flstandardbreds Chapter 1225
Chapter 1225
That was the boiling water that Zhou Shuwan had stored in her spatial storage. She mustered her last bit of strength and poured all of it back into the sea.
After doing all this, Zhou Shuwan could no longer hold on, her vision went black, and she collapsed limply to the ground.
"Late night!"
"Girl!"
Zhou Jianghai and Zhong Tiyun quickly reached out and caught her steadily.
The two looked at their daughter's pale face and tightly closed eyes, and their eyes welled up with tears.
Although the tsunami has passed, many problems remain.
The first problem is the boiling water that accumulates on the ground and in the corridors. This water is extremely hot, and people will be scalded if they touch it.
Therefore, only patrol team members who had been issued new air-conditioned suits dared to step into the water.
As soon as the alarm went off, Qi Mingyu immediately led the patrol team to begin the rescue operation.
Wearing new air-conditioning suits, they waded through the floodwaters, knocking on doors to check if any residents were injured or needed help.
Some survivors found basins in their homes, carefully stepped into them, and used ladles to scoop the water out of the house.
Some people even brought out water pipes, connecting one end inside the house and extending the other end out the window, trying to drain the accumulated water.
Because Zhou Shuwan's house had a lot of huge blocks of ice, the temperature inside dropped very low, and the remaining water quickly turned into warm water that wouldn't burn anyone.
Therefore, Zhong Tiyun and Zhou Jianghai were able to get out of bed and start cleaning up the water in the room.
The two first found thick bed sheets and sealed the window tightly to block the view from outside.
They had to keep the doors and windows closed so that no one else would notice anything unusual about the house.
Fortunately, the outside temperature was over 90 degrees Celsius, and the heat was scorching, so people were trapped indoors and dared not go out easily.
Therefore, no one noticed what was happening at their house.
While Qi Mingyu was directing the rescue efforts outside, he couldn't stop worrying about Zhou Shuwan.
The air was thick with steam, and the smells of burning and saltiness lingered.
He called Mu Mu over directly and ordered in a deep voice, "I'll organize the rescue here. You go back and take care of Mom, Dad, and your sister! Tell me immediately if there's any emergency."
Mu Mu nodded, thinking to herself, "I'm just telling you, you can't just turn around and go home without caring about anything else."
However, he also knew that Qi Mingyu chose to work at the base so that he could have more say in protecting his sister!
So he didn't say that complaint out loud, and turned around and ran home.
When he finally trekked home, he opened the door to find Zhou Shuwan unconscious on the bed, and Zhong Tiyun and Zhou Jianghai standing by the bedside, their faces full of worry.
"Sister!" Mu Mu's heart sank. She rushed to the bedside and reached out to touch Zhou Shuwan's forehead.
The temperature is normal, but her face is too pale.
He looked at Zhou Shuwan, who was lying unconscious on the bed, and then at the melting ice in the room. His brows furrowed tightly: "Our family, the entire base, owes my sister a lot."
Zhong Tiyun's eyes reddened, and she nodded, her voice hoarse: "Yes...this child is always like this, never caring about anything for us..."
Mu Mu didn't say anything more and turned around to help clean up the water in the house.
When he came back just now, he took a section of water pipe.
He inserted one end of the hose into the waterlogged area inside the house, and extended the other end through the door crack into the hallway.
Using the difference in elevation, the accumulated water slowly flowed out through the water pipe.
This is currently the fastest drainage method.
Zhong Tiyun and Zhou Jianghai also came to help, and the three of them worked together to quickly clean up the water in the house.
After cleaning up the boiling water, Zhong Tiyun looked at the several huge blocks of ice in the room and worried: "What should we do with these ice blocks? If others see them, they will definitely become suspicious."
Mu Mu frowned, her gaze sweeping around the room before finally landing on the pile of blankets and sheets beside the bed, where her eyes lit up.
"There is a way!"
He immediately took action, tearing off all the bed sheets and duvet covers in the room, and then together with Zhong Tiyun, covered the ice with these fabrics.
The thick cloth completely covered the ice cubes, with only a tiny corner showing.
Mu Mu then brought over several boxes filled with miscellaneous items and piled them on top of the fabric, making it look like a storage area for supplies.
In this way, even if someone does come in, they will only think it's a pile of junk and won't suspect that there's ice underneath.
All three of them breathed a sigh of relief after doing all this.
Because of the ice blocks used to cool down, the temperature in their home was quite comfortable, and they didn't suffer at all.
But the other survivors were not so lucky.
The outside temperature was over 90 degrees Celsius. Although the water inside had receded, the heat was still scorching.
Without air-conditioned clothing or ice, they could only huddle indoors, enduring the scorching heat.
Sweat soaked through my clothes, sticking stickily to my skin, and my throat felt like it was on fire.
Some people couldn't stand it and could only use a small amount of drinking water to wet a towel and apply it to their forehead to cool down.
As soon as the all-clear signal sounded, Captain Chen immediately issued orders in a hoarse voice: "Immediately tally the number of casualties and the amount of material losses. The medical department is on standby, with priority given to treating the seriously wounded! The patrol team is divided into three groups: one to maintain order, one to assist with drainage, and one to check for potential hazards house by house!"
His forehead was still covered in mud and sand, and his eyes were bloodshot.
Previously, in order to protect the core equipment in the command center, he stepped into boiling water, which burned his feet and calves. He walked with a slight limp, but he had no intention of resting.
The statistical work proceeded under intense pressure amidst the chaos.
The patrol team members, dressed in new air-conditioned suits, waded through the deep water, knocking on one closed door after another.
Some families are still weeping for their deceased loved ones, some injured people are lying on the ground groaning in pain, and others are sitting numbly in their houses, staring blankly at the broken windows.
It wasn't until two hours later that the statistics reached Captain Chen, and the numbers were shocking.
The tsunami killed 43 people and injured more than 370, nearly 300 of whom suffered severe burns, while the rest were injured by falling glass shards and heavy objects.
Captain Chen's voice was heavy.
He closed his eyes, and images of lives swallowed by boiling water flashed through his mind, making it hard to breathe as if a boulder was pressing down on his chest.
Since the end times, they have experienced so many disasters!
We also have extensive experience in dealing with disasters!
They could have avoided this with more adequate protective equipment.
but……
The medical department was already overcrowded.
The wounded lined up in a long queue in the lobby of the medical department, their screams and cries echoing throughout.
The limited medical staff were extremely busy, using bucket after bucket of disinfectant, and soon bandages and gauze were running out.
Due to the scarcity of resources in the post-apocalyptic world, medical research and development has focused on high-frequency illnesses such as virus prevention and treatment, and emergency care for high fever.
Burn medication reserves are already extremely limited, and now, facing hundreds of burn patients, it's simply a drop in the ocean.