Global Natural Disasters

Si Nan, an office worker, unknowingly does a good deed by saving a girl who is severely injured and hospitalized. During her coma, she experiences recurring nightmares of struggling to survive in v...

Chapter 10

On July 15th, the high temperature of 40 degrees lasted for half a month.

The weather forecast issues high temperature warnings every day, reminding the general public to avoid going out, working in high temperatures, and to take precautions against heatstroke.

The government sends text messages to citizens every day, calling on them not to use air conditioners excessively and to set the temperature to above 26 degrees as much as possible. All major units, enterprises and factories should obey the government's staggered electricity consumption arrangements to reduce electricity consumption and give electricity to citizens. Once the power supply load exceeds the limit, the government will cut off power in batches.

Ever since the weather started to warm up, Si Nan and Cheng Su Ming had been making steamed buns, pickles, kimchi, and all kinds of chicken, duck, and fish meat at home every day to make dried meat or stir-fry, cook, and stew dishes, etc., and storing them in the space in batches.

However, due to an unexpected accident that happened on the day of getting the marriage certificate, Cheng Suming took the initiative to call his good friend Yu Yong. Yu Yong bought a new Hummer and returned it to Cheng Suming that afternoon. He also agreed to Cheng Suming's request to help him get a batch of antibiotics, anthelmintic tablets, antimalarial drugs, antipyretic analgesics, various first aid medicines, wind oil, heart-saving pills, anesthetics that are difficult for outsiders to get, hypertension and hyperglycemia drugs, and some tetanus shots, rabies and other commonly used injections in the country.

Yu Yong is one of the shareholders of a pharmaceutical company and a childhood friend of Cheng Su Ming. In addition, Cheng Su Ming is a surgeon and wanted to open a pharmacy, so he asked Yu Yong to help with the medicine because he didn't want to stay abroad or work hard in China. Yu Yong did not have any doubts and ran around for Cheng Su Ming.

In the past half month, Cheng Suming has not been idle. He first walked around the house and told Si Nan that in the high temperature, the balcony needs to be capped, the wall should be built higher, and a heat-insulating, push-pull open double-layer tempered glass roof should be built on the wall, leaving some space for solar energy equipment, and the rest of the space should be installed with anti-theft nets. Two air conditioners should be installed inside the balcony, connected to the solar generator. This can save electricity and regulate the temperature of the balcony, thus ensuring that the vegetables grown on the balcony and the chickens and geese raised on the balcony will not be killed by the sun.

Sinan thought it made sense, so he immediately went to the decoration company to buy materials, offered double the price, and asked the installation workers to avoid the scorching weather at noon and finish the decoration early in the morning and late at night.

In order to avoid cooking too much and attracting the attention of the renovation workers, she chose to steam buns and make various pickles, kimchi, and spicy cabbage late at night after the workers left work. At noon, she made various braised dishes, stir-fried dishes, stews, etc. The smell was often so fragrant that the neighbors in the surrounding buildings thought that a restaurant had opened in the community, and they asked around in the group where the restaurant was, hoping to patronize it.

After the renovation was completed, Cheng Suming drove Si Nan out for a while, mainly to move various goods and medicines delivered from the warehouse into her space, and then went to a large shopping mall to order a lot of thermal insulation film, temperature insulation curtains, ice makers, air-conditioning fans, and fans. He also went to the freezer to purchase tens of thousands of ice cubes, and still had the shopping mall deliver them to the designated warehouse and move them into the space.

After buying these, Cheng Suming brought Si Nan to the Jianghe Wharf across the Xingcheng High-tech Zone, found the person in charge of the wharf, and told him that he wanted to buy a 1,000-ton cargo ship, preferably in stock, with a price of around three million, and convert half of the cargo hold into a double-decker floor for accommodation, the sooner the better.

Cheng Suming had informed Si Nan about the purchase of the boat in advance. He compared his experiences in his previous life with the dreams of Si Nan and another mysterious man, and found that both Si Nan and the other person had dreamed of a global tsunami, rising sea levels, and eventually submerging all land.

In his previous life, he struggled with various natural disasters for seven years, but did not experience a tsunami or global land flooding.

That is to say, the natural disaster continued before he was reborn.

The flooding of the land is likely to be the last natural disaster. In order to avoid being drowned in the endless sea, he must prepare in advance.

He had thought about buying a passenger ship before, but then he realized that custom-making a thousand-ton passenger ship that could be used for planting and breeding and accommodate a large number of people would not only be expensive, costing tens of millions, but he also didn't know how much time and manpower it would take to build it. Most importantly, it would attract the attention of many people, which was not cost-effective.

As for thousand-ton cargo ships, many are old or have been temporarily mortgaged by the ship owners due to insufficient capital chain. Although getting a ship through these two channels and then modifying it will attract the attention of a small number of people, it is much safer and more reliable than custom-making large ships, and the ship can be received in the shortest time.

To be honest, spending three million to buy a ship was both exaggerated and unbelievable to Si Nan. He felt that Cheng Su Ming was too prepared. According to their dreams, after the end of the world, various natural disasters continued. Humans were as small as ants in front of nature. In many cases, you could not avoid injury and death by preparing disaster relief supplies in advance.

