Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 534 - 501: The Flaws of the Constant Temperature Barrier

Perfikot’s new design was quickly put into use in New Shaker City. Besides the first Energy Tower, which adopted the original technology for technical verification, the subsequent two new Energy Towers employed Perfikot’s new design.

This new design effectively increased the area of the Magic Barrier deployed by the new Energy Towers by over 30%. Although the previous dispersed Magic Array still had an effect, its effectiveness was significantly reduced due to issues such as energy conduction.

Now, with Perfikot’s new design solving the drawing issues of the Magic Array, the effect is naturally enhanced, restoring the original intended effectiveness.

There’s no denying that the Magic Barrier technology provided by Mages is quite useful. At least for New Shaker City now, it instantly turned the slightly cold early spring into a very pleasant temperature, around 10°C.

In such a temperature, people going out don’t even need to wear heavy clothing, just a normal thin coat and a single layer of clothing is sufficient.

Of course, if someone wants to wear more, they can, as sometimes etiquette and work requirements force some people to dress more or less than usual.

Under normal circumstances, New Shaker City’s climate has already entered spring, and people’s clothing is just enough as described.

But due to the advent of the apocalypse, outside the Magic Barrier, New Shaker City’s temperature is still fluctuating around 0°C, sometimes even dropping below -5°C.

This huge difference makes many people praise the new Energy Tower, and also elevates Perfikot’s reputation to another level, seemingly moving to enshrine her.

Though for Perfikot, she has already been enshrined and has firmly secured her position, she is not inclined to engage in such a trend.

Especially with the introduction of the new Energy Tower, the modification plan for the original Energy Towers has been put on the agenda, some people inevitably start to criticize another matter.

That is the shelter that Perfikot built under each Energy Tower.

Originally, because the Energy Tower could not construct heating fields on the ground, Perfikot had no choice but to build cities and streets underground.

People understood this point, but from the beginning, some criticized it, believing that living underground poses many issues, and it’s better to find a way for humans to live on the ground.

Perfikot has certainly heard such remarks many times, but she only ever treats them as nonsense.

It’s not that these remarks are without reason; everyone knows that living in a basement and living in buildings above ground are two entirely different feelings, but these people haven’t considered that living underground for warmth preservation is far easier than living above ground.

After all, maintaining temperature in an open environment and maintaining temperature in a closed environment are two entirely different kinds of consumption.

Especially according to predictions, as the apocalypse descends, the environmental temperature will drop below -40°C, making it nearly meaningless to light fires for warmth.

Because the heat loss is very severe, warmth can only be felt at very close distances, once leaving a certain distance only bone-chilling coldness can be felt.

Not to mention, in Perfikot’s predictions, -40°C is just a basic temperature, it might be even colder in the future.

In such circumstances, living underground is undoubtedly more comfortable than living above ground, and the insulation effect is many times better.

After all, the insulation effect of the earth layer is unquestionable.

But now with the new Energy Tower, the Magic Barrier effect makes some people feel there’s no need to live ungracefully underground, they could completely continue living above ground, making the construction of underground shelters unnecessary.

Completely saving the money and resources to build more new Energy Towers, allowing cities to maintain their original living state even under the apocalyptic winter.

This rhetoric has many supporters, after all, if there’s a possibility to live above ground, who would want to live underground?

But Perfikot does not agree with this; she directly dismissed the proposal, and firmly insisted on continuing the construction of underground shelters.

Some people naturally have grievances about Perfikot’s stance, but Perfikot’s identity and status are here, the power she holds is enough for her to act alone without anyone being able to oppose and stop her. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Especially regarding the issues of Energy Towers and shelters, Perfikot is the absolute authority; no one can propose opposing ideas, or question her decisions.

This is not Perfikot’s personal autocracy; rather, her current identity and status, as well as her accomplishments, determine that no one has enough confidence to defy her.

Although Perfikot herself actually hopes someone could propose contrary opinions, proving she is not perfect, regrettably, no one can do that.

At least in the issues of shelters and Energy Towers, no one can achieve that.

Even if someone thinks it’s a waste of resources, they can only try every possible way to indirectly probe Perfikot, to see if she can make changes.

For this, they even invited Eldest Princess Annie to probe Perfikot on this matter.

"Aunt Annie, I have a question for you. During winter, how effective is the Magic Barrier of Windsor Castle? Can it maintain a stable temperature throughout the whole winter? It should be the same as the Magic Barrier on the Energy Tower, right?" Faced with Eldest Princess Annie’s attempt to probe, Perfikot merely responded with a question.

To Perfikot’s questions, Eldest Princess Annie frowned and recalled before answering, "Generally, the temperature is very stable and does not fluctuate much, but if the weather is extremely cold or if it snows, there will still be a certain degree of cooling."

"See, the answer is clear, isn’t it? Magic Barriers have limits, and those mages don’t even know whether their precious barriers can still function normally at minus forty degrees." Perfikot shrugged, making a helpless expression while further explaining to Eldest Princess Annie, "Magic Barriers do not completely isolate the inside and outside. Its principle is only to maintain the temperature within a suitable range.

In hot weather, it decreases the temperature; in cold weather, it increases the temperature. All of this is based on the energy it consumes.

In the past, Mages used Magic Power to sustain the operation of the Magic Array, combined with non-extreme weather, so the Magic Barrier had relatively noticeable effects.

But when the environmental temperature is too extreme, the Magic Array cannot keep up with consumption, and it cannot maintain the temperature."