"Don't overthink it, the key is to enjoy tonight."
Lu Wuyai placed a generator in each space. Once turned on, the heating was also turned on, and the temperature in the cave remained at around 27 degrees Celsius for a period of time.
But as time went on, the temperature began to drop, and by nightfall, the thermometer showed only 18 degrees Celsius.
Everyone sat around the dining table, their winter clothes all packed. The temperature might drop below zero tonight.
At eight o'clock, Lu Wuyai heard some unusual sounds, like the crackling sound of ice breaking.
He got up and walked to the path near the orchard, where he found a layer of frost on the path and the air was as cold as a knife.
The temperature in the orchard was already close to zero degrees Celsius because the soil layer here is relatively thin, and its effect of blocking cold air is indeed very weak.
After closing the door and pulling up the sunshade, Lu Wuyai placed a generator and a heater in the main passageway.
In the living room, most people were still watching a movie. Although they were all movies they had seen before, it was still one of the few ways to pass the time.
Until the early hours of the morning, everyone put on down jackets and covered themselves with blankets. The temperature inside the cave was close to zero degrees Celsius.
In the air, Lu Wuyai could even see wisps of cold air, like a pool of cold water.
That night, the chill in the cave was unforgettable. The cave ceiling seemed to be covered with a layer of grayish-white mold, which didn't slowly disappear until noon the next day.
That noon, as Lu Wuyai gazed at the melting frost, his expression gradually relaxed.
“It should be fine,” Lu Wuyai asked Gu Yuxin.
Gu Yuxin nodded: "Go out and take a look, it should be fine."
"It's been almost two days."
When he opened the cave entrance, he felt a blast of cold air, which made Lu Wuyai shrink his neck, but that was all. He didn't feel any other discomfort.
The cold snap has passed, and the midday sun shines on the earth, gradually melting the frost clinging to the grass.
Lu Wuyai stood on the rocky hill, the stones slippery. He turned around and asked the woman behind him, "Can you smell the stench?"
Several women sniffed, and Su Xi said, "It smells like gasoline."
Just then, a breeze blew by, and the smell of gasoline became even stronger.
“Let’s go take a look,” Lu Wuyai said.
Soon, everyone was driving around the nearby grasslands, but they couldn't find anything.
"Let's go see more distant places."
The smell of gasoline had dissipated considerably, and everyone drove aimlessly until it was already three o'clock.
The sunlight wasn't as intense as at noon, but the scene before me was still a bit dazzling.
Before Lu Wuyai and the others lay a vast grassland, though now it contained some scattered fragments.
"It really is an airplane," Lu Wuyai gasped. Many pieces of wreckage were scattered on the grass. Looking at the scattered wings and other parts, it was immediately clear that these were aircraft components.
Moreover, several huge cabins remain intact here, and it is unknown whether anyone is still alive.
“These planes all look the same,” Song Xiaoyou said.
Judging from the design and markings on the planes, they are indeed identical. These planes most likely took off from the same place and were flying to the same destination; otherwise, they wouldn't have appeared together over the deserted island.
Lu Wuyai and others guessed that the cold wave must have prevented the plane's engines from starting, leading to a series of accidents.
"Go check it out, but be careful," Lu Wuyai warned.
The grass on the lawn was very long, and when cars glided across it, it gave people a strange sense of panic.
"There are corpses here."
"So many corpses! Come quick!" Su Xi exclaimed. She peeked out and spotted something black in the grass. Upon closer inspection, she realized it was all corpses, covered in bluish-purple patches. They had clearly frozen to death.
Judging from the way these people lay on the ground, most of them were survivors who had escaped from the plane and died from the cold wave.
Lu Wuyai withdrew his gaze and warned everyone to drive carefully and follow closely behind him.
A few minutes later, they stopped near a small hut, looked at the open door, and guessed that there was no one alive inside.
Just then, Lu Wuyai suddenly heard the sound of an engine and immediately told the woman who got out of the car to stop.
“Let’s take a look with a drone,” Lu Wuyai said.
