Harvest Escape Pod
There is of course a gap between hand-rowing and electric-powered boats, but the boat can carry five people and tow four boats of the same specifications, so the load is not small.
The speed is not much faster than Jiang Miao's kayak.
She followed them from a distance in the rain and darkness until she saw them stop in front of a small house and tie the boat to the treetops nearby. The five of them took off their clothes, put on their diving equipment, and dived into the water.
In order to prevent them from making a surprise attack, it would be too obvious if the boat just rowed straight over. Jiang Miao put away the kayak and jumped into the water, lurking near the boat. He used the scattered branches to climb up to the treetops to hide his body.
The rain was pouring down, and it hurt quite a bit when it hit my body.
But this group of well-trained people successfully aroused Jiang Miao's curiosity. She wanted to see what these people were going to get, as they actually sent out five people and five boats.
Soon bubbles appeared on the water surface, and several people worked together to carry up several wooden boxes filled with things.
Then one person was left to guard the boat while the others continued to dive down to look for things.
After filling the first and second boats, with only the last one left unfilled, Jiang Miao waited for the four of them to dive back into the water, then instantly jumped down from the treetops and knocked out the guard on the boat. He then took away all four fully loaded boats, even taking off the man's diving mask and taking it away.
Put it into the space and take a look.
Wow! RPG howitzers, shells, cannons! And all kinds of military heavy weapons.
The owner of this place must be the head of a military region, otherwise he would not have collected such things privately.
But who are these people? Who knew that such a thing was hidden here?
After taking the things away, Jiang Miao did not leave, but went the other way and hid behind the original tree canopy.
When those people emerged from the water carrying their things and found that there was only one boat left on the water, their faces looked extremely ugly!
"Hey! Old Chase, hey you fucking wake up!"
Someone with a bad temper stepped forward and slapped Lao Cha in the face: "Look at that! Where's your stuff?"
When Old Cha came to, the rain water had gathered into a small pool in his mouth. He was lucky not to have choked to death.
"Ahem! Where's the thing?" He looked around. "I don't know. I fainted from a headache. How could I know what it was? Someone attacked me from behind!"
The empty water surface was left with only water circles left by the heavy rain that had not yet cleared up. The ripples caused by the boat had long been obscured by layers of ripples, making it impossible to tell which direction the boat had left from.
"Damn it! There are still people out here to rob other gangs in such heavy rain? Is it the little bald guy we just met? Look, I told you to get rid of him but you didn't listen. Now, how can I explain this to Mr. Yuan?"
The other person was also very annoyed and said angrily, "That little bald guy looks skinny and small, less than 1.7 meters tall. Can Old Cha be knocked out by his punch? Fuck you, stop talking nonsense."
Several people almost quarreled, and finally someone came out to take charge of the situation: "Okay, luckily I remember that there are still a few speedboats in Mr. Yuan's warehouse. I'll go find the boats, and we'll make two more trips!"
That's all we can do.
"Yes, yes, yes. I'll go with you. You three can take over this place!"
Jiang Miao hid in the tree and listened to the whole process.
It turns out he is from the Yuan family. No wonder he wanted arms and knew they were stored here.
The two men did not choose to sail over but swam instead, which means that Yuan’s house was not far from here.
Jiang Miao easily locked their location based on the direction they jumped into the water. He waited for them to move their things onto several small boats before jumping down from the tree and paddling a kayak to Yuan's house.
The home of the richest man in Ancheng is still worth invading.
This century-old Western-style building lived up to Jiang Miao's expectations; judging from the decoration of the second floor alone, it was extremely luxurious.
It was a pity that most of the room was soaked in water, and the carpets, sofas and other items had been contaminated by sewage. She did not have special cleaning tools, so she had to give up. She only collected some antiques and famous paintings on the shelves on the second floor, as well as a lot of collection-level tea, cigarettes and alcohol, as well as intangible cultural heritage-level silk and silk, and collection-level gems and jade.
After taking away what could be taken away from the second floor, Jiang Miao went to the third floor.
The Yuan family's house covers a large area. The third floor is about 200 square meters and has only three rooms.
Living room, bedroom, study.
It looked like this place was indeed evacuated urgently, and only the study room had obvious signs of rummaging; the other rooms were clean and quiet as usual.
Jiang Miao did not let it go and put all the things into the space, especially the study, without leaving a single piece of paper.
The bodyguard she met next to Young Master Yuan in the club gave her a great warning that in dealing with potential enemies, one must know both oneself and the enemy in order to win every battle.
