After chatting with Squad Leader 8 for a while, Lin Yi let him go until Squad Leader 8 yawned, "It's almost time to go to bed, let's talk tomorrow."
In the army, work and rest are very regular, especially in the outpost. There is basically no training at night, so there is no need to stay up late.
Except for the night shift sentry, everyone will feel slightly sleepy when it is time to go to bed.
Since there were only about ten people in the guard post, the roar of squad leader 8 became the signal to turn off the lights. As soon as the four words "lights out, sleep" were heard, the lights in the two large dormitories suddenly went out.
Lin Yi leaned on the bedside and turned off the light, but did not fall asleep. In plateau areas, some people will appear very tired, but some people will appear more excited. In fact, they are more easily agitated.
Lin Yi belongs to the latter group. Although he has tried his best to calm down his emotions, he still cannot fall asleep smoothly.
After staring for nearly two hours, listening to the whistling wind coming from outside, Lin Yi felt sleepy. But not long after falling asleep, he felt someone pushing him.
"Platoon commander, platoon commander, wake up."
Lin Yi suddenly came to his senses, looked at the sentry, and asked quickly: "What's wrong?"
The sentry turned on his flashlight and said, "The power at the sentry is out. We need to use a generator to generate electricity. Please help me carry the generator to the boiler room."
Lin Yi quickly sat up and said, "Okay, can you use a generator?"
The sentry nodded, "Yes, our generator is fine, and it turns on as soon as we pull it on. I just filled up the diesel tank, and one tank of oil is enough to last until tomorrow morning."
Okay, just know how to use it.
Because you have to pass three or four thresholds to carry the generator to the boiler room, it takes a lot of effort. It doesn't look heavy, but in the plateau area, you just can't use your full strength.
So much so that after Lin Yi carried the generator over, he was panting heavily from exhaustion. The sentry was fine, so he started to turn on the fire without taking any rest.
Sure enough, as the 8th squad leader said, the generator is easy to turn on, just pull it on.
But Lin Yi had never used a generator before, and he didn't know that when the fire was turned on, so much thick smoke would be emitted, and he didn't know that the thick smoke would choke his throat so much.
Just now, when Lin Yi was breathing heavily, he accidentally took a breath of smoke, and now he was crying.
Soon the lighting at the post was restored, and the sentry also saw Lin Yi's embarrassed look, with a surprised look on his face, "Platoon leader, are you okay?"
Lin Yi waved his hand, "It's okay. Get me a glass of water and I'll rinse my throat."
The sentry quickly picked up the water and handed it to Lin Yi. Lin Yi rinsed his mouth and found that it had no effect, so he just gave it up. Lin Yi could feel that the symptoms recovered quickly.
After ten minutes, there was no big problem.
Lin Yi listened to the roaring sound of the generator in the boiler room and took a breath, "I didn't expect the smoke emitted by this thing to be so fierce. No wonder it can only be placed in a place with smoke exhaust facilities like the boiler room. If it is placed
At the gate, the smoke alone would probably choke everyone to death."
Then Lin Yi looked at the high threshold of more than ten centimeters and said secretly: "I wonder why it's so tiring to lift the generator. This threshold is too high."
Generators are usually placed in a free area near the gate, and are pushed to the boiler room when needed.
But the gate post is far away from the boiler room. You have to go through the dining room first, then the kitchen, and finally you can get to the boiler room.
Because the outpost is located at a high level, snow in winter will pour directly into the outpost, which will cause water seepage in the boiler room. When there is a snowstorm, there will definitely be a layer of water in the boiler room.