The women were silent for a moment, fully aware of the power of the storm outside.
“Take some ice crystals to melt them,” Song Xiaoyou said. In the absence of fresh water, ice crystals are the only water source available for the time being.
Soon, everyone took several buckets from the kitchen and hung them outside with ropes.
However, this method of obtaining water proved unsuccessful. The ice crystals were too light to be collected in a bucket when the wind blew, making it impossible to obtain fresh water.
Seeing the empty bucket, everyone's hearts sank.
Lu Wuyai gradually recovered from the cold sensation and realized that without fresh water, their lives would be in danger at any time.
“There is fresh water in the carriage,” Lu Wuyai thought to himself, “but if you go to the carriage now, you will undoubtedly die. In contrast, if you go to the other side of the deck, you will have a greater chance of survival.”
Back in their cabins, everyone was still thinking about how to safely reach the other end of the deck and bring the water over.
Before they knew it, the warm air from the airflow made them drowsy, and everyone fell asleep again.
Soon, Lu Wuyai woke up from his dream. He had a nightmare and was covered in a cold sweat.
"woke up."
"All right."
Lu Wuyai stood up, walked to Ouyang Qing's side, sat down again, hugged him, buried his face in her snow-white neck, and his hot breath made the woman tremble slightly.
"What's wrong?" Gu Yuxin noticed that Lu Wuyai was in a bad mood.
"It was a nightmare, it's okay, let me hug you." Lu Wuyai hugged Ouyang Qing tightly, feeling her perfect figure, and then slowly recovered from his tension.
After embracing for a while, Lu Wuyai began to feel that he was being a little unruly. Gu Yuxin wouldn't let him act rashly. After all, so many people were messing around with each other.
However, Lu Wuyai still climbed the snow-capped peak with one hand, experiencing the amazing details.
Gu Yuxin blushed, but in the end she couldn't help herself. Looking at Lu Wuyai's smiling face, she pinched a soft piece of flesh on his waist with her fingers.
In the cozy little house, the small gestures between the two revealed the deep and intimate feelings between the man and woman.
An hour later, Lu Wuyai withdrew his hand from the snow-capped peak and gently kissed the sleeping Gu Yuxin goodbye. He was too charming, couldn't be more charming.
After getting up and walking to a corner, Lu Wuyai rummaged through the box and found several hundred warm baby pieces inside.
Just now, Lu Wuyai thought of a way to use these hand warmers to get water from the other side of the deck.
“It should be possible,” Lu Wuyai said.
He carefully counted the hand warmers and found that there were 120 in total, enough for two round trips of 60 each.
Soon, Lu Wuyai came to the driver's seat alone and put his innermost underwear on the warm baby.
"Sixty sheets haven't been used yet." Lu Wuyai smiled.
A minute later, Lu Wuyai realized his body was too hot. The effect of warming the baby was too obvious; he felt like his skin was being burned.
Is it fake?
Lu Wuyai grimaced, quickly put on his coat, put the extra baby hot water bottle into his black duffel bag, and walked straight into the storm of swirling ice crystals.
When Yang Nuoguo first went out, he didn't really feel too cold because he had hand warmers. However, his gas mask filled with ice crystals as soon as he breathed in.
Halfway there, Lu Wuyai had no choice but to change his mask and continue walking.
What used to take less than a minute to reach the bow of the ship is now incredibly difficult. The wind is completely against him. Lu Wuyai feels like he's searching for a needle in a haystack; the immense pressure is killing him.
He had no choice but to hide in the narrow gaps of the container to catch his breath, and then hold his breath and continue walking forward.
For the second half of the journey, Lu Wuyai noticed that the heat from the hand warmer was starting to drop. It should be said that the wind and snow from outside were constantly assaulting his body.
The air was filled with the howling of the wind, which looked terrifying.
Lu Wuyai quickened his pace, trying to find a container for fresh water before the heat from the hand warmer wore off.
