Chapter 9 - Homecoming

  The eruption of the beautiful country's Big Yellow Volcano was both expected and unimagined by the world. As a super volcano, from the moment it erupted, the volcano did not intend to leave nearby humans alive!

 

  The volcanic ash that covered the sky shot up into the sky, stirring up the wind and clouds; hooking up lightning and thunder, and showering the sky with fire and meteors. The hearts of those who witnessed it were filled with despair.

 

  However, the eruption was only the beginning. The accompanying earthquake hit ten minutes later! Roads tore apart, mountains and rivers were inverted, and countless buildings tore apart, collapsed, and turned into debris in the near magnitude nine quake. Some people escaped, grimy, or howling or dazed, walking dead. But many more didn't make it out in time; they shook and stirred with the buildings and eventually fused together.

 

  In hindsight, more than 300,000 people died when the quake struck ...

 

  The well-developed network allows people all over the world to witness the desolation brought about by the eruption of the rhubarb volcano, except that the sorrows and joys of mankind are not interconnected, and at least everything on the bright side of Xia is still functioning normally.

 

  On the train, Ai Bing kept a stern face. She was angry when she wanted Zhou Lin to switch seats to accommodate her, but in the end, it was her who accompanied the smiling face with the middle-aged man beside Zhou Lin.

 

  But Zhou Lin simply ignored it, he barely even looked at Ai Bing, and even if he didn't doze off, he closed his eyes and carefully recalled.

 

  On the third day after the eruption of the rhubarb volcano and the earthquake, strong plate movements caused volcanoes around the world to erupt one after another, and Xia was no exception. In addition to bringing secondary disasters, the dense volcanic eruptions also affected the sky.

 

  In almost seven days or so the volcanic ash in the atmosphere will reach a critical level where sunlight will be completely impenetrable and the world will be plunged into a three-month long darkness.

 

  Grain, fruits and vegetables are close to extinction, a large number of plants die, the food chain is destroyed; the lack of light leads to the ground, the ocean's cooling plummeted, the drastic temperature difference makes the ocean currents change hurricanes frequently, the coastal areas will become uninhabitable because of the successive attacks of the bad sea conditions. ap.

 

  Like that bullet-ridden area closely connected to the deep city, where nearly 10 million people ended up with less than one in ten because of untimely evacuation.

 

  Although the inland areas did not have to endure the fury of the sea, the temperature dropped faster and more violently than the coastal areas. In his last life, when Zhou Lin and Ai Bing followed the army to evacuate to the South Lake area, the local temperature was more than twenty degrees below zero, and subsequently lowered by almost twenty degrees, with the impression that the lowest temperature was more than forty degrees below zero.

 

  I just don't know if the temperature in the Bashu Basin will be relatively better, but even if the temperature drops to minus forty degrees Zhou Lin isn't worried, it's not like the two nuclear reactors on the Rifle are just for show.

 

  "Zhou Lin, I'm hungry."

 

  The boxed lunch cart had just passed, and Ai Bing hadn't ordered it, thinking that Zhou Lin would surely offer to go to the food cart.

 

  "I brought bubbly."

 

  "Noodles? You just sold your house and you're actually eating noodles?" Ai Bing couldn't believe her ears, Zhou Lin had indeed changed.

 

  "Whatever you want, eat it yourself."

 

  After taking out a bucket of instant noodles and throwing it into Ai Bing's arms, Zhou Lin got up and went to the carriage connection to pick up the boiling water instant noodles without the slightest intention to help, the extremely upset Ai Bing ruthlessly smashed the instant noodles on Zhou Lin's seat and then pulled down the blindfold, with an appearance that Zhou Lin would never forgive until he made amends and apologized.

 

  It was a pity that Zhou Lin had already seen through everything and simply ignored Ai Bing's posturing.

 

  Ai Bing is still sulking, not realizing that she has already flipped over and over in Zhou Lin's mind, "dead" several times.

