Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 172 Letter

There's a secret compartment here too?!
Lu Xian and Yao Wei looked at each other, walked to the place where the dog's eyes were looking, squatted down, and saw that the ground in front of them was a little concave.

Lu Xian stretched out his hand and swept across the sunken ground to brush away the dust. He saw a broken wooden door panel under the dust. After years of cold weather, it had become fragile and collapsed.

It's just that dust has been falling in this house, and there are several thick layers of dust on it, which makes it impossible to see at a glance.

Lu Xian and Yao Wei immediately picked up all the wooden door panels and cleaned them up - because the door panels were too fragile and broke at the slightest touch, cleaning them was a bit troublesome and they had to pick up the broken pieces one by one.

Both of them only picked up the larger pieces of wood and ignored the smaller ones and sawdust.

After removing the wooden block, you can see something wrapped underneath in thick transparent plastic film - or oilcloth - layer upon layer, very thickly.

How come no one has discovered what's inside?!
It's really unbelievable.

Lu Xian guessed that the reason these things were not discovered was that this place was too dilapidated, making people feel that it was not worth searching for Taobao. Therefore, after people came here, they just took a look and left. Who would pay attention to the pits on the ground?
Only a dog would notice this sunken pit that blends naturally into the surrounding ground, right?

Lu Xian reached out to take out the things inside, but saw that the bottom of the wooden door had reached the end and there was only a small shallow pit.

It seems that this door panel has no other use except to store this piece of plastic film.

I wonder what is wrapped in this plastic film that looks like oilcloth?
As Lu Xian was thinking, he opened the package and saw two envelopes falling out.

One of the envelopes was written with: Yao County, Pingchuan City, Qiao Nian (recipient).

The other letter was addressed to: Donghai City New District, Qiao Yuchun (recipient).

Because they had been tightly wrapped in plastic film, both letters were well preserved and had not been damaged in the last few decades of cold winter.

They all have the surname Qiao.

This Qiao Yuchun sounds like a woman's name. As for Qiao Nian, I wonder if he is Qiao Yuchun's brother or elder?

Lu Xian suddenly remembered something and asked Yao Wei, "The place we heard on the radio before, was it the new district of Donghai City?"

"Ah."

Yao Wei had a good memory, and nodded immediately when Lu Xian asked.

They didn't use the radio to listen to the broadcast during this period, but before that they would take it out from time to time to see if there was any signal.

There was never any other signal from that radio, only the repetitive content coming from the new district of Donghai City.

This is the National Emergency Disaster Relief Command Center. This is the National Emergency Disaster Relief Command Center. Please note that the disaster has not yet passed. Experts analyze that this will be a long-term disaster that cannot be resolved in a short time.

The broadcast said that the National Emergency Disaster Relief Command Center had deployed forces and established a temporary base in the new district of Donghai City around the local power plant and water plant. The water and electricity supply continued to be intact, supplies were sufficient, and people from all over the country could be received at any time.

Among these letters, the address written on some envelopes is also "Donghai New District". So, could this Qiao Yuchun be from the National Emergency Disaster Relief Command Center?

Thinking of this, Lu Xian immediately opened a letter and read it.

What he opened was not the envelope with "Qiao Yuchun (shou)" written on it, but the letter with "Qiao Nian (shou)" written on it.

"Qiao Yuchun (recipient)" must have been sent to Qiao Yuchun from Yao County, Pingchuan City, and the person who wrote this letter did not send it out in the end. I don’t know if it was due to limited conditions or for some other considerations?

Lu Xian would naturally read this letter, but the first-hand content that Lu Xian wanted to see now was the message that Qiao Yuchun sent to Qiao Nian.

So what needs to be opened is "Qiao Nian (Harvest)".

The envelope with the address "Qiao Nian (received)" had been opened long ago, but the edges were not torn off. Instead, the people at that time carefully opened the air vent bit by bit.

After opening it, there was only a folded piece of letter paper. After unfolding the letter paper, the content was not long, and one page of letter paper was enough to write it all -

爸：
I'm very busy here. The situation is so complicated right now, and there are many things that require overtime work. I can't beg you and explain things to you again and again, so I won't say more.

I asked you to come before, but you didn’t come. Now it’s not so easy to come.

However, once this place is built, we will probably send a notice to the whole country by radio. When people migrate to the East China Sea, you must find a car to take it. No matter what the cost, it will be worth it!
Don’t be reluctant to leave your land. Register the land and you can go back and take it back after the disaster.

Has the greenhouse at home been demolished? Now all that's missing is the plastic sheeting?

The antifreeze material for the foundation of a new greenhouse is easy to prepare, but the main difficulty lies in the shed cloth.