Different from other floors, the fourth floor is obviously the owner's personal activity area, with a studio, a cinema, and a coffee break.
After entering, Jiang Miao felt that there was something wrong with the structure of the space here, so he put things into the space while observing it, and sure enough, he found that the structure of a corner was extremely awkward.
The entire room used the visual difference between the walls and the door to erase a space in the northwest corner. If she had not been sure before coming that this was a small square western-style building with a rooftop, she would have easily been misled.
Jiang Miao came to the hidden wall, and without the patience to look for any mechanism, he took out the drill from the space and started drilling.
Or simple and rough is more suitable for her.
The wall was made quite solidly, with reinforced concrete, so she had to make a gap between two steel bars and enter from the middle.
It’s part secret escape space, part family history collection expo.
Jiang Miao standing next to him was not interested, but the escape pod placed in the middle was very eye-catching.
This escape capsule is spherical in shape, with a diameter of a little over two meters. It can prevent earthquakes, mudslides, and tsunamis in extreme weather. The special metal shell can not only withstand high-intensity impacts from the outside, but the oxygen chamber inside can also withstand high-pressure environments.
The seats are equipped with aerospace-grade shock-absorbing and balancing systems, oxygen circulation systems, lighting, and sufficient storage space for water and food.
Jiang Miao opened the cabin door and found that there were four seats inside. The space was not small and there was also a mini toilet and black and white water tanks at the end. Every space on the ground and walls around was fully utilized, trying to maximize the utilization of the small space.
This kind of large-scale escape capsule, which is precisely made and requires a lot of aerospace-grade materials, cannot be found on the market, let alone purchased, unless you have a dedicated person with special connections and a high price to make it custom-made.
During this trip to Dongcheng, what Jiang Miao was most satisfied with was this escape pod.
It has to be the richest family.
After finishing the storage, Jiang Miao took off his coat and jumped into the water.
It’s a pity that the first floor is just an ordinary reception room. Apart from a luxury RV worth tens of millions, Jiang Miao did not stock up on anything else.
Compared to the ordinary C-type RV that they had before, this RV is huge in size, custom-made with solid wood throughout the house, fully equipped with all kinds of electrical appliances and furniture, the glass and body are bulletproof, and it even has two bedrooms and two bathrooms!
If you add the bunk bed, there are three beds in the car.
In addition, there is a garage at the bottom of this RV that is specifically designed to accommodate sports cars. If it is not used as a garage, it will be an extremely large storage space.
Fortunately, this car and the GT-R50 I bought before are both top-of-the-line cars, and the electronic equipment in the car has been waterproofed accordingly, and the time they were soaked in water was not long, so there is no big problem.
Jiang Miao sensed in the space that the car keys were kept in the bookcase in the study. It was already two o'clock in the morning and the rooms on the third floor were half flooded and would soon be completely flooded.
Seeing that she could not hold on any longer, she climbed out of the pool, took off her oxygen mask, and collapsed to the ground gasping for breath.
Now the water level is getting higher and higher, and the pool is getting deeper and deeper. Her heart is already under a lot of strain on the first floor. If the water level continues to rise higher and higher, by the time she reaches the eighth floor, she will have to wear a professional diving suit to go deeper into the water.
After eating something casually, Jiang Miao took a short rest, crossed out the small western-style buildings he had visited on the screenshot map, and started a new round of searching for supplies.
This time she first went to the place where the group of people had just robbed the ammunition, but the atmosphere inside was simple and the decoration style was tough. Jiang Miao only dived into the water and took away the remaining bullets and there was nothing else worth taking.
What follows is the tedious process of searching, storing, and moving to the next store.
It was not until the water level completely flooded over the third floor and only the first floor or a small peak of all the villas could be seen that she got back into the kayak and headed back.
When I came here, I could still see the treetops, but now I can see nothing but corpses floating on the water. There are floating corpses everywhere, as if I had arrived in the Avici Hell.
Before reaching Lanwan Community, Jiang Miao pretended to put a bag of rice and some packaged food on the kayak, took off his hood, and slowly paddled to the staircase window on the third floor of Building 6, broke it, and went in directly.
I don’t know what kind of scuffle took place in the corridor. There were clothes and plastic bags scattered everywhere, and it was a mess.
The water surface was floating on the stairs. Jiang Miao had just stood firm when the people waiting above rushed to grab her kayak! They didn't even care about the supplies above!
The rain is so heavy that we don’t know when the flood will end. When the whole city turns into Venice on the water, speedboats and kayaks become necessary means of transportation.
They robbed two or three waves of people, all of whom swam over with their luggage, and the one who came in a kayak was the first one. How could they not be excited!
