Chapter 12: Grassy Parking Lot
Chapter 12: Grassy Parking Lot
After thinking for a long time, Chu Guang still couldn’t come up with a result.
Although the principle of the generator is very simple, even junior high school students know that it is nothing more than “the conductor cuts the magnetic flux lines”. But it is not so easy to turn this sentence into a 10KW generator.
When he asked Baidu, all he got were purchase links.
Haha.
If I can buy online, do I need you to teach me which one to buy?
Nothing!
After a lot of effort, Chu Guang finally found some reliable tutorials, but considering the current situation of material shortage, none of these materials can really come in handy.
Time soon reached six o’clock.
With the sound of the hatch opening, the four players woke up.
”Let’s study it later.”
Chu Guang put down his legs that were on the table, tidied his appearance in front of the mirror he picked up, and walked calmly to the next room.
When he walked into the room, the four players were checking their attributes through the display screen of the cultivation cabin.
”Sure enough, my gene sequence is for strength… The initial value is 7 points of strength, but the intelligence attribute is only 3? But I don’t feel stupid.”
”This sentence doesn’t sound very smart… By the way, your beard is growing too fast.”
Lao Bai’s beard is indeed a bit exaggerated.
Yesterday it was just a stubble, and today it is as long as a fingernail.
”I don’t know what’s going on. By the way, is there a razor here?”
”Obviously not, how about you try an axe?”
”Get lost.”
”By the way, I’m actually an agility type. I thought I was an intelligence type.” Fang Chang pinched his chin and fell into deep thought, as if he was thinking about something.
”I’m intelligence,” Kuangfeng smiled bitterly and raised his hand, “Isn’t 3 points of strength too low? 7 points of intelligence… I don’t feel that I’ve become smarter.”
”I’m a perception type. By the way, what’s the use of perception attributes? Can it predict the future?” Ye Shi was a little depressed.
Compared with this ambiguous attribute, he hoped that he would have better performance in strength or agility.
At the very least, physical fitness is okay, at least he can be a tank.
”It should be the intuition of crisis. Have you forgotten how you avoided the sneak attack of the alien yesterday?” Fang Chang pondered and said, “If this attribute is used well, it may be quite buggy… It’s a pity in your hands.”
”Get lost.”
”Cough.”
Chu Guang, who walked into the room, coughed and interrupted the conversation of the players.
Perhaps because he talked to them about the favorability as a planner last night, the four players looked at him differently.
For the players’ sense of substitution, Chu Guang decided to continue to maintain his majestic image and continued seriously.
”Time is tight, I will make a long story short.”
”The work that needs to be done is piled up, but we don’t have much time left. In order not to affect the subsequent plans, we have to complete our outpost on the surface before the winter comes.”
”Food, drinking water, fuel… These all need to be stored, and we also need to build fortifications and surface residences.”
”I have sorted out the work that needs to be completed on the schedule. You can check it on the notice board at the entrance of the sanatorium.”
The players’ eyes lit up and their faces were eager to try.
Is the task system complete?
”That’s the basic information. Is there anything else you want to ask? If not, we’ll set off.”
”Wait, wait a minute, Mr. Administrator!”
”Go ahead.”
Ye Shi blushed and raised his hand.
”Please, where is the toilet?”
…
The toilet.
This is indeed a problem.
The B1 floor of Shelter 404 is more like a reception desk. Although there are compartments for culture pods, there are no living facilities inside.
Looking at the players who rushed out of the sanatorium after arriving on the surface, Chu Guang suddenly realized that with the influx of players, not only eating and drinking will be a problem, but shitting will soon become a big problem.
There are public toilets on Bet Street, and the feces of humans and animals will be collected and sold to the nearby Brown Farm.
After arriving at the sanatorium in the wetland park, Chu Guang has always found a safe place in the woods to solve it, but he has never considered the problem of a hundred people pooping and peeing.
I don’t know if they had a stomachache, but the four players were limping when they came back.
”It’s so fucking uncomfortable without a toilet.”
”There’s no paper either, so I used leaves to wipe… I almost scratched myself and bled.”
”+1.”
”Fuck, why do I feel burning… Do you feel it?”
”No.”
”Did you use nettle leaves to wipe your butt…”
”What, what are nettle leaves?”
”Nothing, just bear with it and it will pass.”
”???”
Chu Guang was embarrassed when he heard this.
He seemed to have forgotten to tell these guys that you can use Tess to wipe your butt, which is also a little knowledge he learned from the survivors of Beth Street.
However, they didn’t seem to give him a chance to speak.
Just bear with it.
This is how we all got through it.
