Chapter 134 134 "The Wind and Snow Have Weighed on Me for Three or Two Years, but I Smiled at the Wind as Light as Snow as Cotton!"

Chapter 134 134· "The wind and snow have weighed on me for three or two years, but I smiled at the wind as light as snow as cotton!"

November 1, 2024, Eastern Kingdom time, 9:47 in the morning - the first night of the ice disaster coming to Eastern Kingdom has ended.

Shuinan City, Refuge Zone No. 7, Refuge Building No. 1.

Chi Yan drowsily sat up from the bed, looked at the scene in front of her with sleepy eyes, and then wrapped the quilt tighter.

"Yanyan, you finally woke up. I asked you to stay up late last night, and I thought you would sleep until noon before waking up.

Your breakfast has been picked up for you. The one wrapped in a thermal bag on the table next to you is the one. It should still be warm. If it's cold, just use the microwave. "

Chi Yan's mother, who was sitting on a chair and writing something at her desk, saw her daughter waking up and said jokingly.

"Oh, mom, what time is it now?"

Chi Yan nodded, wrapped herself in a quilt and squirmed to the head of the bed, reaching out to get her breakfast.

"It's almost ten o'clock, and the sun is almost shining... No, there is indeed no sun now. The clouds haven't dispersed yet. It is estimated that the sun will have a chance to come out in the afternoon - there should be no way to shine in the ice disaster. The condition of the butt."

Chi Yan's mother wanted to tease her, but then she said with a serious smile.

Chi Yan rubbed her eyes. Her brain, which was a little frozen when she got up, finally started functioning normally.

Yes, it is already the era of natural disasters.

Then she looked around with some surprise, and then at the quilt wrapped around her:

"It's already ten o'clock now? It's been ten hours since the Ice Disaster started?"

She wasn't surprised as to why she got up so late.

Chi Yan herself went to bed after three o'clock last night. After all, no matter how big the heart is, it is difficult to fall asleep at the same time as last night. In addition to Xiaobao, nine people in this room took turns looking at the small window outside. Hailstorm, lamenting its horror.

After all, with that size and the speed of falling, if you are not careful, you will be killed directly.

However, at three o'clock, under the influence of the biological clock, Chi Yan was really sleepy and could only sleep.

This sleep was really not uncomfortable, it was quite comfortable. The sound of the hail did not cause any trouble to Chi Yan, and even had a certain hypnotic effect.

After all, this was taken into consideration when the shelter was renovated, and a layer of sound insulation was added to the upward facing areas of the building to ensure that hailstones would not accumulate and at the same time reduce the sound of falling hailstones.

Although this is still a little bit, it is very light and the continuous tapping is even a bit like ASMR to Chi Yan, which makes her fall asleep faster.

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Mother asked.

After Chi Yan hesitated for a while, she asked: "Is it now close to the common temperature of the ice disaster? But why do I feel...not particularly cold?"

Of course it is cold. Chi Yan is still huddled under the quilt, and her mother sitting on the chair is also wrapped in a coat. This should never happen in Shuinan City in November.

But this temperature is far different from the cold that Chi Yan expected.

Shouldn't it be an extreme temperature of tens of degrees below zero now? Why does it feel like there is no difference from the ordinary winter days in Shuinan City before? Even... a little warmer?

Ice disaster, is this it?

Chi Yan knew that she couldn't underestimate natural disasters, but she couldn't help but have such thoughts in her heart.

Seemingly sensing her daughter's thoughts, Chi Yan's mother looked up at her funny and said:

"Why, it makes you unhappy to be warmer, Yanyan, why do you think we in Dongguo have been renovating the shelter day and night for the past half month?

We have installed insulation layers both inside and outside. These things are not in name only!

We now have not only three floors inside and three floors outside, but also three floors inside and outside the building. We should be warmer. If you don’t wear more clothes now, just open the door and go to the corridor, you will be shivering from the cold, let alone go outside. .

Moreover, it has not yet reached the coldest period of the ice disaster, but in fact, there is no need to worry too much. Yanyan, don’t forget, why don’t we move to other cities? Isn’t it because we are on the coast of Shuinan City? Was the Eastern Kingdom the least affected place during the ice disaster?

Also, you may not believe it, but we are already quite cold. In cities along the northern coast of Dongzhou, they can even wear single clothes in shelters. I can only say that heating is a really good thing. "

Chi Yan's mother shook her head and sighed.

There are always people in Dongguo discussing whether it is colder in the south or in the north. In fact, this question is really meaningless.

