Chapter 9 Supermarket in Water(1/2)
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The shopping building is surrounded by low buildings, which stands out like a flock of cranes, but only three floors are exposed to the water.
It is closer to the coast, and is greatly affected by the tsunami. The five-story glass is broken. The speedboat is directly driven and parked next to the building. Siman is responsible for fixing the ropes, so that others can climb in directly through the empty window without the need for a rubber boat to ferry.
The fifth floor was ravaged by a tsunami, and the stores inside were in a mess. The ground was full of undried water stains, and many items were soaked in water. Of course, there were also intact.
Fortunately, the supermarket in this shopping building is on the top floor and has not been greatly affected.
The supermarket is not big and the shelves are not full. Some foods that require refrigeration and freezing, such as vegetables, fish and meat, have not been on the shelves, but these are not currently necessary.
For their group, there are enough things on the shelves now.
Lin Wu reminded before everyone got off the boat that the speedboat was heavy and was now full, so everyone's belongings should not be taken without a bottom line. It should be controlled around the weight of a suitcase, and try to take what they need most.
No one objected to this. Xiaolu glanced at the huge speedboat, lowered her voice and muttered, "It's obvious that the place is very big." Fang Zichen looked at her with disagreement, and she immediately stopped.
The elevator on the seventh floor is in the mall, and it has to pass through half of the building. There is no electricity in the mall and it is black everywhere. If you accidentally step on water or trip up by falling things, the doors in some places are washed away and the glass is broken.
However, when everyone finally walked to the ground, they found that the glass on both sides of the escalator had been completely washed away, the black handrails were hanging there, the steps were covered with broken glass, and the steps down the other side were covered with water.
Go up here and you have to pass through the pile of glass slags. There is no railing on both sides, and if there is any mistake, the pool will fall down.
Several people discussed it and finally found the nearby stairwell with the sign.
The stairwell is inside the safety door, and the situation is better than the escalator. But again, one side of the stairs is upward and the other side of the stairs are completely submerged in the water, like a bottomless deep pool.
Because the focus and priority of the items received by everyone is different, unless it is a family of three who are tied to death, the others will take them separately to save trouble.
You Xi imitated others and found a complete hand-held duffel bag at a bag shop on the fifth floor, then pretended to start collecting the required items.
She has plenty of things, and it is more like she is shopping in a supermarket than others who are purposeful to take it.
She took a lot of local snacks, various dried fruits, various packaged snacks made of seafood, vacuum meat such as chicken wings, duck wings, beef jerky sausages, specialty food pastries made of coconut, various brands and packaging chocolates, and different styles of biscuits and candies.
Then there are several boxes of milk in room temperature boxes, several boxes of coconut milk beverages packed in cartons, and several boxes of instant noodles in buckets, each box is in the quantity of twenty to thirty.
I also got a lot of instant coffee in a very famous local area. Later I found that there was a hanger coffee. This kind of coffee can be brewed as long as it has hot water, but the taste is not much worse than freshly ground coffee. Because everyone else is in the main food area, she reached out to take away all the hanger coffee.
Finally, she added more than a dozen bags of 5 kilograms of local fragrant rice, and four boxes of one liter of mineral water that others were not convenient to take. Each box had 20 bottles.
Some of the light snacks and vacuum food items were placed in the duffel bag, and most of them were placed in the Xingwu warehouse by her; the heavier beverages and food were placed in the Xingwu warehouse, and only about four to five boxes of drinks were placed in the duffel bag to fill them.
You Xi looked at the things that were increasing and piled up in the warehouse little by little, and felt a bit like bringing souvenirs and gifts to travel abroad. He didn't know if these things could be brought back to the native world.
Afterwards, she went around to other areas and successfully saw a power bank on a shelf. She took three, then some flashlights and batteries. She also added a lot of disposable underwear, sanitary napkins, napkins and towels, bath towels, toothpaste and toothbrushes through the daily necessities area.
After the end, she returned to the fifth floor, passed a clothing store, and found some T-shirts, trousers, thin coats, cotton socks, and travel shoes that were worn in this season.
Most of the clothes she prepared before were cold-proof clothes, and her own world was also autumn. She didn't know that she would be on tropical islands as soon as she came here, so what she lacked the most was seasonal clothes.
She thought she was the first to return to the speedboat, but when she went back, she found that Lin Wu was already on the boat.
