster.
At present, the main way to obtain sodium and chlorine is to swallow small tablets with those mushy synthetic foods every day in real salt, which has long been as difficult as vegetables.