Stay! Live
in the end of high temperature! Doomsday survivors
at first, no one cared about the disaster, first of all, the high temperature lasted for dozens of days, the highest even exceeded 45 degrees.
Then the fields dried up and the lakes dried up.
When people really realize the seriousness of the problem, the end has come.
01
“It’s so hot! It’s so hot! Why is it so hot this year?”
“Yeah, it’s been over 40 degrees for three days in a row. It’s going to make people crazy!” On the way
to work, pedestrians were in a hurry, almost no one stayed on the main road, and all of them entered the building at the fastest speed to escape the heat.
I stopped at the intersection to wait for the traffic lights and glanced at my mobile phone.
17:45, temperature 38.
It’s close to evening, but the sun hasn’t set yet. The sunshine and the continuous high temperature give people the illusion that it’s still noon. Today’s temperature is worse than usual. When the
green light came on, I hesitated for a moment. Instead of going straight home, I turned left and went to the largest supermarket in the city, intending to purchase some supplies.
Today is Friday, and tomorrow is the weekend. If the next weather is still over 40 degrees, I will ask the company to take a vacation and stay at home for a few more days to escape the heat. Anyway, I just signed a big project day and night, and the company should not refuse my leave.
I went into the supermarket, went straight to the fresh section, bought some daily ingredients in large quantities, and went to the frozen section to buy some steaks and frozen fish and shrimp. When I passed the daily necessities section, I found that the usual tampons and tampons were on sale. On a whim, I bought two bags, and the shopping cart was full.
“Can I help you?” A waiter came to ask me with a shy smile on his face.
I nodded, gave him the cart, pushed another one, went into the canning area, took two cans of each kind of cans, went into the snack area, and swept red melon seeds potato chips. Would
you like to buy some drinks? Our Big Coke Sprite combo is on sale for only 9.9 yuan. The waiter suggested.
I think it makes sense. Although I’m usually healthy and don’t drink much, I can’t eat potato chips without coke. So I went to the beverage area and carried five combination packages, totaling 10 bottles. I also asked my brother to help me carry two boxes of mineral water and fill the third shopping cart.
I thought it would be over, but when I came out and passed the rice area, I suddenly patted my head, and the rice bucket at home was almost bottomed out, so I had to buy some. So I continued to trouble the waiter and asked him to carry two bags of rice for me, and I took five bags of instant noodles to fill the gap of the second shopping cart.
So far, three shopping carts are full.
As soon as I checked out, it was 132.18 yuan.
“Do you need a delivery?” The waiter asked again.
I shook my head. “No, just help me carry it to the car.”
Really not? These things are very heavy.
The waiter seemed to want to serve me very much, but I refused and asked him to help me put all my things into my big trunk. When I
closed the trunk door, the waiter seemed to sigh, but I didn’t pay much attention and drove home directly. After my divorce from my ex-husband
five years ago, I took a random trip for half a year and finally chose this slow-paced third-tier city to stay and leave everything I knew.
Now I rent and live alone in a senior residential area in the suburbs, on the 16th floor of the middle floor, neither high nor low, one staircase, two households, with independent security doors.
Perhaps because of the different time of activity and the good sound insulation effect, I have never seen another neighbor, only the occasional umbrella placed at the elevator entrance can show that there are other people living on this floor.
I parked my car in the parking lot and took three times to move all my purchases to the elevator entrance. When I got to my door, I spent more than ten minutes sorting everything into my big freezer and refrigerator.
Because the community was closed once before the epidemic, I bought a big freezer specially. At this time, it was filled with eight points, one third of which was ice cream I hoarded, and the rest was frozen chicken, duck and animal viscera, as well as half a fan of pork.
These were all sent to me by my mother from my hometown. My hometown contracted a mountain. Old men and old women raised pigs, chickens and ducks on the mountain for fun. They always sent me frozen products and saved more and more.
I put steak and frozen fish and shrimp in it, and finally filled it to a full size, thinking that even if there was a sudden outbreak of lockdown of a city again, the meat would be enough for me to eat for two months.
Ding.
He was stuffing some drinks into the refrigerator when he received a text message on his mobile phone. Out of
the corner of my eye, I took a look at the red warning of high temperature issued by the Meteorological Bureau of the city, which jumped to 41 degrees Celsius.
Tomorrow, the temperature in Japan will reach a new high point, reaching above 41 degrees. Please try not to go out between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. If there are old people and children at home..
41 degrees? I can not help but scold a sentence, directly grabbed the mobile phone to edit text messages on the OA process with the leadership to ask for leave and inform the personnel one-stop. In
such hot weather, I don’t want to go out to be barbecued, of course, as long as I can. After calculating the rest time accumulated in the past six months because of the big projects, plus the weekend, I can probably rest for about 20 days at one time, not so hot in the past 20 days, right? The application
for leave was approved quickly. When I came out of the shower, OA showed that it had passed. There were two other missed calls. It was my mother. I went back.
“Hello, Mom.”
“Qingqing, the temperature in your place is very high. Don’t go out if you have nothing to do. If you are alone there, how can you get heatstroke? The company should ask for leave quickly. You are a dead girl. When you were a child, you liked to run around at 39 degrees.”
As soon as I got through, my mother gave me a greeting.
“I know, mom, you should also pay attention to preventing heatstroke and cooling down, and don’t be reluctant to turn on the air conditioner, do you know?”
I exhorted.
What kind of air conditioning? Your father and I are in the mountains. The highest temperature today is only 35 degrees, and we sleep under a quilt at night. You’d better worry about yourself. You have to go so far. If you stay here, how cool it will be to live directly in the mountains.
Mother began to nag angrily.
I let her talk for more than ten minutes before I finally found an excuse to hang up the phone.
This summer is really unseasonably hot.
I opened a box of ice cream, sat down comfortably on the sofa, and turned on the TV while eating.
“The recent sustained high temperatures have caused more than 1,000 deaths in European countries, and the temperature in some parts of India has exceeded 55 degrees. Some experts say that such temperatures are no longer suitable for human habitation.”
I am glad that I live in China, where the per capita penetration rate of air conditioning is more than 100%.
At this time, I do not know, in the next few days, the continuous high temperature and high temperature will soon tell me what is not suitable for human habitation. For the
next two days of the weekend, I happily turned on the 24-hour thermostatic air conditioning, slept until I woke up naturally, woke up watching plays and playing games at home, cooked a dish and stewed a soup for myself at the meal point, and realized a comfortable vacation at home.
Until Monday.
…… When
I was sleeping, I was suddenly woken up by the ringing of my mobile phone. When I opened it, it was my colleague Huang Ling.
“Qingqing, why didn’t you come to work today?”
“I asked for leave. I asked for a long vacation. You can’t see me until next month.”
I gave a long yawn. When
Huang Ling heard this, her tone was shocked: “Really?”? The HR says you’ve taken all your annual leave. I still can’t believe it. Is there something wrong with your family?
She is the one who has the best relationship with me in the company.
I sat up quickly.
“It’s all right, but it’s too hot. I don’t want to go to work. I want to have a rest. Don’t worry.”
Sister, are you crazy not to come to work in hot weather? It’s not the end of the world.
“Have you ever heard of the end of the world?” I laughed.
Tut, I really envy you for asking for leave now. My project still has finishing work to do, otherwise I also want to ask, do you know? On my way to the office in the morning, the back of my hand was sunburned.
Huang Ling complained to me and hung up the phone.
I glanced at the time, 8:45 a.m. Is the sun so poisonous
so early?
I got out of bed, opened the blackout curtains, opened the window again, and felt it. Suddenly, a stream of hot air came to my face, and all the places I could see were distorted.
What the fuck
I quickly closed the window and drew the curtains.
Outrageous, this is too hot! How can people who need outdoor work live in
this weather.
I took a look at the weather forecast, which showed 39 degrees, but soon automatically refreshed it to 40 degrees, and the temperature forecast for the next few hours continued to rise.
10 o’clock, 41 degrees, 11 o’clock, 41 degrees, 12 o’clock, 42 degrees, 13 o’clock, 43 degrees, 14 o’clock, 43 degrees. Am
I crazy, or is the weather forecast crazy? The highest temperature
yesterday was 40 degrees, and today it will be 43 degrees?
I made myself a simple breakfast to eat in fear, and then cleaned up the garbage, intending to take advantage of the weather is not so hot, go downstairs to throw a garbage.
As soon as I opened the door, I happened to meet Xiao Chen of the residential property, who had just knocked on the door opposite.
“Great, you’re here too. Let’s listen to it.”
He turned to see me and smiled at me.
I smiled back at him and looked at my neighbor whom I had never seen before.
It was a man with long hair and dark eyes who looked like he had just woken up. As soon as
our eyes met, we nodded to each other.
