extreme heat
The good times of stockpiling passed quickly, the temperature rose day by day, and in the blink of an eye it reached its peak——
On the third night of the drought hell, the temperature reached a maximum of 45°C.
By noon on the fourth day, the sun came out and the temperature had soared to 50℃. Unless something unexpected happens, the temperature will not drop any further during this round of disaster.
"I'm dying! I'm dying!" Zhang Dahai fanned himself frantically, pacing from one end of the room to the other. He looked like he had just been pulled out of the water, sweat dripping down his face. "Every breath I exhale feels like fire is coming out of my nose!"
"Is this greening actually any use?" another person lay listlessly on a cool mat, two fans blasting directly at him. "And these props! I'm lying on a cool mat, wearing a gauze shirt and pants, but why do I feel like they're all useless..."
Zhang Dahai couldn't stand it any longer and plopped down in front of the fan. "Be content, it's truly terrifying outside the territory! It's scorching hot up and down, 180 degrees. You'll be lying down in no time."
"Luckily, we had the foresight to come here. Otherwise, without props and comfort, we would have been waiting to death!"
The other person mumbled, "I'm just saying. Do you have any water? Bring me a glass."
Zhang Dahai resigned himself to his fate and handed him a glass of water. He thought to himself that at two or three in the afternoon, the sun would be shining brightly on the ground and the weather would be even hotter. How could he go out to work?
His worries were not groundless.
At 2:30 PM, the temperature had actually climbed back up towards 50°C. While it was fine for those working indoors, many people working outdoors were struggling with the question of whether to go out or wait until sunset to work overtime. But it got dark so quickly, how could they possibly work?
Many people gritted their teeth and went out into the scorching sun.
"Sour plum soup! Sour plum soup! Seven points a cup!"
"Anyone want some watermelon? A big watermelon chilled in ice water, it'll keep you cool! Only six points a piece!"
"Mung bean soup, cooling mung bean soup, soft and tender mung bean soup! Seven points a cup! Come and take a look!"
“…”
"The price has gone up." Someone frowned. "It wasn't this price before, and it's not this price in the territory either!"
The sour plum soup seller heard this and quickly defended himself, "We're not violating any of the territory's regulations! We make everything ourselves. We're doing honest business and we need to make money. Just look at how much the price of a cup of sour plum soup has gone up on Taoduoduo!"
"Yeah, Taoduoduo is so expensive it costs dozens of points per cup!"
Listening to these merchants' explanations, some, perhaps because the sun was too scorching, flew into a rage. "How dare you sell your sour plum soup on Taoduoduo for just a few dozen points? If you dare, I'll respect you as a man! The price of sour plum soup in our territory hasn't increased! The price of sour plum ingredients hasn't increased either! You're secretly raising the price here, and anyone who buys from you is a fool!"
The businessman curled his lips. After all, he was not a fool.
Hungry Hungry has long established upper and lower limits on the prices residents can sell on Taoduoduo to prevent them from exploiting loopholes. Violators will be blacklisted and rewarded. Anyone on the blacklist must leave the territory. He's not crazy, but he doesn't want to leave Hungry Hungry.
He just earned a small amount of money, one or two points. Life is not easy for anyone in this world. Is he wrong?
"Isn't there a purchase limit on sour plum soup in the territory..." The man shrank his neck, not intending to argue with the angry person. "Cooking sour plum soup is also hard work. I keep the fire burning all day long, and I only get two extra points."
"That's right, we're not breaking any rules... The territory doesn't dictate what prices must be sold at a certain price. With the weather getting hotter, demand increases, so isn't it normal for us to raise prices a little..." The man selling mung bean soup nearby said awkwardly, "It's just a normal fluctuation."
That's what I said.
The people nearby patted the man on the shoulder and told him to forget it. The group of workers glared at the merchant, took off their hats and left.
Zhang Dahai also sighed. He was already very satisfied with the price increase of only one or two points.
