"Zila - who has extra blue oil? I have two pairs of alkaline batteries, exchange them for two bottles of blue oil. The radio can be used with No. 5 batteries. If you are interested, see you on the second floor of the first base. Over."
Qiao Xuejun and the others gathered in the small cubicle again, listening to today's news on the intercom. Every day, the survivors' news exchange focused on around 8 pm. There were few people at other times.
After all, walkie-talkies also use electricity, and everyone has planned their daily usage time. Except for the patrol soldiers at the first base, they don't need to keep them on all day.
Kuang Qianli: "This blue oil sounds like it's very popular."
The blue oil mentioned in the information exchange on the walkie-talkie is the fat blocks obtained from marine organisms. Because it is bright blue, it is called blue oil by the survivors.
Two pairs of alkaline batteries are also very precious materials. The shelf life of alkaline batteries is 10 years. Change two bottles of blue oil. The bottles here refer to the most common 500ml mineral water bottles.
The end of the world is coming and supplies are scarce, but these discarded mineral water bottles are not uncommon.
Messages continued to come in over the intercom.
"The guy above, I have two canned meats and want to exchange them for your batteries. What's so good about blue oil? I don't even know if it's just bragging. Isn't canned meat delicious? Come and exchange canned meat with me. Over."
"I've actually used blue oil before. A small piece of it, like your thumb, can last for three days. By the way, you want to exchange your canned beef for batteries? You might as well exchange it for blue oil. I have one-fifth of a bottle here. If you have a power generation device, this can be used as a charging energy source. Do you want it? I have one-fifth of a bottle of blue oil here. If you're interested, bring food to exchange. Over."
"I have mantis shrimp meat, do you want it? Ten pounds of meat in exchange for one-fifth of your bottle of blue oil. Over."
"To be honest, the meat of mantis shrimp is filling, but it tastes terrible. If there is nothing else to eat, who would want to eat this stuff? I used ten kilograms of mantis shrimp meat to exchange for food, canned food, flour, and the military rations of the First Base are the best. Over."
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Kuang Qianli was surprised after hearing this: "They also eat the meat of mantis shrimp. There are actually people who dare to eat this thing."
Qiao Xuejun was not surprised: "When there is nowhere else to go, someone will always try."
Kuang Qianli: "Then let's try hunting one someday?"
The carpenter said in a skeptical tone: "But they all said it tasted terrible."
Kuang Qianli: "Maybe others think it tastes bad, but you think it tastes good. Besides, this is not the time to be picky about taste, right? Haven't you had enough potatoes? Don't you want to change the taste?"
The young carpenter was puzzled by Kuang Qianli's question: "How can you get tired of eating potatoes?"
Kuang Qianli: "I admire you Gongzhou people... You really can't get tired of eating. Let's not talk about the mantis shrimp, let's try this blue oil first." He asked Qiao Xuejun, "Should we change it?"
Wang Juanfeng: "I still have a lot of cold medicine in my medicine cabinet, I should be able to exchange it."
"However," Wang Juanfeng frowned, "Is this thing really true? Don't many people think it's useless?"
According to the news shared by the radio station, many people are still skeptical about blue oil.
Blue oil is very rare in the world. After all, hunting marine life is not something that everyone can do easily. After hunting, the bodies must be dissected to extract the blue oil.
This kind of oil has only appeared now and is rare on the market. Few people have seen it, so naturally few people believe in it.
Qiao Xuejun: "If it's true that a thumb-sized piece can burn for three days, then we can farm again. I just don't know if it's a thousand times more efficient than diesel as they say."
There are mutated marine creatures everywhere, and the blue oil in their bodies can be used as fuel in endless supply. This gave Qiao Xuejun an idea. If she used this marine fuel, she wouldn't have to worry about diesel.
After all, the crops grown on fertile fields have their own constant temperature function. What they lack is light, so you can plant whatever you want.
The three trees she transplanted during this period have been growing very slowly due to lack of light. She is already considering turning on lights for them.
If there is enough fuel, the growing area can be lit all day to simulate sunlight.
"That's true. I really want to eat walnuts, but the trees don't seem to be growing much." Kuang Qianli sighed, "It gets cold too late and gets dark too early. I feel like the day will never come."
Qiao Xuejun: "You can use light directly, but I don't want to use oil."
During this period, they have been very resource-saving. They don't use oil whenever possible and even cut off the power to the medicine cabinet. However, the current weather has become a natural refrigerator.
"If blue oil is really that useful, it will be a very good energy source for us." Wang Juanfeng said, "I haven't farmed for a long time, and I'm a little uncomfortable."
They haven't been out for some time, but through the news received on the radio, they have a rough idea of what the situation is like outside.
The weather has been getting colder and colder during this period, and there is no sunlight all day long. The time that can be counted as "daytime" is barely less than 6 hours, and the rest of the time is pitch black, like the light at night or in the early morning.
Qiao Xuejun asked the system: "Will there come a day when the sky will never be bright again and enter eternal night?"
System: "It won't be a night forever, but the daylight hours will become shorter and shorter, and finally only two hours."
Qiao Xuejun thought that if the daytime was only two hours, then the difference between it and eternal night would not be that big.
Moreover, if the night time increases, the demand for lighting and power generation will be greater.
The demand for marine life is even greater.
The premise is that blue oil does exist.
Qiao Xuejun decided: "I will go to the First Base to inquire and see if this blue oil is real. If it is real, I will directly exchange some from the First Base."
If blue oil is real, then the First Base definitely has the most blue oil.
Because their weapons are advanced, they kill the most marine life, and trade with them is the most stable.
Besides, they had done business before, so they had a certain basis of trust.
Qiao Xuejun: "We'll set off at dawn tomorrow."
At night, mutant creatures will be more aggressive.
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Shen Xingtang hasn't seen Zhao Xian in the past few days.
Her 7th base had already raised the food quota, so she used this as an excuse to go to the 1st base to report to Zhao Xian, but she only saw Zhao Xian's deputy.
He did gain some favorability from his deputy, but his deputy was not an important figure in the world, and that little favorability was not even enough to buy flour.
"Lord, the previous flour quota of 200g was obviously enough, why was it increased to 300g?" asked Zhan Changdong, one of Shen Xingtang's men.
Zhan Changdong felt it was a pity. Their base was supporting these idle people and giving them flour every day was already enough to repay them. Now they were giving them more, and the food stock was decreasing rapidly.
Shen Xingtang sighed: "Alas, it's not easy for everyone. I saw a child who is already malnourished and can't even walk. If you can give him more, give him more."
Zhan Changdong: "Xingtang, you are just too kind. You sympathize with everything."
[Zhan Changdong thinks you are kind, favorability +10 points. ]
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