Natural Disaster (MTL)

Chapter 109

Chapter 109

On the way to the outskirts of the base, they met a convoy. The convoy was turning on the high beams, the engine was roaring, and they could hear the DJ music in the car and the laughter of the people in the car when they were speeding by.

"Who are those people?" Shao's father was curious. "It doesn't look like they are from the security team."

Qiao Qingqing retracted her gaze and said, "It should be the children of powerful people who go out to play. They often go camping in the wild." When she was patrolling in the wild, she encountered a lot of such thrill-seeking second-generation rich or second-generation power, and sometimes she had to escort them - They are not happy to be escorted, very annoying, very troublesome.

Shao's father was surprised: "It's not often said in the news broadcast that the wild is dangerous, why do they still go outside to play?"

"Who knows." Everyone's life is different. Qiao Qingqing shook his head: "Dad, follow me, we have changed routes."

"Why?" Father Shao looked at the front strangely, there was no traffic jam.

"There was a car accident in front of me when I came back just now, and a parade blocked the trucks on the farm."

Shao's father suddenly realized, and said quickly, "Then let's change the road, don't get involved."

It took a day to move. By the time we settled down, it was already past eight o'clock at night.

The new home is far inferior to the environment of the new community, which reminds Qiao Songzhi of the scene when they randomly found an empty house by the roadside when they were on their way.

She stood in the doorway, looking out into the darkness, only the candles lit on the table behind her brought light.

When I came over, the lights illuminated some houses, which were indeed very low and only two stories high. The houses were very dilapidated and old-fashioned. This village should be considered relatively poor and backward before the end of the natural disaster.

"It's really dark here, and there are no street lights at night." Mother Shao beat her waist and walked over to stand with her, looking outside with her head, "It's quiet, even though it was dark in the community before, but you can still hear it. A lot of people are moving, and at night, after the street lights are on, many people will come out and walk around."

"The advantage of fewer people and fewer people." When the earthquake comes, you are not afraid of crowding when you run for your life. Qiao Songzhi took a deep breath, "Let's go, I can smell the fragrance, it should be Qingqing who brought out the dinner." The

house was simply cleaned up, and the family gathered around the dining table for dinner. Today's dinner is simple and rich, it is salted fish Eggplant rice cooker and a large pot of braised prawns are all enough.

After moving house, Qiao Qingqing also brought out red wine, which was very ceremonial.

"It's delicious!" Shao's father sighed, "It's still delicious at home, Qingqing's eggplant pot is really delicious."

Qiao Qingqing smiled and said, "This is what I made and saved before, what do you want for breakfast tomorrow? What to eat?"

Shao Shengan said, "Let's eat buns."

"Then I will eat dumplings." Shao Shengfei said.

Qiao Songzhi smiled and said, "I also eat dumplings, fried dumplings."

"I'm just like Sister Zhi."

Shao's father touched his bald head: "Then I'll eat steamed buns too."

Qiao Qingqing nodded: "I'll write it down, and I'll make it tomorrow morning. The ingredients are ready." The steamed buns and fried dumplings are all ready-made.

Shao's mother added Sprite to the red wine and asked Qiao Songzhi, "Give you more? Sprite is more delicious."

Qiao Songzhi smiled and nodded.

"Come and have a drink and celebrate our new home!" Shao Shengan raised his glass and looked at his family with soft eyes with firmness.

Qiao Qingqing said, "We can be together every day in the future."

Qiao Songzhi raised the glass: "I wish our family a reunion, peace and health."

Shao's mother did not speak, but there was also hope for the future in her eyes. Shao Shengfei carefully clinked glasses with them one by one, and his face was flushed with excitement. He likes this kind of moment the most. Yes, he is also an adult.

He shouted loudly: "Safe and healthy! Stay together!"

"Okay! Good! Have a drink!" Father Shao clinked glasses happily.

After such a conversation, everyone felt a lot more relaxed, and with expectations for tomorrow, the acceptance of this new home was one more point. After dinner, Shao Sheng'an and Shao's father went to a nearby well to fetch water. Although the base could not include everyone in the protection area, but the periphery of the base expanded, the well digging team would come to investigate and dig deep wells. Shao Shengan had been here on patrol, and Shao Shengan quickly found the location of the deep water well. In the buildings passing by along the way, there were scattered dim lights, and there were voices of people talking in the house.

This made Father Shao relax a lot: "I thought we were the only family living here." It's good to have neighbors, otherwise it would be scary to live in one's own household.

There are very few people in this area, and there is absolutely no need to queue up to fetch water, and there is no limit.

Shao Shengan put the manhole cover in place, and he and his father carried two buckets of water each to go home.

