Chapter 12 Hail
[Neighbors, we're buying food at high prices. We're open to any and all offers! Satisfaction guaranteed!]
Does anyone have baby formula? I'll pay ten times the price! Please, my child can't go without food!
My water pipes are completely frozen. Can anyone help me get some water? I'll pay for it!
[I'm buying frostbite cream for a hefty price! My family's frostbite is coming back in this awful weather, and their hands and feet are practically rotting!]
There were more than a hundred original residents and tenants in Building 15, and the hail was still falling. After a few days, people could not bear it any longer, and the hail reached 99+ in a short time.
Tang Tian went to the balcony to carry out a new round of reinforcement and collect hailstones at the same time.
Fortunately, the size of the hailstones did not increase. The largest hailstones she had seen so far were as big as footballs.
But the hail level outside rose again, and the temperature dropped to around minus fifteen degrees Celsius.
More and more houses had their windows smashed, but no one agreed to let them stay with other people.
Among those who had previously successfully stayed there, conflicts gradually began to arise between the two sides, which were nothing more than trivial matters such as eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.
Residents who are too embarrassed to do so can only endure the humiliation, while the more assertive ones will tear their faces off and drive the people out.
But the people who were kicked out were not happy. They had paid the agreed rent, so they kept sticking to that family and harassing them.
The building is starting to get messy, but outside the community, it's even more messy than inside the building.
After the official policy came out, the expensive delivery and product fees were indeed eliminated. However, all food delivery platforms simply suspended operations, no longer accepting orders, and there were no riders on the road.
Some people still want to go out and buy supplies. Stores, supermarkets, and pharmacies have restored their usual prices, but they are basically sold out and out of stock, which is worse than before.
Apart from hail, the roads were littered with damaged plants, glass, tiles, billboards, street signs, street lights, etc., and there were hardly any cars to be seen.
Occasionally you could see a police car, fire truck or ambulance, but they were also struggling to drive through the hail pool.
…
Tang Tian and Tang Yi had just finished a round of crossbow practice.
However, the crossbow arrow was still too big, so Tang Tian paused his practice and opened the system warehouse to see if there was a substitute.
Tang Yi opened her phone to check if there was any new information in the property building group.
But unexpectedly, she hadn't seen a question from another resident for a while:
[By the way, I remember someone recently moved to the 17th floor and drove a big car. Did they buy a lot of stuff?]
Tang Yi's heart skipped a beat. She had never expected that her family, who had been so quiet, would still be targeted?
The eyes of outsiders are really everywhere!
She quickly called Tang Tian over, and the speed at which new messages emerged in the group was faster than theirs:
[Is this true? Did you see it with your own eyes?]
[I don't think I've heard 1701 speak in the past few days. Is something wrong?]
"If that's true, I think they're hiding it on purpose. They're new here, after all, and they don't have a sense of mutual support!"
@1701, I can pay for it, any price is fine!
Tang Tian frowned and was about to answer when she saw another message pop up below:
1702: [Aunt Xu, they just moved in, and the car is filled with either moving stuff or renovation items, what else could it be? The hailstorm came so suddenly, no one expected it, please don't blame them!]
The resident known as Aunt Xu replied:
[Oh, I'm really worried! My grandchildren came over for Chinese New Year, and the whole family stayed here, so we've used up a lot of food. The kids cry every day and are so skinny from hunger! If there's nothing left, then there's nothing left. Why are you so anxious?]
Thinking about it, what 1702 said was right, so we turned the page on this article, and the criticism originally directed at 1701 was also resolved.
But Tang Tian still sent a message:
My family just moved in, and we haven't even prepared anything for the Lunar New Year yet, and now we're dealing with this hailstorm. There are several people in our family, and we're worried! Does anyone in the neighborhood have any food? Please help!
But this sentence seemed to be quickly ignored by others.
The natural disaster actually occurred during the long New Year holiday, and many families had prepared at least a batch of New Year's goods.
Those who are clamoring to buy food now are those who live alone and have little to eat, and those who can't stand the hardship and want to eat better.
The Tang family had a very good reason. This was a real famine, so no one wanted to bother with them, for fear of being pestered for food.
However, Tang Tian didn't expect that 1702 would actually take the initiative to help them out - and the tone of voice did not seem like Chen Yaoyue's.
Could it be that middle-aged woman? After all, they had helped with everything, big and small.
At this moment, another resident said:
Dear neighbors, please don't worry. Our building manager just had a meeting with the neighborhood committee today. Official supplies will be delivered to our community soon!
[But now is a special situation. We are one building, and we are one family. We must unite and work hard to overcome the disaster. We can always overcome it!]
When people saw this, they all asked the building manager for detailed inquiries and were also very happy.
Tang Yi breathed a sigh of relief.
Now she understood: she couldn't be the first to speak out, but she couldn't remain silent either. People with ulterior motives would come and pester her no matter what.
So after that, she would always follow the trend and send a few messages asking for help every once in a while, but that's a story for later.
