Infinite Disaster Survival

Many people on the Internet were paying attention to the progress of the fire, and some people who knew Wen Zheng but didn't know that they were back in the village opened the phone to express their concern. After Wen Zheng received this wave of concern, the latest news was that the fire had been put out and the firefighters were safe, but there were still a few residents who failed to escape successfully, and the building became a dangerous building that could not be lived in.

The government would definitely deal with such a serious accident as soon as possible. Wen Zheng sighed a few times and closed the relevant website. The few reports he submitted when he left the city did not attract attention, at least they had not been dealt with before the accident.

The recent high temperature has become a hot topic for everyone to discuss. Some areas with high temperatures can now fry eggs on the street. Wen Zheng opened several popular online communication platforms that he had recently registered and posted a latest topic, how to survive in extremely high temperatures.

Wen Zheng did not directly predict the situation in the next three years. Everyone who saw the post would only think that it referred to the recent temperature, and that extreme was just an exaggeration. Starting with the fire hazards that are easily induced by high temperatures in summer, in addition to the content mentioned in the title, Wen Zheng also added a comparison of temperatures in recent years at the beginning of the article. Sometimes the difference cannot be seen without comparison.

The content published by newly registered accounts often does not receive much attention. Wen Zheng does not care at all. The next day, in addition to popular science content, he continued to update with the assumption that how to prepare before the extremely high temperature doomsday comes. It erased fantasy factors such as space rings and described it in the third person, which is more like a doomsday novel.

It is published for free on different platforms and updated regularly every day. Gradually, many people began to follow the updates of this novel and discussed it enthusiastically below. Wen Zheng also received several rewards, which can be regarded as extra income.

The cause of the fire was investigated clearly within a few days. Several leaders of the city were replaced. After the new leaders took office, they immediately carried out a city-wide fire hazard investigation. The village probably received the notice. Several village cadres asked someone to drive a car with a recorded loud speaker and go around the village a few times a day. Not many villagers cared about this. Finally, Tuantuan took the children in the village to conduct a village-wide investigation.

After listening to Tuantuan's explanation, the children went home and learned to tell their parents. They spoke very clearly. Most parents let them do what they wanted. A few people pointed their spears at Tuantuan. When they found that they could not take advantage of Tuantuan at all, they didn't care. It was better than the children making trouble at home.

Tuantuan took the children in the village to learn and train slowly. Wen Zheng secretly prepared at home besides writing posts.

He ordered water storage barrels from different stores on the Internet. The place of harvest was still the warehouse rented in advance. When he took the different subjects of the driver's license test several times later, he put these water storage barrels into the space and poured drinking water into it one after another.

Wen Zheng was able to pass the driving test smoothly every time. He basically took a test every one or two weeks. Finally, he got his driver's license smoothly, and he bought a second-hand small truck. He was not going to travel long distances, so a second-hand vehicle was enough.

In the future, he would drive the truck to buy things, and he could turn on the air conditioner to prevent sun exposure, and he could also conceal the existence of space. Renting a warehouse every time was not only troublesome but also an extra expense.

The second-hand car he bought was not cleaned much. After Wen Zheng drove back and passed the village committee, he happened to see the village electrician Yuan Hongwei. He slowed down and stopped the car and opened the window: "Brother Yuan, is it time to pay the electricity bill for the past six months?"

"Wen Zheng, when did you learn to drive? Is this car new?" Yuan Hongwei was riding an electric bike and was about to get off work. He looked up and paid attention to Wen Zheng's driving.

"Brother Yuan, come up and talk. It's just right to go to my house to check the electricity meter." Wen Zheng unlocked the car door as he said, and Yuan Hongwei got in the car naturally. He spent a few minutes asking about the car purchase. Wen Zheng, who answered every question, completely satisfied his curiosity.

After getting off the bus, Yuan Hongwei found the electric meter on the wall of Wen Zheng's house with satisfaction. Every family in the village has an electric meter, which does not show the balance of electricity bills, but only the amount of electricity consumed. Yuan Hongwei recorded the numbers on it, subtracted them from the data six months ago, and then calculated the fees that Wen Zheng needed to pay according to the electricity fee standards in the village.

The electricity bills in the village are paid every six months, and each payment is the electricity bill consumed in the previous six months. The electricity fee standards in the village are naturally very low. Wen Zheng has just returned for a month or two, but in fact, he has been turning on the air conditioner every day during this period of time, and he cannot stop it at night. In addition to other high-power electrical appliances, the final electricity bill is more than twice that of previous years.

