Chapter 63

"Do you say you remember us outside?"

"Remember, I just spoke on the phone the day before yesterday."

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While the whole country was paying attention to the disaster in Longbei, in a wooden house in Luo Township, the mayor of Liao'an, Heihe, Zhou Hai and Wang Xiangdong were roasting a fire while looking out the window worriedly. Changluo Township is located in the north of Heihe Province and is mainly dominated by arid sandy land. The soil here is of poor quality, and since 2950, it has been the focus of Longbei shelter forest.

After 70 years of efforts, the shelter forest in Changluo Township covers an area of 70,000 mu and has planted a total of 123,000 trees. Zhou Hai and Wang Xiangdong are two rangers in Changluo Township. Since it snowed in the Longbei area, they were trapped in wooden houses in the middle of the mountain. Now the snow has stopped for eight days, and the road from the road to the mountains is blocked. They contacted the Forestry Administration the day before yesterday. The Forestry Administration is arranging vehicle rescue, as for when it will come... It's not clear anymore.

"Alas." Wang Xiangdong picked up the landline and dialed the phone, and the phone was always busy. This is the snow that was too thick yesterday morning, and it crushed the telephone line below the mountain.

"I've written my suicide note, if anything happens, give the town house to my daughter."

Wang Xiangdong is forty-seven years old and has worked in Changluo Township for 27 years, he divorced five years ago, and now his ex-wife is working in the city with his daughter. Maybe the past half a month is too dangerous, and he is not optimistic about rescue and escape.

"All said, rescue vehicles are being arranged." Zhou Hai couldn't see him grinding, and pulled out an old-fashioned radio from the cabinet. A signal

came over the radio --

"On December 23, Longxia Agriculture mobilized its autumn reserves for rescue in the hardest-hit areas of Liaohe and Heihe provinces."

"On December 24th, 27 enterprises such as Fengshan Farm, Longxia Technology, and Longyun Shaping donated two billion yuan..."

"Longbeijing Hejinglong Expressway is fully dredged, and Longnan materials are being transported in full force."

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"Very good." The radio message was like a shot in the arm, and the two gradually found the backbone.

On the 25th of today, the lowest temperature in the shelter forest was minus 52 degrees, and Zhou Hai and Wang Xiangdong listened to the radio and then went out in cotton jackets. The shelter wooden house is located halfway up the mountain in Changluo Township, where the altitude is 1,200 meters, and you used to see half of the shelter forest as soon as you went out, but now there is nothing but white snow in front of you.

The snow outside the house was two feet thick, and the two were worried about stepping on the air, so they could only move around the wooden house.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Hai looked at the clouds, and then looked at the white snow: "There are a lot of frozen fields now, I don't know if there is anything wrong in this forest..."

"These are all trees that are more than ten years old, and they must be fine."

Wang Xiangdong is very confident. They just listened to the radio, there are many places in Longbei where there is cold damage and frost damage, that is, some young linden locust trees, they planted cedar conifers, famous for their cold and frost resistance.

"Hmm." Zhou Hai nodded. Now that the shelter forest is covered by snow, he does not dare to walk over and observe because he does not know the condition of the ground, but these trees are tall and straight, and they should be fine.

The temperature was too cold outside, and the two returned to the wooden house.

In the early morning of the 26th, the temperature in the shelter forest was as low as minus 57 degrees, and the two were wrapped in large gray cotton jackets, and did not dare to leave the fire for a single step. Wang Xiangdong took out the radio, he wanted to listen to the radio again, but the radio sounded two times and it was silent.

"It's broken." Wang shook the radio to the east.

Zhou Hai glanced at it: "There is no electricity."

The two fell asleep against the fire, and early the next morning, Zhou Hai tore a flower sheet from the bed and threw it on the roof of the wooden house. Now the shelter forest is all white snow, and this sheet is a mark for the rescue team.

The two had been looking forward to the rescue team, but until the 28th, there was still no movement.

"You say, will someone come?" Wang Xiangdong looked at the fire and asked. The two received the evacuation notice before the snow disaster, but the shelter forest needed to be guarded, and they reported to the bureau and stayed in the house. They thought it was an ordinary snow disaster, but they didn't expect the situation to be so serious...

"It will." Zhou Hai said again. Although he said he would, he couldn't be sure in his heart.

Half an hour later, the two shook the flower sheets on the roof, which was the only way for the two to contact the outside world.

On the morning of the 29th, Zhou Hai had just woken up when he heard a crackling sound outside. He opened the door, there were two black police dogs at the door, a firefighter led the police dog, and after seeing Zhou Hai, he was a little surprised: "Comrade Zhou Hai and Wang Xiangdong?"

"Yes." Zhou Hai's heart finally relaxed.

Three hours later, the two were carried down the mountain. They have been living in low temperatures these days, and if they don't hold the will to survive in their hearts, they don't know if they can survive it.

"The road from Changluo Township to the mountains was all blocked, the snow was too thick, and the dredging work was delayed." At three o'clock in the afternoon, in the Changluo Township Health Center, the director of the forestry bureau was a little afraid. Just now, the hospital did a full body examination, and although the two were weak, their mental condition was quite good.

"Thank you." Zhou Hai thanked earnestly.

For the next two days, the two stayed in the hospital. According to news reports, now that the Longbei blizzard has passed, 70% of the area has seen large-scale snowfall, and this snow has been the largest snow in Longbei in 50 years. In the past two days, Wang Xiangdong's ex-wife brought her daughter to visit. The little girl was ten years old, and when she saw Wang Xiangdong, she cried, and Wang Xiangdong also cried.

