Lu Yuan gently patted Xiao Shan's head and comforted her, "Don't worry, our family will stay together from now on. This glacier shouldn't cause any more damage to the island."
Everyone inside the cave was terrified. They rushed to their houses, and some even wanted to go outside to avoid the earthquake. After all, if another earthquake were to occur, hiding in the cave would definitely not be a wise choice.
But when everyone poked their heads out of the cave to look outside, they found that there were hardly any people outside the cave.
The earthquake did not last very long; the ground occasionally creaked and groaned, but the violent shaking seemed to have subsided.
Lu Yuan glanced at the thermometer hanging on the wall and immediately frowned.
It's minus twenty-five degrees Celsius.
As soon as he exhaled, a cloud of white mist filled the air. Lu Yuan felt as if his eyebrows were about to freeze. He tightened his clothes, trying his best to keep himself warm.
Lu Yuan, who had been cooped up in his room for a week, felt like he was about to get sick from being so covered up. But going outside was too cold. He had no choice but to find something to do.
But after thinking it over, I realized that there didn't seem to be anything I needed to do; all the necessary preparations had already been made before the disaster.
When he was idly waiting, he suddenly heard a cold scream coming from outside. It was the people of the western district shouting through the cave entrance.
"Boss Lu, something's happened. You'd better come and take a look."
Because they were too far apart, Lu Yuan couldn't hear very clearly, so he quickly shouted.
"What's wrong? Is something the matter? What did you just say? Say it again, I didn't hear you clearly."
Something's happened.
A look of nervousness immediately appeared on Lu Yuan's face, so he quickly returned to his room and told Xiao Shan and his family.
"Let me go with you. I've been wanting to go out for a while now; it's been too long since I've been out," Xiaoshan said with anticipation.
Lu Yuan nodded, then took a leather overcoat from the side. After the two put on the overcoats, they left the house.
The wind howled, and the ground was blown clean, without a single pebble, while the back of the valley was covered with sand and gravel.
Originally, Lu Yuan had planted a large area of crops such as potatoes, yams, and sweet potatoes there, but now they are basically all covered by gravel.
The two were wearing heavy clothes. Lu Yuan held Xiao Shan tightly to prevent her from being blown away by the wind. Because the valley entrance was located on the windward side, the wind could not blow in from the outside and could only blow towards the valley entrance. If the two of them wanted to reach the West District, they had to walk along the direction of the valley entrance, so the wind was so strong that the two of them could hardly stand.
After much effort, the two finally arrived at the entrance of the West Mountain cave. After knocking heavily on the door several times, the person inside opened it, and the moment the door opened, countless gusts of wind rushed in.
The flames on a brazier not far from the cave entrance were almost extinguished by the wind. Everyone quickly pulled Lu Yuan and Xiao Shan inside and then barred the door.
"Oh dear, the wind is so strong! I just heard you say something happened, what exactly happened?"
Everyone started explaining what had happened, but because there were too many people, Lu Yuan couldn't understand what was going on, so he quickly reached out and pressed down.
“Take it one at a time. I can’t hear you at all if you’re talking like that. What’s wrong? Is there a problem with the catalyst?”
The group nodded and then led Lu Yuan and Xiao Shan to the depths of the cave. This was a breeding area, and next to it was a large stockpile of catalyst solution. This catalyst solution was extracted by Lu Yuan from the ore, not taken out of the dimensional space.
A middle-aged man rubbed his hands together, took out a bottle of solution, and said...
"Boss, look, this solution seems to have changed color. We were just about to test it to see if it could make the grass grow back, but after a day it didn't work at all. Is this catalyst solution expired?"
Lu Yuan and Xiao Shan looked at it in surprise, took the bottle of catalyst and smelled it. It still smelled the same, only the color had changed. So he quickly took the other solutions and looked at them. He saw that each catalyst had turned grayish-black.
Lu Yuan casually took out a few bottles and poured them into a plate of bean sprouts that had finally been prepared.
More than ten minutes later, the bean sprouts still hadn't changed at all. They had only expanded a little because they had absorbed water. Only a vernier caliper could measure the extent of the expansion. However, Lu Yuan knew that although the catalyst was not as effective as the water in his dimensional space, it still had some effect.
Lu Yuan frowned, then looked at everyone and asked, "Are all the other solutions like this? Who here is in charge of these catalyst solutions?"
A man wearing glasses walked over and said softly.
“I’m in charge of these catalyst solutions, and I have to come and check them every day. Today when I checked them, I found that the catalysts seemed to have expired and turned this color, so I quickly called you over.”
After a moment of contemplation, Lu Yuan picked up the walkie-talkie.
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