Chapter 90 - boil snow water

“Fortunately, I took the time to collect such a large pile of snow yesterday…” Wei Xuan couldn’t help but sighed while standing in front of the window.

Yesterday, Wei Xuan was busy until it was dark, and finally filled all the containers he could hold with snow, and waited until they slowly melted and evaporated into snowflakes.

Otherwise, if I waited until today to continue collecting… Seeing all the snow disappear overnight, I should cry by then.

Getting up and getting dressed, Wei Xuan, who had been busy all day yesterday, decided to eat something good this morning, so he opened a piece of instant rice with Gong Bao Chicken—the shelf life of these things will expire in January next year, so he naturally needs Consume it as soon as possible.

While eating Kung Pao Chicken, I couldn’t help but think of those poultry meats frozen in the refrigerator—the taste of that kind of meat is similar to that of chicken. It would be good to try to use them with peanuts later, right?

Thinking of this in his mind, Wei Xuan’s eyes couldn’t help drifting to the planter at home. At this time, several plants inside were still growing healthily, but it’s a pity—the few seedlings that were transferred out didn’t know that they couldn’t adapt to the soil. grow in? Or is it because the weather is too cold? It was all sacrificed at this time.

Wei Xuan could only temporarily put aside his experimental thoughts, and planned to wait until next spring to study this subject.

However, what made him feel a little muttering in his heart was that although the plants in the machine were still growing healthily, almost every one of them looked different from what he had imagined and what they should have been?

The only thing that reassures Wei Xuan is that although the appearance of these plants is somewhat different, at least so far, none of them have shown signs of developing into mutant plants. In other words, these things can’t be eaten after they are planted at most, but at least they won’t think about eating him.

After eating, Wei Xuan got up and walked to the machine. At this moment, he could only hope that at least one or two of these plants could grow relatively normal crops.

After carefully looking at the conditions of the plants inside, Wei Xuan turned around and took Du Hang’s hand, and smiled at him with a helpless expression: “Let’s go, we have to deal with the snow collected yesterday.”

The weather outside obviously still retains the cold and windy feeling of yesterday, but all the snow collected yesterday has indeed melted into water.

Looking at the pots of crystal-clear snow water in the corridor, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth a few times, and turned his head to look at the stairs beside him—these things… have to be moved to the roof in pots today!

He was worried about putting the snow water on the first floor and outside, at least some of it had to be moved to the roof, and the rest had to be put at least in some of the rooms on the sixth floor. Otherwise, if it is accidentally polluted outside, God knows what adverse effects it will have?

You must know that these snowflakes are not only for the zombies to eat, but also absorb one piece every day, and they need to be mixed with water to grow plants!

Perhaps it was because Wei Xuan’s actions yesterday were too crazy, he almost piled up all the snow in the containers, and even after melting, there are still nearly three-fifths to four-fifths of the contents of the containers. There are quite a few of those containers, and the size is enough for children to splash and take a bath in them. With such a large basin, he can’t guarantee that he and Du Hang can carry them all the way to the roof in a smooth way without spilling at all.

So Wei Xuan had no choice but to take a bucket with a handle and Du Hang carried two buckets each and one bucket to the roof, and poured the water evenly into the big basins that already contained a lot of water. After getting out of the bucket, go back to the first floor, pour the water in other containers into the bucket, and continue to lift to the top of the building…

Wei Xuan was able to help lift the water bucket by bucket in this way from the beginning, but in the end he could only rely on Du Hang to carry it alone. It wasn’t until he got dizzy when he climbed the stairs that he had an ingenuity to pull down the two idle zombies, and finally lifted almost all the snow in the community to the roof and the sixth floor before the sky darkened again. In the upstairs room.

In the rooms with water, all the doors and windows are wide open at this time, so that the passing wind can help evaporate the water as much as possible. It’s a pity that it’s winter now, the power of the sun is not that great, and the water in these containers is full, so it may be difficult to completely evaporate in a short time…

Rubbing his sore arms and returning to the room, Wei Xuan was worried: “Why don’t you try boiling some water?” Wei Xuan wasn’t sure if it would work, or if this kind of strange snow would be afraid of high temperature? Is there any difference in performance between boiled and naturally evaporated snowflakes?

After thinking about it again and again, Wei Xuan climbed up to the sixth floor again with his exhausted body, filled a small pot of water in a metal pot, and brought it back to boil slowly on the induction cooker.

