Chapter 23 The old ones don't go and the new ones don't come
Time passed, and an hour passed, and the heat storm gradually dissipated...
Realizing that the temperature of the ground had dropped, Li Xiao revealed his head to confirm again before getting out of the lake.
Although the heat storm has dissipated, there is still a strong feeling of heat in the air.
Looking around, everywhere you look, all the jungle plants have turned into withered branches and yellow leaves!
Only trees protected by thick bark can survive natural disasters safely...
This heat storm is simply a destroyer of plants!
Presumably the few berry plants planted in my yard were not spared the disaster either!
Also, are the creatures kept in the enclosure safe and sound?
Li Xiao was a little worried, but considering that he had built a complete shack for the enclosure, the creatures he had tamed must not be in much danger...
But it was better to go back and take a look. Li Xiao turned around and prepared to drive the raft back again.
However, as soon as he took a few steps, he stopped and looked up at the sky——
The originally cloudless sky was covered with dark clouds in less than a quarter of an hour after the heat storm ended!
The sky that was bright just a moment ago has become dark in the blink of an eye...
More and more dark clouds are accumulating, and the clouds in the entire sky seem to be pressing down on your face, which is extremely depressing!
The heat storm has just ended, and it looks like a heavy rain is about to hit again!
This complex and changeable climate seems to be unpredictable, but if you think about it carefully, it is a normal logic - hot storms evaporate a large amount of water, and the water vapor accumulates in the sky, forming dark clouds, which then cause heavy rain.
In other words, the stronger the heat storm, the heavier the heavy rain after it ends!
"Tough luck! Tough luck!"
The raindrops have already fallen on Li Xiao's face. This heavy rain has frustrated his plan to go home again...
And if it rains heavily, he won't even be able to continue exploring westward.
"Okay! I can't go anywhere now!" Li Xiao sat back under the stone helplessly, waiting for the heavy rain to hit...
Gradually, the raindrops became heavier and denser, and gradually turned into a rain force like an ocean dumping in the sky!
After eating some cooked meat, Li Xiao sat down under a stone, his eyelids starting to fight...
He had spent a lot of energy and energy to avoid the heat storm, and now that he had nothing to do, he was naturally sleepy.
The rainstorm was noisy, but Li Xiao was no longer the weak college student, and the noise had no impact on him now.
He gradually fell into sleep...
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I don't know how long he slept. Li Xiao felt wet underneath him in a daze. When he turned over, one of his feet simply fell into the water!
Li Xiao woke up suddenly. When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, his jaw almost dropped!
At some point, the water level in the lake has risen to the surrounding rocks!
Looking around, the lake that was originally quite large has become even wider, submerging some of the "stone trees" near the lake!
The heavy rain still hasn't stopped, and it seems that the rain is heavier than before.
Helpless, Li Xiao could only put on his clothes and leave the place, staying away from the ever-expanding lake.
As soon as he left the stone that blocked the rain, Li Xiao was soaked from head to toe by the heavy rain...
The animal skin clothes were wet and stuck to his body, which made him feel very uncomfortable. Li Xiao could only take them off again.
"Just run naked, no one can see it anyway!"
Then, I saw a naked figure running in the rain...
"Where is my raft? Where is it?!" Li Xiao came to the coast and saw huge waves in the ocean, and the raft docked on the shore had long disappeared.
A wave came and knocked several wooden boards to the shore...
Li Xiao: "0.0!"
He looked at these tattered wooden boards and felt like crying. It was obvious that although the rafts made by hand were strong, they still could not withstand the wind and waves of the ocean!
There was no way to leave this stone forest island for the time being, so Li Xiao could only collect some thatch wood and build a temporary shelter.
Li Xiao is good at building simple shelters. He remembered that he had built one when he encountered a storm for the first time.
"Three walls above the foundation, install doors to cover the top!"
Li Xiao hummed a tune of his own creation to adjust his depressed mood.
He understands that anger and resentment are useless. Since they have been lost, it is better to be free and easy...
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This heavy rain lasted for a whole day and night. On the afternoon of the second day, the rain eased a lot and turned from a heavy rain to a pouring rain.
When the rain subsided, Li Xiao hurriedly collected supplies and made another raft with his bare hands.