The man in front of him had a fierce look in his eyes and was determined to win. This was something Jiang Miao had expected.
Heavy rains and floods have raged, trapping people in buildings and unable to get out. It's not like the hail period or the early days of doomsday when everyone was still tied up. Humans who have experienced a year of doomsday have deeply understood that morality and laws are bullshit, and the truth is to fill your stomach and survive!
Therefore, people trapped in a building due to the flood turned it into a survival game like a battle royale, occupying supplies and snatching resources, and whoever has the bigger fist is the boss.
The man tried to rob him, but Jiang Miao dodged sideways and hit him with his elbow, using the force to push the man into the water. He then took out a dagger from his pocket and stabbed him in the back of the heart. The blood instantly dyed the entire surface of the water in the stairwell red.
There was more than one person waiting to rob at the entrance, but he was the most vicious and ruthless, otherwise he would not be the first one to rob and grab the first wave of fat.
But the others saw how skillful the little girl was, killing the man without blinking an eye, so they wisely gave up their seats and dared not to provoke her again.
Jiang Miao held the kayak in his left hand and the supplies in his right hand, and walked up the stairs calmly while facing everyone's gaze.
Someone followed behind her and didn't run back to report until he saw her open the iron door connecting the tenth and eleventh floors.
"She lives on the 11th or 12th floor!"
"It should be the 12th floor. I saw her on the 11th floor today. There was a man and a woman there, but the woman was not her."
"I seem to remember that Wen Meng had caused trouble for the 12th floor before. But wasn't the 12th floor dealt with by the Qinglong Gang?"
Several people shuddered as they thought of the bloody corpse at the stairs. After the apocalypse, they had beaten or killed people just for fighting over food.
But I have never encountered someone who kills people so decisively and cleanly, without blinking an eye, as if he were killing a chicken.
After returning home, Jiang Miao took a shower and washed his hair first. After drying his hair, he began to pack today's supplies.
After adding it to the iPad, Jiang Miao sensed that there was a manual in the drawer of the escape pod, so he took it out and read and studied while eating some snacks to fill his stomach.
Now it's raining heavily and the night temperature is only 27 or 28 degrees. It can be said that Jiang Miao hasn't experienced such a comfortable temperature for a long time.
The sound of raindrops made this environment perfect for sleeping. The instruction manual in her hand slipped to the ground, and she leaned back on the lazy sofa and fell into a deep sleep.
I exercised too much tonight, but after a good night's sleep I feel refreshed again.
When I woke up the next day, it was still raining heavily outside the window. The rain was hitting the window violently. The sky was covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder were like the claws of the devil reaching out to the earth, and the rain continued as if it would not stop for several days.
After a good night's sleep, Jiang Miao woke up at noon.
She stretched herself, stood in front of the window and took out a telescope. She found that the water level had spread to the fifth floor. There was a small boat on the water for salvaging bodies, with a large net hanging behind it.
Municipal workers rode in speedboats and held loudspeakers in the heavy rain, tirelessly notifying citizens to seek shelter on high floors as quickly as possible and to stay away from electric poles and dead branches to avoid lightning strikes.
As the space for human survival becomes smaller and smaller, all the people living on the lower floors or those swimming outside to survive are moving towards higher floors. Who knows when the flood will subside.
In order to prevent backflow of odor and sewage, Jiang Miao mixed some cement in the corridor and poured it into the sewer, blocking several drainage outlets in the house. After thinking about it, he also brought some to the downstairs. As long as there was no large-scale dirty water coming out of the sewer on the 11th floor, the 12th floor could be protected.
When he walked downstairs, Su Le was confronting a group of people. They were holding kitchen knives and wooden sticks, and were throwing stones and garbage into the iron gate aggressively, trying to force Su Le to open it.
"I'm telling you to open the door quickly if you know what's best for you. If we rush in, your delicate skin won't be able to withstand it!"
"That's it! Open it quickly!"
The doomsday lasted for more than a year, and Jiang Miao no longer knew whether these people were the owners, or people who had taken over the building and wanted to continue to abuse their power.
Su Le was not someone to be trifled with. She picked up the stones on the ground and threw them back: "Why should I give you the right to drive? Who are you to be so shameless?"
"Hey! This little pepper is really spicy, big brother, let's smash the iron door and rush in!"
"Besides, the houses here are all duplexes. Each house is several hundred square meters. There must be a lot of supplies piled up inside!"
"With iron doors and electric fences, there must be a lot of things hidden inside!"
