Yesterday was a zero-degree climate with short days and long nights. Today, the sun rose at five o’clock in the morning, followed by a hotter temperature.
Wang Hehe and Meng Hanghai have poorer physiques. They fainted when the temperature suddenly changed at midnight last night. They’re already ability users, but they’re used to staying in the office and not going out, so there’s no difference between an ordinary person and them. Gongsun Jing is busy taking care of them and using her ability. Hou Ying isn’t much better either. After helping for a few minutes outside, he’s already thirsty and sweating like a waterfall. Worried that he would be dehydrated, Jiang Tao and others persuaded him to return to the air-conditioned room.
What makes them even angrier is that the sudden temperature change caused their food to rot drastically!
Only rice, instant noodles, and flour remained. While bread, biscuits, and some cooked fruits and vegetables, even with vacuum packaging, were rotten overnight. And the cherished chocolate that they kept to replenish their physical strength when they move, turned directly into liquid and soiled the container.
Facing the food that had been moved out of the container and piled up into a hill, Su Fenghe, who had not yet fully integrated into the new collective and therefore very conservative and less talkative, also cursed.
They sighed, but they had no choice but to drive to the place near the parking lot to find a large mobile freezer for food preservation in this 40-degree climate. When they came back, they brought back another piece of bad news.
Not only does the outside temperature have no effect on the activities of the zombies, but they can obviously feel that the zombies are more excited under the high temperature than at the low temperature. Even their abilities have been improved to a certain extent! The roar of the zombies at midnight last night wasn’t a riot they thought, but a carnival!
There are three air conditioners. The air conditioner in the vertical cabinet is placed in the second-floor lounge, and the two hanging types are installed in the cabs of two heavy trucks.
On this trip, Li Xuanyuan also dismantled two freezers and the main control of the central air conditioner. He’s busy modifying them so they can be able to control and adjust the temperature in time. He prepared one for the restroom and the other for the food container to avoid the recurrence of similar food spoilage. This kind of technical work, except for Jiang Tao who can help by the side, no one else can help.
Hou Ying is thinking hard about how to adjust the itinerary afterward. Qiao Daye tells them what they’ve seen outside.
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Not to mention the zombies and mixed rancid smell outside, the only materials they can collect outside this time are grain and oil. While they either have enough of the other things or they can’t use them, so didn’t take them back to occupy space.
Gongsun Jing added, “This is a municipal city, so there must be a hospital. That’s where we need to go. Even if there’s something wrong with the medicine, there will always be thermometers and blood pressure monitors. In addition, we need a lot of edible salt. I think you are also prepared. I believe this hot weather can’t end in one or two days. Without enough salt supplement, we can easily dehydrate.”
Everyone knows that her suggestion is correct, so no one opposes it.
They brainstormed and racked their brains to figure out how to deal with such a harsh living environment. Su Fenghe, who has always been immersed in his work and rarely expresses his ideas, said this time, “Brother Hou, I have an idea. I don’t know if it’s feasible.”
Everyone urged him to speak quickly. Su Fenghe sorted out his words, and then said, “We have a problem eating now. By only eating staple food or instant noodles, we can only go hungry, and our bodies can’t be supplemented with vitamins and other nutrients. No one can hold on like this. Today, I saw some potatoes sprouting outside, so I wondered if we could find some vegetables to grow.”
Several people didn’t expect it to be such a simple and practical method. Gongsun Jing said, “But we don’t know how to grow vegetables. I don’t know if Xuanyuan’s ability can be used.”
Hou Ying said, “Lao Su since you brought it up, you must have thought about what to do. We have no experience in this aspect. Just say it.”
Su Fenghe’s hometown is in a rural area in the north. He helped his family to do farm work while he was studying. And although he lived in Kangcheng for many years, he didn’t lose his common sense and practical ability. Seeing that they are all interested in his own opinions, he said, “We added a layer on top of our second car and we originally intended to put food and supplies on it, but I was wondering if we could spare half of the space to grow vegetables? As long as we find vegetable seeds, I know how to grow the general varieties. Like bean sprouts and mushrooms, I have worked with the villagers to grow them before. These don’t need too much space and the breeding cycle is not long. It’s just that it’s not easy to find mushrooms and bean sprouts now.”
“Okay!” Qiao Daye said, “Lao Su has this craftsmanship is better than anything else! We’ll look for seeds carefully. In cities like this, there are always flower and bird markets and vegetable supply centers. I won’t believe that we can’t even find a single seed. Oh, this is great. I’m still thinking about the pickled eggs and those vegetables we managed to get back. They all rotted last night, so what should we eat in the future? Now it’s good, we finally don’t have to eat white rice and instant noodles every day!”
Jiang Tao said amusedly, “You have rice and noodles yet you felt wronged. How many people outside want to have enough to eat!”
Qiao Daye chuckled. They all looked at Hou Ying. In the end, he decided that the team would stay at the fifth stop for another five days. On the one hand, they would slowly find the materials they needed, and on the other, they would adjust their physical condition to adapt to the high temperature.