On the morning of the 31st, Zhou Hai was finally able to leave the hospital.

As soon as he was discharged from the hospital, he came to the Changluo Township shelter forest, and now the trees in the shelter forest have been half exposed, and some forestry bureau staff are shaking the snow, and the needles on it are greener.

Zhou Hai came over. A staff member saw Zhou Hai and asked, "Why are you here?"

"I'm well, come and take a look."

Zhou Hai looked around and touched the nearest purple linden tree, "Is the tree okay?" The

staff sighed: "I can't live anymore." Zhou

Hai was stunned.

The staff lowered his body and pointed to the part of the roots: "These roots, from the outside to the inside, are all rotten."

Zhou Hai touched it gently. The bark at the bottom falls off when touched, and it is abnormally dark ...

"Wear gloves, these acid snow are corrosive." The staff handed Zhou Hai a pair of masks and gloves.

Zhou Hai followed the staff to the depths of the mountain. Along the way, as long as the trees you see, they are basically dead. In addition, they saw many carcasses of black rabbit ferrets, these animals resisted frost, but they were wrapped in acid snow for a month, and they did not persist.

Zhou Hai couldn't bear to watch it at first, and then he gradually became numb. At two o'clock in the afternoon, everyone appeared to an empty halfway up the mountain. On the mountainside is a circle of white stones, and in the middle of the stones are saplings half a meter high. At this time, the saplings all fell crookedly together, and the staff checked them and said, "Dead."

Zhou Hai pulled out a card from behind the sapling: A201.

This is the walnut rowan planted last year, and this batch of saplings was moved by him and Wang Xiangdong. Now at three o'clock in the afternoon, he looked at the saplings that were crooked, and for a moment he was confused.

For the next two days, Zhou Hai followed the staff in the forest to test. This time, 72% of the plantation in Changluo Township was damaged, more than half of it was directly necrotic, and the rest will not survive next January. On the way back, congregationPeople have picked up black bear cubs in the snow den. The black bear was dying, next to the frozen mother bear, and the Forestry Bureau had rich experience in handling it and was directly pulled to the Forestry Bureau rescue station.

【Longxia Ministry of Agriculture: Longbei snow disaster planting loss area of 2.12 million kilometers, shelter forest loss area of 730,000 square kilometers, direct economic loss of 210 billion yuan...】On January 7, 3029, Longxia Ministry of Agriculture issued Longbei Report, which is an extremely tragic disaster at the end of 3028.

"It's too difficult to keep an eye on the Longbei disaster."

"The family ate boiled oil wheat for half a month, and there was no food."

"It's snowing in the northwest and northern Montmon."

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Netizens are very uncomfortable. Since the snowfall stopped in Longbei, they have been expecting miracles, but the shelter forest has been lost in a large area, the planting base is frozen and the acid rain is fully corroded... The situation in Longbei was even worse than they thought.

On January 3, snowfall fell in the northwest and northern Mongolia province, which also indicates that the whole country is fully affected.

"Seven dairy enterprises in the new province of Montong have ceased production."

"We stopped early near our house and are short of feed now."

"Will there be no little fat sheep in the future..."

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With the Longbei blizzard, the most intuitive feeling in the country: there are no more supplies. In the past, materials were difficult, and everyone could still buy yogurt zucchini. Now with the Longbei Blizzard, basic supplies like this have completely become a luxury.

On January 5th, Longxia issued 25 temporary subsidies, the main subsidy targets are: 1, the production of infant dairy products. 2. Raw material production of pharmaceutical enterprises. 3. Vegetable planting and production... In addition to financial subsidies, Longxia will also provide corresponding loans and scientific research support.

Now is a special moment when everyone can understand national policies. But the food crisis, the vegetable crisis, the planting crisis... It's like mountains pressing down on people.

"Not starving yet, and wheat, corn, oil, wheat." Some netizens encourage themselves.

According to external network reports, this cold snap is global, and many countries are now experiencing shortages of materials and rapid cooling. Places like Natalville were not hit by the Halma storm, but this year's winter was too cold and some planting pastures were also badly damaged.

Bipolar countries experience cold snaps, and some equatorial countries experience rising sea levels... The global weather is not normal.

In this global crisis, on January 8, Aqua Blue jointly issued a release: the world's official comprehensive acid rain crisis.

"Alas." Longxia netizens have no idea about this release.

The acid rain crisis is an established fact and will not be qualitatively altered by the statement of the Aqua Blue Alliance. What they need is not to name acid rain, but how to change it ...

At the same time that the national atmosphere was at a low ebb, on January 10th, Longxia Ministry of Agriculture: On the evening of January 9, 3029, Longxia Agricultural Research Institute studied the seeds of acid rain of birth vegetables, which is the first experimental seed studied by the Institute of Agricultural Research based on acid rain genes...

"Lettuce seeds?" Netizens were stunned. After the advance preparation of seeds such as Longfeng 001 and Demosistomy, although netizens are excited, they can also stabilize their emotions well.

"The study was successful?"

"It worked!"

Unlike the calmness of netizens, there was excitement in the Fengshan Agricultural Research Institute at this time. Although this is a lettuce seed, it is an autonomous seed that is studied based on previous data and seed genes when the farm personnel do not have a systematic lettuce. Now lettuce seeds are out, which also indicates that the agricultural research institute can develop other similar seeds when the seed varieties on the farm are incomplete!