"Hmm..." Coco lay on the edge of the basin of ice that was releasing its chill, and cried out comfortably.
Xu Xin rested for a minute, then got up and went to the bathroom.
He wants to pump the water with an automatic pump.
In another half hour the pool below him would be completely dry too, as the lake level would drop below the trough.
He needed to take this opportunity to collect as much water as possible.
Having made some wooden tubs 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 out any water from the pool below.
He looked out the window and saw that the pool he had dug and the trough that extended all the way to the lake below had completely dried up, revealing the still slightly moist ground.
Then, as he watched, under the scorching sunlight, the moist ground began to lose water at a rate visible to the naked eye, gradually turning from dark yellow soil to white, and then began to crack!
The originally moist bottom of the pool cracked into a broken pit within half a minute.
He looked toward the lake next to the tree house again.
The area of the lake has been greatly reduced.
The original shallow water area has now been completely exposed.
The bottom of the lake, like the bottom of the pool on his side, had cracks appearing under the scorching sun!
The aquatic plants such as water grass that originally grew at the bottom of the lake are rapidly withering.
After surviving the cold winter, these plants succumbed to the scorching heat.
…outrageous.
This sunlight is really too harsh!
He opened the window.
A wave of heat came over him, causing him to frown and squint his eyes.
Fine beads of sweat immediately appeared on his forehead.
"This temperature..."
He closed it again immediately.
… The moment he opened the window, it was as if he was opening a furnace that was smelting!
This must be over forty degrees!
I'm afraid it's already around 45 degrees!
He contacted Li Wenxi immediately.
"What's going on?" Li Wenxi's voice was normal, and the sound of digging and mining continued to be heard.
"You are 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 down." Li Wenxi explained, "We didn't even use the saltpeter we mined to cool down. The temperature in this cave has always been maintained at more than 20 degrees."
It seems that the saltpeter mine cave can be said to be a natural summer resort.
"Hehe, 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 idea to escape the summer 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 in charge of processing the mined saltpeter ore nearby.
"The mining rate of saltpeter here is not very high. Most of what is mined is ordinary stone, and only a small part is saltpeter. In such a long time, only about a thousand pieces of green-grade saltpeter and... seven pieces of blue-grade saltpeter have been mined."
Li Yajun's voice reached Xu Xin's ears, surprising him a little.
This speed is not slow, thousands of yuan per hour.
Of course, this is based on the situation that there are more than a dozen people mining on their side, and they have been mining for nearly an hour.
Judging from the efficiency of a single person, it is indeed quite ordinary.
"Ah... Such low efficiency!" Li Wenxi slightly lowered the hand holding the watch and looked at her in surprise, "My previous excavation speed didn't seem to be this slow, right?"
"The location you mined before happened to be the location with the richest resources..." Li Yajun's voice was a little helpless, "It just happened to be the best mining spot, full of saltpeter mines."
She pointed to the deepest part of the mine and said, "But you have almost mined all the saltpeter mine. The rest of the mines are just scattered saltpeter, and most of them are just ordinary rocks."
"Is that so..." Li Wenxi nodded thoughtfully.
Hearing these words through his watch, Xu Xin frowned slightly.
Li Wenxi's ability is to detect metal ores, but saltpeter ore is not a metal ore, so she probably doesn't know how much saltpeter reserves are left in this mine.
"Is the reserve in your saltpeter mine running low?" Xu Xin asked.
If this is true, then they may have to consider whether they should help others at all.
After all, saltpeter is a very precious resource. As the raw material of explosives, it is also a consumable. Explosives are their strongest means to fight against invading enemies.
This mine contained all their reserves until they found the next saltpeter mine.
"I don't know." Li Wenxi's voice was also filled with a hint of worry. "Let's continue mining. We still need saltpeter ore. I'll take a look at the situation first."
"Okay. Now, don't sell the saltpeter mine to anyone."
"Um!"
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin sighed.
If they can get through today, those people shouldn't be in any trouble, right
He himself has no problem.
His tree house was quite cool.
Even... a little cold.
The tree house walls have too strong an ability to isolate temperature, and the temperature inside and outside the house cannot be transmitted, while the blue-grade saltpeter is constantly emitting cold air outwards.
This caused the temperature inside his tree house to drop directly below twenty degrees.
… Open a window.
Xu Xin opened the window slightly, allowing the temperature in the room to return to normal.
He sat down on the sofa again.
In the current situation, we can’t go out, so sitting in the tree house is a disguised form of rest.
As long as there is no beast tide coming, it will be fine.
I opened my watch and casually browsed the world channel.
Sure enough, survivors all over the world are complaining bitterly.
The temperature above 40 degrees is really too unbearable without air conditioning.
“I’m going crazy!”
“Is this world sick
”
"If I had known, I should have collected more ice outside! Damn!"
"Who would have thought that the temperature would directly rise by 70 degrees!"
