The people of Merric City recognize Stephen Hawking as a good standard-bearer, and the city needs him, and they need him.

But that doesn't mean they like him.

In the eyes of people, Kane always seemed to be superior, and they knew that it was not Kane who was deliberately alienated, but that he was indeed not with them, in the words of a technician: "I still don't know what he wants." ”

People even made private bets about it, and it turned out that both coquettish women, handsome men, and beautiful and lovely boys and girls failed, even gold and precious stones.

And since Kane has two more foxes by his side, his overall image has improved, at least the children are not as afraid of Kane as they used to be.

The children's hearts are purer, and there are some acumen that adults don't have, and they are instinctively afraid of Kane, and some children call him a cold corpse.

The fox's cries are actually not good, they are strange, and they are not right at all, but they are really cute. It's very important, and they're a good sight to be with Kane.

Kane is so capable of walking, many people think that Kane has to walk about three times as much as an ordinary worker every day, because he seems to be everywhere, teaching, instructing, supporting, and demonstrating, and his specific work seems to be all this every day, but because it involves too many fields, he is always busy.

Of course, anyone with a discerning eye knows that these details are not actually the leader's business, the leader's business is to strategize, and Kane is working part-time as a teacher, teaching everyone how to work efficiently in practice.

On the 23rd of May, the 14th, another mass hunt was carried out, including Tom's sleigh and even the large transporter.

This was about the last hunting trip before the catastrophe, and there was basically only one name, picking up corpses.

When the sun is about to set, the returning team sees the glow of the hot air balloon, the fortified castle standing on the edge of the cliff, and the lights of the buildings in the deep pit, which makes people feel warm and reassuring.

This is their home, where they survive in this cruel world.

Vehicles don't need to go down, especially large transport vehicles, which can't be transported by lift, they are parked in castles, and people take the key components with the steam core as the main body like taking the battery of an electric car, transport them to the energy tower, and recharge them.

It's freezing and the tower has begun to operate around the clock, but it is mostly low during the day, and at the coldest time of the night, it already needs to be pressurized.

This means that the Portal is already a bit untenable, and it will need to be upgraded at least once before the Celestial Veil is fully pushed over.

And to upgrade, you have to build a steel mill first.

The mill can produce not only the materials needed for upgrades, but also the materials used in the construction of insulated premises.

Tents alone can't withstand the extreme cold, everyone knows that.

What people don't know is that Kane intends to popularize the use of 'ondol', which is obviously not comparable to ordinary wooden beds.

The principle of the ondol is to lengthen the S-shaped flue, and the waste heat is utilized, so that the smoke of the stove fire is coiled in it, and finally it is discharged from the chimney with the principle of hot air flow.

There are two limitations to its use, one is the need for clay. The material requirements for building the flue are not high, but the kang board is more troublesome, and it is not impossible to use wood, but one is that the material is not small, and the other is to solve the sealing problem.

Luckily, there's no shortage of clay in Merrico City, and people often complain about the muddy ground after the snow melts in the area caused by the Portal. The dry grass he asked people to collect from the tundra is also an important material for making kang boards, which play a role similar to bamboo tendons and steel bars, so as to avoid the dried kang boards from being hard and brittle and easy to break.

Of course, there is another important point of the ondol project, which is that it requires a lot of labor, but fortunately there are robots, and the earthwork can be handed over to them.

From the 15th day, Kane began to devote a lot of manpower to the firing of clay bricks.

The biggest difference between adobe bricks and green bricks and red bricks is that the latter has more firing processes. Ordinary clay kiln burning bricks is very firepower-intensive, and Kane did not add this step. He even basically filtered out the important adobe brick shade drying program, not that time.

In this case, the strength of the bricks is very problematic, especially if it cannot bear the load, so it is necessary to use the frame structure, and use concrete made of earth cement, steel bars, and stones to make the frame.

