Chapter 481 Don’t go to the third floor if you have nothing to do (5300 words)
"Ugh..." Coco lay on the edge of the basin of ice that was releasing the chill, and screamed comfortably.
Xu Xin rested for a minute, then got up and went to the bathroom.
He wants to use an automatic water pump to pump water.
In another half hour the pool below him would be completely dry, as the lake's level would drop below the tank level.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he needed to collect as much water as possible.
Making some wooden basins and barrels to store water, he immediately began to store water.
I don’t know how long this hot summer will last, so it’s better to save more.
Half an hour later, the pump was no longer able to pump any water from the pool below.
He looked out of the window. Below him, the pool he dug and the water tank extending all the way to the lake had completely dried up, revealing the still slightly moist ground.
Then, under his gaze, under the fierce sunlight, the wet ground began to lose water at a speed visible to the naked eye. From dark loess, it gradually turned white, and then began to dry out!
The originally wet bottom of the pond turned into a broken earth pit within half a minute.
He looked towards the lake next to the tree house again.
The area of the lake has been greatly reduced.
The originally shallow water area was now completely exposed.
The bottom of the lake was similar to the bottom of the pond on his side. Under the harsh sunlight, cracks appeared!
Aquatic plants such as aquatic plants that originally grew far below the lake are withering rapidly.
After surviving the cold winter, these plants succumbed to the intense heat.
...outrageous.
This sunshine is really too poisonous!
He opened the window.
A wave of heat spread over his face, causing him to frown and narrow his eyes.
On his forehead, fine beads of sweat immediately appeared.
"This temperature..."
He immediately closed it again.
...The moment he opened the window, he seemed to be opening a furnace that was being smelted!
It must have been over forty degrees!
I'm afraid it's already around forty-five degrees!
He immediately contacted Li Wenxi.
"What's wrong?" Li Wenxi's voice was normal, and there were constant sounds of digging and mining.
"You're still in the mine, isn't it hot?" Xu Xin asked.
"It's not hot. This mine seems to be a good place to cool off." Li Wenxi explained, "We didn't even use the mined saltpeter to cool down. The temperature in this cave has always been maintained at more than 20 degrees."
It seems that the saltpeter mine can be said to be a natural place to escape the summer heat.
"Hey, they don't want to go back. After all, it's much hotter in the tree house than here." Li Wenxi said with a smile.
"It's a good way to escape the heat there." Xu Xin agreed, and then asked, "How much have you dug?"
"Hmm... I didn't count, Yajun! How much have we dug?" Li Wenxi directly asked Li Yajun, who was responsible for processing the mined saltpeter mine.
"The mining rate of saltpeter mines here is not high. Most of the mined stones are ordinary stones, and only a small part is saltpeter mines. In such a long time, only about a thousand pieces of green grade saltpeter have been mined, and... seven A piece of blue saltpeter.”
Li Yajun's voice reached Xu Xin's ears, surprising him.
This speed isn't too slow, it's over a thousand yuan an hour.
Of course, this is based on the fact that more than a dozen people on their side are mining together, and they have been mining for nearly an hour.
Judging from the efficiency of a single person, it is indeed relatively ordinary.
"Oh... the efficiency is so low!" Li Wenxi put down the hand holding the watch slightly and looked at her with some surprise, "I didn't seem to dig so slowly before, right?"
"The location where you mined before happened to be the location with the richest resources..." Li Yajun's voice was a little helpless, "it happened to be the best mining spot, and it was all saltpeter mines."
She pointed to the deepest part of the mine with one hand: "But that saltpeter mine has been almost mined by you. The other locations are filled with scattered saltpeter, and most of them are ordinary stones."
"That's right..." Li Wenxi nodded thoughtfully.
Hearing these words through his watch, Xu Xin also frowned slightly.
Li Wenxi's ability is to detect metal ore, but saltpeter mine is not a metal ore, so she should not know how much saltpeter reserve is left in this mine.
"Are you running out of saltpeter mines?" Xu Xin asked.
If this is the case, then they may have to consider whether they should help others.
After all, saltpeter is a very precious resource. As a raw material for explosives, it is also a consumable. Explosives are also their strongest means of fighting against invading enemies.
