Chapter 46: The reactions from all parties are extremely cold
Back on the 17th floor, I saw Tang Mingli and Tang Zhijie fully armed and ready to go out.
"Sister Tang, Brother Tang, you are going out in such a cold weather."
She looked outside through the window. It was pitch black, as if she was back in the northeast in winter, where it was still dark at six in the morning.
"A new natural disaster has arrived. The situation is urgent and must be reported immediately."
Tang Mingli's voice sounded a little muffled under the mask and scarf, revealing a deep sense of fatigue.
"Hard."
It is inconvenient to not have a mobile phone. If there is anything, you have to go in person. The base station was destroyed in two months of heavy rain and is now just a decoration.
The authorities should be working overtime to produce walkie-talkies and telegraphs now.
This is why Qiao Qiao doesn't want to join the official team. She is naturally lazy and doesn't like being restricted.
However, according to the information Tang Mingli brought back last night, non-staff contract workers are indeed the best choice.
She only needs to hand in some cards or go out on a mission once a week to trade at the Special Administration Bureau. After all, she has a lot of N-level cards that she doesn't use.
Working four days a month perfectly met her expectations of her job. She didn't expect that what she couldn't do before the disaster would be realized after the disaster. She couldn't help but smile bitterly.
It's okay to go out and interact with others occasionally, but staying in a closed place for a long time can easily cause mental and psychological problems.
After Qiao Qiao told this to her parents last night, they both agreed.
"Yes, of course I will."
Qiao Qiao was puzzled: "I thought you wouldn't agree? You all scolded me when I went out to look for supplies before."
Qiao Huizhou explained with a smile, "How can that be the same? What if you go out by yourself and run into danger?
You can fight one against two, one against three, or even one against ten, but what if the opponent is hundreds or thousands of people? You will get tired as a human.
However, it is different from official operations. They have many departments, with vanguard intelligence provision in the front, logistical and medical support in the back, and companions acting together, so the safety index is greatly improved.
Can you talk to Tang Mingli and see if we can go?"
Qiao Qiao's eyes widened, "Huh? You guys?"
Qiao Xinghe was a little unhappy about being suspected by his daughter, "Why, is it not possible? Your mother and I are not yet at retirement age, so it is no problem to carry out a mission once a week."
She waved her hands helplessly, "Okay, I'll ask. I don't understand what you middle-aged and elderly people who can't sit still think."
Qiao Huizhou narrowed his eyes and smiled, "What did you say?"
"Nothing, nothing."
Time goes back to the present.
"Sister Tang, I'm going to trouble you with the contract worker issue. My parents also want to join us, whether it's handing in cards or carrying out a mission once a week."
Tang Mingli nodded. It didn’t matter to her whether there were one person or three people, as long as Qiao Qiao could join her team.
"Okay, I'll report it first, and you guys wait for notification."
The house was already warmed up by Qiao Xinghe. As soon as the door was opened, a wave of hot air hit me in the face, dispelling the coldness that I had felt outside.
Glancing at the thermometer on the wall, I saw that the indoor temperature had risen to more than ten degrees, while the outdoor temperature had dropped to minus thirty-five degrees and was still falling.
People in the Northeast and Northwest regions are fine. The temperature can occasionally reach minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius in winter, so as long as they can get through the initial stage, they can still survive for the time being.
Ordinary people in the southwest and southeast regions are unlucky. The temperature has never reached minus ten degrees Celsius, and I'm afraid more than half of them will be killed or injured.
As for the capital area, unless something unexpected happens, there shouldn't be any major problems.
Qiao Qiao changed into plush pajamas, wearing thermal underwear underneath, and a pair of plush socks and plush slippers on her feet. This outfit was perfect for the living room.
Qiao Xinghe added a few more pieces of firewood into the fireplace.
"The kang is ready. Do you want to sleep upstairs with us or use the electric heater and fireplace in the living room tonight?"
"I'll sleep in the living room first, and then go up when it gets cooler."
Sleeping on the same kang with your parents is nothing at all, not to mention that many people sleep on the same kang in rural areas. What's more, it would be a bit pretentious to be particular about these things when it's already the end of the world.
