Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

On the third day after the black fog was successfully suppressed, the base officially announced that the beast tide suppression mission had been successfully completed. The base station and the first executive director personally sent a letter to express their gratitude to the soldiers who had been dispatched on this mission.

After the beast tide suppression operation is over, the guard team members who participated in the operation will have vacation days ranging from seven days to half a month.

Therefore, Xu Qingzhi, who stayed in the villa during this period, directly participated in the volunteer action. There were still some mutant beasts remaining in the base and they needed to use Xu Qingzhi's mental power to find their nests, and with the help of some core members of the Self-Defense Forces, they would be caught in one fell swoop.

Xu Qingzhi was full of energy. After all, he had been stuck alone in the big villa for nearly twenty days. Although the villa area was not affected by the black fog and there was no power outage or water outage, he could still sleep in the bedroom with the air conditioner at 23 degrees even in hot weather. How many people outside had thought about such a life, but he felt bored and was about to go crazy.

The main force finally returned. When Xu Qingzhi heard that a group of people were needed to carry out the finishing work, he signed up without thinking twice. Even though the daily salary was only one-third of what he had received during the previous mission, he still enjoyed it.

Liu Hun was biting a tasteless apple in his mouth. He looked at Xu Qingzhi's back as he hurried out the door and sneered, "What's the big deal about this kid? He rushed out so hurriedly so early in the morning. If you don't know, you would think he can make a lot of money by going out." Then he turned around and went back. It was because the weather outside was too hot. He just walked around on the balcony for a while and immediately broke into a sweat.

Ye Ziqiu, who was standing behind him, was even more afraid of the heat, and immediately frowned impatiently, "Hurry up and close the balcony door. The air conditioner is on here, and the temperature has just dropped for a while. When you open the door like this, the heat is coming in directly."

Liu Hun was a little afraid of Ye Ziqiu's bad temper. The main reason was that in addition to her bad temper, this girl seemed to have a somewhat resistant attitude towards men. When the team was first formed, there were countless conflicts among the few people. In the end, trust was gradually established through repeated life-and-death missions.

Liu Hun had just closed the balcony door of the living room when he saw Fang Tang, who had just come out of the bathroom, shirtless and wearing only a pair of boxer briefs.

Fang Tang completely ignored Ye Ziqiu's eye roll. Instead, he sat on the sofa with a silly smile and directly picked up the iced juice that Xu Qingzhi had prepared for everyone before he went out. As expected, Xu Qingzhi was the male babysitter for this team.

Fang Tang is a carefree person, especially when it comes to matters between men and women, he has no clear sense of boundaries. Originally, Ye Ziqiu was quite disgusted with this attitude, but after getting to know him more, she realized that Fang Tang is just like that. It is said that he originally had four half-sisters in his family, but later on Fang Tang became an orphan for some reason. Fang Tang never mentioned his childhood events explicitly to anyone, but Liu Hun vaguely sensed that Fang Tang was not willing to talk about this topic, so he would always interrupt with a silly smile, and gradually no one mentioned it anymore.

"Aokiji, please bring some water with you when you go out. This kind of weather is really unbearable. I tried to persuade him not to go out last night, but he just wouldn't listen."

Geng Zimo was still cleaning his gun. He loved guns, especially various rifles and sniper rifles. He had just gotten a good one some time ago, and he used it very well when suppressing the last wave of beasts. Now he liked this gun more than usual.

At this time, except for Xu Qingzhi who went out to work, everyone else in the living room was enjoying their rare vacation. Of course, if the temperature was not so high, it would definitely be a perfect vacation.

"What the hell is this weather? Is there any news from the Meteorological Bureau? Is the extreme heat really coming?" Liu Hun shook off the towel he used to wipe the sweat from his neck, sat on the sofa with his legs open, and cursed angrily.

"Xuyang went to call and ask, he should be back soon." Ye Ziqiu frowned, and couldn't help but drink the second glass of water.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Xuyang coming up from the first floor. There was no air conditioner installed in the living room on the first floor, only a 360-degree oscillating floor fan. Xuyang was worried about the noise on the second floor, so he went to the first floor to call the chief meteorological researcher of the Meteorological Bureau.

As soon as he reached the second floor, the slightly cool breeze made him feel much more comfortable.

