Stop the Rain

Another day passed.

Xiao Jun's door was knocked on intermittently several times, but Xiao Jun still did not go to answer it.

There was spare time to go knock on other doors, at least it could delay starving for another two days.

At this stage, human nature had not completely disappeared, and someone would definitely be willing to open the door to let them in, but in a few days, they might have to pay the price for this behavior.

Without electricity, there was no way to entertain yourself. Xiao Jun had the foresight to prepare twenty power banks, all fully charged, and he had downloaded more than ten TV shows on his phone, enough to watch for a while.

A day went by very quickly. When hungry, he would turn on the gas stove and heat up food.

There were quite a few canned fish and canned meat to switch up the flavors.

Compared to the people outside, he was now living a godly life.

It was the last day of the heavy rain. At this time, the water had risen to the 18th floor where Xiao Jun was. Looking down from the window, the water surface was already very close to him.

Compared to the first two days, the rain had eased up a bit. By 10 pm tonight, the water should have just flooded up to the 20th floor.

At that time, the rain would get smaller and smaller until it stopped completely.

Then would come the red rain at 11:11 pm.

If there were still living people in the corridors now, those who did not hide in the rooms tomorrow would definitely not survive a day.

As usual, Xiao Jun ate something, then took out his phone to continue watching the TV series from more than ten years ago. It was quite interesting.

Today was also the last day he could be so relaxed. Once the fire rain came, even with the house providing insulation, he could only live in the bathtub.

Before the water was cut off, he had already filled the bathtub and all water storage containers to full capacity, which should be enough to last three days.

At 9 pm, Xiao Jun was busy preparing large amounts of food to be placed at the bathroom door. He planned to spend the next three days in the bathroom.

At 10 pm, the rain stopped.

The entire Star City had become an ocean, and the corridor outside had become lively again since 5 pm.

Since the afternoon, more and more survivors had come up to the 21st floor. If this building was taller, they would have continued climbing.

Thanks to this being a five-star hotel with a large floor area on the first level, it could accommodate so many people.

No one knew who first discovered that the rain had stopped, then everyone started shouting loudly.

"It finally stopped, we are saved!"

"Woo woo, great!"

Most people were already starved to exhaustion, but fortunately they were still alive.

As long as they persisted for a while until the rescue team arrived, they could survive.

But they did not know this was just the beginning.

At 11:11 pm, the rain had stopped for more than an hour, and the cheers outside had ceased.

After the initial excitement, all that remained was hunger.

Xiao Jun was still standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, confirming that the house could withstand the erosion of the fire rain before entering the bathroom.

Although in his previous life, he had not heard of anyone hiding in a house but still being burned to death.

"Drip, sizzle ..."

The first drop of red rain fell and sizzled when it hit the water surface before quickly disappearing.

Compared to the vast ocean, a single drop of fire rain was nothing.

But soon after, dense red rain poured down everywhere, and the surrounding air temperature began to rise rapidly.

Although it was a winter night, it instantly turned into summer, and the temperature kept rising.

After watching for more than ten minutes and making sure the red rain would not damage the house, Xiao Jun decisively ran into the bathroom.

"Ah!"

Submerging his whole body in the ice-cold bathtub felt so comfortable.

By now, the temperature outside had reached 40°C, which would hit the terrifying 60°C tomorrow morning.

In such a high temperature environment, the crowded corridor outside probably couldn't last a day before more than half died.

Xiao Jun really wondered how he had survived this in his previous life.

After sighing casually, Xiao Jun continued his drama marathon.

Two days passed.

Spending more than 18 hours a day soaking in the water, Xiao Jun still felt unbearably hot.

The bathroom water had almost completely evaporated. What remained had become lukewarm. Having endured two days with this water, Xiao Jun was quite satisfied.

There was no sound at all from the corridor outside now. No food for five days and five nights, some people might still pull through, but no water was the biggest problem.

However, there would always be some extremely tough people. With so much meat and red liquid readily available outside, as long as one was ruthless enough, one could still survive.

All this didn't have much to do with Xiao Jun anymore. He was now completely naked, holding a can of Coke in each hand, taking sips every now and then.

Tonight the red rain would stop. Through the window one could vaguely see what used to be the road.

He still had enough supplies to feed himself for a long time, but it was far from enough.

According to his memories from his previous life, at 9 am the day after the red rain stopped, some strange boxes would suddenly float down from the sky, commonly known as air drops. People later called it the salvation of God.

The boxes contained some high-tech items never seen before, including the spatial equipment that Xiao Jun had always wanted. The grade of the boxes could not be distinguished from the exterior.

Most boxes contained one or two items. Weapons and food were most common.

The sci-fi war blade was one of the things Xiao Jun had to obtain.

Food was less urgent.

However, the food from the boxes was also extraordinary. Not only extremely tasty, a meal could substitute for many days of eating. Later it would slowly become the mainstream food for humankind.

Apart from these common boxes, there were higher grade ones containing three to five different items, with spatial equipment possibly appearing among them.

The highest grade box contained ten items, and was guaranteed to have spatial equipment.

Xiao Jun didn't know anything further. In his six years living at the bottom in his previous life, he had only ever seen the lowest grade drop box.

But he knew that at the University of Finance and Economics not far from here, there would be one top grade drop box.

It was said that Yao Ji, one of Future City's ten greatest masters in the future, was a student at the University of Finance and Economics when the apocalypse arrived. She happened to open this top grade drop box and eventually became one of the ten greatest masters.

This was once the biggest news in Future City. For a period of time, countless people went out searching for top grade drop boxes until they were defeated by the harsh reality, and the craze finally died down.

With the unique experience from his previous life this time, Xiao Jun could get there first before anyone else to lie in wait. A top grade drop box was truly something to look forward to!