Chapter 61: Next Door Unit 1703

The work of the body recovery team is very hard, but people are vying to sign up. When the weather becomes extreme, supplies become extremely difficult to find. The government is willing to give them the opportunity to work and earn food to survive, so everyone wants to seize this opportunity.

In order to join the corpse recovery team, many people gave gifts to the team leader and others, and some even sold their bodies, just to be able to join the corpse collection team and earn a pound of food a day.

In 1904, the whole family went to sign up for the corpse recovery team. Lu Xingtang saw that they brought bulging backpacks when they went to sign up, but when they came back, the backpacks were gone, but everyone was smiling. Wu Jin even knocked on the doors of all three of their families and said, "Our whole family has applied for jobs with the corpse recovery team. We won't be home all day, so please keep watch on the 19th floor!"

There were many people working in the body recovery team, and almost everyone in their apartment building came out. However, not everyone signed up successfully, and some failed to sign up and came back dejected.

Lu Xingtang has supplies, so he definitely won't go to the corpse recovery team. Ji Yanmo and Su Cheng didn't go either.

Lu Xingtang counted on his fingers and found that there were still 12 days before the extreme cold came, so Lu Xingtang went into the space and busied himself learning how to make clothes.

He placed constant temperature fabrics and ordinary fabrics, a sewing machine, needles and thread, scissors, etc. in the living room, and found materials and videos on making clothes. He carefully learned how to turn the fabrics into clothes. After repeated watching and trial, Lu Xingtang practiced with ordinary fabrics.

Design drawings, sample selection, plate making, grading, cutting, sewing, buttonhole sewing, ironing...

It was my first time making clothes and there were many problems with the details. After repeated revisions, I finally managed to sew it.

But, it’s so ugly! In order to make the clothes beautiful and generous, Lu Xingtang practiced in seclusion and spent seven days to make the clothes look good, and then used constant temperature fabric to make the clothes.

The style of the top and pants is similar to that of autumn clothes, tight and stylish. I made two sets for changing, and also made six pairs of socks with the scraps.

On the evening of June 26, the temperature dropped.

Lu Xingtang put on the constant temperature clothing as soon as it was made. The temperature was indeed kept at 25°. The love brought by the angel made Lu Xingtang's body not feel cold. The clothes were much lighter than before, but she would measure the temperature in the morning, noon and evening. The iceberg thermometer showed that the temperature was minus 19°.

When the temperature was measured in the afternoon, it was minus 8°C, a drop of 11°C in an instant.

Only Lu Xingtang knew that the extreme cold was coming.

So Lu Xingtang took out the stove, furnace tube, and coal from the space, studied them for a while, and installed several sets of furnace tubes from the kitchen, living room, and bedroom. He lit the kindling and put them into the stove, then gently placed small pieces of dry wood on the kindling, covered the stove lid, and it soon ignited.

Since the last temperature drop that killed many people, everyone has been going out to look for supplies. If they can't find food, they won't come back empty-handed. They will bring back a lot of wood. Therefore, you can often see black smoke coming out of many residents' homes, and the walls of their homes have long been damaged by smoke.

Lu Xingtang led the stove tube into the range hood duct in the kitchen. The smoke from burning coal or wood would be transmitted out through the duct, and the stove was also placed in the kitchen.

The wood burned, Lu Xingtang put coal in the stove and covered the lid again.

In a short while, the house became warm.

That night, Lu Xingtang had a delicious hotpot meal.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Lu Xingtang measured the temperature again. It was 25 degrees at home and minus 30 degrees outside.

After thinking for a moment, she turned on the intercom, intending to subtly remind Ji Yanmo and Su Cheng to keep warm and not sleep too deeply. However, before she could open her mouth, Ji Yanmo spoke up: "Lu Xingtang, the temperature has dropped sharply. Wear more clothes and drink more hot water! Light the stove and don't sleep too deeply at night. If anything happens, feel free to contact me. My intercom is always on."

"Thank you, you too! If you need help, just tell me! We are allies!" Lu Xingtang was also very happy.

Then Su Cheng came: "Lu Xingtang? Are you there? If you are, please reply!" Su Cheng had already contacted Lu Xingtang a long time ago, and if he still couldn't get through, he would knock on the door.

Lu Xingtang: "I'm here! I'm here!"

Hearing Lu Xingtang's voice, Su Cheng felt relieved. He told Lu Xingtang to keep warm and then passed away. He wanted to take care of Su Hao.

As soon as he hung up the intercom, Lu Xingtang took out the batteries and electric heater, spread a cashmere blanket on the bed, and replaced the eight-pound down quilt with a ten-pound one.

Just as I lay down in bed, I heard Min Weihuan shouting in the hallway with a megaphone: "I'm Min Weihuan. Residents of this unit, please wake up! The temperature has dropped sharply. It's already minus 30 degrees Celsius, and it's snowing heavily outside. Please prepare for the cold and keep warm! Take out your thick clothes and quilts and put them on and cover yourself up!"

Hypothermia has already claimed the lives of several elderly residents in our building. For your own safety, please stay warm! If you're still cold even after wearing thick clothes, please don't be so cruel as to smash your wooden furniture and light a fire in your room to keep the chill away!

Min Weihuan went from the 14th floor to the 19th floor with a loudspeaker, and went back and forth several times. After using the loudspeaker to remind the people in the apartment building, he also knocked on every door to make sure everyone was still alive, and repeatedly reminded everyone to keep warm.

Lu Xingtang sighed again, Min Weihuan is a good building manager, but unfortunately natural disasters keep happening, and a good building manager has to become a bad guy in order to survive.

Lu Xingtang was half asleep when she heard the intercom's voice ringing, "Lu Xingtang, this is Su Cheng. How are you doing now?"

"I am fine, and you?"

"We're fine too. Sorry to disturb your rest. The residents of 1703 in the next-door building came to our door and want you to go and check on their two elderly parents. They're not dead yet, but they're getting colder and colder, and their faces are turning pale. They're worried about them, so they'd like you to go and take a look. If you go, I'll go with you! If not, I'll send them away!"

Su Cheng was worried that the rapidly dropping temperature would frostbite Su Hao, so he didn't dare sleep too deeply and got up from time to time to check on Su Hao. At this time, there was a knock on the door of their 19th floor, and he used the intercom to ask Lu Xingtang.

"By the way, they just said that if you are willing to save them, they are willing to pay for the consultation with three pounds of potatoes!"

Lu Xingtang thought for a while. The resident of 1703 in the next building? He had no recollection of her.

So he put on a polar cold-proof suit and came out. When the man in room 1703 next door saw Lu Xingtang wearing polar cold-proof suit and snow boots, his eyes flashed with envy and greed.

But soon, the man spoke: "Lu Xingtang, I know you are a doctor. My parents are old, and their temperature suddenly dropped. Their bodies are frozen and can't move. They are all blue and purple. Please, save my parents!"

The moment she saw the man, Lu Xingtang's memories of her past life were instantly brought back. This man was indeed from their community. He loved gambling and had squandered all his family property.

(End of this chapter)