In their areas, the temperature was still minus 30 degrees Celsius early this morning, before the sun came out. However, just a few hours later, the temperature was already over 40 degrees Celsius.
Isn't this a temperature difference of seventy degrees
but…
Today, he is not in a position to help.
Forty degrees, this temperature is actually still bearable.
"Hey, look, there are new products in the Points Mall!"
At this moment, a message in the world channel made his eyes light up.
New products in the points mall
He immediately clicked into the points mall to check.
However, after seeing the new products hanging in the most conspicuous position in the points mall, he was speechless.
Cattail leaf fan (blue): A must-have item that can bring a bit of coolness to people on a hot summer day. Points required: 100 points.
Palm leaf fan
A manual fan
This thing... It seems like they can make it themselves...
But, blue level
His heart moved.
A blue-level cattail leaf fan only requires 100 points.
You know, the new supplies for the cold winter, such as goggles and skateboards, all require 1,000 points at the blue level.
So cheap!
He immediately spent 100 points to buy one.
Looking at the fan in his hand, he couldn't help laughing.
This thing looks so familiar.
It really is a palm-leaf fan!
At this moment, what he held in his hand was a very ordinary palm leaf fan.
The whole fan is dry yellow in color and is made of the leaves and handles of the palm tree. It feels very light in the hand.
This should be the most commonly used fan in their original world, right
This thing…
He fanned himself gently.
Um.
Ordinary wind.
Blue-level supplies, just this...
That shouldn't be the case.
At this time, the world channel also became noisy.
"What? Selling a broken fan for 100 points? Are you crazy? I can make it myself!"
"Anything I can use to fan myself is better than this 100-point broken fan!"
"No, look carefully! This is a blue-level fan!"
"What's the use of a blue-level fan? If it's of better quality, can it last a few more days? It's useless!"
"Whoever buys it loves Sibi!"
100 points is a huge sum of money for people in weak areas.
Killing a mutant creature only gives thirty or forty points, and they may not have the opportunity or ability to kill mutant creatures.
That's why they just sprayed out anger directly.
He glanced at the allied and regional channels again.
I happened to see Ji Chaoyang speaking in the alliance channel.
"Everyone, you can buy a palm-leaf fan. This blue-grade palm-leaf fan can create a relatively cool breeze in the hot air."
Blow a cool breeze
Xu Xin was slightly startled.
He immediately came out of the tree house with a palm-leaf fan and came to the ground.
“… It’s hot.”
My hands subconsciously fanned themselves with the palm-leaf fan.
"Wow, this really works."
He looked at the palm-leaf fan in his hand in surprise.
The air is hot and dry. Normally, even with a fan, it wouldn't be very cool.
But this palm leaf fan, just by gently fanning it, can make the air flow quickly, and...
It did lower the temperature slightly.
The flowing cool air evaporated the sweat on his skin, making him feel as if he could endure this hot environment for a while.
Is it really a blue-level supply
It's still useful.
Of course, it is just tolerable. It is definitely not comfortable.
But for ordinary survivors, with this thing, at least they won’t go crazy, get heatstroke or even die from the heat.
Nice stuff!
Just as he was about to return to the tree house, he suddenly saw a figure swaying in the direction of Lou Feier and Jin Yue's tree house.
Um
Who's outside in this hot weather
He suddenly became alert.
Could it be a hairy monster
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, so she should be able to easily tolerate the current temperature and be normal outside.
He wanted to go over and ask, but he couldn't stand the shade of the tree house canopy. When he thought about going out into the sunlight, he shook his head and went back to the tree house.
Then I contacted Lou Feier.
"What are you doing? Why do I see Jin Yue outside?" he asked directly.
"Ah, she wanted to go out on her own." Lou Feier explained, "So, you said you saw a figure again? I don't know what happened. I didn't see it."
“Are you in the tree house?”
"Well, it's too sunny outside. The sun is too bright and it's not very comfortable."
“Need to cool down the tree house?”
"Ah? Is it possible?" Lou Fei'er immediately asked with some surprise, "Yes... use that, saltpeter to cool down?"
She was also a member of the explorer group, so she naturally knew about saltpeter.
"Aren't you afraid of the heat?"
"I'm not afraid, but it's not comfortable either." Lou Fei'er's voice was a little lazy, "It's so hot that I don't want to do anything..."
really.
He thought of how Silver King and Mimi behaved when it was hot.
They all lay on the ground, too lazy to move.
Of course, this did not affect their activities. After all, he had just ridden the Silver King to the saltpeter mine. Apart from sticking out his tongue to dissipate heat, the Silver King did not show any other abnormal behavior.
"However, if resources are scarce, don't consider me. I don't have any major problems on my end."
She is quite well-behaved.
"I'll give you a piece of blue saltpeter..." Xu Xin told Lou Feier how to use blue saltpeter, "Give it back to me after you use it up. I only have one piece."
