Chapter 109 Wei County
Shu Fu told Cheng Yu and the others that they wanted to go back before the new heavy snow filled up the snow trails. As for the rice and food, they were not prepared to take them with them. After all, she had originally intended to give those foods as rations to their team.
There is no need to take the honeycomb coal stove and coal, as they are available in the small teahouse. Although there are not many, it is enough for them. In addition, they said that if they feel cold, they can also use stainless steel barrels to burn wood to make a fire.
Liu Shuang and Cheng Yu did not force them to live in the gymnasium, but how could they let them leave their food and stove behind and go back? They thought of sending them back and then packing up all their things for them to move back, but Shu Fu sternly refused.
She told them that they had hidden some of the supplies they had received at the rescue station and the ration bags they had given them in the teahouse. They both had small appetites, so the food was enough for them.
"Cooking is too troublesome. Military ration bags are better. You can eat right after opening the bag, and there are various flavors..." Shu Fu originally wanted to leave more food for their team, but Cheng Yu ended up filling a large backpack for them and took it back with specially selected military ration bags of various flavors.
Comfortable:……
Liu Shuang also said: "Take it, we have enough supplies."
Finally, Liu Shuang, Han Lan and Cheng Yu, holding blankets and carrying a backpack of military rations, walked back along the previous snow path and sent them upstairs. Shu Fu took out another honeycomb coal stove from the house to show them, proving that he really had it.
"Call us if something goes wrong. If the walkie-talkie doesn't work, use a satellite phone or a flare. Be careful when using a flare so as not to hurt yourself. If the battery of the walkie-talkie is dead, change it." Cheng Yu nodded and took out a few replacement batteries from his sleeve pocket and stuffed them into her hand.
"I know, Uncle Chengyu!" His nagging made her feel a headache.
“…”
"Puff..." Han Lan choked on his own saliva. He used his elbow to nudge Liu Shuang next to him, "How come he is one generation older than us for no reason?"
Cheng Yu looked helpless. He gently pressed Shu Fu's head, which was wrapped in two layers of hat, with his big hands wearing fingerless black tactical gloves. "Be careful when you live by yourself and pay attention to the temperature difference."
Shu Fu nodded: "You should also pay more attention to the temperature difference."
Finally, Cheng Yu and the other two left under Shu Fu's urging and instructions.
When the three of them stepped out of the corridor, they closed the iron door at the entrance of the corridor for the two people upstairs.
The snow outside started to get heavier again. After going up and down the stairs for a while, their footprints on the snowy path were already covered by new snow.
As he walked back along the snowy trail, Liu Shuang looked at the three-meter-high ice walls on both sides and sighed, "It would be great if there was a snowplow. For a county this small, all the snow could be cleared in no time."
They have satellite phones and can contact higher-ups, but now it's not just snowing near Wei County. The entire northern hemisphere of Hua Country is covered in ice and snow. Dozens of cities and hundreds of counties, towns and villages in Xizhou Province are all blocked by heavy snow.
The situation there is even worse than here because there are too many people. In some small towns, the number of survivors is three or four times the original number of residents, and they live too densely. Once a house collapses or a blockage occurs somewhere, a large number of people will be trapped.
Under the current circumstances, the authorities are definitely adhering to the principle of nearby rescue, and will first rescue areas with a large number of trapped people.
I just don't know if today's snowfall will affect the rescue work in Xizhou Province again. If the situation there is the same, then the rescue work in Wei County may not arrive until the whole winter is over...
For now, they can only say that they will try their best to obtain airdrops from Xizhou Province. They themselves are not short of supplies, but the situation at the clinic and hotel building is not optimistic.
**
The two people returned to the teahouse and immediately started to get busy.
Yao Ruoyun stamped her feet in coldness and lit the honeycomb coal stove in the corridor near the bathroom door. Then she thought the temperature in the room was too low, so she also lit the wood in the stainless steel barrel.
Shu Fu locked the door of the teahouse again and released her raft. She then equipped the power card and temporarily put away the mattress and other items in the glass balcony, leaving only two heaters, which she placed on the left and right sides of the balcony. She then took out two small suns again, placed them on the front and back sides, and then turned them all on.
After the temperature inside rose, she took out a foldable bathtub and filled it with 60% hot water. She placed a small table next to it, put some clean clothes on it, and a cup of hot milk tea. She placed a pair of clean and warm home thick velvet cotton shoes on the floor, and placed an absorbent cotton mop and a trash can in the corner. Then she said to Yao Ruoyun, who had just walked into the glass balcony and looked at her eagerly, "Take a bath. Take off your dirty clothes now and I'll throw them in the washing machine. I'm going to take a bath downstairs too. Remember to mop up the water after you're done, and wait for me to come up and put the mattress in."
