The moment the sun came out, many people looked at the sun.
The heavy rain that lasted for many days made them eager for sunshine.
But what they didn't expect was that the sun, which originally symbolized hope, gave them a severe blow.
Some good things can harm people if they exceed the limit of human tolerance.
Sunlight symbolizes warmth, and excessive warmth can turn into burning.
At that moment, many people suffered temporary blindness in their eyes. They lowered their heads in a hurry and crawled to places where the sun could not reach them.
Oil City.
Except for those on duty who were still on guard in the sentry tower surrounding the wall, everyone else was ordered by Ju Tianrui to stay indoors.
Two hours after the aurora passed.
The sun is coming out.
Some of them looked out at the sunlight through the windows of the sentry tower.
For a moment, my eyes were burned by the sun and I became temporarily blind.
However, they were in the sentry tower after all, and squatting down directly avoided the chance of skin contact with the sun.
"My eyes hurt so much." A team member just looked at it for two seconds, and his eyes felt like they were being pricked by needles, and they were in excruciating pain.
Squatting down, tears flowed from his eyes.
They had long been told by Ju Tianrui to be alert to abnormal situations, but they never knew what the abnormal situations would be.
But at this moment, they understood.
Everyone avoided the sun, but three or four people still suffered from temporary blindness due to looking directly at the sun.
"Go and tell the battalion commander."
"good."
One of the team members looked at the radiation protection suit that he had brought up earlier in the sentry tower, and at this moment he suddenly understood the use of this thing.
He quickly put it on and hurriedly ran to the central building of Oil City.
At the same time, Ju Tianrui, who had not slept, stayed in the conference room and looked at the sudden light outside.
So bright!
The curtains were not closed, and the sun shone through the glass and onto the floor indoors.
The whole room seemed to have heated up several degrees.
Ju Tianrui was thoughtful, stretching out his fingertips and slowly approaching the sun.
hiss!
So hot!
"It turns out to be the sun!" Ju Tianrui thought to himself.
Then he shouted to other people in the conference room: "Don't expose to the sun, close all the curtains, quickly, quickly!"
At this moment, a team member who ran down from the sentry tower came in wearing a radiation protection suit.
"Battal Commander, the sun outside is very hot. You can't look directly at the sun. Three of our brothers have their eyes burned."
Ju Tianrui saw that he was wearing radiation protection clothing and understood everything.
This is why Mr. Li asked them to be careful, why he asked them to hide indoors after the aurora appeared, and why he gave them radiation protection suits.
"Bring down the brothers who have injured eyes, get water from the well and give them cold compresses, inform them down, ask everyone to pay attention to the sun, close the curtains, and stay indoors and don't come out." Ju Tianrui explained.
"Okay." The team members wearing radiation protection suits hurriedly ran out.
"Dongtai!"
Ju Tianrui shouted loudly.
"I am here."
"Count how many sets of radiation protection suits we have in total. Except for the ones placed in the sentry tower, the others have been moved here." Ju Tianrui said.
"Okay." Dongtai nodded, then put on his explosion-proof helmet, wrapped himself in a piece of cloth, and walked out with the sun on his back.
Ten minutes later.
Dongtai walked in with seven or eight team members. They were all wearing radiation protection suits and even goggles.
"Battal Commander, in addition to the eighteen sets placed in the sentry tower, there are also thirty sets of radiation protection suits. There are fifty-eight sets of radiation protection suits in total. In addition, each set of radiation protection suits is equipped with goggles." Dongtai
He walked in and said.
Ju Tianrui thought for a while and said: "That's enough. The staff on duty will distribute one set and five more sets. The extra ones will be used for emergency backup."
Dongtai nodded, then took out five sets of radiation protection suits and handed them to Zuo Ruxue and the others.
At this time, six or seven people came down from the wall. They helped the team members whose eyes were burned by the sun to come down.
After letting them lie down, Zuo Ruxue quickly poured the slightly cold well water that had just been brought in over their eyes, then soaked it with a towel and applied it to their eyes.
