Chapter 187 The Poor Kid in the Apocalypse 17
Instead of ringing the doorbell, he shouted directly at the door, his voice coming through the security microphone.
"I know there are people inside! Don't hide! I mean no harm, we just really have no food left at home."
Could you, could you spare me a few bottles of water and some food? Once I get through this, I'll repay you a hundredfold, a thousandfold!
Shen Ci was startled. She chose this place because there were few people around. She believed that all her actions were extremely secretive. She used Da Bao's spatial ability to transport supplies and left no trace. How could she be targeted?
She took a deep breath, turned on the call function of the door monitor, and made her voice sound a little weak.
"Who? What are you talking about? My family has been out of food for a long time too. I've been starving for days."
If you have any extra, could you share some with me? I'm willing to pay a high price for it.
Upon hearing this, the man outside the door's face instantly turned ugly. He didn't believe these words at all, and his tone immediately became very harsh.
"Pah! Stop pretending! This world has no humanity left! How can you stand by and watch someone die without lifting a finger?"
He cursed a few times, then pretended to be dead. Seeing that there was no further response from inside the villa, he could only turn around and leave angrily, since it was already unbearably hot outside.
Shen Ci stared intently at the screen, confirming the direction he had left in and memorizing the location of the villa he had finally entered.
She wasn't worried that the other party would suspect why the villa had electricity and surveillance capabilities. It wasn't unusual for people living in such hillside villa areas to have their own generators and independent security systems.
She had indeed transported some regular supplies under the guise of renovations, which wouldn't arouse much suspicion. The truly essential supplies were all directly stored into her spatial storage by Da Bao.
Nevertheless, she remained cautious and marked the villa the man had entered as a key observation target, adjusting the angle of an external camera to keep a close eye on the activity there.
In the end times, vigilance is essential. It is better to have the intention to harm others than to be without the intention to protect yourself, for here only the law of the jungle prevails.
The extreme heatwave lasted for over a month, turning the once relatively well-developed city of Dongfang into a furnace.
Almost all the lakes, landscapes, fountains, and even the small, cratered puddles in the exposed water parks have completely dried up, the riverbeds have become cracked, and the lake bottoms have been exposed.
The city's water resources are nearly exhausted. The temperature has remained at 68 degrees Celsius for more than a month, and there has been no rain. External water sources are basically gone.
Half of the bottled water, barrelled water, and stored water inside were destroyed in the fire, while the other half were looted by the survivors, making water more precious than gold.
Life in the underground villa was very regular, with days going by in an orderly fashion, as if one were isolated from the world.
Every day, he studies cultural knowledge, trains in physical combat, masters Da Bao's superpowers, and engages in recreational activities.
With ample food, clean drinking water, and a constant, comfortable environment, they were completely unaffected by the outside world. Under hydroponics, the cherry tomatoes they grew all bore fruit, making people feel the progress of life.
Over the past month, Shen Ci has been able to infer from the images transmitted back by drones that there are still many survivors in the city, and that the overall population has been reduced by more than half under such extreme conditions.
The temperature remained around 68 degrees Celsius for more than a month.
Until one afternoon a month later.
The sky suddenly darkened without any warning.
Suddenly, many dark clouds gathered from all directions, covering the entire sky at a visible speed, and the sky darkened instantly, just like night.
This change caused the people hiding in the buildings to look up at the sky in panic, as the change in the sky was far too abnormal.
When the first drop of rain fell, many people didn't even realize it.
"Rain! It's raining! It's raining!!"
Someone shouted from somewhere, and the sound was like a drop of water boiling in a pot of oil.
The survivors then realized it was raining and stretched their hands out of the window to feel the coolness. After such a long period of high temperatures, everyone was trying to conserve water, and many of them had chapped lips.
Now it's suddenly raining, and some people are even opening their mouths to drink the water, because the thirst is so unbearable.
At first, it was just a few raindrops, but they quickly connected into lines, and then it turned into a torrential downpour. The rain became very heavy, and it only took a few minutes. The rain washed over the gray city.
The survivors erupted in ecstasy. They had survived?! They had come back to life?!
Everyone stumbled and ran home, taking out every container they could find to hold water—pots, pans, buckets, everything—trying to collect as much rainwater as possible.
The high temperatures of the previous month were truly terrifying; no one knew how long this rain would last or when it would stop.
The rain not only gave the survivors hope, but also washed away the dust on the streets, carrying away the long-rotted, blackened, and dried corpses into the sewers.
The parched city seemed to come alive again overnight.
The rain lasted for a whole day and night.
In front of the control panel in the basement of the villa, Shen Ci looked at the data and monitoring footage being transmitted back, but she couldn't feel happy.
The thermometer clearly showed that the ambient temperature had dropped from 68 degrees Celsius to 25 degrees Celsius at an extremely rapid pace, which was even cooler than a normal summer day.
"Mom, it's raining, so it won't be hot anymore, right?"
Da Bao looked at the rain streaks on the screen and asked curiously.
Shen Ci pulled the child into her arms, her gaze grave.
"Rain will take away the high temperatures, but it will also bring other things."
She explained to Da Bao, but her heart grew heavier and heavier. In the eyes of ordinary people, this heavy rain marked the end of the disaster and the end of the heat wave.
However, in her view, although the heatwave had ended, an even more terrifying disaster was about to strike.
Under the sustained high temperatures, the corpses that had not yet fully decomposed, along with the various bacteria and viruses that had bred, had not yet been completely killed when suddenly it rained.
Soaking in rainwater accelerates the fermentation, mutation, and spread of viruses, making the flow of water a route for virus transmission.
She pulled up a previously downloaded city map, as well as the latest situation map drawn from drone footage over the past month.
The basement has ample supplies, enough to last for many years, but weapons are scarce, consisting of a pistol and a hundred bullets as a system reward.
In high temperatures, no one dares to go out casually, which is actually safe for them.
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