Chapter 42 Lou Yuncheng

In the early morning, the people of Louyun City woke up to the long and shrill sound of the air raid sirens.

Everyone is used to the sound of heavy rain hitting the windows. Except for being briefly woken up by the loud noise during thunder, the whistling wind, rain, and shaking window frames no longer make them feel too emotional.

The most I would do is get up when the thunder roars to check whether the windows are closed tightly, then turn off the main power and continue sleeping.

But the air raid sirens are not often heard. The last time was when a huge wave over 40 meters high hit Louyun City.

On that occasion, many people who were staying in high-rise buildings were very panicked. They had no experience and had no idea what the repeatedly sounded air raid sirens were warning about, nor what countermeasures they should take.

Logically speaking, Lou Yuncheng had experienced thunderstorms and hail before, but the air defense alarm had never been sounded due to these weather conditions.

So that time, the air raid alarm that sounded for more than three minutes really scared the people of Louyun City.

Later, huge waves hit the high walls, making a huge roar that shook the earth. Together with some videos shot by residents on high-rise buildings in the eastern suburbs of the city and uploaded to the Internet, everyone learned the truth about the air raid alarm.

At that time, everyone thought that such a hurricane and huge waves were just an accidental event.

Until this morning, they were once again awakened by the familiar sound of air raid sirens.

In just a few minutes, the term "huge waves reappear" rushed to the top of Lou Yuncheng's hot search headlines.

Nowadays, the hot searches in China are no longer the same as in the past. You won’t see all kinds of gossips in the entertainment industry anymore, and people will no longer pay attention to or discuss heatedly which star has gained weight, lost weight, or cheated.

Half of the current hot search list is about sudden major disasters and various response knowledge, and the other half is reserved for the unsung heroes who continue to carry out rescue in post-disaster areas.

The last huge wave occurred more than a week ago. That wave caused the flood level outside the water-blocking dam to surge, and the entire plain area of ​​Hua State turned into an ocean, and Louyun City became a complete coastal city.

Amid the sound of air raid sirens, residents of high-rise buildings in the east of Louyun City and its eastern suburbs stood at their windows, staring in a daze at the surging waves outside the dam.

In fact, from their position they couldn't really feel how high the waves were, but they could feel the roar and boiling of the waters there.

Outside the dam, it is like another planet. There is no land, only endless vast ocean. A rainstorm or a hurricane can cause a huge tsunami, which is as overwhelming as a mountain and swallows everything.

At the moment of impact, the heavy and tall dam once again blocked the huge waves. People could not see the scene where the huge waves collided with the dam, but they could imagine the scene and hear the roar of the dam.

Is it blocked?

Half an hour later, when the roaring sound gradually subsided, the nervous people confirmed that their dam had once again blocked the waves as tall as buildings.

Shu Fu heard cheers erupting from next door and in the corridor outside. Compared to the first time when the huge wave was completely unexpected, the people of Louyun City this time had already understood the horror of this kind of waves from various videos of huge waves and disaster scenes on the Internet.

The ignorant are fearless. It is because they understand and know how terrible it is that they feel incomparable joy after the tension and fear.

Just like last time, the areas that experienced huge waves at about the same time were still Muzhou Province where Lou Yuncheng is located and Xiren Province to the north of Muzhou Province. Both provinces are located in hilly areas, and to the east and southeast are large tracts of plains and low-lying areas. The water depth in this area has now reached 100 meters, and some areas are even deeper.

Today, the climate on the planet is extremely unstable. During a short period of no rain, the daytime temperature can soar by nearly 20 degrees, and the huge temperature difference between day and night leads to unstable air flow.

In the evenings and nights when the rain stops, the temperature drops rapidly and the heavy rains come more heavily, and can turn into torrential rains with hurricane-force winds at any time.

Experts speculate that this heavy rain with hurricane-force winds was the reason why the hilly area encountered two huge waves.