"real!?"
Shu Fu teased her: "It's fake, this water is for swimming."
Yao Ruoyun smiled and gave her a tight hug, then quickly stripped herself naked. Because of the four high-efficiency heaters and the original heat-insulating effect of the glass, the temperature in the glass balcony was more than 20 degrees at this moment, and she was not cold at all.
However, she was too embarrassed to throw the disposable underwear that she had worn for several days to Shu Fu, so after she walked out of the balcony with her clothes, she rolled it up and threw it into the trash can.
Yao Ruoyun started taking a bath on the balcony. When Shu Fu passed by the eaves of the back door, she put her rain boots aside, found a few hangers, and hung Yao Ruoyun's military coat and the cotton coat and trousers she was wearing outside under the eaves.
The clothes inside can be washed and changed into clean ones, but the clothes worn outside cannot be washed, after all, you will have to wear them next time you meet people.
After hanging up Yao Ruoyun's clothes, she also took off her own down jacket and hung them under the eaves.
She went into the bathroom of the drifting island house and threw her fleece clothes, thermal clothes and Yao Ruoyun's thermal clothes that she had been wearing for several days into the washing machine specially for outdoor clothes and began to wash them.
I switched the bathtub to hot spring mode and began to wash and bathe comfortably.
She did not treat herself badly. After cleaning and lying down in the bath, she got herself a cup of milk tea and started her sinful time of enjoyment.
Half an hour later, Shu Fu dried her hair, put the clothes in the washing machine into the dryer one by one, then took out a set of clean warm clothes. She didn't wear any clothes for going out, but directly found a set of thick home cotton clothes and put them on. Finally, she put on her cotton shoes, rushed out of the eaves, and rushed onto the terrace in a few steps.
In the glass balcony, the heat wave hit us in the face. Yao Ruoyun had already turned off the two small sunshades, but because the four had been turned on for more than an hour, the temperature inside was very high and could not be lowered for a while.
The glass balcony belongs to the terrace, which is equivalent to the deck area, and is not within the scope of the "one-click dust removal" of the Drifting Island House, so she left the sponge mop just now.
Yao Ruoyun had mopped every corner of the floor clean. There were two more chairs next to the table. She was sitting on one of the chairs, drying her hair with a heater while drinking milk tea.
Shu Fu praised her, put away the two small suns and the folding bucket, and then took out the mattress, heating blanket, clean sheets, blanket, wooden table, a box of cherries, a box of spiced duck wings, a box of fried crispy pork, two bottles of coconut water, a tablet...
She asked Yao Ruoyun to decorate the balcony, and she went downstairs again to the bathroom, took out the folding bathtub from the shower room, opened the drain, and let the bath water drain out by itself.
When she returned to the glass balcony again, Yao Ruoyun had already spread a clean sheet on the mattress, placed a heating blanket on it and turned on the switch, adjusted the angle of the heater, and placed all the food, drinks and daily necessities neatly on the wooden table.
Shu Fu closed the sliding doors on both sides of the balcony, took out two cushions, and lay down on the heating blanket with Yao Ruoyun on either side.
"Alive." Shu Fu let out a long breath.
"What a sin..." Yao Ruoyun whimpered while hugging the fragrant cushion. "In the future, I will also put a big mattress like this in my raft cabin, and cover it with a thick blanket and a heating blanket."
After lying down for a while, Shu Fu took out two facial masks. They opened them silently and began to apply them on their faces.
The weather is so cold that I feel like I’m about to get frostbite on my face.
During the past two days with the team members, even though Yao Ruoyun had questions about many things, she didn't dare to speak up. Now that they were finally left alone, she finally spoke up.
"Senior, I don't want them to know that I'm a superpower with a raft, and I don't want to be recorded..."
"Well, I don't want to either."
"But, you said before that there were two people like me in their team. Why did you know it when they themselves didn't know it?"
Shu Fu briefly explained the white light bars and the numerical values.
"Is there a strip of light here that only you can see?" Yao Ruoyun touched the air above his head, feeling incredible. Then he thought of something, "So, my value is the lowest, even lower than Lu Zheng..."
"In fact, it's already very high. The number of people who died that day was in the single digits. I've seen another person with special abilities before, and that number was also in the single digits."
