The third day after the blizzard.
Suddenly, loudspeakers installed in various residential areas of the base simultaneously broadcast a notice to the residents huddled in their buildings.
The notice stated that the base would begin recruiting snow shovelers this afternoon.
The snowplow work starts tomorrow morning; the base will distribute tools.
Workers who sign up will need to clear the snow from their assigned 400 square meters of ground each day. After completing the task, they will be paid 20 points per day. Recruitment will close at 6 p.m. on the same day.
When Su Li heard Huang Keke mention this, she was practicing martial arts by the window in the second-floor living room.
She stopped what she was doing, walked to the coffee table, bent down, picked up a water glass, and took a sip. But she felt a little worried about the base's operations.
"But the temperature is so low now, it's so cold that frost and ice are forming on the exterior walls of the houses. Won't people freeze if they go outside? What if something happens?"
It took a while for Huang Keke to respond on the walkie-talkie. It seemed there were many people on her end, and the noise was quite loud.
"The base has also thought of this problem. The base has arranged several hot water trucks in each residential area. Everyone can fill plastic bottles with water from the hot water trucks and put it in their clothes to keep warm. In addition, ginger soup will be served every hour."
"Moreover, this is voluntary. It's a chance for everyone at the base to earn money. If you really can't do it, or if you don't have enough clothes to wear outside, then we won't force you. Otherwise, the military and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could finish this work together, it would just take a little longer."
"The main thing is that the base needs to store this snow, so we have to collect it as soon as possible before it freezes."
"Save it?"
Hearing the implication in Huang Keke's words, Su Li couldn't help but feel puzzled.
With Huang Keke's subsequent explanation, Su Li finally understood the true intention behind the base's large-scale snow removal operation!
Perhaps the base's technology department has made some discoveries; in any case, the base is now almost certain that this extreme cold is not the end of the apocalypse.
Following the extreme cold is likely to be the extreme opposite of high temperatures.
So, right after the first snowfall, the base assembled a team of thirty superhumans and dug a cold storage facility under the small park near each residential area of the base.
These cold storage facilities were dug out to store snow and ice that fell during extremely cold weather, in order to prevent water shortages that might occur during hot weather.
After all, even if water-type ability users could create water, they couldn't supply enough water for tens of thousands of people, and the base didn't have enough water-type ability users to create water for everyone!
The reason for using a cold storage instead of a water tank is twofold: firstly, for ease of transportation, and secondly, to prevent the water from becoming foul due to the enclosed nature of the water tank.
If it's an open-style reservoir, there's a concern that the high temperatures will cause the water to evaporate.
Therefore, water resources in solid form are actually better preserved.
This can be considered as taking precautions.
Huang Keke ended the conversation after only a short while.
It's 1 p.m., the time when snowplow workers sign up, and the security department will also be outside to manage crowds and patrol.
To be honest, since entering the base, although the living environment has become much safer, the work is not much easier than when Su Li and I were out there.
Qi Zhi felt even more tired.
If he weren't afraid that the policies would change after the base stabilized, and that his points and supplies would become worthless, leaving him with no guarantee of a future, he would have liked to stay at home like Su Li, doing nothing!
Unfortunately, everything is still uncertain, and he can only think about it.
There was no more sound from the walkie-talkie. Su Li retracted her long leg that had been kicked out and sat down on the sofa.
She wiped her neck and shoulders with a towel, then shivered.
I had just finished practicing boxing and was sweating a bit, but now that I've stopped, even though the room temperature is okay, I still feel a bit cold.
She was about to turn around to get the coat she had just placed on the single sofa next to her when suddenly a slender, fair hand took the coat first.
The hand shook the coat open in the air, and then the other hand grabbed the coat and draped it over Su Li's shoulders with remarkable ease.
As Xuan Qing worked, his tone carried a mixture of complaint and concern:
"Why did you place the heating stones so far away when you were training here? This space is so big, the heat from there will cool down by the time it gets here. What if you catch a cold?"
When he came up from the basement after adding coal to the boiler, he saw Su Li sweating profusely by the window. Then, in the blink of an eye, he saw Nuan Shi, who was hanging on a floor lamp, almost diagonally opposite Su Li.
The heat radiating from the heating stones is limited. The living rooms on the first and second floors are already large, and even with the boiler and heating stones on, the temperature inside the house is only 19 degrees Celsius.
19 degrees Celsius is only considered comfortable, but that's assuming Su Li is dressed normally.
Instead of wearing only a thin, short tank top and tiny athletic shorts, with her skin completely exposed, like Su Li is now...
Xuan Qing's gaze swept over Su Li briefly before quickly shifting away.
He was initially slightly angry, but when his gaze swept over Su Li's curvaceous figure, he couldn't help but feel a sense of panic!
This was the first time in all his years as a cat that he had ever seen a woman's body shape so directly.
Although Su Li had exercised before, she always wore clothes that were convenient for going out to fight zombies at any time, and had never worn clothes that showed off her figure like this before.
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