In Zhengzhou after the flood, a person who has water, electricity and Internet at the same time is very lucky.

Water stop is the most common. In supermarkets, large pieces of drinking water are snapped up and the remaining small bottles are taken away in bags. In the hotel near the 27th tower, the customers were around the front desk and complained, "it's really stinky!" The boss took out the big plastic bucket from his feet, pointing to the deep pit where the water was accumulated outside the door. "Fill it up, use that to flush."

The whole Zhengzhou city large area blackouts, the old block because of the aging circuit can not survive. A large number of shops close down the street and closed down. Fresh fresh businesses who have not closed business sell fresh fish milk that can not be refrigerated and turned over spring scales that have not been used for a long time. But the settlement process is often impossible to complete - cash has disappeared from life for too long, and banks are still closed due to power failure. Some even return to the original stage of "barter with goods".

In a fresh supermarket near the Qili River, the boss sat at the door of the store anxiously. A middle-aged man came out of the dark shop, carrying a bag of onions and small winter melons in his hand. After weighing, the total price was about 20 yuan.

"Only cash."

"Can't you use Alipay?" Customer asked.

"Can you open Alipay?"

Middle aged men don't have cash. After a long search for black bags, he could only hand the boss a pack of cigarettes - xuanhemen in blue, which is priced at about 19 yuan（ It is a reminder that Germany, which collapsed after World War II, used storage-resistant, divisible cigarettes as "currency."

The interruption of water and electricity exists in the memory of generations, but the sudden interruption of the Internet has turned Zhengzhou into an unprecedented experimental field. After the disaster, Zhengzhou is surprised that the old order is also in failure after the order given to the city by Internet technology fails, which is not only the water and the floating vehicles in Longhai Road Tunnel, but also in this 12.6 million city.

After the flood, Zhengzhou public transport was paralyzed, and people began to take trucks to travel

After July 20, Zhengzhou seemed to return to 2000 overnight. In this city, there are desert areas without electricity and Internet. Where can we find an oasis of digital civilization? The citizens are deeply disturbed.

Zhengzhou east station is near the water, electricity, network all three areas. All the gates at the exit of high-speed railway have failed. Passengers who need to brush ID card or ticket to exit the station have been pushed out of the gate which can not be turned. When they walk out of the square, they will find that the main public transport in the city has become a shared bicycle and fast dog taxi, cargo cheering.

For safety reasons, several major network car platforms have suspended the business in Zhengzhou. Most bus routes are also off. So you will see the passenger who pulls the trunk to block the express truck of Shunfeng and asks the driver loudly, "pull people no?" And the intersection in the southwest of the station has become a trading place. When a taxi comes empty, passengers will immediately surround it. "You say how much is the price, no watch."

But drivers are not concerned about the price, they always ask, "do you have cash? WeChat Alipay can't brush it. "

The first three groups of the previous inquiry were disappointed to leave. Occasionally, some passengers questioned the driver "making a country difficult to make money", and the driver did not deliberately express his grievance. "I am a new energy vehicle. This is the end of the electricity, and I don't know where to charge, and the electric pile is abandoned." According to a data from Zhengzhou, more than 80% of taxis in the city have been replaced by new energy vehicles.

At noon on the 21st, hundreds of passengers were detained at the intersection in front of the station, shuttling between the crowd, big bags and private cars soaked in water. The fast dog taxi and cargo cheering occupied the absolute main force. Whether it is Wuling Hongguang or golden cup, passengers can not refuse to abandon it, even sitting on the legs of strangers can quite tolerate.

After deciding to go to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengda, I stopped a van of fast dogs. The driver was a middle-aged man of about 40 years old with a short flat head and looked like a long time. But when he asked the price of a single trip, he suddenly became shy, "how much do you say?" After several setbacks, I realized that he was very unfamiliar with the sudden rise of the new business. He took out his cell phone. "I'll see how far on the gaude map." But a minute later, he said, "no net."

After the Internet technology developed, urban residents have been used to the order created by it. It defines the process of transaction. Even the trust between people is built on the mechanism of Internet products. You will not worry about Taobao shopkeeper's mistake of money, nor worry about whether didi driver is detouring the road. Seven out of ten lost mobile phones can be found back. But in Zhengzhou on July 21, I tried with the driver of the fast dog carefully, as if I wanted to find a strange skill for many years.

This unprecedented situation is a test of Zhengzhou citizens. In my opinion, they are very civilized. Under the traffic lights, the drivers are polite and polite. You can even say that they smile with a little bit of shyness. When a taxi stops in East Station Square, passengers get off and find that there is no cash on them. He is sorry. The driver just swings his hand and turns the steering wheel to drive East.

There are, of course, cases of irritability and anger, but it is forgiven by the circumstances. On the South Road of Dongzhan, a boy with camouflage backpack tried to scan a beautiful group bike. After many attempts to lose fruit, he was sweating. He lifted his mobile phone and turned it in vain for two times. As if the African immigrants in the lotus gold prize photography signal hit two boxing hard at the two-dimensional code of the American regiment bicycle a few minutes later.

Streets of Zhengzhou after flood

Nearly 100 shared bicycles scattered around the South Road of Dongzhan. In half an hour, more than 30 people tried to scan code, but only two people caught weak signals. A young student who looks like a student has successfully swept the yard, humming the divine tune in his voice, "riding my favorite little bike..." more people can only go around looking for more Internet products that match the failure time tiktok, a bicycle with a broken car.

