Chapter 30: Gathering Resources

This day, the cosmologist was lucky and found a box of mineral water. He carried it to his shelter.

Back in the shelter, the cosmologist looked at the neatly folded clothes on the bed and smiled.

‘Dear, if only you were still here. Look, I got an entire box of mineral water today. If you are still here, we can drink our fill. You can also wash your face.’

The cosmologist sat there holding a stack of clothes and muttered to himself.

‘You used to love cleanliness. Ever since you came to space, you didn’t have water to wash your face. We didn’t have enough to eat or drink. Now that we have water, you are no longer around.’ The cosmologist’s tears dripped on his clothes. He realized that his tears were falling on the clothes, and the clothes would become dirty, so he wiped the tears off the clothes with his sleeve.

‘Alright, alright, I got to leave. The work today has not been completed.’ The cosmologist put down the clothes in his hand and walked out of the shelter. He picked up the telescope and began to observe the star system state.

………

“You already have so many knives, so what’s wrong with selling me one?” A young girl was trying her best to trade for a knife in the exchange.

The other party: “No, no, no. Two pieces of chocolate for a knife? Do you really think I’m doing charity work?”

“How much do you want?” The little girl helplessly typed.

At least ten pieces of chocolate. The other party was asking for too much.

The little girl closed the exchange interface because ten pieces of chocolate were the only food she had left. She still had to use these ten pieces of chocolate for god knows how long.

The little girl sighed and connected to the asteroid, flying deeper into space.

Rrrrr. The little girl’s stomach suddenly started growling in hunger. She covered her stomach and took out half a piece of dry bread from her pocket.

She put the dry bread in her mouth and ground out a lot of crumbs. Then, she picked up the bottle of mineral water beside her and took a small sip, gulping it down.

Then she reluctantly put the bread back in her pocket.

The little girl lay on the ground and looked at the sky. She couldn’t help but think of her father, and tears flowed down her eyes.

Tears flowed into her ears. The little girl seemed to hear the sea. She recalled that it was the summer vacation on Earth when her father and mother brought her to the sea to play.

At that time, her mother had prepared iced fruit juice and sandwiches for them, and her father had taken her swimming, playing ball, and riding on a water yacht.

They had laughed happily and she had been acting cute with her mother. Just a few days ago, she went to the supermarket with her father to buy things while her mother cooked alone at home. Then, the disaster happened.

Her father held her in his arms, so they were assigned to the same asteroid.

No matter what supplies her father picked up, whether it was water or food, he would let her eat first. One night, she wanted to go to the toilet. She realized that her father was not sleeping beside her. Instead, he was facing away from her far away. She did not know what he was doing. She quietly walked over and saw a scene that made her feel an intense sorrow. Her father was digging the moss and soil from the cracks in the ground, and stuffing them into his mouth.

Her tears flowed freely, but she could not bear to say anything. It turned out he gave all the supplies to his daughter, and left what she could not finish for the next time. In space, there was no guarantee that there would be food every day, so she had to be careful, careful, and slowly eat her food.

During the meteor shower, because they were far away, they were not affected too much. However, there were still some tiny stones flying towards them.

At that time, they had nothing. There were no boards, no cardboard boxes, and they were open targets.

Her father used his broad chest and arms to protect the girl under his body.

When the meteor shower was over, she saw her father stand up shakily and turn around. There were many holes in his clothes. She used her trembling hands to help her father remove the clothes. Like a sieve, the clothes were filled with small holes and blood was still flowing out. Her father only smiled and told her that he was fine.

Until the last crisis, her father was still standing in front of her.

The little girl lay on the ground and cried. She hugged her knees and tried her best to sleep.

……..

The man carried a large pile of wooden boards and walked to his shelter. Then, he stabbed the wooden boards into the ground to use as walls.

Then, he put some plants to fill the gaps.

The man even piled some paper boxes in the corner. Then, he picked up some old clothes that he did not want and simply laid them down. He turned around and said, “Sigh, what do you think about putting the bed here?”

However, no one replied.

The man bit his lip, and his eyes reddened.

During the meteor shower, they had been the closest to the asteroid explosion belt. Large rocks flew towards them. They covered themselves with the wooden boards and tried their best to resist the huge rocks that came from outer space.

But what was the use of that? The large pile of stones smashed into their bodies, penetrated the wooden boards, shattered the paper shells, and finally hit them.

This man cried bitterly to his big brother. “Brother, we will die, right? Will we die here? What about mother? What about father?”

The big brother stared deeply at his younger brother’s face and patted his shoulder. “You have to survive. Go find our parents and take care of them.”

When the largest meteor arrived, he hugged his little brother and pressed him to the ground.

The younger brother pushed his big brother’s shoulder and said, “Brother, don’t be like this, don’t be like this. We have to live together.”

The older brother smiled at the younger brother and said that he was the older brother. The older brother should protect the younger brother. The younger brother must remember to look for their…

Before he could finish, his brother was smashed to the ground by a huge rock.

The younger brother cried in grief and watched helplessly as his brother died with a smile on his face.

The younger brother had lived until now and had been working hard every day to build a shelter and gather resources. However, every time he collected resources, he would always smile at the sky and say, “Brother, I found water today. Brother, I found bread today.”

Look, what was more eternal than death was love..