Chapter 435: Hoarding Thousands upon Thousands for Natural Disasters, Raising a Child, I Let It Go 23_2
She was beautiful and looked to be no more than a student, but the thoughts in her mind and her knowledge reserves were no less formidable than theirs, even detailed to a terrifying extent.
A group of top students were happy to assist her and went out to promote her widely.
Soon, the adoration for Su Zhiruan at the base grew day by day.
Three months later, when the power supply system was briefly restored, Su Zhiruan, while looking at her phone one day, accidentally discovered an email in her inbox.
Out of curiosity, she opened it and found out it was national recognition and encouragement for her to continue building.
In the end, it also indicated that the authority to adjust the radio's frequency signal could be given to her, hoping she could inspire even more people.
The nation never gave up on anyone. It's just that their tasks were more daunting and the matters more secret. Su Zhiruan's appearance undoubtedly gave them a great idea. After all, the weather is not constant—who could possibly defy the heavens? It's better to gather together for construction than to remain isolated at home.
Su Zhiruan obtaining the authority to adjust the radio frequency was undoubtedly great news for the base, calming everyone like a sedative.
After all, even the nation had encouraged Su Zhiruan's approach, which confirmed that they had indeed done the right thing.
Su Zhiruan asked a university student who had studied broadcast hosting before the apocalypse to draft a national call to arms, outlining all the practices here, whether in infrastructure or management. They broadcasted everything through the radio, in addition to methods for protecting against high temperatures, producing distilled water, and so on.
For this high-temperature phase, what Su Zhiruan worried about was not the temperature, nor the food, and even less so other things.
What she feared the most were viruses!
The high temperatures were just beginning and had not yet reached the level of a viral outbreak, but once it truly erupted, it would be the most terrifying reality.
Because of this, she explained in detail at the base about viruses, ensuring that everyone understood the dangers after a viral outbreak. Natural disasters and man-made calamities are the hardest to withstand, especially viruses, and ancient viruses released by the melting of glaciers are the most horrific and unsolvable.
Through the base's propaganda and broadcast dissemination, this message spread very quickly.
"But the melting of glaciers is unstoppable, and if the upstream water carries the virus down, we will all suffer, won't we?" the teacher with glasses pinched his forehead and asked Su Zhiruan, "Even if we broadcast now, when the virus outbreak happens, we'll still need to use the river water—won't we all be doomed?"
"Yes, indeed, if the virus outbreak occurs, won't we still get infected and then just wait to die? Besides, if it really is an ancient virus, then we have no way to handle it at all, we can only surrender!" A portion of the people began to panic and grow tense.
When facing the fear of the unknown, everyone's reactions were remarkably uniform, especially after hearing about the ancient viruses, the panic and tension increased even more.
The medical technology before the apocalypse was still incapable of cracking all viruses.
And now, facing such high-temperature disasters, they were even more helpless.
If there really were ancient viruses, not even the best national research teams had been able to study them.
Then their only option would be to await the arrival of death, and this was no joke.
"Everyone, listen to me," Su Zhiruan began to speak. She was the calmest among them and the one with all the information, "As long as you do as I say, everything will be alright. According to the information I've gathered, this kind of virus mainly spreads through animals, not through the water source. This is also good news for us."
She had carefully studied the original storyline before, and after the onset of high temperatures, she had researched it again.
This virus was initially brought by humans; the weather was so hot that the people living near the glaciers had thought about going up the mountains to cool off. Eventually, the glaciers melted, and unfortunately, they were infected with the virus.
In its early stages, the virus had a certain incubation period. After those people descended the mountains and infected many others, a large-scale outbreak began, and later on, many people's excrement and corpses drifted into the river, causing the animals in the river and those drinking water on land to become infected. From there, the virus began to wreak havoc worldwide.
After hearing Su Zhiruan's explanation, everyone's hearts gradually eased, at least taking it as some good news.