In a year of natural disasters, the young woman had billions of resources to build a paradise.

Chapter 153 Mass Ice Making

Seeing his anxious expression, Jiang Mianmian quickened her pace. "What's wrong?"

She prepared a lot of things for the camp before setting off, so it shouldn't be a shortage of supplies.

Sure enough, Shi Yi pointed to a cave and said, "The number of people suffering from heatstroke has been increasing these past few days. We've drunk the herbal tea you gave us, but we still can't control the number of cases."

"It's too hot. Are there any seriously ill patients?"

The temperature is already at least 38 or 39 degrees Celsius, and it won't be long before it climbs to 40 or even 50 degrees Celsius. At that time, it will be even more difficult to dig an underground city.

More and more people will suffer from heatstroke. She can only try to reduce the severity of the heatstroke; it's impossible to avoid it completely. Even so, extreme heat is easier to endure than extreme cold. By October, it will be too late to dig the underground city.

The ground will freeze quickly, making it impossible to dig by hand.

Therefore, we must speed up the excavation process now. The bigger the underground city we dig in the next few months, the better, so that more people can take refuge in the winter!

"There aren't any serious cases yet. It's cooler inside the cave, so I'll let the patients with heatstroke rest there for now."

Shi Yi led her quickly to the cave. "There are six or seven more caves like this."

There were over a hundred people crammed inside, and the air was filled with a stuffy, foul smell.

Including other caves, that means more than a thousand people suffered from heatstroke!

Jiang Mianmian immediately said, "That won't work. We need to spread out. Aren't there many caves in the mountains? We should choose ones with good ventilation, and each cave should not have more than fifty people. We should put them all inside..."

She wanted to mention ice, but then remembered she hadn't had time to make it yet, so she looked at Shi Yi and asked, "How are the ice-making room and ice cellar?"

"The ice-making room has been built, and more than fifty ice cellars have been dug."

Shi Yi's eyes lit up. "Can it be done now?"

"Come on, take me there."

Jiang Mianmian looked at the listless villagers and said, "Heatstroke is not a serious illness, you'll be fine. I'll have someone bring ice and water over in a bit, so you can all rest well."

"Okay, okay, thank you, Miss Mianmian!"

"They even have ice for us? That's great stuff, how many points would that cost?"

The villagers were grateful but also worried. They had long been used to not needing treatment for minor illnesses and just enduring serious ones. Now that they were sick, they had no income and had to spend points to buy ice. They thought it would be better to save their points to exchange for more life-saving food for their families.

"Ice in public areas doesn't cost points. If you want more ice, you'll need two points per block."

Upon hearing this, the villagers' eyes widened. They wanted to ask more questions, but the two had already walked away, probably in a hurry to find a way to get ice for them.

I couldn't help but exclaim, "This Blessing Fairy is so generous! If we don't have to spend points to use the ice in the public area, we can rest there whenever we're tired. My mom won't have to worry about me getting heatstroke anymore!"

"You mean, how big is this two-point-per-piece ice? Is it even the size of a fingernail? I've heard that ice in Kyoto costs 500 mon a pound in the summer."

"It shouldn't be that little, right? When has Mianmian ever lied to us? I bet it's at least the size of an egg. If I could get one piece in this sweltering heat, I'd work every single day!"

"Yes, I'd be willing to spend those two points! Then I'd have one in my left hand and one in my right, hey, that would be amazing!"

The discussion inside the cave was so lively that the irritability caused by the summer heat seemed to have lessened considerably.

Upon entering the ice-making room, Jiang Mianmian first retrieved a large quantity of ice, ice packs, and electrolyte water from the warehouse, instructing Shi Yi to deliver them to the various caves. "Call Doctor Cheng over, and I'll give him some more medicine. Also, call the rats from Lijia Village, Qingrui, and Granny Li from Tupo Village."

Shi Yi accepted the task and left.

Jiang Mianmian returned to the ice-making room and took out tools such as solar panels, transformers, and ice makers from the warehouse.

To be precise, they're not called ice makers, but tube ice machines. These were all prepared for extremely hot weather; there were twenty in the warehouse, but she only took ten out.

Because each machine can produce 10 to 15 tons of ice per day!

This amount of ice is enough for 80,000 people. The question now is whether the river has enough water to produce such a large quantity of ice every day.

She specifically asked Shi Yi to build the ice-making room by the river so that it would be convenient to get water, but just in case, a well still had to be dug.

She opened the door and called a few people to install the solar panels first.

Then we started wiring, installing the transformer and connecting the ice maker.

Soon, the ten ice-making machines were installed, and Shi Yi returned with his entourage. "Is this the ice-making machine from the Immortal Realm?"

Not only the people she wanted, but also Magistrate Ye, Ye Hansheng, and the registrar all came.

"Yes, come in, all of you."

Seeing that there were no outsiders, Jiang Mianmian called the person in and focused on explaining to the subordinate that Shi Yi had chosen how to use him. "Actually, it's not difficult, but you have to be very careful and meticulous. Lord Shi said that this matter is indispensable to you."

That subordinate was named Lu Wei. He used to work odd jobs at the granary with Shi Yi. He was indeed honest, meticulous, and quick-witted.

After being taught once, he could repeat it almost word for word, and he also had strong hands-on skills.

Everyone watched as the water was sucked in with a splash, then turned into ice cubes and fell out with a thud.

One machine after another, all ten ice outlets began producing ice smoothly.

All the ice fell into one insulated box after another.

Jiang Mianmian pointed to the dark hole in the corner of the wall, "This connects to the ice cellars. Each ice cellar is connected by pipes, so ice can be quickly extracted without the need for manual labor."

There are eighty teams, each with a fixed ice-collecting area, and each ice cellar only needs two to three administrators.

The work in the ice-making room was simple but mentally taxing, and later on, in addition to Lu Wei, two more people would need to be found.

"Besides these, I need a lot of people. I called you here to help me select people."

Although Jiang Mianmian asked Old Lady Ye for more people, it was far from enough.

"Sister Mianmian, I can do anything!"

The mouse exclaimed urgently, "I can do any dirty or hard work!"

"Don't worry, you'll be included. I checked on the way here, the dungeon is progressing quite fast, but..."

Jiang Mianmian took out a thermometer. "The ice in the room is getting higher and higher, so the indoor temperature will drop lower and lower, probably to minus ten or even twenty degrees Celsius."

"So you specifically asked me to build a suite for the ice-making room?"

Shi Yi suddenly realized that it wasn't that cold outside, otherwise Lu Wei would have frozen to death!

Jiang Mianmian nodded, "Look, when winter comes, the temperature will drop to this level, which is about minus seventy or eighty degrees Celsius."

"So low! Wouldn't someone freeze to death?"

"How low below zero do we usually get in winter?"

Everyone was stunned, but they were still not quite sure what exactly minus seventy or eighty degrees Celsius meant.