Chapter 33 Chapter 33
At four o'clock in the evening, although the sun was not visible, the sky was still slightly bright. A group of people finished their day's work and headed home.
At this time, a young man in a gray down jacket pointed at a patch of white mist not far away and asked curiously, "Huh? What is that?"
The companion who was traveling with him stopped and looked, trying to see the white fog, but when he looked more carefully, he found that the fog seemed to be moving and approaching here.
He squinted his eyes to see more clearly, but he saw the person shrouded in white mist. His face suddenly changed, and he pulled the gray-clothed young man beside him and ran away.
The white mist seemed far away, but it moved very quickly and in an instant, it was at your heels.
The two men ran home as fast as they could, but it was in vain. In the blink of an eye, they were caught up by the white fog behind them. Like everyone else in the fog, they were instantly frozen in place.
The white fog continued to move forward, enveloping the panicked people and leaving them in this cold wave.
The frost started to spread from the ground until it covered the entire building, and then moved on to the next building.
Some fragile glass was directly frozen to pieces in the extremely low temperature, and the people sleeping inside had no idea what was happening and were killed in their dreams.
Ye Xun could feel the temperature dropping drastically while lying in bed. He looked at the thermometer in the measurement room and saw that it had dropped precipitously from 1 degree above zero to -26 degrees.
This is with the air conditioner on and the stove lit. He estimated that the temperature difference between inside and outside on normal days would be as low as minus 70 degrees or nearly minus 80 degrees outside.
God wants man to perish.
He got up, added some charcoal under the kang, turned on the heater, and went back to bed, clearly feeling the temperature had risen.
In fact, the whole family can go into the space to avoid the cold and don’t have to suffer the cold outside, but Qin Wei doesn’t know that people can enter the space. He also plans to use this as a trump card and never expose it unless his life is at stake.
The temperature in the room slowly rose, and Qin Wei began to think about random things. It had been a while since he last had sex. He was almost thirty years old, and it was the first time he did this with the person he liked. He knew how good it was.
I wasn't going to go out for the next few days, and the thought suddenly came to my mind, and my body responded.
The two of them were pressed tightly together, and when he got up, Ye Xun noticed it immediately. The first experience was very good, and when Ye Xun thought about the feeling at that time, he also thought about it.
The right hand seemed to have eyes, breaking through the thin cloth and directly attacking the high ground.
Qin Wei's body instantly straightened. He was stunned for a few seconds, then he reacted immediately. He turned over and pressed Ye Xun under him, and they spent the whole night together.
This time Qin Wei was more restrained, and Ye Xun was able to get out of bed and eat by himself the next day.
He walked to the window and wanted to lift the curtains to see what was happening outside, but he found that the curtains and the window were frozen. If he tore them open forcibly, the curtains would be damaged.
All major production industries stopped working, and consumables like curtains were becoming less and less. Finally, Ye Xun used hot water to melt the ice between the two, and finally he was able to successfully see what was outside.
What is real ice and snow? This is it.
Buildings, lamp posts, and walls were all frozen, with thick ice on the surface. The colors of the sky, the earth, and the environment were infinitely similar.
The extremely low temperature white fog has not yet dissipated, so no one is out outside at this time. It is safest to stay at home now.
At this time, the base office.
The former mayor of H City contracted the plague during the flood and died. The person now managing the base is the former deputy mayor, Chen Guoan.
When the cold wave came, he happened to leave his thermos in the office, so he went back again. Fortunately, he avoided the disaster, but was still trapped in the office.
He was trapped with several colleagues. This sudden situation was unexpected, and there was no news from the capital, so there was no time to prepare.
There are still a lot of people outside. He felt sad when he thought about the death toll.
It was not until noon today that I received the news from the capital, but it was not good news.
The capital's base was relocated as early as the beginning of the extreme cold because according to data from the research institute, when the temperature is at its lowest, the temperature in the north will drop to minus ninety degrees or even lower, making it impossible for humans to survive.
They are now migrating southwards, perhaps stationed in H City, or possibly turning west halfway.
The cause of this cold wave is the movement of Arctic glaciers. During the hottest period, the glaciers melted and broke off, and the icebergs moved southward with the ocean currents. When they were halfway, the extreme cold came, and the originally small icebergs became huge in just a few days.
Now the movement speed of the iceberg has slowed down, which means that City H will still be affected by the cold wave for a period of time, which may be as short as seven or ten days or as long as one month. The duration is unknown.
There is also bad news. Not all people in the capital have relocated. Some of the older generation are worried about dragging down their families on the road. Besides, when people get old, they don’t want to move. At their age, even if they survive this disaster, they will not live for many years. The date of returning to their homeland for this migration is far away. Basically, there is no return. It is better to return to one’s roots and die on the land where he was born and raised. It is not a bad thing.
Among those who migrated with the main force, three-tenths of them had already died on the way.
There are nearly 20 million people in the capital, and even with the floods and extreme heat, not so many people died. Less than one-third of the way there, only a little over 10 million people are left.
