Chapter 38 Lou Yuncheng

Although Building 3 and Building 4 in Jixing Community are connected, their orientations are different. In the house where Zheng Feifei rents, there is a north-facing window facing the open space inside the community, which just happens to show the direction of Building 1 and Building 2 in the community.

Zheng Feifei was reminded several times by Shu Fu. After consideration, she decided not to sleep and keep watch. She even used a telescope to see more clearly.

She didn't expect that she actually saw someone.

"Did you call the police?"

"Busy."

"Where's the rescue team's phone number?"

“I can’t get through.”

Shu Fu was silent.

It seems that the situation is very bad. Most of these people should be refugees who escaped from the flooded cities. Compared with Zheng Feifei and others, their current situation should be more embarrassing. After all, the situation in each city is different. Not all cities can organize a large-scale evacuation in an orderly manner like Suicheng when a disaster strikes.

Especially in coastal cities hit by the tsunami, many people woke up to find their homes destroyed and without any belongings, and were left homeless in the face of the devastation left by the tsunami.

These people experienced life and death, lost their loved ones, and went through great joy and sorrow. They came all the way from the disaster area to Louyun City, as if they had entered another peaceful world from a world of war.

We are all human beings, but our experiences are so different that it is hard not to feel a sense of disparity.

They are not born evil, but over time, it is very likely that just a small thing, a little intense emotion, or a little inflammatory language will cause a huge wave.

And now, this huge wave has reached Jixing Community.

They should have done some research and knew that most of the people living in this neighborhood were locals, and they came to rob these people.

The photo taken in the emergency room told Shu Fu that these people had now become desperate criminals. They had probably all seen blood, and they would not be soft-hearted and would not hesitate to attack.

Shu Fu knew these people. She had participated in the creation of a similar script and collected a lot of information and videos in this regard in order to write several scenes.

The most thrilling event that most residents in the building had experienced was probably the waterspout and falling objects incident the day before. The experiences of both parties were unequal, and the residents could not be their opponents.

If you can't fight, you can only hide and wait for rescue.

Zheng Feifei's house is on the 10th floor, which is a safe height. As long as the door can be guarded, she will be safe.

Shu Fu held the phone in her hand and spoke to her slowly and clearly, "Don't be afraid. Help will come, but it may take until dawn, or tomorrow noon, or even longer. Don't think that you can take the elevator to the garage on the first floor to pick up the car and drive away before they come up. Don't be stupid. There will definitely be someone waiting to catch you at the garage elevator door.

Listen carefully, don't turn on the lights, don't open the windows, don't respond, don't make any noise. It's three o'clock in the morning, when most people are the sleepiest and most tired. They come here at night just to catch you off guard.

They may lie to you at first, for example, they will leave as long as you hand over some food or water, and they will promise not to harm anyone in the house. They will say that they are also poor people, their children have been hungry for a long time, and someone in the family is seriously ill and they can't even afford medicine.

After that, they may start to threaten you, for example, if you don't open the door within a certain time limit, they will break it down. They will say that they have a lot of experience in breaking doors and even have weapons. Once they break the door, they will kill the people in the house who don't want to open the door, and they may even torture them. They will also drag a few residents who may have broken the door before, who may be women or children, and torture them outside your house, making them scream, beg for mercy, and cry for you to open the door.

However, don't be soft-hearted and ignore it. This is a psychological and defensive war. Remember, you are safe only if they can't enter your house. There are so many residents in the community, they can't just focus on one family, and the time efficiency will not allow it.

Guard the door, first block the entire door panel from top to bottom, and then block all the movable things in the house. If they break open your neighbor's door and are about to climb in through your neighbor's window, use a long stick or a clothesline with a sharp knife tied to it to stab them down before they pry open your anti-theft window! It's the tenth floor, it's raining outside, and the windowsill is slippery. If they don't die, they will be crippled. Remember, if you don't want to die, don't be overly sympathetic, don't be soft-hearted, and don't be soft-hearted.

Finally, if they get angry, they might set a fire, but don't panic. It's raining hard outside today, and they can only set the fire in the corridor. Once the fire starts, they have to evacuate first. If your front door is on fire, use water to put out the fire from the inside, or overturn the bucket and let the water flow out through the crack of the door. It's raining every day now, the humidity in the air is very high, and the ground in the corridor is also very wet. Even if the fire starts, it won't burn for long..."

