The black clouds rolled in, covering the entire eastern sky.
However, the temperature did not drop with the sudden arrival of these clouds; instead, the entire land became even more oppressively hot.
Bai flapped its wings vigorously, flying straight toward the shelter. Lin Yue turned back to look at those clouds and noticed that their speed was inexplicably fast. In a short amount of time, they had gone from covering a third of the sky to nearly half!
Even the sun was partially obscured, dividing the earth into two colors, black and white.
"What kind of strange sight is this?" Lin Yue turned his head back, knowing that this time the disaster was definitely serious according to the system.
Once all the clouds covered the earth, the temperature wouldn’t drop; instead, it would rise!
The principle behind this has already been answered by plastic greenhouses or, perhaps, Venus over on Earth provided a clear answer.
"It will probably get even hotter... Of course, if it were just a cloud over the desert, it wouldn’t be so bad, but this is the system—when it does something, it goes to the extreme, like making an earthquake happen across the entire Otherworld."
Lin Yue turned his head back, no longer looking at the clouds that were gradually catching up.
Why wouldn’t the system let the entire mass of clouds cover the Otherworld?
He could also foresee that several hours later, under the clouds in the pitch-black sky and on the earth being roasted by high heat, a hellish scene of fiery tornadoes connecting heaven and earth would unfold.
As Bai gradually descended in altitude, Lin Yue also saw the roof of the shelter. By now, the clouds had already covered most of the sky, and their speed was quite frightening.
Jumping off Bai, Lin Yue saw Xiaomeng and the others opening the door and coming out, as if to greet them, seemingly quite happy.
"Go back inside. The temperature outside is almost 50 degrees Celsius." Lin Yue glanced at the thermometer on the wall and couldn’t help but feel a sense of dread.
degrees Celsius is extreme even on Earth, a temperature that makes one want to cling to the air conditioner and never let go.
And in this Otherworld, the way most people cope with the heat might just be hiding in the basement, using wooden slats as fans to get through such difficult times.
At the nitrate ore earlier, he traded away about seventeen to eighteen thousand blocks of nitrate, and these only brought in over nine thousand alloys, old appliances, parts, and so on.
Thus, this nine thousand or so Refugee Village can cope with the disaster, survive this "extreme heat," the first stage of the catastrophe.
As for whether they can successfully survive the second stage of giant hail and fiery tornadoes, it depends on how sturdy they can build their shelter.
If anyone ends up using something like ordinary wood as the primary material for their shelter, then in underground ruins that are even hotter than above ground, these two-tiered disasters will mark them as those who are eliminated by this catastrophe!
One would think no one would be so foolish.
It’s been more than thirty days, and if they are still relying solely on wood as the main material for a survival shelter, then they are truly far from ordinary.
Not to mention that a fiery tornado would burn it up instantly, and even a single strike of giant hail would be unbearable.
Thinking about this, Lin Yue quickly checked around within the shelter’s walls.
Since the disappearance of the medium warehouse, aside from the Melting Furnace, every building in this huge shelter area has been covered by a hard shell with an alloy interior and stone exterior, enough to withstand the arrival of giant hail and fiery tornadoes.
Of course, the Melting Furnace can’t always be left outside exposed to the elements, so it and the integrated Forging Workshop were naturally well protected by Lin Yue and placed in the underground warehouse.
If there’s any place that’s a bit lacking, it’s the outer stone walls.
However, Lin Yue doesn’t plan to strengthen them further. After this disaster, he intends to further expand the main shelter’s surroundings!
With resources continuously increasing, the narrow space currently enclosed by the shelter will become an obstacle. In the absence of a confirmed location for a secondary shelter and finding a suitable site, expansion here is naturally necessary.
Of course, if a suitable location for a secondary shelter can be found, Lin Yue will build it just one.
If the stone walls are destroyed, there’s no need to pay too much attention. Mutant creatures are more sensitive to disasters, and so far today, he hasn’t come across any mutants. Even yesterday’s buried mutant sheep corpse didn’t attract any insects or such, indicating they have likely hidden in places that can resist disasters, just like before.
And with no mutant creatures around, there’s no need to worry about the shelter’s safety even at night, especially with the Medium Electric Guard Machine Gun Platform, which can serve some purpose in case of an emergency.
After a final check to make sure nothing was missed, Lin Yue finally returned to the shelter. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮※𝓷𝓮𝓽
The long-lost cool air instantly enveloped him, and the convenience and comfort brought by technology once again made Lin Yue grateful to the inventor of the air conditioner.
"Gawu." Bai, finally seeing its master return, watched him head straight to the bathroom and decided to go to the underground little Ice Lizard house to enjoy itself.
Lin Yue covered his body with shower gel, tossed the clothes he’d been wearing all day into the washing machine, and let the slightly warm water rinse away the sweat and exhaustion from his body.