A Will Eternal Chapter 289

The people of Merrick City recognize Stephen Hawking as an excellent standard-bearer, the city needs him, and they need him.

But that doesn't mean they like him.

In people's eyes, Kane always appears to be superior, and they also know that this is not Kane's deliberate alienation, but that he is indeed not with them. In the words of a technical worker: "I still don't know what he wants. .”

People even made private bets on it, and it turned out that all the coquettish women, the handsome men, the pretty boys and girls, even gold and precious stones, lost.

And since Kane has two more foxes around him, his overall image has warmed up, at least the children are not as afraid of Kane as before.

Children's hearts are purer, and they also have some acuity that adults don't have. They are instinctively afraid of Kane, and some children call him a cold corpse.

The sounds of foxes are actually not pleasant, beeping, and weird, not right at all, but they are indeed cute. This is very important, and they can be regarded as a good scenery when walking with Kane.

Kane is really good at walking. Many people think that Kane has to walk about three times the distance of ordinary workers every day, because he seems to be everywhere, teaching, pointing, giving advice, and demonstrating in person. His specific work can be seen every day. It seems to be these, but because the fields involved are too wide, there are always some people busy.

Of course, anyone with a discerning eye knows that these details are not the main job of a leader. The main job of a leader is strategizing. Kane is working as a part-time teacher, teaching everyone how to work efficiently in practice.

On May 23rd and 14th, another large-scale hunt, including Tom's sleigh, and even the large transport vehicle, was dispatched.

This was probably the last time they went hunting before the catastrophe, and there was basically only one title, picking up corpses.

When the sun was about to set, the returning team saw the light of the hot air balloon, saw the strong castle standing on the edge of the cliff, and saw the lights of the buildings in the deep pit, which made people feel warm and reassuring.

This is their home, where they need to survive in this cruel world.

Vehicles do not need to go down, especially large transport vehicles, it is impossible to transport them down through elevators, they are parked in the castle, and people take off the key components with the steam core as the main body like taking the battery of an electric vehicle, and transport them to Next to the energy tower, just charge it.

It's freezing cold, and the energy tower has started to operate around the clock, but it's mostly at low speed during the day, and when the night is the coldest,

Already need to pressurize.

This means that the energy tower is already a bit unbearable, and the energy tower must be upgraded at least once before the curtain of the sky is completely pushed over.

To upgrade, you have to build a steel factory first.

The Steel Mill can produce not only the materials needed for upgrades, but also the materials used to build insulated houses.

Everyone knows that it is impossible to survive the extreme cold with tents alone.

What people don't know is that Kane intends to promote the application of the 'Fire Kang'. Compared with it, ordinary wooden beds are obviously lacking in comparison.

The principle of the heated kang is an extended S-shaped flue, and the waste heat is used to let the smoke from the stove coil in it, and finally it is discharged from the chimney by the principle of rising hot air.

There are two limitations to its use, one is the demand for clay. The material requirements for building the flue are not high, but the kang board is more troublesome, and it is not impossible to use wood, but one is that the material is not too small, and the other is to solve the sealing problem.

Fortunately, Merrick City is not short of clay. People usually complain that the ground is muddy after the snow melts in the area caused by the energy tower. And the dead grass he asked people to collect from the tundra is also an important material for making kang boards. They function like bamboo and steel bars to prevent the kang boards from being hard, brittle and easy to break after drying.

Of course, another key point of the Shanghuokang project is that it requires a lot of labor. Fortunately, there are robots, and the earthwork can be entrusted to them.

From the 15th day, Kane began to devote a lot of manpower to the firing of clay bricks.

The biggest difference between adobe bricks and blue bricks and red bricks is that the latter has more firing processes. Burning bricks in an ordinary earthen kiln is very labor-intensive, and Kane did not add this step. He even basically filtered out the important procedure of drying adobe bricks in the shade, without that time.

Under such circumstances, the firmness of the bricks is very problematic, especially if they cannot bear weight, so a frame structure has to be used, using concrete made of earth cement, steel bars, and stones to make the frame.