“It’s like this. I’ll inform you that there is a possibility of power outage in recent days because of the high temperature. If there is a power outage, don’t panic. Our community has solar power supply equipment. It takes 10 minutes to start after the power outage. Then try to save electricity during this period. It’s troublesome to turn on the air conditioner at more than 26 degrees.”
Xiao Chen said.
“Will the water be cut off?” I asked.
“I don’t know for the time being, but I suggest you keep some drinking water at home. The high temperature is too abnormal. Our property can’t guarantee it for the time being. I’m really sorry. This is a leaflet. Please have a look.”
“I see.” The man
across the door nodded, took the leaflet and closed the door directly. Doesn’t
look like a very polite person.
Xiao Chen was not annoyed and handed me the leaflet. I asked him if he wanted to come in and have a rest. He refused, saying that he should inform the owners of the building face to face as soon as possible, so as not to miss the notice.
Are you going to throw away the garbage? Just give it to me. I’ll throw it for you.
He even took the garbage from my hand. The property fee of 20 yuan
per square metre is not paid in vain, the supporting facilities of the community are quite advanced, and the service attitude is good and intimate. After
seeing him off, I returned to the house and saw that the communication screen beside the door showed the words “high temperature may cut off power”, which was no different from the leaflets in my hand, but if Xiao Chen had not knocked at the door, I would not have noticed it.
I-U-I-U-
I-U-I-U-I-U-The sound of ambulances and fire engines passing by
today is particularly numerous.
I was sitting on the sofa, blowing the air conditioner, eating ice cream, and feeling guilty. The news on the
Internet began to roll out all kinds of disasters caused by extreme high temperature weather in various places, and one of the videos was pushed to the top.
It was a reporter. In the first 30 seconds, he did not wear a hat. He braved the fierce sun and insisted on doing a live broadcast outdoors. In the 31st second, smoke suddenly came out of his head, and then it burned up. Fortunately, the staff next to him immediately doused it with mineral water.
“Thank you for your concern. I’m fine. In hot weather, please don’t put too much wax on your hair, and don’t work in the sun for too long.”
This is the top comment. I wanted to laugh when I
saw it, but I couldn’t laugh.
I feel that the world is going to have a big problem.
43 degrees, 44 degrees, 45 degrees..
Sure enough, in the next few days, the temperature continued to rise, and a week later, the highest temperature in the daytime reached an astonishing 46 degrees, and even in the middle of the night there was a high temperature of 39 degrees.
All outdoor work has been shut down, almost all companies have changed to online office, only a few staff who can not stop work are still grinding their teeth at the front line.
Yesterday, the hottest news was that a mother fell down on the road with a child with a high fever in her arms, and all the skin touching the ground was scalded. Today, the hottest news has become that a heroic electrician died bravely because of heat stroke while climbing under the scorching sun. Countless people silently offered small white flowers on the Internet.
No one used the candle-lit meme because it was too hot.
As the high temperature continues and power problems occur in many places, there are more and more news of people dying from heat.
High-level emergency measures have been taken to open air-conditioned auditoriums, gymnasiums and shopping malls in all schools as 24-hour shelters for people without air conditioning to escape the heat, but the number of people dying from heat continues to rise with the temperature.
Hospitals are overcrowded, urban and rural fires are frequent, and the Internet is full of videos asking for help.
Since the holiday, I have been talking to my parents on the phone almost every day to learn about their situation. Although they are in the mountains, the highest temperature in recent days has reached 40 degrees. When I called them today, I learned that they finally turned on the air conditioner.
“Qingqing, you don’t have to worry about us. You must remember to turn on the air conditioner. Don’t be afraid of wasting the electricity bill. Mom and Dad have money.”
Now they’re trying to persuade me to open it.
“I’m driving. Don’t worry.”
I say. Is there
enough to eat? Shall I send you something to eat? We don’t know when this disaster will be over.
Mother’s voice sounded worried.
Enough, enough, didn’t I tell you? I just bought a lot of food before I went on vacation. It’s enough for me to eat for three months, and the property management delivers food every day. At the end of the
call, I took another picture of the inventory of my two refrigerators and sent it to them.
Because of such a serious natural disaster, I have no appetite these days. I don’t eat much. The two refrigerators are only missing some vegetables and fruits. After rearranging them, they still look full.
Hum.
As soon as I finished taking pictures, the TV suddenly went black and the whole room was quiet.
I pressed the light switch a few times to make sure that there was a power failure. Thanks to Xiao Chen’s previous reminder, I am not very worried. After the
air conditioning stops, the surrounding temperature rises quickly, the air becomes dull, and every breath, the air inhaled is much hotter.
A few minutes later, I was sweating profusely. I quickly took an ice cream from the refrigerator and sat on the ground to eat while waiting for the power to be restored. After eating the
ice cream, the electricity hasn’t come yet.
I ate another one.
The electricity still hasn’t come.
I couldn’t sit still and was about to call the property with a walkie-talkie to ask about the situation.
Ding-dong — ding-dong —
the doorbell rang.
Through the cat’s eye, I saw the man across the door, or the black eye, a sweat, standing at my door.
03
Open or not?
I hesitated, pulled on the safety chain, and opened the door a crack.
“What’s the matter?” I asked.
The man motioned for something in his hand, and I fixed my eyes on it. It was an ice cream.
“I just called the property management and said it would take another half an hour. You should be very hot. Eat an ice cream to cool down. I have a lot of ice cream there. If you are hot, you can take it with me.”
He has a nice voice.
“No, thank you.”
I say.
Perhaps seeing my guard, he said nothing more, but put the ice cream on the shelf at my door and turned away.
I opened the door and watched him walk through the two security gates, go back to his house and close the door.
Maybe. What a good man? Ice cream is scarce at times like this.
I opened the door, took the ice cream in, thought about it, put two layers of plastic bags on it, then put it in my freezer, and took another ice cream out to eat. I won’t open the freezer after
eating this, so as not to run out of cold air in the freezer.
Really, it’s so hot.
About 20 minutes later, I was lying on the ground in a big font, panting like a dog.
Hot, but afraid to open the window, afraid of more hot outside. It’s
46 degrees!
Incorrect
At 15:38, the update was successful
. I stared at the temperature display just refreshed on my mobile phone and almost exclaimed.
48 degrees, it’s already 48 degrees!
This is impossible, I must be wrong!
My finger holds down the screen, down, and continues to refresh.
15:39 Update success
15:39 Update success
15:39 Update success, but three times in a row, all show 48 degrees, and then the interface suddenly changed to 404. When I
returned, I wanted to see the weather again, but I was prompted that the mobile phone network was disconnected, and a red exclamation mark appeared on the interface.
Turn off the machine, turn on the machine, and directly display that there is no signal for both numbers.
Not only the network is broken, but also the mobile phone has lost its communication function. The temperature
around me was rising, and I felt that the room was about to reach 40 degrees, and every breath was hot, which made me feel suffocated.
I rushed to the door, grabbed the intercom on the door and pressed the property call button.
Beep. Beep. Beep. No one answered for
a long time, even the property has stopped? The
heat and fear filled my heart in an instant. The room was full of the sound of my breathing in and out. The sound insulation was so good that I could not hear any sound except me.
It’s like being on an island.
“Calm down, Su Ching-ching, you must calm down.” Talking to myself,
I went to the freezer and pulled it open, pulling out a duck from it and holding it in my arms.
The duck had been frozen in the freezer for several months, frozen hard from inside to outside, which made me cool a little bit and calm down, and began to analyze what I would do if I got heatstroke alone in the house.
Heat stroke Heatstroke should be..
By the way, Huoxiang Zhengqi water.
I opened the medicine cabinet at home, opened a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi water and dried it in one breath. Then I took out essential balm and smeared it on my forehead, neck, armpit and other places to dissipate heat. Then I went into the room and took a blanket. I soaked it directly in a large basin of water in the bathroom and put it on myself. I did everything I
could. I ate an ice cream in a few bites and kept looking at the clock on the wall. I regretted not buying an electronic clock with a thermometer. I couldn’t know the temperature in the room now.
But even if you know the temperature, you can’t do anything.
Doodle.
I don’t know how long it took, maybe a few minutes, maybe half an hour, when the walkie-talkie at the door suddenly rang.
I turned my head sharply and almost twisted my neck.
Ladies and gentlemen.. Cough, owners, please note that our city is facing a high temperature disaster, the solar panels of the community are damaged by the sun, and the power can not be restored at present. Owners can temporarily go to the underground parking lot to escape the heat. At present, the temperature of the parking lot on the first floor of the underground is 39.8 degrees, and that of the second floor of the underground is 38 degrees..
Yeah, underground parking. Why didn’t I think of that! Just as
I was about to open the door and rush out, I thought about it and took a backpack, replaced it with a frozen duck, put all the remaining essential balm and Huoxiang Zhengqi water in it, stuffed two bread and three bottles of mineral water, soaked the blanket again, and then opened the door. When I
opened the door, the opposite door opened at the same time, and the neighbor came out with a big backpack.
