"From the current situation, we must add six to ten dehumidifiers to the food warehouse of the nuclear submarine base and replace the desiccant regularly to ensure the storage time of food, especially food.

Fortunately, the models of several spare diesel generator sets in the nuclear submarine base are old enough that they can burn without chips, otherwise we can only rely on Lu Jiao to generate electricity.

If even the warehouses of our modified nuclear submarine base cannot store food for a long time, we will have to go south to a place where fresh food can be obtained all year round.

Now we have a summer time to test the storage effect, or try to grow some vegetables indoors. If we are sure we can't spend the winter here, we will start going south in the autumn."

After five minutes of despair, Chu Dong raised his head again, and his expression firmly explained the solution to microbial mutation.

"elder brother……"

"Xiaodong..."

Seeing Chu Dong's strong eyes as strong as ever, his sister, childhood sweethearts, and other members of the team were also infected, and he mustered up the courage to continue to fight for survival.

But only Chu Dong himself knew that he was not really so strong, and he was also very desperate about the future. But the problem now is... they didn't even have time to despair. Every time a minute they delayed, the microorganisms that had obtained mutation or evolution reproduced a little, and more intact foods were contaminated and moldy and spoiled.

Moreover, he knew more clearly that 70% to 80% of the ground had been hardened and that animals, plants and insects were quite sparse. It would be difficult to cross the roads in the deep mountains and forests. If possible, he still hoped to stay local.

"By the way, don't put mineral water and pure water directly into the mouth in the future. Try to boil all the water before drinking it."

Thinking of the dark side of the manufacturing of a famous brand of mineral water, Chu Dong reminded everyone in particular, and then led everyone to continue to carry food, bedding, paper and other supplies that were afraid of getting damp and prone to mold.

At this time, the benefits of the mutant insects' size increased dramatically. Even if they hide among the materials, they will be quickly discovered and killed when moving - especially when Chu Dong specifically reminds everyone not to bring the mutant insects back to the material warehouse of the nuclear submarine base.

However, they encountered difficulties when looking for a dehumidifier.

In this community built by the sea, many people have indeed purchased household dehumidifiers. Dehumidifiers of almost all types and brands can be found in high, medium and low-end dehumidifiers.

However, even the lowest-end model is the so-called "smart appliances". It uses various chips to automatically control the machine to work. After all the circuit components inside are scrapped, these smart appliances will all become scrap iron, and even if Lu Jiao powers them on, they will not work.

Fortunately, Nie Chenxing, a home appliance repairman who claims to be a "technical home", said that as long as the compressor and other working parts inside are not broken, it is enough. He can bypass the original control circuit and reconnect a guillotine switch like a junior high school student doing a physical experiment to achieve the simplest compressor operation and stop function.

Although there is no need to expect precise humidity control in this way, as long as they use it more, they can naturally control humidity by turning on the dehumidifier every day. Even if they are not smart at all, it doesn’t matter.

What's more, they put the dehumidifier in the warehouse, but they hope that the dryer the air in the warehouse, the better, and it's best to be as dry as a desert. Even if a mutant insect or a mutant mouse sneaks in, it will quickly become a mummy.

Moreover, because they occupy the nuclear submarine base, they do not need to worry about the diesel used for power generation for a while. In the base's oil warehouse, it is certainly impossible not to store diesel used for conventional power submarines.

When Chu Dong and his friends transferred all the materials that needed moisture-proof in the office building to various warehouses in the nuclear submarine base, they brought the mercury snake "Samael" carefully cleaned the inside and near the warehouse, and wiped out dozens of mutant insects and three mutant mice.

The mercury snake is very powerful in the battle with mutant insects and mutant mice. Its body has completely turned into liquid mercury. The opponent's attack will penetrate directly like it hits water. When it entangles the opponent's body and strangles it, the mercury body can become as tough as metal.

Moreover, even if this liquid body is broken, it can automatically gather together again. To a certain extent, it is simply an immortal body. Power superpowers like my sister can basically have no choice but to use it, but Lu Jiao may be able to directly vaporize and evaporate its body with ultra-high voltage current.

