I can upgrade the shelter
Chapter 50 Luncheon Meat

Chapter 50: Chapter 50 Luncheon Meat

However, to achieve all this, Chen Xin must secure a stable supply channel to ensure he can obtain sufficient resources to meet the needs for system upgrades.

In addition, he must ensure that his shelter can produce enough to be traded for resources.

Otherwise, even if there is a trade channel, it would be for nothing if he has nothing to trade.

Under these circumstances, the greenhouse becomes the key to everything. Only by ensuring the greenhouse’s yield and subsequent upgrades can everything Chen Xin desires proceed smoothly.

"In that case, upgrading the kitchen and weapon cabinet will have to wait." Chen Xin worked on a spreadsheet on his computer, tallying the resources needed for the upgrades while adjusting the upgrade priorities of various facilities according to his actual needs.

Currently, on the list that Chen Xin has re-adjusted, the top upgrade priority is naturally the greenhouse, which he even marked in red as the most important item.

Next is the generator, as it’s crucial for the normal operation of the shelter.

However, upgrading the generator is not extremely urgent. If Chen Xin is willing to use more fuel, extend the daily power generation time, or connect the second backup generator to the power system of the shelter, he won’t need to worry about the power system in the short term.

So, although the upgrade priority of the power system is high, it’s not something that needs immediate upgrading.

Next is the weapon cabinet. After all, going out without a self-defense weapon would make Chen Xin feel insecure.

As for what’s below the weapon cabinet, it’s not the communication system upgrade, which isn’t very necessary for Chen Xin, nor the kitchen upgrade he had long planned, but the transportation vehicle, his SUV.

This is actually a very understandable necessary choice. An SUV is a good choice for transportation during peaceful times, but in this apocalyptic setting, especially when Chen Xin needs to transport vegetables outside for resource exchange, a vehicle not designed for cargo obviously won’t suffice.

This time, the resources Chen Xin traded with Mo Qingyan are only half of his monthly output. If the greenhouse upgrades successfully as planned, even if all the ground is used to grow dry rice and the hydroponic growing trays are used for vegetables, he can harvest twelve hundred pounds of vegetables and about eight hundred pounds of carrots once matured in the ground.

Altogether, this amount of vegetables weighs close to a ton. If Chen Xin only uses his SUV for transportation, he might have to make several trips to transport it all. Not to mention other aspects, just the gasoline consumption is a problem that Chen Xin has to face seriously.

So, considering the future transportation needs, upgrading the vehicle or acquiring a new cargo vehicle through resource exchange becomes inevitable.

Mo Qingyan does have a pickup truck, which was previously used to help tow a freezer to Chen Xin’s shelter. However, that’s Mo Qingyan’s vehicle, and borrowing it occasionally is fine, but he can’t possibly ask to borrow it every time he needs to transport vegetables, right?

Although Mo Qingyan may not mind, Chen Xin still feels it’s not very appropriate.

As for the issue of using cars in increasingly colder temperatures in the future, Chen Xin isn’t too worried.

Even though most car manufacturers in the world haven’t bothered to design cars that can be used in polar climates, cars themselves can still function normally in environments well below zero.

This has been well demonstrated in the past in the northern part of Flame Country, especially in the Northeast region, where winter temperatures often drop to minus thirty or forty degrees.

In such weather, although using cars is a severe test, the vast majority of cars can still operate normally.

However, anti-freezing is indeed a problem that needs consideration. After all, while the car can take it, humans may not be able to withstand minus several tens of degrees, truly potentially life-threatening cold.

Recording these thoughts on the planning sheet, Chen Xin finally shut down the computer, touched his slightly hungry stomach, and prepared to get something to eat.

Thanks to the first harvest of vegetables, Chen Xin’s food is now much more abundant. At least he doesn’t have to eat just one bag of self-heating food every day. He can have vegetables and luncheon meat cans together and occasionally add canned pork for an extra meal.

The richness of the food not only increases the total energy Chen Xin ingests daily but also makes the nutrition he receives more balanced and varied, avoiding the risk of malnutrition due to food scarcity.

In the living room "kitchen," since the kitchen upgrade has been removed from the priority list, Chen Xin’s current "kitchen" is only an induction cooker and a set of outdoor cooking utensils that he used in the past.

Besides that, there’s also a simple cutting board and a fruit knife that can be used for cutting vegetables, all cooking supplies Chen Xin used for outdoor activities or wilderness survival before.

Originally, there was a folding gas stove too, but that requires an additional gas cylinder connection. Given the apocalyptic situation, Chen Xin feels that the box of canned liquefied gas he has should be reserved for critical times.

Before the vegetable harvest, all Chen Xin could eat daily was self-heating food, so he only used a small pot from his outdoor cooking gear that could serve as both a frying pan and a food container.

But now with vegetables and cans, at least for meals, Chen Xin can prepare stir-fried cabbage or lettuce, or stir-fry vegetables with luncheon meat, even pan-frying luncheon meat.

As for the canned pork, bearing in mind that once they’re gone, it would be hard to get more, Chen Xin doesn’t splurge by having it every meal but plans to consume a can every week, making it last as long as possible.

After all, pork might become very scarce in the future. In contrast, luncheon meat cans, even if they contain cockroaches or mice as ingredients, would likely remain a future staple for Chen Xin.

Thinking about this, Chen Xin ripped open a packet of self-heating food, added a little water to it, and set it aside. Soon, the heat pack inside the package reacted with the water, releasing heat.

Meanwhile, Chen Xin took out the leftover half of the luncheon meat from the morning, sliced it thinly on the cutting board, then placed a frying pan on the induction cooker. After heating the pan and adding oil, he put the slices of luncheon meat in to fry.

The rich smell of meat spread with the sizzling sound, enticing Chen Xin, who hadn’t smelled such aromas in a month.

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