Mobile Shelter

Chapter 31 Preparing to Go Out

The dangers posed by grey snow are not limited to this.

Fortunately, both inland lakes and rivers, as well as major oceans, are now in a freezing period, and the ice layer temporarily isolates the snow and ice from the water flow at the bottom.

Otherwise, the pollution from the snowmelt will seep into various water bodies, and even groundwater will inevitably be polluted once the snowmelt melts due to its pervasive infiltration.

The Great Xia Dynasty was not lacking in intelligent people. After discovering that the gray snow was corrosive, they quickly realized the matter and promptly reported it to the imperial court.

After careful testing, the Academy of Sciences also detected the extent to which dust and snow corroded items. After confirming that plastic products could also be corroded by dust and snow, many bottled and barrelled drinking water products also became materials that needed special protection.

Fortunately, due to the outside temperature, most of the supplies stored by local governments have been moved into underground shelters in various places, and the remaining supplies left outside have been directly controlled by the local police.

At this time, if you want to find supplies outside, you can only go to small shops or warehouses in remote areas with low stock.

Any large quantities of supplies would have already been taken into custody by local governments.

The warehouse in the wholesale market closest to Dong Qi's home was emptied as soon as the government implemented material control measures.

Even though most of the vehicles outside were unusable, the government organized the people to move all the supplies inside in a piecemeal fashion.

And most importantly, the search for supplies was conducted by people who were temporarily living in nearby underground shelters. Most of the people in the shelters were local residents, and some even worked in the market.

Therefore, they were very familiar with the areas where supplies were stored in the market, which led to the operation in which they thoroughly looted all the supplies that could be taken away from the market.

Even some of the goods displayed as samples in some stores were all packed up and taken away.

That's why the advice Dong Hao gave Dong Qi when he came to his door in the middle of the night was actually quite good.

Thanks to this operation, the underground shelter near the subway station near the market, with the supplies intercepted during the operation, is now able to operate for a long time.

Of course, these advantages alone were not very attractive to Dong Qi.

After realizing that the gray snow was highly corrosive, Dong Qi immediately drove his car into the yard to test its impact.

After a full day of testing, the corrosiveness of the snow had no effect on the car. Even though the tires of the car were half-buried in the snow, there were no signs of corrosion.

After all, the car body had undergone multiple reinforcements by Dong Qi and had long since transcended ordinary objects, so how could it be affected by such a small amount of corrosiveness?

After confirming that the snow would not affect his vehicle, Dong Qi decided to go out and continue scavenging for supplies.

Taking advantage of the snowfall, Dong Qi decided to take a long trip.

After all, although the gray snow falling from the sky had not stopped, the members of the survey team dispatched by Kyoto had not left.

So even in the city, there are still a lot of cars that can be processed and refined, but Dong Qi doesn't want to cause a big commotion and attract other people's attention.

Now that the decision has been made to leave Pengcheng, this operation will certainly not be carried out as early as before, with people leaving early and returning late.

In addition to carrying enough supplies when leaving, it is also necessary to choose the direction of departure in advance and to clarify the destination when taking action.

Although Dong Qi usually stays at home writing novels, he also needs to relax occasionally because of writing novels.

Although the existing manuscripts don't allow Dong Qi to travel for extended periods, he doesn't need to worry about short trips to nearby areas.

Therefore, Dong Qi had some understanding of the situation in the cities surrounding Pengcheng, although not in great detail, but he had a general idea of ​​the situation.

They decided to abandon the short-range operation while it was still within Pengcheng's radiation range. Since they had already decided to go out, they might as well leave Pengcheng altogether. Even if it caused some disturbance, they could still hide their whereabouts well during this special period.

North of Pengcheng, there are mostly county towns, and the most important one is an inland freshwater lake. Heading in this direction, one can obtain a large amount of freshwater resources.

Although snow was still falling from the sky, the cold outside temperature had already frozen the lake surface, so as long as the snow covering the lake was cleared, a large amount of fresh water could be collected.

Most importantly, the lake water has frozen due to the low temperature, so now we can collect ice directly to get fresh water, which saves us the trouble of storing items.

However, Dong Qi's purpose for this trip was to improve the quality of the vehicles, and the water resources stored at home were sufficient for his short-term use, so this direction was not currently under consideration by Dong Qi.

As for those further away, crossing provincial borders and entering another city, there must be a concentrated industrial zone there, just like Pengcheng.

However, according to the intelligence I heard from Dong Hao, most of the companies that produce basic materials have gradually resumed production in accordance with the court's notification.

Initially, production capacity may be low due to power issues, but once production resumes, it means there are people in the factory. Dong Qi has no intention of forcibly absorbing materials under the public eye, so the northern line can only be temporarily abandoned.

Pengcheng leads directly west across provinces, and Dong Qi is quite familiar with this direction, as several nearby counties produce fruit.

Due to its geographical location, it was originally just a planting base for a few kinds of fruits, but in recent years, the industry has been upgraded, and several fruit deep processing enterprises have been established there, mainly producing canned goods and fruit wine.

Canned fruit was an absolutely essential commodity during this period.

After all, canned fruit not only has a very high sugar content, but it can also provide consumers with various vitamins they need.

In most post-apocalyptic novels, even knowing that there might be danger inside the cannery, most people would still not give up searching for the place.

Unfortunately, Dong Qi's destined vehicle did not have the ability to store storage space. Although it had been upgraded many times, the size of the interior space had not changed much, and the space inside the Hundred Refinement Furnace could only store refining materials.

So even though Dong Qi successfully reached the fruit processing plant warehouse, which did indeed contain a lot of supplies, he was not able to take much of it with him.

If you continue westward, you will inevitably find industrial parks, but as mentioned before...

Most of the companies in the industrial parks have resumed work and production. Although the output may not be very high, they are now under guard and are no longer suitable as targets for looting.

Therefore, the only possible directions to take are southeast.