What should they do if they don’t have enough money to spend?
The students in the Research Group 183 never had to worry about living during their college years. Their parents gave them money on time every month,and as long as they didn’t squander it freely, they all lived a good life.
But now, if they followed senior brother Liu’s suggestion and left some funds to buy medicine in an emergency, each person’s money would only be enough to buy 5 packs of biscuits. Divided into 14 days, three days to eat a pack, then they were estimated to starve to death here.
Everyone looked at each other for a while.
Lin Manluo suggested, “If it doesn’t work, when I summon the big tree to purify the air, can we eat the leaves? My vine should be edible too. There is no green in this world, and I can still get some green plants for everyone to eat.”
Everyone: “…”
So in the following days, they would suck the soil and eat the leaves at the same time? It was so miserable.
Lan Yarong helplessly supported her forehead, “Manluo, your green vines can tie up and strangle people, can’t be torn by hand or by the knife, like a steel bar, can our teeth bite it?”
Lin Manluo looked back at Xin Yan guiltily, “Isn’t there Xin Yan? Steam it before eating.”
Xin Yan’s face was expressionless. “Can it be bitten when steamed?”
As a foodie, Ke Shaobin immediately and sincerely suggested, “I think, until we are almost starving to death, let’s not eat senior sister Lin’s leaves and vines, okay? That texture and taste will be messy.”
Jiang Pingce was not interested in eating leaves and vines, he looked at Xingwen, “It’s better to find a way to make some money.”
Since the money in their hand was not enough to spend, either to steal, to rob, or to make money.
These people were all from the domestic ranks #SinceChildhoodTheyHaveBeenGoodStudentsWithExcellenGrades, and they had never done such things as theft and robbery.
If they relied on stealing things to complete the examination, Yue Xingwen was not sure if the library would give them a low score.
At that time, when they went to the supermarket to find food, because the city had collapsed, there were no living people, and the supermarket was looted. However, the social order in this city still remained, there were surveillance cameras in supermarkets, there were cashiers at the door…
After all, stealing was a bad thing to do.
Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen said, “First buy today’s food, find a place to use as our base, and let’s discuss how to make a living in such a heavily polluted world.”
Standing in the supermarket, there was no result in discussion. People coming and going always looked at them with strange gazes.
Everyone nodded in agreement. “Buy less materials first, and find a place to settle down.”
Jiang Pingce summed up everyone’s points, exchanged half of them, and took 390 yuan to buy 12 masks and two boxes of compressed biscuits. Strangely enough, there was no mineral water for sale in the supermarket.
Everyone settled the bill at the cashier and walked out of the Huaxiang Building.
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Jiang Pingce said, “Find a place to live first.”
Yue Xingwen frowned and thought for a while, “With so many of us, it will be difficult to find existing buildings. We can enter the Huaxiang Building just now because there is a supermarket on the negative floor, which can be freely accessed, and other office buildings and communities should not be so easy to mix in.”
Zhang Xiaonian suddenly raised his hand and asked, “Does everyone mind living underground?”
Yue Xingwen looked back at him and asked, “What do you mean?”
Zhang Xiaonian said seriously, “Didn’t I learn the digging skill of the Architecture Department before? An underground fortress can be built, the material used is earthquake wall level, similar to bomb shelters. Even if the city is bombed, we will survive. However, the basement may be damp and cold, and I’m afraid that everyone won’t be used to living in it.”
Qin Miao took the lead and said, “I don’t care. We are here to survive, not a tourist group, it’s enough to stay alive, and we can’t ask too much.”
Lan Yarong said with a smile, “Basement, I think this is a good idea, we hide underground, on one hand, it is safer, and on the other hand, we also have a fixed residence, so we don’t have to work hard to find a place every day like guerrilla.”
Qin Lu also agreed. “Having our own base camp is much more convenient than sneaking into the office building to sleep every night. In case the office building has monitoring, we can’t be invisible. With so many people suddenly appear, if we are captured by the surveillance, it will cause trouble.”
