16. Chapter 16 Water, electricity and gas outages



After the chain talk, the group fell completely silent.

Nan Ci knew that they should all have gone to find Liu Chunhua.

I don’t know how Liu Chunhua plans to respond.

Nan Ci felt a little curious, but he didn't go out.

Compared to watching the fun, safety is of course more important.

The heavy rain will continue for several months, and there will be bustling activities every day in the future, so there is no need to rush.

Liu Chunhua lived on the 22nd floor and Nan Ci lived on the 32nd floor, ten floors apart. In addition, the sound insulation of Nan Ci's house was better, so he could not hear anything happening downstairs.

Power outages will bring a lot of inconvenience to others, but for Nan Ci, it has no effect.

After it became completely dark, Nan Ci entered the space.

After having a sumptuous dinner, Nan Ci continued to clean the bathroom.

Everything else has been taken care of. Now all you need to do is fill the water tower nearby with water, connect the water pipes, and you can wash without worries.

Nan Ci also stores a lot of bottled and barreled water, but these are all drinking water, and it is too luxurious to use them for washing.

Nan Ci connected the water pump and pumped water directly from the creek.

This water tower is very large. After it is filled with water, Nan Ci can use it for half a month to take a shower, wash clothes, and wash vegetables every day.

While pumping water, Nan Ci stood by the stream and observed.

The water tower was already full, but the water in the stream didn't seem to have decreased at all, which made Nan Ci breathe a sigh of relief.

As it stands now, this should be a source of living water that can be used with confidence without worrying about it drying up.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if there is not enough water in the stream. There is nothing much outside now, just water, which is just a little more troublesome to collect.

But Nan Ci is still happy that he doesn’t have to collect it now.

The sun never sets in space, and the solar water heater can start working as soon as it is turned on.

Nan Ci had a good sleep at night. After waking up the next morning, he went into the space to wash up and take a shower.

The temperature in the space is just right, neither too hot nor too cold when taking a shower, which is more convenient than the bathroom outside the space.

The waste water after washing is directly discharged into the land.

Nan Ci originally thought that the water was not dirty and that it could be dried by the sun. However, what Nan Ci did not expect was that after the water was drained into the ground, it disappeared directly and the ground was still dry.

It was as if the space had been purified directly.

Not only the domestic wastewater, but even the animal feces does not need Nan Ci to clean it up, the space will purify it by itself.

Nan Ci only needs to feed the animals at fixed times and doesn’t have to worry about anything else.

Nan Ci felt that the space could bring her more surprises than just these. She had plenty of time to discover what other surprises there were.

Only after he had breakfast and steamed rice and stewed meat in the rice cooker did Nan Ci leave the space.

Also taken out was the mixed dumpling filling.

Making dumplings makes very little noise and doesn’t have any smell, so it’s very suitable to be done outside.

Nan Ci first checked on the four cats, seeing that they were sleeping soundly and there was nothing wrong with them. Then he plugged the portable TV into the outdoor mobile battery and turned on a TV series he had never seen before.

Watching a drama while making dumplings, accompanied by the sound of rain, is in some ways very relaxing.

Nan Ci was at ease, but the others in Building 11 were not.

From yesterday to now, the power outage has lasted for more than 24 hours, and there is no sign of power coming back on.

They no longer looked for Liu Chunhua because it was useless.

Without electricity, lights and electrical appliances cannot be used, causing all kinds of inconveniences in life.

Without a mobile phone, I can’t get in touch with the outside world, and I don’t even know any news from the outside world.

What’s even more frightening is that the water flow is gradually decreasing and there is a high possibility that the water will be cut off.

How long can natural gas last if water and electricity are cut off?

Without water, electricity and natural gas, people living in this high-rise building who cannot leave are tantamount to waiting to die.

Even though these things have not happened yet, just thinking about them makes these people extremely panicked.

The heavy rain showed no signs of abating and the accumulated water had already reached the sixth floor. People on the fifth and sixth floors could not find a place to live and now had to live in the corridor.

The water level was still rising, and they didn't dare stay in the lower corridors for fear that they would have to move further up. So they simply moved directly to the 22nd floor and lived outside Liu Chunhua's house.

Liu Chunhua didn't let them go into the house to sleep, so they knocked on the door eight hundred times a day, either asking to use the toilet or the kitchen.

As the building manager, Liu Chunhua was very concerned about his reputation, so he had to lend the money. The door of his house was basically never closed, allowing anyone to come in and out.

Nan Ci never left the house and learned all this information from surveillance.

Whether it is Xu Ping and Liu Nana from 3201, or Wang Meijuan from 3204, they are all people who cannot sit still. After they no longer have mobile phones to use, they have to walk downstairs every day and stay there for several hours before coming back.

Every time he came back, he would bring back a lot of new information, and Nan Ci could hear it clearly through the surveillance.

Hearing all the latest news from them every day, Nan Ci no longer thinks they are so annoying.

At least now I can know what's going on in the building without going out, and I have to thank them.

Two days later, the accumulated water flooded the eighth floor, and the natural gas and tap water were cut off.

The water outage is not a big deal. Even if it’s raining heavily outside, you can just put the container out of the window and there’s no need to worry about running out of water.

But without natural gas, everyone panicked.

Without electricity and natural gas, they can't even have a hot meal.

There are people who want to burn furniture, but very few people have solid wood furniture.

Not only do composite boards and particle boards produce smoke and fire when burned, they are also not burn-resistant and can easily cause fires if you are not careful.

Two more embarrassing and thrilling days passed. It was already the seventh day of the heavy rain, and the accumulated water had already submerged the twelfth floor.

Residents from the fourth to the twelfth floors now all live in the corridor.

They were afraid that the water would continue to rise, so they moved up from the 22nd floor. Now the corridors from the 22nd to the 31st floors are all full of people.

If the 13th floor is also flooded, the corridor on the 32nd floor will not be spared.

Although the corridor on the 32nd floor was not occupied yet, someone came up from downstairs and knocked on the door.

Either they come to borrow the bathroom or they come to borrow food.

A few days ago, there were people willing to lend or sell food.

But after realizing that the heavy rain would not stop in the short term and that life would become increasingly difficult, those who had food held on to it tightly and no longer dared to lend it out.

Especially Wang Meijuan, who pretended to be dead when someone knocked on the door and didn't even dare to open it.

But it was no use if she didn't open the door.

Just like Xu Ping knew that she loved to buy discounted items, other people in Building 11 also knew this, and Liu Chunhua knew it especially clearly.

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