Apocalyptic Natural Disasters: I Have a Capsule House

On the tenth day of the apocalypse, Su Keke was forcibly driven out of her home by her adoptive parents and sister. The reason was to reduce one person's consumption of supplies, even though Su...

Chapter 120: Water Source Dries Up in Lanshan Villa District

The municipal office has issued a high temperature warning using a small loudspeaker, reminding citizens to stay at home as much as possible during the day to prevent heat stroke.

In addition, the locations of wells in urban and suburban areas were announced, so that citizens could arrange for young people in their family with better physical strength to fetch water in the evening.

As the temperature gets higher day by day, the outdoor temperature has reached 50 degrees during the day, and the water level of the nearby ocean is dropping day by day. Many fish in the sea have been killed by the heat and are floating on the warm sea surface with their bellies turned upside down.

At night, many people would rush to collect these fish that died of heat. People who had not eaten seafood for a long time would not care how these fish died. They would just take them home, cook them casually and start eating them.

Due to the continuous high temperature, the government asked citizens to adjust their work and rest schedules, resting at home during the day and going out at night.

Many of the vegetables in the breeding base were wilted by the sun, and even if they were watered at night, only about half of them could be saved.

Several pigs also died of heatstroke in the poultry department, and even more chickens and ducks.

Several breeders with average physical fitness suffered from symptoms of heat stroke such as dizziness and nausea even when they went out to work at night.

Shi Huan's physical condition is much worse than Lu Mei's, and she unfortunately suffered from heat stroke these days. The rescue station was suddenly overcrowded, and the doctors in various departments were overwhelmed.

The most common people suffer from fever, dehydration and heat stroke. Due to the shortage of medicines, many of them use physical cooling methods.

If the situation is not serious, let them go home and find a cool and ventilated place to rest. If the situation is slightly more serious, give them some Huoxiang Zhengqi water.

Only the most serious cases were kept for intravenous infusion.

Shi Huan suffered from mild heatstroke, so the doctor at the rescue station asked her to go home and rest.

The 20th floor has advantages during floods, but now it is extremely hot and has become a big boiler.

The foot-operated generator and two large solar panels can only provide electricity for small household appliances such as lights, induction cookers and electric fans for two families, but the air conditioner in the house cannot be powered at all.

All the vegetables that Chen Da planted in 2004 were killed by the heat, and he sighed at home for several days because of this.

Shi Huan asked for leave to rest at home. She was sweating even with the fan blowing on her. She didn't dare to open the windows on the upper floors because the wind from outside was full of heat waves.

Chen Li and Meng Yi are responsible for stepping on the engines in the corridor. These two have been training in the patrol team for more than half a year. Although they are tanned, their physique is really good and much better than before.

Due to the previous floods and extreme cold, several households on the lower floors of Changhong Community have been left uninhabited, some died, and some have moved away.

It was extremely hot. Many residents like Lu Mei and others who lived on high floors could no longer bear it and moved to the empty rooms on the lower floors.

They have no generators, no solar panels, and all the electrical appliances in the house cannot be used. Even opening the windows for ventilation is hot. Living in the high-rise buildings is like an ant on a hot pot, and it is hot wherever you crawl.

Lu Mei and her family also thought about moving to a lower floor, but they were afraid that living with people they were not familiar with might lead to conflicts.

Both families have a certain amount of income of their own, and both the points they have and the supplies at home are more than those of other people in the building.

People are treacherous nowadays and we have to be on guard day and night. Neighbors living next door are the hardest to guard against, so even if it is very hot living on a high floor, they plan to endure it for now and move out if it becomes unbearable.

The mountain spring tap water in the Arashiyama villa area has slowly dried up since the extreme heat arrived.

At Su Keke's reminder, Qin Xiu stored a lot of tap water in the basement in advance, so he currently has free access to water.

Because the weather is too hot, Su Keke and Grandma Qiao have suspended their daily routine of going to Qin Xiu's house to practice Taekwondo.

Now the two of them will practice together in the capsule house's gym for an hour every day, and then take a shower and come out of the space.

The mobile air conditioner in the living room on the first floor was taken out of the space. It does not use any electricity but can provide great cooling.

Take out chilled watermelon, cola, ice cream and various drinks, as well as bagged chicken feet and beef jerky.

Plug the hard drive into the mobile TV, and watch a large number of movies at will. Su Keke found a comedy movie suitable for herself, Grandma Qiao and Tangyuan to watch together.

“Hahahaha…hahahaha…”

When they saw the funny parts, Su Keke and Grandma Qiao laughed so hard that they almost cried.

Tangyuan couldn't stay any longer after watching the movie in Su Keke's arms for a while.

It didn't know what was so funny about the movie, so it jumped out of Su Keke's arms and went to play by itself.

There is really no water in the tap water in the villa area now, and several residents ran to Du Huairen’s Villa No. 1 to complain.

This was a natural disaster, and the Du family didn't store much water. The other residents made a fuss several times but there was nothing they could do, so they had to drive to the wells announced by the government to fetch water.

It is hot now and water resources are scarce. The government-provided wells have a limited amount of water to draw each day, and each household can only draw two buckets of water a day.

"How can two buckets of water be enough? How can we survive without taking a shower in such hot weather?"

Dancer Hua Yihan, who lives in Villa No. 11, expressed her dissatisfaction. She borrowed a pickup truck from a friend and pulled a large bucket that could hold a ton of water. How could she come so far to fetch water and be sent away with just two buckets of water?

"Ma'am, this is the rule above, please don't embarrass us."

The staff in charge of this well tried to persuade them.

"If you don't want to fetch water, don't take up space. We all need to fetch water to go home and cook dinner!"

"Yeah! If you are so capable, why don't you just dig a well yourself? Why are you trying to steal water from us ordinary people?"

The people in the back were all angered by Hua Yihan's behavior and remarks.

It's already this late and you still want to take a shower every day. There is only so much water in a well, why should they let the rich people do it?

When the flood was extremely cold, they had water in the Lanshan villa area but they didn't use it to help the victims. Why are they coming out to snatch water from the general public now that it's extremely hot and there's no water?

"What are you doing? Why are you pushing me? These troublemakers are so uncivilized!"

Hua Yihan was so angry that she almost slapped the two people behind her. But she was alone after all, and someone had already started to covet her pickup truck.

In the end, Hua Yihan could only hurriedly fetch two small buckets of water and drive away.

"Comrade Liu, I think she shouldn't be allowed to fetch these two buckets of water! It's a natural disaster, why are these rich people still being so noble? They should be left to die of thirst!"

"That's right! If you don't like it, don't come to fetch water."

"Alright! Alright! Stop talking. Line up and start fetching water."

The staff did not want to escalate the public opinion and began to urge.

Other residents of Lanshan Villa District also encountered various setbacks when they went out of the community to fetch water from various water points in Lingcheng today.

They came back covered in dust and dirt, and came to Du Huairen to ask if the Du family could think of a way to solve the water problem.

Du Huairen was also worried about drinking water, but where could he get water now?

"Su Keke!"

Du Huairen suddenly thought of Su Keke, the little girl who had not appeared for a long time.