"You can see the light strips of all superpowered people, so doesn't that mean you can easily distinguish between ordinary people and superpowered people?"
"right."
Yao Ruoyun suddenly became a little worried: "Then you have to hide yourself well. With your abilities, you are too suitable to help the government find people with special abilities..."
"Yeah." Indeed, Yao Ruoyun's worries are likely to become a reality. She is like a superpower detector. Even if others keep a low profile and want to hide or conceal, as long as they appear in front of her, all concealment will immediately become meaningless.
"So when will the two of them awaken and become like us?"
"I don't know." Shu Fu's expression was a little solemn. The matter between Liu Shuang and Han Lan was not that simple. Their identities and their current missions were a paradox. If they wanted to become her companions, they had to stand completely on her side.
But it is really hard to say what choices they will make after they awaken.
Awakening does not mean forgetting the memories of this world, so even if they awaken and have fragments of memories from another world, it is impossible for them to easily abandon their identities and responsibilities that have accompanied them for decades in this world.
Yao Ruoyun didn't want to be recorded, and she didn't want to either. No one would be willing to have their information and face recorded by the authorities forever as a person with superpowers.
Therefore, everything will have to wait until they truly awaken.
The raft was placed facing the window. From where they were lying, they could see the heavy snow falling outside the window glass through the gaps in the wooden boards.
"It's snowing so heavily." Yao Ruoyun sighed, "Will this snow last for the whole winter? I don't know if and when rescue will come..."
Shu Fu also sighed. In Chamu County, they did receive an airdrop yesterday, and they heard that the snowplows that can clear the road are on the way, but it started snowing again today. They don't know if it will also start snowing there, and whether it will affect the arrival of the snowplows...
But she knew that once the snowstorm came, it would definitely affect the airdrop rescue operation.
The helicopter may be able to take off, but if the blizzard intensifies and the weather conditions become severe, affecting the safety of the pilot, the operation will be canceled.
Some drones have long endurance and can perform airdrop missions, but a single drone is too small to transport much supplies, unless large military drones are used, but they will also face similar weather conditions. After all, the current extreme weather is not the ordinary natural disasters of the past...
Yao Ruoyun couldn't help but think of the raft that was pushed down from mid-air and smashed into pieces on the ground. The raft could only play a better role when it was on water. If it was on land and was blocked by someone, it seemed like it would be a dead end.
Either she stays at home all her life, or she dies immediately after going out.
She sighed again: "Winter is not friendly to rafts. If every winter is extremely cold and snowy, the sea surface will probably freeze over. Then the raft will be useless. We will be in danger when winter comes..."
Shu Fu looked at her: "We can go to the southern hemisphere before winter comes."
"ah?"
"When it's winter here, it's summer in the southern hemisphere, so it shouldn't be so cold that even the seawater freezes." Of course, that's if she can go. But even if she can't go, Yao Ruoyun, Chen Fa, Lu Zheng and others can go.
Yao Ruoyun's eyes suddenly lit up when she looked at Shu Fu: "Yes, why didn't I think of that! Even if the weather is bad, this planet is big. We have a raft and can go to the warmer waters in the south to spend the winter, just like migratory birds!"
As she spoke, she extended her pinky finger towards Shu Fu. "It's a deal then, Senior Sister. Before next winter comes, we will stock up on a lot of supplies, and then take Lu Zheng and your friends with us on a raft to the southern waters!"
It was another agreement, and Shu Fu thought of the agreement she had made with Zheng Feifei.
A year had passed so quickly. She had thought that after a year, she would be able to go to Xizhou Province to meet her.
Unexpectedly, I am now trapped in Wei County.
But as a human being, we still have to have hope.
Under Yao Ruoyun's expectant gaze, she stretched out her little finger and made a pinky promise with her.
"It's a date!"
"Yes, it's an appointment."
**
On the eleventh day of the snowstorm, Wei County ushered in another wave of cold wave.
Late at night, Shu Fu, who was sleeping with Yao Ruoyun on the glass balcony, was awakened by the beeping sound of the low-temperature meter she placed on the windowsill of the teahouse outside. This thermometer is different from a room temperature meter. The room temperature meter can only measure the lowest temperature of minus 30 degrees, while this machine is a special tool that can measure the temperature of minus 200 degrees.
Just in case, she adjusted the temperature value when placing it. Once the surrounding temperature reaches this value, the thermometer will make a beeping sound, similar to an alarm setting.
