◎Happy 27th Day: "Extreme Cold Survival Manual"◎
Residents are encouraged to store water in the morning, and notified in the evening that water supply will be restored within a limited time.
If this limited-time restoration of water supply is seen as the gradual recovery of the water supply system, then these two notices appear to be very contradictory.
But think about it from another perspective. What if the water supply system cannot be completely repaired in a short period of time and can only maintain supply for two hours at most?
Combined with the official tacit attitude towards the cooling hypothesis, a simple speculation will show that such water outages may not occur just once during low temperature periods.
It is even unknown how long this two-hour limited water supply can last.
In this way, the official water storage notice in advance, and even the water storage trend that swept the entire Internet overnight, can be easily explained.
First, use public opinion to create a water storage craze, and then issue a notice of limited water supply before residents fall into panic and cause unrest.
This will not only enable people to actively store water to cope with the upcoming water shortage crisis, but also avoid causing social unrest.
If Jiang Muyun could think of this, naturally other people could think of it too.
After some people figured it out, they chose to stock up on various water filtration equipment and water storage equipment when the prices fell, trying to make a fortune later.
Some people also directly expressed their guesses, reminding everyone not to be too optimistic.
In community groups, many people are analyzing the water supply situation. It seems that optimists and cautious people each account for half of the views.
Fortunately, no matter whether they are optimists or cautious people, no one is willing to pour out the water stored today.
At most, I would just empty a few buckets and replace the river water with tap water when there is water.
It can be seen that this water outage has indeed caused great distress to people.
In the short term, no one would dare to leave the water buckets at home empty.
Jiang Muyun replied in the group chat on the 15th floor, saying that he was even more worried after seeing the notice and would definitely not dare to pour the water.
Zhao Jiahao didn't think so much at all. He was just simply concerned about the fruits of his labor. He was clamoring to buy another folding bathtub to store tap water. No one was allowed to pour out the water he drew today.
Zhao Jiahao did what he said. He rode his bike to buy one early the next morning, and it took up so much space on his balcony that there was no place left to stand.
It was almost 12:00 noon, which should have been lunch time, but few families in Nanshi were eating at this time today.
Almost every household has prepared water pipes and empty buckets, turned on the faucet, and waited for the moment when the water supply was restored.
Jiang Muyun is no exception.
She did not prepare a bucket, but emptied the bathtub directly, then turned the water heater to the highest temperature, prepared to pour the hot water directly into the bathtub, and then put it into the space for storage.
During this period, she boiled water and cooked food at home every day in order to save some fuel after the end of the world.
As she was doing it, she thought that since all the hot water for drinking had been stored, she could also store more hot water for bathing. After all, there was still enough space.
Jiang Muyun is so stingy in this regard that he is beyond help.
No matter how many ways she has to get fuel in the future, as long as the amount of fuel she has now is not enough, she must prepare according to the standard that she will not be able to get fuel in the future.
It would have been fine if she hadn't thought about it before, but now that she remembered it and it didn't exist, she felt like she had lost out.
As soon as noon arrived, there was a noise coming from the faucet.
Seconds later, the water heater hummed and the bathroom filled with steam.
Although the water supply had been restored, the flow was not strong. Jiang Muyun set the alarm and went to have lunch, checking back after fifteen minutes.
If it was before the water was cut off, it would only take about ten minutes to fill the bathtub.
But the water flow was too small now. Jiang Muyun waited for half an hour before the bathtub was only 80% full of hot water.
She stretched out a finger and poked it into the hot water, quickly collecting the whole bathtub of hot water into the space, and then hurriedly took out a cup of room temperature water to cool her finger.
Unexpectedly, this water heater was quite old and had a very high temperature. Jiang Muyun's fingers were burned red.
However, since it is used to store hot water, the water temperature should be as high as possible. After all, there is no shortage of cold water in her space.
In the next few days, Jiang Muyun kept adding hot water on time. She saved as much as she could. Every extra bit she saved was a profit, and she didn't complain.