It's just that it's so hot, I don't have the energy to work. I have to drink sour plum soup and mung bean juice to stay alive. All this time, I earn less and spend more. How can this ever end?
Although he was so worried, he never stopped working.
But an hour later, I suddenly heard someone not far away exclaiming, "I have a heat stroke! I'm out of sour plum soup. Does anyone have any extra?"
Looking over, the man anxiously packed up his things and was about to leave when he rubbed his forehead irritably and walked towards the merchants. He bought a cup of sour plum soup, drank it in one gulp, and quickly left.
Let’s wait and see how many more people go to that merchant to buy heatstroke prevention food.
Those who previously said anyone who bought it was a fool now looked like fools—what else could be done? Heatstroke, if not managed promptly, could become a serious illness. Not to mention the cost of treatment, heatstroke could also have sequelae.
The territory announcement was clearly written, and anyone who dared not to listen is now lying in the hospital.
Zhang Dahai sighed again, and just as he was thinking, he heard a few more persuasions, "If you have heatstroke, go back quickly! Don't stay in the sun, drink something to cool down!" The unbelieving man sneered and continued to chop trees stubbornly. Then he fell to the ground with a bang and lost consciousness.
"Help! Someone fainted!"
"Take him to the hospital!"
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As soon as the temperature reached its peak, the hospital became busy.
Patients with heat stroke or even heat stroke are sent here almost every moment.
"Sour plum soup and mung bean soup are still not enough." Ye Miaomiao called Apu, the temporary worker from last time, and hired several more people to cook summer food.
However, the properties of room temperature food were insufficient, requiring several servings at once to achieve the desired cooling effect. Even if she hired a few more people, she couldn't supply the entire territory with sour plum soup. This was why she limited the supply to ensure everyone had at least some.
However, patients in the hospital have continuously reported that limiting supply is useless and cooling supplies must be available, otherwise people will die.
Old Li was the first one, and Ye Miaomiao didn't want him to be the leader.
"The extreme high temperature is too terrible, and we must have high technology to survive it. Iced sour plum soup has twice the cooling effect, and I need ice and refrigeration machines." Ye Miaomiao thought for a moment, left the group who were working hard to make soup, and walked towards the research institute.
As soon as the drought inferno disaster was learned, the territory began to develop refrigerators.
However, unlike the Medical Research Institute, which has a large amount of high-tech available for research after completing the side quests, the institute only has a few researchers with dark circles under their eyes from working so hard.
Today's semi-finished refrigerators have poor cooling performance and are unable to mass-produce ice cubes.
"Can evolution points light up refrigerator technology?" Ye Miaomiao took out a few evolution points she had stockpiled.
The researcher's eyes lit up, and he immediately nodded and patted his chest, saying, "No problem." Ye Miaomiao handed him the evolution points without hesitation and notified the factory to start producing refrigerators.
She turned around and stood in front of the warehouse again. She added another floor to the two-story warehouse and set its function as a "cold storage."
She notified the garment factory to stop using divine light to clean down, the tavern to stop using divine light to accelerate wine production, and the greenhouse to stop using divine light to maintain temperature - in fact, with the development of technology and plenty of time, these could have been replaced by their own technology long ago.
Finally, Ye Miaomiao spent 20 points on a message and sent it to Li Yihan and Hu Mifeng respectively: "Our Shenguang business of producing healthy meat is going to stop. Disaster is the most important thing, making money is secondary. I want to use Shenguang to produce ice."
Li Yihan quickly replied: "Ok, sell me some, I can't hold on any longer."
Hu Mifeng didn't respond for a long time.
Ye Miaomiao ignored him and selected [Super Cold Storage Card: All you need to do is provide a warehouse, and we'll turn it into a cold storage facility! First deposit of 20,000 points (200 Divine Light) will instantly give your warehouse a freezing temperature of -30 degrees Celsius for three days! After that, you'll need 10,000 points (100 Divine Light) per day.]
Ye Miaomiao chose to recharge without hesitation.
She spent a lot of money!
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