Chapter 202 High Temperature
[Only released by Jinjiang Literature City]
On the third day of the car, four-fifths away from the destination.
Outdoor temperature: 30 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, the outdoor body feels a little hot. Because the armored vehicle is isolated, the temperature inside the car has not risen all of a sudden.
It was noon, and the two people in the cars contacted and discussed it. After twenty minutes, they stopped in a slightly higher open space.
The direction about two hundred meters to the left of this high ground is a former death penalty area: the Red Lotus area of the Earth-breaking Red Lotus.
The once lush trees on the high ground have now turned into bare branches. Through these branches, you can clearly see the entire death penalty area. This is also the first time You Xi has witnessed the Red Lotus after death with his own eyes.
The huge red "petals" broke in the gray fog, and were cut by the ice blade again, and finally covered by ice and snow.
Now that the ice and snow have melted, the "petals" of the slags have been exposed to the sun again, and the bright blood red, shriveled and charred, like the residue after the burning of wood.
Along the way, in addition to such red lotus residue, you can also see other strangely shaped dark red fragments, which are the appearance of the blood bubble being cut and frozen by the ice blade and now being thawed in the sun. Some of them can vaguely see the appearance of fingers or faces, and just a glance can make people feel extremely physically uncomfortable.
Everyone who was originally happy because of the rising temperature, calmed down again after seeing more and more "fragments".
And they soon discovered that the temperature was rising all the way at a completely abnormal speed.
Everyone took off their cold clothes, and then there were cashmere clothes that were added with velvet and kept warm. Now everyone in the car is wearing thin single clothes, but because the airtight carriage still feels stuffy, it is rare to find a cleaner high ground. Everyone wants to get off the car and get some air.
You Xi used a walkie-talkie to communicate with the car in front of her, saying that she had an instrument here that could test the air quality. She would get off the car later to check the air, and then others would get off.
"Are you afraid...there is a virus in the air?" The person driving at this moment was Heimu. After he stopped the car, he did not turn off the car as Yu Xi told him, and continued to drive the air filter device in the car.
You Xi's armored car was all in her own people. In addition to her and Xingmin, there were four others, Hei Mu, and Cheng Fang, five people, Yin Yin and his family were all in the car in front.
"Hopefully," You Xi took out a dozen n95 masks from her backpack. Because she was about to get out of the car, and once the door opened, the outside air would no longer flow directly into the car through the air filter device on the car, so everyone still needs to wear a mask temporarily.
When she gets out of the car, the door is closed again, and after the air filter is running for a while, the air in the car will return to normal.
Jian Shou climbed by the window and looked at the outside world: "It should be fine. If the temperature is maintained at 5 or 6 degrees in the morning, and after the ice and snow melt into water, after a long time, the corpses soaked in the water may breed and spread various bacteria and viruses, but that is also a matter of many days later. Now, the temperature rises too fast, and all the water has been evaporated by the sun."
You Xi nodded, and she also agreed with this statement, but she has an air detector from the world of Acid Rain, which is small, convenient and fast, so she can check it out casually.
After a while, she knocked on the car window, indicating that there was no problem with the air quality.
Everyone in both cars got out of the car. There was no barrier between the car body, and the hot sunlight directly fell on everyone. This hot feeling made everyone feel uncomfortable.
"It's so scary. Yesterday we were still wrapped in down jackets and huddled in the car because the snow was too heavy and I couldn't even see the road clearly. But in just 24 hours, the temperature rose from more than 20 degrees below zero to thirty degrees!"
While sighing, Cheng Fang took several team members to wear protective tools, then went to the nearby dead tree, took some samples from the blood bubbles that could not be distinguished from the parts, and put them in the insulation isolation bottle, preparing to take them back to the headquarters.
This time he was in the mountain shelter, he participated in a meeting of the scientific research group.
Most of the scientific researchers at the meeting came with the resort team. They came up with relatively comprehensive research data. After the data summary and discussion, professional scientific researchers devoted themselves to the experiment again and finally came to the conclusion.
The debris of flesh and blood tissue that had lost its activity in the ice blade did not completely die at low temperatures, but entered a state of self-protection and false death.
This cellular tissue enters the human body through an ice blade wound and merges into the blood, which causes it to wake up and mutate again and parasitic is the human body's emotions.
The injured person cannot get angry, roaring fiercely, anger and other hysterical ups and downs will cause the cell remains that have been integrated into the blood to mutate at an accelerated rate and assimilate the flesh and blood.
