Chapter 98: Refuse to Ask for Help

The speed of spontaneous combustion is much faster than the speed of the apocalypse explosion. The car exploded just as people jumped out of the car and before they could rescue the people in the car.

An entire vehicle full of people and supplies was lost.

Many innocent passers-by were also implicated. A van was passing by them. If they had not stopped to watch the van explode naturally, they would have been slow in escaping and were affected, losing their lives.

Their car was a transport truck. If it had exploded naturally, they would have died more tragically and miserably than the people in the van.

So they were safe along the way and no one stopped them or robbed them.

After arriving at the freshwater lake, Lu Xingtang and his team discovered that the water in the lake was turbid. The water pumped back had to be precipitated and processed, and it probably wouldn't last long. However, the extreme heat in Jicheng ended early, so there was no need to worry about the water source.

There were many soldiers guarding the freshwater lake. They saw many survivors coming to fetch water. Lu Xingtang and the others only found out at this moment.

The military allowed civilians to fetch water, but they had to show their ID cards. If they fetched large quantities of water, they had to hand it over.

As for how much supplies to hand over, it depends on how much water you need. The more water you have, the more supplies you have to hand in. Furthermore, registration is required, and your identity must be confirmed. They don't allow water to be wasted. Water is too precious these days, and even a little bit cannot be wasted.

Fortunately, they prepared enough supplies and did not have to worry about not having water.

But there are a lot of people getting water, so if you want to get water you have to queue up. When it is your turn, you can get water.

The queue is divided into two rows. The first row will register first, and then go to the other row to queue up. That row is for getting water.

Get water and leave immediately!

Because they had to fetch a lot of water, Su Cheng asked Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo to wait for a while while he went to negotiate with the military, hoping that they would make concessions and allow them to queue up to fetch water, but the requirement was that the water towers, buckets and water tanks they brought must be full!

After negotiations, Su Cheng told Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo: "They agreed to let us take the water, and I told them our situation. Of course, I didn't tell them the real situation!"

They just said that they rented this transport truck from a middleman, and that the entire community had used up all their supplies to rent the truck. They filled it up with all the gasoline stored in the community, and fetched water from the freshwater lake in the imperial capital. They also prepared a lot of supplies and hoped that they would be flexible.

They were told they could fill all the water towers, buckets, and tanks, but they had to hand in the supplies. Su Cheng naturally agreed to hand over the supplies, but after looking at them, they felt it was insufficient because there were so many buckets and other tools. They were a little unhappy about it, as this freshwater lake still had to be provided to the people of Jicheng.

Lu Xingtang said to Su Cheng, "We have a lot of gasoline. Let's fill up the truck's tank first, leaving some for us to get home, and give them the rest. If that doesn't work..." Lu Xingtang took out a pistol and said, "Give them this!"

Su Cheng disagreed, but there was nothing he could do at the moment as they didn't bring much supplies.

After further negotiation, the other party agreed, leaving them a small bucket of gasoline but taking away the gun.

So, they were taken to another place in the freshwater lake by the Jicheng military, who helped them take all the water-filling tools out of the car and used a water pump to fill it up.

After the pump was full, they immediately headed back, worried that Su Hao wouldn't be able to survive alone. While Min Weihuan and the people in the building would protect Su Hao for the sake of the water, that didn't mean he could take care of himself. They were also worried that the 19th floor would collapse!

On the way back, Lu Xingtang went to the carriage. It was Ji Yanmo's request. Su Cheng also wanted Lu Xingtang to rest after a hard night.

Lu Xingtang understood that Ji Yanmo wanted her to go back to the space to rest, as the space was much more comfortable than the carriage.

They had plenty of gas, and on the way back, they turned on the air conditioning and drove at full speed. Because it was daytime and the temperature had risen, there were basically no survivors on the road, and everyone was hiding. Because the car had air conditioning, they couldn't feel the temperature outside, but they could see it.

The sun shone through the car window onto their skin, and it quickly turned red and peeled off.

"Fortunately, you let Lu Xingtang go to the carriage, otherwise the little girl would have been sunburned and would have cried in pain!" They all grimaced in pain and couldn't bear it, let alone the girl.

Ji Yanmo lowered his eyes to look at his red, peeling arm. Fortunately, he was in space, fortunately, he wouldn't be harmed by the sun...

On the way back, Ji Yanmo and Su Cheng drove very fast. After returning to the imperial capital, the road was smooth, with no survivors blocking their way and no roadblocks. The return journey only took three hours in total.

After returning to the residential complex, Lu Xingtang and the others drove to the underground parking lot. Su Cheng immediately ran back upstairs to see Su Hao. Min Weihuan was sitting at the top floor stairs with a fan in her hand. Seeing Su Cheng rushing back, she was stunned for a moment: "You found water? How come you came back so quickly? Didn't you find any water?"

Su Cheng said quickly: "Hurry up and ask the people in the apartment building to go downstairs to get water! How is my dad?"

"Your dad is fine. I just talked to him." Min Weihuan answered as he walked down the stairs with brisk steps. There was water. The 19th floor was amazing. They really found water.

Everyone in the entire apartment building immediately went downstairs to prepare for water distribution.

Lu Xingtang and his team were already prepared. Not only the people in their building, but also people from other buildings came to the underground parking lot in the scorching heat as soon as they entered the community.

When Min Weihuan arrived at the parking lot, most of the remaining people in their community had already arrived. They were standing around the express delivery truck, their eyes constantly looking into the car.

After waiting for a while and making sure everyone in the community had arrived, Lu Xingtang took out the small notebook for keeping accounts. However, she did not read out the names in the notebook to get water. Instead, she said, "Do you know where we get our water?"

"Where?" Everyone was very curious.

Lu Xingtang was not afraid of them knowing. As long as they dared to go, they could get water. It was unclear whether the water quality was good or not.

"Jicheng's largest freshwater lake!" Lu Xingtang said each word with emphasis. "Because we took too much water, we lost a gun and all the gasoline you surrendered to fill all the water towers, buckets, and tanks! How are we going to settle this?"

We can ignore the issue of gasoline, but we cannot ignore the issue of guns!

Min Weihuan hadn't expected to lose a gun: "Lu Xingtang? Why did you lose a gun?"

"Because this freshwater lake in Jicheng is occupied by the Jicheng military, we have to barter if we want to get water! The freshwater lake in Jicheng is provided to the people of Jicheng, not to the people of the imperial capital!" Lu Xingtang's black eyes swept around slightly, and seeing that everyone's face was not very good, his eyes turned cold: "As long as you can produce supplies to resist the guns, we will give you water! If you can't produce it, except for the few families who provided gasoline, everyone else will have no water!"

Ah~~~ It’s the beginning of the month, and I continue to shamelessly ask for monthly tickets~

(End of this chapter)