Chapter 327 - 229: Saint Tier Little Golden Tiger, Meteor from Beyond the Heavens
Chapter 327: Chapter 229: Saint Tier Little Golden Tiger, Meteor from Beyond the Heavens
Inside the greenhouse, the vegetables were a vibrant green.
The snow on the greenhouse roof had been pushed off by the Little Fox and Er Huang leading the other animals. Li Xiang hadn’t even needed to lift a finger. Everyone who saw it clicked their tongues in amazement, saying that Li Xiang’s animals had gained sentience and were incredibly Spiritual.
Several charcoal braziers were lit in the greenhouse each day to warm the air, allowing the kittens, chickens, and ducks to move about in the vegetable garden.
Many hands make light work, and the snow in the village was quickly cleared.
As the village chief, Li Xiang visited each household to see if anyone needed help. Of course, he didn’t go empty-handed, always bringing some rice, flour, and oil. For some of the older residents, he even gave an extra one or two stalks of Korean Ginseng.
Fortunately, everyone was well-prepared this year. Their houses had all been reinforced in advance, so there weren’t any major problems.
When Li Xiang arrived at Third Granny’s house, he found her warming herself by the fire alone. Since it was a new house, the charcoal in the brazier glowed crimson, making the room toasty warm. Li Xiang asked Third Granny if she wanted to stay at his place, as she had the previous year.
But Third Granny thanked him profusely before politely refusing. After all, she felt a bit embarrassed about freeloading at his house. Besides, staying in someone else’s home was never as comfortable as being in your own.
Li Xiang didn’t insist. He brought her some rice, flour, and meat, two stalks of Celestial-Level Korean Ginseng, and a few boxes of bamboo charcoal.
Li Xiang also took Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, Lei Jiaming, and others to inspect the two Shelters at the scenic spot. The quality was good, the air inside was fresh, and there were no signs of water leakage.
The construction team had left before the heavy snow arrived. The plans and blueprints for the third-phase Shelter weren’t finalized yet, but the rough structure of the second phase was complete. Renovations would have to wait until the walls had thoroughly dried out.
Since it was built inside a mountain, it would likely take even longer to dry out completely.
The Shelter was reinforced during excavation, waterproofed after drying, and then reinforced a second time. The walls were extremely thick and solid, designed and built according to seismic design standards for underground structures to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake.
Naturally, it could also serve as an air-raid shelter.
The investment was huge, but it was worth it.
Otherwise, if an earthquake caused a collapse and buried everyone alive, that would be a tragic joke. That’s why quality control was so strict.
During the inspection, even though it was just the rough structure, everyone was extremely satisfied. They touched the walls and pillars, remarking on how sturdy they were. Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui each chose a suitable room to serve as a future residence for themselves and their families.
The three women were tactful enough not to pick the best rooms, knowing that Li Xiang certainly had other plans for them.
As for the first-phase Shelter, they didn’t even dare to dream of it. Li Xiang had mentioned that it was going to be renovated to the standards of a luxury mansion.
A standalone mansion, the kind that occupies an entire mountaintop.
The second phase, by contrast, was equivalent to a high-end, fully furnished residential complex.
As for the third phase, it would be equivalent to low-cost resettlement housing. Any subsequent projects would be of a similar grade, designed only to meet basic survival needs.
This "low-cost" referred specifically to aspects like future renovation costs and living experience, not safety.
In terms of safety, all the Shelters were built to the same standard.
For example, the floors in Li Xiang’s standalone mansion inside the mountain would be laid with precious woods like rosewood and golden teak. The second phase would use ordinary wood or ceramic tiles, and the third phase would just have cement floors.
This was just one example; there were also differences in interior decor. The room sizes and occupancy limits would also vary.
Of course, residents could also upgrade their own living spaces through their own efforts—either by using their own money or by working for the base to earn "Contribution Points" to spend on renovations.
The snow stopped for two days, then started falling again.
This was just the situation in their area. The timing of the snowfall naturally differed in other provinces and regions, as a cold wave had swept across the entire south.
Lei Jiaming led his team on patrols and hunts around the village. With their man-portable active phased-array radar, they could clearly detect a wild rabbit from five kilometers away, let alone large groups of wild boars.
They didn’t just clear out the wild boars near Li Family Village; their patrol area expanded to cover more than ten surrounding villages, including Lei Family Gully, Yaojialing, and Zhaojiaping, and it was still expanding.
Li Xiang didn’t participate. ’Hunting wild boars is boring.’ He’d seen news that a Siberian Tiger was heading south into Hebei, and some said it had already reached the Yellow River.
He took a trip over under the cover of night, but it turned out to be just an ordinary tiger, not one with Extraordinary potential. Without lingering, he headed for the Northeast and Siberia to search for more powerful specimens.
「Deep in the night.」
Li Xiang crossed the Heilongjiang River and entered the vast expanse of Siberia. It was a truly bitter, cold land—the kind where even a typical tiger could not survive.
However, some extraordinarily powerful tigers would remain within Siberia’s borders instead of migrating south.
Suddenly, he spotted an enormous tigress with four cubs making her way through the snow.
The little cubs were struggling. The snow was so deep that they kept sinking into it, forcing the mother tiger to stop, turn back, and pluck them out.
’A widow and her orphans, trekking through the wilderness in the dead of night... life is so hard for them. What if they run into a wild beast?’
The thought, a very popular internet meme, couldn’t help but pop into Li Xiang’s head.