Xu Xin immediately returned to the tree house and started the electric water pump.
There was a humming sound, and within seconds, the electric pump pumped water into the tree house.
Not knowing how long the snow would last, Xu Xin started storing water.
He made one large bucket after another, pumped up water, filled the buckets, and saved the extra space on the first floor of the tree house.
Soon, the first layer was filled with water.
That should be enough.
The small screen on the electric water heater lit up, displaying two numbers.
A percentage, a temperature.
The percentage is obviously the capacity, which is increasing rapidly. The temperature shows 6°C.
After a dozen seconds, the capacity of the electric water heater was displayed as 100% and the water pump automatically stopped pumping water.
Xu Xin started the water heater, and the temperature displayed was slowly rising.
Not bad, comfortable!
He then connected the pump to the toilet's water tank and the drain outlet to a pipe, which led out to a deeper area under the tree house to discharge sewage.
Does this count as fertilizing the tree house
Then, Xu Xin installed electric lights in each room and made an electric oven and range hood to make the kitchen look a little more presentable.
After preparing all this, Xu Xin returned to the third floor, sat heavily on the sofa, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
His tree house seemed to be self-sufficient, and it felt like he could survive forever without leaving the house.
Is this what the Fortress of Doom feels like
He had weapons, energy, food, everything, and plenty of it.
This feels really good.
After finishing all this, it was already getting a little dark, and the other members of the explorers had also returned to the tree house one after another.
Xu Xin also immediately began to configure the power grid for them.
Ji Chaoyang had also returned to the tree house, and Xu Xin directly gave him the copper blocks.
He can also unlock the blueprint, so Xu Xin doesn't need to worry about it, he can just make it himself.
Meanwhile, people on the regional channel were starting to feel uneasy.
Because they could clearly feel that the temperature outside the tree house was dropping.
Indeed, during the day, the temperature is still around six or seven degrees, and even reaches around ten degrees at noon, but once it gets dark, the temperature is close to zero!
"Oh my god, it's really like what the boss said, we are going to enter a cold winter!"
"Fortunately, the bosses let us build the fireplace in advance and let us cut more trees. My current wood reserves are enough for me to burn for a long time."
"I have chopped down all the trees around me, and I have broken several axes! I have plenty of energy, and I feel safe."
"What are you so relieved about! Didn't the bosses say there would be another beast tide tomorrow?"
"I have already bought four crossbows. If any beasts dare to attack the tree house, I will shoot them!"
"Four? Can I buy four? Damn, I only bought two?"
"Finally I have meat to eat. I'm so hungry. And it's so cold now, so it must be able to keep for a long time. It's so comfortable!"
It seems that everyone in District 188 is basically ready.
Without control panels and power grids, their survival rate would certainly be much lower than that of the explorers.
But there was no other way. They, the explorers, had done their best by providing them with information and selling them the new type of repeating crossbow.
Li Wenxi should have dug up quite a bit of saltpeter ore today, which can be used to supply some to ordinary survivors.
Soon, Xu Xin configured a power grid for all the explorers and even made the electrical appliances they wanted.
Zhao Xiaochuan: "I am now really confident in resisting the beast tide tomorrow! Control panel, crossbow with explosive crossbow bolts, and high-voltage power grid, who can break through my defense line! Not even Brother Xin and Brother Chaoyang can!"
Li Wenxi: "How much juice from the mutant vines have you collected? I have more than 10,000 kilograms of green-grade saltpeter."
Wang Lei: "What?! More than 10,000 kilograms?!"
Li Wenxi: "Oh, there are a lot of people here, and Xu Xin asked me to dig more, so I accidentally dug too much."
Xu Xin was also shocked.
He immediately looked at the blueprint for making explosives.
Small Explosives (Green): Small explosives that explode when impacted. They are powerful and can be used to make explosive arrows and explosive crossbow arrows. Small Explosives (Green)*20 requires vine juice (Green)*1kg, saltpeter (Green)*2kg, charcoal (Green)*20
Twenty small explosives, or twenty explosive crossbow arrows, require 2 kg of saltpeter, which means more than 10,000 kilograms of saltpeter. If there is enough vine juice, 100,000 explosive crossbow arrows can be made!
With so many explosive crossbow arrows, they could share some with others to increase their survival rate.
but…
Xu Xin checked his vine juice.
