Chapter 1750 The snow has stopped, the largest zombie animal?

Twenty days later

It is bright in the daytime now. If it were not for the blizzard, the view would be better.

Eight o'clock in the morning.

Trade market.

Business district.

Shop No. 2.

Crowded people are holding umbrellas and queuing to buy tortillas.

The snowflakes are falling, and they shake the umbrellas in their hands from time to time to shake the snowflakes off the ground.

The blizzard has been falling for twenty days. There are almost no vendors in the business district. It is too cold.

There are fewer customers in the shops in the business district.

In addition to this shop No. 2, there is a pawn shop and a bathhouse with better business, and the business of other shops is quite bleak.

Due to the deterioration of business, some shops can't afford the expensive rent, so they join forces to apply for rent reduction from Oil City.

After Lao Huang reported the needs of these shops, after discussion and resolution by the senior management of Oil City, these merchants were given a 50% discount on rent.

The reason why the business is so bad is strongly related to the temperature outside.

Apart from buying food, the survivors basically huddled in the warm room.

Those who had jobs returned to their homes immediately after work.

The temperature outside had now reached minus 45 degrees Celsius, and water turned into ice.

No one wanted to stay outside for a long time.

Huh——

Chen Chen took a dozen tortillas from the staff of Restaurant No. 2, quickly stuffed them into a cloth bag, and then stuffed the cloth bag into his arms.

The temperature was low now, and without insulation, the tortillas would soon get cold, become hard and dry, and tasted bad.

He held the tortillas in his pocket, lowered his head and hurried to the residential building.

After walking a few steps, he heard a noisy discussion behind him.

"God has eyes, the snow seems to be getting smaller!"

"Huh? It's true, let's stop it quickly, it snows every day, I'm so tired of it."

Chen Chen stopped, raised his head, stretched out his hand, and felt the snowflakes.

He was surprised to find that the snow seemed to be getting smaller.

In the past, he would reach out his hand for a while and his whole hand would be full of snowflakes, but now it is not the case.

The snow has become smaller, which is a good thing!

It has been snowing so heavily that I dare not go out.

The corn tortilla in Chen Chen's arms was just steamed and was still a little hot. The heat radiated from the cloth bag and stuck to his inner clothes, making his stomach feel a little warm.

The snow has become smaller, and his mood has improved.

On the way back to the residential building, Chen Chen could hear the discussions of passers-by all the way. They were all talking about the snow becoming smaller.

No one wants the snow to keep falling.

The blizzard lasted for twenty days. Many engineering jobs in the oil city and the trading market were suspended. Many survivors had no jobs, no points, and no source of income.

It has been the seventh year of the apocalypse. It is too difficult to obtain food resources from the outside world.

The camphor tree base and the oil city do not rely on these survivors for food.

At this point, the base's need for survivors is their people, human resources, and talents to develop and build, expand the planting range, so as to produce more food and form a positive cycle.

The camphor tree force has now formed its own self-sufficient ecological closed loop, and can even feed more survivors through the food it produces.

Feed more survivors and develop the oil city and headquarters base through these labor forces.

The camphor tree base is like a ship, and these survivors are like rowers on this ship. These rowers slide the water vigorously and push the camphor tree base forward.

Chen Chen hurried back to the residential building.

Pushing open the door, everyone in the room was awakened by the cold wind blowing from outside.

"Boss Meng, Brother Wang, the snow outside has become smaller. I think it will stop soon."

Chen Chen said as he closed the door with his foot.

"The snow has become smaller?" Meng De got up from the bed and ran out of the room in a piece of clothing.

He wore a gray-yellow underwear with four or five holes in his upper body, and a pair of loose bear pajamas on his lower body, without socks.

As soon as he rushed out, a gust of cold wind mixed with snowflakes blew towards him.

Hiss!

Damn, it's so cold!

After all, it was more than 40 degrees below zero outside, and he, who was originally drowsy, woke up in a second.

He habitually stretched out his hand, raised his head and looked at the sky, and the corners of his mouth slowly rose.

Hey!

The snowflakes were fluttering, but the snow was really getting smaller.

He turned his eyes and showed a thoughtful look.

Suddenly, he shuddered all over and ran to the room quickly.

It was too cold.

He had only been outside for less than half a minute, and he was numb all over.

As soon as he entered the room, he felt comfortable all over.

