Chapter 445 People are living around
Just now, the people from the Hope Base came to them and cried poor despite the threat of Wind Blade.
I want to borrow some food and water from Penglai Base.
The top management of Penglai Base held a meeting for this purpose and everyone unanimously decided not to lend it.
Because the remaining food in Penglai Base is only enough for the entire base to survive for two years at most.
Unless the farm can harvest crops successfully every time in the next two years, the entire base may collapse due to food shortage.
This is also the main reason why Professor Li asked Han Ying and Lu Yuan for the mutated seafood mushrooms that could make plants grow quickly when he learned that they had them.
With the growth of mutated seafood mushrooms, food can still be grown, but where can we find water?
This is the problem that both Ke Qin and Gu Yuanping are worried about at this time.
Gu Yuanping really wanted to ask the heavens loudly, why hasn’t it snowed when it’s so cold?
"We can only ask the well digging team to dig a few more wells."
Ke Qin sighed helplessly. After the well-digging team arrived in Jiangcheng, they actually dug wells every day and never stopped.
But most of the wells that have been dug have been more than 300 meters and still no water has come out.
Recently, due to the drop in temperature, digging wells has become increasingly difficult, not to mention the existence of wind blades that threaten lives at all times.
In addition to the well-digging team, a tunnel-digging team was formed in the past two days.
The main task of the excavation team is to dig a tunnel directly leading to the farm from the main area of the Penglai base.
Because of the extreme cold and wind blade, other work can be temporarily stopped.
But there is absolutely no way to stop working on the farm.
The farm requires a large amount of manpower, and the official side is unable to provide so many protective gear to protect against wind blades, so they can only dig a direct road through the ground.
"That's the only way, but what if it freezes..."
Now the water one or two hundred meters underground has not frozen yet, but if the temperature continues to drop, no one can guarantee that the water in the well will not freeze.
Even though the well water hasn't frozen yet, it's still very troublesome to fetch water every time.
Because the temperature was too low, the water froze in the pipe halfway through being pumped.
Wells with high water yields use electric heating tape wrapped around water pipes to pump water upwards. But now that solar energy is gone, most of the electricity can only be generated by gasoline and diesel, with a small part using wind power.
Therefore, the electricity generated is very limited, and all the electricity must be used effectively.
Therefore, those wells with little water output can only rely on manpower to pump water up bucket by bucket.
Use the most primitive method, hanging well.
Buckets of water were pumped up from the bottom of the well using ropes. When half of the water was up, the entire bucket had frozen into ice. After the water was up, the entire block of ice was poured out.
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The weather was very cold. Apart from going out to trade, Han Ying and Lu Yuan stayed at home all day tinkering with the space and the crops upstairs.
The corn and potatoes on the 4th and 5th floors have begun to thrive under the irrigation of the mutated seafood mushroom water.
There are also a lot of empty spaces on the third floor, so Han Ying and Lu Yuan will temporarily plant the new type of tomatoes here.
The growth rate of tomatoes is not slow. After only about a week, I can see a small flower bud.
However, the precautions that Professor Li gave before stated that the first flower bud of the new type of tomato must be picked off, otherwise it will affect the subsequent yield.
Every few days, Qin Qinghai would take some photos of potatoes and corn and show them to Han Ying and Lu Yuan.
The growth seems good, but not as good as Han Ying and her friends.
Although the three families lived in the same building, due to the weather they rarely went out except to go downstairs to move firewood.
Apart from reporting safety to each other once a day in the small group, we basically don’t contact each other.
Each family lives their own life behind closed doors.
On the day Han Ying and Lu Yuan came back from trading meteorites with Scar Wei, they received a call from Professor Li.
Professor Li was very excited on the phone and told Han Ying and Lu Yuan that the mutant seafood mushrooms they took away had grown into 7 mutant seafood mushrooms.
He plans to transplant these seven newly grown mutant seafood mushrooms to allow them to reproduce more seafood mushrooms.
Han Ying and Lu Yuan were both stunned when they heard Professor Li's words.
What is going on?
Only 7 grew in a week?
So only one grows a day?
How come this is different from what they planted?
A week passed, and the mutated seafood mushrooms they planted in the space had multiplied into a sea of mutated seafood mushrooms.
Why are there only 7 growing on Professor Li's side?
The two looked at each other, neither of them knew the answer to this question!
But the two were not stupid enough to tell Professor Li that they had bred a sea of mutant seafood mushrooms.
But it seems that neither of them had considered this before, because those mutated seafood mushrooms were planted in space.
Is it because of the space?
If planted outside, the reproduction speed is actually not that fast?
The two decided to give it a try.
So Lu Yuan separated the two mutant seafood mushrooms, planted them in potting soil, and then placed them in the living room on the third floor.
A few days later, the two discovered that, just as Professor Li said, an average of only one mutant seafood mushroom was produced per day.
This is simply incomparable to being able to reproduce a colony in space in just one night.
Han Ying would pick several baskets of mutant seafood mushrooms from the fields every day, and there would be a lot left after watering the crops.
She put the rest into a separate space symbol.
Han Ying planned to use this space talisman to store the mutated seafood mushrooms or their juice.
That day, Han Ying had just replaced two sets of radiators and added some firewood to the kang when she heard a lot of noises outside the window, even the sound of vehicles.
They had noticed before that there was no one else living within 50 meters of the building except for the three of them.
But judging from the noise outside, it seemed that there were quite a few people here.
The two looked at each other, put on a thermostatic hat, wrapped a scarf around their necks, and then half-opened the window.
Then the two of them saw a lot of people gathered outside a three-story house about ten meters away from their building.
Those people just got off the car, all carrying large and small bags, and it seemed they were going to stay there.
After coming down, they all ran into the house as quickly as possible to avoid being cut by the wind blades that might blow over at any time.
The temperature is too low, so many people huddle together for warmth, so there are usually 10 to 20 people living in one room.
With so many people taking turns to burn firewood, it saves firewood and keeps things warmer.
Therefore, after the extreme cold, most people prefer to live in large dormitories near military areas.
It is closer to the shopping mall and the military area, and is safer and more convenient.
Therefore, many people in the three villages that are far away from the military area are not willing to come here.
After all, it’s quite troublesome if you want to buy something or go to work on the farm.
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