At first, it was just torrential rain. Flooding in the city got so bad that everyone had to stop working and attending school.
Sheng Ling was forced to work overtime in her 30-square-meter rental apartment. The food and daily necessities she'd stockpiled, along with the large amount of bottled water suddenly distributed by the community, arrived just in time before the "major blackout."
With food and water, she had no reason to panic. Apart from the frequent power outages, she was coping fairly well with life cooped up at home.
But the rain didn't stop. Instead, government agencies collapsed, the tap water became contaminated, the city's power supply was cut off, and all transportation ground to a halt.
At last, she no longer had to work, but only because a natural disaster had struck.
She might have been able to survive by staying put, but Sheng Ling couldn't stop worrying about her mother back in their hometown. It was on the coast, and she had a persistent sense that something terrible was coming.
Sure enough, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and the collapses and chemical explosions caused by the disasters soon struck one after another...
This is a long journey of migration.
(Told entirely from the heroine's perspective, following what she sees and experiences on the road as she flees the natural disasters.)
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- July 2025
- Natural-disaster survival story with no golden finger
Theme: Be prepared, even in times of peace
