Chapter 40 High Temperature is Coming
The temperature in Jiangcheng is rising rapidly.
On February 13, the temperature in Jiangcheng was 35 degrees.
On February 14, the temperature in Jiangcheng was 40 degrees.
On February 15th, the temperature in Jiangcheng was 45 degrees.
On February 16, the temperature in Jiangcheng reached fifty degrees and remained high.
At this point, the temperatures in Jiangcheng in previous years have completely lost their reference value. Now in Jiangcheng, Longguo, and even the entire Blue Water Planet, climate change has completely exceeded people's imagination and has become like a nightmare - after the extreme cold, extreme heat quickly follows.
With a temperature of 50 degrees, Jiangcheng's electricity supply can barely support itself. People no longer dare to go out, and can only stay in air-conditioned rooms day and night, relying on the cool air in the air-conditioned rooms to give themselves a glimmer of hope. But if they stay at home every day, how can they fill their stomachs?
During that cold wave, cash became like waste paper, and families that did not have time to exchange cash for supplies all fell into poverty. They could only rely on selling their labor to exchange for some meager credit points. This is the current living situation of most residents in Jiangcheng.
The harsh living environment consisting of poverty and brutal high temperatures was once again placed before everyone.
Many people in Jiangcheng can only grit their teeth and go out to work in the 50-degree high temperature weather to earn a meager salary to fill their stomachs. The heat wave outside is rolling, and if people are exposed to the scorching sun for a little longer, the skin on their arms will be sunburned and even suffer from skin diseases. But even so, they can only go out to work when it is not hot during the day. After all, for most people, they can only work to make ends meet.
Everyone is counting the days hoping that this severe heat will pass as soon as possible.
But the situation soon became more serious - under the extreme high temperature, drought also came. For hundreds of years since its establishment, Jiangcheng has never lacked water. Located in the south, there are many lakes, and there is a wide river in the city. However, this mother river of Jiangcheng, which has never dried up for hundreds of years, has encountered drought in just a few days. The water flow has gradually stopped and the river channel has begun to appear. The earth cracked and the trees died.
Half a month ago, other areas of Longguo were already in a water crisis, and now the drought has finally come to Jiangcheng. The surface water in Jiangcheng evaporated rapidly, and an unprecedented drought hit everyone in the hot weather.
The Jiangcheng government also had to officially issue a notice to cut off water and electricity. The Jiangcheng government, which relies on hydroelectric power, can no longer supply electricity to the people of the city under the current drought. As soon as the news came out, all the citizens of Jiangcheng were simply desperate. In such hot weather, without electricity and water, how can they survive?
Under such circumstances, Jiangcheng's real estate prices unexpectedly fell in both directions. All houses with basements were sold at high prices, and bungalows with cellars in rural areas also became popular. However, high-rise buildings in the city were not sold at any low price.
Although the people of Jiangcheng were already living in extreme hardship, they were envied by others across the country and even the world. The reason was that Jiangcheng was the only city that could still provide a fixed amount of water to all its members.
Although the tap water supply has been completely stopped, Jiangcheng City still distributes water to residents on a regular basis every day. When building the underground city, the Jiangcheng government also dug a lot of underground rivers and groundwater wells, which became a hope in the face of drought. It is also because of the support of groundwater resources that at 22:00 every night, when the temperature is the lowest in the day, the government will distribute free water to nearby residents at the material supply point, one liter per person per day, which can at least maintain everyone's basic life supply.
Don't underestimate a liter of water. In other city bases, the price of water is now comparable to gold. This liter of water can be sold at a high price. But no one is willing to give it out for exchange.
It is precisely because of this that Jiangcheng has become a holy place in the hearts of the survivors of Dragon Country. Many survivors from other city bases have come thousands of miles from other places and immigrated to Jiangcheng again.
The sun was scorching, and all the curtains in Gu Nian's house were drawn to avoid the scorching sun. The high-performance blackout curtains blocked the glaring sunlight outside, but still could not keep out the heat.
Although the power was out, Gu Nian's villa could still be powered by solar generators. Several air conditioners were running day and night, but they could only barely cool the room to 38 degrees. Even so, Gu Nian felt that he could not bear such high temperatures, so he had to move into the basement again.
The basement was much cooler than the ground, and the air conditioner was running at full capacity, so the cool air was less likely to escape, keeping the room temperature at around 30 degrees, which was already considered a comfortable temperature. Gu Nian put away the blanket and thick cup she had used during the cold wave, and replaced them with a cool mat and a summer quilt, put on short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and tied up her hair.
Gu Nian thanked her luck countless times that she bought this villa, which still provided her with a relatively comfortable living environment despite the natural disaster.
Lotus jumped onto the chopping board lightly and watched her busying around in the kitchen. "What is the master doing, meow?"
Gu Nian stirred the egg with a whisk and said to Lianhua with a smile, "I'm making ice cream. Lianhua will be able to eat it later."
Gu Nian didn't waste any of the milk she bought, and quickly made ice cream out of it. Fresh peaches and oranges picked from the farm, as well as the vanilla sauce and chocolate sauce that Gu Nian had previously stockpiled, and the eggs laid by the mutant golden pheasant were all placed on the operating table.
Gu Nian also bought a high-end ice cream machine at the market. Before the disaster, the machine was sold for tens of thousands of yuan, but now it only cost 50 credit points, which was almost the same price as selling scrap steel.
