As the saying goes, a storm is about to come. The sky was covered with dark clouds, which were very low. Visually, it gave people a sense of pressure and panic that the clouds were about to fall. Yet those people were still standing outside with their arms outstretched, enjoying the cool breeze and shouting.

Si Nan was completely speechless. She kindly reminded a woman who was holding a three-year-old boy outside the porcelain shop, "Sister, a long drought will inevitably lead to hail/rainstorms. The weather looks very wrong. You should take the child in and hide."

Who knew that the little boy just didn't want to go into the porcelain shop, probably because the porcelain shop, which was less than 30 square meters wide, was crowded with people hiding from the rain. With so many people, it was very stuffy inside. The owner of the porcelain shop was a fat middle-aged woman. Seeing so many people crowding into the shop to avoid the rain and having no intention of buying porcelain, although she was unhappy, she didn't say anything. She just asked everyone to watch the children and not break the porcelain plates, bowls, bottles and other things on her shelves, otherwise they would have to pay compensation.

The three-year-old boy looked quite chubby and the type who was afraid of heat. As soon as he walked into the store, he started crying and rolling on the ground. The woman was about 40 years old and had short curly hair. She was probably old when she had a child, so she doted on him very much. She thought that if it started to rain, she could just run a few steps to the eaves next to the store to take shelter from the rain, and there should be no problem. So she picked up the child and coaxed him, with no intention of coming in.

At this time, the sky was as dark as night, accompanied by rumbling sounds of lightning and thunder. The wind was blowing hard, blowing the trash cans on the side of the road quickly in the other direction, and the trees were blown all over the place, with signs of breaking at any time.

Under such a strong wind, the middle-aged man's tricycle was also blown and moved slowly outwards.

It was not easy for the middle-aged man to make a tricycle, and now his whole family relied on it for a living. He wanted to go out to pull the tricycle, but Si Nan reached out and pulled him, stopping him from going out.

Just at this moment, there was a dull sound of something heavy falling to the ground, and in everyone's horrified and frightened eyes, huge hailstones as big as stones and in various shapes fell from the clouds.

These hailstones were huge in size and fell very quickly. Some of them were like big rocks, smashing down from the sky and smashing the trees, parked vehicles and awnings on both sides of the street.

Some hailstones were like giant ostrich eggs. They were blown around by strong winds and hit the windows of residential buildings at an angle, making crackling sounds of glass breaking.

Some hailstones were like ice arrows with sharp icicles, shooting down from the sky in large numbers, piercing the people who had not hidden in the houses like hedgehogs. They had no time to run, as they were pierced through the body by the arrows and fell to the ground, bleeding like a river. They cried for help and crawled desperately towards the people hiding under the eaves on the roadside.

The weather that everyone was happy about just now because it was going to rain suddenly turned into a living hell. Everywhere there were people screaming in panic and fear. Some were running around and had no time to dodge and were hit by hail and fell to the ground, screaming miserably. It was a horrific scene.

The curly-haired woman who refused to listen to advice at the door of the porcelain shop was hit on the head by a huge hailstone weighing more than ten pounds at the moment the hail started falling. She fell down with a broken head and bleeding.

But the instinct of maternal love made her protect the child in her arms. The moment she fell, she pressed the child under her body, her body arched. Whether it was ice stones, ice eggs, ice arrows, or other shapes of hail, her body was pierced with holes and bleeding all over. She still maintained that posture, comforting the frightened and crying child under her, telling him not to be afraid. At the same time, she raised her head and looked at the people who were taking shelter in the porcelain shop with pleading eyes: "Save, save my child..."

There were about forty people crammed inside the porcelain shop, including the proprietress. Faced with the curly-haired woman who refused to listen and the huge hailstones falling from the sky, some were afraid of death and didn't want to go out, some looked at the curly-haired woman with contempt and cursed her in their hearts, and some saw the child crying pitifully and wanted to step forward to rescue her, but were frightened by the dense hailstones and hesitated.

