bookpower Chapter 45: Natural Disaster VS Man-Made Calamity!
Chapter 45: Natural Disaster VS Man-Made Calamity!
Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Natural Disaster VS Man-Made Calamity!
Jiang Yan had just stretched out her hand to push open the hidden door when a wave of stuffy, intense coffee aroma and heat hit her face.
Even through the insulation hat, she could feel the heat inside.
If the temperature outside was around sixty-six or sixty-seven degrees, then the temperature inside was at least seventy degrees.
She didn’t immediately go in, but stood at the door, waiting for the high-temperature air inside to merge with the outside, while also taking the opportunity to observe the storage situation inside.
Due to the lack of lights inside, it was pitch-dark.
She took out an emergency light from Space and shone it inside, seeing large, neatly stacked cardboard boxes.
After a while, the sensation of the heatwave was gone, and after confirming there was no danger, she stepped in.
Inside, it was indeed a whole different world.
Not only did she find a lot of well-packaged coffee beans, coffee powder, coffee capsules, sugar, cinnamon powder, hazelnuts, almonds, there was also a pile of limited edition blind box gifts for sale.
On another shelf, there were several large cardboard boxes of sealed paper cups of various sizes.
Additionally, there were a few brand-new, unopened imported coffee machines.
One of these coffee machines could cost several hundred thousand.
There were also some brand-new bean grinders, tampers, ice makers, hand brew kettles, and filter cups.
Jiang Yan collected all of them into Space.
As for the boxed hazelnut spreads, chocolate, milk, cream, etc., they had spoiled in the high temperatures of the past two days.
She chose to ignore them.
Just as Jiang Yan was about to leave, she saw five somewhat familiar cardboard boxes piled up in the corner of two adjacent shelves.
Upon closer inspection, whoa, they were all 52-degree Flying Fairy Maotai!
Six bottles to a box, a total of 30 bottles!
Liquor spoils under high temperatures because the heat causes the seals on the bottles to deteriorate, leading to evaporation and reflux of the liquor.
Although the temperature was extraordinarily high at the moment, the seal of Flying Fairy was still reliable.
Jiang Yan didn’t think twice and immediately collected them all into Space.@@@@
Moreover, the fact that these valuable goods were still left behind indicated that when people evacuated the shop, they had not anticipated the high temperatures to persist and rise.
Otherwise, these goods would have been moved away long ago.
After clearing the storeroom, Jiang Yan returned to the dining area.
At that moment, it was nearly six o’clock outside.
She checked the weather on her phone, which showed sixty degrees.
But Jiang Yan guessed the actual temperature was probably close to sixty-six or sixty-seven degrees.
The pile of Blood Mosquitoes that had been stuck to the glass wall, after waiting in vain, had finally left reluctantly.
Jiang Yan thought it was still early before dark, so she decided to enter Space.
After taking off her insulation hat, insulation clothes, shoes, sunglasses, and various other items, she habitually clicked on the surveillance to take a look.
Due to the high temperature, all the original surveillance circuits in the complex had activated their circuit fuses for protection and had automatically shut down.
This puzzle confounded Jiang Yan.
Was it possible that a resident had forgotten to close the door after opening it?
Or had the property management staff just thrown in the towel en masse?!
But that shouldn’t have been the case!
She took off her insulation hat, sat down on the sofa with the pad, and set the playback speed to 32 times the normal rate.
The unit door had been manually opened around eight-thirty at night.
Jiang Yan returned the playback to normal speed when the image jumped to the moment the door opened.
According to previous community management requirements, from six in the evening to seven-thirty the next morning, the communal doors were strictly forbidden to open.
This was because this period was the active feeding time for the Blood Mosquitoes.
This rule was exceptionally clear and ingrained in the minds of both residents and property management.
But strangely enough, a young man wrapped up tightly with a helmet and mask opened the door.
He glanced around to make sure there was no one else around, then propped the door open even wider.
Not only that, but he also took something resembling a wedge from his pocket to prop the door firmly open.
After doing all this, he sneaked out.
Soon after, a horde of huge Blood Mosquitoes rushed into the corridor.
Jiang Yan furrowed her brow, rewound the footage to the moment the young man had come in, then paused and zoomed in.
She quickly recognized the person.
He was one of the property managers she had seen at the entrance to the underground parking lot, with a group of people in white shirts, just the day before.
However, he wasn’t the manager, probably just one of the supervisors.
Jiang Yan remembered him so clearly because the sports shoes he wore had a pattern of pale yellow with red rims, like flames.
The red flame pattern under the fierce sun made it even more irritating to the eye.
So she had taken a special glance at them at that time.
Moreover, the young man’s left hand was unusual, having six fingers, and thus he was the only one not wearing gloves on his left hand.
This matched the characteristics of a security supervisor’s hands she had encountered when dealing with property issues before...
Jiang Yan felt a sinking feeling:
Why would he do this?!
Was he acting out of a sense of revenge triggered by stress?!
In her memory, there were still at least ten more days of high temperatures to endure.
Shallow Bay had an underground parking lot where the residents could take shelter and avoid the heat for the next few days.
Nearby, several old communities had no underground parking facilities and just had to endure.
Subsequent downpours would also likely leave Shallow Bay relatively less affected due to its higher elevation compared to other communities.
It could be said that Shallow Bay had the advantage during both the heat and rain.
It was a pity that they had not yet overcome the natural disaster before facing this man-made calamity!