The extremely cold overnight refers to the current country Z.
The whole country was suddenly covered in snow.
Of course, this is to say it in a positive way. In reality, the scenes people see inside the house are mostly yellow-brown floods frozen into ice blocks, black icicles hanging from the eaves, and some gray and white ice debris.
There is a deathly atmosphere everywhere, and there is no trace of the beauty of winter as before.
Song Yue turned over and got out of bed, intending to turn on the radiator to warm up the room.
But when I pressed the button, there was no response.
It won’t break, right?
This is a new one.
Song Yue was suspicious and tried pressing another one, but got the same result.
Suddenly, she realized something and quickly turned on the lights in the living room, but sure enough, none of them would turn on.
There is a power outage.
I ran to the kitchen and turned on the faucet, but not a drop of water came out.
Water outage.
Song Yue was a little dazed, and then she remembered that in her previous life, more than two weeks after the flood, City C was completely cut off from water and electricity.
In this life, because there are people who have been reborn officially, the time has actually been delayed a lot.
But there is no way to completely avoid it.
The outdoor temperature is now at least minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the circuits, water pipes, etc. must be frozen.
Thinking of this, Lin Xiaojuan and Song Tianyuan walked out of the bedroom.
"Oh my God, why is it so cold!" Lin Xiaojuan wrapped herself in clothes and rubbed her hands.
Song Tianyuan strode to the thermometer and looked up. "Oh my god! It's minus 3 degrees Celsius inside."
This is the coldest temperature in City C during the twelfth month of winter, and now it’s happening in August, the beginning of summer!
Lin Xiaojuan hurried back to the bedroom to put on more clothes. Song Tianyuan walked over to Song Yue and asked tentatively, "Xiaoyue, are you planning to use the generator?"
Sensing that there was something behind his father's words, Song Yue nodded, then shook her head: "I do want to use it, but I have some concerns."
"Are you worried that the generator is too noisy and will attract the attention of your neighbors?" Song Tianyuan used to be an electrician and had run an appliance repair shop for several years, so he was quite familiar with these things.
Song Yue hummed: "That's right, so I was wondering if there is any other way to prevent the sound from being transmitted."
Upon hearing this, Song Tianyuan waved his hands. "That's impossible! As long as the motor is running, the humming sound is unstoppable. Didn't you see this thing used in my shop when you were a kid? You even asked me, 'Dad, why is it so noisy?' It won't work. The neighbors will definitely hear it once it's turned on."
Song Yue sighed, looked at the cold air coming out of her mouth, and said worriedly, "Dad, let me think about it."
The things she had worked so hard to stock up on couldn’t just be used as decorations, right?
Suddenly, a light bulb went off in my head!
"Dad, I might have a solution! You and Mom wait a moment, I'm going into the next dimension!"
After saying that, he disappeared from the spot.
It's different from the dungeon. In reality, when she enters the space, she will disappear, but in the dungeon, she only needs to use her consciousness to take things out of thin air.
Song Yue calmed down and realized she had entered the space. She walked decisively to the generator and asked, "099, can I use the generator in the space?"
【Can】
"Then can I connect the line from the space to my living room?" Song Yue asked cautiously.
She didn't know if this operation was possible, but if it worked, it would completely solve the problem of loud generator noise.
Song Yue clearly felt that the system was hesitant to speak.
After a long silence, the system said: [I haven’t tried it yet, you can try it.]
There is hope!
Song Yue's eyes lit up.
She installed the transformer, held the cable in her hand, controlled her consciousness, and whooshed back to the living room.
Song Tianyuan was startled by her: "You came out so soon?"
Song Yue didn't respond, but just looked down at her hands. The cable was indeed in her hand!
"Did you get it from the space?" Song Tianyuan also noticed the cable in his daughter's hand, but he was a little suspicious and didn't understand why she got a wire out.
This also doesn't solve the problem of motor noise?
Wondering about it, he looked out along the cable.
Suddenly, his eyes widened in shock: "Xiao Yue...how come the other end of the line...disappeared?!"
Song Yue tilted his head and looked back at the end of the cable. It was indeed half hanging in the air.
But there was nothing in the air except a mass of air.
It looks like this thread fell out of another dimension.
"099, I seem to have succeeded." She was secretly happy in her heart.
Yes, congratulations.
Song Yue's lips curled slightly.
At this time, seeing Lin Xiaojuan just coming out in thick clothes, she simply explained: "I plan to use a generator in space so that no one can hear it in reality. This wire extends from the motor and plugs into the household electrical box, so we can use electricity normally."
