It was another day to collect supplies. She looked at the calendar. This was the last time before New Year's Eve.

Now people are quite familiar with the process and time. She watched from the surveillance camera and saw that everyone's departure time was delayed a lot, even the one who left the house first every time.

As usual, she went to the window to check on the situation. The water was getting higher and higher, and people were being driven to higher floors each time.

However... she thought that the property provided keys to allow residents to move to higher floors. If the empty room was enough to accommodate lower-floor residents without causing trouble, then there would be an advantage -

As the stagnant water rises, the number of floors where people can move is also squeezed. Every time they go to a certain floor to collect supplies, the distance to climb up and down the stairs is also shortened a lot, which should reduce fatigue.

——The lack of food and water makes people very tired, and the power outage makes it impossible to take the elevator, but in order to receive the necessary supplies, no one dares to miss the distribution of supplies.

Especially before the temperature dropped, the water was not so high at that time, the weather was still hot, and everyone had to climb up and down stairs.

Every time she saw people coming back from the surveillance, she could see sweat all over their bodies.

Not to mention that during the last high-temperature period, when officials came to distribute domestic water, everyone had to go down to the first floor, and they had to carry water and then climb back up.

At that time, she looked at the exhausted people pushing buckets on the ground, and occasionally wondered, do people want the official to give out more water every time, or less?

The more water is produced, the more water is naturally available, but it also means that it is not easy to transport. Maybe many people complained at that time and got around to this contradictory issue.

She was thinking about everything. After breakfast, she nestled in a soft armchair and read a book while waiting for the boat to arrive.

Since the temperature dropped, the time she spent at the window had unconsciously become longer.

After being stuck in a dark room for a long time, you still unconsciously want to get close to a place with light. This is instinct.

She placed a lot of green plants by the window. Now that the temperature is pleasant, she simply created a small resting corner by the window.

With a carpet, a chair on top, and a floor lamp next to it, you can read books, play games, and have some afternoon tea here.

——But you have to ignore the garbage floating on the murky water.

She has become more and more proficient in this skill, and she can already sit in front of the window and eat breakfast without changing her expression, while watching and waiting for the ship to arrive.

The ship is coming.

The change of perspective is amazing. In the past, when the water stayed on the lower level, you needed to use a telescope to see it. Looking down from top to bottom, you can see the official personnel wearing raincoats in the heavy rain, like moving dots.

Now, as I raise my gaze, I feel like the accumulated water is like a cargo elevator on a ship, lifting the ship slowly up and unloading supplies on different floors.

In fact, it is the complete opposite. Stagnant water is a disaster rather than a blessing. It is an obstacle to the road, not an auxiliary tool.

Just as the weather is warm and cool now, it is not an apocalyptic compassion or a resting place for disasters, but just a brief turn in the preparation of the next natural disaster.

Leaving the window, she devoted herself to copying copybooks and excerpting words and phrases. It was only when she was sorting loose-leaf papers in order that the news of her neighbor's return came from the surveillance camera.

She raised her eyes and looked far away. Generally speaking, nothing unexpected happened, so she didn't care about it for the time being. Instead, she finished what she was doing.

The loose-leaf papers were all organized in the order they were written, and she added page numbers in the corners to make the organization more intuitive and convenient.

After finishing her work, she stretched herself and walked to the monitor and started playback.

Sure enough, she couldn't see anything from a distance. Compared with the previous times, she found that the atmosphere among the residents this time seemed a bit... happy?

At the beginning, I don’t know whether it was accidental or deliberate avoidance. Everyone walked alone. When they came back, they would cover the supplies they received, basically holding them in their arms, and the more cautious ones would wrap them in raincoats.

Even the person who goes out late every time, is not very well-dressed, and looks the laziest, even though he carries plastic bags containing supplies in his hands every time he comes back, but after watching more replays, she found that it was also tight. Clinging.

Later, occasionally two or three people would bump into each other. At that time, they were more wary of each other, keeping their heads down, not communicating, deliberately keeping their distance apart, and going their separate ways.

When the residents on the lower floors move up, there are more people, and the time for receiving supplies is fixed, so of course the chance of meeting each other increases.

Wei Jiao didn't know if these newly moved residents knew each other, or if they were residents of the same floor, but compared with the familiar "aboriginals" on this floor, she still felt a sense of alienation.

The corridors of this building are not wide. Every time residents set out to collect supplies, she would see several people walking past one after another, keeping a very deliberate distance between them.

Moreover, after the new residents moved in, everyone took care of the supplies they received again - both the "aboriginals" and the new residents.

Maybe at the site where supplies were collected, during the boring and long waiting time, everyone might have said a few words or had some interactions, but according to what she saw from the surveillance, there was still no interaction after returning.

Originally, the relationship between neighbors should still be at a level of acquaintance but slightly tense.

But today, when I saw it, everyone seemed relaxed, and many of them were smiling.

She even saw a few people coming back together - she didn't know if they were together, but they didn't distance themselves from each other and walked together.

What surprised her even more was that many people smiled and nodded to each other, and some even opened their mouths to speak.

She turned up the volume of the surveillance camera and captured some key words:

Have a great New Year, have a good year, happy New Year, and keep going.

She raised her eyebrows and involuntarily shifted her gaze to the officially distributed supplies.

The supplies were always packed in opaque plastic bags. She had never seen clearly what was inside, but she roughly knew that there were a few bottles of water and some food.

The amount of supplies distributed each time seemed to be similar, and the process of each collection day was almost fixed. She had not seen any accidents, so she gradually stopped caring about it.

Even with supplies, she no longer knows how to carefully observe and guess what is inside.

That's why she belatedly discovered that the official supply package this time... seemed to be much larger?

She dragged the replay several times and selected the one with the most obvious supply bag in her hand. She enlarged the screenshot and pulled out the replay from the previous collection. After comparing the same screenshots, she found that indeed, there were more supplies.

The shape could be seen before. The bottom of the plastic bag was a pile of bulging food, and above it were the outlines of several bottles of mineral water.

But this time, the plastic bag that was distributed was actually stretched into a large piece, and the specific supplies could not be seen.

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