However, it has been three months since it started raining in October. At the beginning, some experts confidently predicted how long it would take for the rain to stop. After being slapped in the face countless times, the public no longer listens to their analysis.

Anyway, those experts have analyzed the situation with a lot of climate knowledge but can't come up with anything. Instead of listening to their nonsense, it is better to hope that the six water-blocking dams in Louyun City can be completed as soon as possible.

It is visibly higher than when we first arrived at Dam No. 1 outside the eastern suburbs of the city. Its current height is 81 meters, 10 meters higher than the day Shu Fu arrived in Louyun City.

The progress of the construction project seems to be faster than before. At this rate, it is estimated that it will take another month for the dam to complete its expected construction height of 120 meters, and the width will be increased from the current 20 meters to 30 meters.

Every time the people of Louyun City look at the dam, they have a strange sense of security in their hearts. With such a dam protecting Louyun City firmly, there is no need to worry no matter how many huge waves come.

Even those outsiders who are temporarily forced to stay in Louyun City and want to move to cities in the west and north have to admit that Louyun City is a city with great foresight and strong execution. It is this foresight and execution that is protecting the people in the city today.

**

Shu Fu hid back in the Drifting Island House, planning to check the mission rewards before putting away the raft.

[Check in at Zheng Feifei's house, accept her invitation to have dinner and spend the night, complete the task, get 10% progress bar of level 3 raft; get an additional 15% progress bar bonus; get 2 wheel draws. (Current progress of level 3 raft: 70%)]

Shu Fu didn't expect that for a 10% task, the additional progress bar bonus would be 15%.

The number of draws was a little less, but considering the difference from last time, Shu Fu felt that she could accept whatever she got this time.

But--

Blue fifth prize: raft fence × 1

Blue fifth prize: floor-to-ceiling windows.

Shu Fu: ...

When she thought she was already very good, it turned out that she could be even worse.

Now both windows in the living room of the Drifting Island House have been upgraded to floor-to-ceiling windows. What does it mean to have another floor-to-ceiling window?

After receiving the prize, Shu Fu discovered that the floor-to-ceiling window that worked was the one inside the bathroom shower room.

The window is located next to the wooden barrel. When you are taking a bath in the wooden barrel, it is nice to have a small lattice window next to you, so you can look at the scenery outside while taking a bath.

But now the lattice windows have become floor-to-ceiling windows. Although I know that people outside cannot see inside, I still feel like taking an open-air bath.

The raft fence naturally took effect next to the last fence, and the unfinished project at the end of the raft was at least a little tidier.

Shu Fu finished her inspection, put on clothes that were convenient for going out, and put away the raft. It was better to rely on herself than to rely on the lottery for supplies. She had just finished a mission and planned to go out again during the rest period to buy and stock up.

Although she salvaged a large amount of supplies in Suicheng, she did not harvest any fresh vegetables and fruits due to the restricted water conditions. Although the purchase of these varieties is restricted in Louyun City, a little bit adds up to a lot, and now there is still a chance to buy them, so naturally she has to continue buying.

However, before going out, she had to reorganize the space on her bracelet, move those daily necessities with a long shelf life to the drifting island house, and also move a small amount of food that could be consumed within the shelf life, so as to free up a few cubic meters of space.

This is a delicate job. She wanted to do it after coming back from the supermarket last time, but she was not in the mood to do one thing after another.

Now is a good time to do such trivial work. Shu Fu still draws the curtains of the living room, turns on the bracelet space to retrieve items, and begins to move supplies in and out, reorganizing them.

It took her nearly two hours to finally clear out another 5 to 6 cubic meters. She then took out the raft, went into the house, took out a small portion of sealed food that could be placed in the kitchen, and stacked several large cardboard boxes filled with daily necessities that would not expire in the supply area outside the kitchen.

In this way, her space was vacant for a total of about 8 cubic meters, plus the 17 cubic meters that were originally empty, a total of 25 cubic meters.

