Chapter 3 0 Yuan Shopping Supermarket
After a day and a night of rescue, most of the people trapped outside have been sent back home by the rescue team.
Some people living on the lower floors have also moved to higher floors to stay in other people's homes or relatives' homes under the mediation of the local neighborhood committee.
The rescue team launched a new round of rescue: distributing supplies.
Some people are used to hoarding food at home, but others never cook at home.
Now I am trapped at home by the flood, with no food or water, and can only wait for the rescue team to bring food.
In the morning, someone sent a message to the property group, saying that he had received internal information that the rescue team would deliver instant noodles at noon today.
Everyone in the group was cheering and praising the rescue team for being reliable, knowing that they were short of food.
Xia Xiaoman has known one thing since childhood: you cannot pin your hopes on others.
Natural disasters occurred all over the country, and although the Xia Kingdom had complete supply reserves, it could not withstand the calls for help from all sides.
Moreover, the flood-affected area of the floating city was too large, and almost the entire floating city was submerged by the flood. The number of rescue troops was limited. They had to rescue people from the flood and find a way to relocate the tenants on the lower floors. It was unknown how long it would take for the army to send relief supplies.
Rather than sit at home and wait for rescue, she would rather go out and look for supplies herself.
There is a medium-sized supermarket diagonally opposite the community. The supermarket is on the second floor, and the supplies inside should not have been washed away by the water.
The rain continued to rain heavily, and the raindrops as big as beans poured down, hitting people and causing pain.
Xia Xiaoman, wearing thin clothes, took a deep breath and jumped into the water. The cold water wrapped around her whole body, and Xia Xiaoman couldn't help shivering.
The continuous heavy rain blocked her vision. Driven by the flood, floating objects in the water hit her body again and again.
Xia Xiaoman gritted his teeth, carefully avoided floating objects, and swam with all his strength towards the supermarket with the help of street lights and walls exposed above the water.
It took Xia Xiaoman about half an hour to finally arrive at the supermarket.
The water in the supermarket rose to her knees. According to the current rainfall, if the rain does not stop tonight, the supermarket may be completely submerged.
Instead of having the things in the supermarket being submerged, it would be better to put them all into her space so that they will not be washed away by water and wasted.
The supermarket's rolling door was locked. Xia Xiaoman looked around and found that there was no electricity and the red dot on the camera was off. She found a fire axe and chopped the lock on the ground dozens of times before it broke.
As soon as she entered the door, there was a small mountain of milk drinks and gift boxes. Xia Xiaoman waved her hand and put all these things into the space, even some of the things on the ground that were soaked by the flood. She would open them when she got back to see if they were still drinkable.
She collected hot pot meatballs, shrimp balls, squid, chicken wings, beef, sea fish, frozen glutinous rice balls, bread, steamed buns...
On the shelves are egg noodles, dried noodles, spinach noodles, sweet potato vermicelli, buckwheat noodles, big bowl noodles, bamboo noodles, alkaline noodles...
Bags of vacuum-packed white rice, glutinous rice, flour, glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, starch, and rice starch...
There were also various condiments and snacks, and Xia Xiaoman cleared out all the shelves.
Daily necessities were placed relatively far back, so Xia Xiaoman put all the sanitary napkins and paper towels on the shelves into that space, as well as other daily necessities such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, laundry detergent, shower gel, shampoo, etc.
This supermarket also sells some underwear and clothes, as well as quilts and blankets.
Xia Xiaoman collected them all, keeping those that were suitable for her own use, and those that were not suitable could be sold at a stall later.
She had no psychological burden at all about emptying the supermarket.
She had only been in the supermarket for over an hour, and the water level had already risen to her waist. If she didn't empty the supermarket, would it be left soaking in water?
After looting the supermarket, Xia Xiaoman dived to the first floor to look for a pharmacy.
She remembered that there was a pharmacy at the entrance of the first floor, but she didn't know whether the medicine inside had been washed away by the water.
There were swimming caps and goggles in the supermarket, and she wore them and dived into the water. The door of the pharmacy was a glass door, which had been washed open by the flood.
