Even with water sources available, water remains an extremely precious resource in the survivor base, with limited daily allocations, and only those with special abilities can receive a larger share.
Of course, Shanfeng didn't come in to fetch water, but to use his supernatural abilities to test the water quality. He is a healing-type supernatural being, and this is one of his jobs at the base.
The importance of water sources is self-evident, especially in today's environment. If there is a problem with the water source, everyone will die.
Therefore, not only the control and management of water sources, but even safety inspections were properly arranged.
"Mountain Breeze, how was today's water quality check?" the superhuman managing the mine asked routinely, as it was part of his job.
Shanfeng nodded. "Normal."
The administrator wrote a few words in a notebook, then had Shanfeng sign it, and that was the end of the job.
The mineral spring can only use one hundred barrels of water per day, and to ensure safety, each time a water-based or healing-based ability user is required to test it.
It's not that the base's management is overly cautious, but rather that this mineral spring is unusual. The water quality often changes suddenly, with mineral levels increasing dramatically within hours, sometimes to the point of causing poisoning and death. Therefore, daily testing is necessary to ensure safety.
At first, the management used physical and chemical methods for testing, but those tests were not 100% accurate. After a few mishaps, they had to use people with superpowers as quality inspectors.
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As for why this mineral spring has changed, no one can give an answer. The experts and scholars at this base are not outstanding talents. The most senior one is just a university teacher, and there is not even a professor.
Such situations are not uncommon. Unless you're in a major city like Beijing or Shanghai, it's practically a pipe dream to try and build a real research team.
Leaving aside how dangerous mutated plants and animals are nowadays, disasters like major earthquakes are enough to eliminate a large number of those older scholars.
Scholars who can survive one disaster after another are extremely rare, and survivor bases like mines, which are not officially established, simply do not have that capability.
Of course, luck also plays a part; after all, 99% of the people here are ordinary people.
After confirming his work, Shanfeng filled his two bottles with water and went back to his resting place in the mine. Everyone in this base lived in the mine.
Although living conditions in the mines are poor, they offer shelter from the scorching sun during the day and protection from the cold winds at night, making them a good place to survive in such extreme weather.
They didn't see many people along the way. During the day, apart from the defense teams, no one would come out to take action; being active at night and hiding during the day had become the norm.
"Phew..." Shanfeng finally let out a slow breath after entering his small cubicle.
Although he is a superhuman with advantages over many ordinary people, he is actually just a young boy. After experiencing the disaster, he finds it difficult to trust humans anymore.
Especially when he discovered that most of the survivors had engaged in cannibalism, his fear instantly isolated him from the crowd. If he hadn't had to enter the crowd, he probably would have turned around and left.
Perhaps his mindset is ridiculous, even saintly, but he still can't accept it.
Under the immense pressure of survival, people will do many incomprehensible things, and for most survivors, this has become a numb and accepted fact.
But Shanfeng was lucky; he found another way to survive at the limit of his survival. His bottom line was still intact, which is the main reason why he was different from most of the survivors.
Of course, he wasn't the only lucky one, but he had no desire to distinguish or even think about it anymore.
After resting for a while, Shanfeng picked up his backpack from the corner and carefully packed his supplies into it, including several packs of biscuits and eight bottles of water.
He will choose to leave at sunset.
The mountain wind chose to descend the mountain for training. He approached humans to avoid deviating from their path, but living among a group of people for an extended period was unnecessary.
He had to move forward, constantly going to new areas, meeting more people, and ideally, reaching the capital.
Although human society has collapsed, he believes that there must be more information in the capital.
As the last rays of the setting sun faded, various sounds rang out from inside the cave—the sounds of people moving out.
Shan Feng, carrying a large backpack, was not conspicuous in the crowd, because many people were carrying bags or baskets like him as they walked out.
The base has a water supply, but food is scarce. People have to go into the forest to find food, whether it's grass roots or wild animals, anything edible will do.
Of course, most people would choose to go in a group.
But once you reach the bottom of the mountain, who cares where you're going? After all, so many people die every day, and nobody can control that.
This was just a makeshift base set up by five or six hundred survivors. Apart from water, they had nothing. The management couldn't even afford to make any grand plans with extra food, because they sometimes went hungry themselves.
As a superhuman, Shanfeng naturally attracted attention when he left, and many ordinary people secretly followed him, hoping to take advantage of any opportunities he might have.
But absolutely no one would have thought he was going to leave. The outside world was nothing but barren land and death everywhere. At least there would be water when he came back, so the base never imagined that anyone would leave.
After all, the harsh environment is daunting, but the treatment of people with superpowers in the base is not bad. Compared to ordinary people, they are able to live more peacefully.
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