Chapter 31 Trivial Daily Life (Completed) Heavy Rain
40th day of doomsday.
When I woke up, I found that the heavy rain had turned into moderate rain, and the water level was still rising slowly.
During the rescue operation, Qiao Qiao often saw staff members trying their best to repair the cables. Unfortunately, the rainstorm was too heavy and the cables often broke down again shortly after being repaired.
The harm caused by water and power outages is becoming more and more serious. If it weren't for the accumulated water that divides each area into ordinary isolated islands, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Even so, the residents in each community are almost all skinny, and those who live together often fight, and home robberies are not uncommon. Qiao Qiao can see conflicts in the building every day when he goes to rescue.
At nine o'clock in the evening that day, the three of them just returned home after finishing their overtime work. As soon as they arrived at the corridor, they heard a commotion inside, and a group of people were watching the fun.
"Did you steal my bread?" The male owner of 1001 is an ordinary white-collar worker in a company. His face turned red with anger, and veins on his forehead were bulging.
"Bullshit! You were the ones who stole my water!"
"Nonsense! When I first let you live in my house, I agreed to provide you with a daily supply of supplies, but now you haven't delivered them for three days. Ever since your family of four came here, things have been missing from my house all the time! I have done my best by not kicking you out, and you actually dare to repay my kindness? Get out right now!"
"Let me go? I don't think you dare!" The muscular man grabbed the white-collar worker by the collar and lifted him up, "Are you still going to let me go?"
The white-collar man's face turned red and he was speechless.
"What are you doing? Come and see, someone is being beaten!" The white-collar man's wife rushed forward and beat the muscular man's arm, trying to save her husband but to no avail. She had to ask for help from the neighbors around her.
"I advise you not to meddle in other people's business." The muscular man threw the white-collar man and his wife into the house, then turned around to glance at the group of people who were watching the fun.
No one around stood up for them, and everyone who met the white-collar couple's gaze when they asked for help lowered their heads and avoided them.
"Help! Help! Wuuuu."
As the door closed, the sound gradually faded.
"Ah! Help!"
"Let's go back." Qiao Xinghe and Qiao Huizhou held Qiao Qiao back from going forward, and half pushed and half dragged her back home.
"Do you want to save them?" Qiao Huizhou took out a bath towel and asked calmly while wiping his wet hair.
"..." Qiao Qiao did not answer. Her mind told her that she should protect herself, but the education she received since childhood prevented her from standing by and watching someone die.
"What can you do?" Qiao Huizhou said calmly, "In this situation, the two families live together. If you help him beat the muscle man's family away, where will they live? In the corridor? Aren't you afraid that they will retaliate against our family or the white-collar worker's family? Besides, it's hard to say who stole things and who didn't."
"Your mother is right. Let's just live our own lives and not create unnecessary trouble." Qiao Xinghe said.
Qiao Qiao had a painful expression and covered her face with her hands. "I know I can't save him, but... it's okay if I can't see it, but it's too hard to ignore it when it happens right in front of me..."
Qiao Huizhou hugged Qiao Qiao and patted her back to comfort her, "It's okay, it's just the end of the world and it's normal that you are not used to it. If you really become cruel so quickly, you are not my daughter. It is never wrong to be kind. What is wrong is the end of the world."
Qiao Qiao hugged her mother back and buried her head in her arms, "Give me some time, I will get used to it."
"Okay, we believe you." Qiao Huizhou touched her head.
"What do you want to eat? Let's have some midnight snack." Seeing this, Qiao Xinghe changed the subject.
"Crayfish!" Qiao Qiao looked up instantly.
"Wipe your hair first, be careful not to catch a cold." Qiao Huizhou took out a bath towel and handed it over.
The originally short hair had reached the shoulders after more than a month, and it was almost dry after being wiped with a towel for a while.
"Luckily I managed to cook a lot before the water and power outages. Come over and eat directly." Almost half of the grid in Qiao Xinghe's system backpack was used to store the prepared meals.
Qiao Huizhou closed the curtains and took out the fully charged table lamp and placed it on the dining table. Although it was one-way glass, it was still just in case.
Qiao Qiao put on gloves and started to peel, as if he wanted to vent his frustration.
Over the next few days, the three members of the Qiao family continued their rescue work.
As time passed, the rain gradually subsided.
The number of people rescued was decreasing, and many people died in the rainstorm before rescue arrived.
The remaining people had to go out to seek help under the pressure of no food or water.
Human potential is unlimited, and we have seen many crystallizations of wisdom along the way.
Some people made simple boats out of hundreds of plastic bottles, some sat in a big bucket and used mops as paddles, and some even swam for help in diving suits...
There are all kinds of weird and varied things. There is nothing they can't do, except what you can't think of.
When we see them, we naturally have to send them safely to the temporary settlement.
45th day of doomsday.
The water level stopped rising after reaching the seventh floor, and the rain turned into a drizzle.
During this period, all three of them accumulated ten consecutive draws, Qiao Qiao had 13 times, Qiao Huizhou had 14 times, and Qiao Xinghe had 13 times.
Jojo gets an R-rated card for every ten consecutive hits.
[Congratulations on obtaining the R-level Wood Card]
[R-grade wood card: contains 100 units of wood, each unit can burn for 1 hour]
Qiao Xinghe drew a bunch of N-level cards.
