Stay! The temperature has dropped by 100 degrees
!
At first, the doomsday survivors only sold out their down jackets, the water pipes froze and burst, and the whole city was rationed.
Then, the workers who went to rush to repair died of hypothermia and the medical system was paralyzed. The
cold wave swept across the world, and even the countries in the center of the equator were not spared.
In just one month, the temperature dropped by 100 degrees! The whole city was turned into an ice sculpture, and the trees were frozen into powder before their leaves fell. The
world’s rivers and oceans are frozen, and there is not a drop of water on the earth’s surface!
If it is the end of zombies, human beings can still fight, but in front of nature, what should human beings do?
This is not a movie! It’s true.. It’s the end of the extreme cold.
Early in the morning, the phone rang like a reminder. I picked up the phone impatiently. It was my cousin who had not been contacted for a long time.
“What’s the matter, sister? This morning..”
Mian Mian! Let me tell you something. Every word I’m going to say is not a joke, and you have to listen carefully!
I’m so excited. My cousin’s tone is so serious. Is there something wrong at home!
“What’s the matter, sister? Don’t scare me.”
I tell you that the latest monitoring results from the National Climate Center show that the strongest La Nina phenomenon in history may occur. Many countries in high latitudes have already entered winter ahead of schedule. The precursor is warmer weather. After the warmth, there will be a sharp drop in temperature! This is also the earliest human winter, and it is expected that the world will experience an unprecedented large-scale climate cooling in a month, that is, the end of the ice age.
What, cousin? What about the end of the glacier? You mean like the movie The Day After Tomorrow?
I’m a little confused. Is it April Fool’s Day today?
This is the news that your uncle and aunt got from working in the weather Bureau. There is no time! We’ve got shelter, we’ve got supplies. Hurry up and get ready, too. By the way, tell your parents the news.
My cousin’s voice suddenly stopped, and the phone seemed to have been hung up by someone on purpose. What is
all this? Cousin, this joke is not interesting.
I ignored it and went back to sleep.
The next day, when I went downstairs to pick up the takeout, I found that the temperature was really strange.
It’s already November. The sun has been scorching for a long time. The sky is clear. I don’t feel cold even if I wear a sweater alone. I even want to wear half sleeves.
After a week, the temperature is still unusually warm, and there is even a trend of warming.
I have to think of my cousin’s words. It seems that my cousin has never played a joke on me. I couldn’t
sit still. I was going to call my cousin again and ask her what was going on.
“Hello, the number you dialed does not exist.” Over there came the cold voice of a mechanical woman.
How did it become an empty number?
I don’t know if it’s a woman’s sixth sense, but I think of my cousin’s earnest tone.
Anyway, I’d rather believe it than not. We must start preparing
today!
Thinking of this, I quickly called my boyfriend Feng Jiying.
This winter has been exceptionally warm, and in November, it is still as warm as spring.
The breeze is blowing, the sunshine is warm, and even the trees and flowers on the roadside are lush and green.
And this is where the climate is abnormal.
I rushed into the mall with my boyfriend and went on a shopping spree. Do not buy anything else, only buy quilts, warm baby and super thick down jacket.
With a mountain of supplies, under the surprised eyes of the people in the mall, I pushed my boyfriend Feng Jiying out of the mall quickly.
“The goods will be delivered to our newly rented villa tomorrow, Ah Chi. Now let’s go to the next place to sweep the goods.”
“Mian Mian, don’t you have a fever?” He touched my forehead.
“Ah Ji, I’m not sick.”
I took a deep breath. “I told you my cousin never played such a joke on me.”
My aunt and her family all work in the weather Bureau. The day before yesterday, my cousin suddenly called me and asked me to take the time to find a place to take refuge and store food. The end of the extreme cold is coming. I didn’t believe it at first, but the temperature is getting worse and worse recently. In a month’s time, mankind may be facing an extremely cold disaster! It
took me ten minutes to explain the cause and effect to Ah Ji. Although
he was dubious, he could not resist me. He accompanied me around for a whole day and bought a lot of things that he thought were useless. I
‘ve always been a fan of the end of the world, and I’ve read countless disaster movies.
But now.. The end may really come, and I suddenly felt a burst of anxiety and fear in my heart.
It turns out that what others have written is really different from what they have experienced personally.
A month, say long, say short, when I learned the news, a week has passed, plus a few days of tanking at the beginning of the month, now there are less than three weeks left. I must not delay
the preparatory work.
On the way to the next purchasing destination, I wrote an article on the Internet about the recent abnormal weather, which contained many of my own opinions and a list of supplies to be prepared.
If the people who see it can believe me, I can help them.
But I am unknown, I have no influence, and I have only a dozen comments.
Most of the comments were mocking me, but one of them caught my attention. He actually analyzed the extreme weather with a straight face. The net name of
this netizen is “Wang Jie Wholesale Native Eggs.”.
Wang Jie, a wholesaler of native eggs, commented: The idea of renting a villa with a large three-storey basement is no problem, but we must add frost-resistant concrete inside and outside. The concrete strength is C40, and the frost-resistant grade is F300. Solar generators are essential, but concrete blocks should be built around them, and vacuum glass should be used directly above them. No matter how you defend yourself on the ground, you won’t be able to live there in the end, so you have to go straight underground.
Sister Wang put forward these suggestions as if she had really experienced them. Without further hesitation,
I immediately contacted one of the best decoration companies in the area and repeated the words “Sister Wang wholesales native eggs” intact. It took a lot of effort and enough money to get the decoration workers to help us build walls and reinforce insulation today. After the
time was set, I was still in a panic. In the face of natural disasters, human beings are so small. I don’t know if I can survive this disaster, but I know that I will try my best to survive. Seeing that I was worried,
Ah Ji comforted me and said, “Don’t worry. It’s really the end of the world. I’ll let you go. It’s up to the dead husband.”
I want to punch him in the face. It’s too late to make such a joke.
I ignored him and turned to continue shopping. “Stop inking and hurry up.”
Because it was a newly rented house, there was nothing in it, and the materials purchased in advance would not be delivered until next Monday, so I added money to let the decoration workers ensure the quality and speed, and finish the decoration before next Monday.
Because I spend a lot of money, the decorator is very helpful, not only the completion is fast, but also the quality is very good, the completion time is one day earlier than original date.
I paid the final payment generously. Before they left, I kindly reminded them that the temperature might drop and they should pay attention to keeping warm.
The decorator smiled and said, “Look at the weather, little girl. It’s not going to snow this year.”
Oh, forget it. No one will believe it.
This week, Feng Jiying and I were not idle, and bought a lot of warm baby, small sun, rechargeable hand warmer, 72 hours heating paste.
By the way, when decorating, I also asked the masters to install a fireplace chimney slot in case of emergency. The monitoring
at home can not be less.
I also ordered 300 boxes of instant noodles, 200 boxes of self-heating hot pot, 50 boxes of snacks, 30 boxes of compressed biscuits, 12 boxes of sausages, 10 boxes of stewed products, 500 barrels of water, 100 boxes of bottled water, 200 bags of rice, a meal of flour.. I’ve bought all the food that
can be preserved for a long time. If it weren’t for the fact that I couldn’t put it in the house, I’d like to empty the supermarket.
In addition, I bought some seeds, some seasonings, some daily necessities, some cat litter.. I can’t remember what I bought after I
bought it. I’m too tired to move.
Time passed quickly, and I took my parents over after I had bought almost all the things. I’m ashamed to
say that if I told them directly that the end of the world was coming, they would not believe it, so the reason for picking up my parents was that I was going to get married.
A Ji’s parents are on business trips abroad all the year round, and now it’s too late to call them back. A Ji made a phone call for a long time and hung up after thousands of exhortations.
