Chapter 6 "What Women Know"
This matter has now been listed as the top secret of the empire by the Crisis Response Committee. After all, once this kind of information is leaked, it will have a serious impact on the entire empire. The young man is obviously very nervous. Where did the secret come out?
“Because I was the one who told those astrologers of the Royal Astronomical Society that there would be big problems with the weather in the future! It was also I who first warned those arrogant men in Parliament that the empire was about to face an apocalyptic disaster! But they But he regarded this as a little girl's delusion! And he said to me, "What do women know?" Purficott was still full of resentment when he mentioned this matter. Although it had nothing to do with the two people in front of him, Purficott He still lost his temper at them quite a bit, and it was hard to say that he wasn't angry at the two for interrupting his work, as well as resentful at the group of aristocratic gentlemen who were eating nothing but corpses.
"So when the Royal Astronomical Society told the Duke about climate change, it was actually you who discovered it first?" The young man was surprised. He didn't expect that this incident actually started here in Perfectcourt. head.
Neither the young man nor Major William showed any emotion about Purficott losing his temper at them.
On the one hand, this is the gentlemanly manner that one should treat a lady, and on the other hand, they can understand Purficott's mood at this time.
After all, no matter who it is, they will be resentful when they warn the parliament in advance that a disaster is coming but are treated as a fool, and now it is confirmed that the disaster does exist and it comes back to them.
Before coming, the Duke of Gloucester had warned them that Perficott might have a bad temper. Originally, they were still wondering what was going on, but now the truth is finally revealed. It turned out that it was the Parliament that did this in the first place. Did something stupid.
This allowed the young man to fully understand why the Duke of Gloucester invited Perfectcott to join the crisis response committee, and it also gave him a better understanding of this fourteen-year-old genius girl.
"So? Now that group of arrogant gentlemen have finally confirmed that the disaster is coming, did the Duke ask you to come to me to deal with this crisis?" Purficott speculated on the purpose of the two people in front of him. , although the tone was questioning, the meaning expressed in the words was very certain.
The young man nodded quickly when he saw this, then took out an envelope from his body and handed it to Purficott, and explained: "The Duke of Gloucester was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen to form a crisis response committee to deal with this disaster. I specially invite you, Miss Purficott Brandlis, to join the committee, hoping that you can contribute to saving the empire."
Perfect took the envelope and checked it, and saw the seal. The paint on the envelope was indeed the mark of the Duke of Gloucester. Only then did Purficott open the envelope and read the invitation letter written by the Duke himself.
The content of the invitation letter was not complicated, and was roughly the same as what the young man said. It was just that the Duke of Gloucester emphasized his concerns about the future and his appreciation for Perfectcott's talent. She was highly praised and at the same time warmly invited her to join the crisis response committee to deal with this disaster of a world-destroying level.
Global climate cooling is a disaster that is difficult to cope with and resist even with the technological level of the world before Perficott's time travel, not to mention that this technology is still in its first stages. It's the era of the industrial revolution.
Human beings lack the ability to effectively resist the severe cold. After all, humans in this world really don’t have any good technology to resist the severe cold other than fur and bonfires.
For example, in the world before Purficott traveled, clothing made of endless thermal materials that could withstand the severe cold in the North and South Poles simply did not exist in this world, let alone building materials that could effectively withstand the severe cold.
You must know that iron will begin to become brittle at minus 40 degrees Celsius, and steel can only last until minus 70 degrees Celsius. Therefore, in the world before Perfection traveled, he wanted to travel between the North and South Poles. Or building buildings in extremely cold environments requires the use of special low-temperature resistant building materials.
And in this context of the first industrial revolution, are we talking about specialized low-temperature resistant building materials? In this era, the concept of ductile-brittle transition temperature has not yet been discovered!
What's more, even if alchemists can create similar materials or use alchemy to create other things that can withstand the cold, it will be difficult to popularize them. They can only be enjoyed by nobles as luxuries. After all, just like London, England during the First Industrial Revolution, with the invention and popularization of the steam engine, Longton, the capital of the Victorian Empire, also faced the same problem as London, that is, a large number of landless people poured into the city, and they could only Crowded into small and crude houses in slums, they lived a life of hunger and cold.
Therefore, it is foreseeable that a large number of people at the bottom will not be able to survive this disaster. They will die of hunger and cold when the disaster first strikes.
As for the crisis response committee formed by the Duke of Gloucester, what they can only save is the middle and upper class of the empire, and maybe even just the middle and upper class of Langton.
This is not the cold-blooded treatment of civilians by the nobles, nor is it the oppression of the ruled class by the ruling class, but simply that they do not have the ability.
Unless someone can greatly improve the productivity and technological level of the empire in a short period of time, thereby providing more people with a chance to survive, what this so-called crisis response committee can do is The only thing we can do is to select social elites and preserve the fire of human civilization as much as possible.
Even if there are extraordinary professions in this world, no matter how powerful those extraordinary people are, they are not able to reverse the celestial phenomena.
As far as Purficott knew, what the empire's most powerful transcendent, the chief mage of the palace, could do was to maintain the climate of a palace without being affected by the outside world.
Transcendents are indeed powerful, but they are not as ridiculously powerful as some of the fantasy novels she had read before traveling through time.
In this disaster, extraordinary beings can play a certain role, but their role is limited.
Thinking of this, Purficott couldn't help but show a slightly worried look on his face.
For Purficott, who has a jade record, she is confident enough to ensure that she will survive, and she will also have enough energy to keep the people around her alive.
She has enough confidence at this point. After all, she is an alchemist and a time traveler.
With the knowledge of a time traveler and the ability of an alchemist, coupled with the ability of the Philosopher's Stone to break the principle of equivalent exchange, it can be said that Purficott is fully capable of making anything she wants. , things that are in line with reality are turned into reality.
Things that are too outrageous will not work. After all, the Philosopher's Stone only breaks the principle of equivalent exchange, not that it can tamper with reality.
So for Purficott, there is no problem in letting herself and the people around her survive this disaster. She can even save some if she wants to save people.
But for the disaster itself and the world as a whole, what she can do can be said to be insignificant.
(End of this chapter)