Chapter 282: Extremely Hot. No Entry
The sun scorched the earth, reflecting a dazzling light, as if the whole world was burning.
Just as Chu An stepped on the accelerator, the person next to him reacted quickly and pulled the man in front of the car away. The car brushed past the man's clothes and sped away.
The Xiangshan Villa District is far away from the city and there are no resources around it. Only a small number of scavenger teams will search here. They did not react at all when they saw the scene in front of them.
She looked in the rearview mirror and saw the man blocking the car picking up clods of dirt from the ground with a ferocious look on his face. He ignored the obstruction of his companions behind him and kept chasing and smashing the car, as if the man in the car was trying to take his wife and kill his son.
Unfortunately, the clod of earth he threw didn't even hit the shadow of the car. He was so tired that he lay on the ground gasping for breath, and then he was burned and cursed loudly.
Chu An withdrew his gaze. City C could maintain superficial peace for the time being because of the existence of bases and shelters, but this peace would be shattered sooner or later, perhaps after extreme heat or by an earthquake in the near future.
Driving further into the city, we finally saw the scavengers sent by the government. They were all wearing long sleeves and long pants issued by the base, and wearing yellow woven straw hats.
The 50-degree sun is no joke. No one dares to expose their skin to the sun. One reason is that they are afraid of allergies and skin breakouts, and the other is that they are worried about mosquito bites.
The floods have receded and the environment has improved a lot, but the continued high temperature has caused the mosquitoes that bred before to mutate. People with poor physical fitness will have a fever for several days after being bitten. Many people have contracted dengue fever and can only wait to die. But wearing too much can easily cause heatstroke, or even heat stroke, and the probability of death is also very high.
Now everyone is in a dilemma.
However, according to Zhuona, when the temperature rises to 50 degrees, the government will no longer assign tasks. The remaining simple finishing work is not very intensive and will be divided into four shifts with an interval of one hour.
She drove past the scavenger teams and found flags next to each search area, with the words "Seventh Scavenger Team", "Tenth Scavenger Team"...
There is a pergola or a canopy next to the flag. Most people are resting inside, and only a few are walking between the buildings.
Chu An didn't want to take the route closer to the city, but the road was soaked and many places were bulging or broken. She had already taken three roads, but they were either blocked by fallen tree trunks or filled with construction waste. Even a Hummer couldn't get over the continuous garbage piles more than one meter high.
Alas, when it is extremely cold, the ice surface is above the sixth floor, and you don’t have to obey traffic rules wherever you go. You can drive on the wide ice surface however you want.
Now the surface is exposed. Although there are still no traffic lights, the short buildings, overpasses, expressways, fences and curbs are also exposed. We can only follow the route planned on the map.
The route she was driving on now was also bumpy, but it was within the tolerance of the Hummer, and it was also the last road leading to Changlong Building.
"There's a car." someone outside exclaimed.
Chu An has made the appearance of the Hummer as old as possible, but the powerful engine sound still attracted the attention of many scavengers.
There are many cars in the base, but this one is obviously not one of them.
As the scattered households in the city moved to the outskirts of the bases and shelters to set up camps, they rarely saw people moving alone in the city. Even gangs or church members would not appear around the scavengers during the day, and they are still the government's main targets.
Of course, the exceptions are the gangs recognized by the government, such as the Qing Gang, the boat gang, the peddlers, and some businessmen. There are also businesses to be done in the end times, and they are monopolistic.
In order to keep the Hummer balanced, Chu An didn't dare drive too fast.
The Hummer's windows were covered with anti-peeping film, so you couldn't see inside from the outside, but you could clearly see the expressions of the people outside from the inside. Her eyes briefly passed over the faces of the people outside, showing confusion, bewilderment, envy and jealousy.
They quickly retracted their gaze, bypassed the obstacle and continued driving forward. Not far away there was a person who had fainted and was being carried out on a stretcher. They saw that the Hummer also paused for a moment, and then quickly carried the person to a cool place.
Half an hour later, Chu An finally saw the Changlong Building. The 1st to 5th floors had deep marks from being soaked in water for a long time. It could be seen that Li Qing had repaired the cracks, but the fallen walls had not been restored, and the broken glass windows were covered with cardboard or plastic sheets. The walls and windows above the 6th floor were intact, and except for the 1st floor, each floor had an air conditioner outdoor unit.
When he got closer, he saw a lot of cars parked at the door. Chu An recognized Li Qing's cars. A G-Class, an SUV, a business car and two vans were parked on the side of the building. He didn't know where he found them.
In addition to these cars, there is a Red Star sedan, a business car and a passenger car parked on the right side of the gate, and two SUVs and a Jinbei van parked on the left side of the gate.
Are there guests here?
Every time she came here before, she would meet someone she knew, either Gangzi, Jinli, or at worst Huabi, who would always happily welcome her in.
At this time, the entrance was empty, without even a shadow of a person, and the glass door of the building was tightly closed, giving off an atmosphere of "no entry".
She drove closer and parked next to the van on the left, mainly because it was close to the door. It was too hot outside, so the less steps she took, the better.
After parking the car and taking a sip of ice water that he had just taken out from the space, he picked up the car cover and opened the door. The heat wave instantly hit him in the face, making him feel suffocated.
He quickly closed the car door and turned around to put an insulating car cover on the Hummer. But within two minutes, the sticky feeling on his body came back and he wanted to jump into the pool immediately.
She slowly exhaled, quickly walked up the stairs, and came to the door of the building, but she couldn't open the door no matter how hard she tried.
In the past, others had always opened the door for her, so she had never paid attention to this matter. Could it be that she had pushed it inward? She pushed it inward a few more times, but it still did not move.
At this point, it is certain that the door is locked. Why would it be locked in broad daylight?
The glass door was not very transparent, so she could only lean on the glass to look inside.
There were two gatekeepers at the door, they were unfamiliar faces that she had never seen before. The last time when she was helping Li Qing check the morale of his men, she could remember the general appearance of everyone she had seen. These two people were definitely not from the Qing Gang at that time.
Next to the guard were two fans, which were working at a loud blast, making the person's clothes flutter.
Further in is the front desk, where there are six people, in groups of three, standing on both sides of the front desk. There is also a fan on the front desk.
The people inside had obviously seen her, some even had a teasing smile on their faces, but they remained indifferent.
"Please open the door for me. I'm looking for Li Qing." Chu An knocked on the glass door and spoke loudly enough for people inside to hear.
The two people guarding the door looked at each other and still ignored her. Instead, someone at the front desk raised his hand to gesture something, but she couldn't understand it. After gesturing for a while, he put it down, as if nothing had happened.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he had no choice but to take out his cell phone and call Li Qing.
Beep, beep, beep... No one answered. I called Jinli and Gangzi in turn, but no one answered either. Why is there such a weird atmosphere in the Changlong Building today? Did something happen inside?
She took a step back and raised her chin. It was not difficult to break the glass, but it was Li Qing's place after all, so she couldn't go too far.
wait?
There is a platform above the main entrance of Changlong Building, which can block some sunlight, but in a temperature of 50 degrees, you will be soaked in less than 10 minutes.
Go back to the car and wait?
Why bother!!!
She quickly took a few steps back and smiled at the air-conditioning unit outside the building and the large terrace outside the window.
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