"Oh? Okay, it’s worth a try. Then you can go now." After knowing that Tian Rui was not in serious trouble, Li Yu let Meng Yu go first.
Meng Yu left, and Li Yu stared blankly at the surveillance screen of the Residential Building in the Second Outer City.
After watching for a while and seeing nothing unusual, he sat down in the chair.
At present, so many people had entered the base.
All aspects needed to be attended to, hence the number of personnel on duty on the walls had been doubled.
In the First Outer City, the Second Outer City, the gates of Weng City, and on top of the walls of both the First and the Second Outer Cities, there were guards posted.
But they wouldn’t stay under the sun all the time; most of the time, they were monitoring through the cameras.
Several hours later, no new people were seen coming this way.
So, Li Yu had Li Hang thoroughly close the gates, the hydraulic doors sealed!
The sun also set behind the mountains, the crimson sun as if it was about to ignite.
Li Yu knew that everything had just begun.
But, they had made ample preparation.
In the dining hall, Li Yu finally saw some different dishes.
These past few days, many fish were retrieved from the Mountain Pond Reservoir and placed in an indoor water channel built in the cave.
The continuous high temperatures had caused crabs and turtles to crawl onto land.
If it wasn’t for this abnormal heat, they would never have discovered such a large turtle in the Mountain Pond Reservoir.
It wasn’t a Brazilian turtle, but a true turtle.
Roughly 50 centimeters in diameter, by any estimate, it must have been living for twenty or thirty years.
They didn’t kill it for its meat, but instead transported it to the caves within the Inner City of the base.
Tonight’s dishes included stir-fried pig’s ears with chili, spicy and sour shredded potatoes, and hydroponically grown lettuce.
One of Li Yu’s favorite dishes was stir-fried pig’s ears with chili; of course, he was also quite fond of pig head meat.
These two dishes went well with alcohol.
The volcanic eruption was imminent, and feasting on some meat with a bit of mild liquor felt like a final hurrah.
The past few days, his several wolf dogs had also become abnormally quiet.
They didn’t frolic about anymore; regardless of how Li Yuan teased them, the wolf dogs refused to leave the house.
Although it was hot outside, the wolf dogs suddenly preferred hiding in small corners.
The room was so spacious, yet they liked to hide in a corner without moving, just staring outside the window, motionless.
Li Yuan, puzzled by their strange behavior, specifically sought out Li Yu, "Brother, I don’t know what’s wrong with Cui Hua and the others; these past few days they’ve just been lying in their kennel, not leaving. But when I checked their health, they don’t seem to have any problems, do they?"
Li Yu looked at the grown wolf dogs and out into the pitch-black night, and spoke somberly, "Perhaps, they sense something..."
Currently, over a thousand people had gathered at the Big Camphor Tree Base.
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The First Outer City was somewhat crowded, but it was still manageable.
The Second Outer City was overcrowded, yet no one wanted to go out.
Food was a core issue.
Up until now, the Big Camphor Tree Base hadn’t provided food to these Cooperative Personnel. In fact, the Big Camphor Tree Base had no obligation to do so, as they owed them nothing.
However, relying on their previous cooperation with the Big Camphor Tree Base, they had some food reserves; furthermore, they could always think of ways to find some food, so they still had some for now.
People who have survived up to this point always leave themselves many ways out.
This was the experience and methods they relied on to live until now.
Furthermore, coming in to avoid the high temperatures, it was unclear how long the heat would last, so they brought all the food they had hidden away, not much, but for them, not starving to death meant not eating; with this method, they could last some time.
Xiao Jun also took out a portion of the food the base had exchanged with them and entrusted it to He Chao to give to Dong Tai and the others, so their food for the next few days wasn’t a concern.
For the Extra Staff, the base also distributed this month’s ration to them in advance.
This move made those cooperating with the base envious, further motivating them to exchange points through cooperation in the hope of attaining the status of Extra Staff.
The night was exceptionally quiet.
There was not even a breeze, compared to the daytime, the temperature tonight did not drop but seemed to be getting even hotter.
There were no nightingales singing, no wind, no rain, it even felt like the oxygen outside was burning.
The whole world was in a strange silence.
Beneath this silence, the molten magma under the earth was boiling, churning, accumulating energy.
The heat was suffocating.
Zhu Xiao, who originally wanted to enjoy the cooler outdoors, felt a blast of hot air as soon as she stepped out of the Residential Building; it was like a basin of boiling hot water splashing over.
No one stood on the walls anymore.
Mortars and Heavy Machine Guns had already been moved into the duty rooms early.
This heat was sufficient to kill.
The mighty underground magma was boiling, as if ready to burst through the earth’s surface.
But perhaps because of the night, at this critical point, it was about to erupt but not yet.
The night before dawn, the eve of the volcanic eruption.
The world was silent,
the undercurrents of surging magma, waiting.....