Before Zhōu Yóu arrived, Zhōu Lǐngshēng had already made preparations, even setting up the cardboard box houses with opening and closing doors.
Nowadays, everyone lives in a detached villa.
Considering that Shěn Líng's family of three were newcomers and guests, relatively unfamiliar with others.
To avoid making the guests feel awkward, Zhōu Lǐngshēng placed the two cardboard box villas prepared for the Shěn family separately in a guest bedroom on the first floor. My maternal uncle's supermarket has everything, especially a lot of empty cardboard boxes, so they can be used as much as needed.
As for Yǐn Xiūwén and his group, although they are also relatives, they are distant relations and not as close. Moreover, Yǐn Xiūwén and the others prefer to return to their hometown in Xùn Lóng Xiāng, so Zhōu Lǐngshēng only prepared a large sleeping mat on the floor in another room for them to settle in temporarily, and they are expected to leave by tomorrow at the latest.
After the accommodation was sorted out, the next step was to move the personal strategic reserves Zhōu Yóu had piled up in the vehicle.
Before, Zhōu Yóu and Shěn Líng had exerted themselves quite a bit and spent a lot of time loading these reserves into the vehicle.
Now that there were enough people, the efficiency was incomparable to the past. Especially with Yǐn Xiūwén's construction team, they worked very professionally, their movements quick and skillful, and with the 3D printing conveyor belt as construction equipment, the efficiency was very high.
In less than half an hour, most of it was moved, and they even found a way to move down the mini machine tool weighing over forty kilograms, which had become ballast stone since it was put in and had not moved since.
While others were busy, Zhōu Yóu also did not rest, quickly reviewing the list of reserve supplies organized by his father.
After looking at the list and touring the villa, Zhōu Yóu expressed his astonishment and admiration.
He thought his own preparations were already very forward-thinking and professional, but compared to the elders who had lived through times of material scarcity, he felt he was far behind.
Although Zhōu Yóu had made several preparations, he still felt uneasy.
He was always worried that if the situation continued to worsen, he might have to face power outages, water outages, and no internet.
He had no idea how to cope and survive, and was full of anxiety.
This anxiety made him feel lost, but he concealed and disguised it well, not wanting to spread his anxiety to others, which was why Shěn Líng did not notice.
On the contrary, Shěn Líng felt that Zhōu Yóu had everything under control and took every step steadily, developing immense trust in Zhōu Yóu over these few days and finally deciding to seek refuge with the Zhōu family along with her parents.
Fortunately, Shěn Líng could not read minds, otherwise, she would have cried out in protest, feeling cheated by the actor.
The reason for this phenomenon was not that Zhōu Yóu had poor psychological resilience or that his plan was not thorough enough, but simply that he had never experienced life without running water, electricity, or internet since he was a child.
All his plans could only be built on imagination, like castles in the air.
But his parents and uncles were different; most of them grew up in rural mountain areas.
In those days, those mountain villages already had no electricity or running water, let alone the internet.
From time to time, they had to experience days of preparing for war by stockpiling food and digging deep shelters, what kind of big scenes had they not seen?
Over the past forty or fifty or sixty years, the elders had followed the country through the entire process from a semi-agricultural, semi-industrial era to the current information age.
They recorded the years with the wrinkles on their faces, and their life wisdom emanated from those wrinkles, spreading into their new lives.
There was a generation gap between the older generation and Zhōu Yóu's generation.
In the past, this generation gap caused considerable trouble for every generation.
For example, most young people did not understand why their grandparents always liked to pick up things from the street, thinking it was unhygienic and undignified.
Young people could not imagine that when the older generation was young, they could get into fights with neighbors over a pile of firewood.
But now, this generation gap has become a wealth for survival.
When the elders stockpiled supplies, they did not need to imagine from scratch. They just needed to sit quietly, let their minds sink into their memories, rummage through their life experiences from forty or fifty years ago, and then prepare according to those memories.
So, during these days, the more than sixty people in the Zhōu family had also transformed the villa quite thoroughly.
For instance, on every step leading upstairs, three additional steps made of yellow mud were added.
In the kitchen area, several mud-built stoves were prepared on the floor. These stoves were about twenty centimeters high, now about chest height, and the pots used were made by cutting the pot lids from before into flat iron plates with a diameter of one decimeter.
Two of these stoves did not burn firewood but candles. Inside the stove pit, a glass cup was used to hold melted wax, and a pile of waxed cotton threads were placed nearby as wicks.
The other few stoves appeared to burn firewood, with enhanced sealing to allow the firewood to burn longer.
In addition, a large pile of aluminum alloy bottle caps or enamel cup lids were placed on the ground next to the stove, equivalent to pots and bowls.
All these small details accumulated, making Zhōu Yóu feel incredibly secure after seeing them.
Just as Zhōu Yóu was getting a grasp of the situation at home, the unloading of the off-road vehicle was completed, and Yuán Yìkě came over.
Without Yuán Yìkě needing to say anything, Zhōu Yóu knew her intention and proactively offered to drive her home.
After about ten minutes of preparation, the iron gate of the small villa opened again, and the off-road vehicle slowly drove out. After traveling about a kilometer, it reached the downstairs of Yuán Yìkě's home.
Zhōu Yóu helped put Yuán Yìkě's mobile phone into the drone's basket and helped her into it.
Before leaving, Yuán Yìkě gave Zhōu Yóu a look with a slightly complex expression, as if she wanted to say thank you but felt it would seem too distant.
Zhōu Yóu thought for a moment and said, "You've seen the situation at my home, and I think it's quite good. As for your family's situation, I'm not very clear about it yet. You first reunite with your parents, then try to contact your relatives and friends more, and get a general idea of the situation. If you have difficulties, don't be polite with me, hurry up and let me know, I can come to pick you up."
Yuán Yìkě nodded, "I understand, I won't be polite with you."
Zhōu Yóu continued, "Based on the current size and appetite of humans, my place can accommodate thousands of people with plenty of room. Don't worry about not having enough food and water if there are many people; these are actually the easiest things to solve right now. I believe that at this stage, humanity's primary need is for safe survival."
"To achieve this, we need the advantage of numbers. Oh, right, after you go back, contact your cousin Dèng Tāo more. After all, he works in the county public security brigade, so he'll definitely have more first-hand information. Also, see if the county government has any more specific plans. If the government takes the lead in resettlement work, my place can also respond in a timely manner."
Hearing Zhōu Yóu say all this, Yuán Yìkě's somewhat empty heart felt a little more settled, and she nodded heavily, "Okay! I'll remember."
After explaining clearly, Zhōu Yóu controlled the drone to ascend and delivered Yuán Yìkě to her balcony, watching on the screen until Yuán Yìkě hugged her parents before controlling the drone back into the car. Then, my maternal uncle and aunt put a bottle of opened mineral water and two packs of instant noodles into the basket and delivered them to the balcony before returning.
Shěn Líng did not participate in this short trip.
She and her father, Shěn Mòxīn, were assigned tasks as soon as they arrived and were already extremely busy.
Earlier, while Zhōu Yóu was on his way back, in addition to releasing some purely guidance-oriented survival guides, the country finally utilized the still-functional advanced information network to successively announce quite a few substantive emergency technological achievements, among which the most crucial was the complete set of vehicle modification technology.