Chapter Thirty-Eight: Going Out to See the End (Asking for Recommendations, Asking for Collections)
Now that you have decided to go out, the first thing to check is, of course, the means of transportation.
Chen Xin's car is an SUV, and there is no need to even fold down the rear seats, and it is a piece of cake to have two hundred pounds of food in the trunk, but if you want to put down a refrigerator, this is beyond the capacity limit of this car, because the refrigerator cannot be put down.
Therefore, even if Chen Xin got a refrigerator for material exchange, how to get the refrigerator back is also a problem that needs to be considered.
Maybe tie it to the roof of the car? Or is it stuck diagonally in the trunk and tied with a rope?
Chen Xin thought about this problem, it is really not easy to transport a refrigerator in an SUV.
However, this problem is not particularly urgent, for Chen Xin, as long as he can get the refrigerator, there is still a way to get the refrigerator back.
Anyway, he has lived in this city for so many years, and he has made many friends, and in this post-apocalyptic environment, it is not impossible to exchange two cabbages for someone else to help him pull the refrigerator.
It's just that Chen Xin isn't sure how many of his friends can help, not hiding in an official shelter and struggling to survive.
Although the car has been parked in the shelter for a month, and a layer of dust has fallen on the surface, the condition of the car is not bad, Chen Xin checked it and found no problems, as long as he filled up the fuel and set off.
After inspecting the car, Chen Xin was the only one left to prepare.
Although the external environment is uncertain at present, the corresponding protection work should still be done, such as whether there are toxic gases in the air now, and how many degrees of temperature are there, these issues need to be considered.
Although Chen Xin has a car, considering the various problems that may arise, personal protection is a must.
So Chen Xin turned out his previous outdoor equipment, clothes and pants are all types that can tighten the cuffs, necklines, and trouser legs, such clothes can not only prevent mosquitoes outdoors, but also play a good role in waterproofing and heat preservation.
Even in summer, hypothermia in the wild is very dangerous, and now that the external environment is likely to be the same as in winter, it is even more important to keep warm.
In addition to thick and warm clothes, Chen Xin also brought his own gas mask, which was out of concern for the outside air.
You must know that there can be a global fire before, and the toxic and harmful gases produced by the burning of this fire are still permeating the air, and Chen Xin does not want to use his body to fight the haze.
After preparing these things, Chen Xin hesitated for a moment, but still opened his weapon cabinet.
Although before Chen Xin entered the shelter, the Yanguo government did not collapse, still maintained a complete administrative structure, and was still actively organizing people to take refuge in the shelter, but no one can say what the outside environment is like now.
Maybe the authorities can maintain the law and order in the vault, but what about after the vault?
Chen Xin doesn't think that the present is as stable and peaceful as in the past.
And it doesn't take much to bring a self-defense weapon, and it's much better to be prepared than to be blind in real danger.
After sorting out the EDC equipment he usually carried with him and hanging it on his body, Chen Xin took a dagger from the weapon cabinet and inserted it into his waist, and after thinking about it, he stuffed another dagger into his trouser leg, and finally took the pen-shaped slinger that he usually hung on the keychain.
Chen Xin is still a little confident in his combat effectiveness, he believes that with these things, as long as the other party does not have a gun, he can still handle two or three people.
However, this also made Chen Xin a little worried about the option of increasing the ability to manufacture firearms in the previous weapon cabinet upgrade plan, and if there is a gun at this time, the sense of security will be improved linearly.
But Chen Xin's survival points accumulated in the past month have been smashed into the water supply system, and there are only 28 survival points left on his body now, and if he wants to upgrade the weapon cabinet, he will have to wait until next month.
Chen Xin didn't think much about it, and after preparing everything, he put two large plastic boxes full of vegetables into the trunk of the car, and also brought four large plastic buckets of 25 liters, and then opened the door of the shelter.
Chen Xin intended to use these large plastic drums to hold gasoline, and now the only source of energy for the shelter is the 4,000 liters of gasoline he has stored, and now 300 liters have been used.
Coupled with the fact that he added 50 liters of fuel to his car today, Chen Xin's remaining gasoline reserves have been reduced by nearly one-tenth, and in this case, Chen Xin obviously wants to replenish the gasoline.
There are two doors to the shelter, and after Chen Xin opened the door in the back, he started the car and drove the car into the corridor connecting the shelter and the outside world.
Chen Xin, who drove the car into the corridor, stopped the car, got out of the car and closed the gate at the end of the shelter, then put on a gas mask and walked forward, standing in front of the gate between the shelter and the outside world.
Chen Xin took a deep breath and put his hand on the wrench used to open the door.
A month ago, Chen Xin closed the door with his own hands, isolating himself from the outside world, and now a full month has passed since the meteorite impact a month ago.
What will the outside world look like after a catastrophe? How many people survived this disaster? What's going on with the outside world now?
All kinds of questions filled Chen Xin's mind, making his mind a little confused, and even a little afraid to open this door, because he was afraid, afraid that when he opened the door, the whole world would have been destroyed, and he would become the only surviving human in this world.
Although this possibility is really very small, such a small probability as a meteorite hitting the blue star has happened, and Chen Xin feels that he can't rule out the option that the world has been destroyed.
But even so, he still has to open this door to see with his own eyes what is going on in the outside world.
Taking a deep breath again, Chen Xin twisted the wrench on the gate hard, opened the deadbolt on the gate, and then pulled hard!
The door opened.
However, there was not a light coming in from outside.
What appeared in front of Chen Xin's eyes was an extremely dim sky, although it should be morning, but the sky was dark as if it was about to get dark, the whole sky was gray-black clouds, and from time to time a meteorite could be seen penetrating the clouds, dragging a long trail and smashing to the ground.
And the earth, at this time, was already charred and gray, and everywhere there were traces of being burned, and it was covered with gray dust.
This is the world after the meteorite impact, a doomsday world that Chen Xin is familiar with and unfamiliar with.