Mom and Dad sat with Ah Ji. To be honest, it was a little awkward. Ah Ji kept drinking tea.
My mother rubbed her hands. “Mian Mian is still young, only twenty-five years old. It’s a little early.”
“It’s getting late, uncle and aunt. I want to settle down with Mian Mian quickly.”
Father smiled a little ugly.
Sure enough, when I came home, I was educated by my father for one night on the grounds that I was irresponsible for my life.
The next morning, we lied to our parents that we were going to choose a wedding dress and let them stay longer.
Looking at my mother’s occasional reluctance, I made up my mind that I must live up to my cousin’s kind reminder, and I must let all the people I care about live.
The end of the world is terrible, I can only protect my family! The temperature
will begin to drop.
I was so busy that I had to buy materials to reinforce the underground fortress and deal with my parents’inquiries about marriage. Everything that can be changed into anti-freezing
at home has been changed, and several credit cards have been maxed out.
I am still a little worried, I found another group of decoration workers on the third floor underground to check and confirm that there is no jerry-building.
I asked these workers to help me reinforce the surrounding rock and soil to ensure that if other disasters occurred, we would not be buried underground. I have spent all my savings
just by decorating the house. I
sold my beloved mini and the apartment I had just bought, as well as many luxury bags and clothes I had bought, and borrowed a lot of money to buy other materials.
Anyway, the money will not be used in the future, no matter how expensive the bag is, it is not as real as a down jacket.
A Ji also gave me all the savings he had saved for many years. One second before the
money came, he didn’t say anything to me. I was surprised and touched. He was the only man who let me fool around and unconditionally believed every word I said. Even if the end of the world sounded so outrageous, he was willing to give me complete trust.
This period of time, hoarding grain has filled the underground floor, I thought I rented a house has been very big, but always feel far from enough.
I also bought some food that can be stored for a long time, and even bought a lot of wine, if the temperature is too low, drinking can also keep out the cold.
I also have a large stock of meat, which can be frozen at low temperature and has a long shelf life. When we
do this, only Aji and I are involved, and we can’t let our parents know these things too early. The conservative thinking of the older generation is certainly unacceptable.
We were already well prepared. The day before the end of the world, Ah Ji accompanied me to F’s house to see the diamond ring.
“Ah Chi, why do you want to buy a diamond ring at this time?” I don’t understand.
“To convince your parents that we’re really getting married.” Chi shakes his cell phone, showing two little tiger teeth. “I’ve already explained the situation to my parents, and I’ve got a group for all of us, and I’ve reported our trip to buy a diamond ring. My parents will fully cooperate.”
“So that’s it!”
Entering the mall, Ah Ji thoughtfully bought me a cup of hot cocoa.
Now the weather is getting colder and colder, and it will be difficult to drink hot cocoa in the future, so I have to drink more! After
drinking hot cocoa, we came to the dazzling diamond ring counter, and I was stunned. Although the slogan “a diamond is forever, a diamond will last forever” is hot, to be honest, no girl can refuse a diamond ring, especially a diamond wedding ring from her favorite man. I couldn’t move my eyes for a long time when I
saw a diamond ring that was cut neatly and three-dimensional.
Beautiful! That’s my adjective for this diamond ring.
The shopkeeper seemed to see that I liked the diamond ring very much, and she took it out with a wink and explained the origin of the ring to me.
“Behind every diamond ring, there is a romantic love story. Our idea is to use this romance to wait for the next romantic couple.”
I listened with relish, after the cabinet sister finished speaking thoroughly, I was a little embarrassed, listening too fascinated, thinking that I really want to buy a diamond ring.
I looked at Ah Ji awkwardly.
“We’ll think about it and get in touch if necessary.” A Ji opened his mouth without changing his face. Without any disappointment or anger,
the shopkeeper bowed 45 degrees and sent us out of the shop. When
I went out, I felt like urinating. Awful! Too much hot cocoa.
“Ah Chi, I have to go to the toilet. Wait for me here first!” I
left as fast as I could, and then I ran back as fast as I could. From a distance,
I saw Ah Ji looking thoughtfully at the hot pot restaurant opposite, with a faint smile on his mouth.
I found out! You smile at the hotpot restaurant! You want to eat hot pot! I pretended to wipe his saliva. “Since all your private money has been transferred to me, I’ll treat you to this meal. You don’t have to be too moved!”
A Ji looked at me like a fool. I ignored his expression and dragged him to the hot pot restaurant. Men love face, I know!
In the end, Ah Chi paid the bill. I was very angry. He coaxed me all the way, and then I shouted, “Why do you still have private money?”
We smiled at each other and spent the last time buying a whole tricycle in the nearby wholesale market. Besides food, there were toothbrushes, toothpaste, sanitary napkins, bowls and chopsticks, pots.. On the
last day, there was no need to avoid anything. I asked the driver to drive the car to the door of my house. The parents were already waiting at the door, looking at a car full of things, and they were dumbfounded.
“Are you going to flee?” My mother was shocked. The porter
next to him was amused.
I did not speak, but supervised the porters to move things home one by one. I didn’t tell my parents the truth until I finished moving the last thing, paid the bill and watched the masters drive away.
Mom and Dad, the end times are coming.. You may not believe it, but I will never lie to you.
I spent half an hour explaining to them. After
listening, my parents looked grave and said nothing.
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“How are your uncle’s family?” My father asked me. The voice of a man in
his fifties trembled a little at this moment.
My parents were childhood sweethearts, and my uncle and my father grew up, but they didn’t have much contact because of their busy work.
My cousin said they had found a safe house. Don’t worry, the disaster will pass and we’ll all be fine!
We carried it several times together, and then I went to the basement to get the cart. My parents helped us carry it to the cart, and Aji and I carried the supplies to the basement. When it was
all done, four people sat in the lobby of my newly rented villa and looked at each other.
“Your cousin is not a child who is reckless and ignorant. Things should be very close.” Dad said with a solemn expression.
“Will the end times really come?” My mom still doesn’t believe it.
No one answered my mother’s words, everyone’s expression is very ugly, no one wants the end of the world to come, but if it is true? How do you prove it’s not true?
“Father, you go to drive now, and we’ll go to the 24-hour convenience store to sweep the goods.” My mother suddenly stood up and startled us.
All right, we have to work with the kids, too. We can’t just sit back and enjoy it. Let’s have a dirty takeout tonight, so we can celebrate the New Year together as a family. Dad got up and walked out.
“Mom and Dad, don’t go out..” I was anxious to call them back, but Ah Ji stopped me.
“Little Ji, take care of Mianmian. When we come back, we won’t go out to buy something.” My father told Ah Ji and closed the door directly.
“Mian Mian,” Ah Ji advised me, “Mom and Dad are also restless. They thought we were going to get married, and they told us for a long time. They felt guilty that they had delayed our business, so they went out and tried their best to help us buy enough things, so that they could feel at ease.
But.. But the end of the world is coming soon, and I’m so worried. Chi, I’m so scared. My body was shaking uncontrollably.
The word “the end of the world” is too far away from me. I have only seen and heard it in novels. I have never thought that it would really happen to me in the era I live in. In
this way, I have been sitting at the door, waiting for my parents to come back, Ah Ji sat with me. We talked about childhood, first acquaintance, emotional experience and learning.
We also talked about that Ah Ji had a nuisance who was better than him in other aspects except that he looked uglier and did not study as well as he did. We talked about being scolded by our parents from childhood to adulthood.
“Ah Chi,” I sniffed and clasped my arms. “Don’t you feel a little cold?”
A Ji did not speak, looked up at the sky, I followed. There is no moon
today, but there is still light in the sky. It is the kind of sky that can be seen clearly without the illumination of street lamps.
