Egg was paralyzed from exhaustion today, and the other three men were not much better.
After everyone started carrying fertilizers, although each time their physical strength decreased, they could rest and recover. However, as the fatigue increased, the upper limit of physical strength dropped lower and lower. On the other hand, carrying the same fertilizer bag consumed more and more physical strength.
more.
The closer you get to the back, the more tired you become, and the strength in your hands becomes less and less. At first, one person can hold a bag, but in the end, it takes two people to carry it.
The van doesn't look big, but it actually has enough capacity for 8 cubic meters. When loading, even if the loading is irregular, it only holds 5 cubic meters of fertilizer.
The density of this kind of fertilizer is 1.72g/cm3, and 1 cubic meter is 1.72 tons. If it is 5 cubic meters, counting the gaps and other things, and then rounding it up, 5 tons must be packed.
These hundreds of bags of fertilizers had to be lifted, loaded, and stacked, and they couldn't breathe in fresh air while wearing a gas mask. It can be said that it took several times the effort to do a little work.
Of course, if it had been done by a few illegal workers, it might have been over long ago, but these people were all people who had never done heavy work. Seeing that the upper limit of physical fitness dropped to single digits, Egger announced a shutdown.
In this way, the back of the van is still a little unfilled, but it's about the same, it's enough.
Later, Joanna told the four people that there was a shower in the toilet next to the employee locker room, but it only had cold water.
None of us had the courage to take a cold shower in the winter, so we just used an old towel from the locker room soaked in water and wiped our whole body, focusing on wiping off the dust on our skin.
After carrying the fertilizer, you must take a shower as required, but this condition is really not available now. Not to mention that you haven’t taken a shower today, some people haven’t taken a shower even a few months ago.
The dinner Joanna cooked today was very sumptuous, but perhaps due to excessive fatigue, Egger had no appetite at all.
After swallowing the food as if chewing wax as a task, Iger felt sick in his heart. He knew that he was very tired.
After dinner, Iger looked at his watch. It was 19:35. There was already a thick layer of snow outside, and the snowflakes were still falling.
We can only spend the night here tonight. Fortunately, the pickup truck carries supplies for the night. Iger jumped on the pickup truck and rummaged around for a long time, and found 4 thick sleeping bags.
Oops, Iger slapped his head.
When I came out this time, I had replenished other supplies. Because they had not been used during previous trips, the number of sleeping bags was prepared based on the number of people on the last trip. Now when it was time to go to bed, I realized that one was missing.
Never mind it, it's not a big problem.
Iger pulled up the hood of his coat to cover his head, and went out to close the gate with a flashlight. Fortunately, the fence gate was not electric and could be closed by pulling it by hand, and then bolted from the inside.
In this way, even if everyone is surrounded by infected people here, as long as they can't get in, this is a good thing.
After Egger returned to the warehouse despite the snowflakes, in the staff office, five people faced four sleeping bags. Everyone realized that one person needed to be on duty overnight, so the number of sleeping bags was just enough.
However, today Iger announced that there will be no night watchmen, and everyone can sleep peacefully together. Let's put it this way, in this environment, it doesn't matter whether there are night watchmen or not.
At this time, Iger said to Joanna: "Joanna, sleep with me."
When Joanna heard what Iger said, she was so excited that she almost couldn't hold her eyebrows for joy. She only heard Thomas murmur a few times, and Iger slapped him in the face, and everyone had no objection.
Joanna quickly got into the sleeping bag. The space in the sleeping bag was not large, and it might be a little narrow for two people side by side.
Really, it was all because the sleeping bag was too small, so the two of them had to sleep holding it together tonight.
Joanna huddled up in her sleeping bag, unable to contain her excitement.
"Joanna, Joanna, don't think too much, I'm still a child." Joanna secretly reminded herself that Iger was still young.
However, Egger is not young at all.
whee.
Joanna waited in the sleeping bag for a long time, but Egger hadn't come over yet. He didn't know what he was doing at the end of the sleeping bag.
"Ege, why don't you come to bed?" Joanna asked impatiently: "I'm waiting for you like this, it's very cold, and all the heat is leaking out."
"It's almost ready." Iger said vaguely, holding the flashlight in his mouth.