In fact, no one ever opened that container. We only saw water listed in the materials corresponding to the container number on the sole cargo manifest.
As the temperature grew colder, Lu Wuyai gradually found himself unable to do what he wanted to do.
Finally, as the containers around him disappeared, Lu Wuyai knew that he had reached the bow of the ship.
He memorized the container number and roughly knew its location—it was one of the containers in the row below.
However, the ice crystals were too large, and even with the mask on, they couldn't see clearly. Left with no other option, Lu Wuyai had to temporarily remove the mask.
The moment the mask was removed from his head, Lu Wuyai felt as if his face had been hit by something, and it gradually became numb.
Lu Wuyai could feel the biting cold; his head could no longer take it.
The extreme cold temporarily halted his thinking, and he almost forgot what he was doing there.
Fortunately, Lu Wuyai finally came to his senses and touched the cold rails, where a piece of skin was torn off his finger.
But Lu Wuyai knew he had to get out this time, otherwise the people in the cabin might die of thirst.
The ice storm is unlikely to stop anytime soon. This is a massive natural disaster.
Finally, Lu Wuyai saw a familiar number and letters. He pulled the gun from his chest, fired several shots at the safety pin, and finally broke it.
Crunch, crunch.
The iron gate opened, and Lu Wuyai jumped inside. Looking at the buckets of water, he suddenly became excited.
Without any delay, Lu Wuyai quickly packed the bottled water into his suitcase, then took out two cans of beef and the remaining hand warmers.
After eating the beef, Lu Wuyai regained some strength and energy, and put on a new heat pack to quickly raise his cold body temperature.
"Okay." Lu Wuyai patted his chest, shook off the ice chips from his clothes, then packed three duffel bags, pushed open the iron gate, and began to run wildly along the deck.
The wind had come from the opposite direction, but now it was with him. Lu Wuyai felt incredibly light. Several times, he was nearly blown to the side of the boat by the strong winds, forcing him to slow down slightly.
Ten minutes later, Lu Wuyai got into the driver's seat. He was panting heavily, his throat filled with the taste of blood. It took him a long time to truly calm down.
At that moment, hearing the commotion in the driver's cab, several sleeping women immediately woke up. Seeing that Lu Wuyai had disappeared from their sight, they hurriedly rushed over.
Finally, seeing Lu Wuyai's disheveled appearance, everyone was too saddened to speak.
Gu Yuxin held Lu Wuyai's head and rubbed it for a while. His face was paralyzed. If he couldn't recover, he would have to drool for the rest of his life.
Lu Wuyai told everyone to take the bottled water to the cabin and wait for it to dissolve before drinking it.
I don't know how long this ice storm will last; everything needs to be planned carefully.
That evening, Lu Wuyai and the others melted the ice in the bucket and immediately distributed it to everyone to drink.
They hadn't had any water for two days, considering the time elapsed. Although they had drunk a can of broth at the same time, it was still salty water.
"Yes." Su Xi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Others also drank water to replenish the lost fluids.
However, Gu Yuxin still reminded everyone: "We don't know how long the ice storm will last, and we're running out of hand warmers, so we must control our daily water intake."
Upon hearing this, everyone stopped drinking water and began to savor the taste.
The food container was closer to the driver's cab, while the fresh water was farther away. In comparison, the water source was more important than the food.
This time, Lu Wuyai brought a total of thirty 2L buckets of fresh water, which seems like a lot, but there are quite a few people in the team. Overall, this amount of water is still not enough.
“There’s no way to go anymore.” Lu Wuyai rubbed his face, which was still a little stiff. His whole body had not yet recovered from the frozen state.
“Without insulation, this is the last source of water,” Lu Wuyai said.
Everyone felt a bit heavy-hearted, especially when Lu Wuyai said that this was the last drop of water.
“Anyway, as long as we keep some alcohol, we can last another day,” Morroy said.
At noon, Lu Wuyai wandered around the hut again, but still couldn't find anything to keep him warm.