So red, when did the sky turn dark red?
I looked at Ah Chi in amazement. “Is it going to snow?”
Chi nodded, looked at how red the sky was, and said, “I don’t think the snow will be light.” The uneasiness in
my heart reached its peak, and a snowflake fell on my palm.
“Mom and Dad haven’t come back yet.”
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid.” Chi finally couldn’t keep his head. His hands trembled a little. “It’s all right. It’ll be all right.”
“I’m going to find them!” I broke away from Ah Ji.
Don’t worry, I’ll go with you. It’s not cold yet. It’s all right. I felt the cold sweat in his palms.
We looked at each other and walked to Ah Ji’s car.
“Didi!”
A jeep and a big truck were coming side by side, and my mother was waving to us in the passenger seat of the jeep.
I hurried up and threw myself into my mother’s arms.
“This kid, we only went for four hours. Why is it like we haven’t seen each other for a year?” Mother wiped my tears clean. There is something wrong with
this child. It’s snowing. We have to drive slowly? Who’s taking care of you two little ones? Look how frighteningly red the sky is! Father is really a man who doesn’t know how to stir up emotions.
“Don’t even talk about your daughter, brother. They’re worried about you two, too. It’s snowing heavily and the weather is going to change. Winter is coming!” Three or four workers got off the truck and began to carry supplies from the truck.
When everything was finished, my father gave the porter a lot of money. After
they left, my father opened the trunk again, which contained all kinds of snacks, including cosmetics, toys, poker, mahjong, flying chess, and even the Three Kingdoms Kill. Dumbfounded,
I picked up the Three Kingdoms Kill and found my father looking away unnaturally. When
my dad saw everyone looking at him, he blushed and said, “Didn’t you love to play when you were a kid?”? I’ll just take my annual leave and play with you when I’m bored.
Our family began to be busy. Men move big pieces, women move small pieces, the atmosphere is warm and harmonious. We all feel warm in our hearts. As long as we are together, we will not be afraid of any difficulties.
We were busy from midnight to seven o’clock in the morning, and it took only two hours for the snowflakes to turn into heavy snow.
A Ji’s parents called him and told him that everything was safe and that food and other supplies were sufficient. They chatted for a while before hanging up the phone. Through the window of the villa, my parents
and I watched the snow in the sky getting heavier and the snow on the ground getting thicker and thicker.
Snowflakes went from the size of a coin to the size of a pulsating bottle cap, and then to the size of a child’s fist.
My parents said that they had lived for more than fifty years, and it was the first time they had seen such a heavy snow.
Our family chose a room on the third floor of the villa. It’s not too cold now. There’s no need to live in the basement. We don’t want to live underground unless we have to.
Originally, my parents agreed to bring some takeout when they came back from buying supplies in the middle of the night. I don’t know how they discussed it on the way, so they changed their minds and went to the 24-hour seasonal vegetable and fruit store to buy a pile of ingredients to show Ah Ji’s skills.
To Ah Ji’s surprise, it was my mother who helped my father, and my father was the chef.
I looked at my parents proudly and said to Ah Ji, “You have to cook for me in the future, do you know?!”
“Sure, no problem!” Ji gave me a salute.
After a while, the delicious dishes with strong aroma came up one by one. My father was promising today. He cooked kidney beans, chicken wings with cola, braised prawns, carp stewed with beer, and laver Egg and Vegetable Soup.
These dishes are all Aji’s favorite.
Dad! Why don’t you have my favorite big elbow? I muttered discontentedly.
“Smelly girl, how fat you are! Look how thin our little boy is! He is 1.9 meters tall, like a bamboo pole, not like you, like a bean.” Dad’s words of disgust made the atmosphere at the dinner table lively.
I’m willing to chime in: “Dad!”! I’m 160 centimeters tall and weigh 82 kilograms. Where am I fat?
“Eat, eat.” A Ji put a tender and plump coke chicken wing into my bowl, and I quickly gagged my mouth with the chicken wing.
Mom and Dad exchanged a malicious look and began to eat. Dad’s cooking is very delicious today. After
eating and drinking, I looked out of the window again subconsciously. The snow was already as thick as my ankles, and I had no intention of stopping.
I’m a little worried. I suggest you go to the basement to sleep.
Mom and Dad think the temperature is not too low. They chose a bedroom and went back to the house to rest. After a busy night, it was time to have a good sleep. I don’t want to live alone
if either of my parents and Ah Ji is gone. If I freeze to death overnight, I will die with the one I love most! Ji and
I also went back to the room. Before I pulled the curtains, I took another look at the sky, which seemed to be getting redder and redder. Next door to
us is a large farmer’s market, shouting one after another, maybe everyone is hoarding goods, after all, under such a heavy snow, everyone must know that the temperature is going to drop, who wants to go out to buy vegetables every day in such a cold day? There are already children coming out to have snowball fights and make snowmen
outside. This is childlike innocence.
I drew the curtains. When I woke up
, the room was warm because of the air conditioning, and the wifi was still working.
The news says that the city will start heating tomorrow. According to more
news reports, heavy snowstorms suddenly occurred in many areas today, with light to moderate snow in some areas, and the largest snowfall in history occurred in China.
The news calls on all citizens to try not to move if they can, and to try not to go out if they can.
I drew back the curtains and opened the window a little. Hiss, it’s cold.
I shivered and quickly closed the window.
My parents got up early and were playing with their mobile phones at the table with relish. There were hot porridge and side dishes on the table. On the table, Ah Ji
and I filled a bowl of white porridge and ate it with relish.
I took a look at the temperature on the wall and the room temperature was still 26 degrees Celsius and the air conditioner was working normally. Although the floor heating has not come yet, the electricity has not been cut off.
If you ask me, you kids are just too superstitious. We don’t believe in the end of the world. You’re so serious. It’s all right now. The road is blocked by the snow, and the two young people are going to stay with the two old people! Dad glanced at me and ran.
Yucheng! Don’t take me with you when you are old, okay? You grow old wherever you fall in love! My mother is not happy.
After dinner, despite our dissuasion, my parents dressed up and went for a walk in the community. When I
came back, my mother looked contemptuous and said, “Now a man in his fifties can’t keep up physically. He can’t walk as fast as I can.”
My father said breathlessly, “You can eat whatever you want, but you can’t talk nonsense!” A Ji and
I looked at each other and smiled helplessly. My parents lived more vigorously than we did.
On the third day, Aji began to cook, and the taste was not bad. I sincerely praised him.
This after-dinner exercise added us, and the whole family went out for a walk, which was very lively. The temperature outside is not very low, and the mobile phone shows that it is minus 10 degrees Celsius today.
Parents also resumed their work, working normally from nine to five, and the days were dull and comfortable.
Heating is normal, air conditioning does not need to be turned on, and it is a little hot to wear half-sleeved clothes at home.
Running has become a tradition in our family. We all cherish the time of walking, because we don’t know which day we can’t go out.
It was still very red, and it snowed for four days in a row, but only the first day it was very heavy, and then it decreased every day.
Today is the fifth day, the snow finally stopped, the temperature in the villa is stable at 28 degrees Celsius, this year’s heating effect is really good.
The network is still open, although there is not much change in our city, but there are still areas across the country that are constantly caught in snowstorms. This large-scale abnormal snowfall is unprecedented, and the country has named this snowfall La Nina snowstorm season.
In the blink of an eye, two weeks passed, and for fourteen consecutive days there was a dark red sky outside, and the sun never came out again, as if it had never existed.
I don’t know why, but it’s getting colder outside since the snow stopped that day. Now when we go out to run, we have to be fully armed and wear a scarf and a mask. There are fewer and fewer pedestrians
outside, and they don’t want to go out because it’s too cold. A lot of things have happened in
the past two weeks. Because it is not particularly cold, we have stored a lot of fresh vegetables at home.
