Li Zhen was stunned for a moment, laughed a few times, and did not ask immediately, but changed the subject.

Everything is too urgent. He originally spoke as Guo Jinyuan's senior brother, but at this time he was staring at Wanzhou's affairs and asked questions. Normal people would find it strange.

So he casually picked some ordinary empty words to say. For example, when he met Guo Jinyuan in the cafeteria one day, or when he was talking to a certain vice dean, he heard the other party praise Guo Jinyuan. It was all his experiences and hearings in that school, supplemented by his own processing. It sounded quite credible and did not reveal any suspicious details.

These words made the couple cry and laugh, and only the little girl blinked and looked around inexplicably.

When the love was so strong, Li Zhen stopped and said no more, allowing the emotions to ferment in the hearts of these two people.

When a person is emotionally excited, he is always a little slow to change the external environment. When the excitement calms down, for example, Guo Baorong now wipes his eyes and feels a little embarrassed.

No matter how you say that two people in their forties crying in front of a young man in their twenties is an embarrassing thing.

So Li Zhen tried to turn to another topic to "ease the embarrassing atmosphere right now."

He coughed lightly and whispered: "What you said just now is that there are more people in Wanzhou, what's going on?"

Guo Baorong was obviously quite satisfied with the young man's "reasonableness", so he followed his words: "I just said it, and I was not very clear about it - I just thought so. You know, after that thing came, many people died - so many houses were vacant."

Li Zhen nodded.

The isolation belt does come during the day, and most people are outdoors. So many people never return home. Today, there are a large number of vacant houses in Bancheng, Yuzhou, which has become a paradise for those wanderers or illegal immigrants who have no fixed place to live.

Guo Baorong continued: "The communities near my house were so deserted that they were haunted in the first two years. There were only a dozen households in a building that were on lights at night. As a result, in the past two years, more and more people lived in the building. Now when I see outside at night, it is the same as before. Sometimes when I wake up at night, I really feel that I am back to the past few years-"

"Did you figure out who they are?" Li Zhen showed a surprised expression on his face, "This is really strange. Why are there more and more people in this world? Refugees who escaped?"

"It's not a refugee, it's not a refugee." Guo Baorong waved his hand, "It looks more like a soldier."

At this time, the little girl in the woman's arms shouted softly: "Mom, I'm hungry. I'm tired..."

So the woman touched her head, looked at the roadside, and whispered: "Let's take a rest."

The man looked at Li Zhen. So Li Zhen smiled and said, "I'm tired too - then let's take a break."

It's always good to take a break. Because a few people are sitting somewhere, they can't talk about anything. They walked for nearly a hundred meters, and the buildings on both sides were still empty. So Li Zhen asked, "Why can't we see people here? Are the people here running to Wanzhou?"

Guo Baorong waved his hand: "No. You don't know. Everyone here is in the south. Because there is no water here. There is water in the south."

He approached the door of a cold drink shop, wiped off the dust from the glass door and looked inside, and then tried to push the door. The door opened in response to the sound. The room was quite clean and tidy. So he called his wife and daughter in, and tried to press the lights on the wall. However, the power supply here seemed to be interrupted, so they had to pick a seat by the window to sit.

Li Zhen also sat in aisle across the three of them and asked, "Yuzhou lacks water?"

He had never heard of this. Or he had not paid much attention to this kind of thing before in the General's Mansion. Pang Feihong assigned all trivial matters of all sizes to the officials. What he cared about most was information related to that person or similar type. If there was water shortage here, then the situation on that side would probably not be very good. He might not feel much in the city center, but the more remote areas were probably the same as here.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He had known that he had insufficient experience and could not bear the responsibility of a leader in a city and a place, but he did not expect that he would be so dereliction of duty.

But as he asked before, why is Yuzhou short of water?

You should know that Yuzhou is Linjiang, and it is the Yangtze River, the second largest river in the world. If there is water shortage here, can people in other places still be alive?

Guo Baorong seemed to see his doubts, took out the bottled water from the suitcase and took a sip, and handed it to Li Zhen. Li Zhen smiled and waved his hand. So he went to feed his little daughter, and said while feeding: "Yes, no one could have thought. No one could have thought that the Yangtze River would be cut off!"

