Chapter 47
Wen Bei's angry action of going downstairs woke up some people in the hall. Xuan Yi saw him coming over from a distance, dressed like a round ball.
Wear furry gloves and furry earmuffs even when you're indoors.
Xuan Yi: "The weather is too cold. The factory's progress is going to be slowed down."
Wen Bei glanced at him, somewhat envious of his flame-like hair that could heat up automatically: "Yeah."
Qiu Ding followed behind him lazily, with an inexplicably satisfied expression on his face. He was like a large pet, simply standing behind Wen Bei.
The aura on his body makes people dare not ignore it.
Xuan Yi glanced out the window of the hotel. The heavy snow almost covered the garden. Even the small white flowers that were almost half a person's waist height were oppressed by the wind and snow.
Wenbei: "It's okay, the hotel will be heated soon."
"Heating?"
Not only was Xuan Yi shocked, but several passengers who were eavesdropping on the conversation nearby also looked surprised.
After the end of the world, resources became scarce, and even the base could not provide heating for the houses. Once such a sudden drop in temperature occurred, everyone could only endure it.
North Vancouver: "But you have to shovel the snow before you turn on the heat."
He glanced out at the garden.
If you don't shovel the snow first, it will be troublesome when the snow melts after the heating starts.
He didn't want to see his garden get soggy.
Reason told these experienced mercenaries that this was impossible. The hotel did not look big from the outside, but the interior was actually much more spacious than it looked. How could it be possible to heat the entire hotel?
But when they thought of the miracles that happened in the hotel, the scales in their hearts unconsciously tilted towards Wenbei.
Trust in the innkeeper eventually overcame his own rationality, and a polluter with antlers on his head took the lead and volunteered: "Please let me help."
Seeing this, the other polluters crowded over, as if afraid of being left behind. "Me too! Let me do it!"
Wen Bei curled his eyes and said, "That's great. Thank you."
Free labor is the best.
While they were shoveling snow, Wen Bei found the rabbit butler and said he wanted to unlock the temperature control. The rabbit butler shook his beard and didn't object.
After all, it was only one night before the temperature dropped again, reaching a severe temperature of more than 30 degrees below zero. It was a little worried that Wenbei would be frozen.
For this reason, even the hot spring in the back garden can be moved a little further back.
The polluters were very efficient in shoveling snow. Wen Bei only went to the kitchen once and when he came out they had finished all the work.
He held up a bowl of steaming rice wine balls, a new recipe he had just unlocked. "Thank you, I'll treat you to some meatballs."
There's nothing more comforting than having a hot meal on a cold day.
My mood, which had become bad due to the sudden cold weather, has become much better.
Several mercenaries squeezed in, joking with each other as they went to the restaurant to get their bowls of fermented rice balls. The atmosphere was harmonious, a rare sight in the apocalypse.
The hall suddenly became quiet.
It takes a full thirty thousand crystals to unlock the temperature control system.
Wen Bei looked painful. With the unlocking of the new room, his turnover had finally increased to 50,000, but now it was going to return to the pre-liberation era.
The rabbit housekeeper comforted him: "This temperature control system can save lives at critical moments."
It is not just about temperature control, it can create a temperature space that is completely different from the rest of the world. Even if there is fire and lava outside, the hotel can still be cool and refreshing.
Wen Bei felt much better.
Almost at the moment he unlocked the door, he saw an extra row of buttons and an indoor thermometer on the wall near the cashier. The thermometer was adjustable, with a row of small words below - only the hotel owner can control it manually.
The rabbit housekeeper came over and explained, "This controls the public areas of the hotel. You can manually adjust the temperature to your desired degree Celsius, and you can also activate the smart control mode."
"Smart control mode?" Wen Bei noticed the button, and driven by strong curiosity, he pressed the switch.
Suddenly he felt the indoor temperature rising little by little, and the thermometer in front of him was also rising slowly and evenly, returning from dozens of degrees below zero to above zero in an instant.
Wen Bei took off his heavy clothes, leaving only a thin sweater underneath. Even so, he still didn't feel cold.
My hands and feet warmed up, and a healthy blush appeared on my face.
Wen Bei opened his cat eyes wide: "It's really not cold anymore."
Rabbit Butler: "Each room in the hotel has a temperature control button, which makes it convenient for guests to adjust the room temperature themselves."
It is indeed very convenient.
Even if it costs 30,000, it's worth it.
Just as Wen Bei was about to raise his eyes, he saw Qiu Ting who had been following him silently.
The expression on his face showed a hint of displeasure.
Although they both had blank expressions, the difference was very subtle.
But Wen Bei was sharp enough to see it: "Are you unhappy that the hotel is warm now?"
Qiu Ding glanced at him with a half-smile: "Yeah, I'm not happy."