Soon, several drones took off, and as soon as they emerged from the bushes, the surrounding scenery was astonishing.
Lu Wuyai noticed several black cars parked near the other cabins not far away. Judging from the sound of their engines, they weren't electric cars or solar-powered vehicles.
Lu Wuyai also discovered that a reflection in the drone's video feed came from the direction of the other party. Someone must have spotted the drone with binoculars.
With a bang.
One of the drones suddenly crashed to the ground without warning.
"The gun was fired." Lu Wuyai said that although the gunshot was very faint, it was as clear as an explosion to his sensitive hearing.
It seems the people who come here aren't good people.
Soon, Song Xiaoyou took out a sniper rifle from the car, squatted down inside, and pointed the muzzle nearby, looking just like a female sniper.
“Be careful. I’m going to the cargo hold to get supplies. You guys go check the hold,” Lu Wuyai said.
Everyone nodded cautiously, pressed their guns close to their bodies, and carried many grenades before walking up the escalator toward the hatch.
As for Lu Wuyai, he walked alone to the cockpit, saw the pilot who had been dead for a long time, and shook his head slightly.
Both pilots were dead; their bodies were purple, clearly indicating they had frozen to death.
After finding the switch to open the cockpit, Lu Wuyai ejected it, then left the cabin and went to the tail of the plane.
With a bang.
When Lu Wuyai heard the gunshot, he instinctively dropped to the ground, and then quickly realized that it was Song Xiaoyou who had fired the shot.
Seeing Lu Wuyai looking over, Song Xiaoyou shook her head, indicating that there was no immediate danger.
After taking a breath, Lu Wuyai successfully opened the cargo hold and darted inside.
Soon, Lu Wuyai came out carrying a suitcase. He had opened it before and found some chocolate and other high-calorie foods inside.
He ran towards the car. Song Xiaoyou kept looking around without glancing to the side.
One by one, the women came out of the cabin, carrying bags of various sizes containing the daily necessities they had collected.
“Leave one person behind to keep watch for Song Xiaoyou. Those people are probably not good people,” Lu Wuyai said.
The fact that the two sides are not currently engaged in direct combat suggests that each has its own concerns, but once a gunfight actually breaks out, it's hard to say what will happen.
Song Xiaoyou fired her gun because she saw someone crawling out of the bushes. She fired as a warning, but it didn't kill her.
Finally, accompanied by Su Xi and You Li, Song Xiaoyou piloted a drone and a land patrol robot respectively, monitoring each other on land and in the air.
Lu Wuyai kept shuttling back and forth between the car and the cargo hold. He discovered that the items stored on the plane were all high-calorie foods, with no other supplies.
Lu Wuyai looked thoughtfully at the nearby wooden houses.
Not long after, Lu Wuyai took advantage of the lush green grass and went alone to the leftmost hut.
It was a gentle slope, and with the elevation, Lu Wuyai could still see those black cars.
Without lingering, he immediately opened the cargo hold door. Once inside, he discovered that the materials caught in the accident were indeed the same thing: clothes and blankets.
Based on this, Lu Wuyai deduced that these unexpected planes all carried supplies, and that these people were probably heading to the same place, but no one expected such a thing to happen.
A sudden cold snap left all the people and supplies stranded on the deserted island.
"This was an unexpected disaster, and I will never be able to fly again in my life." Lu Wuyai shook his head. In his view, airplanes were the most dangerous mode of transportation.
Lu Wuyai collected some oversized clothes in a suitcase and took it back to the lawn where they used to gather.
By this time, the accompanying vehicle was already more than half full of things, mostly high-calorie foods that were easy to preserve, provide energy quickly, and were easy to carry.
Lu Wuyai and the others also found some compressed noodles. A piece the size of a fingernail could make a large bowl of noodles, and they tasted quite good.
Lu Wuyai thought for a moment, then looked back at the footage from the drone. The black car was still parked in the same spot.
"Let's fill up the car with gas first, then we'll leave," Lu Wuyai said.
