Many years later, when the last zombie was cleaned up, the "last century" officially came to an end, and the severely damaged human civilization entered reconstruction and revival. The survivors' memories of the first winter after the apocalypse were only one word:
cold.
It was freezing cold.
Experts from the Research Institute of the Beijing Base gave an early warning of the cold wave, but the ferocity of this big drop in temperature still exceeded everyone's expectations.
In just one week, the average temperature in the base dropped from minus 78 degrees to minus 178 degrees, and it continued to drop.
At the end of December, a goose-feather snowstorm came wrapped in a bitter cold wind. It lasted for half a month without stopping. The cotton-like snowflakes fell without melting and piled up layer by layer, almost covering the entire northern part of Huaguo. Buried in a cemetery.
The consequences of severe cooling and heavy snowfall are disastrous, followed by traffic jams and material damage. For the more than six million survivors in the capital base, the most deadly thing is the cold.
The continuous cooling has led to an increase in heating costs. Taking the Sharpen base as an example, the heating cost of the entire base has soared from 20,000 credits per month to 100,000 credits per month. Shen Shi'an can afford and is willing to pay this money, but other organizations may not.
The situation in the inner city is not bad. Most of the people living in the outer city are ordinary people with no superpowers and low physical enhancement. Install.
The management of the base has opened four disaster relief sites in the outer urban area, where ordinary survivors can receive cold-proof supplies and food for free. However, the supplies are limited, and because the city is closed by heavy snow, there is no way to go out to find them. The entire base is in a state of sitting and eating. , The astonishing rate of material consumption made this cold winter even longer and endless.
In the raging cold wave and heavy snowfall, the survivors survived the last day of December and ushered in 2020.
On January 2, 2020, the temperature dropped again, with the lowest nighttime temperature plummeting to minus 26 degrees. That night, eleven people froze to death in the outer city.
On the 4th of January, under the initiative of the Association of Espers, various organizations of Espers set up multiple rescue stations in the outer city, distributed various cold-proof materials for free, and actively joined the rescue operation of the base management.
On the 10th of January, the urgently laid heating pipeline network connecting all residential areas in the outer city was officially completed. This part of the heating pipeline adopts the method of intermittent heating for eight hours a day. Payment" method, starting from April of the next year, one point will be deducted from the survivor's identity bracelet every day until the payment is exhausted.
Of course, the premise is that the survivors can survive this winter.
Not only the capital base, but also the catastrophic cold wave that covered almost half of China made all survivors face a severe test of survival.
The only good news is that zombies are also affected.
Zombies are not afraid of the cold, but the remaining moisture in their bodies makes them unable to move at all in an environment of about twenty degrees below zero. A large number of low-level zombies who have no time to hide are directly frozen into the thick snow layer. According to the video information, the group of zombies within a radius of 200 kilometers of the base in the capital had all come to a standstill after the arrival of the cold wave.
This winter, the survivors ushered in a rare period of peace.
The weather is too cold, neither supplies nor zombies can be killed, most people choose to stay at home.
The dog is lying on the blanket in front of the fireplace in the living room, and the right half of the dog's hair is burned by the firewood, forming a huge, soft, natural sofa back that can be heated automatically.
Shen Shi'an leaned against the big dog, feeling warm all over. He raised his hand and grabbed the dog's tail that was scrambling on his calf and squeezed it twice: "Don't make trouble."
There is a stack of documents on his lap, which Mr. Gu sent to him, including the disaster situation of the major bases in this cold wave, and the distribution of zombie groups around the capital base. The news is good and bad, but overall The situation is not optimistic.
Shen Xun rested his big head on his front paws, and stared at Shen Shi'an's profile with huge emerald-colored animal eyes without blinking, only to feel a gentle heat surge in his body again.
He wants to lick Ann.
But An'an said that he would not let him lick casually.
How about just a lick? Just lick An An, surely she won't be angry, right
While Shen Shi'an was flipping through the documents, Gouzi stuck out his tongue and quickly licked the back of Shen Shi'an's left hand, then put his big head into Shen Shi'an's arms pretending to be coquettish, and waited for an opportunity to sniff the back of his hand.
Hee hee hee, it's all about him.
Tao Yuan was rarely idle at home, and was playing flying chess with Fan Xintong on the other side. The two baby faces are put together, not to mention quite harmonious.
"It seems like it's been a while since I saw Yaoyao?" Tao Yuan rolled a dice, took two steps forward and then three steps back, and paid a large fine, touched his nose and continued: "Shall we invite Yaoyao?" Come over as a guest?"
Ye Ping used to come to teach every day, but she could often see the two children staying together. Since the temperature dropped sharply and the two children started their "winter vacation", Tian Shiyao didn't seem to have been to the villa once.
Fan Xintong was silent, and stepped on a gold mine after jumping four steps, "I don't like her."
Tao Yuan was a little surprised: "Don't like her? Why? Are you having a conflict?" He softly comforted him: "It's normal for friends to have conflicts, and the most important thing is to be willing to communicate and resolve them. You and Yao Yao should be a good friend, right? Last time Yaoyao said that she likes you very much."
