The weight of the two reptiles is not light, plus the medical bottles and several children's books and medical books, which will cause the sled to get stuck in the snow. It will be more troublesome, so we need to pull it back first.
Repeating yesterday, I pulled the sled back to the compound and dismantled the reptiles directly outside to see if any other types of movable monsters would come to lick it, but the location was changed to the foyer of the back floor.
The nature of the base building is different from that of the shopping mall next to the military rescue point.
The mall over there is a large retail mall with a very professional warehouse system.
The first to third floors of the base building are also shopping malls, probably for rent by self-employed individuals. Correspondingly, the warehouse part attached to the back building of the compound is also much simpler.
The back building is roughly divided into three parts.
The first is the warehouse group on the first floor. They are all small single rooms, the largest is only eighty square meters. This is known from the remains of the cardboard boxes left behind and the useful bits and pieces collected earlier.
The second to fourth floors are the logistics service and repair center. There are still many household appliances that are not sure whether they are broken or not. Unfortunately, the tools have been scraped away.
No specific use has been found on the fifth floor. It may be used for both commercial and residential purposes like the fourth floor of the main building.
This kind of individual warehouse does not open its own door to the courtyard, and everything has to go out from the foyer on the first floor.
The building was also renovated by the early survivors, and the windows on the first and second floors were fully sealed. It was used as a safe house, which was not much worse than the main building.
However, as time eroded, various hidden dangers appeared in the back building.
The back building is also a frame structure. The difference in area, span, height, etc. determines that its pillars are relatively thin. Partial cracks occurred under the ravages of seed growth and thermal expansion and contraction. The walls on the sunny side of the sixth to eighth floors were also torn apart. There is a clear risk of collapse.
However, it is located on the north side of the main building, and the sunlight hours on the lower floors are short, so the situation is relatively good.
Wang Qi spent some time in the foyer to dismantle the bugs, and then gave Xiaoqiang some of the edible parts, leaving some body cavity fluid and the head as bait to see what was going on.
Including leaves, the organic matter put into the underground garage in the past few days has been close to 200 kilograms, hoping to increase Xiaoqiang's total weight by 40 kilograms.
Even if there are two neighbors, one big and one small, plus Wang Qi himself, the extra 40 kilograms of Xiaoqiang will be enough for at least ten days of supplies.
Of course, this is just Wang Qi's wishful thinking. How much Xiaoqiang can grow requires follow-up observation.
Send the loot back upstairs, rest for a while, and eat extra.
There are still two hours until dawn, let's get some more plants for the pile of decay.
For the newly opened rot pile, Wang Qi hopes that it can provide some heat to the underground layer during the decay process and keep Xiaoqiang active to a certain extent. The main purpose is to cultivate new humus fungi and give Xiaoqiang a healthy environment. Additional feeding points for a more stable and accessible food source in winter.
This time I changed the collection point.
In fact, there are wood collection points everywhere. As the road is broken by vegetation, you can see plants and plant mummies everywhere, but you don't dare to touch them before winter.
It is possible that due to climate reasons, it is difficult for single beads growing in gaps in the road to survive. Most of the wood collection points that tend to become forests are located outside lawns and small parks.
The tool wood has already been prepared with small oak trees. Now, in addition to adding leaves to the pile of decaying matter, fuel must be stored. The best target is oily plants.
According to memory, I found a place with several tall coniferous trees and started collecting.
There is very little snow under the conifer trees, and there is a thin layer of conifers on the ground that cannot be used by the wind.
Wang Qi's target is some small trees that have only grown for a few years.
It is less than ten centimeters in diameter and is not as firm as oak, so it is easy to cut with an ordinary saw.
No sled is needed, just cut off two pieces and put them on a rope and drag them away.
Possibly due to his enhanced physical attributes or increased practical experience, he made three trips before dawn and cut down four small pine trees of an unknown species, and also brought back a load of dead trees on the road. These dead trees are not shrubs. They all came out from the cracks in the road. They were probably frozen or dried to death, and no growth rings have grown.
Dead branches that are dry in their natural state are of no use at all. Not only are their drying conditions incorrect, but they have also been repeatedly tossed with water vapor. They are not strong enough to be used as crutches for children, so they can only be burned.
There was no need to worry about bugs suddenly jumping out due to the sound, and it became very easy to collect fuel. Wang Qi decided to change his strategy and focus on cutting down, not picking up garbage.
Break off the needles along with the twigs and throw them into the decay site.
Leave only the trunk.
The main trunk carried back upstairs was sawed in half, the thinner half was used as backup fuel, and the thicker half was placed in a dark and ventilated room to dry in the shade.
This section is less than two meters long, so it can't be used for anything, but even if it can be used as a wooden block, it will be good. It will be used sooner or later, and at worst it can be used for throwing spears.
