Elena's physical condition is very poor, and she needs to be careful when getting in and out of the wheelchair, not to mention that she has to pass through the elevator maintenance door to enter the fourth floor. Wang Qi, who followed the second move, helped directly lift the old lady and the wheelchair to the third floor. He temporarily removed the debris pile in the stairwell on the third to fourth floors, sent the old lady to the fourth floor and left. Don't revert to looking at themselves.
Elena, who arrived on the fourth floor, saw the girl holding a crossbow diagonally downward.
"Ah! Is that Eve's hairstyle?" Elena covered her chest with one hand, looking very excited.
People in the wasteland don't like beauty that much. It's not that they don't like it, but they don't have that much free time. Braiding their hair is a waste of time, so they usually cut it short with their own scissors.
Elena's family gets along fairly well, and they help each other get haircuts, but they aren't too particular about it.
The bob haircut is a very simple and refreshing style, but it is not as simple as it looks. It takes a lot of effort to curl the hair ends slightly inward, and it is not something that can be cut with two scissors.
In fact, the inward curling of the hair was not caused by cutting it at the time, but by Li Xiang combing his hair while drying it in the fire after taking a shower. One time was not enough, and it took several times to get the effect.
Li Xiang also looked at the old lady curiously. This was the first time she had seen such an old person.
Hearing the other person's words, looking into her eyes, and touching her hair, she spoke in madman language: "Bo, wave, head."
"Qin Yu?"
Li Xiang didn't understand Qin Yu's concept and didn't want to answer.
Elena seemed very interested and wanted to talk. Lin came closer and held her left hand with both hands, asking Li Xiang: "Mom needs to keep warm. Is there a warmer place here? We can burn firewood."
Li Xiang understood this, looked at the old lady's wheelchair, and thought about introducing them into the activity room.
The stove fire in the activity room has been burning for a long time. As soon as you enter the door, you can feel that the temperature is obviously about ten degrees higher than in the corridor. It is even warmer when you are closer to the stove.
The curtain that was hung up earlier to bathe Li Xiang was removed after he switched to a public restroom for bathing. In the past two days, extra bedding and artificial sponges taken out of the broken sofa were used to form a half circle a few meters away from the stove. , covered with curtains and sheets to disguise it as a sofa.
Although it was very crude, Elena was still very happy and in high spirits.
"It's great here."
"This is the kitchen and the dining room. The madman said that you can eat with us, but the door will be locked from the outside when we leave. You must also lock the door when you go out." Li Xiang introduced the rules to the guests like a little master.
"Crazy?" This word aroused Lin's vigilance.
Li wanted to look at her, but he didn't like it: "Only I can call you crazy, so you have to call her 'Wang Qi'."
Lin also wanted to ask more in-depth questions, and Elena came to the rescue: "Isn't this great? They are not father and daughter, but they live together."
Lin, who has had her mother locked in sight almost 24 hours a day in recent years, quickly understood that it meant that Wang Neng could raise non-blood related girls to be fair, tender, and lively, and she should not doubt other people's mental states.
...and there's no point in doubting it, that's a "monster".
Lin bowed slightly to Li Xiang: "Okay, thank you."
Hum, Li Xiang continued to memorize his homework: "Opposite the door is the material room. There is a sand table and our extra tools and weapons in it. You can use it. Except for these two rooms on the fourth floor and the roof, other parts above the fourth floor are not interconnected. You can Feel free to choose and modify safe houses on your half..."
Li wanted to stop talking for a while, and then tried very hard to remember the next part: "Finally, no pillars or beams can be damaged."
It was the first time he talked so much with someone, and he felt like he was going to die. He wanted to take another look at the old lady and ran away.
"That's great." Elena said the same thing again.
She didn't know how long it had been since she heard such a presence in the shared supply room. It reminded her of a time when people were less like beasts.
"Mom, do you want to take a look?" Lin asked.
Elena nodded, she was in high spirits.
Lin took out the heater in her arms and moved to the stove to replace the charcoal.
The body stove is very old-fashioned. After adding charcoal, you need to use the ashes inside to adjust the temperature of the outer wall. If you don't know how to use it, it will cause burns, so the replacement process is also slow. The family tried to find a blacksmith to make one with a water layer, which would have a more even and gentle temperature, but the price charged was too high.
It took a few minutes to complete the fuel replacement and adjustment. The two people next to the stove also relaxed a little. After returning the heater, Lin pushed Elena out and pulled out the steel latch to open the door to the supply room.
The material room was a bit dark and there was not enough light. Lin turned back and found a hand-cranked flashlight from the pile of materials for moving home. She shook it and stuck it in a slot on the back of Elena's wheelchair and pushed it in.
"Wow, wow!"
