Current Situation in the Country (III)
Yuan Huawei ate the instant noodles tastelessly and had no interest in chatting with the people around him. He slept in a daze while the people around him continued to chat.
They talked about their personal achievements before the catastrophe, their boundless glory, and the allure of women. They no longer mentioned what happened after the big explosion because it was their pain. It was as if they would not feel pain if they did not mention it. Therefore, slowly, no one was willing to mention it.
The night was even colder. The clothes of the old man who had died before were under Brother Li's body. He did not know who had taken the money and items, but the money and items were of no use now. They could not be spent even if they were kept on him.
Not long after Yuan Huawei fell asleep, he had a strange dream that he had always had. In the dream, he was on a small boat. The sun in the west was about to set in the sea. The surface of the sea was sparkling, and the surrounding islands were lush. Fishermen were fishing for delicious seafood, and their faces were filled with happy smiles. A woman beside him wrapped her arms around his back and said gently, It was time to go home. He subconsciously replied gently," When he returned home, he turned around to look at her face. However, just as he saw a blurry image from the corner of his eye, he woke up from his dream.
He had the same dream again, and every time, he would wake up the moment he turned around.
He closed his eyes, unwilling to open them. He wanted to continue dreaming to see her appearance, but it was all in vain. Dreams were traceless.
The people around them were still chatting in low voices, telling flirtatious stories about men and women. From time to time, waves of laughter could be heard.
Yuan Huawei lay down for a while and realized that he really couldn't fall asleep for a while. He sat up and prepared to go to the toilet first before going back to sleep.
He suddenly sat up, causing the person beside him to tremble in fear. When he realized that he was going to wake up at night, he joked, Little Hua couldn't take it anymore and needed to go to the bathroom to calm his heart.
Yuan Huawei ignored them. In this world, men would always have the habit of making up dirty jokes at any time. However, Yuan Huawei was really not in the mood to joke with them.
When he came back from the toilet, he saw that they were still talking about dirty jokes. The people around him were all craning their necks to listen. He could only smile bitterly.
After he lay down again, the people around him told a few more old dirty jokes, and they were still laughing and laughing. It was so noisy that he could not calm down and think about things.
He looked at the watch on his companion's wrist. It was close to 10 o'clock at night. Usually, he would play a few war games at this time, but now he could only lie here and sleep or listen to jokes.
Right, war. I heard that China was at war with afghanistani at noon today.
Yuan Huawei nudged Brother Li with his elbow and asked," Today, I heard that China is at war. Do you know?
Brother Li: War? Who would the Celestial Empire fight? America or Japan? Or South Vietnam, India, or Indonesia?
Yuan Huawei looked at his old acquaintance, Brother Li, who was also unaware of the situation. He said with some uncertainty, It seems to be at war with afghanistani. I heard that it was a terrorist attack by afghanians?
Brother Li: Did they do this? I've never heard of any conflict between China and them.
Yuan Huawei felt that he had asked the wrong person. Li Mingwei didn't know as much as he did.
After the simple conversation between Yuan Huawei and Brother Li, the topic of conversation around them shifted from the dirty jokes to the war between China and afghanistana.
There was an old man in his fifties or sixties who knew about the war that had just happened two or three days ago. This was rare in a place where information was blocked. The old man had a small radio, a very old gadget, but it could be charged by hand. He would occasionally go out of the tunnel to listen to the radio. Thus, the invisible microphone was transferred to the old man's hand, and everyone could only listen to him talk about the war in afghana.
This old man's surname was Wang. No one knew his exact name. Everyone either called him Old Wang or Brother Wang.
Old Wang smacked his lips and started bragging, which he did not know much about.
After the longest live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala in history, which was the first time in the early morning of the fourth day of the lunar new year, the country's leaders announced that they would start a war with the country. On the first day of the day, thousands of planes flew to the country and dropped more than 200,000 troops and various other weapons. The first thing they did was to beat the government and army of the country into not daring to show their faces. They also forced the government of the country to admit that the Chinese army was helping them fight the terrorists in the country. They even signed an agreement.
On the first day, China's army entered the country of over 300,000. The people of the country did not fire a single shot. All of them surrendered. When they first saw the Chinese soldiers, they were so scared that they ran everywhere. Thousands of people died accidentally. They were all exhausted from running or accidentally fell to their deaths while running. Only a few of our soldiers died. They all fell into the wrong position during the airborne landing and died in an accident.
On the second day, our army had 500,000 to 600,000 people entering the country and occupied nearly 90% of the cities in the country. Many places in the country welcomed the arrival of the Chinese soldiers and rushed to send all kinds of goods to express their welcome to the Chinese army. On this day, the people of the country were not afraid of the Chinese soldiers. They did what they were supposed to do. The Chinese soldiers were like tourists. There was no war to fight at all.
