Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 2 The Coming Winter

This is the research that Perficott is currently conducting. A flying device that uses airbags to provide lift to achieve flight. To put it more simply, it is an airbag airship.

After all, she lived in an era where the steam engine had only been invented less than a hundred years ago, and the entire world was still in the stage of the first industrial revolution. It was really difficult for the industrial production of this era to make a miniaturized internal combustion engine to invent an airplane. Level.

Although it is not impossible to use alchemy to create a small internal combustion engine that can be put into practical use, doing so will increase the manufacturing cost to an unacceptable level.

That is a huge expense that is difficult to accept even with the Philosopher's Stone as support.

So Purficott finally chose the airbag airship, a large-scale flying device that had existed in human history in the world before she traveled, as a reference object, combined with some flying vehicles in fantasy works she had read. , designed this airship.

"Rigid airbag airship (model)"

"Materials: Excellent"

“Craftsmanship: Excellent”

"Effect: The purpose of flight is achieved by filling the air bag with a gas lighter than air, thereby generating lift, and providing power for propulsion through a small steam engine."

"Evaluation: Although this is just a model, it can indeed fly! Congratulations, this research is feasible in theory and practice. We only need to scale it up and solve the problem of power, and it can really fly. Flying into the sky with you."

Looking at the evaluation given by his golden finger, Purficott's originally serious face also had a relaxed expression.

In addition to being one of the few works that she received praise from her own golden finger, this was also the result of a year's work. Being able to win such a review was enough to make her feel full of accomplishment.

However, although the design of the airship was very successful, it did not allow Purfict to relax in any way, because the approaching disaster gave her the illusion of being chased by a beast, and she had to tighten her nerves at all times. .

The world is facing a disaster, a doomsday disaster that can destroy the entire world.

Even before time travel, even with the technological level of mankind that has reached the third industrial revolution and set foot in the stars, it is still difficult to withstand a world-destroying disaster.

At first, Purficott was just curious because her housekeeper told her that the heating expenses that year had increased by 7% compared with previous years.

This is not a normal changing value. Although the change is not large, after Purficott carefully asked the loyal old housekeeper and confirmed that the coal price did not increase that year, and no one was embezzling or wasting money, she started to think about it. There was intense interest in how the fee was added.

At that time, based on the idea that being idle was also idle, Purficott built a small weather observation station in the yard and began to record the temperature and weather changes every day.

The reason for this is that after excluding the influence of human factors and social environment, the only possibility that can cause this result is natural climate change.

While collecting data through the meteorological observation station she built, Purficott also found a way to obtain the meteorological observation data of the Royal Langton University, the highest university in the empire, for the past ten years through some connections. After sorting and comparing, she found that from about Since seven years ago, Langton... no, it should be said that the temperature of the entire Victoria Empire has been dropping. Initially, the average annual temperature dropped by less than one degree. This drop was very slight and fell within the normal range of annual average temperature fluctuations, and did not attract any attention.

Even Purficott discovered that the cooling started at this time after careful calculation.

The subsequent record is that the number of winter snowfalls increases year by year, the arrival of spring is getting later and later, and the duration of summer is shortened...

Until last year, the average temperature throughout the year had dropped by four degrees compared with before the cooling, and the cooling rate was still increasing.

This is not a normal natural phenomenon. This degree of cooling is like shortening climate change that was originally completed within a hundred years to just ten years.

Purficott was shocked when she came to this conclusion. She even wondered if there was something wrong with her calculations.

In order to verify whether this conclusion was correct, she found the Imperial Astronomical Society through Langton University and asked the group of astrologers to help with a divination. The conclusion she came to was that the whole world was about to enter a cold winter. In the next three years, the temperature would drop. It will plummet and the whole world will be frozen.

By then, even in the warmest days of summer, the temperature in Longton was twenty degrees below zero.

Purficott felt that he had made a mistake, or that the astrologers who were practicing divination had made a mistake.

However, when she even used her alchemical hands to rub a difference engine for the accuracy of her calculations, those astrologers also borrowed the Philosopher's Stone from her to conduct larger-scale divination rituals in order to obtain a more accurate result.

But in the end, Purficott verified that his calculations were correct, and the astrologers also confirmed that their divination was correct, and may even have downplayed the scale of the disaster.

Because they finally came to the conclusion that ten years later, under the most optimistic scenario, the average annual temperature in Langton would be below minus 40 degrees Celsius.

That is a low temperature that can even freeze water vapor in the air that is usually invisible to the naked eye. Steel will be as brittle as glass in this environment. Not only will the land be covered with thick ice and snow, but it will also freeze even more than steel. hard……

The harm caused by extreme cold is devastating. Just imagine if the whole world becomes an environment similar to Antarctica, how will humans survive?
  Even in the time before Perfection traveled, facing this kind of disaster, at best, it could only ensure that a small number of people could survive in this harsh environment, let alone today, a world that has just entered the first industrial revolution. .

Compared with the cold numbers obtained by Purficott, the results of those astrologers are more specific, but also more cruel.

Low temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero, blizzards with winds up to Level 12, the entire world completely frozen, riots when the end comes...

It was a white doomsday, and everything was frozen in the ice and snow. No matter whether it was a powerful magician, an alchemist who turned stones into gold, or an astrologer who divined the future, they could not resist this ice and snow doomsday.

Those astrologers predict that within ten years the entire world will return to the Ice Age, and even the equatorial oceans will be frozen. If no changes are made in the future, the world will be frozen in three hundred years. Time was completely frozen, and the entire world became dead.

(End of this chapter)