Chapter 162 Chapter 162 Flood
"Why?"
Su Guizhi was puzzled: "Didn't you say the flood wouldn't reach the sixth floor?"
He Junxia shook his head. "This rain might not cause the flood to reach the sixth floor, but the next rain, or the next, no one can predict."
He Junxia didn't say it too directly, but with the appearance of the silver fish, he gradually confirmed his guess.
Sooner or later, the flood will submerge the sixth floor, the rooftop of this building.
"When the time comes, things get rushed and things can easily go wrong. Plus, my sister-in-law was already advanced in pregnancy, so traveling was even more dangerous and the situation was even more complicated."
Su Guizhi and Miao Yueze, who didn't quite understand at first, nodded in agreement after hearing his explanation.
"Xiaoxing is right. We must prepare in advance." Miao Yueze rubbed his face. "The rain just now made Lingyu nervous and uncomfortable. We still need to move to the safe house in advance."
Su Guizhi lowered her voice and said, "Okay, let's do as your brother says. But where is the safe house you guys built?"
He Junxia blinked: "Government Affairs Hall."
"What?" Su Guizhi couldn't understand her two sons' thoughts. "That place is too far. Isn't there a newly renovated apartment complex with an elevator that's still for sale next to Xingfu Supermarket?"
Miao Yueze said confidently, "It's better to be far away. If you're too close, there will be people everywhere, and it will be noisy and dangerous."
He Junxia added, "With today's shoddy construction standards, I'm afraid the newly built house will be washed away by the flood. The government hall is safer."
"That's right."
Su Guizhi was deeply moved: "The house your third aunt's family bought in City A was built by a developer who cut corners. Last month, they called me to say it was difficult to defend their rights. The family was afraid to live there, and over a million yuan had gone down the drain."
She then asked, "When are we moving out? Should we warn others?"
Miao Yueze put his arm around He Junxia's shoulders and said, "We're neighbors after all, so I'll definitely remind you if I can, but we won't tell you where we're moving to."
Su Guizhi understood.
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6 a.m.
The sky suddenly breaks and the clouds fly
The sun slowly rose from the eastern horizon, adding a touch of the intoxicating blush of a girl's shyness to the clouds, and the rain that had been falling all night finally dispersed reluctantly.
He Junxia stood up and walked to the balcony. The flood had completely engulfed the fourth floor. Ripples appeared in the water from time to time, and small silvery-white fish occasionally jumped out of the water.
"Dong Dong Dong"
Before he could even have breakfast, there was a knock on the door. He Junxia approached the peephole and saw it was Zhang Liqin.
He opened the door: "Brother Zhang, what's going on?"
Zhang Liqin whispered, "Let's talk inside."
He Junxia opened the door, Zhang Liqin quickly squeezed in, and closed the door to block out the prying eyes of the outside world.
"Yue Ze, Yue Xing, I couldn't sleep last night because I was thinking about it. This is the first time in my thirty years of life that I've seen fish fall from the sky."
Zhang Liqin's face turned pale. "I want to move there as soon as possible."
Even if fish didn't fall from the sky, the water had already reached the fourth floor, and the next to suffer would be the residents on the fifth floor.
He was so anxious!
"Have you told them about this?"
Zhang Liqin: "I didn't say it directly, but they definitely understood what I meant."
He Junxia lowered his eyes and thought for a moment: "That kind of fish is quite aggressive. A group of them together can cause quite a lot of damage."
"Let's observe for a day and then decide when to leave. Ask both families to pack their things."
After receiving He Junxia's reply, Zhang Liqin nodded, and his tense mood visibly relaxed a lot.
Although he was the team leader, He Junxia was the real boss of the group, and it was his suggestion to find a place as a safe house.
Although Miao Yuexing is young, his way of doing things is more mature than most adults, and he considers things more carefully, which makes people believe him.
"Then you are busy, I won't disturb you."
Wei Lingyu walked out of the room and only saw Zhang Liqin's back as he left.
After He Junxia closed the door, she told him what happened last night and what they were thinking.
"Sister-in-law, what do you think?"
Wei Lingyu was bewildered after hearing this. Fish were falling from the sky, and they were still biting fish.
