Chapter 134 Moving
When she originally set up the monitoring beep, she divided it into several stages.
The lightest level is someone passing by, moving from one side of the surveillance range to the other.
The most serious thing was when someone broke into the door or tried to destroy it. She set the alarm sound, but so far it has not sounded. The only time someone came to cause trouble was to knock on the door and die.
There are three levels in the middle, the slightly heavier ones are "Someone Stays" and "Someone Knocks on the Door". In these two situations, she has set simple and easy-to-understand human voice reminders and doorbell sounds.
There is also a lighter one, which is someone staying in front of the door for a long distance.
This was a built-in setting in the surveillance system. She actually didn't particularly understand how "long distance" was defined.
But now, she was given the chance to understand.
The monitoring sound sounded for the first time indicating a long-distance stay.
She approached curiously and saw a person standing in front of the door opposite - not just one person, but also a large trolley suitcase with a bulging bag on it, and a mobile phone sandwiched in the side compartment of the bag. The flashlight was on, shining brightly.
In addition, there is a large bag on the ground, and a backpack is being unloaded and placed on the ground.
The person who had unloaded his backpack obviously had no weight on his back, but he seemed to be bent over. He put his hands on his stomach, arched his body, his back was undulating, and his ponytail slid down his left shoulder.
He looked extremely tired.
...What's going on? Wei Jiao was stunned. With all the bags packed, are you moving?
She looked at it in confusion. The girl was panting for a long time at the door opposite. Then she took up a hand and wiped it on her forehead with difficulty, and then put it back on her clothes.
After resting for a while, the monitor kept buzzing. She found it annoying and reached out to turn it off.
Just as the door was closed, the girl straightened her body slightly, swayed back and forth, and then leaned back under control, as if she wanted to rest against the door.
But she didn't expect that the distance estimate was wrong. She saw a panic expression on the girl's face, took a few steps back, and narrowly pressed her back against the door panel to avoid sitting on the ground.
She couldn't help laughing.
The girl's frightened expression faded, and she smiled silently. She adjusted her standing posture, leaned her back against the door, stood firm on her legs, shook her hands, and put them on her knees.
She saw sharply that the two arms were still trembling slightly.
This is... She finally understood. It was the residents on the lower floors who were moving to the upper floors, right? To prevent being flooded by rising water?
I don’t know which floor I came up from. It’s very tiring for one person to carry so much luggage up to the 20th floor.
But having said that, the luggage was packed quite well. The bags were all bulging and didn’t look like they had been flooded. And looking at the person standing directly opposite the door...
What do you mean, have you decided to live here?
She had some doubts. Did she come up because she knew the room was unoccupied, or was she just trying her luck? How do you plan to get in and pick the lock?
The girl opposite rested for a while, straightened up and stood up, stretched out her hand to close the trolley suitcase towards her, and then reached into the middle of the large bag stacked on top of the trolley suitcase.
He was probably going to get something, but he suddenly stopped and turned his head to the right, looking at something.
Wei Jiao was stunned for a moment, then saw the person opposite looking away from the surveillance camera, nodded, as if greeting someone, and then slowly turned her face back, as if... her eyes were following the movement of the person.
Sure enough, she immediately saw another light source coming from the right side of the surveillance camera, and then a person walked past the surveillance camera while pushing a suitcase and carrying large and small bags.
This man looked very tired. He was carrying a large bag on his back that was higher than his head. His cell phone was hung around his neck. He was rushing forward from behind, and his flashlight was on.
——There is no way, the corridor lights are out of power, and there are no windows at the ends of both sides. The lighting is really poor, and it has to be illuminated during the day.
The newcomer kicked the trolley case first, and the innocent case took the lead. Then the man with a sad face bent down and dragged a large snakeskin bag behind him.
The mobile phone hung dangling around his neck, causing light and shadow to sway in the corridor, making people dizzy.
She was a little confused, what do you mean, why is there more than one person?
While she was in a daze, she saw the girl in front of the opposite door take out something from the compartment of her bag. It was very small and she held it in her hand. She didn't see it clearly.
Then he watched the girl turn around and do something with her hands in front of her - and the door opposite opened.
……ah? Really prying open the door?
But immediately she knew that she was completely wrong. The girl turned around, clearly holding a shiny key in her hand, and stuffed it into the mezzanine of the bag again.
--ah? Doesn’t she understand this even more? How come there is a key?
She was a little dumbfounded, watching the girl opposite shaking her hands as she neatly pulled all the luggage into the room, then turned around and quickly closed the door.
She recalled what her former tenant, Ms. Zhang, had introduced to her, saying that the apartment opposite had never been occupied, but she didn’t know the details.
There is a vast ocean outside now, so it’s impossible for him to be the homeowner who came back from outside? Look at the girl and her luggage. They are all quite dry.
It should be just like what she guessed just now, the lower-class residents were transferred upward.
But... where did the key come from? You can't just have two rooms in a building if you're rich, and if the lower one gets flooded, you can just replace it with the upper one, right?
Her mind was in chaos, and just as she was thinking about it, another person walked over dragging her luggage and belongings.
This person's luggage seemed to be less. He had a suitcase with a bag stacked on top, and he was also carrying a big bag. He looked exhausted.
Wei Jiao suddenly realized that this was obviously a collective move!
That key... She realized that the key should have been given by the property management company.
For an unoccupied house like this, the property has a spare key. After all, even if no tenants move in, problems may occur, such as water leaks, air leaks, or pipe repairs.
You can't just leave it alone if no one lives there, right?
The spare key of the property is just in case and for routine maintenance. After the tenant moves in, the spare key will naturally be returned.
But looking at the current situation, with heavy rains falling and stagnant water rising, the chances of residents rushing back from outside the community are too low. In this case, these empty houses might as well be used as temporary accommodation for the flooded residents in the lower floors.
——Of course, no one knows how long this will last, nor whether these new houses will be flooded again one day.
But it's better than leaving it alone.
She knew that the occupancy rate on her floor was not high. She also knew from the group chat in this building that the occupancy rate of the entire building was just like that.
Since it is to avoid water accumulation, it is estimated that the vacant rooms are arranged one by one starting from the 32nd floor, which is the highest. It should be... maybe the rooms are enough?
Even if it's not enough, it should be a low-rise resident discussing a few people sharing an empty room, which should have nothing to do with her.