With the help of Qin Lan and Ding Ning, the work in the shelter was completed much faster than usual when Chen Xin was alone.
The work that originally took Chen Xin a whole day to complete was completed in one morning with the joint efforts of the three people.
"I didn't expect that things could be done so quickly with help, so that the afternoon would be fine." While eating lunch, Chen Xin couldn't help but sigh. Sure enough, it was easier to do things with help.
Hearing what Chen Xin said, Ding Ning couldn't help but joked at him: "Axin said this, it seems that he wants someone to stay! Then do you want Sister Lan and me to stay? Or do you want Sister Lan to stay alone? Coming down?"
Ding Ning's words made both Chen Xin and Qin Lan feel a little shy, but Chen Xin still shook his head and said: "I would like you two to stay here, but would it be inconvenient for you two to go to work?"
Although Chen Xin's vehicle upgrade is already in progress, considering the distance between Chen Xin's shelter and the city, even if his SUV is upgraded to an ATV and can drive them to work, it is still not convenient. s Choice.
After all, even if the vehicle modification is completed, driving out frequently in today's environment is still a troublesome thing and not a safe option.
So Ding Ning just teased him and skipped the topic after Chen Xin said this.
Seeing that Ding Ning skipped this topic, Chen Xin didn't take it seriously. The three of them were still chatting about other topics while eating lunch.
"A Xin, what are you planning to do this afternoon?" Qin Lan took the initiative to ask Chen Xin about his afternoon arrangements.
She is not a person who can live idle, and in today's environment, having nothing to do is a very torturous thing.
"I plan to continue playing with my car in the afternoon and modify it." Chen Xin answered Qin Lan's question and also asked her: "Alan, what are you and Xiaoding going to do in the afternoon? If you want to play games, games You can play with it as you please.”
Faced with Chen Xin's politeness, Qin Lan shook her head and said, "Forget it about playing games. I want to do some physical training in the afternoon. I have been lying in the hospital for so long and I feel like my whole body is rusty."
When Chen Xin heard what Qin Lan said, he didn't stop her. He just told Qin Lan to pay attention to the wound and said nothing more.
Ding Ning, who was on the sidelines, expressed his interest in modifying the car and wanted to see how Chen Xin did it. He even said that he was protecting Chen Xin personally.
Hearing what Ding Ning said, Chen Xin didn't stop her. After all, Ding Ning was also sent to protect him? It's okay to guard him if you don't worry.
After lunch, Ding Ning took the initiative to take over the dishwashing work, while Qin Lan went back to the bedroom, ready to take a break and start restorative physical training in the afternoon. Chen Xin sat in front of the computer in his bedroom, looking at the design of the vehicle modification. Figure? By the way, I also opened the monitor to check the situation outside.
The snow at the gate of the shelter is getting deeper. From the perspective of the camera, almost half of the gate of Chenxin shelter is submerged in snow.
Not all of this snowfall comes from the sky. Although this city has abundant rainfall all year round due to its proximity to the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake, as the temperature further drops, most of the newly formed snow now does not come from the sky? It comes from other places. The snow was blown everywhere by the wind and was left behind after it was blown.
This also reflects from the side how bad the weather is today. Without sunlight, atmospheric circulation will lose its source of power, which will further worsen the climate.
The vegetation on the ground was also burned to death in the previous fires. It is impossible for the vegetation in the current environment to regenerate. The wind has lost its resistance and restraint and has become more and more violent.
In this environment, human survival will only become more difficult.
Perhaps because of the material reserves before the disaster, and the fact that the national system is still there, it is still possible to ensure that most of the survivors can maintain basic living conditions. It is even possible to further improve living conditions, but this does not mean that Everything is over? Next is post-disaster reconstruction? Everything is developing for the better.
Take this city as an example? At first glance, everything in this city seems to be operating normally. Except that the surface is uninhabitable and people have to live in underground shelters, everything seems to be recovering.
The roads between various shelters are open, and the supply of food and materials is guaranteed. As long as people in various shelters in the city are willing to work, they will always have a meal, even if they are not willing to do dangerous work and are just taking refuge. You won't starve to death if you find work in the institute.
But all this is based on the fact that there are no problems with the city's material supply.
The food is not bad. Before the disaster, the city had granaries and stored a large amount of food. After the disaster, mushrooms were grown in official planting areas and various shelters, and rats and mealworms were raised. Food self-sufficiency was still more or less guaranteed, although There are only a few types of food, but at least you can guarantee that you won't starve to death.