The remains of the red lotus cell that were originally entering a state of false death in order to avoid low temperatures will be completely revived. They use the human body as a breeding ground and reproduce and evolve rapidly.
This parasitic state has the same part and different parts as the state of the blood vesicular human.
It's like an indestructible virus. Every extreme weather just changes its existence form, but it cannot be eradicated.
Now the low temperature and ice blade climate seem to be over. They don’t know what changes will happen to this software tissue that has not been parasitic and has been parasitic in the future, so when they see it, they collect information in time and provide the headquarters with an additional research sample.
"Mom, it's so warm. Is summer here?" Yin Yin didn't understand the terrible rise in temperature. She just felt that her whole body was warm and sunbathed, and the sky covered by gray fog and clouds finally revealed again. It was the same blue as in memory. She felt very happy.
Yinyin's mother hugged her and tried to stay away from the bloody corpses in the dead woods. Yinyin's father stood aside to block them and gently touched her daughter's little face.
The food in the mountain shelter area is good. Although they have been staying in the armored vehicles these days, Cheng Fang has prepared a lot of supplies. Yin Yin has had three meals a day on time. Her originally hungry and thin little face has grown a little meat.
Yin Yin's father was extremely grateful to everyone who could bring his family of three in times of crisis. He knew that the other party was all capable. Before the end of the world, he was just a technical worker, without assets or background. The reason why the whole family was safe at this moment was because of the other party's kindness.
So along the way, he was very active in doing all the work he could, such as driving, trying to drive a night train all night, and said that he would not have to take turns to replace the shift, he could do it himself.
After all, when encountering danger, other team members have to deal with it. He hopes that they can rest well.
Yin Yin's mother took care of all the trivial matters of cleaning up the carriage. After all, for several days and nights, eating, drinking, and urinating are all in the carriage. Although the interior space is large, if you don't clean up and sort it out in time, it will soon become dirty and messy.
Yin Yin became even more obedient. After seeing all kinds of fierce and wanton human natures, the warriors and uncles who were always with them were very kind and kind people.
She likes each of them and cherishes such a friendly environment very much. So she happily follows her mother every day and helps everyone organize and hand over the hot rice.
After touching his daughter's face, Yin Yin's father immediately stepped forward to ask You Xi, saying that there was a batch of folded solar panels in the supply box on the car. When he modified the car, he had not installed it yet because he was considering the ice blade climate. However, in the idea of being prepared for any incidents, he still packed the boards.
The temperature is now rising. If you install it on the car, you can rely on solar panels for electricity in the car, so that all of them will not consume crystal fuel.
You Xi didn't expect Yin Yin's father to be so careful. When she was renovating an armored vehicle in the mountain shelter area, she relied on Cheng Fang to collect about three boxes of crystalline fuel (more than 300 pieces) into the fuel warehouse again, just to make the transfer trip more comfortable and not to save electricity in order to save some fuel.
However, now that the low temperature is over, this batch of solar panels can obviously play a greater role.
So on that day, after eating the instant dry food bag, the crowd helped Yin Yin's father to install folding solar panels on the two armored vehicles.
After three or four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone who was sweating profusely because of the installation of solar panels ended their work. They got into the carriage, wiped their bodies with water, drank water to replenish water, and set off again.
It was still Cheng Fang's car driving the way forward, and You Xi and Xingmin's cars followed behind.
As soon as the car door was closed, the armored vehicle seemed to have become a "suspended villa" for the six of them again. The car was not big, but it had a fixed metal bed and a shower bathroom. You Xi did not hide it anymore and took out six bottles of iced drinks from the Star House Warehouse and sent them to everyone who was still sweating.
The driver changed to Xingmin again. You Xi personally handed him the drink and placed a large ice bowl of watermelon, pineapple, cantaloupe, apple, fruit cuts, and even the fruit forks used to eat fruits were ready.
Such special preferential treatment made Xi Yuan, who was sitting in the passenger seat to help check the road conditions, a little jealous. However, after getting along in the closed carriage these few days, he felt that he was a little used to it, not to mention that You Xi was not bad for others - as long as someone was willing to speak.
"Youxi, I'm a little hungry and want to eat sea salt bread." The sea salt bread he mentioned was one of the foods that everyone made in his own hands when they were in the villa. Cut the sea salt bread made by Heimu, put it in it and slice it with lettuce and tomatoes, then add fragrant scrambled scrambled eggs, and finally seal it with plastic wrap. Take it out when you are hungry and can be eaten at any time, and it is also nutritious.