This time, Zheng Feifei not only listened to the song herself, but also turned it on for her parents to listen to together.

Last time, they did not choose to believe her. The family had a hard time before the evacuation, and she even encountered some bad things.

This time, she would guard this room at all costs.

Zheng Feifei hung up the phone and said word by word to her parents who were looking at her in panic, "Dad, Mom, did you hear me? Don't be too sympathetic, don't be soft-hearted, don't be soft-handed. Otherwise, you will send me to death with your own hands!"

"But, there are so many people in the community, and many of them are probably still asleep, and they don't even know someone broke in..." Mother Zheng couldn't help but say something, but she quickly said, "Don't worry, I can't run away in such a critical moment. I'm just thinking about how to notify others."

Zheng Feifei didn't say anything. She then reopened WeChat, changed her avatar and name, and deleted the building number and house number that she had marked in several groups as required. Then she quickly wrote down what Shu Fu had just said, including that if there were not enough furniture, buckets would be placed, and if there was not enough water, rainwater would be collected in buckets, and she also added warning words such as the mob had quietly entered the community, and sent them to several resident groups.

"I'm just an ordinary person. This is the best I can do." She looked back at the front door of her house and said to her parents, "There's not enough stuff yet. You guys keep moving. I'll go make weapons for the windows."

**

It’s around three in the morning, when most people feel the most sleepy and tired.

Room 0806 in Building 1 is a small one-bedroom apartment. The resident is a man who lives alone. He came to Louyun City ten years ago and worked and lived here, but he is still a single man at the age of thirty.

Living in 0809 are a mother and son. The young mother is divorced and moved to Jixing Community with her three-year-old son more than a year ago.

The mother was very pretty and spoke softly. When the man went out to work in the morning, he would always run into the mother who was sending her son to kindergarten in the elevator. After a while, the two became familiar with each other. They would chat when they met. The man would bring some snacks and gifts to the other's children, and the young mother would also give back some home-cooked dishes she made.

The man has a crush on the young mother, but he is not sure what she thinks, so he has never dared to express his feelings.

That night, when he was sleeping in a daze, he suddenly heard a cry for help coming from outside the door. The voice was very familiar and it woke him up immediately.

He sat there and listened carefully again, and this time, he not only heard the young mother's cry for help, but also the cry of her child.

Something happened!

The man got out of bed immediately, without even having time to put on his coat. He just put on his slippers, opened the door and rushed out.

He was doing manual labor, strong and sturdy, and could usually beat two people at once. In addition, he woke up in the middle of the night, but his mind was not fully awake yet. He just heard the cry for help from the person he liked, and his blood boiled. Before he could calm down and think, his body had already taken action.

The door of 0806 opened, and a tall and strong man rushed out aggressively, shouting: "Stop! Who on earth is——"

The rest of the words were broken by the iron rods in the hands of two men, one tall and one thin, who were ambushing on both sides of the gate. The metal rods, as thick as wrists, hit the back of the man's head twice. Even if he could fight five people alone, he would not be able to continue standing after his fragile back of the head was attacked.

He fell to the ground almost immediately, lying unconscious on the cold ground, blood flowing from his head to the ground.

On the side, other people who were hiding on the other side of the corridor came out one after another. A man holding an axe stepped forward and grabbed the woman who was crying and trying to hug her child in the corridor. He smiled smugly on his dark and thin face: "Not bad, you have some skills. You lured the person out in no time!"

The woman didn't say a word. She struggled and finally reached her child's hand. He was pressed to the ground by another man. No matter how he struggled, he couldn't get up and cried until he was hoarse.

The man seemed to find it amusing. He patted the boy on the head twice and then let go.

The young mother immediately hugged her child tightly, protecting him in her arms, and closed her eyes, not daring to look at the man who was hit on the back of the head and fell to the ground.

"Brother Xiao!" The two men holding iron rods also came over, saying that women and children were indeed useful and they had to be taken with them to other floors.

The woman suddenly showed despair: "You promised to let me and my child go! You can't do this..."

