Chapter 2993 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (1)
Chapter 2967 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (1)
What is summer like in Gotham?
In the past, people would say that summer in Gotham was like a rain that was about to fall, with heavy dark clouds that were always low, thunder like a giant beast passing through the clouds, and gloomy and damp alleys.
There are countless unknown crises hidden in it.
But now, this city that has regained its sunshine has hot and long summers. During the day, the heat wave rolls in. The cicadas are exhausted by the heat. They sing in a long tune. Seagulls can't fly, squatting on the threshold of the coffee shop.
There was a hoarse scream, leather shoes stepped on the asphalt road, and the melted asphalt pulled out shiny threads. Pedestrians hurried on the road held up newspapers to cover their heads, not daring to stay in the sun for even a moment.
Since May, Gotham has been getting hotter and hotter. When the temperature was over 30 degrees, people could barely survive with refrigeration equipment. However, seeing the temperature approaching 40 degrees, few people dared to go out.
Logically speaking, it is impossible for a coastal city to be so hot, not to mention that Gotham faces the sea on three sides, so the climate should be better than that of the metropolis.
But this city has gone to the other extreme on the road to modernization. There is no sunlight anyway, so skyscrapers can be built as high as they can, reflective glass can be as bright as they can be, reinforced concrete structures are being built as hard as possible, and asphalt roads are being built as hard as possible.
As we all know, the heat island effect is produced under conditions such as the above. When there is no sunlight, these things are completely fine.
But now, the dark clouds have dispersed and the sunshine has returned. The whole city is like a piece of iron exposed to the sun.
When Gotham was frozen in the past, the entire city was still a summer resort. However, with the repeated iterations of dense ice technology, the dense ice used in Gotham's underground cold storage is no longer cold and barely participates in heat exchange. Naturally, there is no
Has cooling function.
With the right time, right place and right people, the whole city is getting hotter and hotter.
The lives of the people of Gotham are full of disasters. They have just captured a few demons and encountered a few more monsters. The city finally saw the light of day again, and was almost cooked in the increasingly hot summer.
Schiller was extremely happy that he had moved to his new home.
The West District has been transformed into an industrial area, and industrial activities are one of the main culprits of the heat island effect. Now the temperature there is almost 40 degrees, and sooner or later you will be killed by the heat if you stay there any longer.
The new home has many benefits. There is a large lake behind it, a forest beside the lake, and a stream running down the lake. It is surrounded by lawns and trees. Greening and water bodies are all things that can reduce the heat island effect.
Despite this, Schiller's psychological defense was broken when he saw the number of 36 degrees displayed on the thermometer in the early morning.
The last time he saw such a high temperature was in his previous life. If he remembered correctly, it should have been in Chongqing.
To a certain extent, the two cities are really similar, especially after the situation in Gotham improved. Schiller looked at the map carefully and found that Gotham and Chongqing now look really similar.
If nothing else, Chongqing is the intersection of two rivers, a city of ten thousand bridges. Gotham is also the intersection of two rivers. The Hudson River and the Gotham River meet exactly in the center of Gotham. There are also countless bridges over the two rivers, so the city is also
It is divided into east and west parts.
But the difference is that the terrain of Gotham is relatively flat, there are not so many hills and ravines, and from the perspective of natural conditions, it is not that magical. However, Bruce's Gotham renovation project turned this place into a real 8D city, the area in the East District
He couldn't even get out by himself, let alone navigate.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to learn well. Once a bad learner slips away, a good learner cannot learn the temperature. The city of Gotham could barely maintain a temperature of around 35 degrees in the past two years. This year, even the suburbs have reached 40 degrees.
, Gotham is known as "Little Chongqing on the East Coast".
Normally, if you want to control the temperature, you can bring back the dark clouds, but Bruce is no longer Batman, and the curse of Gotham that was maintained for the existence of Batman no longer exists. The dark clouds are getting thinner day by day, and now
It no longer has any masking effect.
Schiller stood in front of the thermometer for ten minutes.
In fact, this is a very difficult problem to solve. It cannot be solved by bringing Pamela back and asking her to plant trees everywhere. Now that Gotham's urban construction is very saturated, what kind of trees will it go to?
For example, the road in front of Schiller's house is a four-lane road, which is usually not blocked, but only if there is no greenery in the middle or on both sides of the lane. It is a straight road with no sidewalks.
If you want to green the road, you must first convert the four lanes into two lanes to make room for the sidewalk, and then plant green lawns and trees between the sidewalk and the motorway.
There is no problem in doing this on this road, because this is not a densely populated area to begin with, but the traffic in Gotham is always a big problem. Even with the wool of dark energy brought by Bruce, it can only be said to be barely maintained.
Isn’t it funny to talk about greening under such circumstances?
Many cities in Europe and the United States have this problem. Their cities were built too early. At that time, there were not so many cars and high-rise buildings. A two-lane road was enough.
Even in older cities in Europe, there are no asphalt roads at all. They are all paved roads with people and vehicles traveling together. The traffic rules all depend on your mood.
It’s not that all the governments don’t want to take care of it. There is simply no way to take care of it. If you want to move the road, the house will have to be moved back. If you want to move the house, it will squeeze out other roads and there will be no room. You can’t layer it.
