Chapter 2993: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (I)
Chapter 2967: Long Summers under Thick Green Trees (I)
What is summer like in Gotham?
In the past, people would say that summer in Gotham was a rain that was about to fall, with heavy dark clouds always hanging low, thunder like a giant beast passing through the clouds, and countless unknown crises hidden in the gloomy and damp alleys.
But now, the summer in this city that has regained the sun is hot and long. The heat waves roll in the daytime, and the cicadas are exhausted by the heat, and their calls are long and melodious. Seagulls can't fly, and they squat on the threshold of the coffee shop and make hoarse calls. Leather shoes step on the asphalt road, and the melted asphalt pulls out shiny lines. Pedestrians hurriedly on the road hold newspapers to cover their heads, and dare not stay in the sun for a moment.
Since May, Gotham has become hotter and hotter. When it is more than 30 degrees, people can barely survive with refrigeration equipment, but seeing the temperature approaching 40 degrees, few people dare to go out.
Logically speaking, a coastal city cannot be so hot, not to mention that Gotham is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the climate should be better than that of Metropolis.
However, this city has taken another extreme on the road to modernization. Since there is no sunshine anyway, skyscrapers can be built as high as possible, reflective glass can be as bright as possible, reinforced concrete structures can be added as much as possible, and asphalt roads can be built as much as possible.
As we all know, the heat island effect is produced under such conditions. When there is no sunshine, these things are completely fine.
But now, the clouds have dispersed, the sun has returned, and the whole city is like a piece of iron exposed to the sun.
When Gotham was frozen before, the whole city was still a summer resort, but with the repeated iterations of dense ice technology, the dense ice used in Gotham's underground cold storage is no longer cold, and it hardly participates in heat exchange, so it naturally has no cooling function.
With the right time, place and people, the whole city is getting hotter and hotter.
The life of Gotham people is full of disasters. They just caught a few demons and encountered a few monsters. The city finally saw the light of day again, but was almost roasted in the increasingly hot summer.
Schiller was extremely glad that he moved to his new home.
The West District was transformed into an industrial area, and industrial activities are one of the culprits of the heat island effect. Now the temperature there is almost 40 degrees. If you stay there any longer, you will be killed by the heat sooner or later.
The new home has many advantages. There is a large lake behind it, a forest by the lake, and a stream along the lake. There are lawns and trees all around. Greenery and water bodies can reduce the heat island effect.
Despite this, Schiller's psychological defense line was broken when he saw the number 36 degrees on the thermometer in the early morning.
The last time he saw such a high temperature was in his previous life. If he remembered correctly, it should be in Chongqing.
To some extent, the two cities are really similar, especially after the situation in Gotham improved. Schiller looked at the map carefully. Now Gotham and Chongqing look really similar.
Apart from other things, Chongqing is the confluence of two rivers, a city of thousands of bridges. Gotham is also the confluence of two rivers. The Hudson River and the Gotham River just meet in the center of Gotham. There are also countless bridges on the two rivers, so the city is divided into two parts, east and west.
However, the difference is that Gotham's terrain is relatively flat, without so many hills and gullies. From the perspective of natural conditions, it is not so magical, but Bruce's Gotham transformation project has turned it into a real 8D city. He can't even walk out of the East District, let alone navigation.
Unfortunately, it's not easy to learn good things, but it's easy to learn bad things. Good things don't need to learn about temperature. In the past two years, the city of Gotham could barely maintain about 35 degrees. This year, even the suburbs have reached 40 degrees. Gotham people are called "Little Chongqing on the East Coast".
Normally, if you want to control the temperature, you can get the dark clouds back, but Bruce is no longer Batman, and the Gotham curse maintained for the existence of Batman no longer exists. The dark clouds are getting thinner day by day, and now they can no longer play any shielding role.
Schiller stood in front of the thermometer for ten minutes.
In fact, this is a very difficult problem to solve. It is not something that can be solved by pulling Pamela back and asking her to plant trees everywhere. Now Gotham's urban construction is already very saturated. Where should the trees be planted?
For example, the road in front of Schiller's house is a four-lane road. Usually, there will be no traffic jams, but the premise is that there is no greening in the middle and on both sides of this lane. It is just a straight road and there is no sidewalk.
If you want to do greening, you must first change the four-lane road into a two-lane road to make room for the sidewalk, and then plant green lawns and trees between the sidewalk and the motorway.
There is no problem with this road, because this is not a densely populated area, but Gotham's traffic is a long-standing problem. Even with the wool of dark energy that Bruce has pulled, it can only be said to be barely maintained. Isn't it funny to talk about greening in this case?
Many cities in Europe and the United States have such problems. Their cities were built too early. At that time, there were not so many cars and high-rise buildings. It was completely enough to have a two-lane road.
Even in older cities in Europe, there are no asphalt roads at all, only stone slabs for people and cars to walk on, and traffic rules are all up to the mood.
It’s not that all governments don’t want to manage it, it’s just that there is no way to manage it. If you want to move the road, the house will be moved back. If you want to move the house, other roads will be squeezed out. You can’t just move back layer by layer and flatten the whole city like a pancake.
