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Each house also has two doors leading to the next room, through which it is possible to walk through all the rooms without going out.

This design is to facilitate everyone's access to public toilets and public canteens.

In addition, there is a hollow iron pipe connecting all the rooms along those doors.

The source of the iron pipes is located in the cafeteria. Whenever the cafeteria starts to burn, heat will be transmitted to every room along these iron pipes.

Simply put, it is the heating pipe.

It can be said that in order to be able to survive this winter, Li Fan has used all the preparations he can think of.

Of course, he also considered the matter of firewood.

Of the more than 30 rooms, only 20 are used for living, and the rest are all firewood houses.

In the absence of coal, firewood and charcoal are indispensable for cooking and heating in winter.

Therefore, more than a dozen firewood houses were built, and all of them were built on the outermost periphery, which can also play a role in resisting some wind and snow.

……

Li Fan and the others went through all the rooms, and everyone is very satisfied with these houses now.

I am getting more and more confident about getting through this winter.

Although the house has been built, there are still many things to be busy.

At this time, the firewood room is still empty, and the firewood has not been burned, and a large amount of charcoal is still needed.

Here Li Fan also has to thank the dwarves for their strong support.

As a forging dwarf, it can be said that what they lack most is metal and the charcoal needed for forging metal.

There was nothing to say, Gu Li took the space ring and two other level 2 dwarf fighters on the spot, and took turns going back and forth between the sinful town and the gathering place of the dwarves.

By the way, Li Fan can now rely on the interaction of favorability every day to get a full 108 bond points.

In 5 days, he saved another 540 bond points.

In order to make Guli and the others work more efficiently.

Li Fan "reluctantly" upgraded his space ring to 8 cubic meters on the spot.

Plus Dozina's space ring.

One can carry almost 5 tons of charcoal back and forth.

And the three of Gu Li went back and forth between the two places at the fastest speed, and they could go back and forth 5,6 or [-] times in a whole day.

It is estimated that more than a dozen firewood houses can be filled in a few days.

As long as the heavy snow doesn't appear tomorrow, the charcoal business can be considered settled.

Now, the only problem left is food.

Chapter 93 Food Problems

Cold Winter City, a border city with a population of tens of thousands, is not only the junction point between the sinful forest and the human empire, but also an important threshold to defend the orc empire.

Under the protection of the huge 30-meter-high city wall, the citizens in the city should have lived and worked in peace and contentment.

But ever since the news of the Year of God's Retribution spread throughout the human empire, the whole city has fallen into panic.

Big people and wealthy families are fine, they can use their rights and money to make adequate preparations to allow themselves to successfully survive the coming long winter.

However, most of the civilians in the city were not so lucky. Under the panic, the price of goods rose. The original 1 copper coin for black bread now rose to 2 copper coins, and the 2 copper coin per catty of wheat also rose to 5 copper coins.

The charcoal that is indispensable in winter has not been found, and the vast majority of civilians know that they may not be able to survive this winter.

This made them very confused, why the so-called God's Punishment punished them, the low-level civilians who have been honest and responsible all their lives.

Bart didn't even look at the desperate-looking civilians on the street. He walked quickly towards the City Lord's Mansion, his heart full of anxiety.

As early as two days ago, he returned to Cold Winter City. However, he came to see the Lord Caton several times, but he never got the chance to meet him.

Bart didn't know when the baron who had a grudge against him would find out that he had returned to Winter City.

He now only hopes to see the city lord Caton as soon as possible.

Finally, today the city lord is willing to see him.

Excited and terrified, Bart followed his servants all the way into the City Lord's Mansion.

"My lord, Bart has already brought it."

"bring in"

As the door of the study was slowly opened, Bart finally met the owner of this Winter City - Lenny Carton.

Short silver hair, a majestic square face, and a pair of eyes piercing like sharp swords.

With just one glance, Bart couldn't help but kneel down at the feet of the man in front of him.

Caton seemed to be used to it, and he didn't tell Bart to stand up, and said casually: "I heard about Howard's death two days ago, but I asked people who came back from Sin Town, and even the mercenary guild didn't know. Know who the murderer is, and you say you know who the murderer is?"

"Yes, my lord, I just happened to know something," Bart said without any concealment, and said everything he knew.

Caton nodded, "It turned out to be a senior blacksmith. No wonder Howard would give up my test. I already know the general situation. I will help you complete your request, provided that what you said is true. Now Go down first."

With joy on his face, Bart hurriedly got up, saluted respectfully, and then left the study with the servants.

At this time, a man who was about eight points similar to Katon came from the other side of the study.

"Father, do you need me to take someone to kill that Li Fan immediately? By the way, bring that senior blacksmith dwarf back to you?"

Carton looked up at his son and shook his head, "Yurand, I have said many times, you have to think carefully before doing things, even the dead Howard did better than you, God's Punishment No one can tell when the snow will fall in the winter of [-], and if you act at this time, you are betting on your own life and the lives of the knights, and it is not worth it."

Yolande Carton hammered down the sofa in front of him unwillingly, "Then Howard died in vain?"

"Of course not." Lenny Carton showed a sneer, "If Li Fan dares to come to Winter City, he won't be able to escape. If he doesn't come to Winter City, he won't be able to survive this winter, even if..."

