Chapter 16 Extremely Cold Temperature
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Half an hour later, with the help of the other party, they used the rescue basket and boarded the helicopter suspended above one by one.
The other party was also surprised by their appearance. The water in this coastal area has not receded since the tsunami. Ten days ago, the temperature began to drop sharply. Heavy rain, hail, and blizzards came one after another. The temperature dropped much faster than that of L Island.
The seawater that had not receded gradually froze into ice. All residents in coastal areas had already evacuated inland. They did not expect to see people on the ice today.
As they continued to talk, what surprised the other party even more was that they actually drove a speedboat all the way back from the L Island of the Sea Country! Not only did they bring water and supplies, but there was also a little boy over three years old in the team. They actually returned to Beijing safely. This was really surprising!
Although Ximan didn't understand, he could read the surprise from the other party's expression. He glanced at Youxi quietly. Speaking of surprise, the flamethrower she used to break the ice just now was the most surprising thing to him.
But as for this flamethrower, everyone tacitly didn't ask.
Just now when the helicopter flew close to prepare for rescue, Lin Wu specifically whispered to him not to mention how their speedboat broke through the floating ice to reach the fixed ice layer. If the other party asked, just say that branches and diesel were used to melt the ice.
Ximan felt that Lin Wu underestimated him. Even if he was stupid, he knew that he couldn't talk about it casually. What's more, he was not stupid. You Xi had such high-tech items, so his identity should be very secret and special (?). Of course, he wouldn't talk nonsense. After
Lin Wu and Yuan Xi finished talking about the situation of his team, he began to explain the current situation of L Island in Haiguo. There were still many tourists from Beijing country trapped on L Island, anxiously waiting for external rescue.
"After the undersea earthquake and the undersea volcano erupted, the tsunami destroyed all the ships along the coast. Civilian aircraft are currently grounded. Now the surrounding cities are working overtime to build icebreakers. In addition to the Sea Country, we also have many people trapped abroad. Don't worry, we will do our best to rescue all the survivors. When we arrive at the temporary resettlement area, you send two people to tell us the details of the situation in the Sea Country."
While Lin Wu and Yuan Qing were explaining the various situations, You Xi had been sitting quietly in the corner, taking out snacks for Yuan Yuan to eat, and when the helicopter arrived at the temporary resettlement area for the people, it was also the time for her to leave the team and go alone.
The helicopter flew for more than half an hour, flying over the ice surface where the carcasses of the ships were frozen and a deserted coastal city.
All the coastal buildings in the city were washed away, and the few buildings that were fortunately left behind were now submerged by floodwaters and frozen into ice. The whole city was empty and dead, with no signs of life.
The people on the plane looked at the abandoned buildings below, feeling heavy-hearted, until the helicopter flew over the city and slowly landed in the mountainous area where the resettlement area was located, and then they slowly felt relieved.
"This is the East District. You should go to the exit to register first. After the registration is completed, send two people to the central area, where the rescue command office of the resettlement area is located. As for transportation, all flights have been suspended. If you want to go home, you can take the train. You can go to the information station next to the registration office for specific details."
The other party still had a mission to do, so he left after simply indicating the direction.
There were many people in the resettlement area. When they crossed the entire East District and arrived at the exit, they found that Youxi, who was following them at the end, had disappeared.
"She left?" Yuan Qi was not stupid. He would not be so stupid as to think that the other party accidentally got separated from them. "Alas, she is a girl and has no supplies. Even if she wants to leave, she can tell us how good it is and we can give her some food."
"Don't worry, she should be able to take care of herself." Yuan Qi's eyes shuttled back and forth in the crowd. With her alertness, she didn't find out when the other party disappeared. It seems that her identity is indeed not simple (?)
"We will rest here for two days after registering our information, and then we will see how to leave."
Lin Wu and Yuan Qi are not in the same city, but they all have relatives. Now that they have returned to Beijing, they must go home and reunite with their relatives first.
As for Ximan, almost all the islands of the sea country, big and small, have been submerged, and he will probably live in the resettlement area for a while.
How to proceed next, how to contact relatives, and how to go home, all have to be done step by step.
This mountain area was originally a forest park with a resort. Several people were assigned to a room. When they were preparing to eat, they found that there was an extra bag in the large waterproof bag made of plastic film.
