The night in the Crimson Territory was quiet and gloomy, and instead of choosing to walk through the shortcut path of the labor quarters, Chen Chong walked along the muddy avenue towards the power station with the help of the dim light under the dim street lamp.

As he passed by on both sides of the road, Chen Chong could occasionally feel a faint gaze lurking in the dark corners watching him, restless like a beast looking for an opportunity in hunger.

It's the gaze of starvation survivors who don't have jobs and are barely living.

However, Chen Chong held a snow-bright blade in his hand, reflecting the cold light of Sensen in the dim light, and these snooping eyes were immediately closed, and Chen Chong still arrived at the power station all the way safely.

The lights in the power station were bright, and the roar of the boiler and motor continued to echo in the factory, and as soon as Chen Chong walked into the boiler room, he found that the thin old man Xu was already standing in front of the boiler waiting for him.

"Foreman Xu. Chen Chong greeted with a smile: "I'm here to keep vigil, what should I do now?"

"Call me Lao Xu. Those five lazy men just got off work, and you came a little early. ”

Old man Xu's hair was messy like a bird's nest, and his cloudy eyes looked at Chen Chong carefully, as if he knew that he was an awakened person and his status in the territory was a bit special, and his attitude was quite polite:

"You're the only one keeping vigil at night, and the job is very simple, have you seen this pile of coal?"

Old man Xu pointed to the black cart of coal on the cart on his side, and pointed to the five small boilers behind him:

"Every hour, a shovel of coal is sent into the boiler, and you can't add too little, and you can't add it all at once. Now the coal mine reserves in the territory are about to bottom out, and there are strict controls on how much coal is burned and how much electricity is generated, if the coal is wasted, or the boiler fuel is not enough to extinguish, you and I will not be able to eat and walk around, understand?"

Chen Chong nodded to show that he understood, and Old Man Xu grabbed the shovel, and snorted and shoveled down a pile of coal from the cart and sent it to the boiler mouth for a demonstration, and said in his mouth:

"That's all, remember? Look at you should also be a smart person, don't look at the work of the vigil is simple, but you must also be cautious, let alone careless, if the general's manor is cut off, I am afraid that the whip will be the lightest, old man, I am old, but I can't stand this crime, I can't lose this person." ”

Seeing that this old man Xu didn't seem to have any scheming, and he was not difficult to get along with, Chen Chong smiled and said:

"Lao Xu, don't worry, nothing will go wrong. But can you show me some of the electrical equipment or something? After all, this is a power station, and I'm worried that if I accidentally touch the leakage place, I will die if I die, wouldn't that be very unlucky?"

Old man Xu thought about it, seemed to feel reasonable, nodded and said, "You come with me." ”

Taking Chen Chong around to the back of the boiler wall, in front of several small motor units surrounded by wooden fences, Old Man Xu said with a mouth: "I don't need to say this, right? ”

Then he pointed to the tangled thick wires underground: "There are also these wires, some of the rubber has aged and has not had time to be replaced, if you don't want to die, you can stay away." ”

In the end, Old Man Xu took Chen Chong to the innermost side of the factory, an electric box more than one person high, and grinned:

"Finally, this thing, the transformer. This is the thing that regulates the voltage of the power station, which is then fed by the transmission line to the General's estate and various factories. If something happens and causes the territory power grid to be paralyzed, you don't have to think about getting a whip, just wipe your neck. Oh no, it's already a pile of char before you wipe your neck. ”

That's what I'm looking for!

Knowing that this was the device that he could connect to the current, Chen Chong's eyes flashed imperceptibly with a trace of joy, but he said:

"Lao Xu, can you handle such a dangerous thing?"

"What is this?"

Hearing Chen Chong's question, Old Man Xu's old face full of ravines was suddenly full of pride:

"It is no exaggeration to say that the establishment of this power station is at least half of the credit of the old man and me! Did you see those motors just now? They were all reassembled and repaired by the old man and I had them dig out of the soil and from other ruins, and the establishment and maintenance of the power station and power grid in the territory were also handled by me! Without this power station, more than half of the factories in the territory would not want to operate!"

"In this way, you have contributed a lot to the development of the territory. ”

Chen Chong stared at the high-spirited old Xu like a baby, and said quietly:

"What did you do before, electrical engineer?"

"I used to ......"

At the mention of this topic, Old Man Xu, who was still arrogant just now, suddenly fell silent.

A trace of remembrance flashed in his cloudy eyes, and he didn't know what he thought, he sighed, seemed to be out of interest, and said to Chen Chong:

"Alright, that's all for the small talk. It's almost time, you go to the vigil, and come to my room if anything. ”

Without waiting for Chen Chong to answer, Old Man Xu left.

The old man looks like he has a story.

Staring at Old Man Xu's rickety back, Chen Chong's eyes narrowed.

Now that the world has been reduced to a wasteland, civilization and order have collapsed, most of the people Chen Chong has seen so far have been tainted with a gloomy and crazy temperament in this dark world, especially everyone in the Crimson Territory. And this old man Xu is a little different.

But in any case, this old man is not difficult to deal with, and he also has the electrical knowledge he needs, which is a good thing for Chen Chong.

"Electrotherapy ......"

Turning his head and staring at the substation box that transmits electric energy to the entire territory, Chen Chong was excited and looking forward to it.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!

......

The first vigil was spent peacefully.

The caretaker boiler is extremely simple and does not have any technical content. In the first half of the night, Chen Chong was cautious and did not practice qigong, and it was not until the middle of the night that the old man Xu didn't seem to be very worried about the condition of the boiler, and after he got up and inspected it all night, Chen Chong was relieved and boldly chose a dead corner to start meditating and cultivating, and calculated that every time the true qi in his body completed more than thirty cycles of Zhou Tian, it was time to add coal to the boiler.

For ordinary people, the very tiring work has no effect on Chen Chong. The meditation cultivation of [Ultimate Immeasurable Qigong] was even better than the effect of deep sleep, and he felt that the long night was fleeting.

Moreover, Chen Chong's perception in the state of meditation and cultivation was far beyond that of ordinary people, and any movement close to ten meters around him could be immediately detected by him, plus he usually cultivated in a relatively hidden corner, which made it even more difficult for people to detect.

According to Chen Chong's plan, in this way, he could carry out uninterrupted cultivation day and night, and it could be said that he had used most of his time without wasting it.

However, despite this, with only two meals a day to supplement nutrition, and no psionic fruit for him to refine, Chen Chong's cultivation efficiency was relatively slow, and he did not improve by leaps and bounds as before.

Since then, for two days, Chen Chong has maintained this step-by-step life, practicing during the day and keeping vigil at the power plant at night, and using these few days to gradually get closer to the relationship with Old Man Xu, and finally get acquainted with each other.