Chapter 222: Super Flood 8
They left the street where they lived and drove onto a wider avenue.
Around the towering buildings, there was nothing but floodwater.
A large amount of trash floated on the water’s surface.
And corpses.
Human and animal.
Bloated by the water, they looked horrifying and grotesque. Scavenger birds stood on the corpses, gnawing at them with maggots, then flew up warily when the boat passed by.
The sky was dim, and a cold drizzle fell.
The murky floodwater carried the stench of decaying bodies, and the scavenger birds let out hoarse, unpleasant cries, all of which made one feel incredibly depressed.
However, the city wasn’t entirely deserted now.
Aside from the victims, the survivors were trapped in various tall buildings. Last night’s thunderstorm shattered many building windows, and they hid in places that could shelter them from the wind and rain, praying for the flood to recede quickly, the heavy rain to stop, and rescue personnel to arrive soon.
Unfortunately, with a global disaster, there were no resources for rescue.
On the rubber dinghy,
Chu Yian paddled hard, “Teacher Lu, are we going to H City now?”
Going to H City was a suggestion from Teacher Lu’s friend.
She heard that it had been designated as a temporary shelter, and a temporary shelter might become a permanent one, so it felt worth trying for.
“No.”
Lu Qingyuan steered the rubber dinghy from the front. He didn’t know how he did it with the paddle, but the dinghy made a turn. “DZ Research Institute.”
Chu Yian: “What kind of place is that?”
“A national geological research institute.
The national official website, two months ago and last year, all relevant documents about crustal movement came from this institute. Additionally, they recently published several studies on global submersion, one of which was a prediction for yesterday’s thunderstorm.
And this geological research institute just happens to be in S City.”
Chu Yian immediately understood, “So if they are responsible for the research, the DZ Research Institute might have detailed data and information about the flood.”
Perhaps even information about shelters was inside.
Indeed, even though Teacher Lu was an NPC, he was working hard to carry her.
The rubber dinghy was slow, especially when manually propelled. It took them two hours to paddle to the DZ Research Institute.
This institute had a grand presence, but its architecture was extremely low-key. So low-key that only the top of the main gate remained, and of the five large characters “DZ Research Institute” at the entrance, only the ‘roof’ radical of the character “Jiu” (Research) was left.
There were other buildings nearby, all looking taller than this one.
The two paddled past the submerged wall and climbed directly through a window into the second floor.
“Don’t leave the rubber dinghy here. Deflate it and bring it inside.”
Lu Qingyuan said, and Chu Yian had already started deflating it.
The rubber dinghy was crumpled and folded. Because it was too large to fit into the treasure box, someone had to drag it. Neither of them, for convenience, suggested leaving the rubber dinghy behind.
“Follow me.”
Lu Qingyuan dragged the rubber dinghy, searching for documents in the building as if he were at home.
Soon, they arrived at a room full of various instruments and computers. The computers couldn’t be turned on, so Lu Qingyuan began to carefully read the scattered paper documents on the floor.
Lu Qingyuan’s gaze quickly scanned the documents, his brows gradually furrowing. “Someone must have been here. Many important documents have been taken.”
Is that so?
Chu Yian glanced at the content of the documents; the letters crowded together made her head ache.
She couldn’t understand it… Realizing she couldn’t help in this area, she quickly shifted her attention.
She looked around the room for any special maps, thinking there might be other discoveries.
Chu Yian rummaged through the room. When she opened a knocked-over machine, she found a pile of waste paper and books underneath. She rummaged through them and found some strips of paper that had been cut by a shredder…
