Reborn: I Stock Up and Bully the Trash to Dominate the Apocalypse

Now it is completely different from the extreme cold period. Heating equipment and power equipment can be supplied normally.

Now they are penniless and have difficulty maintaining normal electricity supply, let alone heating.

Although fish skins were used as fuel before, not enough fish were caught in the future, and people only eat very little fish every day, so how much fish skins could be saved?

There are some coal resources on the mother ship, but not much. The temperature dropped sharply before and there was not enough fish skin to use. The mother ship has urgently distributed some of the coal to the residents of the island.

When Zhou Shuwan drove out to collect supplies during the high temperature disaster, she collected many coal containers. She estimated that there were about two thousand tons.

Of these 2000 tons of coal, enough was left for their own use and distributed to the residents on the island. Each family only received a few tons, which was enough for a few months.

It is unknown how long the eternal night will last.

But if the residents on the island were concentrated together, coal would be more economical.

So, after much thought, it is still necessary to build an underground base.

While Zhou Shuwan was thinking about this, Captain Chen was also discussing this with Deputy Captain Shang.

The temperature is getting colder and there is a high probability that it will drop further.

They have to prepare in advance.

If they had been helpless due to the geographical conditions of the island before, even if they wanted to dig the shelter cellar bigger, they didn't have the practical conditions.

But now they have two giant machines that can greatly increase the speed of digging cellars, and building an underground base is not too difficult.

However, the problem Captain Chen faced was the same as what Zhou Shuwan thought, which was the problem of keeping warm after the underground base was built.

"There's not much coal left in the mothership's warehouse." Captain Chen sighed, with deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.

Deputy Captain Shang took a wrinkled cigarette, put it to his nose, took two deep breaths, and then reluctantly put it away.

He used to be a heavy smoker, but after the apocalypse he consciously reduced his smoking.

Later on, he even had very few cigarettes. He hid several boxes of cigarettes and would only take out a cigarette when he couldn't help it.

It’s the same behavior as Captain Chen hiding the wine.

Now there is only this last cigarette left. He is only willing to smell it but not smoke it at all.

"How long will our inventory last?"

Captain Chen had already asked the warehouse manager, who shook his head with a pessimistic look on his face: "Only a few months. No more than that."

They did have a lot of coal in stock when they went out to sea, but after an extremely long period of extreme cold, most of the coal had been burned.

They didn't expect that there would be another eternal night period similar to the extreme cold.

"If we don't build an underground base, how long can we last?"

Captain Chen smiled bitterly, "We've already distributed a third of the coal we urgently needed, but that's only enough for each household to use for two weeks. If we distribute it all, it will only be gone in a month and a half."

Therefore, it is still necessary to gather people together for heating.

It’s not that safe on the mothership now.

Because of the loss of the planting area, they now need to expand the planting area of ​​the mothership to increase the next food production.

Then, the mothership can accommodate relatively fewer people.

It is impossible to allow everyone to take refuge on the mothership.

And with the super ice pellet storm, it is not safe to live on the mothership.

The two captains discussed it and finally decided to use the two machines to build an underground base, no matter how long they could hold out.

In addition to coal, the mothership's power system and fuel can also be used to keep warm.

But when the time comes where we need to dismantle the mothership's equipment to maintain human survival, that will be the end of the road for humanity!

Captain Chen thought of the people who had settled on Hope Island No. 1 and sighed, "In the past six months, we haven't had any contact with Island No. 1. It's so difficult here, and I wonder what's going on over there!"

Captain Chen always felt that they were lucky. Whenever they were in desperate moments, there would always be help like "God's hand".

Fuel, medicine, down jackets, etc. that appeared before.

This time, giant machinery and fish catch appeared.

There are not many ordinary survivors and navy left on Hope Island No. 1, and their largest warship is just a cruiser.

In the past six months, they have experienced several major natural disasters. It is no exaggeration to say that Hope Island No. 2 suffered heavy casualties. If Xue Wuwen's men had not joined them, apart from the navy, there would have been only more than 2,000 ordinary people surviving.

There are also fewer women.

They are the main force of the warships, and they have suffered heavy casualties. I don’t know what the situation is like on Hope Island No. 1.

They couldn't spare anyone to contact the other party, and no one from the other party contacted them either. Were they living safely on the island and not in need, or had something unexpected happened to them?

At that time, the two sides agreed to contact each other at regular times and locations, but the two islands are thousands of nautical miles apart, very far away, and the conditions at sea are very dangerous, so until now, they have not sent anyone to contact each other.

Captain Chen thought about the time they went to the oil field. It took a month to go to Island No. 1 and back. For the sake of the overall situation, he ordered to go directly to the oil field.

Then, Deputy Captain Shang and his crew, who were anxiously unable to board the mother ship, rushed back in a hurry.

If I had gone to see it then...

Captain Chen closed his eyes and stopped thinking about Island No. 1.

Deputy Captain Shang also saw his worry and regret, and consoled him: "The original decision to split into two teams and survive separately was based on the conditions at the time.

We drifted on the sea for so many days, but didn't even see an island. This shows how precious it is to own an island.

So, there is no way we can give up Island No. 1.

What happened later was not something we could decide!"

There was one more thing he didn't say, that Island No. 1 was snatched from the Japanese in Jiaoben Country, and it was their spoils of war!

Whether it is for the sake of long-term settlement or family feuds and national hatred, no Chinese citizen is willing to give up the land they have seized!

Captain Chen wasn't one to fret over gains and losses. He simply thought of Island 1 and felt that they must also be struggling. If their people were united, they would surely unite and overcome the difficulties together...

After this small meeting, construction of the cellar began quickly on the island.

With the addition of giant machinery, building a cellar is no longer a problem.

The giant machine started up with a roar, the mechanical arm was raised high, and then slammed down heavily. The hard ground cracked instantly, and the rocks were crushed into tiny particles.

The naval soldiers coordinated with the movements of the machinery to quickly clean up the crushed rock and soil aside, and the entire construction site was in order.

"The speed is truly astonishing," Deputy Captain Shang exclaimed, standing in the distance and watching the giant machine's efficient operation. "It's dozens of times faster than our previous manual excavation."