"She lied." Fan Xintong said coldly.
lie
Before Tao Yuan could continue this topic, the door was pushed open, and Liu Fangzhou, wrapped in a bear, stomped in and said, "Ah, it's so cold, it's freezing to death, it's too cold outside. I feel like my hands and feet are almost numb.”
Xu Ge came out of the kitchen, holding two cups of hot ginger tea in his hand, he was worried but couldn't help laughing: "You can't take it after you've only been out for two minutes?"
Then he asked Xiong Manshan who walked in behind him: "Is the snow thick?"
"It's okay, push the shovel twice and it will be gone."
The heavy snow has not stopped, and if it is not shoveled, the door can be blocked in half a day. Xiong Manshan was so strong that he volunteered to be responsible for shoveling snow in the base area. For this reason, he specially built a super-large snow shovel, which can be done by pushing it along the road twice. In less than a minute, Xiao Lang saw Shen Shi'an once when he came to talk about business, and he was so envious that he bid two hundred points each time to hire Xiong Manshan to work full-time in the Tiger Wolf Regiment to shovel snow.
"The snow is too thick, and I dare not burn it. Last time, the snow water on the back of the two fire-type superpowers just finished burning their front feet. They couldn't be split with an axe. Our team was tired every time we shoveled the snow." You have to be like a dog and can't shovel cleanly, how can this big brother be so helpful. If you think that two hundred points are less, five hundred will do!"
Shen Shi'an didn't care about this matter, it was all voluntary by Xiong Manshan. It is said that tens of thousands of small coffers have been deposited, and the scope of business is still expanding.
Liu Fangzhou took off his coat and hung it up, took a sip of ginger tea, then sneaked around behind Fan Xintong and stuck his red finger on her face: "Is it cool? Is it cool?"
"Ha ha ha ha… "
The two were making a fuss, Xu Ge looked at Fan Xintong who was rarely laughing and couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, children can play with children."
Tao Yuan nodded approvingly, and joined the battle even when he saw Xiong Manshan.
"Shouldn't Chen Nan be back soon?" After the fierce battle, Xu Ge asked while brushing Tongtong's hair, "Lunch is ready, and we can serve it when he comes back."
Xiong Manshan glanced at the time: "It should be soon. Didn't it mean two hours a day? He leaves the door at nine in the morning. I can see that the time is almost the same."
In order to cope with the cold wave, the capital base was forced to provide heating throughout the city. The original fuel and energy reserves were simply not enough to survive the entire winter. Therefore, the management issued a summoning order requiring all wood-type and fire-type powers to At least go to the heating center to work for two hours. The fire department directly provides energy through supernatural powers, and the wood department promotes the rapid-forming economic forest to provide wood.
Because it is paid work, the salary is high, and the working environment is warm, there is almost no resistance in the implementation process. After all, people with supernatural powers also need to eat, and now they can’t do tasks. They can’t kill zombies or find supplies, which means they have no source of income at all, and the maintenance cost of “Skynet” is greatly increased due to the temperature. The deduction of life points has temporarily increased from the original one point to three points. No one would like to have extra income. Anyway, the ability to block the city due to heavy snow has no use, and many people even actively apply for more working hours.
Less than ten minutes after Xiong Manshan finished speaking, Chen Nan really came back. His power level had stabilized at the middle of the third level, and the two-hour work was quite easy for him.
But there is one less person.
"Where did Lu Xiuyuan go?" Shen Shi'an asked.
Liu Fangzhou stared at the fluffy and warm dog sofa with greedy eyes, and was about to sneak it. Hearing this, he immediately withdrew his hand, sat upright and shook his head: "I don't know, he went out early in the morning."
Shen Shi'an frowned slightly.
Ever since he found Qu Shuo's location and confronted him, Lu Xiuyuan often disappeared. Where and what to do outside the mission period is his freedom. Shen Shi'an didn't intend to ask, but Gouzi once had nothing to do to read his mind, and told Shen Shi'an that he went to monitor Qushuo.
At that time, Qu Shuo was beaten and stabbed by Lu Xiuyuan in an abandoned gas station more than ten kilometers away from the base. Shen Shi'an threw him a first-aid kit before leaving. He is back again.
Shen Shi'an didn't know where Lu Xiuyuan learned about this, but he originally thought that after finding out that Qu Shuo was still alive, Lu Xiuyuan would at least make up for it again. Now it seems that it is just surveillance, and I don't know if it is to secretly obtain information about the other four soldiers from Qu Shuo, or simply to appreciate how miserable Qu Shuo is, or for other reasons.
Lu Xiuyuan's ability can prop up a wall to isolate the cold air, the low temperature is not so terrible for him, but it is not a good thing to stay outside for too long in this weather.
Shen Shi'an was about to make a phone call to ask him, when the door was suddenly knocked open, and Lu Xiuyuan rushed in with a person wrapped in a transparent wall:
"Save him, Shen Shi'an, save him quickly!"