Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus-Chapter 1022 - 682: 54 Hours of Torrential Rain, Rising Water Levels! (Part 2)
He stopped, turned his head, and said to Third Uncle, "Third Uncle, keep an eye on the drainage and sewers."
Third Uncle looked at him, nodded seriously, and said, "Alright, I’ll go check on the sewer well later, don’t worry."
Only then did Li Yu feel relieved enough to drape the raincoat over himself and slowly walk out of the duty room.
The heavy rain poured down upon his raincoat, splashing up droplets of rain.
Braving the rain, he stepped on the puddles, slowly making his way to the Inner City.
But as he reached the Outer City, he saw a large group of people holding shovels, digging trenches around the greenhouse.
In the rain, Li Yu couldn’t see clearly, and only when he got closer did he see that it was Zhu Xiao and Zuo Ruxue and their group.
"What’s going on?" Li Yu shouted toward them.
In the noisy downpour, nobody paid attention to Li Yu.
Li Yu walked closer again, and patted Guo Peng, who was swinging a shovel: "Is something wrong with the greenhouse?"
Guo Peng was busy, and being tapped on the shoulder, he turned impatiently to see who it was, only to find it was Li Yu.
The impatience on his face instantly turned to a smile as he said to Li Yu, "Director Li, there’s nothing wrong with the greenhouse, it’s just that this area is all soil, and we’re afraid water might seep into the greenhouse, so we’re digging small trenches on both sides so the water flows downward and can be directed to the drainage outlet."
Li Yu nodded and then asked, "Who’s watching over the drainage outlet now?"
Guo Peng thought for a moment and then shouted, "It should be Lao Zhou, but I’m not really sure, I saw him heading over there an hour ago."
"Hmm." Li Yu watched as they voluntarily dug trenches and didn’t stop them, since it was beneficial for the greenhouse’s environment.
Currently, in the pouring rain, the temperature slightly rose to about three degrees.
Yet inside the greenhouse, heating was still maintained, keeping the temperature at twenty degrees.
With the Zombie Generator, electricity at the base was abundant, so they were a bit extravagant with its use.
However, to the extra staff and cooperative personnel in the greenhouse, electricity was exceptionally precious.
Even though the temperature was now two or three degrees, and not the previous tens of degrees below zero, eliminating the risk of freezing to death.
The Big Camphor Tree Base still provided heating to the greenhouse, seemingly just to make their living environment better.
In gratitude, they voluntarily did things beneficial to the greenhouse.
Remember, in such heavy rain, being drenched entirely made it very easy to catch a cold.
It was just as well that inside the greenhouse, it was still over twenty degrees; if it were only a few degrees, after returning from the rain to the greenhouse and continuing to freeze, it would be easy to catch a cold.
The heating in the greenhouse gave them the courage to build trenches outside in the rain.
Li Yu watched them for a while, a gratifying smile on his face, before leaving the area.
The Milky Way poured down, the rain was torrential.
Li Yu returned to the residential district of the Inner City.
He opened the first door of the villa.
Water dripped from his raincoat, gathering in the low corners, draining into the sewer.
He took off his raincoat and hung it on a nearby hook.
His clothes were soaked through as well.
Whoosh——
He exhaled a breath of white mist.
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He opened the second door, entering inside.
A warm breeze gently blew over him.
It felt like a spring breeze, perhaps that was the sensation.
Suddenly moving from an environment of just two or three degrees, damp and cold, into a warm and dry place made Li Yu’s skin tingle with goosebumps.
Tap tap tap——
He picked up a towel from the entrance, dried his hair, and wearing the slippers he changed into between the first and second door, he slowly ascended the stairs.
The third floor.
He opened the door to his room, and casually locked it behind him.
Then he went inside, took off his parka and the clothes beneath.
He set down the handgun and dagger slung across his body.
Click——
He turned on the light in the room and walked in.
He opened the shower, letting the hot water flow over his body, from head to toe.
Ah——
The fatigue of the past few days momentarily eased considerably.
Though he wore a raincoat and waterproof parka, after spending so long in the downpour, it was inevitable that his clothes got wet.
Wet clothes clinging to the body were truly uncomfortable, but now... he felt relaxed.
