Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 49 - Good News

Chapter 49: Chapter 49 Good News

The property management had scattered a few air conditioners around the corners.

The area around the air conditioners was mainly arranged for families with babies and the elderly.

However, looking at the people inside, almost all of them were wearing very little, their faces were flushed from the heat, and beads of sweat were still on their foreheads.

It seemed that the effect of the air conditioners was not very apparent.

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After all, the cooling capacity of air conditioners used in ordinary households was at most two or three horsepower, and the radiation range was only about thirty to forty square meters.

This underground parking garage, however, was several thousand square meters.

Additionally, it might also be due to there being too many people.

But regardless, it was obviously much better than the high temperatures of sixty to seventy degrees above ground.

Someone even took a few photos of fresh bloodstains on the walls and posted them in the group.

It must have been the Blood Mosquitoes that entered in the afternoon, flying in through the pedestrian passageway.

Below, naturally, there was a barrage of curses that insulted generations of ancestors.

There was also a picture of dense smoke billowing and flames soaring into the sky.

It looked somewhat eerie because within the raging flames, it was clear there were stacked silhouettes of people.

Jiang Yan recognized after a careful look that it was the dried-up pond in the center of the district garden.

It must have been turned into a temporary crematorium by the property management.

After all, with temperatures rising higher and higher and the number of Blood Mosquitoes increasing, there had been quite a number of deaths in the afternoon; they likely didn’t have the energy to transport the bodies out of the district anymore.

Further down, Jiang Yan came across a video.

The person taking the video was doing something like a live broadcast, narrating while filming.

People were sitting or lying down on the simple bedding.

Some were already hunched over, sleeping with their hands covering their ears.

But there were also those sitting together playing cards, chatting.

And some were nursing their children alone.

There were also a few families, who seemed to be wailing loudly.

They must have had family members who passed away during the Blood Mosquito attack in the afternoon.

In such an environment, expecting silence was obviously a luxury.

Fortunately, at least nobody was smoking.

Of course, it might also be that the cigarettes at home had long been smoked up.

After Jiang Yan roughly understood the situation, she was about to exit the homeowners’ group chat, but her gaze paused at the number of members listed at the top of the chat.

Shallow Bay Homeowners’ Group (306).

Jiang Yan: “…”

She remembered that the homeowners’ group was previously at a full capacity of 500 members.

Good lord!

Within one day, nearly two hundred households were gone.

That meant a decrease in population by at least six hundred people…

Wasn’t this a bit too outrageous?

In Jiang Yan’s mind, the surveillance footage uncontrollably resurfaced.

Additionally, she seemed to have seen again, faintly, in the video shot by the homeowners on the scene, the owner of that pair of shoes.

And that security supervisor should have been distributing compressed biscuits or something to the homeowners at the time.

Now, looking at the suddenly reduced number in the group, a strange speculation popped into her mind.

*

In the following days, the mobile signal was intermittent.

The temperature also steadily rose from the previous sixty-seven or sixty-eight degrees to over seventy degrees.

Every day, there were supportive messages sent from the telecom operators.

The government had also successively opened up some temporary shelters and mass-sent the addresses.

At the same time, the government also opened up some temporary supply depots to the public for free.

But due to limited capabilities, people needed to go and collect supplies themselves.

Moreover, government personnel had also entered home-owner groups across the city.

There weren’t many though, just one or two people per group.

Jiang Yan suddenly understood why WeChat was still functional after many apps had crashed on a large scale.

The government was likely supporting it from behind, ensuring that information could be delivered to the public at the earliest opportunity.

The homeowners’ group chats had fewer irrelevant conversations, but heated arguments began to emerge.

The likelihood was that the food delivered by the government was not sufficient.

Conflicts were inevitable once resources became scarce.

Some suspected that the property management and homeowners’ committee were working together to embezzle the supplies.

But they had no evidence.

Even though government agents were in the group, their role was more to stabilize public sentiment; they couldn’t conjure up supplies.

Or rather, there were supplies, but in the current environmental conditions, they couldn’t be transported.

Also, looking at the situation shared in the group, when the temperature rose above seventy degrees, the Blood Mosquitoes, which had mutated in unthinkable ways, were still dense.

