Chapter 45 Torrential Rain and Extreme Cold? 3
Chapter Forty-Five
It was already 9 a.m. The rain had stopped, but the wind was strong. The sky outside was still dark, but the thick, dark clouds were already visible.
Lin Xia ate breakfast and kept a close eye on the outside world and the news; the temperature had dropped by about 10°C.
The rain was too heavy last night, causing urban flooding, but thankfully the water level is receding slowly now. It's not on the coast, and there are no overflowing rivers, so the situation is good.
However, a restaurant kitchen was struck by lightning, causing a small fire. Fortunately, the heavy rain quickly extinguished the fire, preventing irreparable damage.
The streets were chaotic today, and the supermarkets were packed with people. Because of yesterday's doomsday rhetoric, coupled with the increasingly heavy clouds, people with a strong sense of crisis rushed into supermarkets to stock up on goods while it wasn't raining.
Lin Xia was on the top floor, where the wind howled, but the thick clouds seemed oblivious, remaining completely still. The large glass windows offering such a view made her feel very uneasy.
Where could she go... Lin Xia kept thinking. At this moment, the sky darkened a bit more, and the rain poured down, heavier than the night before. The wind also picked up, making the raindrops fly wildly in the air.
Once the rain started, it didn't stop. Daytime was like night, visibility was very low, and there was lightning and thunder in the sky, as if the end of the world had arrived.
This truly feels like the most apocalyptic world imaginable...
Lin Xia dragged the sofa to the doorway, to the furthest spot from the window, and lay down on it, watching the heavy rain outside.
When Lin Xia opened her eyes, she found that she seemed to be standing on the middle floor looking out. The whole city was pitch black. When there was lightning and thunder, she could see dark clouds pressing down in the sky and floods submerging the roads, revealing the tops of cars.
The torrential rain finally stopped, and Lin Xia saw that the water on the window had frozen. Just then, something crashed down from the sky, shattering the glass in front of her...
Lin Xia, who was lying on the sofa, suddenly opened her eyes. She hadn't had a dream like this in a long time. Was it extreme cold? Were hailstones falling from the sky?
Boom! —
A loud bang interrupted her thoughts. She saw the lights outside suddenly go out, and when she picked up her phone, she saw that the internet was down. It was 1 p.m.
Lin Xia stood up. This place was no longer safe to stay. The top floor was so high up; if the glass had been shattered by the hail, it would be extremely cold. With the temperature dropping, it was not a place to stay for long.
Thinking of this, Lin Xia stuffed all the blankets in the room into her spatial storage and quickly went downstairs.
There were quite a few people in the hallway talking about the power outage. Some said the power plant was struck by lightning and exploded. They said the temperature dropped too quickly, and everyone was wearing warm clothes. Fortunately, it hadn't frozen outside yet.
She quickly went down to the fifth floor. Walking in the corridor, Lin Xia found that no one lived on this floor. That made sense, as the water had already flooded up to the fourth floor, and everyone had moved upstairs. She used her spiritual power to check and chose a small standard room with only a small window in the corner.
Blocking the door, Lin Xia sat on the bed, pondering her next move. It was raining heavily, everything was flooded, and it was even hailing. Where could she find shelter if the temperature dropped to extremely low levels...?
dugout!
These three words popped into Lin Xia's mind, but unfortunately there was no internet, so she didn't know where the air-raid shelters were.
At that moment, the group chat started flashing, and Lin Xia clicked on it.
"Seventh Sister, look here!" Below are many photos taken by Ji Wei.
While thinking about how group chats could send photos, Lin Xia looked at the picture and realized it was an air-raid shelter! Her spirits lifted.
Many large trucks were heading towards the air-raid shelter, and there were also some passersby like Ji Wei.
"Can you send me your location?" Lin Xia asked.
"Seventh Sister, this air-raid shelter is in L City, not far from M City. It's an abandoned air-raid shelter, but it looks like it's been put into use. I've inquired, and there are also air-raid shelters in M City. I'll send you the location in a bit."
"But I suggest that you come here, Seventh Sister, it's safer. The people who have come here are all high-ranking officials and dignitaries. I overheard that if the rain continues, the air-raid shelters in the city are very likely to be flooded. They all found out in advance and evacuated."
I'll send you the locations of the air-raid shelters!
"Go in as soon as you can, there's a good chance of hail, maybe a lot of hail. Be careful when you go out." Lin Xia tagged four people in the chat group.
She exclaimed that Ji Wei's luck was indeed excellent. She opened the offline map and found the location of the air-raid shelter. She had to cross almost half the city to get there.
There's hail, the temperature might drop suddenly, and it's uncertain whether there will be other disasters. She really needs to leave here immediately.
Looking at the floodwaters outside, Lin Xia felt helpless. How could she leave? She had backed up so many things, but she hadn't backed up a single boat.
Lin Xian paused as she flipped through the backup section, looked up outside, and saw that the rain... had stopped. Remembering her dream, she got up and rushed into the bathroom. Before she could react, the sound of things being smashed came from behind her.
Then came the sound of shattering glass, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, people's screams, and the crackling sound of water freezing rapidly...
Lin Xia closed the bathroom door tightly, took out her warm clothes, and quickly put them on. She also quickly put on her hat, scarf, and goggles.
As the white frost slowly crept into the room, covering the ground, walls, and roof, the temperature suddenly dropped several degrees when half the room was covered in white frost.
Opening the bathroom door, Lin Xia saw a thick layer of frost on the windowpane. She opened the window forcefully, and outside was a world of ice and snow, as if the whole world had been frozen. The windows of the building across the street were riddled with holes, and all the water on the ground was frozen solid.
There were also many hailstones embedded in the ice, and a layer of hailstones the size of human heads on the surface of the ice. Fortunately, because of the rain, people stayed in their houses. Today is the second day of the disaster, and no one will venture out in the rain to find food.
When Lin Xia reached the fourth floor, she saw that the windows in the hallway were still intact. She opened the window and climbed out.
The sky was still thick with dark clouds, and you could even see lightning and thunder within them. There was neither rain nor hail, so it was just the right time to continue our journey.
As soon as she went downstairs, she heard someone upstairs ask, "Hey, where are you going?"
Lin Xia glanced at him, recalling what she had just seen in the backup section: [Portable Speaker: An adjustable speaker to let others hear your voice; maximum range: 300 kilometers in diameter.]
With communication cut off and people having no source of information, Lin Xia thought for a moment and decided to spend 10 survival points to exchange for it.
He opened the maximum range and shouted, "A safe zone is being built in the air-raid shelter south of Misty Mountain, southeast of M City, but the hail is likely to continue. Please make your own choices!"
......
After shouting three times, Lin Xia put away the megaphone and started running forward. Only when she started running did she realize that although the shoes produced by the system were very slip-resistant, there were many ice blocks on the road, which greatly affected her speed.
"Holy crap, are you serious? Hey..." Watching Lin Xia run off into the distance, the man's eyes darted around before he quickly went to pack his things.
Upon hearing the shouts, some indigenous people whose families knew the area sprang into action, while others, not believing it, hid at home and waited for rescue.
The players are the same; some believe it, and some doubt it.
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