Rimbaud turned over, leaned on the armrest, and poked his fingertips into the crevice of the coral, teasing and poking at the hot surface of the glass beads.

"Don't hide, randi."

——

Another normal day on land, nothing happened other than the rapid rise in seafood prices.

Because many large solid seals similar to hydrated steel have condensed on the surface of a large number of sea areas, many fishing boats cannot drive into the open sea and can only fish for seafood in the seas that have not yet frozen. However, the sea area is limited and shrinking. There are less and less seafood in the market, and the price on the market is getting higher and higher. The price of hairtail, which used to be ten yuan a pound, has risen to an outrageous two hundred and sixty yuan a pound.

It has never snowed this winter. February was supposed to be the coldest time, but the temperature warmed up ahead of time. Most people took off their cotton clothes and walked on the street in ordinary sweaters and cashmere sweaters.

Meteorologists say this year has been a mild winter, and there may be extreme weather in summer.

Ordinary citizens haven't felt much inconvenience yet, but coastal factories have been issued with a lot of fines. The reason is that the sea surface has solidified, and some industrial water cannot be processed smoothly, forming another strange-colored sea surface directly on the sea surface.

Snow White Castle on the Lawrence Mountains was also affected.

There are more and more ice hangings on the top of the castle, and there are too many experimental larvae playing in the courtyard garden, and they are occasionally injured by the broken ice hangings, so the puppet master made a few ice knocks with small hammers. The puppet goes to clean up the roof.

Eris was lying on the edge of the window, holding his head in his hands and watching the ice-knocking puppet work outside, his two calves swaying leisurely.

The puppet master sat in front of the sewing machine and stitched the spring clothes for the puppets, throwing discarded rags and a dozen pairs of crossed eyes in the trash at his feet.

"Didn't you just make winter clothes?"

"It's warming up."

"Ah." Eris couldn't feel the heat or the cold. For him, the change of seasons was only reflected in the change of clothes.

"This is very unusual." The puppet master put on a copper thimble and fastened buttons to the puppet's clothes. "The eavesdropping puppet saw that the sea surface was solidified, and there was very little rainfall outside. It doesn't snow here anymore, but the wind is strong."

"Ranbo hasn't calmed down yet. Of course, he won't quell his anger easily. I heard that his scales were annihilated in Bai Chunian's glass beads. Even if he wanted to show mercy, if he didn't have that important scale, he would do it. nothing."

Eris rolled over and sat up: "Can't you just smash that glass bead and take out the scales? Let the canned stinky fish forget Bai Chunian, and he won't be angry anymore."

The puppet master hummed: "People will always find a way when they are in a hurry. Let's watch a good show."

"Um."

There was a knock on the wooden door of the workshop, and the maid puppet stood outside, bringing two lunches.

One was for Eris' buff sandwich and a glass of gear lube, and the other was for the puppeteer's rye bread and a can of sardines, which was empty and had no sardines in it.

When asked, found out that the purchasing puppet did not buy fresh canned fish and seafood today, because they were all sold out, but the programming of the chef puppet was very rigid, and the puppet master had to find canned sardines, so went to the trash can and turned over a jar, carefully cooked and placed the plate, and then let the maid doll bring it.

Eris was holding the sandwich: "Well... I'd better go and smash that glass bead, Nix."

...

The chaos on a world scale was not caused suddenly by a massive explosion or a geologic disaster in a certain area. It started when the first supermarket chain was sold out of mineral water and the merchants were elated, only to find that there was no stock everywhere.

Chapter 254

In the eighth month after Rimbaud led the sea clan to evacuate the institute, 60% of the sea surface has been solidified and sealed, the maritime transportation industry has been forced to stop, international trade has collapsed across the board, a large number of workers have lost their jobs, related companies have closed down, and stocks have turned green. In the bustling commercial center, ordinary citizens hold placards and parade every day.

Almost all icebreakers are sent to the sea to remove the solidified seal on the sea surface, but it is only a drop in the bucket, and the speed of removal is far less than the speed of solidification.

The limited groundwater and fresh water in rivers and lakes are rapidly depleted by a large population. Due to the lack of ocean regulation, only unused fresh water and used sewage are added to the cycle. There is no more rain all over the world, even a small amount of rain is exhausted. is acid deposition.

The food-growing areas withered first, followed by the green plants in all corners of the land. It can be seen from the satellite map that the rainforest area is visibly shrinking by a considerable amount every day, and an unprecedented large-scale drought has swept the world. , the dust storm lands, looting every exposed building.

Although the country is trying to regulate the water price, it is still inevitable that some people maliciously hoard drinking water and sell it at a high price. The ordinary mineral water with a price of 300 yuan was snapped up as soon as it was put on the shelves, and then the price was quickly raised to 600 and 800, still Someone buys it.

Later, prices stopped rising because money was no longer valuable.

Severe water scarcity did lead to a short period of human solidarity, with people sharing food and fresh water, but this atmosphere of good mutual help lasted only a month, and people went from generosity to madness, rushing to blocks and homes to snatch stocked mineral springs. water and compressed grains.

The border conflict has intensified, and oil is no longer a precious resource in people's eyes. Instead, small countries with freshwater lakes are frequently invaded.

Temperatures are rising faster, and the radioactivity in the air has eerily increased to near critical levels.

It's only April, and the average temperature in the northern hemisphere has soared to 42 degrees Celsius. City dwellers can only maintain normal life with their air conditioners on all day. Electricity conflicts lead to trips, electric circuits burn out, and entire buildings are scorched and dry. Air swallowed.

Due to the heat and dryness, wildfires ignited in various areas, and the rampant flames quickly engulfed the remaining oasis.

These days, the PBB army has been maintaining order on the streets and soothing people's emotions. Under the scorching sun, He So-called wiped a sweat and squatted in the shadow of the armored vehicle to rest.