Chapter 1569: Cave Life

Opportunities and risks coexist. Perhaps the current situation is the best situation. There is no need to regret it.

The remaining 5㎡ space in the underground shelter is directly used to stack charcoal. By the way, a small bed is also woven here, and they can spend the night here in the future.

With this underground shelter, the two people's ability to resist risks has been greatly improved, which is equivalent to leaving themselves an extra way. Even if the shelter on the ground is hit by a disaster or blown down by a strong wind, they can move to the underground shelter and avoid dying completely in the cold wave.

And the two have made plans. If possible, they can dig a few more underground shelters in the future, or even directly move their living places underground, which can greatly improve safety and warmth.

After building the underground shelter, the next few days will be relatively leisurely. There is no heavy work, and there are fewer things to do every day.

The main thing is to clean up the snow around to prevent the snow from being too thick to crush the house, and check the crops in the underground shelter by the way. There is nothing else.

At this time, the time has come to the third month, and the cold wave has officially arrived.

Maybe it doesn't look like much has changed, it's still snowing and the wind is still howling.

But around midnight, the two of them were woken up by the cold at the same time, huddled in bed and shivering.

Bai Hao tightened his clothes and pants, shivering as he typed: "Haizi, do you feel that the weather has suddenly become much colder?"

"Haozi, I'm shaking like this, do you think I'm cold?"

"Well, how come the temperature drops so fast? This is the first time I've felt so cold since I put on this set of clothes."

"That's right." Huang Hai was also a little surprised and doubtful: "With the fireplace before, the temperature in the shelter could be maintained at around 20 degrees, but looking at the current situation, it should be only around 6 or 7 degrees, right?"

Bai Hao nodded and said: "The cold wave has completely arrived, and the cold air outside is penetrating. Although we covered the inner and outer walls with clay, there are still many gaps, and the roof is not covered with clay, and the cold air is also penetrating."

Although their shelter looks very solid inside, the actual warmth effect is not as good as imagined.

Their walls are actually a row of wood, and then wrapped with a layer of clay. When the weather is not so cold, the warmth retention effect is relatively good.

But once the temperature drops, the disadvantages of this inferior shelter are obvious.

And the most important point is that the various joints of the shelter are actually ventilated.

For example, the corners of the wall, the joints between the wall and the ground, the roof and the joints between the roof and the wall, and even the doors and windows... There are many gaps when making them. Once the cold wind penetrates, the temperature in the shelter immediately drops a lot.

The two also noticed this, but it is a bit late to remedy it now. Where can they find clay?

After freezing all night, Bai Hao couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Haizi, why don't we go to the river to get some clay? Repair this shelter."

"Is it too late to rest now?"

"But we can't just go on like this. The cold wave has just started. Let's not freeze like grandsons..." Bai Hao was wearing thick clothes and spinning around in the shelter.

After thinking for a long time, they still didn't go to dig clay. After all, it was not a simple project to repair the entire shelter.

Even adding a layer of clay to the roof would take one or two days, and that was when it didn't snow before.

According to the current situation, it was snowing heavily outside and the cold wind was howling. If the roof was lifted, the two of them would probably be frozen to death outside.

They couldn't make up their minds to do such an uncertain thing.

Moreover, the riverside was now covered with snow, and it was very difficult to dig clay.

Finally, the two ran to the underground shelter and lit the fireplace of the underground shelter to see how warm it was.

It turned out that the warming effect here was indeed much better than their original shelter. Even if the fireplace was not lit, the temperature could be maintained at around zero degrees.

Of course, this was when the ventilation pipe was blocked.

Generally, they would block the ventilation pipe to prevent the cold air from outside from coming in and destroying the crops here.

However, if they want to live here, they need to open the ventilation pipe. Although there is a fireplace to increase the temperature, the ventilation pipe also has cold air coming down, and the temperature is maintained below ten degrees.

The situation in the underground shelter is indeed better than the ground shelter, but there are still many inconveniences in living here.

After all, most of the areas here have been planted with crops, and the remaining 5㎡ are also piled with charcoal, which can't accommodate two people at all.

After staying for a while, they returned to the ground shelter.

In fact, the best way to solve the current problem is to buy a big quilt, two people squeeze together to sleep, plus the fireplace, it should be able to barely resist the cold.

But in the current situation, there is no source of food, and the two are really reluctant to spend 10 survival coins to buy quilts!

10 survival coins, how much food do you need to consume to redeem it?

Until the end, the two did not make up their minds, but they thought of a new place, which is the stone cave behind.

That is, the small cave where the two lived when they came here on the first day. The entrance of the cave was narrow, which could shelter them from the wind. The space inside the cave was quite spacious, but it was not suitable for daily life, but it was definitely enough to stay there for one night.

More importantly, the cave was completely closed and had excellent warmth retention.

After thinking about it, the two of them headed for the hill in the cold wind. After entering it, although the temperature inside was not necessarily very high, it was completely isolated from the cold outside.

"Hey, this place is really good. If we can light a fire, the temperature will definitely be much higher than in the shelter." Bai Hao said with some surprise.

Huang Hai looked around and said helplessly: "But isn't the space here a little too small? It can barely accommodate the two of us, and it's hard to even turn over."

"It's okay." Bai Hao shook his head indifferently and said: "Let's dig it a little more, and the place should be much larger."

As he said that, he took the back of the axe and knocked on the surrounding stones.

Although the stones here are very hard, many fragments were knocked off by the knocking of iron tools.

Moreover, there is no need to use tough measures. You can use a more relaxed method to expand the cave.