Desperate Night.

Chapter 12 012 Accumulation (Xie Moci sat as the leader of the alliance all night long)
Ding, ding, ding.

Amidst a series of knocking sounds.

In the safe house cave, Yu Hong let out a long breath, took two steps back, and looked at the super simple version of the fixing device he built. He fixed the stolen stove and chimney together in the middle section near the cave wall.

"That's all for now."

He put down the hammer and turned to look at the door which was still being reinforced.

The remaining time was displayed on the door: 9:5 on the 42th.

After doing all this, he walked out of the cave and looked at the little stutterer who was tying up a large bag of wild vegetables outside.

The incident of moving the chimney had just passed, but the emotions at that time still left a deep mark in his heart.

Even now, when he thinks back to what happened just now, he still feels a lingering fear and extreme terror.

Such emotions also made him extremely eager to have a completely safe cabin where he could live alone.

A place where you can rest peacefully.

With this place, he can explore this extremely dangerous world.

Yu Hong retracted his thought and picked up the steel nail wooden stick he had just used from the side of the cave. Some of the nails on it were bent, but this was not the point. The point was the three reinforced white stones.

The first piece of reinforced white stone has completely turned black and has lost its jade-like texture.

"It seems that it has been used up." Yu Hong reached out and took down the white stone and replaced it with a new one.

He now has a piece of reinforced pyroxene, which is enough.

But because it seemed that strengthening could only be done one by one, he couldn't strengthen other things before the wooden door was completed.

Therefore, these four pieces of reinforced pyroxene must be used as sparingly as possible.

'According to previous usage, one piece of enhanced pyroxene can support the destruction of three ghost shadows. So, one piece of enhanced pyroxene can be equivalent to thirty pieces of ordinary pyroxene!'

In this way, if he could publicize this comparison and then use the enhanced pyroxene to exchange for supplies, the price difference might allow him to not worry about the supply of supplies.

As he thought about it, Yu Hong began to consider his future arrangements and plans.

Time passed quickly, and soon the sky became dark.

Little Stutter also packed up his cloth bag and filled up the new water jar. The two of them returned to the house in Baiqiu Village with their things.

I just came back from the cave. The place has just been cleaned. It is clean and tidy, and the air is good.

Compared with the dirty, dark and moldy old house, Yu Hong didn't want to stay here any longer.

Silent all night.

In the next few days, there was no way to strengthen anything, so Yu Hong and Xiao Jieba went around collecting dry firewood and stored it in the cave.

There is a door over there now, which can shelter us from wind and rain, and also provide a place to store some firewood.

Then you need to prepare the equipment to filter the water.

According to Xiao Jieba, the water outside is very unclean. Drinking it directly will cause a strange disease, so it must be filtered.

Extra filters can only be purchased in town.

So I have to go to town.

"It's more than 30 miles to get to town. I don't think I can hold on." Yu Hong is very aware of his physical fitness.

If he forced himself to walk, he might be able to make it, but the subsequent knee injury, excessive fatigue, and possible new illness would greatly slow down his response to danger.

On the slope at the entrance of the cave, the little stutterer nodded while digging the soil.

"There is another way."

"What can we do?" Yu Hong sat down and rested on the stone surface at the entrance of the cave, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"Post Office," the little girl answered stutteringly, and then she began to explain carefully and intermittently.

Because speaking was too difficult, she simply wrote on the stone with charcoal.

But she didn't know many words, so she could only write and gesture at the same time.

"The post office can buy it for me, so why can't I ask you to buy it for me?" Yu Hong asked.

"The filter is not available for purchase. Qualifications are required." The stuttering boy answered.

Qualifications? What qualifications? Yu Hong wanted to ask again, but he saw Dr. Xu approaching from a distance, carrying a cloth bag.

"Yiyi, the high season is coming, we have to go to town!"

Her face looked a little ugly, and her right arm was wrapped in white gauze, probably due to the injury she had sustained in the past few days.

"Oh!" the little stutterer responded loudly.

Doctor Xu glanced at Yu Hong, ignored him, and went back to Baiqiu Village with the little stutterer to order the things they wanted to exchange.

Soon, the two of them counted all the pyroxenes.

"How come it's less than half?!" Dr. Xu was a little shocked.

Normally, every time I go to exchange goods, Xiao Jieba can make twice as much as here, but now
"This little bit of stuff can't buy much food! Besides, Yiyi, there are two of you eating together!" She couldn't help but ask.

"Too, busy." Yiyi rubbed her hands with a silly smile, feeling a little embarrassed.

"What are you busy with? Building a crappy safe house for Yu Hong?" Dr. Xu got angry.

"I clearly told him that no matter how thick the wooden planks are, they can't stop the ghosts and bugs! The safe house you built is a waste of effort!"

"It's okay. I believe in him!" The little stutterer patted his chest.

"He will kill you!" Dr. Xu said angrily, "If you don't eat enough, you will have no strength and will be more likely to get sick. I went to the post office yesterday, and I didn't know where the postman was. I couldn't buy medicine at all. I can only rely on him for many important supplies. We must save food and seasonings to avoid running out of stock later!"

"No, I will!" The little stutterer shook her head. She received a piece of enhanced pyroxene from Yu Hong. Although she promised him not to tell anyone, she knew in her heart that Yu Hong seemed different from others.

