Chapter 10 Underwater Salvage
When one side is in trouble, all sides will come to its aid.
But now that everyone is in trouble, we can only ask places closer to the coastal areas to try to allocate manpower to help.
Fucheng temporarily dispatched 50,000 people to the coastal areas, resulting in a shortage of manpower to distribute relief supplies.
The food at home was exhausted and the rescue team was slow to arrive. Many people could not stay at home anymore and tried their best to make a tool that could allow them to move on water.
Some people dismantled their wardrobes to make rafts, some wrapped buckets with tape, and some even brought out their own inflatable swimming pools...
I walked to the balcony and looked down, and saw people going out in the heavy rain to look for food.
Bang, bang, bang——
There was a regular knock on the door.
"Xiao Man, it's me."
Hearing Sun Qing's voice, Xia Xiaoman looked through the peephole as usual before opening the door.
"Up so early? Where are those thieves?"
Sun Qing shook her head. "I don't know. They must have been rescued by their accomplices."
She beat them up last night and tied them up in the corridor, and she left them alone. When she woke up in the morning, there were only a few ropes on the ground.
"Will you come out with us later?"
"Where are you going?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
"Let's go to the supermarket across from the community. We have diving equipment and can dive down to retrieve the supplies."
Xia Xiaoman held her forehead with her hand, wondering why she was so persistent in going to the supermarket across the street?
"I just saw a lot of people in the community go out. They may also go to the supermarket opposite the community. I suggest going to a place with fewer people, which will be safer."
Sun Qing thought for two seconds, "Then let's go to the department store on the opposite street! It's farther away than the supermarket across the community, so there shouldn't be many people there."
"There are residents living above the supermarket on the street. They may not allow us to salvage the goods."
Xia Xiaoman thought for a moment and said, "You go back first! I'll pack up and come to discuss it with you later."
Sun Qing nodded. There was a wretched man living in room 702 next door, and it was indeed inconvenient to discuss where to salvage supplies at the door.
Xia Xiaoman washed up, ate two pieces of bread, changed into sportswear and went out.
Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie have already invited Zhou Qiuyang over, and the three of them are sitting around an iPad looking at a map of the area.
"Xiaoman, come quickly." Sun Qing waved at Xia Xiaoman, "We just did some research and found that we can go to Wanhui Plaza."
"There is a supermarket on the underground first floor of the Wanhui Plaza mall, and there are many restaurants on the second floor and above."
"According to national regulations, restaurants with a building area of more than 300 square meters or more than 150 seats are not allowed to install natural gas. In other words, these restaurants may have gas cylinders."
Xia Xiaoman raised her eyebrows, "How do you know all this?"
Sun Qing smiled proudly and said, "My family runs a restaurant, of course I know."
Wanhui Plaza has a gas tank and a supermarket, and is not too far from the community. It usually takes more than ten minutes to drive there or more than forty minutes to walk there.
Moreover, there are shops all around Wanhui Plaza and no residents, so there is no need to worry about being seen salvaging supplies from the mall.
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This time, it was still Xia Xiaoman, Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie who went out together.
Yesterday they offended everyone in the building. Before leaving, they moved all the important things in their home to Zhou Qiuyang's house.
At least that's the case on the surface. Only they themselves know where the important things are hidden.
After all, they were not very familiar with Zhou Qiuyang, so it was impossible for them to hand over important supplies to Zhou Qiuyang for safekeeping.
There must have been many people who did not receive relief supplies yesterday. On the way to Wanhui Plaza, Xia Xiaoman and her friends saw many people riding various water tools to salvage supplies.
Xia Xiaoman and two other people squeezed into a double kayak, and paddled quickly to Wanhui Plaza, facing the envy and jealousy from all directions.
After rowing all day yesterday, the three of them felt sore in their arms and their blisters on their palms were broken. But they didn't cry out in pain, nor did they stop, but gritted their teeth and rowed hard.
After arriving at Wanhui Plaza, several people rowed around the mall, looking for a breakthrough.
Suddenly, Ye Xiaojie pointed to a place and said, "Aqing, there's a hole in the window over there."
"Let's go and take a look." Sun Qing rowed the oar in her hand and soon reached the cave entrance.
Xia Xiaoman glanced at the edge of the hole and said, "This is a man-made hole. There may be other people inside. We must be careful when we go in later."
Behind the floor-to-ceiling windows is a clothing store selling cheongsams.
Cheongsams embroidered with exquisite patterns were hung on the wall, but Xia Xiaoman and her friends ignored them and pushed their kayaks directly into the mall.
As soon as I walked in, I saw two men guarding a pile of supplies.
The two men stared at Xia Xiaoman and the others warily. Xia Xiaoman glanced at them and pointed to the place farthest from the two men, "Let's go over there! You two stay in the corridor and I'll dive down."
Sun Qing nodded in agreement. She and Ye Xiaojie were both average swimmers, so Xia Xiaoman was relatively the most suitable person to go into the water.
Xia Xiaoman put on the diving equipment, adjusted it a few times, and only jumped into the water after he knew how to use it.
The two men in the distance saw Xia Xiaoman wearing diving equipment, and a hint of greed appeared in their eyes.
Their supplies were brought down by their companions from floors that were not flooded. If they had diving equipment, they could also collect the supplies that were flooded downstairs.
Sun Qing looked at the two men whispering to each other and said softly, "Xiao Jie, if someone comes to steal the supplies, jump into the water if you can't defeat them. We have diving equipment, so we can escape by diving. Don't lose your life for a few supplies."
Ye Xiaojie hummed and clenched the hiking stick in her hand.
On the other side, Xia Xiaoman dived into the water and turned on the waterproof searchlight.
This supermarket is on the underground first floor. The backflow of flood directly destroyed most of the shops on the first floor, and the supermarket was not spared.
Fortunately, there are walls on all sides, so most of the things in the underground floor are left in place, but it is a bit messy, and it takes some time to find supplies.
It had been discussed before they came that they were short-handed and couldn't take too many things, so they only took some necessities.
Salt, sugar, food, medicine, sanitary napkins and gas cylinders. Take anything else you can, otherwise forget it.
Xia Xiaoman originally thought that these things were hard to find. She swam to the supermarket and found that many vacuum-packed and lightweight items were floating on the ceiling.
She put these things into the space bit by bit. When she had put half of them away, she saw a large area of well-packaged sanitary napkins and tampons.
Xia Xiaoman took out an oversized garbage bag, poked a few holes in the bottom of the bag, and then threw all the sanitary napkins and tampons into the garbage bag.
After filling two large bags, Xia Xiaoman stopped and threw the two bags of sanitary products into the space, intending to take them out when he swam up.
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