He was really worried about his yard...
Riding the raft and accompanied by the rain, he returned to the small plain.
Pushing open the courtyard door, Li Xiao looked into the courtyard...
With just one glance, Li Xiao's heart sank to the bottom!
When I left, the yard was in good order, but now, it was full of devastation...
All wooden buildings were affected by the heat storm and suffered more or less damage.
What is most difficult for Li Xiao to accept is his own house!
The house that was originally placed in the yard has disappeared and is now a pile of burned ruins!
Li Xiao rushed to the pile of ruins like crazy and suddenly knelt down on them!
He stared blankly at the pile of ruins, speechless for a long time, only tears mixed with rain flowed down...
He raised his head to the sky, with anger and a hint of madness on his face!
He looked up at the sky and roared:
"Ark System! Why did you do this to me?! Ah!! Why?!!!"
The sound of thunder came, a bolt of lightning flashed across, and the heavy rain continued. In the rain, Li Xiao's thin figure knelt in front of the ruins, roaring crazily at the sky.
The loss of the house he carefully built became the final straw for Li Xiao, and the darkness buried in his heart completely burst out!
After accidentally traveling to this uninhabited place and suffering so many inhuman sufferings, Li Xiao completely collapsed!
He roared angrily, becoming more and more excited and crazier!
"puff--"
When this emotion reached its peak, a mouthful of black blood suddenly spurted out from Li Xiao's mouth and nose!
After wiping the blood from his mouth and nose, Li Xiao fell straight to the ground.
His face was slapped directly into the mud mixed with black ash and rainwater...
The muddy water stained his body and turned him into a black mud man.
But he didn't have the mind to care about this. His eyes seemed to have lost their souls, and he looked to the side dully, without even blinking...
The dodo alarm clock came out of nowhere - it was soaked to the skin at the moment, and all its feathers were wet and stuck to its body.
On his wet head, a pair of eyes saw Li Xiao's fallen figure.
It rushed forward, bit Li Xiao's clothes with its mouth, and dragged it hard...
But its strength was too weak, and Li Xiao was as motionless as a corpse. It couldn't move Li Xiao at all.
After working for a long time, the alarm clock gave up. It walked up to Li Xiao and rubbed his head affectionately against Li Xiao.
Then, it curled up and leaned against Li Xiao, letting the rain wet the two of them...
All it can do is accompany this person who has lost his faith...
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The heavy rain continued all night and did not stop until early morning.
The oppressive clouds dispersed, and the entire Ark Island became bright again.
The alarm clock's curled-up head stretched out, it stood up and shook off the water drops on its body.
It made a cooing sound and walked to the field in the yard. Its petite body easily slipped through the standing fence.
Usually when it was hungry, it would come here to find some berries to eat. Now that it was hungry, it walked in as usual.
The difference is that the mature plants in the field have turned into dead branches and leaves after being ravaged by the heat storm. After being washed away by the storm, the field is now a mess...
But the alarm clock is a persevering dodo, and it continues to search among these shriveled plants.
God always favors those who persevere. After searching for a while, the alarm clock found a berry seedling that was not dead yet!
There were two shriveled purple berries on the berry seedlings. The alarm clock bit off the two berries, picked them up and ran back to Li Xiao.
It placed one of them in front of Li Xiao and ate the other one.
This berry was placed in front of Li Xiao, and Li Xiao, who was motionless at first, started to move...
He blinked his stiff eyelids and looked at the berry with a dull gaze.
After being exposed to high temperatures, the berries have lost much moisture and appear extremely shriveled.
Li Xiao's hand moved slowly, picked up the berry, and threw it into his mouth...
Then, Li Xiao sat up and turned his attention to the berry seedling in the field——
Although the branches and leaves were dried up by the scorching sun under the heat storm, and the soil on which it relied for survival was washed away by the violent storm, this berry plant is still alive!
It relies on the small amount of soil at its roots and still lives tenaciously!
Seeing the little green on its branches and leaves, Li Xiao suddenly felt extremely comfortable!
Suddenly, he realized -
A plant has such a desire to survive, so what reason do you have to give up on yourself?
Looking at this berry, a smile gradually appeared on Li Xiao's lips.
