Chapter 1749 New Equipment

The blizzard has been falling.

The temperature is also dropping every day as time goes by.

In the oil city, people try to avoid going out unless necessary.

It is really too cold outside.

The temperature difference between indoors and outdoors reaches 60 degrees.

It is minus 40 degrees outside and more than 20 degrees inside.

Trading market.

Commercial area, house number 13, official clinic of trading market.

A group of people ran in, and one of them was carrying a person on his back.

"Hurry up, save him." As soon as the man came in, he shouted to the nurse inside.

Zhang Shuzhen, the nurse on duty, saw the group of people coming in, and also saw the dying man on his back.

She immediately stood up and rushed over with several nurses.

These nurses pushed an emergency bed over at the same time.

Zhang Shuzhen put the unconscious man on the emergency bed and asked:

"What happened?"

The man who carried him in quickly answered:

"We are the snow shoveling team. My second brother fainted while shoveling snow. He might have been frozen. Let's save him."

Just as Zhang Shuzhen was about to continue asking, Bai Yongzhang came over.

He opened the eyelids of the man lying on the bed and frowned.

Combined with the man's cold limbs, pale lips and tongue, and purple face, it can be seen at a glance that he is hypothermic. Now it seems that his breathing is weakened and he may die at any time.

Saving people is like putting out fire. Bai Yongzhang said to Zhang Shuzhen without hesitation:

"He is hypothermic. Push him to the warm room quickly."

He reached his hand into the man's neck, and it was wet and cold inside.

"Take off all his clothes. His clothes are soaked. Change them into dry clothes for him. Check his vital signs, including blood pressure, blood oxygen, pulse, heart rate, etc."

"Yes." Zhang Shuzhen nodded and quickly pushed the man on the mobile bed away with other nurses.

Bai Yongzhang asked the group of people standing next to him:

"What did you do just now?"

One of the people answered:

"We are the snow shoveling team. We have been working since last night. When Afeng was shoveling snow, he accidentally fell into the snow pit."

Bai Yongzhang listened to what he said, thought about it and said:

"Okay, I roughly understand. I just checked it. He just has hypothermia. It's not a big problem. You can go over there to pay first."

"Okay, thank you." The group hurriedly thanked them and went to the payment counter.

Looking at their backs as they left, Bai Yongzhang sighed.

Recently, there are more and more patients suffering from hypothermia. The temperature outside is too low, more than 40 degrees below zero. If people work in such a cold and low temperature and wear too thick clothes, they will produce a lot of sweat.

Some clothes have poor perspiration performance, and sweat accumulation in clothes is extremely uncomfortable.

Sometimes, if the neck is not protected tightly, the snow will blow into the neck and slide onto the back.

Because the blizzard is too big, it is also troublesome for people's hats to be wet by the snow.

For many survivors, their cold-resistant equipment is not good enough, and they always encounter problems of one kind or another.

Working in the blizzard for seven or eight hours, after a long time, you will catch a cold at the mildest and hypothermia at the worst.

But this is also a matter of course. In the trading market and even the buffer city, someone must shovel snow and remove snow, otherwise the entire oil city will not be able to pass normally.

If it cannot pass normally, supplies cannot be transported.

The survivors can't get out of the residential building and go to the commercial area to buy food.

Moreover, although Shop No. 2 specializes in selling tortillas, it will stockpile some food raw materials, but it is definitely not much, and it will generally only stockpile enough for three or four days.

Every few days, they have to go to the granary in the oil city to get the raw materials for making tortillas.

"I hope the snow will stop soon," Bai Yongzhang turned around and looked at the falling snowflakes outside, thinking to himself.

Time is like water.

In a blink of an eye, the blizzard continued for eighteen days.

During these eighteen days, they encountered problems such as frozen pipes bursting, and outdoor workers being frostbitten.

But they solved them one by one and carried them through.

The snow outside the buffer city was burned five times with gasoline, and the snow piled up higher and higher.

After the last burn, the ice layer reached 5.5 meters high, only three meters away from the top of the wall.

In addition, the thickness of the snow farther away reached nearly ten meters high.

Such a high snow pile was the result of self-collapse and compaction.

