Chapter 120 Extreme Cold (13)
By the time Lan Jin brought the brown sugar ginger water, Grandma Ling had already woken up. When she saw Lan Jin, she choked up and said, "I heard everything. Thank you, my dear child. Don't worry about me. You have children at home. Don't let them get cold again."
Lan Jin replied, "You won't be cold. I'll bring some brown sugar ginger water over. You can all drink a bowl to get rid of the cold. It's enough for all of you."
"Have you drunk anything yourself? Don't just remember us."
"I'll give you the ones I left behind so I can go back and feed the baby."
Grandma Ling quickly agreed, worried that if she returned late, her child would not be able to drink the hot ginger water. "Okay, go ahead. Son, thank you so much for coming today."
"Then you guys come by yourselves, I'm going back first."
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After Lan Jin returned, she entered the space. No matter how good the brown sugar ginger water was, it was not as good as the spiritual spring water in the space. After she drank a large bowl of spiritual spring water, she went to the thatched hut to accompany her child to catch up on sleep.
This sleep lasted until——
It wasn't that late. After all, although she stayed up all night last night, the child didn't. The little kid woke up at the usual time.
Lan Qiaoqiao was very confused about the fact that she had clearly slept outside last night but woke up in the space today. "Mom, why are you here?"
Lan Jin said: "The temperature suddenly dropped last night, and Mom was worried that you would get sick, so she came in to sleep with you."
Ran Qiaoqiao had no idea about the temperature drop. She simply asked, "Is it cold?" Then, pointing to her own thermal underwear, she said, "That's enough. I'm not cold anymore, am I?"
Before entering the space yesterday, she took a look at the temperature outside. It was already -30 degrees Celsius. If it dropped any lower, she didn't know if it would be freezing. After all, it was her first time in such a temperature. But wasn't the constant temperature suit supposed to keep it at 70 degrees? It shouldn't be cold, right?
Lan Jin said, "That's right. It's too cold outside. How about we wear some thicker clothes before going out? That way, people won't see us and wonder if we have something valuable, and it would be hard for us to explain."
Hearing Lan Jin's words, Lan Qiaoqiao, who hadn't fully regained consciousness yet, shuddered and immediately protested, "No, good things can't be known to others. Wear something thick."
Lan Jin gave Lan Qiaoqiao a set of cotton coats and trousers in addition to the constant temperature clothes, and she also wore a set of fleece pants and a down jacket on the outside. She herself was also wearing almost the same thick clothes, and then they left the space together.
I have to say, black technology is black technology. Wearing constant temperature clothing, they really didn’t feel how cold it was.
But when she came to the balcony, she found that the temperature on the thermometer she bought was only thirty degrees below zero. If nothing unexpected happened, it would have reached the bottom last night, so she really didn't know what the temperature was at this moment.
But let’s just say…it’s extremely cold, right?
The temperature in a southern city where the maximum temperature is minus 5 degrees Celsius can drop to below zero overnight... I don't know how many degrees it is. I think it can only be done under extreme cold conditions.
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However, the arrival of extreme cold also brought them good news, that is, the rain that had been falling for two months and had reached the 23rd floor finally stopped.
Not only that, there is a layer of ice on the surface of the flood. As to whether it is possible to walk on it, it still needs to be verified.
But what Lan Jin was more curious about was how many people had managed to survive on such a cold night yesterday.
Cold temperatures are certainly scary, but what is even scarier is extreme hypothermia of the human body.
When a large amount of human body heat is lost in a short period of time, the temperature of the core area of the body will drop, thereby causing symptoms such as heart and lung failure. The temperature drop starts in the middle of the night. I am afraid that these people will die while they are still asleep without even having the chance to open their eyes.
Lan Jin didn't have time to feel sad for others, as she had a lot of things to do right now.
She and Ranchocho had thermal underwear, but the dog didn't. She had to give Nana a warm place where she could stay to avoid getting frozen.
So after searching in the space for a while, he took out a small sun and two electric blankets.
However, just as she powered on these devices and was about to use them, the battery on the balcony exploded with a bang.
Fortunately, Lan Jin's battery was placed on the balcony——
Yes, on the balcony, it’s so cold, the temperature is even dozens of degrees below zero. If you just leave it on the balcony like this, won’t it freeze to death?
She had clearly looked at the thermometer on the balcony last night, so how could she be so stupid as to not move it into the house?
Fortunately, this thing was placed on the balcony, so even if it exploded, it would not hurt her and Ran Qiaoqiao.
But the explosion sounded quite loud in the quiet space, and soon attracted several households around.
Her balconies were adjacent to Ling Jiang's. The explosion so close to her frightened Ling Jiang and he ran over. "Lan Jin, Lan Jin, did your house explode? Are you okay?"
Lan Jin quickly opened the door and said, "It's okay, it's okay, don't worry. I was planning to plug it in, but it exploded as soon as I turned it on. Luckily, the battery was outside so it didn't explode on us."
Just as she finished explaining, Lao Gao and Huang Jinghe, who were watching Xin'er from the balcony, hurried over to her. Lan Jin explained again, and Huang Jinghe said, "I'll bring down the battery from my house. That one should work."
Lao Gao said, "You can't use it. Your piece is still on the roof. I didn't take it down last night. I'm afraid it will freeze all night and explode when the power is turned on."
Lan Jin was speechless. "How many degrees below zero is this? How could the battery explode?"
Not only that, except for her, the other three were wrapped up like balls, and they were probably not wearing too much.
"I don't know how many degrees it is, but I put on all the clothes I could. I just poured a drop of water and it turned into ice. I'm afraid it's more than 30 degrees below zero." Huang Jinghe exhaled a ball of warm air as he spoke.
Lan Jin replied, "It's probably more than -30 degrees Celsius. The thermometer outside my house showed it was -30 degrees Celsius last night. It feels even colder now, probably around -40 degrees Celsius."
"It's cold anyway." Lao Gao took a look from the balcony and then said, "You guys just hold on for today. I have some materials at home so I can make two more hand-cranked generators. You can use them. I tried the hand-cranked ones this morning and they can generate electricity normally."
Lan Jin did not refuse. Although she had power generation equipment in her space, Lao Gao's hand-cranked one looked quite interesting.
Besides, he didn't give this thing only to her. Huang Jinghe also had it. It could be used to offset some of the food he had taken away before.
Furthermore, her family already had batteries stored outside, so it would be hard to justify bringing out other power generation equipment. She said, "Okay, I'll exchange them for the supplies you took before."
(End of this chapter)
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