Desperate Night.

Chapter 81 081 Dark
"That's a good idea," Yu Hong nodded to indicate that he accepted the suggestion.

"By the way, have you received any news or intelligence recently?" He suddenly asked again, thinking of Yu Ren who had been quiet for a long time. Two weeks had passed, and his self-recovery array would be strengthened in a few days. If Yu Ren came back again in the next few days, it would be dangerous.

"Just as we predicted, the ghost thing went to another place. A small base was affected and hundreds of people died." Li Runshan said helplessly. "Now the higher-ups have begun planning to merge the bases, because they found that as the nights outside are getting longer and the days are getting shorter, the scale and danger of the black disaster are also increasing."

".I've also noticed that the days are getting shorter and shorter, and I thought it was a seasonal change." Yu Hong said in a deep voice.

"Of course not. The change is much greater than the seasonal change." Li Runshan sighed. "Also, what do you think of the proposal I gave you before? It is the idea of ​​building a base around you."

"Looking at the trend, let's protect ourselves first. Why do you suddenly mention this?" Yu Hong asked in surprise.

"I went out yesterday and met a few lone rangers who came here to dig pyroxene. They were all quite capable. As you know, lone rangers who dare to hang out outside at this time are not ordinary people. I also met a guy with great strength who led a team of survivors to escape. They were running out of food, so I recommended that they go to Baiqiu Village to hide first." Li Runshan replied.

"So what?" Yu Hong asked.

"It depends on whether you are interested. I have stored a lot of food from the supply team. In fact, if we hadn't encountered the Yu people, it would be easy for us to deal with ordinary troubles." Li Runshan said.

Yu Hong nodded. It was true. If Yu Ren’s strength wasn’t so exaggerated, he wouldn’t have been so exhausted and frantically trying to increase the strength of the talisman formation.

"Think about it. After this wave of shocks, many people have started to live alone with their loved ones. Too many people will cause problems and attract attacks that are difficult to deal with." Li Runshan said, "Besides, I am making dried meat and mushrooms by myself now. I am simply too busy and the output is very low. We need help. The longer nights will likely lead to insufficient light in the future. By then, solar power generation will be useless. We can only rely on biomass energy for many things, and candle production must continue."

"Without light, the trees cannot survive. What can you do with your candles?" Yu Hong was speechless.

"You're right. Maybe I should get some human-powered generators or biogas as backup lighting energy." Li Runshan sighed. "Anyway, you should think of a way. We can't always rely on the supply team for help. It's getting harder and harder for the supply team to travel, and the intervals are getting longer and longer. If we run out of food and they haven't come yet, it will be a big problem."

".This is indeed a problem." Yu Hong nodded.

"That's all for today. Your water supply system will arrive in a few days, and I'll let you know when the time comes. I've also got some cellular communicators, so we can communicate directly without running around. I've spent all my savings this time to completely secure our place! I've taken the Sunshine Series alone. Enough said, let's get out."

"Didn't you say you couldn't afford the Sunshine Series?" Yu Hong immediately questioned.

"You heard wrong, wrong. Well, that's all for today, Nana, say goodbye to your uncle."

"Goodbye uncle."

Bang.

Old Li dragged his daughter into the stone house, closed the door and ran away.

Yu Hong was left alone outside, speechless.

"This guy!" He speechlessly hit the messy grass with the stick and turned to walk out of the yard.

It is obvious that there are very few Sunshine series products that Li Runshan can buy. It is very likely that there is a quota limit. Even if he has money, he cannot buy them casually, so he is so stingy.

After leaving the post office, Yu Hong returned to the cave.

As usual, he checked the countdown progress of the large talisman formation in the yard, made sure there was no problem, and then continued to dig the stone chamber.

His safe house cave was actually connected to a small hill. The cave itself was a little higher than the horizon, so digging an additional stone chamber would only be slightly lower than the horizon and would not reach the black worm layer below.

Yes, Yu Hong himself named the thickness between the ground and the black worms the surface layer, and the layer below that is the black worm layer, for easy memorization.

puff.

Yu Hong carried out a large frame of rubble and dumped it in a corner of the yard.

He glanced at the sky, then turned around and continued digging.

After a while, another large frame of rubble was poured out.

Yu Hong was sweating all over. He moved his hands and arms, and began to use the poured stones to reinforce the courtyard wall.

At this time, the courtyard wall was already half a meter high, made entirely of the stones he had dug out these days.

With so many stones dug out, the natural stone chamber is almost complete.

After Yu Hong distributed the stones, he turned back to the cave and walked down the steps from the hole in the corner.

Soon, they entered a slightly irregular square stone chamber.

The stone chamber was dark and cold, with only a cold atomic lamp in the corner emitting a faint green light as the only illumination.

Yu Hong brushed the dust off his hands, walked back and forth in the stone chamber, and roughly estimated the volume by the number of steps.

'It feels much larger than the cave above, at least as big as two caves. This size is about right, it can be used as an activity room or storage room, and then a new single room can be excavated.'

He then began to carve new runes on the wall of the cave to ensure that no evil shadows could enter.