"Is it possible?!" Song Tianyuan was stunned.
As a senior electrician, what special situations has he not seen?
This is the first time that electricity has been transmitted through the air!
Song Tianyuan rubbed his hands with indescribable excitement, and asked curiously, "Daughter, can you let me in and take a look?"
He really wanted to see this miracle of physics that transcends time and space.
Unfortunately, the daughter just shook her head and said, "Dad, I am the only one who can enter this space."
"Okay..." Song Tianyuan couldn't help feeling disappointed.
Lin Xiaojuan, who was standing by, probably understood what the two were discussing. She glanced at Song Tianyuan and teased him deliberately, "You've been obsessed with electrical appliances and circuits your whole life. You even didn't let go of Xiaoyue's space~"
"Oh, I'm just curious~" Song Tianyuan chuckled, "Since you're not allowed in, forget it. As long as we can use electricity at home, that's fine."
Song Yue handed the cable plug to her father, asking him to plug it into his own electrical box. After confirming it, she entered the space again.
In fact, there were two sockets in the space. She originally wanted to pull wires in to supply electricity to the entire house, but she found that her appliance box could only be connected to the outside and not to the outside!
There is no choice but to continue using the generator.
She poured diesel into the motor oil barrel, turned on the oil circuit switch and engine switch, pressed the pressure reducing valve, pulled the rope hard, pulled the rope to the bottom in one breath, and finally opened the air damper.
The generator hummed to life.
Song Yue exited the space, walked to the radiator again, pressed the button, and this time a clear click sound came to his ears.
There is electricity.
Song Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief.
I didn’t expect that space could be used in this way besides storing goods.
What a pleasant surprise.
The temperature in the house slowly rose, and by noon, the number on the thermometer had changed from -3 to 16.
The temperature is not particularly warm, but compared to the ice and snow outside, it is really a blessing.
The whole family gathered around the dinner table, eating hot meals and chatting.
Guessing that the two would ask about this copy, Song Yue was well prepared. He briefly mentioned the thrilling escape process and only talked about the general situation, which was considered to be the end of the explanation.
After lunch, Song Yue tried to refresh his phone, only to find that the last bar of signal was gone.
It seems that the signal tower is also affected by the extreme cold.
There is no choice but to ignore the outside news for the time being.
She had enough supplies, electricity and water, so she didn't have to worry about her future life.
However, not everyone is as lucky as her family and is well prepared.
The vast majority of residents were pushed forward by natural disasters.
Because the water and electricity were cut off suddenly, and the gas and signal were also completely cut off, most people were caught off guard and were forced to accept this terrible drop in temperature.
A man was wrapped in a blanket and curled up in bed.
Even so, he still felt the coldness in the room.
With every breath he exhaled, the white gas condensed in the low temperature.
It's August now. He doesn't understand why it suddenly became so cold?
The cold makes people hungry. The man huddled in bed for a long time, but finally couldn't resist the hunger and got out of bed tremblingly.
He had participated in several volunteer activities before and exchanged them for some food, which he now keeps in the living room.
He put on a thin autumn coat, squatted down, rummaged through the box, and finally slowly took out a bag of instant noodles.
"Well, soak it in hot water and eat it. It can keep you warm at least."
The man muttered to himself, tore open the plastic bag, and poured the noodles and seasonings into a large bowl.
However, when he was about to pour hot water, he suddenly remembered that he didn't have any hot water at home!
When exchanging supplies, he only thought about the importance of water, so he asked for a lot of bottled mineral water. But with the current temperature, the water has frozen into ice chips. There is no electricity or gas, so where can he get hot water?
His hope vanished for a moment, and the man took a few deep breaths of cold air.
Finally, hunger overcame the cold, and he made up his mind, took out the bread, held it in his hand and started to bite it bite by bite.
The bread was cold and dry, and had become hard in the low temperature. As the man chewed it, he felt a sense of despair.
"I can't eat this every day!" He choked with a trembling voice.
In another household, an elderly man was lying on the bed, holding his knees and crying out in pain.
He suffers from rheumatism and arthritis, and his knees ache whenever the temperature drops.
In the past, when he felt pain, he would take some medicine to relieve it, but after he finished the medicine last time, he didn’t have time to buy more before the flood broke out.
Trapped at home for more than a month, he contacted the community frequently, hoping that the staff could help him find a solution.
But the staff are extremely busy, and many families are still without food. It is impossible to get an appointment just for a rheumatism case.
