Chapter 661 The temperature drops sharply and winter is coming!
The moon rises on the branches and falls again in an instant.
As a golden light gradually began to rise from the horizon, the 12th day of May on the last calendar day came quietly.
Today, there are only the last two days left before the most terrifying temperature drop of minus 40 degrees Celsius in the winter disaster.
As the temperature drops get closer and closer, the cold air from the outside begins to gradually sweep across the entire land, pouring into the entire wasteland.
Early in the morning, before it was completely light, Somo was woken up by the cold again.
Looking at the time, it was already 5:20 in the morning, he simply stopped sleeping and got dressed and sat up.
“Wow, it’s really cold today!”
For cold-proof clothes, ignore the weight and sense of restraint.
Just put it on your body, to a certain extent, it is a little warmer than the quilt.
After his body was completely warmed up, Somo slowly stood up, moved a few times, and walked out of the tent.
“Hey, Director, you woke up so early?”
In the Snow Mountain Base Camp, more than two-thirds of the soldiers had woken up early and started working in the camp.
Seeing Somo walking out of the tent, many people stopped what they were doing and looked over with respect.
Last night, the temperature dropped too suddenly.
It only started at two o'clock in the night when the wind howled, and the temperature dropped by one degree every few minutes.
By three o'clock, the body temperature of the entire outside world had dropped to minus 28 degrees, making people shiver with cold.
With such a temperature, when the camp cannot raise a large campfire for concealment, ordinary tents cannot completely withstand the cold.
In just one night, many people were woken up by the cold several times, and their sleep quality was extremely poor.
“It’s too cold to sleep!”
Looking at the kitchen tent where smoke was already rising, Sumo didn't hide anything, smiled and joked a few words.
Compared to those who transformed their bodies into mechanical beings.
Even evolving into an interstellar human did not allow Somo to improve much at the base of human genes.
Take the current temperature as an example.
According to the standard of hot and cold index, at the same temperature, the greater the relative humidity, the more obvious the increase in perceived temperature.
For example, the same temperature is 30°C. When the relative humidity is only 50%, the perceived temperature reaches 31.1°C. When the relative humidity reaches 90%, the perceived temperature soars to 40.6°C, which is 10.6°C higher than the meteorological temperature.
Although the thermometer now shows a temperature of only minus twenty degrees.
But because it rained heavily all day before yesterday, and the previous snow had not melted, the humidity in the air had accumulated to a terrifying level.
At this time, according to the index conversion, it can be roughly concluded that the actual body temperature reflected on the human body has basically reached minus thirty degrees.
And this minus thirty degrees is the peak temperature that Somo can withstand.
Further down, he must also use other means to keep out the cold, otherwise his life will be in danger at any time.
At the same time, for ordinary soldiers, this temperature is almost the limit they can accept wearing cold-resistant clothing.
If the temperature drops, even if their willpower is strong, their bodies will quickly fail, causing unimaginable damage.
A basin of hot water was brought in. Before the water cooled down, Somo quickly finished washing and woke up.
While the meal was not being served in the kitchen, he strode to a position where he could overlook the origin camp below and looked into the distance.
The north wind howls.
Inside the mountains.
Compared with the plains, although the high mountains block most of the cold current blowing over, the temperature inside is actually higher than outside.
But the fine dust and debris were blown up, along with the snowflakes that had not completely condensed into one piece, forming a spectacular scene like a "sandstorm" in the gaps between the peaks. .
At the same time, a series of wind whirlpools brought scattered ice slag and hit the valley, making bursts of roaring sounds, which only made people think that it was heaven's punishment.
"Sigh, I don't know how the village is doing."
When I think about it, before I left, I had planned to rush back to the village before the temperature dropped, but now I had no choice but to suffer the freezing temperature outside.
Sumo could only look in the direction of the village with a lingering gaze and a little emotion.
For the first time, he seems to be homesick?
North coast of the New World, Tianyuan Territory, Hope Village.
Early in the morning, the howling north wind began to rise from the end of the earth, making the various buildings in the village buzz, giving the feeling of an impending rainstorm filling the buildings.
The force of the north wind is quite strong. It is initially judged that it has exceeded Level 9, which is extremely terrifying.
But fortunately, the village was prepared two days ago and re-strengthened all the prefabricated houses, so that they would not be busy working in such a weather.
However, with such a noise, most people lost their sleep. Just after six o'clock, they could no longer sleep and began to crawl out of bed.
Compared with the outside, the dormitory with boiler heating is still as warm as spring.
Even in energy-saving mode, it can ensure that the indoor temperature is firmly controlled at around 24 degrees.