On the third day, more than 800,000 troops of the Chinese army occupied the entire territory of the country. The government and people of the country did not even resist. It was as if they were not fighting a war, but taking over the country smoothly...
Yuan Huawei found it ridiculous as he listened. How could the war process be such a joke? The winter in the northern hemisphere had not completely ended yet. It was impossible for the country to send so many people into afghana at once. Besides, the country's leaders would never give such an order. These things were simply made up. Although he believed that China could completely beat afghana, it was definitely not to such an exaggerated extent.
The interest that he originally had had now decreased by more than half. He slowly lay down and listened to Lao Wang's spittle flying about how China beat up the people of afghanistana. He only managed to analyze a little bit of useful information and understand the most basic " national affairs."
The surrounding people listened with relish. Yuan Huawei did not want to dampen their mood, so he could only start to daydream again.
That night, he thought about a lot of things, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. He could not make any plans for his future life at all. It was all caused by this unprecedented disaster. Slowly, he curled up and fell asleep again, accompanied by waves of exclamations around him.
The next morning, Yuan Huawei was woken up by the sound of his stomach rumbling. He looked at the time and saw that it was already six o'clock in the morning on the sixth day of Beijing time.
There were already chattering noises coming from afar. Most of them were complaining and wailing from hunger.
The people around them were almost awake. They were all huddled together, either in a daze or pretending to be asleep. From time to time, their stomachs would growl in protest. A few of them would even look down to see why the food distribution cart had not arrived yet.
Half an hour later, the food distribution vehicle finally arrived slowly. Everyone wolfed down their first mouthful of dry rations and instant noodles, but they could only fill their stomachs.
Zhang Liwei was the youngest of the five people who came here with Yuan Huawei. He was only 18 years old and was at the peak of his growth. A small packet of instant noodles could not solve the problem of hunger at all. He kept shouting that he wanted to eat meat. When everyone heard the word meat, they were all tempted. Unfortunately, there was no meat here. Helplessly, he could only secretly look at the lighter from his pocket for the other people who were traveling with him. Everyone had the same thoughts. Half an hour later, they put on a few simple clothes and got up to walk out of the tunnel.
The wind in the morning was a little strong. The sun was hidden in the thick clouds, and the weather was even colder. As soon as they reached the exit of the tunnel, they naturally tightened their clothes. Just as they were about to walk out of the tunnel, the buzzing of a helicopter came from afar. Two soldiers at the entrance of the tunnel immediately held their guns and pushed the five of them back. They could only stay obediently.
They watched from afar as the helicopter hovered and landed. It unloaded a batch of materials, and two men and two women came down along with their personal materials. Then, the helicopter whistled away without stopping at all.
Two men came to the entrance of the tunnel (the woman turned to the entrance of the tunnel where the women stayed). They came to the table and talked with the person-in-charge behind the table. After that, the person-in-charge gave way to them and trotted towards the company commander.
The ban at the entrance of the tunnel was still in effect. It was not until the two new men changed the word " shop " to " armed forces " that it officially returned to normal.
However, before they could come out, two soldiers with a loudspeaker hurriedly brought four 'volunteers' to the tunnel entrance. At the same time, a voice sounded from the loudspeaker.
Everyone from 18 to 50 years old had come out to register. Everyone between the ages of 18 and 50…
Yuan Huawei and the others were blocked. Since they were the closest, they followed the guide to the newly established " Armed Forces " table. Yuan Huawei became the first person to be questioned.
"ID number? Name? The person behind the table stared at Yuan Huawei and then checked the data file according to the digital information and fingerprints provided by Yuan Huawei. Only then did he find out that Yuan Huawei was a senior student at Peking University and was not enlisted for the time being. One of the people in charge said calmly, Study hard. You've caught up with a good era that's not a good era.
Just as Yuan Huawei was about to ask what era it was, he heard the person in charge say," Next.
He was stunned for a moment. After watching him continue to register for a while, he couldn't help but be curious and asked the person-in-charge, What a good era I've caught up in.
" Person in charge: Students who study in first or second tier universities will be exempted from tuition fees and a lot of voluntary labor. Those who don't want to continue studying will be assigned jobs after graduation.
Yuan Huawei was even more baffled. Was this his good time? What the hell was with the assignment of work? These were all old things. Was this considered his " good era "?
He had yet to realize how important and lucky it was to have a stable job in the future. It was true that most people were still thinking about the old ways before the catastrophe. They did not realize that there would be a big change in the near future that would overturn everything and start over.
The crowd gradually increased. Soon, the people who had registered were divided into two groups. One group could move freely, while the other group was strictly required to stay in a designated place. Most of them were young people between the ages of 18 to 30, and the other group was middle-aged people below the age of 50. These middle-aged people stood straight, showing the temperament of a soldier. Their temperament was completely different from the other group of people.
