#521 - Chapter 521 Don’t be too pessimistic
Shans City.
Coal Mine Shelter.
Today, this place is still enduring increasingly alarming high temperatures.
Li Hongwen no longer allowed the team members to work inside the coal mine. If this continued, there might be a large-scale heatstroke situation.
For them, with their limited medicines, this would be a disaster.
"What is the situation with our shelter's medicines, food, and water sources? How long can we last?"
He furrowed his brows deeply, forming a "川" character, and asked his wife, Huang Cailan.
Huang Cailan was responsible for the statistics of all income and expenditure details of the shelter, and she could be said to be the person here who knew these numbers best.
At this time, this beautiful woman's face was also not very good. She was holding a not-so-thick document, which was the general ledger of supplies in the shelter.
Without having to look at it carefully, she opened her mouth with certainty:
"The food situation is still relatively good. As long as we eat sparingly, we should be able to last for two and a half months. If we are even more frugal, it is not a problem to last for three or even three and a half months. It is July now, it is impossible that it will not rain and cool down until October, right!?"
"As for the medicine situation, it is more troublesome! Our medicine is only enough for about 30 people. If a large number of people suffer from heatstroke during this period, we may face a shortage of medicine. The main problem is that the illness will recur, and it cannot be resolved immediately with just one dose!"
"The water source problem is also not optimistic. Our shelter has about 5 cubic meters (5000 liters of water) of clean water. According to an adult consuming 1 liter - 1.2 liters a day, 93 people will consume almost 100 liters a day! That is to say, all the water sources can last for almost two months!"
Two months!
According to the normal situation, it should cool down and rain, right?
At that time, it will be almost autumn, hopefully the drought can end?
Li Hongwen and Huang Cailan were not sure.
"Why don't we think of other ways? Maybe we can still find water sources outside? We can barely go out to look for them these days, we can still try."
"Dad, Mom, don't be too pessimistic, we will lead everyone through this."
Li Cai's voice came at this time, she held her father and mother's hands, encouraging them.
Feeling the temperature of her daughter's hands, Li Hongwen and Huang Cailan calmed down their original worried mood slightly.
Yes.
Maybe the situation is not as bad as they think?
They can't scare themselves.
Both of them were not young and had seen the world, so they quickly recovered.
There was a reason why they were like this just now.
Yesterday, the transportation team from the Green Source Base brought a lot of food and water and other supplies to Shans City Coal Mine Shelter to trade with them.
And also brought a somewhat alarming news.
Due to the weather, Green Source will stop coal transportation and trading!
That is to say, the Coal Mine Shelter will stop getting supplies from Green Source!
According to the Green Source personnel in that convoy, this suspension will depend on the weather. Perhaps when it starts to rain and cool down, Green Source will resume coal and material trading.
This time, Captain Liu Wenhao did not come, but was replaced by a core member whom they had met before, but were not very familiar with.
This core member was just repeating the facts said by the base cadres.
The weather has been unusually abnormal recently, and Li Hongwen vaguely guessed that this might happen, but when this situation really occurred, he was caught off guard.
This is the bad side of relying on a large force.
Usually, when there is no wind or rain, everyone is fine, but once something goes wrong, they may be subject to the control of the large force.
No way!
It's impossible for them to grow their own food and survive!
They have tried this before. The food plantation created by the Coal Mine Shelter was indeed built under the efforts of Li Cai and some personnel.
However, the planting results during this period cruelly told them that this matter was not that simple.
Not only did almost all the crops transplanted from outside fail to produce fruit, but even the crops themselves were killed~~
It was really hard to bear.
So they gave up growing their own crops and can only rely on Green Source to support them with food.
The last time the transportation team came, Li Hongwen also requested Green Source to provide 3 tons of clean water for trading, otherwise they would not have 5 tons (cubic meters) of inventory now.
The water taken back from outside needs to be filtered multiple times, and there is not much left that can be drunk.
These five tons of water are the maximum storage capacity of their containers that can be used to store water.
Perhaps most forces outside do not have such a large amount of water.
After all, they don't have a backer like Green Source.
"Come on! Even if we don't have the help of Green Source in the short term, we will definitely be able to get through it!"
"The shelter will immediately implement stricter restrictions on water and food use! Let everyone know that this is a critical period, and don't think that you can live like before!"
Li Hongwen made a decision immediately!
Huang Cailan and Li Cai also looked at the man firmly, they believed that everyone would be able to overcome this difficulty!
Four o'clock in the afternoon.
The aerial艇秦进was riding in returned to the base headquarters in Mentang Town as scheduled.
This trip to the Pearl City Oil Base went smoothly. Not only did he personally confirm the specific situation there, but he also confirmed that Wang Bin and Zhang Tiankai had no disloyal intentions.
It's not that he was judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's mind.
It is true that there are too many such situations in history where distant rulers are not as good as close officials, and even situations where they become kings themselves.
Fuel is a very important part of future development, and he doesn't want problems here.
Including Zhang Tiankai, who was also a brother brought up from before the apocalypse, it is best that everyone can continue to be brothers.
Fortunately, everything is as usual.
He already has some ideas. After the drought ends, he needs to change to other better management methods. Not only must all the cadres be mobilized, but he, the head of the base, must also be liberated.
Creating such a large base, but tying himself to it, unable to properly enjoy all the beauty of the world, then what is the use of this leader?
He doesn't want to become the kind of robot who spends all day in the office in the future.
He must constantly tell himself that this is only temporary. In the future, when the base is completely built, he can take a vacation and go to all the places to have fun.
Find a few girlfriends and have a football team?
Um.
Get out of here again, stray thoughts.
The great cause has not yet been completed.
The oil base matter has come to an end for the time being, but Qin Jin, who had just returned to the base, brought back a group of people.
Those children Zhang Tiankai requested.
"This is our headquarters. Someone will pick you up to your residence later and tell you how to live here in the future. Study hard, and if you have the opportunity in the future, you can go back to the oil base every month to visit your family and friends!"
Qin Jin dropped a sentence and handed over these children who were brought to the Green Source headquarters for the first time to Wang Yang, who rushed over.
(End of this chapter)