The stitches were too tight, and Iger didn't have any sharp tools, so he finally untied the stitches with his bare hands.
"Finally it's done." Egg untied the end of the sewn sleeping bag and got in.
Joanna waited and waited, and finally a pair of feet arrived.
"Hey, why are you sleeping over there?" Joanna said angrily, "Your foot almost kicked my chin."
"Sorry, sorry, let me move." Egg apologized quickly.
According to Egger's many years of bed-sharing experience, the human body is an inverted triangle with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part. Therefore, when sleeping side by side can't fit in, two people sleeping on opposite feet can be a comfortable and perfect solution.
After Iger moved a little, both of them felt that they were no longer crowded. Joanna kicked her foot angrily, and it seemed that her kick really hit Iger's chin.
After Iger said "Ouch", he turned around and fell asleep. Not long after, Joanna heard that he was already snoring.
For children, falling asleep is as fast as turning off the power. This is the body's ability and is not even under the control of Egger's will.
This time, Joanna didn't know how she fell asleep.
After waking up the next morning, Egger crawled out of his sleeping bag with difficulty.
Last night he slept like a mummy all night, motionless, and now he felt pain all over his body.
Joanna obviously didn't sleep well. After Iger got out of the sleeping bag, he whispered to her to get up. As a result, Joanna got up and got angry. She grabbed something and threw it at him. There was only a banging sound, although the accuracy was far away.
, but Iger was too scared to say anything.
When Iger went out to relieve himself, he found that the snow outside had stopped. He stepped on the snow and found that the snow was not too thick, less than 20 centimeters.
Egger, who has many years of snow driving experience, naturally doesn't care about the snow. Whether driving in the snow is slippery or not depends on the actual road conditions and cannot be generalized.
This kind of soft and thick snow actually feels very good to drive. The really slippery snow is the kind that has been run over by a large car.
The originally soft and fluffy snow was crushed into thin ice by the cart, and the thin ice was instantly frozen, and finally formed a hard ice shell on the road. Who knows what kind of road this is.
When Iger came back from relieving himself, he tripped over something and fell into the snow. He climbed up from the snowdrift and went over to pull it a few times. It turned out to be the corpse of the infected person who was shot dead at the door of the warehouse yesterday.
The infected man's body was buried in the heavy snow, and he tripped.
For no reason, Iger came up with a poem that didn't quite fit the occasion: "The wine and meat in the rich family stink, and the roads are frozen to death."
But this is not freezing to death.
Egger suddenly thought, will the infected people freeze to death?
If infected people would freeze to death, it would be a huge profit.
But I guess it would be a little difficult at this temperature, maybe it wouldn't be a big problem in Siberia.
Egger was thinking wildly while moving his sore body. Now he finally felt that the soreness all over his body had nothing to do with sleeping. It was purely because he moved too much fertilizer yesterday.
The good thing is that the arm that was injured that day no longer hurts after a lot of activity. I don’t know if it’s because the activity dissolved the congestion, or if the cupping treatment that day had a significant effect or it was covered by more significant pain. .
Iger stretched himself, and oh, he stopped halfway.
Last night, Joanna and Joanna seemed to be very angry when they slept together. Iger knew that she was dissatisfied. After all, she would not sleep well if she was crowded with others, but Iger had no other choice.
First of all, it was so cold last night that the option of not assigning someone a sleeping bag was obviously not an option.
Secondly, since you have to squeeze in to sleep, you have to consider your body shape.
Among the five people, the two smallest ones are Joanna and Iger, so I and Joanna sleep together, which is the best solution when sleeping bags are not enough.
After Iger walked around the yard, he returned to the room. Only Nicholas got up in the staff room. Iger took Nicholas, and they went to the bathroom to release clean water from the shower head, carried a pot of cold water back to the next door, and then Egg started making breakfast.
Until the aroma of breakfast wafted from next door, Joanna finally stretched her head out of the sleeping bag. After rolling back and forth a few times alone, and stretching a few more times, Joanna's mood obviously improved a lot.
"Get up, get up. It's snowing heavily outside today, and it will definitely take more time on the road." Iger turned around and shouted to everyone: "There will be no delay after dinner. Let's try to leave early and arrive early."
While the field team members happily ate the loving breakfast prepared by the team leader, the base camp of Jixi Town was already in chaos.