Chapter 9 Hail
The hail continued to fall, and after several hours, the sky outside the window turned pale. Many dark clouds appeared on the horizon, completely blocking out the usually bright sunshine.
The world ushered in the first day of the apocalypse.
The dense hailstones scattered on the ground were almost transparent. Looking down, they looked cold white, like the flash of light from the edge of a knife.
Tang Tian had a biological clock that she had trained herself to work on. A few dozen minutes of deep sleep would keep her energetic for almost the entire day. So at this moment, she woke up quickly.
She moved Tantan's nest to her own room, turned on the air conditioner and humidifier, and it was warm.
As soon as he lifted the quilt, Tan Tan also sensed it, opened his dark eyes, and the tail propeller behind him started.
I put on my clothes and walked out of the bedroom. The room was quiet, with only the sound of hail falling that continued unabated.
The hailstones accumulated on the balcony, large and small, are as high as ankles.
Thinking that Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia should still be sleeping, Tang Tian washed up first and then went to the kitchen. After trying, she found that the water, electricity and gas were not turned off.
It seems that the power facilities have not been damaged by the hail, and the outdoor temperature has not dropped to the point where the water pipes will be frozen.
The indoor thermometer has been stuck at 5 degrees Celsius. While there is still energy, Tang Tian went straight to turn on the floor heating, as it would be a waste not to use it.
The New Year's Eve dinner they had carefully prepared yesterday hadn't been finished yet, especially the rice. So Tang Tian turned on the stove, intending to make some hot rice porridge. A bowl of it would definitely warm her hands and feet.
Tantan now understands that as long as the owner enters this room, he will definitely take out delicious food, so he also looks forward to it at his feet, and from time to time he stretches out his little paws to touch the slippers, as if to remind him.
So Tang Tian put some rice porridge in a dog bowl, which was just enough to soften the dog food and milk cake.
After it cooled, she trained it a few more times before setting the bowl down and letting it devour.
"Tiantian, you're up so early?"
Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia walked out of the bedroom while rubbing their eyes, and there was even a hint of blue under their eyes.
"Mom, sister, let's wash up and eat first. We probably won't be going out for the next few days."
Steam rose from the pot, and Tang Tian added some side dishes and served breakfast on the table.
"Oh, I remembered that there's a property management group at Hexinyuan. Do you want to join?"
Tang Yi said as she took out her cell phone.
Buying a house is a big deal, and you will meet many relevant people, such as the property management of Hexinyuan, which then extends to the neighborhood committee and even the building group.
Thinking that she would live here for a long time, Tang Yi joined the property management group and building group in advance, and only opened them occasionally to see if there was any new information.
In fact, in Tang Tian's previous life, he also regarded these groups as a life-saving straw, thinking that there would definitely be important news there in the end.
But what was unexpected was that there were only overwhelming complaints, panic and abuse, and riots and conflicts were everywhere.
The neighborhood committee property was able to maintain discipline at the beginning, but later it suffered a backlash.
As a result, the order within Hexinyuan collapsed, and this is just a microcosm of society, and we can still foresee the future outcome.
Tang Tian no longer receives any messages on communication apps, including those from colleagues, friends, advertisers, and banks.
However, thinking that in the future, mobile phones would automatically become bricks, she and Wei Mingxia still joined the group.
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After having a simple but warm breakfast, Wei Mingxia decided not to hold her daughter back and chose to exercise.
But her health was not good, so she couldn't do anything too intense at first. So she started with fitness methods like Ba Duan Jin and Tai Chi. Tang Tian specially downloaded videos of this kind.
The latter opens the system.
First, harvest all the ingredients, then switch to the food store. Sure enough, all the food that was placed there before was sold out.
Pork and green onion dumplings and shepherd's purse and pork wontons, each one costs 15 gold coins. After they are sold out, I made 150 gold coins.
Tang Tian helplessly held her forehead. Was it because the food was too low-quality, or was it that gold coins were so hard to earn?
No wonder the system also has a krypton gold function. You know, the subsequent recipes are very expensive, and there are other equipment and upgrades to buy. This amount of gold coins is simply not enough.
But when she thought of this, Tang Tian became distracted again.
The family's money was almost gone, with only a little gold left. Wouldn't those jade jewels have to be purchased for free?
Tang Tian had made purchases for free in her previous life. Of course, before that, she had made a great determination and crossed her own moral bottom line before deciding to do it.
But later she discovered that in the end times, all ethics and morals were not as important as her own hunger and thirst, so they all had to be thrown aside.
Moreover, as time goes by, the value of these gold and jade will depreciate and they will not be as valuable as a bag of rice.
Even if it is hail now, there is no chaos, so she will not take the risk and go when it rains freezing rain or snows blizzards later.
The first seven days of novice sign-in have also ended, and a total of 3,000 gold coins were obtained in three days.
In addition, a piece of equipment was obtained on the second day - a crab pot.
Following the guidance of the system, Tang Tian placed the crab cage in the water to see what would happen next.
On the third day, she obtained a new ingredient - ice grass.
Tang Tian knew that this ingredient was mainly used for cold dishes or salads, but she currently had no recipe to use it, so she temporarily put it in the warehouse.