Of the 25 cubic meters, she plans to keep 15 cubic meters as backup and fill the other 10 cubic meters with vegetables, fruits and ready-to-eat foods.

Before leaving the house, she took out her cell phone and replied to all the previous messages one by one.

Zheng Feifei replied the fastest, mainly because she was a little worried about her condition yesterday. She then told her that she had received a commendation and reward notice from the neighborhood committee, and said that this time she had already replied with the reward she wanted.

She wants recognition as a good citizen and also applies for a Sand City pass.

She sent a voice message, and her tone was very excited: "The neighborhood committee said that the good citizen award should be possible. As for the pass, you can try to apply for it after the award comes out! Not only me, but you too, Shu Fu, we can apply for the pass together! We can go to Sand City together!"

Shu Fu knew that even if she got the pass, she couldn't go to Sand City, but it was definitely not worth it to get supplies in exchange for this kind of reward, so if she was recognized as a good citizen, she would still apply for a pass, but the one using the quota would not be hers.

She has already decided who to give it to.

Liu Shuang was probably busy and didn't reply.

Not long after she replied to the message from Cheng Yu, the other party called her directly. After she answered the phone, she apologized first and said that she was very tired yesterday and went to sleep as soon as she got home.

Cheng Yu originally just wanted to know whether she had returned home safely. He also understood that she was in a bad mood these past two days, so he naturally would not argue with her about this. He called because of the ship's hanging radio.

He learned from Liu Shuang: "When do you want it?"

Shu Fu knew there was a chance when she heard the way he asked, and her tone immediately lightened up: "Of course the sooner the better, price is not an issue. If possible, it would be best if we could get three, or two will be fine... If that doesn't work, then just one..."

As she said this, she heard a suppressed laugh from the other end of the line.

"I understand. I'll try my best to help you solve it." Liu Shuang had no way to get a ship-mounted hang-up machine, but she was obviously very concerned about it and repeatedly asked him to get it done.

Cheng Yu actually wanted to say that even if she didn't remind him like this, he would help Shu Fu.

After all, he was the first person to take care of Shu Fu.

"Thank you, Captain Cheng." Shu Fu thanked him and mentioned the pass issue.

This time, probably because the issue of the pass was more promising than before, Cheng Yu also gave a new suggestion: "Even if you are recognized as a good citizen, it is still difficult to apply for a Shacheng pass. My suggestion is to choose other second- and third-tier small cities in Xizhou Province."

Xizhou Province is the area where Shacheng is located. It is the largest and only province on Fengshang Plateau.

"Yes, in such a disaster period, places like Xizhou Province, which have lagged behind due to geographical restrictions, may have tight supplies and various inconveniences in life. But sometimes you have to see what the main demand is. Your friend's demand is a safe area at a high altitude, so go there first if you have the chance, and you can think of ways to deal with things after you get there. What's more, everyone still has to believe in the country's construction..."

Cheng Yu only said half of the last sentence, but Shu Fu could tell that he was revealing some information that was not convenient to say at the moment.

According to her previous speculation, if there is more than one reborn person in Huaguo and the authorities are already taking preventive measures, then focusing on the rapid development and construction of the entire Fengshang Plateau should also be one of the measures.

Thinking of this, Shu Fu understood and thanked Cheng Yu again.

After hanging up the phone, she sent a message to Zheng Feifei suggesting ways to increase the probability of obtaining a pass.

Zheng Feifei was actually a little blinded before, mainly because of some experiences in Suicheng that made her obsessed.

Go to Shacheng, a large plateau city with an altitude of more than 3,500 meters. It is the safest place in the entire Hua country in the future. Only when she brings her parents there can she be truly safe and will not fall into an uncontrollable state again due to sudden disasters. There she can have the peaceful and stable life she has always dreamed of.

The method mentioned by Shu Fu was not completely beyond her imagination, but it was this obsession that infinitely magnified the presence of the Sand City.