But the supply of other materials is very problematic, especially the supply of coal.
This city is located on the shore of Dongting Lake. Before the disaster, it was indeed surrounded by mountains and rivers. It can be said to have beautiful scenery and beautiful environment. Chen Xin still remembers that his mother had a colleague who was from the Northeast because he met this city in school. Companies looking to recruit workers were attracted by the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake and Yueyang Tower described in poems and essays, and came to this city.
But no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it cannot be used as food, let alone firewood.
Before the disaster, the city's dense vegetation and forests might have been cut down and used as firewood, but after the doomsday disaster, there wasn't much left to burn on the surface.
In addition, there are no coal resources within the city, and all coal depends on transportation from the railway. Once the railway transportation is interrupted, the city's coal supply will be cut off...
The consequences of this can be imagined by any gamer who has played Ice Steam Age. At minus 70 degrees, a large number of frostbite patients and severe patients requiring amputation will appear in one day. In two days, Someone will freeze to death.
Although underground shelters can protect against cold and keep warm, blocking part of the intrusion of cold, but in addition to being used for heating, most of the coal transported into the city is also transported to power plants for power generation.
This is not the eighteenth century in the game. At that time, humans did not use electricity on a large scale. The absence of electricity would not have any impact on life. But for modern humans, the absence of electricity is the same concept as the absence of coal in the steam age. , all production and life will be affected or even stagnated.
Especially now that people are living in underground shelters, ventilation, heating, lighting, cooking, water boiling... It can be said that all aspects of life are extremely dependent on electricity supply, and large shelters need electricity to maintain oxygen production equipment and Planting operation.
It can be said that once the external supply of coal resources is interrupted, relying on the city's existing coal reserves, the temporary emergency may be able to support for a few days, but if it lasts for a long time and triggers a power outage crisis, then the city will be in trouble in less than three days. Crisis of large numbers of people dying in shelters.
For Chen Xin, after creating a nuclear battery through the system, he has now got rid of the troubles with electricity. After all, no matter how high the energy consumption of his shelter is, it cannot reach the exaggerated level of 150KW. He only needs to Connecting a nuclear battery to your own shelter's power distribution room can ensure the electricity needs of the entire shelter.
But Chen Xin doesn't think that others are like him just because there are no security threats in his current living environment.
Nowadays, the stable life in urban areas is actually like a fragile soap bubble or a castle on the beach. It looks really beautiful, but when a big wave hits, any crisis may destroy it all.
Chen Xin only hopes that his worries are unfounded and that the city government has enough ability to deal with the crisis.
Otherwise, just like this terrorist attack, if the terrorists did not attack the shelter, but used the gunpowder used for suicide attacks to destroy the railway, I am afraid that the city would have been in chaos at this moment.
Thinking of this, Chen Xin's face suddenly changed. He stood up suddenly, and the worry in his heart became stronger and stronger.
However, he sat down again after thinking for a while. After all, this was a problem that he could think of. He didn't believe that people in the city government would not think of it.
Moreover, railway transportation is a top priority for this city and even this province, especially materials transported from Hubei Province to this province must pass through this city. If someone destroys the railway, it will be a nightmare.
Therefore, Chen Xin feels that the city government and even the provincial government should have taken precautions against this kind of thing, so that it would not be so easy for people to damage the railway.
And simply blowing up the rails doesn’t make much sense. It just wastes a few hours for workers to replace the damaged rails and sleepers. With the level of modern industrial infrastructure, it may take a while to rebuild a railway, but if It really only takes a few hours to repair a small section of damaged track.
But Chen Xin was still a little worried, so he left the room to find Ding Ning and told her his worries.
"So Ah Xin, do you think those terrorists may destroy the railway and threaten the safety of the city and even the province's railway transportation lines?" Ding Ning understood what Chen Xin meant, but the expression on his face was much more serious than Chen Xin's. I had to confirm with Chen Xin repeatedly.
Chen Xin also said seriously to Ding Ning: "Whether they are aware of this problem or not, since we have discovered this problem, it is better to inform your father, otherwise if something goes wrong, it will be serious. ”
Hearing what Chen Xin said, Ding Ning nodded: "Then I'll contact my dad right away." (End of Chapter)