Chapter 17 Cold-resistant Swiss Chard
Soon, it was one o'clock in the morning. It was late at night and everyone was asleep. Grandma Deng stayed behind to look after the house, and the rest went out in the dark.
After leaving the community, they turned on the searchlight and drove all the way. It started to drizzle at night, so everyone put on raincoats.
After confirming that the supplies were still there, Xu Xiaoyue smiled widely and began to move the supplies in an orderly manner.
This time we used all the rubber boats. After we finished the transport, the sky was getting light, the rain stopped, and the world returned to dead silence.
There were so many supplies that we had no idea where to put them. We drew the curtains and distributed the supplies using the dim light.
The purchasing point provided by Officer Yan, with Yan's father watching over the house, received two and a half shares of the assault boat with a large external loading capacity. 1503, who provided the assault boat, and Shen Qianxun, who provided the two rubber boats, each received two shares.
With the insistence of the three parties, Grandma Deng and her two generations of grandchildren also received two supplies.
After discussion, Tang Yun and his wife moved to 1601 to live with Grandma Deng and the other two, and shared the generator with Officer Yan's family next door. Shen Qianxun took a barrel of diesel as a deduction.
After Officer Yan informed several people about the prophecy letter, the entire 16th floor was preparing for a protracted battle against the natural disaster.
The existing supplies are enough to last for more than a year, but it is far from enough. They must get ahead and collect more supplies.
After taking a nap in the room, he went out on time at 10 o'clock. This time, he left the physical education teacher Du Bin to look after the house and take care of Yan's mother, and Officer Yan took his daughter Huihui out.
Faced with the apocalypse survival which will only become more difficult in the future, even the youngest children must learn to face it in order to survive the long natural disasters that will follow.
Today, everyone's target is the Software Park, which is 25 kilometers away. There are many office buildings in the Software Park, so they won't miss the opportunity.
Office buildings in the city are not considered by many people.
There are many more people traveling today than yesterday. The government’s relief supplies include rubber boats, so you can imagine the quantity. It goes without saying that Chinese people are very motivated to stock up.
Fortunately, there are not many people who have assault boats and enough diesel at present. It is very difficult to use a rubber boat to row long distances in turbulent water.
Looking at the several office buildings standing in the water not far away, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
There were large holes in the windows of several buildings within reach. There were assault boats parked at the door and guarded by people, but someone had already gotten there first.
"Let's go over there. There's an office building 2 kilometers away."
Officer Yan looked in the direction of Shen Qianxun’s finger and nodded.
The direction of Shen Qianxun's finger was an office building that had been put into use not long ago. In her previous life, she had found a lot of supplies there, which successfully helped her survive the first year of the apocalypse.
The assault boat was sailing in the flood. Not long after, half of an office building appeared in front of them. They circled the office building and found two windows were broken. Judging from the size and shape of the cuts, they were not man-made. Chen Dabao and Officer Yan broke the windows neatly along the cracks. After stabilizing them, Officer Yan picked up Huihui and stepped into the office building wearing deep waterproof boots.
At the same time, two boxes, one large and one small, floated out with the water. Shen Qianxun and Xu Xiaoyue reacted quickly and caught one each.
Shen Qianxun looked at the foam box in his hand, with the label saying vegetable and crop seeds, and opened it immediately. There were 36 packets of vegetable seeds in total, plus 12 packets of crop seeds, nearly 20 varieties, and the key was that all of them could be saved for seeds.
Everyone was very happy that they had a good start before any formal action was taken.
Suddenly, Xu Xiaoyue exclaimed, "It says special cold-resistant seeds here." Then she held up the package.
Shen Qianxun took it. It was a special package from the polar region. The recipient was a farmer named Huanong.
Under the expectant gaze of those around me, I opened the box and examined it, word for word: "The fifth improved version of cold-resistant Swiss chard seeds can grow in an extreme low temperature environment of no less than -50 degrees Celsius, and the growth cycle is shortened to 36 days."
There are 24 bags in total, which can be used for seed preservation.
"If you get rich, you can survive when extreme cold comes."
The vegetable garden of the orphanage where Shen Qianxun lived had planted cowpea, which is also called thick-skinned vegetable. As the name suggests, it has "rough skin and thick flesh". The leaves are fleshy and smooth, and the stems are thick and wide. It does not taste delicious, and is mostly used to feed pigs in rural areas.
But such special seeds are rare treasures in the end times, so collect them quickly.