"I will transfer it to you with my mobile phone." Wen Zheng knew that he had indeed consumed a lot of electricity after returning. Although Yuan Hongwei would do something with the electric meter according to his previous actions, he usually would not go too far, so he simply transferred the money back.

Yuan Hongwei took the money with a bit of surprise, and complained to Wen Zheng: "It would be great if every household was as easy to talk to as you. When I went to collect electricity bills these past two days, every household's face changed after hearing the charges. I had to go several more times to collect the money owed to those who didn't pay. It was so hot today that I didn't feel like moving."

The electricity bill collection overshadowed Wen Zheng's car purchase and became a topic of discussion in every household. Many elderly people felt distressed when they heard about the electricity bills they needed to pay. They didn't make much money from growing crops in a year, and paying electricity bills twice would cost a lot of money. When the elderly chatted, they asked each other about the electricity bills they needed to pay, thinking about how to save a little. Some people privately suspected that there was something wrong with the electricity bills, and even planned to find time to go to the town to complain.

When talking about these topics, they avoided the children, fearing that the children would let Yuan Hongwei know about it. Wen Zheng studied the purchase of solar generators and didn't go out much.

As a result, at about six o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the mobile phone that Wen Zheng bought for Tuantuan after he came to this world rang. There was no note on the phone number. When it was connected, a child shouted a little confusedly: "Big brother, my grandfather said that my great grandfather and great grandmother are dying, and asked me to call someone quickly." Then the first thing the child thought of was Tuantuan's number.

Tuantuan immediately recognized that this was one of the younger brothers he had taken in in the village. The situation near the other party's home immediately came to his mind, and he asked about the situation there without stopping. Wen Zheng, who was sitting not far away, immediately called Dr. Liang in the village clinic after hearing the content of the phone call. Instead of letting the child who knew nothing call the doctor again, it was better for Tuantuan to ask clearly and then Wen Zheng to relay it to the doctor.

The child's description was not very accurate, but Tuantuan knew how to ask. When he asked about the physical condition of the uncle next door, people who knew some relevant knowledge knew that it might be a little too late to find out. Dr. Liang still ran out of the door with the first aid kit.

After Wen Zheng and Tuantuan hung up the phone, they also went out to check the situation. If they could get there in time, they might be able to save the person. The heat wave was coming, and the scorching sun made it difficult to open my eyes. The vehicles parked in the aisle avoided the direct sunlight, but it was still so hot that it made people a little breathless.

When the air conditioner in the car started to work, the vehicle arrived at the destination. Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan, who had taken the physical enhancer, were sweating profusely.

The door of the house where the accident happened was full of people. Dr. Liang, who was close, came out of the house and shook his head. When he went in, the old couple in the house had passed away. There was no need to send them to the hospital for emergency treatment. The crowd waiting for the result at the door heard crying.

The children of the deceased old couple all lived in other places. They would only bring their grandchildren back to the village during the Spring Festival, so the two of them were left behind in the village.

According to the grandfather of the child who called Tuan Tuan, he came here just to chat with someone. In the village, as long as there was someone at home, the door would not be locked. He pushed the door open and shouted twice, but no one answered. He originally thought that the grandson was still taking a nap and was about to go back, but the little grandson suddenly said that the air conditioner outdoor unit of this house was not thinking, and he felt something was wrong.

When I ran into the room, I found that the air conditioner had been turned off. The whole house was still closed like a steamer. The old man and the old aunt were already unconscious in the house. The old man in his sixties sat on the ground with tears streaming down his face, regretting that he found out too late: "He was fine when we met in the morning. How could he die in less than a day? Brother and sister-in-law, how could you bear to leave your children..."

Sad as it was, the funeral of the two elderly people still needed to be handled. The village cadres got the news and rushed over. First, they notified the police station in the town to come and investigate why the air conditioner was not turned on. Then they notified the direct relatives of the two elderly people who lived outside the city. The other younger relatives who stayed in the village dressed the elderly first, and then contacted the town to quickly deliver the ice coffin.

