When Perfikot encountered a research bottleneck, the first large-scale snowfall of the year silently arrived in the Northern Territory.
This caught many people by surprise, as when the snow fell, it still should have been deep autumn according to the Northern Territory’s climate.
But for Perfikot and those aware of this doomsday disaster, the snowfall wasn’t particularly surprising; on the contrary, they all felt a pressing urgency.
For the climate had already begun to collapse.
This isn’t hard to understand, even though the global cooling has been persistently decreasing bit by bit, it is not a smooth linear decline.
Rather, it is a parabola, starting with a steady and gradual decline, leading to a cliff-like drop at the point of collapse.
Evidently, now is the ti of the cliff-like drop.
With nine years of sustained cooling, the energy of the planet’s surface atmosphere has gradually been depleted, and the original teorological system has begun to collapse.
Under such circumstances, although the sun outside continues to supply energy to this planet, the increasingly cold weather and, most critically, the collapse of the teorological system will lead to the ergence of extre weather, with such occurrences becoming more and more frequent.
Until finally, the whole planet freezes into a block of ice.
For Perfikot, this is certainly bad news, but also good news.
Because it ans that the secret she has borne for more than three years can finally be disclosed, and it also ans that she and the Empire can finally act openly with the premise of defending against the apocalypse.
This will greatly improve their operational efficiency; at the sa ti, projects that previously required cover-ups or needed to be cleverly nad can now be brought out directly.
Under these circumstances, even Perfikot feels much better.
However, alongside the good side, there are also downsides. At least due to this snow, Perfikot’s originally anticipated free ti for research has been significantly shortened, forcing her to put her research aside temporarily and return to the pile of clerical work at the Lord’s mansion.
This snowfall has a massive impact on the Northern Territory, as many construction sites and settlents weren’t prepared for winter.
Especially the critically important winter clothing, though Weir and the Witch Workshop have developed synthetic fibers, there is still so way to go before they can be made into fabrics and mass-produced into clothing.
Originally, all of this was ant to be prepared before winter, but no one expected extre weather to co so quickly.
"Inform Weir to co up with a practical solution in the shortest ti possible to make the synthetic fibers into cold-resistant clothing. I don’t care how she does it or what costs are involved; I just want all the citizens of the Northern Territory to have sufficient cold-resistant clothing before the next snowfall." In the Lord’s office, Perfikot gave the order in a cold, unfeeling tone.
At this mont, her expression was severe, like the cold wind and snow outside, sending a chill down the spine.
Perfikot was always serious, but never as frightening as this ti.
Her face was almost ashen, and her lips were tightly pressed together, showing that she herself was very tense at this mont.
No one found anything amiss about Perfikot’s attitude; even those who typically had minor complaints about her being too serious were, at this mont, fully absorbed and highly focused on listening to her orders.
This snowstorm disrupted everyone’s arrangents in the Northern Territory and posed the most severe test ever to its entire administrative system.
Even though it has only been a few years since its establishnt, the current situation truly tests the crisis managent abilities of these civil servants.
"Lord, currently, the food supply in all established settlents remains normal, although so settlents aren’t receiving supplies temporarily due to traffic disruptions. However, the recently deployed compressed biscuit machines have now co into great use, and the residents of these settlents are currently using the compressed biscuits to stave off hunger." An official reported to Perfikot, subtly flattering her in the process.
Upon hearing this, Perfikot showed a hint of satisfaction, but it quickly returned to tension.
She rhythmically tapped her fingers on her desk, and after thinking carefully, she spoke again: "The issue of traffic interruption must be resolved promptly. I don’t want to hear of any settlents facing fuel or food supply problems due to traffic disruptions during this snow disaster."
"Rest assured, we have already mobilized elite teams to restore all interrupted traffic at the earliest possible ti. Additionally, we’ve gathered a batch of supplies from the New Continent colony, which will soon be shipped to the port of Beloburg." Another official, responsible for this task, took over and updated Perfikot on the situation: "Currently, we have drawn all available Flying Airships from the Northern Territory and are using these airships to supply all temporarily disconnected settlents.
From the current situation, all areas are relatively stable, and local public sentint remains calm, with no imdiate problems anticipated."
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