【9】

The shopping building is surrounded by low-rise buildings. It stands out like a flock of chickens, but only three floors are above the water.

This place is closer to the coast. It was greatly affected by the tsunami. The glass on the fifth floor was all broken. The speedboat drove directly to the side of the building. Seaman was responsible for fixing the rope, and the others could climb in directly through the empty window.

A rubber boat ferry is required.

The fifth floor was ravaged by the tsunami, and every store inside was in a mess. There were wet water stains everywhere on the floor. Many items had been soaked by water, but of course some of them were intact.

Fortunately, the supermarket in this shopping building is on the top floor and was not greatly affected.

The supermarket is not big, and the shelves are not full. Some foods that need to be refrigerated and frozen, such as vegetables, fish and meat, are not yet on the shelves, but these are not current necessities.

For their group, there are enough things on the shelves now.

Lin Wu reminded everyone before they disembarked that the speedboat was heavy and it was already full. Therefore, everyone should not take unlimited items. They should control the weight of a suitcase and try to get what they need most.

No one objected to this. Xiaolu glanced at the huge speedboat and muttered in a low voice, "It's obviously a big place." Fang Zichen looked at her with disapproval, and she immediately stopped talking.

The elevator to the seventh floor is in the mall and has to pass through most of the building. There is no electricity in the mall and it is dark everywhere. If you are not careful, you may step in water or trip over falling objects. In some places, the doors have been washed away.

There was broken glass everywhere.

However, when everyone finally reached it, they found that the glass on both sides of the escalator was completely washed away, the black handrails were sloping there, the steps were full of broken glass, and the steps going down on the other side were full of water.

To go up from here, you have to pass through a pile of broken glass. There are no handrails on both sides, so you will fall if you make the slightest mistake.

Several people discussed it and finally found the nearby stairwell by looking for the sign.

The stairwell is inside the safety door, so the situation is better than the escalator. But again, the stairs on one side go up, and the stairs on one side are completely submerged in the water, like a bottomless pool.

Because everyone has different priorities and priorities in taking items, unless they are a family of three who are tied to each other, everyone else takes them separately to save trouble.

You Xi followed the example of others and found a intact hand luggage bag in a luggage store on the fifth floor, then pretended to start collecting the needed items.

She has plenty of things, and compared to other people taking them purposefully, it feels more like going to the supermarket.

She bought a lot of local snacks, various dried fruits, various packaged snacks made of seafood, chicken wings, duck wings, beef jerky sausages and other vacuum meats, specialty food pastries made of coconut, chocolates of various brands and packages, different

I also bought a lot of different kinds of cookies and candies.

After that came several boxes of room-temperature boxed milk, several boxes of coconut milk drinks packed in cartons, and several boxes of barreled instant noodles, each with a quantity of twenty to thirty.

I also bought a lot of the famous local bagged instant coffee, and later I discovered that there is hanging ear coffee. This kind of coffee can be brewed with hot water, but the taste is not much worse than freshly ground coffee, because everyone else is buying the staple food.

When she reached the area, she reached out and took away all the coffee hanging on the ear.

Finally, she added a dozen 5-kilogram bags of local fragrant rice and four boxes of one-liter mineral water that were inconvenient for others to take. Each box contained 20 bottles.

Some of the light snacks and vacuum food items were put in the luggage bag, and most of them were put into the Star House warehouse; the heavier drinks and food were all put into the Star House warehouse, and only four items were placed in the luggage bag.

Pack around five boxes of drinks.

You Xi looked at the little by little additions and piles of things in the warehouse. It felt a bit like bringing souvenirs and gifts when traveling abroad, and he didn't know whether these things could be brought back to his native world.

After that, she went around to other areas and successfully saw a power bank on a shelf. She took three of them, and then some flashlights and batteries. She passed through the daily necessities area and replenished a lot of disposable underwear, sanitary napkins, napkins and

Towels, bath towels, toothpaste and toothbrushes.

