End of the World

On the second day, everyone gathered together and began to clean the power station. The open space was covered with piles of fallen leaves.

Meng Zihan is responsible for room allocation. Except for Wu Bin who can choose by himself, everyone else has to draw lots. Some rooms have poor lighting, so the drawing of lots depends entirely on luck.

Wu Bin asked the old members to clean up the warehouse, while the others cleaned up the fallen leaves outside and dug a hole outside the power station to bury the dead bats.

Wu Bin told Chen Haitao not to let anyone get close to the password door of the motor room in the functional area because there were extraordinary things inside.

Inside the giant warehouse, after a night of fermentation, the smell was really strong. There were still three or two bats left, and they seemed unwilling to leave.

Everyone started cleaning with brooms, and a fire truck drove in, ready to release water to clean the ground.

"Xinghua!"

As soon as Wu Bin shouted, he knew what was going on. Qiao Xinghua waved his hands, then covered his forehead and said, "Let's go!"

"Then I'll leave it to you!"

Wu Bin took a few people away, and Qiao Xinghua was helpless. Damn it, the "culprit" from Dafeng actually ran away with them.

The huge warehouse looked a little yellow under the lights, which could change color.

Further inside the warehouse were two reflective-painted Mengshi armored vehicles, similar to the armored assault vehicles that Chen Guangjun used when he served in the shelter. However, these two vehicles had anti-tank missile launch rails on their roofs, giving them even greater firepower.

Wu Bin opened the driver's door and found that the film on the seat was not even torn off.

"Nice car!" Chen Guangjun reached out and touched the cold car body. This light armored vehicle has good performance and is better than the self-modified Hummer.

"Why are there no tanks?" said Dafeng at the back.

"Do you think this is an armored battalion? A power station with a few armored vehicles is considered high-end." Chen Guangjun couldn't help but roll his eyes.

There is also a passage on the side that extends deeper, forming a downward passage that is wide and high enough for a Mengshi to pass through.

The four of them moved forward cautiously. Without checking, who would know whether it was safe inside?

After the passage extended for several hundred meters, the slope became gentler and an explosion-proof door appeared at the end of the passage.

Chen Guangjun measured the area with his footsteps as he walked over. He was secretly shocked. This place should be more than 30 meters underground, a standard air defense and chemical defense shelter.

It seems unusual for a power station to have such space.

"Can this door be opened?" Dafeng tapped the surface with his hand, but there was no metallic echo, which showed that the door was very heavy.

"Let me try." He Yuxin walked forward to the password input port, but the password she tried did not work because the wrong password was entered and the red warning light in the passage lit up.

"They didn't reset the password here. I guess there will be a supply warehouse behind the door!" Chen Guangjun said. It seems that Qishan has many secrets.

Wu Bin stared at the gate and thought, why did the dead soldiers in the generator room come here? Could it be for the Qishan base that was somewhere unknown?

The four people who couldn't open the door turned back. The cleaning work was almost finished. The fire truck had started pumping water and was washing the ground with high-pressure water.

After the water was washed dry, Fang Xiaoyun put on protective clothing and held a water sprayer to start disinfecting the entire warehouse.

The general cleaning was nearing its end, and Wu Bin gathered everyone together. Meng Zihan marked the building numbers on the whiteboard. Each building had two floors and four rooms in total. Except for Wu Bin who could occupy two rooms on one floor, the others needed two to three people to a room.

No one had any objection to this arrangement; having a room was better than squeezing in a car.

Next is the lottery session, which is divided into two draws. The first draw determines the order of the draw, and the second draws the room number.

First, let everyone decide with whom they will share a room. The principle is that non-married couples are not allowed to share a room on the same floor, and men and women are separated.

If roommates have not been decided, they will be assigned randomly. There are a total of 40 rooms, and Wu Bin’s two rooms will be crossed out. Thirty-eight tickets should be placed in the box.

However, Qiao Xinghua specifically pointed out that they wanted to live downstairs from Wu Bin and reserve two more rooms, so only thirty-six lots were put in. Everyone had no objection. The old members didn't mind, but the new members didn't want to live downstairs from their leader.

Meng Zihan recorded the draw results in the register.

The power station itself has strong defense capabilities, and is surrounded by electrified barbed wire. Wu Bin asked Leng Chuan to optimize the monitoring system so that most areas of the power station can be seen.

The next step was to prepare to grow food. In the new area cordoned off by the army, they cut down several large trees, cleared a piece of open space, and planted vegetables on it.

It is even past the late rice planting season now, and more importantly, it is still unknown whether the soil here is suitable for growing crops.

Plant various crops on a small scale for testing, otherwise it would be a waste of seeds.

Time flies. After a week, everyone got used to life in the power station and everything was arranged in an orderly manner.

Chen Guangjun took people out every day, one to survey the nearby terrain, and the other to hunt some animals to supplement food.

Wu Bin is preparing to start tree planting and has people go out and dig up a lot of small trees. This will be a long-term project, which will basically create a denser forest around the power station.

If grafting is implemented, the time can be shortened a lot, but unfortunately no one in the team is proficient in gardening techniques.

