Chapter 46 Lou Yuncheng
At night, Shu Fu, wearing a raincoat, came out of a four-story building, walked around the wall, and walked towards the woods along the path behind the building as if she was familiar with the place.
She turned on a small flashlight, walked through the dimly lit woods, and arrived at the guesthouse on the other side of the woods.
This is a half-destroyed B&B. Probably because the building was originally intended to create a feeling of being close to nature, most of the B&B's buildings are made of wood. After several heavy rains, hail and strong winds, most of the wooden buildings were damaged.
The reason why the indoor swimming pool of the homestay has been preserved is that the building uses traditional reinforced concrete structure and tempered glass.
This indoor swimming pool is on the first floor. The door facing outwards is damaged and one can enter directly from here. Due to heavy rains and several hurricanes, the base of the wall is covered with all kinds of broken branches and leaves.
There were also branches and leaves blown in by the wind on the ground inside the wall, but the situation seemed much better than outside the wall, because the size and depth of the swimming pool were just right. When the people from the family building first moved in, some of them also thought of practicing swimming.
Precisely because some people are going to use this swimming pool, before each practice, people who come here will bring a scoop net and a broom to clean the swimming pool water and the surrounding ground.
The swimming pool has its own filter machine, and the B&B also has a backup generator, but you need to turn on the power yourself before each use before you can turn on the filter machine.
But now it rains every day and everywhere is wet. Sometimes when it rains heavily, the rain water outside splashes in and floods into the swimming pool. Those who come here to practice jokingly say that this is also changing the water in the swimming pool.
So they just pick up the dead branches and leaves floating on the water and then go swimming directly.
It's just swimming practice, not bathing. In the middle of winter, everyone wears thick one-piece long-sleeved swimsuits, goggles, nose clips, swimming caps and earplugs. The protective measures are taken and the water quality is not that demanding.
Anyway, you can go swimming on time, and when you're done, just go back to the family building and take a quick shower. Nowadays, domestic water comes with disinfectant, so you don't have to worry about not washing it clean.
However, this was also what happened when the rescue team and family members first arrived. As time passed, everyone had practiced what they needed to practice, and now there are basically no people coming to this swimming pool.
All these situations were told to Cheng Yu by her friend, a man about 27 or 28 years old named Han Lan, also tall and strong, with a good-looking face and wheat-colored skin, very handsome.
But he was different from Cheng Yu. He was a chatterbox. Before she even opened her mouth to ask, he had already poured out all the wine.
Shu Fu knew that the other party was so patient in talking to her in detail because she was Cheng Yu's friend. After all, the rescue team was very busy and they didn't have much rest time. He was willing to spend time on her, which showed that he was a kind-hearted person.
The family building where she stayed was originally a homestay. There were many rooms, but none of them were large, about 30 square meters, with a bathroom and a simple bar induction cooker. The power supply system was good, so there was no problem with washing and making some simple meals.
The water supply here is the same as other places in the city, with water supplied for one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening, from 8 to 9 am. In addition to stockpiling some water for daily washing and rinsing, people will choose to take a bath at these two times.
There are not many families staying here, and not all rescue team members will bring their families with them. For example, Liu Shuang and Cheng Yu did not have any, and Han Lan was the same. So when Cheng Yu told him about this, he was very surprised and very curious about Shu Fu.
As for what his sister said, Han Lan just listened to it. After all, it was just a name used during check-in procedures. Whether it was true or not had nothing to do with him.
He originally asked Cheng Yu if he needed him to drive over to pick him up. After all, it was a move, and it would not be convenient in this kind of weather.
As a result, Cheng Yu told him that the other party was very independent and if she decided to live in the family building, she would drive over by herself.
So Han Lan became even more curious about Shu Fu, and after helping her complete the check-in procedures, he did not leave, wanting to continue helping her move the luggage from the jeep into the building. But he saw her take a folding cart from the car, and then move in a few large cardboard boxes and a large backpack, and that was it.
