Chapter 261 Eating
In some ways, extreme heat is more unbearable than extreme cold.
Extreme cold makes the world still and stagnant, while extreme heat makes the world boil and speed up.
After all, extreme cold is just cold weather. You can put on more clothes and make a fire to keep warm. As long as you don't leave the fire, there is basically no danger to your life.
But extreme heat is different. It is unavoidable. Even if you take off all your clothes, you will still feel hot and restless.
What's more, in this extreme environment of the end of the world, it is difficult for ordinary people to even use electricity, let alone use high-tech things like air conditioning. That is totally a dream.
The most distressing consequence is the melting of glaciers due to rising temperatures.
The extreme cold and freezing only lasted for a moment, so there were many dead animals and plants under the ice, and the number of black rats that were rampant was even greater.
So when the ice thawed, the huge rat carcasses that floated to the surface almost covered the entire city's surface. The scene was shocking.
The piles of dead rats quickly rotted under the strong sunlight.
The protein was quickly broken down and rotted, producing a large amount of suffocating odor that drifted throughout the flooded areas.
In addition, during the extremely cold period, when humans were active on the ice, they discarded all kinds of garbage, and all kinds of excrement produced or buried under the ice. As the ice melted, these things gradually merged with the flood...
The flood, which was not clean to begin with, completely turned into a huge sewage pit after melting due to the extreme heat.
Fortunately, the base was located relatively far away from the flood zone, and the stench only gradually dissipated several days after the extreme heat arrived. The smell was also much better than that of the city center that was flooded.
Even though the smell was not that strong, it was still smelly enough to drive people away. People living in the base had to keep windows and doors closed all day long to block out the stench.
But the weather is still so hot that if you don’t open the windows or the door, you will faint from the heat if you stay in the house...
However, warming weather is good for the body's recovery, and it will recover faster in hot weather than in cold weather.
So Minan and Le Yan, who were originally lying in bed with difficulty moving, were gradually able to get out of bed and walk around after a few days of extremely hot weather, and were able to move freely within two days.
After Le Yan recovered, the research department notified him to go back to work.
Minan was reluctant. Even though his immediate superior Wang Wei and his family had been dealt with, the other colleagues who used their seniority to bully Le Yan were still there. What difference would it make if he went there?
Le Yan comforted Min Nan, saying that it was okay to suffer some grievances at work, as this was the base and at least she could get a subsidy of 20 points every month if she went to work.
If I don’t go to work, what will I do when my points are used up?
Although Minan felt sorry for her boyfriend, this was the reality. They could not be as capable as Sister Duoduo and Brother Yun, who had already moved into the First Ring Road housing with their own abilities.
They can only guard their own three-acre land and work hard, hoping to be upgraded to first-level residents one day.
After Minan went to work at Le Yan, she joined Tong Zi and the others in renovating bedding and furniture.
She doesn't want the points as salary, she just comes here to eat for free. After all, it's too lonely to stay at home alone, and she wants to find something to do to fill the empty time.
Yu Duoduo and Tong Zi certainly welcome Minan's joining. She is also a good worker, which will make their renovation process 10% faster.
However, on the first night that Le Yan returned to work in the research department, he brought back good news.
Le Yan got promoted!
After Wang Wei left, the leaders above specifically named Le Yan to be the leader of the research team and lead more than a dozen comrades from the Agricultural Research Center to jointly study crops that can grow in the doomsday environment.
And give back the credit for the previous research of extremely cold-resistant vegetables and fruits to Le Yan.
This includes permanent residency in a Second Ring Road residence and a 100,000 points bonus.
Zhao Zhixing, the new head of the research department, even came to Le Yan's office to meet this rising star in the research department.
I heard that this leader used to be the second in command of the research department and was related to the commander-in-chief. Now that the number one, Xiao Xiaojun, has voluntarily stepped down, it is natural that he will take over.
Le Yan came back and reported this series of good news to everyone.
Yu Duoduo was not surprised by this result, because Mr. Ning from the mall had asked Secretary Zhang to come over a few days ago and inform her and Xie Yun about this matter.
He invited these people to have dinner at the mall in a few days, and just like before, he said someone wanted to meet them.
Yu Duoduo took this opportunity to tell Le Yan that President Ning invited him to dinner and asked him and Min Nan to go together.
This whole thing was a blessing in disguise for Leyan.
When he was framed and beaten, everyone helped.
In particular, Tang Jun, who lived next door to them and was not very familiar with them, used his connections to visit them in prison for the sake of Le Yan and the others.
Therefore, Le Yan and Min Nan bought a survival package worth 1,000 points for each family from the mall, which included 500 kilograms of food, 300 kilograms of frozen meat and a large bag of daily necessities.
For Duoduo and the others, it’s not much, but it’s a token of their appreciation from Le Yan and Min Nan.
If you find these things difficult to keep, you can also go to the government service hall, exchange them for points, and save them on your card.
The meal with Mr. Ning was scheduled for noon the next day after Le Yan started work.
The location is the largest Chinese restaurant private room on the third floor of the mall.
Yu Duoduo, Xie Yun and Min Nan were all helping in the basement, waiting for Le Yan to come back from get off work at the research center. Then the four of them set out together and went to the shopping mall next door.
The air conditioning in the mall was turned on very high, no different from before the apocalypse, so a large number of people gathered in the mall to enjoy the cool breeze.
Yu Duoduo guessed that President Ning probably wanted to take them to meet an important person in the base command center, but she didn't expect that it would be the base commander.
There were many guards standing at the door of the Chinese restaurant on the third floor. They cleared the entire restaurant and did not allow anyone else to enter.
As soon as we entered the private room, we saw three middle-aged men sitting at the upper seats at a round table. After introduction, from right to left they were Mr. Ning from the Materials Department, Mr. Zhao, the commander-in-chief, and Mr. Zhao from the Research Department.
Yu Duoduo and three others sat stiffly near the door, looking at each other, and did not dare to speak casually. After all, these people were important figures, whether before or after the apocalypse.
"Your name is Yu Duoduo, and your name is Xie Yun, right? Are you used to living in the first ring?"
When Commander Zhao spoke, Yu Duoduo was a little surprised. She thought that it was the 500,000 points that President Ning gave them privately to help them upgrade. It turned out that this matter was related to the people above...
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