Chapter 20: Minus 100 degrees
For the next five days, Gu Nian and his colleagues were busy inspecting and laying circuits everywhere. In just a few days, they strengthened the circuits of the cold-proof warehouse as much as possible and added several new lines. After that, everyone started to go out to inspect and strengthen the circuits in the residential areas of Jiangcheng City.
In the past few days, a large number of residents in Jiangcheng City have also moved to the cold storage. Now, there are no free places to enter the cold storage. On the contrary, it takes a lot of effort to get such a place. Each family has only 2 to 2 quotas, and the rest of the quotas need to be exchanged for credit points. Even so, everyone is still flocking to it. Unfortunately, many families who do not have enough credit points and have no connections are still unable to move into the cold storage, and can only strengthen the cold protection measures in their own homes as much as possible.
Nowadays, as long as you turn on the TV, you can see the anchor broadcasting news about the cold fog 26 hours a day. Needless to say, the temperature of minus 100 degrees is terrifying! Everyone understands that when this cold fog passes, many people will leave forever!
Even though the authorities have mobilized all their forces, they still cannot completely refit all the circuits in the huge city of Jiangcheng. They can only repair old circuits as much as possible to ensure supply during the cold fog. However, some families who have no cold protection measures cannot survive this cold fog with only air conditioning and small sun.
At this time, what everyone envies most are those who have basements at home. You know, the temperature in the basement is at least seven or eight degrees higher than that in a building. In this cold fog, seven or eight degrees can be the key to saving lives.
Large buses from the north also brought people from northern cities to Jiangcheng. According to the previous agreement with the Jiangcheng government, these people will provide the Jiangcheng government with large amounts of credit points or equivalent materials in exchange for a narrow bed in the cold-proof warehouse.
Because Gu Nian worked in a cold-weather warehouse, she was also assigned a residence quota in the cold-weather warehouse, but she couldn't use it, so she simply gave it to Xiao Huang, who was on the same team. Xiao Huang was already married, and he and his wife were both only children. They also had to take care of the elderly on both sides, and there were not enough quotas at home.
Xiao Huang thanked Gu Nian profusely and offered to take over her night shifts during that period. He also collected 800 credit points for Gu Nian and insisted that she accept them.
Gu Nian understood that some people would take favors for granted, but some people would insist on returning the favor, so she accepted Xiao Huang's credit points.
Gu Nian took some time off and went to the official website to buy supplies with the credit points she had just received. The first thing she needed to replenish was still gasoline. There were only 2,000 liters of gasoline in Gu Nian's warehouse. Gu Nian's off-road vehicle needed 200 liters of gasoline for each refueling. She usually brought supplies or used credit points to refuel, and she was reluctant to use the gasoline she had stored. Fortunately, each refueling could run 800 kilometers. So far, Gu Nian had only refueled twice, and there were 2,600 liters of gasoline left.
Energy prices are rising higher and higher now. One liter of oil costs 20 credit points. Gu Nian reluctantly bought another 600 liters, which cost her 6,000 credit points. That's not all. She continued to replenish her daily necessities. Frozen shrimp, tripe, duck intestines, lamb rolls, beef rolls, steaks, king crabs, Boston lobsters, durian, sunshine oranges, kiwis... Gu Nian bought a month's worth of these supplies that she had not purchased before because they were not suitable for long-term storage. She also picked out some snacks and spent nearly 5,000 credit points.
Gu Nian stopped stockpiling until she had only 2,000 credit points left in her account. After all, the money she earned was for a good life. She also went to the factory where the second action team was located and drove to retrieve her 200 kilograms of pork.
When she went there this time, she met Yu Ziqiu. Yu Ziqiu was beautiful and sharp, wearing a fur suede coat, a pair of black patent leather boots on her long legs, and her slender index and middle fingers were tightly together, holding a thin cigarette. When she saw Gu Nian, she blew out a beautiful smoke ring from her red lips: "Hey, little girl, did you take this job?" When she raised her eyes, her eyes were moving, careless but charming.