The men didn't bother to answer, they just laughed, one of them stuffed a cloth from somewhere into her and the child's mouths, another tied their hands. The others went into the man's room and began to search privately, packing up food, water, money and supplies and taking them away, like locusts passing through, their movements were very familiar.

As the two men dragged the woman and child towards the elevator, they passed by other residents on this floor who had their doors closed and refused to open them.

"What should we do with these companies?" someone asked.

"Try to climb through the window of 0806. It's closer there. If that doesn't work, leave a mark. Leave it there for now. After you've swept the entire building, come and remove these thorns one by one!"

"Damn it!" someone cursed. "Why do I feel like the people in this community are much more difficult to deal with than the previous one? Many households are like turtles, huddled inside without moving, without even a sound! Could it be that these guys are loaches? Have they already slipped into the garage before we came up?"

"Stop talking nonsense and get to work first! We have already arranged people in the garage. They won't be able to escape if they go down there!"

…

**

Building 2, 0302.

The room was pitch black, and the door was blocked by various heavy furniture and objects, so that the door panel was no longer visible. However, there were still two girls sitting on the edge of the furniture, trying to use their body weight to add another obstacle to the door panel.

Outside the door, the sound of an axe chopping and chiseling could be heard. Boom! Boom! Boom——

There were heavy muffled thuds one after another, mixed with the wild and excited laughter of the man who was chopping the door. The laughter was filled with extreme malice that they had never heard before, and it came through the door, making the two girls tremble even more violently.

At the south-facing window, a boy was standing by the window nervously, holding a guitar with a knife tied to it.

He is studying at a university in Louyun City. The two girls at the door are his sister and his girlfriend. Their parents are in other cities, and the situation is not as good as in Louyun City, so after discussing, the two families plan to move to Louyun City to live together.

They rented this two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in Jixing Community in advance. They were busy decorating the house and cleaning the house these days and stayed up late, so they stayed here all night.

They didn't expect that there would be unrest for two consecutive nights. Yesterday there was heavy rain, hurricane and waterspout, and today there was a refugee riot.

They were only on the third floor, and one of the locks on the glass window in front of him was broken, so it couldn't be locked from the inside and could be opened directly from the outside. Because there was a sliding anti-theft window inside the glass window, and the glass was not broken, he didn't find anyone to repair it for the time being, and he didn't know that he would run into this incident tonight.

The house had not been decorated yet, and not everything was complete, not even a clothesline could be found. Even the knife was a folding fruit knife, tied to the handle of a guitar with tape, and looked pitifully small.

But he didn't dare to relax, because he heard the sound of a break-in at the house on his left. The man there must have been sleeping soundly. Not only did he not see the message in the group, he was also not awakened by the noise downstairs. He was tricked into answering the door in a daze.

Now the gang was looting the next door while hacking at their door and opening the window, saying they were going to crawl over.

It was raining heavily outside and the night was dark. The only sound he could hear was the noisy rain and he couldn't see what was happening outside.

Suddenly, there was a flash of thunder, and he saw a strange figure squatting outside the balcony window. The man had climbed over without him knowing when, and discovered the glass window on the right that could not be locked. The blade of the long knife in his hand had been stuck in the gap of the window frame, and was slowly pushing the glass window open bit by bit.

The lightning illuminated the people outside and the people inside. The man looked up at the boy and saw the guitar he was holding tightly and the small fruit knife on it. He immediately laughed out loud. It was an unbridled laugh.

Although he was blocked by the security window and couldn't get in, the boy subconsciously took a step back because he saw that there was still blood on the blade of the other party's long sword that had not been washed away by the rain...

The man's fingers got stuck in the window frame and he pushed the window open. Heavy rain poured in from outside. The man stood on the windowsill, holding the metal bar of the anti-theft window tightly with one hand and shaking it desperately. The hand holding the long knife had already reached straight into the window, and the tip of the knife almost pierced the boy's nose.

His face was pale as he took another step back. He felt his body instantly stiffen and he couldn't move at all.

Suddenly, the man on the windowsill stopped laughing. He looked down at his chest, where a hint of coldness appeared.