Si Nan watched all this silently. The dreams she had during her hospitalization were actually very confusing. Except for the fact that the first natural disaster was the high temperature, she always had the subsequent disasters in the wrong order when she dreamed about them. Later, after comparing the dream she told to Cheng Su Ming and the warning of the end of the world by another mysterious person, she was finally able to determine the order of the natural disasters.

Just now she reminded the curly-haired woman out of human conscience, but the woman did not listen. Now the curly-haired woman is dying and asks for help. Of course, she will not be a saintly woman and joke with her own life, risking being killed by hail to save a child.

In the silent silence, the woman's weak cry for help and the child's frightened cry seemed particularly harsh amid the crackling sound of hail falling.

The fat proprietress of the porcelain shop could no longer sit still. She had a son who died at about the same age as this child, and she was heartbroken and in pain for a long time. It was not until she became pregnant with her second child and gave birth to her second son safely that her focus shifted to the second child, which alleviated the grief in her heart.

Seeing that such a big child had no one to save him, and the child's mother had been pierced like a hedgehog by ice arrows, with blood all over the ground, it was obvious that there was no way to save her. The fat proprietress could not bear to see the child die under the curly-haired woman. She looked around and found the large aluminum basin that was usually placed in the corner for washing vegetables. She covered her head with the basin, stood at the door of the store and looked around. When she found the right moment, she rushed towards the curly-haired woman who was a few steps away, quickly pulled the child out from under her hunched body, turned around and ran into the store with the child in her arms.

At this moment, a huge ice arrow hit the fat proprietress on the head. The people who were hiding from the rain in the shop screamed in unison and broke into a cold sweat for the fat proprietress.

Fortunately, the iron basin was sturdy and had dents on it but it didn't break. The fat proprietress was only knocked to the ground by the heavy force of the ice arrow. Because the ground was slippery, she couldn't get up for a while, but she held the crying child in her arms tightly and kept struggling on the ground.

Seeing this, the people in the shop could no longer stand there and they all lent a hand to pull up the fat lady boss. Among them, the one who contributed the most was the middle-aged man riding a tricycle.

Everyone worked together to pull the fat proprietress into the store. Except for the middle-aged man and a young man who were scratched by ice, no one else was injured. By the time the fat proprietress and the child were safely inside the store, the curly-haired woman outside had been killed by hailstones.

Someone murmured to himself: "Oh my God, so many big hailstones, one person was killed in less than a minute, what a disaster!"

"Yes, who could have imagined there would be hail this big! The largest hail we've seen before was only the size of an egg, which could destroy crops and houses. Now there are hail this big, and I don't know how many people will be killed and how many houses will be destroyed. Is God trying to kill us?"

"They are trying to kill us. The high temperature lasted for more than five months, and many people died of heat stroke and heat stroke. Now a giant hailstorm is coming, and it is trying to kill us."

"It's all our fault that we humans don't pay attention to environmental hygiene. Various industrial pollution and littering have caused large-scale damage to the natural environment. I think it's normal that God is angry and wants to kill us, the culprits."

This topic was a bit heavy, and everyone was silent. Some people couldn't bear to see the hail outside continuing to hit the woman's body, so they covered their eyes or turned their heads away and stopped watching.

At this time, the sky outside had turned into a picture of hail and heavy rain. There seemed to be a big hole in the sky. Heavy rain poured down from the clouds like a waterfall. Hail was like machines, guns, and guns, falling from the sky with strong winds. The sky and the earth were covered with water, and it was so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you. Visibility was very low.

Some people were worried about their family members outside and wondered whether they had found a place to hide from the hail. Others asked when the hail would stop and when they could go home, but no one answered their questions.

The fat lady boss who had been holding the child said at the right time: "As long as my shop is not damaged, you just hide here and wait until the hail and rain stop before leaving."

The fat lady boss actually didn't like these people who didn't buy anything hiding in her shop, but when she fell down while rescuing a child, everyone reached out to help her and the child. She was deeply moved by the willingness of Chinese people to help each other in times of disaster. It's not just squeezing in the shop to avoid hail and rainstorms. As long as everyone is alive and well, other problems are not a problem.

