The effects of the black stone became increasingly apparent, and Gu Yuxin had already begun to produce the fourth stage of plant extracts, in which the amount of black stone used had increased significantly.
Actually, if the goal is simply to grow rice, vegetables, and fruits in the cave, so many black stones are unnecessary. The stones used for the initial paving haven't even been used up yet.
Conversely, those small herbs don't consume too many black stones.
Before we knew it, it was the last day of March again.
During this time, Lu Wuyai and the others did not set off to mine ore again. The reason was that the weather suddenly turned cold, making it difficult to even start the engine. Moreover, it had recently started snowing, freezing the volcanic ash on the ground into ice, making the tires very slippery.
For safety reasons, Lu Wuyai temporarily abandoned mining and chose to stay in the rocky mountain to wait for things to calm down.
Now, two-thirds of the new cave is filled with black stone. Combined with the remaining ore, the reserves are already quite substantial.
After Lu Wuyai's leg injury healed, he opened up a new underground space near the rice paddies, but he hadn't yet figured out what to do with it.
"It's time to eat." Gu Yuxin, the human's trumpet, had a really loud voice.
Soon, the women, busy in different places, began to head towards the cave. They had been working all morning and were very hungry.
After lunch, everyone gathered in the container laboratory to begin planting herbs and extracting plant extracts.
As for Lu Wuyai, he never interfered with the laboratory's affairs. He spent almost all of his day working on a few plots of land.
Last time, Lu Wuyai collected all the bear traps he had obtained from the survivors and is now considering how to set them up.
In the end, Lu Wuyai had no choice but to give up. The ashes were now too thick to defend against any traps.
"Put them in the rice paddy first. If someone discovers the rice paddy, it might have unexpected effects." Lu Wuyai thought of something, took a few animal traps, left the burrow, and went to the rice paddy.
I dug several pits and placed animal traps inside, almost blocking the entrance. Two rows, front and back. Anyone who didn't know better would have no chance of escaping this trap.
After leaving the rice paddy, Lu Wuyai told the other women about the trap and warned them to be careful and not to go into the rice paddy before the rice ripened.
Everyone has seen the power of a bear trap; it can easily trap a wild beast like a white wolf.
The women all nodded, keeping Lu Wuyai's words firmly in mind.
The rice paddies are the only underground caves not located within the rocky mountains. Sometimes we can't take care of them in time, so some precautions are still necessary.
"Lu Wuyai, let's go to the orchard. The fruit trees are too big now," Gu Yuxin said.
So Lu Wuyai went to the orchard. After about a month, he discovered that all the fruit trees in the orchard had grown onto the rocky hillside.
Looking at the tall tree opposite him, Lu Wuyai couldn't laugh or cry. This beautiful apple tree was actually as tall as a pine tree.
Of course, not all fruit trees are like apple trees.
Looking at it, Lu Wuyai could only pick up an axe and cut down the largest apple tree in the middle, hoping that the remaining trunk could continue to grow.
Lu Wuyai casually tossed the tree he had cut down aside, but the ripe apples on the tree had already been put into his basket.
Of course, besides apples, there are also fruits like durian, which are also entering a new harvest season.
Because the fruit ripened quickly, Lu Wuyai and the others had to store the excess fruit as rations for the march, so the container was filled with a lot more rations.
In the orchard, Lu Wuyai cut off several branches from the fruit trees and planted them back in the ground. He believed that before long, a brand new fruit tree would grow back.
After doing all this, Lu Wuyai went to the stone mountain, stepping on the cold ashes with a biting chill.
"Bang bang bang".
Lu Wuyai slammed the shovel into the ground, hearing a solid impact. He was speechless and somewhat annoyed.
A layer of ice had formed on the stream that once flowed through the pool. After Lu Wuyai broke it, the water underneath rose again.
"I hope this water source will stay there forever," Lu Wuyai prayed silently, then turned and left Shi Qiu.
In mid-April, the gloomy days that seemed like the end of the world finally turned around.