Only when the temperature reached seventy-five degrees did they begin to decrease.

Gradually, the mosquitoes became fewer and fewer, eventually disappearing from sight.

On the tenth day of the high temperatures, the government entrusted the telecom operators to mass-send a message that was very heartening:

All Blood Mosquitoes in the world have completely disappeared!

And if they held on for another ten days, there was an eighty-percent chance that the high-temperature weather would come to an end.

This was the only piece of good news since high temperatures had hit the world.

Though the temperatures would only get higher in the following ten days, it at least gave those who were alive a glimmer of hope.

Afterward, the intermittent mobile signal was completely lost.

The electricity in Shallow Bay’s underground garage seemed to have been depleted before the signal had disappeared.

The homeowners’ group chat was as quiet as a mouse.

During this period, Jiang Yan spent almost all her time studying in the Space.

Her daily schedule was packed, from eight in the morning until ten at night, excluding meal times and a half-hour nap, she was learning everything in rotation – flying, yachting, digging, shooting, planting.

It was like force-feeding a duck.

It was only because she lacked a venue with water that yachting and boat practices remained on dry land at the dry duck stage.

The Legos she had bought to pass the time and the various movies, TV series, variety shows, and animations she had downloaded were becoming rather superfluous.

She would only occasionally check them during meals or before sleep.

However, she knew in her heart that this was a case of enduring hardship before enjoying comfort.

The high temperatures had isolated everything, creating excellent conditions for her studies.

Once the high-temperature weather was over, and those who had been avoiding the heat underground returned to normal life,

her surrounding world would no longer be as quiet and safe as it was now.

Occasionally, Jiang Yan would return to her room from the Space.

On one hand, she wanted to allow herself to properly adapt to the high-temperature survival environment; on the other hand, after the signals stopped, all sources of news were cut off, and she wanted to see if there would be some changes in the street scenes outside.

Or rather, she hoped to be able to see the shadow of official rescuers on the streets outside one day.

On the eighteenth day of the high temperatures, they suddenly dropped to sixty degrees.

It was still very hot, but this brought Jiang Yan some joy.

It was highly possible that in two days, the high temperatures would end.

On the nineteenth day of the high temperatures, they continued to drop, reaching just over fifty degrees.

As dusk approached on this day, Jiang Yan stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and finally saw active vehicles on the street.

She hurriedly brought out her telescope.

Sure enough, there were several delivery trucks with a unique color.

Judging by the color, the trucks must have been painted with insulating materials, and the tires were also special, able to relatively withstand high temperatures.

The vehicles also stopped in front of Shallow Bay District.

To prevent any scrambles for supplies, armed warriors were the first to jump out.

Soon after, a bunch of people who looked nearly out of breath, staggering, walked up from the underground garage.

The government had not given up on any citizen.

Even though the weather forecast predicted that the temperature was likely to return to normal the next day.

Delivering supplies now was clearly in a race against time.

After all, many people might not be able to hold on till one day later.

Moreover, the high temperatures had come so unexpectedly that their previous preparations had indeed been too limited.

Later, when Jiang Yan came out of the Space, she heard a “thump-thump-thump” sound of helicopters in the sky.

She hurriedly walked quickly to the floor-to-ceiling window.

Several military helicopters flew across the night sky at a very slow pace and very low altitude.

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The message stated that the government would carry out a fumigation of the entire city in a day and reminded those still living in the buildings to ensure their doors and windows were tightly shut.

Actually, even if the government hadn’t reminded them, very few people would leave their doors and windows open.

Of course, whether anyone was still alive in the buildings under such high temperatures was unknown.

One day later.

The temperature acted like a lunatic and plummeted within one day to around thirty-seven or thirty-eight degrees.

People who had been repressed underground for a long time rushed to the surface.

But just to be safe, no one dared to return home.

Those who lived on high floors were afraid they wouldn’t be able to get back down if they went up.

Those on lower floors were still terrified of the Blood Mosquitoes.

The signal and electricity were still absent.

But soon after, the wind began blowing.

Raindrops started to drift down from the sky, something that had been absent for a long time.