"Didi-di-di, di-di-di..." The alarm clock rang, and Chen Xin opened his eyes and got up from the bed.
Brush his teeth, wash his face, and the car's bathroom with separate dry and wet areas allowed Chen Xin to even take a shower. However, there was no such need in the morning, so he didn't enter the bathroom.
After cleaning up his personal hygiene, Chen Xin came to the sink, crushed the two energy bars that came with the shelter food, put them into a cup, added a little salt and sugar, and brewed them with hot water. , serving as your own breakfast.
Eating this semi-liquid breakfast, Chen Xin tasted the salty but not sweet taste of the energy bar in the cup, and couldn't help but muttered: "There is less sugar. It seems that I can grow some coffee beans and beets in the future."
While muttering these, Chen Xin came to the cab, put the cup in his hand into the cup holder on the console, and at the same time turned on the map projection on the console, thinking about how to go today.
The city where Chen Xin's family is located is the northern gate of Hunan Province. Leaving the administrative scope of this city means leaving Hunan Province and entering the boundaries of Hubei Province.
Chen Xin was still very familiar with this section of the road. After all, his parents would take him here every year to soak in the hot springs.
Moreover, this city in Hubei Province and Hunan Province is also very famous in history. The "Three Kingdoms Zhou Lang Chibi" mentioned in Su Shi's famous poem "Nian Nujiao·Chibi Nostalgia" is located in this city named after it. City.
Speaking of the famous Battle of Chibi, it is not only related to this city, but also has a deep relationship with the city where Chen Xin's family is located.
After all, the Yueyang Tower, which has also been passed down through the ages, was originally the parade building used by Lu Su of the Eastern Wu Dynasty to train the navy. The Sanjiangkou where Cao Jun and the Eastern Wu Allied Forces fought fiercely in the Battle of Red Cliff is the mouth of the Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River and the intersection of the Jingjiang River, the Yuanjiang River and the Xiangjiang River. The place.
It can be said that the Battle of Chibi had a deep relationship with these two cities.
However, as Su Shi said, "As the river goes eastward, the waves are swept away, and the romantic figures of the ages", more than two thousand years have long washed away the traces left by those heroes in the past, and now even those inscribed The traces on the rocks have also been covered by ice and snow.
I wonder if in a hundred years, anyone will still remember that such a legendary war once took place under this ice and snow?
Such an idea came to Chen Xin's mind, but he did not pay attention to the ancient battlefield. The route he planned was to pass through Chibi City and would not reach the ancient battlefield by the Yangtze River.
On the contrary, Chen Xin would pass by a hot spring resort on his way forward, which made Chen Xin couldn't help but become interested, and at the same time he also felt a little nostalgic. After all, it was that resort where his parents took him to soak in the hot springs.
Just on the way, Chen Xin did not change his direction. He finished the breakfast in the cup, returned the cup to the sink to wash it, and poured himself a cup of hot water. Chen Xin then let go of the car and used it. The hoe that fixed the car body started the engine and continued to move forward.
Due to geological activities, this area of Hubei Province has quite abundant geothermal resources underground. Coupled with the abundant water resources, it has also created the reputation of this hot spring city.
In the past, hot springs might have been just tourist resources for leisure and vacation, and geothermal development might not have been applied on a large scale due to technical reasons. But in today's environment, a hot spring can affect countless lives and deaths.
If a shelter is built around hot springs, water, heating, power supply... can all be solved with geothermal resources. It can be said that as long as geothermal resources can be effectively utilized, we can survive in this apocalyptic world.
Thinking of this, Chen Xin couldn't help but sigh. There was a large circle of hot springs around his city, but there were no hot springs in his city itself.
Even the hot spring water in his shelter was produced due to previous earthquakes. Even if you want to use geothermal resources, there are not enough geothermal resources to use. You can only use shallow geothermal energy, which makes people envy the surrounding cities. of natural geothermal resources.
However, this also has advantages and disadvantages. Rich geothermal resources also mean that underground magma activity is relatively abundant. The impact of meteorite impacts is likely to intensify geological activities and cause magma eruptions in weak areas on the surface.
This naturally also means danger for areas rich in geothermal resources.
Although there are no volcanoes in this generation area at the junction of Hubei Province and Hunan Province, the magma is likely to form new volcanoes due to earthquakes and other reasons. After all, the volcanic belts and seismic belts on Blue Star are highly overlapped.
Fortunately, the problem that Chen Xin was worried about did not happen. He did not see any volcanoes along the way. However, when he arrived at the original hot spring resort, he discovered through the radar on the car and the infrared camera of the drone that A shelter was built around the hot springs.
