Chapter 339: Extreme cold, global freezing, let's all spend the winter together
Luo Feifei retreated quickly, slashing with the White Tiger Sword. The sword energy briefly split the turbulence in space. At the same time, the Lightning Phantom Armor automatically protected its master, buying her a moment to escape.
Under the altar base, a ten-meter-tall magma giant slowly stood up, its eyes as white as a furnace. Its body was flowing with liquid fire, and every step left boiling footprints on the rock. Sulfur and poisonous mist spewed out from its fangs: "Blood from another world...a perfect container!"
The sound was like hot metal rubbing against each other, which was creepy.
After going through numerous hardships and dangers to get here, Luo Feifei sneered: "Are you worthy enough?"
The Abyssal Sea King's Seal burst into a thousand-foot-long blue light above his head. At the same time, the "slowness" ability in his body was activated.
The giant's giant lava fist suddenly froze - within a hundred meters, a strange force field was generated, and the air became as sticky as glue. The giant's movements suddenly slowed down by more than ten times, and his raised giant palm was suspended in the air, and the speed of the lava dripping was clearly visible.
Seizing this fleeting opportunity, Luo Feifei turned into a blue lightning and rushed out. The White Tiger Sword split into dozens of sword shadows in the air, and each sword accurately pierced the elemental node at the giant's joint.
Frost marks spread, and the red crystal core of the giant's elbow joint shattered with the sharp sound of "chi chi" of the sword, and the lava shell made a crisp sound like porcelain cracking.
It roared and spewed out a sky-burning rain of fire, but Luo Feifei had already flashed to its shoulder, and the ice lotus under her feet bloomed to offset the soul-scorching heat.
"Sharp and Sharp Army Breaker!"
The sword blade suddenly emitted a three-foot-long cold light, cutting the giant's spine like cutting paper. Seven fire crystal cores exploded one after another, and the magma shell began to collapse. The giant beat his chest frantically, trying to transfer the core to his forehead, but saw a sly flash in the girl's eyes -
"That's what we've been waiting for!"
The lightning phantom armor exploded with a bang, and Luo Feifei turned into a stream of light that went straight through the sky. The White Tiger Sword rolled up a frost tornado under the blessing of "Critical Hit". The moment the tip of the sword pierced into the center of the eyebrows, the extremely cold energy spread wildly along the veins of the fire pattern.
“Crack!”
The magma giant knelt down with a bang, still looking shocked and angry. His ten-meter-long body was frozen into a dark blue sculpture. Luo Feifei flipped in the air and landed. The tip of her sword lightly touched the top of the sculpture, and the entire body shattered into crystals all over the ground.
She knelt on one knee and gasped heavily, with the White Tiger Sword inserted into the rock to support her body. The sweat was evaporated by the high temperature before it could even drip.
"cough……"
Swallowing the sweet taste in her throat, she slapped three Ice Soul Spirit Fruits into her mouth. The violent medicinal power flowed through her body, and eighteen spiritual power vortices formed a formation on their own during the bitter battle, swallowing up the rich extraordinary particles in the air.
After taking a short breath, she resolutely stepped onto the altar steps. With every step she climbed, the coldness grew more intense.
When she finally reached the top, her eyelashes were already covered with frost. The "Nine Nether Ice Soul" suspended in the center of the altar emitted a faint blue light, and just approaching it made her spiritual power begin to boil.
"Now!" Luo Feifei stretched out her hand without hesitation, grasped the Ice Soul, and pressed it into her forehead. The extremely cold energy instantly swept through her body. Eighteen whirlpools of spiritual power spun wildly, and finally gathered into a liquid spiritual pool in her dantian.
A blizzard hit the world inside the Skeleton Tower, and the fire law was temporarily suppressed. In the spirit pool, a new inscription emerged - "Time and Space Anchor".
"Brother Xiang... wait for me to come back." New inscriptions flashed on Luo Feifei's fingertips. She looked into the void, searching for a target to try out her methods.
This "space-time anchor" can temporarily freeze local space-time, or mark coordinates for teleportation.
She was looking for the space crack she had encountered before. If there was one, this "space-time anchor" could stabilize it temporarily so that she could pass through it.
At the same time, she can also mark the coordinates on both sides. If there are more coordinates recorded in the "space-time anchor", she can also draw a star map.
Very powerful.
"Unfortunately, I didn't have this ability when I came from Earth before, so I can't mark it." Luo Feifei sighed.