She had adjusted this value casually at the time, feeling that when the temperature near the windowsill reached this value, it would be dangerous to the human body. When Yao Ruoyun wanted to go to the bathroom, she had to be more careful and wrap herself with more clothes.
After all, the glass balcony where they were now was very warm, and they could not feel how cold it was outside.
The value she adjusted was: -55 degrees Celsius.
She herself did not expect that the temperature would actually drop so low.
The continuous dripping sound also woke up Yao Ruoyun. She sat up, felt the chill in the air, and quickly wrapped the quilt tightly around herself.
Shu Fu, who was standing by, was wrapped in a thick blanket and taking out a heater from the space. There were originally two heaters placed in the glass balcony, which had been running 24 hours a day. These two machines, plus the cold-proof effect of the glass room, could raise the room temperature inside to more than ten degrees.
But now, the temperature seemed to have dropped to around 0 degrees again, until Shu Fu took out two more heaters and turned them all on. The four heaters were heating without blind spots, and the surrounding temperature slowly rose again.
"The temperature has dropped again?" Because it was hot inside and extremely cold outside, the entire glass balcony was covered with fog at this moment. Yao Ruoyun waited until the surrounding temperature rose a little, then got up and went to the sliding door, wiped the fog off the glass with her sleeve, and looked outside.
She had just replaced the honeycomb coal with new ones before they went to bed, so that she wouldn't get cold when she went to the bathroom in the middle of the night. She also added the charcoal and flammable wood chips that Shu Fu gave her into the stainless steel bucket, so at this moment, the two fire sources had not yet been extinguished, and there was still a little orange glow.
With the little light, she saw that the floor, walls and everything in the house were covered with a layer of white crystals. It was frost formed by condensation of water vapor caused by the temperature difference between the room and the outside.
Obviously, even if the two fire sources in the corridor were not extinguished, it would be impossible to warm up the entire room at this moment.
Yao Ruoyun was somewhat thankful that she drank very little water before going to bed, and basically didn't touch any beverages. It didn't make any sense at all, otherwise if she went out to the bathroom, her butt would really be frozen off...
Shu Fu noticed that the air in the glass balcony was a bit dry, so she took out a humidifier and placed it in the corner, filled it with pure water, and let it slowly produce water mist.
The intercom on the small table beside her rang. It was Cheng Yu again.
He was afraid that the two of them had fallen asleep due to the cold, so he woke her up, but when he saw her respond so quickly, he knew they were awake.
On Cheng Yu's side, everyone had been in the basement at night. The fire had been burning 24 hours a day in recent days. They were actually not very sensitive to the temperature changes outside.
But they have instruments in their car, which are divided into detectors and displays. The detectors can be placed near narrow windows at high places, where they are higher and will not be buried by snow, and at the same time they can measure changes in temperature differences at the first time.
As long as the display is within the signal reception range, it will immediately display the temperature changes.
The thermometer that Shu Fu placed by the window no longer beeped. When the temperature dropped to the set value, it would only beep for about two minutes. Even if the temperature dropped further after that, she would have no way of knowing.
So she asked Cheng Yu about the actual temperature outside.
"The temperature is minus sixty degrees." He paused, then added, "It's still dropping. No matter what happens, don't let the fire go out, and don't leave the room."
His voice was very solemn. Shu Fu knew the limits and responded seriously: "I understand."
**
On the fourteenth day of the snowstorm, the three-day ultra-low temperature invasion finally passed, and the daytime temperature rose to minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius.
Shu Fu removed the two small solar panels and only left two heaters on the balcony. When Yao Ruoyun wrapped herself up like a bear and went to the bathroom outside, she would no longer cry out in cold.
In order to go to the toilet as little as possible, she has been eating relatively dry food most of the time these days. Not to mention milk tea, coffee and other beverages, she even drinks less water. Now she can finally drink water freely again.
Shu Fu wrapped herself in her home cotton-padded clothes and went downstairs to use the bathroom. When she came back, she took out two cups of freshly ground hot latte from the space.
In the past few days, she has tried to reduce the number of times she goes downstairs. After all, going up and down the wooden stairs will also expose her to the cold air. However, she is better off than Yao Ruoyun. As long as she wraps herself up tightly and rushes into the Drifting Island House, whether she wants to go to the toilet or wash and take a shower, she can do it in the constant temperature room.
Originally, after coming back this time, they wanted to walk around the residential building to see if there was any house with a large space, or use the space to stack the tables and chairs in the teahouse in other houses, and then find or clear out a large space so that Yao Ruoyun could launch the raft.
