Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

August 19, 2143

4 o'clock in the morning

In a house located on the southern edge next to an old road, a woman woke up from her sleep. She felt a biting chill as soon as she stretched out her hand. She turned sideways and hugged her husband tightly.

But soon the two just hugged each other and felt the cold. The man could only get up and turn on the air conditioner. After a while, the room became warmer and the two continued to sleep.

But within a short while, the two of them were woken up by the cold again. They found that the air conditioner had stopped working. When the man got up, he found that there was no electricity at home. He quickly put on his clothes and checked, but after opening the window, the man found that not far away It's the same thing in our town, it's all dark.

Sure enough, the man saw that the water in the kitchen on the first floor had frozen. He hurriedly woke up his wife and quickly closed the window below. The two shivered next to each other in the house.

They live just behind a 15-meter-high windshield, but it still feels very cold. The man can only wait for the day to get brighter, and then plans to take his wife back to relatives in the town.

This is not the first time that the two of them have been woken up by the cold recently. It is now even colder than before. Some equipment will stop working due to the cold. Now they can only wait for the family in the town to send someone to repair it.

After a while, the two went out. It was only 7 o'clock in the morning. Many people who lived near the windshield had come out. Now they could only go to the town to escape the cold.

After approaching the town, the air became warmer and many people gathered together to talk.

This is the territory of the Angus family. The people here live a relatively prosperous life and the society is relatively stable. Even though there are fights happening everywhere on the grassland, this is the first choice for many people to live and work in peace and contentment.

After a while, several construction team vehicles entered the town, and many people went out to talk to the construction team members about when the power problem occurred.

The construction team began to check everywhere, and soon they found the cause, and the power was restored at 9 a.m.

Many people cheered, and the engineering team members began to move towards the edge, preparing to measure the current air temperature, because the temperature in the main town over there had dropped to 5 degrees, and the situation here was definitely not good.

Sure enough, the engineering team members checked the outside temperature after a while. It was already minus 11 degrees, and many places were frozen.

The people in the engineering team began to record the data in detail. This is something that needs to be paid attention to. Now in some sheds outside, once the power is cut off for a few hours, the crops inside will soon freeze to death.

Although there are food reserves, as the population grows, the food reserves are completely insufficient.

Soon the engineer began to explain some things, asking these people to keep an eye on some equipment at any time, and be sure to call them as soon as possible if there is a problem.

Soon the engineering team returned to the main town of the Angus family. After reporting the situation, they headed to the next town. Now the entire Angus family has 21 towns, large and small, and is already the largest family in the south.

The Angus family also has its own army, an army of nearly 50,000 people, which manages everyone under its banner. There are also some defense facilities on the edge. The number of mutants in the army exceeds 2,000.

The Angus family's military power has become the strongest on the grassland, so now the Angus family is extremely stable.

After a while, Rudy summoned everyone from the engineering department to the Angus family's office building. More than 30 engineering leaders were watching the reports that were still coming back.

Rudy has already seen it in advance. He has discussed it with several people in his family, and now he must find a way to prevent such low temperatures from having an impact on their society.

Although Rudy has prepared the engineering team to deal with low temperatures, some equipment cannot be in place in a short time, and low temperatures will destroy many things. If such low temperatures last for a month, many facilities in the town will be damaged. Everything will go wrong.

"Mayor Rudy, electricity is a big problem."

An engineer said and Rudy nodded.

"If that doesn't work, I will call in the mutants to provide you with stable and continuous power."

Mutants can control the friction of alienated cells to produce electricity. Rudy has also established facilities for mutants to generate electricity. In emergencies, mutants can only be relied on to generate electricity.

After communicating for a while, the engineering team decided on a plan. Some equipment must be coated with a special grease to prevent the equipment from being eroded internally by low temperatures.

The meeting lasted until noon when everything was finalized. Rudy immediately ordered the army to send at least 10,000 people to assist the engineering team.

The current army is almost the same as the regular army of human society in the past, and the Angus family also has its own specialized weapons research arsenal.

The nationalization of the family is already an inevitable trend in the future. Now the Angus family strictly controls the family boundaries and will not allow too many people to enter the territory of the Angus family.

Many people want to come in, but Rudy is very clear that the current population of more than 1 million in the Angus family's territory has actually exceeded the standard. A maximum population of 500,000 in the territory is best.

Now the food production can barely keep up, but once the cold wave comes, food production will be reduced, and no one can endure hunger.

"I'll tell you something."

Rudy gathered more than a dozen young people from the Angus family. Their current main job is to conduct polls for the Angus family and announce some things in advance.

"You tell the people to be more frugal recently. The amount of food they eat every day must be strictly controlled. Even if they only eat half full, they must stick to it. Our Angus family is the same."

Rudy explained a lot of things. The Angus family is one of the few families that has established an early warning mechanism.

Many times when problems arise, the Angus family has issued warnings in advance, helping many people recover losses and avoid some risks.

Soon more than a dozen people began to study and discuss on their own. The Angus family adopts this management model. Although the entire family is in key positions, they must work hard for the prosperity of the town and the prosperity of the family.

Rudy will arrange all the people in the family in corresponding positions in order to train the younger generation of the Angus family, and Rudy will also fully give them the right to make their own decisions, and they must listen to the general direction. For the clan leader, they can adjust their plans in small directions.