As the temperature is getting lower and lower, prices are getting higher and higher. Everyone was hoarding vegetables for the winter and didn’t want to go out, so the vendors made a lot of money.
Mom and Dad used their savings to hoard a lot of food and buy a lot of medicines that we didn’t have in reserve. The
days went by day by day, and the temperature in the house could only be maintained at 28 degrees Celsius by air conditioning. Pedestrians and vehicles were rarely seen
outside, and the children who came out to have snowball fights a while ago did not go out. The owners of the
residential area are full of complaints, and everyone is talking about why it is so cold this year.
After all, we are a rich area, heating and security are very good, as long as we do not go out, we can maintain the status quo.
On the Internet, we learned about the situation in other areas, some areas because of the continuous low temperature, outdoor work has been completely suspended. Some high-latitude areas of
our country have begun to face the problem of power shortage, temporarily losing contact with the outside world.
Because of the suddenness of the disaster, many people without heating had to go to shelters. There is one not far from
my home, which is already full of police cars and ambulances. From the third floor of the villa, you can just see the door of the shelter. The noise of the crowd can not be completely isolated even if the soundproof wall is installed. Ambulances were dispatched from
every hospital, and healthcare workers, wearing thick down jackets, waited near the refuge. Hospitals are also overcrowded.
But fortunately, our community is still safe, every household has hoarded a lot of food, power supply, heating are normal, there is no need to go out for refuge.
In this way, after another week, it is very cold outside today, and the temperature at home has also dropped.
“Why is it a little cold?” I rubbed my hands and wrapped the quilt tightly.
A Ji glanced at the room temperature, 21 degrees Celsius.
Then he turned on the air conditioner.
Mom and Dad can’t go to work again. Except for the heating staff, other people can’t go out to work unless necessary.
Our home can not only rely on heating, although the heating equipment can still adhere to, but the effect is not so good.
In just two weeks, the sea in coastal city S has frozen, the glass of a tall building in city Z has broken due to extreme low temperature, and the snow in city F has never stopped, and the thickness has exceeded the height of adults.
This is an unprecedented catastrophe, the more beautiful the weather is before the catastrophe comes, the more shocking the devastation is after it comes.
Today, many people in the community have driven away, although the heating can still be maintained, but it is estimated that there is not much food at home.
Community owners are also particularly lively, some people who left said that the so-called shelter environment is very poor, although warm, but crowded, can only sleep on the floor of the mall, eat compressed biscuits distributed every day, miserable.
Some people are still holding their ground, feeling that it is just a heavy snow, there is no need to pay attention to it, just buy more food. A message from the group of
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owners caught my attention: Who has antipyretics at home? My child has a fever, help me!
I think of the children who had a snowball fight a while ago, and I don’t know if it’s one of them. I couldn’t bear it, so I had a private chat with the owner and asked the building number, and then Aji and I sent her a box of antipyretics and some food. It was a couple who
opened the door. The family looked at the supplies in our hands in surprise and closed the door without saying a word of thanks. A Ji and
I looked at each other and smiled helplessly. It seemed that our kindness was not appreciated by others.
Later, when the child’s fever subsided, the owner thanked us and asked us euphemistically if there was any food for them.
I politely replied that we did not have many supplies, and now some supplies are bought now, and told them to quickly hoard some, so there was no reply.
The family did not send any more WeChat.
Looking at the mobile phone chat page, I am a little stunned, am I doing something wrong? Under the end of the world, will the exposure of materials bring us danger?
A Ji’s expression is also a little dignified. We agreed that if anyone needed help in the future, we would just ignore it and not bring trouble to the family. At
the dinner table, we were able to talk and laugh a few days ago, but now we can only brush our mobile phone micro-blog without saying a word, always paying attention to the low-temperature disaster situation around the country.
“Within a month, the outdoor temperature in our city has dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius. What is this concept?” My dad handed us the phone.
“If you stay outside for a few hours, you will faint from the cold.” My mother sighed.
Now the first floor of the villa can’t be treated. I can’t stay there for more than a minute. Fortunately, the heating can barely be maintained.
We discussed and moved all the supplies on the ground to the first floor. We calculated that the food should be enough to eat for about a month. We were ready to move to the relatively safe and warm basement after these supplies were completely consumed. It’s getting cold again
today. The temperature is still dropping. The outdoor temperature has reached minus 48 degrees Celsius. It’s getting colder and colder. The snow began to fall again. At first, it was still a light snow, but gradually it turned into a heavy snow.
Finally, the owners of the community went to the shelter one after another and drove away one after another. The family I rescued
last time has not left yet, but they sent me a WeChat: Kind-hearted people save us, our family’s food is bottoming out, the children will starve to death if they don’t eat!
I wanted to ignore it, but my mother saw the mobile phone message.
Mian Mian! We can’t do this. We can’t eat all our food in our lifetime. Don’t be too stingy. Give some to others, or what will happen to the children?
I understood my mother, but when I told my mother that it was not the first time that their family had asked me for supplies, she was silent.
“It’s better not to get into trouble. In such a tense situation, if someone knows that our family has such a rich reserve of supplies, it will definitely cause trouble.” That’s when my dad spoke.
Now that Dad has said so, my mother can only hesitate to nod. Seeing my mother’s embarrassment,
I had no choice but to say, “Mom, it’s so cold outside now, and I don’t want to go out either. But to tell you the truth, isn’t it possible to buy food outside?”? It just depends on whether people are willing to travel in the snow. We have the means, so we do not want to. They have no means, so why do they not rely on themselves and beg from us?
With that, my mother completely gave up the idea of giving them supplies, and I didn’t reply to the family again.
We stayed in the villa for more than half a month, but the family didn’t send me any more messages. Maybe they couldn’t bear it and went to the shelter.
Gradually, I put them behind me. The temperature
outside has reached minus 56 degrees Celsius. The
owners are complaining every day, and now they can’t buy food, and what they can buy will cost a lot of money.
We are a wealthy area, so some people began to exchange their cars for a bag of rice, some people exchanged their watches for two pieces of bread, but these messages were not answered. The food reserve
on the ground is estimated to be only enough for half a month, and then we have to move underground.
Indoor air conditioning can only be maintained at 16 degrees Celsius, and the heating effect is getting worse and worse.
Every household began to run out of food, and finally, other owners of the community began to prepare to go to the shelter.
“The shelter is not open?” An owner of the community sent a picture of a locked shopping mall.
“The S section is also closed!” Another owner also sent pictures.
What is the situation? I’ve been all over Z, and the shelter is not open! The car was almost running out of oil. Another owner sent a voice swearing tunnel.
I clicked on the big picture and found that the second floor of the shopping mall as a refuge was full of people’s heads, but the door of the first floor was closed. The
shelters are overcrowded, and now they can’t afford new people to come in.
I was brushing the mobile phone owner group to see the situation, suddenly a loud noise startled us, is the sound of broken glass.
We looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the glass of the shopping mall next door as a shelter had been smashed. The mall was full of people and cars, and the traffic police could not control the scene. The
crowd crowded into the shelter, and the vehicles directly broke the temporary fence of the parking lot and rushed into the underground parking lot. For a while, the alarm bell kept ringing, and a police car arrived quickly, blocking the entrance of the parking lot.
But when people are forced to be anxious, how can they care about that? Went straight to the police car. When the car broke down, people got off and walked to the underground parking lot, and the scene was chaotic.
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“This is crazy.” I can’t help sighing.
“This kind of scene can drive people crazy.” Dad has a serious face. There is not much food on the
ground, but we are not afraid, because the underground reserves are very large, there is nothing to be afraid of.
