Chapter 1567: Digging an Underground Shelter

So, generally speaking, they would go as far as possible to collect wood, specifically looking for dead wood, chopping it off, and then carrying it back together, which was very efficient.

Because there were two of us, we could pick some thicker and taller trees, and the largest ones could even be hundreds of trees.

It would take an hour or two for us to carry back hundreds of trees and pile them all around the shelter.

When night fell, we would not return to the shelter to rest immediately, but would wear the warm clothes and start a new round of work in the evening.

In the camp outside the shelter, a large fire was surrounded by stones to illuminate the surrounding area. While lighting, it could provide some warmth to ensure that we had a good environment when working outside.

Although it was already late, it was impossible for the two to go to bed so early. Instead of staring at each other in the shelter, it was better to work around the shelter.

The large amount of wood that Bai brought back needed to be processed again so that it could be stored for a longer time and used better.

The wood was still too big. If all the wood was stored, it would occupy a very large area and it was not resistant to burning. One or two of them thought of a way.

That is to burn the wood into charcoal.

Charcoal is smaller in size, and more can be stored in the same space. It also generates more heat and less smoke when burning.

These advantages are in sharp contrast to wood, so the two will take advantage of the night to make charcoal from wood.

This process is not simple, but it is not very difficult.

The wood needs to be cut into small pieces and then put into the earthen kiln for smoldering. After a series of procedures, it will finally form charcoal of good quality.

They do this job for four to five hours every day.

If you have a watch, you will find that you work from about 5pm to 10pm, and then return to the shelter to sleep.

The whole work will be very fulfilling, and you should make use of all your time. Only in this way can you barely survive in the wild.

Not only us, but every survivor lives like this. Whether it is day or night, we need to work hard to survive and barely make it.

Every day's life is repetitive, but because we are facing the pressure of survival, we don't feel boring, but gradually accept this kind of life.

We have about one month to prepare, because according to the previous schedule, the cold wave will come in about three months.

Now the cold wave is getting closer and closer, and the time for us to prepare is getting less and less. This is the last time for many people to work hard.

If we can't find enough food to supply us through the cold wave during this period, many people will die in this cold wave.

This civilization will usher in the first large-scale death, eliminating the first batch of survivors with insufficient energy.

Qi Yuan silently watched the development of the world, as if he saw the path that the human beings on Earth had taken, as if he had experienced various disasters before he came all the way.

In the following time, Bai Hao and Huang Hai were still trying to live, storing more and more food, and accumulating enough charcoal, all stored around the shelter.

But as the weather became colder and colder, and the closer to the cold wave, the less food there was.

Potatoes, wild vegetables, etc., could not grow in the cold weather. Even if you spend a long time digging every day, you can only harvest some shriveled potatoes, and the number is very small. You can only dig one or two potatoes in a whole day.

This means that during the period before the cold wave came, it was no longer possible to get food by digging potatoes!

As for hunting wild animals, whether small animals, squirrels, rabbits, or large predators, they have all gone into hiding and rarely come to hunt, which makes it impossible for the survivors to get enough meat.

All channels for obtaining plants seem to have been blocked, leaving the two people with nothing to do in the past few days.

So they can put more thoughts on the planting industry in the shelter.

They split the bamboo into two halves, then filled it with fertile soil, and then planted potatoes that were in blocks and sprouted, starting the first round of planting.

After that, they will be watered with organic fertilizer every day to make these potatoes grow better.

There are also cassava and rhizomes. They have planted a batch, but they don’t know what the survival rate is. After all, both of them are laymen, how can they know how to plant these things?

I know to bury the seeds or rhizomes in the soil, and then water and fertilize them every day. If they can survive, they will survive. If they can't survive... we'll talk about it later.

When I buy the books on planting in the future, it should be easier for me. I won't have to grope forward like I am now. Many things are useless.

About two months and ten days later, the two of them completely stopped working outside.

On the one hand, even if there is not much harvest outside, it is often a waste of effort.

On the other hand, it's snowing!

When I got up in the morning, I felt that it was very dark outside. Bai Hao opened the wooden window next to the dining table and saw that it was white outside, and the ground and the forest were covered with thick snow.

"It's snowing!"

Bai Hao's eyes were stunned. Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, he still felt a little nervous when he saw the snow.

This means that the cold wave has really arrived. This is not a good thing, but a disaster, a disaster that may take the lives of countless people!

Moreover, no one can escape this disaster. No one knows what kind of difficulties they will encounter!

And from this point on, the two of them can't go out, and all the sources of food have been cut off.

Just stretched out his hand to feel the temperature outside the house, it has dropped to several degrees below zero. In this kind of weather, the probability of catching a cold will greatly increase.

Fortunately, they built a relatively sturdy shelter, and the temperature inside is relatively high, which can be maintained at about 20 degrees.

As long as the fire can be maintained, the temperature can be maintained.

But they don't know that this mighty cold wave is just the beginning.

The snowfall that is rare in the human world is just the beginning, a sign before the real cold wave comes. When the cold wave really comes, the temperature will be even lower, and the challenges they need to face will be even more severe.

However, what makes Qi Yuan feel relieved is that even though it has started to snow and the environment outside is so bad, Bai Hao and Huang Hai did not choose to lie down in the shelter, but started a new round of work as soon as the snow stopped.