What a coincidence! I have never met a neighbor before, and I have seen him every time I open the door since the high temperature disaster.
“Come with me. My car has a full tank.”
He walked right up to me and said.
I took a step back subconsciously.
Since my divorce, I have been very wary of men around me, and I am always afraid of them.
“I’m sorry, I don’t mean any harm. You should have a car, too. Let’s go to the car and blow the air conditioner. If my car runs out of oil, we can go to your car. This will last a long time.”
He looked into my eyes and seemed to be at a loss. There are windows in the
corridor, the sun shines in, even hotter than room, the air I breathe in is a little hot, even my eyes are a little blurred.
I took a few breaths, grabbed the car key by the door and closed it.
“Go, go!”
In this kind of natural disaster, no one can stand alone and live together. I can only agree with him.
The neighbor walked in front of me, opened the door of the stairwell, and in an instant there was a cool feeling. On
the 16th floor, no one usually takes the stairs.
But because of the lack of ventilation at ordinary times, the stairwell, which is usually very hot, is actually very cool, and the basement must be more comfortable. The desire
to cool down made me quicken my pace.
Soon, I heard footsteps echoing in the stairwell, one after another, accompanied by cursing and crying of children. It should be that other people in the building heard the property notice and came out. When I
passed the fifth floor, I saw a gray-haired old man sitting on the ground against the wall, and no one passed by.
“Grandpa, are you all right?”
I stopped and asked.
“I can’t walk. Don’t worry about me. Let’s go.” Said
the old man.
I hesitated for a moment. The neighbor walked in front of me. He had reached the corner and heard my conversation with the old man.
“Why don’t we two help you walk?”
“No, get out!”
The old man’s eyes shone fiercely. Startled,
I hurried down, and when I got to the third floor, my neighbor followed me, pulling the zipper of my backpack as I walked.
“I left him a bottle of water. Life and death count.”
His deep voice trembled a little.
04
Ground floor.
The neighbor pulled out his car keys, and an SUV that was very close to the stairwell flashed twice.
He took three steps and two steps, pulled open the door of the driver’s seat, threw his backpack in the passenger seat, and started the car.
Hum.
With the sound of starting, the car shook slightly, and a smell of gasoline came to my face, which made my stomach start to turn over.
In fact, I am a person who easily gets carsick, but at this time I have no choice but to get in the car and get into the back seat.
The SUV has a lot of space in the back seat, but the air is very bad, and there is a sour smell of fermented fruit. I was already dizzy with the smell of gasoline, and with this strange smell, I almost vomited.
“Sorry, I forgot to take out a bag of fruit in the car.”
Perhaps seeing my contorted face in the rearview mirror, he whispered in front of me.
I searched and found a bag of rotten fruit. I hesitated for a moment, but instead of throwing the fruit out, I tied the plastic bag tightly and threw it into the corner. I don’t have much food
with me. I have to prepare for the worst. With the
air conditioner on, the temperature in the car gradually dropped, although it was still dull, but at least it was not so hot. People passed by
one after another and got into the cars nearby, apparently on the same level as my neighbor. People who
entered the underground floor saw that the car was full of people, some turned around and went back, should be to get the car keys, some hesitated for a moment, and went to the underground floor.
I saw several property personnel running through the stairwell in a hurry, each holding a box of mineral water.
Conscience property!
I sighed.
“Let me introduce myself. My name is Lu Chou. What’s your name?” The neighbor in the
front driver’s seat opened his mouth.
“My name is Fang Ching. I’m sorry I got your car wet.”
I hesitated to say my real name and folded the wet blanket on my lap.
“It doesn’t matter.” When
he finished, we did not speak again, quietly feeling the cool temperature in the car. I don’t know when
this natural disaster will end.
The air is as dull as the atmosphere, and the “hum” of the car’s air conditioning is the only sound in the car.
After a while, he turned on the car radio.
Hereby.. It is reported that the extreme weather of high temperature will continue for another week. Please try not to go out.
As soon as it was opened, the sad news came out.
I sighed and thought silently about whether the water and bread in my backpack were enough to eat. If I had known I didn’t bring the duck, I could have brought more food and water.
Hereby.. The temperature in Greenland has been approaching 70 degrees Fahrenheit in recent days, and the glaciers are melting.
Hereby.. Global extreme weather.. Half the world turns red..
Hereby.. Scientists predict that the maximum temperature may rise in the next 10 years.
Lu Zhou changed a few channels, silently turned off, and it was meaningless to continue listening. The news was more and more worrying.
“It was all you. I said I’d take Xiaoming back to the mountains to spend the summer vacation, but you wouldn’t let me. Now it’s all right. I’m almost a refugee!”. There was a voice of complaint
outside the window.
A couple with a little girl passed our car and got into the car next to us.
Because the SUV was parked close to the stairwell, more and more people passed by our car, including old people and children, mostly families, in a hurry.
I looked at them in silence, and the light above me flashed a few times, and my heart beat with it. The
elevators are all stopped. Where is the power supply for the lights in the parking lot? I didn’t seem to hear the sound of the new fan, only the lights were on.
Just as he was thinking about it, Lu Zhou in the driver’s seat suddenly knocked on the steering wheel and used foul language. Suddenly
my whole body stiffened, some fragments of the past flashed through my mind, and my ex-husband’s fists were covered with my blood.
“Fang Ching, I was wrong. We have to go back upstairs.”
Lu Zhou turned to look at me with a stupefied expression.
You.. Is everything all right?
He asked cautiously.
I wiped the sweat from my face and tried to compose myself. “I’m fine. What did you say?”
“Drink some water first.”
He handed over a bottle of water.
I didn’t answer, resisted the impulse to step back, took out a bottle of mineral water from my bag and drank half a bottle, and my heartbeat eased slightly.
“Fang Qing, we shouldn’t go downstairs. There are too many cars. It might be very hot here later, and it’s very dangerous.”
Lu Zhou put the water back to Baoli Road.
“You mean..”
I also realized something and looked around quickly.
As long as there are people with cars, they basically think that they can go to the car to spend the summer. Eight out of ten cars around have already started, and there are still people entering the empty car one after another.
“Vehicle exhaust may cause the temperature to rise, and the carbon monoxide level will also rise. We have to go back upstairs.”
Lu Zhou looked at me.
I rubbed my temples. It’s easy to
go downstairs but difficult to go upstairs, let alone the 16th floor.
Damn it!
“If you don’t want to go back upstairs, you can stay in my car. As long as you don’t get out of the car, there shouldn’t be any danger, but..”
Lu Zhou hesitated to speak.
Once the car runs out of fuel, I still have to get out of the car to breathe, not only to withstand the high temperature baking, but also to be poisoned directly by inhaling carbon monoxide.
“I’ll go upstairs.”
On balance, I made a decision. The two of
us tacitly checked our backpacks, picked them up and opened the car door. In the car
next door, the little girl was looking at me from the window.
I couldn’t help knocking on their window.
“What are you doing?”
The wife carried the child over with a fierce look on her face.
“There are too many cars here. Carbon monoxide may exceed the standard. I suggest you go home.”
I said aloud, whether she understood or not, and turned to keep up with Lu Zhou’s footsteps.
They are the closest people, and I have done my duty to remind them that there is no need to be a virgin.
Climbing to the fifth floor, the old man had disappeared, and there were empty bottles of mineral water on the ground.
Further up, the stairs were full of people going down. When they saw us going up, many people looked at us doubtfully, but some people went up like us, resting on different floors, and they should have thought of the same situation. On the
10th floor, we ran into an acquaintance, Xiao Chen.
“Are you going back to get your things?”
He came down from the top, panting, with a backpack on his back like ours, and looked surprised when he saw us.
“We’re going home. We’re not going to come down. You’d better inform the people in the parking lot to be careful of carbon monoxide poisoning.” Lu Zhou answered him.
Xiao Chen’s expression paused, muttered something softly, and suddenly came to Lu Zhou’s ear and whispered a few words to him.
I saw Lu Zhou’s expression changed from doubt to surprise, and then to shock.
“Are you serious?”
“Take care of yourself.”
Xiao Chen patted Lu Zhou on the shoulder and hurried down to leave.
“What did he say?”
I asked.
Lu Zhou turned his head, his face grave, and the sweat on his forehead fell down.
“Fang Ching, I don’t know if my judgment is right.”
“You make the choice, go up home, or go down to the car.”
Xiao Chen just said that there is a thermometer on the property side that shows that it is not 48 degrees outside now, but.. 56 degrees. What is the concept
of 0556
degrees?
The novel coronavirus can only live for 30 minutes at 56 degrees. Where
are the people?