In addition to water storage, Jiang Muyun also compiled a PDF file.
It is a big collection of various problems and solutions encountered by everyone under the topic #Minus 30 Degrees Survival Guide# that she created before.
No matter whether it is practical or outrageous, as long as it is feasible, Jiang Muyun will put it into this big collection.
This PDF file even includes tutorials on how to build a kang and how to make your own coal briquettes, and Jiang Muyun also did some of his own private work.
For example, something that looks extremely UC, such as "Shock! You can survive alone in the wilderness at minus 70 degrees Celsius with just a fruit knife."
At the end of the document, a documentary is also strongly recommended. The content of the documentary is about the daily life of a group of residents living in the coldest area of the blue planet.
Jiang Muyun named it "Extreme Cold Survival Manual" and shamelessly bundled it with "Zombie Survival Manual", allowing "Extreme Cold Survival Manual" to circulate on the Internet under the name of Doomsday Survival Guide 2023 Edition.
Jiang Muyun's handbook did not receive much attention. Many people downloaded it, but even more people only commented "hahahaha" when talking about it.
Hahahaha, just hahaha. Jiang Muyun was not discouraged. She continued to secretly promote the booklet.
Apart from this, the biggest problem is that the air conditioner in Jiang Muyun's room broke down, so she can only sleep in the study.
This is normal. The average temperature is now minus 30 degrees Celsius. Jiang Muyun thinks it's great that the air conditioner can stay on heating for so long.
Jiang Muyun has space, so moving rooms is very convenient. He just needs to put things away.
The study is a little smaller than the bedroom, but it is more convenient to heat. Jiang Muyun doesn't need a wardrobe now anyway, so it's enough if the room can fit two beds.
A bed for her and a bed for the chicks.
As for Xiaobai, it is now very cold-resistant and has no problem sleeping in the living room, but its fur is growing thicker and thicker.
Jiang Muyun's life returned to normal as the water supply was restored.
Until one day at noon, Jiang Muyun had just received the first wave of hot water of the day, and he saw that the water flow from the faucet was getting thinner and thinner. Within a few seconds, only sporadic drops of water were dripping down.
The water is out again?
Jiang Muyun's first reaction was to take out his cell phone to check the date.
October 9th.
Jiang Muyun had a bad premonition in his heart, and this premonition became a reality a few minutes later.
There was a sudden power outage at home.
Jiang Muyun moved Xiaobai and the two chicks' nest into the room, took out the iron stove that he had bought together with the malt sugar, and quickly lit the fire to keep the room warm.
She took advantage of the fact that the temperature in the room had not dropped completely, and quickly changed out of her home clothes, put on a cotton coat and trousers, and wrapped herself tightly.
The moment Jiang Muyun opened the old man's bedroom door, he knew that the second drop in temperature had begun.
Just like the first time the temperature dropped, the temperature dropped extremely quickly. The thermometer dropped one notch at a time, and the whole room seemed to be put into a freezer.
Jiang Muyun exhaled a breath of white air, took out his mobile phone and took a look at the real-time Weibo. There were Weibo posts about howling temperatures dropping and power outages from all IP locations.
Before she could swipe down, the phone screen went black and turned off.
It seems that the second major temperature drop is inevitable.
Fortunately, the temperature dropped this time during the day and the drop was smaller than before. Not many people suffered sudden illnesses due to the rapid drop in temperature, but many people caught colds when changing clothes.
With the first major temperature drop as a foundation, people's reaction to the second temperature drop was unusually calm.
People are more concerned about the power outage than why the temperature dropped from minus 20 or 30 degrees Celsius to minus 40 or 50 degrees Celsius.
No matter how low the temperature is, as long as the air conditioner and electric heater can still work, life will not be too difficult.
But once the electricity goes out, the temperature will be unbearable for areas without heating.
Jiang Muyun returned to the room, plugged in the charger, and turned his phone back on.
Before she could edit the message, she saw several groups becoming deserted at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It was minus forty degrees Celsius outside, and the walls and single-glazed windows of Nanshi were not enough to keep the pitiful amount of heat in the house.