"Are we going to be trapped here forever?"
There are powerful molten lizards outside. Even though Luo Feifei has now stepped onto the holy steps, she dare not go out easily.
Since she was already here, she might as well make the best of it. There was still plenty of food, water and elixirs in her space gem ring. Moreover, this world was rich in extraordinary particles. As a saint, she could survive even without food or water. So she simply calmed down and began to practice.
After an unknown amount of time, about thirty kilometers away from the altar, a purple-black crack suddenly appeared, just like the previous one. Her speed was also 10 Mach, but when she rushed over, the space crack had already collapsed.
There is nothing you can do about this kind of thing, you can only rely on luck. Fortunately, this space seems to be quite unstable, and there should be more space cracks.
Sure enough, not long after, a crack appeared again.
This time, they were closer, and Luo Feifei flashed to the side of the rift. She used the "Space-Time Anchor" to stabilize it temporarily, but the "Divination" inscription jumped wildly, reminding her that the opposite side was extremely dangerous and she must not enter.
The danger level is even greater than when she entered this small world from Earth before.
Helpless, Luo Feifei had to give up.
She is bold and decisive, but not stupid. She won't do anything she is not sure of.
The "divination" inscription can help her avoid misfortune and seek good fortune.
Luo Feifei regarded it as a retreat for cultivation. She returned to the altar to consolidate her Saint level. After about seven days, another space rift finally appeared.
This time, Luo Feifei anchored it in time, and then the divination inscription prompted that the other side was relatively safe, so she flashed and passed through the space channel.
Not long after she came over, the space crack collapsed.
However, Luo Feifei has marked its coordinates, so perhaps there will be a chance to go back in the future.
"This is the Black Mist Star Region." She is now at least a few light years away from the coordinates just now, because there is a displacement record on the space-time anchor.
When two coordinates are "lit up", a simple "star map", well, a star map with only two coordinates is "taken shape".
Luo Feifei looked at the swirling black fog around her, and she couldn't see her hand in front of her face. Fortunately, her "Insight" ability was useful.
After stepping onto the holy steps, the "Insight" ability can easily see through every move within a radius of dozens of kilometers.
In addition, her many water and ice abilities were also combined into one, forming a large natal inscription, saying "Cang Ming Bing Ji·Tian Yuan Gui Chao". Her various abilities such as water escape, ice escape, freezing, Yunmengze, and Hai Xin Chain were greatly improved.
At this moment, she was on an ice field. It was dark and cold, and the environment was extremely harsh. The temperature was at least minus 50 to 60 degrees Celsius, which was not suitable for ordinary people to survive.
Moreover, there is no air here, but there is a rich supply of extraordinary particles.
As a saint, he can survive without air.
Luo Feifei explored this new world and soon encountered a nest of strange beasts. Fortunately, these beasts were not particularly powerful, and after a fierce battle, they were all killed.
These strange beasts were the cubs of some kind of space beasts. Luo Feifei didn't recognize them, but they looked extremely ferocious. After discovering Luo Feifei, they pounced on her one after another. Luo Feifei didn't show any mercy.
Unfortunately, she didn't have a system, so she couldn't get achievement points or elixir rewards by killing strange beasts, but she could hone her martial arts and various supernatural powers, which was a small gain.
For example, she has mastered a unique skill called "Ice Soul Divine Needle", which allows her to send out tens of thousands of ice needles at the same time, all of which carry the "sharp" ability. Although the power of a single ice needle is not very great, it is a very practical group attack skill.
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On Earth, this year's winter came earlier and is colder than in previous years.
Global freeze.
This year's Sichuan Province was not much better than the ice field where Luo Feifei was. The lowest temperature at night was about minus 50 to 60 degrees Celsius.
It's a little better during the day, but still around minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius.
In the first year of the global heavy snowfall, Singapore only had one or two days of snow, and the snow was not heavy and melted quickly. But this year, the temperature in Singapore dropped to minus ten degrees Celsius, and a lot of floating ice appeared in the sea. Although the Strait of Malacca was not completely frozen, it looked like a frozen port from a distance.
The straits south of New Zealand and Australia are even more exaggerated, with ice layers tens of meters thick, as if the entire Antarctic ice wall had been pushed outward for thousands of kilometers.
Huge icebergs dot the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and the sea surface close to the land is completely frozen.
Russian netizen: "Haha, let's all come together to look for ice-free ports and count how many are left. We look for them every year but can't find them. Now we are finally the same."