“Bang!”
It was a gunshot! Shots fired?!
Dad drew the curtains so quickly that I didn’t have time to see what happened next.
Just one night, the weather completely changed, terrible not only natural disasters, but also people’s hearts.
It is hard to imagine how crazy people will be without the restraint of law in the end of the world.
“Mian Mian, look at the owners.” Hearing my mother’s words, I turned on my cell phone.
B03 has supplies. I asked her for them before, but she didn’t give them to me at all. Now we have to unite and go to their house to find supplies so that we can live. How can these selfish people survive?! It
was the family of three that I had helped before.
I sneered, thinking that people’s hearts were unpredictable.
I helped them, and then they were able to bite the hand that feeds them just by not helping them anymore. It can
‘t be delayed any longer. The supplies on the ground are left to them. I installed a camera at home, turned off the air conditioner, and took the remote control away. Now let’s go underground and hide.
Mom and Dad looked at each other and simply tidied up.
We hurried to the first floor of the villa, and someone began to smash the door, one after another, and even the sound of shooting.
We didn’t even look back, so we went to the basement. I used the key to open the first toughened door in the basement, then used the fingerprint to open the second door, and finally the third door, and then locked all the doors.
Mom and Dad were dumbfounded. You can’t open a grenade, can you?
“That’s a must. This is a real level of bulletproof.” Looking at my mother’s surprised expression, I was very proud.
Entering the basement, the temperature is very different from that outside, although it is a little cool, but it is the shade of the basement rather than cold.
Through this lesson, I finally understand how dangerous the human heart can be. We can’t live on the ground for a
while. The first and second floors underground are used to store supplies, and the third floor is where we rest.
I grabbed a bunch of baby warmers and six charged hand warmers. I handed the foot-warming bag to Aji, who reluctantly followed me as a coolie.
We came to the third floor, which has six rooms, four of which are used to store supplies, and the other two are bedrooms, where we rest.
The living room is also full of supplies, and even the kitchen, where cooking is not delayed, is full of rice and flour. The third floor
underground is indeed the warmest floor, and with all the messy protective measures I have done, I even feel that the temperature here is as comfortable as autumn. The end of
La Nina has just begun, and our family has to move from the ground to the ground because of the ungrateful family. If anything goes wrong again, there will be no way to retreat. In the days to
come, it is not known whether the temperature will continue to drop. According to the current momentum, the day of minus 60 degrees Celsius is not far away.
Today’s staple food can only eat instant noodles, fresh fruits and vegetables are upstairs, and now it is estimated that they have been robbed.
I opened the surveillance on my mobile phone and found that the door of our house had been destroyed, and many people poured in, some with guns, some with axes.
They were swearing and fighting over the distribution of supplies on the first floor. I saw the family who had betrayed me there, and even the children came.
The boy I rescued was quietly hiding the vegetables my father bought in his clothes.
Although our family is not short of these supplies, it really makes people angry.
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“It was I who told everyone to come and get the supplies. I have the right to distribute the supplies. Our family wants 40%, and you share the other 60%!” The woman walked triumphantly to the front of the supplies to carry, but was pushed down by a muscular man with a big waist.
“Bitch, don’t think I don’t know how you knew his family had supplies. The little girl’s family brought you medicine, and you betrayed them.”
This is the material I found! What would you know without me?! The woman was almost mad and threw herself on the supplies.
“Bah!” A woman came up and gave her a slap in the face. “Ungrateful things, let’s take his family’s supplies and help them clean up as a good deed!”! Surely the owner of this house will not blame us.
“Don’t touch my supplies!” The child jumped on it, but was kicked away by a man and hit his head against the wall.
Son! Jiang Dayong, what are you looking at? Come on! The woman let out a heart-rending scream, threw herself on her son, touched his breath, and said to her husband ferociously.
After all, two fists are no match for four hands. Their family was quickly subdued, and the woman was beaten black and blue. She got nothing and ran away in disgrace.
“You cannot live with your own iniquity.” I looked at what was happening in the surveillance and gave a sneer.
“Here’s a door!” The group of people
upstairs have found the door of our basement, and my secret way is not good.
However, they did not shake the door with axes and hammers.
What break?! Why can’t I open it?! The muscular man at the head shouted, “That family must be hiding down there!”! If we open the door, there must be a lot of supplies down there!
Unfortunately, they were busy for half an hour, and the first door of our basement was still strong, but there were some minor damages.
“This is a super-thick bulletproof door. You can’t even break it with a grenade, can you?” I’m monitoring this head with a contemptuous smile.
This one seems to be warmer than ours! We’ll stay here and find a chance to get the basement door open and get all their food out.
I don’t know who said that, but the group of people upstairs agreed, and then the uninvited guests stayed here.
I watch every move of this group of uninvited guests through surveillance every day. Every day
they would turn around at the basement door and try to open the door, but they failed every day.
As time went on, there was not much food left, and they began to be irritable. The
first time they fought was a week after they lived here. Because there were few supplies left, there was a disagreement on the distribution. The leading muscle man fought with several men who wanted to rob the supplies. And I am eating instant noodles in front of the screen of my mobile phone.
Finally, after a gunshot, the man who wanted to grab the supplies fell in front of the muscle man.
I was so frightened that I cried out, which attracted my parents and Ah Ji.
They watched what was happening in the surveillance, and the men who grabbed the supplies fell one by one.
“Now we have the supplies.” The muscle man laughed in a spooky way.
I retched and turned to the toilet to vomit.
In the next few days, the temperature in the basement did not change, and it was still warm and comfortable.
But I was frightened by the muscle man’s behavior, and the next day I had a fever. My father boiled hot water for me, my mother helped me make medicine, and Ah Ji was even busier. Every day, he made instant noodles for me, watched their movements, and helped me change the hot towel on my forehead.
Even though I was sick, I was still concerned about the situation outside, but Ah Ji said that he was not willing to let me see anything any more, so he dictated to me every day. There
are only three women and one man left. There are only two women and one man
today. There is only one man
today.
“The muscle man went out in the morning, and when he came back in the afternoon, he brought back the family of three we had delivered medicine to before, as well as a lot of supplies.”
A Ji tells me what happened today every day, and the situation is getting worse and worse day by day.
And that family of three, unexpectedly has not left, the muscle man brought supplies is estimated to be this family of three, obviously they have supplies, but to rob us.
“They brought it on themselves.” A Ji said.
I nodded in silence. After
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months, I was able to get out of bed. When I had nothing to do, I watched the surveillance again. The muscle man got a grenade out of nowhere and was going to blow the door open.
Mom and Dad! Ah Chi! I asked them to look at the surveillance footage. The man had retreated far away, ready to blow open the basement door of my house. On the eve of the grenade explosion, he found the surveillance.
“When I go in, I’ll have a good time with your family!” The muscle man shouted ferociously at the monitor and ran out quickly. There was
a loud bang and I felt my room shake. The glass of the
surveillance camera has been blown up. Fortunately, we can see the picture. The first gate has been damaged, but unfortunately it is not powerful enough. There are still two gates.
The man roared incompetently and frantically picked up his axe and slashed at the door. We were all frightened and secretly glad that the door was strong enough.
We’re in the basement now. It’s safe here. Mian Mian, don’t worry. My mother patted my hand and comforted me.
“Well, I hope so.” I took my mother’s trembling hands back.
“The food we hoard is probably enough for a few of us to eat until the end of time, so we don’t have to worry too much, but because we’re underground, it’s a way to live and a way to die. If something happens, we may all die.”
We all looked at the nearly out-of-control muscle man in the surveillance, and if my door was a little more fragile..
Another month later, the heating equipment was completely broken, but I don’t know why, the electricity and the Internet have been normal.
