Chapter 2956

What is Cat Getan's summer like?

In the past, people would say Cat Getan's summer was a rain that was about to fall but never did. Heavy dark clouds always pressed very low, thunder was like a giant beast passing through the clouds, and countless unknown crises were hidden in the gloomy and humid alleys.

But nowadays, the summer of this city that has regained sunshine is hot and long. During the day, heat waves roll, cicadas are so hot they have no strength left, their calls dragging in long tones, seagulls can't even fly, squatting on the threshold of coffee shops and making hoarse calls, leather shoes step across asphalt roads, melted bitumen pulling out strands of shiny lines, hurried pedestrians on the road holding newspapers to cover their heads, not daring to stay in the sun for even a moment.

Since May, Cat Getan has become hotter and hotter. When it was over 30 degrees, people could barely survive by relying on cooling equipment, but watching the temperature approach 40 degrees, really not many people dared to go out.

Logically speaking, a coastal city couldn't possibly be this hot, not to mention Cat Getan faces the sea on three sides, the climate should be even better than Metropolis.

But this city has gone to another extreme on the road of modernization. Anyway, there is no sunshine, skyscrapers are built as high as possible, reflective glass is as bright as possible, reinforced concrete structures are added hard, and asphalt roads are built hard.

As everyone knows, the heat island effect is produced under such conditions. When there is no sunshine, these things are completely fine.

But now, the dark clouds have dispersed, the sunshine has returned, and the whole city is like an iron sheet exposed to the sun.

When Cat Getan was frozen before, the whole city was still a summer resort, but with the iterative update of dense ice technology, the dense ice used in Cat Getan's underground cold storage is no longer cold now, almost not participating in heat exchange, naturally losing its cooling function.

Under the right time, place, and people, the whole city is getting hotter and hotter.

Gothamites' lives are full of disasters. Just after capturing a few demons, they encountered a few monsters. The city finally saw the light of day again, and was almost roasted in the increasingly hot summer.

Shiler is incredibly glad that he moved to a new home.

The West District has been transformed into an industrial zone, and industrial activity is one of the culprits of the heat island effect. Now the temperature there is also about 40 degrees, and if they stay there, they will be hot to death sooner or later.

And the new home has many more benefits. Behind it is a large lake, there is a forest by the lake, there are streams along the lake, and the surroundings are all lawns and trees. Greenery and water bodies are things that can reduce the heat island effect.

Even so, Shiler's psychological defense line was still broken when he saw the 36-degree figure displayed on the thermometer in the early morning.

The last time he saw such a high temperature was in his previous life. If he remembered correctly, it should be in Chongqing.

To some extent, these two cities are really similar, especially after Cat Getan's situation improved. Shiler looked at the map carefully, and the current Cat Getan and Chongqing look really alike.

Not to mention anything else, Chongqing is the confluence of two rivers, the city of ten thousand bridges, and Cat Getan is also the confluence of two rivers. The Hudson River and the Cat Getan River meet exactly in the center of Cat Getan city. There are also countless bridges on the two rivers, and the city is therefore divided into east and west parts.

However, the difference is that Cat Getan's terrain is relatively flat, without so many hills and gullies. From natural conditions, it is not so magical, but unfortunately, Bruce's Cat Getan renovation project turned this place into a real 8D city. He himself can't walk out of the East District, let alone count on navigation.

And unfortunately, it's hard to learn good things, but easy to learn bad things. They didn't learn good things but learned the temperature. Cat Getan's urban area could barely maintain around 35 degrees in the first two years, and this year even the suburbs are heading towards 40 degrees. Gothamites call it "Little Chongqing of the East Coast."

Normally, if you want to regulate the temperature, you can bring the dark clouds back, but Bruce is no longer Batman, and the Cat Getan curse maintained for Batman's existence no longer exists. The dark clouds are thinner day by day, and now they can no longer play a shielding role.

Shiler stood in front of the thermometer for ten minutes.

In fact, this is a very difficult problem to solve. It's not something that can be solved by pulling Pamela back and letting her plant trees everywhere. Cat Getan's urban construction is already very saturated now. Where should trees be planted?

For example, the road in front of Shiler's house is a four-lane road. Usually, it won't be congested, but the premise is that there is no greenery in the middle and on both sides of this lane. It is just a straight road, and there is no sidewalk.

If you want to do greenery, you must first change the four-lane road to a two-lane road, make room for the sidewalk, and then do green lawns and plant trees between the sidewalk and the motor vehicle lane.

Doing this on this road is fine because this place is not a densely populated area to begin with, but Cat Getan's traffic is already a difficult problem. Even with the wool Bruce plucked from the dark energy, it can only be said to be barely maintained. Isn't it funny to talk about greenery under such circumstances?

Many cities in Europe and America have such problems. Their urban construction was too early. At that time, there were no such cars and high-rise buildings, and a two-lane road was completely enough.

Even in older cities in Europe, there are no asphalt roads at all. They are all stone roads where people and cars share the road, and traffic rules all depend on the mood.

It's not that all governments don't want to manage it; it's that there is simply no way to manage it. If you want to move the road, the house has to move back. If you want to move the house, it squeezes other roads until there is no room. You can't move back layer by layer and flatten the whole city like a pancake, right?