Another worrying thing is that the main control room of the power station cannot be entered. According to the electrician, the water turbine cannot operate continuously and has a maintenance cycle.

Water drives the turbine to generate power, which is then transferred to the generator. Friction will be generated in the process, so lubricating oil is needed.

Only a few people knew the situation inside the power station, and if it got out it would cause panic. Wu Bin had no idea of ​​a way to get in, and the two bodies at the door were a warning.

Wu Bin took three electricians to the generator control panel on the first floor to study it, and found that the dam's water inlet channel and flood discharge gate could not be opened directly there.

To be more specific, it needs to be set up in the main control room. When the generator starts, the safety device's default channel is opened and can only be closed in the main control room. In other words, the generator can be stopped now, but the water turbine channel cannot be closed.

If the passage is not closed, the turbine will continue to run until the lubricating oil is exhausted and the bearings are stuck.

There are three channels under the dam, and the other two are closed. They are used to drive the generators inside.

The flood discharge channel was closed, but fortunately there was an old hydraulic press outside that could be opened manually.

Leng Chuan was going to a communication tower a few kilometers away. If he could control it, he could not only establish communications in the Qishan area, but also establish the team's own radio channel.

Since entering Qishan, the radio has been unable to find any signal and the fun seems to have been reduced.

Military signal towers can transmit signals over a distance of one to two thousand kilometers, and more importantly, they have built-in encryption.

Dafeng had nothing to do, so he took Lengchuan and Lan Yuxuan there.

Meanwhile, Wu Bin was entangled by Zhou Pan, the former military advisor of the Jianghe Gang. He didn't look like a bad person, but he always liked to sell his ideas. Of course, he was not completely useless.

"Captain, I think it is absolutely necessary to find a way to get a set of machine tools back!"

CNC machine tools are very important mechanical manufacturing equipment. Almost all machine parts manufacturing cannot be separated from them. Zhao Bofeng often says that it would be great if he had machine tools so that he could grind the parts himself.

The most important thing is that the fleet now meets the conditions and has continuous and stable electricity, so no matter how loud the noise is, it will not be a problem in the deep mountains and forests.

Besides, the sound of water flowing in the dam is quite loud.

"You didn't accept the commission? You're working so hard!" Wu Bin knew Zhou Pan was right, but now was not the right time, so he refused.

Machine tools are not available everywhere and are not easy to find. For this reason, Zhou Pan did his homework. He could not use the team's map, but he had the Jianghe Gang's map book.

"There will be machine tools here, and this may also be there. It doesn't matter if we can't find them. There must be one in the machinery factory!" Zhou Pan took out the map and pointed to the three circles on it.

"Ah Xi!" Wu Bin held his forehead with his hands, not knowing how to deal with this guy.

"Why don't you go explore the way first?" Wu Bin said.

Hearing this, Zhou Pan sneered. What was the difference between him going there himself and going there for free? These three places were all high-risk areas.

At this time, He Yuxin came over with a summary catalog of the fleet's supplies in her hand. She had finally sorted them out over the past few days, but at the current consumption rate, it would not last long.

If there is no alternative, you have to get it from outside.

Wu Bin looked at the catalog and rubbed his face. Why are there more things to do after settling down?

At the power station, there is no shortage of food and fresh water, but there are too few daily necessities, most of which cannot be produced by themselves and can only be obtained from the outside world.

"I will think about it!"

Wu Bin was thinking about whether he should organize an expedition team regularly, whose main task was to obtain survival supplies.

"Zhou Pan, are you sure you can find the machine tool on the map?" Wu Bin looked at him and asked.

"I can't guarantee it, just like I can't guarantee that the store will have goods!" said Zhou Pan.

"Okay, I'm going to send someone out, you come with me!" Wu Bin said, and left with He Yuxin.

Zhou Pan was surprised. He agreed so quickly?

"Brother Pan!" Fang Yilu called out timidly. She didn't dare to come over because Wu Bin was around.

"What are you doing here!" Zhou Pan felt helpless, as if he was sticking to him.

"Do the laundry!" Fang Yiliu pointed to the bucket filled with clothes under the tree. Seeing him like this, she felt a little sad.

"Well, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first." Zhou Pan nodded, turned and left. Fang Yilu looked at him, lowered his head silently, and went back with the bucket.

Fang Yilui would subconsciously lower her head when she saw people. Because of past experiences, she, like several other women from the Jianghe Gang, felt very inferior and could not act like normal girls.

"Yi Liu!" He Yuxin knew her situation. After separating from Wu Bin, she saw her walking towards her and called her in a low voice.

Fang Yiliu's body trembled. He looked up and saw He Yuxin, but he didn't dare to look directly at her. In his heart, he thought of her as an unattainable person.

"Sister Yuxin!" she greeted.

She is a few years older than He Yuxin, so the word "sister" really sounds a bit harsh.

"Are you busy?" He Yuxin didn't know how to talk to her, so she asked in a normal tone.

"No hurry!" Fang Yilu quickly put down the bucket. Her previous survival experience made her dare not offend any old members of the team, especially He Yuxin and Meng Zihan.