Chapter 288 Problems with the Ozone Layer
Xia Xiaoman is not too worried about food and points.
She had stored enough food in her space to last her and Maodan for forty years. No matter how expensive the underground city was, they would not take away the food for forty years. At most, they would take a few hundred kilograms of food, which she could still afford.
Moreover, she also had various medicines, condiments, tobacco, alcohol, outdoor supplies and various daily necessities in her space. If she sold any of these things, she could earn a lot of food and points.
Rather than worrying about insufficient food and points, she was more worried about whether the dungeon could be built within two years.
An underground city that can accommodate hundreds of thousands or even millions of people is difficult to build even in prosperous times. Now that supplies are scarce and the roads have been destroyed by earthquakes, it is very difficult to build an underground city in two years.
Sun Qing would inform her, and probably also inform Li Yu'e and the others. Thinking of this, Xia Xiaoman put away the note, waited for Chen Peiqiong to come, and told her to pollinate the pumpkin seedlings before going to Lingxu Gang.
Xia Xiaoman guessed correctly. When she walked over, she saw Li Yu'e and others gathered together reading the letter from Sun Qing.
Li Yu'e seemed to have guessed that she would come back. She waved at her and said, "Xiao Man, come here quickly and tell me what you think."
"What's the idea?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Li Yu'e said, "Do you think the underground city can be built in two years?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head, "I feel uncertain."
Li Yu'e sighed, "We feel the same way. In two years, it may not be possible to provide everyone with three meals a day, let alone build an underground city."
Xia Xiaoman was a little curious, "Aren't you worried that you don't have enough points and food?"
Li Yu'e waved her hand, "Don't worry about this for now. If there is a fee for entering the underground city, it must be charged according to the average food storage of the people in the floating city. If the fee is too high, most people in the floating city will not be able to enter the underground city. What's the point of building the underground city?"
"No matter how poor our Lingxu Gang is, we are still better than ordinary people. As long as the underground city can be built, there will be no problem entering. What I am mainly worried about now is what if the underground city is not built well?"
“That’s what I’m worried about.”
Xia Xiaoman was worried. The ozone layer mainly absorbs ultraviolet rays from sunlight, protecting humans, animals and plants from the harm of short-wave ultraviolet rays.
If the ozone layer is destroyed, the atmosphere's ability to absorb ultraviolet radiation will weaken, resulting in an increase in ultraviolet rays on the planet's surface, causing multiple harms to the human body and the ecology.
Xia Xiaoman suspected that the extreme high temperatures two years ago were due to problems with the ozone layer, otherwise how could there be horrific temperatures of 50 or 60 degrees?
If such high temperatures occur a few more times, she will have difficulty surviving even if she has space.
After thinking for a long time, Xia Xiaoman said, "Sister Yu'e, you used to drive a sports car team. Do you know which city nearby has a better underground city?"
As long as you don't let your mind slip, there are always more solutions than problems. Since you are worried that the underground city of the floating city cannot be built, then try your luck in the underground cities of other regions.
Li Yu'e understood what she meant. "If we talk about the underground city that was built faster nearby, it must be Yancheng. Yancheng is rich in ore, and it is much easier for them to get some materials to build the underground city than for us."
"But that was before the earthquake. Who knows if the underground city they built collapsed during the earthquake?"
Xiao Zheyu at the side said, "If it doesn't work, we can go north to the capital. Some time ago, the people from the capital said that their underground city was not damaged too much in the earthquake, and two years is enough time for them to repair the underground city."
"If the underground city of the floating city is not completed in two years, we will go north to the capital."
Zhou Qiuyang said, "It's a good idea to go north to the capital, but if we want to go north to the capital, we need to solve the vehicle problem first."
"In addition, the consumption level in the capital is higher than that in our floating city, and the cost of entering the underground city must be high as well, so we need to prepare a large amount of supplies and points to ensure that we can enter the underground city smoothly."
Wen Ling also made a suggestion, "We don't have to go to the capital. Sister Sun Qing said in the letter that the Tibetan area suffered less damage and there are many factories there. This means that the underground city there should be well built. We can consider going to the Tibetan area."
"If possible, I suggest that you go there in advance and get acquainted with the locals. This will also help us when we enter the underground city."
Several people expressed their thoughts one after another. Li Yu'e thought for a long time based on what they said before speaking: "It is best not to go to the underground cities in other areas unless it is absolutely necessary."
"Locals are more or less hostile to outsiders. If the locals knew that we went there to compete with them for a place to enter the dungeon, I'm afraid they would be even more hostile."
"It will take several years before the ozone layer is completely destroyed. During these years, we will first try to earn more food and points. If there is still no progress in the floating city and underground city after a year and a half, we will go to other cities to make a living."
Xia Xiaoman agreed with Li Yu'e's words. She didn't want to go to other cities unless she had no choice. Now she could only pray that the underground city of the floating city could be built as soon as possible.
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Xia Xiaoman did not tell Chen Peiqiong about the problems with the ozone layer.
This news was not announced, indicating that she did not want too many people to know and cause panic. If she told Chen Peiqiong this news, she was worried that Chen Peiqiong would accidentally let it slip and cause her unnecessary trouble.
However, she indirectly reminded Chen Peiqiong to stockpile more food and points.
Even without Xia Xiaoman's reminder, Chen Peiqiong would try her best to store more food. But she didn't understand why she should store more points. Points couldn't be eaten or drunk, and they were rarely used. Relatively speaking, she would rather store food.
Seeing that she was so stubborn and only saved food instead of points, Xia Xiaoman was too lazy to persuade her. Anyway, food could be exchanged for points, but the points that could be exchanged by then might not be as many as now.
In a blink of an eye, two months had passed. The crops in the fields were all ripe, and the planting area was busy. Xia Xiaoman was almost exhausted. She woke up every morning to harvest the crops. Fortunately, Chen Peiqiong helped her, so she didn't collapse from exhaustion.
The sun was shining brightly, and the crops in the fields were quite good. We harvested more than 800 kilograms of peanuts, more than 1,500 kilograms of corn, more than 1,800 kilograms of pumpkins, and more than 3,000 kilograms of new potatoes, not counting the crops from the two mu of land in the yard.
It would take her at least ten years to eat more than 7,000 kilograms of food. If she planted another crop, she might not be able to finish it before she died.
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