My days as a landlord in Gotham

In fact, New York is not really a place of geomantic omen. It is occasionally affected by hurricanes in summer, and it will definitely be suspended at least two or three times due to cold waves in winter.

This year's global winter is extremely cold, so the cold wave hit New York early.

November has just begun, and the thick snow has covered the thighs, while the sky is still thick with lead clouds, and the wind and snow are falling all over the sky.

In Gotham City, which is adjacent to New York City, the snow is not only thicker, but also because the municipal facilities are completely inferior to New York City, many bus lines and subways have been suspended, but only Gotham City’s unique light rail is still barely operating .

But the most important thing is that the heating area of ​​Gotham City is only about 10% of the entire Gotham City, so there is already news of people freezing to death.

Li Lei's apartment happened to be in an underheated area because it was far away from the Wayne Building. Fortunately, there were two archmages in Li Lei's apartment, plus a master of black technology, so Li Lei, Adam and Xiaohong Insulation and heating in the apartment were quickly done.

The fire spell maintained by the magic crystal continuously heats the special heating liquid, and the heating liquid spreads throughout the apartment and basement along the heating network laid by Xiaohong.

Although the temperature outside the house has dropped to -15°C, the temperature inside the house remains at 25°C above zero.

Although heating is still easy to solve, the heavy snow closure of the city has indeed brought great inconvenience.

Several nearby supermarkets have been snapped up, and the large warehouse supermarkets are all in the suburbs, so many roads cannot be opened to traffic.

"I feel like our family hasn't seen greens in years."

Since Li Lei and Hamada Hiroshi are both Asian, especially Li Lei who is in charge of cooking is also Chinese, so both Adam and Jason have developed very oriental eating habits and have a very high demand for green vegetables.

However, since the roads in and out of Gotham City have been blocked by heavy snow for almost a week, most of the stored vegetables have been sold out or spoiled, so Li Lei can only take out vegetables that are easy to store, such as potatoes, cabbage, and radishes. coped.

But after eating such vegetables for a few days, everyone felt a little tired of eating them, so Jason protested at the dinner table.

"Don't complain, it is estimated that next year all food crops in the world will be reduced!"

Li Lei said worriedly.

Supercomputers developed by Superman and Batman have produced projections of climate change for the next few years, while also assessing global economic trends.

This kind of continuous low temperature weather naturally brings about a reduction in global agricultural production, and there is still a reason for agriculture to be regarded as the primary industry.

Regardless of the extremely developed industry and commercial service industry, once there is a problem in agriculture, no country in the world dares to say that it can survive alone.

"The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United States Department of Agriculture have issued early warnings. Now it depends on which country has deeper agricultural reserves and more advanced agricultural technology."

"Gu Liang Biography" mentioned that "Zang Sunchen told Buy Yu Qi that the country had no livestock for three years, and the country was not his country."

It means that if a country does not even have at least three years of food reserves, then this country is not qualified to become a country.

Therefore, most countries in the world have their own grain reserves, it depends on how much.

While Li Lei's family was still eating, Superman drove over in Batman's Batsleigh.

After entering the apartment, Superman couldn't help sighing, "Even I can feel some discomfort in this severe cold weather, it is estimated that the number of freezing deaths will increase tonight, right?

Not only Gotham City, but many large cities across the United States have such reports.

And in some remote places, because the wind and snow damaged a lot of communication equipment, we couldn't even receive relevant news.

Although I can sense these calls for help, when some people wait for me to arrive, they find that it is too late. "

In fact, Li Lei has always been puzzled, how does Superman know that someone is asking him for help, and there are so many people in the world who need help, how does Superman decide who to help and not to help?

As a result, Superman told Li Lei that although his hearing is much more sensitive than that of ordinary humans, it also has limits.

Superman himself estimates that even in the dead of night, his hearing can only cover the entire metropolis.

In ordinary time, Superman said he could cover a few blocks at most.

Come to think of it, if Superman is really omnipotent, can he still work at the "Daily Planet"?

And fortunately, the law and order in the metropolis is obviously better than Gotham City, otherwise even half of Gotham City can call the police to kill Superman, right?

"Do you want some soup?"

Because of the cold weather, Li Lei adjusted everyone's meals, and there were more soups to dispel the cold.

Seeing Superman and Batman coming in in the cold, Li Lei recommended them to try.

After adding a bowl of soup to each of the two uninvited guests, Li Lei said, "I think this winter will break the illusions of some people on Earth. This may make the Tinder Project go smoothly, but it will also inspire some people's dark thoughts. psychology.

With the implementation of the Tinder Project, the legal system of human society will gradually collapse. I don't even know what Gotham City will look like two years from now. "

"The underground official road system built by my grandparents and fathers should be able to shelter some people.