"There are no eye drops. Let's give them an anti-inflammatory drug first to avoid inflammation." Zuo Ruxue picked up the medical bag and said.
Ju Tianrui nodded and said, "Okay."
After more than an hour, the team members whose eyes were burned by the sun tried to open their eyes.
His eyes were red, as if he had pinkeye.
Although their eyes are still dry, red and swollen, they have not looked at the sun for too long, and the damage they have suffered is limited. After adding cold compresses, they can now open their eyes and see.
Seeing that there was no big problem with them, Ju Tianrui breathed a sigh of relief.
"You three will not be on duty for the time being. I will ask someone to take over. You can stay in the room and recuperate for the time being." Ju Tianrui said when he saw that they could open their eyes.
"Okay, thank you, battalion commander." the three said.
...
Big camphor tree base.
The zombies outside were taking cover one after another under the scorching sun.
Zombies originally like darkness and hate sunlight. Under such violent solar radiation, these zombies were greatly affected.
The walking speed became slower, and the originally stacked zombies collapsed in just ten seconds.
The outer layer of white skin exudes a burnt smell.
He left the wall in a hurry and fled to a dark place.
It has been raining heavily for so long, even the national highways in the lower areas outside have been flooded.
These zombies took refuge in puddles, caves, or abandoned buildings.
But while they were walking, the zombies' skin was exposed to the hot sunlight and fell off.
Some zombies that have been in the sun for a long time have large and weak flesh and blood. If they were placed on a human body, they would definitely die.
But these are zombies. Even if they have only one head left, they are still "alive".
On the wall, Uncle San was wearing radiation-proof clothing and helmet goggles, looking at the zombies outside.
I couldn't help but complain: "These zombies are really tenacious. They won't die even if they do this. It seems that the only way to kill them is to penetrate their heads."
Li Yu also sighed with emotion:
"Zombies adapt to the environment much faster than humans. The previous long period of extremely cold and freezing weather did not freeze them to death, and they even developed white skin.
But fortunately, zombies cannot reproduce, but humans can reproduce and sooner or later the zombies will be exterminated..."
The third uncle looked at the zombies outside and nodded.
Under the sun's radiation, the temperature rose rapidly, and they were very hot wearing radiation-proof clothing.
"Xiaoyu, how are things going with Old Dong and the others over there? The temperature keeps rising, and the freezer won't last long..."
Li Yu said: "It should take another two hours. They said they need to get a magnetic screen to restore some power.
Now that the magnetic storm is still going on, we can't see it at all. If we turn on the power system rashly, it is very likely to cause the power system to collapse."
"Oh...this is really..." The third uncle didn't know what to say for a moment.
He thought about the fruits and vegetables in the underground planting base and greenhouses. If there was no power support, the crops would not be able to last for long.
Just at this time.
He Chao walked up wearing a radiation suit.
"City Lord, the magnetic screen is ready and can be used now." He Chao said after approaching Li Yu.
Li Yu was a little surprised when he heard this. He just looked at the mechanical watch and the time was not yet the time Dong Ying estimated. Why was it so far in advance?
"Okay, let's go take a look."
Li Yu followed He Chao to the wall.
Now that the power system has collapsed, there is no way to ride in the elevator, so you can only walk down.
soon.
Li Yu and He Chao arrived at the Second Outer City Maintenance Factory.
He took off his heavy helmet, pulled down his radiation protection suit, and tied a knot around his waist.
He Chao from behind came in and closed the door of the maintenance factory.
"City Lord."
"City Lord."
"Brother."
"Xiaoyu."
Seeing Li Yu and the others coming in, Lao Luo, Lao Dong and others spoke one after another.
Li Yu waved his hand and asked: "Is the magnetic screen ready? How much power can be restored?"
After thinking for a while, the old director replied: "It's hard to say. You can only know after trying it."
"Hurry up then, go directly to the inner city to install it now." Li Yu said directly after hearing this.
For the entire Da Zhangshu base, the most important thing is the basement warehouse.