Through surveillance, I saw that the man had eaten all the supplies, he was exhausted, the temperature in the room had reached minus 30 degrees Celsius, and he needed to curl up in bed “fully armed”.
It is estimated that he will leave in two days. The temperature
outside has reached a ridiculous minus 65 degrees Celsius. It is hard to imagine that in just a few months, the temperature has fallen to the bottom, and even continues to fall. For the first time,
I felt that human beings were so small in front of nature. I imagined the outbreak of zombies, the attack of alien aliens on the earth, and all the conceivable doomsday films.
At that time, I just felt very exciting, but when the disaster really came, I could only instinctively feel fear and fear. All we can do is to hide in this small underground space, sit idle or wait for death, in short, we have to live longer. For the
next few days, we didn’t have a good time. We had to keep an eye on the men outside every day. Sometimes I would wake up suddenly when I was sleeping.
Two days later, I saw the man lying in bed for a day without moving, eating, drinking or turning over through the surveillance camera. Maybe he had. The
temperature drops regularly, three or four degrees lower than previous day every day, and today it has gone from minus 65 degrees Celsius to minus 68 degrees Celsius.
Network and electricity has been normal, I am very confused, my home is solar automatic power generation, electricity is normal, then the network? The housekeeper of the
owner group sent a message: I don’t know how many owners in our community are still there, but we have to unite. I am now in B03, and there are still a lot of supplies here. Owners in need can come and pick them up.
B03 is not my home?
I rolled over and got up, turned on the monitor, and it was a message from the muscle man that he wasn’t dead?!
I used a Ji’s mobile phone, changed his name and head portrait, and asked him in the group: Why do you still have the Internet?
“Hello, the owner, our community is solar independent power supply and heating, as long as it can be covered in the community, our property is committed to giving you the best experience.” There was a chill in my
heart, and I couldn’t imagine how such a ferocious man as Muscle Man could type these words.
It’s terrible, it’s really terrible. Is this the man under the end of the world?
I tried to calm my pounding heart and breathe deeply to calm my mind.
It’s okay. It’s okay that we’re in the basement. It’s warm here, and we don’t have to worry about food.
In this way, we have lived in peace for a month. The temperature drop has tended to be flat, but there is almost no room for it to fall. Now it is minus 89 degrees Celsius outside. It can be said that people will be frozen immediately if they expose their skin outside. There is a layer of frost on the door of
our house. The
muscle man had run out of ammunition and food, and no one came to his door. He was also hungry and emaciated.
Because of the natural disaster, I lost more and more appetite and lost a lot of weight.
My mother felt sorry for me and asked me to eat more. “Eat more. What if I get through it and there are zombies again?”? We still have to rely on you and Ah Chi to fight the zombies!
I forced a smile and began to eat.
I need to live, live to wait for everyone I care about, I must live.
That day, I saw the muscle man smile at the monitor and walk up to the roof. My secret way was not good, so I quickly switched the surveillance camera. The
man opened the door of the room where the solar generator was installed on the roof and chopped it down with an axe. After destroying
our generator, he laughed at the monitor and said, “I can’t live, but you’re going to freeze to death, so let’s die together.”
Slowly, he lay on the roof, closed his eyes and did not move. Internet and electricity were not working
that day, and the basement was getting colder and colder without air conditioning.
What to do? If it goes on like this, it will certainly affect the three underground floors where we are, and the solar generator will be destroyed.
Without the Internet and electricity, our house was plunged into darkness. I found a light from the warehouse. The three of us sat in the living room, not knowing what to do.
“I have a backup solar generator at home, but I don’t know how to use it. It’s in the room on the roof.” I opened my mouth.
“Dad can fix it. Don’t forget that’s how I got my start.” Dad patted me on the shoulder.
“But..” I tried to stop it, but my father interrupted me.
“Without electricity, there would be no air conditioning, no heat, and we wouldn’t even be able to keep warm. How could we survive?!”. Dad looks serious.
I was silent, it was true, but what if I was in danger after going out?!
Without the sound of electrical appliances working, we can only hear each other’s breathing, and now the house is eerily silent.
I blame myself. If I had planned better and locked the solar generator, wouldn’t the power have been cut off? I subconsciously looked sideways at Ah Ji, who shook his head.
“Uncle, the electricity has been cut off now. Actually, 80 degrees below zero is not bad. The highest record in M country is to sleep in an igloo with 80 degrees below zero. I agree with uncle to go out.”
I looked at him in disbelief. Why did he say such a thing?
“The premise is to take me with you so that the two of us can help.”
“I don’t agree!” I strongly objected, “None of you can go!”! In case the muscle man doesn’t die, in case someone else breaks in, in case..
“Mian Mian, just in case, trust us.”
At Aji’s insistence, I compromised.
However, I had no choice but to help them change their clothes dejectedly and find a lot of warm stickers to stick in their clothes, gloves and shoes.
Mother also said nothing, and when she left, she hugged her father and patted Ah Ji on the shoulder lovingly.
“Wait!” I stopped them, but my hands were not idle, and I began to put warm stickers on my body and warm my baby. “I’ll go with you, too. If you don’t agree, I’ll go outside and freeze to death myself.”
In the end we became a threesome. It’s really cold
outside, and the cold air is like a sharp blade drilling into the clothes, and the skin hurts. The door on the
first floor had been damaged, and we found a cabinet to hold the place where the air leaked. It’s useless, but it can withstand the wind.
Came to the third floor, here is much warmer, although we are still shivering cold, but much better than first floor.
Only five minutes after I came out, my eyes began to flow uncontrollably, and my throat began to retch because of the stimulation of the cold air. It was too cold.
We quickened our pace and opened the roof door.
I’ll go, it’s really cold! 89 degrees below zero, an unimaginable temperature.
I helped my father with his suitcase. Ah Ji and my father changed the position of the new solar generator with the old one. It took my father a long time to finish it.
I took a lock specially, closed the door and locked it to ensure that no one could come in later.
Just as I was about to go downstairs, I saw a slightly arched snow bag, which was the body of a muscle man.
Just when I was stunned, there was a loud noise downstairs. We looked down from the roof. I don’t know where a group of people were hitting the cabinet crazily. The leader was a woman.
She saw us!
Women have big shoulders and round waists, and they are ferocious.
“Get them!” She smiled so wickedly that her face was crowded together, which made my scalp tingle.
I gave her a sarcastic middle finger, which provoked the woman to rush over and break the cabinet open by brute force. A large number of people came to the rooftop.
“What to do?” My father asked me.
What to do? Run! They didn’t leave anyone on the first floor, so we took the fire escape and went back to the basement!
With that, I dragged Ah Ji and Dad downstairs in a hurry. The cold wind hit my face, my eyes have been blurred by tears, looking down on the road, but we can not stop, once stopped by them to catch up, the consequences are unimaginable. The
inside is a spiral staircase, the outside is a straight staircase, and when they go upstairs, we just go downstairs. When I opened the basement door, the woman was leading a large group of people down to the first floor.
“Bitch, you’ll feel better when you get out!” The woman kicked the door of the basement viciously, and with some pain, she withdrew her foot.
We went back to the third floor of the basement safely and went into the basement. It was so warm.
We took off our gloves and found that our hands were blue with cold and unconscious. My mother quickly prepared warm bags and hot water for us to warm up.
The electricity came, but the uninvited guests came again. Although the Internet is disconnected, I can’t see the news on the Internet, but the surveillance can send back the image by Bluetooth. I used to watch muscle men, but now I watch evil women. The temperature of the
basement is getting lower and lower with the decrease of the surface temperature, and there is no way to maintain a comfortable temperature for the human body. Now our house can barely maintain around 11 degrees Celsius, and it’s a little cold to wear two layers of clothes. On the
ground, they did not stay here for long, first, because we are too cold to live here, and second, because there are no supplies. I’ve heard that woman call her men useless countless times.
