The sky is a lesson. When the thought "Won't it rain for another ten days and a half" flashed through her mind, it was really just a fleeting thought and an irresponsible guess. It passed by without leaving any trace. trace.

But when it really rained for the second half of April, she was a little dumbfounded.

It's not my fault... Wei Jiao thought, I just thought about it casually, well, it wasn't me who cursed it.

In fact, in the last week of April, you can see that the rain has decreased, from brushing to dripping, and the ice crust outside the windows has gradually become thinner over the course of the day.

——Use the same heater every day to shorten the melting time.

While watching the rain every day, she wonders when it will stop. It will soon be ten degrees below zero, but it still rains every day. Is this ridiculous?

...Forget it, it's the end of the world, so it's quite normal to be outrageous.

But maybe even in the last days there are basic rules. At the end of April, the rain stopped, which made her sigh in relief.

Mainly, watching this week's supply ship shuttle through the icy water always made me feel a little frightened.

The ice has not solidified yet, and there is a fragile ice shell floating on the water. The ships that have been used can be easily smashed and broken, but after a while, whether the ship can still sail is a question.

Moreover, it was freezing rain in the sky, and the boat would still freeze no matter how clean it was. Watching people climbing up and down the ladder made her really sweat.

April was spent in such worry. The temperature finally dropped to minus ten degrees, and the water level slowly stopped below the fifth floor.

This is really—an astonishing drop. She looked far below from the window, wondering whether the drainage work that had been stalled for some reason would continue after the rain stopped.

If it continues, it should reach the bottom in a few days. Will it be as she suspected, that people will start to leave?

However - as said before, life is full of surprises, and as expected, surprises came again.

It had just entered May, and just a few days after the rain had stopped, it started to snow again.

The snowing incident is well deserved to be called an "unexpected accident". Although it is a wrong sentence, it is very suitable to be used here.

As expected, it was referring to the snow itself. When she first learned that the next stage was an extreme cold natural disaster, she had taken it for granted that it would snow. Now that it has actually snowed, she is not surprised.

The surprise was another suspicion she had - having seen the astonishing speed of the water level falling before, she thought she would be able to see the ground again soon.

But look at the way it's snowing now...

Thin and dense snowflakes were fluttering, and large snowflakes filled the field of vision, crowding the background of gray sky, gray buildings and gray water.

Originally, there was less water now, making it easier to freeze; coupled with the efforts of the freezing rain that lasted for half a month, the layers of ice shells in the water undulated.

Moreover, the temperature continues to drop, and now there is another snowfall, which greatly speeds up the freezing of accumulated water.

——When it is completely frozen, can the water still be drained away?

According to the golden finger drainage theory she guessed, there should be nothing that can be done about solid ice.

After all, it is just taken away directly, and the liquid water is treated as a big ladle, but ice cannot be cut with sight, so you can't just scoop out a large chunk out of thin air, right?

Even if it can be done, if this piece of ice is dug out, other ice will not flow to replenish it, so wouldn't it be meaningless for the water level - or the decrease of the ice level?

She looked at the gradually whitening water and wondered whether the authorities would choose to speed up the drainage or simply ignore it and let the accumulated water freeze.

After observing the snow for a few days, she saw that the ice was getting bigger and bigger, so she estimated that there would be no more drainage for the time being.

Because drainage means moving away the existing water, which will definitely lead to the flow of water. Once the water flows, it will not be conducive to freezing.

After watching the water level for the past few days, there was no change at all. She guessed that the officials might choose a strategy of simply freezing the accumulated water to the ground.

The distribution of supplies this time also made her more convinced of this guess.

When the surveillance system rang, indicating that the neighbors had returned from collecting supplies, she noticed with sharp eyes that the contents distributed this time were very different——

In the past, there was only one plastic bag, which was not very full and was a bit deflated in the hand.

But this time, the three plastic bags were all filled to the brim - this was much richer than the "New Year's goods" distributed last time!

This... She looked at the calendar and saw that it wasn't a special day. Why did she suddenly post so many more messages?

There's something...well, it's not that she deliberately thought about something unlucky, but the words "deprived rice" appeared in her mind involuntarily.

She dragged the progress bar, found several pictures that she could see clearly, and put them together to distinguish them.

One of the bags seemed to be the heaviest. The handle fell straight down and the plastic bag was also very tight. Coupled with the outline drawn on the outside, she looked like a bag of mineral water.

The weight of the other two bags is obviously different. One bag is a little heavy, and the other bag is obviously as bulging, but it seems to be quite light, at least not as heavy as the other bag.

She guessed that the heavier bag should be food, possibly including compressed biscuits and cans.

——The guess about the content was obtained by observing the garbage on the water surface every day. She did not intentionally stare at the garbage, but if she looked out more every day, she would find some things that appeared very frequently.

For example, some kind of compressed biscuit packaging bag.

Other foods are okay, and can be said to be stocked by residents themselves, but generally speaking, it is not common for people to buy large quantities of compressed biscuits.

When we first entered the apocalypse, we organized unified stockpiling, but at that time everyone only thought that this was a temporary predicament, and they would not stock up on strategic dry food such as compressed biscuits.

Although someone went out to bring back supplies in the early stages of the rainstorm when the water was not too high, she still preferred that these compressed biscuit packaging bags came from official supply packages.

After all, official supplies are provided to each person, and the overlap between the most common packaging and material content in the garbage should be the highest.

As for the can, she purely guessed it by looking at the outline shown at the bottom of the plastic bag.

It can be regarded as a kind of good wish, I hope everyone can have something good.

As for the last big bag, she couldn't see it clearly, and she was very curious, so she dragged the progress bar back and forth to look at it, and she really found some clues——

She saw that some people's bags had obvious signs of being opened. She probably opened them herself and looked at the contents. One of them seemed to have already used them.

She saw that the handle of the plastic bag that the man had tied had a ridge sticking out from the middle. It looked like the one on a torn package that had not been completely torn off.

And this thin strip looked familiar, this color, this size... She suddenly realized - this is not a warm baby!

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