He had only been on the first floor for about ten minutes, but the clothes on his back were already completely wet.

"How about it?"

Liu Hun looked at him, his tone was so hot that it seemed a little less patient than usual.

Xuyang poured himself a glass of water and took several sips before saying, "It's confirmed. It's really hot. The temperature will return to 52 degrees within a week. The government is already making arrangements in advance. I estimate that the notice will be announced later today. The only good thing is that the water supply will not be cut off, but the electricity will be limited. Even our villa area will adopt the power restriction mode, otherwise those power base stations will not be able to bear the load."

"Fifty-two degrees is the outdoor temperature?" Ye Ziqiu asked hurriedly.

Xuyang nodded, his face suddenly becoming serious. "It may not be just that. It may continue to rise. In the worst case, it may reach 58 degrees. By then, the base may have to shut down completely."

An outdoor temperature of 58 degrees means that after a day of exposure to the sun, the outdoor temperature will remain around 45 degrees even at night, so the indoor temperature is very likely to be no lower than 40 degrees.

It is now a little after seven in the morning. The indoor temperature was already 29 degrees before they turned on the air conditioner. The temperature outside is 35 degrees. By noon it will reach 41 or 42 degrees.

No wonder we had to turn up the temperature immediately when we woke up this morning. Almost everyone was woken up by the heat at night.

Even though everyone lives in a villa area, it is impossible for every room to be equipped with air conditioners. Currently, the only rooms equipped with air conditioners are the living room on the second floor and Ye Ziqiu's room. Liu Hun's room has an air-conditioning fan that he bought himself and uses dry ice for cooling.

Other people's rooms have ordinary ceiling fans or oscillating fans.

As for the fact that Chen Yanxi doesn't need air conditioning, that's obvious. As a user with dual-type + frost abilities, he only needs to release some frost abilities, and the whole room will turn into a sea of ​​frost, which is much lower than air conditioning.

Moreover, when people were with Chen Yanxi, they always felt that there was a chill from the boss. Even in a place with a slightly higher temperature, there was a natural chill as long as they stood next to him.

As a result, Liu Hun was caught last night sleeping on the floor at Chen Yanxi's door.

According to Liu Hun himself, when he stood at the door, he could feel a chill as cold as that of an air conditioner coming from the crack of the door. At least the feeling was more obvious when there was a door panel between them. This is why there are empty rooms on both sides of Chen Yanxi's room and no one lives there, because ordinary people cannot withstand the supernatural powers and mental power he inadvertently releases.

However, Liu Hun was caught by the real boss himself last night. When he saw Chen Yanxi's gloomy face, Liu Hun was scared to death. In the end, he could only smile bitterly insincerely, and even lied that he accidentally fell asleep at the captain's door when he came back from the bathroom.

However, Liu Hun's room was on the second floor, and only Chen Yanxi lived on the third floor. Everyone else lived in different rooms on the second floor.

After leaving in shame, Liu Hun realized belatedly that the room was really cold the moment the captain opened the door.

However, after the news of Liu Hun being caught spread, other people’s desire to “take advantage of the situation” was completely dispelled.

Currently, the energy supply of the base is gradually decreasing, and the powerful people living in the villa area have recently spared no expense to find ways to purchase various types of gasoline and diesel.

The guard team, especially the superpower teams that are ranked higher, originally received the so-called "energy subsidy" every month. This thing is actually the same as the civil servant subsidy in the past and is also part of the additional benefits.

On average, each person has about 10L of energy per month, which can be freely exchanged for gasoline or diesel.

There are currently five or six 30L diesel barrels piled up in the yard, filled with diesel. When the base is completely hit by power cuts, these diesels will come in handy.

Fuel prices are high now. The original price of more than 1 points per liter of diesel has doubled. More importantly, it is difficult to buy it even if you have money. The trading center has restricted the sale of energy products.

Currently, the only way to obtain energy is to go to the black market or privately find homeless organizations. They don't use too much energy. Compared with energy, they care more about food, clothing, housing and transportation. After all, what they lack most outside are basic supplies.

On the fifth day after the black fog dissipated, the base began to issue notices about the upcoming second extreme heat disaster. By then, the highest temperature in a certain place on the blue planet could reach 70 degrees, and the average temperature would be above 40 degrees.

