Chapter 573 After the Disaster


Chapter 573 After the Disaster

The storm came earlier than Perfectcott expected.

In other words, the front of the storm affected Langton earlier than its body.

"It's cooled down, it's really cold today!" Huey, who got up early, rubbed his arms, folded his arms in front of his chest and hunched over, trying to keep himself as warm as possible.

But this can only provide some psychological comfort at most, but it cannot really warm up his body.

Huey didn't care and just walked down the street.

He works on an energy tower. When the energy tower is running, the surrounding temperature is not low. He just needs to endure it for a while.

There is still water on the street. Although it has almost receded, there is still enough water to cover the feet in some low-lying places, which makes Huey have to be very careful.

After all, the weather is already very cold. You have to step into a puddle with your feet. Your shoes will be too small when they are wet. If your feet stay cold, you will get sick in this weather.

And he has to work today. It is not convenient to work with water in his shoes, especially since he has to climb an energy tower. If there is water on his feet and he slips, it will be fatal.

Huey didn't go far when he felt his whole body warm up, which made him feel refreshed. Even his walking posture changed accordingly and he straightened his back again.

Of course it's not that Huey has warmed himself up by walking all the way. For Huey, who is thinly dressed and hasn't eaten anything in the morning, unless he runs around the entire block twice, he won't be able to do anything. Maybe you can warm yourself up by exercising.

The reason why he felt the warmth was because he had walked into the heating field of the energy tower.

The energy tower built by Purficott in Langton naturally has a constant temperature barrier like the one in the north, so it can naturally create a relatively warm environment in an area.

Although the energy tower is not operating at full power because winter has not yet completely entered, the temperature in the heating field is only a few degrees higher than the outside world.

But a temperature difference of a few degrees is enough to make an ordinary person like Huey feel warm all over.

Huey, who had warmed up, quickly arrived at the foot of the energy tower. After greeting his coworkers and receiving today's rations, he changed into work clothes and prepared to work on the tower. .

The energy tower he maintained was one of the energy towers damaged in the previous tsunami. Although it has been restored to use after emergency repairs, it was flooded by the tsunami after all, and there will still be some impact.

That’s why workers like Huey need to go to the tower every day for inspection and maintenance.

Huey's job is not complicated, which is to check whether the pipeline pressure on the energy tower is normal. If the pressure is abnormal, the valve must be opened and closed in time to adjust to prevent the pressure from exceeding or falling below the working pressure.

During the previous tsunami, a lot of seawater entered the boiler of the energy tower. The crystallization of seawater after evaporation caused blockage in the pipelines and heat exchangers. Although the situation was not serious and could be cleaned, it was very difficult to clean it up. Complex and troublesome things.

So Purficott only repaired the damaged parts. As for the maintenance and cleaning work, it can only be postponed temporarily, at least until the typhoon has passed before manpower can be arranged to carry out cleaning and maintenance.

But for Huey, these are actually good for him.

After all, if there were no problems with the energy tower, he would not need to climb up to the tower every day for inspection and maintenance.

For Huey, this is related to his livelihood. You must know that it is very difficult for Langton to find such a job with little good work.

Or to be more precise, it’s hard to find a job. After climbing up the tower, walking around the maintenance tunnel, and checking that all the pressure gauges were within the normal range, Huey came to a small inspection platform at the top of the tower, sat down, and took out today's Putting the rations into his mouth.

From his position, he can overlook most of the inner city. If he looks far away, he can also see the outer city outside the city wall.

This is a location with a great view. If it were in the past, looking at the bustling Langton would have given people a full sense of the excitement of this most prosperous metropolis in the world.

It’s just that the scenery you can see now is really hard to call it good.

Even with the obstruction of the city wall, there are still many buildings in the inner city that were destroyed by the previous tsunami. Although they have been cleaned up now, the collapsed buildings will be difficult to repair for a while.

In addition, in order to build energy towers before, the buildings around each energy tower were demolished. A large amount of construction waste was not transported away in time, but was just piled up in an out-of-the-way position in the cleared space. There are also piles of building materials and parts left over from building the energy tower.

As for the remaining free space, it is full of makeshift tents, inhabited by refugees who lost their homes in the tsunami.

This makes it possible that from where Huey is now, the surroundings are basically in a mess, full of clutter and dirt.

After all, it had only been a few days since the tsunami. Even if Purficott mobilized all the garrisons in and around Langton City to provide disaster relief, they could only clear the main streets and restore traffic, and resettle the rescued people. Around the energy tower.

Purficott and other technicians are also repairing energy towers and shelters so that more people have a place to live and can avoid freezing to death in the heating field of the energy tower.

Dirty and messy? That's not a big deal, at least until the big premise of survival is, it can't be a big deal.

In the final analysis, only by surviving can you pay attention to other things.

Of course, a dirty environment can lead to the spread of plague, and cleaning up the garbage helps maintain a good sanitary environment, which is also important.

But now we really can’t spare any manpower, so we can only hold back for the time being.

Fortunately, the weather is rapidly getting colder and there are no conditions for the spread of the plague, so there is no need to worry about a large-scale plague.

And Huey knew that the people from the city government were organizing the people who had settled down to form a clean-up team to start cleaning up the garbage around the camps.

Obviously the officials above still know what to do, and overall everything is going steadily and for the better.

Just looking at the still sparkling outer city outside the city wall, Huey couldn't help but sigh, obviously feeling sympathy for the people in the outer city.

They are not as lucky as the inner city. Many people are still submerged in the water, and there is no rescue operation at all in the outer city.

"Hey, you deserve it! Who asked you to believe in some evil god? Well, let's see if the evil god you believe in will come to save you!" Huey, who had finished eating and rebelled, sighed with emotion, and then started today's work again. .

According to the notification from the city government, the typhoon will make landfall in the next few days. Huey must ensure that this energy tower can always operate normally and well.

(End of this chapter)

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