Chapter 16: The city's power supply gradually fails

After entering the yard, Xiang Yu lit the charcoal left over from burning firewood, set up an iron rack on top, and placed the barbecue he had bought at the snack street on it.

While eating barbecue and looking at the snow scenery, Xiang Yu thought about the scene he saw when sweeping snow recently, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

No matter how simple a mountain dweller is, who can resist the urge to eat when they are hungry?

Xiang Yu took a picture of the barbecue with his mobile phone and sent it to Chang Ming as usual. Chang Ming replied soon.

I asked her where she was going, and it seemed that City A had been sealed off, so I asked if Xiang Yu could come back.

Xiang Yu continued to fool him, just saying that they would be there soon.

There was a rustling sound coming from the bed next door. A corner of the curtain of Chang Ming's bed was lifted, and a hand reached inside along the summer quilt and the messy clothes on the bed.

Because it was too cold, Chang Ming moved all his clothes to the bed and spread them out, which could also be used as a quilt.

The hand soon touched Chang Ming's body. The cold temperature instantly woke Chang Ming up. He sat up and pulled open the curtain.

He found Zhang Lei standing beside his bed with a smile on his face, "What are you doing..." Chang Ming was furious for a moment, his face flushed with excitement.

Zhang Lei didn't say anything, but just looked at Chang Ming. However, the smile on his face made Chang Ming feel a chill down his spine.

Zhang Lei felt in his pocket with his right hand, and finally took out a piece of compressed biscuit. When he handed it to Chang Ming, his other hand reached towards Chang Ming.

Chang Ming understood what he meant instantly and shrank back, "I don't want it, take it away." Chang Ming looked at Zhang Lei and the previous look in his eyes was gone.

Instead, he was filled with disgust. He had no idea that Zhang Lei actually had such thoughts towards him.

He felt like vomiting and Chang Ming did the same. He quickly got up from the bed, ran to the toilet on the balcony, and started to dry heave inside.

Zhang Lei immediately put away the smile on his face and looked towards the toilet with a vicious look.

Sitting in a rocking chair, Xiang Yu was eating skewers in one hand and checking the news on his phone in the other.

City L and City C, as well as some of the towns surrounding them, seemed to have lost power, leaving the citizens whose phones still had a bit of power left.

At this moment, they are posting a message asking for help, hoping that the rescue team can come quickly. They are already very desperate because they have no food.

Now if the city’s power supply is cut off, the heating and air conditioning cannot be turned on, and they will not only have to endure hunger but also the cold.

Would anyone still be alive then?

But the most explosive news was not the water and power outages, but the fact that a rescue team spontaneously formed by the public in a small town around M City found a lot of dead bodies.

Because the area is remote and there are no snowplows, the residents of the town have not spontaneously formed a snow-clearing team.

The roads there had been severely blocked since the blizzard began, and the supermarket had also been looted. When their rescue team arrived at the supermarket.

The cashier at the front desk was found dead and smelly, but everything in the supermarket had been looted.

The houses of the elderly people left behind in the town were also pried open, and their food was taken away. Some of them starved for a week, drinking boiled snow water while waiting for rescue.

Once the incident in the small town was exposed, it instantly attracted a lot of attention. They could already imagine that the rabbit's death would cause grief to the fox.

If the heavy snow doesn't stop and they can't get rescued, will their fate be the same as the residents of that small town?

Xiang Yu looked at the IDs in the comment section and found that the number of people active online was decreasing every day. He was afraid that there were still many cities that had lost power but no news had been released.

The official comment section was still filled with signals for help as usual. Xiang Yu exited the news network and opened the class group that he had not checked.

It was discovered that shortly after she left, the counselor also packed up and left the college before the city was locked down.

Many students were complaining in the group. At first, the counselor was trying to calm them down, but since last week, the counselor has not been active in the group.

"I'm almost starving. Anyone got any food? Can you give me some?"

"I'm also very hungry. I can't get enough to eat in the cafeteria. Every day I only have a steamed bun with pickles. The pickles even have stones in them."

"What's the big deal about stones? I ate a dead mouse in my pickles yesterday."

"envious."

"envious."

The unanimous reply below expressed envy, which confused the person. What was there to be envious about eating a dead rat?

There was even more wailing in the freshman group. The school had previously notified the local students in City A that they should go home if they could.

Students living in surrounding cities should take protective measures and return home as soon as possible if they want to. The rest live far away.

Xiang Yu looked at the several mobile phones at hand. Recently, they were connected to the WF next door, and a lot of videos, movies and TV series were downloaded into several mobile phones.

My memory is almost full, and I have downloaded thousands of completed novels. These will be enough to kill time in the future.

There were still three days before the supermarket in town opened. After getting up in the morning, Xiang Yu set out from the doorstep of his home and ran around the town to exercise.

"Xiang Yu, the snow is too heavy. Why don't you stop running and go back to rest. Otherwise, what if you catch a cold?" Xiang Ling, holding her youngest child in her arms, stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked at Xiang Yu.

"Fortunately, the snow is not heavy. I can just run one lap and go back," Xiang Yu responded, and then ran around the village twice before going home.

Looking at the axe placed next to the sofa bed, Xiang Yu took the knife and sharpened it on the whetstone. Listening to the rustling sound of the blade while being sharpened, Xiang Yu felt extremely peaceful in his heart.

She had sharpened the knife to an extremely sharp edge. After practicing with it a few times in her hand, Xiang Yu felt that it was very easy to use.

On Monday morning, Xiang Yi packed up and knocked on Xiang Yu's door. In their hearts, Xiang Yu, a single young girl living alone, needed their help more.

On the main road leading to the town, except for the people in Xiangjia Village who were still clearing the snow, the rest of the villages did not come out to clear the snow.

So after the car drove out of the village for a while, Xiang Yu and his companions got out and walked.

The village chief's son must have told many people about what happened in the mall after he came back, so there were only a few villagers who went to the town supermarket this time, only about twenty people.

Xiang Ling did not go with them this time. Instead, her husband Zhao Xingshan came. At this time, Zhao Xingshan put the money in his underwear under the instructions of his uncle.

Xiang Yu was carrying a backpack on his back. A man was slowly approaching Xiang Yu in the crowd. He looked familiar. He had been seen in the snow-clearing team before.

"Xiang Yu, what are you going to buy?" the man greeted Xiang Yu in a familiar manner.

"You just came back from City A, there must be nothing to eat at home. If you are hungry, you can come to my house when you get back."