 

  It was already nighttime when the train arrived at Shudu Station, and Zhou Lin didn't skimp when he walked out of the station, treating Ai Bing to a hot pot restaurant.

 

  "I've already booked the hotel, it's nearby." Zhou Lin said.

 

  Ai Bing nodded, although Zhou Lin behaved abnormally in the past two days, but for the sake of a few million Ai Bing tolerated it. However, she has secretly decided, when the house property rights to hand after the parting of ways with Zhou Lin, never spoiled, a little licking dog self-consciousness are not!

 

  "AS! Stealing all of a motor city in one night, bull beep."

 

  "It is said to have suffered tens of millions of dollars, what car to get expensive? I'm afraid it's not made of gold!"

 

  "So that you wa is a taiseng murmur, the conqueror Xiao do not know, a is more than ten million, if customized if more expensive!"

 

  ...

 

  Zhou Lin stopped his chopsticks.

 

  The incident in the Motor City had already reached Shudu, had the officials discovered his identity or not? If they had found out, were they taking action in secret? Thinking of this Zhou Lin could not help but lower his head, nowadays there are cameras and surveillance everywhere, and can only be exposed as little as possible.

 

  "What's a Conqueror, is it really that expensive?" Ai Bing asked curiously.

 

  "An off-road motorhome converted from a Mercedes-Benz heavy truck, where $10 million is only a starting price ..."

 

  "Ten million dollars is just the start ... We are afraid that we can't afford it in this lifetime." Ai Bing looked mesmerized, Zhou Lin smiled and whispered:

 

  "It's nothing really, I have one at home."

 

  "Really?"

 

  "Do I have to lie to you?" Zhou Lin kindly laughed, "You want to try?"

 

  "Mmmmmmmmmmm!" Ebenezer laughed while nodding her head.

 

  Next life, Zhou Lin thought to himself, if there is one. But it would be nice to show her and then feel what it meant to be seen and not touched. As for whether or not it would reveal itself - how could a dead person divulge a secret?

 

  Early the next morning, Zhou Lin yawned and called Ai Bing up, it was time to go.

 

  Originally Zhou Lin was planning to take a moving train back to his hometown, but last night he changed his mind, he didn't even call an online taxi, but stopped a cab in front of the hotel.

 

  While Ai Bing didn't understand, Zhou Lin didn't explain at all.

 

  More than two hours of driving, on the way Zhou Lin went to the old mom a phone, let the cab directly to the door of their home.

 

  "Your house is actually in the countryside?" Looking at the small farmhouse in front of him, Ai Bing couldn't believe it. In his opinion Zhou Lin's family could at least be considered well-off, after all, any family that could buy a house at full price in the deep city must be uncomplicated, how could it be possible for a simple farmer's family?

 

  Zhou Lin did not answer, carrying his luggage straight to the courtyard door, before he reached the door, a big, black and strong dog barked furiously and rushed out, then pounced on Zhou Lin!

 

  "Blackie, stop, stop licking." Zhou Lin put down his luggage and jerked the dog's head with both hands, which barely avoided the fate of having his face washed by the dog's tongue.

 

  Following Blackie out was Zhou Lin's mother, Cheng Yali.

 

  Cheng Yali, who is already in her forties this year, looks very strong and sturdy, quite a bit of that flavor of a strong woman, and Ai Bing looks straight, not knowing how to go up to say hello.

 

  Zhou Lin didn't have the slightest intention to introduce himself, skipping Blackie and hugging Cheng Yali, "Mom, I missed you!"

 

  "Coaxing my mother again, it's only less than half a year, making it look like we haven't met for half a lifetime!" Cheng Yali said this on her lips, but she was actually very happy, but when she saw Ai Bing, who was blocked by Blackie at the entrance of the courtyard, the smile on her face became even more prevalent.

 

  "Why don't you invite people in, girlfriend?"

 

  "Mom ..." Zhou Lin came to Cheng Yali's ear and whispered, "If I say she's my enemy, do you believe me?"