Chapter 137 Death August
Time passed in the blink of an eye and it was August. As the high temperature continued to rise for a long time, coastal countries were on guard against rising sea levels and floods caused by the high temperature. Among them, a distant Western country had already migrated its entire nation, the second batch of migration in Hainan was also continuing, and a certain island country was also negotiating temporary residence in South Korea.
Science Channel still asks the same old questions:
1. When will the Dark Days end? Given that the amount of earth falling is decreasing, some predict that the sun will return when the earth stops falling altogether.
2. When will this high temperature end? The World Alliance has recently developed a new thruster that can use the magnetic field to change the Earth's trajectory and return it to its original orbit.
3. Water is becoming increasingly scarce. What should we do? An artificial sun is under construction and is expected to be operational by early October. By then, the pure energy generated by nuclear fusion will be inexhaustible.
The news channels have been reporting on fewer and fewer criminals being caught recently. Except for a few lucky criminals who were not recorded in the case, almost all the criminals who committed crimes and were recorded in the case are dead.
The news has recently been reporting on the severity of droughts in various places. Wucheng is relatively relatively well off. In some places, excessive extraction of groundwater has caused half of the city to collapse. Some people violated regulations and dug wells privately, and their water sources were confiscated... Of course, digging wells is useless recently because the water sources have dried up.
Jingshu knew that they had entered the two most difficult months of the first year of the apocalypse, a time of extreme water shortage, and the entire earth was cracked by drought.
Wang Qiqi: "Everyone, the free water supply in Wucheng has been reduced from 500 to 300 per person, and the price of water has been increased. A bottle of water that costs 300 is 2 work points. Everyone should try to reduce daytime travel or skip a meal."
Fatty: "It's so hot, and you don't give me water to drink. How can I survive? My frogs are going to die."
Zhang Cuihua: "Some time ago, I could earn more than ten work points a day just by catching maggots. If I had known, I wouldn't have exchanged them for rice. Maggots are worthless these days."
Wu Youai: "Everyone can exchange any wooden items, kitchen knives, or steel products they have at home for work points, and at the same time contribute to the construction of the artificial sun. The sooner it's built, the more water we'll have."
Zhang Bingbing's young husband: "I used to be able to pee for three seconds a day, but now I can only pee for two drops."
Big Head: "I even took the door off to exchange for work points. My house is bare and I really have nothing to change. I swallow more saliva than I drink water every day. 300 ml of water is not enough. I am dying of thirst."
However, there were also people who kept their kitchen knives and were reluctant to replace them, and eventually they replaced them with water in this situation of extreme water shortage.
The three-month-long recycling of kitchen knives, ironware, and other weapons has essentially concluded. Ordinary Chinese households are now free of sharp weapons, laying a solid foundation for the next decade of peace. Perhaps the most powerful weapon we'll see in the future will be a brick? A glass bottle?
People who used to have two meals a day have now returned to having one meal a day. They use the work points saved to buy water, otherwise they would really die.
However, no matter how noisy it was outside, Jingshu's family remained the same. A few days later, Third Aunt Jing came back with good news.
"The director said that I am doing a good job as a team leader. If nothing unexpected happens, I will be promoted to foreman. After a year, I can become a formal employee and enjoy the treatment of vegetables every day." San Gu Jinglai gulped down a bowl of yogurt. The employees in the unit also drank 300 grams of water every day. She was almost dying of thirst.
The next day, Grandma Jing held a celebration party for Third Aunt. However, when Third Aunt came back on the third day, she looked like an eggplant hit by frost. When Jingshu asked, she found out that she had been squeezed out by her colleagues because she had given the director a bunch of spinach.
Jingshu handed Jinglai a plate of thriving garlic sprouts and two bottles of mineral water, and said, "Auntie, can the published list be changed? For example, is there a wrong name? Look, ours can be eaten and grown again, not much better than spinach. Besides, your director has to consider whether he should offend or befriend the people who can still give out mineral water. If that doesn't work, can't my parents' jobs fool people?"
Hit someone with a stick and then give him a date to eat, this trick Jingshu used perfectly, smart people know how to do it, this is also to prevent people from taking benefits and not doing things, the interaction between people is under the condition of equal strength, he naturally dare not use his brain too much, otherwise he will naturally show
Fangs coming.
So Jingshu usually doesn't do things like pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.
"Hey, thank you Jingshu, I know what to do." Jinglai is very aware, she doesn't want to be a drag on this family. Jingshu is right, when it is time to take advantage of the situation, you have to take advantage of it. She has such a big tiger skin, why not use it?
Jinglai will never forget the greedy and joyful look in the director's eyes when she walked into his office with a plate of lush green garlic sprouts that were growing well.
"Jinglai, you're still so polite, but the places have been announced..." The bald man's words were stuck in his throat before he could finish them, because Jinglai also took out two bottles of mineral water.
The bald man observed Jinglai again and realized that although she was dark-skinned, her lips were moisturized, without a trace of dry skin. What did this mean? She was not short of water. So, these two bottles of mineral water were certainly not something she had painstakingly saved up and was reluctant to drink.
"Jinglai, what does your family do? How come they have such delicious food as garlic sprouts?" The bald man felt that the garlic sprouts were growing more and more pleasingly, and there was no sign of them lacking water at all.
"My younger brother is raising chickens at a livestock farm, my sister-in-law is the director of the Agricultural Management Bureau, and my daughter is currently working as a visiting specialist in the community."
"Oh, that's a great place. Oh, and you've arrived at the perfect time. Come and sit down. I was just about to find you. The job of cafeteria supervisor really isn't right for you. I'm planning to transfer you to the recycling department as a supervisor. The work there is lighter."
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In mid-August, hundreds of people in Wucheng died of thirst every day due to the high temperature and lack of water. Everyone's cracked lips showed how dehydrated they were. In this situation where people could not even drink water, let alone plants and other creatures, the few tenacious creatures left on the entire earth were now on the verge of extinction.
This month is also known as the August of Death.
China is facing new challenges.
Jingshu's family held a family meeting in the evening because only 1 ton of water was left out of the 5 tons of water that the family had replaced before. In addition, only a quarter of the water was left in the water tank on the balcony, and this was the result of Jingshu adding water every day. There was still some water left for domestic use in the water cycle, but it was not drinkable water.
"I suggest that you take a bath once a week starting from today. Just wipe yourself occasionally. Don't wash clothes for now, as we have a lot of clothes to change. Wash the dishes once every three days." Jing's mother spoke first.
"The water that can be saved is used to feed livestock and irrigate the fields. Now that the weather is hot, we have to water and turn on the lights every day, otherwise we will die."
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