Before finding the next saltpeter mine, this mine is their entire reserve.
"I don't know." Li Wenxi's voice also contained a hint of worry, "Let's continue mining first. The saltpeter mine is still needed. I'll check the situation first."
"Okay. Now, don't sell saltpeter ore to others."
"Yeah!"
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin sighed.
After surviving today, those people shouldn't have much of a problem, right?
He himself had no problem.
It was actually very cool in his tree house.
Even...a little cold.
The wall of the tree house is too strong to insulate the temperature, and the temperature inside and outside the house cannot be transmitted, and the piece of blue-grade saltpeter is constantly emitting a chill to the outside.
This caused the temperature inside his tree house to drop directly below 20 degrees.
...Open a window.
Xu Xin opened the window slightly, allowing the temperature in the room to recover a little.
He sat on the sofa again.
In this situation, I can't go out, so sitting in the tree house can be regarded as a disguised rest.
As long as there is no beast wave coming, it will be fine.
He clicked on his watch and flipped through the World Channel at random.
Sure enough, all over the world, survivors are complaining.
Temperatures above 40 degrees are indeed too unbearable without air conditioning.
"I'm going crazy!"
"Is there something sick in this world!!"
"If I had known better, I would have collected more ice outside! Mad!"
"Who would have thought that the temperature would rise to 70 degrees!"
In their areas, in the early hours of this morning, before the sun came up, it was still 30 degrees below zero. As a result, just a few hours later, it was already over 40 degrees above zero.
Isn't this a direct temperature difference of 70 degrees?
But...
It's not easy for him to help today.
Forty degrees, this temperature is actually bearable.
"Hey, look, the points mall has a new one!"
At this time, a piece of information on the World Channel made his eyes light up.
New in points mall?
He immediately clicked into the points mall to check.
However, after seeing the new supplies hanging in the most conspicuous position in the points mall, he was speechless.
[Pu fan (blue): an essential item that can bring a bit of coolness to people in the hot summer. Points required: 100 points. 】
Cattail leaf fan?
Manual fan?
This thing...it seems like they can make it themselves...
But, blue level?
Something moved in his heart.
A blue-level fan only requires 100 points.
You know, new supplies in the cold winter, such as goggles, skateboards, etc., require 1,000 points for blue level.
So cheap!
He immediately spent 100 points to buy one.
Looking at the fan in his hand, he couldn't help but laugh.
This thing looks so familiar.
It’s really a Cattail Fan!
At this moment, what he held in his hand was a very ordinary palmetto fan.
The entire fan is dry yellow, made of palmetto leaves and handles, and is very light in the hand.
This should be the most widely used fan in their original world, right?
This thing...
He fanned himself slightly.
Um.
Ordinary wind.
Blue level supplies, this is it...?
It shouldn’t be.
At this time, the World Channel also became noisy.
"What! Selling a broken fan for 100 points? That's crazy! It's not like I can't do it myself!"
"Anything I can fan myself with is better than this 100-point broken fan!"
"No, look carefully! This is a blue-level fan!"
"What about a blue-level fan? If the quality is better, can it be used for a few more days? It is of great use!"
“Whoever buys it will love Sibi!”
100 points can be said to be a huge sum of money for those in weak areas.
Killing a mutated creature only costs thirty or forty points, and they may not have the opportunity or ability to kill the mutated creature.
That's why they just scream angrily.
He took another look at the alliance channels and regional channels.
I happened to see Ji Chaoyang talking on the alliance channel.
"Everyone, you can buy a cattail leaf fan. This blue-grade cattail leaf fan can blow relatively cool wind in the hot air."
Fan out a cool breeze?
Xu Xin was slightly startled.
He immediately came out of the tree house with a cattail fan and came to the ground.
"...It's so hot."
My hand has subconsciously started to fan the cattail leaf fan.
"Oh, this is really effective."
He looked at the cattail leaf fan in his hand in surprise.
The air is hot and dry. Normally, even if the wind is blowing, it will not be very cool.
But this Cattail Fan, just by fanning it gently, can make the air flow quickly, and...
