The people that Guo Qing sent out to look for cotton seeds came back.
Although they had been searching for nearly a month, they still found nothing.
After listening to Guo Qing's report, Li Xue frowned and didn't say anything for a long time.
Seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, without cotton, how would the millions of people in the base survive?
The winter in H Province was originally relatively long. Even in the warm winter before the end of the world, the temperature could drop to more than ten degrees below zero. There has been no winter in the past few years, and no one knows what the first winter of the end of the world will be like. Even if referring to her previous life, it was very cold, much colder than the winter before the end of the world.
The weather was getting colder and colder, and Li Xue's brows were getting more and more wrinkled day by day.
Xiangdong was very anxious when he saw Li Xue frowning all day long. He organized the soldiers who were not on patrol and sent them out of the base to find something that could replace cotton as a heating material.
The people in the base also knew about this and joined the search. They did it for no other reason than to avoid being frozen to death in the winter.
The hard work paid off. Finally, they found something that could replace cotton - mutant reed.
The mutant reed grows on the riverbank and lakeside. Now no one takes care of it, and it grows very lush. The mutant reed grows very tall and has extremely strong vitality. It is already early winter, but the reed flowers are blooming in a vast expanse of white. These reed flowers are much larger and thicker than ordinary varieties. Pull the reed flowers off the branches and stuff them into clothes, and they will be a good heating material.
The people Guo Qing sent out before the flowering period, and they were focused on finding cotton seeds, so no one noticed these reeds. When
the news came back to the base, everyone was eager to get the reed flowers.
But the outside of the base is not so safe now. Zombies are running everywhere, and they are getting stronger and stronger. How dare ordinary people leave the base gate casually.
Li Xue asked Guo Qing to announce the task of collecting reed flowers in the mission hall. Because the amount of reed flowers needed is very large, it is impossible to rely on psychics alone. Therefore, ordinary people can also participate in this mission. The psychics will protect the safety of ordinary people, and ordinary people will be responsible for collecting reed flowers.
This task is easy, but because it is dangerous, the base gives high points for the task.
For more than ten days, a large number of people in the Hope Base have been actively collecting reed flowers everywhere. The reed flowers near the base have been cleaned up, and the collected reed flowers are basically enough for the base people to use this winter.
The collection work outside the base is in full swing, and the processing work of reed flowers inside the base is also very enthusiastic. Everyone is busy and happy. Winter clothes have been settled, and everyone is very excited. What's more, the base gives them points for doing these jobs, so everyone works very hard.
On the day Chen Tang found the reed flowers, he specifically called Commander Chen and asked him to prepare winter supplies.
Commander Chen knew all this, but the ZY base didn't need to collect reed flowers. Their base had no shortage of supplies, and after the previous flood, so many people died, and the supplies were even more plentiful. If many things hadn't been soaked in the flood and couldn't be used, Commander Chen was going to transport some supplies to help the Hope Base.
When the Hope Base produced the first batch of winter clothes and quilts, the weather suddenly turned cold.
This time it wasn't like before, when the temperature dropped slowly day by day, and it suddenly dropped drastically, and many people in the base who were in poor health were frozen and fell ill.
Li Xue quickly asked Jian Hui and the others to distribute the clothes they produced to those who needed them most. Of course, these things are not free, they have to be exchanged for points or crystal cores. The price is very fair, and the people will never go hungry after exchanging for these clothes.
It’s just that the quantity of this batch of materials is limited, and more than half of the people did not receive them. So Jian Hui suggested to Li Xue that the reed flowers be distributed to the people at a low price, so that they can make their own cotton-padded clothes. On the one hand, everyone only makes their own portion, and the speed must be fast. On the other hand, it also saves the base a lot of trouble. Li Xue naturally had no objection.
When everyone put on winter clothes, snowflakes began to float in the sky.
In the fourth year of the apocalypse, people finally ushered in the first winter.
Looking at the snowflakes that have not been seen for several years, the people in the base are still very happy. Before the apocalypse, it snowed every year in H Province. So the people of H Province have a deep affection for snowflakes.
The weather has finally returned to normal, with four seasons. Does this mean that the world will gradually get better and return to the pre-apocalyptic world? With this in mind, people walked happily in the snow, or hid in the house to enjoy the long-lost snow scene.
Li Xue stroked her seven-month-old belly, stood in front of the window, looked at the snowflakes flying in the sky, and sighed slightly.
The uneasiness in her heart seemed to have reached a peak. She was now probably certain that the coming winter would be a huge test for mankind.
With a guess in her mind, Li Xue could no longer sit still and called all her friends home.
"Xiaoxue, why did you come to us? It's so cold, I can't bear to leave my bed." Lin Miao said with a smile. In fact, people with special abilities are not afraid of the cold at all.
Li Xue smiled and said, "Of course I came to you for something. After we finish talking, let's have dinner here tonight. Let's have hot pot."
"That's fine. I haven't had hot pot for several years." Chen Tang said happily.
"Yes, yes, I haven't had it for several years. Let's talk about the matter quickly, and then we can make hot pot." Jian Hui swallowed and urged.
Everyone sat around on the sofa, looking at Li Xue curiously.
Li Xue sat on the sofa with one hand on her belly and said to everyone: "Since the last flood, I have been feeling uneasy and always feel that something is going to happen. As soon as the snow starts to fall, I have a feeling that something big will happen next."
Everyone's face was gloomy, and Lin Miao asked first: "Xiaoxue, do you mean that the sky will change again?"
Li Xue frowned: "If the sky changes, it's fine. I'm just afraid that it won't change! If the snow keeps falling like the heavy rain before, I'm afraid..." Before she finished speaking, everyone had already imagined that scene.
"Oh, I remember, didn't the little charlatan say it before? After that heavy rain, there will be a bigger disaster. Maybe the disaster she said is very likely this heavy snow." Jian Hui thought of what Chenxi said before.
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