This place is located in the belly of the mountain with no other entrances or exits, and the ghost shadow probably hasn't discovered this place yet.

But after all, we still need to build a ventilation hole, so we must open a communication channel with the outside.
"When the water system comes, we can install it here, but the energy problem is that without electricity, the supply system cannot function. This is a big problem. If the nights get longer and longer, the light will definitely become less and less." Yu Hong felt helpless. The appearance of new gnawers in the blood tide already made him feel troubled. Now the light power generation has started to have problems again. This problem is not only faced by him, but also by all other cities of hope.

But some cities of hope can use hydroelectric power, geothermal power, nuclear power, wind power, fossil fuels, etc. But he is alone, he has no knowledge of these things, the facilities and engineering materials are too poor, and the surrounding environment cannot be used.

"It would be nice if we could get a nuclear reactor to generate electricity." He talked to Lao Li and heard that some Hope Cities are powered by miniature nuclear generators, which are about the size of a pressure cooker and can barely support the daily electricity needs of residents in a small urban area.

Sighing, Yu Hong continued to concentrate on carving the talisman array on the wall. Soon, the entire wall was covered with densely packed white talisman arrays.

Dang Dang.

The wooden barrel used to hold the toner was also completely empty.

Yu Hong chopped the bucket, scraped and knocked it with a spoon, but he only got out the last half spoonful. He couldn't even complete a talisman formation.

'I have to go to the mining area again. All the large pyroxenes are gone, and the small pyroxenes are also used up. I have to get some and wait for the large formation outside to be strengthened, and then strengthen it to get some large pyroxenes.'

He was not strengthening the large pyroxene directly now, as that would waste time. The correct approach, as Yu Hong had figured out, was to grind the small pyroxene into powder first and then strengthen it, which was simpler and faster.

What he thought was that since the pyroxene was going to be ground into powder, he didn't need to draw runes on the surface. It would be enough to directly transform the pyroxene into pyroxene material.

Since it has to be ground into powder anyway, I will grind the ordinary pyroxene manually first, which can also save strengthening time.

So after testing it many times, he found that it was indeed effective, and he successfully shortened the time for strengthening the pyroxene graphite powder from the previous three days to just over two days.

After letting out a sigh, Yu Hong followed the stone steps back to the cave, lit a fire, cooked a pot of thick soup, and drank it happily.

Then, he looked at the sky outside which had turned completely dark, fell on the soft sleeping bag, and fell into a deep sleep.

The bright white light couldn't stop the drowsiness caused by fatigue.

In his hazy dream, Yu Hong seemed to hear some voices echoing in his ears again. It seemed to be Chen Huiru, Li Runshan, and someone else, familiar, strange, happy, and painful.

The sounds became more and more numerous and more and more complicated until the end.

Bang bang bang!
Yu Hong opened his eyes suddenly and heard someone banging on the door.

He looked towards the door and peered out through the window. A ray of bright white light indicated that it had been daybreak outside for a while.

"Is Teacher Yu here?" A loud, muffled voice came from outside the door.

Yu Hong exhaled, slowly got up, and stretched his limbs.

At this time in the cave, the fireplace had long been extinguished, the lights were still on, but the temperature had dropped to a point where it was a little chilly.

"The temperature is getting colder and colder. We need to keep warm at this time of year. If we catch a cold or have a fever, it will be a big problem." He rubbed his hands and felt that the coldness in his body had slightly warmed up.

Walk to the front door.

Swish.

The viewing window was opened.

The bald face of the butcher Xu Fan was revealed outside.

The paint on this guy's face had been washed off, and his eyes were as round as a tiger's, with a slightly brownish glow. His nose was a little flat, as if it had been hit, and there was a stitch scar on the corner of his mouth. Overall, he looked like a typical butcher in a horror movie.

No wonder he is called butcher.

Yu Hong was speechless and waited for five seconds.

"You guys are finally here. I've been waiting for a long time. You took so long to come on time as agreed."

"Alas, I encountered something that is hard to explain in words." Xu Fan looked somewhat helpless.

"You step back first and wait for me outside the yard. Remember not to stay in the yard for too long, it's dangerous." Yu Hong strictly followed the five-second reply rule and gave a reminder.

Xu Fan responded, stepped back, jumped down the stone steps, and retreated to the outside of the yard.

Seeing that he had indeed gone out and kept some distance, Yu Hong put on the enhanced white bear suit, picked up the blue whale suit that had been repaired long ago, opened the door and went out.

He thought about hiding in the house and not going out to avoid danger. But then he changed his mind and thought that he could do that to Ghost Shadow and Blood Tide, but he could not do that to a master, a butcher with rich field combat experience. If he hid in the cave, the other party would have too many ways to easily trap him to death.

Apart from anything else, a poison gas bomb is not easy to deal with. The suit has a gas mask, but the water, meat, mushrooms and wild vegetables in the cave will definitely be contaminated.

Therefore, when facing people, it is safer to go out and deal with them in a spacious environment.

Of course, he did not forget to bring his enhanced pistol when he went out. Paper and pen for easy writing.

(End of this chapter)