The weather is getting colder, and people are becoming softer, except for duty and daily tasks and work arrangements.
Everyone basically stays in the underground planting base during the day and returns to the room to sleep at night.
The three little wolfdogs have been in better and better condition recently. Compared with the situation when they were about to die at the beginning, they are now much more lively.
One day, when Li Yu was in the duty room and came out with a thermos cup, he looked at the frozen hard wall and couldn't help but pour some water on the wall. After a few seconds, the water poured on it
The flow slowed down and slowly condensed into ice.
"Ice!" Li Yu seemed to have thought of something.
If some water is sprinkled on the wall and then condenses into ice, the wall's protective capabilities can actually be improved. Ice will be slippery!
If someone comes over and walks under the wall, and encounters a solid yet slippery wall, it will undoubtedly be much more difficult to sneak up.
I thought of doing this, so I discussed it with my second uncle and others, and everyone agreed that the opinion was good, but the temperature is really low now, and the Shantang Reservoir has already frozen.
It seems that all we can do is think of a way.
For such a long wall, if you want to make the wall freeze into ice, if you rely on buckets of water to load it, the efficiency will not be too low.
In addition, the temperature is so low now, and if a bucket of water is transported at such a slow speed, it will easily freeze during transportation.
Finally, I finally came up with a solution. There are still a lot of water pipes, and water transportation is a problem.
Now all of them use hot water for heating. If all the hot water for heating is concentrated, it can be poured directly into residential areas and transmitted to the walls.
Even on the transportation road, the water temperature will become cooler, but it will certainly not freeze into ice that quickly.
Just maintaining continuous hot water is a problem, but thanks to the huge water heater Li Yu built, if all the heating equipment is fully turned on at this time, it should be able to maintain the supply.
Now that you're ready, let's start.
To everyone's surprise, things went very smoothly!
In the evening, Li Yu stood on the wall, looking at the ground under the wall that had condensed into ice, reflecting a different kind of light under the dim yellow sunset, and felt much calmer.
.......
The weather has dropped to minus ten degrees, and the temperature is even lower during night time.
In a county town dozens of kilometers away from Li Yu and the others, there was a group of women huddled in a small house.
In the center of the room, some wood was burning. The flames illuminated the entire room and cast the shadows of the people surrounding the flames on the walls.
Six or seven women were very close to the fire, at such a distance that they would be burned if they got closer, as if this was the only way they could feel the temperature of the flames.
"Sister Bai, basically all the wood around has been collected here, and the wooden furniture upstairs has also been cut down and used as fuel." A slightly older woman said.
"Well, I understand. Let's go out again tomorrow and see what else we can find." Bai Jie said.
These people are Bai Jie and others who left Jiefang City some time ago and have arrived in Xincheng.
"Cough cough cough!" A violent coughing sound came.
"Xiaoyan, if you persist, we will definitely find the medicine for you tomorrow. Alas." Bai Jie said, looking at a girl in her teens.
This girl was wrapped in thick clothes, but her face and lips were white, but there was a lot of sweat on her forehead, and she felt very cold. Even though she was by the fire and wearing so many clothes, her body was still the same.
Trembling uncontrollably.
"Sister, I'm fine, I can hold on." The girl said sensibly, and the haggard look on her face made people feel very distressed.
Some guilt flashed in Bai Jie's eyes. She brought these people out, and now everyone is living so hard in this apocalyptic world. She feels very uncomfortable.
In the center of the flame, a stove hung, and Bai Jie held it
He took off the stove, poured out some hot water, handed the cup to the girl and said, "Drink some water to warm yourself up, drink it later, be careful not to burn it."
"Thank you, sister. Ahem, cough, cough."
The room is very small, and because the room is too big, the temperature dissipates too quickly.
More than half of the room is filled with firewood. In addition to these firewoods, the next room is also filled with firewood.
Bai Jie didn't make the floor directly, but moved some beds above. After all, it was still very cold to sleep on the ground.
The windows were closed tightly, but because there was firewood burning in the room, there were some gaps left. From this small gap, cold air blew in. Bai Jie, who was approaching the gap, felt another gust of cool breeze behind her.
He frowned slightly and tightened the quilt again.
I looked at the gap, thought for a while, walked over, made the gap slightly smaller, then took a piece of breathable cloth and simply covered it.
This keeps fresh air in the room and prevents cold wind from blowing directly at her.
The room was very quiet, except for the violent coughing that came from time to time.
In fact, it is not quiet, just because the sound is much simpler and purer: outside the room, the wind is whistling, and because there is a little gap, some sounds will come in.
Then there is the sound of burning firewood, crackling~~
Crackling~~
.......
Bai Jie and the others are just a microcosm of this winter apocalypse. Similar and identical things are happening in many places.
However, the living environment of many people is not as good as the small house like Bai Jie's.
At least they have enough firewood to make a fire!
In the cold winter itself, people are very comfortable in warm indoors.
But most people face the desperate situation of freezing to death on this apocalyptic night.
You must know that this is in the south. Many people have never seen what snow looks like in their lives, and they have never experienced a temperature of minus 10 degrees. Not to mention minus 10 degrees, they have rarely experienced even subzero temperatures.
It is really difficult to survive in such cold weather without heating equipment, electricity, or a safe place.
There is simply not enough food, and most people are cold and hungry.
Not everyone has enough physical strength to find something to keep warm, and not everyone can find a safe place.
In this cold weather, you not only need to keep warm and avoid frostbite, but you also need to prevent the appearance of zombies.
In this desperate atmosphere, many people finally jumped from tall buildings because they could not bear the pressure or the cold.
This cold winter seems to freeze people's hot hearts, making them unable to feel the heat or hope.
This chapter has been completed!