She walked to the balcony and saw a group of silvery-white fish floating on the water surface, their scales shining brightly in the sunlight.
Wei Lingyu took a deep breath and said, "I'll do as you say. I'll do as you say."
"Sister-in-law, please sit down and don't be nervous. We will have salted duck egg porridge in the morning."
Wei Lingyu smiled wryly. She wasn't nervous or afraid; she was worried about the future of the baby in her belly.
Everything that had happened since the flood was beyond her imagination, as if an unprecedented world change was slowly unfolding at this moment.
It is even more terrifying than war.
Because it may not target a certain region or country, but the whole world, the world of all mankind.
As an ordinary person in this storm, all she can do is accept, face and adapt.
"Wife, it's time to eat."
Miao Yueze came out with a bowl of steaming porridge and placed it carefully on the table.
"It's a little hot, take your time eating."
Wei Lingyu looked at the silly smile on her husband's face and the steaming salted duck egg porridge, and her worries about the future and her children inexplicably lessened.
As long as the family works together, no matter how difficult the situation is, they will be able to overcome it.
*
"Aren't you going out today?"
After He Junxia finished breakfast and went out, she found that Zhou Zhengwen, who was supposed to lead the team, was still in the corridor.
Zhou Zhengwen shrugged. "There's something wrong with this rain and the fish in it. We discussed it and decided not to go out and wait and see what happens."
Anyway, the food they had accumulated in the early stage was enough to last for a long time, so they would not starve to death if they did not go out for a break.
He leaned in closer and whispered, "Why did Zhang Liqin go to your house so early in the morning?"
He Junxia: "He asked us if we wanted to go out and find food tomorrow. He was a little worried about the danger."
Zhou Zhengwen, judging others by his own experience, didn't doubt the truth of his words and agreed fully: "The first bird to stick its head out gets shot. There's more than just people from our building who will go out looking for food. Let's see how others react first."
But those who can survive to this day are not fools.
Either they are too timid to go out and rely on the food stored at home to survive, or they use tools to go out and find food like them.
Now there is suddenly a large group of aggressive and unfamiliar fish in the water. The timid former dare not go out, and the latter will not act rashly because of their previous accumulation.
A whole day passed
The water surface has become a forbidden area for humans and a paradise for silverfish. No matter where you stand, as long as you look down, you can see schools of silver fish swaying and swimming.
The number is frightening.
He Junxia casually caught dozens of small silver fish using noodles.
Strangely, this fish is not very aggressive in the water and did not react even when he put his finger into the bucket.
But once out of the water, they will attack everything they can touch, whether living or dead.
He Junxia decided to do a little experiment. He used a colander at home to scoop out 20 small fish, dropped them on the floor, and started counting.
The number of these fish is frighteningly large, and their vitality is surprisingly tenacious.
After leaving the water, the average time for the silverfish to survive was 20 minutes, the median was 45 minutes, the longest survival time was 53 minutes, and the shortest survival time was 12 minutes.
Normally, small fish less than ten centimeters in length will not survive for more than ten minutes after coming ashore.
He Junxia threw the dead silverfish out of the window.
Although there is still a guess that has not been confirmed, he can't let himself be a guinea pig. What if the silverfish is poisonous, he will be dead.
He Junxia glanced down. After the sun went down, the silverfish became active again, jumping out of the water from time to time.
He took out his observation record sheet and found that the silverfish were most active before nine in the morning and after five or six in the evening, and the same school of fish would surface every three minutes.
During the period of sunlight, especially at one or two o'clock when the sun is the hottest, the silver fish rarely come out to move around.
Is it because of the light?
He Junxia divided the silver fish in the bucket into two parts, one part was placed in the shade, and the other part was directly illuminated by the flashlight.
Then, he threw a ball of softened noodles into a basin and a bucket to test the vitality of the silverfish.
But surprisingly, there was no significant difference in the performance of the silverfish in the basins and buckets with and without lights.
So the problem is the sunlight?
He Junxia subconsciously looked up at the sky. It was completely dark, the moon was blocked by the clouds, and only the twinkling stars were left.
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