There is more wood in reserve, and there will be more in the future, so we need to consider fire prevention.
After going up and down, I found a room on the fifth floor with the door closed and no ventilation or light at all to pile up wood for fire. Even if there was a fire, it would only produce a pile of charcoal, which would not affect the safety of other useful rooms.
The sky gradually gets brighter, and when the light reaches the required level, I start reading children's books.
To learn a new language by yourself, children's books are more useful than dictionaries. They all have pictures and phonetic notation. Even if you don't know how to read the phonetic notation, as long as there are enough books, you can summarize a set of "dialect" pronunciation. It will be easier to learn after you can read.
I don’t know if it’s been too long since I’ve learned the basics. After studying for less than two hours, I started to feel my head getting bigger.
Stop quickly and tighten the hexagonal bolt again.
Burn the carbon block as planned to heat it, and the deformation force generated by the principle of thermal expansion and contraction will cause the rust to disintegrate. As for high-temperature deoxidation, covering the charcoal fire is probably not enough.
The heating speed of the carbon block is definitely not as fast as that of the spray gun. The slow deformation gives the rust a chance to expand simultaneously, and the fragmentation effect is greatly reduced. However, the differences in expansion coefficients and temperature tolerances of different materials can ensure that it is effective and not wasted effort.
After three rounds and more than three hours of hard work, several hexagonal socket bolts were finally removed, and the bike was disassembled as a whole.
No more annoying things appeared inside, and the parts disassembly was completed smoothly.
Do the rest of the work in the evening, eat, wash, pour sewage, and sleep.
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After getting up, it was still the same as usual. I struggled for more than half an hour. Then I went to the observation point to take a look at the movement outside. I didn't find any danger, so I started to work.
First prepare the follow-up work of the [power generation project].
After the parts of the bicycle are disassembled, the next step is to remove rust.
As we all know, sandblasting, laser and pickling are used to remove rust, but there are obviously no conditions in front of us.
Sandpaper... I couldn't find it.
You can only use primitive physical means, sand washing.
Just get a sand basin and use sand to bathe the parts! In fact, it is better to roll the sand in a round bucket to remove rust. However, Wang Qi did not intend to turn rust removal into an industry, so he did not bother with it.
There is one in the sand base, and there are two other types.
A kind of sand that is blown to the top of the building and accumulates near the eaves is very fine sand, mixed with the corpses of wall-climbing plants. Its texture is closer to soil, and it is not very effective for rust removal.
The other type was collected from outside for the purpose of making a sand table in the early days. It was essentially sanded concrete, but it was not used. Later it was used to make emergency fire-extinguishing props, which is on the shelf in the kitchen (utility room).
Make half a basin of sand, put the parts in it, take a piece of rag to protect your hands and rub it hard, just like rubbing clothes on a washboard.
Rub it for a while and touch it with your fingers.
It took half an hour to feel a little smooth, but it was still far from complete rust removal.
If the rust is not removed, it will rust into large pieces very quickly. It feels like it will take several man-hours to sand-wash these parts until the rust is completely removed.
Let's put it aside first. The purpose of powering up is to read the pre-disaster data. The language, data hard drive, computer, inverter, etc. are not yet finished. Just make sure to invest a little time every day and make progress.
Arm yourself and go out.
First go to the computer store in the northwest and try to save a set of equipment.
He deliberately took the same route, and the half-divided insect corpses were still buried under the snow, indicating that there was indeed no reptile activity within a certain range of the surrounding area.
He didn't want to touch this kind of "feed" that had been lying around for several days, so he just passed by.
Arrive at the computer store soon.
After searching around, it turned out that there was no complete machine. It must have been taken away by various heroes when it still had the ability to generate electricity.
Wang Qi doesn't know the technical route of this world, but since there are various single packaged accessories, it means that there is a concept of [assembly machine]. For the benefit of each manufacturer, technology will definitely evolve towards fool-proof assembly.
After dismantling a few boxes and confirming that there are fool-proof interfaces, the problem is not major and we can start work.
The basic structure of computers in this world is similar to that in the previous world. The biggest difference is that the suspected CPU component is very large, almost half the area of Wang Qi's palm when he opens it. It also integrates a certain heat sink, resulting in a thickness similar to the palm of his hand.
After the assembly was completed, dozens of large and small boxes were opened to make sure that no parts in the chassis were missing.
The next question is...how to turn it on.
It's not a problem with the electricity, it's with the operating system.
He used to be an architect, but he was not a programmer. Even with development tools, he couldn't solve the DOS system, let alone the problem of file system mismatch.
After looking at the assembled chassis for a while, I realized that although there was a slight obstacle, it was not a big problem.
