Chapter 21: Set off to find something useful
"thump!"
The sound of the water entering the water did not cause any waves amid the noise of people.
After six days of torrential rain, the floodwaters had submerged the windowsills on the first floor, and people could swim directly in them.
Meng Ci carried an oxygen tank and wore swimming goggles, so he didn't need to surface to breathe, so there was no possibility of being discovered.
Meng Ci memorized the route out of the community, so he didn't have to worry about getting lost.
The sounds of people's arguments were drowned out by the heavy rain, becoming smaller and smaller in Meng Ci's ears, until gradually only the sound of rushing water remained.
After leaving the community, Meng Ci took out a rubber boat from the space, then put on a safety helmet, and paddled all the way in the direction he had checked.
Along the way, all kinds of wood, clothes, shoes were floating on the water...
Sometimes, the water surface was blocked by fallen trees, and Meng Ci had to take a detour.
After paddling for half an hour and waiting until there were fewer people around, Meng Ci entered the space and changed to a speedboat.
The rain hit the helmet, making a thumping sound.
Meng Ci narrowed his eyes, trying to determine the direction.
By the way, I sighed in my heart that it was a good thing that I was smart enough to wear a safety helmet, otherwise it would have been so painful if the raindrops hit my head.
The further they walked towards the suburbs, the fewer floating objects there were on the road, so Meng Ci walked very fast.
It took the speedboat nearly an hour to reach the entrance of the industrial park where the gas tank factory was located.
In order to prevent people from entering the park, Meng Ci put away the speedboat and put a lifebuoy around his waist so that he wouldn't have to spend too much effort swimming.
At the gate of the park, they still stubbornly stood guard.
Meng Ci originally wanted to climb up by grabbing the door, but after searching for a long time and failing to find a suitable place to step, Meng Ci had to give up.
Then he turned his attention to the guard room nearby.
Fortunately, the window of the guard room was opened a crack, and the rain had now flowed in through the gap.
Meng Ci pushed the window open with all his strength and jumped in with a plop.
The furniture in the house had been submerged in water and its original appearance could not be recognized.
The security door was closed tightly, and Meng Ci couldn't exert much strength in the water, so the door couldn't be opened.
Gradually, Meng Ci lost his patience and took out an electric saw from the space.
Without caring whether the noise would disturb the people trapped in the park, Meng Ci directly opened a hole in the security door and then crawled out.
The sound of the chainsaw did not attract the attention of others, presumably because there was no one in the park, so Meng Ci took out his kayak and continued paddling forward.
The kayak is slow, so Meng Ci can observe what factories are here.
Automobile manufacturing plants, chemical plants, garment processing plants...
This industrial park is very large and contains all kinds of industries.
In the heavy rain, Meng Ci couldn't see the name of the factory, but he vaguely remembered the locations of several special factories in his mind.
So I thought that after I collected the gas tank, if time permitted, I could try my luck and see if I could get anything good.
When they arrived at their destination, the gate of the gas tank factory had been damaged by the flood, so Meng Ci paddled straight in in his kayak.
The factory door requires an access card to open. Even though there is a power outage, it still cannot be opened.
Meng Ci walked to the nearby window, took out a glass suction cup from the space, and fixed it firmly on the glass.
Meng Ci grabbed the suction cup with one hand to prevent himself from being washed away by the flood, and took out a glass cutter from the space with the other hand and cut a hole in the glass.
"Bang."
The glass fell to the factory floor, making a shattering sound.
The factory is well sealed and not much water got into it.
The rope of the rubber boat was tied to the glass suction cup. Meng Ci crawled into the hole and stepped on a machine.
After putting the rubber boat and the glass suction cup into the space, Meng Ci jumped down.
After putting away his helmet, Meng Ci put a mining lamp on his head instead.
The factory was clearly divided into sections, so Meng Ci easily found the place where the gas tanks were stored.
Gas tanks of various weights were neatly arranged into categories. Meng Ci didn't hesitate to put them all into the space.
After walking around inside, Meng Ci also found thousands of portable gas tanks and many gas stoves, which he put all into the space.
Only after making sure that nothing was missed did Meng Ci leave the gas tank factory.
It was still early, and Meng Ci thought about whether there were any factories here where he could find useful items.
There is a seed factory not far from the entrance, and there happens to be a lot of open space in the space. Although I don’t know if I can grow vegetables there, I can give it a try.
There is a car manufacturing plant on the east side, where you can get some auto parts, in case the car in the space has an accident and there are no parts to repair it.
Of course, if we can collect some more vehicles, the trip will be worthwhile.
There seemed to be a pharmaceutical factory there. Meng Ci entered the space and studied the route for a long time before he found the place.
Various medicines, vaccines, and even raw materials such as Chinese herbal medicines.
Meng Ci didn't hesitate and packed all the incubators and low-temperature boxes into the space.
Because Meng Ci hadn't met anyone in several places in a row, he thought that the industrial park was empty, so he acted without any scruples.
"Bang!"
Without seeing the road clearly, Meng Ci's shoulder hit a shelf, moving it a few centimeters.
Meng Ci hugged his shoulders, grimacing in pain.
"Who's there?"
Meng Ci, who was rubbing his shoulders, suddenly heard a man's voice and quickly hid behind a shelf where medicines were placed.
Meng Ci thought that if someone walked towards him, he would go straight into the space.
The reason why I don’t go in now is to see what the situation is.
The footsteps echoed in the confined space, and a light slowly lit up in the darkness.
"Who, who's here?"
The man walked back and forth in the room, and soon he found that all the Chinese herbs had disappeared.
"Medicine, where's the medicine?"
"Where's my medicine?"
The man's voice gradually turned tearful as he collapsed.
Meng Ci finally understood from the man's unclear mumbling that the reason why he didn't starve to death or risk going out for food was because he had been eating herbs such as ginseng, wolfberry, and houttuynia cordata.
"Thief, come out here!"
"come out!"
The man's spirit had long since collapsed.
In the past few days, several of his colleagues were washed away by the flood one after another because they could not bear the hunger or did not want to take Chinese herbal medicine anymore and went out to find food. Now they are unknown whether they are alive or dead.
The man was alone in this huge factory, and all he could hear every day was the sound of his own footsteps. Even his cell phone, the only way to contact the outside world, had run out of battery and automatically turned off.
No one talked, the food was abnormal, and every day the man imagined that the door would be washed away by a flood, killing him.
Now that the only surviving herb has been stolen, how can the man not collapse?
Hearing the footsteps getting closer and closer, Meng Ci flashed into the space.
I found a bowl of shredded potato rice, opened a bag of spicy noodles, and made a cup of milk tea to replenish my energy.
Then he set an alarm, lay on the bed, relaxed his body and mind, and planned to take a rest and recover his strength.
An hour later, Meng Ci turned off the alarm clock and left the space.
There was no male voice in the room. Meng Ci did not dare to go back the same way. He could only find a piece of glass nearby, cut it with a glass cutter, and crawl out.
However, when leaving, Meng Ci took the cut piece of glass into the factory, then dived into the water and swam out of the park.
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