The temperature in the room reached more than 20 degrees. If they stayed in the room for a long time, they would have nosebleeds because the room was too dry.

Later, they came up with a solution, which was to use basins and other containers to collect snow outside and put them in the room to replenish water.

Not to mention, after putting seven or eight basins of water in the room, the room was not so dry.

The melted snow can also be used as drinking water, saving water bills.

Others in the room also ran out to see, and after finding that the snow had become smaller, they ran back to the room excitedly.

"Boss, the snow has become smaller, do we have work to do?"

"Yeah, didn't we all sign up for the construction of the greenhouse in Buffer City and pass the physical examination before? Later, we were told that the construction was suspended because of the heavy snow. Now that the snow has stopped, we must restart the construction, right?"

Everyone looked at Meng De. Meng De sat on the edge of the bed, frowning and said:

"Not necessarily, the temperature is still too cold now, and the construction project may not restart."

He has done engineering before, and he knows that generally, concrete pouring is not suitable when the temperature is below minus 3 degrees Celsius.

When the temperature is below minus 3 degrees Celsius, the water in the concrete is easy to freeze, causing the hydration to stop, thus affecting the strength and durability of the concrete.

However, there is no solution. You can add water reducing agent, toughening agent, magnesium chloride and other admixtures, which can improve the strength and early strength of concrete and shorten the setting time.

But now the temperature is not just below zero, it is more than 40 degrees below zero.

It is very difficult to build in such extremely low temperatures.

Wang Ou next to him said:

"Brother Meng, we have built ten experimental greenhouses in the trading market. They are all made of fine steel and PC solar panel structures. Concrete is rarely used. How about I take people to the mission hall first and wait for news? How about coming back and telling everyone?”

Meng De thought for a while, nodded and said:

"Okay, if there are new notifications over there, you can come back and tell me."

After receiving Meng De's reply, Wang Ou quickly put on his clothes. They had been living in this room for twenty days with nothing to do. They saw that the points in the number card were getting less and less. It was a lie to not be in a hurry.

"Xie Wang, you also get dressed and come with me later." Wang Ou said to Xie Wang, who was sleeping on the upper bunk.

"good."

When Chen Chen saw them going out, he quickly distributed the tortillas he brought back to them.

"Here, here are the tortillas we just bought. They are still hot. Eat them while they are hot."

Wang Ou tore off a small piece of corn tortilla and stuffed it into his mouth. The freshly steamed corn tortilla was more delicious than the corn tortilla that had been stored for several days.

But he was afraid of wasting time, so he stuffed more than half of the remaining tortillas into his arms, carried his own large 1-liter thermos cup and walked out of the room.

Xie Wang followed his footsteps while eating corn cakes.

In the hallway, two people were shoveling snow.

Wang Ou glanced at these two people, they were twin sisters that many people in their building coveted.

It is said that these two people have some relationship with the Civil Armed Forces Brigade, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.

Seeing Wang Ou and others coming, Dai Xinyan and Dai Xinyi stopped shoveling the snow and let them go first.

"Yes." Wang Ou nodded to them.

Snow is shoveled five meters around the residential building, in the aisles, and on the roof of the building. The snow shoveling in these places is done on a rotating basis, and it is done by the people who live in the whole building.

It's been two rounds now.

Today it happened to be Dai Xinyi's turn.

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Just as Wang Ou and the others were heading to the mission hall, news that the snow had become lighter also spread in the Oil City.

Oil City.

Lao Luo came to the minister's office.

"Minister, the snow has become lighter, have you seen it?"

The third uncle glanced out the window, nodded and said, "I saw it."

Lao Luo continued to ask:

"Should the greenhouse construction plan that was previously suspended be restarted?"

"We will organize a meeting later to bring in the people from Jie Changshan to study the feasibility. The temperature is over forty degrees below zero. I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble building a greenhouse at such a low temperature." The third uncle said solemnly.

"Yes." Lao Luo turned and left.

Construction at minus 40 or 50 degrees Celsius is extremely difficult.

Leave professional matters to professionals. Xie Changshan and his colleagues are professionals. We still need to listen to their opinions on whether we should restart the construction of greenhouses.

The temperature is dropping too fast now. In just twenty days, the temperature dropped from minus 5 degrees to minus 45 degrees.

I don't know how long such a frozen natural disaster will last. Although they have stored a lot of food, they will never feel at ease as long as they can't build the greenhouse and start planting and production.

