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 41: Insect Tide Appears

After the robbery last night, everyone on the 20th floor, except Chen Li, realized the danger.

After waking up, Chen Da and Lu Mei took tools to repair the hole in the security door.

"Old Chen, do you think the end of the world is really coming?" Lu Mei was helping Chen Da hold the tools, looking worried.

"I don't know if it's the end of the world, but the flood water downstairs is so high that it will definitely not recede for a while. Now many people have started killing people to grab food. Sigh! The days to come will definitely be even more difficult."

Chen Da sighed, asked Lu Mei to hand him a big hammer, and started knocking on the hole in the security door.

"You're a grown man, what else can you do except sigh? I'm going to find Coco."

"If a man is reliable, even a pig can climb a tree! Humph!"

Lu Mei got angry and threw the toolbox on the ground and walked away.

Chen Da just smiled helplessly. They had lived together for decades, and wasn't Lu Mei the one who made the decisions on all matters at home? Why was she blaming him for having no opinion now?

Alas! A woman's heart is like the weather in June, so fickle.

When Lu Mei arrived at Su Keke's place, she found Shi Huan and Meng Yi were also there. Grandma Qiao asked her to sit down and eat some fruit.

"Aunt Lu, Grandma Qiao actually has some fruit here. Look at this strawberry in my hand. It's super big and not sour at all!"

Shi Huan was as happy as a child at this moment, as if the fear of last night had long disappeared.

She stuffed a big strawberry directly into Lu Mei's mouth.

"Mmm!" Lu Mei took a big bite before she could even react. "Mmm! This strawberry is really sweet."

Su Keke just agreed to teach Shi Huan how to shoot, and asked her to learn with Grandma Qiao tomorrow.

Shi Huan was so happy that she almost spun in circles! If you give her a lemon now, she would say it is sweet.

"Keke! To be honest, I have been feeling uneasy ever since what happened last night. You said that this kind of thing will happen often in the future. I have been thinking about it for a long time but I still don't understand what you mean."

After eating a few strawberries, Lu Mei remembered that she had something to ask Su Keke.

"Did I say that?" Su Keke tried hard to recall and seemed to have mentioned that.

"Aunt Lu, what I mean is that the flood is getting higher and higher, production has been paralyzed, and a lot of food supplies have been submerged. If there is no food in a crowded place, riots will occur. That's what I mean!"

Su Keke tried her best to explain it using real situations, which everyone could see, so it was not considered as Su Keke's fabrication.

"Aunt Lu! I believe that as long as we on the 20th floor unite, others who want to rob us will have to consider the consequences!"

Su Keke picked up Tangyuan and took Lu Mei's hand to comfort her.

"Alas! The power and water have been out for so long, and there is no sign of recovery. The supplies I have stored at home are almost gone. And if it weren't for you and Xiao Meng last night, I'm afraid we would have died long ago."

The more Lu Mei talked, the more anxious she became. What should ordinary people like them do in days like this?

Apart from Su Keke, who was reborn, the person with the strongest sense of crisis on the 20th floor is Lu Mei.

Su Keke thought for a moment and said, "There are two biggest problems that everyone is facing now. One is the shortage of supplies, and the other is personal safety. In fact, we can solve these two problems one by one."

"The first problem is supplies! In addition to the relief food distributed by the government, we can also form a team to go out and find supplies."

"The second safety issue is easier to solve. We can practice archery, fighting, and shooting at home. Only when we make ourselves stronger will we not be afraid of any danger in the future."

Su Keke's words made her blood boil, and Lu Mei felt even more enlightened after hearing them.

"Keke, you're so right! When facing natural disasters or man-made calamities, we need to stock up on supplies and train our physical fitness!"

Lu Mei said this and suddenly turned around and gave Su Keke a big hug.

"I want a hug too!" Shi Huan saw the two of them hugging each other and joined in the fun.

"Meow... meow..." Being held between three women, Tangyuan said he felt so crowded.

"Please don't squeeze my dumplings so much that they become thinner!" Grandma Qiao said with a smile.

"Meow... meow..." After everyone let go, Tangyuan jumped out of Su Keke's arms. Grandma Qiao picked it up and put it on her forehead.

"Ah... there's a cockroach... ah..." Shi Huan suddenly screamed, kicked her feet twice on the living room floor, and jumped onto the sofa.

In the living room, everyone could see with their own eyes that a lot of cockroaches suddenly crawled out.

Grandma Qiao rushed into the kitchen to find a broom, but found several big cockroaches running around in the kitchen.

The glutinous rice balls followed Grandma Qiao into the kitchen and were crunchy when bitten into!

"Damn! Tangyuan is so awesome!" Meng Yi gave Tangyuan a thumbs up.

"Mom... why are there mice in our house? One, two, three... oh my, so many..."

"Dad! Stop working on the security door and come and kill the rats. Our rice is about to be eaten up!"

Chen Li screamed like a pig being slaughtered in 2003. Lu Mei quickly said something to Grandma Qiao and ran back in a hurry.

There were more insects in the homes of residents living on lower floors, and there were constant screams and shouts, and the clanging sounds of hitting cockroaches and catching mice could be heard everywhere.

Su Keke almost forgot that if the flood accumulates for a long time, it will cause backflow. Not to mention the snakes, insects, rats and ants, even the toilets may not be usable by then.

Meng Yi was holding a broom and killing cockroaches in the living room with Grandma Qiao. Su Keke took out two bottles of insecticide from the space while they were not paying attention.

After giving Shi Huan a bottle, the two of them started spraying the cockroaches on the ground!

In a short while, there were many dead cockroaches lying on the floor of the living room, kitchen, and even the bedroom.

I didn't expect that this insecticide, Su Keke, which I bought casually in the supermarket, is quite effective.

After Su Keke and Grandma Qiao finished cleaning up the dead cockroaches, Meng Yi and Shi Huan remembered their own homes, and their scalps suddenly went numb.

Imagine the scene where two people open the door and a group of cockroaches and rats run to greet them. How explosive that would be.

"I'm giving you these two bottles of insecticide. Don't be afraid. These insecticides are very effective!" Su Keke patted Shi Huan's shoulder and comforted him.

"You gave us all the insecticide. What are you and Grandma Qiao going to use? What if there are still cockroaches?"

Shi Huan put one of the bottles of insecticide back into Su Keke's hand.

"I still have some in my room. Go back and take a look. I'll send two bottles to Aunt Lu later."

"Okay then!" When Shi Huan and Meng Yi heard Su Keke say that there was more at home, they didn't hesitate. They each took a bottle and rushed towards their home with murderous looks on their faces.

After the two of them left, Su Keke took two bottles of insecticide from the space and sprayed the house inside and out with Grandma Qiao.

"Why are there so many cockroaches?" Grandma Qiao asked puzzled.

"Maybe it has something to do with the floods. It happened in my previous life too. There were no pesticides back then, so we both used slippers to take the photos."

Su Keke said this seriously, and Grandma Qiao's mouth twitched. "In the last life, were we both so strong?"

"We were forced to do this! We didn't have much food at home to begin with, and if the cockroaches had eaten it all, we wouldn't have survived until the earthquake."

Su Keke's eyes grew dim as she thought back to her previous life, when she and the people on the 20th floor had struggled to survive.

Every day I don’t have enough food to eat or enough sleep to sleep, and I can just barely survive.