"It's good that he can move." Gu Yuxin breathed a sigh of relief. She was always worried that Lu Wuyai's body would be seriously injured. Now that she was sure that Lu Wuyai could move, a huge weight was finally lifted off her shoulders.
"You need to rest well. If the pain becomes unbearable, remember to tell me."
Lu Wuyai nodded. It didn't hurt as much as before, but he still couldn't walk. He had suffered a lot when he was hit by the shipping container.
“It won’t be paralyzed,” Lu Wuyai said worriedly.
Gu Yuxin shook her head, but looked at Lu Wuyai: "We're not sure yet. You know we lack equipment, so you'll have to rely on yourself."
"Also, I've injected you with the sixth stage of herbal medicine. Go and experience it for yourself. If you have any problems, remember to let me know."
"The blizzard hasn't passed yet, and the temperature is still very cold. Don't catch a cold. If you get a fever or inflammation, it will be a real problem."
Gu Yuxin continued to give some instructions, including bedtime.
Lu Wuyai nodded, but his consciousness gradually became blurred, and he eventually fell asleep again.
"Take a nap," Gu Yuxin said softly, like a feather gently caressing Lu Wuyai's heart.
Unexpectedly, that night, Lu Wuyai suddenly developed a high fever and his whole body convulsed, almost making Xia Qingming, who was taking care of him, cry.
When Gu Yuxin and the others arrived, Lu Wuyai had returned to normal and there was nothing unusual about him.
Xia Qingming's face was pale. Lu Wuyai's actions just now had startled her.
"It's okay, but you still need to be careful." Gu Yuxin thought for a moment and decided to take care of Lu Wuyai by herself that night.
"You should all go and rest."
Soon, only Lu Wuyai and Gu Yuxin remained in the laboratory.
Looking at the sleeping Lu Wuyai, Gu Yuxin closed the laboratory door and turned to continue the experiment, but part of his attention remained on Lu Wuyai.
......
Several days have passed and Lu Wuyai has not yet woken up, but his fever symptoms have begun to subside.
In addition, the snow outside was slowly dissipating, but the sky remained overcast, showing no signs of clearing up. On the contrary, it felt like a major storm was brewing.
Su Xi and the others went to the cowshed. Fortunately, the cows in the cowshed did not freeze to death during this time, but the food was exhausted, and the environment inside the cowshed was extremely harsh.
Taking advantage of the changing weather and the darkness, everyone quickly cleaned the cowshed, laid out soft straw again, added plenty of food, turned on the heater, and then went back to the cave.
The deserted island looked particularly eerie at night.
More than half of the plants in the forest died in the blizzard, but some evergreens survived.
After closing the tomb door and locking it from the inside, everyone exhaled a foul stench.
“When I went to the orchard to pick some green fruit, I felt my night vision had decreased a little,” Su Xi muttered.
The fruit trees in the orchard are growing quite well, which is probably related to these black stones. Recently, everyone has noticed that the temperature inside the cave where the black stones are stored is actually quite warm. Although it's not as good as a heater, it's already quite good.
Gu Yuxin is also studying the stone further. She suspects that this black stone mine holds many unknown secrets.
"Pick me some apples," Gu Yuxin's voice came from the passageway.
Su Xi stood on the ladder. After hearing the sound, she picked some more apples. The basket in her hands seemed very heavy.
Back in the cave, they found that Lu Wuyai had woken up again.
"Let's go check out the lab."
Several women arrived at the laboratory and found Lu Wuyai lying on a nursing bed, being wheeled out of the lab by Gu Yuxin.
Seeing a familiar face made Lu Wuyai quite happy, but he couldn't move. He smelled the aroma of rice and felt hungry.
But Gu Yuxin wouldn't let him eat anything. He could only drink some porridge and soup. After the exams were over in the next few days, he could continue to eat rice and even steamed buns with meat.
"I'm so hungry."
After finishing the rice porridge, Lu Wuyai still felt hungry, but Gu Yuxin actually told him to go to sleep now.