I was breathing heavily, and he was breathing heavily. The
small space was full of the sound of the two of us panting. The
surrounding temperature is rising, inhaling and exhaling are like in a sauna room, a mass of heat, a mass of discomfort.
56 degrees?
56 degrees!
56……
“Hasn’t it been 55 degrees in India for years?” I can’t help but retort.
This figure is too alarming, I suspect that Lu Zhou is misheard, may be 46 degrees and so on, 46 degrees is already very scary, how can it rise to 56 degrees in a short time. “What about you? Are you going home or to the car?”
Lu Chou said sternly.
“Are you going home or to the car?”
I threw the question back to him and gasped on my knee.
The heat caused the air to be thin, and we climbed so many layers that I felt like I was burning.
Lu Zhou did not answer, opened a bottle of water, drank half a bottle, and poured the other half on his head.
His face was flushed by the heat, and the dark circles under his eyes disappeared.
I took out the last bottle of water left in my bag and drank half of it, pouring the rest on my head. The
mineral water clung to the 80% thawed duck, a little cold, which made me wake up a little and try to think with the few brain cells left by the heat.
It’s about 4:30 in the afternoon, at least an hour and a half before the sun sets.
If there is no air conditioning, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is usually 3-5 degrees, that is to say, if I go home, I am likely to be roasted by the high temperature above 50 degrees.
But if you go back to the car..
Bang! I
was still hesitating when I heard the crisp sound of glass cracking.
It was the high temperature that deformed the metal window frame and caused the glass to burst.
An even hotter breath rushed in.
“I have to go. I choose to go home. Help yourself.”
Lu Zhou said anxiously and took the lead in rushing up the stairs. Without thinking,
I followed. The effects of the
heat were more than expected, and as soon as we moved, we heard a continuous burst of glass, some of which even fell off the window frame and broke all over the floor. On the
13th floor, I was as tired as a dog, panting with my tongue stretched out, holding on to the hot railing, and my legs were too stiff to walk.
Lu Zhou pulled me back and grabbed me and ran up.
Hot.
The high temperature seemed to have an entity, turning into a fire dragon, chasing after us, erupting thousands of degrees of dragon breath from time to time, burning people to ashes at any time.
14th floor.
15th floor.
It was so hot that the sweat on the body evaporated as soon as it fell to the ground.
On the last floor, I almost climbed up, and my palms were burned to the ground, but I screamed and felt a sore throat.
“We have to go in quickly.”
Lu Zhou was in a hurry to get the key, but he couldn’t get it.
I grabbed his coat from behind and pointed to my door.
“The password is 0726.”
[Ding, welcome home.]
Fortunately, the combination lock has not been damaged.
We rolled and crawled in, greedily breathing in the remaining coolness inside.
“What a big freezer.”
I heard the voice of Lu Zhou’s surprise. It’s right to
go home. I saved so much ice. I was afraid of cutting off the water supply before. I also saved a lot of water in the bathroom. It should be no problem to avoid the rest of the hour.
Moments later, I was lying in the water of the bathtub, and there were some chickens floating in the water.
Lu Zhou sat on the lid of the toilet opposite, soaking his feet in a basin of water with a duck, with a basin on his thigh, holding a duck in his hands to cool off. There were frozen chickens and ducks everywhere in the
bathroom, which was a little funny, but it worked, at least the temperature in the bathroom had dropped to a tolerable level.
“You are really a talented person. Are you afraid of the outbreak of zombies when you freeze so much meat in the freezer?”
Lu Zhou joked while playing with the ducks in the water.
“I’d rather have a zombie outbreak, so I can stay at home for at least a few months without fear of dying from the heat.”
I said coldly and looked out of the window.
This window may be because it is relatively small, still in the shade, not cracked, printed outside the illusion of a golden city, very unreal.
If this is a dream, I hope I can wake up soon.
Two hours later, the sun finally set. The roofs of the
city have lost their golden luster, and darkness has gradually enveloped the land. More than
an hour later, looking out of the window, we could see the candlelight on some floors.
It seems that there are still a lot of people who stick to their homes.
Lu Zhou opened the door and walked out of the bathroom, took a deep breath, and exhaled a long breath.
“The temperature has finally dropped.”
Needless to say, I knew the temperature had dropped, because I felt a little cold in the water.
I stood up from the bathtub and tried to clean up my mess, but as soon as my feet landed, I suddenly felt dizzy.
Shit!
The next second, my eyes closed automatically and I lost consciousness.
When I opened my eyes again, I saw the fan lamp in the living room.
I was lying on the floor of the living room, and the sky outside was a little white.
Have you been dizzy all night?
“Wake up?”
Lu Zhou handed me a bottle of drink.
“One good news, three bad news, which one are you going to hear first?”
“Okay..” Startled by my own hoarse voice,
I took a quick sip of my drink.
Lu Chou nodded. “The good news is that you’re still alive.”
“And the bad news?”
I asked, taking another sip.
The drink was already at room temperature, but it was very palatable. After drinking some of it, I felt strong all over. I sat up and moved my hands and feet. I felt like I had survived the disaster.
“The bad news is that the water supply was cut off at midnight last night, the electricity hasn’t come yet, and the mobile phone has no signal.”
Three nothingness.
I was silent.
If today is as hot as yesterday, I’m afraid it will be even harder to get through.
“By the way, I’ll tell you another piece of good news. The radio function of the mobile phone still works. We can still listen to the news before the battery runs out. I still have 1% of the electricity.”
Lu Zhou smiled and turned on the radio.
Hereby.. China National Radio, China National Radio, China National Radio, please stay at home as much as possible during the day, pay attention to water, do not go out, and wait for rescue. The high temperature disaster has affected nine provinces across the country, and the highest temperature may reach 60 degrees. This is. Zizi..
The mobile phone runs out of power and shuts down automatically.
I looked at him numbly.
The highest temperature reaches 60 degrees?
This number makes me suspect that I am living on the Flaming Mountain.
Do you have a power bank? Dear.
Lu Zhou is still in the mood to joke.
I went into the study, took out two power banks from the drawer, and was about to take them out to him when suddenly there was a flash of light in my mind.
Portable power bank Charge.
“Lu Chou, come in and do me a favor!”
I dragged a chair and put it under the bookcase.
“What are you doing?”
“Take down the express at the bottom of the top mat, the square one.”
This one? It’s a little heavy. Be careful.
Lu Zhou climbed up the chair and took down the express.
“Yes, that’s it.”
I jumped for joy and took the box and carefully put it on the ground.
“What is this?”
Lu Zhou asked.
“Home Solar Charging Equipment!”
“What?”
Home Solar Charging Equipment! I bought it before, but I never opened it!
06
I really admire myself. In the past few years, I have made a lot of money because of my promotion to the management of the company. So I buy all kinds of things. When I see something curious or think it may be useful, I will buy it back.
If I remember correctly, this solar charging equipment was bought a year and a half ago. At that time, I wanted to get a RV to travel, but there was no place to stop, but I had already bought a lot of field survival equipment in advance.
“Sister, you are so awesome that you have such a good thing!”
Lu Zhou listened to the excitement, and quickly helped to open it and debug it according to the instructions.
Half an hour later, before the sun rose, we put the solar charging panel on the bay window of the bedroom, drew the curtain of the bay window, and dragged a freezer into the bedroom, filled with small fans.
The sun rises slowly, the golden color spreads all over the earth again, and the temperature rises.
Lu Zhou glanced at me.
I nodded.
He pressed the switch decisively.
“Hum”.. It belongs to the sound of electrical appliances starting and the sound of small fans starting to work, just like the sounds of nature. When I
first bought the freezer, I considered that I didn’t need to freeze, so I bought a lower power model. If the solar charging panel is powerful, it should not be a problem to maintain the function.
Now the freezer is full of drinks and mineral water, some of which are mine, and some of which are moved by Lu Zhou from his home.
He said that he was a game anchor and often did not go out for ten days and a half months, so there were a lot of supplies at home.
We took an inventory of all the food. All the
ice cream melted, because it was too difficult to handle, I threw it away directly. There were six chickens, three ducks, half a pig, about five kilograms of steak, two fish and a bag of shrimp in the
freezer.
These meats are hard to keep fresh in such weather, so we just spread them out on the balcony floor before they start to rot, and see if today’s high temperature baking can be baked into jerky for easy preservation. After last night’s high temperature baptism,
the leafy vegetables were almost bad and gave off a bad smell. We did not dare to eat, if diarrhea is not worth the loss, can only throw the balcony, sprinkle some salt, try to dry vegetables.
There are also eggs, which I simply wrapped in clothes and put on the balcony shelf, hoping to be cooked in the sun. When I
counted the snacks, I found that the potato chip snacks burst into two packages and were baked hard and crisp.
I took a bag to collect all the things on the floor, and the rest of the complete packages were moved into the bedroom with other snacks, biscuits and bread. The cans and rice were in the kitchen cabinet, temporarily untouched.
