The north wind howls, summer goes and autumn comes.
The weather began to turn cold, and the safe zone began to prepare for winter.
Now the electricity is out and the heating system is completely out of service.
If you want to survive the cold winter, you must store enough firewood or coal briquettes.
There is no coal mine near Zhaodu, so people can only burn firewood for heating.
Although the vegetation on Green Star is lush and there are jungles and forests everywhere, firewood is almost inexhaustible.
But the safe zone had limited manpower and was unable to obtain enough wood.
It is quite difficult to cut down trees on a large scale while preventing attacks from nuclear beasts.
The price of firewood has skyrocketed, and some speculators have even bought it up in large quantities and hoarded it.
For a time, many families had no source of fire and could only eat raw protein blocks to fill their stomachs.
This is not the most important thing. If there is not enough firewood by winter, people will freeze to death.
Villa area.
Zhao Lin lay on the recliner, feeling the cool autumn breeze and relaxed.
Zhao Anan sat next to him, and from time to time she would take out a small tomato and stuff it into Zhao Lin's mouth.
Zhao Huaide walked in from outside with a depressed look on his face. He didn't buy any firewood today. How would he survive the winter if this continued?
"What's wrong? Still out of stock?"
Li Yahui came out holding a dazed little boy and asked with a worried look.
“Still out of stock!”
"Not at all. Looking at the situation, I can only go out and chop it myself." Zhao Huaide sighed.
"What's wrong, Dad? What happened?" Zhao Anan trotted over and stuffed a small tomato into his mouth.
The little boy chewed numbly, his expression not changing much.
"It's all because of firewood. There's a firewood shortage lately and the price is rising rapidly. In the past, one protein block could buy 100 kilograms, but now 10 protein blocks can't buy 100 kilograms."
"It's turned over so much, why is it like this?"
"When the weather gets colder, everyone is stockpiling firewood for winter heating, so the price naturally starts to rise."
"What should we do? Without firewood, won't we freeze to death in the winter?" Zhao Anan also became worried.
"If it doesn't work, I'll just have to go out and collect firewood myself."
"That won't work. It's so dangerous outside..."
As the three of them were talking, Zhao Lin sat up and laughed.
I couldn't help but find it funny to hear them talking. Have they forgotten their existence?
With the insect swarm around, isn't it easy to collect firewood?
I've had a good rest these past few days, now it's time to continue hunting the nuclear beast.
But before that, he had to get the 20,000 protein blocks that Cao Rui promised him.
"Dad, I'll take care of the firewood problem. You guys just clear some land at home, buy some seeds, and grow some vegetables!"
The land in the villa area is healthy, the nuclear radiation is very low, and there is no problem in growing vegetables.
"Okay, then be careful when you go out."
The three members of the family all knew how powerful Zhao Lin was, so they naturally wouldn't worry too much.
Zhao Lin left the villa area and heard someone calling him as soon as he went out.
"Young master, would you like to take a ride?" A thin young man came up with an awkward smile on his face.
Zhao Lin took a quick look and wondered if there were any taxis left.
When he saw it clearly, he realized that it was not a taxi but a rickshaw.
As the end of the world approaches, this long-obsolete means of transportation once again appears on the stage of history.
When Zhao Lin thought about how far away the special forces brigade was, he agreed.
The young driver was very happy. He quickly asked Zhao Lin to get on the rickshaw, and then pulled him quickly towards the street.
It can be seen that the young driver is pulling with great effort and is not going very fast.
He also understood that ordinary people could not get enough food to eat, so how could they have the strength to pull a cart if they were not full?
An hour later, we arrived at the gate of the special brigade.
The young driver was already exhausted and panting, and kept wiping the sweat from his head.
Zhao Lin took out a piece of protein and handed it to him.
The driver's eyes lit up instantly, "Thank you so much, young master, thank you for coming!"
Zhao Lin nodded and left.
The driver stopped by the roadside, couldn't wait to open the wrapping paper, and started eating.
He has been hungry for a day and will surely starve to death if he doesn't open the shop.
This young master gave me a piece of protein every time I paid. He is so generous. It would be great if I could become his exclusive driver.
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