bookpower Chapter 49 - 49 Good News
Chapter 49 - 49 Good News
Chapter 49: Chapter 49 Good News
The property management had scattered a few air conditioners around the corners.
The area around the air conditioners was mainly arranged for families with babies and the elderly.
However, looking at the people inside, almost all of them were wearing very little, their faces were flushed from the heat, and beads of sweat were still on their foreheads.
It seemed that the effect of the air conditioners was not very apparent.
After all, the cooling capacity of air conditioners used in ordinary households was at most two or three horsepower, and the radiation range was only about thirty to forty square meters.
This underground parking garage, however, was several thousand square meters.
Additionally, it might also be due to there being too many people.
But regardless, it was obviously much better than the high temperatures of sixty to seventy degrees above ground.
Someone even took a few photos of fresh bloodstains on the walls and posted them in the group.
It must have been the Blood Mosquitoes that entered in the afternoon, flying in through the pedestrian passageway.
Below, naturally, there was a barrage of curses that insulted generations of ancestors.
There was also a picture of dense smoke billowing and flames soaring into the sky.
It looked somewhat eerie because within the raging flames, it was clear there were stacked silhouettes of people.
Jiang Yan recognized after a careful look that it was the dried-up pond in the center of the district garden.
It must have been turned into a temporary crematorium by the property management.
After all, with temperatures rising higher and higher and the number of Blood Mosquitoes increasing, there had been quite a number of deaths in the afternoon; they likely didn’t have the energy to transport the bodies out of the district anymore.
Further down, Jiang Yan came across a video.
The person taking the video was doing something like a live broadcast, narrating while filming.
People were sitting or lying down on the simple bedding.
Some were already hunched over, sleeping with their hands covering their ears.
But there were also those sitting together playing cards, chatting.@@@@
And some were nursing their children alone.
There were also a few families, who seemed to be wailing loudly.
They must have had family members who passed away during the Blood Mosquito attack in the afternoon.
In such an environment, expecting silence was obviously a luxury.
Fortunately, at least nobody was smoking.
Of course, it might also be that the cigarettes at home had long been smoked up.
After Jiang Yan roughly understood the situation, she was about to exit the homeowners’ group chat, but her gaze paused at the number of members listed at the top of the chat.
Shallow Bay Homeowners’ Group (306).
Jiang Yan: “...”
She remembered that the homeowners’ group was previously at a full capacity of 500 members.
Good lord!
Within one day, nearly two hundred households were gone.
That meant a decrease in population by at least six hundred people...
Wasn’t this a bit too outrageous?
In Jiang Yan’s mind, the surveillance footage uncontrollably resurfaced.
Additionally, she seemed to have seen again, faintly, in the video shot by the homeowners on the scene, the owner of that pair of shoes.
The high temperatures had isolated everything, creating excellent conditions for her studies.
Once the high-temperature weather was over, and those who had been avoiding the heat underground returned to normal life,
her surrounding world would no longer be as quiet and safe as it was now.
Occasionally, Jiang Yan would return to her room from the Space.
On one hand, she wanted to allow herself to properly adapt to the high-temperature survival environment; on the other hand, after the signals stopped, all sources of news were cut off, and she wanted to see if there would be some changes in the street scenes outside.
Or rather, she hoped to be able to see the shadow of official rescuers on the streets outside one day.
On the eighteenth day of the high temperatures, they suddenly dropped to sixty degrees.
It was still very hot, but this brought Jiang Yan some joy.
It was highly possible that in two days, the high temperatures would end.
On the nineteenth day of the high temperatures, they continued to drop, reaching just over fifty degrees.
As dusk approached on this day, Jiang Yan stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and finally saw active vehicles on the street.
She hurriedly brought out her telescope.
Sure enough, there were several delivery trucks with a unique color.
Judging by the color, the trucks must have been painted with insulating materials, and the tires were also special, able to relatively withstand high temperatures.
The vehicles also stopped in front of Shallow Bay District.
To prevent any scrambles for supplies, armed warriors were the first to jump out.
Soon after, a bunch of people who looked nearly out of breath, staggering, walked up from the underground garage.
The government had not given up on any citizen.
Even though the weather forecast predicted that the temperature was likely to return to normal the next day.
Delivering supplies now was clearly in a race against time.
After all, many people might not be able to hold on till one day later.
Moreover, the high temperatures had come so unexpectedly that their previous preparations had indeed been too limited.
Later, when Jiang Yan came out of the Space, she heard a “thump-thump-thump” sound of helicopters in the sky.
She hurriedly walked quickly to the floor-to-ceiling window.
Several military helicopters flew across the night sky at a very slow pace and very low altitude.
Below the helicopters hung large double-sided glow banners.Update by n0vgo. co
The message stated that the government would carry out a fumigation of the entire city in a day and reminded those still living in the buildings to ensure their doors and windows were tightly shut.
Actually, even if the government hadn’t reminded them, very few people would leave their doors and windows open.
Of course, whether anyone was still alive in the buildings under such high temperatures was unknown.
One day later.
The temperature acted like a lunatic and plummeted within one day to around thirty-seven or thirty-eight degrees.
People who had been repressed underground for a long time rushed to the surface.
But just to be safe, no one dared to return home.
Those who lived on high floors were afraid they wouldn’t be able to get back down if they went up.
Those on lower floors were still terrified of the Blood Mosquitoes.
The signal and electricity were still absent.
But soon after, the wind began blowing.
Raindrops started to drift down from the sky, something that had been absent for a long time.