After finally waking up, Lu Wuyai was no longer sleepy at all.
Finally, Gu Yuxin put him in the laboratory and plugged his ears so he couldn't hear anything else.
Because of this, Lu Wuyai quickly fell into a deep sleep and did not wake up until noon the next day.
......
"Move as much as possible, especially your legs."
Gu Yuxin asked Lu Wuyai to move around as much as possible, otherwise he could easily become paralyzed.
Even so, the recovery process is rather long, especially since Lu Wuyai's desire to recover sometimes backfires.
Meanwhile, a tornado appeared outside.
It didn't happen on a deserted island, but rather on the horizon far from the island, where more than a dozen tornadoes appeared.
Under the high-powered telescope, Song Xiaoyou could clearly see the wind column. Although they were far apart, the suffocating natural disaster was absolutely shocking.
"This is terrifying. What if it spreads to the deserted island?" Su Xi took a deep breath and said.
Anyone who sees such a terrible natural disaster would feel heavy-hearted, and might even think that the other person would end up on a deserted island.
They had experienced tornadoes when they first arrived on the deserted island, but this was the first time they had ever seen so many columns of wind appear together.
Suddenly, Song Xiaoyou saw something, grabbed Gu Yuxin beside her, and immediately jumped into the tunnel entrance.
"What happened?" Gu Yuxin scrambled to her feet, her ankle twisted.
Song Xiaoyou: "A plane crashed."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a violent explosion suddenly rang out near the rocky hill, causing the entire ground to tremble.
Gu Yuxin peeked out and saw that in the woods not far from the rocky mountain, an airplane had broken apart and was on fire.
"Don't go out," said Song Xiaoyou.
Gu Yuxin swallowed hard, her scalp tingling, and a chill ran down her spine.
Soon, the entrance was blocked by an iron plate, with many wooden planks laid across it, completely blocking out the terrifying wind noise from the outside.
"Extreme weather is getting worse." Gu Yuxin frowned.
“What happened again?” Xia Qingming asked. She hadn’t left the house in a long time. Most people, like her, were exploring new underground spaces in the caves.
Song Xiaoyou told everyone what she had seen. Hearing that it was a tornado, everyone couldn't help but become anxious.
"Whether you reach the desert island or not, you must be prepared."
The new underground space has just been paved with cement, and we can move in tonight. However, before we move in, we need to move some important things in.
But after thinking about it, there were too many supplies in the cave, and almost every single one of them was important.
"The first step is to make machines for producing marching rations," Lu Wuyai and Gu Yuxin said almost simultaneously.
Food and fresh water are always the most important things for survival on a desert island.
As for the generator and diesel engine, they are located in another underground space, which is quite deep and has a thick soil layer, so they are unlikely to have any problems.
In addition, some daily necessities were carried to the new cave, some in greater or lesser quantities.
Lu Wuyai, who had been busy until evening, lay flat on his bed when he suddenly heard a howling wind outside and realized that the situation outside was quite bad.
Soon, everyone entered the underground space, but the entrances and exits were not blocked. This temporarily made it easier for them to understand the situation in the cave.
But in fact, no one slept well that night, including Lu Wuyai, because the howling wind could be heard in his ears, a sound even more terrifying than when a typhoon came.
In his view, a tornado was sweeping over the rocky hill.
“On the rocky mountain.” Gu Yuxin had been keeping an eye on Lu Wuyai’s condition, but looking at his face, she realized that the situation outside might not be good.
Lu Wuyai nodded. The wind was getting stronger and stronger, as if there were tornadoes all around.
Fortunately, the cave remained intact until dawn when the sound of the wind subsided.
Seeing the women about to leave, Lu Wuyai hurriedly said, "I also want to go out and have a look. I'm getting moldy staying in the cave."
After considering it for a while, and taking into account the patient's physical and mental well-being, Gu Yuxin finally agreed.
There was a wheelchair inside the container. Because Lu Wuyai's spine couldn't bend properly to exert force, he had to be handled with extreme care during transport.
