As August arrived, the temperature grew ever more scorching. Temperatures of fifty degrees had become an everyday occurrence.
"Brother, you sleep in the bedroom all the time. Aren't you hot?" Chen Xingyue asked with a strange look after dinner.
Since July, she and their parents had slept on the third-floor balcony every night. Only her brother still holed up in his bedroom.
She felt hot just thinking about it. She had no idea how he could stand it.
"A calm heart naturally brings coolness," Chen Shouyi said coolly.
As a Divine Creature, he was more heat-resistant than ordinary beings. At least when he wasn't exercising, he barely sweated. But the one who tolerated heat even better was Shell Girl, who could burrow under the covers and sleep soundly in weather this hot.
"What a freak. How can you sleep like that?"
"What do you mean, freak?" Chen Shouyi objected. "Scientifically speaking, I'm just better at adapting to harsh environments!"
"That's still being a freak!"
"You... Forget it, I can't be bothered to argue with you!"
"Brother, you always know what's going on. Are they going to restore electricity soon?" Chen Xingyue asked curiously.
"I haven't asked around. It should be soon, though. The papers keep talking about it!" Chen Shouyi said.
Recently, the news had been buzzing with reports that electricity would soon be restored.
At the same time, work had begun on upgrading the power lines in the safe zone.
Whereas household power had previously been supplied at 220 volts, the upgraded system would deliver as much as 3,000 volts—far higher than the 1,500 volts of lossless transmission he'd heard about from Guan Miao.
Clearly, they were taking into account the possibility that the earth's Primal Force might rise again in the future.
"Then we'll be able to use