The temperature is now stable at around -20℃, which should have frozen. However, because the area of sea water is too large, some areas that are too far from the shore or where mutant creatures often move around have not had time to freeze. Only ice has formed near the shore.
For example, the outer layer of this building is covered with a two-meter-wide layer of ice.
If the extreme cold comes, the whole area will probably turn into an ice field. Then we won’t need boats to travel.
The lifeboat rowed over and hit the ice in front of the building, breaking part of it.
Going further was blocked by increasingly thick ice.
The closer you are to the building.
Zhao Xian took out a dagger, raised his hand and chiseled it hard, but the ice was very thick and could not be penetrated.
"Put on your crampons." Zhao Xian put away his dagger, jumped off the lifeboat, stood up and walked onto the ice: "It's still solid, we can land."
Another patrol soldier distributed crampons and shoe covers to everyone.
Qiao Xuejun took it and took a look. It was an improved version. It seemed to have more teeth for grabbing ice and was more solid. It could be worn outside.
Everyone put crampons on their shoes.
Qiao Xuejun also got dressed and followed Zhao Xian upstairs.
After standing up, I could see through the windows of the building that the rooms were also flooded, but they were all frozen into a thick layer of ice, about ten centimeters thick.
Zhao Xian jumped in through the window. His movements were clean and neat. He turned back to look at Qiao Xuejun and stretched out his hand to her: "Come."
Following Zhao Xian's footsteps, the remaining 13 people on the lifeboat also jumped into the building through the window one after another.
The building smelled musty and fishy.
They entered an office on this floor of the building. This room was full of workstations. The conditions at the TV station were relatively good, and the workstations were all spacious single-person long tables.
But now there are only alloy table legs left in the office; the table top is gone, and only the remaining wood stumps on the top of the table legs can be seen.
"Fuck, the ice is so thick." A member of the fishing team stomped his foot, and the teeth on the crampons made a harsh friction sound against the ice surface.
Part of the table legs were also stuck in the ice.
Zhao Xian took a look and said, "The tabletop has been removed."
The whole office was like this, with a total of thirty or forty workstations. Only the legs of the desks were left, and all the table tops had disappeared.
"There are people here." He raised the machine gun on his back to his arm and ordered, "Be alert."
He subconsciously stood in front of Qiao Xuejun and hid Qiao Xuejun between his walls.
Qiao Xuejun also took out a pistol.
Zhao Xian glanced at the office and said, "I came here to collect supplies when the temperature was high. The table was still there. Now that the weather is cold, it is likely that someone has pried it away to keep it warm."
After hearing what Zhao Xian said, everyone became alert.
The room was too desolate, with no sign of human life.
It is very likely that this is just a place to collect supplies, not a place to live. Zhao Xian said: "First, investigate this floor."
"Shan Falcon, investigate the eight rooms on the east side. I'll be in charge of the west side. The rest of you stay put." Zhao Xian gave the order and looked back at Qiao Xuejun. "Teacher Qiao, call me if you have any questions."
Qiao Xuejun took out the radio and turned on the communication status: "Yes."
Zhao Xian and Shan Shun went out to investigate other rooms on this floor.
"The first room on the east side, normal!"
The inspection report on their work came from the radio hand-held station.
"The second one, normal!"
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"Room 8, normal!"
After the inspection of the entire office floor was completed, Zhao Xian's voice came over the radio: "Shan Falcon and I will continue to investigate the situation upstairs. The fishing team will be divided into groups of three according to the previous divisions. Go into the house and collect supplies!"
In addition to the patrol team, the fishing team has a total of 15 people, excluding Qiao Xuejun.
Zhao Xian then divided her into two groups: "Teacher Qiao, you and Nie Jionghui are in the same group."
In the team, Nie Jionghui stood up and said, "Teacher Qiao, let's act together."
He is tall and has a muscular body.
Qiao Xuejun knew this person. He was a worker who had built the high-voltage power grid at the base with Zhao Yun. At that time, Qiao Xuejun was also responsible for planting purple flowers on the mountain, so they had dealt with each other before.
Nie Jionghui quickly named the other two teammates in his team: "Wei Jia, Li Yunqi, let's search the east."
The other groups also quickly formed teams and assigned tasks.
Qiao Xuejun followed Nie Jionghui out of the office.
This floor is almost entirely filled with offices of different departments, as well as a conference room and a tea room, a total of about ten rooms.
They entered the first room on the east side, which was also an office.
This office also has more than 30 workstations, and the table tops are also missing, leaving only the table legs.
Nie Jionghui said: "It's quite convenient. We are here to get iron and steel, and we don't need wood. It just so happens that someone has already knocked off the wood for us."
Another teammate said, "Let's gather all these table legs in the room where we landed."
Qiao Xuejun thought about it and suggested, "No need to move it over there, just break it down into pieces. Put it in a bag, tie a rope at the window, and tie the other end of the rope to the boat. There is a height difference, so just slide the bag from one end to the other, just like a zipline, and you don't have to carry it back and forth."
Nie Jionghui nodded: "You can try."
"But the table legs are frozen to the ground and difficult to remove. We need to knock them down."
As they talked, they put down their backpacks, took out hammers and crowbars from them, and used them together to free the table legs from the ice.
They began to bang on the ice.
Qiao Xuejun also took out the linen bag from her mountaineering bag and began to look for something in other parts of the office.
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