boyutpedia Chapter 118 118 “Perhaps in addition to survival, Dongren can still (p. 12)
Chapter 118 118 “Perhaps in addition to survival, Dongren can still (p. 12)
October 28, 2024, 8:22 in the morning - there were still three hours before the news of the collapse of the country was delivered.
Shuinan City, Refuge Zone No. 7, Refuge Building No. 1.
"Sister Zhang, Sister Wang, I brought you your breakfast. Eat it while it's hot." Chi Yan opened the unlocked room door with her elbow, holding several bags of breakfast in her hand, and looked at Everyone in the room said with a smile.
The shelter that Chi Yan and her parents were assigned to had an area of about 30 square meters and housed ten people, a total of three families. It was quite satisfactory for a shelter.
Of course, the area used in the shelter is only calculated based on the available area, and there is no common area or wall thickness.
It is not the case that the contract says 30 square meters, but in fact the available space is less than 15 square meters - although this situation is actually very common when buying and renting a house.
If ten people lived in this kind of space, it would really become a concentration camp.
"Thank you, Yanyan, thank you for your hard work." Sister Zhang, who was carefully pasting insulation cotton on the wall, turned around and thanked her with a smile.
"It's okay. It's easy. It's troublesome for three people to go down together."
Chi Yan smiled and waved her hand. After placing the breakfast on the public table in the room, she walked forward and looked at what the two 'roommates' were doing at the moment and asked:
"Sister Zhang, Sister Wang, do you need my help?"
Chi Yan is not actually familiar with these two families.
After all, their family lives in the city, which is different from the countryside. Neighbors in the countryside usually talk to each other after tea and dinner, focusing on a clan relationship and maintaining it on weekdays.
But in the city, even neighbors across the street may only meet and occasionally say hello, and more communication occurs among the group of owners. .
After returning to China, Chi Yan and her family have moved into this shelter for some time. The ten people get along very harmoniously. Everyone is a typical, warm and friendly Easterner, and there has been no friction so far.
"I don't need any help here. I'm going to finish pasting it up soon, and you may not be used to the shape I cut it in." Sister Zhang said while concentrating.
"Yanyan, if you don't mind, can you help me hold the baby? I just have my hands free to continue knitting a scarf for you. I should be able to knit it before next month." After hearing this, Sister Wang stopped shaking the rattle in her hand. Hand, turned his head and said hopefully.
——The only factor in this room that may be regarded as ‘unharmonious’ is probably that Sister Wang’s family has a child over one year old who occasionally cries.
But every time something like this happens, the Wang family's parents, including the child's brother, will sincerely apologize to the Chi family and the Zhang family.
At first, the Wang family immediately ran to the toilet with their crying child, for fear of disturbing their roommates.
But Chi and Zhang chose to be tolerant. Not only did they say it didn't matter, they also specially gave the largest lower bunk in the room to the Wang family, so that the mother and son could sleep together and take care of her at night.
"Sister Wang, you bribed me with a scarf, right? Congratulations on your successful bribery! Of course there is no problem! Xiaobao, come to Sister Yanyan, and I will play with you."
After Chi Yan teased, she stretched out her hand towards the child on the bed. When the child staggered to the bed, she held him in her arms, gently stroked his back, and began to comfort the child.
After a few days, she became quite professional.
"But Sister Zhang, the effect of this thermal insulation wallpaper is a bit too good. I only had a corner of the quilt covering me when I slept yesterday, and I'm even a little hot now." Feeling the change in body temperature within a few minutes, I held my child in the room. Chi Yan walked and said to Sister Zhang.
Now the entire room, walls, ceiling, and floor, are carefully covered with thermal insulation wallpaper to prevent the loss of temperature. In some places, there is more than one layer.
The wallpaper is officially issued by Dongguo. This kind of thing is an extra layer of insulation and is a preparation for the extreme cold.
But it is more laborious to stick it well, it is a delicate job, and different settings are required according to the living habits of different families.
Standardization may be counterproductive, so directly distributing materials and letting room owners with independent abilities operate on their own will also give those staying in the room something to do.
The 'problem' brought about is probably that before the extreme cold comes, this room's... thermal insulation performance is a little too good.
There is an official additional insulation layer on the outside of the wall, and there is an additional insulation layer on the inside of the wall. It is obviously a cool weather at the end of October, but Chi Yan feels like "midsummer" inside.
——Before the natural disaster came, it was really hot.
When going to bed at night, let alone covering up with a quilt, Chi Yan wanted to sleep naked - there was a privacy curtain, and she was young so she slept on the upper bunk. If she did this, she would not be exposed.
The thick quilts and clothes they prepared before are now "dusted" under the beds by the three families, waiting for the end of the month to use them.
"The hotter it is now, the more comfortable we will be during the ice disaster. It's only a few days away, so bear with it." Sister Zhang had temporarily stopped what she was doing and said with a smile while eating breakfast.
Then her smile faded a little, replaced by a faint worry:
"I'm afraid that when the time comes, with these, we will have to huddle together to keep warm."
"I know, I just said it jokingly. I didn't mean to say anything bad." Chi Yan was worried that Sister Zhang really thought she was complaining, so she said quickly.
There was no balcony in her room. Chi Yan walked to the window, pushed open the window sash that would be completely sealed in the near future, felt the cool morning breeze in autumn, and looked at the busy scene outside the window.
Like all Dongguk refuge areas, there are a large number of workers working hard on the walls of all buildings.
On the ground, the triangular or square passages have completely taken shape and only need to be reinforced to connect all the refuge buildings together.
Outside the passage, 'awnings' made of steel are scattered scattered but regularly outside the passage.
This passage was built in response to concerns about huge hailstorms during ice storms that would impede access to and from the buildings.
The surrounding 'awning' that can protect against hail is essentially the same. It is to provide an intermediate platform for people or vehicles to rest when they may need to use other routes in the future.
Each evacuation building has actually built its own 'ecology' inside, achieving the basic goal of 'being able to survive a month without relying on the outside world during a natural disaster'.
But this is a very crude 'ecology'. Whenever someone gets seriously ill and the walls are smashed, this 'ecology' will be destroyed.
Connect these small 'ecologies' with each other to form the 'middle ecology' of the refuge area, and then link all the refuge areas with each other to form the ultimate 'ecology' of the refuge city, which can solve all problems encountered in the future.
This is relatively simple in the temporary refuge city of Shuinan City, but for those permanent refuge cities in the central part of the Eastern Kingdom, this is the primary goal.
Currently, in Refuge Area No. 7, underground passages have been opened between the buildings. This above-ground passage can be regarded as a backup guarantee.
At the same time, due to the safety restrictions caused by the temporary nature of the underground passage, many things are not suitable for passing through it, and the space is also limited to allow some things to pass through, so the ground is still necessary.