"Hot spring shelter? It's really built around a hot spring!" Chen Xin couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he looked at the picture sent back by the drone on the monitor.
Although the shelter is built around hot springs and relies on the original hot spring resort area, the surface is still covered with a thick layer of snow. However, it is affected by the relatively high internal temperature, and the location of the shelter's vents and doors has The obvious heat source is very obvious under the infrared sight of the drone.
Looking at the shelter in front of him, Chen Xin did not step forward rashly. Although he was curious about what a shelter built around a hot spring looked like, he did not directly visit the shelter.
It had only been a few days since he set out, and the car had plenty of supplies, so he didn't need to replenish supplies.
What's more, even if he needs to replenish supplies, Chen Xin still prefers to replenish them after entering Chibi City instead of replenishing them in the shelter in front of him.
So although he was curious about how the shelter in front of him used geothermal resources, Chen Xin was not the kind of person who would take risks just for his own curiosity. After some consideration, he gave up on working with this shelter. Contact ideas.
Continuing along the road, Chen Xin released a second reconnaissance drone just in case. While letting the two drones monitor the situation in front and behind him, he also opened the console. The radio station next to it.
On this car, Chen Xin installed a high-power shortwave radio station. Under good conditions, this radio station can transmit signals up to 6,000 kilometers away. And last night when he was idle and bored, he did receive the signal. A message in Russian.
Chen Xin didn't understand Russian very well, so he tried to send a reply in English. The other party seemed very excited and chattered a lot, but Chen Xin hardly understood it. The two parties talked at the same time for a long time. , but did not establish effective communication.
However, Chen Xin could tell that the other party was very happy to receive the information, and his tone was full of excitement.
As long as the frequency and conditions are suitable for shortwave communication, it is not particularly difficult to talk to people around the world.
For example, when Chen Xin turned on the radio station, what came out was a voice that he couldn't understand at all, and he couldn't even tell what language it was.
Chen Xin felt helpless and adjusted the frequency of the radio station, but did not receive any other signals.
This made him feel a little regretful, so he could only turn off the radio again and drive on.
The road from this hot spring refuge to Chibi City seems to be frequently passed by vehicles. It should be leftover from the exchange between this hot spring refuge and Chibi City. This also makes the road smooth and easier to walk.
Chen Xin drove along the ruts, and the speed was much faster. According to his estimation, he might be able to reach Chibi City before noon.
Although it is a road, it is actually covered by snow. Even the roadside is flat, and all the farmland that I originally thought of is buried deep under the snow.
"I don't know if these fields will be able to be planted after the snow melts..." Chen Xin couldn't help but have this idea in his mind, but he quickly stopped laughing.
There is no trace of when the snow will melt. The existence of animals and plants has been lost in the soil, and the ecological cycle should have disappeared. Even if the ashes from previous global fires can be used as an inorganic fertilizer to increase soil fertility, when the snow melts At times, the one meter thick snow will turn this place into a muddy swamp.
Maybe by then humans will no longer need to cultivate farmland, right? After all, it takes a long time to wait for the snow to melt, and during this period, humans are affected by the extreme cold and lack of sunlight, and the agricultural production model should change greatly.
After all, agricultural cultivation now relies entirely on greenhouses and artificial light sources. Even if the light returns in the future, farming on the surface will only be possible by building greenhouses and clearing away the snow on the surface. It is not an easy task.
Coupled with the advancement and improvement of human science and technology over a long period of time, humans may then adopt more efficient planting methods instead of traditional farming.
Maybe you can develop in this area?
Chen Xin thought of his upgraded planting greenhouse and felt that the multi-layered three-dimensional planting system was of great value for promotion. However, he had no way to replicate this system in other places yet. Perhaps he could study it when he returned home.
Having made up his mind, and seeing no trace of other moving objects behind him, Chen Xin planned to take back the second reconnaissance drone.
However, just when he was about to do so, the sky suddenly lit up, and a bright fireball illuminated the dark sky, piercing the sky amid billowing smoke and dust, and fell towards the earth.
Chen Xin looked at the huge fireball in surprise. He was stunned by what he saw. He had not seen what the sky looked like when it lit up for more than half a year.
However, as the fireball got closer and closer to the ground, he was awakened by the gradually brightening light in front of him. He hurriedly stepped on the brakes, causing the car to come to an emergency stop. At the same time, he quickly put down the hoe under the car and pulled it The body of the vehicle was secured and prepared for the impact of the fireball hitting the ground.