Qiao Huizhou was extremely lucky. In addition to obtaining an R-level card from the SR-level card [Possessed by the Emperor of Europe], he also obtained an additional R-level card.
[Congratulations on winning the R-level electric heater]
[R-level electric heater: After use, the temperature of the surrounding 10 square meters can be maintained at 20-30 degrees, and the power consumption is 1 degree per hour]
[Congratulations on getting the R-rated card second-hand frying pan]
[Second-hand frying pan: A weapon used by a certain wolf. It is extremely lethal and can cause pain to people. The damage rate to the opposite sex is doubled.
Note 1: It is only a weapon, not for cooking (don't use me to cook!)
Note 2: It can cause damage, but it cannot kill anyone (Don't try to use me to kill people! But it is still okay to knock someone out.)]
"...Is this from a cartoon you've seen before?" Qiao Huizhou said as he looked at the familiar introduction.
"It should be..." Qiao Qiao also found it a little funny.
"Is this the end of the world or the revival of spiritual energy?" Qiao Qiao just laughed speechlessly. There were not so many strange things in the dream.
Qiao Qiao was protected by Qiao Man, so the frying pan was given to Qiao Huizhou for self-defense.
Then they prepared to continue working.
As soon as I got to the eighth floor, I saw several people crowded at the corridor window, looking at the flood outside and talking.
"The rain is getting lighter. This damn rain should stop soon, right?"
"Will the water flow recede after a while?"
"Luckily, we have insurance for our house and car, otherwise we would have suffered huge losses."
"Ah? My family didn't buy it, but the country should be able to compensate for this kind of flood."
The water has spread to the seventh floor and will not rise any further after the rain stops unless something unexpected happens.
However, it is not so easy to make the water recede, after all, the extreme cold will soon come.
"Extreme cold..." Qiao Qiao felt pressured. The extreme cold in the first year of her dream was the natural disaster with the highest number of casualties.
The temperature dropped from 20 degrees Celsius to minus 10 degrees Celsius overnight, and many people froze to death in their sleep before they could react.
Both ordinary people and officials were caught off guard, and even the officials lost contact for nearly three months.
Those days were the real doomsday, when laws, morals, and humanity all ceased to exist.
Even though there were plenty of heating supplies, she wanted to take advantage of the rain stopping now so that she could prepare to search for extra supplies at night. After all, who would complain about having too many things?
During this period, Qiao Qiao and his friends left for work at six o'clock every day and came back after eight o'clock, so they rarely met other people.
Even if there were any, they were all people who were working together at the federal government. Everyone was exhausted and naturally had no energy to socialize.
"Hey, Xiao Tang, are you going to rescue them?" The speaker was the husband of the young couple who originally lived in 301, Yang Yi.
Qiao Qiao was quite impressed by him. After all, he was able to pay 1,000 yuan a day in rent in order to live in a better house. It was obvious that he was not short of money.
Tang Mingli: “Yeah.”
"Well, do you usually have a boat when you go out?" The other three people came over and asked.
Tang Mingli frowned, and his right hand subconsciously reached for his lower back. "Yes, what can I do for you?"
Qiao Xinghe and Qiao Huizhou stepped forward and protected Qiao Qiao behind them.
"Don't be nervous, we have no ill intentions." Seeing this, several people immediately waved their hands to show their harmless attitude.
"We know that you guys should be able to get a lot of supplies when you go out every day, so we want to ask you to help us buy them. Of course, we'll pay you."
Tang Mingli and Qiao Qiao looked at each other. "Our mission is to rescue the trapped victims. We can't access supplies."
Yang Yi quickly said, "As long as you help, any amount of money is fine, even 1,000 for a bottle of water is fine."
"Aren't you rescue workers? My family is running out of food, you can't just watch us starve to death." Others pleaded while crying.
Seeing the people in front of him crying, Tang Mingli showed no mercy. "We can't do anything about the supplies, but if you have a boat, you can go out and look for them yourself, or go to the federal building for help."
"If we had a boat, we would have left long ago. Why would we beg you here?" Seeing that playing the victim was useless, several people changed their expressions instantly. "I don't care. You have to find a way, or I won't let you go."
At this time, the three of them were very united, standing at the entrance of the corridor arm in arm.
Yang Yi did not participate, but stood at the back with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Get out of the way, you are obstructing public service." Tang Mingli's patience was exhausted.
"I don't care. I'll die if I don't have food."
"Then why didn't you join the rescue team before?" Qiao Qiao suddenly spoke from behind.
"Well, there's no boat, so we can't go to the federal building." The three of them looked evasive.
"The radio announced that there will be boats to pick up those in our community who are joining the rescue team. We don't need to find a way to go on our own." Qiao Qiao didn't believe their excuses.
"..." Several people looked at each other. They couldn't honestly say that they were just lazy, and they didn't believe that the Federation would watch them starve to death and do nothing. Who would have thought that such a long time had passed and no one from the Federation came.
"I don't care. You are federal officials anyway, so you must find a way." The leader saw that the situation was not right and immediately acted like a rogue.
"Hey." Tang Mingli had no choice but to take out the gun from his waist, load it and aim. "Get out of the way."
The three men were facing guns for the first time, and their legs became weak. One of them insisted: "I don't believe you dare to shoot and kill people."
"ah!"
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