Now that the heavy snow has turned to light snow, and the sky has become brighter, there is a high probability that it will stop snowing in the future.

Even if the snow stops, it will be difficult for the headquarters base to transport a large amount of food in a short period of time. The snow is so thick that it is difficult to drive food from the headquarters base.

If the temperature remains at tens of degrees below zero, when the food in the oil city is exhausted, the trading market will collapse and be destroyed.

An hour later.

Oil City held a special seminar on restarting greenhouse construction.

At the meeting, Xie Changshan gave a reply on the construction of greenhouses under the current temperature.

It can be built, but the speed will be relatively slow. At the same time, the scaffolding may not be stable during the construction process because the scaffolding is made of ordinary steel.

When steel reaches minus 40 degrees Celsius, its toughness decreases and becomes more brittle, making it unable to support people and materials on the scaffolding.

The steel used to build greenhouses is alloy steel, which is a very precious metal steel collected by the Da Zhangshu Base over the years.

It can withstand high and low temperatures, and can maintain stability at dozens of degrees above and below zero.

For Da Zhangshu Base, nothing is more important than the greenhouse, so they use the best materials in the greenhouse.

"Minister, I saw a lot of logs outside the wood products factory. We can use logs to build scaffolding. These woods are all cold-resistant plants. I think we can give it a try."

"Besides, the greenhouse only needs to be built eight or nine meters, and the support of wood should be enough."

Uncle San didn't understand these things very well. He said:

"You are the chief engineer of the trade fair construction, you have the final say."

"Anyway, the greenhouse can be restarted, right?"

"Yes." Xie Changshan nodded.

"In that case."

Uncle San took a sip of tea and said:

"Then restart the construction. As for personnel recruitment, I remember recruiting some people last time. You can contact Lao Huang for details."

"Yes."

Zhong Chuchu and Liu Jinglue, who were sitting in the back seat, looked at each other and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Now the grain transported from the granary in the oil city to the trade fair every day is calculated in tons.

It has been twenty days. They watch so much grain being transported to the trade fair every day. They see it with their eyes and feel anxious in their hearts.

They count the food in the granary almost every day and calculate how long they can hold out.

It is impossible not to deliver food to the trading market, because the survivors of the trading market have a lot of points in their hands. If they do not exchange food with them, they will inevitably cause riots.

The riots can be suppressed by force. After all, the weapons of the survivors in the trading market have all been handed over. They only need to send a few militia brigades to suppress them.

However, if they cannot exchange points for food, the trust among more than 200,000 survivors will collapse, and the points system will collapse from then on.

Now, the greenhouse is finally going to be built.

After the greenhouse is built, seeds, fertilizers and other things are available in the oil city.

There is no need to worry about fertilizers. The excrement produced by more than 200,000 people every day can make a lot of organic fertilizers.

When the greenhouse is built and planting begins, they will not be living off the land, and the food pressure will be reduced.

The Western Pacific Ocean.

The world is frozen, and even the ocean surface has condensed a few meters of ice.

Above the ice layer, there is snow up to ten meters high.

Looking around, it is desolate, as if you are in a white desert.

And in this white desert, there is a place that is particularly abrupt.

There is no condensed ice layer within a radius of dozens of kilometers, and there is no snow.

The sea fog rolls, and the hot air rises up, melting the snowflakes falling from the sky and turning them into rain and fog.

It seems like a hot spring in Changbai Mountain before the end of the world.

There is snow everywhere around, but the hot spring flows in the pit.

On the sea, there is mist and rain, as if you are in a fairyland.

In this area, the sea fog covers the sky and the water vapor is extremely dense.

On the sea, there are densely packed zombies floating. These zombies have different body shapes and huge bodies, and some even have a huge tumor.

A huge whale swam out from the bottom of the sea.

"Woo--"

The whale sprayed a column of water from the top of its head, and water droplets fell down.

Such a large animal running out should definitely cause zombies to bite it.

But these zombies did not attack the whale. Whales are mammals and can also be infected with the zombie virus. They can be said to be the largest mammals that can be infected by the zombie virus.

The whale opened its jaws and eyes, revealing scarlet eyeballs. Under the water, its sharp fangs are longer and sharper than shark teeth.

The whale was covered with scars, and it can be seen from the scars that it should have been bitten by zombies a long time ago.

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