#535 - Chapter 533: How is "Moving Forward"?

July 25th.

The temperature hadn't dropped below sixty degrees for the next few days.

It was as if the temperature was welded in place.

The weakening trend of Blue Star's magnetic field seemed to have slowed down, and the solar storms shooting from outer space towards Blue Star continued to pass through the weak magnetic field and pounce on the earth unscrupulously.

The sun was still scorching.

Under such circumstances, except for some survivors who didn't know whether to live or die and still went out to find supplies, almost all creatures became silent, waiting for the temperature to drop and the next rain to come.

Everything was silent.

The air was distorted.

Mentang Town.

During this period, no more female and child survivors came to rely on Green Source. Among the survivor groups outside Green Source, almost all women and children of suitable age had entered the 20 small residential areas.

No one would refuse such a good thing.

The base headquarters had done statistics. The number of women who joined this wave was 651!

And the number of children under 12 was 125!

Suddenly, the entire Green Source increased by nearly eight hundred people again!

After absorbing these people, there was a high probability that they would not leave.

And there were still about two to three hundred relatives of these women and children outside the Green Source area.

They had also exchanged a lot of clean water sources through trading points. As long as they didn't use it indiscriminately, Qin Jin estimated that they should be able to survive this drought.

Of course, the specific situation would depend on the development of the situation during this period.

Shanshi City.

Coal Mine Shelter.

This place was also experiencing an unprecedentedly terrible high temperature.

The shelter naturally stopped coal mining and material searching, and all personnel shrank inside the shelter and no longer went out.

The transportation and trading of coal had stopped. Even if it was mined out at this time, no one would come to exchange it for food. If they fell ill from forced labor, they would really want to cry without tears.

At this time, this small shelter arranged some cloth and plastic film outdoors to block some open-air areas, so that people would not be exposed to the sun when walking around.

No personnel were arranged to be on duty on the shelter's walls for a long time. Sending people up at this temperature would kill them.

And there was absolutely no possibility that zombies would come outside.

"Cailan, how much water do we have left?"

Inside one of the rooms in the shelter, several fans were whirring, and an air conditioner was working hard. Li Hongwen, who was sitting inside, asked his wife with a worried face.

Their energy here was not scarce. They had some solar power generation equipment and two small thermal power generators provided by Green Source, so they could still power several air conditioners and some fans.

As the leader's family, their family of three lived in a two-bedroom apartment with an air conditioner. Other members of the shelter were divided into several groups and squeezed into large rooms to enjoy it separately.

Moreover, air conditioner water, a precious resource that came with using electricity, would definitely not be wasted. All of it was collected for later drinking.

At this time, no one cared about whether it was dirty or not.

"Currently, our water source is still okay. It won't be a big problem to last for more than a month or even two months. Now everyone doesn't go out to work and sweats less, and they all know that this is a very critical period. In normal life, there is almost no water used except for drinking."

"If it doesn't rain and cool down within a month, we will implement a stricter water and diet plan! It should be no problem to last at least another 2 months!"

Huang Cailan, as the general manager of shelter supplies, was naturally familiar with these data and could blurt them out without thinking.

Li Hongwen's face relaxed slightly after hearing his wife's words.

His pressure had been great during this period. There were nearly a hundred people in the entire shelter, and they had to eat and drink every day. It was really hard to say whether their stockpiled supplies of water could survive this drought.

If it was stricter, they could last more than two months. In theory, the drought should be over, right?

Their shelter was backed by Green Source, which was much better than most external forces.

At least they could have two meals a day here, and each person could drink about 1 liter of water.

He had taken his team out to find supplies and water a few days ago, and he had met survivors outside and learned that they didn't even have a quarter of the treatment of the Coal Mine Shelter!

The current Coal Mine Shelter was definitely a place that many survivors around the Shanshi Coal Mine yearned for.

People who joined not only had the protection of safe walls, but also had a fixed amount of food and drinking water every day, and even enjoyed air conditioners and fans!

It was completely incomparable to people outside.

However, Li Hongwen had temporarily strictly prohibited accepting more people, no matter how miserably the people outside pleaded, he still held the bottom line and rejected them.

They couldn't afford to support them!

Their current state was only considered to be so-so. If they accepted more people to share the already small resources, it would undoubtedly reduce the welfare benefits of the entire shelter!

Although this place was under his control, Li Hongwen, he still had to listen to the opinions of the people below.

Otherwise, it would be really difficult to command these people in the future.

"Where did Acai go? Why haven't I seen her today?"

After chatting with his wife for a while, Li Hongwen suddenly asked where his daughter was.

"Oh, Acai got up in the morning and went to Xiaofang and the others to tinker with things, saying that she wanted to find a way to create a water source to reduce the pressure on the shelter."

Find a way to create a water source?

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One side of the Coal Mine Shelter.

Under a building covered by a shed, a group of four or five people were wearing sunscreen clothing and tinkering with something.

"Sister Cai, is this really useful? Can this method really evaporate some water vapor and then obtain a water source?"

A young voice came from a tightly wrapped figure, looking curiously at another girl who was fiddling with coal and some metal pieces.

The younger girl was Xiaofang, whom Li Cai had brought back from outside before. As for the other one who was tinkering with things, it was naturally Li Cai.

"Yes, according to the principle of water vapor condensation, for example, when people who wear glasses walk out of an air-conditioned room, a layer of water mist will appear on them, that is, when water vapor encounters a low-temperature surface, it will condense. Using the same principle, we create a larger scene. In theory, we can also obtain a water source."

"It's just that the amount of water obtained may be very small."

Li Cai smiled and continued to spread the prepared plastic film on the soil pits that had just been dug.

"Although the weather is very hot, there will always be some water vapor remaining in the soil. We only need to force out these water vapors and collect them. Over time, it will be considerable."

"I used to watch some TV shows and joined a wilderness survival group, and I learned a lot of ways to collect water from it."

"Speaking of which, I have to thank those group members, haha."

Speaking of this.

Li Cai suddenly thought of something.

At the end of last year, when the apocalypse had just broken out, a group member named "Qianjin" in a certain doomsday survival group said that he could go to Fenghuo County to find him.

That happens to be within the sphere of influence of the Green Source Base.

I wonder if this "Qianjin" is still alive?

If he is still alive, how is he doing now?

Has he been taken in by Green Source?

Has he joined Green Source and become a person with a rank?

Or is he still struggling to survive outside, and is he now suffering from thirst and hunger?

(End of this chapter)