This kind of house is not as warm as the houses that people used in the UK, but there is no way, there is no better building material to choose from, the simple wooden house is stronger than the tent, but not as good as the frame structure of the adobe house.

In order not to waste labor, Kane deliberately left room for internal shelling when designing the house.

When better building materials are mass-produced, a sandwich layer is built to further strengthen the effect of keeping out the cold.

Kane's ultimate vision is this.

First of all, adding a cover to the city, even an ice sheet, can prevent the direct raging of ultra-low temperatures.

The second is the heat energy field formed by the heat radiation cover of the energy tower, which can offset the low temperature to a considerable extent.

Next is the adobe house and the mezzanine with heat and ventilation.

Then comes the final layer of insulation.

Inside the insulation layer is the room. The inner layer is heated, the stove is used as a backup, and the kang and quilts are added.

If you are still frozen to death under such circumstances, then die, all the tricks have been exhausted!

So actually from this day on, everything revolves around keeping warm in extreme temperatures. As for how to spend the long winter after the curtain of the sky is closed, we can only wait and see.

Building materials have to be manufactured, and steel mills can no longer delay. It can be said that to survive the extreme cold, most of the steel materials in Merrick City can be passed through the steel factory again.

Otherwise, the properties of the steel will be damaged by the ultra-low temperature and cannot function normally. Including the energy tower, it may be broken at that time.

If you really want to do that, it means that the fire is extinguished. Even if you have survived the extreme cold, you will still die like a vehicle that cannot be ignited.

None of the people in Merrick City have ever seen an ultra-low temperature of 150 degrees. In other words, there are only a handful of people in this world who have seen that temperature and survived. They couldn't intuitively imagine what kind of horror it was.

In order to make people realize the seriousness, Kane made a metaphorical explanation: completely burning, the burning red coal fire will be completely extinguished in a very short time. It can be said that if one expects to use coal to build a tower, and then completely ignite it at a critical moment, and people go into the tower to survive, the result will still be frozen to death.

People are skeptical, but there are more people who believe, or rather, they would rather believe. On the one hand, one life can't afford to lose, and on the other hand, Kane has not missed it so far.

This is a remarkable phenomenon. The city of Merrick is in the ascendant, and there are so many things on the mind every day. Kane has something to say and must mean what he says, which has gradually cultivated people's attitude of "listening to him is right". subconscious.

Mountains and rains will be full of wind in the future. On May 24, which is the 15th day of Kane's administration, it has become a very dangerous thing to go out.

Strong winds of magnitude 8-10, rolling up broken snow and sweeping across, the visibility is less than 5 meters, loud roars from 1 meter away will be covered by the wind and cannot be heard, coupled with the average temperature of minus 45 degrees, this is definitely extreme weather that can kill people .

Kane stopped the hunting group and the exploration group, and concentrated on the internal construction. Everyone felt that it was the right choice.

Of course, some people sighed unavoidably, like Tom, who sighed when he was taking a nap after a meal: "This terrible weather, I don't know how many people outside will die."

Some people don't like to listen, saying: "But most of those people are not innocent!"

Tom glared at the man.

The other party also stared back without showing any weakness: "Am I wrong? Who took most of the few supplies when we were in the most difficult time."

Tom retorted: "Go out to find rescue, what if you are not prepared enough?"

The other party smiled, "Yes, it is true that adequate preparations are required, and women must also be prepared to be around, it is not easy to freeze at night, right!?"

The other party's yin and yang strangeness made Tom feel angry: "Why didn't you say anything at the time if you had any opinions?"

The man was also very angry, so he didn't make any detours at all, and said coldly: "During the ransacking by those cousins ​​in New London, Old Buck and others questioned a few words, and they were shot and killed on random charges. They left In the end, the only weapons in the town fell into your hands. In less than two months, you executed the previous leader. When discussing the issue of going out for help, you were full of threats. How many people do you think dare to stand up? "

"You!" Tom wanted to refute, but realized that when discussing whether to go out for help, a group of people who did not want to sit still and their attitudes were indeed a bit arrogant, so he said: "Facts have proved that going out for help is the right choice."