Gu Nian didn't know how to deal with this kind of big sister in society, so she answered dryly: "Yeah."
Yu Ziqiu was amused by Gu Nian. She thought that the person who came out to take the mission was either a gangster or a tough girl, but it turned out to be Gu Nian, who had black hair and black eyes and looked like a newly graduated student.
It was rare to see such a clean girl. Yu Ziqiu put out the cigarette with his fingers painted with bright red nail polish, waved lazily, and called Jiang Yang: "Go, get the meat and help move it to this girl's car." He turned and said to Gu Nian: "I am the leader of the second action team. If you have any good things in the future, you can sell them to me."
Yu Ziqiu had just returned from a mission. Mutated termites appeared in Dengjin County under Jiangcheng, and the entire building collapsed. She led the second action team to contain them. After all, the entire Jiangcheng area was under the jurisdiction of the second action team. It was also because of this that she had to post the wild boars destroying the greenhouse on the forum, hoping to find someone to deal with it. Otherwise, she would have to lead the team to hunt wild boars herself to have a good meal. But it was not a loss at the moment. Although it cost some credit points, she bought back most of the pork from Gu Nian.
I didn't expect that this little girl could kill these three mutant wild boars alone, and the wounds were so neat... I don't know if this girl will give me surprises in the future? Yu Ziqiu narrowed his eyes and thought with a smile. Jiang Yang next to him looked at the smile of his elder sister and shuddered instinctively.
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Gu Nian drove the car back with the 200 kilograms of meat, and when she found Jing Li, she gave half of it to the Jing family.
Jingli was also surprised to receive so much meat. Nowadays, supplies are in short supply, and if everyone can eat until they are 80% full, they are considered a good family. How can they eat meat every meal? The Jing family is not short of money. As early as when the purchase of supplies was restricted, Jingli used his bank card to buy a large amount of supplies on the black market. Even if the price of rice rose to 2,000 yuan per catty, Jingli would still buy it. As long as he could buy things, money was not a problem.
It was also because of this that Jingli's family had no shortage of food and drink, but even so, there was no reason for him to accept so many things from Gu Nian for nothing. What's more, the pork that Gu Nian gave had a delicate texture and bright red color, and was a high-quality product that was hard to buy before the cold wave arrived.
Jing Li resolutely refused to accept it: "Anian, take it back and eat it yourself. Come on, I'll carry it back for you."
Gu Nian also insisted on not accepting it: "I have more, and this half is for you and Grandpa Jing." Jing Li has helped her a lot during this period, and the Spiritual Tide and the Evolver Forum have never thought of hiding anything from her. Gu Nian naturally hopes to repay her within her ability.
Seeing that Jingli wanted to talk more, she simply changed the subject: "Don't you want to know where I got this meat?"
As soon as these words came out, Jing Li indeed asked: "Yes, where did you get it from?"
Gu Nian told Jing Li the whole story of hunting the wild boar from beginning to end, and only then did Jing Li realize that this was mutated wild boar meat.
Jing Li said to Gu Nian seriously, "Do you know why Action Team 2 spent so many credit points to buy this wild boar?"
Gu Nian shook her head in confusion. She was also wondering, 25 credit points per pound of live pigs, this price is not low. Credit points are a scarce currency nowadays.
"All mutant plants and animals are rich in spiritual energy. Long-term consumption can help people evolve faster. There is even a saying that even ordinary people who eat mutant plants and animals for a long time can reach the threshold of evolution! Of course, this may also be a marketing method. After all, once this statement came out, the value of these mutant plants and animals on the black market soared by two times."
"But no matter what, for those who have already embarked on the path of evolution, the spiritual energy in mutated plants and animals is good for the body and can replenish energy faster. I guess the reason why the second action team purchased pork is to use it as food for their team members."
Gu Nian suddenly realized that it seemed that this mutated animal was just like his own mutated spinach, and could provide more spiritual energy to the human body. When natural disasters came, it naturally became a new type of nutritious tonic.
