Cave Refuge-Chapter 268 - 263 Human Body Electricity Generation Technology_1
Once it was confirmed that the Bug Nest only appeared in Pengcheng, it transformed from a universally feared pest to a cherished notion, much like a protected species.
Indeed, it was like tigers before the apocalypse; although they were dangerous to ordinary people in the wild, their bodies proved useful to humans. Eventually, they were hunted to near-extinction.
Truth be told, Bug Nests could have been farmed within Dong Tianyu’s cave, but given his traumatic demise in a Bug Nest in his past life, Dong Tianyu harbored an intense aversion for them. Consequently, he never raised a Bug Nest in his cave.
Upon returning safely from Yutai, Ye Liuyun was taken aback by the recent developments in Pengcheng. Learning the value of the bug nest and that it was Dong Tianyu and Robinson William who discovered it first, Ye Liuyun regretted leaving Pengcheng at that crucial time and despised himself for it.
Under normal circumstances, the round trip from Pengcheng to Yutai would only take a couple of days at most. However, Ye Liuyun’s extended absence was due to his detour to Weishan Lake.
Weishan Lake is the nearest freshwater lake inland from Pengcheng. Owing to its geographic advantages, several survivors managed to live on after a few rounds of apocalypse.
Although the county area was famous pre-cataclysm, its pillar industry transitioned from fishing to tourism. So, when catastrophe hit, survivors could only live scantily in the Refuge Center. There were neither skilled craftsmen nor ways to repair various equipment damaged by electromagnetic pulses.
All over the county, vehicles wrecked by electromagnetic pulses lay immobile without anyone skilled enough to rebuild them.
The survivors were, therefore, confined to the immediate vicinity of Weishan Lake. Although it is relatively close to Pengcheng, it is also near their provincial city.
Despite the lack of cars, bikes were sufficient for daily commute between the city and its jurisdiction.
At the end of the heatwave apocalypse, the lake’s water was completely evaporated, and its aquatic life was harvested by the survivors for food storage.
There used to be a salt mine here, but due to low mining efficiency, the traditional methods of salt collection were replaced with modern equipment extraction.
However, when the electromagnetic pulse struck, the salt mine was paralyzed. Transitioning back to manual collection was tedious, especially since many mechanical equipment were now disabled. Despite martial artists’ superior strength compared to ordinary people, reverting to traditional salt mining methods was deemed too much hassle.
The sun shower at the end of the heatwave apocalypse restored some of the water levels in Weishan Lake, and the scorching lakewater seemed to disinfect the lakebed.
At that time, there were hardly any creatures surviving outside, but the process felt quite ceremonial.
When the heatwave apocalypse ended, the survivors of Weishan Lake quickly found various ways to restore the lake’s water levels to their former height.
At the same time, they cast into the water the surviving fish and shrimp fry, as well as aquatic plants they had managed to preserve, hoping to restore the lake’s ecosystem swiftly.
The main reason for this was to alleviate their food shortage dilemma. Since Weishan Lake’s area had little flat land, the lake occupied the majority of the region. Therefore, the reliance on mountain resources from the mountains and water resources from the waters was passed down from their ancestors, who initially survived on the aquatic resources available in Weishan Lake.
As people from elsewhere were busy cultivating crops, Weishan Lake survivors started considering raising aquatic animals.
The previous rounds of the apocalypse were especially cruel to Weishan Lake, either by freezing or drying up the lake water.
These types of apocalypses not only ruptured the flora’s growth cycle but also rendered preservation of aquatic life impossible.
Now that eternal night had descended, it potently affected the surface crops, yet the effect on the fish living in the water was quite minimal.
After a few months of buffer period and some time after the onset of eternal night, the aquatic produce in Weishan Lake grew to harvestable size.
While continuing to grow, the fish grew more slowly, reducing their cost-effectiveness. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Ye Liuyun brought back a considerable amount of live fish from Weishan Lake. Although the survivors in Pengcheng were also breeding aquatic animals in Dragon Lake and other city lakes, Pengcheng, essentially an inland area, had drawn up many freshwater lakes as tourism areas.
So, even though there were some survivors in Pengcheng who knew how to breed fish, they were either adept at raising ornamental fish or proficient in small-scale fish farming.
They would dig a fish pond in rural areas or set up an above-ground fish pool for modular breeding.