Everyone felt relieved after hearing what she said. When you are out and about and encounter a natural disaster, most people would feel embarrassed to hide in someone else's store without the boss's consent. However, for the sake of their own lives, many people had to hide in it shamelessly.

Now that the boss's wife has agreed to let everyone hide in the store, everyone no longer has any psychological burden and can wait with peace of mind until the hail and rainstorm stop before leaving.

But standing here was not a solution. The wind outside was getting stronger and stronger. Many trees as big as arms were broken in half. People standing at the door felt like they were going to be blown away by the wind, not to mention that the strong wind was blowing a lot of ice cubes onto the roadside. Some people were unable to dodge and were hit on the legs. Seeing this, the proprietress asked everyone to pull down the roller shutter door on top of the store entrance to block the strong wind.

For the sake of their own lives, everyone worked together to withstand the strong wind. With great effort, they used their own weight to hang on the rolling door. After pulling for a long time, they finally pulled the rolling door to the bottom.

The moment the rolling door was closed, the strong wind blew the door, causing the iron sheet to shake and rustle, and occasionally, ice cubes were blown onto the rolling door by the wind, making a loud bang. The thin rolling door was directly smashed into dents, which was terrifying to see. I wonder how long this rolling door can hold up.

Those whose phones still had power took out their phones and contacted their relatives and friends.

Sinan also took out her cell phone and called her uncle and aunt first. She didn't know if it was because of the hail and rainstorms that were happening all over the world, and the giant hail destroyed most of the equipment in the communication base stations, but the signal was intermittent when she made the call.

My uncle said in a tearful voice: "The tiles...smashed...your grandma...died..."

My aunt's phone was turned off. I didn't know whether there was no electricity to charge the phone on the mountain or if something had happened to my aunt.

When Sinan called his uncle, he learned the sad news that his grandmother had passed away. He wanted to comfort his uncle, but before he could say anything, the call was disconnected and he could not get through to him again.

She called Cheng Suming worriedly, but still no one answered. She called Gao Moli again, and the call was quickly connected. Amid the sound of wind and chaotic screams, Gao Moli shouted at her: "Sheng Youqing and I are here... The hail is heavy... We can't come over... Not for the time being."

Half an hour ago, Gao Moli packed two suitcases and left Cao's house with Sheng Youqing under Cao Zhiwei's decadent gaze.

She was holding the child, and Sheng Youqing was pushing two suitcases. They stood on the side of the road for a while, and then they met a rechargeable electric tricycle. The driver asked them for four thousand yuan for the fare. They thought it was inconvenient to walk to Sinan's home while holding the child and dragging the luggage, so they pooled the money and got on the tricycle.

When it got dark, Sheng Youqing felt something was wrong and asked the car owner to stop the car and find a place to shelter from the rain. However, the car owner was an old man in his sixties and was very stubborn. He kept saying that his car was very sturdy and that even if the sky fell or a typhoon came, his car would be able to withstand it. However, he was slapped in the face.

When large pieces of ice, ice eggs and ice arrows fell down, the roof of the electric tricycle was smashed into a sieve. Unfortunately, the old man was pierced by an extremely long ice arrow that was nearly one meter long and as thick as his thigh. The arrow pierced through the roof and then his head, causing him to fall directly on the front of the car, motionless.

The car lost control in an instant, running around like a headless fly, and Gao Moli was so scared that she screamed while holding her daughter.

Sheng Youqing was also startled, but quickly calmed down, reached out from the small window at the back seat of the car, pushed the old man's body aside, controlled the three-wheel switch through the fender, and headed towards a food street on the side of the road that had long been closed.

With such heavy hail and rain, she and Gao Moli would be killed by the hail if they got out of the car in the middle of the road. Although the electric tricycle was riddled with holes, it could at least hold on for a while. She drove the car directly to a relatively intact awning at the entrance of the food court, picked up two suitcases and placed them above her and Gao Moli's heads, and the two of them chose a nearby shop to stay.

