People living in low latitudes are slightly better off, but many people living in high latitudes even die directly.
Especially the survivors near H City, there were many casualties, not to mention the White Bear Country north of Dragon Country.
And this is not the worst. The sun, which should have risen 8 hours ago, disappeared. The base speculated that they might have entered eternal night.
Everyone originally thought that this extreme heat would last for more than a year like the previous rainstorms, but it only lasted for a few months.
As the sun disappeared, the temperature began to drop rapidly. In just 8 hours, the temperature dropped to 22 degrees Celsius.
Two days later, the sun still did not appear, and the base was officially declared to have entered eternal night. The temperature outside also dropped to 3 degrees Celsius above zero.
The eternal night brings more than just a drop in temperature.
Having just experienced extreme heat and severe drought, plants are already struggling to survive.
If the sun is gone at this time, it means that the living plants will not be able to carry out photosynthesis, and most plants on the earth will face a survival crisis.
If the eternal night is too long, the nutrients stored in the plants will be exhausted, and they will gradually die or even become extinct.
Only a very small number of special plants that can adapt to extreme environments can eliminate the possibility of extinction.
The base also issued a reminder that in the future, if people are outdoors, they should stay away from plants when they see them.
Because plants that can survive in the eternal night are most likely mutant plants.
Moreover, these mutated plants feed themselves by absorbing nutrients from other organisms. These plants are usually very aggressive.
When it was extremely hot, many tasker teams stopped going out of the base to perform tasks, so they did not have many points on hand.
Although the night is dangerous, as long as you are careful, it is much better than when it is extremely hot.
In order to survive, people took action again.
For a time, laser weapons were a hot seller in the base, and long queues formed again at the gates throughout the base.
In order to cope with the eternal night, the base raised the price of rice and some grains, but lowered the price of potatoes slightly.
The Mutant Plant Research Institute within the base has further improved potatoes through research on various mutant plants, enhancing their ability to resist harsh environments and shortening their growth cycle.
Normal early-maturing varieties of potatoes take 60-80 days to mature, but now, after two improvements, the growth cycle of the newly released potatoes only takes 20 days.
In this way, the base temporarily solved the problem of lack of food for some survivors.
The old man and Qin Yuan have been very busy recently. It was a month after Yongye arrived that Qin Yuan came to He Xiaobei's house again.
But he looked extremely tired and seemed to have lost a lot of weight. He Xiaobei brought out a lot of food for him.
"The moon has lost contact? What does that mean?"
"Before the apocalypse, our Dragon Nation surveyed and developed the moon. Two years after the apocalypse, we established a base on the moon. We already have one hundred robots and seven astronauts there. They are responsible for expanding the base and collecting energy from the moon."
He Xiaobei looked at Qin Yuan in disbelief. Although she used to like reading this kind of news, many things in the country were not reported.
"Are we going to the moon? Will we go to the moon in the future?"
Qin Yuan looked at He Xiaobei with a curious look on his face and thought about it. In fact, this was not a big secret. People in various research institutes basically knew about it.
He simply didn't hide anything, but of course he only said what he could say:
"We will temporarily develop on the moon because there is much more nuclear energy there than on Earth. If Earth still cannot restore its normal ecological environment in the future, we can use the moon as a springboard and turn our sights to the stars and the sea."
He Xiaobei felt a little proud and a little happy, and continued to ask with great interest:
"So our Dragon Nation is so powerful, then why can't we fight against natural disasters now?"
Qin Yuan looked at her curious expression and shook his head helplessly:
"We have fought against it. Our weather weapons were mounted on satellites many years before the apocalypse. We also used weather weapons to resist the previous rainstorm, but this is a global disaster, and a few weather weapons are simply unable to change it. Moreover, the cause of the Earth's severe environment is also something we cannot fight against."
Qin Yuan didn't give her much explanation on this point. Even if he did, He Xiaobei wouldn't understand.
"Has the moon been contacted now?"
"We've made contact and sent two new satellites."
"Huh? New ones? Are the previous ones broken?"
"Well, previous satellites weren't equipped with plasma shield technology, and this geomagnetic explosion was so large it interfered with and destroyed most of our satellites."
He Xiaobei was very excited. She had thought that Longguo was very powerful now, but she had never expected it to be so powerful.
What meteorological weapons, what plasma shields, and the anti-gravity rotorless aircraft we saw before.
Not only that, she had also seen exoskeleton armor, mechanical dogs, and various strangely shaped weapons in the research institute.
The new space suit was much lighter than the ones she had seen on TV before, and it even made her feel like she was just wearing a one-piece suit.
There is also a detachable robotic arm on the back of the space suit. If you need to go out of the spacecraft to work, this robotic arm can play a role in fixing and assisting.
When He Xiaobei saw it, he joked with Qin Yuan and said that he thought he saw Spider-Man.
Of course, these things may not be popularized in the short term, but this is a good start.
She suddenly felt that natural disasters were not so terrible. Thinking of this, He Xiaobei was still a little curious:
"Is this only the case in our Dragon Country, or is it the same across the entire world?"
Qin Yuan listened to her question, his face was full of pride, and he couldn't suppress the smile on his face:
"Xiaobei, the environment outside is even worse than you know. Although the apocalypse has only been here for a few years, there aren't many countries left. Even fewer can protect as many survivors as our Dragon Nation has.
Moreover, before the end of the world, our Dragon Country had already far surpassed other countries in many aspects, but we just didn't announce it.
Even now, if we occasionally need to learn some technology from other countries, we only have to pay a small price.”
He Xiaobei felt that Qin Yuan's tone at this moment was very arrogant, but she also felt very proud. Although she was not a good person, it did not prevent her from being patriotic.
"Is it because there are no intelligence developers abroad?"
“No, in fact, there are many more developers abroad than in our country, but their drugs have serious side effects.
Even now, they have not been able to develop a better medicine.
They even sent many spies into our base to steal information, but they failed.
However, after they learned that we were developing our own system through ingestion, they also started researching in this direction, but so far they have not been successful.”
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