It's even more troublesome in Cat Getan. The buildings here are not the small western-style houses in the city centers of many European countries. Because the construction time was relatively late, even the part of the oldest Cat Getan Cathedral is high-rise buildings, so demolition is even more troublesome.

Of course, besides road greenery, you can also build more parks, nature reserves, and reservoirs, but obviously, the city's situation has just improved. People have just crawled out of the mud, and it's not yet time to consider environmental protection. Good places must first meet the residents' housing needs, then build supporting facilities, and also meet commercial needs and industrial development.

And every one of these facilities mentioned above that can reverse environmental problems is very large, and no one can bear to give up so much land.

The construction of parks is also very particular. Many people envy New York's Central Park, but in fact, Central Park is one of the counterexamples of urban construction. Green space is too concentrated, which can neither have a good impact on the urban environment nor lead to only a small part of people being able to enjoy urban greenery. Even if this park is built well, it violates the laws of urban environmental construction.

But if you want Cat Getan to build many parks separately, land price is one aspect, and funds are even more difficult. There was no such ability before, and now the municipal government, which is in the Great Depression, is even more powerless.

But looking at the temperature that is hotter day by day, and the heatstroke patients who are constantly being carried into hospitals every day, the prominent figures in Cat Getan all feel that it can't go on like this.

Shiler, standing in front of the thermometer, took out his phone. Coincidentally, at this moment, the door was pushed open, and Helen fell onto the sofa in the living room.

"Why can it be so hot? Why can the weather be so hot?!!!" Helen wailed.

Shiler looked back at her and said: "The air conditioner has been adjusted to the lowest. If you are still hot, go to the refrigerator and get some ice cubes."

Helen didn't move. If he didn't know she was Doomsday, Shiler would have felt she had been hot to death.

Thinking she was Doomsday, Shiler asked somewhat doubtfully: "Can't you eat the sun? Why do you feel hot?"

"That's two different things. I won't feel hot when I restore my original body, but my current body is human, and the body temperature system is the same as yours. Of course, I will feel hot."

Helen jumped up from the sofa again and said: "We went to the woods to see, it is indeed humid and cool there. We are planning to build a treehouse there. What do you think?"

"Whatever." Shiler nodded. It wasn't that he didn't want to give some sincere advice, but he was indeed powerless.

The people from Marvel have been here for a while. Jarvis and Wanda, the young couple, brought their children over and are living in James Gordon's manor in the North District.

After James and Barbara reunited, they soon had a child, still a girl. However, it seems because James was worried that naming her Barbara again would make her repeat the mistakes of Barbara in other universes, he named her Jane Gordon.

Jane is older than the two brothers Wanda gave birth to and can now run all over the ground. Wanda and Barbara exchange parenting experiences, while Jarvis is responsible for driving them out to play.

That group of people from the Guardians of the Galaxy can't stay idle. They are all veterans of the underworld. They didn't bring a penny when they came, but not long after, they found a house to live in the East District, which can be called like a fish in water.

And the young superheroes of the New Warriors team, which is the group closest to crazy teenagers, came to Shiler's place, along with Helen, and didn't cause him less trouble.

At first, they discovered that there was a lake behind Shiler's house and wanted to fish, but because their fishing skills were poor, they were empty-handed every day. Speedball Robert, this little clever ghost, didn't know where he got an electric landing net, almost wiping out the nine clans of the fish in the lake, and was complained about by other neighbors. Shiler had to order them to put the fish back.

Shiler originally counted on them to help tidy up the garden, but they were clearly not people who could work well. When digging soil, they dug randomly, sprayed randomly with the hose for watering flowers, and even took the hose to the dirt pile to play with mud, making the yard full of dirty mud, with power comparable to a group of Huskies.

Shiler originally wanted to drive them away, but the gazebo he bought arrived. Originally, he agreed with the seller to include installation, but a few days ago, he heard the bad news that the installation master wanted a high-temperature subsidy, and it wasn't cheap, almost equivalent to the installation fee.

Shiler originally wanted to change to another installation company, but asked several companies, all of which needed high-temperature subsidies, one more expensive than the other. There was really no way, so he called Killer Croc, only to find out that Killer Croc was hospitalized.

He should have thought of it earlier. Crocodiles are poikilothermic animals. Which good crocodile can stand moving in 40-degree weather?

Zatanna and Gordon, who invested in the moving company, have been taking care of Killer Croc recently. Cobblepot is busy taking his mother to move to the suburbs where the temperature is lower. Mayor Roy is even busier and overwhelmed. Even Scarecrow and Professor Pyg have accepted the FBI's order to go to Metropolis, where the temperature is lower, to work.

Shiler thought about it, free labor is not used for nothing. He let the members of the New Warriors team stay, and they have been installing the gazebo step by step recently.

In fact, this kind of assembly gazebo is not complicated at all. If it were fast, it would be finished in an afternoon, but unfortunately, the temperature is too high. From 10 am to 3 pm, there is simply no way to work. They can only rush to work at night. A small gazebo installed in the garden hasn't been finished for five days, and Shiler has to cook for them every day.

Fortunately, because the weather is too hot, serial killers basically don't come out. Gordon is finally free. Just when Shiler went to the backyard to check the garden situation, this police commissioner visited.