Chapter 28 Lou Yuncheng
wrong!
Shu Fu quickly denied his previous thought. Tornadoes usually occur on land. Now this area is completely submerged in water, and the water is so deep. Strictly speaking, it is no different from rivers, lakes, and seas.
What's more, looking at the clouds and whirlwinds in the distance, it seems that an eye is forming, more like a hurricane, a storm that forms at sea.
But this kind of storm usually forms in tropical waters, so how could it appear here?
In the main storyline she set, there was indeed mention of disasters like typhoons. A doomsday-level typhoon was definitely not comparable to an ordinary typhoon, but this type of storm should have occurred in the coastal areas of Hua State. Why was it coming again?
At least in the two months that she lived alone in Suicheng waters, she had never encountered such a hurricane.
While Shu Fu was thinking, he quickly packed up the items in the room, folded them up and put them into the space.
Whether it's a tornado, a hurricane or a typhoon, it's not a good sign.
Although the elevator test tower she was in was sturdy, it could only withstand heavy rain and hail. She had no confidence that it would remain intact when a super storm like a hurricane covered a huge area and had wind speeds of at least level 12 near the center.
In less than half a minute, she had put all the things in the room into the space. She took out her cell phone and looked at it. It was six fifty in the morning, and there were still five hours before she originally planned to use the raft. But she couldn't care less now. Escaping was the most important thing.
She didn't even have time to put on her old cotton-padded jacket again. She quickly opened the door of the emergency staircase, ran down with a flashlight in hand, took out a raincoat from the space, put it on in a few seconds, and then came to the floor where the window was broken.
Although the water did not flood this floor overnight, because the windows were broken, wind and rain poured in all night, and the entire stairwell was wet.
She quickly released the raft, climbed out of the window carefully against the increasingly strong wind, and landed on the raft little by little.
The sky outside was getting brighter, and the thick clouds and surging waves in the distance were gradually spreading and moving.
The whole world was filled with violent storms. Dazzling lightning rolled like silver snakes among the gray clouds. Wave after wave of huge waves came crashing down, hitting the raft and splashing water more than one meter high.
The cold rain poured down on her head, and even her raincoat could not completely cover her. In the short time from climbing up the window to entering the safe area under the eaves of the wooden house, the strong wind blew off her rain hat, and the heavy rain rushed in through the collar of her raincoat.
When Shu Fu stood firm by holding the roof pillar, her hair was wet and stuck to her cheeks, her home clothes under the raincoat were all soaked, and she was a little dazed by the rain.
She took off her raincoat and hung it under the eaves, then took out a large bath towel and wrapped herself in it, then walked into the cabin barefoot, quickly started the raft, and then set the second transfer point in the original plan as the destination.
A hurricane was approaching. Although it was impossible to encounter other ships in the nearby waters, she remembered that the sturdiness of the raft was different from that of the drifting island house. It was only primary. She didn't know the strength of the primary defense. After thinking about it, she decided to open the drift bottle protective shield.
After the protective shield was opened, the roaring sound of wind and rain outside was reduced by half in volume. The raft was completely unaffected by the waves and automatically began to drift along a new route.
Shu Fu thought about it and took out the electric card equipment. She had to take a hot shower to get rid of the dampness and coldness in her body, otherwise she would easily catch a cold.
Although she had stockpiled a lot of medicine, she wanted to avoid getting sick if possible, especially since it was still a mission phase.
She thought that she would have to cook some more ginger soup later.
Before entering the bathroom, she opened the back door of the cabin to take a look. At the end of the water area at the back, the waves were as high as buildings, dark clouds were looming, lightning and thunder were flashing, and several swirling water columns were rushing straight into the sky. The terrifying scene was far worse than any disaster movie she had ever seen before.
If there were no drifting island house and protective cover, such hurricanes and waves would be enough to destroy all the ships and cruise ships in this area...
Shu Fu let out a long breath, and after confirming that the protective shield of the drift bottle still had plenty of time left, he closed the door and went into the bathroom.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Shu Fu, who had caught up on more than two hours of sleep, re-checked the map and reset the destination. The transfer point set in the morning was only eight hours away from the elevator test tower. The original plan was to depart at 12 noon and arrive at the dock before late at night.
