Chapter 15: sky high prices
Also it is working perfectly.
Vicky experimented with it and he felt the difference just after a week of usage.
So he continued with the process.
This is not all Vicky has made an escape route for him when the rains started.
At that time he has to leave this place if not he would be buried under water.
Vicky did not cook any food during this time because the smell would attract too many people.
Previously when he cooked after coming back in November there are many people asked in the community group about who cooked the delicacies.
In the last week November the temperature still did not drop but people started to drop because of sun stroke.
Passersby would call the ambulance if they saw them on time if not they would die on the road.
Well the people that called would usually call for sympathy and righteous behavior to post in the social sites.
As time passed by there are more and more of these cases all around the world.
Some enthusiastic people that promoted that the end of the world is coming to stock up supplies put on videos of their collection.
But in the later days these people were killed and robbed for food in the early apocalypse days.
He remembers that on 20th of December the temperature reached 50 degrees with the sea water level increased by 50 meters.
The water came all the way to the apartments filling up to the 15th floor.
But later the water receded to the 10th floor because of the extreme sun.
The people felt like they are boiling alive.
Well that is after 20 days from now,
45 degrees is not a suitable temperature to go out for work or study.
At 45 degrees of temperature most people would have sunstrokes and hallucinations.
So the schools are closed early before conducting the exams before the winter holidays.
At the same time the work for most people was changed to work from home.
There is no wind and even if it blows a little it was the hot wind mixed with high humidity of water vapor.
Vicky stopped his adapting process and did the exercises only feeling up the sun at early morning for 5 or 10 minutes.
The sounds of asking for help would be heard from time to time because of the elderly unable to hold the temperature and high humidity.
The motor is already not in working state as the place began to submerge by the dirty water from the flood after 3 days at the start of December.
During this time the ice caps and the ice at poles started to melt at an alarming rate.
The power supply lines of community are gone but the internet is still working.
The power and water is gone making people sink down to despair.
Some people want to take the opportunity to leave at night to a high altitude area of surrounding mountain villages.
Well the water level only came till the knees of the adult in the first 3 days of December.
But they did not expect that there are lose power supplies in the water that still has power supply.
These things caused the people to electrocute and die when they are moving.
The work and production completely stopped except for few emergency services.
Vicky looked through the news on the phone during this time to see about the situation of the world through internet.
Most of the places are in the same situation and the power and water all over the world is gone.
Some special places still have power but they are military facilities.
The places near the coast lost the power supplies and water supplies because of extreme heat and submerging.
The places in high altitude have even higher temperature reaching 50 degrees directly burning the power supply lines and the underground water was also evaporated.
So the news updates are also gone.
But the network would work till the day of Christmas when the temperature reaches 55 degrees and then it will be offline too.
People have to rely on radios if they had to know the news from the government stations.
The charging in the phones has drained after the usage of phones for a few days after the power supply is gone.
Well there is relief from the government during the time as they came on boats to deliver some news from the government.
The news is that there will be distributing food packets and water as ration during the specific times in the evening.
The people should come with ID to get the ration.
There are armed people that came to help the person that distribute.
Also they mentioned that there will be government market where people can use their money to buy the things.
This was also arranged along with the ration people from the private market chains supporting the government.
So after receiving the rations people can buy the things from another boat that acts as market.
Vicky specifically saved 100,000 rupees in cash for this kind of situation and converted the rest into gold for later usage.
The market on the boat will only be there for a few days before the water level rises and temperature increases to 50 degrees.
After that even they would not make any move.
That is they will come two more time before completely stopping.
Now the cost of 1 kilogram of rice that is barely acceptable quality with at least 100 grams of dirt and stones would cost 1000 rupees.
With the same amount of money people could buy over 25 kilograms of rice just a month ago.
If it is sugar or salt or pulses or other things then the cost would be even higher.
They are selling water too.
1 liter of drinking water costs over 200 rupees.
The purity of water is not guaranteed.
Vicky plans to buy 50 thousand worth of things now and the next two times he would buy.....
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