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Chapter 398 A terrible disaster caused by a telephone pole. Dean Yang is the only person in the world who accurately predicted the frost disaster.
When Yang Fan heard the words "I have a very urgent matter to discuss with you", he was stunned for a moment, and then he instantly guessed the other party's intention.

Zhou Qinghui said with regret: "This is the most important episode that the Agricultural Channel has ever done. There were many topics that we didn't discuss, but unfortunately we have to end it early now."

Tang Wanwan nodded and said, "The ratings have already created the highest record since the launch of this program, almost four times the previous record. It's a pity to end it early."

The record was raised so much in one go, which shows how much shock the wheat tree with 28 flavors brought to the people of the whole country.

Ling Shuiling gave a polite smile: "I think there will be another chance in the future."

Zhou Qinghui smiled and said, "I hope that President Yang will appear on our show every day in the future, so that we don't have to worry about the ratings."

Tang Wanwan said sincerely: "In the field of new crop breeding, I think Director Yang is definitely the most powerful person in the entire Canglan Star. We welcome Director Yang to our show at any time."

If it were anyone else, whether or not they could be on the show would be entirely up to the program crew, but Yang Fan’s talent is so outstanding that the program crew is now begging him to be on the show.

Yang Fan waved his hand and said modestly: "It's not as exaggerated as you say. I also had a certain amount of luck in cultivating wheat trees."

But no one believed this sentence.

You came up with twenty-eight flavors and blew everyone's mind, and you call that "luck"?
Who believes it!
Ling Shuiling turned to look at her boyfriend and couldn't help asking, "What urgent matter does the research institute need you for? Is there something wrong with the wheat tree?"

In her eyes, the wheat tree is related to a huge sum of 1500 billion yuan, and even more to the future of Tianxing Company and her boyfriend, so she is particularly nervous about this.

Yang Fan shook his head and said, “The wheat tree will definitely be fine.

He paused and expressed his guess: "It's probably related to the weather tree!"

Some time ago, the Weather Tree was sent to the Supernatural Research Institute for cultivation, and a major anomaly occurred.

People from the Supernatural Research Institute invited Yang Fan to the capital. After coming into contact with the weather tree, he judged that the strange phenomenon indicated a "frost disaster."

Before that, his other alias, Mr. Ghost, did not touch the weather tree, but only inferred that it was an "ice disaster" based on the video.

He had a strong hunch that the result was likely to come out.

While talking.

People from the Supernatural Research Institute have arrived.

The leader was a middle-aged man dressed like an old farmer.

He is also an acquaintance - the director of the Institute of Special Plants, Chang Yiming.

The moment Ling Shuiling saw the director, she glanced at her boyfriend with admiration.

Because the last time her boyfriend took her to see the weather tree, it was Director Chang who personally came out to receive her.

at this time.

Director Chang smiled and stretched out his hands: "Director Yang, when will you come to our institute to give us some guidance on our work?"

Yang Fan waved his hand: "It can't be called guidance, Director Chang, you are too kind."

The "President Yang" mentioned by Chang Yiming was not talking nonsense.

The wheat tree with as many as twenty-eight flavors alarmed the entire Institute of Superpowers.

Director Shen Jun of the research institute came over in person, spent a long time looking at the twenty-eight wheat trees, and then talked to Yang Fan for a long time.

In addition, Dean Shen also sincerely invited Yang Fan to serve as the honorary vice president of the institute. After considering for a moment, Yang Fan finally agreed.

Although the process is still going on, this matter has basically been decided and no one will object, unless they are capable of coming up with twenty-eight flavors.

It is precisely because of this that Chang Yiming calls him “President Yang”.

One more thing by the way.

Although the honorary vice president is just a nominal position without any real power, in the official title sequence, it is the same as the highest official of Linjiang City Hall.

at this time.

Director Chang didn't exchange pleasantries and went straight to the point: "Just a quarter of an hour ago, the natural disaster predicted by the weather tree has already occurred in the northern hemisphere."

The director looked a little surprised, obviously the location of this natural disaster was beyond his expectations.

Yang Fan immediately asked: "Which country?"

Director Chang immediately spat out three words: "The third largest city in Dongli Country, Guangren City."

The Kingdom of Dongli was located on the Silla Peninsula and was considered a neighbor of Bactria.

On Daxia’s network, Dongli people are also a group of arrogant weirdos, shouting “We are a developed country” all day long.