Russia has a vast coastline, but unfortunately every winter, most of the ports freeze over, leaving only a few ice-free ports. Now they feel balanced, and everyone feels the same.
Indian netizen: "Even so, we have five ice-free ports, and you geese have none now."
Russian netizens: "So what? Do you dare to go out to sea now?"
In such severe cold weather, ocean trade was almost interrupted and netizens around the world began to hibernate together.
Northeastern netizens share tips for wintering.
For example, there is the "kang transformation method".
A netizen from Liaoning Province @雪原猎手 posted a tutorial video on how to build a brick-built kang, in which he used a shovel to demonstrate how to compact the insulation layer using a mixture of straw and clay.
"My friends, remember to build the kang into a U-shape. Burning two bundles of corn cobs can keep you warm all day long!" The wife could be heard shouting "The sauerkraut is ready" from outside the camera. When the wooden pot lid was opened, the heat blurred the camera.
Someone immediately reported it because the wife's half-exposed face and her unique voice sounded a bit like "Northeast Rain Sister".
Soon, the account was blocked. After verification by the platform, it was indeed Sister Yu from Northeast China.
Netizens were discussing this, "Oh my god, does Sister Yu have to keep doing this? It's been so many years, and she still hasn't stopped."
"Netizens are the same. They report every person they find, leaving no room for survival."
A blogger from Heilongjiang Province live-streamed an outdoor video in minus 72 degrees Celsius, demonstrating the "treasure hiding technique in the cellar": the man, wrapped in a mink hat, swung his pickaxe fiercely at the frozen soil.
"Did you see that? If you dig three meters deep, you can keep the temperature constant at around zero degrees!" The scene switches to neatly stacked piles of cabbage and jars of spicy cabbage in the cellar, and frozen fish in an iron bucket in the corner stand upright like sculptures.
Netizens were amazed, can the temperature really be kept at zero degrees?
Then, a father and son from Jilin Province built a dome-shaped house in their courtyard with snow bricks to create an "ice and snow fortress". The eight-year-old son wore rabbit fur earmuffs and blew out white air while showing off: "My dad said that the snow wall is more heat-insulating than concrete!"
My father used his red hands to smear snow slurry in the gaps between the ice bricks, and the kettle of milk tea on the iron stove in the house was bubbling.
Southern netizens also shared their own unique tips for wintering.
A netizen from Guangdong province, @靓仔怕冷, wailed on the forum: "The air conditioner's outdoor unit is frozen and on strike!" The accompanying picture showed a figure wrapped in three layers of coral fleece pajamas, curled up next to the induction cooker. The solution of netizens from Jiangsu and Zhejiang quickly appeared in the comment area - "Use a hair dryer to defrost the outdoor unit, and remember to put on a windshield!"
Hotpot life-saving literature: A girl from Chengdu posted a photo of sausages frozen into icy blocks on the balcony. The close-up video of her using a kitchen knife to chop sparks received millions of likes, with comments such as "Hand the knife to the Antarctic expedition team."
A hotpot restaurant in Chongqing has launched a "-50 degrees challenge package". The waiter wears a cold-proof mask and performs the unique skill of turning tripe into crispy ice flakes in seconds at an open-air table.
The absurd drama of heating equipment: White-collar workers in Shanghai complained in their circle of friends: "I couldn't get an electric blanket, so I stuffed my cat into my sweatshirt to use it as a heat pad!" The accompanying picture showed a British shorthair's confused round face sticking out from the collar, and half a meter long icicles hung on the window frame in the background.
A shopping mall in Hangzhou urgently launched a "down quilt sharing rental" service, and the surveillance footage of people in the queue slipping on the ice became a hot topic that day.
Many videos of winter wonders have also been transmitted to China. For example, an Indian netizen posted a photo of walking on the ice of the Ganges on Twitter, shivering even with five layers of cashmere shawls wrapped around him: "Yoga warming method is completely ineffective!"
A Russian auntie taught the "vodka-fueled theory" in the VK community: "Guys, three cups a day can make your blood boil for four hours!" The accompanying picture was an ice castle with empty bottles on the windowsill, and a large number of Northeast IPs were mixed in the likes list.
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Lijia Village.
In such severe cold weather, the scenic spot was naturally closed and the employees were given a holiday. Well, paid holiday.
The villagers all said that working for Xiangge'er was just like working in the system. This year alone, I don't know how many days of paid leave I took.
