Chapter 15 The Rainstorm

The continued rise in extremely high temperatures has prevented people from continuing to work and study, and most companies and schools have chosen to work from home and take online classes.

During the day, there are almost no people walking or driving on the road. People only come out of their homes at around eight or nine in the evening to breathe the fresh air outside.

The temperature remained high for such a long time that not a drop of rain fell. The crops planted in the fields were almost sunburned to death, and the water levels of lakes and rivers dropped significantly.

There are also some people who have a stronger sense of crisis. They sensed something unusual from the details and quietly stocked up on supplies at home.

Doomsday theorists have appeared online, saying that the abnormally high temperatures across the country are a sign that the end of the world is coming.

As soon as such remarks appeared, they triggered widespread ridicule from netizens, who said that the blogger had read too many novels and was too fond of fantasy; others said that the blogger was promoting doomsday theories in order to sell goods so that everyone would spend money to stock up on goods and clear out their inventory, etc.

There were also a very small number of people who believed what the blogger said and went to the supermarket to buy goods. There were also some people who began to stock up with doubts, thinking that even if nothing happened, they could keep the goods at home and eat them slowly without wasting them.

Netizens argued endlessly under this Weibo post, and it soon topped the trending searches. Not long after, the official blocked this entry, and no news related to doomsday theory could be found anymore.

The exploding amount of information on the Internet is impacting the brains of netizens all the time. This article is just a drop in the ocean and is quickly forgotten as people enthusiastically participate in the next discussion.

This article was posted by Ye Yu'an. This is the maximum reminder she can give. She won't do any more.

After being reborn, all her emotions became extremely indifferent, and she didn't have the energy to pay attention to the life and death of irrelevant people.

The warehouse supermarkets and drug stores that Shuxin had previously acquired in order to collect supplies were all closed half a month ago, and the company announced that they had gone bankrupt due to poor management and a broken capital chain.

Because Shuxin remembered that shortly after the heavy rain, all large supermarkets were taken over by government agencies and the military, and she didn't want to go out in the heavy rain to arrange such a thing.

Closing early also prevents people living nearby from missing out on things in the supermarket when they are short of supplies.

When laying off all the employees, Shu Xin asked the manager to give each person an extra three months' salary and five vacuum-packed bags of rice and noodles, plus a small medicine box containing commonly used medicines.

If they can keep these items at home and not sell them, and if they can protect them well, it will be enough to support them through the natural disaster for more than a year.

Fu Xiangwen and Mu Qimai also moved into the house where Shuxin and Yanmo lived. The house was divided into two floors. Shuxin lived alone on the upper floor, while Yanmo and the other three boys lived on the lower floor.

When Fu Xiangwen and Maki Qimai saw the house that had been decorated to have a safety factor almost as high as that of a bank safe, they couldn't help but be amazed and admire Shuxin's safety awareness. They felt an extra layer of respect for Shuxin in their hearts.

Each of them collected supplies from ten large warehouses and gave them to Yan Mo for their future expenses. Yan Mo knew that they did not refuse and took Shu Xin to collect the supplies in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, the space is big enough, otherwise it would not be able to hold so many things. A lot of things that do not need to be kept fresh are placed on the second layer, occupying the grassland where calves and lambs can stroll freely.

On the last day of June, the sunny sky turned dim, and a breeze finally blew in the air, accompanied by raindrops falling, making people feel a little cool.

"The China Meteorological Observatory has issued an urgent yellow rainstorm warning. Heavy rainfall will continue for about a week. Residents are advised to stock up on food and stay at home to reduce going out."

"The government and relevant departments should perform emergency work to prevent rainstorms in accordance with their duties; cut off dangerous outdoor power sources and suspend outdoor work; units in dangerous areas should suspend classes and operations, and take special measures to protect the safety of students, young children and other employees who have already arrived at school; do a good job in draining water from cities and farmlands, and pay attention to preventing possible disasters such as mountain torrents, landslides, mud and rock flows."

The rain came unexpectedly, and people who received the news rushed to supermarkets, and Shuxin and his friends were no exception.

Although they have sufficient supplies, even the spare rooms in the house they live in are filled with various supplies, but others are out stocking up, but you are not moving. Isn't this clearly telling others that they have sufficient stock at home?

By the time everyone has run out of food, it's easy to be targeted and get into unnecessary trouble.

They are not afraid of trouble, but they don't want to cause trouble either. They just want to live their own lives happily.

When the group went to the supermarket to buy groceries, in order not to compete with ordinary people for survival resources, they took a bag of noodles and a bag of rice to conceal their tracks, and the shopping cart was filled with snacks, drinks, condiments and the like.

Everyone was busy buying rice, flour, oil, vegetables, fruits, meat and eggs. The snack area seemed particularly empty, with only a few young people walking around.

They didn't hesitate to buy snacks and put all their favorite foods and those they had never eaten into the shopping cart. Despite her boyfriend's disapproving look, Shuxin took two large boxes of ice cream and put them in the shopping cart.

Seeing his girlfriend peeking at him in fear while her hands did not slow down at all, Yan Mo sighed helplessly.

It seems that I have to keep a closer eye on her, to prevent her from eating too much cold food and complaining of stomachache during her special period, and then she will be the one who suffers.

Four people pushed four carts. The carts in Yan Mo and Mu Qimai seemed to be pushed for Shu Xin and Su Xiangwen. The two of them wanted to eat so much that one cart could not hold all the food.

As expected, when the few people paid the bill, they received a lot of stares, especially from the uncles and aunts, who looked at them with disgust and blame. Under normal circumstances, someone would definitely rush up and say, "Look at these young people, they just don't know how to live, and they buy all kinds of indecent things. Can these things fill their stomachs?"

But now they are busy buying things and have no time or opportunity to promote their ideas.

When the four of them went out, they were driving the Cavalier XV that Shuxin had ordered in Germany before. It was no problem for them to put down the several large bags of things they bought.

Thinking that it would be inconvenient to go out due to the heavy rain, a few people had a brief discussion and immediately reached a consensus to go out for a good meal at noon.

Maybe the dining atmosphere was too good, even Yanmo couldn't control his appetite and ate too much.

It is really good to have close friends and loved ones around you and to live a stable and happy life like this.