Chapter 97 It’s time to meet the old man who was hit by the butterfly effect
Jingshu thought a big reason might be acclimatization. A temperature of 60 degrees Celsius was no longer suitable for human habitation, so the government decided to relocate people from Hainan by ship and train. As a result, a large number of people died along the way, and then again once they arrived...
After all, Hainan is in the tropics and it is not cold at night, but in the Northeast, the temperature drops to minus ten degrees Celsius at night and soars to over 40 degrees Celsius during the day. The large temperature difference can easily cause various diseases.
There is no harm without comparison. If the situation in Africa had not been reported before, perhaps there would be no doubts. But the problem is that Africa also borrowed China's machines to dig underground tunnels in temperatures of 60 degrees, and lived in them without any casualties, while more than half of the Chinese people suffered casualties during the migration.
Many people protested against the migration and demanded to dig underground houses like Africa. Jingshu remembered that this incident was very serious and half of the people there refused to leave, but the country was very determined this time and they had to evacuate!
If you don't evacuate, you won't get any food! Those who evacuate will receive various subsidies.
This trick was said to be very effective. With the country's combination of kindness and force, as well as various reasons of persuasion, all the people in Hainan were relocated, and then the second round of large-scale migration began, although many people still died.
The reason given by the government at the time was very simple: "High temperatures will inevitably cause sea levels to rise, resulting in floods. Hainan is very likely to be submerged. Not to mention Hainan is an island, one-third of the world's inland areas may be flooded. This is a matter of time, and it will happen sooner or later. Rather than waiting for countless casualties, it is better to evacuate early."
Jingshu was truly amazed! She couldn't help but shout, "China is awesome! This chess game is so good!"
The facts prove that after a year of constant calls for flooding on the Science Channel, a flood finally occurred in the second year of the apocalypse, and Hainan was truly submerged. The survivors were filled with gratitude, and the government was right to evacuate them despite pressure! However, the high mortality rate during migration still frightened and resisted many, and many were unwilling to leave their homes.
By the way, the grassland-like terrain in Africa is rarely short of water and was half flooded.
The houses that had underground tunnels dug before were in a terrible state. Those that were lucky enough were located on higher ground and were not flooded, but those that were almost directly blocked in the underground tunnels more than ten meters below, and could not escape when the flood came.
If these fellow underground dwellings in Africa are barely surviving, then the few island nations in the world are destined to disappear from the copyright map of the earth.
Jingshu was practicing with a Rubik's Cube in her hand, her mind wandering when she heard her father say:
"The trains are out of service now. Your eldest brother called and said the elderly person living at Su Meimei's house can't leave again. Weren't you planning to go check on them when they leave? I'm afraid that won't work."
Jing's mother said irritably, "Then let's find some time to go and see her. My eldest brother said that Su Meimei treats the old man like her own father. She was never so attentive when my parents were alive."
If Jing's father hadn't mentioned this, she would have forgotten about the old man who was fanned away by the butterfly's wings. Now that there is such a shortage of food, given Su Meimei's unwillingness to suffer any loss, would she treat him kindly? This is worth exploring.
In the evening, Jingshu had her usual snack, finished the last few dozen roasted quails, and drank a pot of mushroom stewed chicken soup. Then Jingshu began to practice Rubik's Cube with all her might. This state lasted for another half a month, but Jingshu was still stuck at a bottleneck. From the initial struggle to solve the problem to the current irritability and restlessness, Jingshu felt that she was so angry that she wanted to hit someone at any time.
The situation in novels where one encounters a bottleneck and works hard to break through and upgrade never happened. Jingshu has begun to doubt her life. Is she not suitable to be the owner of the Rubik's Cube space? Otherwise, how could she not be promoted after playing with the Rubik's Cube for seven or eight months?
She threw the Rubik's Cube out several times and wanted to step on it a few times, but after calming down, she had to pick it up and worship it as her own ancestor, and continue to practice solving it. Carrying more food and supplies is Jingshu's current motivation.
However, Jingshu has been in a bad mood recently, so it’s best not to irritate her.
Before going to bed at night, Jingshu added a task: to confirm the traps in front and behind the villa, to inspect the poultry and the fish in the fish pond, and the second batch of frogs was ready, just in time for the outbreak of corrosive insects. Jingshu felt that this batch of frogs was more valuable than the previous batch.
In the following days, although the temperature continued to rise every day, there were obviously fewer people staying at home. Everyone came out to look for various supplies, especially knives and iron rods. During this time, the aunts showed their amazing gossip fighting ability. They knew which family had died and which family was about to die. They aimed at the target early, waiting for the death to find the corpse and search the house for supplies.
Most of the robbers are ordinary people. They rob people who have stored food. They look down on ugly, old and foodless aunties. To put it bluntly, you are not even worth being robbed.
Of course, there are also family robbers, where the whole family, young and old, go together to rob other people's food and exchange knives for meat, but more people are attracted by the reward for reporting.
Now, if a robbery or murder occurs in any community in Wucheng, it will be reported to the police within a few minutes. Yes, it is for the reward.
Wang Qiqi organized a group of people, some of whom were responsible for finding knives, some for finding robberies, some for tracking and identifying robbers, and some for making phone calls to drag away corpses.
Wang Dazhao sent a message confirming that Zhatian’s target this time was the oil base next to Aijia Supermarket. It turned out that they wanted to drop bombs on the oil base and blow up the extracted crude oil.
Jingshu always thought that Zhatian was going to cause trouble for her, but it seemed that she was overthinking it. Unfortunately, in her previous life, she was busy looking for a kitchen knife to exchange for meat and had no time to pay attention to Zhatian. It seemed that there was no news about the oil base being bombed.
"The oil community base supported the entire Aijia Supermarket's turnover before the end of the world. All of its people work in the oil units. There are also armed police stationed nearby, so there should be no problem, right?" After Jingshu learned the news, she once again asked Wang Dazhao to be careful not to have his information collected.
It was several days before Jing's mother finished her work. The family braved the extremely high temperature of 52 degrees Celsius, brought ten braised eggs and half a jar of pickled vegetables, and went to pick them up at her uncle's house in Xishan. Then they walked another seven or eight kilometers to Su Meimei's house.
Jingshu drank three bottles of mineral water along the way.
"Jingshu, how could you waste water like you? You only take a sip to moisten your mouth. I only let Su Long drink a small sip." The aunt couldn't stand it any more. "Lanzhi, please take care of Jingshu and save some water."
"I worked so hard to stock up on supplies for two months before the apocalypse, just to have a better life there, and now you're asking me to save a little?"
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