Yuan Ning's wound was only sutured, so try to avoid walking, so stay on the speedboat and Yuan Yuan. At this moment, Yuan Yuan was on the upper floor, while Yuan Ning and Lin Wu were standing in front of the cabin on the lower floor, as if they were talking about something.
When Lin Wu saw her, she stopped talking to Yuan Ning: "Are you back? Have you got it all?"
"Yeah." She always felt that she was disturbing the other party, and responded and went directly to the upper floor. Then she took out a large bag of jelly from her luggage bag and handed it to Yuanyuan. He hugged her happily: "Is it for Yuanyuan?"
"Well, because Yuanyuan is good, I will reward you."
After a while, the family of three and two couples also returned to the speedboat.
Following them were Siman and Yuan Qi.
They pushed a small loading truck to the edge of the building, with several duffel bags on it. He asked Yuan Qi to help him support the car, and he got on the speedboat first, and then took the duffel bags on it one by one. You Xi counted it, and there were five in total, just one by Lin Wu, Yuan Ning, Ximan, Yuan Qi, and Yuanyuan.
She thought something, so Lin Wu didn't take anything before? But she clearly saw him getting off the speedboat earlier than her, and when did he come back, she didn't see him all the way.
Those who did not come back were Fang Zichen, Xiaolu, Mangmang, and two hotel staff.
Everyone waited for a while, but still no one was seen.
"Who saw them when you came back?" Lin Wu walked down from the upper floor.
"When I passed by the cosmetics area, I saw Meng Lu. She was taking cosmetics at the time."
One of the two couples spoke, and the others frowned when they heard this. It was time to pick cosmetics, and they really thought they were still on vacation.
Everyone was dissatisfied, and the girl stopped in time.
In fact, when she passed by there, she also took some skin care products. The skin care products she brought with her on vacation were all small samples. She didn't know how long she had to stay on the island, so she took a little of them when she had the chance. Unexpectedly, it would cause dissatisfaction for everyone.
When they see the displeasure on others' faces, they will naturally not tell them about taking out skin care products.
After a while, just as Lin Wu was about to take Ximan back to find someone, the two hotel men hurried out with things. The travel bags they each were carrying were very large. When they were thrown on the speedboat, everyone felt their boat shaking twice.
Lin Wu frowned, but said nothing, and only asked the two of them if they had seen Fang Zichen and Meng Lu.
The other party didn't know if they didn't understand or what, but neither of them answered, but their faces were a little unfair. Siman stepped forward to ask clearly, but the other party still looked angry and unwilling to speak.
After waiting for a while, Meng Lu and Fang Zichen finally appeared in a hurry. Her clothes were wet and she was in a mess. Fang Zichen held her with one hand and two duffel bags in the other. Behind them, Mangmang carried his duffel bags and followed silently.
He saw two hotel men on the speedboat and said angrily: "You guys are too much, she almost drowned!"
The other party spoke this time: "She slid down by herself, it has nothing to do with us."
"If it weren't for you, how could I slide down? If I hadn't been able to swim, I would have died now!"
"Don't talk nonsense!"
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Everyone didn't say anything, and no one knew what happened. It was obvious that these two people were brought by Meng Lu's words, and she had protected her before, so why did it start to make trouble again?
However, after frequent lateness, leaking mouth and taking cosmetics, others were somewhat dissatisfied with Meng Lu. In addition, she let go of the words before and said that she would solve the problem by herself. This would lead to more people watching the show than those who wanted to help.
You Xi was drinking the coconut drink he just got, and took out another bag of squid shreds, not wanting to pay attention to the following matters at all.
Although she was also curious about what happened to these people in just half an hour, her heart that wanted to stay away from trouble was far overwhelming her curiosity.
The following people started to make a noise as they talked. One of them used Beijing Mandarin, the other one used Hai Mandarin, and Fang Zichen was caught in it and used international language to argue. It was as lively as the vegetable market.
"Enough!" In the end, Lin Wu scolded and stopped the farce, "If you make a noise, take a rubber boat and row to Wanghai Mountain by yourself."
This is more effective than anything else, and there is no more trouble on both sides.
Meng Lu suppressed her anger and found the farthest position from each other and sat down.
Her clothes that had just changed into her body were soaked again. The sea water was very dirty and had an unpleasant smell. Especially when she fell into the water, she accidentally choked on two mouthfuls of water because of panic. Thinking of the countless bodies soaked under the water, she was so nauseous that she wanted to vomit...
Fang Zichen took a towel he had just taken from the travel bag to help her wipe it. Meng Lu looked up at him, her eyes full of grievances: "Zichen, they are too much, I almost drowned..."
