Tsunami, Earthquake, Zombies, Meteor Showers, Bridge Collapses, Hailstorms, Volcanic Eruptions, Acid Rain, Thunderstorms.. Yuxi’s apartment’s storage room unexpectedly became connected to a star ho...
Chapter 321: Force is supreme
Youxi noticed that Dafeng's words for asking for help were: something happened in Mincheng, not - something happened.
Generally, this kind of targeted statement does not refer to a problem in the larger environment that caused a group disaster, but more like a problem within the group that caused an individual accident.
The intercom was very chaotic. Dafeng only had time to say this sentence, and he didn't know who he shouted "be careful" to, and then the message was interrupted.
Youxi called again, but there was no reply from the other end. I don't know if he heard it but couldn't get his hands free to reply, or it was too noisy and chaotic that he didn't hear it at all.
She checked the time. It was about one in the morning. Although she was skeptical about the "accident" - after all, she had only been given the walkie-talkie in the daytime, but since it was given, it was equivalent to a promise, so she still had to go and check.
She was afraid that her parents would wake up early and worry when they found out that she was not at home. So after changing into clothes for going out, she left a note outside their door, asking them to contact her with a transparent cell phone if they had anything.
This time she did not go out empty-handed. She took out an escape backpack with food, water, medicine, ropes and other supplies from the Star House warehouse and put it on her back, and took out a pair of half-finger tactical gloves and put them on. She did not
spray [sunscreen spray], and as soon as she stepped out of the Star House, she was hit in the face by the humid heat outside. The temperature on the high ground at one in the morning was not much lower than that during the day.
She took out the thermometer to measure the real-time temperature: 18 degrees Celsius.
After putting away the thermometer, she still took out the [sunscreen spray] to add a layer of protection for herself.
The oxygen isolation film that can resist high and low temperatures, strong pressure, radiation and vacuum is far more practical than other protective props she obtained at the endless train station. Although a bottle can only be used eight times, that is, sixteen hours, but now the spaceship has sufficient energy, she doesn't feel bad about using it.
It's just that such a high temperature is really hard not to be vigilant.
If the temperature this summer really soars to a terrifying height, the South China Sea Island will definitely be the first to bear the brunt.
In the past, I didn't have enough ability and transportation, so it was difficult to go to the South China Sea Island again. But now, both low-altitude vehicles and high-altitude airships can do it, and with a little more safety and concealment, the star house can be reset once more.
If the situation there is okay with Xue Fei, leave more star tools for her. If the situation is not good, just take everyone to move.
There are both guesses and response plans, but to be honest, she hopes that she is wrong. After all, no matter how capable she is, she can't save the people on the entire planet.
Such a large area, so many humans, in the end they still have to rely on themselves, and get through the disaster period of the planet little by little...
But since the nebula world and the alien space have appeared in her mind, she has always had an idea that has not yet been fully formed in her heart, and she doesn't know whether it can be implemented. At least - she has to wait until Xing Min's spaceship system is upgraded to be confirmed.
Her mind was racing, and her steps were also fast. Taking advantage of the cover of night, she ran at full speed. In just two minutes, she crossed the plateau and arrived in front of the cliff on the south side.
In the night, there were five five- to six-story B&B buildings.
The buildings were staggered and not far apart. The overall shape was similar to the B&B building where she first rebuilt the Star House, but it looked more fashionable, gorgeous and sturdy.
It was sturdy because the glass on the walls of the building was reinforced with wooden boards or aluminum alloy bars. The balcony floor-to-ceiling glass and large windows that originally looked very unsafe were transformed to look like a bird cage. It was a bit ugly, but the safety factor was greatly improved.
In addition, an artificial wall of more than two meters high aluminum alloy plates was built around the B&B. For reinforcement, a circle of wooden strips were nailed vertically against the wall.
No wonder the other party invited her to stay here during the day. There is water and electricity here, the building is solid, and there is a wall. It is indeed the best accommodation area on the entire plateau.
In the first B&B building on the left, the yellowish and dim lights were on. You can clearly hear the arguments, screams, and collisions inside, which seemed particularly noisy in the quiet early morning.
The walkie-talkie held in Youxi's hand rang again. It was still Dafeng's voice, which was more flustered than before, and the background sound was even more noisy.
"Yatong, are you still there? Sorry, I didn't have time to reply you just now. This is what happened--" Dafeng was halfway through his speech when the walkie-talkie in his hand was squeezed away again. When he finally picked up the walkie-talkie from the ground and was about to continue explaining, the other party's cold voice came from the mini walkie-talkie in his hand.
