Chapter Twenty-Six: A Refuge for Nothing
In the state-released shelter information that Chen Xin had seen before, each family had only one room smaller than a university dormitory.
It's probably less than ten square meters, but it has to squeeze at least a family of three, and even the bed is that kind of iron frame wire bed, and the hardships of living conditions can be imagined.
Although in the seventies and eighties, or even the early nineties, it was common for a family of three or even four or five people to be crammed into a hut of less than a dozen square meters in Yanguo.
However, almost half a century has passed, and the per capita living standard and living conditions have already improved by I don't know how much.
However, now that the end is coming, it will undoubtedly be a huge test for those who have long been accustomed to the convenient and comfortable life of modern times.
For modern people, it is absolutely unimaginable to live a materially poor life without takeaway, without the Internet, and even without happy water and meat.
And you have to hide in an underground shelter, not even leave the shelter, which seems to many people to be no different from going to prison.
You must know that when the epidemic broke out at the beginning of the year, the people of the whole country closed their doors under the call of the state and successfully curbed the spread of the virus, but the inability to go out for a month or two still made most people almost suffocate their illness.
While thinking about this, after eating and cleaning up the garbage, he drank some water and rinsed his mouth, and Chen Xin threw the garbage into the trash can.
Now that the external environment is still unstable, Chen Xin has no idea of going out to throw garbage, but when the outside environment stabilizes, these garbage will definitely be thrown out.
After eating, Chen Xin, who had nothing to do, resisted the urge to take out his mobile phone from the box to play, and stood up to check what was going on in the shelter.
But there is so little that can be done in the Vault.
All the materials are stacked neatly, this is what was put away when they were moved down before, Chen Xin only moved in today, so naturally there is nothing that needs to be organized.
And the truth is that the evacuation is only so big, the bedroom, the living room, the bathroom and the power distribution room, which are the four rooms in the shelter built of containers, are also Chen Yu's main activity space.
Because the container is filled with insulation, the temperature is much more comfortable than a room built directly with cement.
In addition, the material storage room, water tank, fuel tank, sewage treatment tank, generator and garage are placed outside the container, which is a room dug directly in the mountain, after all, these things do not need to be kept insulated, as long as the ambient temperature does not affect the work of the equipment.
If Chen Xin had been living in the shelter for a long time, he would have to check the operation of various equipment, but now there is no equipment working in the entire shelter except for the generator, and even the sewage treatment tank is clean.
Chen Xin, who scratched his head, could only check the fuel tank of the generator again, and saw that the fuel in it was still enough, so he walked towards the power distribution room.
Chen Xin only has 4,000 liters of gasoline in the tank, while the small generator he uses to generate electricity can fill up 20 liters of gasoline at a time to generate electricity for more than ten hours.
But for Chen Xin, his daily electricity consumption is obviously not that large, so there is no need to let the generator work until it runs out of oil.
Generating electricity for six to eight hours a day is enough to fully charge the large storage batteries installed in the distribution room to meet the day's electricity consumption.
Today, the generator has been working for almost four hours, and it has not reached the power generation time planned by Chen Xin, but today Chen Xin does not use much electricity except for lighting, so most of the electric energy is used to charge the battery.
Chen Xin didn't know if the battery was full, and if it was full, he could turn off the power generator in advance to save fuel.
In the power distribution room, the indicator lights on the two large batteries are flashing on and off, obviously charging, and the power distribution cabinet on the side is also working normally.
To be honest, when the shelter was repaired, Chen Xin didn't plan to assemble an electrical cabinet, after all, it was just a small shelter, a small generator in total, and lighting in several rooms, and it was really a waste to assemble an electrical cabinet.
But when buying a container house, the manufacturer still provided such a distribution cabinet, so Chen Xin had no choice but to use it.
However, it can be regarded as a crooked hit, and the power distribution cabinet and the power distribution room and generator sent by the manufacturer can be regarded as a whole power system in the system and upgraded as a whole.
In addition, the two upgrade solutions provided by the system have the words to save fuel and improve work efficiency.
This is undoubtedly good news for Chen Xin, and the increase in power generation and fuel consumption after the upgrade is very meaningful to him, because it will undoubtedly allow his tank of gasoline to last longer.
After the end of the world, gasoline will undoubtedly become an important commodity, and it will not be as easy to obtain as it was before the end of the world, so if you can save a little, of course, you must save a little.
After checking the two large batteries, he saw that the indicator light on them did not show that they were full, so Chen Xin did not rush to turn off the generator.
After estimating the charging time, and seeing that it would take about an hour to fully charge the two batteries, Chen Xin wrote down the time, glanced at his watch, and then left the power distribution room and returned to the bedroom.
Just returned to the bedroom, Chen Xin still had nothing to do, so he could only lean on the bed in a helpless daze.
If it was in the past, he would have taken out his phone to play games and watch videos, but now the phone is wrapped in thick tin foil and stuffed in an iron box, and it will take out and use it after a few days when the impact of the EMP shockwave has completely subsided.
So Chen Xin can't use any electronic products these days.
However, thinking of the EMP shock wave, Chen Xin couldn't help but care about what the outside world was like now.
Chen Xin had been in the shelter for most of the day, and in this half of the day, the shock wave generated by the meteorite impact had swept across the entire blue star, even if Chen Xin was hiding underground, he also heard the violent sound wave, which almost made him think that something in the shelter was broken or that the entrance outside was smashed by a meteorite.
Now that the meteorite has fallen, the vicinity of the impact site should have become hell, and the heat released by the impact will quickly ignite the blue star.
Thinking of this, Chen Xin couldn't help but sigh.
This is not a wildfire, or the extinction of a species, it will be a fire that will sweep the whole world, and it will be the extinction of the entire ecosystem.
More than 90% of the land life on the Blue Star will not be spared.