Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 573 After the Disaster
The storm arrived earlier than Perfecto had expected.

In other words, the front of the storm affected Langton earlier than the main body of the storm.

"The temperature has dropped. It's really cold today!" Hughie, who got up early, rubbed his arms, hugged his arms to his chest, hunched over, and tried to keep himself as warm as possible.

But this can only provide some psychological comfort and cannot really warm up his body.

Huey didn't care about it and just walked along the street.

He was working on the energy tower. When the energy tower was running, the surrounding temperature was not low. He just needed to endure it.

There was still water on the streets. Although it had almost receded, some low-lying areas still had water that was deep enough to cover Hughie's ankles, which forced Hughie to be extremely careful.

After all, the weather is already very cold. If you step into a puddle, getting your shoes wet is the least of your worries. But if your feet remain cold, you will get sick in this kind of weather.

Besides, he still has to work today, and it would be inconvenient to work with water in his shoes, especially since he still has to climb the energy tower. If he slips on water, it would be fatal.

Huey hadn't walked far when he felt his whole body warm up, which made him feel refreshed. Even his walking posture changed and he straightened his back again.

This certainly wasn't because Huey had heated himself up from walking all the way. For Huey, who was wearing thin clothes and hadn't eaten anything in the morning, it would have been impossible for him to warm up through exercise unless he ran around the block twice.

The reason why he felt the warmth was because he had entered the heating field of the energy tower.

The energy tower built by Perfectcot in Langton naturally has a constant temperature barrier like the one in the North, so it can naturally create a relatively warm environment in an area.

Although the energy tower is not running at full power because winter has not yet arrived, the temperature inside the heating field is only slightly higher than the outside world.

But this temperature difference of a few degrees is enough to make ordinary people like Huey feel warm all over.

Huey, who had warmed up, quickly came to the bottom of the energy tower, greeted his fellow workers, and received today's rations. Then he changed into work clothes and prepared to go up the tower to work.

The energy tower he maintained was one of the energy towers damaged in the previous tsunami. Although it has been restored to use after emergency repairs, it was flooded by the tsunami after all, so there are still some impacts.

That's why workers like Huey are needed to go up to the tower every day to carry out inspections and maintenance.

Hughie's job is not complicated. It is to check whether the pipeline pressure on the energy tower is normal. If there is abnormal pressure, the valve must be opened and closed in time to adjust it to avoid the pressure exceeding or falling below the working pressure.

During the previous tsunami, a lot of seawater entered the boiler of the energy tower. The crystallization of the seawater after evaporation caused blockage in the pipelines and heat exchangers. Although the situation is not very serious and can be cleaned up, it is a very complicated and troublesome task to clean it up.

Therefore, Perfect only repaired the damaged parts. As for the maintenance and cleaning work, it had to be postponed temporarily. At least until the typhoon passed, personnel could be arranged to carry out cleaning and maintenance.

But for Hughie, this was actually good for him.

After all, if there was no problem with the energy tower, he wouldn't need to climb up the tower every day for inspection and maintenance.

For Hughie, this is related to his livelihood. You know, it is very difficult for Langton to find a job with little benefits like this now.

Or to be more precise, it was hard to find a job. After climbing up the tower and walking along the maintenance passage, Huey checked that all the pressure gauges were within the normal range. Then he sat down on a small maintenance platform on the top of the tower and took out today's rations to eat.

From his position he could overlook most of the inner city area, and if he looked far away he could even see the outer city area outside the city walls.

This is a location with great views. If it were in the past, looking at the bustling and noisy Langton would make people fully feel the decadence and extravagance of this most prosperous metropolis in the world.

But the scenery that I see nowadays is really hard to describe as good.

Even with the city walls blocking the way, many buildings in the inner city were still destroyed by the previous tsunami. Although they have been cleaned up now, the collapsed buildings will be difficult to repair for a while.

In addition, in order to build the energy towers, all the buildings around the energy towers were demolished. A large amount of construction waste was not removed in time, but was simply piled in a place where it would not be a problem. The cleared land was also piled with the remaining building materials and parts from the construction of the energy towers.

As for the remaining vacant space, it is filled with makeshift tents, where refugees who lost their homes in the tsunami live.

As a result, from where Huey was now, the surroundings were basically a mess, full of clutter and dirt.

After all, the tsunami had only happened a few days ago. Even if Perfect mobilized all the garrisons in and around Langton to provide disaster relief, they only cleared the main streets and restored traffic, and settled the rescued people around the energy tower.

Perfect and other technicians are mainly focusing on repairing the energy towers and shelters so that more people can have a place to live and avoid freezing to death in the heating field of the energy towers.

A little dirty and messy? That's not a big deal, at least not before you survive.

In the final analysis, only if you survive can you think about other things.

Of course, a dirty and messy environment can lead to the spread of plague, and cleaning up garbage helps maintain a good sanitary environment, which is also important.

But at the moment, we really don't have the manpower to spare, so we can only put it aside for the time being.

Fortunately, the weather is getting colder rapidly, and the conditions for the spread of plague are lacking, so people do not have to worry about a large-scale plague.

And Huey knew that the city government was organizing the people who had already settled down to form a cleaning team to start cleaning up the garbage around the camps.

It is obvious that the officials above know what to do, and overall everything is moving in a stable and positive direction.

Just looking at the outer city area outside the city wall, which was still sparkling, Hughie couldn't help but sigh, obviously feeling sympathy for the people in the outer city area.

They are not as lucky as those in the inner city. Not only are many people still soaking in the water, but there is no rescue operation at all in the outer city.

"Well, you deserve it! Who told you to believe in some evil god? Now let's see if the evil god you believe in will come to save you!" Hughie sighed after finishing his rebellious meal, and then started today's work again.

According to the city government's notification, a typhoon is about to land in the next few days, and Hughie has to ensure that the energy tower can continue to operate normally.

(End of this chapter)