So things were delayed again and again until today, August 1st, when the cold wave made the old man in so much pain that he couldn't get out of bed.
"Ouch, ouch..."
The old man was struggling on the bed, his expression in great pain.
At the same time, a family of three.
"I told you a long time ago to ask someone to come and fix the windows. Now the windows can't be closed, and there's been a cold wind blowing in the house all night! The children can't stand the cold." The woman frowned and kept complaining.
"It's not entirely my fault. I'm so busy at work every day, how can I take care of so many things? But you, who take care of the children at home every day and have nothing to do, are reluctant to make a phone call?" The man was also very angry, and his voice came from inside the house.
"What do you mean by having nothing to do? Huang Pengcheng, have some conscience when you speak. You think taking care of a child is easy, don't you? With your meager salary, I really save and save every month, and now you have the nerve to criticize me?"
"Why can't I say anything to you? You don't work, you eat my food and use my things every day. Do you know what people think of you? A useless housewife! If you have the ability, go out and make money on your own. I promise I won't say a word!"
"Huang Pengcheng! You've gone too far!"
…
The couple's quarrel was so loud and clear that even though Song Yue confirmed that the living room windows were closed, she could still hear it clearly.
"Oh, poor child of theirs." Lin Xiaojuan sat on the sofa, flipping through the photo album and sighing, "Hey Xiaoyue, come and see, this is what you looked like when you were one month old. How adorable~"
Song Yue: ...
Is it really okay for my mother to show off her happiness so blatantly?
Unfortunately, there was nothing she could do. She was not a saint. Although she felt sympathy for other people's plight, she was powerless to change it.
Recovering from the quarrel, Song Yue looked back at Lin Xiaojuan, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Mom, I've been looking at this photo for more than 20 years. I know what I will look like when I'm one month old~"
"Oh, what do you know? You haven't even seen the photos yet. You don't know that when I held you and went out, everyone kept praising you for being pretty..."
When talking about her childhood, Lin Xiaojuan started talking nonstop again.
Song Yue smiled and shook her head without saying anything.
Song Tianyuan leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Your mother is like this. It's too boring at home. She can only think about the past."
"I know, Dad, Mom, this is good." Song Yue said with a smile.
At least in this life I still have the energy to reminisce about the past, unlike in my previous life, when my parents lived in fear and lamentation all the time.
The world outside was shrouded in fog throughout the entire day. There was no sun in the sky and no living creatures on the ground.
As night fell, the temperature seemed to drop several degrees.
The most direct evidence is that the temperature at home is 16 degrees during the day, but drops to 13 degrees at night.
"Mom, I'll turn up the heat in your bedroom." Song Yue walked out of her bedroom, wearing only a thin flannel pajamas.
"Let's not do that," Lin Xiaojuan stopped her. "High-end cars consume a lot of fuel. What if we don't have enough diesel?"
Song Yue calculated the amount of oil in the space. The first batch sent by Ling Feng + the one obtained from the Qianhe Lake copy + the one brought back by Haru and Buzak were enough to last for a year.
Feeling relieved, Song Yue said bluntly, "Don't worry, Mom. There's plenty of diesel."
Only then did Lin Xiaojuan let go and let her raise the bar.
Slowly, the temperature in the bedroom rose back up, and it was 2 degrees higher than before - 18 degrees
The temperature is neither too high nor too low, just right for sleeping.
The whole family wrapped themselves in thin quilts and went to sleep in their respective rooms.
The next day, there was still no signal, and the water, electricity, and gas were still cut off.
People were eagerly waiting at home, hoping that the government would send someone to bring them good news.
However, the hope was dashed.
On August 3, the community was still isolated from the outside world, and not a single sound could be heard.
Many families fell into great panic.
Before, they thought that the flood alone was enough to catch people off guard, but compared with the current temperature of minus 40 degrees Celsius outside, the flood was nothing.
At least it wasn't cold at the time, the kayaks and assault boats were still usable, the officers and soldiers could come in, and they could go out.
And now?
It’s freezing cold and there’s not even a bird in the sky. This is a truly desperate situation!
Families that had run out of food had no choice but to wrap themselves in coats and go out, knocking on doors upstairs and downstairs and among their neighbors.
The knock on Song Yue's house was also on this day.
The author has something to say:
I seem to have forgotten to mention that this article does not involve any national elements. The heroine only needs to take her parents through the natural disaster. In addition, in order to avoid being blocked, I will try to gloss over some of the content about the government, so please treat the reality chapter as a fictional one.
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