It did lower the temperature slightly.
The flowing low-temperature air evaporated the sweat on his skin, making him feel that he could endure the hot environment for a while.
Is it really a blue-level material?
Still useful.
Of course, it's just bearable. It's definitely not comfortable.
But for ordinary survivors, with this thing, at least they will not be so hot that they go crazy, get heat stroke or even die.
Not bad stuff!
Just as he was about to return to the treehouse, he suddenly saw a figure moving in the direction of Lou Fei'er and Jin Yue's treehouse.
Um?
Who is outside on this hot day?
He suddenly became alert.
Isn't he a furry weirdo?
He stopped what he was doing and looked over there.
The figure flashed again, and this time he saw it clearly.
"Is it Jin Yue?" Xu Xin was a little surprised.
What is she doing outside?
However, her body has mutated and she should be able to easily tolerate the current temperature, which is normal outside.
He originally wanted to go over and ask, but now he couldn't stand standing in the shade of the treehouse canopy. When he thought of walking into the sun, he shook his head and returned to the treehouse.
Then contacted Lou Feier.
"What are you doing? How come I see Jin Yue outside?" He asked directly.
"Ah, she wanted to go out on her own." Lou Fei'er explained, "So, did you see a figure again? I don't know what happened, but I didn't see it."
"Are you in the treehouse?"
"Well, it's too hot outside, the sun is too dazzling, and it's not comfortable."
"Need to cool down your treehouse?"
"Ah? Is that okay?" Lou Fei'er immediately asked in surprise, "Yes... use that saltpeter to cool down?"
She is also a member of the [Explorers] group, so she naturally knows about saltpeter.
"Aren't you afraid of the heat?"
"I'm not afraid, but it's not comfortable either." Lou Fei'er's voice had a hint of laziness, "It's so hot that I don't want to do anything..."
really.
He thought of how Silver King and Mimi behaved in hot weather.
They were all lying on the ground too lazy to move.
Of course, this does not affect their activities. After all, he just rode the Silver King to the saltpeter mine. Apart from sticking out his tongue to dissipate heat, the Silver King showed no other abnormal behavior.
"However, if resources are scarce, there is no need to consider me. There is no big problem on my side."
She is quite well-behaved.
"I'll give you a piece of blue-grade saltpeter..." Xu Xin told Lou Fei'er how to use the blue-grade saltpeter. "Give it back to me after you've used it. I only have one piece."
Her treehouse also has the [Constant Temperature] capability, but because the temperature had already risen before it gained the Constant Temperature capability, that's why it's so hot in the house now.
Just lower the temperature.
"I love you so much!"
Lou Feier immediately cooled down her tree house.
Xu Xin also called Ma Hongwei and Zeng Tao.
Because when he was making crossbows, Ma Hongwei had blue-grade saltpeter in his hands, but he said it didn't matter to him, but his subordinates couldn't stand it anymore.
"Let them come to my tree house. Come over too." Xu Xin said.
Ma's magnificent treehouse does not have thermostatic capabilities, so it should be very hot right now.
But he didn't come, he wanted to continue studying the heavy crossbow.
His men quickly arrived at Xu Xin's side.
There were a total of eight people. Xu Xin did not let them come to the living area on the third floor. Instead, he divided several rooms for them in the extended area on the first floor and made beds and simple furniture for them.
"You guys, just sleep here for now."
"I know, Brother Xin!"
"Hello Brother Xin!"
These people are very satisfied.
Xu Xin returned to the third floor.
Speaking of the banyan tree extension below, the banyan tree outside his tree house has been dug up many times during this time.
Relying on the banyan tree, a two-story treehouse area has now been expanded for all members of the Explorers.
And his current expansion area has also increased from the initial 100 square meters to the current 180 square meters.
Almost doubled the area!
I didn’t pay much attention to it before, but now it seems that it has grown so much!
When Li Wenxi brings back those mining survivors, let them live down there too.
The space is large enough, and he is safe here. Most importantly, those who live here don't have to use saltpeter to adjust the temperature of the tree house.
Save some resources.
He spoke directly to Li Wenxi and informed him of his thoughts.
