Chapter 12 Typhoon Arrives, Torrential Rain Strikes
Apartment 102, Building 1: Oh my god, look outside!
Room 1601, Building 3: I saw it a while ago; it's getting darker and darker outside.
Apartment 601, Building 7: It's finally raining! This weather was unbearably hot before.
Apartment 902, Building 6: Don't make a fuss, it's just raining. It was so hot the past few days, a little rain is just right.
Apartment 1102, Building 5: Let it rain harder, so that like a few days ago when it was hot, the company will give us a holiday and we won't have to go to work.
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The WeChat group was full of all sorts of requests. Bai Tang got out of bed, opened the curtains, and looked out. The sky outside was gloomy and covered with dark clouds.
At first, Bai Tang thought that Gu Yanxu hadn't opened the curtains, which was why the room was so dark, but she didn't expect that it was the sky outside that was getting dark.
Bai Tang walked out of the bedroom and into the living room, where she saw them sitting upright in front of the newly reinforced windows.
Bai Jiyang and the others were watching the weather outside. As time passed, they became increasingly nervous.
Bai Tang walked over and said, "Don't look anymore, the rain isn't coming down yet, it looks like it'll probably be a while longer."
Bai Tang has been closely monitoring the official weather warnings.
Just then, a notification sounded. Bai Tang opened the message, which was an official announcement about the typhoon's landfall.
"The typhoon has made landfall in coastal cities of my country. Residents are advised not to go out unnecessarily and to pay attention to personal safety."
The typhoon has made landfall along the coast, bringing with it tornadoes and torrential rain.
Although Shengshi, where Bai Tang and his friends live, is not a coastal city, it is still affected by the rainstorm.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the sky outside was as gloomy as night.
Large raindrops began to appear on the windowpane; the downpour had started.
Bai Tang asked them to check the rooms upstairs to see if the windows were closed properly, so that rainwater wouldn't get inside.
Fortunately, Gu Yanxu arranged for soundproof glass to be reinstalled, so the sound of rain inside the house wasn't that loud. However, you could tell how heavy the rain was by looking at the raindrops pattering down the window.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the dense raindrops were so thick that even the umbrellas of pedestrians on the street couldn't keep them dry.
Drivers on the road weren't faring much better; their windshield wipers were practically worn out, and they still couldn't see the road ahead clearly, leading to a chain collision involving multiple vehicles. For a moment, curses from the drivers filled the air.
The torrential rain continued for four hours without stopping; in fact, it got heavier and heavier.
Before they knew it, it was noon. Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu went to the kitchen to prepare food: duck noodles, pan-fried buns, and the stewed pork ribs from a few days ago.
The preparation method of duck noodles is unique. High-quality wheat flour and duck meat are selected. The duck meat is cut into thin slices and set aside. The wheat flour is kneaded into dough, rolled into thin sheets, and cut into thin strips.
After putting the seasonings in the pot and boiling the water,...
After cooking the noodles and duck meat, it's ready to eat.
Bai Tang took out the ingredients she had prepared from her space and started cooking. After she finished cooking,
Bai Tang began to call everyone to the kitchen to bring the dishes and rice to the dining room.
As they ate, the group remarked, "If this rain keeps falling like this, won't the first floor flood?"
"Yes, I've never seen such heavy rain since I was born."
Gu Yanxu continued, "It won't just be the first floor that will be flooded; if it rains for a few more days, it might even flood the eighth or ninth floor."
So after we finish eating, we need to install the special door at the top of the stairs to prevent anyone from coming up.
Lin Zhou said to Gu Yanxu, "OK, boss, don't worry, I'm good at this. I'll have Brother Feng help me out, and it'll be installed in no time."
After dinner, Bai Tang followed Gu Yanxu to the stairwell, took out a specially made door from her spatial storage, and then called Lin Zhou and the others to install it.
After the door was installed, everyone returned to room 2001.
Bai Tang stood on the balcony looking out the window. The outside was blurred by rain and mist, and nothing could be seen clearly. Even the building next door could only be seen as an outline.
However, Bai Tang had a telescope in her space, so she went back to her bedroom and pretended to take it out.
Looking out again, Bai Tang noticed that the rainwater had already reached about a meter deep, and some of the cars on the street were submerged.
The air temperature outside seems to have dropped; it suddenly feels cold.
At this moment, the property manager spoke in their property management group: Everyone should try not to go out, because all the drainage well covers in the community have been opened to prevent people from falling in.
After the property manager sent that message, the group chat started buzzing.
Apartment 402, Building 1: With such heavy rain, what if our home floods?
Apartment 101, Building 4: Don't even mention it, water has already started flowing into my apartment. My whole family is frantically pouring water out; we're going crazy.
Apartment 102, Building 2: Mine too. The bathroom window was left open, and when we found out, the bathroom was full of water.
Room 101, Building 5: The first floor is already flooding. Is anyone going to do anything about it?
Apartment 602, Building 7: Sigh, my family hasn't gotten off work yet, and I don't know if there's any standing water on the road.
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Most of the people in the group are first-floor residents saying their homes have been flooded.
The property manager responded: "This is not our responsibility, and there's nothing we can do about it. You'll have to figure it out yourselves."
Some people have already brought their families upstairs to seek help.
See if we can stay at someone's house.
But at this juncture, who would dare let just anyone into their home?
Most of them refused. The residents on the first floor of Bai Tang's building also went upstairs to ask if they could stay temporarily.
The family kept walking up to the stairs leading from the 19th to the 20th floor, and they were all confused as to when there was a door here.
The male homeowner went up to knock on the door, and Bai Tang and the others also saw the family on the surveillance footage, but they did not intend to let them in.
Lin Fan and Lin Feng came out and asked, "What's going on? What's wrong with you two?"
The man said, "I live on the first floor of this building. Our first floor is flooded. Can we stay at your house?"
Lin Feng said impatiently, "Let's go, let's go stay at someone else's house. I hate kids the most."
The little boy in the woman's arms was so frightened by Lin Feng's appearance that he burst into tears and kept wailing.
Seeing this, the husband had no choice but to take his wife and children downstairs to see if there was anyone they could stay with.
Finally, an elderly person living alone on the 12th floor let them stay at their home.
Lin Fan and his companion returned to the house and told the others that the first floor was flooded.
Bai Tang suggested that they listen to the sounds outside while they sleep, in case someone tries to break in.
Bai Jiyang then said, "Isn't that simple? I'll just turn on the power grid."
The power hadn't actually gone out yet. The reason that family came up the stairs was because they were afraid that if the power went out, they would be trapped in the elevator and doomed.
As expected, their worries were justified; the power went out completely not long afterward, and Bai Tang took out a small generator for Bai Jiyang.
They told him to connect it to the electric fence at the gate, and even put up a sign next to it: "The gate is electrified. Please stay away. We will not be responsible for any accidents."
Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu discussed planting the seeds and saplings in the space.
Then the two went back to the house and entered the space. Bai Tang knew nothing about farming, so she could only take out the farming books she had bought before to study them.
Over there, Gu Yanxu had already started operating the seeding machine he had bought. The two of them had been busy for half a day, planting some of the saplings and seeds, and were now waiting for the harvest.
The two left the space and took turns taking a shower.
Bai Tang casually took out some fresh fruit she had previously stored in her spatial storage, washed some of it, and planned to take it out to the group outside later.