If Jiang Muyun hadn't been sitting by the stove right now, her phone would have been frozen and turned off.
Due to the sudden power outage and temperature drop, most people’s mobile phones were unusable.
Jiang Muyun's eyebrows twitched twice.
She hesitated for a moment, found a crowbar from the space, and got up to go out.
As soon as Jiang Muyun opened the door, he saw Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan holding toolboxes and walking from the stairwell to the elevator.
Li Anxuan was a little surprised to see her come out: "What are you doing?"
Jiang Muyun raised the crowbar in his hand and gestured: "It seems that we are on the same page."
The power outage came without warning, and the temperature drop caused mobile phones to shut down. If someone was trapped in the elevator at this time, it would be really hopeless.
The first thing Jiang Muyun did after the power outage was to make arrangements for his three little ones. He was a little delayed before leaving the house.
Zhao Jiahao and his team have now finished checking the elevator upstairs and are now preparing to go downstairs and ask everyone one by one.
Jiang Muyun closed the door and said, "I'll go down with you guys. It's a good opportunity to get some exercise."
Before they could set off, the door of 1502 opened, and Qin Shiwen was holding a crowbar in his hand.
Qin Shiwen smiled when he saw them: "Are you all tired of staying at home and want to go shopping?"
Jiang Muyun raised the crowbar in his hand: "Together?"
It was obvious that Jiang Muyun and his group were not the only ones who wanted to go shopping.
Jiang Muyun and his group had just knocked on the elevator door on the 12th floor and were walking downstairs when they ran into another group of people in the stairwell.
The other party also had five or six people. The leader was named Wang Jie, and he lived on the third floor of this building.
He said that after the power outage, he wanted to go out to ask his neighbors about the situation, but as soon as he got downstairs, he heard that someone was trapped in the elevator.
Now all online communication is cut off and they can't call the police. They can only go home to get tools and try to pry open the elevator door to save people.
Li Anxuan frowned: "Do you know which floor the elevator is stuck on? We just asked everyone upstairs, and it's not there."
Wang Jie was also stunned for a moment: "We also asked all the way up from downstairs, and there was no one downstairs."
Zhao Jiahao hissed, "Oh no! Is he going to get dizzy in the elevator?"
Jiang Muyun and the others had already knocked on all the doors upstairs, and Wang Jie and the others also said that they had come all the way from downstairs to look for it, and no one heard the sound of the elevator car falling.
If no one responds along the way, the person inside is probably not in good condition.
Excessive shock combined with a sudden drop in temperature can indeed cause coma in people with cardiovascular diseases.
Fainting in an elevator at this temperature could be fatal.
Several people looked at each other, and Jiang Muyun asked, "Is there only one person in the elevator?"
It's impossible that everyone in the elevator was frightened and fainted.
Wang Jie nodded. "I heard it was Aunt Wang. Xiao Qian came back from get off work at noon and saw Aunt Wang enter the elevator before him."
A young man behind Wang Jie nodded, looking anxious and speaking incoherently. "I was too dressed to run at the time, so I didn't catch Aunt Wang's elevator. The other elevator was coming down from the eleventh floor, and the power went out before it even touched the ground. In that short time, Aunt Wang's elevator definitely didn't make it to the fourteenth floor."
Wang Jie added: "Xiao Qian was busy at the time and didn't notice which floor the elevator had reached."
Li Anxuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the fourteenth floor first."
The group wasted no time and walked upstairs while listening to Li Anxuan explain the reason to them: "Generally speaking, high-rise elevators have backup power supplies. There are two types of backup power supply systems. One is to continue to power all running elevators after a power outage, and the other is to only power elevator cars with people in them."
"We don't know which type the community has installed. If it's the latter, then when the elevator in front of Mr. Qian lost power, the one Aunt Wang was riding in might still be running."
Xiao Qian heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this: "Does this mean Aunt Wang might be home?"