You Xi nodded, and the next moment, she handed over a sea salt bread with a slight heat.
Xi Yuan reached out his hand happily, and took it and stroked her fingertips intentionally or unintentionally. The slight touch made him feel numb.
He watched You Xi turn around and walk to the figure of the car behind him, letting his heart beat wildly in his chest.
When his eyes were withdrawn, he saw Xingmin glancing at his sight, bringing a little coldness to the point of seeing everything.
Xi Yuan didn't care. He didn't know whether he cared or loved. As long as it came from her, even if it was asked for it, it would be better than being ignored.
Heimu was counting items in the carriage where the supplies boxes were placed, which was what he had to do every day. He focused on pure water. As the temperature rose, in his opinion, water would become the most in short supply in the future.
He knew that Youxi had an invisible place where he could carry supplies with him, but he didn't know if Youxi had any water stored and how much it had stored.
He was always cautious. He thought of water use as soon as the outside heated up, so he wanted to count it and then plan the daily water use according to the remaining driving time.
As a result, he was still planning here. You Xi came over and said that it was too hot today. Everyone was busy for another afternoon and sweating. The smell in the car was a little bad at the moment. I wanted everyone to take turns taking a shower before dinner.
Hei Mu:...
He first lowered his head and smelled himself, then looked at the four and five boxes of bottled water in front of him: "Master, if you really mind we can use perfume."
"...What perfume is used?" You Xi held his forehead, "The modified water tank on the car has 100l, and a simple shower is enough."
She said, hinting again, "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, the water tank in the car will not be bottomed out. Although it's impossible for everyone to take a shower every day, it's still enough to clean yourself every few days."
After she finished speaking, she took out their own short-sleeved trousers and short-sleeved T-shirts for changing clothes, then took out their own short-sleeved trousers and placed them aside, and took the lead in the bathroom.
That night, the car did not stop, and everyone took turns driving, rushing non-stop.
The ground cracks and ice blades destroyed the road very seriously, making the route of their car trips to the headquarters particularly twists and turns.
The next day, it was still a beautiful day with clear sky. When parking and dining at noon, Cheng Fang sighed, saying that if there was no rebellion, they could just stay in the mountain shelter for a few more days and use a low-altitude levitation vehicle to take the air route back to the headquarters.
In such clear weather, the low-altitude hover truck can go straight back to the headquarters and can reach it in just one day.
Unlike now, I am in an awkward position without moving forward or backward, so I can only continue on the road.
There is a low-altitude vehicle in Youxi's transportation space, but it is limited to carrying seven people, so it is not enough to take it out. What's more, the supplies are scarce now, and these two armored vehicles have spent a lot of accessories and effort to modify them. They can't be left in the wilderness, right?
"Actually, there is no way." Yan Shang, who had always been talking less, spoke slowly, "I should pass through other troops' shelters when I return to the headquarters here. There must be low-altitude vehicles in the shelter. We can change armored vehicles there to low-altitude vehicles. With the current weather conditions, driving a low-altitude vehicle can only take half a day to return to the headquarters."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was silent for a moment.
Especially Cheng Fang, he was completely stunned for a while. This idea was not difficult to think about, but everyone's thoughts were limited before and they didn't think about it for a while.
Cheng Fang immediately pulled out the stretched screen of his mobile phone, logged into his military account, and began to query the nearby known military shelter areas.
Twenty kilometers away from them at nine o'clock, there is a military shelter, which is the edge of the 18 city area and a large supermarket area. It is fortunate to survive the Red Lotus disaster. Because there are abundant supplies and several underground parking lots to take shelter, it has become a small military shelter area.
However, after several disasters, I don’t know what the current situation is.
Cheng Fang used the car contactor to call the other party, but there was no response from the other end until he was about to give up, and a sound came from the contactor.
He briefly explained his identity, of course he did not explain his escort mission, and only asked whether the other party could exchange two modified armored vehicles for two low-altitude vehicles.
The other end of the other party seemed to be asking and discussing, and after a moment, the other party sent a positive reply.
"Thank you!" Cheng Fang was extremely happy.
At 2:00 p.m., everyone who had finished rest returned to the car, reset the itinerary, and headed towards the supermarket shelter area twenty kilometers away.
Chapter completed!