Li Zhen’s first reaction was because of the influence of the isolation zone. This is indeed possible. There is a turbulent flow of time and space in the isolation zone - it’s okay to say that the turbulent flow of time is. If it is space...

What space has the river been brought to elsewhere?!

He realized such a big problem for the first time and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

No wonder. It has been nearly a week since he returned to this world. However, for seven days, in places like Yuzhou, there was no rain. The ground was hot and the air was dry. He thought that the summer in Yuzhou should have been like this, but he did not expect that it was due to water shortage.

Guo Baorong sighed: "Not only is there a shortage of water, but also a severe drought. The temperature is high. Wanzhou is now over 40 degrees a day, and no one is walking on the street. The community of my house is near Taizi Lake, and even Taizi Lake is about to reach the bottom."

Li Zhen frowned, always feeling something was wrong. But his thoughts were a little confused, and he was worried about something else, so he had to let go of this idea for the time being and mention the incident just now: "So, you just said that you have many people over there and look like a soldier?"

"It looks like it's carved from a mold - the face is cold and cold, and it's shaking around the roadside day and night, looking at it. At first I thought I was monitoring me..." He shook his head with a wry smile, "Later I knew that they didn't take me to heart."

Li Zhen felt that he seemed to have caught something, but it was not accurate. He watched the couple lower their heads and feed the little girl some food, and after a while, he asked: "So those people - are they walking around next to the Prince Lake near your house? How big is that lake?"

The reason I asked this was because he realized why he felt strange just now.

If the Yangtze River was about to cut off the flow because it was affected by the isolation zone, then what about Taizi Lake?

Yuzhou is one of the four major furnaces of the empire. It is not "extremely rare" to reach about 40 degrees in summer. But if a lake is about to bottom out just because the temperature is high... This seems a bit unreasonable. Even if the water level of the river is lowered and there is no river injected, it will take a while for evaporation just?

What's more, he said that the lake is in the community, and it is not necessarily connected to the Yangtze River.

Guo Baorong looked at Li Zhen strangely, frowned, and asked, "Why are you..."

Li Zhen realized that this time he could not use the excuse of "chat" to get over it. So he lied again.

"I'm doing research in this regard." He smiled, "After I graduated, I was a graduate student from Yuzhou University, and I was doing dynamic regulation--"

This word was made up by him. It sounds mysterious and mysterious, but it can always be linked to things like the natural environment.

"This time I came out and wanted to see more. You know that thing, the isolation belt, we can't just look at it, we have to think of some ways." He showed a slightly awkward smile and grabbed his head. "I know I may not make any progress by myself, but at least I will have more opportunities to learn more."

Guo Baorong showed a sudden look on his face and nodded in praise: "You are right. Have ambition."

This way he said it in more detail. Li Zhen didn't ask many things, so he added them one by one.

However, after hearing this, Li Zhen frowned even tighter.

Things are indeed strange...

Taizi Lake is connected to the Yangtze River, but the area of ​​the lake is not small. Judging from Guo Baorong's narrative, the waterway between the two has not yet been cut off to this day, and the river water is pouring into the lake.

So the current situation is that the river water here - although not large - flows in, the water surface in the lake area there is declining. It is said that some places have already seen the bottom of the lake.

The people who looked strange in Guo Baorong's mouth did live in the building in the community around the lake.

His wife also added another thing - one day she saw one of them when she was out. It is said that she was very strong. She was so big that she kicked the lamppost and the iron sheet was slightly sunken.

Then it is the ability.

A large number of capable people ran there...

"A large number of capable people". And it seems that they are "carved from the same mold".

Li Zhen first remembered the biochemical warriors he had seen in Ling County. This meant that strange Taizi Lake or something hidden.

Ability, drought... It seems difficult to connect these two. This means that there is a key link in the middle. He thought for a long time, but did not figure it out, so he had to temporarily let go of the thoughts in his heart.

So he now faces a choice - Siberia is in the north, while Wanzhou is located in the south. Should he go there and take a look?
Chapter completed!