"The same goes for you. You should keep the pork for yourself," Jing Li said.
Gu Nian frowned, his black pupils were cold, and he said seriously: "If you continue to be so polite, I won't call you friend anymore."
Seeing that Gu Nian was angry, Jing Li stopped refusing and took the pork.
The next day, Jing Li knocked on Gu Nian's door and brought her ten spirit crystals.
"Didn't you say that your family's breathing technique works best with this spirit crystal? Use it. I have no place to spend the credit points I saved from fortune-telling." Jing Li said.
Gu Nian felt a warm current flowing through her heart. She didn't want to reveal the farm space to Jing Li, so she only said that she wanted the spirit crystals to practice breathing techniques. Unexpectedly, Jing Li remembered it in his heart and found a way to bring it to her.
Gu Nian did not refuse, as her farm space was in urgent need of spirit crystals. With spirit crystals, she could use the farm kitchen to make cold-weather soup. Gu Nian hesitated and posted a cold-weather soup on the trading section of the forum, priced at 500 credit points without shipping, maybe she could sell it?
Since ancient times, there have been many wealthy people on the forum, and someone actually took a photo of it. Before the cold wave, Gu Nian sent this cold-weather soup out. Now only the official postal express is still running with difficulty, and the postage has soared to a sky-high price.
Kong Feibai opened the Lihuo Gantian Forum. This name was really weird, Kong Feibai always called it the Evolution Forum privately, and other forum members also liked to call it that.
He browsed the forums in a familiar way. This was something he had to do every day. After all, for a second-hand dealer and intelligence merchant, information was the primary productive force. Unfortunately, there were no interesting posts. He opened the item trading section to see if there was anything worth trading.
There is a new post that has just been pushed to the first page - "Selling a cup of cold-weather soup."
Kong Feibai had a big question mark in his mind. You have to know that those who can enter this forum are not ordinary people. What everyone trades are high-level materials, such as the spirit crystals in the bodies of mutant beasts, and spirit plants that can enhance the ability of evolution. Last month, someone even traded a building that is said to have more spiritual energy, just like the legendary paradise. But when did someone start trading cold-proof soup? It sounds like some unreliable Chinese medicine soup?
Kong Feibai clicked on this post.
Stocking up: Warm-keeping soup, about 600ml, in a thermos cup. Tested, it can protect against the cold of about -30 degrees Celsius outdoors for 2 hours. New product benefits, only 500 credit points for the first serving, not including shipping.
500 credit points, in exchange for mutant beast meat, can be exchanged for more than ten kilograms. Can this price be called a new product benefit? If this cold-proof soup really has the effect described by the OP, then the price is very cheap, and whoever buys it will get a bargain. However, the OP's description reveals an unreliable atmosphere. Isn't he a liar? The ID of hoarding Xiao Gu is also a newcomer in the forum, not a big guy who often goes to the forum to sell goods.
Kong Feibai scrolled down the posts and saw that they were almost all mocking the poster.
"You're so short of credit that you've gone crazy, right? You dare to cheat here?"
"Why doesn't the host drink this awesome cold-repellent soup himself? Why is he willing to sell it? Slip away."
With so many negative comments, most people would have jumped out to defend themselves long ago. After all, the Lihuo Gantian Forum is an invitation-only forum, and a person is bound to one ID for life and cannot change his or her ID, so everyone cherishes their reputation in the forum. The original poster, called Tunhuo Xiaogu, has not responded since he posted this thread.
Kong Feibai was able to start from scratch and slowly build his own business because he had a skill and was always able to trade in rare goods. His merchant intuition made him think that the reason why Xiao Gu, who was hoarding goods, did not respond was not because he was scolded and hid, but because he was quietly waiting for a customer! Not refuting may be due to his confidence and high recognition of his own strength.
500 credit points was a small amount of money for Kong Feibai. He sent a private message to the stocking Xiao Gu, leaving him his address and transferring the credit points. The stocking Xiao Gu was very fast and sent the express number in the afternoon.
