Chapter 1769 Storm Surge, New Discovery of the Natural Disaster Research Institute

The next day.

Store No. 2 in the commercial district sells tortillas as usual, and there is no purchase limit.

There are still many people who come here to buy tortillas. They take out dozens or even hundreds of points to buy these tortillas.

The third day.

Store No. 2 opened normally and was not affected by the recent rush to buy tortillas.

In fact, in order to quickly provide tortillas to everyone, the store has also transferred a lot of new staff to ensure the quality and speed of service.

After seeing this situation, the customers who bought tortillas at the door of the store whispered to each other.

"No, I saw someone buy nearly 300 tortillas in one go yesterday. Why is there no limit now? I spent half of my points to stock up on tortillas for safety reasons."

"It's only 300. I saw someone buy it directly the day before yesterday. 1200 tortillas, it seems that the rumor is false, you see they don't have any food raw materials at all. "

"I've been buying for a week, and now I have less than ten points left. I have hoarded hundreds of tortillas, what should I do with this?"

"No, you've bought so much, why are you still buying?"

"I'll queue up and join in the fun."

"You're so bored, I'm not going to buy today, I can't finish the ones I bought a few days ago, and I don't have a suitable place to put them. I'm always worried that they will be stolen if I put them in the room. It's troublesome to carry them with you."

"Who said it's not, this is not easy to store, the temperature in the room is more than 20 degrees, so it won't last long. I don't have to worry about it if I put it outdoors, but I can't stay outdoors all the time."

For them, although it's safe to carry food with them, it's also a hassle to carry a lot of food with them.

Carrying a package all day long, even when sleeping and going to the toilet.

Even when going out to sweep the snow, they carry it with them, which becomes a burden.

And watching others eat hot corn tortillas every day, the corn tortillas are relatively soft when they are just out of the oven, and they will become hard after they are cooled, and the longer they are stored, the harder they will become.

If they are stored for half a month, they will be as hard as a stone, and they will break your teeth if you eat them without heating.

Someone ate corn tortillas that had been stored for more than two months before, and ate them dry when they were cold, and they broke a front tooth because of the hardness.

Another day passed.

Zhu Yu and the leader of their team came to store No. 2 to check the situation.

When their leader saw that store No. 2 still had a stable supply of corn tortillas, his face was livid.

Some people in the queue were still talking about the food shortage in the oil city.

"Luckily I didn't buy so many, hahaha. Lao Liu next door used all his points to buy tortillas. Now he can't pay the rent, heating and water bills, so he can only sell tortillas to others at a low price to offset other expenses."

"Who said it wasn't? The taste of this freshly baked tortilla is very different from that of the tortilla that has been left for a few days. I don't want to bite the hard tortilla."

"It is said that someone bought 1,200 tortillas a while ago. I wonder if he regrets it now."

"Who cares? Anyway, they won't be able to finish eating so many in a short time."

Hearing these people's discussions, the leader's face became even uglier.

He is the complainer in these people's mouths.

All the points in the number card were used to buy tortillas, and now there is only about 1 point left in the number card.

There are more than 20 people in their team, and the heating fee for each person is 0.2 points a day. The points in their hands are only enough for 5 days.

If they don't have a job, they can only exchange points for tortillas with other survivors at a low price.

In the residential area of ​​the trading market, if you don't pay the accommodation fee, you will be given a last seven-day limit period, allowing you to find a way to get points within seven days.

But if you don't pay the heating fee, you will be kicked out directly and asked to live in the slums without heating.

In the slums, most of them are people living at the bottom of the trading market.

However, generally speaking, as long as you have hands and feet, are a little diligent, and have a sense of saving, you will not fall into a situation where you can't pay 0.01 rent and 0.01 heating fee a day.

"Brother, what should I do with the tortillas I bought?" Zhu Yu looked at the leader.

The leader said with a gloomy face:

"What else can we do? We'll slowly eat it in the next one or two months."

They have things to do in the trading market, and the team has participated in snow removal, so it didn't cause them too much problem.

The only thing is that they won't be able to eat fresh hot tortillas for the next month.

Oil City.

The cold wind is howling.

At the entrance of the oil well.

"Minister, the temperature is too low now, so we have to suspend oil extraction." Ling Feng, the person in charge of the oil well, said.

