Siheyuan's Journey Through the Ages

Chapter 26 An Easy Harvest
"My psychological problems, do you mean..." Ma Qing was puzzled.

"When humans kill their own kind, they are influenced by their childhood education and moral constraints, and they will subconsciously not dare to shoot or shoot away from the target. This is determined by the human subconscious. If you want to hit the target accurately, you must first overcome this psychological problem. As for shooting skills, it is secondary. After all, within seven steps, the gun is fast and accurate."

Ma Qing practiced shooting in the space. The recoil was indeed a bit strong, but it was not a big problem as he held the gun with both hands. The accuracy rate seemed to be very high when shooting targets within two meters, which made Ma Qing feel a little more at ease.

"Actually, I don't recommend you to use a pistol to engage in hand-to-hand combat. You can just throw a grenade in when the tunnel is dug, and then you can just run into the space. Why do you have to fight with a gun?" Xiao Qi asked puzzledly.

A bird flew over Ma Qing's head. He said nothing, picked up a grenade and began to learn how to use it.

In the space, under the guidance of the robot sparring partner, Ma Qing threw a total of 5 grenades without any accidents. When Ma Qing felt that everything was safe, he walked out of the space, turned on the scanning radar, determined the location of the passage being excavated, and then stood by and waited.

"Brother Xiaoqi, this scanning radar shows that there are two people. One grenade should be enough to take care of it."

"The killing radius of the grenade is 10 meters. If it explodes in a passage like this, even if the explosion doesn't kill anyone, the shock will kill them. Stop talking. Those two people are talking. I'll transmit their conversation to you."

"Brother Liu, what's in this warehouse? Our superiors asked us to come and check the supplies. Is there anything we need to do?" Passerby A said.

"Second son, how should I know? The higher-ups asked us to come and confirm the supplies, so we came to confirm the supplies. However, the Communist Party is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary of the National Day, so it seems that the higher-ups are going to make some moves."

The second son said, "Hey, it's been ten fucking years, and all you know is making some noise. What's the point? We lost such a large territory back then, and we couldn't win with 500 million troops. What's the point of making some noise? If the higher-ups say they want to make some noise, then aren't they just risking our lives?"

Brother Liu seemed angry. "Shut up. I'm giving you face. You say this in front of me. Are you worthy of the cultivation of the Party and the country? Hurry up and dig. It turns out that this is one of the secret vaults left by the Bureau of Secrets in the Forty-Nine City. In addition to guns and ammunition, there are also ocean yellow croakers. Hurry up and dig it out. Everyone will benefit."

"Yes, yes, Brother Liu, I've been digging for quite some time, and I should have almost dug through, but I'm really out of energy, and I haven't eaten enough, so I really can't dig any more, let me take a break."

"Useless stuff, come here and I'll dig it out."

It seems that Brother Liu has taken over. The excavation continues. From the radar, it is getting closer and closer. Ma Qing's heart beats faster and faster. He always has the urge to turn around and leave. Ma Qing thinks: "What does this have to do with me? Xiao Qi provoked me. Why should I do this? Will it be embarrassing to leave now?"

As Ma Qing was daydreaming, the passage was finally dug through, and a piece of soil on the wall fell in. Ma Qing was shocked and walked to the side of the cave, ready to throw a grenade in when the time was right. Unexpectedly, Brother Liu groaned, "What are you doing, Erzi, are you crazy? Aren't you afraid of the family rules for doing this?" "Brother Liu, don't blame me, I just tested you, I didn't expect you were still an idealist, and you still talk about the party-state? What the hell is the party-state? Do you know what kind of life I have lived for ten years? Since you said that there are oceans and gold in the secret vault, I will take it and leave. There is a big world outside. How shameless do you think your Secret Service is? What about family rules? I don't know what you are going to do this time, but it will definitely not have a good result. I will still be dead then. Don't blame me, you forced me to do it." Erzi seemed a little panicked and spoke incoherently.

"Second son, I'll f**k you." Then Ma Qing heard a scuffle outside, and it became quiet after a while. Ma Qing didn't dare to move, so he had to stay in the secret room. After ten minutes or so, Xiao Qi said in his mind, "It's okay. The dogs are dead. You are really lucky."

That’s it, I’ve taken off my fucking pants, and you said you’re done, Ma Qing complained in his heart, yet at the same time he felt relieved.

While ordering the robots to erase his traces in the secret room, Ma Qing walked out, exited the sewage outlet, and ordered the machines to form a staircase, climbed up the river bank, closed the space door and went home.

Ma Qing had a good harvest this time, including 150 rifles, 10 pistols, 5 mortars, 50 artillery shells, 5 light machine guns, 10 submachine guns, more than 8000 bullets of various types, 3 boxes of grenades, 2 boxes of explosives, and 3 radio stations, as well as 500 silver dollars, 10 small yellow croakers, and 5 large yellow croakers.

Except for a rifle, two pistols, and more than 500 rounds of various bullets, Ma Qing threw all the weapons and ammunition into the material manufacturing machine, and obtained more than two tons of steel and brass. However, this money-grubber Ma Qing finally did not throw in the ocean and yellow croaker, because his vision was still too small.

With these metals, Ma Qing immediately set up four large motor fans in the four directions of the space. Through Xiao Qi's scientific and intelligent control, a refreshing breeze blew in the space, and the whole space came alive.

Ma Qing also blocked both ends of the canal that ran through the villa area, installed a dam on each end, and installed an electric water pump. He pumped and released water at the same time, allowing the canal in the entire space to flow in a clockwise direction. As the saying goes, running water does not rot, and door hinges do not rot. The entire space became lively, and the fish in the canal became much more lively.

In the following week, Ma Qing still took an hour after school to wander around Nanluoguxiang, using the 10-meter scanning radar to search for darkrooms. He actually found quite a few darkrooms, but they were basically empty as they had probably been taken away long ago.

I did collect a lot of supplies: watermelon, strawberry, cherry, peanuts, soybean, cucumber, green beans, eggplant, tomato, loofah, winter melon, pumpkin, bitter melon, onion, coriander, cowpea, water spinach, rapeseed, amaranth, cabbage, celery, leek, etc., and continue to add bricks and tiles to my dream town.

Time passed quickly. June in Beijing became very popular, and Ma Qing became famous. The "Red May" singing competition ended with red songs. For some reason, the Red Star Steel Mill Workers Choir achieved the best result in history and won the championship with the song "My Motherland and I". The People's Daily, Workers' Daily and China Youth Daily published the complete lyrics and music list of "My Motherland and I" on the front page of June 1st. The 15-year-old lyricist Ma Qing became famous in Beijing.

June in middle school is almost the time for graduation. On this day, Ma Qing was studying in class. Of course, in his mind, he was giving advice to Xiao Qi on the division of planting areas in the space: "Plant more strawberries, cherries, and tomatoes. I like to eat them. Plant less melons, beans, and celery. Just for the sake of showing your appreciation. I don't like to eat them..."

(End of this chapter)