Kong Feibai was in Yangcheng, not far from Jiangcheng, but the expedited postage cost 250 credit points, in such bad weather. Fortunately, the official took the money and did the job efficiently. Before the cold wave emergency alarm was sounded, Kong Feibai received the cold-resistant soup in a dangerous situation.
The appearance is just ordinary, and it is contained in a thermos cup. Kong Feibai lives in the basement of his bungalow and decides to study this thermos cup.
The basement he was in was vast, with red bricks and cement walls, looking like an enlarged version of a self-built cellar in the countryside. The cabinets against the wall were filled with goods. Officially produced biofuels filled a cabinet, the latest technology cold-proof clothing was lined up on the hangers like silent soldiers, mutant animal fur, dried meat, mutant plant roots, stems, leaves... and even precious mutant animal specimens soaked in formalin.
In the middle of this pile of goods, Kong Feibai carefully put on a gas mask. He firmly believed that only by living a long life can one accumulate considerable wealth. In the thermos cup was a cup of dark medicinal soup, which was not suspicious at all. He picked up the material detector next to him and carefully drew a test tube. The test result was non-toxic. However, the aura detection module connected to the material detector sounded a prompt sound, indicating that the material had aura fluctuations.
Kong Feibai spent a lot of money to get this spiritual energy detection module from Action Group 2. That woman Yu Ziqiu extorted a large amount of credit points from him. Kong Feibai felt very painful, but for a businessman like him who specializes in the business of evolvers, an analyzer that can detect spiritual energy is a necessity.
The ordinary black medicine soup became mysterious in Kong Feibai's eyes. Anything that has something to do with spiritual energy will become extraordinary. Kong Feibai has a deep understanding of this. He tilted his head back and drank half of it.
The activity area in the basement has four stoves, connected to four open chimneys leading to the ground. Kong Feibai usually only lights two stoves during the day, but now that the damn cold fog has come, Kong Feibai has to light all four stoves, and he can't use coal, but burn the latest biofuel, so that the temperature of the basement can be raised to about 0 degrees. He is wearing a thick fur coat.
But now, after drinking half a cup of medicine soup, Kong Feibai felt that his blood was boiling, and the heat was used from the deepest part of his body, and soon he was sweating all over. Kong Feibai gritted his teeth, took a box of biofuel and walked towards the vent, which was the coldest place in the entire underground store.
The vents were on the outermost side of the underground store. Because of the cold fog and snow outside, the vents would be completely blocked by ice and snow every once in a while. The thin temperature from the room could not resist the severe cold outside, and the ice and snow were difficult to melt. During this period of time, Kong Feibai had to come to clear the vents every half an hour, otherwise he would suffocate to death underground.
He placed the biofuel at the vent, ignited it quickly, and then stopped. The fuel burst into a dazzling light, followed by a huge heat, and the ice and snow at the vent began to melt. Five minutes later, the fuel was completely consumed, and the vent completely melted to form a channel, and the outside oxygen quickly poured in with low temperature.
Kong Feibai held a metal thermometer, and the pointer rotated rapidly, minus thirty, forty, fifty... and finally stopped at minus eighty degrees, but Kong Feibai felt that the temperature of his hands and feet was still normal, without any symptoms of hypothermia! Yes, he was now wearing warm clothes, sweaters and sheepskin coats. It seemed that it was completely possible to walk in minus seventy degrees after drinking the cold-proof soup and wearing thick sportswear!
Kong Feibai took the timer and simply stayed in the vent. After a full hour, the effect of the cold-resistant soup completely wore off.
Stocking up Xiao Gu is right, this cold-resistant soup is as magical as she described! This kind of thing can be sold at a sky-high price during a cold wave! Kong Feibai clearly realized the huge potential of this cold-resistant soup.
He took out his phone and logged into the forum, then clicked on the chat box of Gu the stockpiler. "I want to order a large quantity of soup to keep out the cold."
