CHAPTER 212: CHAPTER 210: INSUFFICIENTLY PREPARED MEDICATION

Compared to manufacturing ten 10KW small devices, three 50KW large devices are clearly stronger in terms of total output power.

Moreover, a large device has an advantage in that even though its output power is the same as five small devices, under the same output power, its electricity consumption is evidently lower than that of small devices.

The manufactured equipment did not appear on Chen Xin’s workbench but was directly delivered to the upper-level material warehouse.

This is undoubtedly one of the new features acquired after the upgrade, as Chen Xin can choose to have the manufactured items appear on the workbench or choose to place them directly in the material warehouse to avoid some items occupying the internal space of the main shelter.

The manufacturing time for three large geothermal heat pump devices was much shorter than Chen Xin originally anticipated for ten small geothermal heat pumps.

Based on the time Chen Xin took to help the SWAT team last time, he could complete about three small geothermal heat pumps a day, but now he finished manufacturing three large geothermal heat pump devices in just about a midday and afternoon.

This is undoubtedly a major boon for Chen Xin.

Originally, he needed to manufacture fifty small geothermal heat pump devices. Now, with large geothermal heat pump devices and keeping total output power unchanged, Chen Xin has used one-fifth of the original materials and less than one-fifteenth of the original work period to complete nearly one-third of the task requirements.

It should be noted that Chen Xin’s original calculation was that ten small devices could be completed within two to three days after the upgrade, but now it’s all done in just one day. Moreover, there was a bit of material left over, which saved Chen Xin a lot of time, and he could embark on his journey a few days earlier than planned.

Upon reporting this result to the city government via shortwave radio, the reaction was as expected; the city government was very pleased and extremely interested upon receiving the news.

After all, between ten devices and three devices, the city government people know clearly which is easier to maintain and use.

Furthermore, Chen Xin being able to manufacture large geothermal heat pump devices is a significant boon for the city’s plan to reactivate small shelters.

If it weren’t for the city government’s initial plan to conduct a pilot project by using geothermal heat pump heating in a small shelter and then decide whether to activate more small shelters based on the results, the leader in charge might have already planned to order more devices from Chen Xin to reactivate all the originally stored small shelters in the urban area.

But anyway, as a leader, he doesn’t act impulsively. Moreover, Chen Xin mentioned that he needs to return home to pick up his parents, so the city government did not change the plan and insist on keeping Chen Xin.

Therefore, the leader in charge of this matter only arranged for the previously agreed manufacturing materials to be delivered to Chen Xin’s shelter while accepting the three large geothermal heat pump devices to be sent to the small shelter ready for activation.

As for the installation work of the geothermal heat pumps, neither Chen Xin nor the leaders need to worry as the city government’s construction team will handle such matters. Chen Xin only needs to provide the equipment, and the leaders only care about the results.

With things going smoothly, Chen Xin naturally didn’t worry further about this matter. He just needed to complete the production of the geothermal heat pumps with the materials provided by the city government according to their request.

Besides this, what Chen Xin needed to worry about was how to hand over his shelter to Mo Qingyan and Mo Qingxin sisters for care before his departure.

Concerning this, Chen Xin had already negotiated with Mo Qingyan, and she agreed to come back to take care of Chen Xin’s shelter, though she and Mo Qingxin haven’t moved in yet.

However, Mo Qingyan agreed to move in two days before Chen Xin’s departure to have enough time to familiarize herself with Chen Xin’s shelter, preventing any unnecessary troubles due to unfamiliarity with the equipment after Chen Xin leaves.

Besides these matters, the vegetables Chen Xin planted in the greenhouse were almost ready for harvest, which also meant that the monthly resource exchange with the SWAT team was approaching.

Although the SWAT team’s resources had already been delivered alongside the materials sent by the city government earlier, Chen Xin’s vegetables had not yet reached harvesting time. Therefore, this resource exchange would only involve Chen Xin handing over the harvested vegetables to the SWAT team.

Since Chen Xin had previously advanced the exchanging shares for the next two months, he would need another two exchanges before he could resume regular exchanges.

According to Chen Xin’s own estimated time, if everything goes smoothly, by then he would already have picked up his parents from his hometown.

After some consideration, Chen Xin decided to let Mo Qingyan handle this and the next two resource exchanges, allowing him to embark on his journey home a few days earlier.

