In the community where Wei Xuan lives, every building has a basement. Although these basement rooms are relatively small and there are many sundries inside, as long as they are cleaned up and sealed, they can be made into good natural icehouses!

Although the stored ice is likely to melt in midsummer, it’s better to store some than to do nothing, right?

Wei Xuan doesn’t have the ability of the soil system, so he can’t make a building with a large volume. Otherwise, he can directly open up the basement of one or two buildings and make it into a sealed container for water storage. Sometimes it is used to store water, and it can be used after being temporarily taken out and purified when there is a drought.

Therefore, he could only come up with this stupid method and make as many preparations as possible.

He made up his mind, since he had nothing to do recently, taking advantage of the heavy snow outside, Wei Xuan chose a building in the community with mostly empty basements, and put a room in the opening of one of the buildings. As an ice cave alternative.

He first emptied all the rooms under the door opening, and then spread a thick layer of waterproof cloth in one of the rooms, and piled up a bed of quilts and other things collected in the summer at the door, ready to turn back and use them as insulation Warm, and then…you can start making ice cubes.

It’s not that Wei Xuan has never thought about using a more secure method to make an ice cellar, but if he wants to make a better ice cellar, at least he has to deal with the walls and floors, and add some insulation. However, Wei Xuan didn’t have any suitable tools at hand now, and he didn’t dare to dig holes in the community, for fear that some buildings would be accidentally dug down, so he had to make do with it for the time being.

The selected building is relatively remote, but it is not the first house in the same community to be directly exposed to the sun early in the morning. The other rooms in the basement on the same floor of the building were also cleaned by Wei Xuan and Du Hang. Clean, lest in summer, once the ice melts, all the rooms on this floor will be flooded.

Generally speaking, this room is just a room he thought of temporarily and used for experiments. If the effect is not bad, Wei Xuan is going to wait until the weather gets warmer before going to the urban area to find suitable materials and bring them back to the community to make some cellars with better effects.

After finishing these tasks, Wei Xuan started a new round of collecting clean snow in the Diman community.

He deliberately cleaned up a certain room in a certain building, put all the collected snow into pots and jars and put them in this room, and took the electric heater that he didn’t use to heat and melt the snow .

Although the efficiency of collecting solar energy in winter is not as good as that in summer, fortunately, Wei Xuan has found a lot of solar panels before, even if he uses electricity extravagantly, it is enough to supply daily consumption.

In addition to letting the electric heater heat up the room, he simply dug out a lot of water heaters for thermos from the canteen at the door, connected them to the power supply, and threw them directly into buckets and basins full of snowflakes to help the snow. Accelerates melting.

As a result, the work efficiency of melting snow has increased rapidly. Wei Xuan will deliberately set aside daytime every day to deal with the collected snow. The snow water was carried to another room with the doors and windows wide open, and the snow water was put into clean plastic boxes, and they were frozen into ice cubes one by one.

These are all sorting boxes that Wei Xuan found from supermarkets and other places before the end of the world, and they are just right for freezing ice cubes at this time. As long as the snow water is not too full, he can freeze a box and ask Du Hang to carry a box in the basement! Wrap the outside with layers of plastic sheeting and quilts to insulate the temperature just right!

Use these storage bins to hold ice cubes, and even if they melt back into water, as long as the bin itself is not accidental, it should not flow out!

The only thing that makes Wei Xuan feel a little regretful now is that the number of these boxes is not too many, at most they can fill a room in the basement. After the spring of next year, it seems that he will have to take Du Hang out again no matter what, and collect some more boxes for later use.

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The severe cold of winter did not weaken their power with the arrival of New Year’s Day. Among the survivors who survived this year, many people found helplessly that the food and food they had saved before winter could not make them suffer. After the beginning of spring!

Some timid and resigned people can only stay in the base every day, waiting for the daily free food distribution in the base. The bolder ones also started the business of robbery and extortion in the base.

However, if all the people who can rob are already poor enough to have no extra rations, those who are desperate can only turn their attention to the outside of the base.

Some people who are more courageous and have a large appetite and cannot eat enough in the base gather together at this time.

After they gathered in certain people’s residences and drove away the discordant neighbors, they got together with the accomplices they had contacted to discuss the way out for the future.

“I can’t do it if I don’t go out.” The person who started the party said in a deep voice, looking around at the people around him.

