Chapter 14 Water Supply Outage
It's nine o'clock in the evening.
According to the pattern of the past few days, the outdoor temperature will drop to around 30℃ at night.
However, at this moment, the outdoor temperature still remains at a high of 40℃.
Due to insufficient power supply, each area can only supply electricity for a few hours.
Now Mingyue Huafu is once again in the midst of a power outage.
People gather in this parking lot to escape the heat, as the underground parking lot is much cooler than the outdoor area.
The community property management even placed dozens of large fans.
Large fans were running on power from generators, providing a brief respite from the heat.
The community has limited oil reserves, and it also needs to supply oil for elevator operation.
The large fans only lasted an hour before stopping.
Even if the fan stopped, no one wanted to go home.
Many people choose to stay in their cars, as cars can at least run their air conditioning using gasoline.
Before long, the entire underground parking lot was filled with the smell of cars starting up.
The exhaust gas emitted by the cars was also extremely hot, and the relatively cool underground parking lot suddenly became stuffy.
After throwing away the garbage, Su Yu hurried home.
The city that was once bustling with lights and bustle at night was now plunged into darkness, and the entire city seemed to have fallen silent.
The days that followed became more and more difficult.
The city's medical system was paralyzed and there was a complete shortage of supplies.
Medicines for cooling down and preventing heatstroke in summer are in serious shortage.
Because of the high temperature, it is difficult for people to go out to work, and many service facilities in the city have stopped operating.
Couriers and deliverymen cannot work in such an environment.
The power bureau also wanted to speed up rescue efforts, but many power workers died in the high temperature.
The top leaders are even more reluctant to step out of their homes.
Doctors and nurses wearing thick protective clothing also became among the people who suffered from heatstroke.
All kinds of supplies began to be out of stock in the market.
Some vendors started selling at high prices, and at this moment there was no one to come forward to manage prices.
"If anyone has Huoxiang Zhengqi water at home, I will buy it at a high price."
"Is there any ice cream? Unmelted ice cream. It's been so hot these past few days that you can't even buy a small pudding outside."
"Who has extra tissues? It takes too much tissue to wipe my butt in the hot summer."
Nowadays, almost all the owners of Mingyue Huafu are looking for neighbors who have inventory to buy things from.
They are not short of money, but young people don't like to stock up.
There is really a lack of things at home.
Amidst everyone's complaints, the property management of Mingyue Huafu delivered supplies.
However, in such a high temperature environment, it is impossible for the property management to deliver supplies door to door.
The property management company set up a stall in an open area of the underground parking lot, allowing owners in need to come down and pick it up.
There are a total of one hundred households living in Mingyue Huafu.
Each person can get two bags of vegetables and two bottles of mineral water.
These supplies may seem insignificant on a normal day, but they are now in short supply due to the high temperature and fruits and vegetables are prone to rotting.
These things cost as much as a thousand yuan.
The city has not yet started to suffer from water shortage, but the supply of mineral water for people to drink is obviously insufficient.
Many users have been boiling water and letting it cool before drinking it these days.
This shows how precious mineral water is.
The property distributes supplies to each household, and residents' detailed information needs to be registered when receiving the supplies.
The sharp-toothed woman and the local tycoon also lined up in the queue to receive supplies.
The girl with sharp teeth's younger brother works at the Meteorological Bureau.
The reason why they stocked up so much mineral water in the early stage was because the Meteorological Bureau predicted that the weather would continue to rise in the future.
Not even a hint of rain was predicted.
Staff from almost all major meteorological bureaus have begun secretly stockpiling supplies.
No one dared to leak any news about the forecast of continued temperature rise.
Otherwise, if the commotion gets too loud, it will cause social panic, and what's even more frightening is that criminals will take advantage of the chaos to break the law.
Although the local tycoons received the news early on, they did not stockpile much goods.
Of course they will come when the property distributes supplies.
Suddenly, the sharp-toothed woman asked in confusion, "Why didn't the mistress and her sponsor come?"
Almost 80% of the families in the community came to the underground parking lot just for this scarce supply.
For those who have not arrived yet, there are only two possibilities.
People who have enough goods at home and don’t want to bother with them in hot weather.
Another reason is that there are only elderly people and children at home, and it is inconvenient for them to travel.
When collecting supplies, you need to register your house information, so Su Yu will naturally not appear.
She didn't want to expose the information to the local tycoon.
But it does not prevent Su Ma from being in the team now.
Su Ma rarely went out since entering Mingyue Mansion, so her coming out to collect supplies would not leave much impression.
Besides, the sharp-tongued girl and the local tycoon didn’t know Su Ma.
Even if Su Ma left a message, he would not know that this was Su Yu's family.
At the reminder of the sharp-toothed woman, the local tycoon looked around the team.
As expected, Su Yu was nowhere to be seen.
"Most likely they have some in stock at home, so they don't come to get it."
The local tycoon explained to the sharp-toothed woman.
The local tycoon's black eyes rolled around with a lewd look on his face.
As if he had thought of something.
He lay down beside the sharp-toothed girl and whispered into her ear:
"Didn't your brother and his men at the Meteorological Bureau speculate that the end of the world is coming? If the end of the world really comes and order is disrupted, we'll go to that mistress's house and get her things."
"Yeah! I remember they went up from the elevator of Building 6 that day. We can then use the property management's pick-up form to find out which floor they live on."
The two of them plotted against Su Yu's family.
Little did they know that with the physical strength of these two people, they would not be able to defeat Su Yu's family even if they found them.
Not to mention that the two of them guessed wrongly which building Su Yu was in at the beginning.
Many people stayed in the basement after receiving their things and were unwilling to go home.
After all, the basement is only 30℃ at this moment.
It’s much better than the 40℃ steamer at home.
Some families have been relying on the air conditioning in their cars for several days.
However, gasoline is also limited.
Under the high temperature, people can no longer afford to turn on the air conditioner due to lack of oil.
Some people who don't mind the environment brought mats from home.
They spread the mats in the underground parking lot and then began to rest.
There seems to be no end in sight for days like this.
Those who are asleep are looking forward to rain tomorrow and looking forward to a phone call tomorrow.
No one expected that even more terrible news would come.
The water supply is cut off!
People who tried to cool down by taking a cold shower had just put on some foam when the shower head at home stopped running.
The person who had just finished using the toilet and was about to flush it found that the water would not come out.
The only thing to be thankful for is that there is still a signal.
The internet is flooded with people complaining about the bad weather.
Su Yu counted the days.
There are not many days left before social order is disrupted.
It won't be long before people start burning, killing, and looting for what little supplies they have.
People started fighting over a cool spot.
At the same time, Su Ma also received a call from her good friend Wen Jinghua.
"Qin'er, the heat in the city has been horrific lately. The institute plans to move to a location with special government electricity. Although you've resigned, they've reserved a spot for you in consideration of your contributions to the institute."
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