Three more days passed. During this time, Lu Wuyai went out again. When he returned, he was almost frozen to death.
"These are canned goods." Lu Wuyai gasped and put down his travel bag. This time, the three large bags of food would last him seven days.
The main reason is that Lu Wuyai had a large appetite, which accounted for almost half of the portion.
As for fresh water, less than half has been used in this period, and it is estimated that it can last for about seven more days.
The problem is that the ice storm has not subsided and is still raging in this space.
Lu Wuyai couldn't get out, and many people were worried about the three women and Rou Rou inside the cave.
“Hopefully they won’t come looking for us,” Lu Wuyai said.
Night fell, and Lu Wuyai went out alone again. Although the fresh water could still be used for a while, danger remained. As the only one left in the team, he had no choice but to take the lead at this time.
More importantly, a woman's endurance and physical condition meant she couldn't survive long in an ice storm.
Lu Wuyai, gun in hand, left the driver's cab and quickly walked to the pile of containers, using nearby boxes to isolate himself from the ice crystals.
While not entirely isolated, most ice crystals have been avoided as much as possible.
Therefore, Lu Wuyai could catch his breath slightly in the gaps between the containers, and even in some corners, he could take off his mask and look at the nearby containers.
This time, Lu Wuyai came out again, searching for fresh water in the unopened container.
Getting water from the bow was clearly impossible. Without strong insulation, the end result would be death.
Lu Wuyai wouldn't risk his own life, nor would he gamble with a woman's. He would search for a glimmer of hope in this unopened shipping container.
In the following time, Lu Wuyai began searching for the containers. He was very careful and meticulous, opening every single container he passed.
But for several days, nothing was found. On the contrary, Lu Wuyai discovered that the ice crystal storm was gradually increasing. Clumps of ice crystals were everywhere on the deck, some even looking like bamboo shoots, spreading out in the direction of the howling wind.
Fresh water is running low. Although no one usually shows it, Lu Wuyai knows everyone is very worried.
That night, Lu Wuyai got up again, went into the cockpit, quickly changed his clothes, grabbed his pistol, and headed out into the world.
But this time, Gu Yuxin and Gu Yuxinyi were among those who came out together. Compared to the other women, they were in better physical condition.
Soon, the three of them entered the container and began to follow Lu Wuyai in search of a water source.
An hour later, they were forced to turn back because it was too cold outside and they had to retreat.
"Didn't Lu Wuyai come back?" Su Xi asked.
Gu Yuxin took off her clothes and ran straight into the cabin, shivering all over, ignoring Su Xi. Her down jacket was frozen solid, covered in ice crystals.
Even after arriving here, Lu Wuyai was still searching for the container. He didn't return until half an hour later.
Undoubtedly, this was another failure.
Lu Wuyai was panting. After arriving at the cabin, he quickly took off his clothes. His down jacket was deemed useless again.
Fortunately, they didn't have to worry about clothes, because they found a lot of clothes they could splurge on while packing their luggage a few days earlier.
They have two more days of fresh water, so they don't have much time left.
Three hours later, Lu Wuyai continued his journey, walking alone in the cold night.
The storm was as fierce as ever, or even more so than before.
The container was opened, and disappointment gradually accumulated. Lu Wuyai saw many things: some were vehicles, some were food, but there was no fresh water.
Now, he can only open the containers on the first and second floors, but even so, the number accumulated in the past few days has reached more than 700.
An hour later, Lu Wuyai returned. He was so exhausted this time that he slept for ten hours before waking up.
After drinking some water, Lu Wuyai wanted to go out again, but Gu Yuxin stopped him.
"Wait a minute, you just woke up, eat something first." Gu Yuxin held Lu Wuyai's hand, refusing to let him leave.
"I'm not hungry, I'll eat when I get back."
Lu Wuyai frowned. The fresh water would only last a day. If he couldn't find a water source, he would die of thirst.
Watching Lu Wuyai leave, the women in the cockpit looked at each other in bewilderment. Finally, fully armed, they also left and appeared on a nearby deck.
