Mobile Shelter

Chapter 80 Discovering the Defect

First, there's the issue of numbers. There were over a dozen people on the bus, including Dong Qi, and it wasn't realistic for them all to relieve themselves inside the bus.

Putting aside the issue of odor inside the car, it's simply unrealistic to store the emissions from over a dozen people inside the car for so many days.

Therefore, the most direct solution is to periodically surface to the sea level, allow those people to climb onto the roof through the car windows, and then discharge directly into the sea from the roof.

However, if this method is used, the human scent will inevitably be leaked during the excretion process, attracting the attention of those mutated marine creatures.

Therefore, people who need to relieve themselves outside should not only return to their vehicles quickly, but also clean their vehicles afterward to prevent excrement from sticking to the car body and leaving a human scent.

Most importantly, each time you go out, you must go together as a group; you can't risk it for just one or two people.

Actually, the best way is to jump naked into the sea and take care of the problem directly in the water, which makes cleaning up afterwards very convenient.

However, the most troublesome aspect of using this method is the heat loss problem after the water is released, even though there is a heater to raise the temperature inside the car.

However, if someone is in poor health and experiences hypothermia, the medical kit carried in the vehicle may not contain any medications for treating hypothermia.

Fortunately, although everyone is a logistics personnel, their daily training is less frequent compared to that of frontline combat personnel.

However, they also need to complete the corresponding training plan every quarter. In addition, although they are in this special period, their work ensures that they do not lack supplies on weekdays, so the physical fitness of everyone in the car is quite good.

After discussion among the passengers, they decided against using the rooftop as a solution, firstly because the rooftop space was limited and only a small number of people could use it at a time.

Secondly, there's the issue of hygiene. After taking care of their personal hygiene, people are unwilling to use their hands to clean the remaining marks on the car body.

Although there are cleaning tools like rags in the car, most people are unwilling to use rags that have been used to wipe feces repeatedly, no matter how clean they are washed.

But if you just throw them away after use, there aren't many rags in the car, so in the end, everyone has to use their hands to clean up the traces left after they urinate.

And most importantly, even when cleaning themselves, they couldn't afford to delay in order to avoid attracting the attention of those mutated marine creatures; they needed to finish quickly.

So in the end, everyone chose to jump naked into the water and relieve themselves directly in the ocean. After taking care of their own needs, they could also use the seawater to clean their bodies.

Although seawater has an extremely high salt content and washing the body with seawater can cause skin diseases, compared with one's own life, skin problems are just a minor issue. Besides, this situation only requires enduring for a few days, and once back on shore, there is plenty of time to treat and repair the skin problems.

Relying on the vehicle-mounted radar, Dong Qi avoided the giant marine creatures lurking in the diving layer in advance, as well as the small mutated marine creatures that he would encounter from time to time, which scurried around everywhere.

What should have been a four- or five-day voyage to get there took Dong Qi and his team nearly ten days at sea.

The abundant food stored in the vehicle was almost exhausted, and the drinking water had long been used up. If Shao Kai hadn't prepared a seawater filter in advance, everyone in the vehicle would have faced a water shortage long ago.

Actually, none of these problems are serious. The most serious problem is that the fuel in the tanks, which were full before boarding, was exhausted because there was no energy to replenish it while adrift at sea.

The original battery in the vehicle has been depleted, and the energy used to drive the vehicle now comes from the additional battery installed to power the electromagnetic cannon on the roof.

It was only at this time that Dong Qi realized that although the natal item he had chosen seemed much more powerful than those traditional natal items, there were always trade-offs, and he eventually discovered the flaws in his natal item.

Moreover, Dong Qi also discovered why the Treasure Forging Technique, which clearly appeared very powerful and had no flaws, was not a traditional cultivation method but was instead considered a heretical or unorthodox practice.

It turns out that relying on the Treasure Forging Technique to improve one's cultivation level only improves the physical body's strength. Although it is similar to the physical strength of traditional body cultivators, traditional body cultivators, in addition to their powerful physical bodies, still have spiritual energy circulating within their bodies, which can be used to activate various magical artifacts and treasures.

The physical cultivation improved by the Treasure Forging Technique is only physical cultivation; there is no spiritual energy circulating within the body. Therefore, if one wants to use those magical artifacts and treasures that consume spiritual energy, one cannot use them normally unless one is willing to expend life force.

For this reason, Dong Qi is now facing a very awkward problem: if he has spiritual power in his body, even if the vehicle runs out of fuel and electricity, he can use his spiritual power as a power source to drive the vehicle normally.

However, the Treasure Forging Technique that Dong Qi cultivates does not increase the upper limit of spiritual power in his body when he improves his cultivation level, which makes Dong Qi somewhat embarrassed at this moment.

It was at this moment that Dong Qi realized that the ancient people in the cultivation world, whom he had previously thought were a bit silly, even though there were no vehicles like cars or airplanes back then.

However, since this is a world of cultivation, there should also be people who refine puppets and choose puppets as their natal objects, which is no less powerful than choosing common weapons or armor.

Compared to modern people, people in ancient times may simply have had less experience.

To be realistic, people in ancient times were probably smarter and more patient than modern people.

Otherwise, if we look back at the inventions and inherited skills of ancient times, many of them took a long time or required ingenuity to perfect and succeed.

If modern people were asked to conduct research with an unknown future for weeks, months, or even years without the aid of sophisticated machinery, how many people could persevere?

Therefore, the ancient people in the world of cultivation who practiced the Treasure Forging Technique did not refine puppets into their own destiny.

Alternatively, driving the puppet requires consuming a large amount of spirit stones.

Or perhaps it was because spirit stones were extremely valuable during their time.

If they could acquire spirit stones containing energy as easily as buying fuel or charging in modern times, where they are inexpensive and readily available, then some people would probably choose to refine puppets into their destiny items.

Fortunately, due to the energy consumption issues of electromagnetic railguns, they were equipped with high-capacity batteries, which provided a temporary boost to the energy supply in this special situation.

Once back on Earth, Dong Qi will need to carefully consider the energy issue.