Surviving the Apocalypse with my Multiplier System-Chapter 241: Sneaky Midnight Watering

When Liam returned back to the settlement he went directly to report to Noah, Rayne, and Julian on the situation at Fred’s base.

"Oh no! That’s horrible, we need to think of a way to help them!", said Rayne.

Julian and Noah both had their heads down, thinking of a solution.

"Well..we still have a lot of free houses. We have an established relationship with them, maybe we can somehow invite them to live here with us? We can try to transport the cattle over too", Noah suggested.

Julian thought for a moment, "Inviting them to live with us would double our population, but we can still support that. The only thing is that we would need to make space for the cattle and build a barn."

Rayne looked at the forest beyond where the fields were. If they could clear out some of those trees, that would be a perfect area for a barn and pasture.

She turned her head towards the houses, most of the able residents were on the roofs installing the solar panels.

It’s a good thing I loaded up the trailer. At least we have extras if others move in.

"I think it’s a good idea. We can at least offer the invitation. If they choose to decline then we will just help them the best we can", she finally said.

The rest of the group agreed and went back to their various tasks.

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Rayne walked with Julian along the forest perimeter on their way back home.

"I’m worried about the water level in the lake", Julian said.

Rayne looked over at the lake as they were passing by and noticed that the water level had gone down by a visible amount.

"I wonder if we can somehow fill it artificially? Maybe I can scoop up the water into a large container, and multiply it a few times?"

Julian paused, "Your ability might be what saves us once again. I’d like to thank you in advance on behalf of the residents."

He felt that with her multiplying ability, she would be able to keep the lake water level up through even the biggest droughts.

They continued to their house doing their best to stay out of the direct sunlight. Most of the surrounding grass had already died out, leaving patches of yellow throughout the forest clearing.

Rayne looked up at the surrounding trees, "Well, at least the trees look okay for now. Hopefully, they don’t tie out."

As she was speaking another problem donned on her-- if the trees dried out then this would create prime conditions for forest fires!

She froze and looked over at Julian with wide eyes.

We need to do something to prevent forest fires. We’re completely surrounded by trees here. If a fire starts then we’re going to lose everything!"

Julian looked around. "You’re right. What can we do?"

"I’ll check my system to see if I have anything for fire prevention. But in the meantime, the only thing that comes to mind is a lot of watering. I’ll go out at night to water the surrounding forest at night each night until we can come up with a better idea."

She looked around at the vast forest in front of her and shook her head feeling overwhelmed.

"I hope we can think of a solution sooner than later", she sighed.

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Later that night while everyone was getting ready for bed, Rayne and Julian were getting ready for a late-night watering session.

Rayne put on and all black outfit, even tying her hair up into a black scarf.

"I feel like we’re going out to rob a bank. I haven’t felt this bad since I stored my first car off the street", she laughed.

"Don’t worry, I’ll be your alibi", smiled Julian.

He was also getting dressed in all black so that they were less visible in the night.

"Thankfully only a few places have electricity so there aren’t many lights out. In the future we will have to be even more careful when sneaking out like this.", said Rayne.

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They both snuck out of their house and skirted around the perimeter of the base, taking cover behind the warehouses as they made their way into the forest.

"I never thought I would be using night vision goggles to water trees in the forest", said Rayne.

Julian grinned, "We’ll it’s the best option we have since using a flashlight would attract too much attention."

They walked slightly farther in so that a thin tree line covered them from the rest of the base.

"Okay, let’s start here", she said and opened up her system panel, taking out a large vat of water.

Julian helped her tip the vat over to dump all of the water on the ground.

Rayne felt that this was initially a very large amount of water, but when she watched it vanish into the ground like a dry sponge she frowned.

"Look’s like we’ll be out here for a while", she said.

"Let me do the dumping while you place the water tanks out. It’ll be a little faster this way", suggested Julian.

Rayne agreed with this plan and continued forward, placing a vat of water every few steps. Julian trailed behind her tipping them over to water the nearby area.

They did this for over an hour, getting a large section of the forest watered.

On their way back, Rayne collected the empty watering vats.

"We’re going to have to think of a better way. Although we got a decent size of the forest watered, it’s not enough. I’ll look through my system to see if there’s anything I can find that’s better than this."

By the time they made it home, everyone around was already fast asleep. Rayne changed out of her clothes, putting on a set of thin pajamas, before flopping down on the bed.

"Even working at night is exhausting. The heat makes me feel so sluggish, I don’t want to move", she said.

"Haha, well at least we are lucky enough to have electricity and an air conditioner. I feel bad for everyone having to sleep out in this heat tonight", said Julian.

Rayne rolled over in the bed, kicking the sheet off with her legs.

"Yeah. Hopefully tomorrow we can some of those solar panels finally up and running so that others can cool off too."

Julian rolled over and tried to pull Rayne closer beside him.

"No way! You stay over there! Your body is like a natural furnace. Last night I woke up sweating!", she said.

Julian pouted, internally cursing the heat. In his mind he was already plotting ways to crank up the A/C so that she would feel cold tomorrow night and want to curl up with him.