It was a very common supermarket shopping canvas bag, 40cmX40cm in size, but this bag did not belong to any of them.
Lin Wu opened it and saw that it was full of various food snacks, dried fruits, coconut cakes, dried fish and meat jerky, fruit juice and milk, chocolate jelly, a pack of ten warm baby stickers and a note.
It said: A gift for Yuanyuan, thank you, goodbye.
Obviously, Youxi put it in there on purpose, because he was afraid that they would not accept it, or for some other reason, so he did not let them know.
Lin Wu thought of that beautiful but cold face, lowered his head and smiled softly.
Some people look distant and indifferent on the surface, but they are actually cold on the outside but warm on the inside.
Goodbye? Can we really meet again?
A trace of melancholy actually passed through Lin Wu's heart.
He handed the canvas bag to Yuan Qi, and a mechanized voice rang in his mind.
{World Mission: Lead five survivors to the temporary resettlement area in G City, Jingguo safely. Mission completed, 100 points obtained. }
{You can leave the current world. }
{Do you want to leave? }
Lin Wu: Yes.
It was just a moment, as if he was just slightly distracted, and the faint smile at the corner of Lin Wu's lips disappeared.
He looked up and looked around. Compared with a moment ago, his expression and eyes had a little more mechanical stiffness. It was just a very subtle one. No one noticed that the original Lin Wu was no longer here.
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Warm underwear and pants as a base, followed by a set of breathable and sweat-absorbent fleece clothes and pants, then a thin and warm down jacket, and the outermost was a windproof and waterproof fleece sprint jacket and sprint pants.
Cashmere hat, scarf, fleece split-finger gloves, waterproof mittens were all equipped, and finally the hood of the sprint jacket was pulled up and put on. The clothes almost isolated all the cold.
Youxi walked out of the bathroom stall and looked at the person in the mirror. It was a strange face, a middle-aged woman in her forties, about the same height as before, about 1.68 meters, thin, slightly hunched, and with a face so ordinary that you would forget it as soon as you saw it.
The validity period of [Fake Lipstick] is 24 hours, and there are 23 hours left.
According to the world data, the family background of this body of hers is very simple. Both her parents are deceased, she is single, and she works and lives in S City. But S City is also a coastal city, and it has long been submerged and frozen by the sea.
She spent some time to check the information center, where there is a network and information about the train station can be found.
Because of the blizzard and low temperatures, not many train lines are passable. Tickets to several large inland cities are difficult to buy, and many outsiders are stuck in the resettlement areas and cannot go back.
More locals gather in temporary resettlement areas around coastal cities or neighboring cities, waiting for this winter to pass, hoping that the temperature will rise, the ice will thaw, the sea water will recede, and they can return to their homes.
But Youxi understands that it is doomed to be impossible. Since it is a doomsday world, the low temperature should last for a very long time.
Fortunately, she can return to the peaceful world in two more months. In these two months, she does not need to go to big cities, and she does not have a specific destination. Any inland small town will do as long as the order is not disturbed and she can buy a ticket.
In the end, she chose a small town in the southwest of Jingguo - K City. K City used to be known as the Flower City, and it is not very far from where she is now.
She checked the information on the Internet. After the disaster, the tsunami did not affect there, so many people fled to that area at first.
After that, the low temperature hit, and because the small town was short of supplies and was not a major rescue city, many people were forced to migrate again due to the pressure of tight resources.
Youxi is not short of supplies, what she lacks is a quiet place to live. Fortunately, it is the early days of the apocalypse, and order has not yet been disrupted.
One day later, Youxi, who has returned to her original appearance, arrived at K City.
K City is not big, with an area of about one-fourth of L Island. There is network coverage here. She swiped her card and rented a single apartment in a more lively area in the city.
The apartment building has a password-locked door, and you must swipe the door card to take the elevator. It is one of the most heavily guarded residences in the city.
The apartment is not big, and the area of the first floor is about the same as her real apartment. There is a kitchen, a bathroom and an open bedroom. There is no second floor. It faces south with double-layer floor-to-ceiling glass, which is warm and soundproof. There is also air conditioning, but because the voltage load is too high, the power will occasionally go out.