In such extreme cases, it is not necessarily better to update. Meituan bicycle launched a new generation of bicycles in Zhengzhou, giving up the traditional car lock. The new lock probably applied the electromagnetic principle. When returning the car, it still needs to scan the code, and the system determines whether it is located in the designated parking space. However, the extra network communication makes Zhengzhou people at this time very upset.

On the other hand, some seemingly primitive technologies may come in handy. In the media group in front of the flood, there is an emergency guide circulating, which prompts a technology: if you need microblog for help, you can directly send content to 1069009009 without 4G signal. Microblog system has left a ray of life through 2G network.

Just like Zhengzhou, the Central Plains city, is not fully prepared for the precipitation of more than 500 mm a day, most Internet technology enterprises have superimposed more and more sophisticated and complex designs on the foundation of network communication, but if they do not experience it once, who knows what will happen after the foundation is gone.

Passengers are asking for a taxi

The Internet is a new infrastructure, and it is the hydropower coal of our time. This is not false at all. Especially when you go west along the South Street of east station, you will not doubt this even more when you see people holding their mobile phones at a loss.

Most shops along the way are closed, especially for large chain organizations like McDonald's, which are still opening small stores.

"Hello, I have a reservation on Ctrip." At the inn called Eli, I said to the front desk.

"Ctrip?" She pointed to the computer in front of me, "I don't have electricity and no Internet now. Where did you book me to see it?" Under her hand was a paper form, and a thick horizontal line was drawn on each room number. Customers come in constantly, many people come to the front desk, look at the yellow, green all kinds of shared charging treasures, and turn their heads away.

Three kilometers west, after passing the green center, the power is restored. In a soup house, the boss told me that it was not possible to take away now“ It's not the US group that stopped. We turned it off manually. It is a list for 40 minutes without rider to pick up the order, then the guests will return, the meal has been ready, we still have to bear the loss. It's just off. "

Without the Internet, life needs to be adapted everywhere. However, the people who are not in it seem to be unable to understand the feeling after the lack of the network.

On the evening of the 21st, the meituan sent a message, "in order to ensure the convenient passage of the public in extreme weather, the United States regiment bicycle was riding free in Zhengzhou from 21 to 28, and the fees you paid have been returned to the original account. Special reminder: before riding, make sure that the road condition and vision are good, and don't wade in the water section. Come on, Zhengzhou

After receiving the text message, I really want to give meituan's good friends a sincere hug and thank them for their consideration, but I also want to whisper in his ear, fool, the problem is not money at all.

That night, Zhengzhou again heavy rain. After 8:30, I wore a raincoat and rushed from the provincial people's hospital to the hotel near Zhengxing street. All the street lights and traffic lights along Renmin Road went out, and the vision and road conditions were very bad. In 40 minutes of walking, there were about a dozen shared bicycles along the way, but there was still no network and it was impossible to scan the code.

I turned on the lighting of my mobile phone and stared at the offline download of Gaud map as I was on my way. After the flood, Gaode launched the rainstorm mutual aid function, and a red mark will be displayed on the map where there is an emergency. But if you are not in an oasis with a network, you don't have any idea of opening it. Friends in Beijing can use it, but they don't need it.

According to the map information, I went to the near 27 tower, and after turning a fence, I was stopped by a figure.

"Don't go, big brother. There is a big puddle in front of you. You can't go." He looked older than I was, but it was really dark then.

"Go around there. You can go. You look at the puddle. Don't step on it." He went on.

I expressed my gratitude and asked if he was a government staff member.

"No. I just lived nearby, knew there was a big pit. I thought I couldn't, and I stood here for a while. " He saw the map in my mobile phone, "don't just look at that, now."

There is no doubt that before the restoration of power and Internet, the slow restoration of order in Zhengzhou depended on the ordinary people, the truck drivers, the street cleaners, the dedicated traffic police, and the waitresses downstairs who opened free Internet hot spots for passers-by. They were the empathy and sense of responsibility we had before the development of Internet technology, Even for the sake of self-interest. It's not nostalgia or defense for these "primitive" things, but to be honest, because of the advanced technology and fine governance, sometimes I have forgotten it.

Streets of Zhengzhou after flood

On the afternoon of the 21st, I met the nearby resident, brother Zhang, in a small square near the South East Road. He had not been out for two days, and was sitting on the steps to let the wind go. He told me about the difficulty of water and power cut nearby. He talked about the floating cars in the culvert not far away, but finally concluded, "Henan people are afraid of what, the disaster is much more difficult."

For two days, elder brother Zhang was not very dare to use his mobile phone. "Only 20% of the electricity left. But it also saves electricity, no network. "

"So how do you look at the news and the government's briefing?" I asked.

"They told me, where to flood or what. We have a good relationship. "

Since the flood, most of the information of the municipal government has been transmitted through the Internet, and TV stations have relevant news, but it is still an old problem, without electricity and no network. It is probably impossible to estimate how many people are therefore isolated from significant information.

At present, elder brother Zhang is worried that he can't contact his hometown after he has no phone. He plans to drive back and worry about the road insecurity.

He was originally from Xuchang, and he has been fighting in Zhengzhou for many years. The little daughter is only 3 years old now, only twice home“ I always want to go back, let the old man see the children, my wife is afraid to go back to trouble, old said wechat video to see it, the same. "

"How can that be the same?" "It must be different," he said