“Fortunately, I collected so much snow yesterday by making the most of my time,” Wei Xuan sighed involuntarily as he stood by the window.
Yesterday, Wei Xuan was busy until it was dark, finally filling all the containers he had with snow, waiting for them to slowly melt and evaporate into snowflakes.
Otherwise, if he had continued to collect today… and saw all the snow melt overnight, he would have cried.
Getting dressed, Wei Xuan decided to have a good breakfast this morning and opened a portion of rice with palace-style diced chicken, these things would expire in January next year, so he needed to consume them as soon as possible.
While eating the palace-style diced chicken, his mind couldn’t help but think of the poultry meat frozen in the refrigerator, the taste of that meat was similar to chicken, so it would be nice to try it with peanuts?
With this idea in mind, Wei Xuan’s gaze drifted to the planting machine in his home. At this time, several healthy plants were still growing inside, but unfortunately, the few seedlings that were transferred out either could not adapt to the soil or were too cold. Now they had all completely perished.
Wei Xuan could only put his experimental thoughts aside for the time being and plan to study this topic again in the spring of next year.
However, what made him feel a bit uneasy was that although the plants in the machine were still growing healthily, almost every one of them looked different from what he remembered they should look like.
The only thing that reassured Wei Xuan was that although these plants looked a bit different, none of them had shown any signs of developing into mutant plants.
In other words, these things might not be edible when they grow, but at least they wouldn’t try to eat him.
After finishing his meal, Wei Xuan walked to the machine and could only hope that at least one or two of these plants could grow relatively normal crops.
After carefully examining the plants inside, Wei Xuan turned around and grabbed Du Hang’s hand, making a helpless expression and smiling at him: “Let’s go, we have to deal with the snow we collected yesterday.”
Although the weather outside still retained the feeling of yesterday’s cold wind, all the snow collected yesterday had indeed melted into water.
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Looking at the clear snow water in the hallway, Wei Xuan couldn’t help twitching his mouth a few times. He turned to the staircase beside him, thinking that he would have to move all these containers of water to the rooftop today!
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Perhaps Wei Xuan’s actions yesterday were too crazy. He had almost filled all the containers to the brim with snow, and even after melting, they still occupied almost three-quarters of the containers.
Many of these containers were large enough for children to play and bathe in, and he couldn’t guarantee that he and Du Hang could carry them smoothly without spilling any water.
So Wei Xuan had to use buckets with handles and have Du Hang carry two while he carried one, transporting the water to the rooftop and pouring it evenly into the large containers already filled with water.
After emptying the buckets, they returned to the first floor to pour water from other containers into the buckets and continued to carry them to the rooftop.
Wei Xuan started by helping Du Hang carry the water, but later on, he became too dizzy and could only rely on Du Hang to carry them alone. It wasn’t until he was almost fainting from climbing the stairs that he had a sudden idea and also led the two idle zombies to help them. Finally, before nightfall, they managed to transport almost all the snow water in the community to the rooftop and the rooms on the sixth floor.
The rooms filled with water were all wide open, allowing the passing wind to help evaporate the moisture as much as possible. Unfortunately, it was the middle of winter, and the sun’s power was not as strong, plus the containers were full, so it was probably difficult to completely evaporate the water in a short period of time.
Rubbing his sore arms, Wei Xuan thought to himself: “Should I try boiling the water to dry it out?”
He wasn’t sure if this would work or if this strange snow was resistant to high temperatures. Was there any difference in performance between boiled and naturally evaporated snow?
After much thought, Wei Xuan dragged his tired body back to the sixth floor and brought back a small pot of water to slowly boil on the induction cooker.
Boiling water, especially trying to completely boil a pot of water, was not an easy task. If it weren’t for the fact that all the solar batteries in the house were fully charged these days, and there were still plenty of backups, Wei Xuan wouldn’t dare to play with boiling water.
He needed snow, but the electricity in his home was also very valuable. If he wasn’t trying to prove his theory through experimentation, he wouldn’t have wasted electricity boiling water like this.
He boiled the pot vigorously for more than an hour until the water had completely evaporated.