"You, you!!" Doctor Xu wanted to rush over and beat Hong to death. But seeing the stuttering look on his face, he was filled with anger and couldn't vent it.

The two men, carrying their belongings, could only step out of the village and go away along the old road.

On the other side, Yu Hong rearranged the cave safe house and checked the sealing devices in all places. After making sure there were no problems, he started painting.

Waterproofing must be done well, and the inner walls of the cave must also be painted. Otherwise, once people live here, temperature differences will inevitably occur, causing water vapor to condense and mold.

After checking everything, he did not return to Baiqiu Village, but instead retreated into the cave with the candles and quilts he brought with him, preparing to try to spend the night here.

call.
Slowly, it gets dark.

The wind was howling outside the cave, and the temperature dropped rapidly to a slightly cool level.

Inside the cave, Yu Hong sat cross-legged on a large wooden board, lit a candle, and then quietly calculated how much supplies he needed to prepare in order to survive the upcoming high tide.

"The most recent one was a five-day high. According to the principle of continuous strengthening, it should be six days. If we take one candle a day, we will need at least twelve candles."

"Then we have to prepare food and drink for the next six days. We don't have time to strengthen the white stone for the time being. We can only wait until the wooden gate is finished."

"After the wooden door is completed, there are still three days until the peak period. Instead of gambling on the safety of the wooden door after it is strengthened, it is better to prepare yourself."

By the candlelight, Yu Hong was thinking while listening quietly to the wind outside.

Soon, the rustling sound was heard again.

The black bugs brought by the blood tide began to invade again.

However, a large number of black insects could only come in through the arranged openings, and their entry speed was not fast. As soon as they entered the door, they were illuminated by the candlelight and quickly disappeared.

Yu Hong looked at it carefully for a while, and only felt relieved when he was sure that there was no problem.

He checked the rate at which the candle was being consumed, and when he felt that all was well, he placed the steel nail and wooden stick beside him, fell down on the quilt, and slowly fell into a doze.

Soon, it was daybreak.

Little Stutter and Dr. Xu returned together, and this time they brought much less than last time.

Little Stutter calculated that there was only enough food for them for five days.

So after some thought, Yu Hong decided to let Xiao Jieba simulate and draw more complex patterns on the enhanced pyroxene.

Then use this pattern to test it and see how it works. If it works, then sell it.

As for now, in order to cope with emergencies, he also started to help Xiao Jieba to dig wild vegetables everywhere.

Time passes day by day.

The two began to store water again, and Yu Hong went to the cave from time to time to check the changes in the wooden door.

In a blink of an eye, the time on the wooden door soon came to an end.

In order to carefully observe the changes in the wooden door, Yu Hong specifically asked the little stutterer to borrow some food from Dr. Xu on the last day, which was considered a deliberate way to get her away.

I went to the safe house in the cave and waited quietly for the countdown to end.

In the rumbling sound.

Inside the cave, Yu Hong sat on the ground, staring at the wooden door which had not changed at all from twelve days ago.

He just wanted to take a closer look at how the strengthening of the black mark was achieved.

And more importantly, he planned to seamlessly connect and continue to strengthen other things so as not to waste the strengthening time of the black seal.

At this time, on the wooden door that had been painted yellow and black, black numbers were jumping, which only Yu Hong could see.

0 day 0 hour 1 minute.

At the last minute, just one last bit is left to completely strengthen the wooden door.

In this last minute, Yu Hong didn't even dare to blink, and stared closely at the final changes.

one second.

ten seconds.

Twenty seconds.

Thirty seconds.

Snapped.

Suddenly, Yu Hong's vision blurred for a moment.

When he regained consciousness, the wooden door had turned into a much larger door made of thicker material and more solid.

The surface of the new wooden door has a delicate texture like water waves, and the air vents are arranged with thick metal mesh, which is fine and breathable.

There is also a special viewing window in the middle through which you can see the scenery outside.

The originally loose connection between the wooden door and the cave was now completely fixed with a large circle of dense screws. It looked much more solid than before.

Yu Hong stood up, walked forward and touched the wooden door.

dong dong dong.

He tapped it with his fingers. It was thick, hard and tough.

"It's not the same kind of wood as before." He never expected that this enhancement would directly replace the original material.

"A lot of extra materials were added." Yu Hong touched the air-permeable net below, which was very thick. He then opened the viewing window above.

He reached out and touched the edge, but didn't feel any burrs.

"sharp.!"

Thinking of this, he quickly looked at the surrounding walls again.

His original plan was to strengthen the wooden door and then the surrounding stone walls, but now due to food shortages, he decided to try strengthening other things first.

"First of all, this."

Yu Hong withdrew his hand from the door, returned to the stove, and picked up a piece of dried lizard meat from the stove.

'Can food be fortified?'

The thought flashed through his mind.

immediately.

A number quickly appeared on the surface of the dried lizard meat in his hand: 3 o'clock.

"Three hours?" Yu Hong calculated in his mind. Then he stuffed the meat back and picked up the whole bag of meat.

"What now?"

New numbers slowly emerged outside the cloth bag: 1:8 on the 4st.

The numbers have both zeros and integers, and seem quite precise.

"Let's see the effect." Yu Hong immediately confirmed and intensified the questioning.

He could bear it for more than a day.

(End of this chapter)