"In 60-degree weather, without air conditioning or ice, I can only keep diving into the water every day. I've had enough."
The property management company, which had been acting like a dead person, suddenly issued a notice: "Dear residents, according to national regulations, the water plant will be controlling the water supply. From now on, water will be supplied at a centralized time every day from 9 pm to 10 pm. Please be sure to collect your daily water usage during this time, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences."
"What? Even water is being rationed?"
"Residents, don't worry. It's said that solar activity caused the power system to fail. Water supply requires electricity, and right now the waterworks can only use diesel generators to operate the water supply equipment."
"My God, I never imagined it would be this serious. This really is the end of the world! It's the end of the world! Hahahaha."
"They've gone mad, another one has gone mad."
"The male homeowner in Building 3 just committed suicide by jumping off the building."
"...Please accept my condolences. It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death."
"If the waterworks runs out of diesel fuel one day, won't we be left without water?"
"Where is the national base? Can we set off tonight?"
"There's no definite news yet, let's wait and see."
Suddenly, people discovered that they couldn't send messages anymore; there was no cell phone signal at all.
"Old Liu, there's no signal!" A woman with her hair tied in a bun shook her husband frantically.
"I don't have any left either." The man called Old Liu frowned deeply.
"I'm going to visit Old Xu next door."
"Um."
She received the same answer: there was no electricity and no internet. They were completely cut off from the outside world.
People spoiled by the modern internet have suddenly realized that if there is no electricity or internet in the world, they will lose everything.
Unbeknownst to them, a series of human tragedies were unfolding in the outside world at that very moment.
Train derailments, multi-vehicle collisions on highways, sudden loss of control on a hospital operating table, molten iron spills from a steel mill—many workers are instantly wiped out…
Jiang Zhi sat alone in the underground parking garage. She didn't turn on the light or open her eyes.
The energy in my dantian was actually communicating with, and even absorbing, the solar activity that had just occurred.
Jiang Zhi couldn't control its unusual movements, but she could guide it to travel through her meridians.
This energy became immense, causing Jiang Zhi's meridians to swell.
Jiang Zhi couldn't help but let out a painful groan; she felt like she was about to fall apart.
Her intuition told her she couldn't faint, because if she did, she might really be crippled. Jiang Zhi gripped the edge of the bed tightly with both hands, cold sweat pouring down her body.
"This..." Half an hour later, Jiang Zhi felt that the power in her body was purer, as if it had been cleansed.
Jiang Zhi turned on the tap of the rooftop water tank and filled the entire bathtub with water. The water in the tank was naturally heated, so Jiang Zhi added some crushed ice to cool it down.
She first rinsed off the sweat, then soaked herself in the warm bathtub.
Feeling the power within her body, Jiang Zhi had an urge to release it outwards.
Finally, Jiang Zhi focused her attention on her fingertips and pointed at the mirror opposite the bathtub. With a snap, a dark, smoking hole appeared in the middle of the mirror.
Jiang Zhi was instantly flustered.
A sage pointing the way?
wow!!!
Very competitive.
Jiang Zhi quickly got out of the bathtub, put on an ice silk nightgown, and ran to the mirror.
She reached out and touched it, discovering that the hole had actually pierced through a wall, and cracks had appeared in the wall of the next room.
Jiang Zhi suddenly felt like she was the best in the world.
She looked at her fingertips; there were no marks, just like before.
Jiang Zhi gathered her strength again. This time, she didn't use her own home as an experiment. Instead, she pointed to the light pink wall of the uninhabited villa on the right.
"A sage points the way!"
Before the words were even finished, a small, dark hole appeared in the pink wall.
"Isn't this better than firearms? It's like killing someone invisibly." Jiang Zhi stopped, feeling a little weak, probably because the skill consumed a lot of energy.
She hummed a little tune as she went to the bathroom to continue her bath.
In the latter half of the night, when the temperature had dropped, Jiang Zhi went up to the top floor, set up her astronomical telescope, and began her observations.
After the solar activity subsided, it was uncertain whether the telescope would still be usable. Jiang Zhi first traced the trajectory of the solar activity to look at the moon, and whether it was an illusion or not, she felt that the moon seemed much larger.
Now that there's no electricity and no internet, it's as if she's completely cut off from the world.
The neighborhood suddenly became noisy, with occasional barking of dogs.
Dogs can still bark now, but when people run out of food, dogs will become their food. Of course, it could also be the other way around, with people becoming the dogs' food.
So far, no mutated animals have been seen in Jiang Zhi's neighborhood.
She bought a large quantity of insecticides specifically to combat the mutated animals, including mosquito coils and insect repellent powder. She also bought over a dozen boxes of pesticides, such as dichlorvos and paraquat.
Realgar is effective against snakes, so Jiang Zhi sprinkled it around the inside and outside of the villa, and put various poisons such as rat poison in the sewers.
At five o'clock in the morning, Jiang Zhi was still asleep when she suddenly heard a knocking on the door.
"Little sister, are you home? Are you still alive?"
Jiang Zhi frowned; she hated being woken up from her sleep. She found a lighter, lit the oil lamp she had prepared beforehand, and carried it into the courtyard.
Outside were two dark figures carrying flashlights; judging from their voices, they were two men.
Seeing light inside, the two exchanged a glance, their faces beaming with joy.
"Someone's here, you're still alive."
"Very good."
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