131. Water-Caused Bloodshed (1)
Yes, Americans are used to stocking up on a week's worth of food, but no one usually stocks up for a week's worth of drinking water. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Although they knew that there was a natural disaster warning and went to the supermarket to buy drinking water, the riot was a man-made disaster, there was no clear warning, and many people did not have water at home. This is evident from the fact that we don't have a lot of drinking water in the school, and I'm thinking about how to get it.
Schools are also facing water cuts, and although water has been rationed, reserves are still rapidly decreasing. If you don't want the elderly and children to be cut off from the water, you can only continue to go out and search, but the nearby convenience stores, grocery stores, and even cafes and fast food restaurants have basically been patronized, and it is difficult to find anything.
When I was worried, Uncle Biao hurriedly found me and said, "Judge, we don't have much water." Can you find a way to do a little more? ”
I had no choice but to shake my head: "I estimate that there are very few places with drinking water, and it will not be much to find it from afar." Do you have ideas within the community? See if those who haven't been robbed have some stock left in their homes? ”
Uncle Biao said, "You can try this." But we already have five or six hundred people here, and a little bit won't help. Someone just came up with an idea to try. ”
I hurriedly asked, "What's the idea?" ”
Uncle Biao let out a man in his fifties behind him and said to him, "Agui, tell me." ”
Although Gui's name is very Chinese, this person can only speak English. "There's a water booster station eight blocks from here," he said. From there the pipes can be opened. There must be running water in the pipes. We pumped this water out and it should last for a few days. ”
I asked, "But how do you pull it out?" ”
Uncle Biao said: "Ah Gui is a worker of the water company, he has a way. ”
Not to mention that there is great power in numbers. If Agui hadn't been a worker at the water company, we would have been reminded that it would have been impossible to think of this solution. I said to Uncle Biao, "Then we need to quickly collect the containers of water." ”
Uncle Biao immediately went to gather men, and we searched the barley fields that had been looted several times, and all the containers that could hold water were looted to fill more than a dozen pickup trucks and pickup trucks. Because it was very chaotic outside, we used a lot of manpower this time, except for me and the people brought by Big Eye, Marley and Bill. Dong's two groups of people were also dispatched, and the four of them also followed. At this moment, a convoy of twenty vehicles of various types was formed, and it was rushing towards the pressurization station.
There seem to be more people on the road today. Along the way, we saw a lot of people walking around the destroyed shops, probably hoping to find some supplies that others had missed, but they didn't bother to pay attention to them. Stores that don't have enough force to protect them have already been robbed, and I don't care about being robbed one more time. So as long as those people don't do things that threaten us, we won't be nosy.
There were so many people walking on the road in such a large group of vehicles, although we were all yellow faces, and we didn't show our guns outside, but those people didn't dare to mess with us. Everyone understands that at this time, they will not dare to go to the streets without the backing of force, and the people under American culture and education know very well when to be tough and when to pretend to be grandchildren, of course, it is difficult to say when they take drugs.
We came to the unattended pressurized pumping station that Agui mentioned without any problems. Although the door of the pumping station was closed, it was not difficult for us, and it didn't take a minute for Big Eye to open the lock. After entering the pumping station, Agui led us straight to the place where the maintenance tools were stored, and we used a vice to break the large lock on the toolbox, and took out tools such as pliers, wrenches, pipe wrenches and a diesel-driven water pump.
The next step is to turn the screws. As a team of two, we quickly opened a cap on the huge water pipe and extended the pump's pumping pipe into the pipe. When the pump was activated, the water was pumped out of the hose and poured into the truck's storage container, and within 10 minutes a pickup truck was full.
This car didn't dare to go back on its own. The pickup truck loaded with water was driven to the edge of the yard and then another car was driven to the door of the pump room. I didn't expect that so much water could be stored in the water pipes buried in the ground, and the water from the pumps had not decreased even when all the containers on the car were almost full. But at this time, Ben, who was following the big-eyed guard outside, ran in and said, "Brother big-eyed said that the situation outside is not quite right. Let's hurry. ”
Fack! The speed at which the water pump comes out is a certain amount, and it is not as fast as you want. Big-eyed said this made me cry and laugh. I followed Ben out of the pump room, and with big eyes, I pointed to a group of people in front of a smashed grocery store not far away and said, "Look over there." Those people had just appeared, and they seemed to be in a group. There's a group over there that seems to be blocking our way back. ”
Through the fence I saw that there were more than a dozen of them, only thirty or forty meters away from us, and I could see that most of them were white, as if they were Latinos. They stood there looking idle, but they kept looking around, and some of them pulled out their pistols and brandished them, not knowing what they were shouting. But it seems that these people have leaders who are restraining them. So these people just gathered around their station, and they did not come or disperse. On the way we came, thirty or forty meters outside the gate, there were also a few people standing on the side of the road looking at the pumping station.
I looked back and saw that there were still two cars left before our containers were all full. Thinking of so many old people, children, pregnant women, and the wounded waiting for water, I said to Big Eye, "Wait." This time it's full, maybe it will last until the army arrives. ”
Big Eyes nodded and said, "No problem, I can't fight again." After saying that, he licked his lips excitedly, and then said to Ben: "If you follow me in a fight, you will have a little bit of eyes." Give that gun not much ammunition, don't shoot indiscriminately......"
I couldn't help but laugh when I saw Ben nodding his head like a chicken pecking rice, and these two people didn't know what fate it was, and all of a sudden Wang Ba looked at the mung beans in the eyes. If you can't figure it out, you will be the successor of the big-eyed child in the future.
I was about to go back to the pump room to see how much water was filled when I heard a cheer from the grocery store. I looked up and saw a convoy of pickup trucks speeding in the distance, each with a few men with guns standing on them. The convoy and the crowd at the grocery store would quickly turn around and join the men standing in the direction of the gate, and there were always seventy or eighty people. They put their vehicles across the street and blocked the road.
Then out of the convoy a tall, skinny thug walked to the door of the pumping station, pulled out a pistol stuck in front of his stomach with his big hand, shook it at us, and said in English with a Spanish accent: "Yankee? Japanese? I don't care who you are. If you know each other, leave your car behind and leave immediately! ”
I held down the hand that was about to draw the gun. Big-eyed asked, "What do you want?" Want water? There's a pump, and you can pump your own water. ”
The thug shook his pistol even louder and said, "We don't want to pump the water ourselves, we have to find our own buckets." I want you with this water. Water too, cars too. You'd better get acquainted with each other, or you'll regret it. ”
Wide-eyed glanced at the group of people who got out of the car in the distance and said, "Is it just you people?" ”
The bastard said, "Yes." We all have guns. I don't want to talk nonsense with you, hurry up! ”
His last "get out of here" was shouted, and as he shouted with his mouth open, Big Eyes suddenly reached back and pulled out the Smith revolver on himself, and at once put the thick barrel and barrel-shaped weight pestle into the guy's mouth, pushing his head up. The bastard must have sensed what was in his mouth, and his pistol froze in mid-air, not daring to move.
Big Eyes took advantage of the situation and got off his gun and said, "Tell you, I won't leave and I won't regret it." Go back and tell your people that my gun isn't vegetarian either, let them go. ”