Qiao Xuejun felt a sinking feeling in her heart: "Intentional?"
The new ice harvesting team was already two hours late, two round trips, 24 trucks, and 48 tons less water.
Qiao Xuejun remembered her task, which was to stock up on enough food and drinking water for three days before the big drop in temperature came.
There is no problem with food now, but there is not enough drinking water storage.
Now these sea monsters are deliberately interfering with the human camp's ice harvesting?
Zhao Xian hummed, "It's not just us. The same is true for Haibao. If we go out to collect supplies, we will be surrounded."
Qiao Xuejun: "Someone died in Haibao."
Zhao Xian: "If we don't have enough guns and cannons, we will die too."
Qiao Xuejun emphasized: "Remember what I said before? In a week, the temperature will drop to -72 degrees Celsius. Even the ice harvesting team can't work at this temperature."
Ice axes and chainsaws used by ice harvesting teams.
These tools are useless outdoors at -70℃.
Therefore, we must collect most of the ice before the temperature drops. Even if there is not enough, or a little shortage, we can just open the door and get some ice and snow at the door to make do.
For example, people in extremely cold areas will collect ice in advance and store it in large water tanks in the storage room. They will take it out and boil it when needed. The reserve is enough for them to use for a week.
Zhao Xian understood what Qiao Xuejun meant: "I will take people down to protect the ice harvesting team at dawn."
Qiao Xuejun: "At least store enough water for three days."
Zhao Xian looked at Qiao Xuejun with a searching look, as if he had noticed something: "3 days?"
Qiao Xuejun knew what he had discovered and admitted it generously: "Yes, three days. Don't ask me how I know, just do it."
Zhao Xian glanced at her, raised his eyes and walked forward: "As you wish."
They returned to the base in a short while. Zhao Xian carried the person back to the room, washed him, and went to sleep.
Lying on the bed, Zhao Xian looked at the time: "It's 4 o'clock."
Qiao Xuejun: "I have to get up at 5:30."
Zhao Xian: "You can sleep more. I'll make arrangements for the stable."
Qiao Xuejun shook her head. "I want to arrange for the ice-footed horses to participate in the ice harvesting tomorrow. I have to keep an eye on them. After all, it's their first day on the job, and I'm worried that others won't be able to handle it."
Qiao Xuejun said, "It's like the ice harvester we have now. If four people can pull one ton on a cart, then an ice-harvesting horse can pull the same ton with two horses, but it can go twice as fast as a human!"
Qiao Xuejun did the math and said, "Those 24 ice harvesters have exactly 48 horses. Since the mares that have just given birth don't need to work, there's still one extra horse."
Zhao Xian: "Double the speed?"
Qiao Xuejun: "Yes, the ice harvesting team has a lot of hard work, pulling a ton of ice and moving very slowly. If they use ice-drawn horses, then each vehicle only needs one person, or at most two people."
Zhao Xian: "Then we can cut half of the people in the ice harvesting team and let them do other things."
Qiao Xuejun: "Yes, we can continue to harvest ice. That way we can harvest more ice."
Zhao Xian: "Okay. Go to sleep first, and we'll talk tomorrow."
Thinking about Qiao Xuejun having to get up after less than 2 hours of sleep, Zhao Xian frowned with heartache and held her in his arms: "Go to sleep."
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"I'm not mentally ill. What on earth do they want to do?" Shen Xingtang shouted in despair.
But there was no one in the small dark room where she lived.
They said she was sick, but instead of sending her to the hospital, they locked her up in a small dark room where no one could see her.
"System, why aren't you talking?" Shen Xingtang asked.
Another voice in Shen Xingtang's mind asked, "How do you know you're not mentally ill? Didn't Brother An Tu tell you to get better treatment when he came to see you today?"
Shen Xingtang: "Don't you know whether I'm sick or not? I'm not sick!"
The voice suddenly became sharp, almost scolding: "Yes, I know it best. You are terminally ill and there is no cure!"
Shen Xingtang was stunned. This was the first time she heard that voice speak like that.
The voice continued, "You've been playing games with my body for so long, and you're not satisfied yet? You've already lost so badly, what else do you want?"
Shen Xingtang: "What do you mean by your body? I'm the heroine... I'm obviously..."
"You're bullshitting." The voice interrupted her directly, "That's not how you act like a human. AI is AI. You're like a fake human, don't you know that?"
Shen Xingtang: "Who is AI?"
The voice said, "Hurry up and return my body to me. Maybe if you let me come up, there's still a chance of survival."
Shen Xingtang felt uneasy: "System, system."
System: [Host, what's going on?]
Shen Xingtang: "I am AI?"
The system froze for a moment: […You are the heroine. You are destined to become the manager of the largest base and enter a romantic ending with Huo Antu.]
The voice sneered, "This is a book. You, or rather, I, as the so-called protagonist, are obligated to follow the book's plot. Your mission has two strands."
"The first line, the career line, is to become the manager of the largest base, standing above everyone else."
"The second plot, the emotional plot, is about my life and death with Brother An Tu. Friendship and family ties are not as touching as love."
"I don't want to go down these two roads, and you said you would help me. Have you forgotten?"
The voice sounded very sarcastic: "But which path have you taken now?"
Shen Xingtang's eyes were full of confusion.
System: [Host, you have no way out in the First Base and the Sea Fortress. I suggest you find another way to open up the situation.]
Shen Xingtang murmured: "How do I open it?"
System: [To become the manager of the largest base, you don't necessarily have to be in the human camp. And according to your destiny, you were not originally in the human camp.]
In the original book, Shen Xingtang and Huo Antu's camp is full of humans who have undergone mutation experiments. They are neither human nor ghost, but have fish fins and fish teeth.
System: [I think we can seek an alliance with the sea monster camp. They are committed to keeping humans captive. As long as they promise to help, we can definitely reach a cooperation.]
The voice sneered again: "If you can't make it, run away."
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