The shop that was open was a world-famous hamburger chain. Of course, the shop was not opened by the manager or staff, but by people who were avoiding the hail and rainstorms. They used large hailstones to smash the glass sliding door of the hamburger shop, and everyone swarmed in.

Not long after Sheng Youqing and Gao Moli entered the hamburger shop, a few high school students who had survived the disaster had nothing to do, so they went to the back kitchen of the hamburger shop. They accidentally found some raw materials such as breadcrumbs and flour needed for french fries, chicken wings and chicken legs, and even bottled cola, dried black pearls, sprouted potatoes and so on. There were quite a lot of them, several bags, about forty or fifty kilograms, which caused the hungry high school students to exclaim and reach out to grab them.

Recently, the supplies distributed by the country have become less and less. Many people are so hungry that their eyes are blurry and their bodies are weak. When they hear that there is food, they rush over to grab it, and the scene is very chaotic.

Since the high temperatures hit, Gao Moli's husband Cao Weizhi has stopped working. The family is under great pressure from mortgage and car loans, and he is unwilling to do hard labor in the high temperatures to earn money. The whole family relies on government assistance to make ends meet.

But her mother-in-law was not a sensible person. She would give all the food and drink to her married eldest daughter, on the grounds that her eldest daughter had no parents-in-law, gave birth to two daughters and a son, and her husband was disabled, so her life was not easy. She did not care about the lives of her family members at all, and often withheld food from Gao Moli and her daughter.

In the past few months, if Gao Moli had not continued to have breast milk and had not weaned the child, the child would have relied on her milk and some porridge to survive. I'm afraid that both she and her mother would have starved to death long ago.

Now she is divorcing Cao Weizhi for her daughter. She didn't get any food or drink before leaving. Now when she heard that there was food in the kitchen of the hamburger shop, she was so hungry that she threw her child into Sheng Youqing's arms, strode into the excited crowd, and followed them to grab the food.

Gao Moli looked thin but was actually very tall. She had an advantage over the old men and women in terms of body shape, and her strong hunger made her only focus on food. She rushed into the crowd regardless of anything, and found a gap between people who were fighting for food. She crawled and rolled around, and when she got a chance, she grabbed a small bag of breadcrumbs weighing five kilograms and two 500-ml bottles of Coke. She held them tightly in her arms, knelt on the ground, crawled out from the crowd, and then took Sheng Youqing to hide in the small toilet of the hamburger shop. The two of them ate breadcrumbs and drank Coke to fill their stomachs.

The people outside were still fighting over food, completely unaware that Gao Moli had smuggled some food and drinks.

Gao Moli stuffed her mouth with choking bread crumbs frantically. When she choked, she took a few sips of sweet cola to relieve the gas. She was reluctant to drink it in big gulps for fear of finishing it. She didn't know when she would be able to drink this unhealthy beverage that she despised and disdained before the temperature rose.

She listened to the noisy screams of people outside fighting for the little bit of food, and the bang bang of hail and rain outside the shop. She felt that she was almost full. She licked her palms that were holding the bread crumbs lovingly, licked the scattered bread crumbs off them, then put the cap on the half-drunk soda and placed it on the bucket lid. Suddenly, hot tears flowed down her face.