Even though he hunted more than a hundred powerful mutant vines, and the vine juice he could obtain from each of them was several times that of ordinary vines, even so, together with the leftovers from before, he only had more than 800 kilograms of mutant vine juice in his hands.
To make 100,000 explosive crossbow arrows, at least 5,000 kilograms of vine juice is needed!
Xu Xin: "I only have more than 800 kilograms of vine juice."
Wen Guixin: "I have 2,300 kilograms in my hands now."
… Two thousand three hundred kilograms
Xu Xin raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised but not shocked.
After all, she is Wen Guixin, the ceiling of combat effectiveness.
The other members also burst out with the weight of the vine juice they were holding.
There are only more than 4,000 kilograms in total.
But it's enough.
At this time, Ji Chaoyang, who had been silent, spoke up: "I'll go to the regional channel to ask. In addition to us, there must be some capable people who can kill the blood-veined vines."
Sure enough, when Ji Chaoyang asked, several survivors said that they had vine juice in their hands, but they didn't know what it was used for.
Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang immediately chatted with them privately, telling them that these were the raw materials for making explosives, and that they could exchange them for the prepared explosive crossbow arrows, and easily exchanged all the vine juices.
After all, this thing is useless in their hands.
Ji Chaoyang: "Give me all the materials, I'll make them. My workshop has 150% amplification points, you probably don't have as many as I do. There is a chance that the material consumption can be reduced in the workshop."
Xu Xin’s production room was only 100%, so without further ado, he traded all the vine juice over.
Wang Lei: "Fuck, Brother Chaoyang has more amplification points in just one production room than I have in total!"
Wen Guixin: "I traded it to you."
Li Wenxi: "Should I give you everything?"
Ji Chaoyang: "No, give it to me in batches. It would be too much to give it all to me."
At this moment, the teleportation array outside Xu Xin's tree house suddenly made a harsh sound, and the teleportation exit opened.
After Lou Feier came out of the teleportation exit, she fell directly to the ground. She stood up tremblingly and went directly into the small wooden house next to her.
A minute later, she came out of the cabin with a satisfied smile on her face, and the two blood lines had not yet faded.
She was not frightened by the high-voltage power grid because she had just helped Li Wenxi set up the power grid at Li Wenxi's place.
"Xu Xin has fenced off such a large area. Oh my god, there's even a swimming pool?" She was amazed by the newly opened pool on the ground. "Is he really enjoying himself?"
Because of his amplified hearing, Xu Xin was able to hear what Lou Feier said and immediately rolled his eyes.
Lou Feier did not go to look for Xu Xin again. She had been mining for a whole day and was tired. She wanted to go back and rest.
Finding the door, she reached out and pushed it open.
“Crack!”
"ah!"
Xu Xin heard electric shock sounds and screams coming from outside.
He looked out of the window and saw Lou Feier lying next to the electric fence, her body shaking constantly.
He quickly got down from the tree house and walked to Lou Feier's side.
Lou Feier was still trembling slightly, her eyes had turned white, and the blood lines on her face that appeared in the cabin had become very faint.
Xu Xin quickly squatted down and helped Lou Feier up.
Lou Feier had regained consciousness by then. When she saw Xu Xin, she burst into tears: "Wow! Why... why was I electrocuted... Woohoo... I worked in the mines all day... and even made lunch for you... Woohoo... I was so obedient... but this broken power grid still wanted to electrocute me... It hurts... Woohoo!"
The more Lou Feier thought about it, the angrier she became. She just sat on the ground and started crying.
"Okay, okay, don't cry." Xu Xin patted her back and comforted her.
What is going on
Xu Xin looked at the map and saw that Lou Feier was indeed marked in green, which meant she was undoubtedly a member of his team.
Is there something wrong with the power grid
That's impossible.
Xu Xin reached out and touched the power grid, and found nothing unusual.
Seeing this, Lou Feier cried even harder: "Wow... Even this broken power grid bullies me..."
The blood lines on her face had completely faded, and she looked normal again.
Xu Xin seemed to understand the reason.
The mutated creatures that have just been enhanced by the red fog seem to be regarded as enemy units by default!
… What exactly is this red fog? Our own units that have absorbed the red fog will be mistaken for enemy units.
Xu Xin felt more and more that this red fog was very dangerous.
No, there is no need to do that in the future. We cannot let Lou Feier and Yin Wang and the others enter this red fog room!
