On the 16th day of the apocalypse, the temperature was 55℃.
Tomorrow was supposed to be the National Day holiday for the whole country to celebrate. I guess many people have already made travel plans, but now they can only stay at home.
In the past two days, more and more live-streaming bloggers have been trying to take advantage of the popularity, and more and more of them have fallen.
This was the first time Jiang Yuan heard the concept of "heat stroke".
All news programs are calling on people not to go out during the day and try not to go out at night. Working from home is now mandatory.
However, the authorities overlooked one thing: the temperature reached 55°C, and the daytime surface temperature must be at least 70°C.
70℃, what does that mean? If you put your hand out in the sun, you will get burned easily. The reporters wearing sun protection clothing are still conscientiously reminding everyone not to ignore the official news and not to go out.
The video was reposted like crazy on the software. Because of the heat, the family members of the patients who got heat stroke cried and screamed in the hospital, but all they got in return was a simple "sorry" from the doctor! My mother kept saying while watching, "It's so pitiful. We should not go out. Xiao Nuan must be taken care of and cannot run to the sunny place."
There are curtains in the bedrooms at home, but not in the living room. My mother used the little space available at home to dry a lot of vegetables.
A lot of things were dried on the terrace, including some dried meat.
Although she has bought a lot, she decided to store more for herself while she can still buy fresh ones.
Many homeowners in the community have installed sun-protection nets, and they bought them through the group chat. Jiang Yuan also bought some before, but she didn't install them because she didn't want to be the first to do so.
The internet is also buzzing. The temperature has never been so high in the past one or two hundred years, and two opinions are being held most highly.
One is the theory of punishment from nature: it is nothing more than that humans wantonly destroy the ecological balance, causing the weather to fluctuate, global temperatures to rise, and how small and vulnerable humans are...
Another is the apocalyptic theory: the extremely hot weather is no longer suitable for human survival, and this time the heat is global in nature, and humans are likely to experience a major reshuffle, just like the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The post was highly hyped and had a lot of comments, with over 240,000 likes.
Many people are hoping for your health below, some say that the poster is worrying too much, and of course, there are also many people advising everyone to stock up more supplies in case of emergency.
The number of messages in her WeChat group is also 99+. She has several community groups, including the owner group of Building 13, the Cainiao Station group, the decoration mutual aid group, the community item group buying group, etc.
Everyone complained about the high temperature at the beginning, but now they have become a little numb.
If you can go to work, that's fine. If not, then mortgage and car loans will be problems. The collapse of an adult can be decided overnight.
The temperature at night was still around 40 degrees. Regardless of the heat, Jiang Yuan applied sunscreen all over her body and then went out with her father.
Xiao Nuan stayed at home with her mother. The weather was too weird and children’s resistance was not very good, so it was safer for them to stay at home.
She didn't know if the doomsday talk had worked, but she felt that there were a lot more people in the supermarket tonight, and it was noisy as soon as they came in, as if the central air-conditioning wasn't that cool anymore.
Her father pointed at the price tags and showed her that many things had increased in price slightly. Jiang Yuan knew very well that this was not a good phenomenon.
The two of them didn't care about anything and just took whatever they could. Jiang Xingzhi was mainly responsible for fresh fruits and vegetables, while Jiang Yuan went to buy some dry goods, snacks, canned goods and the like.
Buy a little more now and you will have extra protection in the future.
Many people have this idea. Fortunately, they came out early. Now the supermarket is crowded and the checkout queues are a mess.
They use self checkout machines which are much faster.
After leaving the supermarket, the two went their separate ways.
This is a large comprehensive shopping mall that sells other things besides supermarkets.
The third and fourth floors are the food areas.
There are children's playgrounds, film and television studios and other facilities on the fifth and sixth floors.
Jiang Yuan went directly to the second floor. Compared with the crowded supermarket, it was extremely deserted.
There was no need to buy clothes, shoes, and daily necessities anymore, so I went to a maternity and baby store and bought some milk powder, children's snacks, children's books, phone watches, and so on.
My mother said that the weather is too hot and it is easy for bacteria to grow.
Children's things are different from those for adults. Jiang Yuan bought all the children's toilet water, mosquito repellent bracelets, children's soaps, and hand sanitizers in the store.
Together with the ones I stockpiled before, except for their expiration, they can be used for ten years without any problems.
In addition to children's, adults' products should not be left out. This kind of thing is sold in boutiques, and you don't have to go to the drugstore.
But I didn't buy too much, after all, they will expire after three to five years.
I have bought a lot of things online before, and I stock up more in the hope that it will be convenient to use them in the future.
After finishing all these, I went to the third floor and bought twenty cups of milk tea. While the young lady was working, I went to a bakery and a Juewei duck neck shop.
Starting tomorrow, they will not go out. Although the shelf life of these things is not long, they have to buy them while they can. After all, there will be no chance to buy them in the future.
Jiang Xingzhi also packed up more than 20 dishes, and the boss enthusiastically helped them deliver them downstairs.
Because they were carrying four large bags of things they had just bought from the supermarket, and with so much food, the two of them really couldn't handle it.
The reason I didn't put the things in the car first was because I was afraid.
Although public security is still guaranteed now, vans are too easy to pry open. We must not let thieves get the things we stole with great effort.
I went to the gas station to fill up the gas again. The price of gas has risen to 20 yuan per liter, which is doubled. Fortunately, the tank of the magic car is small, so it doesn’t take much to fill it up.
They went through the underground garage again, and the elevator stopped on the first floor, which meant they were about to run into someone. There was nothing they could do, as they came back too early today, and that was when a large group of people were active.
Two aunts, a young man and a dog came up.
Jiang Yuan instinctively stepped back because she was afraid of dogs. She always felt that the dog with its mouth open looked too ferocious, as if it would pounce on her and bite her in the next second.
And this dog is too big, I can't tell what breed it is, but why isn't it on a leash? That's a bit too much...
The two aunts were complaining leisurely about the scorching hot weather and how the supermarkets were taking advantage of the situation and raising the prices of many things.
One person went down from the 15th and 16th floors respectively, and now there is a masked man and the dog in the elevator.
Hey, why didn't he press the floor button? Jiang Yuan was horrified. Could it be that their abnormality was discovered?
The guy was wearing grey sweatpants and a short-sleeved shirt, and the muscles on his abdomen and upper arms were faintly visible.
If a fight breaks out, both she and her dad will probably be in trouble.
Just as she was thinking, the elevator arrived and the man led the dog down the elevator. Just as Jiang Yuan was stunned, he suddenly turned his head and asked, "Do you need help?"
(End of this chapter)