Desperate Night

The eleven minutes were over very quickly.

Under Yu Hong's expectant gaze, the thick wooden bar supporting the door suddenly blurred, and in less than two seconds it turned into a black metal bar!

The metal bar was like an enlarged chocolate bar, with fixed anti-skid pads on both ends to increase friction. The material seemed to be iron, but the color was much darker than iron.

Picking up the bar, Yu Hong carefully examined it.

"Although it is still a very simple structure, the material has been strengthened. It is obviously much stronger than before. Awesome!"

He was amazed.

Then, the second thick wooden bar was strengthened again.

More than ten minutes later, the two black metal pillars on the back of the gate, one on the left and one on the right, symmetrically supported the gate.

"This is much better than the three of us using our shoulders to support it before."

Yu Hong nodded with satisfaction.

"Then, there is one last troublesome problem."

Candles.

He was a little afraid to go to Baiqiu Village again, but candles and other things were all there, as well as water filters, pots, cups and so on.

"I only have one candle here, it's definitely not enough unless I make a fire. Wait!"

Suddenly, Yu Hong narrowed his eyes and looked at the stove beside the stone wall.

This stove, which the little stutterer helped him to snatch back, was connected to the smoke pipe, and it has not been officially used yet.

'What if I strengthen this? '

As soon as the thought came, Yu Hong's heart was filled with strong expectations.

He suddenly remembered the axe that he had strengthened before, and went to the corner to find it.

The axe is different from before.

It was just a simple wooden handle axe before, and there were many gaps on the blade due to felling.

Now after strengthening, the axe has become a larger metal handle felling axe.

The black long handle also has anti-slip patterns, and the silver axe body is obviously thicker than before, and the blade is even more cold.

It can be said that this ordinary old axe has suddenly become an excellent felling axe.

Putting down the axe, Yu Hong walked to the stove.

This stove is square, made of metal, and painted with black paint on the surface, it looks like a low black table.

Yu Hong stretched out his hand and pressed the edge of the stove.

The cool touch refreshed him.

‘Strengthen the fire or not, strengthen the lighting and heating system. ’

Suddenly, a light bulb flashed in his mind, and he quickly changed the name of the stove.

Tsk.

A black line suddenly flowed out of the black mark on the back of his hand and penetrated into the surface of the stove.

Soon, a number appeared on the surface of the stove: 12:07.

‘Strengthen the lighting and heating system? ’ The black mark asked.

‘Yes! ’ Yu Hong responded with force.

Suddenly, the number on the surface of the stove changed, from the previous unchanged number to a countdown.

‘I hope it will work. ’ Yu Hong felt a little hopeful.

There was still a gap before dark, and he had a candle, so he would definitely be able to survive tonight and tomorrow morning.

But if the strengthened stove tomorrow still couldn’t meet his expectations, he would have to take the risk and enter Baiqiu Village to bring back the candles and other supplies left by the little stutterer.

Watching the time of the stove running out, Yu Hong found a dry place to sit down, exhausted.

A series of changes that happened today caught him off guard, and he had just trimmed two supporting wooden strips, which consumed too much energy.

He felt sleepy for a while, so he simply took out the candle in advance, held it by his side, and leaned on the steel nail pyroxene stick and slowly fell asleep.

"Old Yu?"

"Old Yu??"

A gentle call woke him up from his sleep.

Yu Hong opened his eyes and found a familiar pretty face hanging in front of him, looking at him with a smile.

It was Chen Huiru, a female colleague in the unit.

"Old Yu woke up, and I was scared to death. I thought something big had happened. Fortunately, it was just a scare." Chen Huiru turned her head and said in another direction.

"I told you that Old Yu is not so fragile."

"This time the joke is too big. We are all from the same unit. This is too much."

"Old Yu always brags about his courage. Seeing him so scared this time, I have enough material for a year!" A burst of laughter came.

Soon, Yu Hong rubbed his eyes and found himself sitting on the grass downstairs of the unit. In the green, surrounded by a circle of colleagues from the unit.

Each of them looked at him with a smile and talked at once.

"Isn't it very realistic?"

"The bug before was a model I rented from a nearby crew. Including you, it has scared four people! You are lucky, Yuan Zhou was scared and almost wet his pants, but we all recorded it!"

"You are still talking! It's all your fault for coming up with a bad idea!"

The colleagues laughed and surrounded Yu Hong in a circle on the sunny grass.

Their smiling faces were warm and harmonious.

As they talked, they began to hold hands and circle around Yu Hong.

A circle.

A circle.

A circle.

"Look, Old Yu is still in shock."

"It's so funny!"

"Don't be angry, Brother Gao will treat you to a hot pot!"

"Take pictures, eggplant~~"

Voices kept drilling into Yu Hong's ears.

He sat there blankly, looking at his colleagues spinning around him, their smiles were so real and warm.

'It turns out that everything is a prank.' Yu Hong opened his mouth, and his tense nerves finally relaxed.

