Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 12 Food Storage
The four of them raised their glasses and drank it all in one gulp.

The water had no taste, but Lu Yuning felt it was extremely sweet.

This is already the fourth day of their doomsday. Although they relied on food to replenish water before, it was far less thirst-quenching than clean water.

After taking this sip, it seemed that the fatigue caused by the exhaustion of supernatural powers was relieved a lot.

"I thought that after waking up in this park, I would never have the chance to drink clean water again, but I didn't expect to drink boiled water so soon." Wu Xiao was almost moved to tears.

"The end of the world isn't that difficult. I wonder how humans in the urban areas are doing." Zou Yunxin became a little proud.

"Don't be so proud. We are just lucky and our special abilities are just right for us." Zhang Xinyue glared at him and said.

"I know, hehe."

"However, humans in urban areas should be living much better than us now, but their difficult days may have just begun," said Zhang Xinyue.

"What?"

"The battery is out, right?" Lu Yuning thought for a moment and said.

"Yeah." Zhang Xinyue nodded.

"The power is out now?"

"There are no street lights in our park, so you may not feel anything." Lu Yuning said.

"The city's electricity consumption should be mainly thermal power generation. After humans disappear, it can actually still operate on its own for a period of time. The duration of this operation mainly depends on the amount of residual fuel in the furnace."

"Normally, it should only last about two days. However, considering that after humans disappear, factories will stop working, electricity consumption will also decrease accordingly, and power plants will automatically adjust their power generation, so it should last a few more days. It will be shut down in the next few days."

Several people looked at Lu Yuning in surprise. They didn't expect that he knew so much.

Looking at everyone's expressions, Lu Yuning smiled and said, "I just happened to have looked up some knowledge on this."

Everyone showed an expression of "I see."

"What will happen after the power outage? It should be better than ours, right?" Wu Xiao asked.

Lu Yuning pondered for a moment, shook his head slightly and said, "Electricity itself is fine, but the resources related to electricity are the biggest problem, such as tap water."

Wu Xiao opened his mouth and seemed to understand.

"It's actually not easy for us to drink water now. Like Xinyue said, we are lucky. My special abilities and Lao Zou's can be used together."

"But what's more important is that there's a river not far away. This way we can get drinking water as quickly as possible. If there's no water source, no matter how useful our abilities are, they'll be meaningless."

"Oh, won't we all die of thirst?" Wu Xiao said with a sigh.

Except for Lu Yuning, the expressions of the other three people were a little gloomy.

Lu Yuning understood that he had no relatives alive after all, but the safety of his relatives was a problem that the three of them, or most people, did not want to face but had to face.

Zhang Xinyue almost burst into tears again.

Lu Yuning saw this, slowed down, looked at the others and said in a deep voice: "That may not be the case. We are not the only smart ones."

"Before the power went out, smart humans would definitely try every possible way to store water. If that didn't work... there's still toilet water. And they could find a way to light a fire at home. While there are safety risks, it's not a dead end."

"In short, as I said before, humans can reach the top of the food chain because of their wisdom."

Lu Yuning concluded with one sentence.

They were silent for a while, and it was obvious that it would not be easy to accept it in the short term.

"Then, should we go to the urban area?" Zou Yunxin was the first to recover and suddenly asked.

"We'll see later. There's a stable water source here, but materials are scarce, so there are pros and cons. But the residential area is at least three kilometers away. At our current pace, walking during the day and resting at night, it will take at least four days."

Obviously, we don’t have the ability to explore long distances yet; we need at least a certain amount of food and water storage, and we also need the ability to protect ourselves.”

Lu Yuning said.

The three nodded and did not continue talking about this topic.

"Okay, let's stop here. We still have a lot of things to do." Lu Yuning looked at the sun, which had already risen to half the sky.

"What are we going to do today? Do I still need to collect materials?" Wu Xiao asked.

"How about we deal with the grapes first? Yu Ning just mentioned food storage. This is indeed a problem. We are moving slowly now, and we can only expand the exploration area after we have a certain amount of material reserves." Zhang Xinyue suggested.

"Agree." Lu Yuning raised his hand in agreement.

The other two naturally had no objection, but this matter did not require so many people. The four of them discussed it again and felt that more purified water needed to be stored.

So they split into two teams, Lu Yuning and Wu Xiao were responsible for drying the grapes, while Zhang Xinyue and Zou Yunxin were responsible for continuing to purify the water.

"Brother Yuning, can we put these grapes directly in the middle of the road to dry?" Wu Xiao asked.

"We need to get a ventilated slatted tray and put the grapes on it, otherwise they will easily rot. They need to be dried in the sun for three or four days... But I have an idea, I don't know if it will work, so I'll try it first." Lu Yuning said.

"Okay." Wu Xiao nodded and believed Lu Yuning's words unconditionally.

Lu Yuning's idea is very simple. The main principle of drying grapes is to dry out the moisture inside without rotting the food.

Why not try cutting the grapes into smaller pieces so that the water evaporates faster?

Under normal circumstances, this is unlikely, but Lu Yuning's special ability can do just that.

The two of them got to work right away. First of all, they needed a drying rack. Considering that there were ants nearby, they also had to take precautions.

At Wu Xiao's suggestion, Lu Yuning decided to make the drying rack into an inverted trapezoidal shape so that it would be difficult for ants to climb up.

"This guy is obviously very smart," Lu Yuning muttered to himself.

Wu Xiao hangs out with Zou Yunxin every day, and has fun with him whenever he has nothing to do.

Lu Yuning originally thought that he had a simple personality similar to Zou Yunxin, but gradually discovered that it was not the case.

Wu Xiao is a person with a delicate mind and high emotional intelligence, otherwise he would not have become so familiar with several people so quickly. Now it seems that his IQ is not low either.

……

Lu Yuning can now use materials such as branches. Since it needs to be made into an inverted trapezoid and things need to be placed on it, he decided to use branches, which are much stronger.

The height should be two centimeters, higher than them, to prevent big black ants.

The things were ready quickly, and the next step was to process the grapes.

Lu Yuning and Wu Xiao first peeled the grape skins, then took out the pulp inside, crushed it and melted it into palm-sized pieces, then crushed the grape skins again and wrapped the small grape particles again.

This breaks the grapes into dozens of miniature grapes. From their perspective, grapes of this size look like real grapes.

The small grapes are only a few millimeters in diameter and should dry quickly, so there is no need to worry about them rotting over time.

"Okay, Brother Yuning, it's my turn next." Wu Xiao said.

Since the drying rack is relatively high, it would be best to use Wu Xiao's special ability to transfer the grapes to it.

Wu Xiao's mind moved, and a few miniature grapes disappeared from his hands, and then appeared one by one on the drying rack.

(End of this chapter)