Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus-Chapter 767 - 588: Zero Degrees, Sleet
September.
The temperature dropped to zero degrees.
The acid rain continued to fall.
But now it began to mix with tiny hailstones.
In less than twenty days, the temperature plummeted from over seventy degrees above zero to zero.
Almost three to four degrees a day.
The sky remained murky grey, one couldn’t see their own hands when they stretched them out.
The ongoing acid rain made the human living environment even worse.
And the zombies were the last straw that broke the backs of many Survivors.
At the Big Camphor Tree Base.
The ever-increasing zombies did not diminish but continued to grow in numbers.
In theory, they were continuously using the Mobile Switch Blade and even employed the Crossbow to snipe zombies on the walls, but their numbers didn’t decrease.
Fortunately, the continuous darkness and the Zombie Tide meant the bodies of the zombies under the walls were devoured by other zombies, preventing a pile-up of corpses.
After all, once the corpses start to accumulate, no matter how great their walls are, the bodies will pile up to a certain height.
And once they accumulate to the height of the walls, they will face even greater problems.
If that happens, they must find a way to lure the zombies away or clear the bodies to solve the problem.
In Second Outer City.
On the third floor.
This place had been entirely transformed into a human-powered electricity generator space.
In recent days, He Bing and his team had been making human-powered generators and moving them here.
Just yesterday, they generated four hundred kilowatt-hours in one day.
This amount of electricity was very considerable.
Not only could it provide for the Second Outer City’s lighting, but it could also support the lighting electricity needs of the First Outer City and the walls.
Fifty human-powered generators, each spaced more than two meters apart, behind two wheels, were linked to an outlet, which was plugged into the batteries.
Xiao Hu stepped down from the human-powered generator, wiping off his sweat. Today, he pedaled for an hour in the morning, noon, and evening to generate electricity, considering it as a physical workout.
Now the food was not abundant, so to conserve strength, they had reduced their daily working hours considerably.
On average, each person worked only about 2 to 4 hours a day.
"Let’s go, Butcher," Xiao Hu said to Zhu Xiao beside him after stepping off the bike.
After speaking, he picked up a bottle of water and gulped down most of it.
In Second Outer City, although their food was not so plentiful, they still had enough drinking water.
On average, each person could use 3 to 5 liters of water, which was sufficient for daily drinking.
But they didn’t know how precious this clean water source was for those outside the base.
At the moment, the entire world was under the cover of acid rain.
Whether it’s groundwater, river water, or reservoirs, all were contaminated by acid rain.
To obtain truly clean water, one could only resort to distillation, which was time-consuming, labor-intensive, and wasted energy, and most importantly, the amount obtained was very little.
Zhu Xiao, hearing Xiao Hu’s call, slowly reduced his speed. The zero-degree temperature, combined with intense exercise, made him appear to steam.
His huge and sturdy muscles were covered in sweat and looked full of power.
"Alright," Zhu Xiao slowed down and got off the bike.
He used his jacket like a towel to wipe his body and also took a couple of swigs of water.
The two of them walked together downstairs.
On the second floor, some people were making bows and arrows, and a crowd of several hundred was clearly dividing two piles of items in the middle.
One pile was completed bows and arrows, and the other pile was raw wood.
The two glanced at it and continued downstairs.
The ground floor was brightly lit, thanks to the human-powered generators they used; Li Yu allowed them a bit more freedom with electricity, including the use of some electric appliances gathered from outside.
Zhu Xiao had a huge build and required two to three times the food of an average person.
Although he was an Extra Staff member and received a fixed monthly ration of six to seven pounds, it was still not enough.
So, he ran up a tab, borrowing the maximum ration that Li Yu had promised them, five pounds of rice.
With some food they had saved from previous missions, there was just enough for Zhu Xiao to eat.
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In the First Outer City and Inner City, including the caves, indoor plantations were built.
And in the Second Outer City, an Underground Plantation was also constructed, but An Ya and her team had been busy with the plantations in the First Outer City and Inner City, leaving the Second Outer City’s underground rooms unopened.
There were two reasons for this, the first being the lack of photovoltaic solar energy. Although wind power could now add some electricity, to save energy, it remained unused.
The second was to conserve water. After all, there were only 6000 tons of water.
However, later on, once An Ya learned that Second Outer City could generate 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity daily, she suggested to Li Yu that they could plant crops that required less water.
Like potatoes and wheat.
Li Yu thought it was a good idea, so he let An Ya start planting in the Second Outer City.
Since there was an abundance of labor, some manpower was also drawn from the Second Outer City to assist.
At the same time, each person in the Second Outer City was given an orange that had been planted previously.
These oranges were stored for a while and had now matured, sweet and delicious.
Everything was on the right track. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
No one was causing trouble anymore.
After finding things for them to do, many people were no longer bored, and when people are busy, they no longer indulge in idle thoughts.
