Chapter 1154: The Great Ice Age
Volcanoes on the earth continue to erupt for three months, although they continue to erupt, but many volcanoes actually intermittently erupt when they erupt magma and gas, and the reason why it lasts for three months is because after three months, the activity of these volcanoes has slowed down, and finally stopped erupting, even if there are volcanoes still active, but the number of eruptions has decreased.
At this time, the northern hemisphere has reached spring, but it is a pity that even in spring, there is still a solemn atmosphere everywhere, the temperature on the ground is not only not rising, but also decreasing, the sky is covered with a layer of gray-black fog, want to see the distance, it is impossible to let all people wear masks on their faces, some people think that one layer of masks is not enough, and even bring three or four layers.
The reason for this situation is not that there are uncontrollable viruses or bacteria in the population, but that people need to guard against volcanic ash that is likely to appear in the embankment at any time, and almost all areas of Asia have volcanic ash settling, and after the volcanic ash is inhaled into the lungs, it will cause irreversible damage to the lungs, so everyone must wear masks for the sake of safety, so as not to inhale these dusts and make their future more miserable.
Although it is autumn now, in China, whether it is in the south or in the north, it is all a scene of ice and snow slaughter, full of ice and snow, at this time in the past, the ice and snow on the ground have long since melted, but it is a pity that these ice and snow do not have any tendency to melt now.
This is because after the global volcanic eruption, a large amount of sulfur dioxide and acid gas have been released, and after this acid gas is discharged, the temperature in the air plummets, and the overwhelming volcanic ash can block the sun, so that the sunlight cannot shine directly on the ground, and a lot of energy on the earth's surface comes directly from the sun's irradiation, it can be said that without sunlight, both humans and other animals will die, because without light, plants can not photosynthesize.
There is no smile on everyone's face, because many people have been out of food for a long time, and they want to find food, but unfortunately there is no food in stock, so they can only wander the streets, if they see food in front of them, then they have to grab it in their hands, no matter what it is.
In fact, there have been a few acid rains in the Chinese region, these acid rains will burn people's skin after falling on the ground, after all, these are acidic liquids, and when they fall on the body, they will begin to corrode human skin, but human beings can hide in the house, and only need to avoid the attack of acid rain, then in fact, the skin is slightly red and swollen, and it will not cause much damage, and the real harm is the impact of these acid rain on crops.
The growing conditions of crops are very harsh, if the pH of the soil has changed, then these crops will soon die, and after countless acid rain fell in the sky, people found that these acids and the real impact is the growth of crops, a large area of crops have died, and they will not survive the arrival of summer, in the more northern regions, the whole ground is a piece of ice, there is no sign of melting, in this case the crops have already frozen to death.
"What kind of world is this? Why don't good people live long? Is God really going to destroy us humans? How can we survive without food now?" Someone said sadly.
"Don't be too pessimistic, I believe there will be a way to deal with it, we can grow crops in the greenhouse, and use electric lights as a light source to illuminate, so that the temperature is also there, the light is also there, and there is no need to worry about acid rain from the outside world, we will definitely be able to grow crops." Although he knew that the current situation was very dangerous, there were still people who tried to comfort the people around him as much as possible.
Many cities are counting on the fact that they can harvest winter wheat after the winter has passed, but unfortunately a violent volcanic eruption has made people's ideas frustrated, because they find that even if they harvest wheat, they can no longer do it, because the wheat has been frozen to death before the filling period, and it is impossible to obtain food at this time, as for those cities with food, they do not dare to relax their control over food, because once they lose food, they lose the ability to stabilize people's hearts.
Even if it's all the time
In Yuzhou, where grain is hoarded, there is now a shortage of grain, and even ordinary bud rice is no longer sustainable, and many people need to go to the wild to dig wild vegetables or peel tree bark to satisfy their hunger.
After Shen Feng returned to Yuzhou, he immediately instructed people to act quickly, be sure to build enough greenhouses, and then plant crops, but unfortunately in a hurry, it is not so easy to build enough greenhouses, even if there is plastic film, there is land is not so easy to build, the limited resources determine that the construction can not be completed immediately.
Through Lin Yue's intelligence, Shen Feng learned that the people already had a lot of grievances, and they seemed to be resentful, and they had been unable to eat enough recently, so they all wanted to break out into protests now.
"If we don't have enough food, the people below will definitely make trouble, and then it will be really bad." Lin Yue replied.
"This matter is simple, if you want to solve the food crisis, there is a place to grow food, and the production of those vegetable greenhouses is very limited, and it is completely impossible to establish a food production system in this case!" Shen Feng said irritably.
Shen Feng naturally knows the importance of food, so he has been hoarding food, but unfortunately the previous war consumed a lot of resources, especially food, the war is completely a bottomless pit, I don't know how much food has been put into the war, so a large amount of grain has been consumed, and now the food has to supply a large number of people, so the food in his hands seems to be stretched.
