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Just when Li Mu thought the torrential rain was going to continue, the moisture had already passed over Yunshi and continued westward.

As a result, the coastal areas suddenly cleared up after the rain, and the torrential rain in Yunshi turned into heavy rain, moderate rain, and light rain. The western regions, which had been suffering from drought and high temperatures for a long time, finally welcomed a round of heavy rainfall.

However, this flood receded particularly slowly. Although there were no more torrential downpours, the sky continued to be filled with heavy and moderate rain, constantly replenishing the water lost from the ground.

Meanwhile, as the moisture moved westward, heavy rains fell across the western regions, causing significant flooding. These floods flowed eastward, replenishing Yun City and preventing the water level from dropping.

There was plenty of food and drink in the building, and Li Mu was in no hurry. When the flood receded wouldn't affect him much.

That morning, after exercising for a while and breaking out in a light sweat, I swam two laps in the pool, changed into the clothes Sun Yuan handed me, and leisurely made my way to the recreation center on the 32nd floor.

After taking a book, he sat down in the designated tea room. Liu Yue came in carrying a pot of tea: "Sir, your tea."

Li Mu nodded: "Mm!"

Liu Yue poured Li Mu a cup of tea before slowly retreating. He took a sip of tea, slowly opened the book in his hand, and had only read a few pages when he heard the melodious sound of a zither.

Li Mu looked up and saw Qing Ning sitting gracefully in a corner of the tea room, dressed in ancient costume. A guzheng was placed in front of her, and the melodious music was coming from her hands.

When she noticed Li Mu looking over, she gently raised her head. Their eyes met, and she blushed slightly before shyly lowering her head.

Its appearance is truly pleasing to the eye.

It must be said that Qingning is indeed beautiful, especially in her Hanfu. Her features are exquisite, her hair is full of black, and she possesses a unique classical beauty. Coupled with her fair skin like solidified cream, she is truly a rare beauty.

Li Mu remained silent, drinking tea, reading, listening to the melodious guzheng music, and gazing at the picturesque scenery before him.

After quite a while, the song ended.

Li Mu asked, "Qing Ning, what brings you here today?"

Qing Ning smiled faintly and said, "Staying here all the time, eating and drinking for free, is not a solution. I should do something within my power. I heard that Sister Huihui is helping to manage the library over there. I think about my strengths, which are all in classical music, so I can only start from that area."

"From now on, I'll come to the teahouse or coffee shop often to perform and do what I can."

Li Mu nodded: "I see! It's nothing really. After all, you're my junior. You don't need to be reserved here. Just make yourself at home."

"If you're bored, you can do a part-time job to pass the time."

Qing Ning nodded and said "Mmm".

The two chatted for a few more minutes. Qing Ning clenched her fist tightly, her knuckles turning slightly white, as if she had made up her mind. Suddenly, she looked up at Li Mu and said with a firm expression, "Senior, I...I like you!"

After saying that, she blushed deeply and quickly lowered her head.

Li Mu was taken aback. He hadn't expected that this quiet junior sister would have such a straightforward and bold side.

Receiving no response, Qingning mustered her courage, carefully raised her head, and looked at Li Mu with a determined expression, asking, "Senior, do you like me?"

Li Mu didn't answer, but smiled and asked, "How old are you?"

Qing Ning looked up with a serious expression and said, "I'm not young anymore, I'm nineteen already, and I've never been in a relationship. I like you, senior..."

Li Mu said, "Do you even know me? You just say you like me?"

Qing Ning said earnestly, "You don't necessarily have to understand something to like it. Although there are still many things about you that I don't understand, I just like you..."

Li Mu continued, "Aren't you afraid I'm a scumbag?"

Qingning shook her head and said, "I believe you, senior. You definitely aren't like that."

Li Mu said, "That's not necessarily true. Look at me, do I look like a devoted person?"