A week later, they left, probably because they couldn’t open the basement door. When they left, they took some quilts from my house and locked the basement of my house.
“Is her IQ inversely proportional to her weight?” I was speechless. “We have so much to eat, why should we go out?”
Soon I was hit in the face. The solar generator finally died gloriously when it was 100 degrees below zero.
We’re out of power again.
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“We can only activate the standby skill, fire.” Ah Chi says calmly, “The fireplace at the end of the third floor underground was installed by workers before the end of the world. It was predicted that the situation today would be like this, and it was used for heating.”
“But what if the top of the chimney is covered with snow and ice?” Mom asked. The smoke
outlet leads directly to the ground floor. At the beginning, in order to avoid this situation, I used thickened vacuum glass to reinforce the smoke outlet, and the top can be poked open with a wooden stick. If the ice is not thick and the snow is not deep, I can do it with my strength. A Ji continued.
“It’s too dangerous, Ah Chi. We don’t even know what the temperature is up there. It’s too risky!” It
‘s all right, Mian Mian. In the future, if the fireplace doesn’t work, you can still use those hand warmers. If the hand warmers don’t work, you can still use warm stickers. We can hold on no matter what. But if we use hand warmers now, we will run out of these supplies in the future, and we will really be at the end of the road.
“If you want to go, let’s go together!”
“Mian Mian, don’t be capricious. This is what a man should do!” My father has already begun to put on his clothes. “If anything happens to him, I’ll put my body on Ah Chi!”.
Mother pulled me, shook her head at me, and then asked me to help Aji tidy up clothes, she helped Dad tidy up, and put warm baby and warm paste. But this time the temperature is 100 degrees below zero, which is not the temperature that people can bear.
They were ready to go, and no one said much, no farewell, no instructions.
Before leaving, my mother suppressed her emotions and said to them, “You come back early, and I’ll make self-heating rice for you. If it gets cold, it won’t taste good.”
“Just go to the ground floor. Don’t worry. It’s all right. We’re not so useless.” Father wiped his face and waved his hand without looking back.
They didn’t dare to look back for fear that they would be reluctant to leave.
“After being comfortable for so long, it’s time to get some exercise!” The father clenched his knuckles. “Do you think it’s Xiao Ji?”
“Yes.”
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Underground second floor, underground first floor, I kept switching the monitoring perspective, fortunately, when the decoration of each floor is equipped with monitoring, my mother next to me, eyes closely staring at the mobile phone screen. The temperature of the
first layer is already very low, even if they wear two down jackets and stick warm stickers all over their bodies, they are shivering with cold.
Ji took my dad to the smoke outlet, which was the coldest place. Although I didn’t go there in person, I felt that I would faint if I stayed there for another second.
A Ji picked up the stick that had been placed here, found the reserved slot, and poked it hard. There was a
click.
“Is it a success?” I asked my mother, but she didn’t answer. In the
picture, Ah Ji shook his head at my father, and then the one with the stick was replaced by my father.
My dad tried and failed. Not knowing what Ah Ji said to his father, his father patted him on the shoulder, and they held the stick together and hit the smoke outlet rhythmically.
Crash! A thick lump of ice fell down from the smoke outlet and fell directly to the third floor of the underground, and there was a broken echo.
It worked! I watched the video and stood up excitedly.
Along with the biting wind, I saw them quickly leave the first floor underground and run back to the third floor underground.
I hurried up to open the door, but it was all right!
Yu Cheng, what happened to your hand? I looked at my father’s hand as I
helped Ah Ji take off his coat. Dad’s hands were blue and purple, and he was trembling slightly.
“Dad..” My tears flowed out unwillingly.
“It’s all right, daughter, it’s all right.” My father wanted to raise his hand to touch my hair, but he could only keep his hand back and could not make any movements.
I cried even more.
The father sighed and said, “I’m glad to stop crying, my child. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a pair of hands to keep everyone warm?”
I suddenly reacted, took off Ah Ji’s gloves, and saw the terrible blue and purple! Ji turned his back with a guilty conscience.
I.. I’ll make a fire! As soon as my nose was sour, I quickly brought firewood and hay, took out a lighter and lit the dry wood. A puff of heat filled the room, and the smoke went up the chimney, and the room was lit up by the fire.
I am not very happy, this warmth is exchanged with the hands of my two favorite men, how can I be happy? Before
it was warm, the smoke filled our room. My mother quickly put out the burning firewood with water and opened the door of the basement to let the smoke go up.
The house was plunged into darkness again.
I’m completely confused. What’s going on?! Mingming broke through the ice! It’s all right!
It seems.. We still failed. A Ji gave a wry smile.
“We still have so many hand warmers and baby warmers. It’s no problem to keep them going for a year and a half.” Mom comforted everyone.
Yes, I hoard a lot of supplies, and it’s really no problem to last a year and a half. But after a year and a half? What if the end of the world is not over yet?!
“Don’t think so much. Live in the moment. Live in the moment. You will be very tired.” My mother shook her head and gave each of us two hand warmers and two foot warmers. “Every day when each of us sleeps, we have four warmers. We usually put two warmers in our down jackets and shoes to minimize wear and tear.”
Fortunately, when I ordered the electric heater, I asked them to charge it and deliver it, otherwise it would be useless now.
That night, I was tossing and turning with hand warmers, my palms and feet were warm, and my limbs were warm.
Maybe it was too warm. I fell asleep quickly. Early
the next morning, the palm still had the residual heat of the electric heating treasure, and the high-power really lived up to its reputation. In fact, it is enough to spend one in one night, but it is too wasteful to use two. In this way, we can hold on for more than two years, as long as the temperature does not drop further.
When Ah Ji was still sleeping, I gently walked out of the bedroom, turned on the flashlight of my mobile phone, and saw that my mother was constantly breathing on her hand. When she saw the strong light coming, she subconsciously put her hand behind her.
“Mian Mian woke up so early?”
I quickly stepped forward and took my mother’s hands, which were cold and without a trace of temperature.
“Mom, how many hand warmers did you use last night?”
“One. It wasn’t hot in the middle of the night. I fell asleep and didn’t open it again.” Mother’s eyes unconsciously avoided me.
Lying!
A hand warmer in the sleeve of a down jacket can last all night, and my palms are still hot. Mom, you’re lying, and you’re not using any of it! I grabbed my mother’s hand and let her feel the temperature of my palm. The
noise woke up Ah Ji and my dad. I quickly went up and grabbed my dad’s hand, which was still warm. He used a hand warmer last night.
“Mom, do you want to leave us all the hand warmers and just stand up like this?!”
When I want everyone to live together, how can you take the initiative? What if I don’t find out? Are you going to go on like this? The temperature is getting lower and lower. How long can you hold out?!
Mom was told by me to lower her head, like a child who did something wrong, and dared not look at me.
“Mom and Dad, if we lose a person, or if someone gets sick because of saving resources and is gone, then I don’t want to live.” When I calmed down, I was going to break the pot. “Mom, didn’t you use hand warmers last night?”? I don’t need it tonight. I don’t need to accompany you. When you’ve figured it out and want to use it, I’ll use it again.
“Mother is wrong.” Mom gave a wry smile and began to cry. “Mom is useless. Mom is just..” I just want you to live, to live longer than we do!
Mom, I know.. I know I hugged my mother and cried.
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“Mom doesn’t do this anymore, daughter, mom..” Please don’t. It’s too cold at night. You won’t be able to stand it. I cried even more when I heard this.