”Mr. Manager,” Fang Chang limped to Chu Guang and said respectfully, “I propose that we build a toilet.”
Ye Shi: “Reconsider!”
Lao Bai: “I agree, and with a toilet, we can also dig a big pit, collect the feces, mix it with plant ash and sawdust for composting, let aerobic bacteria and fungi decompose organic matter to generate heat, kill pathogenic microorganisms and pathogens in the feces to make fertilizer.”
Fang Chang: “That’s right, and not only to produce fertilizer, we can also mix some feces and organic debris and seal them up, let anaerobic bacteria convert them into combustible methane! The biogas digester in my hometown is made in this way, and the biogas produced can be used for lighting and electricity generation.”
”This is a good idea, you can adopt it.” Chu Guang nodded approvingly.
Biogas.
He had been worrying about survival before, and he had forgotten about it.
As far as I can remember, although there is no biogas digester on Bet Street, there is one at Brown Farm next door.
Seeing the approval on the face of the administrator, the four players became more excited and started to brainstorm.
It is not difficult to build a toilet, and even the difficulty of the biogas tank is not great. The only trouble is the sealing and gas storage materials.
Fortunately, there is a shortage of everything in this wasteland, except plastic.
Especially beverage bottles and garbage bags.
Since burning will produce toxic gases, few survivors burn these things. At most, they use them as kindling.
If you look carefully, you should be able to find a lot of them in the suburbs nearby.
As a result, there is another task of picking up garbage on the task board – collecting plastic bags and bottles and cans.
”Administrator, I have an idea about the generator.” Kuangfeng, who had been silent before, suddenly spoke.
Chu Guang looked at him.
”Tell me about it.”
Kuangfeng said.
”Generally, cars have on-board generators. I want to know if there is a road nearby? Or a parking lot is also fine. If you can find a car, this problem should be easy to solve.”
Chu Guang said.
”It’s not hard to find a car. There’s a parking lot near the wetland park where we are, but I’ve seen all the cars there, and there’s nothing worth recycling.”
”I want to give it a try,” Kuangfeng said, “If we find a usable generator, we can use electricity at our outpost on the surface!”
”Then go ahead, but I can’t let you go alone,” Chu Guang glanced at the player in front of him, and his eyes fell on Ye Shi, “You and Kuangfeng go to the parking lot together.”
Ye Shi said with full enthusiasm.
”Yes!”
Ye Shi’s gene sequence is a perception system, and his intuition about crises can come in handy.
Before setting off, Chu Guang asked them to bring two short knives for mowing the grass, which are better than heavy axes when encountering alien species.
In addition, Chu Guang repeatedly told them that if they encounter alien species, they must avoid fighting and run away if they can.
But if the other party has discovered and shown obvious hostility, they must not leave their backs to the enemy anyway.
Doing so is equivalent to suicide…
Holding the wetland park map and a simple compass, Kuangfeng took Ye Shi away from the sanatorium.
The remaining Lao Bai and Fang Chang looked at Chu Guang and asked.
”Master Administrator, should we continue to cut down trees now?”
Chu Guang looked around and counted the dozens of untreated logs on the ground.
”We won’t cut down trees today. We have to solve the toilet problem first… So, go get the shovel and axe, and I’ll teach you how to do it.”
…
The parking lot is on the southeast side of the sanatorium.
No one has been here for two hundred years.
Nature has completely swallowed it up.
Tree roots have drilled through the hard concrete floor, and bushes and weeds are overgrown, already knee-high.
Rusty vehicles are covered with vines, and through the broken windows, you can even see moss covering the seats and air-conditioning vents.
Seeing all this, Kuangfeng finally understood what the administrator said.
There is really nothing worth recycling here.
Ye Shi also looked embarrassed.
It’s like this, how can you find a generator.
”Do you want to go back?”
Kuangfeng was silent for a while, and walked forward in disbelief.
”Since I’m here.”
Ye Shi shrugged and followed.
After knowing each other for so many years, his biggest impression of this netizen is that he is stubborn, and he doesn’t know what he does in real life.
Many cars in the parking lot have rusted hoods that can’t be opened at all. Kuangfeng searched around the parking lot for a long time before finding one that can barely be opened.
But after opening the hood, he was stunned.
Is this…
an engine?
”What’s wrong?” Ye Shi came over and asked.
”It seems to be an electric engine… but it doesn’t seem to be,” Kuangfeng frowned and said, “Do you know cars?”
”I don’t even have a driver’s license, how can I know this.” Ye Shi said in a sweat, “You have been working for many years, haven’t you bought a car?”
”I live in the dormitory of my unit, and I only have a bicycle.”