The temperature was too high, and the temperature inside the closed house was even higher. The bodies of the two elderly people had already smelled bad, and they could not stay in the ice coffin for too long. After confirming that the air conditioner was not damaged, combined with the two elderly people's distress about the electricity bill in recent days, the final conclusion was that the elderly wanted to save some electricity, so they turned off the air conditioner at about five o'clock. They didn't want the cool air to get out, so they didn't open the doors and windows. However, when the temperature rose to a certain level, the closed door accelerated the continued rise in the room temperature.

The two elderly people have suffered a lot since they were young. Their bodies were not strong to begin with. In the end, they woke up from the heat in their sleep, but they were weak because of mild heatstroke and failed to call for help. This can be inferred from the situation inside the house.

The same situation not only occurred in Dongxi Village. In recent times, there have been several cases of heatstroke deaths in the county. Some of them were people who ran outside in hot weather, some were lonely elderly people and people with mental problems who were not taken care of by anyone, and there was also the tragedy caused by Dongxi Village to save electricity. There are more cases of drowning in order to cool off.

When the police left, they had a good communication with the village cadres and educated the villagers on summer heatstroke prevention and drowning prevention. These were all said in the loudspeakers that traveled around the village every day. Even though the village cadres in charge of propaganda and education stayed in the car most of the time, their skin was still two degrees darker. However, no matter how much propaganda was spread in the loudspeakers, it was not as alarming as the real tragedy in front of them.

The children in the village followed Tuantuan and stayed away from any dangerous waters. I thought the elderly would know the seriousness of the problem, but there was an oversight.

After confirming the cause of death, they waited for the elderly's children to come back two days later. They no longer paid too much attention to customs and buried the elderly in the cemetery on the side of the mountain in the village. Burial cannot be promoted in the village in a short time. Burial is the custom that the elderly can accept. The temperature was still a little high on the day of the burial. After discussion, the elderly and children did not participate. All the participants were strong middle-aged people.

During the days of preparing for the funeral, Wen Zheng went to the mountainside to select a good place to look. No one had cleaned up the area, and there were many pine trees planted. The ground was covered with weeds. After this period of time, it gradually dried up in the sun. If it encountered a spark, it would definitely be a big fire.

Wen Zheng took Tuantuan to the village committee to explain the fire hazard this time. The village cadres dared not take it lightly. If a fire really happened, they dared not imagine the consequences. A group of people immediately ran to communicate with the elderly’s family. At first, the family proposed to use cement to build a special area for burning paper, and then they would clean up the surrounding weeds. The village cadres refused on the grounds that it was not safe enough, but finally nodded in agreement.

As a result, the elderly in the village were not happy after hearing about it. The village chief Wen Yanan first gave a lecture as the village chief, and then he presented the facts and reasoned in a good voice. In the end, he was worried that he would watch the whole process of the burial. Sure enough, he found the firecrackers and yellow paper that were secretly brought. Fortunately, they were not ignited when they found them, so they were quickly taken away.

"If you want to be filial, why don't you pay more attention to them when they are alive? If you really care about your parents, you can call them more often to show your concern and give them more money. They won't suffer for saving electricity bills. Now it's too late to pay attention to formalities. I tell you, it's too late!" The village chief didn't dare to say anything too harsh to the elders, but he dared to scold these younger generations.

The whole process was watched very carefully. After the funeral procession went down the mountain, the village cadres stayed on the mountain to guard it. They waited until the sun gradually rose and the temperature was so high that people felt uncomfortable outdoors before going down the mountain.

In the next few days, when I drove around the village to promote education, I ran to the road up the mountain after a while. As a result, I really met the old man's son on the road up the mountain. The car immediately drove over and blocked the road.

"Village chief, I really didn't think about going up the mountain to burn paper. It's just that my parents are gone and I feel sad. I want to go up and talk to them." The man quickly explained, with his hands open and he wanted to turn around a few times in place, just to prove that he didn't take anything when he went up the mountain this time.

At this moment, he saw the black smoke coming out of the mountain, and suddenly he became stammering: "Smoke, smoke, it seems that there is a real fire over there, village chief, this is really not my fault, I was caught by you before I even went up the mountain."

The village cadres who stayed in the car quickly looked back, but they saw black smoke appearing in the sky on the top of the mountain. However, they were calmer than the men who went up the mountain despite their panic, and observed with their eyes: "The place where the black smoke came out does not look like our village, it seems to be the Xiliu Village next door."

"Don't care which village's territory it is, go over and check the situation quickly, and call for help to see if the fire can be put out!" The village chief shouted anxiously. If they really left it alone, it might burn to their village.