Chapter 25: Filtration
October 11, 2032, heavy rainfall. Day 20 of the power outage.
The city seems to have been abandoned by the sun, and since September 23, the sun has not risen since.
Every day is an endless torrential rain, violent storms.
I feel like there's a sea in the sky, and it's leaking down, and I don't know where so much water comes from.
The last time relief food was received was eight days ago, and the power outage was 12 days ago.
Rescuers on the food trucks said that when the lights turn red, citizens can pick up a second copy with their ID cards.
But the relief food was distributed only three days before it disappeared.
Even the lamp that pierced the clouds, the lamp that symbolized light and hope, disappeared forever in this endless darkness.
Not all electrical equipment is damaged after a solar storm.
Some of the more fortunate electrical equipment can still be used, as long as it can be powered all the time.
There are several flashlights that can be lit in Lane 27, which are said to be placed in the trunk of the car, forming a natural Faraday cage.
It was fortunate to have survived.
However, after using it for a few days, the power was gone.
At first, when the power went out, traces of electric lights could still be seen in the city.
There are shopping malls that generate electricity, there are parts of public service facilities that have not been completely damaged, and there are also individual households that still have undamaged power equipment.
But later, the night was gradually eroded by candlelight, and the electronic light seemed to become history, and gradually, gradually withdrew from the stage.
After there are no small videos, novels, TV series, movies, animations, variety shows, games and other entertainment activities, people's main energy is all on mahjong, poker, gossip, scolding, sleeping, and even skipping rope.
People became absolutely ample to observe the changes in the city.
At first, the power went out for a few nights, and you could still hear the laughter of people.
Later, it rained for too long, and the atmosphere became dreary.
When the relief truck came, the laughter returned.
But when the grain cart suddenly disappeared without a trace, the whole city suddenly fell into a dull powerless and desperate struggle. More so than before.
There are more and more visible corpses on the streets, the weather is getting colder, and more and more people are cold, fever, diarrhea, no food, no cash.
Liang Shuyu had a low-grade fever the day after he came back from receiving relief food.
Fortunately, there was enough cold medicine at home, and he was in good health, and he got better after a long day of fever.
So going out became a more discreet thing.
Neighbors said that several children and elderly people in the neighborhood were suffering from a cold and fever and might die soon.
The hospital doesn't accept people, and they can't keep it busy. The clinic is not open, not even the health post.
When a child was almost burned to death, the parents carried the child to the health post.
The health station refused to open the door for treatment, and the parents directly smashed open the roller shutter door of the health station, and the two gangs fought together, and the child was stoned to death on the spot.
I don't know who smashed it, and I can't tell the difference, so the two sides began to fight, and three people died, two were health station staff, one was an old Chinese medicine doctor, and one was his student and son-in-law.
Later, the health post was robbed that night, and the medicine inside was washed away.
The bodies of the two men at the health station are still lying inside, reportedly because their daughter and grandson happened to be away from home and were stranded by the power outage.
Perhaps by the time she knew about the nightmare, their bodies would be rotten.
"Shuyu, help me carry the bucket of water." Liang Yingdao, who was busy in the kitchen.
Liang Shuyu's house is a small three-story house with a rooftop, and since the water stopped, all the buckets in their house have been thrown on the rooftop to receive water.
Later, Wei Youqi's family also took more than a dozen buckets up, and Wei Youqi's family didn't have much else, just garbage cans, buckets, brooms, and mops.
So the rooftop was full of buckets.
However, this rainwater cannot be used directly, there is a lot of dirty garbage in it, you have to carry the full bucket to the stairwell for a few days, then you can take it and simply filter it and boil it for bathing and washing hair.
Every time a bucket of water is taken from the stairwell, a new bucket must be put on the rooftop to rest, which is the tacit agreement of the three families.
The second floor is also used for water, and their family has a bucket, but the other two families don't care about this idle resource.
Another point is that there are a lot of buckets on the rooftop, and although you can catch water every day, you can't let it be left on the rooftop all the time.
Empty the excess bucket every few days, clean the bucket and refill it with new rainwater.
Otherwise, a large amount of garbage will be deposited in the bucket, and even a large number of bacteria will be generated, which will increase the difficulty of filtration and disinfection.
Liang Shuyu carefully carried a bucket of clean water through the living room to the balcony, and as soon as the balcony door opened, a huge thrust poured in.
It's a bit like the feeling that the drainage hole of the swimming pool is suddenly opened, and Liang Shuyu is in the hole.
Close the balcony door and the wind becomes much less.
The wind is like that, if you give it a passage, it can blow harder, and if it encounters a wall without gaps, it is just a headless fly, and there is nothing to be done.
Liang Shuyu had to simply filter and disinfect the water on the balcony, and the last time they went to the small shopping mall, they didn't buy water purification tablets, but they bought two buckets of disinfectant, and now they use it.
The filtration equipment is Liang Ying's stockings.
Liang Wenjing also has stockings, but her ones are bargains for dozens of yuan.
His mother's stockings all start from two or three hundred, and the difference between the two is quite big!
From the naked eye, Liang Ying's stockings are also reflective, the workmanship is precise and meticulous, even if you pull hard, it will not be transparent to the meat, and it is best to filter.
Strain a bucket of water, and it has changed from a slightly cloudy appearance to a clear and visible transparency.
Add a few drops of disinfectant to stir and sterilize, and let it stand until tonight.
Today, the water is for consumption, and the water used for bathing only needs to be filtered simply.
Out of prudence, Liang Shuyu has never used the water in the bucket.
So when he ran out of water in his tank, he thought about starting to use rainwater.
It would be nice if there was a water purifier, but unfortunately their house is an old house and has not been equipped with a water purifier.
"The water is ready." Liang Shuyu said.
"Ready to eat." Liang Ying came out of the kitchen with a pot, they only cooked white rice today, and the side dish was a can of moldy tofu and tin foil roasted ham.
Moldy tofu and ham sausage were bought by Liang Shuyu when he went out to a big mall a few days ago.
"Sister, it's time to eat." Liang Shuyu went to Liang Wenjing's bedroom to call her, and Liang Wenjing was lying on the desk writing a novel on scratch paper.
She didn't seem to hear, and Liang Shuyu quietly stretched out his head to peek.
"October 11, 2032, heavy rain, 20th day of power outage, damn! I wanted to poop last night, but I seemed to be seen, woo woo woo I'm going to the uncle's ......"
Liang Shuyu: "......" is writing a diary.