"You have so little stuff to move." He sighed as he looked at her.
Shu Fu smiled but said nothing. If it weren't for the boat-mounted motor and portable oil drum that Cheng Yu bought for her, as well as the two boxes of supplies he gave her before leaving, she would have to have these obvious things, and she could have even less.
Shu Fu also felt that there were few people living in the family building. Han Lan told her that in the past half month, as the rescue work in the east gradually came to an end, many rescue team members who had been transferred here before were transferred back.
Many team members also went to other cities to carry out missions. Most of them now go to plateau cities, such as Chengyu.
The same goes for him. He can still stay in Louyun City for about half a month. Once March comes, he will have to leave.
The main reason is that the land outside the Louyun City Dam is now covered by the water line. Under the repeated attacks of huge waves, the underwater buildings where there might have been survivors have almost all collapsed.
In fact, since the first huge wave hit Muzhou Province, the number of victims surviving in the water has been decreasing, and the rescue operations of the rescue team to transfer and evacuate the victims have gradually returned to zero, and they have turned to performing more tasks within the city.
Later, due to the lifting of the ban on hot weapons, the order in the city improved slightly, and Lou Yuncheng's demand for rescue teams was not so high. It was reasonable that a large number of team members were transferred away.
It is precisely because the team members were transferred one by one, and many of their family members also left, that this place seems so deserted.
But for Shu Fu, fewer people is a good thing.
She did not rush to the swimming pool to release the raft, but observed it three or four times first, considering all aspects of the problem, and then chose the time between 8 and 9 o'clock in the evening.
Because this is the unified water supply time in Louyun City, basically everyone will stay indoors during this time, taking a shower or doing cleaning work that requires a lot of water.
The few cameras that were originally in the building had long been broken. Moreover, there was no backup electricity unless the power was turned off. The fuel of those backup generators would be consumed over time, so there might not be electricity even if the power was turned off.
At night, with no one around and in a dimly lit building, this swimming pool was simply meant for her raft.
The function of the raft's wastewater tank is called: wastewater collection and filtration. Since she knows how clean the purified water of the drifting island house is, she has no psychological burden to discharge the filtered wastewater into the swimming pool.
She even considered whether to store the 50L of purified water produced that day while discharging the wastewater?
But then I thought about it and gave up. Knowing that it is clean is one thing, but getting her to accept self-production and self-sale is another. After all, the swimming pool is only this big.
Moreover, she couldn't come here every day - because it was too risky, so the 50L of water this time alone would not help her much.
The first time she drained the raft was three weeks ago. She was more cautious than now. After releasing the raft, she even opened the drift bottle protection cover. Although it was only a short time to enter the raft to drain the water, she was also afraid that something unexpected would happen while she was in the cabin, such as someone coming over by chance.
The entire drainage process is quick, only a few minutes, and not much time is wasted on the protective cover.
Because the preliminary observation work was done well, the process of releasing the raft to drain water was also very smooth.
After that, when using the raft in the room on a daily basis, although bathing is still done in the bathroom of the B&B because there is no daily purified water, washing, going to the toilet, and washing dishes that do not require much water can be done safely in the drifting island house without worrying about the wastewater tank overflowing.
Liu Shuang was also very happy to know that she had moved near the rescue team's dormitory. She was now back in the army and was busier than before. The requirements during many missions were stricter and she wasn't even allowed to use her cell phone.
Cheng Yu was probably the same way, so he never replied to Han Lan's message since leaving Lou Yuncheng.
Han Lan actually didn't know much about the specific content of his escort mission this time, but he had expressed it in front of Shu Fu. He thought there were probably a few big shots in the team. Otherwise, judging from his serious attitude in telling Shu Fu to move in, he would have asked him a few questions after learning that she had officially moved in.
There is no news at all now. It must be due to the mission.
"You often lose contact during missions. Do you usually worry about each other?" Shu Fu asked curiously.
