Chapter 59: A One-Bedroom, One-Living-Room Dog House

This behavior did not seem to be the first time; Liu Mu had wondered before why she smelled a stench that went straight to her head when she went to the underground garage. She had originally thought it was just pooping randomly, but it turned out this guy had brought its prey back to eat.

Thinking of her garage, which she had lined with moisture-proof tiles, being ruined like this, Liu Mu gritted her teeth and decided to build a new Dog House for Niu Boyi and let it clean up after itself.

After thinking it over, she came up with a good idea: go straight to the pier and drag back two containers, which could even give it a one-bedroom, one-living-room suite.

Action followed thought; the next day, after sending Xu Xiaofeng and her younger brother to the Haicheng Barrier to trade for supplies, she went to the pier. Yang Shuo and Xing Tianyang were said to be staying at the Urban Base for a while, so no one was bothering Liu Mu here for the time being.

Li Gang had trouble with his legs, so he stayed at the Scrap Station to guard the house. Liu Fugui helped Xu Xiaofeng and the others, so only He Qizheng went with Liu Mu.

"Today, Boss will take you to see the world."

When Liu Mu said this, the thin-fat man Liu Fugui's eyes gleamed; he wanted to go too. But Liu Mu said he could provide more value by staying here, so she refused him.

"Boss, you aren't trying to fool me, are you?" Liu Fugui was a bit dissatisfied; what happened to taking him out to run business?

He Qizheng gave a silly laugh, and was scolded by Liu Fugui, "You kid, listen to the Boss well."

In broad daylight, the Sky Viper snakes didn't dare to be active at the pier, especially since the base here knew there were supplies at the pier and would occasionally send one or two teams to collect them; if they ran into trouble, it wouldn't be a small matter.

The truck Liu Mu drove today didn't have a trailer attached, so when she arrived, she picked out good containers.

Liu Fugui's hardware store business used to be good, and He Qizheng had often come to this pier, but now he was in a bind, "Boss, we can only take one at most this time."

"Are you stupid? Doesn't the pier have semi-trailers?"

Liu Mu had already scouted everything out beforehand; she found the area with the semi-trailers with ease and familiarity, first letting He Qizheng find ones that looked good and having him check what parts needed replacing.

Undoubtedly, the high temperatures had destroyed many things, but the engines and car parts Liu Mu had collected before the disaster came in handy.

After stripping and patching up several dozen semi-trailers, plus the parts Liu Mu brought, He Qizheng actually managed to fix two of them.

"It's a pity; if we could have brought two more fuel tanks and rubber parts, we might have been able to fix several more of these trucks."

It was true that many had exploded fuel tanks due to the high heat, and parts involving rubber were basically ruined, but fortunately, the pier was originally equipped with a repair shop, and the tools were mostly there.

Liu Mu checked them one by one, "Take two toolboxes with us. Forget about the parts; having two truck heads is basically enough for our Scrap Station to use in the future."

Hearing her say this, He Qizheng didn't feel reluctant anymore; after all, as long as there were trucks, they could pull as many of these containers as they wanted. Wasn't it just a matter of running a few more trips? As a driver, he was least afraid of running back and forth.

The two of them actually made two trips that day, pulling back four containers and some miscellaneous things—parts, wheels, and even several barrels of lubricating oil soaked in water.

He Qizheng also found the joy of collecting scrap for zero cost, and even repeatedly requested to come back more often later, hoping to search through all the containers if possible.

Liu Mu had the same thought, but her heart was willing while her strength was lacking, and the base was also starting to scavenge, "It's possible, as long as we don't run into people from the base; otherwise, it's hard to say."

Back at the Scrap Station.

Two containers were placed against the wall, their front and rear doors opened, and a layer of rain tarp was propped up on top to cover them; Niu Boyi's new one-bedroom, one-living-room nest was completed.

It was placed in the open space between the small building and the perimeter wall, and it even covered the small elevator house that came up from the basement. From then on, one could only enter and exit through the back door of the small building, and the average person would never discover it.