The light above a row of cabinets combined with the firelight outlines the contents of the supply room.
The most eye-catching thing is undoubtedly the huge sand table, which takes up a third of the entire room.
Although most areas of the sand table are relatively rough, the part in the middle with the shape of several buildings is too conspicuous, especially the one with two little figures on the roof. You can tell where you are at a glance.
Lin was also secretly surprised when she was in the wheelchair. She actually had time to make a sand table. Their life must be very easy.
Humans need a lot of lighting, and to maintain lighting brightness for a long time, the aging hand-cranked flashlight is no longer enough. In addition to firewood, there are also combustion accelerants such as pine oil, paraffin, and grease. As the daylight hours in winter become shorter and shorter, the cost of lighting can be said to be somewhat unacceptable.
For example, today, the daylight hours have been shortened to two hours, and they have to start preparing to move before dawn, transporting firewood and some newly obtained supplies from the hospital for the third time, and lighting another round of torches. In order to save the materials required for making torches, you can only do work that does not require high vision near the heating fire at night. Burning firewood is not bright enough most of the time, at least it does not consume accelerants.
"There's also meat." The old lady exclaimed the same way again, "It's so good."
There wasn't much meat, just the hind legs and fat strips of two scorpion ants, but it was enough to support a group of people through the most difficult situation for a few days.
Elena, who had visited the supplies room, was pushed back to the kitchen to keep warm. While others were delivering the third wave of supplies, Lin went to help sort the supplies. For safety reasons, her mother could only leave the kitchen temporarily.
As soon as I got the drawing of "King", I noticed that the four top corners of this building are all small apartments with one bedroom, one living room and bathroom. There are 16 such suites on the fourth to eleventh floors of half of the building. Although there is no running water in the bathroom to flush the toilet, it does not prevent the use of a wooden toilet container to continue to be used as a toilet, which is more convenient than living in a space such as an office.
The survivors who renovated this place in the early days obviously thought so too, so almost all of the sixteen houses are safe houses. The difference is that some of the doors have poor foundation, or have experienced battles and have fallen down.
In the two days between the decision to move and the execution of the move, my brothers came to inspect and made some arrangements at home.
It’s great to have a stove here. Even if you need to light another fire for warmth, with the basic temperature of the kitchen, starting a fire next door will save more fuel than elsewhere, so my mother’s house can’t be too far away from the fourth floor.
At the same time, my mother cannot live on the fourth floor because the two corner suite doors on the fourth floor are in a serious state of decay. Although they have not collapsed, they are difficult to withstand repeated impacts from people.
The fifth floor is more suitable. With Lin's support, my mother can walk directly up and down the first floor. Even if her legs hurt badly, she only needs one more person to help her in the morning and evening. Once there is a way to strengthen the suite door on the fourth floor, my mother will be allowed to live on the fourth floor.
Lin and her mother live in one suite, and the others choose two suites on the sixth floor, which can take care of any abnormalities in the north and south directions during rest. Of course, if you live so high up, you have to rely on the noise traps and elevator trap warnings installed between the third and fourth floors if you really want to rest.
Small suites have advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that two people work together, and everyone can have a relatively independent space, which makes them feel more comfortable when they are autistic.
The downside is that there are some issues with heating while sleeping.
After internal discussion, it was decided to set up a quilt warm room in the office next to the kitchen on the fourth floor. Here, the quilt can be warmed and the whole family can gather around to keep warm. There is no need to go to the kitchen to open a separate fire. Mom is right there.
But things have changed a bit now.
"Mom seems to like the girl opposite. She would probably be more willing to stay in the kitchen." When setting up the safe house on the fifth floor, Lin told Anna what she noticed.
Anna hugged the mattress and stood still: "Can't you give me some advice?"
Lin thought about it and shook her head: "You didn't see how happy she was just now. She has said as much in the past month as she does today."
"Why? Because of girls?" Anna knew that her mother loved children, otherwise none of them would be alive today.
"I don't understand either, but it's not just girls, there's something else."
Lin was almost never separated from her mother, and Anna had to trust her judgment: there was something else here that made her mother happy.
Mom and Lin couldn't be allowed to face such a dangerous man for a long time, so everyone had to consider spending some time in the kitchen. However, heating the quilt in the kitchen would obviously be problematic, and it would be uncomfortable if the quilt became oily.
He quickly made a decision: "It's okay. We have enough food for the winter. We can use the remaining alcohol and the extra sleds to replace a few heaters. Let's just waste a little firewood these days."
Half of the blacksmiths I know are drunkards. Although the prices for alcohol in their houses are not very good, they are not too bad either. However, you have to be careful about being targeted by bandits following clues. You may need to disguise yourself when you go there.