There is really no comparison between a few degrees below zero and a dozen or even dozens of degrees below zero. With clothes that can be worn in the south in winter, you might shiver outside in the north, or even be unable to hold on at all. After all, there are people in the north every year People who froze to death—of course, there were also stubborn people who didn’t believe in evil and insisted on licking telephone poles with their tongues.

But sometimes the south is really 'colder' than the north - when people are indoors.

When the heating is turned on in the north, northerners can even wear short-sleeved shirts at home, which is very comfortable. However, the south is not suitable for heating due to factors such as geographical environment and economical and cost-effectiveness.

Humid air is pervasive, and air conditioning and heating were not common in the past few years. This makes it difficult to find an effective method of heat preservation in the south.

It's really uncomfortable to be wet and cold, so when people in the south go home, they take off their coats out of respect for the building's ability to retain heat. Taking them off again would be a bit embarrassing for their bodies.

In half a month, it was impossible to retrofit a truly effective heating system in a southern building. However, the shelters in the north that were originally equipped with heating equipment maintained normal operation on the first day of the ice disaster, so the shelters there The residents felt somewhat at ease.

Upon hearing this, Chi Yan quickly finished her breakfast, then put on her clothes and got out of bed, came to the window, and looked at the outside world through the small window. There was no frost on the window, so someone must have wiped it.

The damage caused by the hail was quite large. All the good things Chi Yan recorded in Shuinan City yesterday were completely wiped out overnight.

Shuinan City's iconic tower has been bent at the waist, and is covered with 'wounds' caused by hail. As for the greening, street trees, and bushes that have been in place for many years, they have been almost flattened. Although the trees are still standing, the top branches are The broken and accumulated hailstones were mixed with a large number of leaves and branches, and the 'remnants' were desolate in the cold wind.

Chi Yan compared Shuinan City in her camera and sighed softly. The beauty was no longer there and she was inevitably disappointed.

Natural disaster, natural disaster.

When she lowered her head, Chi Yan discovered that there was already a group of workers on the road occupied by hail below. Braving the biting low temperature, they were cleaning up the broken ice and snow on the road, as if they wanted to restore the city to its original state. The way it was before.

There are also people who are collecting some relatively intact hailstones and don’t know what to do.

Another slight buzzing sound attracted Chi Yan's attention. She raised her head and saw... machines all over the sky.

As my mother said, the sky at this moment is covered with clouds, and the sun behind it cannot be seen.

But I saw a large number of drones scattered in the sky of Shuinan City. They were of different sizes, some were very huge, and some were very small.

At this moment, they are busy shuttling among the clouds. They cooperate with each other to send some things down from the sky and send some things up from the ground. They seem to be recording and studying something. Chi Yan also saw the traces left by the fighter jets in the sky.

At the top of the floor where many drones choose to park, scientific researchers will appear from time to time to take the things above or replace some equipment before letting these machines take off.

Buildings that looked like 'signal towers' that did not exist yesterday stood majestically at the top of the floors.

In this icy disaster, the scenes on earth and heaven actually gave Chi Yan a feeling of enthusiasm and prosperity?

"Mom, do you know what those machines in the sky are doing now?" Chi Yan turned her head and asked curiously.

"I don't know, but it's definitely not a bad thing. It seems like they are doing research." The mother responded.

"In this kind of weather, these machines can still operate normally. Is there no problem?" Chi Yan sighed as she stood by the window, feeling much colder than in bed.

"Yanyan, have you underestimated the current level of industry?" Chi Yan's father, who was lying on the upper bunk bed, said with a smile, "We usually use many things that are not cold-resistant, not because they cannot withstand the cold. Cold, but because it does not need to deal with this environment.

If we can't even build a machine that can work at temperatures as low as tens of degrees below zero, how can we build an Antarctic scientific research station and talk about going to heaven?

The extreme temperatures in those conditions were much more terrifying than they are now.

So, the reason why I didn’t do it was because it wasn’t necessary, not because it wasn’t possible. "

"Yes, Yanyan, haven't you noticed? We can still use the Internet as usual, otherwise I wouldn't be able to contact my friends in the north. If our equipment is so fragile, then our shelter, They will all become isolated cities.”

Chi Yan's mother also added.

Chi Yan suddenly realized from her parents' explanation that it was indeed the case, but her mind was a little out of whack.

Chi Yan's eyes were locked between the flying machines. In a trance, she seemed to know what these machines had been carrying to each other - hope.

This is a wisp of flame in the ice and snow.

Bring new life to this frozen and dead environment.

A 'straggler' unmanned aerial vehicle attracted Chi Yan's attention.

Following its route, Chi Yan saw a branch of a tree that was twisting and hanging on the ground. It was covered with broken or complete ice and snow fragments. It was so heavy that it could not get up, and it seemed that it would break here.

