Chapter 133 Dead City in the Water
Three days later, the eastern coastal area.
It has only been about 20 days since the end of the world, but the eastern coastal area of the peninsula has become a dead city in the water.
For unknown reasons, after nearly one-third of the buildings in the eastern cities that were hit by the tsunami collapsed, the seawater that poured into the cities did not recede, and continued to rise in the subsequent days of heavy rain.
Now, the water level in the cities with the lowest altitudes here has reached the seventh or eighth floor. In some places, because they are concave, the seawater cannot recede after backflow, and even floods higher.
At this level, except for a few high-rise buildings, the buildings of the entire city have almost completely sunk into the water.
Eight floors, with each floor less than 3 meters, the depth of the water surface from the city ground is about 22-24 meters.
Without any equipment, a normal person can dive to a depth of about 10 meters, and professional divers can dive to 15 to 17 meters. But if you are trained and have all the equipment (including oxygen tanks), you can dive to a depth of two or three hundred meters.
Youxi and Tang Yatong both know how to dive, but they are not particularly professional, and the diving equipment they prepared is not comprehensive, but with their physical fitness, diving to such a depth is not a problem at all.
This is a high-rise building located on the edge of the city. It is a commercial building with a total of thirteen floors, and the waterline is up to the sixth floor.
**
A day ago, the five of them drove over the hill in front of them and were completely unable to move forward.
In front of them was the sparkling water surface, and further away, there were buildings submerged in water.
The people nearby had already evacuated at the beginning of the disaster, but the rain was still falling and had never stopped. The water surface was gray under the gloomy sky, and it was still rising slowly at a speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye.
Chen Lei and his son had been traveling with "them" for several days, and they also roughly understood that "they" wanted to get supplies, but they didn't understand why "they" came to the most dangerous eastern coast.
There was water all in front, and the closer to the sea, the deeper the water level was, and the car couldn't drive through at all.
Tang Yatong found a place to park nearby, put on a raincoat and got out of the car, took out the electric rubber boat from the car (space), and started to inflate it electrically. After a while, a rubber boat that could accommodate several people appeared.
Youxi looked at the size of the rubber boat, and silently returned to the car, and took out another rubber boat from the inside (Xingwu Warehouse), and inflated it with an electric pump.
Chen Lei and his son helped tie the two rubber boats together, the electric one in front and the manual ordinary rubber boat in the back, so that the thrust of the front one could drive the back one.
Tang Yatong and the other two got off the car with four or five waterproof luggage bags for show, threw them on the rubber boat in front, and pointed to the area of high-rise buildings at the end of the line of sight of Chen Lei and his son.
She told them that today's mission was to get there before dark because they would stay there tonight.
"We are not kidding. There is a secret seed warehouse somewhere in the water ahead. This warehouse is now underwater, but waterproof measures were taken when it was built. We want to try to get those seeds."
Chen Lei knew that the people in front of him had their own plans, and now he understood when he heard about the seeds.
The whole peninsula is now in a serious disaster situation, and foreign aid is not coming. If we sit back and wait, we will run out of money sooner or later. It is a good thing to prepare for a rainy day. Some vegetable seeds can be grown even indoors as long as there is suitable soil and light.
Potatoes are rich in carbohydrates and can replace staple food.
Lettuce has a short growth cycle and can survive in hydroponics.
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Not to mention that seeds are small and easy to carry. If we can get a large number of different kinds of seeds, it will be much more useful than getting finished rice and pasta.
Afterwards, the five people wearing raincoats took their luggage and got on the rubber boat one after another. Tang Yatong started the motor, and the rubber boat in front opened the water and led the rubber boat behind towards their target high-rise area.
There are seven or eight high-rise buildings around here, the highest is about 20 stories high, and the lowest is nine stories high, with only two or three stories above the water, which looks a bit dangerous.
In the end, Youxi and Tang Yatong chose the 13-story building, mainly because the glass exposed above the water is well preserved, which also means that the internal situation will be slightly better, and it will not be so damp that it is uninhabitable.