"Sister Xiaolu, how did they make you slip? You have helped them before, but they actually repaid their grudges?" Mangmang, who had been talking nonsense, suddenly spoke.
Xiaolu was a little speechless, but fortunately, she looked miserable now, and even if she didn't answer, she was not suitable to continue chasing her.
In fact, it’s not clear that it’s not clear, and Fang Zichen doesn’t know how Xiaolu fell into the water.
When the three of them got off the boat and walked outside the supermarket, they all took things in a scattered manner.
Xiaolu and Mangmang are girls and may need to get some women's supplies and close-fitting clothes. It is inconvenient for him to be together, so they directly told the two of them to gather on the yacht.
He had a head injury and thought that he was short of medical treatment and medicine, so he spent time looking for medicine. He met Mangmang on the way to find medicine. The other party said he had already got the things and wanted to go with him, so he followed him to find medicine.
The two left the latest. Before they approached the stairwell, they heard a quarrel inside. Because they couldn't hear clearly between the door panel and the floor. Later, they heard the sound of thumping water. He suspected that someone had fallen into the water and rushed into the stairwell and ran downstairs. He found that the person who fell into the water was actually Xiaolu.
Seeing Xiaolu like this, Fang Zichen couldn't bear to ask more questions, so he could only persuade: "Fortunately you are fine now. In this situation, it's better to have less than more things. Forget it. Anyway, everyone will separate when they reach Wanghaishan. You can bear it."
Xiaolu didn't want to endure it at all. The two of them were really too much. She just met them in the stairwell because she had too many things and wanted to temporarily put a plastic bag containing skin care products that could not be stuffed into the travel bag into their bag. She took out a few cigarettes from their bag first, wanting to try whether they could put them in together.
But the two of them didn't want to do so, and even signaled her to throw away such useless things. She was busy protecting her skin care products, but her feet accidentally slipped and fell into the water.
But neither of the two people came to save her and left directly.
Islanders are islanders, they are not educated and do not know how to be grateful. If it weren't for her, they wouldn't have the chance to go upstairs to the supermarket to stock up on the mountain. They dared to treat her like this!
Meng Lu was filled with anger and anger, planning various revenge, but when she thought of the irritating light that Fang Zichen had been tightly squeezing, she still suppressed it and nodded softly.
The speedboat took nearly two hours to reach the vicinity of Wanghai Mountain. Part of the Wanghai Mountain was flooded, and the road surface and the slopes of the forest were already unclear.
Siman has been here several times, and it is up to him to recognize the way. The speedboat did not get stuck halfway and finally drove smoothly in front of the mountain.
This is a gentle slope, but not the main docking location. The rescue ships are on the other side, and most of them are survivors rowing their own rubber boats, small boats and other survivors.
The speedboat could not drive to the edge of the mountain. The water was too shallow and there was a risk of stranding. In the end, the two men in the hotel didn't care about this. They just carried their duffel bags into the water, drifted over, and left on their own.
Because there were too many things, everyone took three waves of ferry to the ashore with the help of Seaman.
With the help of Lin Wu, Yuan Ning parked the speedboat next to a big tree. The trunk was very thick and submerged in the water. The shade could slightly block the speedboat. Lin Wu tied the rope to the trunk and helped Yuan Ning get on the rubber boat that Shiman rowed to pick up.
Almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief when their feet guessed the solid ground.
At this time, the two hotel men had already merged into the distant abortion and could not see it.
The remaining people were automatically divided into several waves, two couples in one wave, Yuan Qi and You Xi were close to each other, and the three of them stood beside Lin Wu. Ximan and Lin Wu were defying the rubber boat. He looked at You Xi, but wanted to go over, but in the end he stayed beside Lin Wu and didn't move.
Xiaolu held back all the way, and as soon as she got off the boat, she said she wanted to change the wet clothes on her body first. She pulled Fang Zichen to the bushes, as if she wanted to find a place to cover her. Mangmang continued to follow her all the way.
Fang Zichen was pulled away by Xiaolu and looked at You Xi with a little embarrassed look, but unfortunately she didn't look at him at all.
He finally helped find a thick bush and asked Mangmang, who was following behind, to help, while he was nearby to catch the wind.
Lin Wu didn't plan to wait for them, so he packed up the rubber boat. The three groups of people set off at the same time. Now the general direction is the same, heading towards the abortion.
To be continued...