Chapter 202 High Temperature
On the third day of the journey, we were still four-fifths of the way to our destination.
The outdoor temperature was 30 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, it felt a bit hot outside. The temperature inside the armored vehicle had not risen all at once because of the isolation of the vehicle body.
It was noon. The people in the two vehicles contacted and discussed for a while. After 20 minutes, they stopped at a slightly higher open space.
About 200 meters to the left of this high ground was a former death forbidden area: the ground-cracked red lotus area.
The once lush trees on the high ground have now become bare branches. Through these branches, you can clearly see the entire death forbidden area. This was also the first time that Youxi saw the red lotus after death.
The huge red "petals" broke in the gray mist, were cut by ice blades, and finally covered by ice and snow.
Now that the ice and snow have melted, the fragments of the "petals" are exposed to the sun again. They have completely lost their former bright blood red color and have become dry and charred, like the residue of burnt wood.
Along the way, in addition to such red lotus residues, other dark red fragments of strange shapes can be seen. They are the appearance of blood bubble people who were frozen by ice blades and now thawed in the sun. Some of them can even vaguely see the appearance of fingers or faces. Just one glance can make people
feel extremely uncomfortable physically. The people who were originally happy because of the rising temperature became depressed again after seeing more and more "fragments".
And they soon discovered that the temperature was rising at a completely abnormal speed.
Everyone took off their cold-proof clothing, and then put on cashmere clothes for warmth. Now everyone in the car was wearing thin single clothes, but because the airtight compartment still felt stuffy, everyone wanted to get off the car to get some fresh air when they found a relatively clean high ground.
You Xi used the intercom to communicate with the car in front, saying that she had an instrument here that could test the air quality. She would get off the car first to test the air, and then others would get off.
"Are you afraid... that there are viruses in the air?" The person driving the car at the moment was Hei Mu. After he parked the car, he did not turn off the car according to You Xi's instructions, and continued to drive the air filtration device in the car.
In Youxi's armored car, everyone was sitting with her family. In addition to her and Xingmin, there were four people including Heimu. Cheng Fang and his group of five and Yinyin's family of three were all in the car in front.
"I hope not." Youxi took out a dozen N95 masks from her backpack, because she was going to get off the car. Once the door was opened, the outside air would no longer pass through the air filter device on the car, but would flow directly in, so everyone still needed to wear masks temporarily. When
she got off the car, the door was closed again, and the air filter device ran for a while, the air in the car would return to normal.
Jian Shou leaned against the window and looked at the situation outside: "It should be fine. If the temperature remains at five or six degrees in the morning, after the ice and snow melt into water, the bodies soaked in the water may breed and spread various bacteria and viruses over time, but that will be many days later. Now, the temperature rises too fast, and all the water is evaporated by the sun."
You Xi nodded, she also agreed with this statement, but she had an air detector from the acid rain world, which was small, convenient and fast, so she checked it out.
After a while, she knocked on the car window to indicate that there was no problem with the air quality.
Everyone in the two cars got out of the car. Without the body of the car to block them, the scorching sun fell directly on everyone. This hot feeling made everyone feel very uncomfortable.
"It's terrible. Yesterday we were wrapped in down jackets and huddled in the car because the snow was so heavy that we couldn't even see the road clearly. But in just 24 hours, the temperature rose from more than 20 degrees below zero to 30 degrees!"
Cheng Fang sighed as he led several team members to put on protective equipment, and then went to a nearby dead tree. He took some samples from a piece of blood bubble human tissue that could not be identified, put them in a thermos isolation bottle, and prepared to take them back to the headquarters.
When he was in the mountain shelter this time, he participated in a meeting of the scientific research team.
Most of the scientific researchers at the meeting came with the resort team. They took out more comprehensive research data. After summarizing and discussing the data, professional researchers once again engaged in experiments and finally reached a conclusion.
The inactive flesh and blood tissue remnants in the ice blade are not completely dead in the low temperature, but enter a state of suspended animation for self-protection.
After this kind of cell tissue enters the human body through the ice blade wound, it will be integrated into the blood. The reason why it wakes up and mutates again is the human body's emotions.
The injured person cannot be angry. Violent roars, anger and other hysterical emotional fluctuations will cause the cell remnants that have been integrated into the blood to accelerate mutation and assimilate the flesh and blood.