"Okay, okay, stop crying. How do you feel now?" Xu Xin asked Lou Feier as if he was coaxing a child.
Lou Feier sobbed twice, her eyes were red, she was really sad this time: "... I have no strength in my body, it's almost like I'm in a weak period... and just now, it hurt so much..."
She moved her right hand, and Xu Xin saw that her originally fair right hand was now so ugly that it was unbearable to look at, and it might make some people feel uncomfortable.
The injury is so serious!
… Although it’s not nice to say this now, the power of this power grid is really great.
Xu Xin quickly took out a pill and put it into her mouth.
"What is this?" Lou Feier swallowed it without hesitation and then asked.
"Qi Xuefei's pills."
Lou Feier felt her right hand was extremely itchy. She looked down and found that her right hand, which had been severely injured, had recovered.
Her body, which had been shocked by high voltage electricity, gradually regained its strength.
Lou Feier opened her eyes wide: "Is this... the pill she made? It's really strong!"
"… You were electrocuted, perhaps because you were affected by the red mist just now." Xu Xin told Lou Feier his speculation.
"Red Mist..." Lou Feier raised her hand and touched her face, which had returned to normal. "So that's how it is... Then I should be able to touch it now, right?"
"I don't know either, you can try." Xu Xin wanted Lou Feier to try out his guess.
“… Then I’ll give it a try.”
Because Xu Xin's affinity has increased today, what he said can convince people around him imperceptibly, and coupled with the influence of the contract, Lou Feier believes Xu Xin's speculation very much, and she also wants to verify it herself.
Standing up, she gritted her teeth and reached out to touch the electric fence.
The moment she touched the electric fence, her body trembled, and then...
Nothing happened.
"Hu..." Lou Feier exhaled tremblingly, "No problem, I can touch it now."
It’s over, her psychological shadow has increased again.
Ever since she met Xu Xin, her heart has been shrouded in shadow.
It’s too difficult…
"You've worked hard all day, go back and have a rest." Xu Xin didn't know what to say. Although Lou Fei'er wanted to kill him at first, she also received the punishment she deserved, and after going through so many things, she really didn't have those little thoughts anymore.
We should really treat her as one of our own.
"Yeah." Lou Feier nodded obediently. Just as she was about to go back, she saw that there was also an electric fence outside Ma Hongwei's tree house in the distance.
"… I want an electric grid, too." Lou Feier turned around and looked at Xu Xin pitifully.
"Your tree house is just a small parasitic tree house. Why do you need an electric grid?" Xu Xin immediately refused. "I will configure one for you when your tree house parasitizes me in the future."
"But, what should I do tomorrow?" Lou Feier argued.
"Come to my tree house tomorrow." Xu Xin had already thought about it. The tree house where Lou Feier was currently living was at the outermost edge of the protection range of the plant heart. The location was very dangerous. It would be better to just leave it alone and let her come directly.
Anyway, the parasitic tree house can be reborn even if it is destroyed.
As for Ma Hongwei, it depends on his own thoughts. If he wants to come, it’s fine. If he doesn’t want to come, it’s fine for him to stay in his own tree house.
After all, his resources are the same as those of the other explorers, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
If he can't defend it, there will probably be only a few people left in Area 188.
“…Okay.” Lou Feier compromised. She knew it was useless to make a fuss.
Back in the tree house, Ji Chaoyang had already told them on the Explorer Channel that 100,000 explosive crossbow arrows had been produced.
One hundred thousand, outrageous!
"There are more than 3,000 people in the district. How about giving each of them 20 guns and dividing the remaining 40,000 guns among ourselves?" Xu Xin suggested.
"Sure, I think that's fine." Li Wenxi immediately agreed.
"Yeah, that's what I thought too." Ji Chaoyang said, "Then should I go to the trading platform now?"
"No, don't give it to them now. Let's see how dangerous tomorrow is. If it's really dangerous, we can give it to them then." Xu Xin suggested, "We are not giving them resources, we are saving their lives."
“… You’re right. Let’s talk about it tomorrow.”
The miners of the saltpeter mine have discussed it with the two bosses, so naturally there will be no problem for others.
"Actually I don't have that many." Wen Guixin said, "You can share more. I don't think I need to use explosive arrows."
"I would have forgotten if you hadn't mentioned it." Xu Xin slapped his forehead, "Shouldn't we share our abilities?"