Due to the impact of blizzards in the north, many flights were forced to be cancelled, such as the airport in Tongliao, which canceled flights for nearly three days.

Hasegawa and Brian had no choice but to take the high-speed train to the Lingnan area.

Fortunately, the railway company has been prepared and upgraded and transformed the high-speed railway section that is easily affected by blizzards. The full coverage dome allows high-speed trains to operate continuously without any obstacles.

In fact, the Federation has upgraded and transformed all infrastructure in the northern region to achieve a strong resistance to ice age-level ice and snow disasters.

Under the protection of the dome, the railway line seems to form two completely different worlds from the ice and snow outside.

The train headed south and passed through the Huaihe River, many open-air sections appeared, but among these sections, there were also many construction teams who continued to work in the wind and snow.

Obviously, this is extending the dome coverage of the railway line to the south. In fact, in the north and south of the Yangtze River, the danger is even greater in this kind of blizzard weather.

The reason is that the snowfall in Jiangbei and south may not be able to form stable snow accumulation, especially last month, after a blizzard occurred in Jiangnan, the sun appeared again at noon, causing the ice and snow to melt.

If this big sun weather can last, it will be fine, but the key is that this big sun weather will last for a day or two, and then it will be cooler again, and the melted snow water will be frozen again.

In this case, a hard layer of ice will form on the road surface, causing the vehicle to slip and easily cause traffic accidents.

In order to solve this problem, a large number of ice-removing teams have to be dispatched urgently to remove the ice layer on the road.

However, within the city, due to the multi-layered transportation system, the lower-level car roads were not affected, which eliminated a lot of trouble.

When the train passed through the Yangtze River Bridge and entered Hunan Province, looking into the distance from the train window, you can see a lot of lush green in the snow.

"In this province of the Federation, such large-scale blizzards rarely occurred in the past." Hasegawa picked up the camera, pressed the shutter towards the snow scene outside the window.

Brian was also observing, and he found that there were few villages here, and all he could see were larger towns.

"Mr. Hasegawa, why are there few villages in the federal government?"

Hearing this question, Hasegawa immediately laughed: "The many small cities you see are actually rural areas. In order to reduce the difficulty of management, the Federation has implemented a merger strategy in recent years and has carried out comprehensive integration of some small villages."

"Is that true?" Brian suddenly realized.

Hasegawa continued to explain: "In fact, the existence of small villages is a remnant of the agricultural era. If these small villages are not solved, social differentiation will occur between urban and rural areas over time."

As Hasegawa said, the federal strategy of combining villages and villages is to integrate populations and allocate resources.

A small village with a population of several hundred and a town with a population of several thousand is similar to a small town with a population of similar, but in terms of various resources, small villages need large towns.

For example, in terms of educational resources, should 10 small villages build one primary school in various ways? Or should students go to school in urban primary schools that are far away?

I'm afraid neither choice is the best choice.

Merging together is the best choice.

Moreover, there are some natural chronic diseases in the countryside, which is as the saying goes, "There are many turtles in the pond, and the temple is small and the wind is strong." To solve these problems, merger management is a good solution.

So along the way, Brian didn't see the small villages. The smallest villages started with thousands of people.

Just as the two were chatting, the train finally entered Lingnan. At this time, it was also snowing in Lingnan, and it was still raining and sleet.

This weather really made many people in Lingnan say that they couldn't stand it.

After getting off at Yangcheng Station, Hasegawa and Brian walked in the rain and snow with umbrellas.

"In my impression, is this the first time it snowed here?"

"Isn't Mr. Hasegawa a Japanese? Why are he so familiar with Yangcheng?" Brian asked curiously.

Hasegawa turned his head and smiled, "I have lived here for about 7 years and I still have a house in the Hanatu District."

"So that's it!" Brian said with a hint of envy.

After visiting various parts of the Federation, Brian really envied the Federation's life. If he could buy a house here, he would still be very willing.

Unfortunately, he is from Xizhou. If he wants to buy property in the federal land, he needs to queue up and review, and the procedures are very complicated.

Hasegawa's house was purchased a long time ago, and now he is a federal citizen, so there is no problem in buying it again.

But now the federal property is not valuable. Young people have a company or official house allocated by the government, so they can live in enough. They buy too many houses but cannot appreciate the value. They also pay a large step-by-step price difference and property tax, which is basically a loss-making transaction.

Cold ice rain.

Among the crowd holding umbrellas.

Brian is so out of place.

The north wind is cold, and the smiles on the pedestrians' faces are still so calm, even with a bit of joy.

On the grass in the park, many bone-shaped dragons who have never seen snow are rolling in the snow. Perhaps this is the Lingnan people who have never seen snow!

But Brian, an outsider, felt deeply saddened. Under the same sky in this world, they seemed to live in another world. What a ironic black humor.

But so what if it is painful? This is the reality of the world.

Hasegawa saw the grief in his eyes and could only take Brian to try the delicious food in Yangcheng.

After eating Minglu roast goose and claypot rice, drinking sugar water herbal tea and old fire soup, the food temporarily comforted Brian's mood.

Before they knew it, the two of them had already wandered around Lingnan and returned to Yangcheng again.

It was a bright noon. Although the north wind was still noisy, the sun still brought him a little physical warmth.

Brian, who was pulling the suitcase, hugged Hasegawa who came to see him off, and said with a reluctant smile:

"Mr. Hasegawa, I am very grateful for my care over the past few months. If you have the opportunity to visit Austria, please be sure to notify me."

"Take care, I wish you, my friend." Hasegawa waved his hand and shouted.

After the two said goodbye, Hasegawa looked at the gradually moving back, and then he calmed down and prepared to take the tram to return to his residence in Hanatu.

On the tram.

He looked out the window and stared quietly, as if something was attracting Hasegawa's gaze.

Suddenly the phone vibrated continuously. He took out his phone and looked at it. He found that it was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, so he pressed to answer:

"Hey! Editor-in-chief Kawata, is there anything urgent?"

"School, urgent matter! A big urgent matter!" The voice across the phone was very urgent.

Hasegawa took out a ballpoint pen from his pocket with his shoulders and head, "You said."

"Huh... Yanyi, something big happened in North America today. A volcanic eruption broke out in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, five minutes ago and an earthquake of magnitude 7.7."

"Yellowstone Park!" Hasegawa was startled.

The opposite of the phone continued: "Yes, and the volcano is still in a small-scale eruption. It is estimated that information shows that this volcanic eruption may be related to the study of geothermal power generation technology in the Moran base."

"What do I need to do?" Hasegawa asked bluntly.

"The newspaper needs..."

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