She lay on the toilet and sobbed, and said to Sheng Youqing, who was holding Wenwen and squatting on the suitcase next to the toilet and drinking Coke slowly, "Qingqing, I feel so bad. Before I met Cao Weizhi, I was also a spoiled daughter at home, loved by my mother and father, and had no worries about food and clothing. At the beginning, I came to Xingcheng to study with my parents' work assignment, and met Nannan by chance. I felt sorry for her miserable life and that she was isolated, bullied and bullied, but I admired her strength and independence, and she would not compromise with those bad kids, so I became friends with her. We have been together since we were in high school at the age of fifteen. Later, we were admitted to the same university and met you. Then after graduating from university and going out to work, I met Cao Weizhi. At that time, my father had retired and he and my mother were going back. Our hometown is the coastal city of G. My father has always disagreed with me being with Cao Weizhi. He thinks Cao Weizhi is a mama's boy and his mother is not easy to get along with. I will be wronged if I am with him, so he wants to take me back to G City. It was me who was blinded by greed and insisted on marrying him despite my parents' opposition. As a result, now I have nothing. I feel wronged and want to go back to my parents' home, but my parents' home is thousands of miles away in the coastal area. The road back home is bumpy and long. I can't go back, and I can't complain to my parents, because the consequences today are the path I chose, and I deserve it. Now, for a little food and drink, I can endure the humiliation of being humiliated, and snatch food from those uncles and aunts like a shrew. How did I end up like this today, and what is the meaning of my life..."

Sheng Youqing felt very uncomfortable after hearing this. She grabbed some bread crumbs and fed them to Wenwen, who kept licking her lips and looked greedy. She asked her to try the taste and comforted Gao Moli, saying, "Don't give up on yourself. It's not too late for you to wake up and see what kind of person Cao Weizhi is. It's not too late to leave that mama's boy. Now everyone is having a hard time. Look at the high temperature some time ago. How many people died of heatstroke and starvation. We are lucky to be alive until now. I always thought that the dream that Si Nan told us was ridiculous, but now the hail and rainstorms are coming just as Si Nan said, even though it's a month early, but I think our world is over, the end of the world is really here. In this case, you have nothing to worry about losing. For the sake of your daughter, you must be strong. Si Nan and I will help you with everything. The three of us are best friends. Don't forget that if the sky falls, Si Nan and I will hold it up for you."

Gao Moli felt a warm current flowing through her heart, warming up her cold body. Seeing Wenwen staring at Sheng Youqing's cute fingers grabbing bread crumbs with her big black grape eyes, she made a decision: "As you said, Qingqing, for Wenwen, I have to be strong and I won't go to Nannan's house."

Sheng Youqing was stunned for a moment: "If you don't go to her house, then where to go? No, what I mean is, if you don't go to her house, then go to my house. Once the hail and rain stop, we will go to my house."

Gao Moli shook her head: "I want to go back to my mother's house."

"Your mother's home?" Sheng Youqing was extremely surprised. "Xingcheng is more than a thousand kilometers away from G City. Normally, it takes two days and one night to drive there. Now trains, high-speed trains, airplanes, etc. are all suspended. How can you, a woman with a child, go back?"

"There is always a way. There is always a way out." Gao Moli took Wenwen, who had been struggling in Sheng Youqing's arms, into her arms, lifted her clothes to feed her, and said with a determined look on her charming face.

Sheng Youqing opened her mouth, wanting to persuade her, but didn't know what to say. After Gao Moli answered Si Nan's call and told Si Nan that she would not go to her house, Sheng Youqing secretly went outside and called Si Nan while Gao Moli was coaxing Wenwen to sleep, and told Si Nan about this through the intermittent signal.

When the hail was falling, Cheng Wei heard the noise outside and was frightened out of her wits.

Fortunately, Yang Wentao was around and reacted quickly to close all the open windows for ventilation. Fortunately, after they were robbed and their door was broken into two months ago, Yang Wentao spent a lot of money to hire renovation workers to replace all the windows in the house with sturdy, bulletproof and thickened glass.

So no matter how heavy the hail and rainstorm outside are, the hail will only make crackling sounds when hitting the glass windows, the windows will not break, and the house is very safe.

After Cheng Wei felt relieved, she remembered that she wanted to find Cheng Suming's Si Nan, so she quickly took out her cell phone to call her. However, her phone kept showing that it was on a call or the call could not be connected. She was very anxious and opened the door to go downstairs to see if Si Nan had gone far.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw two people standing in 1501. Just as she was about to open the door of 1501, Cheng Wei took a closer look and was overjoyed: "Brother, you're back!"