"New? I heard a movement in the last alley, is that your house?" A man and a woman came out of the door and faced Shao Shengan and the others. The man took the initiative to say hello: "You are also here to avoid disasters, right? It's the earthquake!" The

new neighbor was quite enthusiastic, and Shao Shengan said yes with a smile.

The man seemed to have some kind of support, and his whole person was in high spirits. He turned his head to his wife and said, "Look! Others think the same way as I do. If there is an earthquake, they must go to a place with fewer people and a short house. Well, it will be convenient to escape then! You keep talking about me." My

wife was a little embarrassed, why would she say this in front of strangers? So I twisted my husband's arm.

The man cried out, making the woman even more embarrassed.

"Then let's go back first and talk another day." Shao Shengan said goodbye.

"Hey, hey! Let's chat another day!"

After returning from the water, Shao's father cleaned the new house again by candlelight, while Shao Shengan began to install surveillance.

This is the end of a tiring day. This old house is a bungalow, and the roof has fallen off. When we move in, we have to repair the roof with tarpaulin, otherwise it will rain. The reason why this house was chosen is because it is in a good location. There are only two rooms in the whole alley, and the other one collapsed so that only one wall remained. The front row of houses is temporarily unoccupied, and the back is an open space. If there is an accident, they can run to the back open space.

There are some survivors living in this abandoned village. For the sake of safety, no one dared to live in such a remote place, so they were favored by Qiao Qingqing and his wife.

It was even quieter at night. This was already the outermost periphery of the base. The shanty town where Qiao Qingqing lived in his previous life was five kilometers away. That place was considered the periphery of the base, showing how remote it was.

Qiao Qingqing set up traps on the left and right sides of the house, plus monitoring, the safety of the night was enough.

Administrative district, in the mayor's office.

Mayor Luo was reading the latest exercise report, and he couldn't help sighing when he saw the data above.

"Mayor, this is something that can't be helped. We don't know when the earthquake will come. Frequent earthquake disaster prevention drills will make the people inert and doubtful. This data is already the result of our efforts to mobilize and motivate. Otherwise, the data It will be even more ugly." Tan Jianling was also helpless.

Mayor Luo put down the report and pinched the bridge of his nose: "Is there any other news?"

"Also, this is the statistical report on out-migration from Ye Changtian, mayor, there have been a small number of residents in the past few months. Leave the original place and choose to move to a place with less population and sparse housing construction." Tan Jianling sent another report, he thinks this is a good phenomenon, after all, there are too many people in the core community, at that time for the new community It can accommodate more people and manage it uniformly. Although the floors cannot be built too high due to the high temperature, they are built more densely. Once an earthquake occurs, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Mayor, you have been promoting the evacuation plan these days, but until now you have been hindered by various parties and have made no progress. I think it is more feasible for people to move spontaneously."

Tan Jianling said so, mayor Luo did not understand his mean?

"But after all, it's only a minority." How much effort was spent to build a new community at that time, and how strong the resistance to evacuation is now.

Just relying on those prophecy letters, there is no way to persuade other forces and groups. Even on the side of the government controlled by him, there are different voices. What if more than a dozen high-level people have unified opinions? What if Master Ye Shanpeng agreed to cooperate? With such a large base and a population of tens of millions, it is simply not something they can easily move. The people are water, and "water can carry a boat and capsize it." They can't force people to evacuate. After a few years of natural disasters, the people's psychology is very fragile and sensitive. Forcing them to move out of their new neighborhood is sure to cause uncontrollable turmoil and chaos. Maintaining the basic order of such a large base is already a bit reluctant. If there is any chaos, the entire base will be overturned without the arrival of a major earthquake.

All he can do now is to distribute emergency kits and carry out disaster prevention drills, but these two seem to have little effect.

Seeing his pained appearance, Tan Jianling also felt sad: "Mayor, you have done your best."

Taking a deep breath, Mayor Luo said, "It is a good direction for people to move voluntarily, you ask Ye Changtian to make a copy. The feasible report is up."

"Yes, I understand."

"By the way, how is the resource dispersal work going?"

"The progress is ok, the granary..." The

night was still long, dark, and the light of the mayor's office Bright into the night.

There was a sudden movement in the depths of the ground that humans could not reach. In the newly established Seismological Bureau, the instrument sent out a fleeting fluctuation. The fluctuation did not exceed 0.26 seconds, which did not reach the threshold for being caught by the instrument, and the alarm naturally did not sound. The earthquake expert on duty woke up from a tired slumber and looked at the screen again, everything was normal.

At the seaside more than a thousand kilometers away from the survivors' base, the sea water receded, leaving only a large trace of water receding. In the distance, countless gurgling bubbles were dug out from the dirty sea water, all kinds of fish were tumbling in the water, and crabs climbed up the reef. In the depths of the ocean, it was eerily calm, with no waves on the water, as if even the wind was banned here okay.