Before Qing Ning could speak, Li Mu continued, "You know what I usually look like. Also, the thirty-first and thirty-second floors are such a large area. If they were open, they could accommodate many people together."

"However, only a handful of people in the entire building have access to these two floors, and they are all women."

"Besides, you've met Sun Yuan and Liu Yue in my apartment upstairs. They're both beautiful women who serve you personally every day. There are also some other good-looking staff members."

"In this situation, do you really think I'm faithful?"

Qing Ning was stumped by the question. After hesitating for a long time, she whispered, "I don't know, but I just like you. If we're together, I'll try my best to win you over, to make you forget everyone else and love me wholeheartedly."

Looking at her serious expression, Li Mu felt a mix of amusement and emotion.

After considering for a moment, he nodded and said, "If you really want to date me, I can give you a chance."

Lime's face lit up with surprise: "Really!"

Li Mu said, "Really, starting today, we can try dating... However, it's just trying dating, and it can't affect our lives. If I fall for someone else along the way, you can't mess around."

Qing Ning looked a little dumbfounded: "Why did you fall for someone else halfway through our relationship?"

Li Mu said, "Didn't I already explain the reason? I'm not that loyal; I might fall for someone else along the way."

Qingning suddenly looked up and said, "Senior, are you talking about Sister Huihui? I know Sister Huihui likes you too, but I'm not afraid. I just want to be with you."

Li Mu was speechless. He hadn't said it was Jiang Hui, although he did have some feelings for this former school beauty.

"Stop overthinking. Aren't you a music student? I've been bored lately and want to learn some music theory. Why don't you teach me and we can work together better?"

Qing Ning happily replied, "Great! Don't worry about leaving it to me."

The following day, in the small flower hall on the thirty-third floor, Li Mu formally began learning music from Qing Ning.

Although Qingning is only a sophomore in college, she has been studying music since she was a child, attending countless classes, and achieving the highest score in her department in the art entrance exam. Not only is her foundation solid, but her skill level is also quite good, making her more than qualified to be a teacher for beginners.

Li Mu was eager to learn, and the two of them, one teaching and the other learning, created a very good atmosphere.

The same thing happened for the next few days, and the two became much closer. Li Mu was no saintly gentleman who could resist temptation. As they got to know each other better, hugging, kissing, and cuddling became frequent occurrences.

Jiang Hui, on the other hand, seemed a bit down when I ran into her at the library a few times recently. Her gaze towards Li Mu was also somewhat dim and disappointed. She wanted to go directly to Li Mu and say something, but lacked the courage, and was stuck there in a dilemma.

Li Mu also sensed it. He was currently in a hot relationship with Qing Ning and didn't know how to respond. Should he just cheat on her with someone else?

He's willing, but it's hard to say whether the two girls can accept it right away; it would be bad if things went wrong.

We can only take it slowly!

In this ambiguous atmosphere, the torrential rain in the west finally ended, and the city of Yun welcomed the clear sky. This flood disaster was finally coming to an end.

Chapter 479 High Temperatures and Cohabitation

The floodwaters didn't recede completely until late June. However, it was already midsummer.

The weather was already hot, and with summer on top of that, the temperature was even hotter.

One day in July, the highest temperature in Yun City soared to 68 degrees Celsius, making it practically uninhabitable for humans. All construction work was halted that day, and everyone stayed indoors in despair, enduring the sweltering heat.

There's no way around it. Even with air conditioning, it's just too hot outside. The lowest indoor temperature can only be lowered to 35 or 36 degrees Celsius. Any lower and the air conditioning would probably need to run at full power 24 hours a day, which it can't handle.

Fortunately, during normal times, the highest temperature only hovers around 60 degrees Celsius. At night, without the sun, the temperature is even lower, only around 40 degrees Celsius, which is enough for everyone to continue working and living.

This is because Yun City has a large number of reservoirs, lakes, rivers, etc., which store a lot of water. In hot weather, the large amount of water evaporates and takes away some of the heat, thus regulating the temperature.

