Chapter 23 The Day is Short and the Night is Long

"Today's small goal is to eliminate all the sea monsters and various living plants from the foot to the halfway point of the mountain in the west." Jiang Mi picked up a small grass at his feet with a shovel in his hand, threw it on the grass pile that had been piled up like a small hill beside him, and turned his gaze to Jiang Xun beside him.

"Brother, do you know how to use this thing?" Jiang Mi couldn't help laughing when he saw Jiang Xun, who was wrapped tightly and carrying a bright yellow pesticide spraying device on his back. He looked weird.

She had never seen her brother like this before. In her impression, Jiang Xun's image was always exquisite and decent, but now he looked particularly down-to-earth.

"Even if you haven't eaten pork, you must have seen a pig run, and this thing is not difficult to operate." Jiang Xun said lightly.

Jiang Mi shrugged but did not refute, because after all, her brother had been fast at everything since elementary school, unlike her. At least in terms of studying, she could not compare with him.

Without wasting any more time talking nonsense, Jiang Mi lowered her head and weeded seriously, while Jiang Xun followed behind her and sprayed the herbicide, carefully ensuring that no corner was left out.

Just as she had thought at the beginning, the closer to the originally dense jungle halfway up the mountain, the more plants that were still tenaciously surviving, from the initial scattered one or two plants to the clumps that can be seen now. A shovel can not only uproot the plants, but also lure out many sea monsters hiding among the plants.

Some sea monsters are much more aggressive than the shrimp they encountered at the beginning, such as the mantis shrimp in front of her, hiding among the plants. When she shoveled it, it actually bounced off and almost hit her in the face.

Fortunately, Jiang Mi reacted very quickly. She turned her head subconsciously almost the moment she discovered it. The mantis shrimp, which had turned blood red and had a bulge on its back and had grown more than a circle larger, just brushed past her face and landed not far behind her.

Jiang Xun, who was following behind her, chopped the shrimp into two pieces with a backhand move.

Jiang Mi looked at the mantis shrimp on the ground, which was broken into two pieces but was still struggling tenaciously, with some lingering fear. Even though she had a filter mask on her face, looking at the sharp serrated edge of the mantis shrimp's shell, she couldn't guarantee that the mask would not be scratched.

"Be careful." Jiang Xun whispered.

Jiang Mi nodded, looking a little embarrassed. Perhaps it was because she thought that the end of the world at this stage was not too dangerous, so she relaxed her vigilance a little. Unexpectedly, something almost happened.

Thinking of this, Jiang Mi took a deep breath and secretly became more alert.

After that, they encountered many strange sea monsters, but Jiang Mi had become more cautious. Whenever he saw a place that might be the hiding place of a sea monster, he would test it first.

If there are sea monsters, kill them first. If there are no sea monsters, then eradicate the plants completely.

The cooperation between the two became more and more tacit. They thought it would take a whole day to clear from the top of the mountain to the set target location halfway up the mountain, but unexpectedly, it only took half a day to clean it up.

When today's cleaning work was finished, Jiang Mi picked up a bucket of gasoline and poured it on the hill of weeds.

After most of the day, the weeds and trees that had been pulled out did not seem to be withering at all, and still looked as if they had just been pulled out.

Jiang Mi lit it with a fire, and the scorching heat burst out, dispelling a lot of the coldness around his body.

Looking up at the sky, Jiang Mi frowned slightly and murmured in a low voice: "It's not even five o'clock yet, and it's already getting dark?"

After the end of the world, day and night have begun to change, with the daytime becoming shorter and the nighttime becoming longer.

A light drizzle began to fall from the sky. Jiang Mi took out an umbrella from the space and opened it. The brother and sister stared at the burning grass without blinking, until they were sure that it was all burned to ashes and there was no possibility of resurrection. Then they turned and walked towards the air-raid shelter.

For dinner, Jiang's father made hot pot, half tomato and half spicy. Jiang Mi specially caught a fish and some shrimps from the lake in her own space. She was not sure whether this thing was shrimp or not, but judging from the appearance, it was almost the same as shrimp, so she just treated it as shrimp, since the taste was almost the same anyway.

The tomato soup base is made by Jiang's father with more than a dozen tomatoes. It is not only sweet and sour, but also the pork belly is rolled up and cooked in the tomato pot. The pork belly wrapped in rich tomato sauce does not make people feel greasy at all, and it does not even need any seasoning to be put directly into the mouth. The extremely satisfying taste makes Jiang Mi feel extremely happy.

The fish and shrimps caught from the space lake were cooked in a tomato pot. Even without any fishy smell removal treatment, there was no fishy smell at all. They were tender and delicious. The more you ate, the more you wanted to eat. The last fish was not enough for four people to share, so Jiang Mi caught another one. The family of four finally had their bellies full.

Jiang's mother touched her bloated stomach and couldn't help but sigh, "How much weight will I gain after this meal? No, I have to go exercise soon."

Father Jiang burped, and when he heard his wife say that, he quickly said, "Wife, you are not fat at all. It's not good to be too thin. You should eat more and gain some weight."

Jiang's mother shook her head firmly. "Mi Mi and A Xun have already started exercising every day. How can I, as a mother, not set an example?"

"And you too, you should lose some weight. It's the end of the world, and we need to improve our physical fitness. We must not hold our daughter and son back!" Mother Jiang glanced at Father Jiang's beer belly with disdain.

Father Jiang touched his belly somewhat awkwardly. He was already an old man and had worked hard for most of his life. After handing over the company to his son, he finally had a chance to enjoy some peace and quiet and gain some weight. But now it was the end of the world and he was even despised by his wife. Alas.

"Tomorrow, starting tomorrow, Dad will exercise with you!" Father Jiang gritted his teeth.

"What do you mean tomorrow? I'll go soon. It's just the right time to digest my food." Jiang's mother made the final decision. Jiang's father opened his mouth to argue, but stopped in dismay when Jiang's mother glared at him.

Jiang Mi did not speak for his father. After all, exercise is indeed a good thing, and with his father's current weight, he was indeed worried that he would suffer from the three highs in the future.

After eating and sitting down to rest for a while, the family of four went to the gym together.

Jiang Xun was giving Jiang Mi special training, while Jiang's father and mother were walking slowly on the treadmill.

After all, they are old and have no fitness foundation, so everything has to be done step by step. Otherwise, the elderly's body may be easily broken down.

(End of this chapter)