…
Three days later, a large truck was driving slowly on the road.
After temporarily stopping at the gate of Hexinyuan, several fully armed rescue workers came down.
After they put away several boxes of supplies in the face of hail, they hurriedly got in the car and left.
The neighborhood committee and property management immediately took over the supply boxes. After registering the information and confirming the plan, they were distributed to each building for unified distribution by the building manager.
Zhang Manxin posted a notice in the group, asking people to start from the first floor, bring their ID cards, household registration books and other documents, and go to the door of 1201 in order of floors to collect supplies.
This was probably the first time the Tang family went out since the end of the world, but at this time, the mother and her two daughters were having dinner at home.
This time, there was an extra delicacy on the table that came from the system.
【Tomato Scrambled Eggs】
[It's delicious and goes really well with rice. 30% chance of gaining Warmth Level 2 bonus after consumption. If eaten with rice, the chance increases by 15%. Duration: 4 hours]
The purpose of making this delicacy is to obtain supernatural powers so that we can prepare for going out later.
The red tomatoes are almost cooked to a pulp, paired with soft eggs. The hot and rich juice covers every grain of white and crystal rice. Every bite is salty, sour and sweet, and you will want two spoonfuls after eating one.
The system delicacies can be eaten until one has superpowers, so in the end, all three of them got bonuses.
The temperature brought by LV2 is more obvious. After Tang Tian finished eating, she was so hot that she wanted to take off all her clothes except for one layer of clothing.
Fortunately, because we were able to go and collect supplies, all the grudges in the building over the past few days seemed to be wiped out in an instant, and there was harmony and unity. It was very fast, and it didn't take long to reach the 17th floor.
Tang Tian realized that 1702 had left, so she and Tang Yi prepared to go out, and Wei Mingxia stayed behind to look after the house.
Despite the supernatural food, Tang Tian still wore a thick coat with a heat pad underneath. She also wore cotton boots with warming pads on her feet, a hat, gloves, and a scarf.
Although there was no wind after she walked out of the room, the corridor was still cold. She had just come out of the room, so she didn't feel too cold.
Walking down the stairs, I unexpectedly ran into Shen Yaoyue and Yan Chunhua who were carrying bags.
Yan Chunhua smiled faintly when he saw them:
"Go get the supplies quickly, there are quite a lot of them this time."
Faced with the good intention, Tang Tian responded with a good face and nodded in agreement. The four of them passed each other.
They quickly arrived at the 12th floor. In order to prevent the heat from dissipating, the door of the building manager's house was closed. Tang Tian went forward and pressed the doorbell.
But I didn't expect that even after pressing it two or three times, the door still didn't open.
Tang Tian raised her eyebrows, and she immediately thought of what happened last time - could it be that Zhang Manxin wanted to show her a warning?
Sure enough, after a few minutes, Zhang Manxin slowly came over to open the door.
She glanced at the two sisters and said:
"You're too slow. You should know that there are other people upstairs waiting to receive supplies. You're new here, so you need to get along well with your neighbors as soon as possible. It will be more convenient in the future!"
Tang Tian could hear the sarcasm in Zhang Man's words, but she was too lazy to waste time talking to her.
If the situation hadn't been completely chaotic yet and she couldn't go too far, she would have definitely gone all out.
So she said coldly:
"Where are the supplies?"
Seeing that Tang Tian was unmoved, Zhang Manxin pouted and took a notebook and pen from the cabinet next to her. Then she reached out and said:
"You need to register to receive supplies. It's stipulated that one supply per person. We need to show your ID card."
Tang Yi handed over the ID cards of the three people. After Zhang Manxin looked at them, she felt a little surprised.
She clearly remembered that there was a good-looking young man at that time who seemed to have a very close relationship with Tang Yi. Why is he gone?
But seeing that there were only mother and daughter, she felt something in her heart.
After returning the ID card, she fiddled around behind the door and finally handed over a plastic bag.
"Here, these are your family's supplies. Take them away. Others will come to claim them later!"
Tang Tian took it, but after just a quick glance in the bag, she quickly raised her foot and pressed it against the door that was about to close.
Zhang Manxin was surprised and asked:
"W-What do you want to do?"
Tang Tian narrowed his eyes and snorted coldly:
"How could there be so little supplies for three people? And this time, they were supposed to give out heating pads, but where are the supplies?!"
There were only three vacuum-packed rice bricks, three cans of luncheon meat, two pounds of potatoes and a bag of salt in the plastic bag, but this was not enough supplies for three people.
In Tang Tian's previous life, it was probably around this time that he received official emergency supplies.
Jiang Yao was also home at the time, and the supplies for four people were several times more than this. Although it took a long time before the supplies were received again, it was impossible that the amount was so small.
Because it was the first time they received supplies, the four of them were very excited, and Tang Tian still remembers it vividly.
Especially the most important heating pad, it simply disappeared!
She can treat sarcastic remarks as if someone is farting, but she will never allow any shortage or even withholding of supplies!
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