Hearing Liu Xinmin's words, Xiao Jing felt relieved.
Seventeen days is not a long time, she can still afford to wait. So, after she was relieved, she naturally left the room—leaving the quiet environment to Liu Xinmin.
…
Time soon reached midnight.
The food supply in the research institute was sufficient, everyone—all the clones including No. 17, got together for a dinner, and then came outside together as if they had made an agreement, and then the seventeen naive His face, seventeen pairs of deep eyes, looked at the gloomy sky.
"The night of death has come."
"Come early."
"Has the composition of the red mist been analyzed?" Number Seventeen asked.
"Analyzed." No. 7 replied: "The ratio of the three components in the red mist suddenly increased. One is the exciting thing Liu Xinmin mentioned, the other is the component that affects the weather and blocks light, and the other is One is the mysterious ray. When I was in Zhengzhou before, didn't Li Qingshui list dozens of unknown ingredients? Among them was this mysterious ray. So, this time, including the mysterious ray, the ratio of the three ingredients in total suddenly increased."
"Yes." No. 17 nodded, "Then everything is clear at a glance."
"Yes. The increase in 'free will' that can lead to biological excitement will greatly increase the danger of ordinary creatures. And the components that block light will lower the temperature. This is the result that can be analyzed so far." The previous clone Continued: "This drop in temperature will last for a long time. Most of the earth's temperature comes from sunlight. The previous red fog has the function of storing heat, so it can't show changes in temperature. But if most of the light is blocked, That will usher in a cold winter!"
"How cold is it?" Seventeen asked.
"Well, according to the current data analysis, after this gray component blocks sunlight, the average global temperature will drop by about 2 degrees Celsius every day. This is an incredible thing."
"Two degrees lower every day?" Hearing this number, No. 17 frowned deeply. "Wouldn't it mean that in a month's time, the city of Beijing will be colder than the current South Pole?"
"In fact, it will take less than a month." The previous clone took out a previous research report, "In fact, the proportion of this gray component has been increasing. According to the current speed, after 19 days, Beijing will be colder than Antarctica now."
"It shouldn't be." Hearing this, the boss asked his own question, "If the temperature keeps dropping like this, then there is no need for anything else, just a temperature of tens of degrees below zero can kill all extinctions." Most of the species are gone, does this not conform to the rules of the Cambrian period?"
"It shouldn't be so cruel..." No. 17 looked at the sky, "Let's take a step, let's take a step..."
…
Under the same sky, in the same research institute, another larger research area, Li Qingshui and Ryan looked at the sky at the same time.
"Do you think it's possible for us to cooperate?" Li Qingshui and Ryan lived in the same bedroom.
"Humans and willows cooperate?" Ryan smiled when he heard Li Qingshui's words, "Do you think it's possible?"
"Nothing is impossible. Anything in this world, as long as the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, can be tried." Li Qingshui turned his head and looked at Ryan, "Don't you think so?"
"Just kidding, the relationship between humans and willows is natural enemies." Ryan replied: "You gain wisdom and knowledge by devouring humans, and cooperating with you is tantamount to seeking skin with tigers."
"Whether it's seeking skin from a tiger or meat from a wolf, we'll have a hard time this winter." Li Qingshui turned around and lay down on the bed, "Besides, humans and willows are not naturally hostile now. Is something wrong? I think willows should be more interested in them than humans."
"You are just depressed before the cold winter. You want to survive this cold winter, but it seems that nature will put more pressure on you. Don't you think it's too ridiculous to seek help from humans at this time?" Ryan said He actually laughed out loud, "Almost the population of three provinces has been devoured by you, and now you want to seek cooperation instead. To be honest, I really want to see how you die in this cold winter."
"I won't die." Li Qingshui also smiled, "I will be very embarrassed in this cold winter, and neither will you. And my embarrassment is only relative to the present, in fact, compared to Under this circumstance, even in this cold winter, I will still have a greater advantage over humans."
"Let's wait and see," Ryan said.
"You have lost a great opportunity for a lion to speak loudly." Li Qingshui said.
Overnight.
Early the next morning, as Number Seven said, it was very cold. The winter in Beijing is already cold, and it often snows heavily in mid-December, but now the weather is colder than before, the sky is gray and red, and the depressed people can't see a little sunshine, although they can still see things. But the surrounding area was much darker, and the snow on the ground showed no sign of melting. Instead, a layer of hard sorbet had condensed on the top layer of the snow.
The owner of the barber shop where Xiao Jing worked yesterday woke up early this morning - it wasn't that he didn't want to sleep anymore, it was because he was so cold that he didn't fall asleep all night.
Anyone who has experienced hunger knows that it is difficult for ordinary people to freeze to death when they are full, and if the stomach is empty, the temperature of about ten degrees can make you feel chilling—the owner of the barber shop was near minus ten degrees yesterday. In the cold temperature, I feel a chill in the bones.
He ate half of the biscuit obtained by Xiao Jing’s haircut yesterday, and he and his wife shared the remaining half equally—a man in his thirties only ate a quarter of it in one day. A piece of biscuit, which is actually not much different from not eating. So, when he woke up this morning, the first thing he did was to take an iron spear, equip it with the gun Wang Pengfei gave him yesterday, and walk out the door.
He is looking for something to eat.
After the cockroach incident in Beijing a few days ago, there is no food left at all. In fact, before the heavy snow closed the door, these people had been hungry for many days. It was all consumed, so this heavy snow came at the right time, "The leak in the house happened to rain overnight, and the door was closed after the heavy snow when I was hungry."
But no matter what it means, ordinary people like them who live under the sky have no objection to what God decides, they can only accept it.
Therefore, without too many complaints, the owner of the barber shop walked out early in the morning with an iron spear on his back. But before the city was released, the prey was not found, or even the gate of the house was not released, he encountered the first trouble - the ice surface. In extremely low temperatures, the snow will freeze, especially the thin ice flakes on the snow surface, which can directly cut clothes and pants, making the already cold weather even more penetrating.