"No need, I'm here."
Dafeng:...? ?
No, your speed--did you ricochet here?
**
The cause of the incident was still because of what happened during the day.
Not long after Youxi left, some people were afraid that the mosquito swarm would appear again, so they quickly packed up their tools, wrapped themselves in homemade protective clothing, and scrambled back to the B&B.
Dafeng, Mincheng and a few others stayed behind. After all, the dead person was a human being, not a corpse of a cat or dog. They had lived together for so long, so they couldn't just leave him there.
Finally, they put on protective clothing and dug a few pits in the woods opposite the greenhouse area to bury the people.
When they returned to the B&B, the two teams in the B&B were already in a commotion.
The people who died in the accident were the last group of people evacuated from the county town. They all had family members and friends. They were out for less than two hours and the bad news came. Their relatives couldn't accept it.
When the mosquito swarms came before, everyone was in chaos and fear, and they did push each other when they fled. It was not necessarily that the two teams framed each other. In fact, there were also people in their own team who accidentally bumped into each other and fell, causing others to not have time to escape.
But at that time, many people didn't care about the scene. Now that the matter is over, when facing the families of the victims, they subconsciously dare not tell the truth.
Everyone talked about the confusion because the people who died were all on the same side, and finally put all the responsibility on the other side.
The two teams have been in constant conflict for the past few months. On one side is the filming crew from the big city, including artists, directors, photographers, makeup artists, screenwriters, etc. Some of them are well-informed and subconsciously look down on the group of people from the county town. Among the group of people from the
county town, some used to be fans. Seeing that the stars they used to see on TV now live and eat with them, they inevitably have some thoughts.
Someone pursued a female artist unsuccessfully and was ridiculed behind her back.
On the filming crew side, some people didn't know the difference between grains. When they were on duty, the food they cooked was so bad that they had to throw it away and redo it, which caused dissatisfaction among the people on the other side.
Including the previous poultry hunting trip, the two sides contributed differently and the food was not evenly distributed.
...
Actually, they were all just small things, just a little accumulation, and this incident finally became the fuse.
One of the dead was Chong He. He had an older brother named Chong Lin, who was the main force of the county team and was very strong.
Chong Lin took his parents, girlfriend and younger brother with him when he evacuated, but he encountered too many mutant animals and plants along the way. When he finally reached the high ground, only the two brothers and his girlfriend were left.
Although he was sad, he thought that at least he had saved his brother and his girlfriend Xiao Tong was by his side, which was somewhat comforting.
But in the end, Xiao Tong began to be distracted from the first sight of the opposing team, because she was a fan of Min Cheng's girlfriend.
The Chong brothers don't chase stars, and they don't understand. They only know that Xiao Tong likes to read news in the entertainment industry.
Min Cheng is indeed a little too handsome in his eyes, but it's the end of the world. In Chong Lin's view, how to get food and drink and how to survive safely are the most important things. What's the use of being handsome?
He didn't pay much attention to Mincheng at first, but gradually, he found that his girlfriend always liked to run to the guesthouse of another team. Occasionally, he saved fruits and meat for her, but she actually gave them all to the other team.
He angrily questioned Xiaotong about this matter, but Xiaotong thought he thought too much and disliked him interfering with her freedom of life, and they began to quarrel frequently.
In fact, Xiaotong was not only targeting Mincheng, she chased male stars and female stars, and it happened that she liked one of the five artists in the crew. Mincheng refused all the food, and actually accepted the other two female artists.
But Chonglin didn't know this. In his eyes, the person Xiaotong supported was Mincheng. He had little education and did not understand dreams and feelings. He just felt that his girlfriend had changed her mind and wanted to cheat.
In the past, although the two quarreled, they always ended the quarrels in time because of Chonghe's persuasion, so the small conflicts never became big.
But this time was different. His last relative died. In addition, the people in his team who came back talked a lot and shirked the responsibility, which made Chonglin believe that the other team was responsible for this incident.
The two teams had actually had a quarrel during the day.
However, there were so many people in both teams, and not everyone was indiscriminate. It was a pity that most of them did not go out and did not witness the facts with their own eyes, so no matter how much they talked, they could not explain it clearly, and they just reluctantly persuaded them to stop fighting.
But the scene was too noisy and a lot of things were broken. Xiaotong felt that it was not the other team's fault. She felt that Chonglin was too impulsive, never used his brain, and liked to listen to the instigation of his teammates.