At the end of the document, the author found a way to have fun despite the hardship and saved a lot of food.
After reading the news, everyone in the office fell silent, and a depressed mood hung over everyone's heart.
In fact, there are still connections between the major bases. H Province is relatively well-prepared during the national extreme cold disaster, but when it is extremely hot, it has the highest number of people dying from heat stroke and thirst every day.
Living near the sea does not solve the water problem. Without a distillation device, seawater is simply not drinkable. Even the water from the well has a light salty smell. We have to rely on the little water distributed by the base every day.
There are several bases in H City, but only the one built by Ye Xun and his team was officially established, and its scale is large because the municipal government is here.
Compared with other private bases, the residents of the official bases actually live a pretty good life, at least they are guaranteed not to starve to death. But it is not like that in the private bases. The leaders are all wealthy businessmen who only care about their own entertainment and don't care about the lives of the grassroots people, so many of them go to the official bases.
After the expansion of the base, there are nearly 15,000 residents. I wonder how many will survive this cold wave.
This week seemed to be extraordinarily long. I became insensitive to the passage of time. It was already the eighth day when the white fog outside gradually dissipated. Through the window, the visible distance became a little farther.
Ye Xun could see ice sculptures on the snow not far away. They were people who had not had time to escape, and their faces still showed the same fear they had when they were alive.
Qin Wei also saw it when he came to call him. His eyesight was much better than Ye Xun's, so he saw it more clearly. Even though he had seen many life and death situations, he still felt a little scared.
If he hadn't met Ye Xun, perhaps he would have been one of them.
People on the fifteenth floor could see it, and those on the lower floors could see it even more clearly, and could even recognize their own sons, fathers, and husbands.
Countless families lost their main labor force and fell apart.
But no matter how hopeless you are, you have to cheer up and go on with your life.
The white fog completely dissipated in the afternoon three days later. People who were doing nothing at home suddenly realized that the surrounding environment was much warmer than before. A light bulb went off in their minds, and they opened the curtains, only to find that the world outside was clear.
Some people began to open their doors and expose themselves to the outside environment, and found that they were not frozen. For a moment, the sky above the base was filled with cheers.
Ye Xun measured the temperature outside and it was already over fifty degrees below zero. The wind was still biting, but it was not unbearable.
This does not mean that the cold wave is over. It has just moved from Province Z to Province F. However, for the people in the H City base, as long as they are not in City H, it has nothing to do with them.
The ice sculptures outside, those with families were taken away, and those who lived alone either stayed where they were or were quietly dragged away by those whose families had been without food for a long time.
As for what they were towed away for, it was already clear.
The first time Ye Xun encountered such a thing was five days after the white fog dissipated. Although it was not as cold as before, the bodies frozen to death in the sub-zero environment could not melt, so they were well preserved and no different from when they were alive.
He and Qin Wei took Bal outside to play catching the frisbee. He accidentally used too much force and the frisbee flew quite far, so he had to run over to pick it up.
I happened to be passing by an alley and saw a figure whose gender I couldn't tell, squatting on the ground. I could only see two moving arms, and I had no idea what he was doing.
Ye Xun was not that curious. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he accidentally kicked the ice at his feet, which startled the person who was working hard. He dropped what he was holding and ran away like the wind.
Without the obstruction, Ye Xun could finally see clearly what the man was busy with, but he would rather not see it.
It was the corpse of a young woman, with her clothes on the lower body cut open and her skin fair. She must have lived a good life when she was alive, but now she was reduced to being eaten by humans like a pig.
The tenderest flesh on both thighs was hollowed out, revealing the white bones. The wound on the right leg was dark in color, which showed that this was not the first time this person had done this.
It's not this young woman who died. Her name is so and so. Her body is being treated like this after death. Ye Xun looked around and saw no one. He took out a blanket from the space, tidied the clothes of the corpse, wrapped the corpse with the blanket, and dragged it out of the alley.
Qin Wei didn't expect that Ye Xun took so long to pick up a frisbee and brought back a female corpse.
No matter how light the body was when alive, it would become heavy after freezing. In addition, the snow was slippery, so Ye Xun had to work hard to drag the body in front of Qin Wei.
"I just saw a person, quite tall, probably a man, cutting the meat from this corpse. He was probably going to take it back to eat." Recalling the scene he saw, Ye Xun couldn't help but reveal an expression of disgust.
"The base distributes sweet potatoes every day, so why are there people who are so cruel as to eat human flesh?" He really couldn't understand. Would they really starve to death if they just had one bite? How was this behavior different from that of an animal?
Qin Wei on the side could understand it. Anyone who could do such a thing was fundamentally rotten and smelly. Even before the end of the world, they were crawlers in the darkness.
Once people start cannibalizing their fellows, they have already lost their humanity. Today they are eating corpses, but eventually they will run out of them. Will they want to eat living people? Ye Xun didn't know and didn't dare to think about it. He had to inform the person in charge of the base.
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