Chapter 272 The family is reunited!

   Through Mr. Zhong's channel, news soon came back from the opposite side.

   The result is not too bad from what Zhang Tianyuan thought.

   "The evacuation convoy of Baker and others has been lost for half an hour. According to the last news, they were trapped in a snowstorm shortly after departure..."

   After listening to the report, Zhang Tianyuan and Zhong Lao looked at each other.

   Everyone is a little unexpected.

   Zhang Tianyuan remembers this plot, but he has no obligation or motivation to remind the other side.

   The opposite party is not a member of the Mutual Rescue Association, and does not accept any opinions of the Mutual Rescue Association. The two sides do not say that there is no relationship at all, at least it can be said that there is no relationship at all.

   With such a relationship, he told the other side to be more careful when evacuating, but the other side would think that he wanted to help others as a "pleasure", right?

   Besides, the opposite side is against Mutual Rescue everywhere. Although it is Baker who has come forward, it must be the authorization of the entire class, or at least the acquiescence, that guy can exert such great energy.

   In other words, these people can be said to be his enemies.

   So let him remind the enemy and save his life, and the other party may not appreciate it...

   His head was not broken.

   But what Zhang Tianyuan didn't expect was that this guy Baker actually got in.

   is different from Zhang Tianyuan's complex ideas.

Zhong Lao next to    was completely unexpected about this.

   He frowned deeply, and instinctively felt that there was something tricky in it: "Didn't they ask comrades from the Mutual Rescue Association to help them rescue? Captain Wang is over there."

   The assistant replied: "They said that they had just sent out a call to Captain Wang for help, and they had been trying to rescue them by their own strength before."

   Even Zhang Tianyuan reacted.

  Baker and the others are afraid that they will be "heroically killed"...

   So, he turned to someone to contact Wang Lei and asked him to report what he had just received.

"We've just received a search and rescue request from their National Guard and we're ready to respond. But our car is either in the south, or in New York, and there's no one near Washington, and it will take at least a few hours to get there. …”

have to.

a couple of hours.

  Baker and the others will all be turned into ice sculptures by then.

   In other words, they may have become ice sculptures by now.

After    ended the call with Wang Lei, Zhang Tianyuan contacted Carl again and informed him of the result.

  Baker should have cooled down by now. Let’s see when you can go to dinner.

  Karl was also silent for a long time when he heard the news, and then muttered to himself: "Fortunately, the agreement has been signed before, and the relevant records are also kept..."

   Hanging up the phone, Zhang Tianyuan shook his head, not knowing what would happen to the other side in the future.

   Old Zhong also said on the side: "The opposite will be in chaos for a while."

   Zhang Tianyuan said: "Just don't fight."

  …

New York.

  Although there are thick clouds, the sky is still getting brighter.

   Jack, who had been entangled for half the night, was still beside the stove when he heard a scream from outside.

   He subconsciously woke up, and then followed the people around him who were also awakened.

   walked through the corridor to a hall, and a group of people had already formed a vague circle.

  The orangutan police officer leaned over to Jack.

"What's wrong?"

   "He...he doesn't move..."

   A girl in the crowd trembled a little. Following her fingers, Jack saw a pale-faced man curled up beside the wall, and even such a loud noise around him could not wake him up.

   This person will never wake up.

  Jack was silent for a while, and said, "Remove him and send him to a place where no one else is."

Officer    orangutan nodded, and soon ordered a few officers, found a thin cloth to wrap the person and took them away.

   The entire library is as quiet as death in the process.

  Everyone standing everywhere stared at the orangutan police officers and their movements, as if they were not moving someone else, but their future selves.

  Jack slowed down for a while, then added some wood to the brazier in the hall to make the fire burn more vigorously. But this is more like a kind of psychological comfort. In terms of physical sensation, he didn't feel the temperature rising at all, and the air inhaled into his lungs was still as cold as an ice needle, which directly pierced his stomach.

   This is because they made a vent in the front of the brazier. The efficiency of the brazier heating the air is far less than the speed at which the cold air from outside is pouring in.