Li Xiang turned up the floor heating and air conditioning at home to the maximum. He and Jiang Caier were naturally not afraid of the cold, but it was mainly grandma.
Jiang Jianguo and his wife also moved in, and Li Xiang now calls them father-in-law and mother-in-law. Because there are not many people, the father-in-law and mother-in-law move in, and there is someone to help with cooking, and the house is more lively. You can also play mahjong.
The small animals are all keeping warm in the greenhouse in the vegetable garden. It is ventilated and has a brazier. The extraordinary pets are actually not afraid of the severe cold, but Li Xiang's family also has many ordinary small animals. For example, there are now more than thirty kittens. One brazier is not enough at all. There are seven or eight of them in several greenhouses.
Every day I have to cook a big pot of porridge just to feed the little animals.
The hot porridge, combined with cured fish, cured meat, cured sausage, dried cowpea and dried bamboo shoots, does not require any additional salt or seasoning and the little animals enjoy it very much.
Li Xiang put first-level elixir in their porridge, and several extraordinary cute pets were born, all under the leadership of Erhuang and the little fox.
When Li Xiang was around, he would cook for them himself. When Li Xiang was not around, Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang would cook for them. If Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang were also busy, Li Xiang's grandmother would cook for them.
But grandma is old after all, and sometimes she can't do everything, so Erhuang and the little fox will come to help, such as helping to pour rice into the pot, and holding firewood in their mouths to add fire to the stove.
Although the weather was extremely cold, the construction of the underground city did not stop. Before that, many building materials were stored at the construction site, and the workers were busy with construction or decoration.
Firstly, the underground city is relatively warm, and secondly, the workers need the money. They don't have paid leave, and if they don't work for a day, they don't get paid.
The first shelter was originally the filming location for the movie version of The Return of the Condor Heroes, but now that the popularity of the movie has passed, Luo Feifei is "gone" again. Not only has she retired from the film industry long ago, she has also left this world.
It was only a few years away from the end of the world, so Jiang Caier personally drew up the blueprints to turn this place into a luxurious mountain villa. The wood used for furniture and floors was the world's top-grade red sandalwood, golden teak, rosewood, etc., which was quite precious.
From now on, this will be their family's residence.
The second phase of the shelter includes the garment factory and the residences of Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui and others, which have already been renovated, and the remaining vacant areas have also begun to be renovated.
Except for Yao Yao and her family's residence, the materials used for other places are ordinary wood and tiles. Yao Yao and her family's own house also cost a lot of money. Li Xiang also gave them some precious wood and leather, as well as some cashmere blankets, all of which were of first-class quality and exquisite patterns.
In addition to these soft furnishings, there are also various precious ornaments. The lampshades are all crystal condensed, and the kitchen countertops are all top-grade jadeite, made by Li Xiang's crystal gold armed hands, who can change the shape of these crystals at will.
In a word, it is magnificent and luxurious.
Why not enjoy it if you can afford it?
Yao Yao and her friends' residence is located at the innermost, bottommost corner of the second phase shelter, far away from the exit and the central square because it has better privacy.
The third phase is more grand, designed to accommodate about 5,000 people. It has been completed and decoration has begun.
Due to the large number of people, the housing space is more compact. They are all simply decorated resettlement houses, including many dormitories. Public places include commercial plazas, schools, hospitals, libraries, collective canteens, underground farms, etc.
For example, there were more than one collective canteen. There were three in the second phase and eight in the third phase. After that, it was estimated that few families would cook on their own.
Firstly, there will be energy shortage in the end times.
Secondly, and most importantly, there are fire hazards in the underground city. Once a fire breaks out in this kind of underground closed space, the consequences will be disastrous. Li Xiang has many extraordinary people here, so the problem is not big. If a fire breaks out in other underground cities, it may burn a large area, and it will be very inconvenient to evacuate people. In a closed space, many people will die just from the smoke and fire.
The rooms in the third phase of the shelter are all paved with cement floors, while the commercial square is paved with bluestone slabs. As for the soil in the underground farm, it all comes from the fertile black soil of the Outer Northeast Plain, which was transported by Li Xiang from the warehouse.
The Outer Northeast Plain is located in the Amur Oblast on the other side of the Heilongjiang River. It covers an area of more than 200,000 square kilometers. It has a slightly higher latitude and a slightly lower accumulated temperature. Like the Northeast Plain in China, the land is extremely fertile.
