Chapter 279: Great Temperature Drop

"Fine, let's do it that way. Everyone, hurry up and get some rest."

At the first light of dawn, after the discussion was settled, Lei Youliang dismissed the group and dragged his somewhat exhausted body back to his living quarters.

"Phew, it's so cold..."

"Lei Youliang, when can you bring Xiaoya back?"

Just as he pushed the door open, a woman's cold, questioning voice rang out. In the dim light, a figure stood by the perimeter wall, seemingly having waited for a long time.

"Leilei, you startled me. Are you... just off your shift?"

Lei Youliang was slightly stunned, then greeted her with a smile: "Come on, let's go inside to talk. It's too cold out here!"

"I'm asking you, when can you bring my sister back?"

Su Lei persisted, taking a step forward with no intention of entering the room.

"I can go with you? Good, keep your word, we go together!"

The first thing he did upon opening his eyes was to check the remaining number of people in the Azure Dragon Corps. After one night, he discovered with dismay that the population of the Azure Dragon Corps had dropped to forty-five!

He had originally intended to take advantage of this excellent opportunity to expand the population of Tianmayu, but things went against his wishes; he didn't believe he had the ability to rescue the Azure Dragon Corps from the mouths of a hundred thousand zombies!

Zhang Su put on his slippers and walked to the window. He opened a crack to feel the air, and the exaggerated chill immediately made goosebumps rise on his arms.

A few hours later, the sun arrived as promised to shine upon the earth, but it didn't make anyone feel warm.

"Damn, this is a massive temperature drop!"

Creak!

"So cold?"

"My god, it's so cold!"

"Fine, bye-bye. You'll see Xiaoya tomorrow, don't worry."

Lei Youliang stepped forward and grabbed Su Lei's arm, saying, "Stop being angry. Arranging for Xiaoya to be an undercover agent was to justify giving you two sisters some special treatment. Come on, let's go inside and sit."

Zhang Su rubbed his eyes, dazed. Last night, he had been dragged into chatting about this and that by Fu Weijun, and later, when he lay in bed, he started thinking about the Azure Dragon Corps again, not falling asleep until two or three in the morning. His energy wasn't great right now.

Subduing the survivors of the Azure Dragon Corps was no longer a difficult task for him, but this number made him feel a bit uncomfortable...

Lei Youliang pulled Su Lei over and kissed her on the cheek. Watching her back as she walked away, he revealed an indescribable smile.

In the dim light, Lei Youliang's eyes rolled, and he said in a soft tone: "Soon, tomorrow. Tomorrow we can bring Xiaoya back! If you're that worried, why don't you come with us to pick her up?"

Su Lei frowned and shook off his hand, saying, "Don't always think about taking advantage. Let's wait until Xiaoya is back. That was the agreement. I'm going back to rest now."

Zheng Xinyu hurriedly closed the window. Because of the heating, the room remained above fifteen degrees, making it feel very comfortable, but she didn't know the temperature outside was getting lower and lower.

Zhang Su hurriedly closed the window, feeling somewhat astonished.

In a guest room at Tianmayu's Little Fortune, Zheng Xinyu, having just finished dressing, walked to the windowsill as usual and pushed the window open. A cold wind blew into her face, and she couldn't help but sneeze, her nose turning red and feeling sore.

Su Lei nodded heavily, and after agreeing, she turned and left.

"Achoo!"

"The temperature has indeed dropped."

Zhong Xiaoshan pushed the door open and entered the room, wearing a wool hat and wrapped in a large scarf.

She had gotten up relatively early and had already checked on several wounded people. With the assistance of the thalamus, their injuries were recovering very quickly. Except for Yang Wenjie, who still had some psychological trauma and felt awkward even though her functions had recovered, the others had returned to normal.

"I heard from Zhao Xue that the temperature dropped suddenly last night. It's probably a cold wave passing through. When she started her shift at two in the morning, it was still minus three degrees. By four o'clock, when she went to the bathroom, she felt especially cold. She measured the temperature, and it had dropped to minus fifteen degrees. Just now, Teacher Yu measured it again, and it's minus twenty-two degrees."

Zhang Su quickly dove back into his quilt, saying while getting dressed: "A twenty-degree drop in a few hours. Fine, with zombies as the baseline, nothing is too strange!"