Let alone the average person, even now, the three of them—Liu Fugui included—hadn't discovered the elevator inside the small house, thinking it was just a room where extra bricks were piled.

Liu Mu went to pick up Xu Xiaofeng, while He Qizheng and Li Gang chatted under the eaves.

"If you ask me, we should open another door in the perimeter wall so Niu Boyi can go out to poop." Li Gang was still leaning on his crutch, standing at an angle, "We can make a dry toilet covered by a cesspit in the back; it will be good for farming later. Xiao Feng is worried about not having fertilizer for the vegetables."

Thinking of fresh green vegetables, He Qizheng nodded quickly, "How about we just build a biogas digester when the weather clears up? We can ferment fertilizer to grow vegetables, and it can also be used to cook food and heat water."

"Hmm, not bad, and we can make biogas lamps; I know how to do that."

"I know how to do that too..."

The two of them launched into a detailed discussion on the utilization of Niu Boyi's excrement; of course, not just the dog's, the few humans among them could also make contributions.

When Liu Mu returned in the evening and heard about the biogas digester plan, she thought it was feasible and told them to handle it themselves.

Speaking of growing vegetables, she remembered that she had pulled up a blade of grass a few nights ago, but after searching through all the clothes she wore that day and asking Xu Xiaofeng, who helped her wash them, she couldn't find that precious blade of grass.

When Xu Xiaofeng heard it was a newly grown blade of grass, she asked quickly, "Is there really grass growing? They say wild fires cannot burn it all away, and the spring breeze brings it back to life. If grass can grow in this climate, can't we grow food in the soil?"

Regarding this matter, Liu Mu was not optimistic, "Weeds have tenacious vitality, and they may have already undergone Mutation; I'm afraid conventional crops will be difficult to survive."

The words made sense, but Xu Xiaofeng still expressed that she wanted to try. The sweet potatoes in the basket at home had already sprouted buds; once they grew out, she would transplant two plants outside to test.

Just waiting for the Black Rain to stop; if they could really grow something, then the Great Huaxia, which was founded on agriculture, might be able to get better.

The children of Huaxia, no matter where they go, no matter what the predicament, can always grow a future from the soil.

Having lost a blade of grass, Liu Mu didn't take it to heart. She had already started letting the system process the oil in the oil tankers and oil drums, mainly to identify and classify them. The same types were put together and hidden so they could be used slowly in the future.

As for where to hide them, the Scrap Station yard was large enough, but there were quite a few people at home now, and the sudden appearance of oil tankers and large oil drums would still be impossible to explain.

Of course, she had also thought of a good place to store them, and that was in the mountains behind the yard.

The Scrap Station was originally built on a small hill, and later, when they made the yard and basement, they only leveled the land contracted in the front. The county town was built on a small piece of flat land extending from the hills to the sea; it was said that it was only through generations of digging mountains and filling the sea that it had the appearance of a small plain today.

And about one kilometer to the west of the Scrap Station were the hills common to this area, where there was an abandoned tunnel.

Ten years ago, when planning the road from the county town to the Haicheng urban area, they originally intended to open a tunnel to reduce the journey by one-third. But when opening the tunnel, they discovered that the geology of those mountains was unstable; both planned tunnels were opened for less than a hundred meters before they kept collapsing, and they had to give up. In the end, they could only build a bridge from the bay; no one knew which cost more.

People along the coast didn't rely on the mountains to make a living, so the tunnel was gradually forgotten by people.

How did Liu Mu notice it? That was because in her previous life, during the great flood, eighty percent of the coastal areas were submerged, and many people ran to higher ground and lived in that abandoned tunnel.

Later, an earthquake occurred, and a section of the tunnel collapsed, so everyone returned to the foot of the mountain.

However, Liu Mu clearly remembered that it was the tunnel entrance that collapsed, while a long section inside remained preserved; the earthquake had just happened to create a large gap in the middle. During the second great cooling, the small group she was in had even taken refuge inside for several months.

Stepping through the standing water, Liu Mu used a Flashlight to illuminate the tunnel, holding a knife in her hand to guard against the animals living inside.