After resting in his room for a night, Chen Xin got up the next day, finished breakfast, and took the elevator to the upper floor again. However, he did not come up alone, but together with his parents and the Mo sisters.
Not only that, everyone, including Chen Xin, was also wearing an exoskeleton protective suit and holding shovels and other tools that Chen Xin had made.
They are going to clear the snow.
When Chen Xin came back yesterday, Han Ping just dug a way out of the shelter so that Chen Xin could come in. The door of the entire shelter was still buried in snow. If he wanted to go out, he had to clear the snow from the door. Come on.
Clearing the snow that could bury a whole person was obviously not something that one or two people could do, so Chen Xin naturally mobilized the labor force in the shelter.
Originally, Chen Xin only planned to call Mo Qingyan and Mo Qingxin, but his parents felt that they could still do this, so they followed them.
The group of people went to the surface, and Han Ping had already put on protective clothing and was waiting in front of the gate.
Han Ze did not come with him, but was sent by Chen Xin to continue to stand guard to prevent anyone from coming over while they were working.
After all, the door of the shelter is open when the snow is being cleared. If someone wants to raid the shelter at this time, it will be very dangerous without anyone standing guard.
However, Chen Xin did this just in case. In the current situation outside, it was difficult to move even on foot or by car. Before, he was able to walk all the way back from the city with his powered armor. He didn't think so. Others have such mobility, but the required safety measures must still be in place.
"Han Ping, please help my parents. They are old. Take care of them." Chen Xin distributed the tools to everyone, and when he handed the shovel to Han Ping, he whispered to him.
Han Ping nodded clearly and took the initiative to walk to Chen Xin's parents, wanting to help them get tools.
However, Chen Xin's parents refused Han Ping's help. Seeing this, Han Ping had no choice but to follow the two of them, planning to do more by himself later so that Chen Xin's parents would not be too tired.
After all, among so many people, only Chen Xin's parents are elderly and not as strong as the young people. They should do more.
Chen Xin took the lead and climbed out along the tunnel dug by Han Ping yesterday. He did not start shoveling the snow directly. Instead, he estimated based on the position where he climbed out and climbed towards the position above the gate, intending to clear it first. Look at the snow outside the observation room, or at least leave the observation window exposed.
Fortunately, Chen Xin was relatively familiar with his own shelter. Using the gate as a reference, Chen Xin quickly found the approximate location of the observation room. After digging through the snow with a shovel and creating a place for himself to stand, Chen Xin Digging with the help of an exoskeleton.
The reason why I didn't wear power armor today is because the weight of power armor is a bit heavy. If he were wearing that suit, even if Chen Xin covered all the snow under his feet, it would be difficult for him to stand. If you get stuck in the snow, it will be difficult to move unless you rely on the power of the power armor to squeeze in the snow like when you came back before.
Therefore, relatively speaking, the lighter and more flexible exoskeleton protective clothing has become a more suitable choice than power armor.
Powered armor is relatively more suitable as a kind of combat equipment. If it is for daily work and going out, after this period of use, Chen Xin still feels that the exoskeleton protective suit is more comfortable to wear.
With the help of the exoskeleton, Chen Xin quickly dug up a large piece of snow with a shovel. He pushed the snow aside and dug as far as possible toward the target. He soon dug something hard and collided with the shovel. When they came together, Chen Xin's hands shook.
After clearing away the snow, what Chen Xin dug was the wall of the observation room. The shovel just hit the wall.
Now that the wall was dug, the rest was much easier. Chen Xin quickly cleared along the wall, dug out the observation room that was buried deep in snow, and cleared the snow in front of the observation room to reveal The observation window under the snow.
However, there was obviously some ice on the observation window. Chen Xin still needed to break the accumulated ice, and he had to be careful when doing so to avoid breaking the glass together.
After knocking off the ice on the observation window and saying hello to Han Ze inside, Chen Xin turned around and continued cleaning along the observation room. He did not forget that the vent of his shelter was installed next to the observation room.
Although there is a relationship between a greenhouse and an oxygen concentrator, whether the vents are replaced or not does not have much impact, but if the vents are buried, there will still be some inconvenience, so now we still need to take the opportunity to clean out the vents. .
The process of cleaning the vents was easy. Although there was ice near the vents, it didn't take much effort to clean.
By the time Chen Xin finished clearing the snow from the vents and went down the way he came up before, Han Ping and the Mo sisters had already cleared a large area at the entrance of the shelter.
"Your hands and feet are very nimble, Dragon Niang!" Chen Xinchong greeted Mo Qingyan.
"Aren't you too slow? Have you shoveled all the snow?" Mo Qingyan seemed to be in a good mood today and did not have a cold face towards Chen Xin like before.
"Well, it's all cleaned up. The observation windows and vents are a bit frozen, but it didn't take much effort." Chen Xin explained the situation to Mo Qingyan, then waved the shovel and worked with her to clean the door. of snow.
The snow brought by the previous snowstorm piled up at the gate of Chen Xin's shelter to a depth of more than four meters. Although it was only that deep near the gate, and the snow became shallower the further you dug out, but It is not an easy task to shovel all the snow.
Even with an exoskeleton on his body, he can shovel a large area of snow without much effort, but if he wants to dig out snow with an average depth of more than two meters and an area of at least one to two hundred square meters in front of the door, it will be difficult for him to do so. It is also a quite huge project.
Fortunately, including Chen Xin, a total of six people were wearing exoskeletons. Even if Chen Xin's parents were less able to work due to their age, the cleaning efficiency was still not low.
From morning to lunch time, a large area of snow at the door had been cleared away, revealing the door that was originally buried in the snow, as well as a small open space at the door.
"Okay, let's just stop here in the morning, have lunch and rest, and then do the rest of the work in the afternoon." Chen Xin took the initiative and invited the Mo sisters and his parents to rest.
Just as Chen Xin was saying this, Han Ze's voice suddenly came from the communicator on his body: "Mr. Chen, there is a light in the distance!"
