OBS Chapter 2967: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (1)
Chapter 2967: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (1)
Chapter 2967: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (I)
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. The dark clouds were always hanging low, and the thunder sounded like a giant beast passing through the clouds. Countless unknown crises were hidden in the gloomy and damp alleys.
But now, the summer in this city that has regained the sunshine is hot and long. The daytime heat waves roll in, the cicadas are too exhausted from the heat, and their calls are long and drawn-out. The seagulls cannot even fly, and squat on the threshold of the coffee shop and make hoarse calls. Leather shoes step on the asphalt road, and the melted asphalt pulls out shiny threads. Pedestrians hurry on the road, holding newspapers to cover their heads, and dare not stay in the sun for a moment.
Since May, Gotham has been getting hotter and hotter. When the temperature was over 30 degrees, people could barely survive with the help of refrigeration equipment, but as the temperature approached 40 degrees, few people dared to go out.
Logically speaking, it is impossible for a coastal city to be so hot. Moreover, Gotham is surrounded by the sea on three sides, so the climate should be better than that of Metropolis.
However, this city has gone to the other extreme on the road to modernization. Since there is no sunlight, skyscrapers can be built as high as possible, reflective glass can be as bright as possible, reinforced concrete structures can be added as much as possible, and asphalt roads can be built as much as possible.
As we all know, the heat island effect is produced under conditions like the above. When there is no sunlight, these things are completely fine.
But now, the dark clouds have dispersed, the sun has returned, and the whole city is like a sheet of iron exposed to the sun.
When Gotham was frozen before, the whole city was still a summer resort. However, with the repeated iterations and updates of dense ice technology, the dense ice used in Gotham’s underground cold storage is no longer cold and hardly participates in heat exchange, so naturally it has lost its cooling function.
With the right time, place and people, the whole city is getting hotter and hotter.
The lives of Gotham residents are filled with disasters. They just captured a few demons and encountered a few monsters. The city finally saw the light of day again, but was almost roasted in the increasingly hot summer.
Schiller was extremely grateful that he had moved to a new home.
The West District has been transformed into an industrial area, and industrial activities are one of the main culprits of the urban heat island effect. The temperature there is almost 40 degrees now. If you stay there any longer, you will be killed by the heat sooner or later.
The new home has many advantages. There is a large lake behind it, a forest by the lake, a stream along the lake, and lawns and trees all around. Greenery and water bodies can reduce the heat island effect.
Despite this, Schiller's psychological defenses were broken when he saw the temperature of 36 degrees on the thermometer in the early morning.
The last time he saw such high temperatures was in his previous life, if he remembered correctly, it was in Chongqing.
To some extent, the two cities do have similarities, especially after the situation in Gotham improved. Schiller looked at the map carefully and found that Gotham and Chongqing now look really similar.
Apart from anything else, Chongqing is the confluence of two rivers and the city of thousands of bridges. Gotham is also the confluence of two rivers. The Hudson River and the Gotham River meet right in the center of Gotham. There are also countless bridges over the two rivers, so the city is divided into two parts, east and west.
However, the difference is that Gotham's terrain is relatively flat, without so many hills and gullies. From the perspective of natural conditions, it is not so magical. But Bruce's Gotham transformation project has turned it into a real 8D city. He can't even get out of the East District himself, let alone navigation.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to learn good things, but it is easy to learn bad things. As for the temperature, the temperature in Gotham city could barely maintain around 35 degrees in the past two years, but this year even the suburbs have reached 40 degrees. Gotham people call it "Little Chongqing on the East Coast."
Normally, if the temperature needs to be controlled, the dark clouds can be brought back, but Bruce is no longer Batman, and the Gotham curse maintained for Batman's existence no longer exists. The dark clouds are getting thinner day by day, and now they can no longer serve as a shield.
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 Gotham’s urban construction is already very saturated. What kind of trees should be planted?
For example, the road in front of Schiller's house is a four-lane road, which is usually not congested, but the premise is that there is no greenery in the middle and on both sides of the lane. It is just a straight road with no sidewalks.
If we want to do greening, we must first change the four-lane road into a two-lane road to make room for the sidewalk, and then build green lawns and plant trees between the sidewalk and the motor vehicle lane.
There's nothing wrong with doing this on this road, because this isn't a densely populated area, but traffic in Gotham has always been a difficult problem. Even with the dark energy that Bruce has taken advantage of, it can only be said to be barely maintained. Isn't it ridiculous to talk about greening in this situation?
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 tall buildings, so a two-lane road was enough.
Even in the older cities in Europe, there are no asphalt roads at all. Instead, there are only cobblestone roads for people and cars to walk on, and traffic rules depend entirely on one's mood.
