GBP Chapter 340 The Natural Disaster Has Officially Arrived
Chapter 340 The Natural Disaster Has Officially Arrived
Yufei took a nap, and as soon as she woke up, she went to the rental company to rent an apartment.
Viewing apartments, signing contracts – all done in one go, and she settled on her place to live.
She rented an apartment in the Jingyang Huating residential complex, unit 1 of building 10, on the 16th floor. The building has a total of 22 floors, and 16 floors is just the right height.
The natural light is also very good. The apartment I rented has two bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms, and one kitchen, and is approximately 120 square meters.
The monthly rent was about 7000 yuan. After paying a deposit and three months' rent in advance, it cost Yufei a total of [amount missing] yuan, which took up most of her earnings.
Despite this, Yufei was still very satisfied because the complex was a mixed-use residential and commercial building, with the entire 15th floor being commercial space.
The previous tenant used it as a company, but the lease has expired and they don't plan to renew it, so it's just sitting there empty.
It would be very convenient for her to rent this place and convert it into a supermarket. It would be great if she could rent the 14th floor as well.
Unfortunately, I heard that the small companies on the 14th floor are doing quite well and have already renewed their leases, so it seems unlikely that they will be able to rent this floor normally.
However, it's not impossible for her to modify this layer when disaster strikes, Yufei thought.
Now she needs to keep working hard to rent the entire 15th floor within the next two days.
After settling Cui Yu'an over, Yufei went to the seafood section of the storage room in her spatial dimension and brought out even more crayfish than yesterday.
Then she went down to the underground parking garage. Yesterday, her big tricycle was loaded with a whole truckload of crayfish, which sold out before 4 p.m., wasting more than two hours of her time.
This won't do. Time is money. She's already asked the rental company; this place is rented for a year, with a deposit and payment of one month's rent upfront.
Previously, leases were typically for a minimum of three years, but the current economic climate isn't so good.
Few companies are willing to lease for three years at a time, so as times have changed, they've switched to leasing for one year at a time.
The rent is still quite high, 15 yuan a year. She calculated that based on the money she made selling crayfish yesterday, she would need 5 days to...
Xiao Jun told her that there were only 5 days left until the world collapsed.
She also wants to renovate the house; making money that way is too slow.
She had no choice but to increase her workload each day, so she needed a vehicle larger than a tricycle to transport the materials.
Ideally, the best solution would be to rent a truck from a car rental company in the city, but she doesn't have a driver's license! TT This is a real problem.
Fortunately, she had stored some cars in her storage space when she was on Earth, just in case.
Sure enough, it came in handy. She had scouted the location; there was only one security camera in the southwest corner of the underground parking garage. She destroyed that camera, and her car could then be legally removed.
Yufei looked at the camera in the southwest corner, flicked her right hand at it, and released her internal energy, rendering the camera useless.
She then headed southwest and retrieved a medium-sized truck from her spatial storage.
The cargo space in this medium-sized truck is twice that of a large three-wheeled vehicle; it's big enough for her to carry crayfish.
After finishing all this, Yufei returned to her room, loaded the baskets of crayfish onto her truck, and continued setting up her stall.
She earned over 5 yuan that night, and then continued setting up her stall for two more days, extending her lease for another three days.
Three days later, Yufei had a total of over 17 yuan, enough to cover rent. Fearing unforeseen complications, she quickly rented the entire 15th floor.
Yufei slowed down her pace and began to slowly renovate the 15th floor.
She would wake up during the day and hire workers to install bulletproof glass in her rented apartment and on the 15th floor. At night, she would set up a stall.
They were busy for another five days. During this time, the authorities of this world also detected large-scale crustal movement in the ocean.
A massive tsunami was predicted to occur soon, and community workers distributed oxygen cylinders and waterproof tape to every resident.
Yufei also noticed the frequent actions of the government; large military trucks often passed by on the main road.
The people here vaguely sensed something was amiss through the officials' actions, and the savvy ones began hoarding goods.
Therefore, Yufei's business has been somewhat affected these past few nights, but fortunately, even so, she managed to complete the renovations of her two apartments before the disaster struck.
A fierce wind blew that day, first deforming the trees on the road and in the residential area, then uprooting them without even lasting a minute in the gale.
Some were even swept by the wind and crashed into residential buildings, causing residents inside to scream.
They were terrified that these powerful trees would smash their windows, and their fears were not unfounded.
Indeed, some sturdy glass panes, after being struck by trees blown by the wind, only made a creaking sound.
Those with thinner glass weren't so lucky. Lower floors fared better, only sustaining some cracks from the impact, while higher floors weren't so fortunate.
The glass that was thrown by the typhoon's gravitational acceleration shattered instantly, leaving a huge hole in the residents' houses.
The fierce typhoon, like a wild beast released from its cage, blew directly into the breached holes.
Then it swept through those people's houses, tearing out those whose houses had holes, along with their furniture and entire walls, and they disappeared into the sky.
The natural disaster struck just like that. The strong winds blew for a while, then gradually subsided, but it was clear that the disaster didn't give people much time to react.
As the typhoon moved away, a massive tsunami swept in, submerging the city entirely.
Fortunately, Yufei had made preparations in advance; she replaced all the windows in her current residence and those downstairs with bulletproof glass.
And she carefully sealed every crack and crevice in the house with waterproof tape.
Therefore, when the tsunami struck, not much water entered her room, and she even got a taste of what it's like to live underwater.
The tsunami struck in waves, one after another, lasting a full 4.5 waves before finally subsiding. For nearly half an hour, all the towns and cities on Earth were submerged in the waters it brought.
As the tsunami receded, the seawater slowly returned to the ocean, but not all of it receded completely, and some water remained in the towns.
The water completely flooded the first floor where Yufei lived.
Yufei's neighborhood is located on one of the higher elevations in the city; some lower-lying neighborhoods also experienced flooding on the second floor.
Fortunately, in this parallel world of China, the building practices are quite similar to those of Great Xia; the ground floor is almost always a storefront.
After China issued the tsunami warning, no one was left to guard the storefront.
Furthermore, the Chinese government had anticipated the aftermath of the tsunami and had already relocated people from low-lying areas, living in single-story houses and on the second to fourth floors, to higher floors of hospital buildings.
At the same time, waterproofing measures were taken at the resettlement site. Thanks to these measures by the Chinese government, not many people died.
This can be considered a good start in the face of natural disasters and apocalypse.