The True Thousand Gold Possessions of the Myriad Realms Trading System

As Professor Zhao put on his clothes, he checked the thermometer on the wall and was startled to see -2°C. He immediately quickened his pace, raised his voice, and started banging on the door while shouting.

At this temperature, without any heating, a person could easily freeze to death.

Thinking of this, Professor Zhao glanced at the time again and saw that it was past 1 a.m., and his brows furrowed even more.

The coldest time of day is usually around 4 or 5 a.m., but it's already -2°C now, and with the temperature dropping so quickly, he's worried that by 4 or 5 a.m., the temperature will drop to -10°C or below.

Professor Zhao's shouts woke many people from their sleep, and they hurriedly got up to find clothes and bedding.

Hearing that someone had gotten up, Professor Zhao hurriedly shouted again, "Everyone, wake up your companions! Wake up everyone!"

After the disaster, people ate poorly and were in poor physical condition. Under such severe cold, many people are unlikely to wake up.

If they don't wake up and aren't kept warm in time, they will only freeze to death.

Many people were awakened by the cold and covered themselves with all their clothes and bedding.

However, since there was no air conditioning, they still felt cold at this temperature. In the end, they had no choice but to stop sleeping and huddle together for warmth.

The next day, when it was light, the temperature displayed on the wall thermometer was alarming.

-18c.

Needless to say, everyone knows that the extreme cold that everyone has been guessing is coming.

If the temperature inside the cave can drop this low, you can imagine how cold it must be outside.

When Ruan Mianmian woke up, she found that everything outside the window was white.

After washing up, she went downstairs for breakfast and asked Tang You, "Did it snow outside all night? What's the temperature around?"

Tang You's expression was grave: "It's -37°C outside right now. I just spoke with a few professors on the phone, and they said this is only the temperature for the first day; it will get even colder afterward."

"Are the people in each area alright? I remember that each area took precautions against the cold in advance, so they should be able to use them, right?" Ruan Mianmian's expression turned serious when she heard about the temperature.

Tang You nodded: "They have already moved into the cold-proof tunnels. But nobody knows what the lowest temperature will be, or whether the cold-proof tunnels can withstand it."

After finishing her breakfast, Ruan Mianmian glanced at the temperature outside, and her mood became even heavier.

Because the outside temperature has dropped again, now down to -48°C.

Keep in mind that it's 11 a.m. now, and it will soon be noon. The temperature is usually highest at noon, but it can still drop to -48°C.

Therefore, we can see that the temperature at different times of the day can no longer be judged by normal standards; the trend of extreme cold dominates everything.

Just as Ruan Mianmian had predicted, by noon the temperature not only did not rise, but actually dropped by 3 degrees Celsius.

Ruan Mianmian didn't wear a thermal suit, but dressed in ordinary clothes. She played in the snow outside the mall for about ten minutes and was shivering from the cold. Her eyelashes were also covered in ice, and the tears that came out due to the cold wind were also frozen.

At such temperatures, it is impossible to carry out any excavation work—even if humans could withstand the extreme conditions, the frozen ground underground would not be easy to dig through.

Returning to the mall from the frigid outside, Ruan Mianmian looked at Tang You with a heavy heart: "Youyou, how many people do you think will die this time?"

Tang You was also heavy-hearted. She shook her head and said, "I don't know. I don't even want to think about it."

"The temperature change from scorching heat to extreme cold was too abrupt. It felt like a giant hand was personally controlling everything here, determined to subject the humans on this planet to all kinds of natural disasters. Youyou, do you think it's the work of an advanced civilization?" Ruan Mianmian used all her knowledge but still couldn't explain what was happening.

Tang You pondered for a moment before replying, "That's possible. Think about it, you can obtain the Multiverse Trading System and travel to other planes and civilizations, so why can't you come here?"

Perhaps some advanced civilization did arrive, took a fancy to Earth as a habitable planet, and decided to first wipe out the original inhabitants before leading their own civilization to settle there.

Ruan Mianmian sighed, her mind racing, when she suddenly remembered something and immediately stood up: "Wait a minute, didn't they say it would last a month? Why is the extreme cold here so early this time?"

The entire Tokyo University community is speculating about the timing of the extreme cold, with almost all estimates based on experience, placing it at one month.

However, the extreme cold arrived ahead of schedule, catching everyone off guard.

"It might just be a one or two-day error," Tang You said.

Looking at the utterly silent world, Ruan Mianmian felt very uncomfortable, so she decided to pilot her spaceship out for a walk and see other places.

Tang You, Gu Shi, Fang Yang, and Lin Xiao all expressed their desire to go and take a look.

Ruan Mianmian thought that the mall had intelligent robots that could be set up with nationality for entry and exit, and that the cashiers had a strict requirement that no one could skip out on their bill. She figured that it was okay not to leave anyone in the mall and waste time, so she agreed and boarded the spaceship with the four of them, flying over the area of ​​Dongda University.

As they had predicted, the entire Southeast University campus was covered in thick snow, including the Guangdong region, which a certain writer had mocked as "Guangdong dogs barking at the snow," as well as Hainan Island and Hong Kong Island, which are a little further south than Guangdong.

Ruan Mianmian thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to other countries and see what they're like, and learn about their environments."

Tang You and the others had no objections.

The spaceship was in the south at the time, so it made a trip to both South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Unsurprisingly, both places were covered in white, with no trace of human activity visible.

The spaceship started heading east, flew around the eastern side to the sea, and then began heading north... Later, the spaceship flew wherever it pleased, exploring the entire planet Earth.

The entire Earth, except for the oceans, was covered with a thick layer of snow.

Looking down at the white planet, Ruan Mianmian felt extremely heavy-hearted.

This terrible cold will last for about a month. How many people will survive?

The spacecraft began its return journey.

When passing through Xin Province, Ruan Mianmian saw a faint green light below and immediately instructed Gu Shi to control the spaceship to land.

We had discussed before that if anything happened, we would use colored light to ask for help.

The spaceship locked onto the origin of the green light and then slowly landed at the nearest point.

After the spaceship came to a stop, it emitted a green light, signaling to those observing that the spaceship had landed.

Not long after, the thick snow was pushed away, and two men struggled to climb out of the hole in the ground, then walked with difficulty toward Ruan Mianmian and her group.

It was difficult because the snow was so thick it reached their chests!

In previous years, even with heavy snow in Xinjiang, the snow in this area would not have been this thick.

But this year, the first snowfall was so thick. Just thinking about what the future holds makes me feel hopeless.

Seeing that the two men were having difficulty walking, Ruan Mianmian simply threw them a rope and a plank, so they could catch it and stand on the plank. Then she pulled hard and dragged the rope and plank over.