Her tree house also has the ability to maintain a constant temperature, but the temperature had already risen before it gained the ability, so it is so hot inside the house now.
Just lower the temperature a bit.
“I love you so much!”
Lou Feier immediately cooled down her tree house.
Xu Xin also called Ma Hongwei and Zeng Tao.
Because Ma Hongwei had blue-grade saltpeter when he made the crossbow, but he said he didn't care, but some of his men couldn't stand it.
"Let them come to my tree house. You come too." Xu Xin said.
Ma Hongwei's tree house does not have a constant temperature capability, so it should be very hot now.
But he didn't come, he wanted to continue studying the heavy crossbow.
The men under his command soon came to Xu Xin's side.
There were eight people in total, and Xu Xin did not let them live in 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.
"You guys, sleep here for the time being."
"I got it, Brother Xin!"
"Okay, Brother Xin!"
These people were very satisfied.
Xu Xin returned to the third floor.
Speaking of the banyan tree extension down below, the banyan tree outside his tree house has been dug up many times over this time.
With the help of the banyan tree, the tree house area has now been expanded by two floors for all members of the explorers.
His current expanded area has also increased from the original 100 square meters to 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!
Wait until Li Wenxi brings back the survivors from the mining and let them live down there as well.
The space is large enough and his place is safe. Most importantly, those people living here don't have to use saltpeter to adjust the temperature of the tree house all the time.
Save some resources.
He spoke directly to Li Wenxi and told him his thoughts.
"Great!" Li Wenxi immediately told others about this, and everyone else also expressed their surprise.
After all, this is living in the tree house of Xu Xin, the most powerful boss in the world!
He contacted other explorers and recommended this method to them.
Therefore, Qi Xuefei temporarily stopped the cultivation of 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 have to keep an eye on your own tree house, but in this hot environment, your head will basically feel dizzy after two hours, even with a palm-leaf fan, so you need to change people every two hours.
The two brothers Qin Yunlong and Qin Yunhu followed suit. One went to Wang Lei's side, and the other went to Zhao Xiaochuan's side, and they also left someone to look after the house.
In this way, the problem of Li Wenxi, Qi Xuefei, Qin Yunlong and Qin Yunhu's tree house not having a constant temperature capability was solved.
The survivors who joined the explorers also lived in comfortable rooms. The only drawback was that these survivors without watches could not use the tree house screen to communicate with the outside world.
But when they all gathered together, they didn't feel lonely, but rather very happy.
They feel even happier when they think that others are still enduring the scorching heat while they are chatting in the "air-conditioned room".
Some people even brought mahjong playing cards that they had carved out of stone, and they started to have real fun.
An hour later, Li Wenxi also came with his men.
"Stop knocking, stop knocking. This is so inefficient. Let's go back and deal with their housing problem first!"
Unlike Ma Hongwei's subordinates who were all men, Li Wenxi had several women under his command. For convenience, Xu Xin arranged the men including Le Youfang and Niu Fugui on the first floor, and arranged the women including Li Yajun on the second floor.
Then he returned to the third floor with Li Wenxi.
"You guys, don't go up to the third floor unless you have anything to do!"
Li Wenxi shouted to the people below.
"We won't go up even if you kill us, Boss!"
"Don't worry, Wen Xi. We won't go up there no matter what noise we hear!"
"Shut up!" Li Wenxi cursed with a smile, then closed the door and threw himself on the sofa. "Ah, it's still cooler here! I just tried the blue saltpeter in the tree house, and the effect was really bad!"
"Can't cool it down?" Xu Xin also came over and sat down and asked.
"Yeah." Li Wenxi sat up. "Blue-grade saltpeter can only cool a very small area, and it is consumed much faster than normal! If I use green-grade saltpeter, I'm afraid I'll need more than a dozen pieces to see the effect! And I have to change it 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 his head. "It's not that the amount is decreasing, but the efficiency is not improving."
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 it is not a problem to buy a palm-leaf fan with 100 points, which should be enough to get them through the hot summer for a while.
"Okay, let's take a break now." Xu Xin leaned back on the sofa, turned his head and looked at Li Wenxi and smiled.
"Hehe, there's nothing more comfortable than sleeping in an air-conditioned room in the summer!" Li Wenxi lifted his collar and sniffed it. "Is there any water left? I feel like taking a bath."
"have."
Xu Xin immediately turned the bracelet, took out a backpack, and then took out a large bucket full of water from the backpack.
Although the pool below was dry and the water pump was out of function, so there was no automatic shower, you could still take a bath directly.
Because the water is taken from outside, it is warm directly.
Sitting on the sofa, listening to the occasional sounds of splashing water and humming coming from the bathroom, Xu Xin touched Coco who was dozing off on the armrest of the sofa, and began to feel a little sleepy himself.
I really hope today will pass without any incident.
At this moment, his watch vibrated.
When he raised his hand and looked, all his sleepiness disappeared immediately.
Shi Wanyun!
She is back