Kuangfeng continued to search in the hood without giving up, and even went around the back of the car and lay under the car… He checked every place that could be checked.
But suddenly, his hand stopped.
Noticing the expression on his face, Ye Shi asked.
”What happened again?”
”It’s a bit strange… I can’t find the power supply.” Wiping the mud off his face, Kuangfeng frowned and pondered for a long time, “I can roughly find the engine, but… I can’t find the power supply.”
”Could it be dismantled?” Ye Shi proposed a possibility, “After all, this is a wasteland for two hundred years. It’s normal for survivors to visit here.”
”Don’t rule out this possibility.”
He closed the hood habitually and looked at the abandoned cars in the parking lot with mixed feelings.
In fact, there is another possibility.
In the background setting of the game, the technological level of pre-war society is advanced enough, and it may have reached the point where remote power supplies can replace fixed power supplies.
But no matter which possibility it is, it is not a good thing for him. It
seems unlikely to expect to find a generator from a scrap car…
…
On the other side.
The construction of the toilet has made new progress.
Under Chu Guang’s command, Lao Bai and Fang Chang first dug a two-meter-wide and three-meter-long pit in the open space outside the sanatorium, which was large enough to bury a person. Then they inserted sawn-off logs around the pit as walls, and then padded some gravel and leaves inside. After
the pit was repaired, the toilet became much simpler.
Chu Guang directly asked the two to build two simple sheds on the edge of the pit, and connected the pit next to it with a plastic hose removed from the outer wall of the sanatorium.
In this way, a simple toilet was completed.
”Feces and urine must be stored separately, and mixing them together will easily form mud. And urine is sterile and can be used to directly irrigate crops… But let’s do it this way today,” Chu Guang nodded approvingly, looking at the results of the two people’s labor for the whole morning.
Lao Bai and Fang Chang, who were panting with shovels, looked at each other with helplessness.
Although it is a 100% real virtual reality game, is it really necessary to be so real?
”And taking a bath is also a problem… There is a water source within one kilometer nearby, but there are many alien species near the water source, so you have to be extra careful when taking water.” Let’s
build a bathhouse when the time comes.
Otherwise, the smell is a small matter, but getting sick will become a big problem.
”Mr. Manager.” Fang Chang raised his hand.
Chu Guang looked at him.
”What’s wrong?”
”I think we should consider the issue of safety,” Fang Chang said, “From the alien species we encountered yesterday, this wasteland is not safe.”
Nonsense.
You don’t need to say that.
”I know, but the problem of hygiene should not be underestimated. There are not enough medicine reserves in the shelter. If an infectious disease is caused, the consequences will be serious.”
The safety issue is not so urgent. The alien species in the wetland park are not as active as those in the urban area. There are no survivors nearby. Even if there is danger, you can hide in the shelter.
But the hygiene of more than a hundred people is a big problem.
Every household on Bet Street uses iron buckets to hold water, puts it on the roof to heat and disinfect, and washes their bodies every two or three days. It’s not because the people there are so particular, but they will be kicked out if they stink too much.
Fang Chang and Lao Bai looked at each other.
Could this manager’s AI setting include cleanliness? I
have to pay attention to it in the future.
”Speaking of which… there is a question I have always wanted to ask, why is there no material reserve in such a large shelter?” Lao Bai interrupted, “And we have been on the B1 floor, what about the other floors?”
”The other floors are not open for the time being, but they will be open later.”
Chu Guang did not explain the reason, but simply stated the facts.
Although the two players were curious, they did not insist when they saw that they could not get the answer, and just regarded it as the setting.
At this time, Ye Shi and Kuang Feng, who were out exploring, came back.
Looking at Kuang Feng, who was covered in mud, Chu Guang asked.
”How is it? Did you find the generator?”
”No, but it’s not completely fruitless.”
As he said, Kuang Feng opened a plastic bag picked up from some trash can, which was filled with a bag of blue mushrooms.
These mushrooms are not big, only the length of an index finger, with translucent tiny cilia on the surface, and colorful luster can be seen along the lines.
Chu Guang took a look and showed a surprised expression on his face.
”Where did you find this thing?”
With a hint of pride on his face, Kuangfeng reported truthfully.
”There is a concrete sewer pipe near the parking lot, about two people’s height. There are many of these mushrooms growing in the pipe. I was not sure if it was edible, so I picked some and brought them back.”
In fact, he wanted to try it at first, but the game was so realistic that he hesitated for a long time before eating it.
”Its name is blue umbrella mushroom, scientific name ‘blue angel’. It is said that people who eat it can see real angels in one hour at most.”
”Don’t doubt it, unless you are a mutant who is immune to all poisons, this thing is definitely not edible.”
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