Sequence Highway Survival: I Upgrade Supplies in the Apocalypse-Chapter 114: Hypothermia Crisis

"Right now the convoy's food and drinking water can last for a while, but the most troublesome issue is other supplies, like cold-resistant clothing and heating materials."
"And then there's the vehicle problem - they need corresponding modifications too."
"In extreme cold, freezing to death is absolutely no joke."
"Iron Lion, your vehicle has many people and you're short on cold-resistant clothing, so be careful. Don't let too many people freeze to death by tomorrow morning."
Chu Che didn't say "don't let people freeze to death" but rather "don't let too many people freeze to death."
In such extreme cold, everyone understood that it was impossible to avoid freezing deaths.
Unlike the previous desert terrain.
Now the entire mountains and fields were covered by heavy snow, and driving vehicles through snowy terrain wasn't a simple matter.
From the moment they entered this extremely cold white snow world, the convoy's vehicles had become very difficult to operate.
Even Iron Lion's school bus nearly slid directly into a mountain ravine due to skidding.
Fortunately, Iron Lion noticed in time, avoiding this accident.
For driving on snow, snow vehicles would be best of course.
But snow vehicles - unless you're in northern scenic areas, that's the only place you'd find such things.
Most people's knowledge of snow vehicles only came from television or movies.
From the moment the convoy entered this snowy world, the heavy snow had never stopped falling.
Goose-feather-like snow covered everything everyone could see.
Without making some modifications to the vehicles, driving was simply impossible.
At minimum, they needed to get some anti-skid chains - having them was better than nothing.
And places like car windows needed to be covered with quilts or similar materials.
The previous tents probably couldn't be used now either.
Using those previous tents in such low temperatures would simply be seeking death.
Unless everyone was a superhuman.
Chu Che kept chattering on about these matters, appearing quite verbose.
Actually, Chu Che was feeling some pressure now.
The extreme low temperatures made Chu Che worry the convoy might be completely wiped out.
If that really happened, relying on just their few superhumans to survive would also be very troublesome.
No one knew when they could leave this snow country.
"Tomorrow morning, Chen Ye, Ding Dong, Iron Lion, and Sun Xixi will go together to gather supplies. If there are others in the convoy willing to go, they can join you too."
"Old Bao, notify the convoy about this later!"
"Remember, no longer than three hours maximum. You must leave within three hours, otherwise there's danger of being entangled by anomalies."
The several people nodded and returned to prepare separately.
Chen Ye actually wanted to go directly to Rong City now.
But it was already nighttime.
Anomalies were most active at night.
Going to Rong City now was no different from seeking death.
Although the cold was somewhat unbearable.
They could only endure through tonight first.
This kind of low temperature would at most be uncomfortable - sequence superhumans wouldn't freeze to death.
As soon as Chen Ye returned to the vehicle, he felt an unbearable cold air.
He really couldn't stay in the vehicle, so he tried to borrow a blanket from Captain Chu.
Unfortunately, Chu Che didn't have any extra blankets either.
He thought about squeezing into the Pink-haired Girl's vehicle to enjoy the heater.
Unfortunately, this girl showed no consideration at all, even looking at Chen Ye very warily.
"What do you want to do?"
The Pink-haired Girl had her hand on her sword hilt, looking like she would cut someone down if he couldn't give a good reason.
Xiao Yu even gripped the door panel tightly: "You two dog man and woman, don't think about driving me out to do shameless things! It's so cold, people could die!"
Xiao Yu would always remember that night when she was driven out of the vehicle all alone and helpless.
Fortunately, Old Bao had taken her in, otherwise she would have died that night.
And now, outside was even colder than that night.
These words sounded in Chen Ye's ears, but Chen Ye felt no embarrassment at all.
Instead, the Pink-haired Girl blushed deeply, after all she was a girl who had just reached adulthood.
Alright, Chen Ye also gave up on squeezing into the Pink-haired Girl's vehicle.
"Chen Ye, why don't you come to my vehicle?"
Chen Ye shook his head repeatedly.