"Yes, a new leader was found through the SOS mark."

Tom's expression became sullen, and he said, "So, you're blaming shit luck for this?"

The man curled his lips: "No, our labor union can't afford this statement, and we are not so cold-hearted. You have brought back Hawking. Everyone is grateful to you. Little Nelson is still in bed. Do you have any complaints? But you have to understand , you are you, they are them."

The person continued: "We believe that not all those who went out to ask for help fulfilled their promises. For others, asking for help is just a beautiful sentence, and fleeing is the truth. Leave and join other sanctuaries. Leave to die those who can't even escape."

Of course Tom didn't like to hear that. At the beginning, it was these people who were constantly at odds with each other, because of some small issues such as who contributed more and who contributed less, the assigned work and the corresponding unfair remuneration, and so on. After New Cambridge was robbed of resources by New London, Those who try to run things on their own and fail are responsible.

In the later period, they were also the same group of dragons without a leader, they would not compromise with each other, and they were sitting on the mountain, so he felt that the other party said that the people who went out to ask for help left them to die, which was unkind.

It is fair to say that these people who went out to ask for help did not play any good role in the period after New London looted the city's supplies.

Later, there was indeed a plan to see that the situation was not good, and to go out to look for life while still able to escape.

At this time, the man said again: "Refugees from New Sheffield, we can accept it if you bring them back. They are innocent people who have been affected. But if those people are asking for help, we will give you a clear answer now and firmly oppose it. You get them back and we'll go to Stephen Hawking for judgment."

The refugees from New Sheffield were the 20 or so people from the so-called inspection team that were taken in not long ago.

When they were driven out of New Sheffield, there were more than 60 people, and nearly two-thirds died of hunger and cold. It was really miserable.

And the source of the misery is that they were once citizens of New London.

The plan could not keep up with the changes, and the material capital could not be transported according to the plan. Coupled with speculation and self-defeating, New London had only been in operation for less than half a year before it failed and there was a huge shortage of materials.

In order to solve the problem, New London not only plundered the material reserves of other refuges, but also released the population.

For example, 50 skilled workers and 100 laborers were originally reserved for running the city, but now they are changed to 30 and 60, and 40% are cut directly.

Those who were cut off were distributed to various shelters for food.

The people of New Sheffield were robbed of their resources, and they were naturally unhappy. They expressed intolerance to the more than 60 mouths that were stuffed.

As far as the essence of attitude is concerned, New Sheffield people are actually the same as Kane. They both talk about first come, first come first, about you, us, and them. It's just that Kane has the ability and thinks he can digest this group of people, so he doesn't let them eat for free, so he seems more humane, while the people of New Field feel that they can't afford to live, so they don't want to accept these refugees and let them fend for themselves .

Tom was originally the liaison officer of New Cambridge, and he knew all the refuges on the Eastern Front, especially the nearby ones. It can be said that he was familiar with them. So he helped those refugees in time.

This has aroused the vigilance of the labor union, a self-established association, because Tom's popularity and prestige are already very large. Everyone wishes him well for finding Kane, and the newly rescued ones are even more grateful to him.

Now as soon as he heard that his voice was wrong, he immediately jumped out and targeted him.

Just like the so-called obedience and listening to the sound, what do you mean by Tom expressing this attitude with great fanfare? Pave the way for bringing back those seeking help?

Absolutely not!

Oh, when this place was in decline, I just scraped away resources and ran away. Now that it is booming, do you want to come back to enjoy the fruits of labor?

Moreover, those people, who are short-sighted and small-minded (they don’t admit it themselves), have no choice but to work hard without fear of hardship or tiredness if they have any choice (actually a clear hope), so it is difficult to communicate with them. coordination. The union doesn't want Merrick City to be filled with such people.

But Tom, on the contrary, he even wanted to gather all the survivors in the nearby area here...