The red lotus cell remnants that originally entered a state of suspended animation to avoid the low temperature will be completely revived. They use the human body as a hotbed and reproduce and evolve rapidly.
This parasitic state has some similarities with the state of the blood bubble man, but also some differences.
It is like an immortal virus. Every extreme weather only changes its form, but it cannot be eradicated.
Now the low temperature and ice blade climate seem to be over. They don't know what changes will happen to the software organizations that have not yet been parasitized or have already been parasitized in the future, so when they see it, they will collect data in time and provide the headquarters with an extra research sample.
**
"Mom, it's so warm, is summer coming?" Yinyin didn't understand the horror of the sudden rise in temperature. She only felt that Hun was warmed by the sun, and the sky that was blocked by gray fog and dark clouds finally reappeared. It was the same azure color as in her memory. She felt very happy.
Yinyin's mother held her and tried to stay away from the bloody corpses in the dead trees. Yinyin's father stood aside to block them and gently touched his daughter's face.
The food in the mountain refuge area was good. Although they had been staying in the armored vehicle to rush for the past few days, Cheng Fang had prepared abundant supplies. Yinyin had three meals a day on time, and her skinny face, which was originally hungry, gained a little more flesh.
Yinyin's father was very grateful to the people who were able to bring his family of three with him in times of crisis. He knew that they were all capable people. He was just a technician before the end of the world, with no assets or background. Now his family can be safe because of their kindness.
So along the way, he was very active in doing everything he could, such as driving, trying to drive a whole night, and said that there was no need for everyone to take turns, he could do it by himself.
After all, if they encountered danger, they had to rely on other team members to deal with it, and he hoped that they could get a good rest.
Yinyin's mother took care of all the trivial matters of tidying up the carriage. After all, they had to eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the carriage for several days and nights. Although the interior space was large, it would soon become dirty and messy if it was not cleaned up in time.
Yinyin became even more obedient. After witnessing all kinds of fierce and wanton brutality, the warrior uncles who always stayed with them during this period were all very kind and good people.
She likes each of them and cherishes such a friendly environment, so she happily follows her mother every day to help everyone pack up hot meals and deliver water. After
touching his daughter's face, Yinyin's father immediately went forward to ask Youxi, saying that there was a batch of folded solar panels in the supply box on the car. When the car was modified before, it was not installed because of the climate of Bingren. But in the spirit of being prepared, he still packed these panels. Now that
the temperature has risen, if the car is installed, the electricity used in the car can rely on solar panels in the future, and it will not all consume crystalline fuel.
Youxi didn't expect Yinyin's father to be so attentive. When she was renovating the armored vehicle in the mountain refuge area, she relied on Cheng Fang's relationship and collected about three boxes of crystal fuel (more than 300) into the fuel warehouse again, just to make the transfer journey more comfortable, without having to save electricity to save a little fuel.
But now that the low temperature has passed, this batch of solar panels can obviously play a greater role.
So that day, after everyone simply finished eating the instant dry grain bags, they helped Yinyin's father to install folding solar panels on the two armored vehicles.
After three or four o'clock in the afternoon, because everyone who was sweating profusely from installing solar panels finished their work, they got into the car, simply wiped their bodies with water, drank water to replenish their water, and set off again.
Cheng Fang's car led the way, and You Xi and Xing Min's cars followed behind.
Once the door was closed, the armored vehicle seemed to become a "floating villa" for the six of them. The compartment was not large, but it had a fixed metal bed and a shower and bathroom. You Xi did not hide it anymore, and took out six bottles of iced drinks from the Xingwu warehouse and distributed them to the people who were still sweating.
Xing Min was the driver again, and You Xi personally handed him the drinks, and placed a large ice bowl of watermelon, pineapple, cantaloupe, and apple slices next to the driver's seat, and even prepared a fruit fork for eating the fruit.
Such special treatment made Xiyuan, who was sitting in the passenger seat and helping to check the road conditions, a little jealous. However, after spending the past few days in a closed compartment, he felt that he had gotten used to it. Moreover, Youxi treated other people well - as long as someone was willing to ask.
"Youxi, I'm a little hungry, I want to eat sea salt bread." The sea salt bread he was talking about was one of the foods that everyone made by themselves when they were in the villa. Cut the sea salt bread made by Hei Mu, put lettuce and tomato slices in it, add the fragrant beef scrambled eggs, and finally seal it with plastic wrap. When you are hungry, you can take it out and eat it anytime. It is also rich in nutrition.