The base's most important supplies are stored there.
Including most food, firearms, seeds, freezers, and even zombie attracting potions.
This warehouse is partitioned, and each area will have different temperature and humidity settings....
And these are all driven by electricity.
There's a power outage now, and they haven't opened the warehouse yet.
Everyone put on radiation protection suits and goggles and followed Li Yu into the inner city.
In fact, ordinary clothes can also block sunlight, as long as the skin is not exposed to the sun, but it is too inconvenient to wrap it up, and some skin will inevitably be exposed during walking.
Moreover, the thermal insulation performance of clothes made of ordinary materials is not that good.
Moreover, some clothes that are not thick enough will have much less effect in blocking solar radiation.
A few minutes later.
Everyone arrived outside the warehouse.
There is a switch in the warehouse that controls the warehouse.
Li Yu looked at Lao Dong, Lao Luo and others behind him. This was his first time bringing people from outside the city here.
Usually, let alone people from the outer city, even the vast majority of people from the inner city are not qualified to enter here.
But now that things are urgent, there is really no other way but to let them in.
However, the underground warehouse is divided into zones, and each area is closed. You cannot see what is going on inside from the outside aisle.
Moreover, the electric switch is set on the right wall behind the second door, so there is no need to go deep into the warehouse.
Li Yu took out the key and opened the first door of the underground warehouse.
Kaka——
The first door was opened, and a second door appeared behind it.
There was a small space between the first door and the second door, and everyone walked in behind them.
Li Yu looked at the people behind him, and then opened the second door.
What greets the eye is a huge space, with a ceiling at least as high as two or three stories, and a very long aisle at first glance.
Li Yu walked to the wall on the right side of the door and said to Lao Dong and the other two: "The switch is over here, let's start quickly."
Upon hearing this, Old Dong quickly picked up the magnetic screen placed on the ground and walked over with Li Tie and others.
Li Yu didn't understand how to operate this, so he could only watch them quietly from the side.
About fifteen minutes later, Old Dong raised his head and said to Li Yu: "City Lord, it's ready here. The next step is to arrange the transformers in the distribution room. Then we can try to open the warehouse."
The switch over here."
Li Yu nodded and said to Li Tie and Li Hang: "Take them over there. After the arrangement is completed, come over and notify me to open this side."
"good."
Then they took Lao Dong and others to the transformer in the distribution room to make arrangements.
After about ten minutes, Li Tie hurried over and asked Li Yu to turn on the switch.
Li Yu turned on the switch without hesitation.
Rumble.
As the switch was turned on, the power system in the underground warehouse was instantly restored, the light bulbs were lit, and even the ventilation system on the roof of the warehouse was turned on, blowing a stream of air.
Li Yu quickly walked to the freezer near the door.
Push open the freezer door with both hands.
There is some water on the ground, which should have melted after the power was turned off in the past few hours, but very little has melted, and most of the walls and ground are still covered in frost.
After taking a look at the air-conditioning vent blowing out the air-conditioning, Li Yu knew that there was no problem in the freezer.
Then he walked into several other cabins and looked at the situation inside. After finding that there was no problem, he returned to the entrance.
"Send them out later and let them continue making magnetic screens. If you do more, you may be able to restore power to other areas as soon as possible." Li Yu thought for a while and said.
He knew that the geomagnetic storm was only two days old, but it would be better for the base to restore power earlier.
After Li Tie heard what Li Yu said, he expressed his understanding and left here wearing radiation protection clothing.
Then, Li Yu glanced at the warehouse and closed the door, then the second floor.
After closing the two doors of the underground warehouse, Li Yu watched the mist outside steaming. The water vapor evaporated very quickly under the sun's radiation.
Soon, water sources may face shortages.
The Dazhangshu base has always had great advantages in terms of water storage.
A deep and wide mountain pond reservoir covers more than ten acres and has a water storage capacity of hundreds of thousands of cubic meters. The reservoir at the foot of the mountain can also store tens of thousands of cubic meters of water.