Some families have begun to learn from the management model of the Angus family. This is also the reason why the Angus family is strong. This is what the previous generation of patriarch Jed was doing when he was still alive.

The entire Angus family recognizes this model, and there will be no disputes over wanting to get the upper hand. Many people perform their duties.

Rudy did not leave, but listened to the young people of the Angus family discussing the early warning plan. He would not interrupt them, but would just listen to their ideas. Rudy would stop them in time before problems occurred.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Rudy returned to where he lived. His family lived on the 13th floor. After returning home, only his wife was still teaching his little daughter something, and no one else was there.

"I'm back. Isn't it particularly cold today?"

Rudy hummed, and after interacting with his daughter for a while, he and his wife prepared dinner together.

"Don't make it so rich tonight, just keep it simple."

Rudy told his wife what happened today, and she understood immediately.

Soon at 5 p.m., the Angus family issued an early warning and began to regulate grain shipments on the market.

Many people are aware that problems may arise in the future, and some people are waiting outside food stores to buy food without even eating.

But soon some people discovered that each person could only buy a few hundred grams of grain per day and could not buy more.

It is true that everyone feels that it is getting colder and colder recently, and such temperatures make many people feel miserable.

In less than an hour, long queues had formed outside food stores in major towns. Some people simply ate some food sent by their families on the road and then waited.

Since the Angus family has issued an early warning, they must quickly stock up on food. The radio is still broadcasting asking people to save as much food as possible when eating every day.

Some factories have also announced relevant measures. Some factories will shorten working hours and wages will be paid as usual.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Rudy watched the news. In front of his children, he praised these young people for doing a good job.

The early warning did not cause any panic. Everything was going on in an orderly manner. Many people had begun to make simple food, and some experienced people were still promoting cooking methods that were delicious and filling.

Soon Rudy received a call from Su Hao, the patriarch of the Su family next door.

"Can you give us some food urgently?"

Su Hao's voice sounded a little calling, Rudy said after understanding the situation.

"The maximum we can give you is 50 tons. This is our limit, but we will have to replace it in the future."

Rudy quickly finalized it, and the eldest son said a little dissatisfied.

"Father, we have to start cutting back on food and drink now, and we have to give them food. In this case."

Rudy said with a smile.

"I didn't give you food because of my friendship with the Su family. Once the weather gets colder, some clothes will be necessary, and the Su family has a large amount of clothing reserves."

When Rudy said this, his sons and daughters all understood.

After eating, Rudy was looking at documents in the bedroom. He looked at the lights outside the window and the lights in the distance. He felt that this cold wave was not simple. He knew that certain riots had already occurred in other towns, especially those near the edge. Some towns.

Rudy's guess was correct. Sure enough, a call came in not long after, from the mayor of a town east of their Angus territory.

"Mr. Rudy, I hope you can lend us some soldiers, just 1,000. There is a riot on our side now."

After weighing it, Rudy shook his head.

"I'm sorry, the situation here is also very bad. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to help."

Rudy did not intend to lend them the army, because they did not follow Rudy's advice and crazily squeezed some ordinary people. The result was obvious. Once problems arise, these dissatisfied emotions will definitely burst out.

And if such a thing breaks out, then the territory of the Angus family can be expanded again. They mainly produce some materials. This is a very good opportunity for the Angus family who have been doing business with them for a long time.

After a while, another call came. They were from a small town in the mountains and forests. They hoped that Rudy could give them a batch of medicines urgently because some people were sick. This time Rudy agreed.

There are also mineral reserves in this town. As long as they are given medicine, they can use the ore reserves to subsidize the Angus family.

Throughout the night, Rudy answered more than 20 calls and finalized many things. After the call ended, it was already past 11 p.m. and his wife had fallen asleep.

Rudy also planned to go to bed, but he was still a little worried. Then he got up and gathered some important people in the family.

0 o'clock

Rudy told everyone the contents of the several phone conversations he had just had, and everyone felt that there was nothing wrong with what Rudy did.

"The main purpose of calling everyone here tonight is to discuss the situation in the next few months. We have to make certain predictions in advance and then be prepared. I hope everyone can speak freely."

Many people spoke, and Rudy listened carefully and began to take minutes of the meeting.

Over the years, the relatives of the Angus family have also adapted to the Angus family's practices. The entire Angus family is one, without distinction between inside and outside.

Even if they are some side members, their opinions will be taken seriously by Rudy.

Rudy soon sorted out everyone's conversation and began to talk about the situation that would occur in the future. Food must be guaranteed as a priority, so he had to act as soon as possible to communicate with the Chen family, a large owner of physical reserves, and then start from Chen. I got a batch of food at home.

The second point is the maintenance of equipment. Some equipment that may be damaged due to the coming cold wave must be listed in advance. If you have some, you will step up production, and if you don’t have them, you will negotiate to purchase them.

As long as these two points are ensured, even if the temperature is low for two or three months in the future, there will be no problems in the Angus family's territory.

It was already 2 a.m. when the discussion ended, and Rudy went back to sleep.

In fact, Rudy is a little tired now. Although his eldest son is doing well, he still lacks some experience. Rudy must continue to educate and train him. The next heir of the Angus family is extremely important.

Rudy is very hesitant about who to choose, because if he cannot cross the next era, the Angus family will be destroyed, because Rudy already knows that war is approaching silently.

At present, one of Rudy's two sons will be Angus's heir, but one is a bit impatient and the other is too gentle.

"It's really difficult!"