Move the layers back and flatten the whole city like a pancake.
It's even more troublesome to get to Gotham. The buildings here are not the small western-style buildings in the city centers of many European countries. Because they were built relatively late, even the oldest Gotham Cathedral is a high-rise building and will need to be demolished.
Even more troublesome.
Of course, in addition to road greening, we can also build more parks, nature reserves and reservoirs. However, it is obvious that the situation in this city has only just improved. People have just climbed out of the quagmire. It is not yet time to consider environmental protection. Good places need to
First meet the residential needs of residents, then build supporting facilities, and also meet commercial needs and industrial development.
Each of the above-mentioned facilities that can reverse environmental problems is very large, and no one can afford so much land.
The construction of parks is also very particular. Many people envy New York's Central Park, but in fact Central Park is one of the counterexamples of urban construction. The green space is too concentrated, which can not have a good impact on the urban environment, but also results in only a small part of it.
People can enjoy urban greening, no matter how well-built the park is, it still violates the laws of urban environment construction.
But if you want to build many parks separately in Gotham, land is one thing, and funding is more difficult. It didn't have the ability before, and the city government now in the midst of the Great Depression is even more powerless.
But seeing the temperature getting higher and higher day by day, and the endless stream of heat stroke patients being carried into the hospital every day, the prominent figures in Gotham felt that this could not go on any longer.
Schiller, who was standing in front of the thermometer, took out his mobile phone. By chance, the door was pushed open at this time, and Helen fell onto the sofa in the living room.
"Why is it so hot? Why is it so hot?!" Helen wailed.
Schiller looked back at her and said, "The air conditioner has been turned down to the lowest setting. If you are still hot, go get some ice cubes from the refrigerator."
Helen was motionless. If he hadn't known that she was Doomsday, Schiller would have thought that she had died of heat.
Thinking that she was the sun of destruction, Schiller asked with some confusion: "Can't you eat the sun? Why do you feel the heat?"
"These are two different things. I won't feel hot when I return to my true form, but my current body is human and my body temperature system is the same as yours, so of course I will feel hot."
Helen jumped up from the sofa again and said: "We went to the forest to see it. It is indeed humid and shady there. We are going to build a tree house there. What do you think?"
"Whatever." Schiller nodded. It wasn't that he didn't want to give some sincere suggestions, but he was really powerless.
People from Marvel have been here for a while. Jarvis and Wanda came with their children and lived in James Gordon's manor in the North District.
After James and Barbara got back together, they soon had a child. It was still a girl, but it seemed that James was worried that naming her Barbara would make her make the same mistake as Barbara in other universes.
Name her Jane Gordon.
Jane is older than Wanda's two brothers and can now run around. Wanda and Barbara exchange experiences in raising children, and Jarvis is responsible for driving them out to play.
The guys from the Guardians of the Galaxy couldn't sit still. They were all veterans of the world. They didn't bring a penny with them when they came, but it didn't take long for them to find a house to live in in the East District. They can be said to be like a fish in water.
The young superheroes of the New Warriors team, the group closest to crazy teenagers, came to Schiller and brought Helen along with them, causing him trouble.
At first they found a lake behind Schiller's house and wanted to fish. However, because of their poor fishing skills, Tiantian Air Force and Speedball Robert, a clever little guy, got an electrified net from somewhere and almost destroyed the lake.
All the fish in the house were wiped out, and other neighbors complained, and Schiller had to order them to put the fish back.
Schiller originally expected them to help with the gardening, but they were obviously not people who could work well. They dug around in the soil, sprayed it with a garden hose, and used the hose to play with the soil and mud, leaving a mess.
The yard was full of dirty mud, as powerful as a pack of huskies.
Schiller originally wanted to drive them away, but when the pavilion he bought arrived, he had made an appointment with the seller to install it. However, he was shocked to hear the bad news a few days ago that the installer would charge a high-temperature subsidy, and it was not cheap. It was almost as much as the installation fee.
price.
Schiller originally wanted to find another installation company, but he asked several companies, all of which required high-temperature subsidies. Each one was more expensive than the last. He had no choice but to call Killer Croc, only to learn that Killer Croc was hospitalized.
He should have thought of it earlier. Crocodiles are cold-blooded animals. Who can tolerate a good crocodile moving in 40-degree weather?
Zatanna and Gordon, who invested in a moving company, have been taking care of Killer Crocodile recently. Cobot is busy taking his mother to move to a suburb with a lower temperature. Mayor Roy is even more busy. Even Scarecrow and Pig Noodles are very busy.
Professors have accepted orders from the FBI and gone to work in metropolitan areas with cooler temperatures.
After much thought, Schiller decided that the free labor should not be used in vain, so he asked the members of the New Warriors team to stay, and they are currently installing the pavilion step by step.
In fact, this kind of assembled pavilion is not complicated at all. If you hurry up, you can finish it in an afternoon. However, the temperature is too high. It is impossible to work from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., so you can only catch up on the work at night and install it one by one.
The small pavilion in the garden has not been installed for five days, and Schiller still has to cook for them every day.
Fortunately, because the weather was too hot, the serial killers basically didn't come out, and Gordon finally had some free time. Just when Schiller went to the backyard to check on the garden condition, the police sergeant came to visit.