Except for the occasional cold wind that comes through the cracks in doors and windows, many people are startled and realize that it is indeed cold outside.
When most people get up, they only wear a thin autumn coat and don’t feel the slightest bit of chill.
Those who fetch water fetch water, and those who wash themselves wash their hands.
As the disaster approaches, there is only the last half day left to start work.
Starting this afternoon, the village will officially enter the disaster relief phase, with all work suspended and everyone preparing for disasters.
But what is different from before is that this time everyone’s enthusiasm for fighting the disaster has visibly diminished a lot.
On weekdays, it’s a bustling breakfast time.
Today, it was extremely dull. Most people just lowered their heads and concentrated on the pickle porridge in their bowls.
Only a few people had a date, and none of them chatted.
Sitting at a table near the window of the cafeteria, four men, one large, three small, were quickly handling the meals on the plate.
It didn’t take long.
As a group of larger snowflakes slapped on the window, the older man in his forties finally couldn't help but raised his head and said worriedly to the young man next to him:
"Silly boy, there are only two days left for the temperature to drop significantly, but the director doesn't seem to be back yet. It's freezing outside, what should I do!"
"Look at it The wind is blowing, I’m worried to death!”
"Uncle, don't worry. The director is very powerful and he has people around him. Why do you have to worry about it?"
He subconsciously comforted the old man, but after the young man finished speaking, he was A long sigh.
"Oh, yes, the temperature is about to drop. The director has been gone for almost twenty days, and there is still no news."
"That is, the village chief stopped me Let's, otherwise everyone will spontaneously go out to look for people with dry food these days, how can people sit and live?"
The time is approaching day by day.
During the first disaster relief effort, there was no command from Soma, and there was no news about Soma.
Although most people remain as stable as old dogs on the surface, in fact they are already panicking inside.
These days, the village has developed dozens of times faster than before, and the number of buildings has begun to increase rapidly, gradually developing towards real villages and towns.
But it is a pity that the growth of these things has brought peace of mind to them, but it has not increased at all.
There is no other reason.
It was precisely because I didn't get Soma's testimony or hear Soma's praise.
These buildings suddenly rising from the ground, these materials piled in warehouses, these extra infrastructures on the earth.
Like rootless duckweed, empty. It only makes people feel that after a disaster, it will become ruins.
Positive emotions will spread, and pessimism will also spread. As the four people sighed, the atmosphere in the canteen became a little dull again.
For a time, the sounds of chatting became less and less, and only the sounds of sucking and drinking porridge were left everywhere.
The second floor of the newly expanded canteen.
With the further expansion of the venue, the village management’s dining room was officially moved up from below, and the location of the morning meeting was also moved here.
Looking at the people coming and going below, everyone has sadness on their faces.
After breaking open the remaining half of the wild vegetable steamed bun in his hand and soaking it in the soup, Li Hu couldn't help but look up at Chen Shen who was holding it in the center.
Compared with others, Chen Shen's status has invisibly risen to countless levels since he came back from the negotiations with the fish-men tribe.
In the past, because of his youth, he was single-handedly appointed by Somo.
Most people who are older than him and have more social experience than him, although they are not convinced at all, still have the idea of competition in their hearts.
But this time he entered the fishman territory single-handedly and walked out completely. He even signed a series of agreements to help the village develop, and the two sides established friendship.
Even the unruly people began to have confidence in Chen Shen's ability.
Since that time, Chen Shen seemed to have grown up. Even now, when everyone is upset, his mentality is still very stable.
We can still strictly follow the previously formulated plan and steadily promote the development of the village one by one.
But today, after secretly watching Chen Shen for several minutes, Li Hu finally couldn't help but said:
"Village Chief, it's time for us to release the news about the director. ”
Pointing to the first floor where the atmosphere changed drastically, Li Hu’s face was full of worry.
He wasn't worried that someone would mutiny and make trouble because of this, nor was he worried that someone would try to subvert the power structure in the village when Somo was away.
As a representative of force, the security penalties presented to him on his desk every day are basically zero.
And even if there is, it is just a quarrel between some villagers over trivial matters, which can be handled by oneself without the intervention of the newly established patrol guard team.
What he worries about is very simple, and it’s funny to say it.
"If this continues, the pressure on my side is too great. Yesterday, four or five people had to sneak out to find the director."
"I'm worried that there will be more people today and tomorrow, and I didn't notice any of them. What will happen if they get lost!"
Things that sound incredible are actually happening in reality.
And these people who sneaked out were not young people in the village, but all older men and wives.
