But in fact, cotton masks are enough. Gongzhou is far away from the American continent where volcanic eruptions occur, and the volcanic ash pollution is relatively mild. Medical masks are not needed, and ordinary cotton masks are completely sufficient.
Wang Juanfeng herself wore a cotton mask.
Qiao Xuejun quietly accepted her kindness, said thank you, and continued to install the solar panels.
The current lighting conditions are indeed a bit weak. You can try to see if it works after installing it. If not, you can only move the medicine cabinet upstairs.
Wang Juanfeng stood aside and looked up at the sky.
She was wearing a white cotton mask, and her voice came out muffled from inside: "When there is only sunshine in the sky, I feel annoyed. When there is no sunshine, I also feel annoyed."
Qiao Xuejun buried her head in her work.
After a while, Kuang Qianli came up again, holding something in his hand, shaking it with a smug smile on his face: "Look what I have!"
Wang Juanfeng looked over with great fanfare: "What is it?"
When she saw Kuang Qianli clearly, she reminded him anxiously: "God Kuang, you don't have a mask?"
He shook the thing in his hand: "Don't panic, look at this."
The simple installation of the solar panels was quick and Qiao Xuejun was already finishing up, so she looked up.
What Kuang Qianli was carrying was... a can of luncheon meat? It was a relatively large can, and he had poked some small holes in the bottom of the can and tied yellow rubber bands that he had found from somewhere at both ends.
Kuang Qianli took out what he had in his hand and showed it: "I made a gas mask! I made a hole in this can and put cotton, charcoal and scraps of cloth inside."
After he said that, he put the can over his face, put the rubber band through his ears and around the back of his head, so that the entire can covered his mouth and nose.
"We are far away from the core area of the volcanic eruption. This kind of mask is enough!"
Wang Juanfeng opened his eyes wide, a little surprised, and stepped forward to take a closer look: "God Kuang, can you do this?"
Kuang Qianli nodded, happy to be praised: "How is it, better than a mask!"
His homemade gas mask was thicker and his voice was muffled.
Qiao Xuejun finished the work in her hands, stood up, patted the dust on her hands, and looked at Kuang Qianli's mask: "Okay. But the charcoal you used?"
Charcoal is not activated carbon.
Charcoal is barely good enough to filter water, but it is not as effective as a gas mask. It is almost useless. Only activated carbon can absorb toxic gases.
Kuang Qianli was exposed, laughed twice and scratched his head: "I just made a sample. I will smash the charcoal and activate it with high-temperature steam later. It's not difficult."
In fact, a cotton mask is completely sufficient, but Qiao Xuejun did not stop Kuang Qianli from making a gas mask. Who knows if there will be any other disasters in the future, and this gas mask might come in handy.
Of course, the more survival tools the better.
Qiao Xuejun: "Then study it carefully. When you go back, the solar energy will have been installed."
"Go see if the medicine cabinet is lit."
The weather now is not as dark as it was on a hail day, there is still sunlight, and the solar power generation rate is estimated to be around 40 to 50 percent of the original. If only the medicine cabinet in the shelter uses electricity and all other electrical appliances are turned off, 80 percent of the electricity can be supplied.
But now, apart from those in the kitchen, only the medicine cabinet is using electricity. They stopped using the air conditioner when the temperature dropped to around 26 degrees last month.
When I went downstairs, I saw that the medicine cabinet had indeed been restarted.
Qiao Xuejun went to the kitchen and turned off all the appliances they used for cooking to save electricity.
At first, Qiao Xuejun still used firewood to cook, but later she installed solar energy. With strong sunlight all day long, she had enough electricity, so she switched to electricity. Now she has to switch back to cooking with firewood.
You should also be able to bring an extra light for the chicken coop, which doesn't consume electricity and is affordable.
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During this period, every other day, a rumble could be heard in the distant sky, and the next day, another rumble could be heard. It was the aftermath of the volcanic eruption.
From time to time there was a loud rumbling sound, with an earth-shaking impact.
It doesn't sound every day, but it suddenly explodes in the sky above your head. It seems to warn people: natural disasters have come, right above your head, right above everyone's head.
Although the temperature in the shelter is stable, it has been getting lower and lower in the past few days. It was 25 degrees a few days ago, but it has dropped to 20 degrees today. Of course, it is still a very comfortable temperature for the human body.
However, if the temperature continues to drop at this rate, it will soon no longer be suitable for living.
If groundwater rises, it will also be colder underground than on the surface.
Qiao Xuejun originally planned to wait and see. If this place would not be flooded, then she could continue living there. However, it was not until after a heavy rain that Qiao Xuejun finally made up her mind that she could no longer live underground.
The simulated light in the shelter was slow to come on today. Qiao Xuejun's biological clock was very accurate and she woke up at 6 o'clock in the morning.
After getting out of bed she walked into the living room.
Usually at this time the living room was dim but somewhat bright, but at this time it was completely dark. Qiao Xuejun took a flashlight to the planting area and looked at the chicken coop.
The lights in the chicken coop were on. The temperature had started to drop in the past few days, so she put some hay bales in the coop. Now all the hens were huddled together on the hay bales to keep each other warm.
Qiao Xuejun added some crushed corn kernels and black soldier fly powder into the chicken coop, as well as water.
Qiao Xuejun also went to see the pheasants and rabbits.
In the past six months, she has successfully bred not only chicks and rabbits, but the rabbits are breeding very quickly, giving birth after one month of pregnancy. The first litter had 5 rabbits, and there were two female rabbits among the 5 rabbits in the second litter, and they are now pregnant.
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