Desperate Night

Ding, ding, ding.

Amidst the sound of knocking.

In the safe house cave, Yu Hong let out a long breath, took two steps back, looked at the super simple version of the fixing device he built, and fixed the stolen stove and chimney together in the middle section near the cave wall.

"That's it for now."

He put down the hammer and turned his head to look at the door that was still being reinforced.

The remaining time was displayed on the door: 5:42 on the 9th.

After doing this, he walked out of the cave and looked at the little stutterer who was tying up a large bag of wild vegetables outside.

The incident of moving the chimney just now was over, but the emotions at that time still left a deep mark in his heart.

Now he recalled what happened just now, and he was still scared and terrified.

Such emotions also made him extremely eager to have a completely safe hut for living alone.

A place where he could rest peacefully.

With this place, he could explore this extremely dangerous world.

Retracting his thoughts, Yu Hong picked up the steel nails and wooden sticks he had just used from the side of the cave. Some of the nails on them were bent by the hammer, but this was not the point. The point was the three pieces of reinforced white stones.

The first piece of reinforced white stone had completely turned black and lost its jade texture.

‘It seems that it has been used up.’ Yu Hong reached out and took off the white stone and replaced it with another one.

He now has one piece of reinforced pyroxene, which is enough.

But because it seems that the reinforcement can only be done one by one, he can’t strengthen other things before the wooden door is completed.

So these four pieces of reinforced pyroxene must be used as sparingly as possible.

‘According to the previous use, one piece of reinforced pyroxene can support the dispersal of three ghost shadows. From this point of view, one piece of reinforced pyroxene can be equivalent to thirty pieces of ordinary pyroxene! ’

In this way, if this comparison can be promoted, and then the reinforced pyroxene can be used to exchange for supplies, the price difference in the middle may allow him not to worry about the supply of supplies.

Thinking about it, Yu Hong began to consider the arrangements and plans for the future.

Time passed quickly, and soon, the sky became a little gloomy.

Xiao Jieba also packed up the cloth bag and filled the new water tank. The two returned to the house in Baiqiu Village with their things.

They had just come back from the cave, where the place had just been cleaned, clean and tidy, and the air was good.

Compared with the dirty and dark old house full of mold, Yu Hong didn't want to stay here any longer.

No words were spoken all night.

In the next few days, there was no way to strengthen things, so Yu Hong and Xiao Jieba went to collect dry firewood everywhere and stored it in the cave.

There is a door over there now, which can shelter from wind and rain, and can also store some firewood.

Then they prepared things to filter water.

According to Xiao Jieba, the water outside is very unclean. Drinking it directly will cause a very strange disease, so it must be filtered.

And the extra filters can only be bought in the town.

So they have to go to the town again.

"It takes more than 30 miles to go to the town. I don't think I can hold on." Yu Hong is very self-aware of his physical fitness.

If he insisted on walking, he might be able to make it, but the subsequent knee injury, excessive fatigue, and possible new diseases would greatly slow down his response to danger.

On the slope at the entrance of the cave, the little stutterer dug the soil and nodded.

"There is a way."

"What way?" Yu Hong sat down and rested on the stone surface at the entrance of the cave, wiping the sweat from her forehead.

"Post office," the little stutterer replied, and then she began to explain carefully and intermittently.

Because it was too difficult to speak, she simply wrote on the stone with a charcoal pencil.

But she didn't know many words, so she could only write and gesture.

"The post office can buy it for me, so why can't I ask you to buy it for me?" Yu Hong asked.

"I can't buy it through the filter. I need qualifications." The little stutterer replied.

Qualifications? What qualifications? Yu Hong wanted to ask again, but he saw Dr. Xu approaching here with a cloth bag on his back in the distance.

"Yiyi, the high season is coming, we have to go to town!"

Her face looked a little ugly, and there was a piece of white gauze wrapped on her right arm, probably because of the injury she had suffered in the past few days.

"Oh!" Little Stuttering answered loudly.

Dr. Xu glanced at Yu Hong, ignored him, and went back to Baiqiu Village with Little Stuttering to count the things to be exchanged.

Not long after, the two counted all the pyroxene.

"Why is it less than half?!" Doctor Xu was a little shocked.

On weekdays, every time he went to exchange goods, Little Stuttering could make twice as much as here, but now

"This little bit of goods can't be exchanged for much food! Besides, Yiyi, you have two people eating together!" She couldn't help but ask.

"Too, busy." Yiyi rubbed her hands with a silly smile, a little embarrassed.

"What are you busy with? What kind of shitty safe house are you building for Yu Hong?" Doctor Xu was immediately furious.

"I clearly told him that no matter how thick the wooden board is, it can't stop the ghosts and bugs! The safe house you built is a waste of effort!"

"It's okay. I believe in him!" Little Stutter patted his chest.

"You will be killed by him!" Doctor Xu said angrily, "If you don't eat enough, you will have no strength and you will be more likely to get sick. I went to the post office yesterday, and the postman was gone. I couldn't buy medicine at all. There are many important supplies that can only be relied on him. We must save food and seasonings to avoid running out of stock later!"

"No, I won't!" Little Stutter shook her head. She got a piece of enhanced pyroxite from Yu Hong. Although she promised him not to tell anyone, she knew in her heart that Yu Hong seemed different from others.

