"If that's the case, we'll have to hurry up and prepare." Li Xue said, "Snow is different from rain. If it keeps falling, it won't be long before it freezes. By then, I'm afraid we won't be able to do many things. So we must prepare everything we need while the snow is just starting to fall. Even if it turns out to be a false alarm, there won't be any loss."
Everyone nodded.
Jian Hui looked at Li Xue and said, "Our current food supply can only last until March next year at most. It's only November now, and there are still four months. If the snow keeps falling, food will be a problem."
Li Xue smiled and said, "Don't worry about food. I prepared it when I realized something was wrong. With the food supply now, we won't be hungry even if the snow continues for a year."
Jian Hui smiled and said, "Then I don't have to worry."
Zhang Hu said, "The houses on the base have just been reinforced. It won’t be long, so there is no need to worry about this. But if the snow doesn’t stop, we will probably have to find someone to clear the snow. "
Xiao Ye continued, "Now except for some winter vegetables, nothing else can be planted in the fields. I will ask people to go to the fields and take a look. If there are vegetables that can be picked, they will be collected. For those that haven’t grown yet, we will first clean up the snow on the ground to see if they can grow again."
The others also sorted out their own affairs, and there were no problems for the time being.
Xiangdong thought for a while: "I think the most important thing right now is to collect fuel."
"Fuel?" Everyone was a little puzzled.
"Yes," Xiangdong continued, "If the heavy snow continues, it will be difficult for people to even make fire and cook. Now, while there is still time, let's go to the nearby mountains and forests to collect branches and other things. Otherwise, it will be difficult to collect in the future."
Li Xue nodded: "Let's go together, but unfortunately our province H does not produce coal, otherwise we can use coal to solve this problem."
"It's okay, if it really doesn't work, cut down all the trees in other parts of Y City. With the supernatural people here, we don't have to worry about the newly cut trees not being able to burn." Xiangdong said that in this doomsday, the trees are blessed by nature and grow very lush. Even in the past three years when there was no rain, it did not affect their growth at all. It's just that the trees in the base and nearby cannot be moved for the time being.
Guo Qing continued, "Then I will announce this task later, and we should be able to start tomorrow."
Li Xue nodded.
After finishing the business, Chen Tang, Jian Hui, and Lin Miao could not wait to urge Li Xue to bring out the ingredients so that they could start preparing immediately.
Li Xue stood up and walked to the kitchen. With a wave of her hand, a pile of ingredients appeared on the table.
"I'll leave it to you. If you need anything, just let me know." Li Xue touched her belly. She originally wanted to stay and help, but the little guy just kicked her hard.
"Okay, okay, go sit outside! You are not needed here, so don't bother here." Lin Miao waved at Li Xue without raising her head.
"Yes, you are a national treasure now, just wait for the food." Jian Hui said cheerfully.
Li Xue shrugged and went back to the living room.
The kitchen was busy with noises. Jian Hui was in charge of frying the base ingredients, while Chen Jiayi was helping out. The others who were not very good at cooking were washing and cutting.
Soon, the unique aroma of the hot pot wafted out of the kitchen.
Wash your eyes Yuan Mo anxiously lay in front of the kitchen door, looking inside. Even Xiao Ye couldn't help but urge
them twice. Li Xue asked Xiangdong to call the old general's family and Monkey and the others over.
Now, the living room was full of people, and Monkey and the others had no place to sit, so they stood aside.
Li Xue put the sofas and coffee tables in the living room into the space, and then took out three large tables and enough chairs from the space and placed them in the living room.
"Hurry up and bring out the dishes." Lin Miao's voice came from the kitchen.
Monkey and his friends immediately rushed into the kitchen.
A group of people filled up the three tables and gathered together to eat hot and noisy.
This meal lasted from the afternoon until dark.
Everyone hadn't eaten hot pot for a long time, and Jian Hui's good cooking skills made them wash the dishes once more.
Monkey and his friends were almost unable to walk after eating.
When they returned, the snow on the ground was already above their ankles.
The next morning, those who had accepted the task of collecting fuel left the base and went to other places to cut trees. Some smart people, seeing that the base had started to collect fuel, also ran to the nearby woods to pick up branches.
The snow really was just as Li Xue had guessed, and it never stopped falling.
The whole world was covered in white.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and even though many of the vegetables in the planting area had not yet grown, they were all harvested. If they were not harvested, they would all be frozen to death in the snow.
The task in the base also became clearing the snow.
People pushed carts, held shovels, loaded the snow into the carts, and pushed them outside the base to dump it.
But as time went on, the snow outside the base piled up so high that there was almost no place to dump the snow cleared from the base.
Finally, the heavy snow stopped after a week.
The snow outside the base was almost as high as the city wall.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the snow stopped, it would be fine. It kept snowing and it was making people nervous. But Li Xue did not relax. The uneasiness in her heart lingered.
As the saying goes, it is not cold when it snows,
but when the snow melts. As the snow melted, the temperature became lower. The water from the melted snow quickly turned into ice, which was very slippery on the ground. Because of this, the snow was all frozen and could not be melted.
The task of shoveling snow turned into de-icing.
Fortunately, the ice on the roads was easily cleared, and snowflakes began to float in the sky. And this time the snow was obviously much heavier than the previous one.
The temperature kept dropping, to the point where your breath turned into ice. The strong wind blew the snowflakes, hitting people's faces like knives.
The work of clearing the snow in the base became difficult. Not long after it was cleared, a thick layer of snow piled up on the ground again. And the snow that was cleared out had no place to fall.
Outside the base, the snow piled up higher than the city wall. And because the snow had frozen into ice, it was now frozen hard and made a banging sound.
Xiangdong was afraid that the zombies would rush into the base on the snow, so he had the fire-type psychics take turns to use fireballs to clear the snow near the city wall every day.
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