“That’s right! The snow outside is so heavy, I heard that many zombies are buried in the snow! As long as you are careful, you should be fine.”

Everyone nodded when they heard the words. Before they came here, everyone knew everything in their hearts. If they didn’t have the guts to go out, they would never come here to meet everyone this time.

“It’s just that if we want to go out, will we encounter a heavy snowstorm?” Someone raised an opinion cautiously.

The leader had a cigarette **** in his mouth but was reluctant to smoke. He frowned after hearing the words: “I have a friend who is in the army. I heard that there are people who used to work in the Meteorological Bureau. Those people said that from now until the second There should be no major snowstorms in the month.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the words, and someone laughed and said, “The Meteorological Bureau was not accurate before. Are you sure those people can predict the weather accurately?”

Another person also asked curiously: “Why did your friend ask if it will snow in the future? Could it be that the troops are also going to the city to find things?”

The person who took the lead smiled slightly at this time, and he squinted at the people present: “My friend also heard about it—do you know the newly recruited military team outside? They are going to leave the base at the end of January, What important supplies are you going to get? Recently, the upper floors of the base have asked many experts to confirm the recent weather several times!”

“Huh? Go to collect supplies in January?”

“Could it be going to the granary?!”

“It’s possible, but it’s also possible that they are looking for weapons!”

“Yes, yes!”

“Even the troops are going out, so it shouldn’t be a problem for us to go out, right?”

“Yes! Bring more lighters and wear warm clothes. Is there anything in the urban area? When the time comes, you can find some furniture to start a fire. Let’s venture in once, so as not to find that the good things inside are all taken by the team when we go in again.” It’s all gone!”

In order to survive, in this icy and snowy land, a team emerged from the largest base around T City. Because the ice and snow are so heavy that ordinary vehicles cannot drive at all, these people did not know where to get two modified off-road jeeps, each of which was loaded with absolutely overloaded people and drove slowly towards the city. A deep gully was formed in the pure white ice and snow…

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“…Finally, they are all frozen.” Wei Xuan stood at the door of the basement full of emotion, and after confirming that all the boxes inside had been tightly wrapped in plastic sheets and quilts, he took a step back and opened the room. The door closes on.

In this room, in addition to the tarpaulin that was laid on the ground at the beginning, thick quilts were nailed on the surrounding walls, ceiling, and even the inside and outside of the door to keep warm.

This is not a small project, Wei Xuan is most fortunate at this time – he has Du Hang.

It couldn’t be easier for Duhang Intellect to learn these basic tasks after development! When some places need to use a hammer to drive nails in, he raised his hand and slapped the nails to firmly fix the quilt to the wall!

With such a strong fighting power and action power, when is there no need to wait any longer?

“Let’s go, let’s go to melt the strange snow!” The work of the past few days has given Wei Xuan a new understanding of the speed of his own energy replenishment. After confirming that the solar energy collected every day can basically meet the excess consumption, he That’s going to change the way you deal with those strange snows – waiting for ice cubes to dry is much slower than letting them turn back into liquid and melt and evaporate!

So after going back this time, Wei Xuan took Du Hang to move all the radiators, thermos water heaters and other things in the community to the sixth floor of his house, and heated them up in the rooms where the strange snow ice cubes were stored, so that those The ice cubes melt completely and evaporate as quickly as possible.

There is no way, who made the efficiency of evaporating the strange snow too slow and poor, and Wei Xuan wants to set aside some containers and store more normal water for use in the spring of next year?

Other seasons may not be easy for Wei Xuan, but in the early spring, at least the city T where he lives has always been a place with little rain. Even if it rains, it will only occasionally drizzle, and there is not much water at all.

The far-sighted Wei Xuan decided to plan ahead. Now that there is so much clean snow inside and outside the community, it would be a pity not to make more use of so many natural resources.

Wei Xuan, who was originally preparing for Maodong, found a lot of work for himself this time. Fortunately, even if he is busy with these things, it will only last for a while. After dealing with them, he only needs to wait for the power of nature to reap the results. On average, he can finish the work he scheduled in less than half a day every day.

Just when Wei Xuan was tossing the pile of snow in his own community in different ways, and when the official troops of the base were on standby to integrate, a team approached the northwest of T City, without drawing too much attention from the zombies buried under the snow At the same time, sneaked into the urban area of T city…