But now the departure time has been brought forward to seven in the morning, so even if she drifts for 11 hours in a row, it will only be six in the evening. She doesn't want to waste today's raft usage time, nor does she want to go ashore to rest too early. Subconsciously, she wants to get as far away from the storm area as possible.
At 5:45 in the afternoon, she docked at the northern suburbs of Shanyang City. This was already the border area of Sankou Province. Continuing westward, she would reach Muzhou Province where Louyun City was located.
Most of the journey has been completed. For the remaining distance, she measured the building at the end of the waterway map as the destination and found that there were 11 hours left, which means there was still one day left.
The building she chose to land on was a large shopping mall in the suburbs. Although it was far from the city, it was well built because it was close to the elevated road. There were small high-rise buildings and commercial buildings nearby, many of which were about 30 stories high, leaving her with a wide range of choices.
She had chosen this place specifically. When she arrived here today, the raft only had more than an hour of use left, so there was not much room for her to change places. There were more buildings above the water around, so she would not capsize when choosing a building on shore.
She still chose a sturdy building with a simple internal structure among the many buildings. She had no plan to spend the night here. After witnessing the storm this morning, she couldn't fall asleep anywhere other than the Drifting Island House. She just wanted to find a safe floor to stay on and spend the rest of the day.
Fortunately, probably because the raft drifted for a full eleven hours today and was far enough away from the hurricane zone, everything was safe until midnight.
After midnight, the raft usage time was refreshed. She boarded the raft again, set the final destination, and turned on the drift bottle protective cover. She found that the first drift bottle card only had 5 and a half hours of usage time left. In order to have a good rest, she used another brand new drift bottle card.
After that, she simply cleaned and washed, changed into home clothes, and went to sleep peacefully.
It was not even seven in the morning, and she woke up automatically before the alarm went off.
She noticed something strange outside and opened the door of the cabin in her slippers without even having time to brush her teeth.
She walked out of the eaves, and the bright morning light gently fell on her through the invisible protective shield. She looked up and saw the light blue sky that she had not seen for a long time.
The blue was very light, and there were still many clouds in the sky, but the rain had stopped.
This was the fourth time she saw a sky without rain since it started raining in Suicheng.
This light blue sky with pale golden morning light is really very beautiful.
Although the weather outside had improved temporarily, Shu Fu did not dare to close the protective cover of the drift bottle. In the short half hour from when she woke up in the morning to when she had breakfast, two helicopters had already flown over her head.
One goes from south to north and the other from west to east.
Moreover, this is already the Muzhou Province. The terrain of this province is completely different from that of Sankou Province. Many places in the suburbs are hilly. The waterways bypass these hills and pass through the area with the lowest altitude. However, in the waters near the hills, one or two ships can occasionally be seen.
There are speedboats with rain shelters and rubber boats with hanging motors, operating near the hills.
Shu Fu took out a telescope and looked for a moment, and soon realized that the hilly area here was at a higher altitude, and the part exposed above the water had safer land, and there were also some buildings similar to homestays on it.
Large areas of land in the southeastern region of Hua State were flooded, and countless people moved westward, which inevitably squeezed the living space of inland cities.
These B&Bs located on the hills usually have their own water and electricity equipment, are equipped with planting and breeding areas, and have basements for storing supplies. As long as there are sufficient supplies and the B&Bs are reinforced, the storm will have little impact on them, and the accommodation conditions are likely to be better than those in the city.
Of course, because there is a body of water under the hills and logistics are blocked, there will be a shortage of supplies over time, so taking refuge in these places has both advantages and disadvantages.
Under the eaves, Shu Fu looked around for a while and then continued to eat breakfast with his head down.
On the camping table, there was a bowl of wontons soaked in bone broth sprinkled with green onions, a basket of thumb-sized dumplings, a poached egg, and a serving of cold cucumber salad.
The raft will arrive at the end of the waterway around 11 a.m. Based on her previous experience with the library check-in task, she may have to eat biscuits and instant noodles for a while. This is her last bit of free time in the near future, so she still has to have a good breakfast.
She was not idle either. While eating, she compared the waterway map with the electronic map on the tablet, planning how to reach the shelter in a safe and low-key manner.
At this moment, the mobile phone placed aside suddenly emitted a series of text message alert sounds. The sound was like the sound when the mobile phone was turned on after just getting off the plane.
There was a series of text messages, all of which were messages she received while her phone was turned off, as well as warm reminders from the communication company and weather forecast when she arrived in the new city.
