Chapter 13 Early Arrival of Severe Convection

There was a commotion and several big black rats ran out of Sun Qing's house.

Xia Xiaoman had a bad feeling in her heart.

When I opened the door, I saw a puddle of dirty water. In the dim light, thumb-sized cockroaches scurried into the cracks, and occasionally a few black shadows whizzed by.

"Zhou Qiuyang, where is the building that you mentioned was just put on sale?" She wanted to move, she didn't want to live in this damn place at all.

"Chenyang Community, on Nanjiang Middle Road."

Xia Xiaoman frowned, "So far."

It takes more than an hour to get from the community to Nanjiang Middle Road by bus. If you go kayaking, it will take at least three or four hours, and that's if everything goes well and you don't bring too many supplies.

Ye Xiaojie saw Xia Xiaoman's thoughts and asked, "Do you want to move now?"

Xia Xiaoman nodded. "If there are heavy rains in the next few days, our floor will be flooded sooner or later, and the residents downstairs will move up."

There are many people and few supplies. The residents downstairs will definitely target them.

Two fists are no match for four hands. The residents in the building attacked together and it was difficult for them to protect their belongings. They might even lose their lives.

Sun Qing was pushed to the brink of collapse by cockroaches and rats. "I agree to move out, right now!"

"How do we move so many things?" Zhou Qiuyang asked.

Ye Xiaojie thought for a moment and said, "Put the inflatable mattresses together and throw the large and heavy items on them. Put the small items in a sealed bag and tie it to the kayak with a rope."

Sun Qing nodded, "That's it! We need to be quick, or else we'll be harassed again when the residents downstairs come back."

Several people went back to their rooms and quickly packed up their supplies.

Halfway through the collection, the rescue team used a loudspeaker to notify everyone to go downstairs to collect supplies. Xia Xiaoman and the others did not go downstairs, racing against time to pack up the things at home.

Boom——

There was a loud explosion of thunder in my ears, and the house seemed to be shaking with the thunder.

Xia Xiaoman rushed to the balcony. It was dark outside. The strong wind blew the flood water into huge waves. Those who went out to salvage and didn't have time to return home were lying on the homemade raft, drifting with the waves.

Dense raindrops slammed against the window and strong winds seeped in through the gaps in the window, making a sound like a boiling kettle screaming.

In a few minutes, the windowsill was filled with water, which was too much to drain out of the drain and surged into the room. The water on the windowsill immediately flowed into the balcony like a waterfall.

"What the hell. Didn't they say there would be strong convection tomorrow? Why are we having thunder and lightning and heavy rain now? Are we going to let anyone survive?"

Sun Qing's cursing voice came from the corridor, "Xiaoman! Xia Xiaoman, are you going to get the relief supplies?"

The weather outside was bad, so moving was impossible. The rescue team hadn't left yet, so I just happened to go get the relief supplies.

Zhou Qiuyang volunteered to stay on the seventh floor to look after the house, and he would go to get more supplies after Xia Xiaoman and the others had collected them.

The third floor was flooded, and supplies were distributed on the fourth floor.

Before reaching the fourth floor, Xia Xiaoman heard a burst of crying.

"You are a rescue team, you can't just stand by and watch someone die! My husband is still outside, go save him!"

"Please! My son is only three years old, he can't be without a father! I beg you, go and save him! Please!"

A young mother half-knelt in front of the rescuers, crying and shouting for them to go out and save people.

The rescuers looked embarrassed. "It's not that we don't want to help, it's that we really can't. The wind outside is too strong, and the boat will capsize if we go out."

"What the hell do you mean you can't save people? I think you just don't want to save people. If you are so afraid of death, why would you be a rescuer?"

The tall and strong man pushed the rescuer's shoulder and said, "Useless coward, if you don't go to rescue people, I will! Give me the assault boat, I will go out to rescue people!"

The rescuers were extremely helpless. “Be reasonable. It’s very windy and rainy outside. If you lower the speedboat, it will capsize immediately. Not only will you not be able to save anyone, you may even lose your life. Don’t make unnecessary sacrifices.”

The rescuers gave earnest advice, but no one was willing to listen to them.

After a few pushes and shoves, the residents in the building saw that the rescuers did not dare to resist, so they directly and forcefully snatched the assault boat.

Four or five people carried the speedboat out, but just as the speedboat was placed on the water, a strong wind instantly overturned the speedboat.

Those people held on to the speedboat tightly and were carried several meters away. By the time they reacted, they had been swept into the flood by the waves.

The rescuers shouted loudly to save people, but it was too late.

The wind and rain were so strong that in just a few minutes, the people pulling the speedboat disappeared in the rain along with the boat.

The rescuer slapped his thigh in regret, "Hey, I told you not to go out, you just didn't listen, and now something bad has happened!"

The scene was silent. A few of the loudest onlookers quietly withdrew from the crowd, fearing that they would be troubled.

When their own interests are not involved, many people are willing to step forward and act as heroes. But once their own interests are touched, they will avoid it as if it were a plague.

The young mother almost fainted from crying, but the onlookers had just witnessed how terrible the wind and rain outside were, so no one dared to suggest going out to look for someone.

"Can we still receive relief supplies now?" Xia Xiaoman's voice broke the gloomy atmosphere at the scene.

Gradually, everyone remembered why they had gathered on the fourth floor and asked the rescue workers if they could get supplies.

The relief supplies are still instant noodles and mineral water, five large packs of instant noodles, each with five small bags, enough for seven days, and seven bottles of 500ml mineral water.

After returning home, Xia Xiaoman put all the supplies in the house into the space.

The flood water backed up from the sewer, and with the water seeping in from the windowsill, the house was already flooded.

She didn't plan to clean up the accumulated water in the house, mainly because it was impossible to clean it up. The sewer kept gurgling with water, and she couldn't stop it even with a toilet plug, and the water on the windowsill kept flowing.

Since it couldn't be cleaned anyway, I simply didn't clean it. I just took a few pieces of rotten curtain cloth to block the bedroom door to prevent the accumulated water from flowing into the bedroom.

There was nothing in the bedroom except a bed. Xia Xiaoman had put all the wardrobes into the space.

The empty bedroom left cockroaches and rats no place to hide. Xia Xiaoman killed all the cockroaches and rats in the bedroom without any effort.

After finishing the work, it was already time for dinner.

Xia Xiaoman took out the gas stove from the space, put a small casserole on it, selected a pack of spicy and smelly snail noodles and added water to cook.

After the water boiled, I selected a few of my favorite hot pot meatballs and beef and added them in.

Smelling the fragrant yet stinky snail noodles, Xia Xiaoman's appetite was whetted.

Humid air and rain can effectively isolate odors, which is the benefit of rainy days.