Chapter 1567: Digging an Underground Shelter

Therefore, generally speaking, they would go as far away as possible to collect, specifically looking for dead wood. After cutting it off, the two of them would carry it back together, which was very efficient.

Because there are two of them, you can choose some thicker and taller trees, the largest ones can even weigh hundreds of pounds.

In just an hour or two, they could carry hundreds of kilograms of wood and pile it all around the shelter.

When night falls, he will not immediately return to the shelter to rest. Instead, he will put on his warm clothes and start a new round of work at night.

In the camp outside the shelter, a large fire was formed with stones to illuminate the surrounding area. The lighting also provided some warmth, ensuring that they had a good environment when working outside.

Although it was already night, it was impossible for the two of them to go to bed so early. Instead of staring at each other in the shelter, it was better to work around the shelter.

The large amounts of wood transported back during the day require secondary processing for longer storage and better use.

The wood is still too big. If all the wood is stored, it will occupy a very large area, and it is not resistant to burning. One or two people came up with a solution.

That is burning wood into charcoal.

Charcoal is smaller, can store more in the same space, generates more heat when burned, and produces less smoke.

These benefits are in sharp contrast to wood, so the two of them will take advantage of the night time to make charcoal from wood.

This process is not easy to say, but it is not very difficult to say how difficult it is.

You only need to cut the wood into small pieces, then put it into the earthen kiln to smolder. After a series of procedures, charcoal of relatively good quality will finally be formed.

They do this job for four to five hours every day.

If you had a watch, you would have found that I worked from around 5pm until around 10pm, and then returned to the shelter to sleep.

The whole day's work will be very fulfilling, and almost all the time will be used. Only in this way can one barely survive in the wild.

Not only them, but every survivor lives like this. Whether it is day or night, they need to work hard to survive and barely make ends meet.

Everyday life is day after day, but because of the pressure of survival, it does not feel boring, but gradually accepts this kind of life.

They still have about a month to prepare, because according to previous plans, the cold wave will arrive in about three months.

Now that the cold wave is getting closer and closer, there is less and less time for them to prepare, and it is also the time for many people to make their last efforts.

If they cannot find enough food during this period to survive the cold wave, many people will die in this cold wave.

This civilization will also usher in its first large-scale death and eliminate the first batch of survivors with insufficient abilities.

Qi Yuan silently watched the development of the world, as if he could see the path that humans on earth had taken before, and it seemed that they had experienced various disasters before they came all the way.

In the following time, Bai Hao and Huang Hai continued to live hard, storing more and more food, and accumulated a sufficient amount of charcoal, which was all stored around the shelter.

But as the weather gets colder and closer to the cold wave, there is less and less food.

Potatoes, wild vegetables and the like cannot grow in cold weather. Even if you spend a long time digging every day, you can only harvest some shriveled potatoes, and the quantity is still very small. You can only dig one or two kilograms in a whole day.

This means that during the period before the cold wave comes, it is no longer possible to obtain food by digging potatoes!

As for hunting wild animals, whether they are small animals, squirrels, rabbits, or large predators, they have all gone into hiding and rarely come out to hunt again, which makes it impossible for survivors to obtain enough meat.

All channels for obtaining plants seemed to have been blocked, leaving the two of them with nothing to do these days.

So I can only focus more on the planting industry in the shelter.

They split the bamboo in half, filled it with fertile soil, and planted potatoes that had been cut into pieces and sprouted to begin the first round of planting.

After that, they will be poured with organic fertilizer every day so that the potatoes can grow better.

There are also cassava and rhizomes, and they have also planted a batch, but I don’t know what the survival rate is. After all, both of them are just laymen, so how do they know how to grow these things?

All I know is to bury the seeds or rhizome pieces in the soil, and then water and fertilize them every day. If they can survive, they will survive. If they don’t, we’ll talk about it later.

When I buy planting books in the future, everything should be easier, and I won't be fumbling forward like I am now, with many things being done in vain.

About two months and twenty days later, the two of them took a complete break and stopped working outside.

On the one hand, even if you go out, you won't be able to gain much, and your efforts are often just in vain.

On the other hand, it’s snowing!

When he woke up in the morning, he felt that it was extremely dark outside the house. Bai Hao opened the wooden window next to the dining table and saw that it was completely white outside, and the ground and mountains were covered with thick snow.

"It's snowing!"

Bai Hao's eyes were stunned. Although he had been mentally prepared for it, when he actually saw it snowing, he still felt his heart skip a beat.

This means that the cold wave has really arrived. This is not a good thing, but a disaster, a disaster that may take the lives of countless people!

Moreover, no one can escape this disaster, and no one knows what kind of difficulties they will encounter!

And from this day on, the two of them can't go out, and all sources of food have been cut off.

Just stretched out my hand to feel the temperature outside the house, it has dropped to several degrees below zero. Going out in this weather will greatly increase the probability of catching a cold.

Fortunately, they built a relatively sturdy shelter, and the temperature inside is relatively high, which can be maintained at about 20 degrees.

As long as the fire can be maintained, the temperature can be maintained.

But they don't know that this mighty cold wave is just the beginning now.

The snowfall in front of them, which is rare in the human world for a hundred years, is just the beginning of everything. It is a sign before the real cold wave comes. When the cold wave really comes, the temperature will be even lower, and the challenges they need to face will be more severe.

However, what made Qi Yuan feel relieved was that even though it had started snowing and the environment outside was so bad, Bai Hao and Huang Hai did not choose to lie down in the shelter, but started a new round of work as soon as the snow stopped.