High temperature and water shortage have become the most serious problem at present. After heavy rains and floods, water flow is destroyed, and water pollution and air pollution are intensified.
The high temperature in June began, and the riverbed gradually dried up. The Qingjiang River that passed through the center of Lanzhou City overflowed, collapsed, broke its embankments, and finally dried up. Now there are only shoals and swamps left. The dry river embankments are littered with corpses. In order to fight for a piece of water, There are riots happening here all the time.
Officer Song cut a piece of cactus for Ye Fu, which he brought back when he went out to look for supplies. The cactus had shriveled up, but he was as excited as if he had won a treasure. Ye Fu was grateful for Officer Song's kindness and took out a piece of cactus from the space. In return, Officer Song gave Ye Fu a bowl of sewage that he snatched from the river embankment.
Ye Fu took the cactus back to the house, and immediately took out the flowerpot and soil, and started transplanting it. Cactus is a heat-resistant plant, which can be used to save lives when there is a lack of water and food. There is no grass growing in Lancheng, and the trees on the roadside are dying during heavy rains. They are cut down by the residents and taken home to burn firewood. Otherwise, eating leaves and bark can be regarded as a way to wrap your belly.
After being hungry for a long time, people will have two states: extreme weight loss and edema. When the human body is deprived of water and salt for a long time, in addition to dizziness, tremors, weakness and fatigue, teeth and hair loss will also occur.
There are still many people going out to look for food despite the high temperature. Officer Song said that there are also many snake catching teams outside.
Staying at home during the day and going out at night has become a lifestyle pattern for survivors. The temperature at night remains high, but without direct sunlight, you don’t have to worry about getting heat stroke or sudden death due to exposure when going out.
The disadvantage is that it is easy to be robbed. Even a tall and strong man like Officer Song always comes back with injuries.
After three days at home, Officer Song brought back the news that the government had established a base in Longtan Town, 30 kilometers away from Lancheng. People who had gone to the shelter before were taken to the Longtan base by the government. It is said that the base is very large and can accommodate millions. People are controlled by the army, discipline is strict, and personal safety can be guaranteed.
As long as you bring your ID card and don't need to hand over any supplies, you can enter the Longtan base.
Officer Song was testing Ye Fu's thoughts. Unknowingly, he no longer regarded Ye Fu as a nineteen-year-old girl, but as an adult who was quick-thinking, decisive, and courageous.
Ye Fu will not go to the base, but at least he won't starve to death if he goes to the base. This is the best choice for most people.
Ye Fu didn't go to the base in her last life, but she knew a lot about the base.
Although it is officially established and controlled by the army, there are still factional disputes. In order to compete for control of the base, the aristocratic families work together to keep warm. They are in a tripartite relationship with the government and the army, and they check and balance each other.
Rich families, even in the last days, still hold the best resources in their hands.
This is only the negative part. Everything has two sides. At least from the positive point of view, the base is at least a safe haven, and as long as you work hard, you can survive in the base.
After entering the base, as long as you obey the arrangements of the base and do things, you can not only get food and beds, but also receive clothes and medicines.
"I won't go." Ye Fu didn't hide anything from him.
Officer Song received Ye Fu's answer and already had an idea in his mind.
The base is a small society. Although there are controls, it is a mixed bag of good and bad people. If he takes Wenwen with him, he is afraid that there will be greater danger and trouble.
"Wenwen and I don't plan to go either. I heard that men and women are managed separately there. If Wenwen is separated from me, I can't imagine the consequences."
Wenwen has been a little autistic since she suffered some frights. Although she has temporarily lost her voice, her situation is indeed not suitable for going to the base.
Two days later, Officer Song came back from fetching water and told Ye Fu that many people had left in the past few days. The three women in Building E also went to the base, and the two children were thrown away as oil bottles.
At night, Ye Fu saw Officer Song taking the two children out to fetch water. It was almost dawn before they limped back.
Ye Fu has not been out for many days. The cactus planting was successful. Ye Fu did not expect that she still has the talent for farming. When there is a chance in the future, she can find a suitable place, circle a piece of land, build a house, and grow some fruits.
Vegetables, raising a few chickens, ducks and geese, it’s not bad to be self-sufficient like this.
Two days later, two children from Building E moved to Building D and lived on the 12th floor.
After Ye Fu was introduced by Officer Song, Ye Fu also knew their names and ages.
He Rui, ten years old.
Zhang Yuan, eleven years old.
As for why they fell into the hands of those people and what they experienced? These are no longer important.
Ye Fu had no objection or support for Officer Song's actions. Most of the time, she didn't go out and rarely met the two of them. They were also very well-behaved. Even when they went up and downstairs and passed Ye Fu's door, they would go out of their way to be gentle.
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When the temperature rises to 49°C, you can't go out at night. The heat wave blows on your body and you will feel a burning sensation. People who set out to the base will faint from exhaustion after walking for half an hour or an hour. Heat stroke will cause them to collapse.
On the ground, he could never get up again.
The white sky has changed color, and large swathes of red clouds are moving and gathering. The red and black sky always feels like it is about to drip blood.
Ye Fu stood on the balcony, the ice water in his hand could not suppress the irritation in his heart. The little snake that had just emerged downstairs was burned to death by the hot ground in just a few seconds.
He Rui and Zhang Yuan would go out every evening to pick up overheated snakes. They did not dare to leave the community, so they rummaged through several buildings.
In order to prevent the snake meat from rotting, they made the snake into dried meat after picking it up.
In mid-August, two hot blisters appeared on Ye Fu's lips. She had not eaten meat for half a month and only had plain cabbage every day. Unexpectedly, she still developed a fever and internal heat.
I made a pot of herbal tea and drank it for two days, but the anger didn't go away, and instead I started to have nosebleeds.
Others were not much better, suffering from heatstroke, nosebleeds, heat blisters, vomiting, convulsions, cold hands and feet, and mild hypothermia in turn.
There were only five people in the building now, and Ye Fu would not wait until death to save her. The whole day, her hand for inserting the acupuncture was shaking.
Fortunately, everyone survived. The feeling of dying was so painful, as if there were hands forcefully tearing the soul out of the body. You were fighting against it, like a tug-of-war. Once you failed, it meant complete death.
Spontaneous combustion caused by high temperatures occurs frequently. Thick smoke billows from high-rise buildings not far away. The pungent burning smell can be smelled from a few streets away. After the explosion of the chemical furnace in the factory, thick smoke spread everywhere, and the sky returned to gray.
Look.
This chapter has been completed!