The number of survivors with extensive experience in large-scale inland lake or reservoir fish farming was quite small.
Thus, the Pengcheng officials did not value the fishing industry as much as the leaders of Weishan Lake.
This resulted in Pengcheng only producing a small amount of aquatic products, limiting supply to a small area.
Unlike Weishan county, where fish is eaten with every meal and grains are hard to come by, Pengcheng currently has grains for every meal, but aquatic produce is scarce.
(PS: If it were you, now give you two options:
Of course, this choice is based on the premise that, no matter whether you choose one or two, there is not much seasoning during cooking, and you can basically only taste the original flavor of the food.
1. Do you hope to eat staple food with a small amount of vegetables for each meal?
2. Or do you prefer to eat fish for each meal, and rarely get to eat staple food and various cultivated vegetables,)
Actually, without choosing, everyone can guess that those who often eat staple food will choose number two, and those who often eat fish will choose number one.
It’s like the line in the song, what we can’t get is always stirring, and those who are favored are fearless.
Those who eat grains always think that fish is more delicious, while those who eat fish would say that grains suppress hunger, and there is no fishy smell.
Because Ye Liuyun was close and had a car, most of the fish he brought back were still alive, so the sales were good, and Ye Liuyun made a small profit this time.
However, after Ye Liuyun heard about the value of the Bug Nest, he hurriedly organized manpower after dealing with the fish, and prepared to go to the outskirts of the city to catch bugs.
Dong Tianyu told Ye Liuyun the information about the appearance of the Bug Nest on Nameless Mountain.
Although Dong Tianyu would not personally help Ye Liuyun catch bugs, he was willing to provide some information. Although this information could not be said to be very useful, after reading it, Ye Liuyun improved his efficiency in catching bugs.
Looking at Ye Liuyun who hurriedly left, Dong Tianyu and Robinson William looked at each other and smiled.
Days passed by like this. Although the sky outside was always dark, the sun had no intention of appearing.
But the living standard of the survivors by the Pengcheng River has improved a lot. Pengcheng has finally developed the longest-lasting technology for human power generation in the natural disasters.
The tech-savvy name just means giving each generator a hand-cranked generator or a human-powered generator similar to the size of an exercise bike.
Although it’s not like science fiction movies, which let people sleep in the care dish and extract biological electricity automatically.
But this kind of job, just like going to work, clocking in on time, delivering shifts, getting paid, and sometimes even getting free medical examinations,
The job content is just to pedal the bike for power generation, and the salary is paid according to the daily power generated by the survivor.
This way of generation, compared with traditional thermal or wind power generation, requires more survivors.
If this plan was proposed before the disaster, the person would absolutely be spat on to death.
But at this time, the plan will provide more positions for young and strong survivors. When they get off work and are exhausted like a dead dog, lying limp on the bed,
It can allow the survivors of Pengcheng to be too busy to think, thus increasing their sense of security in Pengcheng.
Of course, when the Officials are hiring, they must have a better attitude towards power generation personnel than those forces in the doomsday novels, and they can also feed those power generation personnel, and allow those survivors to return to their own homes just like getting off work, not to be secretly buried.
After ensuring power supply, the technology tree of Pengcheng began to sprout again, and many things developed faster than before due to the absence of patent restrictions.
Patents, which have their pros and cons, are not discussed for now. The most important thing is that patent law is now virtually nonexistent on Blue Star.
So, the government quickly built a lot of various laboratories.
Many things were not that they couldn’t be made, it’s just that because of credibility, the country didn’t stoop to utilizing loopholes to challenge this rule tacitly accepted by all countries on Blue Star.
When the patent disappeared, many things that could only be secretly made for personal use before the disaster and could not be used openly, appeared like bamboo shoots after the rain under the cover of the pitch-dark sky.
The impact of the electromagnetic pulse on the country is gradually weakening as if being accelerated, and it seems that it will soon return to the pre-disaster state.
Days are gradually changing for the better. Now, because of the increasing demand for population, the Officials re-proposed the compulsory marriage policy that once appeared.
But it’s not as serious as last time. If eligible men and women do not get married within three years, a population contribution tax will be imposed on them from the fourth year, and this tax will increase by 20% per year.
Although the currency has now stopped circulating, each city still has its own value system.
This tax to be levied is also the only new type of tax since the disaster.