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In a huge office in the center of the Meteorological Bureau's headquarters, the entire front wall is filled with hundreds of display screens, each of which corresponds to a meteorological observation station in a city in Longguo.
As if the virus was spreading, the images displayed on these screens gradually became the same. It started from the northernmost part of Dragon Country. A thick white mist as fine as raw silk suddenly floated in the air. This white mist was composed of the tiniest ice crystals, floating in the air like a fairy's gauze skirt, but the extreme low temperature it brought was like the wings of the god of death!
From the north to the south, the cold fog spread at an alarming speed. In less than three minutes, the images from all the observation stations in Dragon Country on the display screen were covered by the cold fog. On the display, it was all white, and nothing could be seen.
This means that the temperature in the entire Dragon Country has dropped to minus one hundred degrees!
At observation stations scattered across the country, meteorological observers can no longer control their inner tension.
"Fuck, what kind of horrible weather is this? God, is he going to let us live?"
"Oh my god, the cold fog has a greater impact than expected. The temperature sensor at the center of the cold fog is already one hundred and thirty degrees below zero!"
"Hurry, hurry, notify the expedition team outside and hurry back to the observatory to keep warm!"
"Report to the superiors, the alarm must be sounded!"
In the mountains, plateaus, and rivers of Longguo, which are far away from human habitation, the staff of the meteorological observation stations quickly passed on first-hand information.
The center of the Meteorological Bureau headquarters was already filled with important figures from Dragon Country. All the information was summarized as quickly as possible and reported to the top leader.
All eyes were on the leader. He gave the order: "Notify all parts of the country to sound the cold weather alert! All residents, evacuate immediately!"
After receiving the order, everyone present immediately took action and emergency instructions were quickly issued one after another.
Jiangcheng sounded the alarm immediately. The sirens were harsh and urgent, resounding throughout the city. They were originally used to notify air raids, but now in the ears of Jiangcheng residents, they have a new meaning: the cold fog is about to fall!
The moment she heard the alarm, Gu Nian rushed to the basement. She first went to the equipment room in the basement, turned on the security system screen, automatically locked all the heavy iron doors outside the villa, made sure all the cameras were turned on, and then checked all the circuits and water systems. After checking that everything was correct, she closed the iron door between the basement and the upstairs area.
This iron door is ten centimeters thick, the thickest iron door the renovation team could find at the time. Gu Nian installed this door not to prevent theft, but to keep out the cold.
An air circulation system was installed in the basement to ensure oxygen supply. The living layout of the two-bedroom and one-living room, in addition to the functional rooms such as the equipment room and the warehouse, was where Gu Nian invested the most when renovating the villa. Now it is finally put to use.
The living area in the basement is all equipped with electric heating. Although it is covered with snow and the visibility is extremely low, fortunately Gu Nian installed a wind turbine, so there is no shortage of electricity in the basement. Even if the solar and wind turbines stop working in the cold fog, there are four backup gasoline generators in the basement.
In the kitchen in the basement, the two double-door refrigerators were already filled to the brim with food, enough for Gu Nian to consume for a month. Even if the cold fog had not dissipated after a month, Gu Nian could still go to the large warehouse in the basement and the warehouse in the farm space to get some food. The inventory was enough for her to consume for ten years.
The living room and two bedrooms in the basement have already been arranged. In the living room, there are all kinds of furniture such as TV, sofa, coffee table, and thick plush carpet. The large cabinet against the wall is full of snacks that Gu Nian bought in the supermarket, including spicy chicken feet, braised pig's trotters, potato chips, French fries, shrimp chips, egg yolk cakes, cola, sparkling water, juice... everything is available. In one bedroom, a soft bed is laid out, with a thick duvet on the 20-centimeter imported rubber mattress, and the other bedroom is converted into a gym with fitness equipment.
Gu Nian had been working diligently like a hamster to stock up and renovate her home, just to survive this final cold fog! When she looked at all the things prepared in the house, she felt full of confidence!
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On the highway outside Jiangcheng, a group of people were struggling to support each other and move forward.