   There is no way, if you want to avoid suffocating people, you have to ventilate.

   But it was ventilated and the temperature dropped again.

  If there is no fire and no ventilation, then people will freeze to death directly...

   They had no choice at all.

   "Dad, is there anything else we can do?" Sam did not know when he appeared next to Jack, still holding Laura's hand.

  Jack glanced at his son and shook his head: "No, all we can do is keep adding firewood to the brazier."

   Even after working in Antarctica for a long time, Jack is still helpless. All the supplies he brought yesterday have been distributed to the people in the library.

   but it still doesn't seem to help.

   In the following time, everyone was very low, leaning against each other and living with the lowest power consumption.

   Even Jack.

  With the support of various materials, he is no different from others.

  The cold weather always makes people drowsy.

   Just when Sam was already pecking at the rice, a sound came from outside.

   "The storm is coming, we are here to distribute supplies to everyone... The storm is coming..."

  Sam suddenly woke up, and then Jack and Laura, who were beside him, also rubbed their eyes and looked in confusion in the direction of the sound.

   "Somebody out there!"

  Jack listened to this sentence, suddenly thought of something, rushed to the front of the window a few times and peeled off the wooden board sealed on it——

   Outside is the Mutual Rescue Association's sled team!

   He suddenly cheered up.

   Although he didn’t know what was going on, he knew that the arrival of the Mutual Rescue Association would be absolutely beneficial and harmless to them, which was 100% good news!

   "Sam, come with me!"

  Jack ordered a few people, and Sam led the way downstairs, just in time to meet the sled team.

"Hey!"

  Jack waved and rushed over.

   Coincidentally, he knew a man in the sled team. His name was Chen Song. He met when he was studying in Wandering Time and Space——

   "Chen! Here I am, Jack!!"

The   sled team stopped slowly after seeing them coming out, and Chen Song, who was called by Jack, was even more surprised: "Jack? It's actually you!"

   Yesterday, Jack's protective suit was out of power. After the signal disappeared, the rescue team thought he was dead.

  Jack grinned and hugged Chen Song and other members of the Mutual Rescue Association deeply before asking their intentions.

   Chen Song said: "We are here to deliver coal to the survivors in the city."

   He pointed to the small cargo box pulled at the back of the car, which was also covered with a layer of cloth, which was simply pressed with a few pieces of frozen coal.

  Jack's eyes lit up when he saw this.

  Chen Song also knew what he was thinking. He asked the number of people in his library with a smile, and Jack answered truthfully.

   Hearing that there were more than 300 people, Chen Song nodded, and then said to other colleagues: "Look at this library is quite big, why don't we choose this one?"

   When the others heard his words, they also looked up at the overall appearance of the library, and then nodded.

  Jack didn't understand what Chen Song meant.

   "What are you going to do?"

Chen Song patted him, motioned him to take himself into the library, and said, "After we received the coal sent by the headquarters yesterday, we studied it carefully, and thought that sending the coal directly would not maximize the value, it would be dead. People who are involved in various accidents are certainly indispensable.

  So we decided to adapt to the situation, gather all the survivors who have the conditions in one place, and then use coal for central heating…”

  Chen Song said as he led people around the library to investigate, and quickly selected a few places in Jack's surprised eyes.

   "That's it, transport the coal to these rooms."

   Soon, in the crowd watching, soldiers wearing exoskeletons carried boxes of coal into the library and dumped them directly in the designated room.

   In less than half an hour, a small mountain of coal was piled up in several rooms.

   Until now, Jack didn't understand what Chen Song and the others wanted to do.

   "Are you going to burn all these coals next?"

  Chen Song said with a smile: "Yes, it's unrealistic to transfer all of you out, and we don't have extra time to build a safety point, so we can only ignite these coals to help you keep warm."

   "Seal these coals in the outer room and burn them. We will seal the door again. You retreat to the inner position of the library, so that it will not be affected."

   When Chen Song was talking, the other soldiers had already started to set fire, and the hill-like coals slowly began to burn.

