Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 330 - 222 The Only Way to Break the Game_1

Ye Feng had determined the range for controlling temperature and now he only needed to allocate a portion of his spiritual power to maintain the Ability to Control Heaven and Earth.

With the current strength of his spiritual power, he could maintain the Ability to Control Heaven and Earth by using just a tenth of it, which meant he could still attend to other matters.

However, Ye Feng didn’t rush to practice; the new round of cooling had begun, and the cold front had already reached the southern region of Yang City. It was likely that most other areas had already experienced cooling.

Therefore, he turned on his phone to check the latest situation.

To his surprise, the temperature in most areas in the north had plummeted to below minus 20 degrees Celsius.

By this time, there were many pleas for help on the internet.

Due to the impact of the earthquake, many northern cities’ heating facilities had been damaged, and with less than a day since the earthquake, it was impossible to repair them in such a short time.

Even being able to repair more than half of the heating facilities within ten days to half a month would be considered fast.

Not only heating but electricity was also a major problem.

Although many power plants were built earthquake-resistant, considering such scenarios.

The magnitude of the earthquake was simply too terrifying this time. At minimum, it was magnitude seven, and some even reached magnitude eight.

Even if the power plants didn’t collapse, many of their facilities were damaged by the severe tremors.

At this point, almost half of the power plants in the country had stopped operating.

Even those that were still operating couldn’t run at full capacity and were only providing the bare minimum electricity.

Given these circumstances, one could imagine how poor the quality of life was; temperatures like these could truly freeze someone to death, especially elderly people or those with underlying health conditions.

Fortunately, the country had already put emergency measures into place at the first sign of trouble.

That measure was to burn coal.

As long as coal was processed simply, into honeycomb coal, it could then be distributed to the public for combustion and heating.

Of course, if burned directly indoors, it could easily cause carbon monoxide poisoning.

But if the honeycomb coal was placed inside a metal barrel, and the top of the barrel was connected to a metal pipe extending outside, it could serve as a simple fireplace, significantly reducing the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Thus, many posts on the internet were requests for help, with people wanting to purchase honeycomb coal.

However, the mining and excavation of coal would take time.

Luckily, Hua Country was a major coal producer. Although coal mining had been reduced year by year to promote the development of new energy, it didn’t mean that the rate of excavation was slow.

When the national machinery was fully operational, even with military assistance, securing enough coal wasn’t difficult.

So Ye Feng felt that the shortage of honeycomb coal would last at most two days, and the situation should improve thereafter.

He just glanced briefly at the situation of residents across the country, and then turned his attention to the wildlife and plants.

Because the survival issues of domestic residents were not his worry—those would naturally be managed by the national higher-ups—but the ecological environment was a different matter.

Truthfully, he was very concerned that ecological balance might be disrupted and that a massive die-off of wildlife and plants could occur.

Because he had a feeling that, if such a thing happened, there would be unpleasant consequences.

While considering these issues, Ye Feng quickly browsed through the information.

There weren’t many reports about the wildlife and plants, but there were enough.

It didn’t take long for Ye Feng to find related news; there were instances of wildlife and plants dying from the cold in several areas.

Ye Feng clicked on one of the news stories and examined it. There were many photos, each showing mutated insects that had been frozen into ice sculptures.

However, these mutated insects were on the smaller side. Ye Feng suspected that either they hadn’t reached the Second Stage, or they were still in their larvae phase.

So it wasn’t surprising that they couldn’t withstand such low temperatures and were frozen to death.

No large-scale die-offs of mutated insects were found, which was good news, but Ye Feng didn’t know to what extent these mutated insects could withstand the cold.

Besides the mutated insects, there were also many pictures of plants frozen into ice sculptures. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

It’s worth mentioning that under normal circumstances, plants in the north shed their leaves when winter arrives.

But this cold wave came too suddenly, not giving these plants any time to prepare for the cold.

So, the plants in the photos, many turned into ice sculptures, seemed verdant, but they would shatter like brittle ice upon the slightest touch.

However, the plants that had frozen to death were mostly low shrubs and weeds—the proportion of trees dying was relatively small and was confined to those that hadn’t grown much.

It could be said that the current temperatures hadn’t led to a massive die-off of wildlife and plants, but if the temperatures continued to drop, the situation could change.

And it wasn’t just a domestic issue.

Ye Feng accessed the international news to see the conditions abroad, which were also quite bad, if not worse.

Many countries, after experiencing the big earthquake, weren’t able to initiate rescue operations immediately.

And by the time they started several hours later, when the global heavy rain began, rescue efforts became much more difficult, not to mention the cold disaster they were about to face.