Seeing that everyone had no opinion, Yue Xingwen said, “Then let’s do this, we’ll find a wasteland. Xiao Nian will be in charge of construction, build an underground base, and we will live underground for the next 14 days.”
Everyone came to the entrance of Huaxiang Building.
There was a large screen next to the street with a map of the city drawn on it.
The city was not big, surrounded by mountains. Jiang Pingce pointed to one of the mountains and said, “Qingxia Mountain is the closest to here, go to the foot of the mountain to build a base. It’s convenient for us to come back at any time to replenish supplies.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Qingxia Mountain is 3 km away from here, and there will be no pedestrians on the street after dark. Qin Lu will use the plate movement to switch places, and it will take us a dozen seconds to get there.”
Zhang Xiaonian said in agreement, “En, I also think it’s better to construct it after dark, lest the people of this world find us acting strangely and arrest us as monsters.”
Xu Yishen squinted at the clock on the square and said, “It’s 4 pm, and there are still a few hours before it gets dark. What are we going to do next? Should we ask around for information?”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “Let’s disperse and meet here before 6 pm.”
Everyone went together in pairs to find pedestrians on the road to find out the information.
Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen walked forward side by side, and when they walked around the corner, they saw two girls carrying shopping bags out of the clothing store next to them. Yue Xingwen stepped forward and asked politely, “Hello, where can I buy water?”
The girl looked up at them suspiciously. The two were tall and slender, although the wind and sand blew all over their heads and faces, it still did not affect their appearance. The tall girl smiled and asked curiously, “Why don’t you guys wear a headscarf ah?”
Yue Xingwen said, “We came from other places, and we are not quite sure about the situation here.”
The girl nodded and said, “Pure water can be bought at the Water Resources Management Bureau in the central square. Each household is limited to 10 liters a week, and you can line up with your ID card to get it. If you are a foreigner, you can buy bottled water with your ID card.”
Yue Xingwen then asked, “Is there no tap water at home?”
The girl said, “Of course not ah, tap water has been seriously polluted, and it must pass through the unified department of the Water Resources Management Bureau before you can drink it.”
Jiang Pingce frowned and asked, “10 liters a week, only enough to drink, right?? Don’t you usually take a bath?”
The girl looked at him in surprise, “What do you mean by taking a bath?”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce: “…”
The other girl gently tugged at her sleeve and whispered, “These two people are weird. Sister, let’s go home quickly.”
The tall girl smiled apologetically and turned away with her sister.
Jiang Pingce’s face was stiff for a moment before he whispered, “People from this world… don’t take a bath?”
Yue Xingwen couldn’t cry or laugh and said, “Water resources are seriously polluted, it’s already difficult to ensure food and drink, how can there be water to bathe?”
Jiang Pingce turned to look at the backs of the two girls. They were wearing protective clothing, their hair was tightly wrapped in a headscarf, and a large mask on their faces, revealing only a pair of eyes.
Everyone dressed up like this, which could indeed save the effort of washing face, makeup and bathing.
Jiang Pingce was a person who took a bath every day in reality. He couldn’t imagine that people in this world have never bathed. What kind of experience was that? Didn’t it stink on the body…
Forget it, it was uncomfortable to think about it.
Noticing Pingce’s ugly face, Yue Xingwen smiled and patted his shoulder, saying, “Don’t worry, if you want to take a bath I have a way.”
Jiang Pingce turned his head to look at him, and Yue Xingwen said, “You’ll know later, let’s go.”
Both of them returned to the square together, and the teammates soon arrived.
Ke Shaobin focused on food-related information. “The daily food of residents in this city is mainly compressed biscuits and compressed bread, and occasionally they take water to cook a pot of porridge and eat pickles. Fruits and fresh vegetables are rare items that only the rich can afford, and it’s already a luxury for ordinary people to buy a bunch of grapes or a few apples on New Year’s Day.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “In this city alone, ten of thousands of people die every year because of diarrhea. The incidence of lung cancer is 10%, gastrointestinal cancer is as high as 20%, healthy people are scarce, the birth rate of infants is extremely low, and the urban population is shrinking.”