In her opinion, just because they come from the same place, it does not mean that they are all good people. Everyone has their own selfishness. Who can be selfless in the end of the world?
But Chonglin was not willing to listen to the advice at this time. In his opinion, his girlfriend was protecting the other team and speaking well for them because of Mincheng, so she changed her heart.
After that, the atmosphere of the two teams was always tense, but because everyone did not live in the same building, they did not continue to make trouble without meeting each other.
As a result, no one knew what happened in the county team. Chonglin brought two other victims' families and other people to make trouble in the middle of the night.
This time, his face was even uglier. No one knew who instigated him to go directly to Mincheng and ask him why he was in a hurry to bury the body? Did he do something bad? Did he push his brother down in order to save his life?
In fact, there were also people from the county team who stayed behind to bury the body, but those two were the type who were honest and didn't talk. No one knew that they also stayed to collect the body, and they didn't know that Chonglin brought people to make trouble in the middle of the night.
Mincheng was targeted several times, and it was impossible for him to endure it blindly, let alone suffer such injustice.
Among the people that Chonglin brought with him, except for the grieving families of the victims, the rest were the ones who instigated them.
They were all because of their own accumulated personal grudges. They always believed that the filming crew must have hidden a lot of supplies, and they wanted to mix up the water a little and take advantage of the chaos.
The two sides got into a big fight, and Chonglin took out a knife and grabbed Mincheng, insisting that he go out with him to dig out the body of his brother Chonghe for him to examine. Once
the other party showed the knife, the whole thing was different.
Compared to the filming crew that had been staying on the high ground since the beginning of the disaster, the team from the county city had made their way through the mutant animals and plants. After all, they had seen chaos and real scenes, and some of them had seen blood on their hands.
Chonglin was one of them, but he was acting in passive self-defense at that time. Afterwards, they finally escaped to the high ground, and they were determined to survive, but they would not be so reckless for supplies as soon as they arrived, so they restrained themselves and lived in peace with each other.
But for those who have seen blood, it is not difficult to pick up the knife and do something again.
But those who have not seen blood do not believe that the other party really dares to take action.
In the conflict, Mincheng was the first to be injured. Although it was an accidental injury, the excessive bleeding shocked a group of people.
**
When Youxi came over, someone in the filming team ran to the kitchen on the first floor to get a knife. Seeing that the two sides started to fight, things were about to get out of control.
She stood outside the door of the B&B and took a look. Then she threw two tear gas bombs in. One of these bombs could kill a large group of people, let alone two.
The people in the B&B didn't know what was going on. They thought some mutant creatures were attacking them again. They were suddenly terrified, panicked, and started coughing and shouting. The scene was in chaos.
After waiting for the smoke from the tear gas bombs to dissipate, the coughing and choking people confirmed that there were no creatures or plants attacking. They returned to the B&B lobby and found a young stranger squatting on the counter in the lobby.
She was carrying a bag, and her slender white fingers in half gloves were throwing a new tear gas bomb up and down. When she saw them coming back in, she glanced over with a chilly gaze and chuckled, "You guys are so idle, and you're still making so much noise so late at night and so hot..."
Dafeng cried out "Ya Tong" in surprise, his expression was so rich that the people around him didn't know whether he was laughing or crying.
"Call me sister." You Xi glanced at him.
"Sister! Sister! Sister Yatong!" Dafeng thought of something, "Mincheng's leg was chopped off, and he's upstairs now!"
Youxi nodded, without showing any anxious expression: "With so few people staying here, how can they get to the point of using knives? If you're so powerful, why don't you go down the mountain to chop mutants?"
"It's none of your business! Who are you!" Someone shouted in the crowd.
Before the others could see who spoke, they saw the woman who was originally half-crouching on the counter suddenly leap up to somewhere in the crowd, and then the person who spoke let out a scream.
Youxi's movements were too fast, and the people around them stepped back in fear, revealing the person in the middle who was lying on the ground with his cheek covered. The man only felt as if one side of his cheek was cracked, and his hand was in great pain, and his palm was wet, obviously bleeding.
You Xi held a baton with the joints fully opened and turned to look at the others: "See clearly, this is the consequence of speaking without courtesy."
The one who was slapped in the face was from the county team. The others saw Dafeng shout out the other party's name first, and then saw their own people being beaten, so they thought Youxi was a helper sent by the filming team.
Although they didn't know how she got here, they felt that they couldn't retreat at this time. If they retreated now, their morale would be gone, and they would never have another chance.