——In the battle with the mutant mouse who was hiding in a corner a few days ago, the mercury snake, which was only one meter long, used this special ability to snatch the opponent's attack and entangled the mutant mouse whose size was about the same size as a cat, and won the victory like a scoundrel.

In addition, since its body is made of liquid mercury, it can pass as long as there is a gap that allows liquid mercury to penetrate, which makes it have great advantages in action.

The most important thing is that this ghost-headed and twilight snake is also very smart in battle and can make full use of its advantages and terrain advantages. So after confirming that it can eat mercury, mutant insects and mutant animals, Chu Dong left it in the underground base, so that the mercury snake that seemed to be able to understand some human words was responsible for cleaning up the "invaders" in the underground base.

In order to make this ghost work honestly, the old military doctor also promised to give it some mercury occasionally as a reward. It seems that Chu Dong and the others have to try to get some mercury back when they go out to search for supplies in the future.

When the sky was completely dark, my sister lit the prepared fire pit and immediately hid with everyone. The phototaxis of the insects caused many mutant insects to rush into the deep fire pit, and their wings and legs were burned before climbing out, and they could only helplessly become fuel to continue to harm later generations.

Although fire pits are only effective for certain nocturnal insects and cannot completely solve the enemies in the farmland, they also give everyone some psychological comfort - and just to effectively eliminate mosquitoes, the fire pit scheme has enough value.

"Although there are quite a few mutated insects here now, they are not even worth a drop in the amount of egg laying in the insects.

I think the number of surviving animals and insects in the process of mutating is greatly reduced. After another month or two, the number of mutated insects that reproduce faster, such as mosquitoes, is likely to increase greatly, and in another year or two, various mutated animals may also begin to flood.

They will gradually form a balance with the mutated monsters and the evolved plants, forming a new ecosystem, and the surviving humans... and surviving animals and insects will become ‘ethnic minorities’ and become dispensable parts of this ecosystem.”

At night, in the living room that is illuminated by moonlight, Chu Dong stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass door, looking at the fire pit that is still burning in the yard through the metal guardrail that is usually used to replace the fence, and calmly analyzing the future changes of the earth's situation.

Such a "high-end" issue is not something he has to worry about. He just needs to pay taxes honestly in his life and live happily, and everyone is good. However, in this end of the world where he can only protect himself and decide the direction of his own, even if he is unable to do so, he has to take on the responsibility of the leader.

——Unless he is willing to give up his power to decide his own destiny and hand over this small team of survivors to someone else’s leadership.

“With our food reserves, perhaps in the next six months or even a year, we can still hide here…or in the underground base, without doing anything, and without having to go out and take risks.

But in this case, we may face a truly desperate situation in the next spring.

So I plan to go to the city to conduct a search for supplies and survivors tomorrow - especially survivors. It is impossible for a few of us to grow and grow. We must obtain more population.

Our advantage is that on the way to the city, we have to pass through two famous universities, Binhai Maritime University and Binhai Polytechnic University. Moreover, the surviving students in these two universities are much more useful than the survivors of the University of Finance and Economics, the Binhai Software Park that is farther away, or the survivors of the Binhai Jiaotong University and Hualiao Normal University where we were originally located.

Therefore, this search operation will start with the University of Science and Technology, followed by the Maritime University. After searching these two places, we will walk back and collect the survivors we met along the way.

——I originally thought that nearby survivors should have gathered to us on their own, but perhaps the ordinary monsters who left here because of the threat of BOSS-level monsters had eaten all the survivors who fled here. So far, we have not received a survivor!

I believe that if any survivors escape to this nearby, they will definitely be able to tell from the huge skulls we hung up to drive away ordinary monsters that this place is a territory controlled by humans, and they will try every means to escape in.

But the current situation can only show that those survivors who are wandering outside are blocked by monsters and cannot escape, or that there are no survivors outside of us.

So continuing to sit here and wait for others to join us is undoubtedly waiting for the rabbit. If we want to increase the population, we can only go and rescue them in person!”
Chapter completed!