This mobile phone and the mobile number inside it were newly purchased, and the phone bill was sufficient after the application. After she removed the SIM card in the original phone, she has been using this phone to surf the Internet and receive messages from the outside world, and occasionally log in to WeChat.
No one knew this phone number, and she had been in Suicheng before the signal was completely disconnected, so she had never received so many text messages at the same time. After the communication in Suicheng was disconnected, the phone became completely silent.
Now the text message alert sounds come one after another. Does it mean that she has entered an area with signal?
She quickly unlocked the screen to check, and sure enough, it was full of the latest news from telecommunications companies and weather forecasts.
Among them, the news from the communications company is particularly eye-catching.
【Welcome to Guanyu County, Muzhou Province! To know the disaster information in advance, please log in to XXXXXXX (click to jump to the webpage) to check and pay attention to nearby disaster news! 】
[Emergency Notice! Guanyu County has reached the warning water level. People who have not yet evacuated are requested to enter the dam safety area as soon as possible! ]
[Dear customers of Huaguo XX Telecommunications Company, welcome to Muzhou Province. You can call the province's exclusive helpline 1888808, and we are online 24 hours a day to find people and rescue people! Natural disasters are ruthless, but people are kind. I wish you can reach a safe city and reunite with your family as soon as possible! ]
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Shu Fu: ...
Sure enough, it keeps pace with the times.
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With the Internet, it is like returning to civilized society from the isolated mountains and wilderness.
Shu Fu spent more than half an hour browsing various websites, downloaded several new disaster information apps, and collected several disaster information websites of Muzhou Province. She quickly searched and extracted the information she missed and needed from a large amount of news information.
By comparing the waterway map with the normal electronic map, two methods of checking in at the Louyuncheng shelter were developed.
First of all, the so-called shelter is actually a refuge, but in Louyun City - or in other words, in all the safe cities at higher altitudes in the inland that are not affected by floods, whether it is a spontaneous refuge by the people or a refuge established by the government, it is called a shelter by the people here.
The shelters house refugees - those who have fled from other cities, drastically squeezing the original living space of the people, taking away their daily necessities, causing soaring prices, urban congestion, and a sharp increase in crime rates.
For the people in these safe cities, based on normal kindness and sympathy, they can accept their existence for a day, two days... or even a week.
But after more than two months, when they found that it was impossible for these asylum seekers to leave their city, they became disgusting refugees.
The same was true in Louyun City. Heavy rain and occasional hail and thunderstorms hindered traffic, flights were grounded for a long time, trains and buses were restricted, and tickets were hard to come by.
Many people want to leave, but there is no way to leave.
The influx of large numbers of refugees has caused prices to soar, the currency to depreciate in disguise, the era of limited use of domestic water and purchase of drinking water has arrived, and people's quality of life has plummeted.
Large supermarkets and large farmers' markets have a full range of fresh produce, but are all under unified supervision, with unified control of procurement channels, the cancellation of private stalls, and comprehensive purchase restrictions.
There is no purchase limit in small private supermarkets, bazaars and markets, but the quality cannot be guaranteed, prices vary, and supplies are not complete.
Especially for fresh food, because of the full-process control and the blocked supply, the variety of goods in these places is very single, and most of the time, the trading situation is barter.
Unlike large supermarkets under official supervision, these places do not have enough staff to maintain law and order. Chaos often occurs, some people are deceived, some are robbed and beaten...
You might be lucky if you buy expired and spoiled food at a high price, but if you are unlucky, you might buy contaminated food from a flood area.
However, Louyun City authorities have very strict supervision over contaminated food in such flooded areas. Once discovered and successfully reported, not only a single stall, but the entire market or supermarket may be directly sealed off.
Therefore, anyone who still wants to live a good life in Louyun City - especially the locals of Louyun City - dare not touch this line at all.
There are many refugee shelters in the southeast and northeast areas of the suburbs of Louyun City, so this area is particularly chaotic. The people who originally lived here and were able to move have already moved to other areas to settle in new homes. A small number of people who cannot move are forced to live together with the refugees, and there are constant complaints and conflicts, and fights may break out at any time.
However, these shelters were not the target of Shu Fu's mission because they were all outside the water area and quite far from the waterway. Most importantly, there was a dam between her and these shelters.
This was the second important information she obtained—the water-blocking dam!
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