Chapter 63 The Situation is Dire
Min Weihuan went door to door to inquire about the situation and found out that all the elderly people in their apartment building were gone. However, because Min Weihuan knocked on the door to remind them last night, the death situation in their apartment building was not serious.
The elimination system at the end of the world has eliminated all the old people, leaving only the young people and children.
The entire 14th floor of the neighboring apartment building was gone. Everything on the 14th floor was looted by the people in the apartment building, including the wooden furniture, which was smashed and taken away.
So Min Weihuan took the men in their apartment building and sent the deceased elderly person to the room on the 14th floor next door. When the weather got better, they would find a place to bury the body.
Not only their apartment building, but other apartment buildings also keep the dead in the homes of people whose entire family has died out.
On the second day of extreme cold, the temperature reached minus 50°C, and two more people in their apartment building were frozen to death. One of them was Qian Hanyue who lived on the 19th floor. Wu Jin's wife was gone.
According to Wu Jin, she took off her own warm clothes and gave them to Qian Xiaoxiao. Qian Xiaoxiao recovered, but she died.
Wu Jin's family wanted to cry loudly, but they found that their tears turned into ice on the spot, and their faces were almost hurt, so they could only hold back their tears.
Lu Xingtang only said his condolences. That afternoon, Qian Hanyue was sent to the 14th floor of the next-door apartment building by the three of them, father and son.
On the third day of extreme cold, it was snowing heavily outside and the temperature had reached minus 60°C. Many people braved the snow to go out and look for supplies, leaving deep and shallow footprints in the snow.
On the fourth day of extreme cold, heavy snow was still falling, and the temperature was even lower than yesterday, at -70°C.
On the fifth day of extreme cold, the heavy snow turned into moderate snow, and all the buildings were covered with white snow. Looking up, everything was white, and the temperature dropped even more sharply, to minus 80°.
"This weather is simply too harsh to survive!" Lu Xingtang, Ji Yanmo, and Su Cheng stood at the stairs. Frost covered the entire corridor, and the walls were even thicker. Originally, the stairs could accommodate four people at the same time, but now it was difficult for one person to enter and exit.
"It's even more terrifying than the Arctic! I wonder if the temperature will continue to drop tomorrow?" Lu Xingtang's eyes fell on the icy surface of the steps. In his previous life, during the early stages of extreme cold, the temperature stabilized when the snow stopped falling, which was half a month after the extreme cold. But on the sixth day of extreme cold, the temperature didn't drop as quickly, dropping gradually.
Sure enough, on the sixth day of extreme cold, the temperature was minus 81°C and the moderate snow turned into light snow.
Not only the apartment building, but the entire imperial capital was in an icy hole. "You say, the temperature in the imperial capital has dropped so drastically? What's the situation in the north? Has it reached -90°C? Maybe everyone is frozen to death."
These words seemed particularly depressing.
She didn't know whether the extreme cold of her previous life had reached the north and frozen everyone to death. She hadn't encountered any survivors fleeing south, nor had she heard of anything happening in the north. Perhaps the situation was even worse than in the imperial capital.
Lu Xingtang and the other two had enough supplies, so they didn't risk going out to look for them. Every day they saw people going out to look for supplies, but only a few came back.
The extreme cold lasted for the seventh, eighth, ninth day... until the twentieth day, with the temperature reaching minus 95°C with a daily increase, and it snowed lightly every day.
Many people in their apartment building froze to death during this period. In order to survive, everyone went out together again and again to look for supplies, including food, coal, wood, etc. Unfortunately, floods submerged the imperial capital, and except for going to the mountains, they could basically not find wood.
Unfortunately, the supplies they found were very few each time, and everyone could only eat the snow to survive.
On July 15th, the snow stopped falling, and everyone unexpectedly discovered that the temperature had dropped a little, to -92°C. This small change made everyone cheer loudly. For them, the rising temperature was a blessing from heaven.
On July 16, the temperature dropped to 88°C. This change made everyone cry, "We finally have a chance to survive. Please overcome the difficulties, grit your teeth, and get through this!"
"Ahhhhh!!! I want to survive! I don't want to freeze to death!"
Over the next seven days, the temperature dropped by five degrees every day, eventually settling at minus 53 degrees.
After the temperature rose, everyone went out in groups to look for supplies. They formed teams based on their apartment buildings and, before heading out to look for supplies, they carried all those who had frozen to death to the homes of those whose families had all perished. They also looted other people's homes, especially any warm furniture.
In order to avoid arousing suspicion, Lu Xingtang was going out to look for supplies. She wrapped herself tightly and told Su Cheng and Ji Yanmo through the intercom that she was going out to look for supplies. As a result, Ji Yanmo and Su Cheng said they wanted to go out too, so after Su Cheng settled Su Hao, the three of them went out together to look for supplies.
Seeing that the other person had wrapped himself up like a bear, you couldn't even tell who he was unless you looked closely.
Each of the three people carried a backpack containing a fire axe, ice pick, rope, and crampons. When they saw ice blocking the way, they used the ice pick or fire pick to smash it and walked on the broken ice.
When they walked out of the community with difficulty, they saw that the trees and shopping mall gates outside the community that had fallen on the ice had all been taken away, as long as they were made of wood.
The three of them could only brave the freezing wind and head to the botanical garden thirty miles away. On the way, they saw many people who had gone out with them to look for supplies. When they arrived at the botanical garden, they saw countless people wielding hoes, sickles, fire axes, and hammers, chopping and smashing trees with all their might.
The chopped wood was guarded by a special person with a murderous look on his face, who would not allow anyone to get close to the wood they had worked so hard to cut.
Lu Xingtang and the other two ignored them and found a place where no one was cutting down trees. Each of them took a tree and chopped it down with a fire axe. Because the trees were frozen hard, it took a lot of effort for the three of them to cut through the trees and cut them into pieces.
At this moment, Lu Xingtang really wanted to take out the chainsaw from the space. The chainsaw was the magic tool for logging!
Watching Ji Yanmo and Su Cheng quickly use ropes to tie the wood tightly and prevent it from falling apart, the wood she tied was easy to fall apart. If she hadn't been quick, the wood would have rolled into someone else's territory.
Ji Yanmo looked at Lu Xingtang's helpless appearance and smiled faintly: "I'll come over to help you right away!"
"Thank you!" Lu Xingtang looked at Ji Yanmo with gratitude, and then put the wood chips from logging into his backpack. The wood chips could be used to start a fire.
However, there are always people who are blind and don’t want to work hard to get materials.
Seeing the wood and branches of a tree next to Lu Xingtang, they exchanged glances and came towards her: "Little sister, thank you for your hard work in cutting trees for us brothers. I have nothing to repay you with, so I'll give you this sickle!"
The sickle in his hand had a chip and was not sharp, while the fire axe in Lu Xingtang's hand was sharp and tough, which made him very jealous!
Lu Xingtang looked at them as if they were dead: "Since you are all pitiful people, I will give you a chance. Get out! Otherwise..." Lu Xingtang took out a pistol from his pocket: "I will have a talk with you with my gun."
(End of this chapter)
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