"We can't stay here any longer. We have nothing on us. Let's leave now and find something to eat."
"We'll search for clues about supplies while also looking for information at the official shelters," Shangguan Hong suggested angrily, rubbing his stomach.
Previously, as a member of a top-tier wealthy family in Shanghai, he had never experienced any hardship or tragedy. Today was the most miserable and humiliating day of his life.
His wife and daughter were the same; they were already furious with him today, and they even drank a lot of water that had been soaked in the water of dead people.
"Dad, Mom, let's hurry up and leave! If we don't find something to eat soon, we'll starve to death here."
"Okay!" Shangguan Hong, hungry, quickly left the underground warehouse with his wife and daughter, who were starving, and headed out onto the street, hoping to find some food to fill their stomachs.
They didn't overlook any detail, and their hard work paid off; the three of them actually found several packets of instant noodles hidden in a corner.
The three of them wolfed down their food, then went to another house and took other people's clothes to change out of their flood-soaked clothes.
They continued to visit every section of the Qinzhou intersection and the surrounding area, searching for witnesses and clues.
Along the way, they saw people braving the wind and rain searching for supplies in every house, and they excitedly ran up to ask them, but they didn't get any useful information.
Undeterred, they braved the raging wind and rain, relentlessly asking questions and searching.
Seeing that the shelters were packed with people, they persevered and went door-to-door asking around, listening to the eyewitness accounts of the refugees.
Through arduous efforts, they finally discovered a crucial clue.
One refugee recalled seeing several suspicious people loitering near the warehouse a few days earlier, and their behavior was very strange.
“I think I saw a few suspicious people loitering around the Qinzhou intersection a few days ago.”
"Now that a natural disaster has struck, food is almost gone, and we rely on the little bit of food the country provides each day."
Do you think there's ever a day when no one wanders around outside hungry?
"That's right! Every day, batches of people are searching for supplies. Even if there were a lot of food, it would have been taken away long ago."
"I advise you to stop thinking about those supplies. Instead, focus on finding some supplies and going to the official shelters while the floods haven't reached you yet! Otherwise, once everyone gathers here, you won't even have a place to sleep."
Shangguan Hong, Liu Li, and Shangguan Mingyue felt their hearts sink to the bottom when they heard what the people around the room in the shelter were saying.
Who's right? In this world, if you don't have supplies, you really won't have them.
He only considered the heavy rain and thought of high-altitude areas, without considering that there are also many people in high-altitude areas, and that the shelters are located here!
But despite having excellent security measures in his thousands of warehouses, not a single door was opened, and everything inside vanished without a trace.
This isn't the warehouse manager or the transport driver; who could move the goods from his thousands of large warehouses in such a short time?
Although they were very unwilling, the family knew that all the supplies could not be recovered.
Thinking of this, Shangguan Hong felt very sad. His family would never be able to live a life of ease and luxury again. His heart ached, and he said to his wife and daughter:
"Ali, Mingyue, we have nothing left now. Without those supplies, our lives will never be as good as before."
I heard there will be a terrifying global tsunami after the torrential rains and floods, so let's hurry and get to the official shelters! Otherwise, if we're too late, we won't even have a place to sleep.
Upon hearing Shangguan Hong's words, Shangguan Mingyue's eyes welled up with tears.
She was born into a well-off family and has always lived a life of comfort and ease. Now, a natural disaster has struck, and not only have all her supplies vanished, but she will also have to live a life that has been turned upside down. She is really distressed.
Unable to give up, she asked, her voice choked with emotion, "Dad, are our supplies really gone forever?"
“Daughter! Your father and I want to too! We dream about it, but in this world, if our supplies are discovered, they can only be taken away,” Shangguan Hong replied sadly.
"Let's get to the shelter and find a place to stay without delay! I'm also heartbroken that we're out of supplies, but life has to go on, right?" Liu Li said, her face flushed with excitement and her hands trembling as she touched her chest, which was throbbing with pain.
She had never suffered much hardship in her life, and her dead husband came from a good family. This first love husband was even more domineering than the other one.
She thought she could enjoy wealth and luxury until she died, but who knew that all sorts of natural disasters would suddenly begin to strike? Without countless supplies, how would she survive in the shelter environment?
“We’re heading there now. There are still five kilometers of bitter ground to go, and the refuge is located on the southern slope of the mountain to prevent the risk of flooding.”
Hearing his wife's words, Shangguan Hong said a few words and then stopped talking. He led his wife and daughter through the wind and rain, collecting useful items as they walked towards the official shelter.
A few days later, Shangguan Hong, along with his wife and daughter, found a few bags of edible supplies and struggled through the raging storms and floods to reach a shelter halfway up a mountain in Shanghai.
It's only been two or three months since the natural disaster started, and the shelters haven't received any supplies yet. Anyone who wants to enter the official shelters is welcome.
As the family entered the shelter and arrived at the door of the house, a mixture of various foul and sour smells hit them, causing them to frown and cover their mouths.
The scene inside the shelter took Shangguan Hong's family by surprise.
Everywhere was littered with household garbage, and the ground was filthy and messy, as if it had experienced an endless period of chaos.
I heard that there are currently over 100,000 survivors on this mountainside, and many more survivors are gradually arriving at their destination.
Inside a single room in the shelter were thousands of survivors, all of them in poor spirits, their faces so dark they were unrecognizable, their clothes unwashed for who knows how many days, their hair like that of madmen, their bodies in a disheveled state, frantically scrambling for a place to rest.
"This is my territory. I'll fight anyone who tries to take it from me."
"Damn it, I just went out to pee and you old woman took over my spot. I'll beat you to death."
Then a man and a woman got into a fight over a spot to sleep, and many similar incidents occurred around the area, with the news of their arguments spreading throughout the entire shelter.
The exhaustion, madness, and despair on their faces filled Shangguan Hong with endless pain.
The Shangguan family had always lived in a wealthy environment; they had never experienced such hardship. Their conversation was filled with disdain and incomprehension.
"This place is so dirty and messy! How did we end up in a place like this?"
"The smell here is unbearable; we've never smelled anything like it before."
"I really don't understand why we came to a place like this!"
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