Chapter 012 Chapter 12

At this time, telescopes are useless.

There was a strong wind blowing outside, and countless snowflakes were floating in the air like sand, forming a thick barrier. The visibility was less than 20 meters!

An idea suddenly occurred to her, and she took out the Antarctic thermometer. She dressed neatly, wrapped herself in thick windproof gloves, and then held the thermometer and stretched her hand out of the window.

At such a short distance, Ji Yang could feel his hands shaking in the wind, and the thermometer in his hand seemed to be almost unsteady.

After waiting for a while, she withdrew her hand, quickly closed the window, and checked the temperature immediately - minus forty-five degrees Celsius!

As expected, the snowstorm was accompanied by a sharp drop in temperature.

In the next few days, the temperature will definitely continue to drop to more than 50 degrees below zero.

However, the snowstorm will not last forever. It will stop after about five days. There will be a few days of calm during this time. Although the snow is very thick and the temperature is very low, it is still more comfortable to go out to find supplies at this time.

After the calm period, blizzards will recur again, interspersed with hail, thunderstorms, and tornadoes. They come suddenly and without any warning, and may appear unexpectedly when you go out to collect supplies.

There were countless casualties.

From that time on, there was widespread grief. Later, when people died, the families of the victims were too lazy to cry because they were too tired to do so.

Seeing the snowstorm again after so many years, Ji Yang was a little dazed for a moment, staring out the window. She was standing in a warm room with air conditioning and fireplace on, but she still felt cold all over.

Really, if there is no space.

She couldn't believe how she had the courage to survive in such a world.

Ji Yang was lost in thought when she suddenly felt something warm at her feet. She looked down and saw that it was Xixi who seemed to have noticed her mood and was rubbing against her.

She squatted down and the little guy immediately fell to the ground.

His soft little belly was exposed, and a pair of big eyes with distinct black and white were staring at her.

In the past two months, Xixi has grown a lot and is now a half-grown puppy that is almost five months old. He has lost the fatness of his puppyhood and entered an awkward period where he is a bit ugly.

Ji Yang rubbed it unceremoniously, and it felt great. As she rubbed it, the corners of her lips curled up, and her cold face warmed up a lot. She whispered, "Don't worry, I haven't used so many supplies yet, I can't bear to die."

After kneading enough, she got up and decided to eat hot pot today.

Ji Yang directly took out the bottled water she had stored, poured some into the basin, and then put it back into the living room. Although the living room was warm, she was still afraid that the water would freeze, which would make it very inconvenient to use water.

First take out the vegetables to be eaten, such as lettuce, Chinese cabbage, spinach, and romaine lettuce, half a plate each. Then come the meat dishes. Ji Yang doesn't need to prepare these. She buys semi-finished products directly, which are marinated by the merchant, such as spicy beef slices, tender beef slices, cumin lamb, lamb rolls, beef rolls, and various sausages.

Ji Yang didn't take too much. There were many varieties, and a little bit of each was enough to fill her up.

As for Xixi, she can’t eat spicy food, so she uses her special pot to cook the meat.

Finally, put a tablet and play the hot variety show. While watching the variety show, prepare the dipping sauce that is exactly to her taste. She has one bite of meat, one bite of vegetable, and then one bite of meat for the puppy. It is perfect.

——

Blizzards may be more familiar to northern cities, but they are rare in southern cities.

Almost everyone was looking at the horrific sky in shock and had no appetite. It was late at night before they realized it, and when their stomachs growled with hunger, they remembered that it was time to eat.

The same is true for the Li family.

Li Yi was already very scared and hid in her mother's arms.

Li's parents were also very scared. One of them comforted their daughter while the other comforted her parents.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew in from the ventilated window and extinguished the candle directly.

"Ah!" a scream rang out.

The Li family was in a state of confusion for a while, but soon Mother Li reacted: "Light the oil lamp, don't blow it out tonight, keep it lit!"

"Yes, the oil lamp!" Father Li also remembered.

This was his daughter's idea. She specially went out to buy incense oil lamps. They were expensive, but the supply was abundant. Cooking oil had long been difficult to buy, and one could only snatch a pot on the day the military delivered the goods.

Dad Li was frantically looking for it, but the more anxious he got, the harder it was to find. Finally, Mom Li couldn't stand it anymore and pushed her husband aside, "I'll do it!"

Then I found it by just touching it.

Father Li: …

Grandpa and grandma Li looked at their son weakly, and they couldn't even muster the heart to scold him. Then they looked at their daughter-in-law and granddaughter, and felt comforted that at least there were two capable people in the family.

The granddaughter had a strong sense of crisis and took them to stock up a lot of things. Fortunately, the daughter-in-law remained calm and controlled the situation.

The oil lamp was lit, and the dim light revealed the pale faces of the family of five. Grandpa and grandma Li were still terrified and patted their chests: "Oh, this thief God wants our lives!"

"It's terrible..." Li Yi nodded with lingering fear, and thankfully said, "Fortunately, we bought enough things before."

After seeing something wrong in the supermarket that time, Li Yi decisively took his parents out and went out for three consecutive days, visiting all the surrounding supermarkets, convenience stores, and pharmacies.

I bought everything I could.

Later, when the military escorted supplies, their family also went out and went out to buy supplies almost every day.

Prices have skyrocketed, and I have spent more than 100,000 yuan during this period.

Fortunately, my family is not poor, otherwise I would be so heartbroken that I couldn’t sleep.

