In the third year after the nuclear war, Sutton Manor's food supply bottomed out. Viola Sutton, left in the cold next door to the stables by her husband, was so hungry that she gnawed the bark of a tree. And her husband Edmund was giving the last piece of black bread to his new love Clara. A heavy rain washed away the stables, revealing an underground river - the water was swimming with fat fish that were not exposed to radiation. Viola discovers that this fish pond can make stagnant water come alive and allow fish fry to grow overnight. She began to secretly stock up on food: she exchanged fish meat for seeds, used fish bones to grow potatoes, and filled the cellar with smoked fish and potatoes. When famine broke out in the manor and everyone was starving, neighbor Martha broke into her yard with torches and shouted: "Hand over the fish pond!" Viola coughed blood and walked out of the darkness - on a full moon night, the cost of increasing the fish pond made her shiver all over, but she held a harpoon in her hand. Tonight, she wants everyone to know: in the abandoned wife's fish pond, whoever dares to reach out will have his hand chopped off.
The tin can made a hollow sound as it rolled over the gravel.
Erin squatted under the collapsed concrete pipe, holding her knees with her left hand and stretching a steel bar into the crack of the bricks with her right hand.
Half of the energy bar packaging was stuck in the cracks of the bricks.
The silver tin foil reflected light in the gray-yellow ruins, like fish scales.
She licked her chapped lips, rubbed her fingertips on the steel bars a few more times, and then pried open the bricks.
The contents in the package had turned into hard lumps, were colored like mud, and smelled of a sour and sweet smell.
Erin didn't throw it away.
She broke the lump in half, stuffed the smaller half into the bag on her waist, and took a bite of the larger half.
The sour taste explodes and the base of the tongue is numb.
She chewed it a few times and forced herself to swallow it, her stomach turning