There are also several small pools in the three outer cities.
In addition, there is a water tank in every greenhouse, and dozens of greenhouses store a lot of water.
There are also wells scattered throughout the base, all of which can provide water sources.
Although the reserves are large, water consumption is also large.
At present, we still need to control water consumption, and the largest area of water consumption is the cultivation of crops.
The current proportion of crops grown must be changed.
At present, the main crops grown are mainly rice and sweet potatoes, along with staple foods such as corn and potatoes.
In addition to the small factor of eating habits, the biggest reason is that the soil in the south is more suitable for crops such as rice. The soil in the south is mostly acidic soil and is not suitable for growing crops such as corn that require neutral or alkaline soil.
On the contrary, sweet potatoes have become the most planted staple food besides rice.
First of all, the yield per mu is very high, it is drought and cold resistant, and its vitality is very tenacious.
Secondly, it is very convenient to plant. You can plant it by just breaking off a rhizome.
Moreover, the leaves of sweet potatoes can also be used as vegetables and are rich in vitamins.
Li Yu found Anya and said without any nonsense:
"The solar radiation is strong, and it will be difficult to replenish water sources in the future. From now on, we will reduce the proportion of rice planting and increase the proportion of sweet potatoes. This should save a lot of water."
Anya thought for a while and asked: "What kind of ratio should be adjusted to? If the rice that is still being planted now is stopped, the losses will be great. Some of them are about to enter the maturity stage."
Li Yu frowned and said:
"Aren't you using the rotation method now? Don't move the ones that have already been planted.
It’s just that after harvesting mature crops recently, when we plant again, we just need to plant all the sweet potatoes.”
"Ok, I see."
After explaining this, Li Yu put on his helmet, pulled Yang Tianlong and others, and lowered the black heat-insulating ball into the Shantang Reservoir.
After these black balls are put in, they can isolate a large part of the sun's heat, and the evaporation of water in the reservoir is also greatly reduced.
.......
Deep in Wuyi Mountain.
Four "corpses" lay there.
The best way to save food is to eat less. Lying down and sleeping is the best way to save energy.
Except for eating a little bit of food every day, they basically don't go out and lie on the wooden bed trying to sleep.
They didn't find out when the rainstorm ended, nor did they see the aurora.
They woke up because of the strong sunlight.
Sunlight penetrates through the gaps in this house and shines in.
They were accustomed to the darkness under heavy rain, but they were all awakened by the light at this moment.
The moment he opened his eyes, he felt light all around him.
"I'm starving to death. Will I go to heaven? I'll go!" Legs shouted.
"What the hell is your name!" Chen Delong glanced at his legs and said weakly.
"It's so hot. There's something wrong with this light. Look over there." Zhuo Jun pointed to a beam of light coming in from the gap in the window.
That beam of light just hit the pine oil barrel, which was made of plastic.
Being illuminated by this beam of light, the reflected light makes people unable to open their eyes.
This is plastic, not a mirror.
This is?
Legs wanted to catch this beam of light with his hands, but Chen Delong said urgently: "Wait a minute."
Legs shrank his hands and looked at Chen Delong with some doubts.
"Brother Chen, what are you doing?"
Chen Delong pointed to the oil drum and said, "Don't you see? Such strong light."
"ah?"
Chen Delong ignored him and carefully stretched out a finger and put it in the light.
hiss!
pain.
"Brother Chen, what's wrong with you?"
"Try it yourself, I won't stop you."
Legs was curious, so he stretched out his hand and tried it.
"Ouch!"
After a long time, these people figured out one thing.
The rain stopped, but the originally gentle sun also changed.
"Brother Chen, at least the rain has stopped. Can we go back? You tried it just now and there was still no problem with thicker clothes." Legs said.
Zhuo Jun next to him also nodded and said: "There is only a little food left. If we don't leave, we may end up starving to death."
Chen Delong thought for a few seconds, patted his thigh and said:
"Okay, let's go, but before that, we have to make some preparations."