Chapter 153 Drifting from Extreme Heat to Extreme Cold

When she saw the news, she was half leaning against the eaves of the house on the drifting island, listening to music and reading a book. Very fine floating ice gradually appeared in the surrounding sea. It was melting sea ice, indicating that summer and long days were covering this far northern sea.

Because they were still in the outer circle of the Far North Waters, the floating ice in the surrounding sea water was very thin and almost transparent, which looked very beautiful. She put down her book, looked at the floating ice around her for a while, and checked the drifting and sailing, making sure again that the raft could pass through the entire Far North Waters and would not drift to a certain place and be stuck by large sea ice that had not yet melted.

Afterwards, she equipped herself with a satellite network card, and as soon as she went online, she saw a flood of news.

In addition to the official announcement, there are also many videos and photos. Most of these videos and photos were taken by people living in the Beidi Plateau. Their place is the closest to the northeast region among the remaining lands of Hua State. They captured the red sky and black clouds in the east.

Another part of the video is from an aerial perspective, probably from a military drone, after all, ordinary civilian drones only have a flight time of about an hour. To capture these images, you have to travel at least thousands of kilometers and have a flight time of more than 24 hours.

The reason why these disaster scenes were not concealed was probably because a few days ago, Huaguo issued a volcanic eruption warning for the entire country, and dozens of city factories rushed to produce a batch of high-intensity filtering masks, special protective glasses, and various gas masks, protective clothing, raincoats...

Airdrop drones were used to deliver supplies to every residential area in Xizhou Province. A lot of protective equipment was also urgently delivered to the Northern Plateau. After all, they are closer to the northeast region and will be more affected by the subsequent impact of the volcanic eruption.

Volcanic ash can cause various environmental air pollution. In addition, it rains almost every day now. The rain and volcanic ash will cause large-scale mud rain. It is summer now, and the wind is blowing from the southeast. The Northland Plateau is located to the west of the northeast region, so it is the first to be hit.

Fortunately, all the hundreds of volcanoes in the Northeast region are extinct volcanoes that have only erupted in prehistoric times. Even though they were affected by the planetary disaster, the number of volcanoes erupted this time was not large. In addition, it is summer now and it rains almost every day in Hua State, so the eruption did not last long.

However, the active volcanoes in the southern sea near the equator had the most severe eruption in history. The mountain peaks and land areas that originally remained above the water were all covered by volcanic ash and magma. No matter whether there were any survivors there, they would no longer exist after this volcanic eruption...

Fortunately, the area where the large volcano occurred in the southern sea was far away from Hua State and was not directly affected by the volcanic eruption, but the impact of the subsequent volcanic ash was far beyond imagination.

The most direct impact is temperature. Volcanic ash and volcanic gases staying in the air for a short period of time will significantly reduce the temperature in nearby areas.

At the same time, the large amount of carbon dioxide that is erupted will also increase the temperature of the planet's surface in the long run.

Mud rain has already started in Xizhou Province and parts of the Beidi Plateau. According to experts' statistics, this mud rain will most likely continue for half a month, and in some areas it may even last for a month... Fortunately, this time, the authorities issued early warnings and made various preparations, which is a blessing in disguise.

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After checking all kinds of information, Shu Fu asked Lu Ce to bring Lan Lan over and posted the video photos and longitude and latitude locations of several giant submarines and ships taken in the waters of West 9th District before the raft entered the Arctic Circle to the previous website.

These submarines are not just static, some are conducting dynamic simulated battles. In Shu Fu's opinion, this shows that the evildoers are still determined.

She didn't hesitate to upload the video to the website, but now that she saw the official volcano warning, she decided to upload it.

But just like every time before, she did not make any subjective speculations and simply uploaded the video footage. There were so many smart people in the official department that she did not have to worry about the follow-up matters.

Lanlan's fat and short claws quickly finished moving at high speed on the computer. When Lu Ce went back, Shu Fu gave him a few pieces of cake with different flavors and a box of fried chicken wings. The other party was very happy and said, "Oh, I just asked Lanlan to come over to help, why are you so polite, sister Fu Fu?", and quickly took it and ran away.