This kind of house is not as warm as the house used in England, but there is no way, there are no better building materials to choose from, and the simple wooden house is better than the tent, but not as good as the adobe house with this frame structure.

In order not to waste labor, Kane deliberately designed the house to leave room for internal shelling.

and other better building materials are mass-produced, and a sandwich is built to further strengthen the cold protection effect.

Kane's ultimate vision is this.

First of all, adding a cover to the city, even if it is an ice sheet, can prevent ultra-low temperatures from wreaking havoc directly.

The second is the thermal energy field composed of the thermal radiation shield of the energy tower, which can counteract the low temperature to a considerable extent.

Then there are the adobe houses and the heated mezzanine.

Then comes the final layer of insulation.

The inner layer is the room, the inner layer is heated, the stove is standby, and the kang and quilt are added.

If you still freeze to death in such a situation, then die, all the tricks are exhausted!

So actually from this day on, everything was done around keeping warm in extreme temperatures. As for how to spend the long winter after the curtain closes, we can only wait and see.

Building materials have to be manufactured, and steel mills can no longer be delayed. Suffice it to say, to survive the extreme cold, most of the steel materials in Merric City can be re-used in the steel mill.

Otherwise, the properties of the steel will be destroyed by ultra-low temperatures and will not function properly. Including the Portal, it is possible that it will break down at that time.

If you really want to do that, it is equivalent to extinguishing the fire, and even if you carry the extreme cold, you will still die like a vehicle that can't catch fire.

The people of Merric City have never seen the ultra-low temperature of 150 degrees, or in other words, there are only a handful of people in this world who have seen that temperature and survive. They couldn't imagine what kind of horror it was.

In order to make people realize the gravity, Kane made a metaphor: a completely burning, red-hot coal fire will be completely extinguished in a very short time. It can be said that if you expect to build a tower with coal, and then completely ignite it at a critical moment, and people get into the tower to survive, they will still freeze to death.

People will be skeptical, but many will believe, or rather, they will believe it. On the one hand, he can't afford to lose his life, and on the other hand, Kane hasn't missed it so far.

This is a very remarkable phenomenon, Merric City is in the ascendant, there are so many things to do every day, Kane has something to say, and it has made people gradually develop the subconscious of 'listen to him'.

The rain will be full of wind, and on May 24, the 15th day of Kane's administration, going out has become a very dangerous thing.

Gale force winds of magnitude 8-10, rolling up snow and sweeping, visibility of less than 5 meters, loud roars from 1 meter away will be covered by the wind and cannot be heard, coupled with an average temperature of minus 45 degrees, this is definitely extreme weather that kills people.

Kane stopped the hunting and exploration groups and focused on building inside, and everyone felt that it was the right choice.

Of course, some people can't help but sigh, like Tom, who sighed during a nap after dinner: "I don't know how many people will die outside in this hellish weather." ”

Some people don't like to listen to it, and say, "But most of those people are not innocent!"

Tom glared at the man.

The other party also glared back without showing weakness: "Am I wrong? Who took most of the already few supplies from us when we were most in need." ”

Tom retorted: "What if you go out to find rescue, and you are not well prepared?"

The other party laughed, "Yes, you really need to be well prepared, and women have to be prepared to be around, and it is not easy to freeze at night, right!?"

The other party's yin and yang weirdness made Tom angry: "Why didn't you say it at the time?"

The man was also angry, so he simply didn't go around the corner, and said coldly: "When the gang of cousins in New London ransacked, Old Buck and the others questioned a few words, and they were casually convicted and shot to death. After they left, the only weapons in the town were in your hands, and in less than two months, you had the previous leader executed, and when you discussed the issue of going out to ask for help, how many people did you think would dare to take it hard?"

"You!" Tom wanted to retort, but realized that when discussing whether or not to go out for help, the group of people who didn't want to sit still and wait for help were indeed arrogant, so he said, "It turns out that going out and asking for help is the right choice." ”

"Yes, a new leader has been found through the SOS mark. ”

Tom's expression turned gloomy and he said, "So, you blame shit luck for this?"

