Chapter XVII. Rescue
Although these plants have the ability to withstand the cold, they can be reduced by 7 degrees overnight, and even these plants cannot stand it.
Walking into the vegetable garden, the ground under your feet is frozen stronger than ice. The stems and leaves of the plant are crooked and lying on the ground, showing a rotten black color.
Lu Ning struggled to dig the plants out of the soil, so that the ghost could quickly test how many more plants would survive.
Unfortunately, the ghost did not give a reassuring result: out of a total of forty-six plants, the survival rate was less than 10%, and only three green potatoes and one spicy grass fruit survived.
The rest, alas, are all destroyed.
However, Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
"Finally, there are four still alive, and there are still three of the best green potatoes that survive, so it's not too bad."
Lu Ning carefully transplanted the four plants to a place slightly closer to the campfire, and the temperature near the campfire was relatively high, so that the plants could warm up.
Of course, this is only a stopgap measure. Theoretically, these plants don't grow well under the firelight, and they don't have enough oxygen (if they need oxygen to grow like blue starfish), and the air flow is too chaotic.
As for the rest of the plants that have been frozen to death, they cannot be rescued, and can only be used for fire.
Lu Ning picked, although the fruits on some plants were ripe, most of them had also been frozen, and it was impossible to keep them as seeds, so they could only be picked and put aside and kept to eat.
Lu Ning also rummaged through the pile of stored grain. The layer piled on the outside is so bad that it can only be thrown away.
The fruit and vegetables piled down the lower layer were in better shape than he had expected - at least they didn't seem to affect their consumption.
The innermost layer only has some frost spots on the surface, which is not a big deal.
Lu Ning picked some green potatoes and spicy grass fruits that were not so serious, and took them to the campfire and roasted them.
Vegetables that have been frozen and spoiled, whether they are fruits or green potatoes, do not taste very good.
Moreover, the loss of water and nutrients was serious, and there was a musty smell, Lu Ning was a little skeptical that eating these things would make his stomach worse.
To be honest, his body is already strong, and sometimes he himself wonders if he has strengthened his stomach and various internal organs after crossing over.
Otherwise, according to his behavior of eating snow water all day long to quench his thirst, and running almost naked in the cold wind early on, he would have suffered from various diseases a long time ago.
Although the ghost also said that his soul has been developed, not only his learning ability has improved, but his physical fitness will also improve with training......
But at present, he has only grown from a weak and dead college graduate who stays up late all day without exercising and eating takeout to a normal adult male who has been engaged in physical activity for many years.
He is still alive and kicking all day long, which is not unlucky.
Shaking his head, Lu Ning no longer pondered this question, but instead thought about how to better store the remaining grains.
"Don't worry about that meat, just leave it outside.
"But the low temperature and strong winds have too much effect on the storage of vegetables, and we can't just leave it here forever, we have to find a way to store it...... Cover it with animal skins? Or make another tent and put all the food in the tent? ”
Lu Ning put forward his own idea, and then was denied by himself.
This may work now, but in a few days...... But it's different.
A tent can't keep a blizzard at bay.
"Then dig an extra hole over there...... Wait, that's right, dig a hole! ”
Lu Ning slapped his thigh, and suddenly remembered that when he was young, he had seen a very effective method in his rural hometown.
Cellar!
In the rural areas of the Northeast, cellars are a very common facility.
Put cabbage, potatoes, radishes and other vegetables in the cellar and seal them, and when you want to eat them, go down to the cellar and take out one or two plants.
Even in weather of minus twenty or thirty degrees, if the vegetables are left in the cellar for a whole winter, the vegetables taken out will be as fresh as they are, and they will be almost completely unaffected.
It's a great way to solve your current problems!
But there's a catch.
Lu Ning had only seen such a thing as a cellar when he was a child, and he had no idea how to dig or build a cellar.
But even if he didn't know, he knew that it wasn't something that would be done by digging a hole in the ground, it would require a certain amount of expertise, at least ...... There's got to be a drawing or something.
However, with his vague memories of childhood, he could not build a proper cellar at all.
I don't know if I can even put the rest of the food into it.
But right...... Now that he has thought of a solution, how can Lu Ning be the kind of person who laments giving up because the probability of success is not high.
Three points are destined, seven points rely on hard work, and the remaining ninety points are reckless, regardless of whether he is thirty-seven or eighty-one.
Just do it.
…… Of course, you have to do it, but you also have to have a plan, and things have to be done in order.
The first thing to do is to chop wood.
Today's wind is stronger than yesterday's, and the heavens and the earth are full of snowflakes that have been blown up, and it is impossible to see the road ahead.
And this time not only had to chop firewood, after Lu Ning made two trips back and forth, when he came back on the third trip, he brought back not chopped firewood, but a complete pile of wood.
In order to get these pieces of wood back, Lu Ning spent almost two trips of firewood chopping in his usual time.
The timber was used for the shelves.
Although his memory was not very clear, Lu Ning also vaguely remembered that there should be some wooden shelves in the cellar that were fixed horizontally and vertically, and the vegetables should also be placed on the shelves layer by layer, not all of them should be piled up on the ground.
The timber on the other side of the giant grove was much better than the dead trees near the camp. Usually Lu Ning makes a tool and a spear, using wood from a broken house and dead trees nearby, the quality of those wood is actually not very good, and it is better to use wood from a giant forest to build a cellar.
In addition, if the tent is to be reinforced later, wood will also be used.
Hauling the wood back to the camp, Lu Ning did not put it with the stack of wood, but found another place to put it away, so that the wood would not be blown away by the wind.
Lu Ning then rested for a while, and after taking a breath, he turned to pick up a shovel and a stone pickaxe to dig the cliff wall.
After last night's all-night mining, a large piece of the cliff has been dug up by Lu Ning, and a lot of high-quality clay has also been harvested.
Digging inward, the soil is not as solid as it was frozen, much easier than last night.
The stone kiln is almost dug up, the next thing is to put the wood in it and burn it, then fill in the perimeter and seal it, and the next thing to do is to wait.
Lu Ning washed the mud and blackened soot from his face with snow water, and then called the ghost back expectantly.
Today's special supplies...... What is it?