The highway was covered with layers of ice and snow, making it very difficult to walk, but fortunately these people were well prepared and wore non-slip fur boots, so as long as they walked carefully, they could maintain a normal pace. The exposed skin of these people was frostbitten, and the whole team was haggard and exhausted, and at first glance they even looked like refugees fleeing famine.
It is not wrong to call them refugees, but they went to Jiangcheng not to escape famine, but to escape the severe cold. These people were residents who migrated from northern cities to the south. Nowadays, the transportation capacity for migration from the north to the south is seriously insufficient. The residents of the north can only close their houses and pray to avoid the cold wave, or they can only migrate to the south in groups.
These people were the ones who formed a team and migrated to the south. They took a ride when they could, and walked when the ride broke down. They didn’t know how much hardship they had to endure, how much difficulty they had to go through, and how strong their willpower was to finally reach Jiangcheng.
From afar, everyone could already see the outline of Jiangcheng.
A young girl's eyes were bright with hope, and she said, "I heard that the residents of Jiangcheng can still get a limited supply of food. Once we enter the city, at least we won't have to worry about food and drink!"
"Yes, Jiangcheng's cold storage is the most complete among several southern cities. This city has the most wartime air-raid shelters, so it was built the fastest, and it is the most friendly to the relocated people. We should be able to get a place in the cold storage." Another young man agreed. He was also carrying an old lady on his back. That was his grandmother. The grandmother was tired from walking, and the young man was carrying her to rest. Fortunately, the young man had good physical strength and could walk for a long time with the grandmother on his back.
The leader in front of him frowned and kept urging the people behind him to walk faster. He was wearing a wristwatch-style metal thermometer, and for so many years, the thermometer had been hovering around minus 50 degrees, but in just one hour, the thermometer dropped by nearly 20 degrees! The leader was getting more and more uneasy, but there was no ride he could find as far as he could see.
In this horrible weather, it is impossible for them to rent a car.
The team leader called the official rescue phone number of Jiangcheng again and again. Since the cold wave came, the network signal has completely collapsed across the country, and the signal base station often collapses. Even if the signal is finally connected, the rescue phone is often busy.
The team leader cursed in his heart, "Damn it, at least just once, please get through! There are elderly people and children in our team!"
After a beep, a voice came from the other end of the line: "Hello, Jiangcheng Official Rescue Center."
"We are residents of Tianjin who have migrated south! We are on National Highway 309 outside of Jiangcheng. Our car has completely broken down, so we can only walk here. Please send a car to pick us up!"
"What! You are still outside?" The operator on the other end of the phone said hurriedly: "Quick, find shelter! Hide in the cave and light fuel to keep warm as much as possible! We will send a rescue team as soon as possible..."
However, the cold fog has caught up.
In just a few minutes of talking, the cold fog had swept across the sky and caught up with National Highway 309.
Hey, why can't I lift my feet? The team leader held his phone and looked down in confusion. What he saw was his body frozen into an ice sculpture. This was the last picture he saw, and then his whole body was completely solidified into a human-shaped ice sculpture on the national highway.
A young girl, a young man carrying his grandmother on his back, a mother with her child... this group of more than a hundred people have all become ice sculptures standing quietly on National Highway 309.
"Hello, can you still hear me? Find shelter! Find shelter!" The voice came from the other end of the phone, ringing helplessly on the quiet national highway.
It's too late.
In Jiangcheng, No. 3 cold-proof warehouse.
More residents moved into Jiangcheng's cold storage than expected. The bunk beds were originally one meter apart, but now they are tightly packed together, with only a passageway for one person to pass through. Even the beds have been re-arranged. For every two new residents, they have a single bunk bed, so they either sleep together or take turns sleeping.
Even so, there were still not enough places for cold-weather shelters. As far as the eye could see, people were sitting and standing closely together on the floor.