Uncle San looked at the workers who retreated from inside and nodded:

"Well, I know, you have worked hard during this period, take the brothers down and have a good rest."

"Minister, then we're leaving."

"Well."

Ling Feng waved to the oil well workers behind him and left in front of Uncle San.

Every worker bowed and greeted Uncle San when they saw him standing at the door.

Their faces, hands, and clothes were covered with black crude oil and dust, and they looked dirty.

The working environment of oil well workers is bad, and they work underground all year round.

Moreover, they have made great contributions to the development of Oil City and even the Da Zhangshu base.

Therefore, the contribution points they receive every day are quite high.

So far, the lowest level of these oil extraction workers has reached the level of third-level personnel, and they enjoy high welfare benefits.

This is the case at Da Zhangshu Base, which will not treat those who have made great contributions badly.

After they left, the third uncle looked at the thermometer hanging next to the oil well gate, which showed that the outdoor temperature now reached minus seventy-one degrees.

It is not easy for them to continue to exploit oil in such extremely cold weather.

Exploring oil in extremely cold weather will face problems such as equipment freezing, oil well blockage, and operational difficulties.

In terms of operational difficulties, extremely cold weather will cause frostbite to the operator's hands and affect operating efficiency.

Before the end of the world, oil well companies often exploited oil in temperatures of 20 to 30 degrees below zero. They would use antifreeze and other measures to find ways to extract oil.

Even in the Arctic, where temperatures reach minus fifty degrees, oil companies are able to find ways to extract.

When oil companies extract oil in these areas, they use special antifreeze, insulation materials and thermal equipment.

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The temperature is really too low now, it is extremely cold at minus 71 degrees, and the operation is extremely complicated and difficult.

Moreover, the equipment often quickly freezes within a few seconds after being scalded with hot water, making it impossible to operate the equipment. The oil wells in the Oil City have to be suspended.

The third uncle put on his hat and looked at the falling snowflakes in the sky, shook his head and walked to the cafeteria.

Big camphor tree base.

Inner city weather monitoring station.

On top of the towering monitoring station, two people stood.

He looked nervously at the mountains and forests in the distance with his binoculars, frowning.

The monitoring station is located in front of the inner city wall, which is the scope of the second outer city.

The height of the monitoring station reaches 95 meters, which is even nearly 20 meters higher than the inner city wall.

It is the tallest building in Dazhangshu Base except for the sentry tower on the top of the inner city mountain.

The monitoring station is connected to the inner city wall, and there is a sentry tower below.

Wuwuwuwu——

The wind roared and screamed like a ghost.

The leaves on the anemometer were whirring and spinning continuously.

Deng Wen saw the sky in the distance through the telescope, and scattered snowflakes swept across the sky, suddenly spinning and flying again.

The situation is not good.

He quickly shouted to the person next to him: "Xiao Gao, what level of wind does it show on the anemometer now?"

Xiao Gao supported the railing and walked to the anemometer with difficulty to take a look.

"Level 8."

After Deng Wen heard this number, he was secretly frightened. Since the second snowfall, the wind has continued to increase.

From level 3 at the beginning, it has gradually risen, especially in the past two days, it has soared directly from level 6 to level 8.

The wind is getting stronger.

Generally speaking, the definition of wind level is roughly as follows:

Level 3: Breeze, leaves and twigs swaying, and flags unfurled.

Level 4: Gentle wind, which can blow up dust and paper on the ground and shake small trees.

Level 5: Breeze, the river is wavy.

Level 6: Strong winds, big trees swaying, power lines whirring, and it is difficult to hold an umbrella.

Level 7: Strong wind, difficult steps.

Level 8: Strong winds, broken branches, and difficulty walking in the wind.

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Level 9: Strong wind, the top of the chimney will be blown away by the wind, and ground objects will be blown around.

Level 10: Strong wind, trees were blown down, and general buildings were damaged.

Level 11: Storm, rare on land, destructive. Level 12: Hurricane, very destructive. Level 13: Typhoon or hurricane, extremely destructive. Level 14: Strong typhoon or hurricane, extremely destructive.

In two days, the wind strength increased from level 6 to level 8.

It may rise again in the future.

Xiao Gao shouted to Deng Wen: "Professor Deng, should we report this situation? The wind has increased too fast."

Deng Wen put away the telescope, nodded and said:

"Okay, let's go down."