On the last day, she signed in and received a recipe:
【Spicy Strips】
[Fragrant and spicy spicy strips, you can't stop eating them. 30% chance of gaining Warmth Level 1 bonus after eating. Duration: 1 hour]
"System, is this the superpower you mentioned?"
Tang Tian asked, and Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia also looked over curiously.
"Yes, host. Congratulations to the host for unlocking the first delicacy with a superpower label!"
"Warmth is the name of the ability, and LV stands for level. The higher the level, the more pronounced the effect. As for how the ability manifests physically, the host probably needs to experience it firsthand."
However, the literal meaning is very clear, and Tang Tian can also understand that this must be a delicacy suitable for eating in extreme cold!
Tang Tian became interested and continued to unlock the recipes.
Flour combined with pork unlocks the "Shaobing":
[A large, crispy, golden-brown pancake. 30% chance of gaining a LV1 bonus to physical fitness after consumption.]
At this point, all [N-level recipes, Part 1] have been unlocked.
The system spoke again:
"The host already has two supernatural recipes. A reminder: each person can only have a maximum of two supernatural powers. If you want more, you can go to the shopping street to upgrade!"
Wow, he starts with two superpowers?!
Tang Tian excitedly went to the shopping street to check it out, but ended up having a basin of cold water poured over her head.
Upgrading superpowers also requires gold coins, but the amount required is more than upgrading food plots and warehouses!
Seeing that Tang Tian was a little disappointed, Tang Yi comforted her:
"It's okay, at least we have two superpowers from the start. We must all have the warming effect of spicy noodles, this is the most important thing!"
"Yeah, it would be better to unlock more recipes first and see if there are any other special abilities."
Wei Mingxia raised her glasses. Although these were probably things that young people were more aware of, she was also trying hard to absorb and digest them.
Tang Tian nodded, took a look at the ingredients in the warehouse, made dumplings and wontons, and this time made some extra sesame cakes to sell together.
I still have a lot of food in stock at home, and I don’t have to go out so early, so I don’t need to make special delicacies.
However, since spicy strips have special effects, she decided to make and stock up a batch first.
But if you want to make spicy strips, you need bean curd collected from the workshop and chili peppers harvested from the farmland.
Because the ingredients harvested are random, and bean curd and chili peppers seem a bit difficult to obtain, there is no stock in the warehouse.
Tang Tian sighed and decided to continue to go online to collect the orders regularly, so as to make the spicy strips as early as possible.
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Three days later, Tang Tian went to the balcony and saw from a distance that the hail there was already calf-deep. As soon as she opened the door, countless hailstones poured into the house.
Among them are soybeans, eggs, and fist-sized ones, which is quite normal.
But after Tang Tian started to collect them into the system, he found that some of them were as big as tennis balls and volleyballs. These were definitely not normal hailstones.
After collecting the hailstones, Tang Tian looked up at the thermometer installed outdoors in advance - it was already minus 5 degrees Celsius.
However, the temperature in the house is always kept at around 20 degrees.
The hail that continued to fall over three days had long become the focus of everyone's discussion.
Even the official morning and evening news that followed devoted most of their time to reporting on this bizarre hailstorm.
Agricultural losses resulted in the destruction of crops, orchards, and greenhouses; livestock farms were also damaged by heavy hail;
Traffic accidents occurred frequently, and flights were delayed and canceled on a large scale. The situation was so serious that even track signals and ships were damaged.
This is still from a distance. Just around the corner, the roads are in a mess, with damaged buildings, vehicles, public facilities and trees everywhere, and the ground is covered with dense hailstones.
Officials would like to clean up the area, but they would run the risk of being hit by large hailstones.
And because work has not been completely stopped, many office workers still have to go to work despite complaining.
But if we do this, ordinary people will eventually suffer injuries of varying degrees, leading to a surge in the number of trauma patients in hospitals.
The property management group and the buildings were also very lively. Some people were hit on the head by hail while cleaning the balcony, some were surprised by the size of the hail, and some had their private car windows broken.
Hexinyuan has an underground garage, but there are also marked parking spaces next to the building, and some people park directly on the ground.
As anxiety and panic gradually intensified, some people began to become suspicious, and remarks about the end of the world continued to appear on the Internet.
But the gimmick of the end of the world appears every few years, and each time it attracts public ridicule, and this time is no exception.
Most people still think it is a big fuss. After all, it was hot for so long before. Isn't it normal to have a large hailstorm after the temperature drops?
But these heated discussions did not affect the Tang family.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Tang Tian made a homemade target using a cardboard box, foam pad and iron wire, then took out a crossbow and placed them on the two farthest sides.
After aiming, he shot two arrows directly, hitting the target in the distance, and there were only five and six rings.
Tang Yi was lifting weights on the all-in-one machine, and Wei Mingxia was exercising on the lowest-level elliptical machine.
This was the first time Tang Tian used this kind of long-range weapon. In her previous life, she used more cold weapons, so she had to practice while she could still stay at home.
But even though she had a crossbow in her hand, the arrows she had stored were getting fewer and fewer as she used them. When she went out in the extreme cold, she would probably use more cold weapons.
Just because you don’t need to do it doesn’t mean you won’t do it.
After taking the arrow from the target, Tang Tian was about to continue when she heard a sudden and hurried knock on the door.
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