Chapter 342: Winter is coming
"Doctor Zhang, Dr. Zhang, I'm so hungry, are you hungry..."
A young nurse on the fourteenth floor was empty, with only two people curled up in the middle of the room, wearing a pink nurse's jacket, wrapped in various funny plastic bags, and rags to keep warm. She kept rubbing her arms and getting a small pile of flames near the center of the room, and asked Dr. Zhang, who was obviously weak around her.
The female doctor who was called by the nurse looked at her right-hand man. She was so cold that she was weak and had no energy to answer the nurse's words.
Are you hungry? She is hungry! Not only is she hungry, she is also cold, very cold, the bones in her body are frozen, and she has no sense of consciousness...
It’s a pity that she is already sixty years old this year and is already at the age of retirement. However, because her family still has two children in college and the burden is heavy, she accepted the invitation from the Xideer Confinement Center and continues to shine here.
Everything was fine, but according to the current income of the confinement center, she worked hard for a few more years and gave out all her children. She could enjoy her happiness peacefully and wait to hold her grandchildren.
Unfortunately, all these expectations have changed after this sudden flood and the coming winter. To be precise, the whole world has changed.
I still remember that morning, I led a nurse to send a new mother out of the hospital. Before I could even be glad that I had another bonus this month, bad news suddenly came.
The moment the flood came, she was still at the checkpoint center to her pregnant woman this month, thinking about how much bonus she could earn. However, before she could open the folder in her hand, her assistant Xiao Zhao was panicked and ran towards him with a look of horror. While running, she shouted, "Doctor Zhang, hurry up, run with me! The flood is coming, the flood is coming!"
At that time, she didn't react at all, and she was puzzled with a look of confusion. What kind of water did Hong do?
Since the severe flood in their mountain city in 1990s, the government has allocated funds to build flood control channels, not to mention that there has not been a drop of rain in recent months. Where did the flood come from?
Without waiting for any reaction from doubting herself, Xiao Zhao had already rushed to the front and pulled herself into the elevator. Then, while she was still stunned, many people followed in the elevator. Then the elevator door was at a loss and closed quietly among the familiar faces of a group of people, slowly climbing up until...
Until they climbed to the fourteenth floor and had not reached the end they pressed, the elevator stopped there for no reason. At the same time, he also knew from Xiao Zhao and others that a tremendous change was taking place under their feet at this moment.
In other words, if Xiao Zhao hadn't been curious and wandered on the balcony and watched Ms. Li who was discharged from the hospital today, they would...
The people who learned the truth were anxious. At the critical moment, they didn't know how big the flood was. In order not to be trapped in the elevator, the people in the elevator worked together and relying on a few gay men, everyone worked together to pry open the elevator door.
The moment the door opened, I heard the roar of a flood, the messy howlings of tears, and the turbid ocean that was about to stop at the next layer when I looked out.
Deadly despair...
It's gone, it's all gone!
They have never encountered such a big flood for thousands of years. Even the flood in the past nineties was only flooded to the fourth floor, but how could it be like now?
The people around him were crying and howling, and they were in a panic. The phone couldn't be reached and the phone was not signaled. Everyone was anxious and worried about their families, and they didn't know if their home is still there or whether their relatives are still there?
At home, her children are all studying in college in other places, so she is not worried. Only her husband, the old man, works and rest routinely. He goes to Binjiang Road to exercise early in the morning, and then goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and go home. When the flood comes, her husband should be in the vegetable market...
Doctor Zhang was in a state of confusion, and all the survivors who escaped the flood were in a state of confusion.
Fortunately, they had smarter children around them, probably because they had watched too many end-of-life movies. After being anxious, they immediately began to search for supplies, food, use, and drink on the floor, and concentrate everything they could find as much as possible. In order to be stable, the young man also pried open an unmanned office on the 14th floor of the house. Their anxious group finally had a temporary place to settle down.
