Scientific Travel

The two products for the points over the past two months were a TV and an air conditioner. The TV had many TV dramas and movies, so Deng Yin spent most of his time in the space during this period.

Feifei suspected Deng Yin for another reason: her attitude was always inconsistent, sometimes hot and sometimes cold.

It's like... suddenly finding out who they are, and then struggling with how to treat them.

What he didn't know was that the unpredictable attitude he perceived was entirely based on what he saw on television.

The situation is like this: one moment everything is fine, the next you're angry. In reality, several hours have passed in between.

February, which should have been winter, saw temperatures rise steadily, eventually reaching over 30 degrees Celsius.

Many people say that this is because Heaven is angry and wants everyone to die. To appease the anger, it is necessary to sacrifice young boys and girls born in the yin year, yin month, and yin hour.

For every day the temperature rises, a pair of young girls are sacrificed, and this continues until the temperature returns to normal.

These words came from the old imperial advisor, so no one questioned them.

The old imperial advisor's predictions were very accurate; every natural disaster was resolved using the solutions he proposed.

Local officials began conducting censuses, and anyone who met the criteria was imprisoned and kept for sacrifice.

When Deng Yingang heard the news, he was only shocked for a moment.

No wonder it's called a feudal and ignorant era; it's true.

Every era has its own rules. Deng Yin is not a person of this era, so he is not required to abide by the rules of this era, but he also has no intention of changing them.

The temperature did not stop rising because of the sacrifice; soon it exceeded fifty degrees Celsius.

Ice became scarce and could only be used by royalty and nobility; even money couldn't buy it.

Deng Yin had both a refrigerator and air conditioning, so the high temperature didn't affect her at all.

The other three, on the other hand, looked like wilted eggplants every day, completely listless.

Qiu Qingyu no longer cared about chasing Deng Yin, and spent her days hiding in her room, even handing over the cooking duties to Gao Ruizhe.

Gao Ruizhe agreed.

It's hot enough normally, but it gets even hotter when you're cooking. You always go in dry and come out wet.

But in addition to three meals a day, Gao Ruizhe would still make snacks for Deng Yin.

At first, they would ask Deng Yin if she was hot and if she needed a fan, but after being refused several times, they gave up the idea.

The outside temperature was over 50 degrees Celsius, and the room was like a steamer. However, the temperature in Deng Yin's room remained at around 20 degrees Celsius, and she even needed to cover herself with a blanket.

The temperature in the basement is much lower than on the ground, so Deng Yin couldn't let them go to her room, but they could go to the basement.

I don't know how powerful these people are behind the scenes. I can't involve Aunt Wang and the others, otherwise I could invite them to live in the basement together.

But since their family is so rich, they must have a basement.

What Deng Yin didn't know was how much she would regret this decision later on...

Upon hearing that they would be living in a basement, all three of them perked up.

Yes! The temperature underground is definitely lower than above ground!

The temperature underground was at least 20 degrees Celsius lower than above ground. The three of them only felt alive again when they were in the basement.

Qiu Qingyu fell behind in her work recently and doesn't plan to catch up now.

Gao Ruizhe definitely won't be able to win over Deng Yin within a month. If you ask her, she should just kill Deng Yin now and split the money. In this heat, she can't do any work!

Feifei thought so too, but Gao Ruizhe seemed genuinely unable to accept that he couldn't win someone's heart. No one in the entire basement was as busy as him.

It was grocery shopping day again, and Deng Yin refused Gao Ruizhe's offer to go with her for the eighth time.

He drove his horse-drawn carriage to the city alone.

There were many things to bring this time, and Deng Yin specifically told them before he left that he would be gone for two or three days.

Deng Yin knew he couldn't sleep in the carriage, so he planned to stay at his home in the city for the next couple of days.

Upon seeing the city gate in the distance, Deng Yin put away his carriage and walked into the city.

The number of beggars in the city has increased significantly. They are all emaciated and pale, and many of them lie on the ground, motionless, as if they were dead.

There are no more street vendors on the roadside; setting up a stall at this time would only be giving away food for free.

Deng Yin never expected things to be so serious; everything was fine just two months ago.

Even if there is a famine, it shouldn't have gotten this bad in just two months.

When Deng Yinggang arrived in May, the plants had mutated, and the vegetables were inedible. Later, in August, the temperature dropped, which alleviated the plant mutation somewhat, but the cold weather made farming extremely difficult.

Next came the tornado. Fortunately, this natural disaster didn't happen very often, so the farmers finally had a chance to cultivate the land.

Now, with the extreme heat and drought, farming has become extremely difficult again.

From this perspective, it's understandable why the disaster has become so severe.

Deng Yin didn't linger and quickly headed home.

In situations like this, if you save one person, you have to save the second. Deng Yin has the ability to do so, but he has no interest in it.

Before coming here, Deng Yin applied a heat pack to keep her body temperature at 36.5 degrees Celsius, but even so, she still felt hot.

The first thing Deng did upon entering the house was to clean up all the dust and replace all the blankets and other bedding with new ones.

We didn't use air conditioning; we used kites instead.

The refrigerator was full of ice cubes, so Deng Yin picked out the smallest one to feed Feng Yuan.

The kite cools down very quickly; the temperature in the entire room dropped in just a few seconds.

Deng Yin turned on the TV and watched it while eating chilled watermelon.

The watermelon was quite big, and it was already dark by the time we finished eating it.

Deng Yin put away the TV and the kite, got dressed, and took two lunch boxes with him to Aunt Wang's house.

The lunchbox was full of grapes, all of which had been refrigerated and were still cool to the touch.

There's no curfew yet, but it'll be soon. There won't be many people on the streets, so delivering food at this time shouldn't attract attention.

Just as Deng Yin had expected, there were few people on the street, but it was dark and no one noticed Deng Yin.

Deng Yin knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered. At first, Deng Yin thought they were afraid she was a bad person, but after she introduced herself, no one came to open the door.

For some reason, Deng Yin felt very uneasy.

Ignoring everything else, Deng Yin pulled a ladder from his spatial storage and climbed over the wall.

Chaos—that was the only word Deng could think of after he was brought in.

The courtyard was littered with signs of vandalism; stone tables and chairs were overturned, and there was even blood on the corner of a table.

Deng Yin searched every room but found no trace of anyone.

It was good news, and Deng Yin felt a little relieved.

It's highly likely that the refugees rushed in and looted the place. They were after food and money, not people.

But at this point, without food and money, death is inevitable.

Deng Yin simply stayed overnight in the room that Aunt Wang had prepared for her, and then went to ask the people in the neighborhood early the next morning.