After it was over, she returned to the fifth floor and passed a clothing store to find some seasonal T-shirts, trousers, thin jackets, cotton socks, travel shoes, and the like.

Most of the clothes she had prepared were warm clothes. Her world was also autumn, so she didn't know she would be on a tropical island when she came here, so what she lacked the most was actually seasonal clothes.

She thought she was the first to return to the speedboat, but when she returned, she found that Lin Wu was already on the boat.

Yuan Ning's wound had just been sutured, and she wanted to avoid moving around as much as possible, so she stayed on the speedboat with Yuanyuan. At the moment, Yuanyuan was on the upper deck, while Yuan Ning and Lin Wu were standing in front of the cabin on the lower deck, as if they were talking about something.

When Lin Wu saw her, he stopped talking to Yuan Ning: "You're back? Have you got everything?"

"Yeah." She always felt like she was disturbing the other party, so she 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 tightly happily: "It's for Yuanyuan."

Of?"

"Well, because Yuanyuan is so good, I reward you."

After a while, a family of three and two couples also returned to the speedboat.

Following them were Ximan and Yuan Qi.

They pushed a small loading pallet truck to the edge of the building, with several luggage bags placed on it. He asked Yuan Qi to help hold the truck, and he got on the speedboat first, and then took the luggage bags on top one by one. You Xishu

After a moment, there were five in total, one each for Lin Wu, Yuan Ning, Ximan, Yuan Qi, and Yuanyuan.

She was thoughtful, so Lin Wu didn't take anything before? But she clearly saw him getting off the speedboat before her, and when did he come back, she didn't see him all the way.

Those who have not returned are Fang Zichen, Xiaolu, Mang Mang, and two hotel staff.

Everyone waited for a while, but still no one was seen.

"Did anyone see them when you came back?" Lin Wu walked down from the upper floor.

"I saw Meng Lu when I passed by the cosmetics area. She was picking up cosmetics."

One of the girls in the two couples spoke, and the others frowned when they heard this. They were still picking out cosmetics after what time of day. They really thought they were still on vacation.

Everyone was dissatisfied, and the girl stopped talking in time.

In fact, she also picked up some skin care products when she passed there. The skin care products she brought with her on vacation were all small samples. She didn't know how long she would have to stay on the island, so she took some when she had the chance. She didn't expect that saying it would trigger a lot of people.

dissatisfied.

When they see the displeasure on other people's faces, they will naturally not tell them that they also took skin care products.

After a while, just when Lin Wu was about to take Ximan back to look for someone, the two hotel men hurriedly walked out carrying their things. The travel bags they each carried were so big that they were thrown onto the speedboat.

At that moment, everyone felt the boat shake twice.

Lin Wu frowned, but said nothing. He only asked the two of them if they had seen Fang Zichen and Meng Lu.

The other party didn't know whether he didn't understand or something, so neither of them answered, but their expressions were a bit unpleasant. Seaman stepped forward to ask, but the other party still looked angry and was unwilling to speak.

After waiting for a while, Meng Lu and Fang Zichen finally appeared in a hurry. Her clothes were all wet and she was in a mess. Fang Zichen supported her with one hand and held two luggage bags in the other. Behind them, Mang Mang was carrying his own luggage.

Bag, followed silently all the way.

When he saw two hotel men on the speedboat, he said angrily: "You guys went too far, she almost drowned!"

The other party spoke this time: "She slipped down by herself, it has nothing to do with us."

"If it weren't for you, how could I have slipped down? If I hadn't been able to swim, I would be dead now!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

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Everyone was silent, and no one knew what happened. Meng Lu obviously brought these two people into trouble with just one word. She had protected them with words before, so why did they start a fight again now?

However, after being late frequently, leaking words and taking cosmetics, others were somewhat dissatisfied with Meng Lu. In addition, she had let it go before, saying that she would solve problems by herself, so there were more people watching the show than wanting to help.

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You Xi was drinking the coconut drink he just got and opening another bag of shredded squid, not wanting to pay attention to what was going on below.