Yuan Huawei watched quietly. After about half an hour, the crowd had been divided into two large groups. After understanding each other, he knew that it was an order from the central government to gather all single youths between the ages of 18 to 30 and retired veterans to resume reserve duty training.
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing the difference between those who were chosen and those who were not, and the impact on their lives in the future.
Not long after, the selected people were excited. Everyone was given two packets of instant noodles and a few things: A military cap, military shoes, and a sleeve with a military logo. Other than the lack of clothes, it was basically a simple version of the reserve player's equipment. From afar, the colorful colors under the military green cap looked a little nondescript.
The selected people were excited. At least they had free hats and shoes to wear. They had eaten three packets of instant noodles in the morning, and their stomachs were at least half full. It made those who weren't chosen envious and jealous.
Yuan Huawei looked at the sudden change and classification and suddenly thought of something. It was an idiom like "a blessing in disguise". He could only sigh to resolve the loneliness in his heart.
As two of the five people who came with them were single and had been selected to be reserves, their plan to go out and look for food was disrupted. Everyone was only concerned about the distribution of personnel and the envy of the selected people. Unknowingly, it was already noon. They queued up at the last minute to get a packet of instant noodles and ate it simply. Their stomachs finally had something to eat. When they saw the selected people giving out two packets of instant noodles, the hearts of those who were not selected ran like ten thousand alpacas. However, in the face of the unfriendly gazes of the soldiers and the safety of the spears in their hands, they could only swallow their anger.
At noon, Yuan Huawei went to the company commander to ask about the rescue. Unfortunately, he did not see him at all. In the end, he was told by a soldier that his superior had been notified. As for when they would receive rescue, it was not known to them. Even the company commander did not have the right to do so. Yuan Huawei could only wait for the result obediently. No matter how much he worried, it was useless.
After noon, the registration process was already halfway through. However, Yuan Huawei and the others 'stomachs grumbled again. With a glance, they understood that they wanted to go to the mountains to find some animal carcasses to roast and eat to fill their stomachs. They had just turned around and walked a few steps when their old acquaintance, Li Mingwei, caught up from behind with a worried look.
After understanding the situation, it turned out that he wanted to declare that he was the only one left in his family so that he could join the reserve team as a single person. However, he was hesitant. He felt that this reserve team would definitely be a bad choice. There might be some conspiracy behind it. However, he was too hungry to eat a packet of instant noodles every meal. He was afraid to join, but he was hungry if he didn't join. He hesitated and didn't have anyone to ask. He was only familiar with Yuan Huawei and the others, so he wanted to ask them and get them to give him a reference.
Yuan Huawei's two companions said,"It's good that you can eat a little more. Why talk about conspiracies? After all, there are so many people." How else could he scheme against you? She even rolled her eyes at him and said that if it were them, they would definitely try their best to be selected. Unfortunately, they had conditions.
Brother Li looked at Yuan Huawei, who said," Joining the reserves was good or bad. There were gains and losses. It depended on whether you wanted freedom or food.
Brother Li was deep in thought, but it was even more difficult for him to make a decision. For a moment, he stood there and thought about it.
Yuan Huawei and the others were about to turn around and leave when Brother Li casually asked," Where are you going?
Yuan Huawei looked around and hesitated for a moment. He took out the lighter from his pocket and put it back. Brother Li was even more puzzled, but he followed them into the mountains.
After two days of observation, Yuan Huawei had never seen anyone else start a fire except for a few volunteers who started a fire in a hidden place in the mountains. He didn't know if it was because of the management restrictions here, or if people didn't think of going out to the wild to find edible wild food. Therefore, he only showed the small end of the lighter and did not say much. Brother Li saw that they were all mysteriously silent. He also followed them silently with a curious face. It seemed that he had forgotten about the trouble of choosing to enter the reserve team.
After a day and a night of wind and sun, the ground was almost half dry. The water in the river by the bridge had receded by more than half. The north wind whistled, and the sunlight shone through the clouds. It looked like he was wearing a layer of sunglasses, so he wouldn't feel the glare of the sunlight when climbing the mountain.
The surrounding area was virgin land that had not been touched by humans after the catastrophe. In just an hour, they found the corpses of several larger animals. They were all drowned by hailstones or torrential rains. As long as they looked for them in the places where animals would choose to escape, most of them would be found. They even found a big fish weighing two to three catties hanging on a vine near the valley's ground, which made everyone click their tongues in wonder. However, after learning that the Yangtze River had been poisoned, they were surprised. He did not know if this fish was safe, so he could only abandon it.
The four of them picked up some dry firewood and chose a valley with the back of the tunnel. They started a fire and roasted all the food except for fish. They were all full. Then, they wiped out all traces and returned to the tunnel as if nothing had happened.
The four of them could hear the deep male voices and clear female voices shouting 1234 from afar.
The four of them looked at each other and quickened their pace.
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