On this day, the sky was bright, and although there were still thick clouds overhead, the light penetrated directly into people's hearts.
When Lu Wuyai and the others came out of the cave and looked at the overcast sky, they had an extremely unreal feeling.
It felt like I had lived in darkness for too long and was suddenly exposed to the sunlight, which made me extremely uncomfortable.
"It's a good thing, at least I can still breathe." Lu Wuyai took a deep breath, and the air seemed extremely clean.
However, the ash several meters beneath their feet seemed particularly troublesome.
This stuff won't melt. Moving it by manpower alone would be a massive undertaking. Lu Wuyai and the others can only handle the portion on the rocky mountain.
However, everyone is also worried that the smog will reappear tomorrow, and what awaits them will be another apocalyptic scene.
Soon, Lu Wuyai led the women back to the cave. Even if smog did appear, aside from the inconvenience of not being able to travel, it wouldn't have much of an impact on them for the time being.
In April, a week after the gloomy days had disappeared, Lu Wuyai and the others were certain that the apocalyptic scene would never happen again.
Soon, due to the harsh environment on the rocky mountain, everyone began to clean up the entire mountain and scatter the ashes in the nearby forest.
However, the ashes soaked by snow were too difficult to shovel.
“You should take a break. It’s going to be difficult to finish this in a week, no matter what.” Lu Wuyai stood on the ashes and sighed.
Looking around, almost all the undulating "gray hills" cover the landforms that were originally desert islands.
It's truly disappointing that we can't see the end of "Gray Mountain".
But in the past few days, Lu Wuyai and the others have seen many survivors moving on the distant "gray hills." It turns out that many people are still alive in such harsh conditions.
“There’s a group of people over there too,” Song Xiaoyou said, pointing ahead.
Lu Wuyai squinted, took out his binoculars, and could only see a few blurry figures.
One has to admire Song Xiaoyou's eyesight. She can still see people from such a distance. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she has clairvoyance.
After looking closely for a while, I realized there weren't many people standing on the "gray hill".
Putting down his binoculars, Lu Wuyai continued digging out the ashes. It was already noon, and he could occasionally see glimpses of blue peeking through the white clouds. That was the true color of the sky.
Lu Wuyai was like a tireless machine. He spent a whole day shoveling dust and digging a passage through the rocky mountain to facilitate the passage of vehicles and people.
As darkness fell, Lu Wuyai returned to the cave, washed himself with clean water, and then sat comfortably at the table, waiting for dinner to be served.
"What do you want to eat tonight?" Lu Wuyai asked.
“Potatoes and sweet potatoes,” Gu Yuxin said.
"What about food?" Lu Wuyai asked expectantly.
As a result, several women rolled their eyes at him and said angrily, "There's no food, just eating."
Lu Wuyai immediately sighed. Last night's dinner was also potatoes and sweet potatoes.
There's no other way. Recently, women have started to lose weight in a green way. They're not allowed to eat anything except meat. Even pickled foods like moldy tofu are forbidden.
"You've all lost weight, why are you still dragging me along?" Lu Wuyai seemed speechless.
"If you're the only one left eating meat, how are we supposed to lose weight?" Gu Yuxin said dismissively.
Although Lu Wuyai ate a very full dinner, it was completely tasteless.
But that night, the wildcats' mating calls were unusually prolonged...
The next day, Moro opened his tired eyes and looked at Lu Wuyai, who was sleeping soundly. Thinking of the position he had been forcibly manipulated by the other party the night before, he still limped.
"You cow." Gu Yuxin gritted her teeth, trying to tear a piece of flesh from Lu Wuyai's body.
Suddenly, Lu Wuyai opened his eyes, gave Gu Yuxin a wicked smile, and then rushed towards her. Cursing voices quickly rose, but were soon drowned out by the other sounds.
For several days in a row, Lu Wuyai led a team to clean up the dust on the rocky mountain.
But on that very day, Song Xiaoyou suddenly mentioned that this ash was actually a very good material for making cement, even better than the original cement raw materials.
