The temperature drops starting at night.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, light snow began to fall from the sky and a cold wind began to blow.
Zhao Linlin stood in front of the gate, holding the plane and looking at the sky: "It's so cold."
Snowflakes were stuck to the plane's dark blue fur.
She had just returned from a long run around the shelter with the plane.
Wang Juanfeng called her from inside: "Come in quickly, don't stand at the door."
Only then did Zhao Linlin enter the house.
Wang Juanfeng looked at her and judged, "The temperature has really dropped."
Her eyelashes and hair tips were covered with white ice crystals.
Zhao Linlin blinked, and the ice crystals began to flicker.
Wang Juanfeng looked down at the planer.
The dog's big black eyes blinked, and ice crystals sparkled on its long eyelashes.
Wang Juanfeng was amused by the man and the dog: "Why do you have to go out? Go and warm up."
Qiao Xuejun and Kuang Qianli just walked out of his workshop.
Qiao Xuejun asked, "So this mechanical exoskeleton you and the engineering department have built is ready for use?"
Kuang Qianli: "Yes, it's technically working. It's all thanks to the fish skin thermal insulation technology provided by Haibao. It used to get stuck on the lining material, but now it's wearable."
Wang Juanfeng heard this and asked, "Is the exoskeleton usable now? Can I wear it outside now?"
Zhao Linlin was also curious: "Won't it crack?"
Kuang Qianli: "Contains nickel, low-temperature steel. However, it can only extend the time it can be used outdoors. At -70℃, it can only last for 3 hours. It still needs improvement."
You can't get much done in 3 hours.
Qiao Xuejun: "3 hours is not bad. Our current clothes only allow us to be outdoors for a maximum of 20 minutes." And you have to be in good physical condition.
Residents living in polar regions can stay outdoors for about an hour if they have good cold-proof clothing.
They would wear robes made of reindeer hair, wolf skin, and fox skin, and would wrap themselves up thickly before going out, covered in layers of fur.
Their current clothes are mainly ordinary down jackets collected before the disaster. The base is mainly military coats, and some are rabbit sweaters and fish skin coats, so they can also move around outside for a while.
But it has not yet reached the level of being comparable to reindeer fur clothing.
Qiao Xuejun: "How many of these mechanical exoskeletons do you have?"
Kuang Qianli: "There's only one finished product right now, and the rest are still being worked on. Ordinary steel is brittle and easily cracks when it gets cold, and there's not much of this kind of low-temperature steel left. The engineering department plans to work with Haibao on research and development to get more."
It was convenient for the people from the First Base to enter the factory in the Sea Fort.
Zhao Linlin: "If it were mass-produced, I could wear it while walking."
Kuang Qianli looked at her with an indescribable expression: "Have you ever considered whether Planer wants to be shunned?"
The plane can still be used outside at minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius, but it is impossible at minus 70 degrees Celsius.
The planer seemed to understand, shook off the snowflakes on his body and shivered.
Zhao Linlin put the plane back into the house. "It's freezing. I want to eat barbecue. Can we grill it?"
Wang Juanfeng had said before that he wanted to eat barbecue, so he made some special preparations.
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That night, the four of them had a barbecue.
The rabbit meat and chicken were marinated in advance, the potatoes were cut into slices, and some leeks were cut from the vegetable patch specially reserved at the back.
The shrimps were also put on the baking tray, and the fish that Haibao had given to Qiao Xuejun was also marinated and cut into pieces in advance.
"Brush some oil on the cabbage and leeks!" Wang Juanfeng instructed Kuang Qianli.
Kuang Qianli was busy: "Do you want to roast the spinach?"
"Wait a minute, finish eating the cabbage and leeks first, they are too full to move."
Zhao Linlin made some chili dip and put it on the table.
After putting it away, she leaned over and pushed the observation window on the wall open a little, then looked out: "It's snowing heavily."
It was pitch black outside the window, and one could only vaguely see snowflakes falling in the dim light of the night.
It rained faster and harder than before.
The temperature is dropping rapidly. Qiao Xuejun looked at the time. It is now 9 o'clock, and the temperature will drop to around minus 70℃ by evening.
Zhao Linlin said, "I feel like the temperature in the room has dropped."
Kuang Qianli looked at the thermometer and hygrometer on the table: "Oh, it has dropped two degrees. It is 22℃ now and 24℃ at noon."
There was both a stove and heater in the small compartment, and it was very hot at noon, so Qiao Xuejun turned off the heating for a while.
Zhao Linlin picked up a piece of sizzling rabbit meat and dipped it in chili pepper.
She sighed again, "The chili peppers are almost finished."
Qiao Xuejun picked up a piece of baked potato and put it on her plate: "Plant it tomorrow."
Zhao Linlin's eyes lit up: "Really?"
She added, "But the land is all planted, there's no empty space."
Qiao Xuejun: "It's okay, there's still room if you squeeze in."
She turned to the system and asked: "Exchange for another piece of land."
System: "Is one point enough?"
Qiao Xuejun: "Yeah. The current 15 mu is big enough. It won't be able to grow more."
System: "OK, it's been redeemed!"
Zhao Linlin: "I'll plant some tomorrow too. I love peppers."
By the time they finished their meal, the snow outside the window had piled up very deep, and they could almost hear the sound of snow sliding down from the treetops.
When Qiao Xuejun returned to her room to sleep at night, she lay on the kang, feeling very comfortable. The room was warm enough that she could even leave her arms outside the quilt.
Although sleeping on the kang was warm before, you couldn’t let your arms hang out.
Qiao Xuejun: "System, can this heating function be configured for the people in the base as well?"
The dormitories in the base are heated in different time periods. It's okay at normal times, but now it's minus 70 degrees Celsius and it's a bit cold.
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