Finally leaving the tomb, everyone looked around at the surrounding scenery and felt somewhat lost for a while.
The passage of the tornado did indeed have a terrible impact on the forests near the rocky hills.
However, not much has changed around the rocky hill. At most, some rocks have disappeared, some containers have been exposed, and some pits have appeared.
However, Su Xi and the others quickly filled these areas with soil, so nothing seemed amiss from the outside.
“It seems that last night’s tornado was just a side job for Shi Qiu,” Gu Yuxin said, looking towards the withered forest.
There, a large amount of wood was scattered on the ground, larger than the original deadwood forest.
“There are still many corpses on the ground. It’s a natural disaster and a man-made calamity. It’s really bad luck,” Su Xi said.
Many people saw numerous corpses on the grass, and the temperature was still very cold. The sky was always obscured by a cloud, and a chilling cold air swept over them from the very beginning.
"The cold wave has weakened," Song Xiaoyou said. In her vision, she could almost see a dense layer of ice crystals thousands of meters high in the sky.
Of course, this is not a distance that Song Xiaoyou can see directly; it is just a result she deduced based on reality.
Thousands of meters in the sky, a cold ocean current is surging and will soon descend upon this deserted island.
“We’ll go again in a while,” Morroy said.
Su Xi looked at the corpses: "It would be best to dispose of these corpses; they look very unpleasant."
The lawn that once stood there is now completely bare, and the most common thing there is human corpses, which makes it feel somewhat uncomfortable.
Lu Wuyai sat in his wheelchair, his back tilted at a 45-degree angle. This angle allowed his spine to relax.
Looking at the desolate island after the tornado, it seems that everything has returned to its original state.
Half an hour later, the bodies from several mountains were piled up at the foot of an unseen mountain. Covered in flamethrower, the billowing black smoke was particularly conspicuous.
The woman who observed this left and returned to the basement, cleaned up all traces along the way, and left several robots outside for operation and surveillance.
"The controllers are for you." Back in the cave, Su Xi handed several robot controllers to Lu Wuyai so he could pass the time and not focus all his energy on his injuries.
A smile spread across Lu Wuyai's face as he fiddled with the controller, temporarily guiding a drone to fly over several nearby hills.
Drones equipped with solar panels can fly over larger areas than before.
Walking through the forest, I couldn't see any animals. In this freezing weather, a layer of white frost covered the leaves. Some trees had already frozen to death; their trunks were black. A gust of wind would easily break them.
"It's very windy."
Lu Wuyai, controlling the drone, clearly felt the aircraft become unbalanced. It swayed from side to side, nearly crashing.
"Let's use land patrol robots."
Lu Wuyai flew the drone into a pre-dug hole, then switched the handle and controlled the land patrol robot to patrol the area without direction.
Inside the cave, other women were busy organizing supplies and reinforcing the existing cave space.
On the cement wall, people laid unused blankets flat to prevent frost damage as much as possible during the upcoming cold snap.
In the laboratory, Gu Yuxin wasn't conducting any experiments yet. Every musical instrument was wrapped in thick cotton wadding, some even wearing down jackets. A heater was running nearby, and the ground was covered with a layer of black stones.
All the medicinal herbs grown on the black stones were temporarily moved to the living room. They were densely packed in one large area. I counted them; there were more than 500 of them.
Lu Wuyai noticed that many of the medicinal herbs were old. For example, one ginseng plant had dense roots that had spread to half a meter. They were intertwined so closely that they gave the illusion of maturity.
There were also several black He Shou Wu plants that were completely human-shaped, with noses, eyes, and mouths, looking like tiny black people.
“These herbs were once considered absolutely sacred medicines.” Lu Wuyai sighed. Now, they had become materials for Gu Yuxin’s constant experiments, and could be mass-produced quickly using black stones.
Soon, Gu Yuxin also came out of the laboratory, carrying a large number of plastic boxes filled with various plant seeds.
"You need to put these things next to the cold water pool."
Seeds signify new life and are of great significance.