Why don't you go check the other cargo holds?
Lu Wuyai shook his head: "No matter what, we can make night vision goggles so we can come back tonight."
Upon hearing this, everyone remembered that they could still see at night. In a way, the night seemed safer for them.
Soon, everyone had emptied a quarter of the cargo hold. These aircraft had specially treated cargo holds that were larger than ordinary cargo holds.
“Rice cakes, noodles, and rice vermicelli… I never imagined these foods could be compressed.” The women were curious and excited. They hadn’t eaten these foods in a long time.
“I want to eat clam vermicelli,” Su Xi said loudly on the way.
The group chuckled, stepped on the gas, and the car sped across the grass like an arrow released from a bow.
As darkness fell, Lu Wuyai and the others circled the rocky mountain, even venturing into the withered wood forest. They finally stopped near the cave around seven o'clock and quickly unloaded their supplies.
After that, five more cars drove out of the garage and headed towards the site where the accident was discovered this morning.
The night was dark, and there was still a biting chill in the air.
"ha"
Lu Wuyai exhaled a hot breath, looked up at the sky, and found that the moonlight was blocked by clouds, and the deserted island was pitch black.
An hour later, they came to a stop on an unfamiliar grassland, where the wreckage of the plane was clearly visible in the darkness.
Some of the food had already been collected, so Lu Wuyai and his group did not continue loading for the time being, but instead headed to the carriage where the black train had stopped that morning.
After carefully looking around and making sure no one was there, Lu Wuyai entered the cargo hold alone, his pupils suddenly shrinking.
"Many weapons."
Lu Wuyai took a breath. He wasn't excited about finding the weapon; instead, he felt extremely nervous.
There were many weapons inside, packed in wooden crates. Lu Wuyai casually opened a few. Many of them were submachine guns, along with a large quantity of ammunition.
Lu Wuyai immediately left the cargo hold, told others what was going on inside, and then began unloading the cargo.
"Move the bullets away first, don't touch the gun yet," Lu Wuyai said.
The number of bullets was not large; Lu Wuyai felt that the other party had probably transported more than half of the bullets in just one afternoon.
I sighed; there was no other way.
However, unexpectedly, there were also a large number of grenades and exquisitely crafted traps at the bottom of the cargo hold.
“These traps are much better than ours; they can be reused.” Lu Wuyai held an iron clamp in his hand, and some cold sweat could still be seen on his forehead, all from being frightened earlier.
Lu Wuyai almost broke the switch on the iron clamp when he lightly touched it with his finger.
Fortunately, there was no danger, and Lu Wuyai pulled it away in time. Now he only dared to hold the trap with his fingers.
"Let's act together."
It took them four trips back and forth during the first half of the night to transport all the weapons. However, Lu Wuyai and his men abandoned the guns and only took a small portion.
Later, they found another store filled with consumables, mostly women's products.
Until dawn, Gu Yuxin disassembled various parts in the cockpit and even found a considerable number of solar panels, numbering in the hundreds.
"A car is coming," Song Xiaoyou, who had been watching from the side, suddenly said.
Lu Wuyai squinted, only then realizing that they were the same black SUVs from yesterday. They were moving incredibly fast, heading straight for the hut where the weapons had been found the day before. Unfortunately, everything inside had been taken, except for the firearms which were out of ammunition.
Lu Wuyai and his group continued rushing toward the next small wooden house, remaining vigilant against the off-road vehicles along the way. They set up some traps and a large number of nails to annoy them.
Half an hour later, Lu Wuyai and the others turned around, left the ruins, and walked in another direction.
That night, there were more than twenty "fireworks" in the sky; surely only a few planes crashed. They are now doing their best to find them.
An hour later, Su Xi used a drone to discover some aircraft wreckage in a deadwood forest on the outskirts of the city. It appeared that a plane had crashed into the forest.
Unfortunately, the forest of dead trees was too dense for cars to pass through, so everyone had to give up.