In China, the general temperature will continue to be around 45 degrees.

The notice also mentioned that base residents should start taking a series of heat prevention measures, including drinking more water, paying attention to electricity usage, and going out as little as possible unless necessary.

Some companies are even required to provide high temperature subsidies, and office workers are required to take sun protection measures on the road. In extremely hot weather, companies' working hours will be changed to a shift system, with the night shift from 7:30 pm to 1:30 am, and the morning shift from 6:30 am to 12:30 pm.

The most important thing is to avoid the hottest time. After all, in hot weather, government departments need to turn on the air conditioners, which is a relative burden for enterprises and units. That’s why we want to change working hours while reducing energy consumption as much as possible.

But in contrast, the working hours are reduced by one hour compared to usual, and a 40-minute break is allowed in between.

For some residents, the change in working hours is simply unbearable. Although they can understand the idea of ​​enterprises to save energy and increase revenue, it is not a very happy thing to have to wake up from sleep early in the morning, or go to work in the evening when they should be relaxing and having fun.

Because businesses and companies have changed their working hours, the government's Self-Defense Force patrols have also increased in frequency, especially in the outer circle, to avoid frequent provocations and disturbances in the hot weather.

When I received a call from Liao Yunyun in the afternoon, I heard my best friend complaining about work for a long time. In the end, she could only accept her fate and sigh.

Liao Yunyun called specifically and, in addition to complaining about work, also mentioned the battery incident mentioned earlier.

"I have already received two batteries. Come to my house later and I will give you the shopping voucher. This is for internal use. We can go directly to line up and find a manager named Huang. He is in the second block of Jinan Road."

Gu Tongwan asked, "It seems that the purchase time has not been announced yet?"

"No, it will be announced on the base forum later. It is true that there will be 500 units at the beginning, so we can go to the inner circle to buy them. However, as far as I know, within the 500 days of the inner circle, 80 units have actually been reserved, and 120 of them will be sold to the outside world. It is said that the staff of the institute are keeping this matter a secret and dare not announce it to the outside world. They only dare to secretly give shopping coupons to relevant units."

Liao Yunyun was a little sad when she spoke, probably because she remembered that day when she broke into her leader's office and scared her leader and her so much that they stared at each other. Finally, he was surprised when he found out that she wanted a battery-powered fan. But considering that Liao Yunyun had been performing well recently, especially when she had shot precious video footage at the hunting conference, which was a huge fortune for the TV station, he finally agreed to give her shopping vouchers for two fans with reluctance.

The price of the electric fan can be transferred to the TV station later. Currently, the TV station has prepaid part of it in advance.

The initial price was two thousand three, but later, considering the subsequent mass production, it was adjusted to one thousand eight hundred and eight. There are a total of fifteen purchasing points in the outer and inner circles, and there are five purchasing points in the inner circle, but in fact each purchasing point can only get dozens of electric fans. The purchase time is set from three to five o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

"We will have to queue up again like we did before to buy pesticides. My legs are shaking when I think about it, and I estimate that there will be even more people queuing this time." Liao Yunyun sighed over there.

Gu Tongwan also said: "Indeed, after all, there is no shortage of rich people in the inner circle, and battery fans have their own advantages. Once the base is restricted from electricity, these rich people cannot easily use generators. In addition, there are some petty bourgeoisie families, so battery fans are more economical and more affordable for these people. However, have you considered speeding up the mass production of battery fans?"

If mass production is not accelerated, once the temperature rises above 45 degrees, it will be unbearable at night without a fan.

She had turned the air conditioner to 26 degrees last night, but she was still woken up by the heat in the middle of the night. She had to change her sleep mode to stroke mode before she felt a little more comfortable.

After a brief chat, the two mentioned that although the battery-powered electric fans have been put into mass production at an accelerated pace, because the base industry factories are relatively small, even if they are put into mass production at the fastest speed, they will have to wait until next week to ship the second batch of 500 electric fans.

In addition, the base is also accelerating the construction of related factory areas, but it will take at least a month to transport the relevant equipment from Kyoto.

Once again, the battery-powered fan was destined to trigger a new round of panic buying at the base.