In their hearts, even if Sumo is a director, he is actually just a young child.
Before the cold winter came, an inexplicable force drove them to try their best to get ahead of the disaster and go out to find traces of Somo by relying on their feet.
Yesterday, if someone hadn't tipped off the news in a hurry, Li Hu would have almost missed catching the four or five people who were going out from different directions.
“Have you done some ideological work for them?”
“I must have done it, you don’t know, they are all very stubborn, I can’t say anything”
Faced with Chen Shen's smiling question, Li Hu answered slightly depressedly, and took a big sip of soup by the way.
“Don’t worry, I’ll hold on for a day, I’ll hold on for a day!”
"I'm still holding on. I've been holding on for four or five days. Village chief, please don't bully a rough guy like me."
Hearing another familiar answer, Li Hu's head seemed to have grown bigger. Making others around him laugh.
In fact, most of the management are not stupid, including Li Hu, who can also guess what Chen Shen is doing now.
Between choosing to rely on Somo, and being able to develop independently after Somo leaves.
It is very simple to choose the former. You just need to maintain the overall environment as stable as possible and wait until Sumo comes back.
But if you want to choose the latter, you must get through this most difficult step right now.
Without pain, people will never grow.
The Great Cooling Down is, in a sense, a test for everyone in the entire territory.
“Let’s not talk about it for now, how is the construction of the boiler room in the fishman tribe going?”
Chen Shen smiled and changed the topic, turning his eyes to the person sitting next to him. Shen Ke.
The latter raised his head, thought for a while, and said slowly: "There are no problems with the main body, and the heating pipes have been laid. Yesterday, Ai Shi went over to inspect and debug it in person. Now it can be put into use at any time as long as the energy is in place."< br>
"Have the construction costs been collected?"
Speaking of this, Shen Ke put down his chopsticks, showed a charming smile, and nodded happily: "Of course, the remaining 70% of the balance is They settled the bill after the acceptance yesterday, and it was very fast."
"That's good, that's good!"
The good news made everyone feel happy.
After saying this, Chen Shen turned to look at Su Deben on the other side: "Minister Su, how have the refugees who migrated from the south been doing in the past two days? Have they done anything unusual?"
"It's true. Originally, I said I would go take a look yesterday, but it turned out that the envoy from the Tree Tribe still lingered on, and forgot to go over there to inspect."
"No, don't worry, this way I think everything will be fine. In the past two days, I have divided a group of people to start psychological examinations. In a week or two at the latest, when the temperature drops, we can try to let a small number of people start to integrate into the village. ”
Speaking of this, Su Deben looked very interested.
On days when there is no fighting, a group of strangers who migrated here by accident can be used for him to "play and practice", which can be said to completely eliminate the boredom on weekdays.
The village chief, who became a group of refugees, led these people to open up wasteland in the snow, waiting for an opportunity to test the good guys and bad guys among them, which made his silent heart ignited again.
However, after finishing speaking, looking at the white snow falling outside and the howling wind, Sudeben quickly added: "By the way, the temperature has dropped too fast now, and the health of more than 400 people over there is unsafe. None of them are very good. See if you can make some arrangements so that we can get some windfall and get some supplies to replenish our bodies."
"This is no problem. You can discuss it with Shen Ke later and draw up an order. Just give it to me, it’s really cold this winter, and our heater can’t get through there, so we need to pay more attention!”
There are no major problems in the few points of attention, Chen Shen felt slightly at ease. excited.
Afterwards, we talked about some small details for a while. When the food in everyone's bowls was bottomed, the brief morning meeting officially ended.
Facts have proved that the village structure that Somo worked hard to build before leaving has indeed produced irreplaceable effects after he left.
Because they are in a position that suits them, everyone starts working with 100% enthusiasm and concentration.
On this shining stage, they found the wonderful life that is difficult to obtain in the civilized era.
At the same time, they began to have more and more expectations for the days to come.
"Let's adjourn"
"Everyone, this is the first time the director has been away during a disaster. No matter what, we have to hold on!"
Standing up and picking up the bowl, Chen Shen opened his mouth and finally gave some encouragement.
However, before he finished the sentence, he himself started laughing, and the others he led also had a smile on their lips.
Even though the heat filled the cafeteria, his glasses were fogged up by the reflection.
Even though the north wind roars outside, it makes people's minds wander.
But when he turned around, Chen Shen could still see a ball of fire.
A blazing fire can be seen brewing in everyone's eyes.
He knew that this was the fire that Somo left in everyone's hearts before leaving.
At this time, it was time for the decisive battle.
It has started. Burning!
(End of this chapter)