The entire oil city seemed to be built in a basin.

In addition, during this period, more and more people applied for low-interest loans offered by the Oil City government.

However, those who apply for low-interest loans must have collateral of corresponding value.

If the extremely poor survivors cannot provide collateral, they are also given a way to survive.

They are given a work agreement to work in exchange for debts.

They are asked to go to some more dangerous places to shovel snow.

These days, due to the low outdoor temperature, many people have been frostbitten.

Although snow removal work can earn points, it also depends on enduring extreme cold to earn points.

However, those who signed the work agreement and took out loans will not be given any points, but will only be given the most basic welfare of two tortillas per day.

The remaining 0.5 points are all used to repay the loan and interest.

For the survivors who had just entered the trading market, they had no points and no food reserves. They had no choice but to accept it.

Boiler heating has fully covered most residential areas.

There are several buildings in Area C where some of the poorest survivors live.

These people can't even pay their heating bills, or even their rent.

Some people are unable to participate in snow removal work because of disabilities.

Some people are too lazy and don’t want to go out to work.

Others are unable to earn points because they are too young or too old.

For this group of people, Oil City has launched a series of activities to try to keep them alive.

For children under 10 years old and senior citizens over 65 years old, free housing and heating are provided.

And children under 10 years old need to sign a long-term loan agreement that can be repaid after five years, and they will be given a free tortilla every day.

This is actually equivalent to a contract of sale.

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For groups with physical disabilities, Oil City also gives them opportunities.

Identify physically disabled survivors and assign them to work in the boiler room or do some manual work to earn points.

The number of such disabled people is relatively small. After all, due to their physical problems, they are not as good as normal survivors and their survival ability is lower.

Those who can survive are those who have some technical foundation or other abilities at hand.

As for those survivors who have no problems with their hands and feet and are poor simply because of laziness, Oil City does not pamper them.

Those who starved to death and those who froze to death were taken directly to the incineration plant, where their bodies were burned to generate electricity.

Due to the heavy snowfall, Oil City is relatively small, so the pressure of shoveling snow is not that great.

However, the work of shoveling snow in the buffer city and trading market is very stressful.

In addition, because the outdoor temperature reached minus 40 degrees, people could not stay outside for too long to work, so the working hours were modified.

Four shifts are implemented, twenty-four hours a day, and one shift works six hours.

It takes 2,000 people to recruit duty personnel for one shift in the buffer city, and 8,000 people for four shifts.

In the buffer city plus the people removing snow from the trading market, the number of people in the first shift reached 4,000, and in the fourth shift, the number reached 16,000.

Compared with the headquarters base, Oil City has a shortage of snowplows, so a large amount of manpower is needed to fill these shortcomings.

On the other hand, the Da Zhangshu Base has a large reserve of snow plows and excavators, so it only needs one-seventh of the manpower to complete the snow plowing work.

In the residential area of ​​Area C of the trading market, people freeze to death every day.

Every day they could see people carrying the bodies out, putting them on cars, and then taking them to the incineration plant for burning.

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For some survivors who have been in the trading market for a relatively long time, it is not sad.

They relied on the points they had stored previously to purchase food and water, pay heating bills and rent, and had no problems for the time being.

But they will still be suffering as they watch the points gradually being depleted every day and Blizzard showing no signs of stopping.

Sit back and eat nothing.

This feeling is very uncomfortable.

Trading bazaar, residential area, Area C.

in a room.

Xu Qingwen sighed:

"Old Sui, I don't know why the snow stopped. It's been snowing for almost 20 days, right?"

Sui Dahua sat on the bed opposite him, shook his head with worry and said:

"If you ask me, I don't know either."

"By the way, how many points do you have left?"

Xu Qingwen took out the small piece of paper and glanced at it, "There are 150 points left, what about you?"

"I'm about the same as you, with 152 points left." Sui Dahua replied.

When Xu Qingwen heard this, he nodded and said:

"We're quite good at comparing prices. I heard that many people in the building next door have no points, so they can only apply for loans and then go to the buffer city to clear snow. They go there every day, and many people get frostbite."

"Um."