However, due to the sparse population, lack of sufficient labor and small market demand, the cultivated land area and development level are not as good as those in the Northeast Plain in China. Currently, there is still a lot of undeveloped land in the area.
Li Xiang was not polite about seeing such fertile land lying idle, so he transferred all the fertile soil to the underground farm.
Because the mountain belly dug out by Lijia Village is basically rock. Although there is soil, the soil underground lacks organic matter and is relatively poor, not very suitable for crop growth.
Use the best soil you can.
In addition, the Ukrainian Plains in Ukraine, the Mississippi Plains in the United States, and the Pampas in South America from Argentina to Uruguay are also fertile black soil, among which the Pampas is subtropical reddish black soil.
Black soil does not refer to black soil, but rather to soil with a high humus content. Its black color comes from the black color of the humus.
On the Internet, some people specialize in selling this kind of soil, ten kilograms for a few dollars, and free shipping. But in fact, this black soil resource is limited. It takes a long time for it to form.
With the soil in place and the underground farm taking shape, Zhao Xueqing led some villagers to start working in the underground farm. For the time being, there was no large-scale planting, but several experimental fields had been opened to test some special species.
Plants need light to photosynthesize, and modern agriculture already has mature solutions. Li Xiang purchased a batch of plant light incubators for breeding. After the conditions are stable, he will install lighting, irrigation, heating, moisturizing and other systems on a large scale in the underground farm.
With Jiang Caier around, everything is naturally managed fully automatically.
In addition, we need to cultivate some insects, such as butterflies and bees, to pollinate crops. If that doesn't work, artificial pollination is also being explored.
Of course, although it can be fully automated, it can still be done manually if necessary, such as when people need to be assigned jobs.
Due to heavy snow outside, the roads were difficult to travel. For safety reasons, Li Xiang personally took action and built five tunnels starting from the underground city of Lijia Village. The kind that can be driven through, leading to Shenjiawan (grandparents' home), Yaojialing (Yao Yao's home), Zhaojiaping (Zhao Xueqing's home), Leijiagou (the homes of the Lei brothers and sisters and some security guards) and the county seat.
Li Xiang’s work was quick and efficient. Now it is very convenient for everyone whether they come to work or go to the county town to make purchases.
If construction sites want to transport goods back and forth, they also use the underground passage leading to the county town.
Many villagers, including residents in the county town, felt that their homes were cold and that turning on air conditioning or floor heating consumed too much electricity, so they hid in the tunnels dug by Li Xiang, warmed themselves by the fire on the roadside, and boiled tea around the stove.
The underground tunnel is warm in winter and cool in summer.
There is just one bad thing, it will hinder traffic.
After learning about this, Li Xiang renovated the tunnel again. He selected places with dense populations, extended some space from both sides of the road, and designed an "air-raid shelter". He also used crystal gold to condense many stone tables, stone chairs, and iron stoves.
Because stone furnaces are prone to cracking, iron is more suitable for smelting. He collected a lot of open-pit iron ore from Australia, which was a drop in the bucket for smelting a few furnaces.
Then some security guards were sent to maintain order in these gathering places. This attracted many people to set up stalls and do business, and the underground commercial plaza opened for business ahead of schedule.
There is no way. Heavy snow cannot stop the hardworking Chinese people from making money.
As for the fourth phase of the shelter, it is still under construction, but it is almost completed. The plan for the fifth phase has been finalized and construction will begin soon.
Li Xiang helped dig the underground space, saving the construction company a lot of trouble. Later, when the shelters of each phase were connected, a huge underground city would be formed.
In the future, commercial centers, material storage warehouses, underground farms, etc. will be built between the various shelters.
As for the underground city’s power system, it has already been solved.
Li Xiang opened up a space deeper underground and released two advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the United States. Jiang Caier hacked into all the electronic components on the aircraft carriers and tampered with the control system permissions. The electricity for the underground city was connected to the aircraft carriers.
At the same time, Jiang Caier also referred to the design concept of his nuclear reactor to improve her own new nuclear reactor, which can be upgraded after it is successfully developed.
Some destroyers, frigates and the like had also been looted before. Jiang Caier also invaded these warships, gained control of them, and buried them on several other hills. The radars, naval guns, and vertical launch units on them could all be used to guard the base.
There is no need for anyone to control it, Jiang Caier can handle everything by herself.
(End of this chapter)
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