The smile that appeared at the corner of his mouth grew stronger and gradually turned into a laugh.
"Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha..."
His heart suddenly felt very relaxed and he just wanted to laugh out loud.
Turning around and seeing the alarm clock on the side, Li Xiao gently held it in his arms.
"Thank you."
He stroked the alarm clock gently, his face full of love for it.
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With the knot in his heart relieved, Li Xiao stood up and looked around.
After such a journey, he felt that his heart had become stronger. When he saw the devastation in the hospital again, although he lamented that it was a pity, there was no emotion in his heart...
"If it doesn't go away for a long time, new ones won't come!" Li Xiao said firmly, "I can still build a more luxurious and perfect house!"
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Before building a new residence, Li Xiao took stock of the losses.
Fortunately, all living creatures were safe and sound, and all that was lost were dead things that could be rebuilt.
As for the lost plants in the fields—
Anyway, no fertilizer was applied during planting, and the plants didn't grow very well, so they just needed to be cleaned up and replanted.
However, Li Xiao did not clean up the living berry seedling. Instead, he added soil and watered it, leaving the ruined berry seedling.
It is an important commemoration of Li Xiao’s emergence from darkness!
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In a few days, Li Xiao built another house at the old site of the house.
It is still a wooden house, but it has undergone considerable changes——
The biggest change is the roof. The original sloping roof has become the flat roof today.
How to prevent heat storms from igniting houses? Li Xiao thought of many ways.
Finally, he came up with a bold idea, changing the roof to a flat roof, covering it with soil, and planting grass in the soil!
Around the house, set up some more wooden pillars, and transplant some vines and other plants onto the bloodwood pillars, using them to withstand the scorching sunlight during the heat storm.
Generally speaking, it is to build a barrier made of plants around the house!
The advantage of this is that it not only prevents damage to the house from heat storms, but also reduces the impact of the storm on the yard.
The precipitation is absorbed by the dense plants, and there will no longer be a muddy scene in the yard...
The only problem is that the house transformed in this way must withstand stress!
You must know that the weight of a thick layer of soil on the roof alone is more than 1,000 kilograms!
Therefore, Li Xiao needs some changes in the internal support of the house. But this is simple. The original room layout remains unchanged, and it can be solved by adding a few more support columns!
He also dug several small reservoirs behind the house to once again prevent the damage of heat storms and storms.
When a hot storm comes, use the water in these pools to put out fires. When a storm comes, use these pools to drain floods. You can also go for a swim occasionally...
Hehe, kill three birds with one stone!
As for farmland, Li Xiao currently has no good way to prevent and control extreme weather.
He could only fertilize the land first and plant the seeds. Since heat storms didn't happen often, he could only let the seeds grow first.
When you unlock the greenhouse later, extreme weather will have no effect on growing plants.
There is also the Dodo birdhouse and mount pen, which also need to be renovated.
Li Xiao used the same method as the protected house, digging a large pond in the birdhouse and pen to prevent the impact of extreme weather...
Almost all of the yard has been renovated, and the workload is really not small. But what Li Xiao lacks most now is time!
And with the help of metal tools, Li Xiao collected supplies a little faster!
Time flies, and the complete layout of the courtyard on the small plain gradually takes shape...
[Player name: Li Xiao]
[Level: 23(130/8000)]
After nearly ten consecutive days of busy work, Li Xiao was promoted two levels again.
[Note: Don’t you ever want to experience the feeling of falling to death from a height of 100 meters? Then you must need a parachute! It will never let you fall to death! (At most, you will be disabled.)]
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[Name: Tripwire alarm (disposable consumable)]
[Production requirements: Gunpowder x1, Fiber x3, Stone x2]
[Note: Are you still having trouble sleeping because no one is keeping watch while sleeping in the wild? Then you need a tripwire alarm! Once a creature touches it, it will scream like a killing pig! (Note: Tripwire
There is a certain chance that the alarm will misfire!)]
Li Xiao: "Damn!"
"What is this screaming like a pig?! And what does it mean that there is a certain chance of misfiring? Since it can misfire, what use do I need it for?!"
Seeing such a note, Li Xiao's head was full of black lines...