Lenny Caton glanced at the mountains in the distance, and seemed to see the ferocious monsters in the mountains, "Even if he finds a refuge in the heavy snow in winter, he will not be able to escape the subsequent beast tide. Although it is a pity, the senior blacksmith, But we should be more prepared to deal with the beast tide that may appear at any time."

……

The house is finally completed, and the charcoal is constantly being transported back.

Just when Li Fan thought he could breathe a sigh of relief, Anna found him.

Anna came to Li Fan for a reason.

As I said before, in addition to keeping warm, there are two problems to be solved in order to survive the Year of God's Retribution.

One is residence.

The other is food.

Food is not less important than where you live.

How can a body survive winter without fat support?

When the house was finished, hunting and storing food became the first priority.

What Anna is worried about now is how to store the prey she hunted. Without a clue, she found Li Fan almost instinctively.

After all, no matter what problems the person in front of him encountered, he always seemed to be able to think of a way to solve them.

Anna herself didn't realize that she already had a strong sense of dependence on Li Fan without knowing it.

Li Fan listened to Anna's troubles quietly, and understood what was going on after listening.

The horror of God's Year of Retribution is not only the snowstorm and low temperature, but the suddenness is even more terrifying.

Perhaps yesterday was a clear sky, and the temperature was as high as a scorching summer. As long as the snow falls, the next day will be able to drip into ice.

In just a few hours, the temperature difference can reach tens of degrees.

This kind of thing can only appear in disaster movies on earth, but it really exists in the winter of the year of God's punishment.

Originally, the way for the orcs to store food for the winter was to make some dried meat on weekdays. When winter came, when the temperature was neither high nor low, they hunted a lot. It is not easy to rot, and when the winter officially comes, the heavy snow falls, and then the prey can be kept in the heavy snow for a whole winter.

But in the winter of God’s Retribution Year, there is no way to predict the time of snowfall. Premature hunting will cause the prey to rot, and hunting too late will lead to food shortage. Especially this winter is destined to be longer, and the food shortage will be even worse. serious.

After Li Fan heard this, he immediately thought of making jerky and salting meat. However, making jerky is troublesome, and it can't be done with all the staff, which is not enough to last the whole winter.

It is even worse to pickle them with salt. After all, the orcs mainly eat meat. If the orcs eat bacon for four or five months in a row, the orcs will not be able to sustain it!

And meat can be pickled with salt, are wild vegetables and fruits also pickled with salt?

Humans are not like orcs and dwarves, humans cannot do without these two things.

In addition to these two methods of preserving food, Li Fan immediately thought of freezing preservation.

Freezing can not only preserve meat well, but also ensure that wild vegetables and fruits do not rot.

However, although freezing is good, it does not mean that it can be done.

Li Fan can change to the freezer, but unfortunately the freezer can't store much food, a freezer still needs dozens of bond points, and even electricity.

Li Fan can't exchange for a few more generators for these freezers, can he?

Thinking about it this way, making cold storage seems to be the best choice.

In the manufacture of cold storage, there is only one biggest problem, how to obtain ice cubes.

Chapter 94 Ice Making and Hunting

If you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you will not be afraid to travel all over the world.

Li Fan deeply felt the correctness of this sentence.

If you want to make ice cubes by hand, you can't do without chemistry.

Of course, if there is an elf beside you who can use ice magic power, just treat him as Li Fan farting.

Li Fan didn't have such an elf by his side, so he could only figure out a way by himself.

Almost instantly, the four words "making ice with saltpeter" appeared in his mind.

This method of making ice, which has been handed down since ancient times, is the simplest method of making ice.

The only difficulty is getting saltpeter.

The system mall sells saltpeter, but the price is not cheap, and 1 catty of saltpeter needs 3 bond points.

The saltpeter needed to make ice is not a small amount. Without hundreds of catties of saltpeter, at most you can only get some small ice cubes for fun.

Li Fan, who has just upgraded the space ring, doesn't have so many bond points to squander.

Fortunately, saltpeter is not difficult to get. Nitrogen can be found in the corners of houses, pigpens, toilets, and corners of stables.

This is because saltpeter in nature is often formed by the decomposition of nitrogen-containing organic substances in the soil under the action of bacteria, oxidized into nitric acid, and then combined with potassium in the soil.

Places like pigpens and stables are the places where nitrate is most likely to be produced.

But this time, Li Fan got nitrate in the streets and alleys of the sinful town.

After all, this is a magical land without public toilets. Everyone has long been used to defecating anywhere.

Li Fan exchanged 1 bond point for books on extracting saltpeter from the system mall.

Let the idler collect the nitrate with him, go through the simple steps of extraction.

After a whole day, Li Fan got hundreds of catties of saltpeter.

The next step is to use these saltpetres to make ice.

The history of making ice with saltpeter can be traced back to the end of Tang Dynasty.

There is no reason why Li Fan can't make ice with the method that even the ancients knew.

Let the dwarves help cast two copper rectangular containers, one large and one small.

Among them, large copper ware should be cast thicker, and small copper ware should be as thin as possible.

First fill the small copper vessel with drinkable water, and then seal the vessel.

Put the small copper vessel into the large copper vessel.

First add half of the water to the large copper vessel, then add half of the saltpeter, and stir thoroughly.

The saltpeter reacted with water to absorb heat, and the temperature inside the large copper vessel began to drop sharply, and soon dropped below 0 degrees.

At this time, Li Fan asked people to seal the large copper vessel, and wrapped several layers of animal skins around the large copper vessel, so as to keep the large copper vessel cold.