Chapter 1062: Chapter 1044: A Close Call Without Danger Chapter 1062: Chapter 1044: A Close Call Without Danger There were scares but no harm, truly just scares without harm.

Gu Ning switched his phone to video call, and connected with the others over video as well, so they could have a direct view.

The fact that their family members saw them unscathed, not even a tiny injury, along with the rice, flour, and cooking oil in their kitchen, just as Gu Ning had said, and the myriad of snacks, as well as the dozen or so bottles of purified water, had finally allowed everyone to breathe a sigh of relief.

Gu Ning indeed had not lied; he truly hadn’t deceived them.

Neither of them had suffered any injuries, and their clothes were clean, their complexions not bad either.

“Don’t worry,” Gu Ning again brought the phone to his ear, “I have two high-capacity batteries here that can charge phones, so if you have time, you can call Yuxin.”
Upon hearing this, Tang Zhinian was truly overjoyed.

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He really couldn’t wait to keep calling his daughter on the phone, yet he knew this was impossible, and he was afraid that if his daughter’s phone ran out of battery, they would lose contact.

Now it was all good, as long as calling was possible, they would be able to know how their daughter and son-in-law were faring at any moment, and there was no need for so much worry.

After Gu Ning hung up the call, both of them left the house.

The rain outside had stopped, but the sky was overcast, and it was possible that a new downpour would start immediately.

Yun City’s weather was known to change unpredictably, never letting you know what it would look like in the next second.

When Gu Ning and Tang Yuxin came out, they also saw quite a few people, who likely had just come out as well.

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The post-disaster scenario was something that didn’t need saying; everyone knew it.

Their area was perhaps a bit better off because it was considered a private area, it wasn’t the tourist season presently, so there were relatively fewer people, and the houses here were built very sturdily, with none having collapsed.

The number of injured people was few.

After leaving the houses, people talked casually to each other, but they didn’t discuss much.

Tang Yuxin asked if anyone was injured.

There were indeed some who were injured.

But now, without medicine and without proper medical facilities, all they could do was find some clean cloth and hastily bandage the wounds.

Their area indeed was lucky as no one was gravely injured.

As for the few that were injured, even those who had broken legs, Tang Yuxin had set the bones correctly, and as long as they didn’t move, they would be fine.

The injuries that did occur weren’t due to the buildings collapsing, but rather they happened when people ran outside, bumping and falling.

Most of the injuries were self-inflicted in the panic and haste of escape.

They weren’t like her and Gu Ning, who had been outside initially, and that’s why neither of them had a single scratch on them.

Thankfully, there were no serious casualties, which was good news.

Otherwise, if someone had sustained a severe injury, it would have been unbearable for Tang Yuxin to witness someone die here due to the lack of proper medical care.

Those people could have been saved, they shouldn’t have died aEUR” yet due to poor conditions, due to the lack of medicine, a life slipping away through her fingers was simply too cruel for a doctor to endure.

Fortunately, there were no serious incidents or severe injuries, and, more importantly, no fatalities.

However, there wasn’t just good news, there was also bad news.

Their location had been blocked off, meaning they were cut off.

Only a few households here, no one could enter, and they couldn’t leave.

What they could do was summed up in one word, wait.

As for how long the wait would be, no one knew.

If the weather stayed like this, merely overcast without heavy rain, they might be able to leave soon.

However, if it really did rain, especially like the torrential downpour from a few days back coupled with the typhoon, then the wait could be much longer.

Just as Tang Yuxin was contemplating these things, she suddenly felt a coolness on her face, as if droplets were falling down.

She looked up at the sky.

More droplets fell, cold and chilling as they landed on her face.

The climate here was just like this, if it were sunny, the temperature would be quite high.

But if it kept raining for a few days, the temperature would plummet, possibly down to about ten degrees or so.

The rain began to fall heavily, starting as a drizzle but it wasn’t long before it was likely to intensify.

“Let’s head back first,” Gu Ning shielded Tang Yuxin’s head with his arm while she shrank back a bit and hurried back with him.

The others outside also returned to their homes.

There was no suggestion that everyone should stay together, rather people looked after each other in passing.

No one spoke, asked, or even suggested itaEUR”everyone simply went back to their own homes.

Gu Ning brought Tang Yuxin swiftly back inside the house.

Just as they had barely re-entered, the wind and rain followed close behind them, a downpour so heavy it seemed to be bucketing down, accompanied by strong winds that caused the exterior doors to rattle.

This kind of heavy rain and wind was nothing unusual here; Tang Yuxin might not have seen it before, but now she was truly experiencing it.

Are you okay?

Gu Ning wiped Tang Yuxin’s face with his sleeve, noting her hair wasn’t wet, and her clothes were fine, he then breathed a sigh of relief.

“I’m fine,” Tang Yuxin shook her head, noting that Gu Ning’s clothes were soaked through, all because he had been keeping her dry.

They hadn’t been rained on, but their clothes were muddy and dirty, which was problematic.

“I’ll go fetch some water and wipe it off,” Gu Ning said.

He didn’t dare use the purified wateraEUR”they were reserved for drinking.

Though they had over a dozen bottles, they couldn’t risk using them because their sustenance depended on that water, and they didn’t know if the other families had water.

If they ran out and came to borrow, he certainly wouldn’t refuse them.

Thus, the water was simply too precious for them.

After speaking, Gu Ning asked Tang Yuxin to sit while he went outside to collect some rainwater.

The rain wasn’t entirely without benefits; at least, the collected rainwater could serve as drinkable water.

Before long, Gu Ning brought back a large basin of water.

He boiled half a pot of water and mixed it with some of the collected rainwater.

After they had washed up, now wasn’t the time for fastidiousness, as long as they weren’t too uncomfortable.

Having changed clothes, Tang Yuxin tried to take her dirty clothes outside to wash.

But Gu Ning stopped her, “I’ll do it.

You should avoid cold water for a while.”
Tang Yuxin did some quick calculations regarding her period aEUR” wasn’t it still half a month away?

It was still early.

“It’s better for a woman to avoid cold water.”
Gu Ning pinched Tang Yuxin’s cheek, noting there was still some gas, he decided to go boil some hot water.

After he finished speaking, he had already taken their dirty laundry to wash.