Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 128: Construction begins, building a wilderness refuge
Silent all night.

When I woke up the next day, the weather had turned cold.

But this was not the sudden cold of severe winter, but just a slight chill, which was bearable for ordinary people even in the previous life.

He didn't have a thermometer, but despite the temperature, Lu Xian felt it was only a few degrees below zero.

He woke up, got out of the car, and felt the weather for a moment. He turned around and smiled at Yao Wei, saying, "Look, what wonderful weather this is. Wouldn't it be perfect to dig a shelter and build a fireplace to warm up? Just thinking about it makes me feel comfortable."

"Why does it feel like God wants us to do such meaningless things?"

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded. Seeing Lu Xian so excited, she couldn't help but feel a little better.

Lu Xian boiled some more hot water.

The two men did not eat corn for breakfast. Instead, they put the remaining wolf meat into the pot, soaked it until soft, and then heated it up to eat.

After cooking, the wolf meat becomes soft and tender, making it much easier to chew. The water also becomes more salty, giving it a unique flavor.

After breakfast, the two packed up their things, went to the Xijian River to fetch some water, and began to work on what they had planned yesterday.

There was a shovel with a wooden handle in the car, which was taken from the shelter.

The shovel was probably used for cooking in the shelter, but unexpectedly, when people were about to move into the shelter, it collapsed. Later, no one knew what happened and they were unable to get in.

So the shovel eventually became a tool for Lu Xian and Yao Wei to dig holes and bury garbage.

There were two shovels at the time. When Lu Xian and Yao Wei left the shelter, they took one of them. Because it was difficult to put it in the car, they removed the front part of the shovel and kept the wooden pole and shovel separately.

At this moment, Yao Wei took the shovel off the car, put it back on, aligned the saved nails with the holes in the shovel handle and the wooden pole, passed them through, and then bent the tip of the nail and it was stuck.

——When the handle and the shovel were separated, it was Yao Wei who straightened the nails.

There are two nails on the top and bottom. Drill them in separately and bend them upward and downward respectively to completely fix the shovel and wooden pole.

After putting on the shovel, Yao Wei asked, "How do we do it?"

Lu Xian said: "Let's try it on the cliff first to see if the soil is soft enough. If it is, we can dig a square pit. If not, we might as well not waste our energy and dig until the pit collapses.

"But to be honest, I've only seen these things in videos before and have never done them myself. I can only try based on my memory, and I may not be able to do it.

"If you fail, don't blame me."

"okay."

Yao Wei nodded in agreement and didn't mind Lu Xian's reminder.

I said it yesterday, they were just looking for something to do to have fun, so why should I blame Lu Xian?
Yao Wei also had a smaller shovel, and Lu Xian took the shovel.

The two of them went to the edge of the cliff to try it out, digging with one shovel at a time, and unexpectedly they actually succeeded.

The soil on this cliff was of moderate hardness and softness. I paid attention to the force and dug in shovel by shovel, and surprisingly, there was no collapse.

Both of them were Type A new humans, with incredible strength, so digging the hole was not difficult at all for them.

With one shovelful after another, a hole gradually took shape in the wall.

If this process was done by an ordinary person in the previous life, it would probably be very time-consuming and laborious, but for Lu Xian and Yao Wei today, it seems to be the simplest task.

Great effort can make miracles happen. They can be simple and rough while also achieving precision engineering.

"Pay attention to the shape."

Lu Xian reminded Yao Wei that they wanted a square hole so they could follow the other steps according to their memory.

Yao Wei said "hmm" and nodded in agreement.

But later on, she gradually stopped being responsible for digging the hole, and instead used a shovel to clear out the soil in the hole one shovel at a time.

She had a large shovel in her hand, which was convenient for doing this job. Lu Xian took her small shovel and repaired the hole, which was more convenient.

Lu Xian said that the excavated soil would be useful later, so Yao Wei piled all the soil aside, which would be more convenient to use later.

She looked at the pile of soil that was gradually being transferred out, and then at the big hole that she and Lu Xian had dug together, and suddenly a sense of accomplishment arose in her heart.

She felt that this seemed pretty good and thought that this was probably the meaning of this matter.

After repairing the hole, Lu Xian squatted down again and dug several long trenches running through the ground. Yao Wei didn't quite understand what was going on, so she asked Lu Xian, "What are these for?"

"Underfloor heating."

Lu Xian said, "After we finish digging, we'll go to Xiaogang Village and get some scrap bricks to lay on top."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded. She had never heard of floor heating, but looking at the situation and the word "warm," she understood why. She knew they would be needed to keep things warm.

——The reason for this is that she felt that such things would be completely useless in the face of real severe cold.

But it doesn't matter, she really wants to see what the final product looks like.

After digging the pit, Lu Xian dug out a fireplace on one side of the wall, which was connected to the floor heating channel below and a 45-degree groove at the top, leading to the outside of the cliff.

This is where the chimney will be located later.

It didn't take the two of them long to do all this.

The new human's body really makes everything simple. Lu Xian thought to himself that it was a good thing that he was a Type A new human.

Although sometimes he also envied the ability of Type B new humans to revive on the spot after eating, and the ability of Type D new humans to become invisible.