Therefore, each apartment is equipped with an electric heater that can burn gas for temporary use in case of power outage.
Today, the daytime temperature is maintained at around minus 30 degrees Celsius, and sometimes it can reach minus 40 degrees Celsius at night. She heard that a suburb of a large city a few hundred kilometers away from Huacheng is rushing to build cold-resistant houses with heated kangs like those in the north. It is said that most of the houses are buried underground, and the wall glass exposed above the ground has been specially modified and is said to be able to withstand ultra-low temperatures of minus 80 to 100 degrees Celsius.
Huacheng is also actively preparing to resist low temperatures. It has planned to use an underground air-raid shelter as a place to avoid low temperatures. The interior is being urgently modified, with various warming and ventilation treatments added, a large amount of food stored, and a beehive house similar to a dormitory.
Television and radio broadcast the news every day. One is to call on workers of various trades, and the other is to appease the people, letting everyone know that although the Flower City is small, there will still be countermeasures, so that everyone will not panic, keep warm, and live as usual.
In the following two months, Youxi basically stayed at home in the apartment. The bank card of this identity contained her savings from working for several years. The money was not much, but it was more than enough to cover the expenses of two or three months.
In addition to staying in the apartment every day to think about what to eat for breakfast, what to cook for lunch, and which takeout to eat for dinner, she would wrap herself up in a ball and then go to the large supermarket opposite the apartment to queue up for shopping.
There were guards on duty in the large supermarket, and the prices had increased, but they were still within a reasonable range.
Each person can only buy a limited amount of food and drinking water every day, and they have to show their ID card. However, after being stored for more than two months, the amount
of these supplies has become astonishing. She had previously asked the Star House system whether the money in the bank card of this identity could be taken to her own world. After receiving a negative answer, she asked whether the supplies put into the Star House warehouse could be taken out.
The answer is: yes.
After that, she spent several hours shopping almost every day: rice, instant noodles, canned luncheon meat, vacuum sausages, edible salt, bottled water, dehydrated vegetables, noodles, boxed milk, drinks...
As long as it was food that could be bought, she bought it all according to the maximum purchase limit every day. She was not picky about the type, as long as it was edible.
In addition to various types of drinking water, she also stockpiled various daily necessities and consumables: toilet paper rolls, napkins, kitchen paper, toilet pads, toothpaste and toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, bath gel, antibacterial soap, laundry detergent, dishwashing liquid, rags, pots, pans, mops, knives and scissors, various types of batteries, plastic bags, tin paper, and tape...
All kinds of items, as long as they can be bought and are needed in daily life, she will accept them all.
Fortunately, there are many people around her who line up to stock up every day like her, so she doesn't seem strange.
Of course, occasionally she would encounter robberies and fights due to the shortage of supplies. One or two times, they were directed at her, and most of them were seen by her on the road, but because the guards showed up in time, the situation was not serious.
Fortunately, her apartment was just opposite the supermarket, and the security measures in the apartment were very strict, so there were few dangerous situations on the road.
When there was only one week left before the March deadline, the temperature plummeted again, and the temperature dropped to minus sixty to seventy degrees Celsius. This time, Beijing issued an early warning notice.
Youxi packed a large backpack, put on polar cold-proof clothing, and followed the crowd to evacuate into the underground air-raid shelter in Huacheng.
There are no rooms in the air-raid shelter. They are all collective bunk beds, with the highest six layers, making full use of every space.
Perhaps considering privacy, each bed is covered with a cover of the same width and length as the bed, similar to the fabric of a tent, with a small pull-out window and a zipper that can be locked from the inside.
With so many people crowded in the same space and eating the same meals every day, the quality of life can be imagined. But at this time, everyone can't care about that anymore. Being alive is already good. I heard that many people died in many places outside that didn't have time to build winter shelters and underground collective winter dormitories.
But even in such an environment, intrigues are still staged in every corner every day.
Youxi still has a week left. She tries to keep a low profile every day, not to cause trouble, and not to show off her supplies. Finally, at twelve o'clock in the evening of the seventh day, she heard the voice of the system.
[World Mission 2: Survival for three months has been completed, and the host has obtained 30 star coins. Number of star coins: 40]
[Do you want to escape from the current apocalyptic world? 】
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