Then a bag of apples, while still fresh, we decided to eat quickly, these two days of food is this.
“Sister, you are really talented. You have hidden so much food at home.”
Lu Zhou exclaimed.
Hiss.
I got goose bumps.
“Don’t call me sister, just call me by my name.”
“Sister Ching Ching.”
“Shut up or I’ll throw you out.”
I went out of the bedroom and moved some books to the study while the temperature was not very high.
These books have never been opened since they were bought, and now they can’t go out in disastrous weather, and they can’t play with their mobile phones, so they just take them to read.
Lu Zhou didn’t bother me any more. He opened the door and went out. When he came back, he took some books and pulled up a chair to sit down in the corner.
As time goes on, the temperature gradually increases.
We opened the freezer a crack, and the small fan was blowing from left to right. If the
temperature rises again, open the freezer wider to keep the temperature in the room within the human body’s tolerance range, and then drink water to replenish the water lost by the body.
Even with such a simple cooling device, both of us were sweating profusely in the afternoon, and our books were soaked with sweat.
What is calm and naturally cool does not exist in the face of absolute high temperature.
Fortunately, we made it through.
“The highest temperature today is 58 degrees, and the hot weather will continue..”
In the evening, we charged our mobile phones, turned on the radio and listened to it, and we all had some lingering palpitations.
Without that life-saving solar charging device, Lu Zhou and I really don’t know how to spend it. After
dark, we took the flashlights of our mobile phones and collected all the meat from the balcony. When we went out, we almost slipped because the floor was covered with roasted grease.
The meat is so fragrant that it can’t be covered.
I was a little worried about whether it would attract people with ulterior motives. After several days of caution, I couldn’t sleep well in the middle of the night. Fortunately, no one else appeared.
Lu Zhou went back to his home every night to sleep, and only came during the day. From the next day, he moved a lot of board games, plus the stock of books, to pass a lot of time.
We eat barbecue dried in the sun every day, occasionally open a bag of snacks, drink in the refrigerator, get used to the high temperature, for a moment, we feel that the years are quiet.
But I understand that these are all illusions.
Because every day after the high temperature, the candlelight of the opposite building at night will be less.
A week later in the evening, I was sleeping. In my dream, I was guessing each other’s information with the people of the rival company. The rival won, but I didn’t feel sorry. When I saw them firing a salute to congratulate me, I applauded.
Boom! The
explosion woke me up.
I suddenly sat up and looked out of the window, only to find that it was not a salute, but a place in the opposite building that exploded, and the flames split the night.
Recently, I have been hearing the sound of explosions, and I have seen flames and black smoke at night, but they are far away from me, and this is the closest one.
Boom!
There was another loud noise and the glass was shaking. With a scream,
I rolled out of bed and rushed out. When I reacted, I was holding Lu Zhou’s waist and trembling constantly.
“It’s all right, it’s all right. It’s the opposite building. It can’t be burned to our side.”
He reached out stiffly and touched my hair.
I shivered and shoved him away.
“Fang Qing..”
“Don’t come over, I’m fine, I’m fine..”
I clenched my teeth back into the bedroom and quickly closed the door. The fire in the
opposite building was completely burning, as if crackling and screaming could be heard.
“Fang Ching, are you all right?”
Lu Zhou knocked on the door twice.
I squatted down, put my hands around my knees and covered my ears, and the lingering sound of knocking on the door in my mind and the sound of knocking on the door in Luzhou mingled and rained down on me.
‘Ah! I’m fine. You go back.
I screamed.
“Fang Ching, I’m right outside. Don’t worry, nothing will happen. Just calm down.”
Lu Zhou seemed to say so, and the knock on the door stopped.
I couldn’t really hear it. I just squatted there and looked through the window at the growing fire in the opposite building.
Someone rushed out of the fire and fell straight down like a bird without wings.
Someone appeared at the window, waving a flashlight for help, and someone splashed water down from the top, but it didn’t work, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger.
It got bigger and bigger
until it covered the whole building.
The flames soared into the sky.
Ironically, the opposite building burned into a fiery hell, less than 100 meters apart, but the temperature did not rise much.
God, if it is the end of the world, please set me free quickly. I
just held my knees and kept my eyes open until dawn.
The fire burned all night and was not completely extinguished by dawn.
Knock, knock, knock. The
bedroom door was knocked.
I fell to the ground and found that my legs were numb and unconscious.
“Fang Ching, it’s me. I’m Lu Chou. Look outside. Is it raining?”
He said. It is
said to be raining, but in fact it is only a few drops of water. If you don’t look carefully, you will not notice that it is raining at all, because it is almost evaporated in midair.
Half an hour later, I looked down from the balcony, and the ground was still golden.
The sun came out and the temperature rose as usual.
“It was artificial rainfall in the city next door, and we got a little.”
Lu Zhou stood behind me with his cell phone.
Although such a little rain is useless, but there is artificial rainfall, indicating that the high-level has not stopped, as long as we persist, we will be able to wait until the day of cooling.
We can’t lose faith in survival.
“I brought two more boxes of water. The heat won’t last long. It should be over soon.”
Lu Zhou said, carrying the water to the bedroom door, and seeing that I had no opinion, he moved the water in.
His cautious eyes were in full view.
Do evil. I might have scared him last night. Several parts of the
opposite building have been re-burning, and smoke billows, covering part of the sky.
Sunlight through the black fog, sprinkled a bright red needle, surrounded by a circle of orange light, murderous.
Faced with such a scene, both of us were a little absent-minded, playing poker and forgetting what had just happened. Finally, we simply stopped playing and took a book to read.
Meanwhile, I went to the toilet and found that there was little water left in the bathtub to flush the toilet, and the basin and bucket were all empty.
These days, in order to save water, we have a tacit understanding that only when we go to the toilet, we simply wipe our bodies with wet towels, but we can’t stand it for a long time, because the temperature is high and the evaporation is fast.
“We don’t have much water in the toilet. Let’s flush it once a day.” When I
walked out of the bathroom, I suggested to Lu Zhou.
Lu Zhou listened with a wry smile, but did not refuse.
As we all know, this is the result of no choice.
Fortunately, three days later, in the middle of the night, we finally got a rain. It was
also artificial rainfall, but this time it fell over our city, and the rain in the suburbs was not small. The sound of
rain beating on the window woke me up directly, and Lu Zhou knocked on the door, and his excitement was overflowing. The two of
us put all the things that could catch rainwater on the balcony, trying to save more water, and took out towels to take a shower and wash our hair.
Lu Zhou took off his coat, revealing his young flesh. His muscles were still even, but he was a little thinner. He cheered in the rain. Without being reserved,
I turned my back to Lu Zhou, washed away the stickiness with the rain, felt the feeling of the rain beating on my face, and felt comfortable all over.
I heard happy laughter coming from upstairs and downstairs, and it was obvious that there were still many people in the building.
Half an hour later, the rain stopped. It
came and went quickly, and the bucket contained less than a third of it, but it brought enough coolness and hope. Lu Zhou and
I opened two cans of yellow peaches as a reward for ourselves. There is a lot of
food, the high temperature will affect people’s appetite, now that half of the dried pig we did not move, only ate a few ducks and chickens. There is no shortage of
drinking water and drinks, and I haven’t finished all the drinks I had from the supermarket before the disaster.
Hold on a little longer, and you’ll get through it!
Ding, Ding, Ding.
Just after changing clean clothes, there is another piece of good news, the mobile phone signal is restored! A lot of text messages poured in at the first time.
In order not to miss the outside news, even if there was no signal before, we all tacitly charged our mobile phones every day.
I picked up my cell phone and took a brief look at the text messages, which were basically safety reminders and high temperature notifications, as well as some shelter messages issued by senior officials.
“Hey, Mom..”
Lu Zhou had already connected his home phone.
Ah, my unfilial daughter is lagging behind.
I quickly dialed my mother’s phone, but it was prompted to shut down.
No power?
I call the landline at home.
Beep, beep, beep..
A rapid busy tone.
How did this happen?
I found out my father’s mobile phone number and dialed it, but I still couldn’t get through. After thinking about it, I turned out my uncle and uncle, and called my relatives one by one.
“I’m all right here. I’m fine. I have enough water to drink and enough food to eat. You must take good care of yourself. Don’t..” When
Lu Zhou talked on the phone and turned to me, his voice paused.
“Mom, in short, don’t run around until the temperature drops. Listen to the higher-ups. I’ll go back to see you when the weather is normal. My friend still wants to use my cell phone to call home. I’ll hang up first.”
He said a few more words, hung up the phone and handed it to me.
“Try mine.” I
didn’t refuse, so I took it and first entered the phone number of my mother that I knew by heart. Shutdown.
Shutdown.
Or turn it off.
