My Abandoned Oil Town Became a New Frontline - Chapter 5

[Chapter 5 Repairing the exterior wall]

“That’s true! No matter how good the shelter is, it won’t last a few days!”

He Shan nodded in agreement.

Camping tests your overall quality, especially eating, which is the top priority.

In terms of eating, Xu Xing does not behave like a camping expert. A real camping expert would probably have started cooking with a gas stove by now. Even if he doesn’t know how to cook, he can cook a pot of soup with water. dough instead of dry chewing compressed cookies.

“Let’s go!”

After saying that,

Liu Ning immediately turned around and walked towards his camp.

At this moment,

Liu Ning no longer wanted to pay attention to Xu Xing’s safety tonight. He just wanted to wait for Xu Xing to go home because he couldn’t hold on to food. Because he knew very well that with this shelter, Xu Xing would definitely sleep very comfortably and safely tonight. .

On the other side,

Xu Xing didn’t know the actions and thoughts of Liu Ning and others. As the sky got darker, a small bonfire was already lit in the ruins.

As a top chef, how could he not make hot dishes?

It’s just that I really didn’t have time, so I made do with compressed biscuits.

After setting up the tent in the afternoon, I went to the surrounding ruins to pick up some scrap wood that could be used to make a fire. I also fixed a solar panel that I had bought a long time ago on the outer wall. I then studied the scrap pawn system for a while, and it was not until this moment that it became real. of rest.

Of course,

the solar power panels can only be temporarily fixed, and another location will have to be chosen later.

“Oh! That’s it for today. Tomorrow we will figure out how to fix the exterior wall! The pickup truck will have to make do after all! As long as the exterior wall is patched up, and then we can figure out how to put wooden rafters on the four walls and cover them with grass and mud, it will be a real The small room.”

Looking around at the earthen walls,

Xu Xing sighed slightly.

During the day, he still thought a little simple.

I originally thought that the pickup truck would be able to block the wind, but this shelter would last for at least a few days. I could delay the work on the exterior wall, build an earthen pot stove first, and then have a nice meal!

But in fact, when the sharp northwest wind blows, the camping tent set up in the corner will still whir and make a lot of noise.

It’s neither warm nor quiet, so I can’t sleep peacefully at night.

So we can only change our plans temporarily!

Do the exterior wall first, and then do the rest step by step once the exterior wall is built.

“However, repairing the exterior wall is a big project. It may not be completed in one day. I will probably have to continue to eat compressed biscuits or snacks in the past two days.”

Xu Xing chewed a mouthful of dry compressed biscuits.

This abandoned oil town was built in the 1970s and 1980s. In addition to the red brick floors, the houses inside are all made of old-fashioned square adobe bricks.

In other words, this ruined exterior wall must be built with this kind of adobe to fit perfectly.

It was too late to make adobe and then dry it in the sun. We could only pick out the intact and undamaged ones from other ruins, tear down the east wall and repair the west wall!

This item is estimated to take a lot of time.

In addition, repairing the exterior walls requires a lot of mud in addition to adobe!

There is no mud, and the exterior wall made entirely of adobe will fall down when pushed. It is not only unsafe but also increases potential safety hazards.

“Water? Where can we get water tomorrow? There seems to be a small river in the north of the town. Forget it, set the alarm and rest first. We’ll talk about tomorrow’s things when we get up early tomorrow. The more I think about it, the more things I think about!” Xu Xing

scratched his head and

finished chewing the last bite of compressed biscuits. Got into the tent.

At this time, he finally felt a strong sense of fatigue. His eyelids had begun to fight with fatigue, and he really couldn’t hold on without rest.

Setting the alarm clock at night is to get up and add some firewood to the bonfire.

The night is vast and the sky is filled with stars!

The night sky in the northwest is particularly deep, as if lonely, and emptiness has become synonymous with the northwest.

No one knew that there were two more bonfires in a small town that had been abandoned for decades, and no one knew that the two bonfires had brought a little life to the town.

Not long after Xu Xing got into the tent, he heard snoring.

There was no more conversation all night.

At 6:30 the next morning, when the white fish belly appeared in the east for more than ten minutes, the ruined tent in a corner was opened again.

“Huh!”

Xu Xing stretched out, rubbed his eyes, and glanced at the extinguished bonfire.

I slept okay last night. Although it was windy, the tent was fixed in a corner of the ruins. At least there was no problem in terms of safety. However, there is one thing to say, no matter how good the tent and sleeping bag are, they are not as good as those youth hostels that cost tens of dollars a night.

That feeling is really different!

“Work! Finish the outer wall first and then think about other things.” Xu Xing

said to himself.

Just when he turned around and planned to wash up briefly, he was suddenly stunned.

It turned out that he didn’t know when the pile of wood and iron piled up outside the ruins. The nail has disappeared without a trace. Apparently, the pawn system has taken back all the scraps.

“I didn’t even hear any movement. How on earth were they taken away?”

After returning to his senses,

Xu Xing muttered to himself in confusion and stopped paying attention.

In fact, no matter what method the system uses to recover those things, as long as it does not attract other people’s attention and the pawn value can be used to buy things in the system mall, the process is actually not important.

In this way,

a few minutes later, Xu Xing, who had finished washing, came to another ruins with gloves and an engineering shovel, and began the real life of “moving bricks”.

Xu Xing got up early here, and on the other side of the town,

Liu Ning and others also got out of the tent!

Compared with Xu Xing, the sleep quality of Liu Ning and the others seemed not as high as expected, and everyone had big dark circles under their eyes.

“Brother Liu, this ghost place is really amazing!”

He Shan curled his lips and couldn’t help but complain.

They basically didn’t sleep much last night. Several people took turns lighting a bonfire. The temperature was not a problem, but the whistling wind was a bit unbearable.

“In this way, after we have something to eat, we will also clean up a ruins and set up the tent in the corner like Xu Xing did! Otherwise, we will have insomnia again tonight.”

Liu Ning rubbed the center of his brow in pain.

He also didn’t expect the northwest wind at night to be like that.

For convenience, they had pitched the tent on the back of a ruined building. Although it was flat, there was no obstruction on three sides. Especially in the middle of the night, when a gust of wind blew by, it felt like the tent was about to be lifted up by its roots.

Can’t sleep at all!

“Cleaning up a ruin? Brother Liu, what about Xu Xing?”

He Shan paused after hearing the arrangement.

According to the plan, starting from this morning, they will keep an eye on Xu Xing’s every move until they can no longer hold on and leave the town.

“No delay, it’s not too late to wait for us to clear out a ruins and then go over and take a look! Xu Xing was able to build one in half an afternoon yesterday, and the four of us will probably finish it in more than two hours!”

Liu Ning waved his hand.

He was really fed up with the feeling of constant ringing in his ears. If it continued like this tonight, he would really collapse.

“More than two hours? That’s okay! If it’s because of eating, Xu Xing should be able to continue today! Maybe he will collapse after two or three days!”

After thinking about it,

He Shan felt that what Liu Ning said made sense.

More than two hours really doesn’t make any difference.

(End of chapter)