Afterwards, everyone continued searching along the deadwood forest for a nearby intact cabin.
By dusk, when the team returned to the hill, everyone's face was etched with exhaustion.
“I’m not going out tomorrow,” Lu Wuyai said.
After searching all day, we hardly saw a single intact cabin. Even if there were, they were in remote places, such as deep in a dead forest or on a cliff.
"Don't go out looking anymore." Everyone looked at Lu Wuyai, but they all knew what he was wary of.
Today, those black SUVs followed them until dusk.
Lu Wuyai nodded. During this time, he decided not to go out again. At the same time, he also set traps on several nearby mountains to prevent the location of the rocky hill from being revealed.
Today, the rocky hills are covered with grass. Unless you get very close, it's difficult to find rocky hills with unique terrain.
Lu Wuyai was surrounded by too many women, all with sexy figures and beautiful faces, so he had to consider their safety.
"You go cook first, Song Xiaoyou and I will discuss setting a trap."
Soon, Lu Wuyai and Song Xiaoyou arrived in a car nearby, discussing the trap they had set.
“There are a few scattered Martins along the way, some with three legs,” Lu Wuyai said.
It's a special kind of nail, specifically designed to puncture tires.
Song Xiaoyou smiled and picked up a wooden box from the back seat. Inside, it was full of nails.
"Let's go."
On a hilltop far from the rocky hill, Song Xiaoyou tossed Martin along the window.
Along the way, Lu Wuyai would also stop the car and lay several trigger-type bear traps. These bear traps would not only puncture tires but also cause serious injury to people.
It wasn't until after 7 p.m., when it was completely dark, that the two of them emerged from the deadwood forest, drove the car to the garage, and returned to the cave.
Meanwhile, inside the cave, a group of people were preparing to eat. Rou Rou lay on a small bed, babbling as if trying to express something, looking anxious yet adorable.
"Shouldn't we say it now?" Lu Wuyai asked.
"There's nothing we can do. You can't even speak properly. You must be out of your mind." Several women rolled their eyes, thinking that Lu Wuyai was unreliable and couldn't control his mouth while eating.
Ten minutes later, Lu Wuyai finished his meal and went to the orchard to pick wild fruits to supplement the women with some vitamins and dietary fiber.
For more than ten days, Lu Wuyai and the women continued to mine ore in the deadwood forest.
Recently, the consumption of black stones has increased. This is partly due to the need to repave black stones in rice paddies and orchards, which has consumed almost a quarter of the reserved black stones.
In addition, the black stones in the laboratory must be replaced every two days. Although the amount replaced each time is small, the frequency is too high.
"Lu Wuyai, stop hitting the stone." Su Xi's voice came from afar.
Today, Lu Wuyai has already excavated a large area of the mine. The area is about one and a half football fields in size. Just by hearing the sound, Lu Wuyai can detect the other party's voice.
Soon, Lu Wuyai arrived at the other side. Several women were panting and looked extremely tired.
"You're here to load the truck too. We're all exhausted." Su Xi leaned against the truck, drank some water to replenish the fluids she had lost.
Looking at these black stones, Lu Wuyai thought of Gu Yuxin's recent experiments and asked, "How are the experiments going lately?"
Last time, Lu Wuyai and the others saw in the wolf den that wolves that swallowed black stones mixed with cow blood had a much higher survival rate. After learning of this, Gu Yuxin began to investigate the secret behind it.
Song Xiaoyou stopped what she was doing and said, "Mixing black stones with cow blood can indeed improve the survival rate."
"However, the survival rate decreased significantly after continuous administration."
Previously, Lu Wuyai caught several wild rabbits for Gu Yuxin to experiment on. Although the initial success rate was high, several rabbits still died. The survival rate in the first round was approximately 70%.
"Is it related to the addition of animal blood?"
“Perhaps this would be the best way to get more animals, as there are still too few experimental subjects,” Song Xiao suggested.
Lu Wuyai nodded, but after late autumn, it was really hard to find animals, and most of them hid away, especially herbivores.
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