Reached the highest temperature
In the following time, Jiang Miao only went out occasionally. He would find and collect whatever he thought of on the map. Nowadays, the world is becoming more and more difficult, and even gunshots can be heard faintly near the city center. This is a complete disregard for the gun ban and a blatant provocation of the municipal authority.
Of course, such people don't live long.
After much deliberation, I decided to replace the van with a Hummer to ensure my own safety.
This off-road vehicle has super performance. Jiang Miao replaced it with a relatively low-key power system. The situation in the doomsday is unpredictable and it is not advisable to attract attention. She also does not want to drive a Hummer around to destroy the streets.
It is September now, but the cool and refreshing autumn weather that people have been looking forward to for a long time has not arrived. Instead, the temperature has continued to rise and has exceeded 70 degrees.
This temperature is far beyond the suitable temperature range for enzymatic reactions in the human body. Many enzymes in the body lose their activity and undergo irreversible denaturation due to the high temperature, causing various body functions to shut down and the death toll to increase.
Jiang Miao could smell the rotten and stinking odor in the air even at an altitude of more than 100 meters without going out. One can imagine how suffocating the smell on the ground was.
Order further broke down.
In the entire Ancheng, except for the core area of Dongcheng District, all places are without water, electricity and gas. The electricity and gas are okay, so we can just endure the outage.
But water is an important substance for human life. If you lack water for one day in such high temperatures, you will die.
Therefore, the municipal government parked water trucks at five locations in the east, west, south and north of the city center every day. Starting at 9 o'clock in the evening, every household would come to get water according to the number of people in their household registration book. However, even so, the death toll remained high and the crematorium was open 24 hours a day.
The weather was too hot to go out, so Jiang Miao stayed at home and tried to save water even though there was plenty of water in the space. He saved the water used to wash vegetables and fruits for washing hands, and then used it to wash clothes. The water with laundry detergent was used to mop the floor. But no matter what kind of water it was, its final destination was to flush the toilet.
After completing the endurance, explosive power and swordsmanship training, Jiang Miao was still sweating even with the air conditioner blowing cold air to cool him down.
As usual, I went to the top floor to record the highest temperature of the day, which was 71 degrees Celsius. Then I went back to the master bedroom to take a shower and eat some chicken breast salad. The weather was too hot and I had no appetite for anything.
Because of the total power outage, Jiang Miao reduced his living space to the master bedroom in order to save electricity. This way, the space is smaller and power consumption is less. He saves as much as possible. When the extreme cold and heat are over, the electricity consumption will not be so high when the temperature is suitable.
During these days of staying at home aimlessly, Jiang Miao felt unmotivated to do anything except training. He was bored and stayed at home, occasionally watching some fast food to kill time.
“Bang!” “Bang!”
Jiang Miao frowned when she heard the sound at the door. To be honest, due to her deliberate alienation before her doomsday, almost no good friends or relatives were willing to get involved with her. Moreover, no one except the decoration team knew that she lived here, so who could it be?
Jiang Miao opened the bedroom door and was almost fainted by the overwhelming heat wave. She quickly closed the door, walked to the door and looked out through the peephole.
Outside the reinforced iron gate, there was an adult man with his bare chest, and a pile of pebbles at his feet, which he would throw from time to time.
Are you sick?
Jiang Miao turned around and prepared to leave when someone outside shouted, "Neighbor upstairs, I know you're home and you have water! Can you give us some? My dad has died of heat stroke, and my grandma is now lying in bed with smoke coming out of her mouth. She's going to suffocate if she doesn't have a sip of water! Please be kind and give me some water so that my grandma can survive!"
Jiang Miao didn’t care about anything else. She was just wondering why he was so sure that he had water?
Pulling the door open a little, Jiang Miao said coldly: "The world is so difficult now, why should I share my water with others? Do I know you?"
Yan Jiaqing was a little anxious, and his voice became hoarse because he hadn't had water for a long time: "If you don't give me water, I will tell everyone in the community that you have extra water at home. Do you think they will come looking for you?"
If this person had a nicer tone and attitude, and offered something in exchange, Jiang Miao might have given some to the old man for the old man's sake. However, Jiang Miao was not afraid of such a threat at all. She had been diligently stockpiling supplies and training every day since her rebirth, and she was not the kind of person who would not dare to resist when bullied by others!
"Please."
Jiang Miao closed the door without any hesitation. No matter how the stones were thrown outside, he just stayed in the tent, projected the movie onto the screen, and watched the movie comfortably with a cup of ice milk tea.
The only question remains, how did he know that there was water in his house? Besides water, what else did he know?
Jiang Miao was conceited and cautious, but he never expected to expose himself in any way. It was not until he used the flush toilet today that he suddenly realized that the sound of water in the sewer pipe flowed to the neighbor downstairs and was heard by him.
She can modify anything in her own house except the water pipes in other people's houses. She can't just rush in and tear down the wall and then put up a layer of sound insulation, right?