"Why?"
Sometimes, Wenbei can be very naive.
Qiu Tinge chuckled, not lowering his voice deliberately: "Then I can't warm your bed."
Wen Bei's eyes widened again. The memory of being bullied by that bad tail in the morning came back to him. He was almost angry: "I don't need it!"
Although he felt very warm after falling asleep last night, he still felt a slight pain in his waist at this moment. That was because the unscrupulous tail had rubbed the delicate skin on his waist and broke the skin.
Qiu Ding was clearly lying next to him with his eyes open, but he pretended to be drowsy and just woke up to bully him.
Thinking of this, Wen Bei wanted to kick someone again.
He kicked Qiu Tinge more and more skillfully.
Qiu Tin didn't just dodge, but let him kick him instead. He reached out and easily grabbed his ankle: "You slept with me yesterday, and now you're turning your back on me?"
With a clang.
Wen Bei turned around. He was still in the awkward position with his feet pinched. There was a bit of surprise and bewilderment in his cat eyes, and he looked innocent and pitiful.
The one who made the noise was Huang Qian, who looked shocked. She hurriedly picked up her things and said, "I won't disturb you. You guys continue."
Then he turned around, and even his back revealed his panic.
Wenbei: “…”
It’s over. Now it’s even harder to explain.
...
It is not just the hotels and bases that suffer from the severe cold weather. Every significant drop in temperature is a near-devastating blow to the safe zone.
The facilities in the safe zone are even more rudimentary, and even the most basic heating is difficult. At such times, thick clothes become a scarce resource.
People could only huddle together for warmth.
A Luo spat, "Just like a fucking animal!"
There was frost between his brows and his lips were so dry and cracked that they seemed like they would bleed when he spoke.
"Aro!" his brother was angry. "Don't say that."
"Brother Luo." The youngest sister was surrounded by them, and the clothes she wore were not big enough for her age.
She looked at her two brothers and said, "I'm so cold."
A Luo's face looked a little ugly: "I want to go out!"
"You want to leave the safe zone in such cold weather?" His brother was obviously angry.
"If I don't go out, we will freeze to death or starve to death here." A Luo exhaled a cloud of white air, with a rare determination on his face.
There are only more than a thousand people in this safe zone, and they are the first batch.
When the apocalypse first began, they were all just strangers living in the same community, and only a hundred or so people survived in a community of thousands.
These more than one hundred people finally organized themselves into a team for survival, and gradually the team expanded to become the current safe zone of more than one thousand people.
A Luo and the other two were the earliest residents of this community and were among the group of people who stayed in this safe zone the longest.
Five years is enough time for a young boy who knew nothing at the time to grow up.
He is also a polluter, but unfortunately he has never stepped out of this safe zone.
His brother's eyes only showed disapproval. "No, you've never left the safe zone. You don't know how horrible it is out there. Every year, there are people who don't know what's good for them and try to leave the safe zone, but they all end up in a terrible situation."
A Luo was overwhelmed. "Have you seen this endless snow? The base should have sent us emergency food yesterday, but the relief hasn't arrived yet. This means they must be in trouble."
The food in the safe zone has run out. They planted edible mutant sugarcane in the safe zone. The harvest is almost ready, but the heavy snow forced the sugarcane to freeze.
They were like trapped beasts in a safe zone, and could only watch their food being consumed bit by bit.
"If the sky falls, there are others to hold it up." A Luo's brother just said this vaguely at the end, and turned over while holding his sister.
Because he didn't have a cotton coat of the right size, his wrists and ankles were exposed and turned purple from the cold.
A Luo stared at the purple skin and said nothing, but his eyes became more determined.
The person in charge of connecting with the base in the safe zone knew the route taken by the base's rescuers, so he inferred that they might be able to find their traces by following the route.
Many times, the filth will only eat the humans in the car and will not attack the supplies inside.
Those supplies are the key to whether their safe zone can survive this severe cold weather.
He had called on polluters in the safe zone this morning to join him in finding the whereabouts of the truckload of emergency food, but unfortunately, by the evening, not many people had volunteered to do so.
People in the safe zone rarely leave. The powerful polluters have already left, and those who remain are often polluters who are timid, have concerns, or are not very powerful.
A Luo didn't know what his actual strength was, but his pollution level had reached 73 percent.
Like all boys of a certain age, he was only eighteen years old and always fantasized about being a hero.
A Luo felt that the reason he had been staying in this safe zone, living a life of idleness and waiting for death, was because he had something on his mind.
His sister and brother are ordinary people.
And now it's his turn to protect his family.
A Luo took off a piece of clothing and covered his brother and sister with it, then tiptoed out.
He walked past several people sleeping together on a large bunk bed and came to the person in charge.
"I'd like to sign up to join the search."
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