Shu Fu smiled and sent Lu Ce away. Looking at the sky which was still bright at more than seven o'clock in the evening, he issued a voice announcement for the whole raft on the function screen: We have officially entered the Far North Sea. Starting tonight, we will enter the polar day range. Please remember to draw the curtains when you go to bed at night. The raft will pass through the Far North Sea and finally enter the East District 1 Sea, which is the location of the former Ice Country. In the next few days, there will be floating ice in the surrounding waters. Once again, the inside of the protective cover is not blocked from the outside. Be careful not to fall into the water when viewing the scenery on the deck. Please save water a little bit in the next few days, because the protective cover will remain open 24 hours a day, and there is no way to store filtered and purified water on time every day. Friends who need water can come directly to my raft, where there is a lot of purified water available. If the weather conditions permit one day, I will close the protective cover and let everyone feel the cool temperature of the Far North Sea. Finally, I hope everyone enjoys this trip to the Far North for summer vacation.

**

Entering the Arctic Circle from the West 9th District, crossing the Far North Sea and then coming out from the East 1st District to arrive at the original site of the Ice Country, the route is not a completely straight line. This is the route that automatically appears on the map panel after she sets the destination. When passing through the North Pole, it will detour for a distance. The whole journey is about 3,500 kilometers.

At the raft's highest drifting speed, it would only take a day and a half, but that would be like a cursory tour and you wouldn't be able to appreciate the scenery.

So in the end, Shu Fu set the speed at 40, and it would take about three to four days to complete this drift in the Far North Waters.

The next three or four days were a nearly dreamlike journey for everyone on the raft, including Shu Fu.

This is the first time that everyone has seen polar day. There is no evening during polar day, and the sun will not completely set below the horizon at night, so the sky will maintain a certain brightness. But this brightness is different from that during the day, it will be much dimmer, just like a cloudy day.

Although the temperature in the Far North Sea in August is not that low, it can still reach dozens of degrees below zero near the North Pole.

Because the protective shield was always open, the temperature on the raft and in the house remained the same as before, maintained at the most comfortable temperature for the human body. No one could feel the temperature outside, so other friends including Shu Fu wanted to experience the low temperature of the polar ice sea.

But as the raft went deeper into the Far North Waters, the rain in the sky slowly turned into snow, and they encountered the first snowstorm of the summer.

The feeling of standing on the raft deck or terrace wearing thin summer clothes and watching the snowstorm outside is very unique. When they look up, they will see large snowflakes falling from the sky, then being blocked by the invisible protective cover above their heads, and then sliding to both sides along the invisible arc-shaped cover and merging into the icy sea outside the raft.

Sometimes the snow falls less, the haze in the sky decreases a little, revealing some shady white, and the visibility around becomes higher.

They saw that the surrounding sea ice gradually changed from small, round pieces of ice to larger floating ice. This was once the shallowest, smallest and coldest ocean on the entire planet, and the color of the sea water was also very clean.

They saw two polar bears climbing up a large ice floe from the water. These were purely wild polar bears, masters of swimming and fishing. As long as there were ice floes in this far northern sea, they would be able to survive no matter how high the water level of the planet rose.

In a sense, they are far better able to adapt to this apocalypse than humans.

The best luck was on the third day after entering the Arctic Circle. The snow started to get lighter starting from dinner time that day, and stopped completely by midnight.

Shu Fu was still awake at the time. Not only her, but everyone had been a little uncomfortable these past two days. Even if they closed the curtains at night, they would still feel sleepless when they lay in bed. She stood on the deck, tied the temperature measuring instrument to a long pole, extended it out of the protective cover, and took it back after measuring the temperature.

The temperature outside is minus thirty degrees Celsius, but it's okay. We should be able to handle it if we dress warmly.

