Mobile Shelter

Chapter 29 A Midnight Visit

After finishing the meal, I watched Captain Gao and his team leave. But as soon as I closed the gate, the enthusiasm I had been showing vanished instantly.

Dong Qi wasn't stupid, so how could he not realize the meaning behind Gao's occasional 'unintentional' subtle hints during the meal?

Although he was acting on impulse, Dong Qi's responses to each question were perfectly normal.

But even after sending the person away, Dong Qi still didn't know if he could ultimately keep it from the other party.

To be honest, Dong Qi's actions last time were a bit excessive. After all, he directly looted all the factories in the three largest industrial parks in Pengcheng, which directly caused the industrial sector in Pengcheng to be paralyzed.

But if asked to give Dong Qi another chance, he would still make the same choice without hesitation.

After all, given Dong Qi's status, barring any unforeseen circumstances, even if he were given a hundred years, he wouldn't be able to earn enough funds to purchase so much metal.

As time went by, the investigation team found almost all the people like Dong Qi who had not taken shelter in underground shelters during the cold wave.

However, no matter how thoroughly the investigation team searched, they were unable to find any clues related to the case.

Unfortunately, although the investigation team would summarize and report the progress of each team's investigation to Kyoto every week.

However, Kyoto did not react at all to the lack of progress in the investigation, as if they did not care.

This made the captains of the investigation teams from the Kyoto Six Doors headquarters feel uneasy.

In fact, at this time, Kyoto was still in a cold wave period because of the prophecy made by that prophetic awakener.

However, they began to mobilize resources and renovate the underground shelters, which were originally just temporary shelters, preparing to transform some of the temporary shelters into permanent shelters.

It's important to understand that at this time, the outside world was not only experiencing a cold wave, but also that due to the impact of EMP, most electrical equipment was still paralyzed, and the power supply had not yet been restored.

Although some fuel generators were repaired, their power generation efficiency was clearly insufficient to meet the needs of the large-scale underground space renovation at that time.

Despite the numerous difficulties at the time, the high-ranking officials in the court debated the matter repeatedly before finally making this decision.

And it wasn't just Kyoto; in every city of the Great Xia Dynasty, wherever possible, the government was urged to do its utmost to quickly construct underground shelters, reinforcing and converting temporary shelters into permanent ones.

During the reconstruction process, a large amount of various basic materials will definitely be needed. This is why the imperial court, even though the outside world was still in a cold wave, required some enterprises to resume work and production.

Without the raw material supply from those companies, and if it weren't for the stockpiled supplies in Pengcheng, it would have been impossible to renovate the existing underground shelters.

However, due to the lack of subsequent material sources, Pengcheng can only renovate some key underground shelters in the urban area.

For this reason, although the imperial court did not care much about the progress of the case investigation, all the high-ranking officials in Pengcheng were keeping a close eye on the investigation team. Whenever they found any clues, they would ask the team members to dig deeper so as not to miss any leads.

It's important to understand that this case is no longer just about their official positions, but also about their future survival in the face of disaster.

Because of the imperial court's undisguised actions, all local officials have learned that Blue Star will face all kinds of natural disasters in the future, and the underground shelters where they cultivate now will be an important guarantee for their survival.

Therefore, when faced with an event concerning their own safety, no one would be foolish enough to hold others back.

Although there may occasionally be a few lunatics among ordinary people who promote death purification, those who can sit in high-ranking official positions are all intelligent people who know how to make the right choices.

In everyone's common sense, the ocean is always in motion, so even if it freezes, it will only happen at the North and South Poles.

However, as the outside temperature continued to drop during the cold wave, the sea surface, which was originally never to freeze, gradually began to freeze.

When the sea surface freezes on a large scale, it means that the temperature in the tropics and subtropics has basically dropped below zero.

When the outside temperature in tropical and subtropical regions reaches this level, it means that most of the plants and animals living in these two temperature zones have suffered unimaginable annihilation.

Even among humans, apart from the residents of Great Xia and a very few other countries who have the ability to resist, the residents of other countries are simply unable to fight off the cold wave.

In addition to lacking warm clothing, those people were unable to obtain food from the outside world due to the extinction of plants and animals caused by the cold wave.

Some countries were only able to make ends meet by relying on international humanitarian aid.

At this point, not only are most vehicles disabled and unusable, but even if they were usable, no country would still provide free aid to other countries in the face of such a large-scale natural disaster.

Dong Qi was not familiar with the international situation, but he noticed that even though the outside temperature was still dropping, there were more and more vehicles on the streets.

Normally, fuel cannot be used properly in such extremely low temperature environments.

However, the various superpowers awakened by the awakened individuals have barely mitigated the effects of the extremely low external temperatures.

As more and more vehicles were traveling normally, Dong Qi's renewed desire to travel across provinces, which had been fueled by the drop in temperature, was also calmed down.

Looking at his natal vehicle, which was only two levels away from being upgraded again, Dong Qi felt an inexplicable sense of urgency.

Just as Dong Qi was hesitating about whether to travel across provinces, he never expected that Dong Hao would show up at his door in the middle of the night.

Seeing Dong Hao's somewhat somber expression, Dong Qi first poured him a cup of hot water before asking, "Brother Hao, what happened that made you need to come over in the middle of the night?"

"Dong Qi, if you trust me, you'd better move directly to an underground shelter tomorrow, and it has to be an underground shelter converted from a subway station."

Seeing Dong Hao's serious expression, Dong Qi did not immediately agree. Instead, he asked with some curiosity, "Brother Hao, what happened that requires you to come and inform me in the middle of the night?"

Now that he had come to their door, Dong Hao didn't pretend to hide anything and directly told them everything he knew:

"According to the news from the imperial court, although it is unknown when this cold wave will end, even if the cold wave ends, Blue Star has entered an unknown period of turmoil, and the external environment will become increasingly harsh in the future."

The imperial court has issued a notice requiring local governments to build permanent shelters; I am not familiar with the situation in other places.

However, in Pengcheng, due to the large-scale loss of industrial equipment, there are not enough materials to renovate all of Pengcheng's underground shelters. Therefore, Pengcheng will not only renovate some key underground shelters, but will also limit the number of people in those shelters.