Chapter 12 Emergency Notice
Gu Nian read the emergency notice carefully and then realized what happened last night.
The sudden hail and snowstorm caused the temperature in Jiangcheng to drop to minus 50 degrees Celsius on the first day of October.
With this horrific hailstorm, natural disasters revealed their hideous face to mankind. The temperature dropped sharply that night without any signs, as if the world had silently entered the Ice Age. That night, many residents of Jiangcheng never woke up from their sleep and died directly. Many of those who survived by chance also suffered from hypothermia and could only live a few more days.
When the night temperature was still minus 30 degrees Celsius, many Jiangcheng residents did not have enough bedding at home, so they only covered themselves with two or three quilts and relied on air conditioners and electric heaters to keep warm. But the unexpected hailstorm that night smashed a large number of electric poles and high-voltage wires with ice and snow. As a result, many buildings lost power at night and even broke windows, allowing cold air to enter through the windows. Without electric heating, people who were still asleep froze in their rooms and never woke up in the low temperature. Some people who worked outside, such as the transport team, had their car windows cracked by wind, snow and hail, and they turned into ice sculptures in the low temperature. Some people who lived in suburban bungalows, because the buildings were less cold-resistant, almost all suffered from hypothermia and died in the hospital one after another.
In just one night, Jiangcheng lost tens of thousands of lives. For a moment, the whole city was immersed in grief and crying. The situation in the north was even more tragic. The lowest temperature that night reached minus 70 degrees Celsius. If someone's window was hit by hail, the moment the cold air invaded the room, countless people were instantly frozen from living people into ice sculptures, with only the terrified faces of the last moment frozen.
For this reason, the Longguo government issued a level one cold warning, the temperature dropped sharply, all residents were strictly prohibited from going out at night, doors and windows must be closed, and cold prevention measures must be taken!
At the same time, the government also released a message that a large-scale migration had begun across the country. Several cities in the north began to relocate their entire cities. Residents in the north began to move to the south, and were accepted by several cities in the south to re-plan a large urban agglomeration. Jiangcheng was on the list of ten southern base cities.
At the same time, the government has officially launched a credit point settlement system. Individuals can accept tasks on the credit system. After completing a certain amount of work, they can get corresponding credit points. The credit points can be used to exchange for food and daily necessities beyond the limit at official supply stations, and can also be used to exchange for new cold-proof supplies.
That’s right, in the face of natural disasters, Dragon Country’s top scientific researchers worked overtime to come up with the latest cold-proof technology.
The first is a new type of solid fuel. This is an alcohol-free bio-oil. A palm-sized piece of fuel can burn for nearly five hours, and the heat energy brought by the burning flame can radiate nearly three meters. It can be placed in an indoor fireplace or stove to ignite, or it can be burned directly outdoors.
This new solid fuel can be said to provide people with the necessary heat energy in emergencies while waiting for rescue to arrive.
The next product is a portable cold-proof suit. Made of aerospace-grade thermal insulation materials, it has a built-in micro air conditioner that can adjust the temperature inside the suit, allowing people to walk freely in temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius and complete outdoor work.
This set of cold-proof clothing is also the standard for outdoor workers in Longguo. Across the country, many workers wear cold-proof clothing to complete livelihood work such as transportation, power line maintenance, water pipe maintenance, and medical rescue, which ensures that life in most areas can operate normally.
However, the authorities have not provided any purchasing channels for these new cold-proof technology products. Instead, they have called on residents across the country to actively respond to the arrangements of various cities, cooperate as much as possible, and earn credit points to redeem these latest cold-proof technology products.
Gu Nian understood instantly. It seems that these precious technological products are not materials that can be easily purchased. The authorities may intend to let the people participate in disaster relief work and make corresponding contributions to obtain credit points, which can be exchanged for these cold-proof high-tech materials.