Even Shu Fu himself was obsessed with the Sand City.

Since the first day she woke up in Suicheng, Shacheng has been the city she always wanted to visit but never got to. She recommends this city to every friend she knows, which is actually the projection of her inner hope.

Now think about it, as long as it is not a barren area in the corners of the Fashion Plateau, it is fine to go to a first-tier city or a third-tier small city.

When she went out, her mood had improved a lot because of this incident. Zheng Feifei was also in a very good mood. She asked her to have dinner in the evening, saying that the entire Jixing community had been lifted from the ban and dinner would be very sumptuous.

Shu Fu declined politely, and this time, she really declined.

She hadn't been out for many days, so she drove directly out of the eastern part of the city and headed for the shopping mall in the center of the city. There were big supermarkets and many small delicatessens, so she planned to go to the supermarket first and buy all the fruits and vegetables she could.

From the east of the city to the city center, she encountered several roadblocks along the way.

Not only were the cars checked, but people were also checked. However, she had a car rental certificate and a local ID card, so she quickly passed several roadblocks.

After that, she went to a gold shop, exchanged enough cash into her mobile phone account, and then went directly to the supermarket.

This supermarket is relatively large and has a wider variety of fruits. Because she went early, there were several daily and new types of fruits on the supermarket shelves. She took one of each: a bag of apples, a bag of pears, a bag of grapes, a bag of longans, a cantaloupe, and a bag of cherry tomatoes.

The vegetables are all packed in bags with predetermined amounts, with one bag weighing about 500 to 1,000 grams depending on the variety. There are more varieties than fruits, nine in total, and you can buy all of them, but you are limited to one bag of each type per day.

You must swipe your ID card after buying limited-purchase vegetables and fruits on the same day. Even if you go to another supermarket to buy them, a message saying "purchase limit reached" will pop up online.

However, unless three generations of a family live together, it would take an ordinary family of three two or three days to consume all these vegetables.

In addition to fruits and vegetables, she went to the daily necessities shelves, where most items were not subject to purchase limits, so she only bought things that she had not stocked up enough of.

Sanitary napkins, underwear, towels, insecticide, floral water, mosquito repellent, mosquito coils, mosquito coils, garbage bags, kraft paper packaging boxes...

Especially sanitary napkins, she didn't salvage a pack in the two months of living in Suicheng. But think about it, the outer packaging of this thing is thin, and there are holes for easy tearing, so if it is soaked in water for a long time, it will definitely get waterlogged and damaged.

Automatic water fishing rods never come up empty-handed, so naturally they won't catch these.

Now that she sees it, of course she has to continue buying.

After leaving the supermarket, she put the shopping bags in the car and went to the mall. She first bought two new mobile phones and tablets with extra-large memory at a brand mobile phone store, just in case there was a problem with her current mobile phones and tablets and she had nowhere to get them repaired.

In addition, I also bought a keyboard, charger, and four pairs of Bluetooth headphones to match the tablet: two in-ear pairs, one ear clip type, and one neck hanging type.

When passing by a large bookstore in the mall, she hesitated for a moment, but still went in and bought a large cart of books, including story books, literature, history, science fiction, fashion... She picked and bought a lot of each category according to her preferences.

Although a huge number of books have been downloaded into the memory of mobile phones and tablets, they are different from paper books after all. These books are brand new, with beautiful covers and the fragrance of ink.

She thinks that when she gets tired of reading e-books, she can also read a physical book like this.

Because I bought so much, I couldn't carry all the books in seven or eight big bags. In the end, I had to pay a deposit to the bookstore clerk and rent a cart. I first moved the pile of books back to the cart and then went back to the bookstore to return the cart.

Finally, she went to the cooked food street in the mall, focusing on buying cooked meat products.

It was lunch time, and since it was in the relatively safe city center, there were quite a lot of customers here.