Iron Lion's vehicle had many people, so it wouldn't be too cold.
But precisely because there were so many people, it was hard to even find standing room.
Unless Chen Ye could kill a few survivors to clear space to rest.
Such a cruel thing - better forget it.
These people were still quite useful.
So, Chen Ye spent the middle of the night walking around the area carrying his machete.
Planning to find some firewood to build a bonfire, at least to make the surrounding environment less cold.
There were still big differences between snow terrain and desert.
In the desert, besides yellow sand there was only yellow sand - you couldn't see any other colors.
But in this snow terrain, at least there were many plants and trees nearby.
Many were trees that had lost all their leaves, which Chen Ye cut down with a single slash of his blade.
The Blood Resentment Machete was still considered a wonder after all - although its ranking wasn't high, using it to chop trees was still very easy.
The reason he had chosen to upgrade the machete back then was also because of this consideration.
The machete had far more uses than the hand crossbow.
This machete in Chen Ye's hands could both fight battles, be used to make bolt arrows, and serve as a kitchen knife to chop camel meat jerky.
A shivering person walked over.
Looking up, it was a terrifyingly ugly face.
"Why did you come?"
"Too... too cold, I came to help!"
Xue Nan said while rubbing his hands and shivering, this kid's lips had already turned blue-purple from the cold.
He only wore a jacket and a pair of jeans.
If he continued freezing like this, he probably wouldn't survive the night.
With Xue Nan's help, soon other survivors also got out of their vehicles.
The Big Fool Iron Lion also got out of his vehicle.
This guy still wore only a green short-sleeve shirt up to now, with goose-feather snow falling on his rock-like muscles, quickly melting into water that soaked his T-shirt.
But this guy didn't care at all, as if he hadn't noticed, carrying several trees that Chen Ye had cut down back with him.
Chen Ye only focused on tree cutting - with the wonder machete in hand, he quickly cleared out a small patch of forest in no time.
If this had happened before the apocalypse, he'd probably be provided food and accommodation directly.
But now, nobody cared at all.
Iron Lion grabbed a tree trunk and forcefully stabbed it into the ground, directly inserting the tree root more than one meter deep into the earth, completing a solid foundation stake.
And this guy still looked like he hadn't exerted any effort at all.
Originally, Chen Ye had only planned to build a bonfire, but with the help of Iron Lion's strong labor, they directly built a simple wooden shed.
With Iron Lion the super strength king present, the entire process was unimaginably fast.
Bowl-thick pieces of wood were piled in the middle of the shed, with several survivors shivering as they held lighters, attempting to ignite kindling to then light these firewoods.
The kindling did ignite, but they couldn't light the wood at all.
Too wet.
"Let me do it!"
Captain Chu slowly walked to the front of the fire pile, and when he took out that metal lighter, he secretly glanced at Chen Ye and the Pink-haired Girl from the corner of his eye.
He only saw the two of them showing hateful teasing smiles on their faces.
Captain Chu steadied himself and pretended not to see.
The orange-red small flame of the lighter danced excitedly.
Chu Che puffed out his cheeks and blew directly at the lighter.
A raging orange-red flame surged out, and people standing close immediately felt the overwhelming heat wave hitting their faces.
The previous extreme cold was driven away by this flame.
When Captain Chu closed the metal cover of the lighter, the fire pile in the middle of the shed was already making "crackling" popping sounds.
"Oh~~~"
Cheers came from all around.
Many survivors showed excited smiles on their faces.
Chen Ye also felt slightly better.
The next morning, Chen Ye was awakened by the cold.
He discovered the fire pile had already extinguished.
The several people who had rested by the fire pile last night were now frozen like ice sculptures.
Clearly, they were already beyond saving.
Gathering supplies to find cold-resistant items had become extremely urgent.
At the same time, aside from the few sequence superhumans in the convoy, over seventy percent of the survivors had already fallen ill due to the low temperatures.
The convoy faced its biggest crisis ever.
If not handled properly, the entire convoy would likely be paralyzed.