The weather was so hot that even trained people like Jiang Tao and others couldn’t sleep. Hou Ying looked at Wang Hehe and Meng Hanghai who were sleeping under the influence of medicine and worriedly said, “Staying in an air-conditioned room is not an option. The longer we stay here, the less we can get out. These days, we have to adjust the temperature of the air conditioner up to no more than five degrees from the outside, otherwise, it’s easier to get sick.”
Hou Ying, who has experience in taking care of his nephew, thought of this problem faster than Gongsun Jing, a doctor.
Ji Yao said weakly, “The point is that the heat rose too fast, without even any warning sign. Who can stand it?”
He’s still hanging water. The pain hasn’t gone yet, and the whole person doesn’t seem to have any energy. Li Xuanyuan took out the thermometer that he had placed outside the heavy truck before he went out today. At that time, he took some of each type of instrument in the instrument factory in the industrial zone in case of future use. He didn’t expect that it would come in handy so soon.
He showed the record of the thermostat to everyone, and said in a deep voice, “This is the temperature record from 6 o’clock to now. The average temperature is 39 degrees, and the hottest point reached 42 degrees at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The weather is so unreasonable.”
Not to mention the sudden surge from zero to more than 30 degrees, 42 degrees is almost impossible for Eastern China, which is north of the subtropical zone. People on the earth all have the geographical knowledge of seasonal changes, the rising and falling of the moon, and the climate and temperature. How can this kind of high temperature in the equatorial tropics appear here? And it appeared in the spring of April! Is there something wrong with the rotation of the earth? This is too unscientific!
More importantly, is this phenomenon only around here, or is there a climate anomaly all over the world?
For them whose news is blocked, this has become a problem without a solution.
The next day, they saw the temperature change at night from the thermostat. Compared with the day, the temperature at night without direct sunlight wasn’t as high. And last night’s 38 degrees didn’t repeat as they feared, the average value remained around 35 degrees.
Jiang Tao then suggested that since the temperature at night is acceptable, it would be better for them to reverse the day and night, sleep during the day, and work at night.
Hou Ying hesitated. He’s afraid that the day and night reversal would disrupt their endocrine system. If the temperature endangers their health, it wouldn’t be worth the loss.
Li Xuanyuan directly vetoed, “No. After the high temperature, the zombie virus seems to have evolved. I can feel that their threat is much higher than a day ago, and the number of ability zombies seems to have increased. In other words, ordinary zombies may have experienced a second natural evolution in the high-temperature change, and derived abilities. Another problem is that the power supply here has been cut off, there is no lighting at night, and the visible range of our own lighting is limited. Once we encounter high-level metal zombies with long-range attacks, wind-type zombies, or the lightning zombies we accidentally enclosed last time, it’s very dangerous. If our team is focused on moving around, safety issues may be guaranteed, but now the time of low temperature at night is less than eight hours, our actions will only get half the result with twice the effort.”
What Li Xuanyuan said makes sense.
But thinking of the high temperature outside, all of them hesitated.
Hou Ying clenched his fist and said, “I also think that what we need to do now is to adapt as soon as possible instead of avoiding opportunistically. We don’t know how long this kind of hot weather will last, and whether it will be repeated next year. This kind of high-temperature weather. If we forcefully reverse our biological clock now, we will have to turn it back again in winter. I’m afraid our bodies won’t be able to bear it.”
Qiao Daye said, “God really knows how to joke. I’m really worried that the weather today is just the grand old man’s dessert. If we get a 60-degree high temperature like the equatorial desert, we can be roasted directly.”
His family believes in Buddhism so they wouldn’t complain about God. Now they’re just being forced to die.
Liu Zhan said, “Let’s wait for Xuanyuan to collect data for another two days, and then we can work out the adaptation training according to the temperature. Brother Tao, we have also received similar high and low-temperature adaptation training in the army. Now that our bodies are still able to support us, we should train Brother Hou and the others’ physique according to the old method. Although we don’t have to be in a hurry, we have to adapt slowly. Otherwise, if this ghostly weather is alternately hot and cold, do we need to stop moving again?”
Everyone knows this truth. Ji Yao, who’s most reluctant to face reality before, said first, “Fight! Anyway, the end times aren’t for people to enjoy!”
In this regard, everyone agrees with the high-temperature training program.
When the temperature dropped to 33 degrees at 11 o’clock in the night, everyone went to bed, and Liu Zhan watched the night. At 4 a.m. the next day, several people got up to eat rice before the sun rose. Two heavy trucks headed for their destination, the municipal hospital.
I just imaging myself in this kind of situation I think I would be first to give up! XD I really can’t tolerate. Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
40 degrees is high enough to cause heatstroke to people like me who has poor physique 😥 I might just die in an instant.
For Americans like me: 40°c is 104°f
I live in Texas, we had that weather yesterday.
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