Scientific Travel

Deng Yin opened 200 cans of beef in one go and compressed them into an air wall.

I know that many foods are stored this way, but it just doesn't feel right to use canned goods, so I only made two hundred.

The speed of brick making was greatly accelerated this time. Deng Yin was afraid that the basement would not be able to finish making them even when the natural disaster struck, so he lived in the space during this period.

They didn't leave until they had almost used up all the mud in the space.

Some mud should be left to stick the bricks together.

The four walls and the floor were covered with bricks, and the mud was a type of dust that wouldn't stick to the roof.

Deng Yin could only use super glue as an adhesive.

Wan Shai brand super glue, it can glue anything, you deserve to have it!

Deng Yin didn't have much stock, so he could only apply a thin layer, but even that would be enough with a sticky cloth.

I'm worried about the bricks crumbling. The surrounding walls are fine, but if the roof crumbles, then I won't be able to live here anymore.

No, the wallpaper can't shed any flakes either, that would be too difficult to clean, and I didn't bring a robot vacuum.

Deng repeated the process, applying a layer of cloth to the wall as well.

The cloth, which was already uneven when stuck to the bricks, looked even more uneven when Deng used cement to stick it on.

It's ugly.

That's not important; what's important is that nobody knows the walls are made of tin cans.

The basement has six rooms: four for living, one for cooking, and another for a toilet.

Rooms for living are easy to clean, but kitchens and toilets are the difficult ones.

First, there's the kitchen, where cooking almost always produces smoke. In a poorly ventilated place like the basement, cooking there is a constant risk of death.

Deng Yin drilled a large hole in the roof above the pot, big enough for a person to crawl through.

The original purpose of building a basement was to solve the problem of the house above becoming uninhabitable, so the location of this hole is particularly important.

If you don't drive well and get blocked by collapsed buildings, then it's all for nothing.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows; Deng Yin, being a man, had to dig six.

When the basement was built, it was dug very deep; you had to dig upwards for eight or nine meters to reach the outside.

It's convenient now, though.

The cave branched out about two meters up, with two openings outside, one in the yard, one in the kitchen, one in the well, and one in Deng Yin's room.

The soil here is loose, and the cave could easily collapse if we don't put something in it.

That's right, it's time for the canned food boxes to make their appearance again.

The well opening was designed to rationalize the water source; to use the water, one had to climb into the tunnel and remove the barrier at the fork in the road.

The water produced this way would inevitably be dirty, so Deng Yin put three vats in the kitchen to store water, and would secretly pour the water from the lake into the vats when no one was looking.

People living here are lucky to have water to drink; nobody cares if it's clean or not.

The most difficult thing to make is still the toilet.

To put it bluntly, a toilet is just a place to store excrement. Leaving aside the question of whether a big latrine in the ground will fill up, the main problem is the stench.

The smell of an open-air toilet is unbearable enough, let alone one underground like this.

If you're not careful, you might even suffocate from the fumes.

You can't keep stuffing poop into this space. People will live in this basement sooner or later. What if someone discovers that the poop keeps mysteriously disappearing?

You can't exactly say who ate it, can you...?

To address these two issues, Deng Yin reserved the largest possible space for the toilet.

It's so big that all the other rooms combined are about the same size as the toilet.

The best way to block out smells is with a door.

A single door might not be enough to block the odor, and there will still be a smell near the toilet, but a five-layer door can completely block it.

The distance between the doors is less than two meters, and it's not a tunnel-like structure. Opening one door reveals another door, and the space inside is still quite large.

Empty spaces shouldn't be wasted; various miscellaneous items shouldn't be piled up together.

Only the two front doors are used for storing miscellaneous items, while the two back doors are empty.

Yeah, I'm afraid it will pick up the smell.

No matter what you do, a pile of excrement in a confined space will definitely emit a terrible smell.

Deng Yin seemed to know what plant sap was used for.

It's probably used to make perfume to dispel odors.

Only a few research institutions on Heze Star know how to grow plants. The seeds have been updated tens of thousands of times, but they still cannot control plant mutations.

It is said that plants will twitch before they mutate, and plant growers need to press a switch to eliminate the plant before the twitching ends.

Therefore, each plant lives in a single room.

All the food humans eat is artificial. While artificial meat and vegetables may taste and have nutritional components similar to real food, there are still subtle differences.

Each previous owner has spent a lot of money on breeding and planting, but no one has chosen to give up.

They are not just food, but also humanity's hope for returning to normal life.

Being a plant master is a very dangerous job. Plants are very intelligent, and if you can't kill them before they mutate, they will disguise themselves as ordinary plants and wait for the right moment to kill you.

So despite the high salary, the job has always been understaffed.

The government frequently publishes plant-related information online, firstly to recruit plant specialists, and secondly to improve the survival rate of plant specialists.

Deng Yin is very interested in plants and often looks up relevant information online.

Besides looking at how to determine if a plant has mutated, the most important thing to look at is how the plant is used.

I have knowledge of both cooking and incense making.

Haven't eaten pork, haven't seen a pig run yet?

Unfortunately, most of the plants here are unfamiliar to Deng Yin.

It's not a big problem. No matter what kind of plant it is, the preparation method is pretty much the same.

I made 83 bottles of unknown plant juice before, so I'll choose from those first.

After all, there's a 20% chance it won't be used to make perfume.

Of the 83 bottles, 14 contained plant juices that smelled wonderful. I'll make the 14 scents first.

Deng Yin had stockpiled a lot of pretty bottles, which came in handy.

The ones you buy are always better than the ones you make yourself. The patterns on them are lifelike, the texture is delicate, and the color combination is very pleasing to the eye.

If there's any downside, it's that it's expensive.

Fortunately, Deng Yin's strengths perfectly outweigh this weakness; when buying, one only cares about whether it looks good, not the price.

Most of the bottles I bought were vases, quite large, and could easily hold 5 liters of water.

in space.

Deng Yin compressed an air cylinder, filled it with water from the tree lake, poured in a bottle of plant juice, and added a drop of diffuser, filling the entire space with fragrance.

The aroma was too strong, so Deng expanded the air tank and poured in a lot of water until it smelled just right.

This is the second time Deng Yin has used a diffuser.

The first time I used a diffuser was when I first bought it.

The diffuser is edible. Deng spent a lot of money to buy a small tomato. There was less than half a water left in the tree lake. He poured the tomato juice into the tree lake and added a drop of diffuser.

During that period, Deng Yin drank nothing but tomato juice.

Five different perfumes were made, and one was placed behind each of the five doors.

The perfume placed behind the fifth door had the strongest fragrance, and only half the amount of water was used for the other perfumes.

I refuse to believe it can still smell bad like this!