He saw Aunt Wang get on the elevator with his own eyes. If something really happened to Aunt Wang, he would feel bad even if it had nothing to do with him.
Li Anxuan shook his head: "I don't know. The power outage was caused by low temperatures, not an ordinary line failure."
Therefore, it is hard to say whether the backup power supply system can be started in a low-temperature environment.
Everyone knew what Li Anxuan didn't say, but they still knocked on Aunt Wang's door with hope.
Aunt Wang's husband was the only one at home. When he heard the knock on the door, he thought it was Aunt Wang who had returned. When he opened the door, he was still muttering, asking Aunt Wang not to go out to grab vegetables again.
As a result, my husband didn't come back, and there were a few familiar young people standing at the door.
Uncle Wang touched his head and asked, "What are you doing?"
The expressions of several young people were not very good.
They all heard what Uncle Wang said just now, and they knew without asking that Aunt Wang had not come back yet.
Li Anxuan and the others were not familiar with Uncle Wang, so they simply avoided him: "Let's go open the elevator door first."
Since Aunt Wang in the elevator was unable to respond, they could only randomly choose a floor to pry open the elevator door, and then look into the elevator shaft to see which floor the elevator was parked on.
Wang Jie was obviously more tactful. He took over the conversation and tactfully told Uncle Wang the whole story.
Jiang Muyun stopped talking when he heard someone talking. He picked up the crowbar and went to pry the door open with Zhao Jiahao and the others.
She is indeed good at telling lies, but that doesn't mean she is good at comforting people.
With two professionals present, the elevator door on the 14th floor was quickly opened a crack.
The gap was not wide, just enough for Zhao Jiahao to stick half of his body out and look inside.
Jiang Muyun and Li Anxuan pulled at Zhao Jiahao's safety rope. Zhao Jiahao quickly made a judgment: "The elevator is stuck between the eighth and ninth floors. It's better to open the door on the eighth floor."
Uncle Wang on the other side, after hearing the whole story, was already holding his chest and pouring medicine into his mouth. When they said they had found the elevator, he insisted on going with them.
Zhao Jiahao, Li Anxuan and others didn't understand the situation very well. They were frightened by Uncle Wang's appearance and subconsciously looked at Qin Shiwu.
Qin Shiwu studied medicine and was familiar with the old neighbors. He knew that Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang had a good relationship, so he said helplessly, "Uncle, please come with me. Bring Aunt Wang's medicine and clothes, and some hot water."
After that, he said to Qin Shiwen, "You go down and drive first. We will take Aunt Wang to the hospital later."
Jiang Muyun also looked into the elevator shaft, greeted Uncle Wang, and took away a stool from Uncle Wang's house.
Xiao Qian and Qin Shiwu supported Uncle Wang on both sides as they walked down. Wang Jie deliberately walked in front of Uncle Wang, fearing that something might happen to him if he trembled.
Prying open the elevator door is a strenuous job, but it is not difficult for a few young and strong men.
Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan were experts at opening elevator doors. They pushed the crowbar inward and in a few moves, a crack was created.
Several young men in Wang Jie's team stepped forward and helped the two of them to pry the elevator door to the sides.
Aunt Wang is not slim, and it is winter and everyone is wearing a lot of clothes, so they have to open the door as wide as possible to make it easier for them to move.
They didn't dare to make too much noise for fear of shaking the elevator car. Several young people's faces turned red, but they didn't dare to shout out.
The elevator door was open enough that the situation inside the elevator car could be seen clearly from outside.
Aunt Wang fell unconscious in a corner of the elevator, her face pale, and she was holding two large cabbages covered in dirt in her arms.
Half of the elevator car was on the eighth floor, about at Li Anxuan's chest height.
"I'll do it, I'll do it, you guys continue outside." Li Anxuan said softly.
No one present had ever experienced such low temperatures, and it was impossible to judge the current condition of the elevator.
They didn't dare add any more burden to the elevator car, for fear that it would fall if they were not careful.
Among all the people present, only Li Anxuan's height made it easier for him to move.