Her idea was that instead of buying a ship, it would be better to use the money to buy more useful supplies and store them in the space. But then she thought, she has been stockpiling supplies for the past month and a half. She has bought everything that should be bought, and the supplies in the space have piled up into a small mountain. If she keeps spending big, it will be hard not to be remembered by those who are interested.

The high temperature weather, the first sign of the end of the world, has already appeared. If we keep so much money in our hands and don't spend it quickly, when the high temperature fades, the successive natural disasters will leave humans with no chance to breathe, and the money will then become nothing more than waste paper. It seems that buying a ship is not impossible.

The money belongs to Cheng Su Ming. Even though Cheng Su Ming gave her all the cards and told her to spend as much as she wants, she can't spend it all without asking for his opinion.

For the first time, Cheng Suming resolutely said that he wanted to buy a boat. So let's buy it. Let's buy fifty diving suits and thousands of oxygen cylinders. Let's buy them all! Let's buy some encyclopedias, agricultural planting books, plant encyclopedias, medical books, world classics, etc. Let's buy, buy, buy!

It was the first time that the person in charge of the dock had encountered such a strange request. There happened to be several cargo ships laid up at the dock, one of which was laid up this year and was still very new. Sinan paid one-third of the amount in advance, and the two parties signed a contract. The person in charge of the dock said that the ship would be modified in at most one month, and he would call them to pick up the ship at that time.

When the two returned home, Cheng Su Ming did not rush to stick thermal insulation film on the windows, but simply covered the curtains with thermal insulation curtains.

At present, Xingcheng is not so hot that staying at home will be fatal. It is difficult for them to stick heat-insulating film on the windows in advance without attracting other people's attention, but the sunlight is so hot that many people living in sunny houses will draw the curtains to block the sunlight. They cover the heat-insulating curtains behind the curtains so that others cannot see it.

With the triple cooling of thermal insulation curtains, ice cubes and air conditioning, the seeds on the balcony have sprouted one after another, and the chickens and geese have started laying eggs.

Si Nan moved out ten more bags of soil from the space and transplanted all the germinated seeds. Baskets, pots, and boxes of soil were almost filling up the balcony.

She still felt it was not enough, so she went to the fruit market and bought a lot of fruit tree potted branches and stored them in the space. In the corner of the balcony, she planted a pot of peaches, a grape tree, an orange tree, and a persimmon tree. They were all half-grown fruit seedlings that would bear fruit in half a year.

Cheng Suming does the watering and fertilizing every day, as well as cleaning up the chickens and geese's excrement. Since he and Si Nan got married, he has taken on most of the housework at home, sweeping the floor, mopping the floor, washing dishes, washing clothes...Except for not being good at cooking, which Si Nan does, he does all the rest.

Si Nan was not used to it at first. Although Cheng Su Ming didn't say anything, she thought he was too enthusiastic in doing housework. She would lock her door and prop a chair against it every night before going to bed to prevent him from doing anything wrong.

But after the two of them had been together for half a month, nothing happened. Cheng Su Ming never entered her room, nor did he have any physical contact with her. He just did what he was supposed to do. This made her seem too petty, so she deliberately left the door unlocked for two nights to test his reaction.

Nothing happened the first night. At around two in the morning of the second night, Si Nan heard Cheng Su Ming walking around in the living room. He became extremely nervous and hid behind the door to eavesdrop on the noise. However, he had no idea what he was doing and he kept walking around in the living room.

She couldn't help but walk out to see, and discovered that the man was practicing boxing in the living room with his upper body naked. When she saw Cheng Suming's sweaty, muscular inverted triangle body, Si Nan's face turned red, and she stammered, unable to explain.

From that night on, Cheng Su Ming began to teach her various practical self-defense fighting skills, with the aim of strengthening her body and enabling her to fight back when in danger.

Si Nan knew that he was doing this for her own good, and she also understood that there were countless dangers hidden in the darkness after the end of the world. She had no parents to rely on, and if she wanted to live better than others in the end of the world and keep the secret of the space, she had to be self-reliant and protect herself.

Early in the morning of that day, Sinan received a message from the power supply station about a power outage. At this time, the temperature was still forty degrees, with no signs of cooling down or rising.

She quickly got up, washed, and made breakfast, then called Cheng Suming to get up. After they finished eating, while Cheng Suming was washing the dishes, Si Nan said, "There will be a power outage from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mr. Cheng, can you connect our line to the solar generator and see if the other generator can drive the electricity at home?"

When the house was initially renovated, the decorators installed an extra line according to her request, connecting it directly to the two generators on the balcony, but she didn't understand those things, so she had to ask Cheng Suming to do it.

"Okay." Cheng Su Ming agreed immediately and put the washed dishes on the drain rack next to the cupboard. He turned around and quickly changed the line. During this time, he did not forget to say to Si Nan: "I am your husband now. You have always called me Mr. Cheng. You are used to it and can't change it. Outsiders will think that we are not in love. You can call me Su Ming or dear to show the intimacy between us. This will not be exposed in front of outsiders."

Simon:......

That made sense, but she couldn't call him dear even if she was beaten to death. It was too corny.

"Then I'll call you Su Ming."

"OK, dear."

"......"

I really want to hit him, what should I do?