“Maybe there’s a power outage in their area.”
Seeing that I kept dialing one phone after another without getting through, Lu Zhou comforted me.
They.. He is over sixty years old.
I grabbed two cell phones and continued to dial the phone. Finally, when I was about to lose hope, a cousin who had not been contacted for many years in the phone book answered the phone.
“Hello.”
“Hello, this is Ching Ching.”
What? What green?
Cousin, I’m Su Ching-ching, the daughter of your third aunt. Do you know what’s going on with my mother? I’m out of town alone and I can’t get in touch with them.
I tried to calm myself down and speak.
“Oh, it’s you. I don’t know. Why don’t you call the shelter and ask?”
The cousin was so helpful that she immediately sent me a row of phone calls from local shelters.
I immediately dialed, but checked three, did not find the names of my parents, want to continue to check, but a standard female voice came from the mobile phone.
“Hello, the number you dialed is out of service, please dial again later..” I had
a premonition that something bad was going to happen, so I continued to dial the next one, which was the same prompt. Then I looked at the mobile phone signal, and sure enough, it became zero again. The
signal is broken.
“Hey..” Oh, don’t cry!
Lu Zhou handed me a tissue at a loss, and I found myself in tears.
“I can’t get in touch with them. They’re old. What should I do on such a hot day?”
Although the mountains will be much cooler than city, but such a high temperature, the mountains can not be spared, coupled with the power cut off the signal, I am really afraid that they have any accidents.
“It’s all right. They must be all right. My parents are all right. They are all in the shelter. They have air conditioning, food and water. They are much more comfortable than we are.”
Lu Zhou said, and handed me several paper towels.
I took it and buried my face in the tissue, sobbing. After
so many days of hardship, I didn’t cry. I was frightened by the fire in the opposite building. But when I found that I couldn’t contact my parents thousands of miles away, I couldn’t help crying.
I regret that I shouldn’t have been so capricious and went to live so far away and only went back to see them once a year.
If I could do it again, I would stay with them all the time and never go anywhere.
A pair of slightly stiff, but warm arms gently encircled me from the side.
I shrank slightly and my body shook slightly.
“Don’t be afraid. It’s me. Don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you.”
“Your parents must have happened to be in a place where the signal was not restored, and they must have been anxious to contact you.”
“Once the cell phone signal is restored, it will definitely be restored again. We have to be patient and wait, okay?”
Although the embrace was clumsy and the comforting words were nothing new, I gradually quieted down in his voice.
“Okay, we’ll wait.” For the
next few days, however, there was no more good news.
Because the temperature soon rose again, higher than before the artificial rainfall.
08
Hot.
I looked at the calendar on the wall. It’s been 23 days
since the first day I took leave, and the temperature has been rising almost all the time, only slightly lower on the day of artificial rainfall, but it immediately climbed above 60 degrees.
Yes, the earth is about to explode.
Or it should be said that human beings have no way to survive on the ground. Some people
on Zhihu may be right that human beings are viruses existing on the surface of the earth. Now the earth is having a fever, and it is necessary to rely on a high fever to kill the virus.
This is the end of mankind.
“What are you thinking? Help me, it’s going to fall off.”
Lu Zhou was carrying two boxes of mineral water past me. The bottle was deformed by the high temperature. One of the bottles was about to fall out of the plastic bag. I quickly held it.
I don’t know why he has so much mineral water in his house. He has moved at least a dozen boxes these days.
“I wonder if it will continue to heat up.”
I helped him move the mineral water into the bedroom and put it in the freezer one by one. The hottest time
these days has made me want to get into the freezer.
“Think of something good. If you want to know if the temperature is going to drop today, it dropped half a degree yesterday.”
Lu Zhou pursed his lips, which were a little chapped. No matter how much water I
add, I can’t stand such a baking method, and my lips are not much better.
“In fact, there is a possibility that we are about to undergo thermal evolution. Haven’t you noticed that we haven’t had a heatstroke yet?”
He closed the door of the freezer until there was only a crack, grabbed his clothes and fanned them fiercely, his face flushed and sweating.
I found that he was really a gentleman, except that it was raining to take a shower that day. When I was there, he would not be naked no matter how hot it was.
“I don’t have a heatstroke gene. When I was a kid, I worked in the fields with my mother at 40 degrees.”
I spread out my hands.
Lu Zhou turned to look at me happily and laughed like a fool.
You call that a heatstroke gene? What a coincidence! Three generations of my ancestors didn’t have the heatstroke gene. I haven’t had heatstroke in my life. The highest record is playing in the sun at 39 degrees. I beat three opponents and two teammates until they were hospitalized for heatstroke. I was the one who gave them 120.
“Wow, awesome, do one.”
I took out a bottle of drink and gave him one.
We don’t have a lot of drinks, one bottle less, but people have to live, don’t they?
“Dry, dry, dry.”
Lu Zhou took it, and we happily opened the bottle cap together and took a big drink.
“Comfortable..”
He sighed and dropped to the floor.
Drinks were kept in the freezer overnight, so of course it was comfortable. Under the
high temperature, we need the cold air of the freezer to cool down, which can not be completely closed, coupled with the lack of power, the ice in the freezer has long melted, and now it is almost the same temperature as the fresh-keeping layer, only a little ice at night, if we don’t drink it now, the ice steam will disperse after a while.
I imitated him to lie down on the floor and look at the glass lamp on the ceiling. I just put on
this lamp before the disaster, and it’s still very new. It only needs a little light to shine.
Suddenly, I thought I saw the light flicker a few times. Are you dazzled
?
I rubbed my eyes and noticed that the light was shaking more and more.
“It’s an earthquake!”
Lu Zhou scrambled to his feet, pulled one of my arms and almost dragged me off the ground. He threw me into the bathroom next to the bedroom and rushed in, looking around in a panic. The
bathroom was smelly because there was no flush in the toilet, but it was definitely not as bad as the panic caused by the earthquake.
The earthquake came without warning and was strong!
Heard that a long drought will cause the earth to move, before only on the Internet to see one-sided words, did not go to study, so many days of high temperature, we were burned out of the head did not remember.
Caught off guard.
The building tilts, then returns to normal, then tilts again, then shakes up and down, like a giant snake passing through the ground.
I screamed and hugged the only person I could hold in front of me.
Lu Zhou, much taller than me, bent down and held me tightly in his arms, leading me to stagger in the earthquake, hitting the wall next to me from time to time, and almost falling into the bathtub. When the earthquake
finally stopped, all I could hear was the beating of my heart and the two of us breathing in a mess.
Like a convulsion.
The building didn’t collapse, and the bathroom door was crooked on one side.
I fell to the ground.
Lu Zhou walked out holding the wall and cursed a dirty word.
What is a desperate situation? This is a desperate situation.
The earthquake damaged our life-saving solar panels.
There was no way to fix it, because two-thirds of it was smashed, the electric box caught fire, and it was not easy to find a fire extinguisher to put it out, and the bedroom was a mess. After
putting out the fire, we almost used up our last ounce of strength and fell to the ground together. The sun in the
sky is looking at us with evil eyes.
I could feel the fuzz on my face curling in the heat and burning, sinking into the pores and causing a tingling sensation. In
a few hours, the heat will kill us. Listening to the radio
yesterday, what’s the temperature today?
62？ Or 66?
After a while, I got up from the ground and pulled the water and drinks out of the freezer.
“What are you doing?”
“Cut the crap and help.”
I simply asked him to push the freezer away from the window, put it at the end of the bed, and throw all the drinks on the bed.
Then I took off my shoes and stepped in.
“It won’t work. After a while, the temperature will rise and you may suffocate in it.”
“It’s not me, it’s us.”
I waved to him.
But Lu Zhou took a step back.
“I’m not going in. I’m claustrophobic. Don’t worry about me. Sit down. I’ll put the drink in for you to cool down. Maybe you can make it.”
His eyes twinkled.
What are you lying about? You’re claustrophobic. Oh!
I hooked my hand at him.
“Younger brother, I had a failed marriage in my life. I was beaten very badly before I got away. If you don’t dislike me, come in.”
“I’m not hiding. I want to give myself a chance.”
“I find I quite like you.”
The voice fell, and I saw the earthquake of Luzhou pupil.
“You..”
He swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
I looked at him solemnly, feeling the heat rising in the room, unable to tell whether it was really warming up or my face was warming up.
I said the boldest thing of my life.
Lu Chou, you.. Will you die with me?
09
Early death and late death are all death, but individuals will be afraid of death.
I hope he is afraid of death.
Lu Zhou did not turn his head, and his face was visibly red to the color of pig liver.
“My name is actually Zhou Zhou. I’m 28 years old. I’m an online we-media person. I’m not a game anchor. I earn barely enough money to make a living.”