Li Anxuan took off the cotton coat he was wearing outside, and Jiang Muyun directly put a low stool under him.
A young man squatted down and held on to a stool. Li Anxuan used one hand to pull the top of the elevator door for leverage and half of his body was inserted into the elevator car.
To be on the safe side, he fished out the two cabbages first.
This kind of cabbage is quite heavy. If it rolls down in the elevator and something happens, there will be no place to cry.
Jiang Muyun took the two cabbages and put them aside. He found that there was not only dirt on them, but also half a footprint could be vaguely seen.
Uncle Wang was waiting by the side, but he didn't dare to get too close for fear of getting in the way, nor did he dare to ask questions for fear of startling the people who were moving.
Aunt Wang was quite heavy, so it was difficult for Li Anxuan to exert force while standing like that, so he had to have someone hold his waist to lend him strength.
Fortunately, Jiang Muyun and his friends met Wang Jie and his group when they went downstairs, otherwise it would have been really difficult now.
Two young men from Wang Jie's team held Li Anxuan's waist on the left and right, while Zhao Jiahao, Wang Jie, Jiang Muyun and others supported him on the side.
On the other side, Li Anxuan had just lifted Aunt Wang up, and before half of her body was out of the elevator, she heard a loud bang of something heavy falling to the ground outside.
Several people were suddenly startled and trembled at the same time. Uncle Wang almost fainted.
Qin Shiwu quickly pinched the philtrum and repeatedly said, "It's not us, it's not us. Aunt Wang is fine."
Li Anxuan was also startled by the loud noise and almost dropped the item in his hand. Fortunately, Jiang Muyun was quick to help him.
No one spoke, but everyone knew that it was the sound of an elevator car falling, but they didn't know which building had the accident.
With such a loud noise, the elevator car couldn't have fallen from a lower floor. If there was someone in the elevator, the situation would not be optimistic.
Li Anxuan gritted his teeth, exerted strength from his waist and abdomen, and carried Aunt Wang out of the elevator.
Zhao Jiahao and Wang Jie, who were watching nearby, quickly stepped forward to catch her and wrapped Aunt Wang tightly with clothes.
As Li Anxuan got down from the stool, the elevator car made a clicking sound.
Before anyone could react, the elevator car quickly passed by them, leaving only a dark elevator shaft.
Then, there was a familiar roar.
They had just heard this sound a few seconds ago.
Only this time the sound was closer.
They could even hear clearly the process of the steel cable slipping from the elevator shaft and finally falling onto the elevator car.
Uncle Wang's hands were shaking as he held the medicine bottle.
Qin Shiwu took the medicine from Uncle Wang's hand and took a look at it. He then briefly checked Aunt Wang's condition, poured out two pills from the medicine bottle, and force-fed them to Aunt Wang with skillful movements, and also poured in a lot of hot water.
Seeing that Aunt Wang's condition was more stable, Qin Shiwu instructed Zhao Jiahao to carry her on his back: "Go downstairs, go downstairs, rush to the hospital."
The group went downstairs in a hurry, but they didn't expect that there were already quite a few people gathered downstairs.
Seeing them carrying people down, they all came forward to ask what happened.
Jiang Muyun signaled Zhao Jiahao and Qin Shiwu to take Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang into the car first, and he and Wang Jie briefly explained the general situation.
At the same time, Jiang Muyun also learned about the situation next door from these people.
There was a grandparent and grandchildren in the elevator car that fell next door. When the power went out, their elevator was stuck in the middle of the floor, with only a foot or so of the bottom of the elevator car exposed outside.
As soon as the people inside sent the child out, the elevator car fell straight down.
The elevator car crashed to the ground, and the hat on the child's head was pulled down with it. If it had been half a second slower, it might not have been the child's hat that fell down with the elevator car, but the child's head.
The two loud noises alarmed the entire community, and many people gathered downstairs to inquire about the news.