Although she was also curious about what happened to these people in just half an hour, but her desire to stay away from trouble far outweighed her curiosity.

The people below started to make a noise while talking, one party spoke in Jing Mandarin, the other party spoke in Hai Mandarin, and Fang Zichen was in the middle arguing in International Language. It was as lively as a vegetable market.

"That's enough!" In the end, Lin Wu yelled and stopped the farce, "If it keeps making noise again, just take a rubber boat and row to Wanghai Mountain by yourself."

This is more effective than anything else, as both sides will stop making trouble.

Meng Lu suppressed her anger, and she and Fang Zichen found the seats furthest away from each other and sat down.

The clothes she had only put on a short time ago were soaked through again. The sea water was very dirty and had an unpleasant smell. Especially when she first fell into the water, she was so panicked that she accidentally choked on two mouthfuls of water. When she thought about it, she was soaking under the water.

I don’t know how many corpses there were, it was so disgusting that I felt like vomiting...

Fang Zichen took the towel he just brought from his travel bag to help her wipe it. Meng Lu looked up at him, her eyes full of grievance: "Zichen, they went too far, I almost drowned..."

"Sister Xiaolu, how did they make you slide? You helped them before, but they actually repaid you with a grudge?" Mang Mang, who had always said little, suddenly spoke.

Xiaolu was at a loss for words, but fortunately she looked miserable enough now that even if she didn't answer, she wouldn't be suitable to continue asking.

In fact, not only was Guangming unclear, but Fang Zichen also didn't know how Xiaolu fell into the water.

When the three of them got off the boat and walked outside the supermarket, they all scattered and picked up things.

Xiaolu and Mangmang were girls and might need to get some feminine products and underwear. It was not convenient for him to be together, so he directly agreed with them to meet on the yacht.

He had a head injury, and he thought he couldn't rely on others because of the lack of medical treatment, so he spent time looking for medicine. On the way to find medicine, he met Mang Mang, who said that he had already picked up the things and wanted to go with him.

, so I followed him to find medicine.

The two were the last to leave, and before they even approached the stairwell, they heard an argument inside because they couldn't hear clearly through the door panels and floors. Later, they heard the sound of splashing water. He suspected that someone had fallen into the water, so he rushed in quickly.

I ran downstairs and found that the person who fell into the water was actually Xiaolu.

When Fang Zichen saw Xiaolu's appearance, he didn't have the heart to ask any more questions. He could only advise: "Fortunately, you are fine now. In this situation, one more thing is worse than one less thing. Let's forget it. Anyway, when we get to Wanghaishan, everyone will be separated. Just bear with it."

Xiaolu didn't want to bear it at all. Those two people were really too much. She just met them in the stairwell. Because she had brought too many things, she wanted to temporarily put a plastic bag containing skin care products that couldn't be stuffed into the travel bag.

In their bags, I took out a few cartons of cigarettes from their bags first, trying to see if they could put them in together.

Unexpectedly, the two of them were unwilling and signaled her to throw away this useless thing. She was busy taking care of her skin care products, but accidentally slipped and fell directly into the water.

But neither of those two people came to save her and just left.

Islanders are islanders, uneducated and ungrateful. If it hadn't been for her, there would have been no chance for them to come to the supermarket to stock up on goods before moving to the mountains. How dare they do this to her!

Meng Lu was filled with anger and resentment in her heart, planning all kinds of revenge, but when she thought of Mang Mang who had been clinging to Fang Zichen all the way, she suppressed it and hummed in a low voice.

It took the speedboat nearly two hours to get to the vicinity of Wanghai Mountain. Part of Wanghai Mountain was also flooded, and the road surface and the forest slopes were no longer distinguishable.

Seaman has been here several times, and it was all thanks to him to know the way that the speedboat did not run aground halfway, and finally drove to the front of the mountain smoothly.

This is a gentle slope, but it is not the main docking location. The rescue boats are on the other side, and most of them are survivors rowing rubber boats, small boats and the like.

