Big Camphor Tree Base.

The weather was bitterly cold, with snowflakes swirling around like catkins, showing no sign of stopping.

Inner City.

After working overtime last night, the modifications inside the greenhouse were finally completed.

At six o'clock in the morning, the entire base remained quiet, with no one in sight along the corridors.

Squeak—

Within the residential building of Inner City, a room door was opened, and Aunt Zhou looked at the snow outside, a vast expanse of white.

"Wow! This heavy snow!" Aunt Zhou quickly put on a hat and gloves and headed toward the canteen. She was already half an hour late today, but she didn't expect to see hardly anyone outside.

"Let's just make some porridge today." Aunt Zhou muttered as she trudged to the entrance of the canteen.

Breakfast supply at the base starts at 7:30 a.m., giving her an hour and a half to prepare.

Later, Mrs. Li, Wang Cheng's wife, and others came from other rooms to help make breakfast.

....

Meanwhile.

Li Haoran, on duty at the wall, wearing a hat, a shawl, and gloves while holding a firearm, stepped out from the duty room.

The snow on the wall crunched under his shoes as he walked.

Beyond the base was a vast expanse of white.

The path that once existed was now covered by snow; overnight, the snow had piled up considerably.

After leaving the duty room, Li Haoran walked around the wall, heading to the duty room 200 meters to the west, then returned the same way, proceeding to the duty room in the east.

Five minutes later, after walking a lap on both sides, he returned to the duty room.

As he opened the duty room door, a wave of warmth greeted him. Having walked a round, wearing warm clothes underneath and returning to a warm place, he was slightly sweating.

So, he took off his coat, hat, and gloves, sat on the bench, and watched the surveillance screen.

Looking at the clear camera screen, he placed his gloves on the table while saying to Lao Xie and his aunt, Li Qingqing, sitting opposite, "I just cleared the snow off the camera; you should be able to see clearly now, right?"

Li Qingqing, yawning as she sat on a bench, said, "Yes, much clearer now."

Last night, the three of them were on the night shift from midnight until now, feeling a bit sleepy, but once it was eight in the morning, their shift would end.

Lao Xie nodded and chuckled, "Much clearer, though outside looks all the same, just snow. If someone were out there, they probably wouldn't last long."

Li Haoran nodded in agreement and said, "Uncle Xie, I just checked the thermometer outside, and the current outdoor temperature is minus 25 degrees."

"It's really cold." Lao Xie said, tightening his clothes.

Though they were indoors with heating, keeping them from freezing, the cold weather outside still gave him a chill.

It was psychological.

And in the Inner City.

Li Yu's biological clock woke him at six.

Last night, he had been busy until 11 p.m., and after washing up, it was midnight; he only slept for six hours, with nothing much planned this morning, everything had already been arranged.

So, he decided to sleep a bit more under the covers.

Outside the window, the snow fell softly, with a natural hypnotic quality.

After turning on the indoor heating, the air became a bit humid, so Li Yu turned on the humidifier.

The wisps of humidifier mist adjusted the room's humidity.

Li Yu slept for over an hour more, waking up close to eight as he grew hungry. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

After washing up, he routinely checked the outdoor temperature and was shocked to see the minus twenty-five reading.

He hadn't anticipated such a drastic drop in temperature overnight.

Thinking about the greenhouse, his primary concern wasn't whether An Ya and the others had moved the crop seedlings there but the power supply issue.

Originally, without the greenhouse, the base relied on photovoltaic and wind power to maintain operations.

But now, these greenhouses were the biggest power consumers.

Li Yu knew that before the greenhouse was built, their underground plantation was the most power-consuming facility.

Yet the underground plantation's area could not compare to the greenhouses above ground, which were several times larger.

Thus, Li Yu hurriedly ran downstairs to knock on Li Hang's door.

Li Hang, rubbing his sleepy eyes, opened the door and followed Li Yu to the living room.

In recent days, he had been busy with the zombie generators, even neglecting the greenhouse matters.

"How many zombie generators do we have now? Now that the greenhouses are built, can the zombie generators directly supply their power needs?" Li Yu asked directly as Li Hang opened the door.

Li Hang, still not fully awake, took two seconds to process Li Yu's question.

Then he began calculating, "We currently have 150 zombie generators, each capable of producing 0.35 kilowatts per hour, equating to the zombie generators outputting 52.5 kilowatts an hour and 1260 kilowatts a day."

The more he calculated, the clearer his head became.

He continued, "According to what my father-in-law said, in each greenhouse, with the 5P variable frequency air energy installations, to cover a 2000-square-meter space, at least two are necessary.