Everyone was talking at once, and those whose family members were supposed to be back at this time but hadn't yet, were all panicking. People in each building were knocking on the elevator doors on each floor.
Just when the whole community was in chaos, people from the community rushed over, and with them came several firefighters.
With the help of the coordinator and organizer, everyone quickly calmed down and the situation of each building was also counted.
If someone is trapped in the elevator, arrange for rescue. If you are unsure, open the elevator door on the first floor first to check the location of the elevator car.
Zhao Jiahao went to the hospital with Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang, while Li Anxuan explained the situation to the firefighters who came to rescue and asked for their help.
Jiang Muyun, Wang Jie and others also wanted to lend a hand, but were rejected by the other party.
The other person's face was very serious and looked a little fierce. "Due to the low temperature, some parts of the elevator structure have become extremely fragile. If non-professionals participate in the rescue, it is very likely to cause a secondary accident."
The man seemed to feel that his tone was a little stiff. After a pause, he added: "Thank you very much for your willingness to help."
Jiang Muyun waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind. "We didn't consider it carefully enough. Thank you for your hard work."
The man nodded and left in a hurry.
Jiang Muyun rubbed his eyebrows, said goodbye to Wang Jie and others, turned around and went upstairs to go home.
Although Jiang Muyun did not close the study door when he came out, all the windows in the house were closed.
There was a small coal stove at home and three little ones were there, so she felt a little worried.
When Jiang Muyun opened the door, Xiaobai rushed over as usual.
The temperature in the living room was no different from that outside, but Xiaobai was still lively and energetic, unlike the two little chicks who were shivering and leaning against the small coal stove.
Jiang Muyun first added a few pieces of coal to the small coal stove, then opened the window a little to ventilate, and then he leaned against the stove holding Xiaobai, and turned on his mobile phone after the temperature rose.
There are very few southern IPs that can be seen on the Internet now, and the few that are there are all preparing to go north for the winter.
This statement may seem funny, but with temperatures around the world being almost uniformly low, the infrastructure in northern cities is indeed more suitable for wintering.
At least the heating in the north is not interrupted now.
This alone is enough for those who have the means to migrate there with their families.
Since the first drop in temperature, all flights have been suspended due to magnetic field disturbances, and there are not many railway trains that can operate normally. The online ticket purchasing system has been overwhelmed and crashed several times, and people scrambling for tickets have lined up in long queues at the stations.
Before the first group of people who intended to migrate had finished moving, the second drop in temperature came, and the number of people who wanted to escape to the north increased exponentially.
At this time, it is impossible to buy a ticket to the north in the near future, and migration can basically only be done by driving.
Compared with those who migrate to the north, there are more people who are unable to decisively leave their current place of residence for various reasons.
Even if these people have cars, and even if the cars are still usable, they have no way to go north to avoid the cold.
At the same time, Jiang Muyun's "Extreme Cold Survival Manual" was also rediscovered by many people.
Before the power outage, people read this topic more for fun, just like they read funny topics like human misfortunes and nonsense literature for fun.
It's only twenty degrees below zero, and if you play with water to make it freeze, you will only get yourself wet.
With the support of technological products, although the lives of urban residents have become more inconvenient, it does not seem to be a major disaster.
Even for some people, this experience was novel and interesting, and the drop in temperature was more of a joy than a complaint for them.
But now it's different.
It was only after the power outage that people realized that without electric heating, they would have trouble sleeping at night.
So this "Extreme Cold Survival Manual", which was once regarded as a joke book by everyone, has become a real survival manual in the minds of some people.
Especially after a few hours, power supply returned to normal in most areas, but more than 90% of residents found that the air conditioners in their homes had completely broken down. Now they could only rely on electric heaters for heating. Many people began to consider the feasibility of building ice houses at home.
As power supply was restored, more and more people went online, and the number of downloads of "Extreme Cold Survival Manual" saw a blowout.
Faced with temperatures as low as minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius, and the precedent of water shortages, even the most optimistic people can't help but worry about the future.
The rush to buy early the next morning was people's response to this concern.
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