Chapter 119 The Empty 11th Floor
Wei Dong repeatedly checked the circuit connecting the door and the generator, looking for burnt parts.
Finally, in the second half of the night, the power switch and the generator were repaired together. By the way, a more complex mortise and tenon steel lock was taken out and the original ordinary lock was replaced.
"Electric doors are afraid of water. I can't think of any solution for now. I can't think of any other preventive measures to make the powered door waterproof."
Wei Dong told the truth. He was good at weapons and defense, but he was not familiar with electrical and waterproof issues.
"Well, go ahead."
Everyone was thankful that he was there to fix the broken things.
After all, this is a generator worth 1 million yuan and an important survival material. The loss of one unit may mean that there will be 1/3 less days of electricity in the future.
“First, we can set up one or more early warning devices on the stairs, which will ring once someone reaches the 12th floor. This way, we can predict enemy intrusions and take precautions in advance.
It's not like today, when we didn't know someone was outside until they reached the 12th floor and started shouting." Wei Dong said.
"Well, that's certainly good. If someone hears the sudden alarm sound, they might be scared away! Can you make an alarm device?" Yu Duoduo asked.
Wei Dong thought for a moment and said, "It may take some time."
"That's no problem. You're the only one here who's good at this!" Yu Duoduo said with a smile, "You just said first, do you have any other ideas?"
"The generator is an important piece of equipment after all. To be on the safe side, I think it's best not to connect the power switch directly to the generator.
Previously, Zizi used a steel crossbow to exchange two vehicle-mounted power supplies with you. We are willing to take out one of them and let the power supply replace the generator to avoid the loss of large items.
I will also install an automatic trip device on the existing switch. In case a short circuit like today's water splashing happens again, the switch will cut off the power and protect the power supply.
With the double insurance on the door, I shouldn't be as anxious as I am today."
This was the first time that Yu Duoduo heard Wei Dong talk so much in one breath. Just as Tong Zi said, he could talk for a whole day about the field he was good at!
"Okay, then the safety of the 12th floor will be fully entrusted to you. Let Minan go out with us tomorrow!" Yu Duoduo said.
After a sleepless night, the people on the 12th floor had breakfast with Chef Tong Zi when it was almost dawn, and then hurriedly went to bed.
We slept until one or two o'clock in the afternoon, and then everyone got up one after another.
According to today's plan, they were going to the warehouse on the other side of Huijiang River to salvage supplies. They set off a little late, but they were already prepared to salvage in the afternoon and transport them back in the evening.
Yu Duoduo, Xie Yun, Tong Zi and Min Nan went downstairs together. The 11th floor was unusually quiet.
The households whose door locks were broken by Yu Duoduo must have moved downstairs or moved out. The anti-theft iron doors that could not be locked kept opening and closing in the draft, making clanging noises.
Yu Duoduo stopped and said, "Wait for me here for a while, I'll be there soon."
Then she walked into the corridor on the 11th floor alone. Xie Yun vigilantly took out the nail gun from his bag and stood at the stairs waiting.
Except for the 8 households that couldn't close their doors, Yu Duoduo took out a small hammer from his bag and knocked on the remaining 12 doors...
"What is Sister Duoduo doing?" Minan stuck her head out and asked in confusion.
"Knock on the door!" Tong Zi answered casually.
Minan... "I know I'm knocking on doors, but what's the point of knocking on every door like this?"
"There may be no one on the 11th floor." Xie Yun said, his eyes following the hammer in Yu Duoduo's hand without relaxing for a moment.
"Ah?" Tong Zi and Min Nan were both very surprised. Why?
Just then, Yu Duoduo knocked on the doors of the entire floor and walked towards them with a happy face.
"Everything has been moved out. Looks like we can use the 11th floor as a storage warehouse!"
"Duoduo, what's going on?" Tong Zi asked puzzled.
"Yesterday afternoon, I hammered the door locks of eight houses in front of everyone, and almost everyone on the 11th floor saw it.
I observed carefully yesterday. Among the remaining 12 households on the 11th floor, only 4 doors were always open, while the door handles of the other 8 were covered with dust.
This is an outward-opening door. To open it from the outside, you have to touch the handle. There is so much dust on it, it must have been touched by no one before the natural disaster.
It was inevitable that the eight households that were hammered would move out, but after seeing the scene of me hammering the door and the others moving out, there were only four households left on the entire floor.
Of course they would be afraid, afraid that one night I would suddenly break in with a hammer, so most likely the rest of the people would move away too, away from the 12th floor.”
Yu Duoduo explained.
"Duoduo, this door is broken, how can we use it?" Tong Zi asked.
“That’s easy. Since it’s just a warehouse, there’s no need to open the front door.
We sealed the exits on all four sides with reinforced concrete, and used it as our cellar on the 12th floor.
We can just dig a big hole in our corridor and build a new staircase inside the door to go up and down the 11th and 12th floors." Yu Duoduo replied.
Minan asked, "Do we have so many supplies to store that we need to go to the trouble of sealing up an entire floor?"
Yu Duoduo smiled wickedly, "You'll know when you see it!"
The four people went downstairs, and just as Yu Duoduo said, it was probably the residents who originally lived on the 11th floor who moved to the floors below.
Out of vigilance, the residents on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors followed suit and installed iron doors at the entrance of the stairs on each floor, adding an extra layer of protection and insurance.
It seems that the sealing of the 11th floor can proceed smoothly according to Yu Duoduo's plan!
The four people went down to the 5th floor and found that the water had already flooded the windows and rose to a height of about 2 meters.
The body of the middle-aged man whose head Yu Duoduo had chopped off earlier had almost completely decayed because no one had taken care of it. It was now floating on the water, and its appearance and smell were both disgusting...
Everyone unanimously decided to leave from the 6th floor and not get involved in this dirty water in order to avoid being infected by the disease.
As luck would have it, the stairs to the 6th floor had been blocked with cement mortar by Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun when they were dealing with the protection racketeers. So if they wanted to go through this floor, they had to break down the wall.
I have to say, today was a rough day for me!
There was no other way, Yu Duoduo ran back to the house to get the electric wall cutter. In fact, the machine was in her space, but she couldn't take it out in front of everyone!
It took a while to open the concrete and stainless steel door on the 6th floor. The harder I worked to fill it in the beginning, the harder it would be to cut it now!
The concrete wall on the sixth floor had just fallen down when a deathly stench immediately hit me. I was caught off guard...
It's the stench of a corpse, the smell of extreme decay!
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