Sui Dahua thought for a while and said:

"So what we did before was right. We saved more points. We have three people to support in our family, and there are three people in your family. Our family of three consumes about 1.5 points a day. What about you?"

Xu Qingwen calculated and replied:

"It's about the same as you. Our family consumes 1.45 points a day. Mainly heating, water, and food. I only took a shower this month."

"With this kind of consumption, we can at least sustain it for another three months."

Sui Dahua looked at Xu Qingwen and said softly:

"I feel like the snow should stop soon. The sky is much brighter now than before."

"When the snow stops, I heard that a greenhouse will be built. Shall we go and answer the call then?"

Xu Qingwen frowned when he heard this, "But after the snow stops, I'm afraid the temperature will get even lower. It would be too risky for us to go out and build construction."

"So"

Sui Dahua thought for a moment and said:

"So we have to buy another set of anti-freeze equipment. The clothing store in the trading market sells a set of anti-freeze equipment that is very good. Let's go check it out some other time?"

Xu Qingwen looked at his wife, who rested her head on his shoulder. "I listen to you."

Xu Qingwen nodded, having a rough idea.

So he said to Sui Dahua:

"Okay, I'll go with you. If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools. A good set of equipment is also to protect ourselves and enable us to work for a long time."

"That's right." Sui Dahua nodded with a smile.

The blizzard continued to fall, and the sky became brighter little by little.

During this period, the guards on duty in the buffer city did not see any traces of zombies.

Dazhangshu Base.

Snowplows were driving in the inner city, outer city, and buffer city to shovel snow.

Each of these members who went out to shovel snow was distributed with a set of warm and antifreeze suits produced by Dazhangshu Base.

Since the industry here in Dazhangshu Base is relatively developed, clothing can now be produced.

Give these people a complete set of warm and antifreeze suits, the inner layer of clothing is breathable and warm, and the outer layer is waterproof.

The side of the hat close to the scalp can keep warm, and the outer layer is waterproof.

In addition, they also have corresponding masks, gloves, scarves, and waterproof high-top boots.

A complete set, very comprehensive.

This set of antifreeze equipment was actually transported to the North and Oil City by the transport team.

The North has a small population, so all members were given it.

Oil City gave it to the third-level personnel, but not to the lower fourth- and fifth-level members.

Because there are too many fourth- and fifth-level members in the trading market, hundreds of thousands of people, so it is impossible to give them.

The Dazhangshu base is at least the headquarters base, with abundant supplies.

The one who is close to the water gets the moon first.

Even the fourth- and fifth-level members were given it, but their points would be deducted.

This set of equipment is free for members above level three.

For the fourth- and fifth-level members of the trading market, even if they have enough points, they cannot buy this set of warm antifreeze suits produced by the Dazhangshu base.

On the other hand, even the fourth- and fifth-level members of the Dazhangshu headquarters base can get it.

This is the benefit of staying in the headquarters base.

The industrial system is developed, the facilities in all aspects are relatively complete, and the welfare benefits are relatively good.

Moreover, the price of food here is lower, and there are relatively more job opportunities, so almost everyone has no worries about food and clothing.

Due to the accumulation of many years of the Third Outer City Machinery Factory, the R&D and manufacturing capabilities are amazing.

For this ice disaster, they developed and manufactured a lot of novelties.

This makes it easier to clear the snow.

Among them is a snow suction device similar to a sprinkler truck, which sucks up the snow through the bottom of the car, and then sucks it into the box on the car.

There is also a double-sided snow shoveling device modified from a motorcycle. When the motorcycle is riding, two things similar to plows are hung on both sides of the front of the motorcycle, which can shovel the snow to both sides.

All these innovative transformations have provided a lot of convenience and saved manpower for the snow shoveling work at the Dazhangshu Base.

Compared with the Oil City, the Dazhangshu Base reacted much more calmly when resisting the threat of this blizzard.

This is not only related to the small population pressure, but also to the hard power in the Dazhangshu Base.

After all, the Dazhangshu Base has been developed for more than six years, and the Oil City was initially positioned as an oil production sub-base. Later, after the development of the trading market, it began to develop industry.

The trading market has only been around for a year and three months.

It can't even be compared to the headquarters of the big camphor tree base.

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