Xu Lin carried a thermometer from the yard into the house. The thermometer showed that it was -10 degrees Celsius outside. It should be springtime in March, but everywhere there was a scene of decay.

The plants can no longer be grown outdoors, and the planting area at the base is only half the size it used to be. This is only with the help of greenhouses; otherwise, maintaining the base's operation would be a problem.

Xu Lin was worried that if the temperature continued to drop, the homeless survivors living in the western district would freeze to death, which could easily trigger a riot.

The last riot was only three months ago. At that time, the base was in a period of rapid development, while the private base chief was still inexperienced. Both sides had their own considerations, so no large-scale damage was caused.

With resources scarce, it's not impossible for the two sides to fight each other for living space.

Unexpectedly, before the man-made war even began, natural disaster struck first.

It was around 10 p.m. Xu Lin and Zhou Pin had just finished watching a movie and were about to go into the space to wash up and go to bed when they suddenly felt something was wrong.

The glass in the living room has frost patterns on it!

And it spread rapidly in all directions.

Without time to think about anything else, the two quickly entered the space.

There are cameras installed in the yard and living room, which can be seen from the space.

The two watched from the video feed as the earth outside was quickly covered in white frost, and the whole world seemed to freeze in mid-air.

“It’s a cold wave!” Zhou Pin said.

Xu Lin took out her communicator to contact Li Jingjing, just as Li Jingjing was also trying to contact her.

It turned out that when Grandma Wu got up in the middle of the night, she felt that the weather was abnormal, so she quickly woke up Sun Wei and Li Jingjing.

Sun Wei contacted Minister Sun, and Li Jingjing contacted Xu Lin.

Sun Wei and Li Jingjing are definitely a couple worth befriending!

"Judging by the rate at which the temperature is dropping, the survivors outside are probably in grave danger," Xu Lin said expressionlessly.

It's already past ten o'clock, the weather is cold, and there are no other entertainment options, so the people at the base usually lie down early to rest and conserve energy for the next day's survival.

The only people she knew at the base were Li Jingjing and her family of three, and Wang Jing, but she didn't have Wang Jing's contact information and couldn't contact her.

About half an hour later, the base issued an important weather warning, announcing a cold wave and that experts predicted another cold wave would occur in the next few days, urging everyone to prepare accordingly.

The outside thermometer shows -20°C. If the cold snap continues, the temperature will be unimaginable.

After the cold snap passed, Xu Lin found winter clothes, goggles, and other protective gear in her spatial storage, and changed into them with Zhou Pin before coming out of the space.

Despite wearing thick clothes, I still shivered the moment I stepped out.

Watching the cold wave outside through video footage is like watching a documentary, but stepping out of the space feels like being in the heart of a disaster, making it even more shocking.

Everything was fine inside the house, but outside it was a completely different world, covered in a layer of white frost.

All the plants in the front yard had frozen to death, and the chickens, ducks, and geese in the back yard had all frozen stiff. Xu Lin simply put them into her spatial storage.

The two walked from the backyard to the front yard and heard someone calling Xu Lin's name outside. The voice was very soft, and if you weren't sensitive to your own name, you wouldn't have heard it at all.

Xu Lin and Zhou Pin exchanged a glance, and Zhou Pin walked to the door and opened the courtyard gate.

There was a person lying at the door, with a basket next to them containing a large cotton quilt.

The person lying on the ground raised their head.

"Wang Jing!"

The two men tried to help Wang Jing up, but Wang Jing kept pointing at the basket, telling them to take the basket.

Left with no other option, Xu Lin had to lift the blankets and quilts off the basket.