Chapter 97 Companion
Although Xu Sichen had not only seen but also deeply experienced such scenes in his previous life, the shock in his heart remained the same when he saw it again now.
The originally turbid flood water, mixed with all kinds of floating garbage, was now all frozen into hard frost spikes by the strong cold air, covering the entire ice layer in a crisscross pattern.
The heavy snow falling from the sky landed on the ice and quickly merged with it.
I believe that it won’t be long before this turbid ice surface will be completely covered by ice and snow.
At the same time, all survivors around the world were deeply shocked by the scene before them.
The biting cold scraped across the ice towards their exposed faces, piercing their skin and keeping them awake so they wouldn't think they were dreaming.
It’s all real, everything in front of me is real!
From heavy rains and floods to the current extreme cold and freezing.
Everyone believed that the world they lived in had come to an end.
Xu Sichen used an ice pick to chisel hard a few times to test the hardness of the ice.
I saw broken ice flying everywhere, but the ice layer remained unbreakable.
"This, this ice layer is too solid! Before I went to bed last night, I looked and there was clearly water underneath!" At some point, a terrified voice sounded not far away.
Xu Sichen looked up and saw many people dressed like bears, fully armed, coming down from the building.
She quickly looked away and continued with her hands.
The ice axe hammered down inch by inch, and soon the depth of the hole exceeded the length of the ice axe.
"This, this entire area of water has been frozen solid in just one night. This is too exaggerated! The accumulated water is more than ten or twenty meters deep!" Many people saw Xu Sichen's actions and gradually gathered around.
"This, this is only a dozen centimeters deep. Maybe, maybe it's just the surface layer that's frozen, and the water underneath may not have frozen yet?" Someone lied to himself.
After saying that, the man grabbed an iron rod in his hand, which seemed to be taken from the clothesline, and walked forward stumblingly with it in his hand.
As he walked, he kept shouting, "Xiaohui, Xiaohui, where are you, Xiaohui..."
"What is this?" someone asked curiously.
"He is the owner of our Building No. 1 and lives in Room 702. Last night he asked in the group about quick-acting heart pills because his wife had a heart attack. But in this situation, who would have the medicine? Even if they did, they wouldn't give it out easily." Guo Jianhua, the owner of Building No. 1, said.
"And then?" Many people around became concerned upon hearing this.
Guo Jianhua said gravely, "Later in the middle of the night, his wife died of a heart attack. We don't know anything else. The Xiaohui he called was their son."
"Alas, several people died in our building last night, and the crying hasn't stopped since midnight."
"Our building was the worst hit. Almost all the elderly people died. The only thing we can be thankful for is that they all looked quite peaceful before they died. I guess they didn't die in much pain."
Xu Sichen knew that there was indeed a way to die that would leave a smile on a person's face. It was once hailed as the most comfortable and painless way of all accidental deaths. This way of death was freezing to death.
But this is not actually comfortable.
When the human body is in extreme cold conditions and at the same time life reaches a critical point, the human body gradually loses the ability to feel the temperature and the bone-chilling cold.
When the human body gets used to this cold, the brain may produce an illusion that it is very warm and relaxed all over.
Although the deceased had a smile on his face at the end, he had experienced great pain and suffering before that.
But it is also possible that because the temperature dropped too quickly, they had no vital signs before they even felt any pain.
This is their blessing and misfortune.
"Didn't we hear the alarm in the middle of the night?" Qian Wenbin, a resident of Room 1001, Building 5, Central Garden, asked curiously.
"What alarm? I didn't hear it at all! If I had heard it, so many elderly people wouldn't have died silently."
Qian Wenbin lowered his head and thought for a while, then looked in the direction of Xu Sichen.
At first he thought it was an early warning from the property management.
If it weren't for the shrill alarm, the two elders in their family would probably have been in great danger.
But after hearing what others said, he realized that the alarm sound was only heard in their building.
Qian Wenbin, also known as Qian in the last days, is an engineering professor at Jiangcheng University and has always kept a low profile.
Although he is kind to others, he will not force himself to be the leader.
The last time they took the lead in the conflict with the property management was because the family was short of supplies and the elderly and children could not bear it anymore, so they took the lead in asking the property management to return their kayaks and life-saving supplies.
Having lived in Central Garden for so many years, he is quite familiar with the neighbors upstairs and downstairs in Building 5.
After thinking about it, I felt that only Xu Sichen, who lived on the top floor, might have installed an alarm.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he looked over, his gaze met Xu Sichen's.
Qian Wenbin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded at her, his eyes filled with gratitude. "Miss Xu, we want to go to the botanical garden across the street to find some branches to burn for warmth. Do you want to come with us?"
Xu Sichen was a little surprised. She glanced at the people standing with him and saw that there was no one she disliked, so she nodded in agreement.
Qian Wenbin was a little happy and introduced himself to Xu Sichen: "My name is Qian Wenbin, I live in 1001 downstairs from you, and he lives in our building..."
Before he could finish his words, a middle-aged man as strong as an iron tower immediately answered with a smile: "My name is Fang Tiexiong, from 701. Thank you for helping my daughter. If you need anything in the future, please feel free to come to me."
I guess Fang Xiaoya said something to him after she returned.
Xu Sichen didn't refuse, but just nodded at him.
Besides the two of them, the others who lived in the same building with her included Su Hongliang from 901 and Wen Guoan from 902.
In addition, there were people from other buildings, such as Guo Jianhua, etc., about a dozen men and women in total.
They all came together because of property matters, with Qian Wenbin as the leader.
As for Xu Sichen, many people have never seen her, but some have heard of her.
No matter what they thought of Xu Sichen, they did not show it on their faces.
After nodding at each other, we knew each other.
After determining the destination, everyone followed Qian Wenbin and slowly moved towards it.
In the first few steps, everyone walked unsteadily, and several people even fell down after every few steps. If they hadn't been wearing so many clothes, their butts would have been ruined.
Slowly, they found a sense of balance.
But with his hands open and his small, swaying steps, like a penguin, he looked very funny and strenuous.
Only Xu Sichen was wearing skates. The ice surface was actually very flat, and he leisurely avoided the protruding garbage and debris on the ice surface, matching their pace and walking very easily and comfortably.
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