You can imagine how noisy it is in such a confined space. The sounds of children crying, eating, cooking, talking, and cursing are heard one after another. Even the train station in Longguo during the Spring Festival is much quieter and more spacious than this cold-proof warehouse! In such a place, there is naturally no sanitation. The air is filled with a disgusting sour smell, a disgusting smell mixed with sweat and stench.
Xiao Huang, his wife, parents, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law were in the No. 3 cold storage warehouse. Because they were employees of the cold storage warehouse, they had certain privileges and were assigned to a room for twelve people with another employee family. Although the room was very small, it still had a small compartment, which was the most enviable residence for everyone in the cold storage warehouse.
Xiao Huang was half lying on the single bed, and his wife was also sitting on the single bed, massaging Xiao Huang's arm. Huang had been repairing the circuit outside for a while, and although he earned more credit points for the family, Xiao Huang's muscles and bones ached when he took a break.
"I don't know when we can get out." Xiao Huang sighed and whispered to his wife.
His wife understood. Who would want to live in such a small house? She patted him comfortingly and said, "We are very lucky."
Yes, at least their whole family lived in a cold-proof warehouse, which gave them a better chance of survival than many people, Xiao Huang thought.
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In the farm space, brilliant light fills the entire farmland, the forest is green, the farmland is full of vitality, and in the distance is a quiet wooden house, creating a leisurely and peaceful atmosphere.
Gu Nian was wearing a straw hat, a sports suit, and rubber boots, doing farm work in the fields. She was busy stockpiling goods and doing various chores in the real world before, and had no time to organize the farm space. Now that she was trapped in the basement by the cold fog, it was a good time to work.
Gu Nian took out all the seven spirit crystals dug from the wild boar and made cold-proof soup. In the end, she got three portions of cold-proof soup and four portions of kitchen waste. So, including the two spiritual fields she transformed at the beginning, she now has a total of six spiritual fields. She only used one of them to grow vegetables to ensure her daily consumption, and the other five were all used to grow medicinal herbs. Most of the spiritual coins she had accumulated during this period were also exchanged for time accelerators.
Each bottle of time accelerator can speed up the flow of a spiritual field by ten days. Gu Nian applied it continuously, and today, she finally harvested all the herbs for making cold injury ointment. Thanks to Jing Li for giving her ten spiritual crystals, she now has enough materials to make a batch of cold injury ointment.
Taking advantage of this free time, Gu Nian began to explore the farm space, but she soon discovered that her space for activities was actually extremely limited.
Gu Nian usually only wandered around the cabin and the farmland. There was a small pond next to the farmland. Gu Nian usually used the water in the small pond to irrigate the land. However, the pond seemed to have no water veins underneath. As Gu Nian used it, the water level kept dropping. Gu Nian also tried to leave the farmland and explore the forest in the distance. However, every time he did this, the system would pop up a prompt: "The area ahead has not been unlocked yet. Come back to explore after it is unlocked."
Over time, Gu Nian simply gave up her curiosity to explore and concentrated on farming to be a happy farmer. She gradually realized that her farm was just a space, and it did not have a complete ecosystem like the whole world, but only had some functions.
Still in the farm kitchen, Gu Nian turned on the system screen, clicked on cooking, and checked the recipe for the cold injury ointment.
According to the formula requirements, the ingredients of the cold injury ointment should be divided into coarse materials and fine materials. Safflower, gallnut, chili pepper, rhubarb, etc. are mixed together in proportion, which is the coarse material, while salvia miltiorrhiza, cinnamon, angelica, and raw Chuanwujie need to be ground into powder in proportion, which is the fine material.
Up to this point, the recipe is very detailed. Then the style changes and becomes familiar: take an appropriate amount of oil, heat it up, add coarse ingredients and fry, then remove the residue and keep the oil, add spirit crystals, and when the crystals melt into a jelly, quickly add fine ingredients and stir, cool it with ice, so that the mixture retains the jelly state, which is the cold injury ointment.
It didn't tell me what kind of oil to use, how hot to heat it, or how many minutes to fry it!
