Xu Lai recalls that the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth before this was 56.7℃.
This is also the highest temperature ever recorded in Death Valley, a globally renowned area in the United States.
The Valley of Death is called so because it is hot and dry, and is the burial ground for countless animals, let alone humans.
When the temperature was over 50 degrees Celsius, people stayed in the shade and replenished their sugar, salt, and plenty of water every day, which made it bearable.
With temperatures reaching 60 degrees Celsius, let alone skin exposed to sunlight, which would immediately turn red and peel, even the asphalt on the paved roads outside is melting in the sun.
People walking on the street will find their rubber-soled shoes melting.
Animals and plants will die from heat or dryness in a short period of time.
As for people, they can only live a more difficult life.
Xu Lai clearly remembered that after her rebirth, she had researched the limits of human endurance in terms of high temperatures.
In dry air environments, there is a limit to the high temperatures that the human body can tolerate.
According to scientific experiments conducted in the late 1990s, the human body can survive for a full hour in an environment of 71°C; for 49 minutes in an environment of 82°C; for 33 minutes at 93°C; and only 26 minutes at 104°C.
Although the air temperature is 60 degrees Celsius, the surface temperature at the same temperature would probably reach 70 or 80 degrees Celsius.
Fortunately, it didn't rain for the first two months; otherwise, with the high humidity and extreme heat, everyone would probably feel like they were in a giant steamer.
This kind of weather would be even more terrifying!
Xu Lai remembered clearly that in her previous life, on the fifteenth day two months after the extreme heat disaster broke out, she and her younger brother became the food supply for their uncle's family.
Recalling the excruciating pain of having his flesh brutally cut by his uncle's family, Xu Lai wished he could rush downstairs to apartment 502 right now and give that family a few peanuts.
However, this way of dying is far too lenient on that family of beasts.
Sure enough, around seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the sun came out like a fireball, and many people in their neighborhood group chat fainted or even went into shock from the heat at home!
Since the kitchen outside the space was completely off-limits, Song Qiu'e lost all interest in cooking.
The whole family was looking at information about the extreme heat disaster online on their phones.
The heavy, solemn voice of the CCTV announcer echoed in the ears of Xu Lai and her family from Mr. Xu's tape recorder.
"Dear viewers, starting today, extreme heat will sweep across the entire country. The highest temperature today will reach 60 degrees Celsius. Please take precautions against the heat..."
Next, it's all about how to cool down and how to prevent heatstroke.
However, in Xu Lai's view, these methods were somewhat useless for ordinary people.
After all, ordinary people were barely surviving for the first two months thanks to the efforts of the government and the military.
In this extreme heat, even at night, it would be difficult to work outdoors for extended periods to survive.
If I don't go out to work, there's no food at home.
"This awful weather! Is it impossible for anyone to live like this? When will this ever end?!"
"It's so hot, can the government please turn on the electricity soon? My child is so hot he's vomiting!"
After listening to the news, Xu Lai checked the messages in the neighborhood group chat.
Everyone in the group is tagging the administrator appointed by the government two months ago.
The administrator only replied a little over an hour ago, saying that they were making emergency arrangements for patients in the community who had suffered heat shock and were in a coma.
Even after everyone tagged them repeatedly, they didn't reply.
Suddenly, everyone in the neighborhood was filled with anxiety again!
Are you all alright?
After leaving the neighborhood group chat, Xu Lai went to their larger group chat with the Xiao family and the Lu family, and posted a message there.
As soon as they sent the message, they heard someone knocking on the door.
Xu Lai hurriedly went to the door and looked through the peephole to see who was outside. She found that it was the two people from the Xiao family next door and Old Master Lu from the Lu family.
She quickly opened the door and welcomed the three of them into her air-conditioned room.
"Thank goodness you reminded me to get a solar power system, otherwise, with such high temperatures and no electricity, our house would probably be in complete chaos!"
Grandpa Lu wiped the sweat from his face and said gratefully.
In such high temperatures, he almost couldn't breathe after climbing from the ninth to the seventeenth floor.
"That's right! Once you step out of the air-conditioned room, the other rooms in the house feel like they're being roasted by a fire; it's impossible to stay there!"
Grandpa Xiao also grabbed a wet towel and kept wiping the sweat from his forehead until he entered the air-conditioned room, at which point he felt much better.
Li Qingya, who entered the air-conditioned room, acted as if she hadn't heard Grandpa Xu and her father-in-law talking.
Her beautiful eyes were fixed on the ceiling and walls of the Xu family's air-conditioned room, her face full of surprise, as if she had suddenly discovered some incredible treasure.
"Lai Lai, is the ceiling and walls of this room covered with insulation?"
As a liberal arts graduate, Li Qingya had only heard the term "thermal insulation cotton" before and had no idea what thermal insulation cotton was.
But at the junction of the two walls, she saw a piece of insulation that was sticking up and looked like tin foil.
She recalled that before the natural disaster, when ordering takeout, the vendors used insulated bags with a layer of aluminum foil inside.
That's why I blurted out the name "thermal insulation cotton" just now.
"Yes, Sister Qingya..."
Before Xu Lai could finish speaking, Li Qingya excitedly grabbed her hand: "That's great! It seems our potatoes and sweet potatoes can be saved!"
After her initial excitement subsided, Li Qingya realized she was holding Xu Lai's hand a little too tightly, so she said apologetically to Xu Lai, "Lai Lai, I'm sorry, I was just too excited!"
Then she explained the reason behind it.
The more than twenty pots of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and vegetables that the Xiao family had planted were growing very well thanks to their care.
As a result, the weather suddenly heated up again, and even these crops couldn't withstand it. When Li Qingya and Grandpa Xiao got up early in the morning, they found that the leaves of those crops had wilted overnight.
At this time, the temperature is too high, and even the water stored in the bucket in the living room is only 60 degrees Celsius.
They carried the water to the air-conditioned room and waited for the temperature to drop before watering the crops.
As a result, after more than an hour, the watered crops wilted again.
She wanted to move the crops to the air-conditioned room, but the room was only so big that it could only fit a few potted plants.
With these twenty-odd pots of crops on the verge of drying out and the weather getting worse, these crops might just be the family's lifeline in the future.
Li Qingya was so anxious that her lips were almost burning with blisters.
Her father-in-law said to go to the Xu family and ask if they had any solutions, so she went out with him and knocked on the Xu family's door.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the Xu family's air-conditioned room, she saw these heat insulation cottons!
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