Shop of All Worlds 22 Complete the level without any damage?
Everyone's expression was serious at the meeting.
Because the lowest temperature yesterday was only minus 10℃, and this temperature has been stable for some time.
This big drop in temperature came unexpectedly.
Fang Xiheng stood in front of the projection with a frown on his face.
Behind him, the dark blue representing low temperatures spread across the national map.
The south is dark blue, the border between the north and the south is purple, and the further north you go, the more purple-black it is.
It's like I shudder all over just by looking at it.
Dr. Sun asked curiously, "Did the temperature drop significantly overnight?"
Fang Xiheng shook his head. "It didn't happen overnight. According to feedback from temperature monitors across the country, the temperature dropped significantly within a few minutes around midnight."
"The temperature started dropping at midnight?"
Several experts scratched their heads. The base always maintained a constant temperature and humidity, so they didn't feel anything.
Fang Xiheng knew about it. The guard in charge of base security contacted him immediately, but he needed to wait for the situation in other places to be summarized. It was not until the morning that he received all the news from outside and convened this meeting.
Xie Yunsui looked worried. "It was so sudden, everyone must have been caught off guard. And the power outage happened right after midnight. A lot of people must have gotten frozen, right?"
Li Wangruo said, "We've made preparations for the cold and snowstorms. We've been receiving a lot of high-quality food from the Jade Pendant Farm lately, so we've barely kept up with the nutrition needs. People's physical fitness shouldn't be too bad. With all the warmth we've put in place, we should be able to alleviate some of the cold-related deaths, right?"
He knew that the country was preparing supplies based on the possibility of extremely low temperatures in the future, and the thermal insulation equipment distributed was as complete as possible.
Xie Yunsui shook his head and said, "The timing is so unfortunate. When the temperature dropped sharply, many people were asleep, and there was a power outage. They had no time to react."
He looked up at Fang Xiheng: "Has the first batch of deaths been announced?"
Fang Xiheng said, "It hasn't arrived yet. The earliest it will be is noon. The temperature outside is so low that it's difficult for our grassroots staff to go out. However, when the country confirmed that the temperature would drop significantly across the country and even the world, they opened up the power supply. At 2 a.m., all cities sounded the air raid sirens to wake up the people. As long as your phone is not turned off, you will receive ten cold weather reminders."
This is a very quick response.
In an environment of -30℃, any outdoor activity carries the risk of frostbite.
However, in order to prevent someone from encountering difficulties at home, perhaps someone is in a dying state, grassroots personnel cannot just rely on the number of responses reported by people in the area they are responsible for on their mobile phones. They must go to each household in person to register whether any of them are affected.
So it takes some time.
Jiang Xueyi closed his eyes silently: "I hope that this time, we can reduce the casualties by at least half. Only then will our work be meaningful."
They have such a cheating golden finger as the Wanjie Shop. If even this doesn't work, then God has destined the destruction of mankind.
"Academician Li, what's the status of the research on the thermostat?"
Fang Xiheng suddenly asked.
Li Wangruo: "Almost done. The thermostat's shell material has been analyzed, and the materials team is looking for replacement materials from our world. As for the diagram inside the thermostat... I initially thought it was from the same source as the diagram on the space backpack. Strangely enough, after researching it, we found that it's not similar at all. Instead, it has similarities to our country's Bagua formation. This has greatly reduced our research time."
"As soon as the materials arrive, we can start the reproduction."
"Okay, as soon as possible."
Fang Xiheng then asked Dr. Jiang, "Regarding the Jade Pendant Farm, Dr. Jiang, can we raise livestock and poultry there?"
Dr. Jiang: “Ah?”
Fang Xiheng explained, "I've heard that a poultry hatchery, already struggling during the heavy rains, had just started to recover and was about to start a batch of chicks when the sudden drop in temperature caused heavy losses. This isn't an isolated case. I'd like you to research whether it's possible to demarcate an area for raising poultry and livestock. This would not only provide a solid meat supply for the people but also preserve their genetics as much as possible."
Dr. Jiang didn't refuse: "I'll study it later and clear out a piece of land to try it out."
Li Wangruo suddenly mentioned, "I don't think I've seen live poultry and livestock in the Wanjie Store. Comrade Xiao Xie, can you sense this type of merchandise?"
Several experts immediately followed up: "Yes, we should also look at the carnivores of other worlds. What if we can crossbreed them with ours to produce better species?"
Xie Yunsui shook his head: "It seems not."
Li Wangruo was puzzled. How could there be none? Could it be that the people in the other world hadn't thought of making money from these goods?
Xie Yunsui explained: "The Wanjie Shop prohibits the trading of living organisms."
He tried it and found it was useless. Even if he entered Xiaowan's space alive, it would be in the same state as before when he took it out the next moment.
Later on, I just collected animal meat.
Li Wangruo thought for a moment and nodded, "That's right. If we don't prohibit it, we have to be careful when someone from another world comes here to trade."
