Natural Disaster Hoarding to Survive Daily

Happy 23rd Day: New Shopping List ◎

If the faucet is frozen, just pour some boiling water on it for a few minutes, and the faucet should work normally again.

But occasionally, there are also times when you hit the jackpot.

That is, when a certain area's water pipe freezes, it directly leads to a water outage in that area.

At this point, unlucky individuals will discover that they have already used up all the hot water in their water bottles, and water still won't come out of the faucet. They are then forced to go out and buy water, enjoying washing up with freezing water at minus seven degrees Celsius.

According to the experience of the older generation, considering the current temperature, there will definitely be lucky winners hitting the jackpot tomorrow.

After all, during the construction of South City, no one could have predicted that it would experience winter temperatures of several tens of degrees below zero.

Jiang Muyun took a screenshot of the community group and posted it in the 15th-floor group.

【Little White Taking West University Exam Tomorrow: @All members, do you have buckets at home? I'll fetch a few buckets of water and you can come to my place after work to get them.】

【ZJH Still Not Awake: Grateful heart.jpg】

【An: Grateful heart.jpg】

【Little Bin: Grateful heart.jpg】

Jiang Muyun didn't know if there would be a water outage in South City, but in her past life, once the water was cut off in West City, it never recovered.

The city infrastructure in South City might be slightly better in terms of anti-freezing measures compared to West City, but it definitely didn't reach the level of northern cities.

Moreover, the temperature had already started to drop, and the severe drought should also arrive as scheduled. By that time, even having an extra bottle of water could save lives.

Jiang Muyun gathered the water buckets from several households and filled them up by connecting two water pipes, one in the washroom and one in the kitchen.

The water flow from the faucet had already decreased, and Jiang Muyun had to use a hot towel to restore it to normal.

The buckets from both houses were not large, and it took about ten minutes to fill one bucket. By the time the air conditioner had raised the temperature in the house a bit, all the buckets were already full.

Jiang Muyun took the filled water buckets one by one and placed them near the door. Then she went to the bathroom and took a hot bath.

Originally, there was only a shower in Jiang Muyun's house, but later, because Grandpa Jiang's health was not good, Jiang Muyun secretly used the prize money from a competition to buy this thermostatic bathtub.

Now it seemed necessary for her to fit this bathtub into her space and take it wherever she went.

Taking a hot bath in the middle of winter allowed the warmth to spread directly from her feet to the top of her head, making her feel so comfortable that she could forget everything.

Jiang Muyun checked the time and realized that, after all the busy work, it was almost dawn outside.

After tossing and turning all night and then soaking in the hot water, Jiang Muyun felt that all the bones in her body had turned soft and that the cold had been completely expelled from her body.

She stretched herself comfortably and reached out to pick up her phone.

Jiang Muyun leaned in the bathtub and checked the weather forecast. She found that, according to the forecast, the temperature would remain at a minimum of minus twenty to thirty degrees for the next month.

Even in West City.

Jiang Muyun took a screenshot of the weather in West City, opened QQ, found the West University public wall, and sent a message to the opposite side.

【Screenshot.JPG, I want to ask if there are any experts from the Department of Earth Sciences here. What's the deal with this temperature drop? QAQ West City has been below minus twenty degrees for over a month. Is this really Blue Star? QAQ I just started my graduation thesis, and the Blue Star climate will not directly usher in a new era, will it? QAQ】

【International convention of hiding, thanks in advance, Wall Wall. QwQ】

After sending the message, Jiang Muyun lingered in the bathtub for a while, until her skin wrinkled slightly from the water. Satisfied, she wiped the water droplets off her body and quickly jumped into bed.

How could one not get into bed after taking a hot bath in the winter?

After getting into bed, Jiang Muyun took out her phone and opened QQ on the West University Public Wall, watching as the number of comments below her post today skyrocketed.

It seemed that after experiencing the bizarre temperature drop last night, everyone's enthusiasm for surfing the internet had skyrocketed.

Uncle Party members can be found everywhere, even at West University.

However, the students at West University usually referred to them not as "uncles" but as "our professors" or "our mentors," which made their credibility soar.

Jiang Muyun opened the comment section, and the beginning was filled with struggling students lamenting their thesis and a few top students attempting to analyze the reasons for the temperature drop.

There were also many off-topic comments, with people banging on tables and angrily asking why it was so cold but still no snow.

As she scrolled further, it was dominated by the Uncle Party.

