Chapter 492: The End of the Great Heat (Part 2)
Yunbao got up early. Her pharmacist professional level was not high and she had been stuck at the intermediate level.
On the contrary, as for the profession of chef, she always felt that it might increase again in two weeks.
[Rainbow Dash]: "It's too hot now. I'll make some mung bean porridge for everyone. Then I'll soak the beans and try to make the mung bean smoothie that the boss ordered yesterday."
Rainbow Dash herself wasn't sure, but she decided to give it a try.
Then the mung bean porridge came out of the pot, emitting green light - after taking a look at the effect, the player would not suffer from heatstroke within 8 hours.
Although it is inferior to mung bean smoothie, let alone epic quality fruit nectar.
But it’s also very good!
The same thing should only be eaten once a day, but different things can be eaten more often and the effects will be added up!
The public screen suddenly became lively.
[Hesong County Xiaohua]: "Now we are saved. No need to worry about heat stroke. We will have a bright future if we can get through these ten days."
[Yu Yuan is not Taro]: "By the way, do you have enough water stored there, Boss?"
【Yu Yuan is not Taro】: "The water I stored here can only support my daily drinking. If I want to take a shower... At this frequency, I don't think I can maintain the use of the automatic sprinkler."
Cui Yuyuan's situation has happened to many players. The water that everyone had stored before is barely enough to sustain their own use.
But the same cannot be said for automatic sprinklers. As the temperature continues to rise, the amount of water used by sprinklers every day is also increasing.
If this situation continues, the water stored in each cell can only last for five days.
The last five days will only be harder.
[Tian Mozi, who is in mourning]: "It's not a big problem. The reservoir of the big boss is full. But, just pay the water fee!"
Ye Hong had already inquired about this matter a long time ago, and when players in the territory were short of water, they would ask Shu Ling to buy some.
The current price of water is not cheap, but the players in the territory all have some money, so Shu Ling is very happy with the money he makes.
With the buff of not being afraid of heatstroke, Su Ranran and other miners are ready to go out and do the big work without stopping.
There was not enough saltpeter, so we had to rely on the antennae of saltpeter ants to produce ice.
Ice produced by saltpeter can be used as edible ice, but ice produced by the antennae of saltpeter ants cannot.
That ice can only be supplied to the protective shield, so keep it in small amounts at home.
Because there is plenty of ice, the shield loses less blood during this solar term.
According to the system settings in the territory, residents within the territory will be charged a tax by the system after transactions with each other.
Shu Lingyi had not made good use of it before. After all, she enjoyed 30% of the profits from the teleportation stone, and 70% of the profits from the players' own planting.
As long as Shu Lingyi exchanged some of these less useful ones into gold coins, he could still earn a considerable amount of money.
You can use it directly for yourself, make various things and then resell it, which will make you money.
[Yu Yuan is not Taro]: "Then I'll buy some water. If the automatic sprinkler breaks down one day, the land will be dried up."
【少卿不负卿】: "I can only protect the area around the shield now. My bamboos are dead in other places!"
【少卿不负卿】: "The ground is cracked. If it continues to degrade like this, it won't turn into a desert, right?"
【What a big cabbage】: "Will it recover after the solar term ends?"
【温酒信南柯】: "That's hard to say. What if there's a sandstorm in the next solar term? I always feel it's dangerous."
[Cai Cai Cai Li]: "Not really. Even the big guys' reservoir can only last until the end of this solar term. If it doesn't recover at all, the entire desert will be in jeopardy until the next solar term."
These concerns are not without reason, but Shu Lingyi has Xiao Ai as her classmate, she knows that everyone's worries are in vain.
The next solar term will usher in autumn, and there will be a great recovery.
[This is a survival game, not a human extinction plan, how could it be operated like this? ]
“…That makes a lot of sense.”
In response to Xiao Ai's speech, Shu Lingyi could only roll his eyes out of habit.
Nothing could express her feelings better than this.
But just as she was brushing her teeth, another line of words appeared in front of her eyes.
[Although the next solar term will see a big recovery, due to drought, land desertification, sandstorms may come earlier. ]
"Puff!" Shu Lingyi had just held his saliva in his mouth and hadn't spit it out yet, but now it came out.