The rest of the announcement is that the government calls on everyone to download a fitness exercise app, which has been updated with a set of fitness martial arts performed by national martial arts masters. It is recommended that everyone can lower the indoor temperature appropriately, such as following the video to practice a set of fitness martial arts when the temperature is minus five degrees or minus ten degrees, and the official recommended duration is one hour. Finally, the government also repeatedly emphasized that if there is spare energy, the heating power of heating equipment such as air conditioners can be adjusted to adjust the indoor temperature to a low temperature that the body can adapt to, and exercise for a long time, which can effectively enhance the body's ability to resist cold.
This fitness training method seemed to be the most useless, but the official kept emphasizing it. Gu Nian was sure that the Dragon Country official must also know about the spiritual energy brought by this natural disaster. She quickly downloaded the fitness training app and watched the video of the martial arts master practicing.
I have to say, a master is a master. He performed a set of traditional Chinese martial arts smoothly, his body was like a crane, and his fists were as fast as the wind. After Gu Nian practiced it for a while, he vaguely sensed the spiritual energy.
However, compared to her family's ancestral breathing technique, the absorption efficiency of this set of national martial arts is really too low. If the cold energy that this set of national martial arts can absorb is a trickle, then the spiritual energy that can be absorbed by running the Gu family breathing technique is a surging river.
Seeing this, Gu Nian remembered that Jing Li had reminded her before that the cold wave might cause all creatures on the Blue Water Planet to evolve, and that some long-standing martial arts might have miraculous effects, so she should hurry up and practice.
It seems that Jingli may have also practiced a breathing method similar to his own, and he already knew in advance the spiritual energy brought by the natural disaster. Gu Nian thought, in her foresight dream, humans also evolved later, but the speed of evolution was far less than that of animals and plants, and they could only struggle to survive. Now that the official has announced the basic rules for tempering the body, will what happens next be different from what she predicted in her dream?
Gu Nian had a sudden realization that the most unpredictable thing is human's own actions. Perhaps natural disasters will always come, and the environment of the Blue Water Planet will become more and more extreme, but humans have thousands of choices. If she can seize the initiative in evolution, she may become one of the survivors.
Gu Nian sent a message to Jing Li, saying that she had been exercising regularly as Jing Li had asked, and that she felt in particularly good physical shape recently. She hoped they could talk in person when they had time.
Gu Nian didn't want to say more in the message on the phone. It was better to talk about such a private matter in person. She believed that Jing Li could understand what she was talking about.
Jing Li replied almost immediately, saying that he was at a relative's house and would be back in a few days. He asked Gu Nian to exercise hard in the next few days and that he would look for her as soon as he returned.
Gu Nian gave Jing Li an OK gesture and opened the official announcement of Jiang City. This announcement was concise and talked about two things.
The first thing is that some of Jiangcheng's original large underground air-raid shelters and underground storage warehouses have been converted into cold-proof warehouses. The government calls on local residents with limited cold-proof conditions to move to the cold-proof warehouses to live together in order to save electricity and reduce the burden of supply. If you move into the cold-proof warehouse within a limited period of time, as long as you are a resident of the city, no living fees will be charged.
The second thing is that the Jiangcheng government released recruitment information, and the official uniform lent out cold-proof work clothes and recruited staff. The main types of work included water and electricity workers, construction workers, planting workers, transportation workers, snow shovelers, etc. However, the remuneration was indicated to be settled by credit points, and the settlement credit points could be used to exchange for supplies at the official supply points in Jiangcheng.
The credit point settlement system caught Gu Nian's attention. Nowadays, the supplies available in Jiangcheng are very limited. People can only go to the supply point every day to buy a certain amount of supplies, but fortunately, the price of these supplies never increases. If you want to buy other things, you can only buy them from some large merchants who still have stocks, but the purchase price of this part has been getting higher and higher. Now it takes 3,000 Dragon Country coins to buy a kilogram of rice! Before the cold wave, even the most expensive fragrant rice imported from abroad was only 20 yuan per kilogram!
Paper money depreciated rapidly, and the ancient practice of bartering revived. People preferred to exchange rice, oil, meat, vegetables, etc.
Gu Nian guessed that the credit point settlement system might become the mainstream for purchasing supplies in the future. After all, the largest supplier is still the official one!
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