“Starting tomorrow, Mian Mian and I will check your hand warmers and foot warmers separately. The basic consumption of each night is two. If we find that you don’t use light and electricity, we will do the same.”
Later, we checked the number of my parents’ hand warmers every day. They saw that we were serious, and there was nothing they could do. They could only use them every night.
Day after day, the mobile phone has no electricity, and the lights are broken one after another. I don’t know when Aji developed the habit of keeping a diary, and every day he had to light a lamp to write for a while.
We have moved the beds to the master bedroom and let our parents sleep and warm up in the same room with us. Ji and I sleep on one side, and my parents sleep on the other side.
Anyway, wearing several down jackets, the conditions are difficult, and we can’t ask too much.
Everyone is in the same room, sleeping at night is really warm, the quilt is covered layer after layer, the cushion is added layer after layer, and now it’s a little hard to go to bed. Half of the hand warmers in
reserve have been used, and the hope of the end of the world is fading. My sleep time is getting shorter and shorter, and extreme anxiety is plaguing me for a long time.
Today, I can’t sleep at all. My mother, who was
lying beside me, saw my abnormality and asked me to go to the living room. I followed her gently to the living room.
Mom handed me the hand warmer in her hand, and I shook my head.
Mian Mian, mom knows that you have been under a lot of pressure since the end of the world, but Mian Mian, mom tells you that the end of a person is always death, but some people come first and some people come later. If you’re always nervous about these things, you should have started when you were born.
“Mom!” Emotions that have been suppressed for too long burst out. I held my mother in my arms and cried in a low voice. I was afraid of waking them up who were still sleeping.
“Mian Mian is good. Mom and Dad promise that they will live healthily and accompany you to the end of your life.” Mother gently stroked my back, bringing me warmth and strength.
After a while, I said in a fit of pique, “You must do what you say.”
“Good.”
After experiencing this episode, I figured out a lot, not the end of the world, as long as I live seriously, full of hope for the world and the country, I do not give up myself, no one can give up me.
My sleep quality has improved, and although I wake up more and more at night, I can at least fall asleep.
So after half a year, the temperature has dropped to 130 degrees below zero, to this temperature, no longer continue to drop.
Ding! The sound of the
air conditioner running?
I took a subconscious look at the air conditioner and saw that it was actually working! What’s going on? Is the temperature rising? Or is the power restored? Does that mean end of the world is over?!
I cried out in surprise, and everyone noticed that the air conditioner was working, and then the lights in the living room came on.
Power’s back on!
I quickly charged my mobile phone, then turned it on, and the mobile phone signal was restored! Although it is not 5G, the 4G signal proves that the network has been restored! The first thing I did was to open Weibo to see if the country had released any new news.
Sure enough, there is new news.
The country issued an announcement: I’m sorry to tell you so late that the end of La Nina has come. We have rushed out a batch of clothes made of space suits, tried our best to repair the cables in some areas, and we are also trying to restore the heating system. Please believe in the country! The country will not give up every survivor! There are only a few dozen comments
below. I don’t know if it’s just these survivors or if the power has not been restored in other areas.
The network signal is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Through my mobile phone, I found that the world on the ground has been completely covered by ice and snow. The city is like an ice sculpture carved by nature, with flying snow and strong winds.
Not only our country, but also other parts of the world are completely covered by snow and cold, and even the countries near the equator are not spared. The average temperature of the
earth’s surface has reached 138 degrees below zero, which is the temperature that people will turn into ice sculptures on the spot as long as they go out.
In any case, with the network and power restored, we finally saw hope.
We were finally able to take off our heavy down jackets and sit briskly around the living room. I watch Tik Tok to see if there are people nearby who are also alive. A video of a man
in a space suit seriously repairing a solar generator came into view. The generator looked familiar. It was the one in our house!
“Hey, this friend, I don’t know if you can see this video, and I don’t know if you live in this world, but I want to tell you that I found your solar generator when I was fixing the power line, and I helped you pick the lock, fixed it, and made a protective layer.” The kind that won’t cut off power at 200 degrees below zero. You have to live well, and we all have to persevere!
I gave the video to everyone, and my dad praised it again and again.
I replied below the video: We are still alive! Currently hiding in the basement, thank you for helping me fix the generator, I believe that the end of the world will pass! I wish you peace and prosperity, pay attention to safety!
The other side actually sent me a private message. He first showed the certificate of the senior mechanical repairman of the state organ, and asked me where I lived. After a period of time, the state would send a commissioner to issue the spacesuit, and then transfer the survivors to the underground Xianzhou.
Xianzhou is the code name of the National Refuge Fortress.
It turns out that we have not been abandoned!
I looked at his proof, his name is Shen Xiao, the picture is a very young and handsome face.
A Ji glanced jealously and went back to the bedroom with a cold snort.
I smiled and told him the exact address and the password of the basement door.
Three months later, after the power was restored, we lived a more normal life, without a family crowded together to keep each other warm, without drinking cold mineral water, and without living in a dark space.
Father and Ah Ji’s hands are much better, and we can play poker together and play the Three Kingdoms.
Ah Ji, are you cheating?! How come poker is so smooth every time?!
“I don’t have it.”
Shen Xiao there is no movement, the message shows that it can not be read back. But it doesn’t matter to us, even if we are in the basement all the time, as long as the heating equipment is not broken, we can sit idle and live to the end of time. Day by day
, I pay attention to micro-blog news from time to time. More and more countries and regions begin to restore power and network, and the surface temperature is still around 130 degrees.
One day, we were awakened by a loud noise, and a group of people in spacesuits came in. The leader took off his helmet and walked up to me, showing two small tiger teeth, smiling and saying, “Hello, ‘I don’t want to eat coriander.'”
This is my Tik Tok name, I looked at this handsome face, and before Shen Xiao showed me the face on the work card overlap together.
I suddenly became excited, “You are Shen Xiao!”! Help us fix the solar generator!
“That’s right, ‘I don’t want to eat coriander,'” Shen Xiao admitted with a smile. “There are six spacesuits here. You put them on and come with us. We’re responsible for helping you move all the food in the basement. You can rest assured that the country has sufficient grain reserves and will not confiscate your things. Of course, if you are willing to donate a bag of rice, you can get a house in the underground fairy boat.
Donate, donate, donate! We donate! Is there air conditioning and floor heating over there? Dad waved his big hand and donated my bag of rice.
“Yes, it was built there as early as six years ago. It’s far from the ground and has complete infrastructure. Even if you don’t turn on the air conditioning and floor heating, the temperature is very comfortable.” Shen Xiao explained.
“All right, all right, let’s get dressed!” Dad began to dress with satisfaction, but because his hands were not sharp, he finally relied on his mother to help him get dressed. A Ji and
I quickly changed our clothes and followed Shen Xiao to leave the basement where we had lived for more than two years. When I
passed the first floor, I saw a hill of spherical cat litter piled up in the corner. Help! I’m not shoveling shit! I looked at Shen Xiao a little sheepishly and found that he was also smiling at me.
I subconsciously don’t look, a strong stare at Shen Xiao, declare sovereignty.
“Miss Cilantro’s boyfriend is very jealous, ha ha.”
Came to the underground fairy boat, there are hundreds of survivors like us. A sweeping search is still underway outside, hoping to find more survivors.
After all, only when people live can they have hope, only when the country has hope, and only when civilization has hope.
Because of a bag of rice, we also got a house, and we didn’t need the state to distribute rice, flour, grain and oil, and other daily necessities, because Shen Xiao carried them for us.
Life is finally on the right track, the end of the world crisis has finally come to an end, we still can not leave the underground to live on the ground, but everything is better, isn’t it?
Life has been full of hope, can arrival of sunshine be far behind?
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Stay! Doomsday survivors
Yu Yu and Yu Yu
