Chapter 181 A World of Despair
In the Mountain City Base, the capital of the Xia Kingdom, there is a conference room with the strictest security in the base. The several old people sitting in it are all important figures in the Xia Kingdom. They are the elders of the central government of the Xia Kingdom.
The great elder looked very tired. He had basically not slept much in the past two days. The arrival of the super cyclone cold wave caught the entire Xia Kingdom off guard. Official bases in various provinces were counting casualties. Now that the meeting was held, he asked the second elder first.
"How is the situation now? Tell us."
The No. 2 head is the head of the government. He hasn't slept much in the past two days. His eyes are red and he looks exhausted. He picked up the document that seemed to be very heavy. When he opened it, he found a statistical report from various places after the disaster. With all the data coming up, he calmed down before speaking, his voice a little hoarse.
"Let me report. According to the data reported below, the total death toll this time is 503.544356 people. Basically, all bases below the municipal level have been destroyed." ❋
The atmosphere suddenly became very solemn. You must know that from the beginning of the end to now, the total population of Xia Kingdom was only over 180 million people. Now more than 50 million people have disappeared directly, which means that almost a quarter of the population has been lost. , how could the elders here not feel heartbroken, after all, those who died were all citizens of the Xia Kingdom.
"All the trains we used to transport supplies outside were damaged. In addition, many power plants in various bases were damaged by the cold wave and many of their equipments were basically paralyzed. Without the power supply from the power plants, many bases were basically in a state of paralysis. The heating supply is cut off, and many people will freeze to death if this continues. These are the main contents of my report. "
The Great Elder rubbed his temples. The matter was very troublesome and time was urgent, but it still had to be solved one by one. He asked Elder No. 3.
“Is the latest nuclear battery ready for mass production?”
Elder No. 3 is in charge of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Academy of Sciences, so the research on the latest nuclear batteries obtained from Gu Ming's special train and the establishment of production lines for mass production are all handled by Elder No. 3, he said.
"The production line was built the day before yesterday and has started mass production. However, I suggest that branch factories can be established in the provincial capital bases of each province. This can reduce the burden on our central government. Secondly, the provincial governments can directly distribute batteries to their provinces. In each base, this time will not be wasted. ”
The elders present all agreed to the suggestion made by Elder No. 3, and the Great Elder asked another question.
"Can the Academy of Sciences develop a train that can withstand temperatures of more than 100 degrees below zero?"
Since such a super cold wave event occurred, academicians of the Academy of Sciences have begun to study the latest low-temperature resistant materials, but there has been little progress. Elder No. 3 thought of Gu Ming's Far New Base, so he said.
"The other problems are not big. The most important thing is that we cannot develop materials that can withstand ultra-low temperatures. Can we trade with the Far New Base? I think the Far New Base should have the materials we need."
The other elders felt that what Elder No. 3 said was very possible. The Far New Base was already equivalent to an alien base in their minds.
“There must be some in the Far New Base.
"What if Gu Ming doesn't want to trade? What should I do?"
"Just fight!"
"I don't care about that much now."
In the end, it was the Great Elder who spoke, setting the tone.
"Don't use violence first, and how can you be sure that he has no back-up plan? If he disappears from the Xia Kingdom with his relatives and friends, how will we find him in the future? Send an acquaintance to discuss with him first. We can raise any conditions. "The most important thing for us now is how to prevent something like this from happening again."
All the elders spoke one by one, but they still said the same thing, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Now the Xia Kingdom's industrial system is incomplete. Many things do not even have raw materials, so how can they produce products?
Of course, difficulties must be overcome one by one.
The meeting lasted for several hours and many plans were made. Of course, the most important one was the transaction with Gu Ming. Not only low-temperature resistant materials, Xia Guo officials also wanted to trade with Gu Ming in other aspects.
Now Gu Ming doesn't know that many official plans are related to him. Gu Ming's nuclear submarine broke through the ice and surfaced directly on the coast of Fujian Province.
Gu Ming redeemed a special bus in the system store, and asked Chu Heng and others to get on the bus first, and then Gu Ming's chariot came ashore from the sea. In this way, the chariot took the lead, and the bus followed behind, heading towards Shonan Province. go ahead.
After the four super cold current cyclones in the northern hemisphere disappeared, the average temperature dropped by more than ten degrees. The temperature at the longitude and latitude where Gu Ming is located is around minus 60 degrees. The polar bear country is even worse, with the temperature at more than minus 70 degrees.
As the chariot was driving on the road, Gu Ming saw that some trees on the roadside were frozen to death, like ice crystals, but there were also many plants that survived and did not die in such ultra-low temperatures. It is conceivable that such I don’t know if plants can still be called plants.
When passing through the first small county town, Gu Ming felt that the entire city was lifeless, dark and silent. There were no zombies or mutant beasts coming out to attack their vehicles, and there were no survivors. The drones flying in the sky had no life left. After detection, all the survivors in the city may be dead.
Gu Ming wanted to go out and investigate the situation of zombies and mutant beasts in this small county. Are they also frozen to death? If so, it would be a good thing for humans.
The chariot stopped by the roadside, and the bus also stopped. Gu Ming said hello to Chu Heng and told him that he had something to do and they would stay here for a while.
Gu Ming set off with Wangcai, and Gu Xiao was also left behind.
The whole city was a frozen ruin. Gu Ming and Wangcai were running on the road. They could only hear their own and Wangcai's footsteps. They came to the gate of a tall building and Gu Ming walked in from the gate.
Going directly into the side passage of the hall, Gu Ming came to the innermost room with a closed door. The doors of other rooms were not closed, only this one was closed. Gu Ming felt that if there were zombies, there should be a high probability in this room.
He opened the handle and gently pushed open the door. What came into view was a pile of zombies gathered together. Dozens of zombies were crowded together, as if they were keeping each other warm. Gu Ming knew that they were not corpses, and they were all still alive.
Gu Ming squatted down to observe a zombie. He watched carefully for a few minutes and found that they only breathed twice a minute when they were asleep. It seemed that their heartbeats were only a few beats a minute. These zombies would not use this method to reduce their body energy consumption. Moreover, the hair on their bodies was more luxuriant than before, almost comparable to the legendary snowman.
Zombies actually evolved rapidly with the changes in the environment. Gu Ming guessed that mutants should also be like this. Only humans fell behind. Although he didn't know the casualties of humans in this cold wave, Gu Ming knew that the world's population would definitely drop sharply.
Without killing the zombies in the room, Gu Ming left the building calmly. He spent some time to walk around the entire county and found zombies and mutants in many buildings. There were also many rat holes. The rat holes were unfathomable and an adult could get in the hole.
There are several places that should be the hiding places of the survivors, but the scene inside is horrible. It is not the kind of cannibalism, but it seems that everyone is huddled together for warmth, but everything has turned into ice crystals. This is because the water in the human body has been frozen into ice crystals. Gu Ming just moved the corpse with his fingers, and the corpse fell apart into countless ice particles.
There are fires in the hiding places of the survivors. There are basically a few paint buckets inside, but Gu Ming guessed that the burning fires may have been frozen out after the cold wave came.
After sorting out his mood, Gu Ming returned to the stop of the tank, and then the tank started to move forward, and the bus followed behind and left together.