Lin Manluo said seriously, “Even with the support of science and technology, but living under such harsh conditions for a long time, the average life expectancy of human beings has been shortened to 40 years old. Young people are unwilling to give birth to offspring, and it’s only a matter of time before the species goes extinct.”
Lan Yarong said, “I just stopped a few pedestrians to chat just now, and found that everyone was not in a high mood, living like a walking dead, and they usually had no entertainment.”
The topic became heavy, and everyone’s faces were a little ugly.
Everyone had never seen such a polluted environment, and the current situation of human beings in such an extreme environment.
Not to mention basic food and nutrition, even water, they had to queue up to get it with their ID card, 10 liters a week for a family was enough for what? They were afraid that it was only enough for daily consumption and an occasional meal of rice porridge, right?
Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and said, “Go and build our base first.”
It was already dark, and there were no street lights on the streets, which should be to save electricity resources. Jiang Pingce guided Qin Lu to displace according to the orientation in his memory, and Qin Lu took out the globe to use plate movement to do continuous displacement, and soon came to the foot of the mountain.
It was deserted, the environment was as bad as the city, and the whole mountain was bare without greenery in sight.
Xin Yan used a spirit lamp to illuminate, and Zhang Xiaonian summoned the excavator to start working.
At the beginning, because there were many displacement skills in the team, senior sister Manluo’s vines could also be used for bridges, so Zhang Xiaonian did not learn the skills of ‘bridge construction’ and learned ‘underground construction’, which came in handy today.
The ‘Underground Fortress’ skill of the Architecture Department was very powerful. In less than 10 minutes, Zhang Xiaonian dug a huge pit of about 200 square meters, built earthquake-proof walls on the top, bottom, left and right of the pit, and built 6 double bedrooms, a living and dining room, and two bathrooms.
Everyone came to the basement, no windows, and there was naturally no light underground. Xin Yan left a lot of spirit lamps in the room as lighting equipment, and everyone walked around the underground base to admire the masterpiece of the little junior brother.
Zhuo Feng said with a smile, “Xiao Nian can do it ah, this underground dormitory is quite spacious!”
Zhang Xiaonian was very happy to be complimented and said, “Anyway, the land doesn’t need money, so I built it a little bigger.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “The underground is damp and cold, so let’s do this. Everyone can help to make some quilts ourselves.”
The four girls looked back at him in unison. “You don’t want to make a quilt out of gauze, right?”
Liu Zhaoqing laughed and said, “I have infinite gauze, surgical sutures, of course, I can make beds and quilts! It’s the first time you’ve covered a quilt made of gauze, right? Not only can it keep warm, but also have a beauty effect, which can eliminate all acne and scars on you.”
Girls: “……”
We all want to have such a ‘beauty quilt’!
Yue Xingwen followed closely, “My Torrential Rain skill, after upgrading, can summon a large torrential rain of 30×30 meters with a cooldown time of 1 hour. Later, I will summon the Torrential Rain directly from the location of the bathrooms. You can make do with it, one for boys and one for girls, use it as a public bath, and take a bath with rain water.”
Yue Xingwen continued, “The rain is too cool, but my rain can be mixed with other major skills. Xin Yan can integrate the spirit lamp into the clouds, heating it while raining, so we can take a hot bath.”
When he said this, he looked over towards Jiang Pingce. The corners of Jiang Pingce’s lips raised lightly and gave Yue Xignwen a thumbs up.
Everyone: “???”
The underground base was built, the gauze was made into a quilt, and the rainwater was used to take a bath.
I knew it, their Research Group 183’s style of painting was never normal!
If you can’t have comfortable environment, you can make it by yourself
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Don’t forget about the Orange language skill
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THAT T__T
Okay, but a) where’s the water going to go and b) what are they going to do about waste?