Everyone endured the fear, the sadness, the anxiety and torture. They thought that no matter how powerful the flood was, there would be a day to retreat for a while.
It’s a pity that they came to the beginning, but they didn’t expect the ending.
The flood was about to start, and that night, a worse winter quietly came.
If it weren't for the alertness of the young nurse who was watching at night, the young man would have said that she would have frozen to death on the spot on that terrifying night.
In the days that followed, Dr. Zhang didn't dare to think about it again.
If it weren't for their confinement center, the group would have been united and kept warm from the beginning, and tenaciously occupied this not-so-large office;
If the young people had not prepared in advance and collected materials as much as possible;
I'm afraid that all of them will not survive now.
Unfortunately, even though they have lived to this day, they are facing a huge crisis right now.
There was not much food collected, so they could eat it with thriftiness, so they had no food two days ago;
What is even more anxious is that the burnable things collected had already burned out. How can I save money? Even the tables, chairs and benches in this office were sold out yesterday;
Dr. Zhang, who was tired, hungry, cold and sad, knew that everyone would be unable to hold on...
"It's not a solution to continue like this. Doctor Zhang, I want to go out and have a look. The other two groups of people on our floor are not easy to mess with. We can't afford to mess with each other. So let's go upstairs and take a look, maybe..."
The voice of Xiao Zhao, an assistant who saved himself, recalled Dr. Zhang's thoughts.
When Dr. Zhang heard the little girl who had just graduated for two years say this, disagreement surged on his face.
Doctor Zhang was energetic and tried his best to stretch out his hands without any strength, trembling, and grabbed Xiao Zhao's hand tightly as if he had tried his best. Doctor Zhang shook his head firmly with the last point and tried his best to stop it.
"No, don't go! Xiao Zhao, you can't go!" Maybe you can't come back after you go! "Xiao Zhao, it's not a peaceful world now. More than ten days have passed since the flood and the freezing. The survivors in our building have also been divided into several groups, and people's hearts are separated. In this case, you, a girl, cannot take risks!"
"But Dr. Zhang, it's not okay if you don't take risks! If you don't take risks, we will have no way to survive!"
There is really no way out!
Among them, the powerful men, who had been destroyed by despair for more than ten days, had long been bored with these women who were powerless.
Three days before the food was cut off, several capable people had a small idea, stealing their last food, abandoning them, and successfully investing in the next wave of forces, otherwise they would not have lost food so quickly with their frugality.
It’s a pity that there are only a dozen of them, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, left in this small office.
It’s a pity that the group of people they defected to was also lucky. They opened a Taobao store that made agricultural products, covering a wide area and stocking up enough goods, which could completely support the more than 30 strong men to persevere.
Most of them women want to follow them to join us. Unfortunately, people dislike their old, young and young, and are useless people, and they ask them to sell their bodies to survive. Everyone doesn't want to, so they are waiting for them...
Xiao Zhao shook his head, threw away all kinds of thoughts in his mind, and looked at Dr. Zhang, who was like a teacher and a mother, said solemnly.
"Doctor Zhang, you have always been with you since I, Zhao Min, entered Xide'er. I know how kind you are to me. Doctor Zhang, Zhao Min, remember your kindness, so I not only regard you as a boss, but also as a teacher. I will be a teacher for life and a father. Doctor Zhang, my mother went there early. In my eyes, you are just like my biological mother. So don't worry, with me, Zhao Min, you will have you!"
A thousand years of record of getting favors from others is what the mother who died early told herself.
Since childhood, she was not likable. She was looked down upon by others in school, bullying, and was bullied in society. If it weren’t for Dr. Zhang in front of her, Zhao Min would have long known what she would have been excluded, so she would have been successfully promoted to a regular business. She also received careful guidance and care from Dr. Zhang.
Looking at the trembling teacher in front of him, who was obviously unable to support him, Zhao Min decided that even if he died, he had to go out and fight.
Chapter completed!