"Are you kidding me? This...! This game knows how to play with people's minds."
She brushed her teeth and washed her face at the speed of light. In fact, the arrival of the sandstorm was not too scary.
As the temperature continues to rise, even with the buffs provided by the current food, players will be less likely to go out as time goes on, and the entire game area is basically covered by players with shields.
Referring to the solar terms when hurricanes hit before, it is basically safe to stay at home with the protective shield.
Creating a sandstorm is nothing more than torturing the mentality of most players.
The serious desertification of the land means that even if a major restoration is carried out, all farmland will have to be reclaimed and fertility will need to be reapplied.
Buildings outside the house, such as furnaces and kilns, are also easily destroyed.
The best thing that can be achieved is that the house is still in good condition and there is no need to rebuild it.
"Hey... be brave, don't be afraid of difficulties."
No matter what, life must go on. Just like Xiao Ai said, the survival game is not a plan for human extinction.
Of course, the whole army would be wiped out if we were not careful.
She didn't say who the big villain was.
Shulingyi has abundant resources, and even the problem of dry skin is less of a worry because of the huge reservoir that was built early on.
In addition, with the vanishing cream provided by [President Zhu who loves to eat soy milk fish], simple moisturizing skin care can also make the skin less dry and cracked.
The preparations were sufficient, so at this final moment, it was hard but not too hard.
Taking a bath every day is not good for the skin if you take too much bath, but it is not good for the skin if you take too little bath either.
It's so hard to be a human being.
This is basically the current norm for the entire gaming area.
Compared with other districts, the preparations were not sufficient, and there were no medicines to deal with heat stroke, resulting in numerous casualties.
The number of people in stock is decreasing every minute and every second. Even if we are lucky enough not to suffer from heatstroke, the high temperature, drought and severe water shortage will still cause many problems.
The price of water has been driven up to sky-high prices. Instead of taking any action to control the situation, some lords even think that those residents with no outstanding abilities might as well die.
Anyway, as long as the high-end talents in the territory are guaranteed to survive, new players will join the territory in the next solar term.
Why are you panicking?
That night, time passed midnight and it was September 3rd.
The temperature instantly reached 59°. Although the human body can withstand it, such poor conditions will cause terrible diseases.
There was the last bottle of water by the man's bed. It had a capacity of 1L and was the price he paid for it with all his savings.
It was too hot to sleep, and without water, he hadn’t had a bath in more than ten days.
Not only did he have an extremely unpleasant stench, but the surface of his skin was also covered with a layer of black mud.
This layer of black mud was a mixture of sweat and dust from the past few days, and even some of his blood.
At first, his skin was dry and cracked, and the pain from the snow mixed with sweat and dust almost took his life.
At that time, he was still in a somewhat good condition. He took the whole pill and didn't get sick or have a fever afterwards. But later, a layer of this dirt grew on his body.
The dirt made his body uncomfortable, but it also protected him in a disguised way.
This allowed him to live one more week during the days of extreme water shortage. He thought that it was already the third day, and if he could live one more week he would be able to survive this solar term.
The desire to live occupied his mind. He was currently penniless. The only good thing he had was a big bottle of water, a big bottle of sleep, and some biscuits and steamed buns that had a shelf life.
It doesn’t taste good, but it can fill your stomach and won’t kill you.
He tossed and turned, took two sips of water, and felt the cool water flowing from his throat into his limbs. At this moment, his expression was like those people who smoked DP on the Blue Star.
Enjoying the brief moment of divine pleasure.
It's this pleasure, it comes and goes quickly, disappearing completely in less than half a minute.
The man had long been accustomed to this feeling. No matter how unbearable it was, he lay down and forced himself to close his eyes and fall asleep.
What he didn't expect was the side effects of long-term uncleanliness.
In such a high temperature environment, the presence of dirt gives bacteria some opportunities to survive.
Insect eggs are left in the gaps, and many of them have died due to the high temperature.
However, some of them mutated and had slightly higher survival abilities, and they finally hatched today.
The temperature outside the dirt was close to 60°, and the insect squirmed without thinking, turned its head and bit the man's skin.
It doesn't hurt much, it just causes a slight itching, and the man thought it was caused by his body being too dirty.