"Okay!" Li Wenxi immediately told the others about it, and the others also expressed great surprise.
After all, this is the tree house where Xu Xin lives and the most powerful boss in the world lives!
He contacted other people at Explorers who recommended this method to him.
Therefore, Qi Xuefei temporarily stopped cultivating the medicine and took people to Ji Chaoyang's place, leaving only two people to look after the house and changing people every two hours.
You still need to keep an eye on your own treehouse, but in this hot environment, your head will be dizzy after two hours, even with a cattail leaf fan, so you need to change people every two hours.
The two brothers Qin Yunlong and Qin Yunhu also followed suit. One went to Wang Lei's side and the other to Zhao Xiaochuan's side. They also left someone to look after the house.
In this way, the problem that the treehouses of Li Wenxi, Qi Xuefei, Qin Yunlong, and Qin Yunhu did not have [constant temperature] capabilities was solved.
The survivors who defected to their explorers also lived in comfortable rooms. The only drawback was that these survivors without watches could not use the treehouse screen to communicate with the outside world.
But they were all together, but they were not alone, but very happy.
Especially when I think that other people are still enduring the scorching heat, but they are chatting in the "air-conditioned room", I feel even happier.
Some people even brought mahjong playing cards that they had carved out of stone, and they started to get really happy.
An hour later, Li Wenxi also came with someone.
"Stop knocking, stop knocking, the efficiency is so low, let's come back and deal with their housing problem first!"
Unlike Ma Hongwei, whose men were all men, Li Wenxi still had several women in his hands. For convenience, Xu Xin arranged the men including Le Youfang and Niu Fugui on the first floor, and placed the men including Li Yajun on the first floor. Several women were arranged separately on the second floor.
Then he and Li Wenxi returned to the third floor.
"You guys, if you have nothing to do, don't go to the third floor!"
Li Wenxi shouted below.
"Boss, we won't even go up if you beat us to death!"
"Wen Xi, don't worry, we won't go up if we hear any noise!"
"Shut up, you guys!" Li Wenxi cursed with a smile, then closed the door and threw herself on the sofa. "Oh, it's cooler here! I just tried the blue saltpeter in the tree house, and the effect was really bad!"
"Can't cool it?" Xu Xin also came over and sat down and asked.
"Well." Li Wenxi sat up, "Blue-grade saltpeter can only be located in a small area to keep it cool, and it is consumed much faster than normal! If you use green-grade saltpeter, it will probably cost more than a dozen yuan. To be effective! Moreover, it needs to be replaced very frequently.”
"Your saltpeter..."
"So far, we have only dug out more than 3,000 green-level pieces and 15 blue-level pieces." Li Wenxi shook her head, "It's not that we have dug less and less, but the efficiency can't be improved."
It seems that the plan to use saltpeter to help others needs to be put on hold for the time being.
They must leave behind the raw materials for explosives to prevent possible crises.
Fortunately, people in District 188 have enough points, so buying a cattail leaf fan with 100 points is not a problem. It should not be a problem to last for a period of time in the scorching heat.
"Okay, let's take a rest now." Xu Xin leaned on the back of the sofa, turned to look at Li Wenxi and smiled.
"Hey, there is nothing more comfortable than sleeping in an air-conditioned room in the summer!" Li Wenxi picked up her collar and smelled it, "Is there any water? I kind of want to take a bath."
"Yes."
Xu Xin immediately turned the bracelet, took out a backpack, and then took out a large bucket filled with water from the backpack.
Although the pool below has dried up and the water pump has lost its function, there is no automatic shower, but you can take a bath directly.
Because the water is taken from outside, the water is directly warm.
Sitting on the sofa, listening to the sound of water lapping and humming coming from the bathroom from time to time, Xu Xin touched Coco, who was napping again on the armrest of the sofa, and felt slightly sleepy herself.
I really hope today can go by without incident.
At this moment, his watch vibrated.
He raised his hand and saw that he was no longer sleepy at all.
Shi Wanyun!
Is she back?
Thank you [book friend 20220707053145532] for the reward of 100 starting coins, thank you for your support, thank you!
(End of chapter)