The people below finally found some plastic clothes drying racks and brooms and started smashing the electric fence.
Jiang Miao didn't have much electric grid left and couldn't afford to damage it any more, so he immediately took out the Zhuge crossbow and shot an arrow at the leader.
"Ah——" The man was hit by an arrow in the chest, with the arrow stuck in his ribs. The splattering blood dripped onto the electric fence, making a crackling sound.
"Brother!" The younger brother was shocked. He looked over and saw a woman with short hair and black clothes appearing behind him. Her eyebrows and eyes seemed to be covered with frost and she looked at him coldly.
The curious people who were following behind to watch the fun immediately recognized that this was the female Rakshasa who had swung the knife last night. They immediately put away their gloating expressions and hurried down from the tenth floor.
Anyway, these two groups are not good people, so it would be best to let them fight each other while you come up to take advantage of the situation.
This group of good-hearted people fled to this building after Jiang Miao came back last night. They thought that since the building was tall, they would not have to worry about the flood rising again.
"Brothers, smash it! Avenge our big brother!"
There were five people here, and Jiang Miao wanted to test Su Le's fists and feet, so he asked her, "How many can you handle?"
Su Le looked at their eyes that were yellow from hunger and said without hesitation: "Two."
"Okay." Jiang Miao went over to rescue the iron gate. The other side was hoping for the best. There were five grown men in total. Even if they had bows and arrows, at most one or two people would be injured or killed. If they could occupy the territory and supplies here, they would make a fortune!
The men on the opposite side pounced on her like wolves and tigers, holding kitchen knives with ferocious looks. Jiang Miao dodged sideways and remained motionless. The three men attacked her many times but failed to touch even a corner of her clothes.
On the other hand, Su Le was holding a short knife specially made for her by Li Chongyu. It was much more convenient to use than a kitchen knife or a machete. They fought back and forth, and were evenly matched.
With such a neighbor on the eleventh floor, Jiang Miao was undoubtedly less worried. He quickly dealt with the people here and walked outside the iron gate to pull out the arrow stuck in his ribs.
Seeing that the senior sister was already cleaning up the mess, Su Le's morale was boosted, his eyes became fierce, and he acted decisively, ending the battle quickly.
Six bodies were lying on the ground in pieces. Su Le supported himself on his knees and gasped: "Senior, what are we going to do with these bodies?"
"Just throw it down."
There was the sound of a motor rumbling not far away, and the orange-yellow volunteer boat came to salvage the bodies again.
Su Le nodded in agreement.
That's true. Even if these bodies are transported down there, they can only be thrown into the water. Now there's a vast ocean below, and there's no need to worry about objects being dropped from high altitudes. It's better to just throw them down to save time and effort.
The two men joined hands and threw several people down from the windowsill of the stairwell. Several people fell into the water like dumplings, and soon they floated up again after being swollen.
"Where is Li Chongyu?" That guy doesn't seem like the kind of person who would hide when encountering trouble. Why haven't I seen him today?
Su Le: "He has a cold and a fever, and is now unconscious in the hospital bed."
This kind of iron physique managed to survive such hot weather, but a slight drop in temperature yesterday caused some health problems for him.
"Wait." Jiang Miao brought down some cold medicine from upstairs: "Although it's a bit expired, it's still somewhat effective."
Su Le nodded: "Okay, then I'll go take care of him first."
These people downstairs have to behave themselves for a while.
After returning to 1201, Jiang Miao first did some aerobics, then practiced a set of boxing, and finally reviewed the Ling Jue sword technique. A fulfilling and busy day passed like this.
The temperature at night has dropped to fifteen degrees.
Many people did not stock up on spring, autumn and winter clothes due to the high temperatures in the early days of the doomsday. Now that the temperature has dropped to more than 10 degrees, they can only wear a few more short-sleeved shirts at night to keep warm.
Jiang Miao is also correcting his biological clock.
Nowadays, the temperature has dropped and the nights are colder than the days. People's daily routines have to change from staying up during the day and going out at night to normal times. Of course, it is best to adapt as soon as possible.
The flood rose day by day until 2:00 p.m. on July 25, when it slowly stopped and the water level just covered the eighth floor.
This was a global heavy rainfall, which caused the sea level to rise by dozens of meters. Except for cities on high terrain and mountains at high altitudes, all places were besieged by floods. It was just a matter of the size of the disaster.
Jiang Miao put away her sword and stood by the window. Beads of sweat gathered on her forehead, which she had just wiped, and fell to the ground. She looked carefully at the chaotic and crazy world outside.
On the opposite building, there was a desperate girl who sat outside the balcony for a long time and finally jumped off.