Luckily, his planting greenhouse is now fully mechanized and automated; whether planting or harvesting, it could be completed by machines. Mo Qingyan would only need to operate the console, without having to laboriously farm like Chen Xin used to.

While thinking about these matters, Chen Xin also arrived at the planting greenhouse, checking the growth condition of the crops in the greenhouse through the monitor screen at the console.

The console that appeared after the upgrade of the planting greenhouse proved to be a very convenient tool. Through the monitor screen on the console, Chen Xin could see the growth condition of every plant on the six layers of hydroponic growing plates above him without climbing up to inspect visually.

While examining the crops about to mature, Chen Xin suddenly noticed a small patch of plants on one of the hydroponic growing plates that looked quite different from the others, resembling a bunch of weeds.

Pulling the surveillance camera closer, he realized that these were the herbs he promised to plant for Doctor Hong Rui.

Even though Chen Xin had been taking care of them since planting, evidently, with all the recent happenings, he had forgotten about these herbs.

The herbs were growing quite well; however, as medicinal plants, their growth wasn’t as fast as the nearby vegetables. They still required some time of cultivation before they could be harvested.

Having checked the herbs, Chen Xin didn’t pay too much attention to them since their growth seemed fine, and it was still early for harvesting, so he didn’t give them much thought.

However, looking at these herbs reminded him of something he had overlooked.

Although he had prepared first aid kits in the armored RV, he hadn’t prepared enough medicine.

It’s not that Chen Xin forgot to prepare medicine. He had taken various medicines from the medical room and put them in the armored RV’s medicine cabinet.

Besides medicine, Chen Xin even prepared two simple surgical kits to prevent any unexpected incidents along the way.

But these medicines were prepared before the disaster, limited to some common drugs, and since Chen Xin needed to leave some behind in the shelter, although not insufficient, they might not be enough in some unexpected situations.

"It seems I need to figure out how to get more medicine!" Chen Xin rubbed his chin, contemplating which medicines he still needed to prepare: "It’s a pity Doctor Hong Rui had some problems at home, otherwise, his place would have been a good spot to get medicine, but now he’s at Xiao Long’s, I don’t feel right asking him for medicine."

It’s not that Chen Xin thought there would be a problem asking Li Yulong for medicines, but going to Doctor Hong Rui would definitely let Li Yulong know, and if Li Yulong knew about this, given his character, the medicines wouldn’t be exchanged but simply given.

Although Li Yulong had requests for Chen Xin and Chen Xin did help him with some things, overall, Chen Xin felt he owed Li Yulong and couldn’t just keep taking advantage of him.

Moreover, personal debts are easy to incur and hard to repay; too many of such matters might affect the relationship between Chen Xin and Li Yulong in the future.

Thus, unless necessary, Chen Xin preferred to exchange for some necessary drugs from the hospital through the city government on his own accord.

Besides, there was another benefit to this approach, which was that hospital doctors were obviously more professional, and the medicines prepared could better handle various situations.

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Having realized the inadequacies, one must immediately make up for them.

Chen Xin did not delay. When the city government staff came to deliver the second batch of materials and take away the three large geothermal heat pump devices, he mentioned his need for a batch of medicine to the person in charge of delivering materials.

This person in charge had replaced Secretary Li and was mainly responsible for the exchange of materials and equipment between Chen Xin and the city.

After hearing Chen Xin’s requests, he agreed to help Chen Xin contact the hospital and ask them to prepare a batch of medicines for him. He even proactively invited Chen Xin to return to the city with him to get the medicines directly from the hospital.

Certainly, Chen Xin had no objections, so after completing the exchange of materials and equipment, he went back to the city with the person in charge in the city government’s car.

Upon reaching the hospital, the person in charge sought out hospital personnel to help Chen Xin allocate the medicines, while Chen Xin sat idly in the hospital lobby, waiting.

The lobby of the hospital wasn’t very different from before. Although it’s after the apocalypse and the hospital was converted from a shelter, it was still bustling with patients as it was pre-disaster.

Only now Chen Xin couldn’t take out his mobile phone to play games as he used to and could only sit bored, watching "Tom and Jerry" playing on the TV hanging in the lobby.

Just as Chen Xin was feeling bored to the point of yawning, suddenly from behind, there came a surprised voice: "Junior Chen?"

Chen Xin was a bit surprised too, as only one person would call him that.

As he turned his head and stood up from the chair, the person appeared before him, the very person who would call him like that: "Senior?"