So, the few people who instigated Chonglin to come over rushed over with knives in hand, and they also pulled the others to join in: "Revenge our people! Revenge for brother Chonglin!"
In Youxi's eyes now, these people are actually no different from ants. She first knocked the knives out of their hands with a baton, and then kicked them away one by one.
In less than half a minute, all the people with knives were disarmed and flew through the crowd and landed on various corners.
On the other side, the camera crew, who were holding knives for the first time and were ready to fight to the death, stood there in a daze. As Youxi looked over, they all put down their knives automatically.
In the hall, the only one who still held a knife was Chonglin.
Youxi jumped onto the counter again and stood there looking down: "Listen carefully, this high ground is under my control from today on. I don't care what grudges you have. From now on, I have the final say. If you want to get the right to speak beyond me, you can. Whoever beats me will be the boss, and those who can't beat me will be my younger brother."
Chonglin stared at Youxi with red eyes because he had swallowed the tear gas bomb: "Who are you? We have no grudges against you, why do you want to interfere in our affairs? My brother died unclearly, even if I can't beat you, I will seek justice for my brother today!"
"Your brother?" You Xi recalled the footage taken by the drone before he arrived. Among the dead, there was only a young man. "I was there during the day. Your brother's death has nothing to do with anyone else. It was the other two middle-aged victims who were knocked down by others while fleeing. As a result, they fell behind the team and ultimately failed to escape."
The scene was chaotic at the time. Neither the county team nor the camera crew could see what happened in detail. Although You Xi was not there, he saw it all clearly through the drone footage.
She swung the baton and pointed at the person she kicked into the corner: "It was them. Although it was not intentional, they were the ones who knocked down the two middle-aged men."
Chonglin frowned and looked at Youxi with gritted teeth: "Do you think I will believe your nonsense?"
Youxi waved her hands: "It's up to you. Whether you believe it or not has nothing to do with me. I just told you the facts. Believe it or not."
"It's true!" Dafeng said, "It was too chaotic at the time. They accidentally knocked someone down and didn't reach out to help, so the person who fell to the ground naturally fell behind them. They really didn't mean to hurt anyone, but they should know what was going on in their hearts. They just said they were taking revenge on someone! What revenge! Are they going to kill themselves?
Also, Mincheng and a few of us stayed to bury them because we couldn't bear to see them exposed like this. We took the risk to bury them, and you still say we did something shameful. What kind of logic is this? Use your brains, okay? Among the people who buried them, there were also people from your place. Go back and ask clearly! You haven't figured out anything yet and you're just like a madman using a knife to hack people. Are you sick?"
Chonglin still didn't believe it completely, but his expression had relaxed a little - especially when he saw the evasive look of the man lying on the side.
Outside the B&B, a pretty and lovely girl ran in. It was Chonglin's girlfriend Xiaotong. When she woke up and didn't see Chonglin, she guessed that he was here again, so she hurried over.
As a result, she was startled by Chonglin holding a knife as soon as she walked in. Although she was obsessed with chasing stars and admired Mincheng, Chonglin was her childhood sweetheart after all, and he protected her all the way to escape here.
She just didn't like his mindless jealousy and impulsive behavior, not that she didn't like him as a person.
She stepped forward and grabbed Chonglin's hand holding the knife, her voice trembling slightly: "Brother Lin, we have been together for so long, Min--you actually know what the people in this team are like. I know you are sad, but don't be impulsive... Really don't be impulsive..."
In the end, Xiaotong temporarily persuaded Chonglin to leave. Before Chonglin left, he asked the other members of the county team to carry the people who were kicked down and return together.
He was now suspicious, so naturally he had to get to the bottom of the matter.
After the other party left, the people from the filming team closed the door again and cleaned up the hall. Dafeng called sister earnestly to come forward.
You Xi hummed, and said in a big sister manner: "How many people are there in your filming team here?"
"Including the staff who were originally on the high ground, there are a total of fifty-nine. There are only more than ten people in this building, and the others are in the other two small buildings."
"So, the team over there originally had eighteen people? Now it's fifteen?"
"Yes, yes, yes."
"More than fifty people can't beat more than ten, hehe."
"..."
"Okay, I won't leave today. Wait until everyone in the other buildings wakes up in the morning, and let them all come here."
You Xi didn't say what she came here for, but Da Feng agreed without asking any more questions, and finally mentioned Mincheng.
"I know, let's go and take a look now."