Chapter 177 Extreme Cold

So there was a power outage?

Yun Shuhuai was not surprised by this. In his previous life, the base often had power outages.

Although he had long forgotten when the high-frequency power outages began, if he thought about it carefully, it was around the second year of the apocalypse.

The power in the base came from a large hydroelectric station in the north. Even in the apocalypse, it could still run automatically for a period of time. The base also sent people to clean up all the zombies there at the beginning of the apocalypse, and then escorted professionals to take care of the equipment regularly.

Although this hydroelectric station often has problems, it was still running intermittently before Yun Shuhuai died in the previous life, but it can be seen that it will not last long, otherwise the base would not be so eager to study the controllability of lightning abilities.

This time, there may be something wrong with the hydroelectric station. When it is solved, the power will probably come back.

However, the power outage has no effect on Yun Shuhuai, because she has solar panels. Many people in the base also bought solar panels outside and installed them on the outer walls of their residences, which can reduce the cost of buying electricity.

I believe that after this power outage, many people should have seen the necessity of solar panels. Tomorrow, the trading volume of solar panels will be very large. It seems that she needs to raise the price.

People who own solar panels can not only generate electricity by themselves, but also sell electricity in the base. If an ordinary person has solar panels, then he will have a much better time in the base.

After making sure that nothing serious happened, Yun Shuhuai lay back on the recliner.

For several days in a row, the base was in a state of power outage. The military has its own power generation equipment, and some important locations are still supplying electricity steadily, but it is hard for the survivors, especially those living in the residential buildings.

Before the end of the world, those buildings were all middle- and high-end residential areas. Each building was built very tall. You had to use the elevator to go up and down the stairs, otherwise the twenty-story building would be exhausting.

After who knows how many days, the extreme cold arrived as expected.

The weather that day was very bad. It was sunny in the morning, but at noon, the sky was suddenly overcast, and then a strong wind blew. The cold air brought by the strong wind could almost be called quick freezing, which caught everyone off guard.

Some people who were working or walking on the road were suddenly frostbitten or even frozen to death.

Fortunately, people reacted quickly and put on thick clothes in time. The base also carried out self-rescue.

The superpowers showed their magical powers and made contributions to resisting the severe cold.

Fire-type espers are the most popular at this time. The fire energy in them can resist the severe cold. This extremely cold weather has little effect on them. Even people standing next to them can feel the warmth. If a fire-type esper stays in the house to release energy, the house will be like the heating is turned on. The

ice-type esper's own ice energy is extremely cold, so they are also very adaptable to this weather.

Now, most of the people who go out to work in the base are fire-type and ice-type espers.

However, although the number of deaths and injuries due to severe cold in the base has decreased in this life, a food crisis has recently come.

Just like in the previous life, all the crops in the base were frozen to death.

It is now almost 10 degrees below zero outside, and it has been going on for two weeks. If it continues like this, even the cold-resistant wheat will be frozen to death.

This means that there will be no harvest next year.

Although the food grown from these crops in the end times is not delicious, it is also a necessity for most people in the base to survive. Without food, there will definitely be famine next year.

Now the top management of the base is already worried to death. If there is no food, they must go out to find food to spend the days without harvest, and the amount of food needed by hundreds of thousands of people in the base will be a terrifying number.

But it is getting more and more dangerous outside. Some zombies have evolved to be invulnerable to weapons and guns. The effect of guns and bullets has been greatly reduced. Ordinary soldiers are too easy to be killed by zombies outside, and the superpower soldiers always rush to the front, and the casualties are also heavy.

Every time they go out, they lose a lot of soldiers. The combatants can't be consumed like this.

The top management also thought about hiring superpowers, but most of them are egoists. As ordinary people, the primary purpose of having superpowers is of course to support themselves and make themselves and the people around them live better. They rarely accept too dangerous missions.

For example, those missions above A level in the mission area are generally accepted by major forces, but the number of people who accept A-level missions to collect food is even less than that of S-level missions.

Because food and supplies are the most important things in the end times, most people will take the food they find for themselves, and rarely share it, even if there is a reward.

In the command center of the military base, a silver-haired old man in military uniform stood upright by the window, looking at the waist-deep snow outside. The cold wind blew up the silver flakes on the ground and hit the window wantonly, making a crackling sound.

People can't stand outside at all. If there is no wind, it will be fine, but the wind makes people feel colder.

These days, there are constant reports of people freezing to death, but the base cannot stop operating. If it stops, more people will freeze to death.

The old man sighed, turned and walked to the desk, on which was a model of a hydropower station.

The cause of the power outage at the base has been found. It was invaded by zombie creatures in the water.

There were unknown high-level aquatic zombies lurking there. Many of the people sent there before died. Those who escaped death did not clearly see what the culprit looked like. They only knew that there was a strong fishy smell and that there were rotten flesh like blood vessels distributed everywhere on the walls and the ground.

Although the old man was tired, he still had a sharp gaze and listened carefully to the various problems reported to him by the people around him.

If you look at him carefully, you can find that this old general looks very similar to Qin Ye.

He is Qin Ye's grandfather, the old general Qin Lian.

As the highest leader stationed in this military base, he immediately recognized the situation at the beginning of the apocalypse. He led and commanded everyone to quickly clean up the soldiers who had turned into zombies inside the base, and quickly formulated a plan to build a shelter. At the same time, he sent troops to rescue a large number of survivors from surrounding cities and mobilized everyone to build the base. Finally, he established a safe haven that could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people in the cruel apocalypse.

"General, since the blizzard arrived, more than 500 people have died from the cold in the base. If we don't find a way to solve the problem, the situation will become more serious in the future."

"General, due to the extremely cold weather, most of the work in the base has stopped. Now not only the residents' eating and heating problems have been affected, but even the soldiers in the barracks can't stand it anymore."

"..."

"Report to the general, the soldiers patrolling the wall have found that due to the cold weather, the number of zombies active recently has decreased significantly, and the ground pressure around the base has decreased significantly."

Amidst a lot of bad things, there is finally a piece of good news to hear.

General Qin Lian looked at the model on the table and said, "Do you have any good suggestions?"

Everyone fell silent.

Because the current problems are very serious, there is a lack of food and clothing, and there is a power outage. The most important thing is the heating problem, which cannot be delayed, but any problem is enough to make people anxious.

A young man wearing glasses who looked inconspicuous walked over and said, "General Qin, I think the most urgent task is to solve the problem of the hydropower station first."