During this period, ice crystals accumulated here, forming a large number of crystals, and the essence of ice crystals is water.
It was cold on the deck, but the women didn't stay long. They only stayed for ten minutes.
Back in the cabin, they looked at the ice sponges in the bucket; they were melting at a visible rate.
"It's best to distill it before drinking," Gu Yuxin said.
Everyone else got up and went off to find materials, hoping to extract the ice crystals into clean fresh water before Lu Wuyai returned.
Just then, something unexpected happened to Lu Wuyai.
As he passed a shipping container that had just been opened the day before, the previously closed iron door suddenly opened and knocked him unconscious.
When Lu Wuyai woke up, his nostrils were full of blood, his gas mask was broken, and his whole body was ice cold. He didn't know how long he had been unconscious.
The only saving grace is that he is still alive.
Lu Wuyai took a breath and felt that he could maintain his condition, so he continued to explore forward.
Of course, his progress began to slow down, and he was also worried about the container's metal door being blown open by the wind. He was terrified.
Half an hour later, Lu Wuyai returned the way he came.
When he returned to the driver's seat, Lu Wuyai looked terrible, with blood on his mouth and nose and wounds on his face.
The woman guarding the taxi immediately came to greet her. Lu Wuyai saw the familiar face, and his strong will finally crumbled. Everything went black before his eyes, and he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
Two hours later, Lu Wuyai woke up again, feeling dizzy and unwell.
"Have some water first." Gu Yuxin hugged Lu Wuyai's head, took out a water glass, and asked him to take a sip.
After drinking the water, Lu Wuyai took a deep breath and felt all his energy and vitality return.
I touched my nose. The spot where I hit the iron gate still hurt. I almost thought my nose was broken. Thankfully, I'm fine now.
Lying in Gu Yuxin's arms, Lu Wuyai felt very comfortable. He even deliberately raised his neck, and could clearly feel the amazing elasticity of certain parts of her body.
"Don't move!" Gu Yuxin's face flushed red. At this moment, everyone else also looked over and inquired about Lu Wuyai's condition.
Lu Wuyai shook his head and said it was nothing, but deep down he still felt helpless about not being able to find a water source.
Gu Yuxin knew what Lu Wuyai was thinking and whispered, "It's okay, we've collected two buckets of ice crystal water, enough to last a few more days."
Lu Wuyai was stunned for a moment, but quickly understood what Gu Yuxin meant by using ice crystals to collect water.
“But this can’t last long.” Lu Wuyai frowned. These ice stalagmites formed from ice crystals were the result of accumulation over the past few days.
"It's a gain, more or less." Gu Yuxin was optimistic, constantly opening the door for Lu Wuyai to relax. Perhaps by this time tomorrow, the ice crystal storm will have disappeared.
Lu Wuyai remained noncommittal. Time passed by, and his exhaustion caused him to fall into a deep sleep.
"Get a good night's sleep, you'll feel better tomorrow." Gu Yuxin's voice came slowly, which made Lu Wuyai relax and sleep for ten hours.
When he woke up again, he found the woman next to him getting dressed, seemingly preparing to go out.
“We went to the back of the taxi and collected some ice crystals,” Su Xi said as she saw Lu Wuyai open his eyes.
"The storm is raging outside," Lu Wuyai said, somewhat uneasy.
"Don't worry, we're all tied up with ropes."
Sure enough, Lu Wuyai saw that everyone had a rescue rope tied to some pipes in the driver's cab.
Soon, the women left one after another. Lu Wuyai also got dressed, preparing to go to the container again after they returned.
At this moment, a large number of ice arrows spread out from the deck behind the cockpit, and the quantity was quite considerable.
Several women used shovels or axes to break up the ice sprigs and put them all into a bucket.
Gu Yuxin bent down and stood up from the ground. Just as she was about to stretch her body, a gust of wind swept past her like a wall, slamming her directly against the ship's railing.
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