However, he realized that the itching was not right until ten minutes later, because he began to feel pain all over his body.
The more insects drilled into his body and ate his flesh and blood, the more insect eggs hatched.
In ten minutes, the living body beneath the dirt had lost one-fifth of its flesh and blood.
He was wailing, but he couldn't move because of the severe pain in his limbs, and he couldn't even turn over.
He could only open his eyes wide and howl until he was hoarse.
This tragedy is not an isolated case. In this game area, nearly thousands of players have died.
After enduring this stage, on the last day of the Great Heat, September 10th, the temperature reached 73°.
No one dared to go out.
There was flying yellow sand outside. The wind was obviously not strong, but the terrible desertification of the land was such that as long as a gust of wind blew, a large amount of yellow sand would fly everywhere.
Even without the high temperature, the sand can make people lose their sense of direction.
In Shu Lingyi's words, if you don't want to die, you won't think about going out. After all, sand absorbs heat quickly and dissipates heat quickly, so there will be a temperature difference between morning and evening.
But now the sun comes out at 6am and sets at 8:30pm, and with the game settings, the sand doesn't need to cool down at all.
Once you go out into the sand and high temperatures, the durability of your shoes will decline per minute.
Everyone lives in a small house and can survive as long as they have water and food. If there is an ice cellar inside the territory, several players will be arranged to live in the ice cellar and provide ice to other residents.
Those who can live to this day are basically not simple people.
But the public screen was relatively quiet, mainly because it was too hot. It was so hot in the room that people had no desire to speak at all.
Shu Lingyi made a fortune by selling water.
Now I stay in the house and don't want to move at all. Apart from eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, I just want to rinse my body with water when I sweat.
This is done in almost all territories with sufficient water resources.
For example, on the Qinxi side, the strength of the three territories is scattered, but the Qinxi territory is the best performing at the moment.
The main reason is that she is a dual-professional player who is both a pharmacist and a chef.
Only such players can make mung bean smoothie with the anti-heatstroke buff.
From a gaming perspective, this is far more reliable than Huoxiang Zhengqi Water.
In addition, they planted a lot of mung beans in their territory and had a large stockpile.
The other two territories, on the contrary, eagerly offered things to trade with them.
Despite this, the water supply can only barely guarantee basic living needs.
Don't even think about taking a shower every day without interruption.
It would be great if I could take a shower every day, or once every two or three days.
Qin Xi also privately asked her sister why she spent so much money on transactions to get water resources.
What's the point of requiring the residents of the territory to take a bath every two or three days?
Taking a shower can waste a lot of water.
"Before I established my territory, there were also people born in that game area without water resources."
"Then the resources are limited and water is expensive, so the person only trades enough water for drinking and simply doesn't take a shower."
Qin Yue recalled the message she saw on the public screen that day, which was the last message sent by that person before he died.
This had a great impact on her, and for a long time she would rather be poor than not take a bath.
She was afraid that those bugs would crawl in and out of her body...just thinking about that scene was enough to make her feel nauseous.
Qin Yue didn't want to upset her sister too much, so she just briefly mentioned it.
Out of her dignity as the eldest sister, Qin Xi obeyed Qin Yue's orders. Finally, she found out that players from other territories had died because they did not take a shower.
Thousands of words converged into one: "Big sister is awesome!"
Qin Yue didn't have the heart to give up. She stood in front of the window and looked outside. The yellow sand covered most of her vision.
Even the soil in the territory was turned into desert in the past two days, and the farmland was completely destroyed.
The furnaces and kiln mouths have suffered more or less damage and increased wear.
These can still be rebuilt, so I won’t go into details.
After solving the problem of heatstroke, the human body's demand for water resources increases greatly.
When the skin is dry, cracked and damaged, it will continue to bleed. As mentioned before, when sweat touches the wound, it will be a torture.
"Make more medicinal soup..."
Qin Yue had no choice but to resort to this last resort. In such agony, as long as he remained conscious, his blood line would not drop rapidly.
So he drank a lot of medicine to raise his blood level. Although the wound could not be healed, he could keep his life hanging on.
[Midnight]: "Everyone hold on. Those whose health is below half can use the medicine soup to stay alive until tomorrow."
This is the last resort.
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