Dead bodies were floating everywhere in the murky water, and the volunteers who were trying to salvage the bodies were so tired that they were retching.
Looking ahead, the roads, flower beds, street lights, architectural statues, and shopping malls in this city were all not submerged by the flood. Looking up, there was only an endless horizontal plane and several tall buildings rooted here.
The homeless people became real refugees. Those who couldn't swim were trapped where they were and waited to die, while those who could swim swam to the nearest high-rise buildings and were exploited by the people who had been waiting there. After reluctantly leaving their belongings behind, they joined their team and became perpetrators, secretly hoping that the next person would be a fat sheep.
In her previous life, she was busy trying to survive and had never thought about these unreasonable natural disasters. Just as her classmates in the teaching and research department of D University said, science can no longer explain it, so she can only turn to metaphysics.
When it was dinner time, Immortal Lord Su Heng slowly woke up.
Jiang Miao was eating dry pot prawns, which were fresh, spicy and very satisfying.
"So noisy." Su Heng rubbed his forehead and frowned impatiently.
His facial features were handsome and his lines were cold. His usually nonchalant look had a hint of elegance and elegance. But now, when he slightly frowned, Jiang Miao could truly see the majestic, cold and unapproachable master of the peak.
Jiang Miao: "There are many more people seeking refuge downstairs."
The duplex apartment in Building 6 of Lanwan Community is a bit special. When the water outside reached the eighth floor, according to the height of the floors here, it reached the fourth floor.
That is to say, there are only 6 houses from the eleventh floor down. Since each house is large and has many rooms, no one knows how many people are crammed in them.
Su Heng had sharp ears and eyes, and his five senses were naturally more acute than those of ordinary people. He raised his wrist as if he was going to cast some soundproofing spell on him again.
Jiang Miao quickly stepped forward and held him down.
The wrist is white and slender, and the touch of cold jade makes people want to hold it tightly, for fear that it will slip out in the next second.
"Don't they say that it will hurt after using up your spiritual power and consciousness?" Jiang Miao didn't understand why someone would keep using it even though he knew it would hurt.
Su Heng raised his eyes to look at her, his clear eyes seemed to have thousands of words, which finally turned into a sigh: "That's all."
Living in a strange world, Su Heng lives a very selfish life.
He doesn't care about the opinions of everyone in this world, doesn't care about everything that happens in this world, is fed up with the inexplicable suppression of this world, and has a feeling of self-abandonment, thinking "let it be so".
Even though he had repeatedly comforted himself in his heart that this was just an experience in an illusion, the calculation that went against the laws of nature when he first came to this world was slowly coming true.
——He can never go back to his original world.
Jiang Miao couldn't understand the sigh and sorrow in his eyes, nor did she understand his depression and giving up at this moment. There was a gap between the two worlds between them, and they could never communicate with each other.
"In fact, these sounds can be dealt with by some physical means."
She laid another layer of soundproofing cotton in the second bedroom, leaving no corner untouched, and then moved the big bed into the room, asking the Immortal Lord to feel it: "Is there still any sound?"
"I'm feeling better. Thank you." Su Heng thanked him politely, then couldn't stand the backlash of the rules and lay on his back on the bed and fell into a deep sleep again.
Jiang Miao was stunned when a cold scent of spiritual energy wafted past his nose.
If she didn't have the ability to smell the scent of this spiritual power from another world, it would be really difficult to find out when he used it.
She sighed slightly.
What a stubborn old god.
Although the rain has stopped now, the flood shows no sign of receding.
The water accumulated to the eighth floor for more than 20 meters. There was no other place to stand in Ancheng except the high-rise buildings. All living things could only struggle on the isolated island. The flood waves rushed in from the high ground and kept hitting the large buildings on all sides. The sound of buildings cracking could be heard faintly. No one knew how long they could hold out.
A lot of supplies in the urban area are buried deep underwater. Some brave people rely on their memory to go to the old low-rise buildings, dive down and occasionally fish out some supplies. They are not limited to food or clothing, as long as they can get something, the trip is worthwhile.
The municipal government had a large amount of food stored up from suppressing bandits, and now it was put to good use, so they sent small boats to various emergency shelters to distribute food.
However, the evil nature of people's hearts in the doomsday is unpredictable. In order to grab more supplies, some people did not hesitate to kill the staff and take all the relief food for themselves, and they could also get a speedboat.
From now on, the municipal government will no longer send people to any resettlement site where staff members have died for no reason, and the ones who suffer are still the other people who have been implicated for no reason.
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