The people here were all in the first wave of evacuation. At that time, the rescue efforts on the island were still very strong. Although the escape was very chaotic, most people escaped.
Therefore, although there is a lot of garbage floating on the wall near the water, no floating bodies have been seen for the time being. It is also possible that after the water level rose, they all sank to the bottom, or were blown to farther waters with the typhoon.
Youxi took out the glass blasting tools from the bag, removed the whole piece of glass with a swift movement, then jumped into the building first and helped several people behind him to enter the building.
Finally, they broke a larger glass wall and pulled two rubber boats into the building.
Because it is on the edge of the city, there are fewer offices rented out in the commercial building, and more than half of the space in the building is vacant.
Some of the rented offices have all kinds of tables and chairs overturned, and it seems that the people fled in a hurry at that time.
Because it was an orderly evacuation, and this place was not affected by the initial tsunami, there were no bodies in the building either, but most of the building was flooded, and there was a lingering damp smell inside.
They chose the right time to come. At this point in time, most people were thinking about how to escape and go to a safer place. Although supplies were tight, they were not scarce yet. So at this time, no one would risk returning to these cities to collect supplies.
And capable rescue team members were too busy to come.
In another month, the Lushan Peninsula was still in this situation. Even if the rescue team did not come, it was estimated that the people would spontaneously organize teams and take the risk to search for supplies.
They found a safe staircase, went all the way up, and finally settled in a room on the twelfth floor facing east.
This used to be a club with sofas and suites for rest. Although it was covered with dust, it could be cleaned up and lived in. It was better than the accommodation conditions they had along the way.
You Zhenzhen was a bit of a clean freak. She had been to the highland scenic area with Youxi a long time ago and had been staying in high-end hotels. She was always urged by Youxi to take a shower every day.
The two days from the central to the eastern part of the country had made her exhausted. She could not even think about taking a shower. She could only sleep in the car when she was tired. When she was hungry, she could only eat fast food such as sandwiches and burgers. It was a good treat to hide in the car and drink a bowl of beef noodle soup when she had the chance.
There were floods everywhere. They drove in a circuitous way. In addition, Tang Yatong and Youxi wanted to get to the east as soon as possible. They only rested for four or five hours at night. The rest of the time, they took turns to find the way and drive.
They drove for two days to reach a place that would normally take five or six hours at most.
So, even though she still couldn't take a shower that night and had to sleep in a strange dark building, You Zhenzhen still slept soundly because she could lie on the bed. After
she fell asleep, You Xi and Tang Yatong took a bag of supplies and went to the next room to find Chen Lei and his son.
During the two days together, each other behaved very well. They didn't like to make trouble, nor did they give random advice. Even though they knew they were coming to the east, they didn't question them too much.
In the bag of supplies were 20 bottles of mineral water, some military ration bags, instant rice, self-heating hot pot, canned luncheon meat and a bag of dehydrated vegetables.
In addition, there were lighters, candles, thermal blankets, multi-function knives, stun guns, a bottle of water purification tablets (100 tablets) and some basic medicines.
"What is this?" Seeing the bags full of supplies, the other party didn't dare to reach out to take it. "We have supplies ourselves, and I noticed on the way up here that some companies have automatic purchasing machines with a lot of snacks and drinks in them. Xinxin and I plan to sweep from top to bottom tomorrow and find out everything edible and usable."
"These are for your backup. We will have to act separately tomorrow. One rubber boat will be left for you. You wait here for two days. If we don't come back after two days, you will go back to the hill and drive to a safer place on the peninsula."
It's not that Tang Yatong doesn't trust them, but after all, they have only been together for a few days. Even if she can explain the source of the Youxi speedboat, what about when they go into the water to look for the supply warehouse?
They couldn't be 100% assured to leave You Zhenzhen alone on the speedboat with them, so it would be better to let them wait for them in the nearby waters.
If the typhoon came again, they could return as quickly as possible to take them. If they were afraid and didn't want to wait, they could just drive the rubber boat out of the waters and drive to find a place to hide.