"Don't worry." Han Lan still had a smile on his face, but there was a hint of helplessness in his smile. "There's no point in worrying. This world has never been truly peaceful. The peaceful times before were just an appearance, let alone now. Once we join the army, we'll naturally be mentally prepared for some things. Things like suicide notes are already written long ago, and that's not all. We have to write another one every once in a while. After all, no one knows which mission we'll be on, and why we'll die..."
When Han Lan said this, he turned around and saw Shu Fu looking at him quietly. He smiled brightly again and asked, "Are you scared?"
Shu Fu shook his head.
"Don't worry, we have all received rigorous training and have the ability to protect ourselves. As for you, I have some time today, so why don't you practice with me for a while? I will be leaving in at most a week, and I want you to practice the most practical self-defense techniques before I leave!" The rescue team's dormitory is close to the family building, so Han Lan will come here whenever he has holidays.
He knew that she came to live here to practice swimming, and she didn't need him to teach her how to swim, which made him feel unfulfilled, so he offered to teach her self-defense. This self-defense technique focuses on defeating the enemy by using the weak, and it is easy to learn and very practical.
As long as you practice more and let your body remember these moves, you will be able to use these moves to escape from trouble when you encounter a situation because of your instinctive reaction.
Although Shu Fu now has a portable protective shield, it never hurts to learn more, so when Han Lan offered to teach her, she immediately accepted and began to study seriously.
When Han Lan came to practice with her for the last time before he left Lou Yuncheng, she was finally able to break free from his hold with her own strength. Of course, Han Lan must have gone easy on her and it was impossible for him to use 100% of his strength as he would against an enemy.
Han Lan also took a photo to record an action taken by Shu Fu when he counterattacked, and sent it to Liu Shuang and Cheng Yu with great pride, saying: It has to be him!
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Just two days after Han Lan left Louyun City, another huge wave rose outside the dam.
This time, the homestay she stayed in was closer to the dam, and the hill where the homestay was located was much higher than the dam. Therefore, when the air raid alarm sounded, she stood in front of the window of the homestay and had a clear view of the situation in the waters outside the dam.
Dark clouds were looming, the hurricane was howling, and towering waves were crashing into the dam accompanied by the piercing sound of air raid sirens. She could even hear the roar of the dam being hit.
Feeling the huge waves up close again, her fear did not diminish in the slightest.
After the huge waves subsided, heavy rain continued in Louyun City for several days. The rain was so heavy that it seemed as if someone was constantly pouring water on the windows from outside 24 hours a day.
According to online news, several low-lying areas on the outskirts of Louyun City were flooded, and water took over a farm, necessitating an emergency evacuation. The filtration system of the water purification plant also had problems, and Louyun City was partially without water for a day.
However, most of the news and information focused on the people's livelihood in Louyun City. In addition, the news that attracted more public attention was that several cities in Muzhou Province and Xiren Province that originally planned to promote the dam project had shelved the plan for some reason.
The authorities did not give an explanation as requested by the public, but instead announced another news at this critical moment: Currently, nearly 30 cities in the four plateau provinces and regions, including Xizhou Province, have opened up relocation quotas to all Chinese people. From now on, as long as you enter the identity information of the migrant through the designated website, select the city you want to move to, and wait for approval, you can obtain an electronic transportation permit and a city entry pass.
People who have obtained electronic transportation stations and city entry passes can take their documents and go to the city where they are moving to settle down.
Those who do not have means of transportation at home can purchase e-tickets for long-distance buses or trains through the same designated website. The prices will vary depending on the means of transportation, but the overall price is only one-tenth of that in peacetime, which is fully affordable even for refugees.
There are many bus and train services scheduled, and all of them will be postponed in the event of a storm, not cancelled.
In addition, the relocation city will also have a series of preferential policies for the residents in buying and renting houses. Some special workers, such as construction workers, engineers, plumbers, boatmen... can even buy a house with 0 down payment and 0 interest.
When the news came out, the entire Hua State was shocked.
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