The office building is different from the cannery, and the supplies are more scattered. Currently on the 10th floor, the water has submerged the calves. There are still 10 floors above, so several people decided to collect the supplies upstairs first.
Shen Qianxun suggested, “Time is limited, let’s divide the search area.”
Seeing the others nod, Shen Qianxun continued to add, “Grandma Deng, you are responsible for floors 11-13, Officer Yan, Grandpa Yan and Doctor Tang are responsible for floors 14-17, and Dabao and I are responsible for the top three floors.”
Everyone had no objections and acted quickly. Shen Qianxun, Chen Dabao and Officer Yan smashed the glass of the revolving door on the 11th to 13th floors and continued to go upstairs.
Half of the 18th floor is a pharmaceutical company, and the other half is an Internet operating company.
The troops were divided into two groups, and Shen Qianxun swept the pharmaceutical company.
There was a pile of medicines on the booth, including medicines for treating coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, renal failure, various cold medicines, and summer heat medicines. There were so many types that I didn't have time to look at them carefully, so I put them neatly into a large open garbage bag on the ground.
I collected two large garbage bags.
There is a refrigerator with its own battery placed in the corner of the corridor. Looking through the glass door, you can see vaccines that need to be kept fresh: HPV, tetanus, rabies, hepatitis B, inactivated polio vaccine, etc.
There are a lot of them, and she hasn't collected some of them. She put some of them in her space, and the storage conditions for others are limited. She will go downstairs and ask later.
Next is the tea room, which has coffee bars, milk powder, orange juice powder, various tea bags, and candy snacks.
As I passed the refrigerator, I was hit by a foul smell. I collected the napkins, paper towels, hand sanitizer, and a few rolls of garbage bags and quickly retreated.
The workstations were also not left out, as were pruning sets, fruit knives, almost brand new water cups, two boxes of Christmas socks, three boxes of five-pack women's underwear, etc.
Soon, he met up with Chen Dabao.
Chen Dabao chuckled and opened the garbage bag. Shen Qianxun looked inside and saw, wow, it was all food.
The boss of the internet company next door is much more generous than the boss of the pharmaceutical company. In addition to the basic equipment, the tea room also has a large amount of self-heating rice and noodles, self-heating hot pot, tiger skin chicken feet, lightly drunken drinks, etc. The snacks alone are almost enough to fill up two large garbage bags.
Time quickly came to two o'clock in the afternoon. No one wanted to stop, so they just ate something to fill their stomachs. Shen Qianxun and the other person went up to the 19th floor to continue the sweep.
The 19th floor was mainly an office area. After the two of them took a look around at the tea rolls, they continued to walk upstairs.
The entire 20th floor belongs to a portable cassette player live streaming company. In recent years, a music symbol live streaming platform has risen rapidly, attracting many businesses to settle in and selling many brands.
A warehouse stores a number of small gas stoves, as well as cooking oil, olive oil, chili sauce noodles, etc. required for live broadcasts.
All the other frozen foods were rotten and smelly, so I had to miss them with regret.
Shen Qianxun swept all the supplies that others didn’t need into the space, and finally carried them downstairs.
The supplies collected by Shen Qianxun and the others alone could not be transported in one trip, so tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
Soon it was 5:30 in the afternoon, and everyone gathered in the tea room to eat self-heating hot pot and describe their gains.
Among the mountains of supplies piled up nearby, mineral water is the most abundant.
Officer Yan and his colleagues collected more than 200 kilograms of bacon and sausages, 10 kilograms of dried chili powder, two boxes of liquor, one and a half barrels of diesel, a box of 12 unopened expedition walkie-talkies, and some other supplies.
Grandma Deng and her two grandchildren had a great harvest. Xu Xiaoyue had a smile on her face. It was a company anniversary celebration. In addition to the gift packages distributed to employees, the rest were piled up in the storage room, including 16 20-jin bags of rice, 14 barrels of cooking oil, 12 cartons of milk, more than a dozen bags of snack gift packages, and some flour, noodles, and grains.
When everyone heard that Shen Qianxun had found a lot of medicines and gas, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
The water level is currently high, and the medicine and liquefaction stations are almost completely submerged. Officer Yan plans to go into the water to look for them tomorrow. Now the problem has been completely solved.
After Tang Yun went upstairs and saw the vaccines in the refrigerator, she said regretfully, "Most of them require a specific temperature to stay fresh. Once the temperature is not up to standard, the vaccine will lose its activity."
Finally take away a small amount of vaccine.
Shen Qianxun walked at the end and swept the remaining vaccines into the space.
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