"City Lord, I once heard the news that there used to be researchers from the Academy of Sciences who could use carbon dioxide to synthesize starch, if we could get this technology, wouldn't there be no more famine, after all, the carbon dioxide content in the air is still very high!" Lin Yue suddenly thought of this matter.
"It's a simple thing, the technology to synthesize starch from carbon dioxide has indeed been developed, but do you know how much energy it consumes? I don't know how much electricity it takes to produce that gram of starch, so instead of using energy to synthesize starch with carbon dioxide, it is better to use this energy for light, and it can also make the crops in the greenhouse grow better!" After Shen Feng heard this suggestion, he immediately scoffed at it, obviously not wanting to believe in this technology.
Shen Feng has also heard that some scientists can use carbon dioxide to synthesize starch, this technology is also a representative of the era, human beings can fix carbon dioxide in the air without relying on crops, and even if they are sailing in the stars, they can use this technology in the future, but this technology is not mature yet, and if you want to synthesize a gram of starch, the energy required is very huge.
Shen Feng has a headache now, he wants to ask for assistance to buy food from other places, but this idea is not realistic at all, because his two largest buyers have already been hit hard, first of all, in the northeast direction, the Changbai Mountain volcano has erupted, so a large area around it has been buried by volcanic ash, countless crops have died, and in Southeast Asia, it is even more of a hard-hit area, almost no human beings have escaped from there, and it is even more impossible to farm there.
As for the other cities, even if they have some grain in their hands, they don't dare to sell it now, because everyone knows that food is fundamental, and whether they can survive this ice age can only depend on whether the food in their hands is sufficient.
Not to mention that it is already very miserable in China, those people in other regions are even more miserable, because the number of people in these other places is small, and many places have lost their basic production capacity, and now there is volcanic ash everywhere, the global air has become cold in an instant, and the people in other countries have already collapsed, and they cannot form an effective organization at all, and even some places have begun to eat people, which is not an exception, but the situation in most areas.
One of the most tragic is the lighthouse country, where the Yellowstone volcano is also a super volcano, after an instant eruption, a volcanic eruption of magnitude 7 was formed, a large amount of volcanic ash obscured the sky, completely destroyed the western region, and the eastern region has also been hit hard, countless people have flocked to the eastern region, and countless food production bases around the Great Lakes region have also been devastated, and now there is a famine
The wealthy traveled south by boat to Central America, where the climate was warmer and crops could barely be grown without starvation.
The second most miserable are Europe and the island nations.
Europe was originally a state of small countries and widows, and these countries could unite in the face of danger, but when they faced real natural disasters, they still had to fight on their own, so in the end, they also tightened the food in their hands, and let the people under their hands wait to be fed, but they did not dare to provide disaster relief at all, because as long as they provided relief, in an instant, these grains would be snatched up.
As for the direction of the island country, it was originally a country with volcanoes, full of mountains, and areas where food could be grown, that is, around the islands.
As a result, two or three volcanoes erupted at the same time, among which the eruption of Mt. Fuji was the most tragic, so that the entire Tokyo area could not see the sun, and the volcano would kill 90% of the people when it fell, and the rest of the people did not dare to stay for long, all of them had fled, and this bustling big city and international city was finally destroyed under the volcano.
This time, I don't know how many countries have put out fires because of volcanic eruptions, and the whole world has reached the brink of collapse, especially human beings, whose organizational ability has been severely hit, because without food, such people cannot be organized.
However, although human beings have suffered a catastrophe, there is also good news, because the ancient sky of the volcanic eruption is full of volcanic ash, once when the volcanic eruption was the most violent, you can't see the sun at all when you look up, you can only see the red clouds in the sky, and the black snowflakes are still falling, in this case, the sunlight exposure is suddenly reduced, so the plants on the earth have also been hit hard, especially these mutated cyanobacteria on the sea, In an instant, a large number of cyanobacteria have fallen into a situation of extinction.
Originally, the impact of the mutation of these insects on the earth was already unbearable, but now a large number of cyanobacteria on the earth have disappeared, so the ability to produce oxygen has greatly decreased, so it didn't take long for the oxygen concentration on the earth to gradually fall, and the decline in oxygen concentration directly made the insects unable to continue to increase in size.
The body structure of insects has a very fatal flaw, that is, these insects have no lung structure, their breathing is carried out by the tracheal system, and their tracheal system breathing ability is relatively weak, as long as they soak in the water for a while, many insects will be killed, so just like locusts and the like, many insects are very disgusted with water, and whether their size can increase depends on the oxygen concentration in the air, when the oxygen concentration on the earth drops, the oxygen that these insects can obtain is further reduced, In other words, these insects that are now mutating have reached a dead end, even if they continue to mutate, they will not be able to get enough oxygen, and they can only suffocate to death in the end, and if they want to live, they can only continue to mutate and make themselves as small as possible.
No one thought that the crisis of these insects on the earth was not solved by human beings, but by the earth itself, because a volcanic eruption directly caused a large number of plants on the earth to begin to die, so the oxygen concentration further decreased, and finally countless insects could only continue to shrink in size, otherwise they would not survive.