In the western region, especially in the arid northwest, temperatures are even higher. Fortunately, there is a special way to escape the heat there: cave dwellings.

The longer and deeper the cave dwelling is dug, the less affected it is by the outside temperature. It is not only warm in winter and cool in summer, but it is also a good place to escape the heat.

In this kind of weather, the advantages of cave dwellings were naturally recognized by the authorities.

In addition, with hundreds of millions of people migrating from coastal and central regions, housing is a major problem. Building enough housing for hundreds of millions of people would take too long and require too much raw material.

Under the current circumstances, it's simply impossible to achieve.

Thus, the advantages of cave dwellings became even more apparent: choose a spot, dig a hole, implement some simple reinforcement measures, and install doors and windows, and you have a house.

Not only is it extremely cheap to build, but it also doesn't require a lot of steel bars, cement, and other raw materials like building a house. More importantly, it's fast enough; digging a cave dwelling is much faster than building a house.

As a result, the construction of the cave dwellings became one of the largest super projects undertaken by the government, involving more than ten million workers.

Even so, many people who migrated westward still had to crowd together because the demand for cave dwellings was simply too great. To meet all the demand, it would take at least tens of millions of people more than half a year to complete the construction, so that each family could have their own individual cave dwelling.

Despite various government measures, the population has decreased significantly in this high-temperature weather, especially among the elderly, children, and those with serious underlying health conditions.

Fortunately, a relatively good level of order and stability has been maintained. In contrast, things overseas are now in complete chaos! Many places simply lack the strong organizational capacity and experience in mobilizing large numbers of people to deal with disasters.

Faced with this situation, they were helpless. In the face of successive high temperatures and floods, they were like a pile of loose sand, and the situation was appalling.

As August arrived, the highest temperature in Yun City rose again, exceeding 70 degrees Celsius. The situation was even more extreme in the western region, where the highest temperature once exceeded 75 degrees Celsius.

Such temperatures are unsuitable for 99% of living organisms, including humans. Fortunately, this heat wave is short-lived, lasting only a few days, with temperatures hovering around 60 degrees Celsius for most of the time.

Given the high temperatures, outdoor work was basically suspended in August unless absolutely necessary, as even wearing heat-resistant clothing would be unbearable.

Such high temperatures are unbearable not only for people, but also have a huge impact on all aspects of life.

First, the terrifyingly high temperatures caused massive evaporation of water. By mid-August, all the rivers in the western region had dried up, and the exposed riverbeds had also dried out, revealing cracks.

This has caused a huge ecological disaster. Some animals that could withstand high temperatures were able to survive by relying on the river water; a very small number of fish that survived the high temperatures were able to barely survive by relying on the water source.

As the riverbed dries up, the water that is the source of life disappears, and everything naturally ends.

Even in the central region, most rivers have dried up, and there are dried-up dead fish everywhere. The authorities have collected a large number of them and made them into dried fish or salted fish as food reserves.

They could have collected much more; everyone knows how precious food is. But the weather was too hot, and the river water was scalding hot. An ordinary person might get burned if they weren't careful. The fish were practically boiled in the water, and many couldn't even be caught. If the collection was even slightly slow, the fish would rot. Collecting a large batch took a tremendous amount of effort.

As a result, many people were splashed by the river and their bodies were covered in blisters.

Throughout the central region, only a very few rivers have not yet dried up. Although the riverbeds have been exposed, at least the water at the bottom of the rivers has not completely evaporated.

In this respect, coastal areas performed the best, with only a few rivers drying up and most rivers not evaporating completely.

The main reason is its proximity to the sea, resulting in humid air and lower temperatures compared to central and western regions, thus slowing down evaporation. Additionally, the abundance of water vapor and frequent rainfall further lower the air temperature and replenish the rivers.

In a post-apocalyptic world of extreme heat, coastal cities are arguably the most livable.