Ye Fu made many delicacies using pumpkins. Pumpkin cake was her favorite. Jiang Run's favorite was pumpkin sweet soup. Ye Fu found that Jiang Run seemed to like sweets.
In the past two days, the temperature has risen by another degree, and the days have lengthened by two hours. It will get dark at 11pm and light up at 3am.
The residents who had exchanged pumpkin seedlings with Ye Fu before had also begun to have a big harvest. Everyone's cellars were full. With the food, everyone felt more at ease.
Wan Tao and his men were cutting down trees. He found a man who was a car designer before the apocalypse, exchanged some simple drawings of large carts with him, and led everyone to start making the cart.
Ye Fu knew that they were worried that once the stored water was used up, everyone would have to leave here and find a habitat elsewhere.
But how to leave and get on the road when the temperature is over 50 degrees?
The nights are getting shorter, and Ye Fu is worried that the sun will appear.
In the fourth year of the apocalypse, she crossed off the time on her calendar, got up, walked to the window, and looked outside.
"Are you worried lately?" Jiang Run came up behind her.
"I always feel that it may not be long before the night disappears."
"If the night disappears and the temperature continues to rise, people will not be able to go out. After eating all the food and drinking all the water, will there be a way to survive?"
"It hasn't rained in two years."
"Don't worry, there will always be a turn for the better." After Jiang Chong finished speaking, he patted Ye Fu's head soothingly.
Ye Fu looked back at him, "I want to soak in water again."
After saying that, she went directly into the bathroom, filled the tub with cold water, and put in a few pieces of ice.
Ye Fu lay down and entered the bathtub. The heat on her body disappeared instantly. In the past few days, the skin on her body began to peel and crack. She applied thick moisturizing cream to no avail. The cracked skin was itchy and painful. She could only soak in it.
She will feel more comfortable when she is in ice water.
Half an hour later, she still didn't go out. Jiang Run knocked on the bathroom door. Ye Fu looked at his red skin, hunched his shoulders and came out of the water, and applied a thick layer of moisturizing cream on himself.
Ye Fu's hair almost reaches her waist. Because she has a lot of hair, she can only braid it into braids to prevent it from getting tangled.
After walking out of the bathroom, Jiang Rong took a towel to help her dry her hair. Ye Fu was dangling, so Jiang Rong had no choice but to hold down her shoulders.
"do not move."
"I'm just a fish out of water right now."
Ye Fu asked Jiang Run to look at her arm. The skin was red and very chapped from being scratched.
"Then you can't keep soaking in ice water."
"Every time when disasters alternate, I will have various problems with my body, either getting sick or vomiting blood. It's the same this time."
"Ye Fu, let's dig a cellar too, a cellar where people can live."
Ye Fu looked up at him, "You mean, if Ji Zhou comes, just hide in the cellar?"
"Well, with the continuous high temperature, the sun is getting more and more dazzling. Long-term exposure to the sun will make your skin and eyes unbearable. As the sunshine lengthens, people's lifespan will also be shortened."
Ye Fu sighed, "That's all we can do. Let's go talk to Brother Song and the others tonight and let them make preparations in advance."
"good."
After eleven o'clock in the evening, the two went to the earthen house. After finding Officer Song, Ye Fu told him that there was something important. Officer Song asked Wenwen to call someone. Soon, Qi Yuan, Fang Wei, Lin Siran, and Yu
Chao, Wan Tao, He Rui, Zhangyuan, Fang Ming and others all came.
"Jiang Run and I came here tonight to tell you something. You may have noticed that the days are getting longer and the nights are getting shorter. I'm worried that it will be the end of the day in a while. As the name suggests, there is only daytime.
, there is no night, and the high temperature continues, the sun becomes more and more dazzling, and the human body simply cannot bear it."
Officer Song nodded, "I also noticed that my eyes have been hurting for the past few days, and I shed tears for no apparent reason. The skin is chapped, and blood starts to ooze from the cracked areas."
"I have other discoveries." Lin Siran suddenly said.
"I went out to dig mushrooms these days, and I found that the color of many people's hair has changed. After long-term exposure to the sun, the hair begins to wither and turn white. And not all of them turn yellow or white, but some are yellow and some are white."
Ye Fu nodded, "Yes, these are the sequelae of high temperature."
"Then what should we do?" Wan Tao was already worried, but now he looks even more worried.
"We recommend living in a cellar. It's cooler inside a cellar, so it might be better to live there."
Qi Yuan suddenly patted his head, "If I had known earlier, I would have dug a bigger cellar."
"It can be expanded a bit, so everyone should prepare as early as possible. Remember to leave more vents and save more water. It will be more difficult when it rains in the future."
Everyone was sighing, and Ye Fu continued, "I still have some kerosene here, and I will give some to everyone. Also, if you live in a cellar, you should come out to see the light often. If you don't see the sun for a long time, your eyes may go blind."
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Ye Fu took out a plastic bottle with kerosene in it.
"I trust Ye Fu's judgment. I will clean up the cellar when I get back and expand it some more."
"Me too, but my cellar is quite big, so it should be enough."
Naturally, we have to inform other people about this matter. Now that there are fewer and fewer people, it is not easy to survive.
When he got home, Ye Fu gathered the remaining crooked melons and cracked dates in the field. The chayote vines had withered, and Ye Fu also picked more than a dozen hanging on them.
"Where do we dig the cellar?"
"Under the pumpkin patch, the soil there is firmer."
There are many digging tools in Ye Fu's space, and digging a cellar is not a difficult task for two people.
"Will the wooden house be put away?"
"Lock the doors and windows and leave them up there, or wait until the end of the day and then move them back into the space."
Then the things in the wooden house cannot be left in it, and what needs to be put away must be put away.
The two chose a place and started digging. Ye Fu was now much stronger, so digging was relatively easy.
The next night, Officer Song and Qi Yuan came over with hoes to help.
More than ten people dug for three days and nights, and the cellar was ready.
Ye Fu walked around inside. The cellar was very spacious and had two vents. It was not depressing at all and it was very cool.
The cellar was still a little damp, so the two of them were not in a hurry to move in. While the night was still dark, everyone not only dug the cellar, but also worked hard to dig mushrooms.
It would be nice to be able to store more, and some people started to cut down trees to stockpile wood and dry grass. The dry grass can be spread in the cellar, which not only prevents moisture, but can also be slept on.
Looking back now, everyone is very grateful to Wan Tao and the others. They organized everyone to dig cellars to store food and water. When the critical moment came, everyone did not panic.
However, unknown natural disasters are still full of fear for everyone. The scary thing is not that the natural disaster will come, but that we don't know when it will stop.
This chapter has been completed!