He stood up and reached out to grab one of his most familiar colleagues.

Tsk.

Everything was quiet in an instant.

The sound disappeared completely, and there was silence. Yu Hong's eyes blurred instantly.

He took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes.

The cold stone floor was hard and real, and it hurt his tailbone.

He was still sitting on the ground, still leaning on the smelly quilt, facing the stove that was still counting down, motionless, with his hands hugging his knees.

The cave was quiet, and dim light came in from the door window.

"It's a dream..." He sighed.

It was getting dark.

Yu Hong's eyes moved to the window.

"!!!"

Looking out the window, there was actually a blurry face, looking at him quietly through the wire mesh!

Looking at himself who had just woken up from his sleep!

"Who!?" Yu Hong stood up suddenly, holding the steel nail pyroxene stick in his hand, and wanted to stand up.

But his legs had not moved for a long time, and he felt numb when he stood up, and he almost couldn't stand.

When he stood up by holding the stove, he looked again, and there was no face outside the window.

"Hoo, hoo." Yu Hong's face turned pale, and he guessed that it might be a ghost. Because he didn't hear any footsteps at all. And the other party's moving speed was intermittent, and he crossed a distance at a time, without continuity, which was the biggest feature of the ghost.

Before, he opened the viewing window to let the outside air flow in through the wire mesh for ventilation.

But he didn't expect to be discovered by the ghost so soon

"It's only dusk, not dark yet, and the ghost activity has started again"

Standing up, he walked forward carefully, stretched out his hand, and pulled up the viewing window baffle.

Swish.

The light in the window disappeared, and the cave was dark.

Yu Hong changed to the air vent on the other side to ventilate. Although it was slower, it was at least not so scary.

God knows how long the ghost looked at him while he was sleeping just now.

After doing all this, with the light that penetrated through the air vent, he checked the enhanced pyroxene placed behind the door.

The enhanced pyroxene has already been half the volume, and has changed from jade to pale stone gray.

Yu Hong was also shocked when he saw it.

‘Fortunately, there is a fortified pyroxene, otherwise I would have died alone in my sleep without knowing how. ’

With a sigh, he smelled a faint smell of water vapor in the cave, knowing that it would become moldy if it was not dried.

Now the only hope is to see what the furnace will be like after it is strengthened.

At this time, there are more than ten minutes left on the countdown on the furnace.

Yu Hong simply sat down where he was, took a dried mushroom, and ate it bit by bit.

He no longer looked at the door, but stared at the furnace.

More than ten minutes passed quickly.

The number on the furnace was about to end.

Yu Hong's nerves also became slightly nervous, because this strengthening at this time might be related to his subsequent planning.

Tsk.

At this moment, the number on the furnace disappeared, and the entire furnace, including the smoke pipe, became blurred.

After the blurry state lasted for one second, everything became clear again.

At the same time, a brand new furnace appeared in front of Yu Hong.

"!!? This is..." Yu Hong's eyes widened when he saw the fresh stove.

Because the thing in front of him was beyond his expectation.

What appeared in front of him was a fireplace that was completely integrated with the rock wall of the cave.

This fireplace seemed to be completely integrated into the rock wall, and the fireplace and the smoke pipe were completely buried deep in the stone.

And the most important thing is not this. But the shell material of this stove is all transparent! !

It's all transparent synthetic materials similar to glass crystal! !

Yu Hong stepped forward and stretched out his hand to gently knock on the outer edge of the stove.

Bang bang!

Two muffled sounds, very hard.

'Amazing. It really can be used for both heating and lighting. ' Yu Hong was speechless.

The stove has a heating function, and if it is made transparent, it can naturally be used for lighting.

This enhancement is simply genius!

He watched the new stove for a long time until the light outside was completely dark and there was a faint rustling sound.

He quickly took out the match and lit the candle.

The enhanced candle has a windproof effect and can collect oil smoke by itself, which is quite good.

Putting the candle on the stool, Yu Hong quickly began to put firewood and igniters into the stove.

The igniter was the wood chips he had left before, which were super thin wood chips cut from cutting wood. They were very curled and easy to ignite.

Then add some dried hay leaves.

Kaka

Soon, a dark red flame slowly lit up in the fireplace.

The flame gradually grew bigger over time, and gray-white smoke floated out from above, poured into the flue, and floated outside, without leaving any residue in the cave.

The flame gradually became brighter and bigger.

Gradually, the fire in the transparent fireplace became brighter than the candle.

More than ten minutes later, as the fireplace stabilized, Yu Hong added thicker pieces of firewood and blew out the candle.

‘Finally, it’s done! ’

He sat down on the log stool from his squat position and looked at the burning fireplace with satisfaction.

Waves of warm heat permeated from the transparent shell of the fireplace.

This material actually has good thermal conductivity.

As the heat wave increased, the coldness of the cave was gradually dispelled, replaced by relaxation and warmth.

For a moment, the whole cave was warm like spring, bright and safe.