There was once a Toray media comparing the technological gap between Daxia and Toray. They listed dozens of fields and believed that Toray was ahead of Daxia in most fields.

In addition, the Dongli people have a very speechless bad habit. They like to "steal" the culture of other countries and then package it as their own culture. There are even Dongli writers who claim that the Daxia script originated from Dongli.

Director Chang took out a tablet computer and said, "Director Yang, here is a video about the disaster in Guangren City."

The disaster happened only a short time ago, but Daxia had already obtained a video of the scene, which shows that Daxia's intelligence gathering capabilities have made a leap forward.

Director Chang didn't waste any time and clicked on the video directly.

Yang Fan and Ling Shuiling came over and started watching the video.

Judging from the footage, this is obviously a video shot by a drone.

Daxia's drone has the ability to enter Dongli's airspace without being discovered by the Dongli people. This is undoubtedly a "fully stealth" drone with both optical stealth and radar stealth.

What you see.

All I saw was a huge cyclone visible to the naked eye, looming over the city below, namely Guangren City.

Countless snowflakes were carried by the cyclone and flew rapidly, forming a huge tornado, which looked quite spectacular.

At first glance, most of the buildings in Guangren City are low, two or three stories high, and there are not many high-rise buildings.

Compared to the high-rise buildings that can be seen everywhere in any big city, Guangren City is more like a county town.

In addition, another characteristic of this city is that there are a large number of telephone poles.

But in today's Daxia cities, there are no electric poles to be seen.

Long before the era of natural disasters, the cities of Daxia began to transform power transmission lines and buried all the wires underground.

After the Age of Natural Disasters, this transformation accelerated further, and electric poles almost completely disappeared in Daxia, and could only be seen in remote areas.

However, Daxia implemented a large-scale immigration strategy, and people in such remote areas had long been relocated to safer core urban clusters.

"Woo~"

The wind howled.

The cyclone expanded further in size.

Yang Fan's eyes flickered, and he whispered, "The disaster has officially begun. I feel that the temperature in Guangren City is dropping rapidly."

Director Chang glanced at Yang Fan with a bit of surprise.

The director had watched the video in advance and knew what would happen next, but Yang Fan accurately predicted the follow-up just by watching the video. He thought it was amazing.

One second later.

Guangren City has become whiter.

such as.

The originally crisscrossing streets were now covered with only a thin layer of snow, appearing grayish white when viewed from the sky.

Now all the streets turned completely white in a breath, as if a god had painted them white with a brush.

For example.

There was no snow on the surface of the electric poles originally, and the gray cement was directly exposed.

Now they instantly turned into icicles.

Ling Shuiling couldn't help but ask, "Is it frozen down there?"

Director Chang shook his head: "It's not ice, but frost." The female secretary couldn't help but exclaimed "Ah" and subconsciously turned to look at Yang Fan.

Director Chang also made the same move.

Because Yang Fan was right!
A layer of white frost formed on the surface of the buildings, proving that it was indeed a frost disaster.

Yang Fan immediately asked: "What is the current temperature in Guangren City?"

Director Chang clicked on the screen, and a box appeared in the lower right corner with many parameters flashing inside.

One of them is temperature.

Director Chang said: "Before the frost disaster, the temperature in Guangren City was minus 36 degrees Celsius. Now it has dropped to minus 68 degrees Celsius, and it is still dropping sharply."

Yang Fan took a look at the video and said, "Many people will die in Guangren City this time."

Director Chang nodded and said, "Yes."

Ling Shuiling didn't quite understand this conclusion, so she asked, "Why?"

Director Chang took the initiative to answer: “The biggest safety hazard in Guangren City is that there are too many electric poles and the power transmission lines are exposed to extremely low temperatures.

“You should know that metal has the property of expanding when heated and contracting when cooled. When the temperature drops, the copper or aluminum wire in the wire will definitely shrink.

"In this case, their hardness and strength will increase, but their toughness will decrease significantly and become more brittle, which is a fatal problem.

"Because if the wires are subjected to a large external force, there is a great risk of breakage, which is very likely to cause damage to the power grid, and the consequences can be imagined."

Ling Shuiling was shocked when she heard this.

The temperature in Guangren City is so low that the lack of electricity means heating becomes a serious problem.

In such a situation, it is unlikely that the local power company will send people to repair the problem.