The man pouted: "Don't, we can't afford this statement, we are not so cold, you have found Hawking, everyone is grateful to you, little Nelson is still bedridden, do you have a complaint? But you have to understand, you are you, they are them." ”

The man added: "We believe that not all those who go out to ask for help have fulfilled their promises. For others, asking for help is a beautiful phrase, fleeing is the truth, and seeing that New Cambridge can't get any more, they leave as soon as possible to join other places of refuge. Leave those who can't even escape to die. ”

Naturally, Tom didn't like to hear it. At the beginning, it was these people who were constantly at odds with each other, and they were responsible for the small problems of who contributed more and who contributed less, the distribution of work and the corresponding unfair remuneration, and New Cambridge tried to run on its own after being plundered of resources by New London, and failed.

In the later period, it was the same them, the dragons were leaderless, uncompromising with each other, and sitting on empty seats, so he felt that the other party said that the people who went out to ask for help would leave them to die, which was a shame.

But it is fair to say that these people who went out to ask for help also did not do much well for a period of time after New London plundered the city's supplies.

Later, I did see that the situation was not good, and I still had a plan to escape and go out to find life.

Then I heard the man say again: "The refugees of New Sheffield, you take them back, we can accept them, they are innocent people who have been affected." But if it is those who ask for help, we will give you a clear answer now, and we will resolutely oppose it. You get them back, and we'll go to Stephen Hawking for a critique. ”

The New Sheffield refugees were the more than 20 people from the so-called investigation team who were sheltered not long ago.

When they were kicked out of New Sheffield, nearly two-thirds of the more than 60 people died of hunger and cold.

And the source of the misery is that they were once citizens of New London.

The plan could not catch up with the changes, the materials could not be transported in place as planned, coupled with speculation and the damage to the public and private interests, so that New London only operated for less than half a year, and then the business failed, and there was a huge shortage of materials.

In order to solve the problem, New London not only plundered the material reserves of other refuges, but also carried out the release of the population.

For example, 50 skilled workers and 100 laborers were originally reserved for running the city, but now they are changed to 30 and 60, and 40% is cut directly, and if there is a shortage of manpower, then the low-level nobles will take the top.

The people who were cut down were distributed to the various shelters for food.

The new Sheffield people were robbed of their resources, and naturally they were not happy, and they could not tolerate the more than 60 mouths that were stuffed.

In terms of the essence of attitude, the New Sheffield people are actually the same as Kane, they are all about first come, first come, first come, about you, about us, about them. It's just that Kane has the ability to digest this group of people and doesn't let them eat white food, so he seems more humane, while the New Field people feel that they can't afford to live, so they don't want to accept these refugees and leave them to fend for themselves.

Tom was originally the liaison of New Cambridge, and he knew all the places of refuge on the Eastern Front, especially the nearby ones, so to speak. So he helped the refugees in time.

This has aroused the vigilance of the self-established society of the labor union, because Tom's popularity and prestige are already very large, and when he finds Kane, everyone remembers his kindness, and the newly rescued ones are even more grateful to him.

Now as soon as I heard that his voice was wrong, I immediately jumped out and targeted it.

As the so-called obedient and obedient, what does it mean for you Tom to express this attitude with great fanfare?

Absolutely not!

Oh, when it was declining here, it just scraped a handful of resources and ran away, and now that it is prosperous, you want to come back and enjoy the fruits of your labor?

Moreover, those people do not agree with the short-sighted, small-bellied chicken intestines of the labor union (they themselves do not admit it), but they can work hard without fear of hardship and tiredness if they have no choice (in fact, a clear hope), and it is difficult to communicate and coordinate. The Labor Union did not want Merric City to be filled with such people.

Tom, on the other hand, even wanted to gather all the survivors in the nearby area......