She moored the raft in place, considering that it was a bit late and some people might have fallen asleep, and then sent a text message to the raft behind, saying that in twenty minutes, the shield would be closed for about fifteen minutes, so that everyone could feel the air of the Far North Sea. Friends who wanted to get close to the cold could leave the house and go to the deck or terrace in twenty minutes.

She also clarified the room temperature outside and the dress code, and said that the event was not mandatory, and that those who were already asleep or did not want to participate could stay indoors.

But because the protective cover is closed, the room temperature will change. It will not be as low as on the deck, but it will slowly drop to around 0 degrees. So even if you stay indoors, you should wear more clothes or cover your sleeping family members with thick blankets.

If any of your friends don't have warm clothes and quilts, you can go to her and get them. She has brand new ones.

She thought that at least half of her friends would stay in the house, but it turned out that even the older people Chen Yuezhen, Zheng's mother, and Hua Qiong and his wife came. After counting, there was not a single one missing.

"Eleven o'clock is not too late, and I haven't been able to sleep these two days, so we might as well go out together." Zheng's mother said this mainly because she didn't want to miss this rare opportunity.

Except for Wu Shaoshan, almost everyone had warm clothes. Zhang Tian had space in her backpack, so she took her thick clothes with her when she left Zhashui County. Those were waterproof down jackets that she had bought at a high price in peacetime, and they were extremely warm.

Wu Shaoshan was rarely so excited. She quickly put on the warm clothes Shu Fu gave her, put on a thick hat, wrapped her face tightly with a scarf, and then stood on the deck expectantly.

The protective shield was quickly closed, and the cold outside instantly surrounded the people on the deck. Everyone breathed in the cold air and looked up at the sky, which was already midnight but still had a dim blue and white light.

There was no land or buildings around them, and the vastness of the surroundings made them feel lonely. The sky was very close and big, and they felt like they were in the universe when the world was first created.

They knew that what they were looking at was actually the night sky, but the brightness was a little high and the stars could not be seen. However, because it was not snowing, they could see clouds floating in the air.

The clouds were white, almost like snow, and they moved slowly with the wind in the sky, sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing. I don't know if it was because of the movement of the clouds, but I always felt that the color of the dim sky in front of me seemed to be changing.

There was a very light fluorescent green, and then it turned into a very light purple in a moment. The color change was like a ribbon crossing the sky, stretching in twists and turns.

Lu Ce was the first to react: "Ah! Is it the Aurora? Is this the Aurora?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked carefully at the changing light colors in the sky again.

Although it was so faint that it was almost invisible, it was indeed the Aurora.

"It's summer now, can we see the aurora in August?" Yao Ruoyun was surprised.

"Okay." Lu Zheng and Shu Fu said almost in unison.

Shu Fu glanced at the other person and gave him the opportunity to explain.

Lu Zheng nodded at her and continued, "The aurora is a natural phenomenon that actually occurs all year round. It's just that in the summer, the light in the polar region is too bright, so it's hard to see the aurora even if it's there. But the closer you are to the North Pole, the higher the chance of seeing the aurora, especially on clear days like tonight. It can be said that we can see the aurora today because of the right time, right place, and right people. It's very rare."

"Wow, so that's how it is! You're awesome, brother!" Lu Ce clapped his hands in support. After all, he was his brother, so he still had to support him.

Lu Zheng: ...

"It's so beautiful. A month ago, I couldn't imagine that I would be standing here, above such a cold, lonely, and uninhabited ice sea, admiring the sky with such a leisurely attitude." It was Wu Shaoshan who sighed. She really sighed. At that time, Chen Fa had not yet gone to Kangsu County. In order to avoid those people, she suffered a lot. When I curled up alone in a dirty and damp building at night, I would look at the heavy rain outside the broken glass with a somewhat numb look, wondering if I had reached the end of my life. I felt like I had been abandoned by this world.

But now, less than a month later, she is with her friends, has a new job and life, and most importantly, a family.

A warm home that can protect her no matter where and when.