Boiling water, especially trying to boil a pot of water completely, is not an easy task. If it wasn’t for the fact that the solar battery at home had been fully charged in the past two days, and there were still a lot of spares, Wei Xuan would not have dared to play like this.

He needs snowflakes, but his electricity is also expensive. If it wasn’t for doing experiments to prove his guess, he wouldn’t be so wasteful in boiling water with electricity.

After cooking on high fire for more than an hour, the pot of water was completely boiled dry. Therefore, Wei Xuan has been guarding by the induction cooker for fear that if one is not careful, the pot will be boiled like this again. But fortunately, while he was waiting cautiously, when the pot of water was completely dry, he quickly turned off the induction cooker. A thick layer of crystal clear white snowflakes can be cooked in this way!

Wei Xuan heaved a sigh of relief, but the color of the bottom of the pot looked very nice right now—a layer of limescale was on the bottom of the pot, and there were a lot of dark brown impurities clinging to it, obviously it was all kinds of dirt in the water. Impurities and dust.

After the pot had completely cooled down, Wei Xuan carefully collected all the snowflakes inside—the bottom of the pot was full. Afterwards, he picked up a piece and handed it to Du Hang. Seeing that Du Hang took the initiative to eat it as usual, he picked up a piece and slowly absorbed it with his mental strength.

At least in the sense of absorption, there is no difference from usual, but the temperature of the snowflakes is obviously higher than usual.

And although this method is feasible, but… it really consumes electricity!

Reluctantly glanced at the display on the battery, the electricity consumed in this hour is enough to support the operation of the refrigerator at home for several days!

“Natural evaporation is the main method, but if the solar energy is fully collected, it can still be done occasionally.” Although it feels wasteful to make a pot of water at home, it can increase the overall temperature of the room a lot, and it can be used as a warm day in winter. as a means of heating.

Thinking of this, Wei Xuan decided to just keep this pot and use it to boil snow water.

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At the intersection of City B in the northwest of City T, at this time, a group of zombies gathered in a small county town before the end of the world, fighting with a group of mutant creatures surrounding it.

Under normal circumstances, mutated animals will not actively attack zombies, whether they are human zombies or animal zombies. But at this time, these mutated land creatures seemed to have encountered a natural enemy, let out bursts of threatening roars, and fought to the death with the zombies gathered here, as if they were sworn enemies.

Behind the group of zombies, a little girl zombie who looked no more than ten years old was sitting straddling the neck of a male zombie. Its eyes were looking directly at the battle group in front, and its expression was ferocious and angry, and it yelled in that direction from time to time. A threatening growl. With every sound of her growl, the zombies around it and the zombies rushing ahead will desperately launch a round of mutated cats, dogs, foxes, hedgehogs and other common and uncommon creatures before the end of the world. attack.

And at this time, these creatures would also roar angrily, as if they were red-eyed, even if these zombies were very difficult to deal with, they did not show any sign of retreating.

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Among the large and small bases in the country, most of them are still standing in this barren apocalypse after experiencing many hardships and dangers. Most of them have found a way to survive in this apocalypse and won a place.

As the weather gets colder, except for some bases where the ground is relatively warm or the seasons are like spring, most of the other bases have already begun preparations for winter.

Many survivors ventured to the surrounding towns to find items that could be used to keep warm in winter. People who stayed in the base and did not go out are also taking the time to strengthen the buildings in the base and prepare for cold and wind protection.

There are also many coals that were originally placed in the open air, but at this time people have also moved them into the building.

The most regrettable thing for the survivors at this time is that when the weather cools down, almost all the crops can no longer be cultivated.

The large-scale variation of plants has completely lost the opportunity to plant those grains that could survive the winter. Even those potatoes and carrots do not know whether they can survive this winter.

The only thing that made everyone secretly relieved was that the siege of zombies that everyone thought was possible did not happen. When the survivors fled to the sparsely populated areas around the city and cleaned up the local zombies, even if they would still There were a small group of zombies attracted by the members returning to the base, but they couldn’t form a terrifying situation of besieging the city.

Of course, this refers to bases that are far away from towns. If people still live in urban areas, every surviving base will be surrounded by hundreds of zombies, knocking on the door day and night.

At this moment, the decision-makers of all the bases are focusing on arranging the planting tasks after next spring and how to fight back against the zombies. The communication method can communicate with other bases.