This ice cream machine can stir five buckets of materials at one time and make five different flavors of ice cream. Gu Nian poured milk, whipped egg yolks, fruit pulp, sugar sauce and other ingredients into it respectively.
The ice cream machine began to stir at a constant speed under the power, and after an hour, the ice cream in the bucket was completely formed.
"Original, peach, orange, vanilla, chocolate, which one do you want?" Gu Nian asked Lianhua.
Lotus thought about it seriously, then slapped her paw on all five buckets, wanting all of them!
In such hot weather, Gu Nian could hardly eat anything until the soft and smooth ice cream saved her taste buds. She loved orange-flavored ice cream the most. The dense ice cream brought a sandy taste between the lips and teeth, and it was cool and smooth when she tasted it carefully. The milky and fruity flavors blended perfectly. A bowl of it was refreshing and refreshing.
Sure enough, the best thing to eat in hot weather is ice cream!
With the air conditioner on and the TV on, Gu Nian scooped the ice cream balls in the crystal bowl with a small spoon and squinted her eyes happily. It has been a long time since she had such a leisurely relaxation. It was really a happy thing to be able to not rush to do anything and purely enjoy the food at this moment.
At this moment, the TV signal suddenly jumped.
"Here is an urgent news. A vicious incident has recently occurred in our city. Some criminals broke into homes, robbed and murdered people. There are already dozens of victims. The authorities are currently searching for the murderer. We hope that the residents will keep their doors and windows closed, do not open the door to strangers, and take good care of themselves..."
The news continued. Gu Nian listened carefully and found out that a dozen immigrants had broken into a local resident's home some time ago and robbed them of food and water. This successful robbery was like opening Pandora's box. On that day, vicious incidents occurred in the area one after another, and several robbery and murder cases occurred immediately. When the police arrived, more than a dozen people were already dead.
Among these criminals, many are evolved people. For a time, everyone in Jiangcheng was worried. Compared with ordinary people, evolved people have more powerful power. Once they lose their restraints, will they bully ordinary people at will and use violence to get a more comfortable life?
The only thing that makes people feel at ease is that the Jiangcheng authorities have not given up on maintaining order and will immediately start arresting criminals throughout the city.
After reading the news, Gu Nian also frowned. During this period, many immigrants from other cities came to Jiangcheng. Among these people, only a few were able to buy houses in Jiangcheng and carry a large amount of daily necessities. Most of them were ordinary people who had no food and no credit points. These people had to find a way to survive in Jiangcheng, but how many job opportunities could be provided in Jiangcheng today? For Jiangcheng, these people were actually a great destabilizing factor. I just didn't expect that vicious incidents would break out so soon.
Gu Nian also began to be cautious. For Gu Nian, her greatest ambition was to survive in extreme weather and live as well as possible. If anyone wanted to destroy her life, Gu Nian would not hesitate to show her fangs.
Gunshots suddenly rang out!
Gu Nian clearly heard the gunshots, and they were continuous. From the sound, they were right outside the door of his villa!
She rushed to the monitoring room, turned the camera around and started to check. Gu Nian was shocked to find that a raging flame had already started outside her house! In such weather, once a fire is ignited, it will quickly spread and be extremely difficult to extinguish. Even if the fire is put out, it will waste precious water resources.
However, now, thick smoke has been rising outside Gu Nian's house. Has the group of bandits quietly come to this community?
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In a villa in the community, the male owner of the villa was kowtowing and begging for mercy, while the female owner was trembling while holding her two daughters.
Their villa had been occupied by a group of armed robbers, one of the gangs still on the loose. The one who led them was the community security guard who had defected and joined the gang.
The security guard flattered the scarred man who led the group, saying, "This community is inhabited by the wealthy people of Jiangcheng. Many of them have solar generators. Even if the entire Jiangcheng is out of power right now, everyone can still enjoy air conditioning at home! This family used to run a food factory, and they eat the most."
The scarred man stood in front of an air conditioner, the cool breeze made him feel comfortable all over. Damn, he was finally living a normal life. Behind the scarred man, a group of younger brothers were quickly clearing out supplies from the house and loading them into a heavy pickup truck parked outside the villa.
The scarred man yelled, "Grab it quickly!"
He turned around and said to the robbers who were torturing the man of the villa, "Hurry up and transfer the credit points! Don't you want to save the lives of your family members?"
The villa owner cried and begged: "I really don't have so many credit points. Please give me a little more time, give me a little more time! I only have 150,000 credit points in total!"
The bandit laughed cruelly: "50,000 credit points for a life, that's pretty cheap. You only have 150,000. So you choose, which of your family members should die?"
The owner of the villa burst into tears, and his wife also cried while holding her two daughters.
A burly man with tattoos all over his body frowned impatiently. He picked up a knife and killed a girl casually: "Isn't that enough?"
With a scream, blood spurted out from the girl's neck, splattering all over the wall. The other surviving girl was already petrified, and the male owner and his wife cried bitterly.
The tattooed burly man asked the security guard indifferently: "Is there a resident named Gu Nian in this community?"
The security guard quickly checked the resident's information: "Yes, in Building 23, the information shows that he lives alone."
"Let's go and rob one," the tattooed burly man ordered.
The scarred man looked at him fearfully, but didn't dare to refute. As for the other bandits, they were already howling excitedly: "Let's go to this one!"
Living alone, rich, and a woman, is there a better target for robbery?
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