Apocalypse Arrival - Chapter 33

Chu Qianxun had already dug a dirt pit in the ground skillfully, and piled up half a circle of stones around it to form a simple mud stove.

She lit a handful of hay with a lighter, and moved branches one by one.

When the fire started to ignite, she clapped her hands and stood up, “Don’t stand stunned, pick up some dry branches, make the fire stronger first, then boil water.”

Then she took out a thing from her backpack. It was a net woven with transparent fishing line. It was inconspicuous when it was packed, but when stretched out, it was big. 

Chu Qianxun opened the net, tied it between the two big trees on the edge of the field, picked up a long trunk, and walked into the dense carrot field.

She went to a tree trunk and beat it. After a while, a gray-brown pheasant flew out of the field. The pheasant hurriedly spread its wings, flew by from low in the sky, and hit the net. The large transparent net had a small grid. The pheasant head drilled out, but the body got stuck behind it.

Under the stunned eyes of the crowd, Chu Qianxun took the pheasant, snapped its neck, and threw it to Gao Yan, who was on the sidelines.

“I killed the pheasant. Can you do the rest?” Chu Qianxun asked.

“No!” Gao Yan stammered, “I mean yes, I know to pluck the hair and put it in boiling water.”

In fact, she didn’t, and she had seen it twice at most, but she didn’t dare to appear so incompetent in front of Chu Qianxun.

Chu Qianxun nodded, changed the position of the net and continued to bury it in another carrot field.

When night fell, two pheasant soup had been stewed 

The people sat around the fire, smelling the rich fragrance in the air, and admired Chu Qianxun.

“Hurry up. After eating, we have to kill a few more at night. We can make them into pieces, and take them with us on the road tomorrow.”

Chu Qianxun would not work anymore. She just sat on the side waiting for the meal, and ruthlessly instructed others.

No one complained, and they were full of energy.

It seemed that as long as Chu Qianxun was there, even if the food was lost, it really didn’t matter.

The arrival of the doomsday had led to the paralysis of all modern human facilities.

Without the waste and air pollution, the night sky became clear.

In the sky, the stars were shining with their eternal light as if they were staring lightly at all the joys and sorrows on the earth.

Chu Qianxun was wrapped in a blanket and rested against the wall outside the earthen house.

She wrapped Feng Qianqian and herself together.

In the previous life, the little girl’s physique hadn’t been improved by the crystal, and she had then worn particularly thin clothes. So when it was too cold at night, Feng Qianqian took the initiative to sleep in her arms like that, and also found a particularly warm excuse, “Since my mother went to heaven, I haven’t slept with girls.” 

At that time, she curled her warm body into Chu Qianxun’s cold arms.

Chu Qianxun lightly touched the sleeping little girl, feeling exactly the same temperature as in the previous life.

She looked at the sky full of stars above her head, and remembered the bits and pieces of the past ten years.

She once thought that her previous life was full of misery and darkness, without a trace of light.

Who knew that when she thought about it now, what impressed her was mostly the subtle warmth.

 It was like the dots of stars in the sky. Although small, it was more memorable than the entire dark night sky.

When she was hungry and cold, and fell in the mud by the roadside, she got a dough cake from a doctor.

She got seriously injured and lost consciousness on the battlefield once. But when she was dying, Gao Yan, who had returned to clean the battlefield, dragged her out of the dead with a look of disgust.

There were also times when she stole supplies and was almost killed, but got help from a stranger…

‘It was not all bad,’ Chu Qianxun thought in her heart.

Sitting by the fire, Feng Junlei was busy cutting some steamed sweet potatoes into pieces. He spread them on a bamboo strip, and baked them on the fire. He was turning them into dry food to eat on the road.

Gan Xiaodan and Gao Yan were still around the crockpot. The two were busy cooking the remaining pheasant. They broke it into shredded pieces, and fried it in the crockpot.

“Is this what Qianxun was talking about? Did I make a mistake?”

“It should be, it seems that the meat has loosened a little.”

The two girls’ heads bumped into each other, staring at the big pot of shredded meat in the crockpot.