In the shelter, hundreds of people live on each floor, head to head and shoulder to shoulder.
Qiao Qiao drank a sip of hot water, and the warm current flowed down the esophagus into the stomach, dispelling the cold left outside.
The electric heater was facing her as she lay on the sofa, holding the 20-pound Xiao Qiao in her arms. She placed her hands forcefully under her belly to keep warm, ignoring its resistance.
Qiao Qiao: "Bao'er, your weight is almost as heavy as Daju."
Xiao Qiao wagged his tail a few times and yawned.
She picked up Xiao Qiao, who valued "three flowers as the most important", rubbed her nose against its nose, and began her brainwashing mission.
"You have to work hard, you know? Mom will rely on you from now on. You have to work hard, become a mutant animal as soon as possible, and then evolve from the infancy to the maturity, understand?"
"Look at your smooth and soft fur. Is your body size worthy of the care that mommy takes care of you every day? You need to grow bigger, like a big cat, so that mommy can bury you under her belly every day and no longer be afraid of the extreme cold."
"Look at Qiao Man who plays with you every day. She has already become a mutant plant. She has only evolved once. I'm afraid she will evolve to the growth stage in a short time. Don't you feel you are lagging behind?"
"Meow!"
Xiao Qiao screamed angrily a few times and bit her finger, but she didn't have the heart to bite it through. She just held it in her mouth and rubbed it gently with her teeth.
Qiao Qiao seemed to hear someone scolding her.
Are you human? You let the cat roll!
Cat, lie down. Good cat.
If a cat makes a fool of itself, it means that the person is a bad person.
"Haha, I'm just kidding. Baby, you'll always be like this and I love it. Come, let mommy kiss you."
Qiao Qiao buried his whole face in the cat's belly, and he was still enjoying it even though he kissed its fur.
Qiao Huizhou collected the frozen cucumbers, sweet potatoes and water spinach upstairs and threw them into the trash can, then planted new vegetables.
After experiencing two natural disasters, gray fog and heavy rain, there were almost no fresh vegetables and fruits on the market for three months. If people lack vitamins, they will develop various diseases.
But there is never a shortage of rich people in this world.
Just when 99% of people are still worrying about survival, they are satisfied with a piece of compressed biscuit and a bottle of drinking water.
The remaining 1% of the people control most of the material resources. They don’t care about survival but pursue enjoyment.
Qiao Huizhou understood that this was human nature, as her family's living standard was even 1% of that 1%.
After a while, we will have to join a special management bureau, and contract workers will always be the target of discrimination.
Get up earlier than the chickens, sleep later than the dogs, work harder than the cows, and still have to endure the contempt of the formal employees.
She couldn't do something like pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. What she wanted was to let everyone know that her family was not easy to mess with.
I don't bully others actively, but I will never let others bully me.
After careful consideration, I chose to grow strawberries, blueberries and cherry tomatoes.
This is a fruit that is rich in vitamins and grown in a soilless planter. If it were taken outside, it would definitely cause a rush of wealthy people to buy it. It just needs a channel...
In the evening, Qiao Qiao and her parents had a hotpot meal, and they happened to have purchased an N-level hotpot package.
The cards disappeared, and a pile of food appeared on the coffee table in the living room.
Three kinds of soup base ingredients: bone broth, tomato, and butter; fresh beef, fatty beef rolls, lamb rolls, duck blood, tripe, mushroom platter, vegetable platter, etc.
It's cold outside the window, but warm as spring inside the house.
The family sat around the hot pot, laughing and talking in the steaming atmosphere. It seemed as if they had returned to their normal life before the end of the world and briefly forgot their worries.
While eating the tripe, Qiao Xinghe said, "I'm so lucky to be able to eat such a sumptuous hot pot in the apocalypse."
Qiao Huizhou nodded in agreement. "Yes, fortunately we have the Doomsday Card Drawing System and we stocked up some supplies in advance, otherwise we would be struggling to survive now."
Qiao Qiao was concentrating on putting various ingredients into the pot, "Come and thank me."