What a coincidence! You’ve heard it before. My name is Su Qingqing. I’m 31 years old. I’m a salesman in a software company. I earn enough money to keep you. Would you like to be kept by me? Little brother Once
a person’s skin thickens, some levels rise. At least I won the debate at the end of the day.
Lu Zhou, no, Zhou Zhou, finally nodded solemnly to me, then rushed into the bathroom, poured the remaining water into a bucket, and poured it into the freezer.
I tacitly opened a bottle of mineral water and poured all the water into the freezer. All the mineral water was poured out, almost a quarter of the bottom of the freezer.
The whole process took less than five minutes, but the surrounding temperature had reached the point where even breathing had to be careful, as if breathing hard would inhale a fireball.
I sat in the water and made room for Zhou Zhou.
He threw a pile of unopened beverage bottles into the water, gave me a small fan with electricity, and got in. Although
the freezer is very large, it is still a little difficult to accommodate two adults, especially Zhou Zhou, who has more than half of his head exposed after sitting down.
I shifted my position, turned to his side, retracted into his arms, let his knees bend up, and lay down in a suffocating position.
The waterline is no more than our waists.
I reached out and pulled the lid on the top of the freezer, leaving only a small gap.
“Achoo”! The temperature in the
freezer was so much lower than outside that I sneezed.
“Are you all right?” Zhou Zhou asked nervously.
“It’s all right, Chou Chou. If you survive this time, can I take you to see my parents?”
I put my arms around his waist and rested my face on his shoulder.
“As long as I can survive, I’ll go with you with my household registration book and get the license on the spot.”
“That’s what you said. You can’t go back on your words.”
“I won’t go back on my word, but you have to do something for me.”
Zhou Zhou said.
“What is it?”
You have to meet my brothers. They all laugh at me for staying at home and not finding a wife. Didn’t I find one? She’s still a beautiful woman, and I envy them!
Zhou Zhou laughed out loud.
Rare coolness, although the posture is very uncomfortable, but our mentality is relaxed.
“Well, as long as I can survive, I can show my love to you live.”
As long as we survive.
Anything is possible.
The temperature began to rise, accompanied by aftershocks, I do not know if it is my illusion.
Don’t have another big earthquake. The building can’t stand a second violent shaking. When the
temperature reached a certain point, I turned on the small fan, and the “hum” replaced the sound of our heartbeat, and the tiny circulating air was the only source of life.
To live.. I
don’t know how long it took me to fall asleep. When I woke up, the first thing I saw was Zhou Zhou’s face, black eyes, thin cheeks and messy stubble.
His eyes were closed, his eyelashes quivering slightly, as if he were dreaming. Looking out of the
freezer, you can see that the sky is still very bright, but there seems to be something different.
Sound!
Is it.. Raindrops?
I reached out through the cracks in the freezer and found that the temperature outside was not very high, so I simply opened the freezer and poked my head out.
The rainstorm “crackled” on the broken glass, and I saw that the sky outside was gray. Big drops of rain fell from the sky, and some of them splashed into the room through the deformed window frame of the bay window, forming a puddle on the ground.
It’s raining.
I pinched my face, and it hurt.
It’s really raining!
Lu.. Zhou Zhou, it’s raining, we’re alive, we’re alive!
I slapped his face excitedly to wake him up.
Start with a high fever.
“Chou Chou, don’t scare me!”
I touched his forehead and quickly climbed out of the freezer.
Fortunately, he was woken up by me.
Is it raining? Very cold
“Yes, it’s raining. You have a fever. Come out quickly.”
When I helped him up, he slipped in the water and hit his head on the inner wall of the freezer with a loud noise, which made me tremble.
When I finally dragged him to bed, I quickly took the quilt to dry his body, stripped off his coat, and wrapped him in a dry quilt.
“The heat is killing me.”
He said again, kicking the quilt, turning around and sleeping soundly, breathing fast.
I was at a loss.
Never took care of a patient, didn’t know what to do. When
I saw him close his eyes, I quickly covered him with the quilt again, exposing only his feet, and then walked out of the bedroom. I haven’t been to the living room since the
earthquake. It was a mess. The TV fell down and crushed half of the tea table. The display cabinet leaned against the window of the living balcony. The ground was covered with unfinished dried meat and vegetables, rolling everywhere.
It’s acceptable.
I first found a pair of my shoes and put them on, then carefully picked up the TV and took out the medicine box from the deformed drawer of the TV cabinet.
Because I live alone, I have some cold medicine and anti-inflammatory medicine at home, but unfortunately, because of the previous epidemic, I can not store antipyretics at home. After a moment’s
hesitation, I took out a box of anti-inflammatory drugs, mixed some vitamins, and went back to the bedside to feed him with drinks.
Fortunately, he was a good patient and let me do it.
Having done this, I let him go to sleep, turned around and picked up buckets and basins from the ground, intending to collect some rainwater and save it.
Raindrops kept hitting the windows, making a dull sound, high and low, interwoven into one, and there was a rumbling sound in the distance, sometimes big and sometimes small, like thunder.
I rounded the obstacles on the ground and approached the balcony carefully. Just as I was about to put down the bucket and washbasin, I looked up and saw the distant scene. Suddenly, my eyes widened and my whole body stiffened. As far as the eye could see
, a huge rolling yellow dragon was advancing with an indomitable posture in the distance. The white dragon’s back was constantly surging. Wherever it passed, tall buildings collapsed, while lower buildings were constantly swallowed up and destroyed. What
I heard was not thunder at all, but the sound of a huge flood breaking down buildings.
It’s impossible. It just rained. How could there be such a big flood.
This is the mainland, and it can’t be a tsunami.
Wait, if it’s a tsunami, what about the coastal cities? My hometown, my parents.. In the coastal cities! The messages on the radio are becoming more and more formulaic
these days. Is this the cover up?
I did not dare to continue to think, but stood where I was, watching the yellow dragon approaching, stirring up bursts of thunder. How can these buildings, which have
been exposed to high temperatures and loosened by earthquakes, withstand the strong impact of floods and fall down one after another? Only a few buildings are still standing, but it is also a matter of time before they fall down.
The foot began to shake, and the flood was very close. My
legs were weak and I almost fell to the ground. I held on and went back to the bedroom.
Zhou Zhou was still asleep and seemed to know nothing about everything around him. I envied him a little.
I climbed into bed, got into bed, and hugged him tightly.
“Um..”
Zhou Zhou seemed to be woken up by me. He talked twice and turned his head to me.
At least you have company on your way to the afterlife.
Boom!
With a loud noise, like a truck colliding with a truck, the building suddenly shook, and the few remaining pieces of glass burst in an instant.
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Bang!
Knock!
Clang! In the
crash, the overhead glass lamp directly hit down, straight on the quilt. There was a screeching noise from where the
wardrobe met the wall, and then the whole bed was turned over, and I felt as if I had flown out, hit something, and been yanked back by a hand. When I
opened my eyes, Zhou Zhou grabbed my hand, his face was full of surprise, his mouth opened and closed, but his voice could not be heard at all in the loud noise.
I grabbed his hand, threw myself hard at him, and finally succeeded in returning to his arms, holding him tightly, rolling and falling in the air.
Boom!
I lost consciousness.
Perhaps only a moment, the body is still shaking, I have woken up.
The building hasn’t collapsed yet, but the outer wall is gone.
Our bodies are wrapped in quilts, Zhou Zhou’s one hand around me, the other hand in the quilt, my two hands are all under the body, unable to move. The overturned
freezer pressed down on us and made us fit tightly.
From his eyes, we can see that both of us should be very embarrassed now.
“16th floor.”
He said three words in a hoarse voice and coughed a few times.
“Our building has 33 floors, and the 16th floor is right in the middle, which is the most earthquake-proof position, the central axis of vibration, and the highest point that the local fire ladder can reach.”
I don’t know if it was the rain or the water that had been poured into the freezer that slowly soaked us.
I felt cool in my thighs and wanted to look down, but he broke his chin and kissed me.
“Stay alive, Su Ching-ching.” I was stunned by the
sudden kiss.
“We all want to live, I want to go with you to meet your parents, get a marriage certificate with you, you want to have a video link with my brothers, let me show off my girlfriend, my wife..”
He kissed me again and buried his head in my shoulder socket.
“Chou Chou, can you get up?”
I asked him.
“I can’t get up. I’m stuck.” His voice was muffled, and after a few seconds he said, “I regret it.”
“Regret for what?”
I asked.
He murmured, “If I had known that the first time I saw you open the door and fell in love with you at first sight, I should have rushed over and made love to you. I was too timid, so I was going to die and was still a virgin.” I almost laughed out loud when I
heard it, and my chest was suffocating in the shaking of my body, which made me very uncomfortable. The two of
us are really close now, and I’m almost suffocating.
“Brother, if you had made love to me at that time, I would have moved out the next day.”