They had noticed before that there were several B&Bs near the hill. Although they were eroded by wind and rain and were in ruins, and there were no people inside, they could still temporarily avoid the wind and rain because of the terrain.
Chen Lei didn't know how the three of them would drive a rubber boat to such deep waters to search for the warehouse, and how to open the warehouse and get the seeds safely after finding it, but he also understood that it might be safer for him and his son to stay here and wait for them than to follow them.
After all, he had originally prepared to volunteer to take the lead and go into the water to help.
But they didn't have any auxiliary tools, so it was very dangerous to go into the water like this. Now that he heard that he only needed to wait here, he actually breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Shengxin is 21 years old this year, a shy boy. He had heard his father chatting with the other party before, but he had not spoken a word. Now that he heard his father agreed to stay and wait, he couldn't help but ask: "What about Zhenzhen? Is she going with you? Is it safer for her to stay?"
The meaning behind these words was too obvious. Youxi looked at him sideways for a few more times.
The other party was good-looking, with red lips and white teeth, very delicate. He was also very brave before. When he was in the hotel, he dared to save people even if he saw that the other party had a knife, and even got injured for it.
Unfortunately, he was a little bit stupid.
Chen Lei was a little helpless. He patted his son on the back and hinted to him: "They will definitely be with their families. You don't need to worry about this kind of thing."
The two sides reached a consensus. Chen Lei left the supplies under the insistence of the other party, and said that he would wait here for them to return safely no matter whether it was two, three or four days.
**
The rubber boat cut through the water and slowly moved away under the gaze of Chen Lei and his son.
They took away You Xi's manual version of the rubber boat, leaving the other party with an electric rubber boat. After all, the other party was just an ordinary person. If they really wanted to escape, the electric one would definitely be faster.
You Zhenzhen felt the eager gazes in the building watching her go, and turned her head twice. Each time she saw Chen Shengxin standing at the gap in the building and waving at her.
"..." You Zhenzhen sighed.
Tang Yatong glanced at her, and You Xi reached out and pinched her fair cheek: "Why are you sighing, little girl? Don't be afraid, wait a little further, there will be buildings to block the view, and then you can get on the boat."
"It's not because of this." You Zhenzhen held her cheek, her tone a little helpless, but there was a bit of confidence in the helplessness, "It's just... sometimes being too beautiful is a sin. You see, I haven't washed my hair or taken a shower for three days, and I didn't even wash my face this morning, and Chen Shengxin could still look at me like a fool..."
You Xi: ...
Tang Yatong had a blank face, rowing the boat with one hand, and at the same time reaching for a cigarette.
The girl was too capable. She wanted to use cigarettes to relieve the MMP that had been pent up for a long time...
Twenty minutes later, You Xi signaled Tang Yatong to stop, and then released her brand new, unused three-story yacht on the water in front of them.
"Fuck!" Tang Yatong, who was smoking without lighting a cigarette, looked at the super-super-luxury yacht in front of her with a white base and natural wood color, and was once again amazed by You·Dora·Xi, "Is this the boat you said is not very big?"
"Seventy-five feet long, can be operated by one person, with a maximum speed of 20 knots. The draft is not deep and it is very fuel-efficient. There are three decks, panoramic hull windows, and the flybridge can also be fully operated and closed with glass doors to form a fully enclosed space.
The lower deck has two en suite rooms with bathrooms, a common room and a large storage room. From the front to the back of the main deck are a leisure salon with a sofa, a fully equipped kitchen, two dining rooms inside and outside, and a storage room. . In addition to the driving platform, the third deck also has an inner and outer deck leisure area at the back. "
You Xi recalled the introduction she saw when she bought this yacht in the Acid Rain World. "By the way, be careful when you get on board, because there are a full set of maintenance tools and forty or fifty boxes of supplies on the deck and in the cabin." After
You Xi finished speaking, she changed the direction of the rubber boat and came to the deck at the back of the yacht.
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