   Afterwards, everyone exited the room, and then cleaned up the flammable materials outside to ensure that after the door was burned, the fire would not spread to the entire library, and then sealed the surrounding passages to reduce air flow.

After the coal piles in these rooms continue to burn for a period of time, the heat will be slowly transferred to the interior of the library through the walls. As long as Jack and the others stay there, it is not as comfortable as turning on the heater, but at least they will not be affected by the heat. so cold.

   And after the burning temperature in the room is high, the glass of the window is broken, and the cold wind and snowflakes will blow in from the window, which can just play a role in cooling, so there is no need to worry about the problem of overheating.

   This is the new plan that Wang Lei came up with after receiving the new order.

  Although it cannot be 100% perfect, and it may even cause a fire, it solves the ventilation problem when burning coal.

   One does not need to continue to strike a balance between ventilation and temperature.

   After Chen Song did all this, other soldiers also mobilized the surrounding people and took them into the library for refuge.

   Soon, the library began to be crowded with people, and the noisy voices continued.

During the    period, Jack watched as the library was quickly transformed into a large artificial furnace by Chen Song and his party. The temperature that could have frozen people to death slowly began to rise.

   Even…

   "It's a little hot!"

   People leaning against the wall could already feel the heat coming from their backs, and their foreheads started to sweat.

Everyone around    started to take off their coats, or went to the inner room of the library, where it was cooler.

  Sam took off a coat, and he admired the methods of the Mutual Rescue Team just now. They were worried about whether they would freeze to death, but now they seem to be worried about whether they will be overheated.

  Thinking of this, Sam's eyes drifted to Laura.

  Laura gave him a strange look when she saw this.

"What's wrong?"

  Sam touched his nose and said, "Are you hot, I can help you get your coat."

  Laura: "...Rogue!"

  …

   Southern border.

   Tom, who had already retreated here with the main force, huddled on the sofa to rest. Since the California tornado, he has hardly slept, and even on the way back, he has been dealing with various official duties.

   But before he slept for a few minutes, he was called up again.

The    assistant reported the latest situation to him.

"Reports from NASA that the International Space Station has just detected an anomaly in New York... A storm is heading there, and the eye of the wind is extremely cold, and the cold air from the upper sky is being brought to the surface in large quantities, which is expected to blow the surface every second. The temperature dropped ten degrees..."

  The assistant handed over the report, Tom took it, and without looking at it, he got up and looked for something.

   "What do you want?"

   "The report sent before the Mutual Rescue Club, do you know where it is?"

The    assistant was quickly found.

  Tom compared the two reports and let out a sigh of relief:

   "Sure enough! This situation has been predicted by them for a long time, and the result is exactly the same."

   "How is the situation in New York now?"

The assistant said: "We have completely lost contact, but the rescue team of the Mutual Rescue Society is still operating there. I heard that they just brought back a group of people yesterday."

   "Is there Jack in there?" Tom continued to ask.

The assistant shook his head: "I don't know, but until now, we haven't received any news from him in our bureau, so it shouldn't be in there."

  Tom's heart sank, and he always felt like he had forgotten something.

   "Jack...Lucy...How's Lucy?!"

   He seems to have forgotten Lucy!

  Jack and Sam in New York.

   Lucy was also forgotten by herself in Washington...

   This family is gone!

  If Lucy hears Tom's question, she will tell him not to worry.

   Because she is also at the border now.

  Although Baker and the others were already cold, a temporary camp was successfully built here.

The convoy of the    Mutual Rescue Society put down all the critically ill patients here, and then turned around and continued to the north.

   Lucy got off the bus with Peter, and finally communicated with the camp staff and arranged a bed for Peter.

   Before she could catch her breath, she heard an urgent news on the radio in the camp:

   "The 'prophecy' of the Mutual Rescue Association came true again. A low-temperature storm is hitting New York. According to the preliminary forecast, the temperature in the eye of the wind is close to -98°C. The rescue team of the Mutual Rescue Association and the New Yorkers are facing difficult challenges..."

   Hearing this, Lucy felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.

   (end of this chapter)