“If you move away, maybe you’ll survive.”
He said quickly.
I was silent for a moment and tried to move my hands. It hurt a lot.
In fact, I also have some regrets, if I did not go back to the bedroom in the last few seconds, but stayed on the balcony, I would have been thrown out by now to drown and be beaten to death by the waves, instead of pretending to feel the arrival of death calmly here. There was more and more water in the
room, but the water outside still came in and floated under my forehead.
“Don’t move. I’ll see if I can climb out.” When I
finished, I secretly gathered strength and twisted my body.
Not as tight as the card, really started to move out, there are still some gaps. Holding back the pain of rubbing my arm against something I don’t know,
I stretched one hand out from under me, and the pressure dropped sharply. A drop of
Zhou Zhou’s sweat fell on my face, and he forced his body with one arm to match my movements.
I crawled out slowly, wriggling in the water, and finally freed my other hand, both of which came out from under him.
Knock!
Zhou Zhou fell down in the water.
“Are you all right?”
I called him quickly. When
I climbed out, I found that the water on the ground was all red.
“I can’t die.”
He also came out and wiped the water on his face.
I noticed that his other hand was twisted behind his back, which should be broken, and that there was a sharp glass fragment on his left ankle.
But I’m not much better. I don’t know what made a deep cut on the back of my right leg, and the blood is still coming out. The water level in the
room rose significantly, almost up to my ankles.
Many people shout every day that they are not afraid of death, but people’s desire for life often reaches a peak before they die. He and
I looked at each other and jumped out together tacitly, passing by the collapsed wall beside the security door and jumping up the stairs with steel bars.
Only by going up can we survive.
The adrenaline made us struggle to climb two floors and finally collapse in the corridor on the 18th floor.
Zhou Zhou took a few breaths, reached over to pull my clothes, and lifted my clothes up.
I shivered.
“What are you doing?”
Did he want to do it before he died? I don’t have the strength.
“Your thigh needs to be stanched. Take off your clothes and tie it.”
He said.
“Why not take off yours?”
“Because I’m afraid of pain.”
He pointed to the twisted arm that was still behind his back.
I thought about it, untied my shoelaces and tied them a few centimeters above the wound.
The blood is still flowing, but the flow is a little less. It should be almost dry.
The loss of blood made me feel dizzy and cold.
“Forget it, let me jump over there.”
While I still had the strength, I pointed to the window in the corridor where even the window frame was missing. Now it was like a draught, and there was always a “whirring” wind coming from inside.
“No, I have to die before you, or it will be too unpleasant to hear.”
Zhou Zhou got up, limped to the draught, then looked outside and began to cry.
“Why are you crying? We’ve been able to hold on until now, and we’ve already lived longer than many people. Maybe we don’t even have to wait in line to go to hell.”
I teased him.
He turned his head and wiped his face.
“Wife, come and see God.”
“I’m an atheist.”
I said feebly.
“No, you have to come. It’s so beautiful.”
Zhou Zhou jumped over and tried to pull me up from the ground.
I was afraid of pulling him down, so I had to stand up, and the two disabled people helped each other to lean on the draught.
The wind blew through my wet bangs.
I looked out to see if I could see the same hallucination as him, and suddenly my eyes were straight. My
eyes were wet, and my tears fell down.
I saw a flag, red, with five stars on it, one big one and four small ones around it.
There was also a blue-gray boat, and small black boats that came through the waves, with the loveliest people on board.
11.
Have you ever seen a beautiful woman for the first time? The sister opposite
me is not very tall. She has a ball head and beautiful eyes. When Xiao Chen came to do the door-to-door notice, I took a fancy to her at first sight.
Unfortunately, I am so unpromising that I didn’t dare to look too much. After listening to Xiao Chen’s notice, I quickly closed the door and began to regret it. Did
I just be rude?
Last night, I stayed up late to cut the video again. I just woke up. My hair must be like a chicken coop. It’s over. The first impression of the little sister opposite is too bad. I have to think about how to save it.
Why don’t you ask her if she needs to fix the computer? Would it be too weird to go
now?
How many more days?
…… The
temperature is ridiculously high, and there are different degrees of extreme high temperature weather all over the world.
The power went out.
So hot.
I went through the small refrigerator at home and found that there was an ice cream in it that I didn’t know how long I had kept it.
Wait Is God giving me a chance?
I took the ice cream and finally went to her door and rang the doorbell with a trembling hand.
Ding-dong — ding-dong —
I was so nervous that I was sweating like rain.
The doorbell rang for half a minute, and she opened the door a crack, wearing a T-shirt and sports shorts, and her pretty eyes were full of guard.
Ah, this.. Am I being abrupt?
“I just called the property management and said it would take another half an hour. You should be very hot. Eat an ice cream to cool down. I have a lot there. If you are hot, you can take it with me.”
I didn’t know what I was talking about, and then I regretted it.
Let you pretend! What
if she asks me for another ice cream?
“No, thank you.”
I don’t know if it was lucky or unfortunate, but she turned me down. After thinking about it,
I put the ice cream on the shelf beside her door and turned to go home.
Then he quickly threw himself on the cat’s eye.
She opened the door and accepted my ice cream!
She took it!
I’m so happy! What should I send
next? Is mineral water all right? On
such a hot day, she would not refuse water.
So happily decided, after a while, I brought her water!
Anyway, because I am not used to drinking tap water and boiled water, I hoarded a room of mineral water. This smelly problem has led me to become the current upstart of water resources. I can give her a bath if she wants to!
……
Ladies and gentlemen.. Cough, please note that our city is facing a high temperature disaster, and the solar panels in the residential area are damaged by the sun.
However, the weather did not cooperate, half an hour later, I looked at the temperature displayed on my mobile phone, combined with the words of the property, I think it is important for me to survive first, and the matter of chasing girls should be considered later. Thinking
so, I quickly packed some food and drink, grabbed the car keys, hesitated before opening the door, and put my eyes close to the cat’s eye.
Maybe.
Yeah! As expected, the little sister
across the door also packed her things to go out. I opened the door almost at the same time as her and nodded to her, showing a very reliable expression.
“Come with me. My car has a full tank.” I must be super handsome
at this time!
But why did she back off after listening?
Did I scare her?
Dry! Let you pretend, let you pretend!
I pinched myself in my mind and quickly softened my tone to tell her that I meant no harm.
Perhaps I was too sincere, and she agreed to go downstairs with me.
I walked in front, with the corner of my eye to confirm that she had been following me, unexpectedly some fantasy, oh, the husband sings with the wife.
She wanted to take the old man on the fifth floor with her, but the old man ran away.
I thought about it and decided to leave the old man a bottle of water to do good deeds together.
She got in my car, and now we’re in the same space!
Dry! I forgot to throw the fruit in the car. It’s so embarrassing.
But I know her name, her name is Fang Qing, what a lovely name.
I didn’t dare to say my name was Zhou Zhou. After thinking about it, I used my mother’s surname and told her that my name was Lu Zhou. Otherwise, I was afraid that she, like many people who heard my name, would think that I was a big man and disgusting. Do
it again! I found out that I was an idiot. The fresh air fan in the
basement stopped and the air was not circulating.
So many cars, so many air conditioners, will certainly heat up, not to mention, gasoline combustion is not sufficient, but also the accumulation of carbon monoxide, if left in the parking lot, may be poisoned at any time!
I had to climb back to the 16th floor with Fang Qing.
I’m guilty!
I made her tired! In the middle of the
break, we met Xiao Chen, who brought me a sad news. It’s
not killing the novel coronavirus.
It’s killing people. The extreme weather of
56 degrees makes me silly, so I can only let Fang Qing make his own decision.
No matter what decision she makes, I will support her.
Then she decided to go up.
She gave me the code to her house.
She invited me into her house.
Is this the house where the girls live? It smells really good, even the bathroom smells good!
Later, the high temperature became our matchmaker.
I don’t know if I should love this matchmaker.
In a word, thanks to the high temperature matchmaker for helping me end my 28 years of singleness. Please stay away from us and human beings in the future.
High temperature, earthquake, flood..
The chain of natural disasters that appeared in the summer of 2022 gradually subsided and the flood receded.
I have been healing because of my leg injury. Su Qingqing is getting better faster than me. In recent days, she has begun to participate in the post-disaster reconstruction of several communities.
I think she is so awesome that she is my wife!
My father-in-law and mother-in-law were even worse. I heard that they had donated the hilltop to the high-rise as a shelter. It was a key temporary resettlement area. Now communication has been restored, but unfortunately the traffic is inconvenient, so we can’t go to see them right away.
When this disaster is over, I must remind her to take me home to meet my parents as soon as possible, and the most important thing is to get a license, so that I can show off in front of my brothers.
Who says I’m a nerd? I’ve had a wife in more than 20 days!
I hope. Everyone is still alive.
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