But now that this situation has occurred, Li Yi no longer feels heartbroken. He is just grateful that he has obtained enough supplies and medicines, so he can survive for a long time.

wrong!

Li Yi looked at the only bright room in the house illuminated by the oil lamp, and felt that the temperature seemed to have dropped a lot. He bit his fingers and thought about what would happen next.

Because of the power and water outage, their family of five had to sleep in one room. All flammable items in the room were moved out, and two beds, one large and one small, were moved in. They only needed to light a charcoal brazier to sleep at night.

All things considered, it is perfectly adequate for now.

But how long can the charcoal they bought be used at this temperature?

But the snowstorm was raging and we couldn't go out. We could only worry and pray that the temperature wouldn't drop any further.

But prayer doesn't work.

Many people were woken up by the cold that night.

Some people don't pay attention to keeping warm and end up falling into a long cold sleep.

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The first case of a person freezing to death due to extreme cold temperatures occurred in the community.

He is a very old man.

When his family found him, he was already stiff.

She cried and screamed for a while, and even went to the property management group to complain, but the property management was helpless. They tried to comfort her through the Internet, but when they saw that it didn't work, they backed off.

At this time, most of the property management staff simply don’t come to work, and you probably won’t be able to find anyone if you go to the property management now.

Other owners also expressed their condolences, and some were willing to send some supplies, which was a rare warmth in such cold temperatures.

Ji Yang just glanced over these and ignored them.

Because then, this situation will continue.

On the third day of the snowstorm, the temperature had already reached minus 50 degrees Celsius, but the property management group became quiet because the Internet was down and the mobile phones had no signal at all. In addition, they were out of battery, so there was no way to send any messages.

But Ji Yang could still vaguely hear some crying sounds, which reached her ears through the howling wind.

There are several cases every day.

This is just the Jiafu community, what she knows.

Not knowing is even more serious.

Before the Internet was disconnected, Ji Yang would check relevant news on various platforms every day.

Ever since the blizzard occurred, hot topics on various apps have revolved around these things. At the beginning, there were hot searches related to celebrities asking for help, but later on, only the disasters that occurred in various places were left.

After the snowstorm, the situation was like a landslide.

[The temperature in Heilongjiang Province is approaching minus 70 degrees, setting a new low]

[The temperature in the southern province reached minus 42 degrees Celsius, and tens of thousands of people froze to death overnight...]

[A canal froze three large ships, and the crew members' limbs were frozen when they asked for help...]

【……】

In his previous life, Ji Yang’s phone ran out of battery early and he couldn’t see these messages at all. Even now when he sees them, he still feels upset.

It is much milder than the stories in some novels where the temperature suddenly drops by 30 or 40 degrees overnight, causing the human body to suffer hypothermia and die without knowing it, but it is still beyond the range that humans can endure.

If you don’t keep warm enough, something bad can happen if you’re not careful.

It is very common to freeze limbs off, and many people freeze to death. Those who survive are the lucky ones.

If it were normal, these comments would have at least tens of thousands of replies. However, when Ji Yang looked at it, there were only a little over a thousand comments. The number of people who have mobile phones and can access the Internet is also decreasing.

Until the Internet was disconnected, Ji Yang was unable to get any news from the outside world.

Fortunately, the snowstorm began to subside on the fifth day.

On the eighth day, there was only a light wind and the snow seemed to be stopping. It was the calmest day in recent times, but the temperature reached a terrifying minus 59 degrees Celsius, catching up with the lowest temperature in Heihe's history!

At this time, almost no one goes out.

It's too cold. At this temperature, if you stay outside for a while, you have to go back into the house to warm up, otherwise your body won't be able to bear it. If you go out at this time, the chance of dying outside is very high.

Ji Yang went to the balcony from time to time throughout the morning, but sure enough, he didn't see anyone.

It was white outside and so quiet that it seemed as if she was the only one left.

No, there's also a dog.

Ji Yang stroked the dog's head and said, "Xixi, you have grown up now. It's time for you to go out and see the world."

The puppy Xixi tilted its head, not knowing what was going on.

Ji Yang chuckled, stood up and started to put on his clothes, thermal underwear, cashmere sweater, winter clothes, hat, scarf, polar boots, goggles...

With the full set of equipment, she looked at the dog hesitantly.

I wonder if this puppy needs equipment?

But she didn't seem to have prepared anything for the dog to wear.

Ji Yang decided to give it a try. If it doesn't work, he would put it in a space where the temperature is suitable and it will not be affected by anything from the outside world.

However, every time she went out before, she didn't bring Xixi with her. This time when she went out, Xixi squatted obediently at the door, wagging its tail and looking at her eagerly.

"Come here!" Ji Yang shouted.

Xixi's eyes immediately lit up and she ran out.

The next second, he let out an "Ah Woo" and jumped up.

The tile floor in the corridor was no different from ice and snow, and the puppy's feet couldn't take it!

"Puchi!" Ji Yang laughed and wanted to go over and pick it up, but she didn't expect the puppy to be so stubborn. It dodged and ran two steps. It seemed to have adapted to it and ran to Ji Yang again, wagging its tail and looking at her.

fine.

Ji Yang nodded with satisfaction, closed the door, and went downstairs.

The snowstorm had just passed at this time, and even the official personnel did not dare to act rashly. Moreover, the previous crazy stockpiling made most people not go out at this time.

This is her best time to strike.

All major jewelry stores, here she comes!