"You, you!!" Doctor Xu wanted to rush over and beat Hong to death. But seeing the stuttering look, he was so angry that he couldn't get out.

The two of them could only leave the village step by step with their things and go far away along the old road.

On the other side, Yu Hong rearranged the cave safe house and checked the sealing devices in all places. After confirming that there was no problem, he started to paint.

Waterproofing must be done well, and the inner wall of the cave must also be painted, otherwise once living here, there will inevitably be a temperature difference, causing water vapor to condense and mold.

After checking everything, he did not return to Baiqiu Village, but with the candles and quilts he brought, he shrank into the cave and prepared to try to spend a night here.

Huh.

Slowly, it got dark.

The wind outside the cave was whistling, and the temperature dropped rapidly, reaching a slightly cool level.

In the cave.

Yu Hong sat cross-legged on a large wooden board, lit a candle, and then quietly calculated how much supplies he needed to prepare for the upcoming high tide period to survive safely.

"The most recent one was a five-day high tide period. According to the principle of continuous strengthening, it should be six days. One candle a day, so at least twelve candles are needed."

"Then we have to prepare for the six days of food and drink. We don't have time to strengthen the white stone for the time being. We can only wait until the wooden door is finished."

"After the wooden door is finished, there are still three days before the high tide period. Instead of gambling on the safety of the wooden door after strengthening, it is better to prepare yourself."

Beside the candle, Yu Hong calculated while listening quietly to the wind outside.

Soon, the rustling sound sounded again.

The black bugs brought by the blood tide began to invade again.

But a large number of black bugs can only come in through the arranged openings, and the speed of entry is not fast. As soon as they enter the door, they are illuminated by the candlelight and quickly dissipated.

Yu Hong looked carefully for a while and made sure that there was no problem, so he was relieved.

He checked the consumption rate of the candle again. Thinking that it was probably okay, he put the steel nail and wooden stick by his hand, fell on the quilt, and slowly dozed off.

Soon, it was dawn.

Xiao Jieba and Doctor Xu returned together, and this time they brought less than last time.

Xiao Jieba calculated that it was only enough for them to eat for five days.

So after thinking about it, Yu Hong decided to let Xiao Jieba simulate and draw more complex patterns on the enhanced pyroxene.

Then use this pattern to test it and see how it works. If it works, he will sell it.

As for now, for emergency purposes, he also began to help Xiao Jieba dig wild vegetables everywhere.

Time passed day by day.

The two began to store water again, and Yu Hong went to the cave from time to time to check the changes in the wooden door.

In a blink of an eye, the time on the wooden door soon came to the end.

In order to carefully observe the changes in the wooden door, Yu Hong specifically asked Xiao Jieba to borrow some food from Doctor Xu on the last day, which was considered to be deliberately sending her away.

He came to the safe house in the cave and quietly waited for the countdown to end.

In the rumbling sound.

In the cave, Yu Hong sat on the ground, staring at the wooden door that had not changed at all from twelve days ago.

He just wanted to take a closer look at how the strengthening of this black mark appeared and was completed.

What's more important is that he intends to seamlessly connect and continue to strengthen other things so as not to waste the strengthening time of the black seal.

At this time, the wooden door, which has been painted yellow and black, is jumping with black numbers that only Yu Hong can see.

0 days 0 hours 1 minute.

The last minute, just one point, to completely complete the strengthening of the wooden door.

In this last minute, Yu Hong dared not even blink his eyes, and stared at the final changes carefully.

One second.

Ten seconds.

Twenty seconds.

Thirty seconds.

Snap.

Suddenly, Yu Hong's vision blurred for a moment.

When he was clear again, the wooden door had become a heavier and more densely made huge wooden door.

The surface of the new wooden door has a delicate texture like water waves, and the air vents are arranged with thick metal mesh, which is fine and breathable.

There is also a special viewing window in the middle, where you can see the scenery outside.

The originally loose fixed connection between the wooden door and the cave has also been fully improved at this time, turning into a large circle of dense screws. It looks much stronger than before.

Yu Hong stood up, walked forward, and touched the wooden door.

Dong, dong, dong.

He knocked with his fingers, it was very thick, hard and tough.

‘It’s not the same kind of wood as before.’ He never expected that this reinforcement would directly replace the original material.

‘And a lot of more materials were added.’ Yu Hong touched the air mesh below, which was very thick. He opened the viewing window above.

He reached out and touched the edge, but didn’t feel any burrs.

“Awesome.!”

Thinking of this, he quickly looked at the surrounding walls again.

Originally, his plan was to strengthen the wooden door and then the surrounding stone walls, but now because of the shortage of food, he planned to try to strengthen other things first.

“First. This.”

Yu Hong retracted his hand that was touching the door, returned to the stove, and picked up a piece of lizard jerky from the stove.

‘Can food be strengthened? ’

This thought flashed through his mind.

Immediately.

A number quickly appeared on the surface of the lizard meat in his hand: 3 o'clock.

'Three hours? ' Yu Hong calculated in his mind. Then he stuffed the meat back and picked up the whole meat bag.

'What about now? '

A new number slowly appeared outside the bag: 8:04 on the 1st.

The number had both zeros and integers, and it looked quite accurate.

'Let's see the effect. ' Yu Hong immediately confirmed the enhanced questioning voice.

More than a day, he can bear it.