If the frost disaster lasts too long, many Dongli people will surely be frozen to death.

at this time.

The camera suddenly zoomed in many times and was aimed at a corner of Guangren City.

This is actually a telephone pole.

The electric wire hanging from the top has drooped down limply.

obviously.

The electric wires were frozen and broken.

This electric pole is quite far away from the surrounding electric poles, and the wires connecting them are quite long.

Long wires mean they are heavier, and the weight is further increased by a layer of frost on the surface of the cables.

Excessive weight increases the stress, and given the increased brittleness of the wires, it is not surprising that they break.

And this is obviously just the beginning.

As time goes by, more power lines will inevitably break, and it is only a matter of time before Guangren City’s power grid completely collapses.

The female secretary gasped and couldn't help but say, "Fortunately, there are no such outdated telephone poles in Daxia's cities anymore."

Director Chang nodded and said, "Yes, our country has done something very right."

Yang Fan asked another question: "I feel that frost disasters are different from ordinary natural disasters. The temperature inside the house should drop very quickly, right?"

Director Chang showed admiration: "That's right!"

The director clicked the screen a few more times and opened another video: "This is an infrared monitoring video of an ordinary house in Guangren City. The two sets of data next to it are the current outdoor and indoor temperatures."

In the video, we can see four red figures in the house, two adults and two children, obviously a family of four.

At this time, the indoor temperature is twelve degrees.

The temperature is not that high, but it will be fine as long as you wear more clothes, because setting the heating temperature to a lower level can save a lot of energy.

soon.

An extremely cold cyclone has appeared.

The outside temperature dropped at an astonishing rate, breaking through the low of minus sixty degrees Celsius in just a few seconds.

The indoor temperature also dropped sharply, all the way down to the freezing point of zero degrees.

A family of four had been playing in the living room, but they finally realized something was wrong and huddled together to maintain the temperature.

Judging from the infrared video, the couple seemed to have wrapped the entire family in blankets.

Ling Shuiling looked surprised: "This house should have an insulation layer, how come the temperature inside has dropped so quickly?"

Yang Fan replied: "If my guess is correct, the supernatural power contained in the frost disaster may have the ability to actively absorb heat from the surrounding environment."

Director Chang glanced at Yang Fan again and nodded in agreement, "After analysis, the research institute also holds this view."

The director showed no expression on the surface, but he was quite surprised in his heart.

A group of experienced experts from the research institute reached the conclusion after discussion, but unexpectedly, Director Yang guessed it at a glance.

Ling Shuiling was greatly surprised: "Is the frost disaster so terrible?"

A few more seconds passed.

The outdoor temperature dropped further to minus seventy degrees Celsius.

The indoor temperature showed an uneven trend, rising to around five degrees around the family of four, while other places fell below zero.

This is not a paranormal phenomenon, but rather an increase in the power of the heating equipment.

The family is closer to the heater, so the temperature rises around them.

However, heat conduction takes time, and places farther away do not have time to heat up.

Another moment passed.

The temperature outside was approaching a terrifying minus eighty degrees Celsius.

The indoor temperature stopped rising and began to drop rapidly.

The temperature around the family of four returned to zero, while other places were close to minus fifteen degrees Celsius.

Director Chang revealed the reason in one sentence: "The power was cut off in their home."

It must be that the nearby power lines were frozen and broken, causing the area to lose power supply.

Ling Shuiling was a little pale: "How many people will die in Guangren City?"

Just now when Yang Fan said "many people will die in Guangren City", she didn't quite understand it, but now she completely understands it.

This would be a terrible disaster.

Director Chang said: "Before the natural disaster era, Guangren City had 300 million people. After the natural disaster era, many Dongli people immigrated there. The current population of Guangren City should be no less than 350 million.

“It turns out that Guangren City’s power infrastructure has not been well maintained and is not strong enough to withstand frost disasters.

"Based on the current situation, even with the most optimistic estimates, at least half of Guangren City's population will die."

At least half of the population, which is 175 million people.

This is a number that sends chills down the spine.

Yang Fan agreed with this: "That's about right."

Ling Shuiling was shocked when she heard this.

Director Chang looked directly at Yang Fan and asked, "Dean Yang, you are the only person in the world who can accurately predict the frost disaster. What measures do you think Daxia should take to deal with the frost disaster?"

(End of this chapter)