He showered for half an hour.
Putting on dry home clothes, he went downstairs to the water dispenser and poured a cup of lemon water.
Returning to the warm and dry room, listening to the patter of the heavy rain outside the window, a wave of fatigue gradually overcame him.
He hadn’t had a good sleep for the past few days. After taking a couple of sips of water, he collapsed onto the bed and gradually fell asleep.
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A dozen kilometers outside Xin City.
A small valley town.
This place was originally an economically developed town within Xin City, with two cement factories in its industry and persimmons famous throughout the city in its agriculture.
But now, the entire town had been swallowed by rainwater.
Water levels gradually rose to a height of three meters.....
Youpeng Hotel.
The first floor was completely submerged, and although they had closed all the windows on the second floor, under the pressure of the water, zombies broke the glass and swarmed into the hotel.
"Zo- Zombies are coming up!" A man in a black jacket rushed up, panting heavily as he spoke.
He was the one observing the zombies cautiously from downstairs.
Upon hearing the news, Duan Guan said in a panic, "Didn’t we block everything? How did the zombies get in?"
"The water level has risen, the first floor is completely flooded, I don’t know which window wasn’t properly closed, but now there are quite a few zombies emerging from below on the second floor."
The goatee beside Duan Guan quickly asked, "Where’s Ah Bing? Is he still watching?"
"No, no, he got bitten by a zombie." He recalled the scene of zombies emerging from underwater earlier, deeply frightened.
Roar roar roar——
Pounding footsteps sounded from outside the door of the sixth floor.
"Didn’t you close the door?" Duan Guan was shocked and rushed over in panic.
This seven-story hotel was probably leased out below, but the sixth and seventh floors were reserved for the owner’s residence.
Therefore, an iron gate was installed at the staircase of the sixth floor to prevent downstairs guests from coming up.
Duan Guan ran to the iron door on the sixth floor, saw it wide open, and quickly rushed over to push it shut.
Bang!
With a loud bang, the iron door closed.
Feeling it wasn’t secure enough, he wrapped an iron chain around the door a few times and locked it.
Just after finishing these, he heard an impact from the other side of the iron door.
Thud!
Roar!
Only a door away, this left Duan Guan with lingering fear.
It was close, if he hadn’t reacted quickly, the zombies would have charged up, and if they did, all of them would be doomed.
Thud thud!
The zombies outside seemed relentless, continuing to slam their decayed bodies against the iron door.
Zombies in the torrential rain were highly agitated, able to smell strong human presence from a meter away.
This scent stimulated them, causing them to keep pounding the door.
Their force was significant, after all, these zombies emerged from the water, exceedingly fierce.
Seeing the dust falling from the door and the trembling iron door under the impact of zombies.
Duan Guan quickly shouted to the others who came over to check, "Move the heavier items from the house to support the iron door; if this door is broken by zombies, we’re all dead!"
A furious roar.
The goatee glared at him, complaining, "If we’d left here earlier as I said, we might not be trapped now."
But he still joined in moving some of the heavier items from the room over and blocked behind the door.
Finally, they moved the heavier items from the house to meticulously block the iron door.
After all this, Duan Guan seemed to have shed a heavy burden and casually found a place to sit down.
He also felt some regret, regretting why he was greedy at first, greedy to steal grain from the Outer City.
If he hadn’t done that, he wouldn’t have been driven out and wouldn’t be here now, living a life on edge.
At least at the Big Camphor Tree Base, they didn’t have to worry about zombies that could take their lives at any moment.
They escaped this disaster, but the rainwater surged, and the water level continued to rise.
They never expected this heavy rain to fall so heavily.
The place they chose ended up being a trap they set for themselves.
In the valley, with its low altitude.
Duan Guan got up, stood on the top floor looking at the flood below, already completely submerging the first floor.
He clasped his hands together, muttering prayers, "Please, no more rain, don’t let the water level rise anymore. All gods in heaven, I beg of you."
However, what he didn’t know was that the heavy rain was just an appetizer.
Two days later, as the dam was submerged, the floodwaters would pour down unbridled.
This low-altitude valley town would be completely turned into a lake.
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