It's not that all governments don't want to intervene. It's just that there is no way to intervene. If you want to move the road, the houses will have to be moved back. If you want to move the houses, other roads will be squeezed out of space. You can't just move them back layer by layer and flatten the entire city like a pancake.
It is even more troublesome in Gotham, because 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 part of Gotham Cathedral is high-rise, so it is even more troublesome to demolish it.
Of course, in addition to road greening, more parks, nature reserves and reservoirs can be built. However, it is obvious that the situation in this city has only just improved and people have just climbed out of the quagmire. It is not yet time to consider environmental protection. A good place must first meet the living 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 to give up so much land.
The construction of a park also requires a lot of attention. 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 not only fails to have a good impact on the urban environment, but also results in only a small number of people being able to enjoy urban greening. No matter how well the park is built, it violates the laws of urban environmental construction.
But if Gotham wants to build many parks separately, land is one thing, and funding is even more difficult. The city government did not have the ability to do so before, and now that it is in the midst of the Great Depression, it is even more powerless.
But seeing the temperature getting hotter day by day and the endless stream of heat stroke patients being carried into the hospital every day, the prominent figures in Gotham all feel that this cannot go on any longer.
Schiller, standing in front of the thermometer, took out his cell phone. Coincidentally, the door was pushed open at this moment, and Helen fell headfirst onto the sofa in the living room.
"Why is it so hot? Why is the weather so hot?!!" Helen wailed.
Schiller looked back at her and said, "The air conditioner has been set to the lowest setting. If you are still hot, go get some ice from the refrigerator."
Helen didn't move, and if Schiller hadn't known that she was Doomsday, he would have thought she had died of the heat.
Thinking that she was Doomsday, Schiller asked in confusion: "Can't you eat the sun? Why do you feel hot?"
"These are two different things. I didn't feel hot when I restored my original body, 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 woods and saw that it was indeed moist and cool there. We plan to build a tree house there. What do you think?"
"Whatever." Schiller nodded. It's not that he didn't want to give some sincere advice, but he really didn't have the energy to do so.
The Marvel people have been here for a while. Jarvis and Wanda came with their children and lived in James Gordon's North Side estate.
After James and Barbara got back together, they soon had a child, still a girl, but it seemed that James was worried that naming her Barbara again would make her repeat the mistakes of Barbara in other universes, so he named her Jane Gordon.
Jane is older than Wanda's two brothers and can now run around. Wanda and Barbara exchange parenting experiences, while 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 underworld. They didn't bring any money when they came, but it didn't take long for them to find a house to live in the East District. They could be said to be living like fish in water.
The young superheroes of the New Warriors team, the group that was closest to crazy teenagers, came to Schiller, bringing Helen with them, and caused him a lot of trouble.
At first, they found a lake behind Schiller's house and wanted to go fishing. However, due to their poor fishing skills, they always came up empty-handed. Then, the clever little guy, Speedball Robert, got an electric scoop net from somewhere and almost killed all the fish in the lake. Other neighbors complained about it, and Schiller had to order them to put the fish back.
Schiller had hoped that they could help with the garden, but they were obviously not people who could work well. They dug the soil randomly, sprayed the garden hose randomly, and used the hose to play with the soil and mud, making the yard full of dirty mud, with the power of a group of huskies.
Schiller originally wanted to drive them away, but when the gazebo he bought arrived, he had agreed with the seller that it would be installed. However, a few days ago, he was shocked to hear the bad news that the installer wanted to charge a high temperature subsidy, and it was not cheap, almost equal to the installation fee.
Schiller originally wanted to change installers, but he asked several and they all required high temperature subsidies, and each one was more expensive than the other. He had no choice but to call Killer Croc, only to find out that Killer Croc was in the hospital.
He should have thought of it earlier. Crocodiles are cold-blooded animals. Which crocodile can withstand moving in 40-degree weather?
Zatanna and Gordon, who invested in a moving company, have been taking care of Killer Croc recently. Cobblepot is busy moving his mother to the suburbs where the temperature is lower. Mayor Roy is even busier and overwhelmed. Even Scarecrow and Professor Pig-faced have accepted orders from the FBI and are going to work in Metropolis where the temperature is even lower.
Schiller thought about it and decided that it would be a waste to use the free labor, so he asked the members of the New Warriors team to stay, and they are currently installing the pavilion step by step.
In fact, assembling this kind of gazebo is not complicated at all. If you are fast, it can be done in an afternoon. But the temperature is too high, and it is impossible to work from 10 am to 3 pm. You can only rush the work at night. A small gazebo installed in the garden has not been completed in five days, and Schiller still has to cook for them every day.
Fortunately, because the weather was too hot, serial killers basically did not come out, and Gordon finally had some free time. Just when Schiller went to the backyard to check the condition of the garden, the sheriff came to visit.