Here, Lu Wuyai still controls the land patrol robot, constantly climbing over the nearby hills and observing the scenery of the desolate island in the dead of winter.
For several days, the deserted island was very quiet, like the most terrifying silence before a storm.
There were no birdsong, and no other animals appeared. It was as calm as a lake. Only the wind could create ripples.
Inside the cave, everyone could clearly feel the cold.
Lu Wuyai moved his wheelchair and touched the blanket on the wall; it was a bit hard.
During this period, the indoor temperature has remained between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius, with the lowest temperature occurring in the early morning.
"The cold front is getting closer." Song Xiaoyou returned from outside. Today, she could already see a layer of white mist in the air hundreds of meters above the ground.
When the bullet is fired into the sky and lands on the ground, the metal casing freezes completely. If you touch it with your hand, you will immediately suffer frostbite, causing purple internal injuries.
How long will it take for the cold wave to fully arrive?
"Three to five days," Gu Yuxin said uncertainly.
But who could have imagined that that night, Lu Wuyai woke up from his sleep to hear a shattering sound coming from not far away.
"Su Xi".
Yuri
Lu Wuyai called out several names in succession, and finally someone woke up.
"What's wrong."
"I think I heard a clicking sound; maybe the hole is about to break."
Gu Yuxin was the first to get up. Hearing this, she looked around and noticed that many of the blankets covering the wall had frozen solid. The crackling sound was actually the sound of the blankets gradually freezing inside.
"It can't be a cold wave coming." Lu Wuyai took a breath and could really feel the temperature in the cave dropping rapidly.
Most people get up at any moment.
Su Xi and Song Xiaoyou walked to the cave entrance and came back to tell everyone that the cold wave had not yet arrived.
Inside the cave, all five heaters were turned on, and Lu Wuyai could no longer hear the crackling sound of ice forming.
However, after going through all that, no one was in the mood to sleep. They stayed up until the early hours of the morning. Only then did they start to feel a little tired. They hid under the covers and continued to try to sleep.
In the lab, Gu Yuxin was still helping Lu Wuyai with rehabilitation training. His spinal injury had caused him considerable distress, but Lu Wuyai was doing his best to overcome it, and his condition was rapidly improving.
Today, he can sit upright and occasionally stand steadily while holding onto the wall, but he still cannot walk.
Gu Yuxin told him not to worry and to take the medicine every day, as it had a good healing effect on his internal injuries.
At noon that day, even though it was the hottest time of day, the thermometer showed the same temperature as in the morning.
"I'll go out and take a look." Song Xiaoyou put down her chopsticks, put on her clothes, and walked straight towards the cave entrance.
But she soon felt that the temperature at the entrance of the cave was too cold, and she dared not open the partition wall with her bare hands.
Finally, she passed through the cave and left the tomb.
After a while, Song Xiaoyou returned and said that another cold front had arrived. This time, she felt it was almost within reach, and she was afraid something might happen.
“We can only buy more heaters,” Lu Wuyai said.
Soon, a dozen heaters were taken out of the cave and placed in the cowshed and the cave.
"It's so cold at noon, it'll probably be even more terrifying at night," Lu Wuyai said. He hadn't expected there to be two cold waves this winter; it was really frightening.
This cold wave is much larger. The temperature is only five degrees Celsius now, but I can't imagine how bad it will be tonight.
This reminded Lu Wuyai of a post-apocalyptic movie, which was also related to a cold wave.
"I wonder what the outside world is like," Lu Wuyai thought to himself.
As time passed, dusk soon arrived.
Without the sunlight of dusk, the sky was a dark red, like hell.
Whether it was due to blurred vision or not, Lu Wuyai seemed to see a flash of fire in the clouds through the probe of the land patrol robot.
At this point, only he and Rou Rou remained in the cave. The other women had not yet returned from the cowshed.
Lu Wuyai watched the scene unfold in the forest. A strong wind blew by, and the sky was filled with white ice shards.
"How many people will freeze to death?" Lu Wuyai saw many corpses on the mountain, including humans and animals searching for food, most of which were carnivores.
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