Xia Xiaoman swam into the pharmacy, which was already in a mess, but she found a small door in the pharmacy that was tightly closed, and guessed that it must be a warehouse.
She swam out of the water to catch her breath, then dived back in and forced the door open with a fire axe.
After changing air seven or eight times, Xia Xiaoman finally broke the door open.
Just as she thought, there was indeed a warehouse inside, filled with boxes of medicine.
Xia Xiaoman didn't have time to see what kind of medicine these were. He put them all into the space, planning to count them slowly when he got home.
The medicines and daily necessities have been obtained, and the only thing left to be solved is how to start a fire in the event of a gas outage.
Their community got gas two years ago, and the owner of a gas cylinder shop felt that business was not good, so he closed his stall.
There is no store selling gas cylinders within a ten-mile radius, and Xia Xiaoman has no idea how to solve this problem for the time being.
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When we got back to the community, it was already past eleven o'clock.
In order to conceal his whereabouts, Xia Xiaoman picked up two large branches on the way back and dragged them home, pretending that he went out to find something to make a fire.
Xia Xiaoman lives in Room 701. She used to complain that the house was too high, there was no elevator, and she had to climb the stairs every day.
Now I feel fortunate that I live in a high place.
I was dragging two heavy pieces of wood up the stairs. When I passed the sixth floor, the door of Room 603 opened and a girl in overalls came out.
"Xia Xiaoman, why are you carrying two pieces of wood up here?"
Xia Xiaoman looked up and saw that it was her classmate Qin Yali.
This community is not far from their school, and the rent is not expensive. Many students from the school rent houses here. Qin Yali and her boyfriend live in 603.
"The gas at home is used up. Pick up two pieces of wood and go back to make a fire."
"Ah?" Qin Yali scratched her head. "You were lighting a fire in your room. Aren't you afraid that the landlord will find out and ask you to pay?"
"There's nothing we can do during this special period. We just have to keep the landlord from finding out."
Suddenly, there was a burst of laughter from room 603, and Xia Xiaoman subconsciously looked behind Qin Yali.
Qin Yali smiled awkwardly, "My boyfriend's friend's house was flooded, so he moved to our house temporarily."
Xia Xiaoman didn't say anything, just nodded to show that he understood, and dragged the branch home.
When I got to the door of my house and just took out the key, the man with glasses from 702 next door opened the door and stuck his head out to take a look.
"I thought it was the rescue team."
Muttering something, the man with glasses stared at Xia Xiaoman from head to toe, his obscene gaze lingering on her slender waist.
"Beauty, do you live alone?"
Xia Xiaoman didn't respond. She opened the door on her own and dragged the branch into the room.
"Beauty, let me help you. It will be easier for both of you."
The man with glasses ran up eagerly, grabbed the end of the branch and lifted it up, wanting to go into Xia Xiaoman's room.
Xia Xiaoman did not stop him. After the branches were moved into the room, she turned around and did a roundhouse kick, kicking the man with glasses in the chest.
The man with glasses was caught off guard and fell to the ground. He held his chest and couldn't breathe for a long time.
"You, cough cough, are you fucking sick? I was kind enough to help you move the branches, but you actually hit me!" The man with glasses was so angry that he vomited blood.
Xia Xiaoman snorted coldly, "Get away from me! If you do it again, I will kill you!"
"Damn it, who do you think you are? Just tell me to get out of here and I'll do it!" The man with glasses stood up, picked up a branch beside him and wanted to hit Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman clenched his fist, punched him in the face, then grabbed his hair and slammed him to the ground four or five times.
"You scumbag, you only think with your lower body! Do you really think I don't know why you came into my house? You rubbish!"
After hitting the man with glasses until his head was bleeding, Xia Xiaoman kicked him out with a look of disgust.
After locking the door, Xia Xiaoman mopped the blood stains on the floor and prepared to go to the bathroom to take a shower, but found that the water supply in the community had been cut off.
She sighed, took a shower with the water she had stored yesterday, changed into dry clothes, and curled up on the sofa with her eyes closed, counting the spoils in the space.
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