Shu Fu slowly walked to her side and gently put his arm around her shoulders. On the other side, Zhang Tian also put her arm around Wu Shaoshan.

Shu Fu and Zhang Tian looked at each other across Wu Shaoshan, and then smiled at each other.

After a moment, Shu Fu heard Wu Shaoshan let out a soft "hmm". She was looking at a certain place in front of her, and her slightly raised fingers were trembling uncontrollably.

Above her head, the white light bar had filled up the entire progress bar, and numbers soon appeared behind it.

Wu Shaoshan’s bond value is: 86.

**

At midnight two days after the raft left the Far North Waters, Shu Fu replaced the small drifting island house with a luxurious villa in the vast ocean.

The monthly ten-draw draw is here again. At this moment, Shu Fu is a devout lottery participant. She took a bubble bath with the scent of gardenia and applied a glitter-effect body lotion.

She turned off all the lights in the villa, leaving only some ambient lights on, then sat in the sunken sofa booth on the front deck, lit a scented candle on the coffee table, and took out a tall crystal glass and poured some juice into it.

Everything was ready, and the lottery began accompanied by the sound of waves.

First turn, green second prize: Satellite network card × 50 (24 hours, must be used on a level 5 raft).

Shu Fu was shocked!

The first turn is the king bomb!

The satellite network cards that were previously released in single pieces now have 50 pieces released at once!

This is great, she no longer has to be stingy and only spend half an hour online each time!

Second turn, blue third prize: attached raft vacation card (7 days)

The third turn, the third red prize: a gift pack of economic crop seeds (random) × 1.

Cash crops! ?

Is it the one with the coffee bean seeds that she has been thinking about?

Sure enough, the gift package contained twenty kinds of seeds packed in sealed glass jars.

Including cotton, flax, bamboo, rubber, peanuts, sesame, fennel, pepper, tea, sugarcane, sunflower seeds... and naturally including the coffee bean seeds she wanted most.

Unfortunately, under normal circumstances, it takes at least three to five years from planting coffee bean seeds to harvesting coffee beans. Even if Yao Ruoyun's farm can shorten the harvest time, it is impossible to obtain finished coffee beans in the short term.

Moreover, growing coffee beans requires extremely high skills. Of course, if the grow house can be upgraded to the next level, the whole process and time may be shortened.

Fourth turn, green third prize: temporary acceleration card. (2 hours, speed: 300 kilometers per hour, note: must be used on a level 5 raft)

Shu Fu was a little nervous. She had already turned four times, but none of the things she really wanted had appeared yet.

But then——

The fifth turn, the first prize in red: an upgrade set gift package (universal).

Sixth Turn, Blue First Prize: Upgrade Set (Shelter) (Note: This upgrade set is special, please choose carefully, details can be found after equipping the set.)

Seventh turn, blue first prize: upgrade set (bookstore).

The eighth turn, the golden first prize: 1 raft towing position, must be used on a level 5 raft.

Ninth turn, golden first prize: raft towing position × 1, must be used on a level 5 raft.

This time, not only Shu Fu's pupils were shaking, but his entire body was in great shock!

For the first time in history, five consecutive draws were all first prizes!

The most difficult golden first prize was awarded twice in a row!

There are also two new types of upgrade sets!

Oh my god!

She covered her mouth to prevent herself from screaming.

After all, it was early morning and the sea was quiet. If she howled here, the people on the raft behind her would probably be woken up by her.

Shu Fu suppressed the great joy and surprise in her heart and focused her attention on the turntable in her hand again.

Another time, even if she won the fifth prize this time, her ten consecutive draws would be enough to make back her investment.

On the tenth turn, the slender pointer slowly stopped and finally landed on the green grid.

Is it the one-year power card from the second-class green award? Or is it the acceleration card from the third-class green award?

She thought that although she already had quite a few electricity cards, it would be nice to have one more.

However, she suddenly realized that something was wrong. This green grid was the smallest one!

This is not the green second or third prize, this is the green first prize that has never appeared before!