Gotham is even more troublesome. The buildings here are not the small western-style buildings in the city centers of many European countries. Because they were built relatively late, even the oldest part of the Gotham Cathedral is all high-rise buildings, which makes demolition even more troublesome.
Of course, in addition to road greening, more parks, nature reserves and reservoirs can be built, but obviously, the situation in this city has just improved, and people have just climbed out of the quagmire. It is not yet time to consider environmental protection. A good place must first meet the living needs of residents, and then build supporting facilities, and also meet commercial needs and industrial development.
And each of the above-mentioned facilities that can reverse environmental problems is very large, and no one can afford so much land.
The construction of parks is also very particular. Many people envy New York Central Park, but in fact Central Park is one of the counterexamples of urban construction. The green space is too concentrated, which can not have a good impact on the urban environment, but also leads to only a small number of people being able to enjoy urban greening. Even if this park is well built, it violates the law of urban environmental construction.
But if Gotham wants to build many parks separately, land is one thing, and funding is even more difficult. It didn't have the ability before, and now the city government is in the Great Depression, it is even more powerless.
But seeing the temperature getting hotter day by day, and the endless stream of heat stroke patients being carried into the hospital every day, the prominent figures in Gotham feel that this can't go on.
Schiller, standing in front of the thermometer, took out his mobile phone. It happened that the door was pushed open at this time, and Helen fell headfirst on the sofa in the living room.
"Why is it so hot? Why is the weather so hot? ! ! "Helen wailed.
Schiller looked back at her and said, "The air conditioner has been adjusted to the lowest setting. If you are still hot, go to the refrigerator and get some ice cubes."
Helen didn't move. If he didn't know that she was Doomsday, Schiller would think she had been killed by the heat.
Thinking that she was Doomsday, Schiller asked in confusion: "Can't you eat the sun? Why do you feel hot?"
"These are two different things. I won't feel hot when I restore my original body, but my current body is human, and the body temperature system is the same as yours, so of course I will feel hot."
Helen jumped up from the sofa again and said: "We went to the woods to see that it is indeed humid and cool there. We plan to build a tree house there. What do you think?"
"Whatever." Schiller nodded. It's not that he didn't want to give some sincere advice, but he was really powerless.
The Marvel people have been here for a while. Jarvis and Wanda came with their children and lived in James Gordon's manor in the North District.
After James and Barbara got back together, they soon had a child, still a girl, but it seemed that James was worried that naming her Barbara again would make her repeat the mistakes of Barbara in other universes, so he named her Jane Gordon.
Jane is older than the two brothers born to Wanda, and can now run around. Wanda and Barbara exchanged parenting experiences, while Jarvis was responsible for driving them out to play.
The people from the Guardians of the Galaxy couldn't sit still. They were all veterans of the underworld. They didn't bring a penny when they came, but they found a house in the East District not long after, and they could be said to be like fish in water.
The young superheroes of the New Warriors team, the group closest to crazy teenagers, came to Schiller, and together with Helen, they made trouble for him.
At first, they found a lake behind Schiller's house and wanted to fish, but because of their poor fishing skills, they always came up empty-handed. Speedball Robert, a clever little guy, got an electric landing net from somewhere and almost killed all the fish in the lake. Other neighbors complained, and Schiller had to order them to put the fish back.
Schiller had hoped that they could help with the garden, but they were obviously not people who could work well. They dug randomly when digging, sprayed randomly with the watering hose, and used the water hose to play with the soil and mud, making the yard full of dirty mud. They were as powerful as a group of huskies.
Schiller originally wanted to drive them away, but the gazebo he bought arrived. He had agreed with the seller to install it, but he was shocked to hear the bad news a few days ago that the installer wanted to charge a high temperature subsidy, and it was not cheap, almost equivalent to the installation fee.
Schiller wanted to change the installation company, but he asked several companies and they all needed a high temperature subsidy, one more expensive than the other. He had no choice but to call Killer Croc, only to find out that Killer Croc was in the hospital.
He should have thought of it earlier. Crocodiles are cold-blooded animals. Whose crocodile can stand moving in 40-degree weather?
Zatanna and Gordon, who invested in the moving company, have been taking care of Killer Croc recently. Cobblepot is busy moving his mother to the suburbs where the temperature is lower. Mayor Roy is even more busy. Even Scarecrow and Professor Pig-faced have accepted orders from the FBI and work in Metropolis, where the temperature is lower.
Schiller thought about it and decided that it would be a waste not to use the free labor. He asked the members of the New Warriors team to stay and they are installing the pavilion step by step recently.
In fact, this kind of pavilion is not complicated at all. If it is fast, it can be done in an afternoon. But the temperature is too high. It is impossible to work from 10 am to 3 pm. You can only rush to work at night. A small pavilion installed in the garden has not been installed for five days, and Schiller has to cook for them every day.
Fortunately, because the weather is too hot, the serial killers basically don't come out, and Gordon is finally free. Just when Schiller went to the backyard to check the garden, the sheriff came to visit.