"I'll do it!"

The terrain here is relatively high, and the floodwater in the guardhouse only reached halfway up the roof. Just as Xu Lai was about to enter through the window, Xiao Rui pressed his hands against the windowsill and crawled through the window.

Xu Haiguo, believing himself to be strong and healthy, followed them inside.

After the two entered the guardhouse, they found that there was another room inside. The door was open, and they could see a bunk bed inside.

This should be the rest area for the security guards who are on duty during the week.

The two wasted no more time and began looking for the key to the front door.

Open a row of cabinets in the guardhouse.

The lower half of the cabinet was flooded, but fortunately the cabinet doors were not washed away by the flood. Xiao Rui and Xu Haiguo opened the cabinet doors one by one and felt their way through.

"Found it!"

In a cabinet door that had just been flooded, Xiao Rui found a set of keys and quickly held it up to show everyone.

"Great! Let's go out and try opening the door... Ouch!"

Upon hearing that the key had been found, Xu Haiguo was extremely excited. However, in his excitement, he accidentally stepped on something and fell into the water.

"Uncle Xu (Dad), are you alright?"

Xiao Rui, who was holding the key and about to reach for the guardhouse door, heard the noise and quickly turned around to help Xu Haiguo, who was soaked by the flood, to his feet.

The three people in the speedboat outside the window saw the situation inside the guardhouse and shouted nervously.

Xu Lai and Xu Chao, in particular, immediately got up and were about to crawl in through the window.

"It's nothing, it's nothing. I just stepped on something that looked like a metal bucket and slipped!"

Once he had regained his footing, Xu Haiguo wiped the water from his face and hurriedly began to explain.

"drum?"

Xu Lai silently recited a phrase in her mind, and after realizing what she meant, she immediately said to Xu Haiguo and Xiao Rui, "Dad, Brother Xiao, quickly pick up that iron bucket and take a look?"

Upon hearing Xu Lai's words, Xu Haiguo and Xiao Rui exchanged a glance, then immediately held their breath and dived under the floodwaters where Xu Haiguo had almost slipped, lifting the "iron bucket" out of the water.

The words "diesel" were clearly written on the top of the container.

"Cheers, we really do get exactly what we need!"

After Xiao Rui opened the guardhouse from the inside, the two of them carried the heavy barrel of diesel oil outside the guardhouse.

Xu Lai had already driven the speedboat to the gatehouse entrance. Seeing the two men handing over the diesel fuel, the three people on the speedboat quickly reached out to take it.

"Let's go inside and take another look!"

Xu Haiguo and Xiao Rui returned to the guardhouse and the inner room, repeatedly wading into the floodwaters to search.

Surprisingly, they found six barrels of diesel, five barrels of fuel oil, and four barrels of 95-octane gasoline.

"This trip was definitely worthwhile!"

Although gasoline is temporarily useless, diesel can be used for the speedboats, and fuel oil can also be burned for cooking.

This solved the problem of insufficient fuel at home.

Just to be on the safe side, the five people moved the storage box and the plastic bucket containing chicken and eggs to the rubber boat behind the assault boat and secured them with ropes.

These various types of oil were placed on the assault boat.

After doing all that, everyone was so excited that they realized the iron gate wasn't open yet.

So Xiao Rui drove the speedboat to the side of the gate lock and took a bunch of keys out of his pocket.

The lock on the iron gate is a traditional iron padlock, and the lock itself is quite large, as is the key.

So Xiao Rui simply inserted the largest key from the bunch and turned it.

With a "click," the large padlock was indeed opened.

"The door is finally open!"

After Li Qingya and Xu Chao cheered, the group opened the large iron gate again, and the assault boat sped off with a "whoosh".

As for the large padlock, Xu Lai took it along with the key.

She also took advantage of Xiao Rui and Li Qingya's inattention and put the lock into her spatial storage.

This padlock is a real treasure; it's so tough that even an axe would have a hard time cutting it. I'll keep it; it might come in handy later.

They not only escaped danger safely but also gained a lot, so everyone was in a good mood on the way back.

Although there was a headwind on the way back, they were traveling in an inflatable boat, so the journey took much less time than the way there.

Instead, they spent too much time killing chickens at a farmhouse halfway up Wangtai Mountain and at the oil refinery. By the time they returned to the Jinxiu Haoting residential area, it was already past 8 p.m.

As soon as they entered the residential area, they turned off the lights on the speedboat and the group rode the speedboat to the third floor of the apartment building in the dark.

Perhaps due to the need to conserve electricity, 90% of the homes in the entire community are dark, with only a very few homes having a few scattered lights.

In order to get these things upstairs as soon as possible, Xu Lai took out her phone and, taking advantage of the weak signal, called Song Qiu'e, asking the three people who were staying at home to come down and help move the things.

After several trips up and down the stairs, the eight people from both families finally delivered today's spoils and the rubber boat to their home on the seventeenth floor.

"You guys go up first, I'll put this assault boat at my secret base!"

This speedboat is made of fiberglass, with a wide hull and powerful engine; it looks very valuable.

Xiao Rui wanted to ask Xu Lai if her secret base was reliable and safe.

However, despite his high level of education, he was very self-aware.

This thing is so big and heavy, it's impossible to carry it up to my home on the seventeenth floor.

Moreover, Xu Lai is a very reliable person; she certainly wouldn't leave such a valuable item lying around carelessly.

So Xiao Rui and his family didn't ask any more questions and followed Xu Haiguo and the others upstairs.

After everyone went upstairs, Xu Lai looked around to make sure no one was there. Once she reached the third floor, she immediately hid in the dark and stored the speedboat in her spatial storage.

On her own impulse, she followed him inside.

It cost a lot of money to buy these assault boats, and Xu Lai couldn't bear to leave this one-time-used assault boat out in the open.

Her space is the safest place!

Xu Lai entered the space, found a set of underwear and pajamas in the warehouse where clothes were stored, and then went to the bathroom that her second uncle and father had just built.

Although the bathroom is simple, the water heater moved from the house outside is connected to the solar power equipment in the space and the pool next to the well, so hot water can be used 24 hours a day.

Xu Lai took off her soaking wet clothes and shoes and socks, and then took a nice, relaxing hot shower and a hair wash.

After showering and covering her hair with a hair-drying cap, Xu Lai got dressed and left the space, then climbed from the third floor to the seventeenth floor.

Back home, she quickly sent her father and brother, who were also soaked to the bone, into her spatial dimension.

After her father and brother finished showering, she led them out of the space before returning to her room and collapsing her exhausted body onto the soft bed.