It’s so cold now, and it’s going to get even colder later, so ordinary tarpaulins are no longer useful.

The new tent cloth is filled with aerospace-grade aerogel interlayer, and the racks are also specially made. I heard that it is also equipped with full-spectrum LED plant lights. Using this, there is no need to open the tent to let in light, which can ensure that heat is not lost and keep warmer.

After our leader learned that you were growing greenhouses in Pingchuan City, he asked me to write this letter to you. He said he would send someone to arrange it and also send a small piece of greenhouse cloth sample.

Dad, when you receive this, please help me spread the word with the local people and quickly build the new greenhouses.

Such a good thing, but it cannot be popularized. Our leaders have been anxious since they heard that the promotion of the new greenhouse in Pingchuan City was not going smoothly.

Dad, after your greenhouse is finished, don't come home. It's better to hide in the greenhouse than at home. Dad, the internet and phone signals are down. I can't persuade you over and over again. You must read what I said in this letter!

……

It seems that this letter really came from the National Emergency Disaster Relief Command Center in Donghai New District.

And Qiao Nian is Qiao Yuchun's father.

The small house and earthen wall in front of me are indeed built with different materials, which is why they are so resistant to cold and disasters, and can stand for decades in the severe cold.

But the tent cloth was never provided, so the mud wall was just a mud wall, and the small house could not be sealed tightly to keep warm. The joint preparations and efforts of the people here and there were all in vain.

Qiao Yuchun, who wrote this letter, used earnest words, especially the last sentence, which was full of concern for her father.

But it seems that the tarpaulin for construction has not been delivered, and only a small piece of tarpaulin for display has been delivered——

That is the part that wraps the envelope.

This piece is called a small piece, but it is actually not small. It is enough to cover the roof of a car. Therefore, it is wrapped around the envelope and wrapped around and around to wrap it tightly.

When Lu Xian took out the package before, he never thought that there were only two letters inside.

He even thought there was no problem with there being a game console inside.

But such a large tarpaulin is just a drop in the bucket for the entire greenhouse.

I wonder why the greenhouse was not built here in the end?

Lu Xian thought to himself and opened another letter with "Qiao Yuchun (to)" written on it.

This letter was not as well protected as the other one. The envelope was a little wrinkled and looked like it had been folded.

After opening the envelope, there was only a folded piece of paper inside, but it was not letter paper. It looked like it was torn from a child's homework book. The top was full of irregular serrations, and the paper was only 64-page size.

The content of this letter was much simpler than the one Qiao Yuchun sent to Qiao Nian. It only contained a few words:

Yu Chun:

It's too late, it's useless. The experts came to see it and said it was too cold, the foundation was unusable, and the greenhouse couldn't be sealed.

There was another paragraph written at the end, but it was crossed out by the original writer with a pen. The black handwriting made the paper a mess, and in some places it even pierced the paper, leaving long cracks.

In short, the original content above can no longer be seen at all.

The letter was then sealed in an envelope, wrapped with a piece of aerospace-grade tarpaulin, and placed in the pit on the door panel of the side room of the shed.

Lu Xian had originally guessed what might have happened, such as a war, or a sudden worsening of the cold weather, heavy snow blocking the door, which prevented Qiao Nian's letter from being delivered.

But now it seems that the situation is not like this. Qiao Nian did not want to send bad news to his daughter and make her worry, so he finally chose not to send the letter.

——You should know that this letter was handled specially at the beginning. It was escorted by special people all the way from Donghai City to Pingchuan City.

Perhaps what was sent there were not only things for Qiao Nian, but also things for the local officials, such as the local disaster relief command center.

But what goes around comes around. Local organizations should also have sent something back, or some information, to the National Disaster Relief Headquarters. It shouldn't have been difficult for Qiao Nian to deliver a letter.

The fact that the letter was written like this shows how complicated Qiao Nian's mood was at the time.

Lu Xian could clearly feel the despair of an old farmer in the fields from the letter written on a piece of paper torn from a child's homework book.

He put the letter away, picked up the tarpaulin and looked at it carefully.

The tarpaulin feels like an ordinary tarpaulin, nothing special about it, but it remains intact during the long cold winter, and it can even preserve the envelope inside so well, which shows that this tarpaulin is truly extraordinary.

"Let's go."

Lu Xian and Yao Wei said.

The two of them turned around and walked out the door and returned to the car.

The tarpaulin was also put away.

The material of the tarpaulin seems to be waterproof. If you collect enough things in the future and put them on the roof, you won’t have to worry about them getting wet in the rain.

It was once a display item, an aerospace-grade material that allowed crops to grow successfully in the endless winter. Now it can only be used as a waterproof tool on cars, which seems to be a waste of resources.

But isn't this the way it is in this era?

(End of this chapter)