The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 16 The Frugal Housekeeper
Liang Yuan pointed to the balcony outside the kitchen and said, "I have a generator here."

Yangmei was surprised and delighted, and quickly walked around the table and ran to the north balcony.

Liang Yuan's apartment has two north-south balconies. In addition to a balcony in the living room, there is also a balcony outside the kitchen.

The freezer and generator are located on the north balcony behind the kitchen, while the refrigerator is in the kitchen.

Hearing the humming sound of the generator, Yang Mei's beautiful eyes widened and shone, with an expression full of disbelief and surprise.

"Electricity, you actually have electricity here!"

"That's great, that's great, woo woo..."

She was so excited that she started crying.

You know, the entire community had a power outage as early as the second day after the flood.

At that time, there were a lot of frozen goods in her refrigerator. However, the weather in June was hot, and the refrigerator could not work without electricity, so it was impossible to store food.

As a result, a lot of food in the refrigerator was wasted. Otherwise, if her family lived frugally, they could have survived for half a year.

Now that she saw that Liang Yuan's house actually had a generator, she was naturally surprised and happy.

Then she suddenly thought of something, turned her head and looked at Liang Yuan, and said excitedly: "Brother, can your generator charge my phone? My phone is out of power. If it can be charged, maybe we can contact the outside world and contact the government..."

Liang Yuan looked at her excited expression and couldn't help but shook his head slightly: "Don't think about it, I've tried it a long time ago. Now, let alone contacting the outside world, I can't even get on the Internet. Except for the radio, basically all communication equipment and network equipment are useless."

Yang Mei's smile froze instantly. She couldn't believe it and couldn't help but said, "No... It's impossible. It's just a flood. How could there be no signal? Signal towers are usually taller than buildings. It's impossible for them to be damaged, right?"

After all, she is a highly educated person and knows that mobile phone signals come from signal towers.

Liang Yuan didn't waste any words and directly handed her his mobile phone, saying: "If there is a signal, wouldn't I call the police and contact the government? You can see for yourself."

Yang Mei hurriedly took the phone. Liang Yuan's phone was fully charged, but the signal column was empty, not even a bar.

Yang Mei was a little excited and couldn't help asking, "Could it be a problem with your phone? Do you have other phones? I heard that Apple phones have very poor signals. Do you have an Android phone?"

Liang Yuan was speechless, and took out another mobile phone and handed it over: "This is Xiaomi, there is also a card in it, take a look for yourself."

Yangmei tried for a long time, but really couldn't find any signal at all.

She was stunned for a moment: "What... is going on? What happened to this world? Wuwu..."

She suddenly felt a little overwhelmed and started crying with her hands covering her face.

Liang Yuan took back his phone and said, "The world has undergone changes that are hard for us to imagine. If it was just an ordinary flood, there wouldn't be no signal at all, and the government wouldn't have no rescue measures at all."

"But six months have passed and we haven't seen any government rescue efforts. I even have a radio at home and I keep it on all the time, but I haven't heard any news of rescue."

"Just bear with it. We don't know when this rainstorm will stop."

Yang Mei's faith collapsed. She knew everything Liang Yuan said. In fact, in the past six months, many people had been hoping for government rescue.

However, as time went by, one month, two months, everyone gradually realized a fact.

Government rescue may not come.

But deep down in my heart, there is still a little hope.

The more vulnerable the group is, the more they value this hope.

Because they know very well that they can only survive if government rescue arrives.

Yangmei belongs to this group.

However, Liang Yuan's words completely shattered her hopes.

Liang Yuan ignored her and peeled potatoes, saying, "You'd better be prepared. The world has changed. Change your mindset. Those people outside, like Li Zhiqiang and Liu Erlong, have completely lost their moral bottom line." "As time goes by, there will be less and less food, and they will get crazier and crazier. If they really can't get anything to eat, they might eat..."

He said this and didn't continue.

However, Yang Mei was trembling all over while crying. She certainly knew what Liang Yuan meant by his next words.

If there is really nothing to eat, those people... will eat people!

She trembled and said, "No, no, the small supermarket is right at the entrance of the community. Many things are floating on the water. They can salvage them. They don't have to...eat...eat..."

She didn't dare say the word.

Liang Yuan did not respond, as he was also thinking about the issue of catching food.

But there were violent storms and floods outside, and underground garages and sewers were everywhere, which could bring about undercurrents at any time.

If you are not careful, you may be swept under the water.

In addition, these floods may be the backflow of seawater. Are there any ferocious marine creatures in it?
It would be fine if you just fished for food from the window of a building, but if you left the building and went to the supermarket at the entrance of the community to fish for food, the risks would be different.

Of course, there will definitely be people who are forced into a desperate situation and will eventually choose this path.

Liang Yuan didn’t have much food left, and if the system hadn’t suddenly appeared, he might have gone down this path.

But he still has a very important question that he hasn't figured out.

What exactly are these mutated creatures that the system is talking about?

Does it have anything to do with the flood outside?

What kind of risks do mutant creatures bring to ourselves?
These are all issues he needs to consider.

In addition, the system lottery is also random. What if you are unlucky and cannot draw any food?
Moreover, you need points to participate in the lottery, and I don’t have a stable channel to obtain points yet.

What we know now is that there were mutated sardines in the flood.

There are also mutated humans in the building.

However, Liang Yuan has not yet discovered any difference between mutant humans and normal humans.

He thought about these questions while washing potatoes.

Yang Mei's emotions gradually calmed down at this time.

Seeing Liang Yuan peeling potatoes, she quickly wiped away her tears, walked to Liang Yuan, and said, "Little brother, it's a waste to peel them like this. Give it to me, I'll do it."

Liang Yuan glanced at her and asked, "Are you calm now?"

"Yes...I'm sorry, I'm just too desperate." Yangmei said.

Liang Yuan nodded and handed her the potato: "Everyone is desperate now, but survival is their instinct. Not many people really want to die."

"Besides, at a time like this, it's easier to want to die than to live."

Yangmei nodded silently, holding a knife in her hand, gently scraping the potato skin instead of peeling it with a planer.

This is the only way to ensure that potatoes are not wasted to the greatest extent possible.

Liang Yuan watched this scene and admired Yang Mei's thrifty behavior very much.

He was used to spending lavishly and had never thought of such detailed ways to save money.

(End of this chapter)