Messages like "Our professor said this might be the resurgence of the Little Ice Age," "My mentor sent a message in the group today, saying that this might not be the lowest temperature," "Has no one seen the Vice Dean's friend circle? It seems like he's implying extreme heat after extreme cold," and other similar messages.

Jiang Muyun, as the reborn one, was amazed by all of this.

The predictions of mentors, professors, and vice deans seemed to be getting more accurate with each one, and the students' comprehension skills were not to be underestimated.

Is this the power of knowledge?

Before she could steer the topic in that direction, others were already making rough predictions about the situation for the next few months.

Or perhaps, because West University was one of the top global universities, the scholars there had access to more information than ordinary people like her?

Well, after experiencing such a sudden and bizarre temperature drop, the official authorities in China should be gathering top scholars to explore the cause of this anomaly.

In her mind, Jiang Muyun applauded these top scholars while using one hand to tap and swipe on her phone screen.

First, she took a long screenshot of the discussions among West University students regarding the temperature drop. Then she opened Weibo and found a few popular and humorous bloggers she had selected before.

Based on the different styles of these bloggers, Jiang Muyun made several posts with different titles.

《Friends of Applied Meteorology, are your theses okay?》

《Our mentor says it's so cold, he took a sick leave for himself.》

《Where's the snow? Where's the snow in the south?》

When she submitted the posts to the university bot, Jiang Muyun found that she didn't need to submit them herself because someone else had already done it.

It can only be said that it is well-deserved as one of the top universities in the country, and its name comes with popularity. There are always people paying attention to it.

These days, when it comes to the fastest and widest spread of topics, apart from social events, it's all about various funny jokes and memes. 

After all, the pursuit of happiness is also human nature.

A few Weibo posts related to current events went out, and the number of comments and shares skyrocketed. 

Numerous meteorology students howled and screamed, mixed with the analysis of knowledgeable individuals, as well as office workers and students sharing news about school and company holidays.

Of course, the hottest topic was the desire for snow among Southerners. 

Although it didn't snow in previous years, it was never this cold! 

When the temperature reaches minus twenty degrees and freezes people into popsicles, and yet there is no snow? 

Isn't that just being unreasonable?

Jiang Muyun watched the comments of the bloggers rapidly increase, and the topic #BringMeSnow trended on the hot search rankings.

The art of creating memes lies in its speed, and she was very satisfied with the speed of this topic's spread.

But now that there was some popularity, the reach of the discussion was not broad enough. If she wanted to move on to the next step, she needed to let the topic ferment a bit longer.

Jiang Muyun's first attempt could be considered successful. 

After confirming that she had set the rhythm in motion, she happily put away her phone and took out her shopping list from her space.

At this point, Jiang Muyun feels very grateful for her habit of putting things in her space, as now she doesn't need to crawl out of bed.

This list was compiled when she was in West City, and the items that had already been hoarded were crossed out, making it look somewhat messy.

The remaining items that weren't crossed out were either too expensive to afford, such as car batteries and liquefied gas.

A 100 AH, 12 V electric vehicle battery can store more than one unit of electricity. When several of them are connected in parallel with fuses and inverters, it instantly enables electrical freedom. It has the advantages of being compact, quiet, and space-saving, making it an essential product for households in the post-apocalyptic era. Apart from being expensive, it has no other drawbacks.

To buy enough of these batteries that she needed, she would have to spend at least hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Jiang Muyun would have to be crazy to spend that much money.

The same goes for liquefied gas.

In addition to these expensive items, there were others that couldn't be obtained through legal means and were difficult to obtain through illegal channels. They could only be considered after the order collapsed, like firearms.

Jiang Muyun turned over and pulled out a hardcover notebook. She recopied the missing items and wrote down a rough plan for obtaining these supplies with the ideas she could think of at the moment.

After a few days, when things outside get chaotic, she can easily grab the supplies and take advantage of the confusion.

The supplies that needed to be obtained after the order completely collapsed would be put aside for now.

After organizing a brand new list, Jiang Muyun felt refreshed and put away the paper and pen in her space.

She absolutely wouldn't leave behind things that would be difficult to explain if discovered outside.

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1. "Uncle Party" (舅舅党) is a term used to refer to middle-aged or older men who are active users of QQ, a popular instant messaging platform in China. They are often characterized by their conservative viewpoints, nostalgic tendencies, and sometimes perceived as being out of touch with modern trends. The term is used humorously to describe this particular demographic of QQ users.

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Author's note:

After reading the news about pharmacies being robbed yesterday, I felt like the apocalypse was happening around me. I hope the pandemic will be over soon. Wishing everyone all the best.