The drone approached slowly, and then hit the branch hard with its body.

This sudden shaking caused the ice and snow above to lose their balance and fall from the branches.

Snap, snap.

Then Chi Yan saw a scene that made her particularly unforgettable——

As the ice and snow fell, in a flash, the branches suddenly stood up, held their heads high again, and pointed straight towards the sky. It seemed that the ice and snow had never caused real harm to them!

And the drone that did all this seems to want to see this scene.

After getting what it wanted, it "happily" drew a circle in the air, then continued its work, soaring straight up to the sky!

——The wind and snow have been weighing on me for three or two years, but I smile as if the wind is light and the snow is like cotton!

The first half of this poem from Ouyang Xiu's "Quatrains" suddenly came to Chi Yan's mind.

Just this scene made Chi Yan feel hot and excited. The wind and snow cannot bring down not only this branch, but also the 400 million Dongfang people, and the country that gives birth to and raises itself.

Broken branches and toppled buildings will eventually be rebuilt by the hands of the Easterners!

After watching for a while, Chi Yan left the window, and her mood improved a lot.

The unknown is the scariest thing, otherwise everyone wouldn't have refused to sleep last night. They had to witness this scene with their own eyes. But now, ten hours after the natural disaster era, most of Chi Yan's worries have dissipated. Coupled with the shock that that little scene just brought to me——

The ice disaster may not be a big deal after all!

She came to her mother's side, bent down to look at what her mother was writing, and asked curiously:

"Mom, what are you writing about? Is it work in a shelter?"

"Yes, this is the rough draft of our class schedule." Chi Yan's mother did not hide it and showed her what she had written. It was indeed a class schedule. Although she had made changes, she could still see the time and course arrangements. , and it seems that people on different floors have different class schedules.

"Class schedule? Do we still have classes? What classes?" Chi Yan picked it up and looked at it more curiously, and asked subconsciously.

“There’s so much to learn!

In order to prepare for the earthquake disaster in the second month, everyone needs to learn relevant knowledge on how to protect themselves and how to survive after being injured in response to the earthquake, right?

We will start the migration immediately at the end of the month. We need to learn the route, possible problems and coping methods, such as how to create contact signals after falling behind. After all, the migration then will be much more hasty and dangerous than before the Era of Natural Disasters!

In the event of an alien disaster, it may turn into a scene where everyone becomes a soldier. If everyone learns basic fighting knowledge, they will be well prepared.

At the same time, in addition to these required courses, we also need to teach you some technologies and knowledge that can be used in the future.

After all, like Yanyan, you studied finance. Although it cannot be said that the knowledge you have learned is completely useless, it can also be said that you have learned it in vain. Here you will be given a choice, and there are various categories. Even the driver's license is a subject, knitting, Wilderness survival, material production, civil engineering...

Although the ice disaster does not seem scary at the moment and we can deal with it easily, now is not the time to open the champagne to celebrate. There are still many steps left in front of us, and we need to cross them one by one.

For a month, if everyone just stays in their rooms and does nothing, it would be such a waste and disrespectful of their own lives.

In the shelters between the coastal and inland cores, they are now responsible for the arduous task of strengthening the shelters' ability to cope with earthquakes from the inside. Our work has never ended, or even just begun..."

Chi Yan’s mother, who has many years of experience in management and administration, subconsciously started a long ‘preaching’.

"I see." Chi Yan scratched her head.

She understands this approach.

It was different from the courses she had learned in the past - those courses Chi Yan felt she had learned, but to be honest, less than 1% of them could be used in real life.

But now, after mastering these courses, they can really save your life in the future.

that is……

Chi Yan turned on her phone and found the group chat of her international students. Taking advantage of the fact that the Internet was still available, she quietly complained:

"How come there is also Zaoba in the era of natural disasters——"

"Ah? What's so early in the morning?"

"[Picture], I asked my mother, it can be spread. This is something the whole country needs to do, and your shelter can't escape it."

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha--it turns out to be this, let's learn it. I'm willing to learn these things. I haven't taken the driver's license test yet, so I just need to take a driver's license class."

"It feels like Zaoba is a bit scarier than the Ice Disaster - just kidding."

"It's true. Anyway, so far, the ice disaster is far from what I expected. It even felt like a relatively cold winter in the shelter... I know my idea is wrong, but I can't help it. .”

"Perhaps...it's just that the ice disaster in the Eastern Kingdom isn't terrifying?"

Two in one, 4500 words.

This book is often forced to be revised. When you are not reading smoothly, you can only try to understand it yourself. Yesterday, a few chapters were revised.