Therefore, Wei Xuan had been guarding the induction cooker the whole time, afraid that the pot would boil over accidentally. Fortunately, with his careful waiting, he quickly turned off the induction cooker when the pot was completely dry, and the pot made a sizzling sound.
After a while, the flashlight illuminated a thick layer of crystal-clear white snowflakes – it was actually possible to boil snowflakes using this method!
Wei Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, but at this point, the bottom of the pot looked very nice – there was a layer of scale on the bottom, with many black-brown impurities sticking to it, obviously various impurities and dust from the water.
After the pot cooled down completely, Wei Xuan carefully collected all the snowflakes inside – enough to fill the bottom of the pot. Then, he picked up a piece and handed it to Du Hang.
Seeing that Du Hang ate it as usual, Wei Xuan also picked up a piece and slowly absorbed it with his mental power. At least in terms of absorption, there was no difference from usual, but the temperature of the snowflakes was obviously higher than usual.
Although this method was feasible, it was indeed very power-consuming! helplessly, he looked at the display on the battery, and the energy consumed in this hour was enough to keep the refrigerator running for several days!
“Let’s stick to natural evaporation, but we can occasionally use it after the solar energy is fully collected.”
Boiling a pot of water at home, although it felt wasteful, could raise the overall temperature of the room by quite a bit, making it a means of heating in winter. Thinking of this, Wei Xuan decided to keep this pot and use it exclusively to boil snow water.
At the intersection of T City and B City in the northwest, there is a small county town where a group of zombies, not too large in size before the apocalypse, are gathered, fighting against a group of mutated creatures surrounding them.
Normally, mutated animals wouldn’t actively attack zombies, whether they are human or animal zombies.
But at this moment, these mutated land creatures seem to have encountered a natural enemy, issuing threatening roars and engaging in a life-and-death struggle with the zombies gathered here, as if they were mortal enemies.
Behind the zombie horde, a little girl zombie who looks no more than ten years old is sitting astride the neck of a male zombie, her eyes fixed on the battle ahead, her face grim and angry as she occasionally roars in the direction of the fight.
With each roar, the zombies around her and the zombies charging ahead will launch an attack on the mutated cats, dogs, foxes, hedgehogs, and other common but uncommon creatures before the apocalypse.
And every time this happens, these creatures also emit angry roars, as if they were killing in a frenzy, and even if these zombies are very difficult to deal with, there is no sign of them retreating.
Among the domestic large and small bases, most of them have found a way to survive and have secured a place in this barren post-apocalyptic world after experiencing numerous difficulties.
As the weather gets colder, except for some bases located in warm areas or with a mild climate all year round, most bases have begun preparations for winter.
Many survivors take risks to search for items that can be used for heating in nearby towns during winter, while those who stay in the base are busy reinforcing the buildings and preparing for cold and wind.
Many coal fires that were originally placed outdoors are now being moved indoors by people.
At this time, the most regrettable thing for the survivors is that almost all crops can no longer be grown after the weather turns cold.
The widespread mutation of plants has completely eliminated the opportunity to grow winter crops, even for potatoes and carrots, it is unknown whether they can survive this winter.
The only relief for everyone is that the zombie siege that they thought might occur did not happen. After the survivors fled to the outskirts of the city and cleared the local zombies, even though there may still be small groups of zombies attracted by returning members, they cannot form a terrifying siege.
Of course, this refers to bases that are far away from towns. If people still live in urban areas, every surviving base will be surrounded by hundreds of zombies, knocking on the door day and night.
At this moment, the decision-makers of all the bases are focusing on arranging the planting tasks after next spring and how to fight back against the zombies.
Thanks for the chapter!
Everything going like it should be, no?
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Thank you for the chapter!! 🥰🥰
I feel so excited for the plants to grow. Also that zombie girl needs to be stopped…
I’m hoping the zomibe girl is nice… or at least a bit like Du Hang? Imagine if Wei Xuan and Du Hang incounter her and she’s like the neighbors and they basically adopt her. That would be cute but also super overpowered…
You’d have a family that consist of: A human that zombies igonre, a zombie that acts human, and a zombie that can control zombies.