Chapter 557
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After coming ashore, Dean glanced around. The scene here was the same as what he had seen from the translucent vision. It was a collapsed basement. The top of the basement was surrounded by messy layers of reinforced concrete stones. The messy stacking of the stones caused the place to not be completely filled up. Instead, there was a bulge of less than two meters in height and an area of about ten square meters.
Next to the scattered stones, a submerged car hood was vaguely visible, and it was covered with dust.
Previously, when he came in, Dean noticed that the place where the drainage channel was connected to was the bottom of the collapsed building. From the outside, only the foundation of the building remained. Next to the foundation was a ruined stone hill. This was the most ideal hiding place he could find at present.
He retracted his gaze and put Aisha on the ground at his feet. He checked the wound on her back. Because she had been soaked in radioactive water, the gauze outside the wound was completely dyed red.
He immediately opened his backpack and poured out the saltpeter inside. Then he took out the gauze at the bottom of the backpack and peeled off some of Aisha's armor. He took off the gauze on her body and wrung it dry. He wiped the water near her wound and then replaced it with a new gauze.
After doing this, he immediately poured out all the things in the backpack and put them aside. Then he used the backpack as a water container and put it into a drainage channel the size of a well to fill it with water.
The backpack was waterproof. After he filled it with water, he poured some water on the surrounding concrete stones. The exposed steel bars in these stones had long been rusted and rotten. At this moment, when he poured water on the stones, they immediately became muddy.
"Sure enough, it won't work." Dean immediately stopped and thought for a moment. He threw the backpack aside and picked up two pieces of saltpeter. He rubbed them together and ground them into fine powder fragments. Then he lifted the backpack again and slowly poured a small amount of the ground saltpeter into the backpack. At the same time, he observed the changes in the backpack.
As the saltpeter entered the water, its heat absorption characteristics immediately came into play. The water in the backpack gradually turned white and froze at a speed visible to the naked eye. It didn't take long for the water to completely freeze into a block of ice.
Dean patted the backpack to loosen the ice inside. Then he poured it out and immediately a rectangular backpack shaped ice block appeared.
"A bit too much saltpeter." Dean glanced at the ice cube and put it on the ground. Then he continued to fill the backpack with water and grind the saltpeter. He added a small amount of saltpeter and observed the changes in the water to prevent wasting saltpeter.
More than an hour passed by. Dean had made more than fifty pieces of ice and piled them high around the collapsed stone cave. He stopped making ice and moved the ice around the cave. Using the ice as bricks, he piled them up and built an oval barrier along the edge of the collapsed stone.
After the rough shape of the ice barrier was completed, he measured the size of some of the gaps that were exposed at the corners. Then, he used his backpack to fill it with water and molded it into the corresponding shape. Afterwards, he threw in the fragments of saltpeter and immediately created ice cubes to fill the gaps. Then, he stuffed them into the gaps of the ice barrier.
When two-thirds of the saltpeter had been used, a sealed barrier made of ice was finally formed.
Dean filled his backpack with water and sprinkled it on the ice bricks from top to bottom. The water slowly flowed along the ice bricks and gradually froze. The gaps of the ice bricks were completely glued together, forming an absolute seal.
Dean was so tired that he sat on the ground. Although he was very tired, he didn't feel hot or sweaty. Instead, his whole body was cold. His hands kept making ice and piling up the bricks until he lost consciousness. He turned his head and looked at Aisha, who was lying in the middle of the ice barrier. The latter was still unconscious. Her face was pale and bloodless. Her brows were slightly wrinkled. She seemed to be very uncomfortable.
Dean dragged his tired body forward to check her wound. He saw a drooping bloodstain on the gauze on her back, but it didn't spread too much. The amount of bleeding seemed to be under control for the time being.
He sighed softly. Although the injury was stabilized, the toxins in her body were raging in her body. There was no cure. In the end, it was just a slow death.
Cold air came from all directions. Dean's body shivered. He couldn't help but rub his hands together. When his right hand touched his left hand, he was shocked. It was as if he had touched a piece of ice. Moreover, the temperature seemed to be lower than ice. It was a bit cold. He couldn't help but look at his left hand. His face changed slightly. He saw that the skin of his left hand was abnormally pale. This kind of white was different from the whiteness of human skin. It was as white as snow.
"I can't stay any longer..." An alarm sounded in Dean's mind. Suddenly, his heart moved. He turned to look at the unconscious Aisha. His eyes flashed slightly. "I can only take a risk. I hope you can hold on."
As he spoke, he lifted his backpack and filled it with water again. He sprinkled saltpeter on it and created an ice brick. Then, he filled it with water again and created another ice brick. After creating six ice bricks in a row, he pieced them together and looked at their length and width. Feeling that they were just right, he immediately sprinkled water on them, allowing the gaps between the ice bricks to freeze and glue together. Soon, an ice bed with a thickness of more than 30 centimeters appeared.
Dean put it in the middle of the ice barrier. Then he picked up Aisha's body and put it on top of the ice barrier. He let her body lie naturally to ensure the blood circulation of the whole body.
"Under such a low temperature, I hope it can slow down the spread of the toxins in your body..." Dean looked at her deeply. He secretly sighed in his heart. This was also a way to treat a dead horse as a living horse. She might even freeze to death. But there was no other way. He could only hope that her body's super strong physique could resist such cold air.
It was not suitable to stay here for a long time. Dean didn't want to accompany her here. The ice blood in his body was ready to move. If he stayed here for a long time, he would freeze to death.
When he was about to turn around, he suddenly saw Aisha's mouth wiggling slightly. It seemed that she was talking. He immediately squatted in front of the ice bed and said: "What did you say?"
The corner of Aisha's mouth twitched slightly as she uttered a weak voice.
Dean put his ear close to her lips. He faintly heard two words: "Mom?"
He looked up at her. He understood that her consciousness was still in a coma. She was just unconsciously murmuring.
Dean sighed and shook his head slightly. He got up and walked to the pool next to him. He was ready to jump in and leave. Suddenly, his body stiffened. He looked straight ahead. He saw a seven-meter-long heat source rushing toward him from thousands of meters away. From the way it moved, it seemed to be on a parade. It was an underwater monster!
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