She was probably the first awakener who had been awake for a while but had no conditions to release the raft to check...
Her raft cabin also has some insulation, so they can also stay in the house during the winter. Although there is no electricity, Shu Fu has a kerosene stove.
Moreover, her raft cabin was bigger, so Shu Fu could design and arrange the furniture and items she had collected before. There was a bathroom in the cabin, so Yao Ruoyun could use it freely, instead of having to wrap herself up like a bear and run to the bathroom in the teahouse every time.
But they felt lazy in the first few days after returning and thought about lying down for two days.
After a few days, the temperature dropped and it was too cold outside. They tried to go out, but they couldn't stand it within ten minutes after leaving the heater and stove, so they had to hide back indoors again. Yao Ruoyun didn't even have time to use the treasure shovel she used once a day.
Now that the temperature has finally risen, the two of them prepared to have a simple meal and began looking for a place to put the raft.
Although the temperature has been extremely low these days, the snow has not fallen as heavily as in the first few days. Now the snow layer outside is almost half a meter above the windowsill on the second floor.
When they walked down the stairs to the middle floor between the second and first floors, they found that the windows in the stairwell were completely covered with snow. If the windows here were not in good condition, the ice and snow would have fallen in and filled the corridor.
The light in the corridors on the second and first floors was very dim, and these two floors were now equivalent to being buried under ice and snow. They looked around and found no suitable space, so they went to the fourth floor again.
The door of a house in the corner of the fourth floor had been pried open and then not locked. The glass window of a south-facing balcony was broken, and cold wind was pouring in from outside. As soon as they stepped into the corridor, they found that it was obviously colder here than downstairs.
They endured the cold and walked around the fourth floor. Because there was no suitable space, they finally decided to go back to the small teahouse on the third floor and let Shu Fu use the space to stack all the rattan tables and chairs in the room next door.
The two were about to go downstairs when they suddenly heard the sound of a propeller coming from the sky outside, and it was quite loud.
Rescue?
The two looked at each other and immediately ran towards the house with a broken balcony window at the end of the corridor.
They stepped onto the balcony, covered their cheeks tightly with their scarves against the cold wind, put on their ski goggles, and looked towards the direction where the sound came from in the sky.
It really is an airplane!
However, it was not a manned drone, but a large military drone. It flew across the sky above the square, not very fast. After passing through the square, it began to slow down and first hovered above the hotel building. Then they saw square waterproof packages being dropped out by the drone.
There were about seven or eight of them, each with a small white parachute. They fell from the air in sequence and then landed on the roof of the hotel.
Afterwards, the drone flew again, passing low over the pure white world of ice and snow, and finally hovered in the direction of the hotel building and the clinic building. This time, about twenty or thirty waterproof packages were dropped, which quickly landed in the same building area and disappeared behind the building.
It's a rescue airdrop!
Although it was a bit late, they finally arrived, and were able to predict the location of the survivors and drop them off accurately. These must be the coordinates given by Cheng Yu.
Shu Fu took out the walkie-talkie and called Cheng Yu.
"The airdropped relief supplies have arrived."
"I know. We've seen it here, too." Cheng Yu's voice was cheerful. "Do you have enough food? If not, we can go dig through the snow trail again."
"That's enough. You gave us so many ration bags before. We can't even finish one bag even if we eat together." Shu Fu replied hurriedly.
"Well, take care of yourself. Wait a few more days and I will take you away from here soon." When Cheng Yu talked about taking the other party away on the other end of the walkie-talkie, the teammates on the side and opposite him looked at him at the same time.
Naturally, everyone was not gossiping about their captain. Their expressions were all a little serious, including Han Lan, who was always relaxed. Because of Cheng Yu's words, they all thought of the reason that made them anxiously plan to leave Wei County.
At the side, Qi Kai, who had been busy working with a satellite computer, stopped again.
Cheng Yu had already put away the intercom. He looked at Qi Kai and asked, "How is it?"
"The calculation results are still similar, because this cold wave and snowstorm completely broke the historical records and have never happened in Wei County before. I can only rely on the data collected from other extremely cold areas and integrate the simulation. But the results and time calculated in this way are full of uncertainty, because future climate change is unpredictable, and different weather changes will cause the data to change at any time." Qi Kai sighed.
"Give me a rough time."
"Ten to twenty days."
Cheng Yu nodded: "Then find a way to evacuate Wei County within ten days."
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