Chapter 481 Don’t go to the third floor if you have nothing to do (5300 words)

"Ugh..." Coco lay on the edge of the basin of ice that was releasing the chill, and screamed comfortably.

Xu Xin rested for a minute, then got up and went to the bathroom.

He wants to use an automatic water pump to pump water.

In another half hour, the pool below him will be completely dry, because the water level of the lake will drop below the tank level.

Taking this opportunity, he needs to collect as much water as possible.

Making some wooden basins and barrels to store water, he immediately started 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 water pump was no longer able to pump out any water from the pool below.

He looked out of the window. Below, the pool he dug and the water tank extending all the way to the lake had completely dried up, revealing the ground that was still slightly moist.

Then, under his gaze, under the fierce sunlight, the moist ground began to lose water at a speed visible to the naked eye. From dark loess, it gradually turned white, and then began to dry out!

The originally wet bottom of the pond turned into a broken pit within half a minute.

He looked towards the lake next to the tree house again.

The area of ​​the lake has been greatly reduced.

The originally shallow water area was now completely exposed.

The bottom of the lake, similar to the bottom of the pond here, had cracks appearing under the harsh sunlight!

Water plants and other aquatic plants that originally grew far below the lake are withering rapidly.

After surviving the cold winter, these plants succumbed to the intense heat.

...outrageous.

This sunshine is really too harsh!

He opened the window.

A wave of heat hit his face, causing him to frown and narrow his eyes.

On his forehead, fine beads of sweat immediately appeared.

"This temperature..."

He immediately closed it again.

...The moment he opened the window, he seemed to be opening a furnace that was being smelted!

It must have been over forty degrees!

I'm afraid it's already around forty-five degrees!

He immediately contacted Li Wenxi.

"What's wrong?" Li Wenxi's voice was normal, and there were constant sounds of digging and mining.

"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 off." Li Wenxi explained, "We didn't even use the mined saltpeter to cool down. The temperature in this cave has always been maintained at more than 20 degrees."

It seems that the saltpeter mine can be said to be a natural place to escape the heat.

"Hey, 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 way to escape the 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 responsible for processing the mined saltpeter mine.

"The mining rate of saltpeter mines here is not high. Most of the mined stones are ordinary stones, and only a small part is saltpeter mines. In such a long time, only about a thousand pieces of green grade saltpeter have been mined, and... seven

A piece of blue saltpeter."

Li Yajun's voice reached Xu Xin's ears, surprising him.

It's not that slow, it's over a thousand yuan an hour.

Of course, this is based on the fact that more than a dozen people on their side are mining together, and they have been mining for nearly an hour.

Judging from the efficiency of a single person, it is indeed relatively ordinary.

"Sigh... the efficiency is so low!" Li Wenxi put down the hand holding the watch slightly and looked at her with some surprise, "I haven't dug so slowly before, right?"

"The location where you mined before happened to be the location with the richest resources..." Li Yajun's voice was a little helpless, "it happened to be the best mining spot, and there were all saltpeter mines there."

She pointed to the deepest part of the mine with one hand: "But that saltpeter mine has been almost mined by you. The other locations are filled with scattered saltpeter, and most of them are ordinary stones."

"That's right..." Li Wenxi nodded thoughtfully.

Hearing these words through his watch, Xu Xin also frowned slightly.

Li Wenxi's ability is to detect metal ores, but saltpeter mines are not metal ores, so she probably doesn't know how much saltpeter reserves are left in this mine.

"Are you running out of saltpeter mines?" Xu Xin asked.

If this is the case, then they may want to consider whether they should help others.

After all, saltpeter is a very precious resource. As a raw material for explosives, it is also a consumable. Explosives are also their strongest means of fighting against invading enemies.

This mine is their entire reserve until they find the next saltpeter mine.

"I don't know." Li Wenxi's voice also contained a hint of worry, "Let's continue mining first. The saltpeter mine is still needed. I'll check the situation first."

"Okay. Now, let's not sell saltpeter ore to others."

"Um!"

After hanging up the call, Xu Xin sighed.

After surviving today, those people shouldn't have much of a problem, right?

He himself had no problem.

It's actually very cool in his tree house.

Even...a little cold.

The wall of the tree house is too strong to insulate the temperature, and the temperature inside and outside the house cannot be transmitted, and the piece of blue saltpeter is constantly emitting a chill to the outside.

This caused the temperature inside his treehouse to drop directly below 20 degrees.

...Open a window.

Xu Xin opened the window slightly, allowing the temperature in the room to recover a little.

He sat on the sofa again.

In this situation, I can't go out, so sitting in the tree house can be regarded as a disguised rest.

As long as there is no beast wave coming, it will be fine.

I clicked on my watch and browsed the World Channel at random.

Sure enough, all over the world, survivors are complaining.

Temperatures above 40 degrees are indeed too unbearable without air conditioning.

"I'm going crazy!"

“Is there something sick in this world!!”

"If I had known better, I would have collected more ice outside! Mad!"

"Who would have thought that the temperature would rise to 70 degrees!"

In their areas, in the early hours of this morning, before the sun came up, it was still 30 degrees below zero. As a result, just a few hours later, it was already over 40 degrees above zero.

Isn't this a direct temperature difference of 70 degrees?

but……

Today, he is not very helpful either.

Forty degrees, this temperature is actually bearable.

"Hey, look, the points mall has a new one!"

At this time, a piece of information on the World Channel made his eyes light up.

Is the points mall new?

He immediately clicked into the points mall to check.

However, after seeing the new supplies hanging in the most conspicuous position in the points mall, he was speechless.

[Pu Fan (Blue): An essential item that can bring a touch of coolness to people in the hot summer. Points required: 100 points. 】

Cattail leaf fan?

Manual fan?

This thing... seems like they can make it themselves...
To be continued...