Youxi hummed, and the next moment she handed over a slightly warm sea salt bread.
Xi Yuan extended his hand happily, and when he took it, his fingertips touched her fingertips intentionally or unintentionally. That slight touch made him feel tingling.
He watched You Xi turn around and walk towards the carriage behind, letting his heart beat wildly in his chest.
When he retracted his gaze, he saw Xing Min glance at him with a little coldness of knowing everything.
Xi Yuan didn't care. Care and favor came from everything. As long as it came from her, even if it was begged, it was better than being ignored.
Hei Mu was counting items in the carriage where the supply boxes were placed. This was something he had to do every day. He focused on counting the purified water. As the temperature rose, he thought that water would become the most scarce part of the journey ahead.
He knew that Youxi had an invisible place where he could carry his supplies, but he didn't know if Youxi had any water stored and how much water was stored.
He was always cautious, and the first thing he thought of when the temperature outside rose was the water problem, so he wanted to count it and then plan the daily water consumption according to the remaining driving time.
As a result, while he was still planning here, Youxi came over and said that it was too hot today, and everyone had been busy all afternoon and was sweating. At present, the smell in the carriage was a bit bad, and he wanted everyone to take turns to take a shower before dinner.
Hei Mu: ...
He first lowered his head and smelled himself, then looked at the four or five boxes of bottled water in front of him: "Master, if you really mind, we can use perfume."
"...What perfume?" You Xi raised her head, "The modified water tank in the car has 100L, which is enough for a simple shower."
She said, and hinted, "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, the water tank in the car will never be empty. Although it is impossible for everyone to take a shower every day, it is enough to wash yourself every few days."
After she finished speaking, she took out the sports pants and short-sleeved T-shirts for replacement, took out their own short-sleeved trousers and put them aside, and went into the bathroom first.
That night, the car did not stop, and everyone took turns driving and rushed on the road without stopping.
The ground cracks and ice blades severely damaged the road, making their driving route to the headquarters particularly tortuous.
**
The next day, it was still a nice day with clear skies. When they stopped for lunch at noon, Cheng Fang was very impressed and said that if there had been no rebellion by his followers, as long as they could stay in the mountain shelter for a few more days, they could directly use the low-altitude suspension vehicle to take the aerial route back to the headquarters. In
such clear weather, the low-altitude suspension vehicle can go directly back to the headquarters in a straight line, and it only takes one day to arrive.
Unlike now, they are in an awkward position of neither forward nor backward, and can only continue to travel by land.
There is a low-altitude vehicle in the Youxi transportation space, but it is limited to seven people, and it is not enough to take it out. What's more, supplies are in short supply now. These two armored vehicles cost them a lot of parts and effort to modify. They can't just abandon them in the wilderness, right?
"Actually, it's not impossible." Yan Shang, who was always quiet, said slowly, "From here back to the headquarters, we should pass by other military shelters. There must be low-altitude vehicles in the shelters. We can exchange the armored vehicles for low-altitude vehicles there. With the current weather conditions, it only takes half a day to drive the low-altitude vehicle back to the headquarters."
After this, everyone was silent.
Especially Cheng Fang, who was completely stunned for a while. This idea was not that difficult to think of, but everyone's ideas were limited before, and they didn't think of it for a while.
Cheng Fang immediately pulled out the stretched screen of his mobile phone, logged into his own military account, and began to check the known military shelters nearby.
Twenty kilometers away from them at nine o'clock, there is a military shelter. It is located on the edge of the 18th city district and is a large supermarket area. Fortunately, it survived the Honglian disaster. Because there are abundant supplies and several underground parking lots for refuge, it has become a small military shelter.
However, after several disasters, it is unknown what the current situation is.
Cheng Fang used the car communicator to call the other party, but there was no response from the other end until he was about to give up, when a voice came from the communicator.
He briefly explained his identity, of course, did not explain his escort mission, and only asked the other party if he could exchange two modified armored vehicles for two low-altitude vehicles.
The other party seemed to be asking questions and discussing. After a moment, the other party sent a positive reply.
"Thank you!" Cheng Fang was very happy.
At 2pm, everyone returned to their cars after resting, re-planned their itinerary, and headed for the supermarket evacuation area 20 kilometers away.
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