The rest of the night was uneventful, and it wasn't until about ten o'clock the next morning that I opened my eyes from bed.
When I got up, I was surprised that I slept until after ten o'clock. This surprise was not because I slept so late, but because I felt a little surprised that it was already past ten o'clock and no one asked me to get up.
Surprised.
But after thinking about it, I felt a little relieved. After all, the situation in the base is terrible right now. Even Colonel White probably has no idea of continuing the mission. The only thing we have to care about now is how to survive the current crisis.
The day the sea fleet returns.
And it seems that our current situation is getting worse. Because when I got up and washed up, I discovered that the water pipe in the dormitory was no longer flowing.
Obviously, this must not be a problem with the water pipes, because before I went to bed last night, the water pipes in my dormitory were still flowing, so I am afraid that there is a problem with the domestic water reserve in the base.
I had no choice but to rinse my mouth with a bottle of drinking water in the room, and then without even washing my face, I went to the central control room to confirm the current situation in the base from Colonel White.
However, I did not see the figure of Colonel White in the central control room, but on the monitoring screen in the central control room, I did see that he was over there in the cafeteria.
So I turned to the cafeteria. When I got there, I saw that not only Colonel White, but also Mo Xi and the others were here, but everyone seemed to be in a bad mood. Even the atmosphere in the cafeteria was a bit disappointing.
People feel depressed.
When I put a plate full of hot dogs on my plate from the refrigerator and was about to put it in the microwave for a spin, Colonel White suddenly came over from his seat and took a look at what was on my plate.
, then he took out most of it and stuffed it back into the refrigerator.
I was suddenly confused and said, "Colonel, what are you doing?"
White turned his head and said helplessly: "Mr. Lin, the situation is not good now, so starting from today, we must reduce our daily food consumption."
"What? What happened?"
After my questioning, Colonel White explained everything.
It turned out that after they separated last night, Elizabeth followed Colonel White's instructions and inspected the remaining areas of the base. The results were very bad. First of all, the water source in the base seemed to be contaminated, and some of it might be Jamie.
Or the remaining parts of Dean's body flowed into the reservoir in the base. In addition, water leakage also occurred in areas one and four of the base. Although it was not too serious, it also caused damage to people in areas one and four.
Parts of the cabin were submerged underwater. Along with this, some food reserves stored in these areas were also lost.
But in addition to this, a more serious thing is that the oxygen reserves in the base are seriously insufficient. Although there is an oxygen generating device in the base, it is only a device that partially converts carbon dioxide into oxygen through chemical reactions.
It itself cannot produce oxygen. The air in the base itself was greatly consumed in the fire. Although Colonel White took remedial measures immediately after the fire, the base's air reserves were still lost.
Most of it. Then, in order to prevent areas 1 and 4 from being completely engulfed by sea water, Colonel White increased the air pressure in the cabin by releasing part of the air last night, thereby draining the water out. This decision made the base
The air reserve situation is getting worse.
After all this trouble, when counting the supplies this morning, Colonel White finally discovered that the air in the base now only has enough for us to use for the last 24 hours. Once it exceeds 24 hours,
, we will face the fate of suffocation.
Hearing this, I immediately understood why the atmosphere was so depressing this morning. It turned out that it was all because of this news.
When I thought that we only had twenty-four hours left, even I couldn't help but start to feel a little discouraged.
But at this time, Colonel White told another even more discouraging news.
Knowing that we didn't have much time left, he asked Harris to make a special trip to the sea to take another look in the morning, only to find that the typhoon on the sea still didn't seem to be ending.
This means that we don’t even have a chance to escape on the surface of the mini-submarine used for communication. Because not to mention the need to decompress when we surface, if the typhoon at sea does not stop, then we will be taking a submarine.
Once at sea, there is no way to survive the storm. The mini-submarine has no ability to sail at sea. In the violent storm on the sea, it will be smashed to pieces by strong winds and waves in just a few minutes.
"Isn't there any good news?" I couldn't help but say.
Colonel White sighed and said: "I also hope there will be good news, but unfortunately, we are still lacking some luck at the moment."
Colonel White's last words made me feel completely bad, and even my appetite decreased a lot.
While we were eating breakfast gloomily, other people who had already eaten also left the canteen one after another. Colonel White said that he would go to the central control room and try to continue calling the sea, hoping that someone would receive our distress signal. Harris wanted to
Go to the infirmary to get some medicine for yourself. Yesterday when he was dealing with the tentacle monster, his knee joint was slightly injured. He is now using some medicine to speed up the healing of the wound.
Mo Xi left not long after I sat down. Among the people who survived, she seemed to be the one who cared least about our current situation. Apart from the data she brought back from the spacecraft, there was nothing else in her mind.
There is nothing else. To be honest, I am a little envious of her current state.
After eating breakfast like chewing wax, I was about to leave the canteen when I suddenly heard a slight noise coming from the corner of the canteen. I quietly walked over and took a look, only to find that it was Elizabeth sleeping on a chair in the corner of the canteen.
Judging from the way she slept so deeply, she probably didn't sleep all night last night and didn't fall asleep until the morning.
I was afraid that Elizabeth would catch a cold while sleeping here, so I took off my coat and covered her with it. Then I left the cafeteria and walked back to my dormitory.
But before I walked far, I suddenly saw Harris running from the direction of the infirmary with a look of horror on his face. He passed me and rushed to the door of the cafeteria. After taking a look inside, he came to me again.
In front of me, he chirped to me.
Although I couldn't understand it, from the way he danced, I roughly guessed what this guy wanted to say to me.
"Colonel? He's in the control room."
Seeing my finger pointing in the direction of the central control room, Harris understood and stopped talking nonsense to me. The guy turned around and ran towards the central control room.
Looking at his hurried back, I was really a little surprised. What happened to this guy? Why did he look like he had seen a ghost?
But after thinking for a while, I couldn't think of anything, so I could only shake my head and continue walking towards the dormitory.
However, when I passed by the infirmary, a thought suddenly came to my mind. Could the reason why Harris's face changed so drastically be in this infirmary?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but turn around, slowly opened the door of the infirmary, stretched out my head and took a look inside.
The infirmary in the base is very large. In addition to storing some necessary medicines, it also functions as a laboratory and operating table, so the space inside is much larger than the canteen where we eat.
I glanced inside the door, but didn't find anything unusual. Just when I was wondering if I had made a mistake, my eyes accidentally fell on the four mortuary bags at the end of the infirmary.
The bodies contained in the mortuary bags should naturally be the bodies of Jamie and the others, but for some reason, after seeing these four mortuary bags, I felt that there was something wrong with these four mortuary bags.
Where is it? I thought for a while, and then I suddenly realized that something was wrong with me. It was the one closest to the outside among the four mortuary bags.
This mortuary bag, which was supposed to be intact, now actually had a big hole in the middle. In the big hole, someone's bloody corpse was clearly visible.