Chapter 583
The men sent by Guo Qing to look for cotton seeds have returned. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although I searched for almost a month, I still found nothing.
After listening to Guo Qing's report, Li Xue frowned and didn't say anything for a long time.
Seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, how can the millions of people in the base survive without cotton?
The winter in H province is relatively long, and even if it is a warm winter before the end of the world, the temperature can drop to more than ten degrees below zero. There has been no winter in the past few years, and no one knows what the first winter of the last days will be. Even if you refer to her previous life, it was very cold, much colder than the winter before the end of the world.
It was getting cold day by day, and Li Xue's brows were getting tighter and tighter day by day.
Xiang Dong looked at Li Xue's frowning speed all day long, and he was also very anxious, so he organized those soldiers who had no patrol tasks and all went out of the base to find something that could replace cotton as heating materials.
The people of the base also knew about this and joined the search for it. Not for anything else, just for not being frozen to death in winter.
The hard work paid off, and finally, they found something that could replace cotton - a mutated reed.
Mutant reeds grow on the banks of rivers and lakes, and now no one takes care of them, and they grow unusually luxuriant. The mutated reed grows very tall and vigorous, and its vitality is extremely tenacious, and it is already planting in early winter, but the reed flowers are blooming white. These reed flowers are much larger and thicker than the usual species. Picking up the reed flowers from the branches and stuffing them into clothes is a good heating material.
The people sent out by Guo Qing before they were in time for flowering, and they were bent on finding cotton seeds, so no one noticed these reeds.
The news came back to the base, and everyone couldn't wait to get the reed flowers.
But outside the base is not so safe now, zombies are running everywhere, and they are getting stronger and stronger. How dare ordinary people go out of the gate of the base at will.
Li Xue asked Guo Qing to release the task of collecting reed flowers in the task hall. Because the amount of reed flowers needed is very large, it is not possible to rely on the supernatural alone. Therefore, ordinary people can also participate in this mission. The safety of ordinary people is protected by the supernatural, and ordinary people are responsible for collecting reed flowers.
This mission is very easy, but because it has a certain danger, the mission points given by the base are high.
For more than ten days, a large number of people at the Hope Base were actively collecting reed flowers everywhere. The reed flowers near the base have been cleaned, and the collected reed flowers are basically enough for the people in the base this winter.
The collection work outside the base is in full swing, and the processing of reed flowers in the base is also extremely enthusiastic. Everyone was happily busy, the winter clothes had been settled, and everyone was very excited, not to mention that to do these jobs, the base had points for them, so everyone started to do their work, and they were very attentive.
On the day Chen Tang found the reed flower, he specially called Commander Chen and asked him to pay attention to the preparation of materials for the winter.
Commander Chen didn't know this, but the zy base couldn't be used to collect reed flowers. There is no shortage of materials in their base, and after the previous flood, so many people died, and the supplies were even more useless. If it weren't for the fact that a lot of things had been soaked in the flood and couldn't be used, Commander Chen would have planned to bring some supplies over to help the Hope Base.
When the Hope Base produced the first batch of winter coats and quilts, the weather suddenly cooled down.
This time it wasn't like before, it slowly cooled down day by day, and suddenly it dropped down significantly, and many people in the base who were almost in good health were frozen and sick.
Li Xue hurriedly asked Jian Hui and them to distribute the clothes they produced to those who needed it most. Of course, these things are not free, they have to be exchanged for points or crystal nuclei. The price is very fair, and it will never let the people go without food after changing these clothes.
It's just that the quantity of this batch of supplies is limited, and more than half of the people have not received it. So Jian Hui proposed to Li Xue to distribute the reed flowers to the people at a low price, so that they could make their own cotton clothes. Second, it also saves a lot of trouble for the base. Li Xue naturally has no opinion.
By the time everyone was dressed in winter clothes, snowflakes began to fall in the sky.
In the fourth year of the last days, the first winter was finally ushered in.
Looking at the snowflakes that have not been seen for several years, the people of the base are still very happy. Before the end of the world, it snowed every year in H Province. Therefore, the people of H Province have a deep affection for snowflakes.
The weather has finally returned to normal, and there are four seasons, does it mean that the future world will slowly get better and return to the pre-apocalyptic times? With this in mind, people walk happily in the snow, or hide in the house and enjoy the long-lost snow.
Li Xue stroked her belly, which had been seven months, stood in front of the window, looked at the snowflakes in the sky, and sighed slightly.
The uneasiness in her heart seemed to have reached a climax. She was now probably certain that the coming winter would be a great test for humanity.
With a guess in her heart, Li Xue couldn't sit still and called her friends to her home.
"Xiaoxue, what are you looking for us for? On such a cold day, I was reluctant to leave my bed. Lin Miao said with a smile, in fact, the ability is not very afraid of the cold at all.
Li Xue said with a smile: "Naturally, there is something to do when I come to you. When we're done, we'll eat here tonight. Let's eat hot pot. ”
"This can be there. I haven't eaten hot pot in years. Chen Tang said happily.
"yes, yes, I haven't eaten it in years. Let's hurry up and talk about things, and when we're done, we will start making hot pot. Jian Hui swallowed her saliva and urged.
Everyone sat around the sofa and looked at Li Xue curiously.
Li Xue sat on the sofa with one hand on her stomach and said to everyone: "Since the last flood, I have always felt that something is going to happen. As soon as the snow fell, I had a hunch that something big would happen next. ”
Everyone's expressions were stunned, and Lin Miao took the lead in asking: "Xiaoxue, do you mean that this day is going to change again?" ”
Li Xue frowned: "If this day changes, it's okay." I'm afraid it won't change! If this snow is like the heavy rain before, it keeps falling, but I am afraid that ......" has not finished speaking, but everyone has already imagined that scene.
"By the way, I remembered, didn't the little god stick say it before? After that heavy rain, there was an even bigger disaster, and perhaps the disaster she was talking about was probably this heavy snowfall. Jian Hui thought of the words of Chenxi before.
(To be continued.) )