Although the wind force of level 8 is already very strong now, it is not surprising to the survivors living in the apocalypse.

The buildings in the Da Zhangshu Base are extremely solid.

Even those greenhouses can withstand typhoons of more than ten levels.

This is not only due to the solidity of the greenhouse, but also to the tall walls at the camphor tree base.

These tens of meters high walls block the typhoons blowing from outside.

Due to the air pressure, the wind blowing down from above is mostly broken wind, and the wind force is not that strong.

But if there were no walls to block typhoons of more than ten levels, and the greenhouse itself could resist it, it would have been destroyed by the wind long ago.

The two of them crawled along the straight ladder and climbed down bit by bit.

At an altitude of hundreds of meters, they were climbing on this straight ladder. It looked dangerous, but in fact it was not safe at all.

However, at least they were not crawling outside, but crawling down in the space in the center of the steel frame and concrete building.

The wind was blowing, and their clothes were blown by the wind.

Wearing gloves with New Year's gift packages, they touched the cold iron rod again and again.

Finally, five minutes later.

They climbed to the inner city wall, which was more than 70 meters high.

The two walked to the guard tower and pressed the elevator to the first floor.

There are still a few people patrolling the inner city wall.

"Professor Deng, do you think it will become a typhoon later?" Xiao Gao asked worriedly.

Generally speaking, the formation of typhoons is extremely rare.

The formation of typhoons is an extremely complex meteorological process involving multiple factors.

The basic conditions include warm sea water temperature, humid air and appropriate wind shear.

It is basically impossible for typhoons to occur inland.

But

In this apocalypse, common sense cannot be used.

There was a super hurricane disaster before, and the wind strength was simply outrageous.

Deng Wen had seen zombies flying into the sky once in his lifetime. At that time, he had not joined the Dazhangshu Base. It was located on the North China Plain. In the plain area, there were no tall mountains to block the hurricane. Wherever the hurricane passed, it was like artillery fire washing the ground.

A house was blown up by the hurricane.

He was hiding in a basement in the city at the time and survived.

But on the Dazhangshu Base side, because it was all mountainous and hilly, the hurricane's wind force was reduced.

Gan Province has always been a relatively isolated area since ancient times, which is caused by the terrain.

There are tall Wuyi Mountains in the east, which isolate the typhoons in the east.

There are Jiulian Mountains in the south, Luoxiao Mountains and Wugong Mountains in the west,

Jiuling Mountains and Jiuhua Mountains in the north, and Huangshan Mountains in the northeast.

It is closed, which also led to the relatively poor economy before the end of the world.

But at the same time, this place is rarely affected by natural disasters.

However, the natural disasters in the end of the world are too strong. Even after the hurricane has weakened, the wind force at the camphor tree base is extremely terrifying.

They hurried back to the Natural Disaster Research Institute.

"Where is Dean Song?" Deng Wen asked a colleague as soon as he came down.

"In the office, what's the matter? I see that the wind has become stronger today. Have you found anything?" asked a colleague.

Deng Wen left without looking back after hearing that Song Zhihong was in the office.

He left a sentence: "I'll tell you later."

He took off his hat while running.

His hair was pressed by the hat for a long time, so it looked like a chicken coop.

He rushed to Song Zhihong's office with Xiao Gao.

He didn't knock on the door, but pushed it open and rushed in.

In the office, Song Zhihong was stroking his chin, staring at the terrain model in front of him and thinking.

Bang!

The door was suddenly pushed open, which scared him.

"Why didn't you knock on the door before you came in? I was scared to death." Song Zhihong patted his chest and said with lingering fear.

His heart skipped a beat just now, damn it.

Deng Wen came in and said in a trembling voice:

"Dean Song, the wind force has reached level 8 now!"

"Level 8??!"

Song Zhihong widened his eyes and asked in surprise:

"So fast, it was still level 7 this morning!"

He quickly ran to the window and opened it.

Shuahuahua——

The snowflakes outside blew in instantly.

He frowned and observed the wind force outside for a while.

He quickly closed the window.

Turning around, he picked up a paintbrush and wrote on the wall the time when the wind speed increased recently.

Obviously, the speed at which the wind speed increased was getting faster and faster.

"It's not good to continue like this, it's too fast." Song Zhihong murmured.

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