Fried chicken, grilled chicken, lamb skewers, octopus balls and grilled squid, hand-shredded chicken and pepper chicken lung slices, spicy skewers and dandan noodles, duck tongues, duck wings, duck feet, duck necks and duck clavicles in different spiced and spicy flavors, roasted pig's trotters and crispy meat, hamburgers, pizza, hot dog sandwiches... If you haven't bought them, buy them, and if you have bought them, you can continue to buy them.

She doesn't buy much from each store, only about 20 portions.

After visiting a dozen stores on the left wing of the mall, she went to a dozen stores on the right wing.

During this time, I also had lunch by myself, drinking a bowl of pig's trotter soup and eating a portion of octopus balls.

I originally thought that the boiled pig's trotter soup was not as crispy and chewy as the roasted pig's trotter, but after eating it, I found it to have a unique flavor. The soup was fresh and delicious, the pig's trotter was soft and tasty, and it replenished collagen. After eating it, I felt that my face was a little more beautiful, so I also packed twenty servings when I left.

It was almost evening when she drove slowly towards the east of the city.

At around seven o'clock in the evening, she released the Drifting Island House on time. After taking a shower, she rolled over on the soft and large sofa to celebrate that she had spent another peaceful day.

In the following days, Shu Fu lived a peaceful and regular life.

As long as there is no hurricane, waterspout or heavy rain, she will go out every day to different supermarkets to buy vegetables and fruits, and then go to the nearest gourmet store to find and pack up delicious food. Occasionally, if she sees a bookstore nearby, she will go in and buy some things she has never bought before.

When she is at home, she will use the super large pot she bought to cook soup. Usually, a pot of soup will take a whole day to cook, and after cooking, she will cover it with a lid and put it away directly. Next time when she wants to eat, she can use a small pot to make a pot, add vegetables or noodles, or drink it directly.

At night, she would stay in the warm and comfortable house on the drifting island, surf the Internet to read the news, listen to music, watch movies or variety shows, chat with Zheng Feifei on the phone, and then go to bed at about the same time.

Such a big incident had just happened in the east of the city. The number of patrolling cars and people on the streets was several times more than before. Although the rescue teams and troops were no longer fully armed, stun guns and guns had become standard equipment.

The armed patrol officers gave people a sense of security. Ordinary people in the east of the city continued to live and work as usual, but those who liked to stir up trouble and steal petty things were kept silent.

During this period, rescue teams occasionally came to various communities in the east of the city to check on personnel and other safety issues. The inspections were completely random. Jixing Community was also inspected twice, and the residents were very cooperative. Both inspections involved people Shu Fu knew, one led by Liu Shuang and the other by Cheng Yu. This time, they didn't need to check every household, but mainly checked the surveillance cameras and gates, and retrieved computer data to check the entry and exit of people.

Once, because Jixing Community was the last mission point before the team was disbanded, Liu Shuang took Shu Fu with him when he left, saying that the team was having a dinner and the dining place was not far from the community, so he took her with him.

Shu Fu didn't refuse. After knowing that everyone was going to eat barbecue, she ordered a lot of milk tea from the milk tea shop on the same street and gave everyone a cup. Liu Shuang knew that she didn't want to eat her meal for free, but she felt that it was inappropriate to split the bill, so she just bought milk tea.

She liked the other party’s way of doing things, so she took a photo of milk tea and posted it on her Moments: barbecue party, received milk tea from a beautiful girl!

In addition to milk tea, the photo also captured half of Shu Fu's blurry face. Unless you knew her, you couldn't see her appearance clearly.

Shu Fu liked this post on WeChat Moments.

After a moment, Liu Shuang exclaimed, indicating that Captain Cheng actually liked her comment. Was it the barbecue or the milk tea?

**

After this battle, the slightly chaotic order in Louyun City was restored.

The reason for this change is ultimately due to the deterrence of hot weapons. It is estimated that the upper echelons of Lou Yuncheng have long wanted to equip the rescue team with guns, but they just didn't find a suitable entry point before.