After all, humans are living beings.
The others also thought of it, and tacitly pretended that the topic had never been mentioned.
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The meeting lasted for half a day, and even the lunch was prepared and delivered directly from the cafeteria.
Everyone quickly finished their task and had a few minutes to take care of their personal physiological needs. Just as they were about to continue discussing more detailed plans, Fang Xiheng's phone vibrated.
He looked down and saw: "Within twelve hours of the big temperature drop, the first batch of deaths has been announced."
The room was silent as everyone waited for Fang Xiheng to announce the number. The atmosphere was a little tense.
Fang Xiheng stared blankly for a few seconds before saying, "232 people."
"What?"
"232?"
"With such a nationwide temperature drop, only 232 people?"
"Why so few?"
The experts were mentally prepared for tens of thousands of people to encounter accidents. When they heard such an incredible number, they almost suspected that there was something wrong with their ears.
Li Wangruo snatched his cell phone and the experts also gathered around.
When I saw the actual number "232" sent to me, I forgot to breathe for a moment.
This was beyond the expression of surprise. They were of course deeply saddened by the 232 people who had met with misfortune, but the number 232 was so unexpected that they just wondered if the report was a lie.
Their country has a large population. Before the catastrophe, the death toll was about 10 million per year, with an average of nearly 30,000 deaths per day.
After the catastrophe, the daily death toll exceeded 100,000.
Especially due to the frequent occurrence of heat stroke in the later stages of the drought and epidemics in the early stages of heavy rains, the country suffered an average of hundreds of thousands of deaths every day.
The death rate did not begin to slow down until Xie Yunsui and the Wanjie Shop appeared.
Even if there is no big drop in temperature, it shouldn't be so little, right?
"There is definitely something wrong with this data!" Li Wangruo put down his phone and made the final decision.
When the highest decision-making leadership of Jingyun City saw the summarized death toll report, they were also surprised and thought that there was a problem with the statistics.
We immediately requested another review and extended the time to 72 hours.
"Why do we need to review it?"
"We went through the neighborhood this morning and found out what every household was short of. Everyone came to the door to check how many people were in each household, and there wasn't anyone missing."
The person in charge of a high-rise residential complex couldn't help but complain on the way to the door.
They wore thick wool sweaters, fleece jackets, down jackets on the outside, and a hard-shell jacket on the outside. They wore fleece warm masks and hats on their heads, and double-layer goggles for polar regions on their eyes.
I wore two layers of gloves, with fleece inside and waterproof and windproof outside, and polar-grade snow boots.
He was almost fully armed, with no skin exposed.
It is good for keeping warm, but it is really hard to walk through snow half a person high while wearing this outfit.
The snowplow comes once a day, and the snow that has just been cleared is soon piled up again.
"There must have been fraud somewhere else. The higher-ups saw something was wrong, but couldn't figure out what was wrong, so they had to double-check everything."
"Hold your camera, keep recording, don't drop it."
"Hoo-hoo-okay, slow down."
The data of residential communities and temporary resettlement sites for disaster victims are summarized in the district, and the data of each district and village are summarized in the city leadership.
72 hours later, I saw the number of less than a thousand people in total, and I was full of questions.
Some major foreign countries still have a death rate of hundreds of thousands per day.
Another populous country whose economic and medical infrastructure have not kept up has recorded a death toll of one million a day, 98% of which are ordinary people who froze to death.
This is strange, could it be that the bodies of their citizens have mutated?
It was not until the most famous Grade A hospital in Jingyun City submitted a blood test report that everyone understood the reason.
The blood report clearly showed the HX substance newly proposed by the research base.
Although the HX substance value was very low, it was undeniable that the patient's body was transformed by the food produced by Yupei Farm.
The little girl came for a checkup this time not because she was cold, but because she accidentally fell while shoveling snow at the door of her house. She supported her body with her hands and accidentally broke her bones.
They followed this line of thought to retrieve the causes of death of the 1,000 people and found that most of them died of malignant diseases.
There are also ten cases where people lack common sense and insist on drinking alcohol to keep warm when the temperature drops. Alcohol causes blood vessels to dilate and creates a false sense of warmth, and they end up drinking themselves to death.
Well, that means our citizens are not afraid at all at a mere -30℃?
Fang Xiheng presented the analysis results he had obtained after several days of hard work in the conference room - the citizens who had been consuming crops from the Jade Pendant Farm for a long time had significantly improved their physical fitness and were adapting to the severe drop in temperature in an imperceptible way.
Jiang Xueyi said dazedly, "In other words, this time, our country basically got through the big drop in temperature without any damage?"
"Yes! Haha!" Li Wangruo couldn't stop laughing. This was such a surprise.
A slight smile appeared in Xie Yunsui's eyes.
He was happier than anyone else when he heard the result.
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The author has something to say: [Poor] Those with poor physical fitness were eliminated before Xiao Xie came back.
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