Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 201 Umbrella Stand
The scaffolding for the hot air balloon was completed that night after much haste.

The construction site is quite lively. It should be time to go to bed, but now everyone is busy.

Lu Yuning suddenly felt like a foreman, except that his construction workers seemed full of passion for work.

This is probably the strange thing about human beings. When we are busy, we feel like cattle and horses, but when we are idle, we feel like we are wasting our time.

So everyone is very active in the construction of this hot air balloon project, and it gives us a sense of accomplishment.

Although the entire framework looks grand, the actual workload is not as large as imagined.

The main thing is that it is made in a simple way, just a triangular support. The workload is actually how to set them up.

However, the people in the branch obviously have experience. Their current shelter is actually more complex and has a higher workload than this scaffolding.

The purpose of this scaffolding is to hang the main frame of the hot air balloon on it and facilitate the transportation of materials. Therefore, there is a platform on the top of the scaffolding, and the subsequent production of the hot air balloon will be carried out on this platform.

After the scaffolding was built, it was Lu Yuning's turn to do his home work.

Because there is an aerial hanging point, all he has to do is make the hot air balloon's parachute and hang it on the scaffolding platform.

The next step is to surround the umbrella frame and fill it up completely. This is a relatively large amount of work. It does not require much strength, but requires more precision.

Therefore, the main staff of this part are Han Yingying and Lu Yuning.

In order to ensure the weight and toughness of the hot air balloon frame at the same time, bamboo is the most suitable material for this part.

First, cut the bamboo into thin strips to make three main longitudinal frames.

These three thin strips should end downwards with the same curvature.

Then, based on these three, add a few more vertical frames of the same shape in the middle.

So the first three must lay a solid foundation.

This vertical umbrella stand requires the cooperation of Lu Yuning and Xu Ting.

Because it is too long and the curvature of the umbrella frame is difficult to control, it is difficult to make it directly using supernatural powers.

However, you can first make bamboo strips of equal length and uniform thickness, and then soften and bend them at the same place through measurement.

In this way, the three umbrella stands will be made quite symmetrical, and then the umbrella stands can be fixed on the aerial scaffolding.

This is the second time Lu Yuning and Xu Ting have worked together, and they are basically familiar with it.

As for the calculation of the bending position of the frame, leave it to Zhang Xinyue and Zhang Muyan.

At present, it seems that Zhang Muyan’s knowledge and expertise are much higher, but Zhang Xinyue’s mental arithmetic ability is relatively strong, and the two of them work together very well.

Three bamboo sticks with specific curvatures were quickly stood in the air with the help of Chen Hong and others.

The vertical main frame is quite successful. Although it looks quite long, even Lu Yuning can easily lift one end, which means that each support bar does not exceed 10g.

Then use these three as a basis to add more longitudinal support bars at equal distances.

In the end, all 9 of them were hung on the scaffolding platform.

After the longitudinal main parachute frame is completed, the upper and lower ends are closed and reinforced. This is almost the complete set of a basic hot air balloon parachute frame.

Later, a support frame will be added in the horizontal direction, but the material will not be bamboo. There is something better that can be used as a substitute, the spider silk in the bodies of the two mutated spiders.

This spider silk is not only extremely tough and almost weightless, but most importantly, it has strong adhesion, which can provide great help for the subsequent laying of the umbrella cover.

However, this mutated spider has not much spider silk left. Lu Yuning used it as a weapon before and had used a lot of it. It is estimated that it has been basically used up by now after laying the frame of the hot air balloon.

But the good news is that they now have a mutant spider that can produce this spider silk indefinitely.

So it’s better to use it directly.

Since this work requires enclosing the entire frame horizontally, the role of scaffolding becomes prominent.

The main difficulty in making the entire hot air balloon is not only the main frame, but also the laying of the entire umbrella.

First of all, the material must be plastic, and it needs to be made very thin. This is a high-precision technical job that Lu Yuning must make by himself, and it is impossible to make an umbrella that can cover the entire frame in one go.

It has to be done part by part, and the umbrella frame of the hot air balloon is divided into 9 longitudinal areas, so based on this, nine pieces of thin plastic film are made and then pasted on the umbrella frame.

This is a complicated and patient job, but the insufficient lighting at night makes it unsuitable for forced paving.

So even though I'm anxious, I can only put this work off until tomorrow.

However, today's workload has completely exceeded expectations, and the advantages of having more people are gradually becoming apparent.

By the time I finished the work at hand, it was almost midnight.

Everyone had been busy all night and was a little hungry.

As the head chef of Weiguang, Zhang Qian had already thought about this problem, so she set up a big pot in front of the base of the Lingang branch and started cooking midnight snacks.

As the steam rose, waves of fishy aroma emerged. This was the first time that the people in the branch had eaten cooked fish.

Their previous way of eating it was to dry it before eating.

As for food, they have plenty of it now. People in the branch go to the fish traps to catch live fish every day. This is also their main job at present.

In addition, since they live in a forest area, they have also collected a lot of wild edible plants, including walnuts, various wild vegetables and berries.

It can be said that the food here is quite abundant. Building a shelter in the forest area has almost no disadvantages except for insufficient light.

Of course, the main problem is the safety hazard, but with Xu Qi here, this area has basically become the permanent residence of the mutated bee.

The mutants have a special oppressive effect on ordinary insects. Insects have strong perception abilities, and it is basically rare to see wild insects in this small area.

The people in the branch have gradually gained the ability to deal with some insects. Although they cannot fight alone, as long as there is a clear division of labor, dealing with some insects with weak attack power is no problem.

However, insects with a higher threat level should still be kept away, such as centipedes. This type of insect is relatively large in size and is also poisonous, so you can only run around it when you see it.

Lu Yuning came back to his senses and found that Zhang Qian had almost prepared the food. In addition to fish, there was also walnut porridge and boiled wild vegetables. Considering their appetite, the seasoning packets they brought back last time would basically not be used up in a few years, so Lu Yuning and the others were not stingy and now they would add some seasonings to the food they cooked.

(End of this chapter)