Lou Yuncheng welcomed the New Year in such a tense, bleak yet safe atmosphere.

January 21st is the last day before the Chinese New Year.

People on the Internet are saying that the Chinese New Year is very early this year, as if God also wants the old year to pass quickly and welcome the new year soon.

This year, there were many disasters, countless people were displaced, and many people experienced the separation of life and death that they had never experienced in their lives, but there are still many people looking forward to the arrival of the new year. People try their best to have a good new year based on the conditions around them, hoping that this year will pass and take away all the bad things.

I hope that in the new year, the disaster will be completely over.

Shu Fu was very busy on New Year's Eve. She had dinner invitations both at noon and at night. At noon it was Liu Shuang and at night it was Zheng Feifei.

Liu Shuang treated us to a meal at noon, and Cheng Yu also came this time.

Liu Shuang repeatedly stated on the phone that Shu Fu didn't need to bring anything for the meal and could just go over and eat.

The place for dinner was chosen to be a stir-fry restaurant in the east of the city. Liu Shuang was originally going to pick her up, but Shu Fu said that she had rented a car and could drive there directly.

But in the end she still didn't drive. In the morning, Cheng Yu drove directly to Jixing Community. In the car were two marine motors he got for her and three 30L barrels of fuel. He was obviously afraid that she would not be able to drive with only the motors but no fuel.

These things were quite heavy and a bit eye-catching, so after driving there, he personally delivered them to her upstairs.

Shu Fu pushed a folding cart down to pick him up, feeling very happy. She didn't expect Cheng Yu to be so thoughtful and even thought of the fuel.

Nowadays, fuel is also a limited-purchase commodity, and the refueling rules are naturally different from the past. Ordinary people can only refuel directly in the car and cannot use portable oil drums to refuel. At the same time, there is a weekly real-name purchase limit, and fuel is more precious than vegetables and fruits.

Shu Fu's persona in front of Cheng Yu is a hidden internet celebrity who is not short of money, so when she asked him to help buy something before, she said she would buy it no matter how expensive it was.

The price of such a marine motor in peacetime is between 1,000 and 1,500. She expected a tenfold price increase, but when she paid, she found that the price was only one-fifth of what she expected.

"So cheap?" She was a little skeptical.

Cheng Yu stood in the living room of her rental house, taking things out of the cart and nodding, indicating that it was the internal price.

Shu Fu couldn't see any clues from his face, so she transferred the money first, planning to ask Liu Shuang privately during lunch later.

After Cheng Yu put the things against the wall, he folded the cart and put it away for her. Before leaving, he glanced at her empty living room.

There are all the things that should be here, dining table and chairs, sofa, coffee table, trash can... but that's all. There's not even a book or a cushion. It looks cold and a bit stark.

Even his dormitory seemed more lively than hers, and this place didn't look like a home, it was just a house.

"What's wrong?" Shu Fu also looked back at the living room of the rental house. Ever since Liu Shuang and the people from the neighborhood committee came to check, the decoration of her rental house that needed to be seen by outsiders had not been touched. Although there were not many things, it did look like someone lived there.

She didn't understand what Cheng Yu was looking at.

"It's okay, let's go." He picked up his raincoat at the door, "You don't have to drive, one car will go over there and take you back after dinner."

"Okay." Shu Fu never fussed over trivial matters. She picked up the raincoat hanging behind the door, closed and locked the door, and left.

At lunch, Shu Fu didn't find a chance to ask Liu Shuang about the price of the boat hanging machine in private, because in addition to the three of them, there were many other team members who came. She had seen some of these people before, and her face was familiar, but she had never seen some of them before.

It was only when she arrived at the dinner table that she realized that today's meal was Liu Shuang's farewell dinner.

She has been transferred back to the army and is going back to Xiangzhou Province, leaving tomorrow.