Gu Nian resigned herself to her fate and picked up the notebook she had left in the kitchen, took out the end of the experiment she followed her teacher when she was studying engineering, and began to experiment with the production parameters. Fortunately, after several attempts, she finally made the cold injury ointment.
At the bottom of the casserole, a beautiful translucent plaster quietly condensed, just like the high-quality fish maw that had just been cooked, appearing translucent jade color, and smelling spicy but not pungent.
Gu Nian rolled up her sleeves impatiently. She had been out repairing circuits some time ago and had gotten a few chilblains on her hands. She picked up some ointment and carefully applied it to the chilblains.
Almost immediately, the itchy chilblains calmed down! A stream of heat warmed the places where the ointment was applied. The chilblains were originally red and had red and swollen lumps, which had no sense of cold or heat. Now they felt fully recovered, and the lumps softened rapidly.
This cold injury ointment works so quickly! It's so effective! Gu Nian was refreshed, and she took out a sealed glass box from the cupboard and used it to store the cold injury ointment. Gu Nian thought that she could make a few more boxes of cold injury ointment during this period, first for her own use, and second for selling them to make a profit when the cold fog passed.
"Meow~ Lotus is hungry~" A sound came from under her feet, and she felt a furry touch. Gu Nian looked down and saw that it was Lotus rubbing her legs pitifully.
That's right. Gu Nian looked at her watch. It was time for lunch. She picked up the lotus and left the farm space in a flash, returning to the basement of the villa. Apart from the spiritual energy coins spent on buying the time accelerator, the remaining spiritual energy coins were almost all exchanged for the length of time the lotus stayed in the real world.
In the basement, the floor heating was burning brightly. Gu Nian put on her soft slippers and went to the kitchen to make herself lunch.
We had hot pot for lunch today. On the induction cooker, there was a double-flavored pot. Gu Nian poured a bag of delicious sweet and sour tomato soup base on the left side, and opened a thick layer of butter soup base on the other side, pouring water to boil. While waiting for the hot pot to boil, Gu Nian took out tripe, beef rolls, mutton rolls, duck intestines, duck blood... from the refrigerator and filled the table.
"Meow meow meow, Lotus wants to eat shrimps! And black fish fillets!" Lotus jumped lightly onto the table.
Gu Nian took out the shrimp and fish fillets from the refrigerator again, and did not forget to take out a bottle of Coke. Hot pot should be accompanied by carbonated drinks. Especially in a room with full heating, a bottle of iced Coke is an irreplaceable coolness! During this time, she found that although Lotus looked and felt exactly like a cat, it was still a supernatural creature incarnated by the system. Therefore, Lotus was different from a cat. It could eat human food and surprisingly liked spicy food. But Lotus' favorite was shrimp, and she liked to eat it no matter how it was cooked. Note: The favorite variety is black tiger shrimp.
The man and the cat had lunch together in the living room. Because the food was too rich, Gu Nian ate too much and Lianhua also had a round belly.
After lunch, Gu Nian changed into a fluffy home outfit and a pair of floor socks, and then she sat on the sofa in the basement living room to watch TV, with a blanket on her knees. Lotus sat next to her, watching TV with her, letting Gu Nian scratch its chin, making purring sounds.
Such a leisurely afternoon passed, and in the evening, Gu Nian prepared a sumptuous steak and pasta meal, played with Lianhua for a while to help digestion, and then went into the bedroom. She changed into short-sleeved pajamas and got into the comfortable bed. The thick woolen quilt pressed on her body, with a sense of weight in her heart, and it was as warm as soaking in a hot spring. The two hot water bottles at the feet were even warmer and toasted the soles of her feet. The battery was fully charged, and even if the power generation system failed, it could be switched to the battery instead.
The bed was two meters and two meters wide. Even if Gu Nian stretched out her arms and legs, she couldn't touch the edge of the bed. For this reason, Gu Nian also spread a small blanket on the bed for Lianhua to sleep on. Listening to the sweet snoring of the kitten, Gu Nian also fell asleep without worries. In this private fortress she built, there was no wind or snow.
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