The speedboat couldn't drive to the edge of the mountain. The water was too shallow and there was a risk of stranding. In the end, we still used a rubber boat to ferry us. The two hotel men didn't care. They just carried their luggage bags into the water, waded through the water, and left on their own.

Because there were a lot of things, everyone ferried ashore in three waves with the help of Ximan.

With the help of Lin Wu, Yuan Ning parked the speedboat next to a big tree. The tree trunk was very thick and submerged in the water. The shade of the tree could slightly block the speedboat. Lin Wu tied the rope to the trunk and helped Yuan Ning sit on it.

Seaman rowed a rubber boat to pick up people.

When their feet found solid ground, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

By this time, the two hotel men had already merged into the crowd in the distance and were out of sight.

The remaining people were automatically divided into several waves, two couples in one wave. Yuan Qi and the others were close to You Xi. The family of three stood next to Lin Wu. Ximan and Lin Wu were deflating the rubber boat together. He looked at

Looking at You Xi, he thought about it, but in the end he stayed beside Lin Wu without moving.

Xiaolu endured the whole journey and said she wanted to change out of the wet clothes when she got off the boat. She took Fang Zichen to the bushes, as if looking for a sheltered place, and Mangmang continued to follow behind.

Fang Zichen was pulled away by Xiao Lu and looked at You Xi awkwardly, but unfortunately she didn't even look at him.

He finally helped find a dense bush and asked Mang Mang, who was following him, to go over and help, while he kept watch nearby.

Lin Wu had no intention of waiting for them, so he put away the rubber boat. The three groups of people set off at the same time with a tacit understanding. Now they were all heading in the same direction, heading towards the crowds of people.

The rescue team has set up registration offices in the open space outside several large hotels on the mountainside. There is electricity on the mountain, and the water resources have not been polluted for the time being. The hotels and inns are currently large enough for survivors to live in. Accommodation is free, three meals a day are provided, and water and electricity are limited.

It's just that people like her who are alone need to share a room, because there are still many people trapped in the water on the island, and they will be transferred here one after another in the future.

You Xi definitely couldn't share a room with others. She asked a father with his child to inquire. He had just received the meal and was cleanly dressed and in good spirits.

The other party told her that she was originally a guest of a hotel on the mountain and was on the mountain when the tsunami occurred, so she escaped.

After the tsunami ended yesterday evening, the rescue team began to move people around. The situation on the mountain is a bit chaotic now. Large hotels and guesthouses have been taken over. Nowadays, accommodation and meals are free, but it is not like before where you can be alone.

If you order whatever you want to eat in your room, it will be allocated uniformly.

Most of the survivors lost their property and belongings in the tsunami. Although this arrangement is inconvenient, it is very reasonable.

"...But I heard that there are a few important guests in the five-star hotel, and the treatment is still the same as before. If you really don't want to share a room with others, and you have money, you can go ahead and bypass this area and go to Shanbei

Facing there, the environment and conditions there are not as good as here. Most of them are B&Bs and apartment hotels. However, because they are large and scattered, the rescue team cannot take over the unified arrangements. You should be able to live independently there with a little money, but there is no construction there yet.

At the food pantry, you have to come here to get everything, which is inconvenient. There are pros and cons."

The other party was from Baiguo. I heard that Youxibai spoke fluently and was very friendly, so I couldn't help but say a few more words.

You Xi thanked him, and when he left, he took out a small bag of dried fruits and a bag of shredded squid from his luggage bag, and handed them to the little boy from Baiguo: "Your father helped me, this is a thank you gift."

The other party wanted to refuse, but in this situation, there was nowhere to buy such snacks even if they had money - at least ordinary people couldn't buy them. This was mainly because after the tsunami yesterday, many guests from the hotel area poured into the only two supermarkets here.

The crazy shopping even led to looting, so now all supplies have been controlled by the rescue team.

He felt sorry for his son, and finally accepted it at You Xi's insistence.

On the side, Yuan Qi and the other three have already registered and received room numbers and registration cards with the name of the hotel and their three names written on them.
Chapter completed!