In order to prevent this from happening again, Jiang Miao placed a cat litter box in the bathroom to solve the physiological problem, and then went downstairs to empty the cat litter box every two days.
It seems that we need to stock up more of this stuff. During extremely cold periods, water pipes may freeze directly, and cat litter may be needed to solve the problem.
After watching a movie, there was another shout at the door. It was still Yan Jiaqing.
Jiang Miao was annoyed by the noise, so he went over to take a look and asked him what he wanted to do.
He looked a little embarrassed, holding a small bag of rice and two sausages in his hands, and said, "After I got home, my grandma scolded me, saying that I shouldn't have come to you to ask for water on my own initiative, and that I shouldn't have said rude things to a girl when I didn't get water, and I shouldn't have threatened you by saying that if you didn't give me water, I would tell everyone in the community that I had water. In short, I was wrong, my grandma scolded me, and asked me to come and apologize to you."
This old man is a very kind and upright person.
"I accept your apology." Jiang Miao closed the door without hesitation. The person on the other end wanted to touch the iron door but didn't dare. "Hey, beautiful girl, wait a minute. Let me see if I can get some water with these things in my hand. The water truck from the municipal government should have come the night before yesterday, but I don't know why it didn't come until last night. I was really in a hurry and spoke rudely to you just now. Can you please be a little more convenient and let our family get a little water?"
Judging from the things in his hand, they should have been collected outside. He is not a lazy person. He knows the principle of helping in emergencies but not in poverty.
"I don't have much water at home. I only got it when the water supply was not cut off." Jiang Miao pretended to be confused and looked at the things in his hand: "How about this, my family has no meat to eat now, do you have any sausages? How about three sausages in exchange for half a pot of water?"
"Okay, no problem! I'll go get it right away!"
The water in the space was too fresh, and it was obvious that it had not been left outside for too long. After thinking about it, Jiang Miao burned some ashes of rice paper and put it in.
Xuan paper is made from plants, and when burned into ashes it contains substances such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen that are harmless to the human body.
Yan Jiaqing quickly brought up the sausage, and Jiang Miao put on a mask and a baseball cap, opened the door and walked over.
“Stand back.”
Yan Jiaqing retreated to the bottom of the stairs and saw the little girl who wrapped herself tightly quickly turn off the power grid, open the door, put the kettle on the ground and quickly closed it.
Yan Jiaqing was stunned by her operation and hand speed, but he had to agree that she was right to do so. In the doomsday, people's hearts were in turmoil, and the pressure of survival continued to ferment in their hearts. He, a 1.8-meter-tall man, had been robbed several times on the road, not to mention such a skinny little girl.
"Pass the sausage from the middle."
Hearing this, Yan Jiaqing obediently passed it between the iron railings, then couldn't wait to pick up the kettle.
"The water is a little gray when it's left out, but you can drink it after it cools down a bit." After a pause, she added, "That's how I drink it, too."
Yan Jiaqing opened the kettle. The water inside was better than the water in the municipal water truck, which was already very good: "Thank you, thank you so much!"
Jiang Miao reconnected the power grid: "Put the kettle here when you're done using it."
"good!"
Before leaving, Yan Jiaqing paused for a moment and said, "It seemed like more than ten days ago. I was about to go out when I heard a lot of footsteps at the door and didn't dare to open the door. I leaned over the peephole and saw a few well-trained people wearing sunglasses coming down the stairs. But you know that we can only see a little bit of the stairwell through this peephole, so we can't see what they look like."
About ten days ago, that must have been the day when the door lock was tampered with.
Jiang Miao nodded, and said seriously: "Thank you for the reminder, I will be careful."
After giving the reminder, Yan Jiaqing didn't dare to delay and ran downstairs with the kettle.
Sunglasses? A few well-trained people?
These two keywords can only make Jiang Miao think of the bodyguard team. Could it be that his second uncle and aunt had come?
But never mind, the weather is so hot that it’s hard to tell whether the two families are dead or alive. If you want to break into her door and steal her things, you’ll have to be alive to get them!
At the end of September, the temperature soared to 79 degrees and was about to break through 80 degrees. The number on the thermometer finally stopped rising. Jiang Miao breathed a sigh of relief. At least the temperature was only one or two degrees higher than in the previous life. Fortunately, her expectation of breaking through 80 was just an expectation.
The days that followed were very orderly. I exercised, had fun, and cleaned the room, and quietly went downstairs to take out the trash every two days.
Fortunately, there are only twelve families living in this building. In addition to the fire escape at the front door, there is also a staircase in each family's nanny room.
Ever since someone revealed in the group that the owner of 6-1201 was a girl, Jiang Miao has been more careful when entering and leaving the house. With her vigilance, everything has been peaceful for such a long time.
Until the end of October, Jiang Miao heard short howls and heavy falls in the bedroom.
At that time, she was practicing sword skills. She walked out of the bedroom in a sweat. She felt uncomfortable in such a high temperature environment and was in a very irritable mood.
Looking through the peephole, she only saw a shirtless man knocked unconscious by an electric fence.
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