"Wow, minus twenty-two degrees? That means the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors is almost forty degrees. That's so cool! Xiaoshan, this should be a low-temperature record for Qincheng, right?"

Zheng Xinyu walked to the wardrobe and took out her thickest down jacket, showing no anxiety about the low temperature.

Zhong Xiaoshan shrugged and said, "It should be at this level, I guess."

"Damn, it's so cold, even the cars are hard to start!" Zhang Su put on his clothes and realized: "By the way, does the temperature drop have any effect on the zombies?"

"Hmm?"

"Didn't notice..."

Both women were stunned; they hadn't linked the temperature drop to the zombies.

"You two go ahead, I'll go take a look!"

Zhang Su was very concerned about this issue because he still had to go to the Azure Dragon Corps. If the zombies were frozen stiff, he had to hurry even more, because once the threat of the zombies was gone, the survivors of the Azure Dragon Corps would definitely start trying to save themselves, and then subduing them would become difficult.

Walking out of the room, even standing in the corridor separated by a door, he felt the chill. He couldn't help but tighten his down jacket and rub his cheeks.

"Mr. Zhang, it's fortunate that the camp has sufficient reserves, otherwise, many people might not even be able to leave their rooms during this round of massive temperature drops!"

Yu Wen was doing his morning exercises, wearing a blue down jacket. He looked even younger than before, probably because the freezing cold had shrunk his skin. Seeing Zhang Su walk out of Little Fortune, he said in a good mood.

"The temperature drop has a huge impact on us. Are the vegetable sheds, fish ponds, and pipeline facilities okay?"

Zhang Su took out a cigarette and handed one to Yu Wen while asking.

"After learning about the temperature drop last night, Master Jia, Little Guo, and Little Tan worked for two hours and checked all the places that needed maintenance. It's enough to cope with the current situation. Wang Longzhong and I took some villagers from the United Village to light stoves in the greenhouses, the fish ponds have also started heating devices, and the little animals are doing well too."

Yu Wen explained in detail, then looked worried: "However, the reservoir might not hold out for too long. At this low temperature, relying on flow alone is not enough to prevent freezing."

Although Tianmayu is small and the population is only forty-something, there are quite a few projects under development now. To run smoothly, there are many things in every link that need attention.

Yu Wen didn't tell Zhang Su that everyone had previously ignored the temperature of the pig and sheep pens. By the time they remembered, the pigs and sheep were all huddled together shivering. If they had waited until dawn, they would probably be eating meat for every meal for a while...

"The weather is abnormal, tell everyone to stay alert. Are there enough zombies to burn?"

Zhang Su looked at his companions, all bundled up like balls, and worried about the heating issue.

"Enough. The stored zombie corpses are filling the woodshed. At the same volume, the burning rate of zombies is even higher than coal!"

People burning zombies for warmth can be considered a new ecology in the post-disaster world...

"It's freezing as hell. I don't know if the zombies are affected. Any interest in going to take a look together?"

Zhang Su extended an invitation.

"It would be my honor."

Yu Wen stepped on his cigarette butt and followed Zhang Su's footsteps.

In recent times, the work of capturing various zombies in Tianmayu has never stopped. Not only have many petrified-skin zombies been captured from outside, but there are also many ordinary zombies, including those that wandered into the camp, all of which have been captured!

In the past, zombies that wandered into the camp were killed directly and used as fuel, but now that Fu Weijun needs to do experiments, they are all captured alive and locked up with the petrified-skin zombies.

Now, more than fifty zombies of various types are locked in the temple courtyard.

After studying it for a long time, no one knows which Buddha Tianmayu worships or which incense is burned. Anyway, the scenic area just built such a temple to receive incense offerings.

In order not to waste manpower specifically watching the temple courtyard, Liu Tianji specifically changed the position of the camera in the ticket hall, so he could easily monitor the situation in the temple courtyard.

Facts have proven that as long as no living person approaches, in a closed space, zombies will not go crazy for no reason. Only every time a newly captured zombie is transported and thrown into the courtyard will the locked-up zombies react a little, but as long as people leave for a few minutes, the zombies in the courtyard will become quiet again.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 280 =====