"Collecting some will make it much easier to make cement later," Song Xiaoyou said.
Lu Wuyai nodded, and each of them dug out some soft ash, handing it over to the women to sift through. He walked to the side and continued producing ash.
During this time, more and more people walked on "Gray Hill", and Lu Wuyai and his group encountered some people early on.
Without a doubt, the people alive today are survivors who spent gloomy days on the desert island.
Without exchanging greetings, their eyes met with wariness.
As the group left the rocky mountain, Lu Wuyai stared intently at their retreating figures until they were no longer visible to the naked eye.
“These people have been watching us the whole time,” Su Xi said uneasily. She, Song Xiaoyou, and Su Xi had all been sifting ash, so they hadn’t left when the group arrived.
A young and beautiful woman can easily become the trigger for a fight on a deserted island.
Lu Wuyai wiped the sweat from his forehead and noticed that Song Xiaoyou was still staring ahead.
“They didn’t leave; instead, they stopped on a small gray hill,” Song Xiaoyou suddenly said.
Lu Wuyai frowned, turned, and walked towards the cave. When he emerged, he was carrying a dozen animal traps and some bomb traps.
Song Xiaoyou and Tang Xin walked over and stood nearby, moving very quickly.
As night fell, Lu Wuyai did not leave the "gray hill." He remained lying on the ground, using night vision goggles to monitor the surrounding area.
"Have some steamed buns." Yu Xin emerged from the rocky hill and handed Lu Wuyai two meat buns: "Gu Yu Xin just made them. They taste pretty good."
Lu Wuyai nodded, hugged Ni Li, and the two whispered to each other for a while.
When she left, Yuxin was disheveled and kicked Lu Wuyai.
Around 9 p.m., Lu Wuyai saw some dark figures appear on the gray hill opposite him, and his eyes suddenly turned cold.
A ring of traps was laid on the ashes surrounding the rocky hill. Although they weren't very close together, there were always unlucky people who would run into them...
A few minutes later, Lu Wuyai clearly heard the screams of several people whose legs had been broken by animal traps. The pitiful sounds were like the roars of demons crawling through the darkness.
You might ask, what if these people don't have any malicious intent?
But on a deserted island, one must be wary of others. As for the intention to harm others, that varies from person to person.
Soon, the group of people stopped moving forward and left without taking another step.
Lu Wuyai stood up from the ground, looking at the mottled bloodstains on the ground, his vision as clear as day.
It was a cloudless day, but the sky wasn't entirely blue.
At this point, large amounts of ash floated in the sea, and some rotten fish and shrimp rose to the surface. The scene was quite unsettling.
Unfortunately, no one else witnessed this scene.
Like many survivors, Lu Wuyai and the others were still shoveling ash on the "ash mountain" near their station. A month had passed, and they were nearing the end of their mission.
Lu Wuyai stood on a gray mountain, using a drone to observe the surrounding area.
Today, the stone mountain looks like a peculiar terrain, surrounded by several gray mountains, which looks extremely eerie.
To ensure no one was around, Lu Wuyai flew around, setting traps nearby. Now that ashes no longer fell from the sky, these traps had come to life.
Lu Wuyai planted bombs on several piles of volcanic ash. They were quite powerful. If triggered, they would definitely kill people.
So he thought for a moment and planted a few more wooden planks on the mountaintop with some words written on them as a warning to strangers not to enter.
If you don't heed the advice, the consequences will be severe.
That night, Lu Wuyai heard an explosion outside. He excitedly got out of bed and found the women in the cubicle still sleeping.
"Damn those all-hearing ears." Lu Wuyai cursed, then looked around with the periscope and quickly locked onto his target.
Seeing that the women were still sleeping, Lu Wuyai did not act rashly.
In the pitch-black night, the firelight was very conspicuous, and Lu Wuyai instantly saw where the explosion had occurred.
In the morning, he had just set traps on several gray hills, but he never expected that the traps would be triggered that night.