Hmm... I don't envy Type C. They sweat all the time and their sweat odor is pretty unbearable. "Okay, let's go to Xiaogang Village."

After doing all this, Lu Xian came out of the pothole, cleaned up the shovel, clapped his hands and put it back in the car.

Yao Wei asked Lu Xian: "Is this shovel still useful?"

After getting Lu Xian's reply of "No need", he straightened and pulled out the nails on the shovel, separated the shovel and the pole again, and stuffed them into the car.

Instead of walking, the two drove directly to Xiaogang Village.

Lu Xian remembered that in the videos he had seen, those who had the time and money or who specialized in making videos would make a basket to pick up the slates.

But now that I have a ready-made car and a ready-made material yard, I don’t have to learn everything from the video.

When they arrived at Xiaogang Village, they parked the car and directly looked for ready-made, almost intact bricks from the collapsed houses. They picked them up and lined them up on the roof of the car.

Lu Xian also found an aluminum chimney, but after decades of wind and rain, it was no longer usable, so his excitement was in vain.

But fortunately, there are enough bricks here, and I can use them to seal the chimney myself.

After collecting enough bricks, the two drove back.

Of course, I had to drive slower and more steadily on the road. The roof of the car was full of bricks. It wouldn't be a waste if they fell off, but if they weren't enough, I would have to run back to pick them up.

Afterwards, Lu Xian poured the water they had fetched in the morning in buckets onto the excavated soil little by little to make mud. After mixing it, he began to seal the bricks of the floor heating, fireplace, and chimney.

This work took some time. Neither of them knew how to do it, so they could only try as they went along to make sure the mud was mixed properly, the bricks were laid properly, and the joints were sealed with mud.

Fortunately, both of them had enough patience, and the Type A new humans' control over their bodies also helped them to find details while doing this kind of work, and they finally got everything done.

Lu Xian even had the energy to rely on himself to recall the details that he had overlooked when recalling the video, and left a gap between the fireplace and the floor heating to allow the heat to flow down.

But the shelter is still simple, with three walls still made of earth.

Lu Xian originally planned to cut some wood, nail it to the earth wall after trimming it, but when he thought about it, he had already spent so much time studying how to lay bricks, and it would probably be a waste of time to study a new technology.

There was still a lot of soil left here, so he simply stopped studying it and asked Yao Wei to go to Xiaogang Village with him again to get a lot of bricks.

However, the bricks at the bottom have just been laid and are not dry yet. They are shaky when you step on them, so you can't do any other work.

The two of them stopped working temporarily and waited for half a day and one night.

The next day, I went up and saw that at least the ground was okay, so I mixed some mud and used bricks to build three walls. Then I sealed the outside, leaving space for a door and window.

——Some wood is used here.

When putting up doors and windows, you need to cut some wood, cut it into planks, and place them on top so that you can use bricks to build the tops of the doors and windows.

Lu Xian and Yao Wei always felt uneasy about putting bricks on top of the wood, fearing that the bricks would collapse the wooden boards. So they cut the wooden boards into very thick pieces, stacked them on the bricks, and used them as the tops of the doors and windows.

As for the top, Lu Xian left some space when he was building the wall, and dug in this space to get the soil out.

After doing all this, he cut some wooden boards, laid them up horizontally, and inserted them in a row vertically, barely sealing the earthen top.

Then he and Yao Wei jumped out of the newly built "shelter" and let out a long sigh.

Both of them had their hands covered in mud, but as they looked at the shelter gradually taking shape, they felt satisfied.

Although this shelter has no doors or windows.

"How about it?"

Lu Xian asked. He hadn't taken care of the doors and windows yet, as he hadn't figured out how to make them.

Maybe I should just not do it. It's just a rough house anyway, so I can just feel it out.

"Great."

Yao Wei replied, "It's just too wet inside, and it's not very stable to walk on."

Lu Xian: "..."

This is also a problem. When I stepped on the floor today, it was actually a little shaky. I don’t know if it’s because they didn’t do their job well enough or if the air inside hadn’t dried out completely.

They were building the wall on it, and they relied on their very fine control over their bodies to ensure that the ground under their feet was fine and the "floor" that was newly completed yesterday was not damaged.

They don't have much experience, so it's pretty good that they can do this.

Lu Xian thought for a moment and said, "Let's leave it overnight and see how it goes. If it doesn't work tomorrow, we'll talk about it later."

"Why don't we try burning it to dry it out and see if that works? Or maybe put up a layer of wooden boards?
"If it still doesn't work, let's just wait and see, and don't live in it."

But unexpectedly, Yao Wei looked at the newly built shelter and said, "But I want to try going in."

It seems that the shelter she built also made Yao Wei worried.

Lu Xian smiled and said, "Okay. Let's go in and try it tomorrow. No matter what, whether we can live here or not, it should be okay to go in and try to sit for a while."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded, now satisfied.

Lu Xian was actually quite satisfied. Seeing Yao Wei happy about this useless job, he also felt a little satisfied.

I really didn't expect that this work could be completed in two days. Moreover, for these two new humans, it was indeed a way to find something to pass the time and it didn't take much effort.

Good.

He thought happily in his heart.

(End of this chapter)