As long as the central equipment of the Wayne Building can still operate smoothly, the underground official road can still be guaranteed to have a temperature above zero.

But I can't vouch for that if someone is eyeing Wayne Tower.

What I can do now is to strengthen those core equipment as much as possible, but human greed. "

Batman's words silenced everyone, and Li Lei didn't grasp this topic to continue talking.

He can be very Madonna, claiming the protection of the entire human race.

But the problem now is that it's impossible.

If some kindling of human civilization is not preserved, the entire human civilization will disappear.

No human being can afford this result, so the Tinder Project must be carried out no matter how inhumane it is.

When a race is facing an existential crisis, all decisions are cruel and the price paid is heavy.

"By the way, I have some bad news to tell you this time."

Batman handed a document to Li Lei.

Li Lei flipped through the document, then frowned and said, "Indeed, this ice age is not only for humans, but for all species.

It's justified for them to come out to make trouble now, but it's too high-profile now, right?

Not to mention that the Human Council can still effectively control the regimes of various countries, even our Supernatural and Superpower Administration has not been disbanded yet.

The important thing is that I can understand werewolves and wizards coming out to make trouble, after all, the ice age was too difficult for them.

But is it necessary for the blood race?

For the blood race, if they find that there is not enough food, they can choose to sleep.

I remember that blood races can sleep for at least 100 years without any problem, and it is trivial for some high-level blood races to sleep for hundreds or even thousands of years. "

"Maybe it's for the sake of alliance.

After all, the magic races are the three major races of the vampires, werewolves, and wizards, and the other races are all made up.

In particular, the fertility of the vampires is not bad among the three major magical races. If the vampires do not participate, there is no way for other races to blackmail humans, right? "

Batman said, and then he mocked, "But they don't think about it, the shelters built by humans are not enough for themselves, and at least one third should be allocated for them to use.

According to the information I have read, don't these magical races look down on humans?

Now they come to the door and ask humans to help them? "

"I don't know if there is that person's handwriting behind this?"

Li Lei frowned, "I will remind the SSA branches in the United States to pay attention, and if necessary, I will take pre-emptive measures against some evil magic races in advance.

Don't worry about me, the SSA already has congressional authorization, as long as we can file an assessment after the fact. "

Li Lei actually didn't understand that wizards were a relatively neutral magical race, but at least half of them hated humans, and the other half didn't necessarily like humans that much.

Magic creatures such as werewolves, vampires, trolls, giants, and ghosts are completely opposite to humans.

But that's it, these races have their own believers in human society.

In particular, the blood race deliberately develops its own worship power among humans, so the blood race actually has the privilege of living in human society.

If the blood race is not breaking the law, is there any way for the SSA to enforce the law on them.

And the blood race never took the initiative to break the law. Anyway, there are ha ghosts who are willing to dedicate everything to the blood clan, so it is good to push all the bad things to the ha ghosts.

Therefore, although many criminal crimes are directed against the blood race, in the end, there are Hagui clan who replaced the blood race with a nearly perfect image of the criminal and went to jail.

After Batman and Superman delivered the information, they took their leave and left.

Li Lei got up and sent them to the gate, only then did Li Lei realize how thick the snow was.

Although there is still snow removal nearby, the speed of snow removal cannot keep up with the speed of snowfall.

Superman and Batman hitch a ride on the Batsled, start the engine, and drive away.

Looking at the empty street, Li Lei couldn't help but smile wryly.

Although Gotham City is not a city with a particularly high safety index, the place where Li Lei lives is still a middle-class residential area in Gotham City, so it is quite lively during the day.

But now it is lifeless, only the sound of wind and snow whistling.

Li Lei turned around and went back to the apartment. His frozen body felt a bit warm, and Adam and the others all looked at Li Lei.

Li Lei knew that they were confused by the sudden visit of Superman and Batman, so Li Lei explained: "Recently, blood clans and werewolves have become more active, and the Justice League is a little worried, so I want to remind me to pay attention here too. "

"Indeed, this climate is probably especially suitable for blood races, right?"

Adam said, "The vampires and werewolves are extremely cold-resistant creatures, the only thing the vampires fear is the sun, but as long as the sun's radiation is reduced to a certain level, they can come out even during the day.

At present, the radiation intensity of the sun is enough for blood races above the Viscount level to come out. By the time of the extremely cold ice age, basically except for the newborn blood races, most of the blood races can act during the day.

If so, are human defenses adequate?

The anti-strike ability of vampires and werewolves also far exceeds that of humans. "

"The weapons equipped on the Life Bank and Noah's Ark are aimed at the vampires and werewolves, and humans actually have quite a few weapons aimed at them.

It was not used before because it has not yet reached the point of death, but it is different now. "

Li Lei said, "Human beings have already sacrificed so much for the continuation of the race. Will they continue to be tolerant to the blood race and werewolves?"