Lu Wuyai glanced at the woman in the cubicle. Everyone was asleep and didn't hear any noise outside.
After thinking for a moment, he took a few wolfhounds and ran quickly forward after leaving the cave.
There are three rocky hills near the rocky hill, and the explosion occurred at the rocky hill to the northwest.
Lu Wuyai still remembers that he set up a total of ten bomb traps that morning, all on the hillside.
"It's already 11 o'clock. Who would be out for a walk in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
Lu Wuyai was already very sleepy, so he only got up when he heard the explosion. He realized he would be exposed to the cold wind and was only wearing a pair of slippers.
Walking on the cold ashes, Lu Wuyai felt a profound sense of tragic grandeur.
He quickly reached the ash mound where the fire had just appeared, but to his surprise, the traps there hadn't been triggered. The fire was now much further away from the volcanic ash.
The reason Lu Wuyai misjudged the situation was entirely because the fire was too intense and the explosion sound made him think it was a bomb trap.
It now appears that this is not the case.
Over there, the fire continued to burn, billowing black smoke into the sky, attracting the attention of many survivors nearby.
Without hesitation, Lu Wuyai slid down the gray mountain and returned to the cave as quickly as possible. Then he took out a balance bike and rushed directly towards the fire.
Behind him, three black dogs followed closely. Now, they are about the size of an average adult wild wolf, and due to genetic mutations in their parents, they are even increasing in size.
"Follow me, and don't go too far," Lu Wuyai said, regardless of whether the three little ones understood or not.
Half an hour later, Lu Wuyai stopped on the gray hill and looked down. There was another plane below. At that moment, many people disembarked and fled in panic.
"Why did another plane crash?" Lu Wuyai was speechless for a moment. Since landing on this deserted island, he had witnessed no fewer than twenty simple air crashes, and that number was slowly increasing.
A second explosion could occur on the plane at any moment, but what Lu Wuyai really cared about was that all the passengers on the plane had yellow skin and black eyes.
At that moment, Lu Wuyai, already filled with intense patriotism, directly piloted the hoverboard. After stopping, he immediately smashed one of the porthole windows, because the aircraft exit was filled with thick smoke, making it impossible to get out. Ah, humanity.
More importantly, in the pitch-black night, as the fire caused by the explosion gradually died down, it seemed that only Lu Wuyai was truly capable of saving people.
Soon, Lu Wuyai, relying on his amazing physical strength, jumped on the spot, grabbed the porthole three meters above the ground, and then crawled inside.
Is anyone still alive?
Lu Wuyai shouted, and the cabin was indeed filled with thick smoke. Even if you could see at night, you couldn't see anything at all.
"Manufactured".
Lu Wuyai cursed under his breath, and just as he was about to take another look ahead, a new explosion suddenly occurred in the cargo hold.
A wave of heat hit him, and Lu Wuyai instantly collapsed to the ground. The heat from the back of his head scorched his hair.
Just as he was preparing to leave under pressure, Lu Wuyai looked up and suddenly noticed that the plane was printed with the unique corporate logo of the LG Technology Alliance.
"Could this plane belong to an LG Technology Alliance company?"
Lu Wuyai harbored many fears about this company. He never imagined that he would encounter something related to it again on a deserted island.
Thinking of this, Lu Wuyai was not in a hurry to get off the plane, but carefully observed the identities of the people who died on the plane.
Just then, the survivors who had escaped the crash were surrounding the wrecked plane, their faces filled with anxiety.
"How to save it?"
There's nothing there. Where am I?
"Is there something wrong with the plane?"
Did you see someone go in just now?
"Am I seeing things...?"
On the plane, Lu Wuyai lay on the floor amidst thick smoke, reaching out to pull out some suitcases.
These boxes were strange. They were all made of silver and had sturdy clasps. Even with Lu Wuyai's strength, he couldn't open them easily.
Back and forth, Lu Wuyai collected more than 20 suitcases, all of them fluorescent and very unique.
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