As he spoke, he did not forget to open two cans of tuna and shredded chicken for Xiao Qiao.
Qiao Xinghe smiled and put the freshly cooked beef rolls on her plate, "Of course we have to thank our great hero, eat two more slices of meat."
"tasty."
Unfortunately, shadows are creatures that neither eat nor drink, and cannot enjoy such happiness.
Wang Mo, who lives in the Northwest District, has always been an ordinary person. When he was a child, he lived with his grandparents and developed a habit of stockpiling goods crazily at the slightest sign of trouble.
I used to be often laughed at for being so panic-stricken, but I didn't expect that I was able to hold on thanks to the room full of expensive supplies I stockpiled when the gray fog appeared.
But no matter how much supplies there are, they will eventually be consumed.
He lay in bed shivering with cold. Even though he put on all his winter clothes and covered himself with two thick quilts, it was of no use as the temperature in the room was so low that it was like an ice cellar.
"I can hold on! I can definitely hold on!" I could only curl up into a ball and hypnotize myself, praying that the extreme cold would pass soon.
Zhang Nan from the southeast region does not have to worry about survival because her parents both work in the federal government. However, since the heavy rain, she, who has been spoiled since childhood, can only eat compressed biscuits, bread, and energy bars every day, which becomes unbearable after a long time.
That day, in her dream, she was in a buffet restaurant full of delicious food, drinking Happy Fat House Water, eating and crying at the same time, without noticing that the temperature had dropped.
“Crack.”
There was a slight sound coming from the window. If Zhang Nan was awake now, he would be able to see a crack on the edge of the glass.
The windows were cracked by the freezing cold!
As time passed, the temperature continued to drop and the cracks continued to spread.
Finally, it exploded completely.
"bump!"
The loud noise instantly pulled Zhang Nan back to reality from her beautiful dream, and she looked around in a daze.
The coldness surged over her like a tide, causing her to shiver.
Zhang Nan folded his arms and walked to the window, looking at the broken glass on the ground, his heart filled with fear and helplessness.
"Dad! Mom! Come and see!"
The broken glass destroyed the bedroom, but it also inadvertently saved the family.
Xu Huan from the southwest district lives in the southernmost city where it is spring all year round. The coldest weather he has ever experienced is only ten degrees.
When the extreme cold came, she was tossing and turning in bed. Her cell phone was out of battery and there was no light to read, so she could only look at the ceiling.
"I can't sleep. I can't sleep."
Suddenly he shivered, stood up on the balcony, and stared at the road with wide eyes.
The usually lush trees were now visibly covered with frost, and the branches could not bear the weight, making slight "cracking" sounds.
She hugged her arms and shivered in the cold.
Although she did not die in her sleep like other people in the city, how long could she survive without warm clothes?
The situation in the National Capital Region is special.
The national population is 1 billion, with 300 million people in the most developed southeast region, 300 million in the southwestern region with the best environment, more than 200 million in the northwestern region with the richest history, and more than 100 million in the northeastern region with the worst environment.
The capital region has a population of only 10 million.
It’s not that people don’t want to go, but those with assets less than 10 million cannot settle down.
Although the conditions are harsh, the treatment and benefits are excellent, and only three types of people settle here.
Power, money and talent.
Just like Qiao Qiao's aunt, whom she had only met a few times, was admitted to Capital University and stayed there after completing her bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies.
The people in the capital area have long been under centralized federal management, except for those who encountered accidents a few days after the heavy rain.
Chen Xin is an ordinary worker living in the capital area. Although he earns a million yuan a year, he stays up late to work overtime every day.
If the colleague sitting next to them had not died suddenly, and their leader had not given them a day off out of fear that something might happen to them too, they would probably have been trapped at the office because of the heavy rain.
Later, the Federation needed to improve a batch of machines, and he was transferred there. Although he lived in a closed environment with only six hours of rest a day, he had no worries about food and drink.
As soon as the extreme cold came, the alarm was sounded quickly, and warm clothes were distributed to everyone in less than three hours, which was quite fast.
People at that time did not know that this extreme cold weather, which was like a nightmare to everyone, would last for six months.
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