#538 - Chapter 538: Alternative Water Collection
August 7th.
Another week has passed in August.
However, the high temperature outside has not weakened at all, and it is still maintained at a high of sixty degrees!
It has stagnated!
Under this terrible high temperature, the outdoors during the day is simply a fiery hell, and any survivors who dare to stay for a long time will feel the scorching heat.
During this period, in the entire Hua Nation, the number of survivors who didn't believe in this and died in the outdoor sunlight is estimated to exceed hundreds of thousands!
They did not encounter zombies or accidents, but simply died from heatstroke and heatstroke due to staying outdoors for a long time!
And staying indoors, more survivors are beginning to face shortages of water and food!
Compared to food, an adult can go for almost a month without eating much.
But without water, they will die in more than 4-5 days!
The drinking water crisis is coming!
Countless survivors who did not store enough water, thinking that the drought would not last so long, desperately discovered that their estimates were wrong, and this terrible drought would not end in a short time!
The clear blue sky every day tells them that there is no sign of rain or cooling in the next few days.
If they don't drink water, many survivors will die of thirst!
"What should I do!? My family's drinking water is all gone today! There's really not a drop left! Can anyone lend me some!? I'll pay you back a pound of grain when I find it later!"
Some survivors who have entered various forces' bases and shelters are also beginning to face a water shortage crisis and are starting to ask their neighbors and strangers for help.
However.
Who would be willing to lend a helping hand in this situation?
No one dares.
Lending out precious water at this time may cause them to not survive this drought!
The only way for water-scarce survivors is to go out and find it themselves!
However, going out means facing extreme heat and radiation from the sun.
This is a vicious cycle.
Including some scattered survivors, they are not much better off. Those who are not fully prepared begin to forcibly leave their homes to gamble on a glimmer of hope for survival.
It's not possible during the day?
Then go out at night!
After the sun goes down at night, the temperature is only thirty or forty degrees. Even zombies at night are not numerous at this temperature, so you can go out and take a gamble!
At this point, many survivors who feel desperate begin to leave their homes at night, hoping not to encounter zombies and find water.
Unfortunately, is the real situation that easy?
If you can't find water during the day, it won't appear at night.
Those big rivers, reservoirs, and pools had already completely dried up some time ago, or they were filled with a large number of zombies sheltering from the heat inside.
Except for some indoor areas that no one has searched that may have some leftovers, and some special places that have some water left, it is almost impossible to find drinkable water resources.
Drinking urine has become most people's helpless choice. Compared to dying of thirst, self-production and self-sales can at least last for a while longer.
The situation is getting more and more serious.
Night.
Dragon Gate County.
In a certain building, seven or eight men are stripped to the waist, wishing they could take off their skin to get a little more coolness.
They are the group of cannibals who migrated from the periphery of Green Source that were introduced earlier.
As of today, they have also run out of water!
"Damn it! Our water is completely gone today!? What should we do? We can't find a drop of water outside now! If this continues, we will all die!"
A man lay on the floor like a dead dog, panting heavily to his companions in other rooms.
As cannibals, they are not short of food.
But they are short of water!
There are a full 8 of them, and they consume more than 10 liters of water every day.
The original 5 barrels of drinking water seemed like a lot to them, but the weather was so terribly hot that they were sweating like crazy every day, and they had to drink a lot of water to relieve the heat with their mouths dry.
As a result, they completely drank the last drop this morning!
"Several of us ventured out to find water last night, but we really couldn't find anything! I can't even pee now, otherwise I would want to drink my own pee!"
They are a little desperate.
They originally thought that they would not have to worry about food and could live longer than most people in this apocalypse, but they didn't expect such a drought to suddenly come. Before they could finish eating the "food", they would die of thirst first.
How ironic.
At this time, a bald man stood up. He glanced at the night outside. Under the cloudless night sky, he could see very far even without the light.
He simply put on a piece of clothing, picked up a machete, and looked like he was about to go out.
The survivors have long adapted to this lightless environment, and they can walk outdoors at night and identify directions without technological lighting.
"Rat, what are you going to do? Did you think of a way to survive?"
The man who took the knife and prepared to go out looked back at his companions, showing a morbid and pale smile.
"I'm going to find water to drink."
!!?
"Where is there any water!? Damn it! Why didn't you say it earlier, take us with you!"
The men in the room who heard this jumped up from the ground, not caring about their weakness!
There's water!
Then there's a way to survive!
"Hehe, have you forgotten?"
The man called Rat chuckled in the dark, his whole person spoke a little crazy, looking at these companions who had not yet reacted and explained:
"We have slaughtered so many 'meat pigs', don't they have a lot of 'water' that will spray out of them?"
!!!
"You...you mean!!?"
The companions instantly reacted under Rat's reminder!
Yes!
When 'meat pigs' are cut open, a large amount of 'liquid' will always splash out. Isn't that 'liquid' clean and good water that can be directly drunk!!!
According to television programs introduced in peacetime, an adult meat pig contains about 4-5 liters of 'liquid'!
And that is an energy-rich source of water!
It's simply a tonic!
"It has to be you, Rat! I almost forgot! Damn it! Let's go catch meat pigs!"
The men in the room all had red eyes.
This companion called Rat was right!
It's not that you can't find water outside, as long as you have an eye for discovery, you can find hope for survival!
Taking advantage of the night, this group of men acted.
They knew roughly where the survivors lived around them, and those were their water bags for survival!
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Not only this group of survivors in Dragon Gate County, but also more survivors have long discovered the existence of this mobile water bag.
Some people even started this 'water extraction' activity earlier!
In countless dark rooms, scenes that challenge the limits of human beings have been constantly staged.
Darkness.
Has never stopped.
(End of this chapter)
