Chapter 8 Stockpiling Ships

After dinner, Gu Yanzhi stood by the window. He saw that the floodwaters outside had stopped, but the heavy rain was still pouring down, and the water on the ground had risen to the height of a one-story building.

Gu Yanzhi opened the chat software and saw that there were already 99+ messages in the group chat for Building 10. She clicked on it and scrolled up.

Sure enough, everyone was discussing the sudden flood and heavy rain, and they were also glad that they had listened to the government and moved here in advance.

【I'm going to the supermarket to stock up on some food later, anyone want to come along? It looks like this rain is going to last a long time】 Seeing that everyone in the group was discussing how heavy the rain was outside, but no one seemed worried that the rain would last a long time, Gu Yanzhi thought for a moment and sent a message in the group.

The fact that they weren't worried the heavy rain would last long meant that the families hadn't stockpiled much food. Gu Yanzhi thought she should still remind everyone.

It wasn't that she wanted to help others, but in her past life she had witnessed too many fights over a bag of cookies or a sip of water. This rain would last at least two months, and who knew what the people in the building might do if they ran out of food.

Although the 17th and 18th floors were renovated to look like an iron barrel, it's good to delay the exposure by even one day. Quiet days are hard to come by.

[Me, me, me] Zhang Qian was the first to raise her hand to sign up, and then the other two families in the building also expressed their desire to join.

"The water outside is very deep. How are we going to get out without a boat?" The husband of the young couple on the 16th floor raised his question.

【yes】

"I have a rubber boat at home, which I used for fishing before. You can use it," Gu Yanzhi explained in the group chat, and then arranged to meet everyone on the first floor in ten minutes.

Gu Yanzhi retrieved the rubber boat and oars from his spatial storage and, together with Song Zhao and Gu Yanlin, dragged it downstairs.

Because of the flooding, the elevator was flooded and out of service, so the group had to walk down the stairs. When they got to the second floor, they found that everyone was gathered in the second-floor hallway and had stopped going down.

"Sister Yanzhi, you're here!" Zhang Qian's eyes lit up when she saw Gu Yanzhi and the other two, and she greeted them.

"Good morning, Zhang Qian," Gu Yanzhi said with a smile, clearly quite fond of the cute girl.

"Thank you for your help, miss."

"Thank you, miss!"

The other two households also expressed their gratitude, saying that they really deserved to be thanked for thinking of helping them at this time.

"Sister, the first floor is flooded. How are we going to get the boat down?" Gu Yanlin walked to the bottom of the stairs and looked down. He found that the first floor was completely submerged, and even the door was no longer visible. No wonder everyone was gathered on the second-floor corridor and hadn't gone down any further.

"We just asked the property management, and they said we can break the second-floor window and go out through it," said the male head of the household.

Gu Yanzhi took out his phone and checked. When they went downstairs, someone tagged the property management in the group chat, asking if they could remove the windows. The property management replied that they could, and that they would send someone to repair them after the floodwaters receded.

"Okay, then you guys discuss who will go out first. We only have one rubber boat, there's definitely not enough room for all of us," Song Zhao said.

Zhang Qian's family of three, the family of three on the 11th floor, the young couple on the 16th floor, and Gu Yanzhi's family of three—a total of 11 people were standing in the hallway. Fortunately, the community was very upscale, and the hallway was spacious, so it didn't feel crowded with so many people standing together.

Their rubber boats can only seat a maximum of 6 people; that many people definitely won't fit.

Actually, there wasn't much discussion involved. All the families knew what was going on. They were just hitching a ride on someone else's rubber boat, and no one would shamelessly say that their whole family was going. They had already discussed it before going downstairs. Zhang Qian's family would send Zhang Qian's father, the husband of the young couple on the 16th floor, and the son of the family of three on the 11th floor. Since Gu Yanzhi provided the boat, two people from their family would go: Gu Yanzhi and Song Zhao.

They were all the strongest and healthiest people in their families. Apart from the mother-in-law of the young couple on the 16th floor who had to stay home to take care of her grandson, the rest of them came over to see what was going on outside and join in the fun.

“Mr. Song, could you take us to a sporting goods store first? I’d like to buy a kayak so I can bring back more things,” Zhang Qian’s father asked, and the other two families nodded in agreement.

It's unrealistic to expect to bring all the supplies from four families with just one inflatable boat. It would be better to go to a sporting goods store and buy all the kayaks first, so that everyone can have their own kayak. Each family can bring their own supplies, and they can use them in the future.

“Yes, that’s what we were thinking too,” Song Zhao nodded slightly to Uncle Zhang and said.

He and Gu Yanzhi thought the same way; even if they didn't bring it up, Song Zhao would.

In the apocalypse, boats are incredibly valuable resources. People would fight tooth and nail for a bite to eat, let alone a boat. Since they weren't the only ones in the building with boats, their presence would be greatly diminished.

According to Gu Yanzhi, it would be best if every household in the community could have a boat.

After discussing it, the group that decided to go out went upstairs to change into their swimsuits, while the father from the 11th floor returned to the second floor with tools to dismantle the window.

The windows on the second floor were a little distance from the water, so they had to go into the water before they could get on the boat. Luckily, everyone knew how to swim, so they all went back to change into their swimsuits to avoid the discomfort of their clothes sticking to their bodies when they were wet.

He started his business in renovation. He did renovations himself when he was young. Now that he's successful, he doesn't do much work himself anymore, but he still has all the tools at home, so taking down a window is a piece of cake for him.

After the window was removed, Song Zhao jumped off the boat first, and then Gu Yanzhi threw a bundle of clothes wrapped tightly to Song Zhao through the window.

Then the others jumped off the boat and, once on board, found their clothes and wrapped them tightly around their bodies.

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