Chapter 288 Generator
It is not difficult to see what happened at that time from the marks on these skeletons.
There were signs of fighting, and some looked like they had ended their lives on their own.
There were more than a dozen cars, but only seven or eight skeletons on the ground, and none of them looked like corpses infected with the virus.
Mu Xi stared at the bottomless ravine and guessed, "Maybe those who were infected were thrown down in the end."
There are mountains on the inside of the road and mountains on the outside.
This section of road was built between two mountains. There was no way to go after the gap blocked the road in front.
Originally, this section of the crack road was one of the characteristic attractions of the tourist area. Unexpectedly, it was the insurmountable mountains on both sides that blocked the last chance of survival.
As for why this group of people did not go back, the two could not come to an accurate conclusion.
Who knows what really happened at that time?
Did they steal the supplies and run away, not daring to go back and face the wrath of the remaining people in the tourist area?
Or are they actually the last ones to run away?
Or maybe they were also infected and were driven away by the remaining healthy people in the tourist area. They wanted to rush out to find a doctor for treatment, but were finally trapped in the abyss and were killed by others or ended their lives themselves before going berserk.
No matter what the reason was, Zhao Yeqing looked at the car that the skeleton was leaning against. The scratches on the car body left by fingernails all revealed the despair of these people at the end of their lives.
Zhao Yeqing had never felt so lucky as she did now. Mu Xi stepped forward and held her hand, his eyes full of gratitude.
The two men adjusted their emotions before walking forward and opening the trunk of the car.
Most of these vehicles are large off-road vehicles, including cars and diesel vehicles.
The two opened the trunks of three or four cars and found oil drums inside. There were uniform stickers on the bodies of these cars, and they looked like a convoy of outdoor travel.
Zhao Yeqing observed carefully and found that most of the vehicles had the same stickers. Such stickers had never been seen in tourist areas.
These cars all have one obvious feature, which is that they are fully equipped.
In addition to awnings, tents, kitchen utensils, etc., there are also climbing ropes, towing ropes and vehicle maintenance tools, including jacks, cross wrenches, air pumps, lubricants, engine oil...even welding masks.
Zhao Yeqing looked at five or six cars, and her surprise and joy were beyond words. Just when she thought it was the top, Mu Xi's voice rang out beside her:
"Come and look at this."
Zhao Yeqing moved closer and saw a large red-painted generator on the largest off-road vehicle!
She stared at Mu Xi with wide eyes, and it took her a while to find her voice. She couldn't help but confirm it again, "Is this... a generator?"
The joy in Mu Xi's eyes was no less than that, he nodded happily, exerted force with both arms, picked up the generator weighing about 80 to 90 kilograms, and carefully checked the information and interfaces on it from front to back.
"The multi-fuel generator can support gasoline, diesel, natural gas and liquefied gas."
The curve of Zhao Yeqing's mouth couldn't be suppressed. It was enough to support gasoline and diesel, and it also supported liquefied gas.
There are countless liquefied gas tanks in the restaurants and homestays in the tourist area. They originally planned to move them home to cook, but then they thought that cooking would not consume too much firewood, and using liquefied gas is not a long-term solution, so they never replaced the wood stove with a gas stove.
Now, so many resources have a place to be utilized.
She asked hurriedly, "Does this consume a lot?"
Their location was between two mountains, and the light was relatively weak. Mu Xi took out a flashlight and carefully saw the signs above.
"The gasoline consumption is 0.68L per hour, and the LPG consumption is 1.15, rated at 5000WH."
The more Zhao Yeqing listened, the wider the corners of his mouth curved, until he smiled so hard that his teeth were showing.
That is to say, 0.68 liters of gasoline is consumed every hour, which can generate nearly five kilowatt-hours of electricity. Judging from the fuel gauges of the cars that the two people just checked, most of the fuel tanks in the tourist area have been stolen, so almost all the cars are full of gas.
The fuel tank of an off-road vehicle is no less than 50 liters. The fuel tanks of these vehicles are mostly large, and even if each vehicle can extract 50 liters, there are at least 600 liters of gasoline plus a hundred liters of diesel.
This does not include the spare oil stored in the car.
The gasoline pumped out of the car alone can generate nearly 4,400 kilowatt-hours of electricity. The two of them use electricity sparingly, and in the winter they only need to power the grow lights and exhaust fans, as well as the occasional use of small-power electrical appliances and the home's lighting system.
This amount of electricity is enough for two people to use for six years. If solar power can be used in the summer, the generator is no longer needed and the electricity can be used for more than ten years.
This does not include diesel and liquefied gas. There is also gasoline in the cars in the tourist areas that has not been taken away.
Moreover, if this winter is not filled with blizzards, even if the temperature is dozens of degrees below zero, as long as the sun is out, solar power generation can still operate.
The only pity is that the amount of electricity generated is quite large, and the power supply at home may not be able to accommodate it and may overflow.
But you can't ask for so much. At worst, you can just open it for a while and then close it quickly.
Mu Xi looked at her sparkling eyes and smiled, "It's not over yet, there's one more thing."
Zhao Yeqing's attention was all on the generator just now, and he didn't notice that there was a large cube in the trunk of the car.
Mu Xi took the big black cube down and patted it. "A large-capacity battery that can store 15 degrees of electricity."
Oh boy, now the only worry is gone.
Compared with the mobile power bank at home that can only hold two degrees of electricity, this power bank is obviously much larger.
Zhao Yeqing thought for a moment and said in surprise: "Then when summer comes, we can use solar energy to store electricity in the battery, and save a lot of gasoline!"
In this abnormal summer, the solar panels at home produce more than two degrees of electricity a day. If it weren't for the limited conversion rate, given the high temperature in summer, it is estimated that the winter's electricity can be stored in one summer.
The excess will be stored in the large power supply, and the 15 kWh of electricity will definitely be fully stored before winter.
It's a pity that there is only one battery. If there were a few more, maybe the two of them could start storing electricity from the summer and wouldn't need much gasoline in the winter.
Zhao Yeqing is already very content. The current situation is much better than before. When the power was first cut off more than three years ago, she never thought that she would be able to use electricity like now.
Even if the gasoline would run out one day, the two of them would save it. Even if they had to live in this mountain for the rest of their lives, they would store electricity in the batteries in the summer, and in the winter they would just not use the plant lamps. The 17 degrees of electricity from the two power sources, just for lighting, would be enough to get them through the entire winter.
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