After a few seconds, the cold light disappeared and his body fell backwards.

In the last second before the man fell off the windowsill and died, he was thinking, the knife should be cold, why was the knife that just stabbed into his chest as hot as fire?

The boy in the room put down his guitar and rushed to the windowsill of the open window. At a window on the right side of his balcony, a woman in her thirties was retracting the extended clothesline in her hand with a grim look on her face.

At one end of the clothesline, a sharp sushi knife was firmly fixed. It was this sushi knife that had just killed a man - no! It had killed a gangster!

Seeing him in a daze, the other party wiped the rain off his face and frowned: "Why are you in a daze, a grown man? How can you not even stab someone through an iron cage?"

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This female neighbor usually had a bad temper and a loud voice. She had quarreled with them several times because they moved in and piled things at the door. In the minds of the three of them, they had already unanimously classified her as a shrew with no manners.

He didn't expect that the other party would come to the rescue at such a critical moment.

"But...but my knife is too small, I can't hurt anyone..." the boy finally uttered this sentence.

The other party pulled the corner of his mouth impatiently: "As long as it's a knife, it can hurt people. Roast the knife on the fire and burn it red. If anyone wants to break into our house, stab them and make sure they can't come back!"

The man was frightened by the harshness in her words and nodded continuously. He then asked her what to do with the door as someone was about to break it down.

"Move all the furniture over to block the attack! Stack up some buckets outside and use their weight to hold it down. There's nothing to be afraid of. They can't chop down your door until dawn!" As the woman spoke, the sound of two children calling for their mother was heard from the room.

She immediately turned around and closed the window.

The boy knew that the girl was raising two children alone and had to take care of an elderly mother at home who was in poor health. Now think about it, with a family of elderly, weak and disabled people, if the girl didn't have a bad temper and a loud voice, she would not be able to take care of her family at all.

A woman can protect her family on her own, how can he be so weak and incompetent!

At the windowsill of the house on the left that was blocked by a window door, someone stuck his head out, discovered his companion's death, and immediately clamored to climb over again.

The boy immediately closed the window and looked around for something to jam the glass. He then called out to his sister and girlfriend, asking them to turn on the gas stove and put the knife on it to burn it.

The two girls had just watched the whole process and had stopped shaking a long time ago. They moved a very heavy and large recliner from the room and stacked it behind the door. When they heard the boy speak, they immediately responded and continued to work hard to guard their room.

**

Building 4, 1005.

Zheng Feifei checked the group messages and saw some new defense knowledge. She immediately got up and went to the kitchen, turned on the gas stove, and placed the knife tied to one end of the metal pole on it to burn.

The mob outside had come once before, and after failing to break down the door, they hacked at it several times. Then, as there was no movement from inside, they gave up and went to other homes.

Zheng Feifei gestured to her parents to go to the two windows and watch, and call her if they saw any movement. She then stood against the wall on the side facing the aisle, listening carefully to the movement outside.

1006, break-in failed.

1007, break-in failed.

1008, the deception failed, the intrusion also failed...

Zheng Feifei listened to the cursing of the mob outside, and her originally nervous mood gradually calmed down.

Those people are just ordinary people. As Shu Fu said, this is a psychological warfare and a defensive war.

And they have a natural advantage at home. As long as they guard the doors and windows of the house, they can protect themselves and their families.

As she thought about it, she continued to listen to the noise outside.

1009, Breaking in... huh?

How did she hear the lock sound when the door opened?

She suddenly became nervous. Could it be that this family had been sleeping and didn't see the message in the group? Zheng Feifei held her breath, thinking that she would hear a man or a woman screaming in the next second, but there was no scream.

The corridor was very quiet, even the footsteps of the rioters were gone.

They left?

Or...did she just hear it wrong, and that wasn't the sound of the door opening?

**

Building 3, 2106.

Shu Fu heard a scream coming from outside the balcony. She quickly walked to the right side of the balcony and looked out through the anti-theft windows and glass windows. She saw a person actually clinging to the outside of the bedroom window of the neighboring household. There seemed to be a rope tied around his waist, and he was hanging from the upper floor.

The hammer in his hand was smashing the corner of the tempered glass in front of him. He had already cracked three corners and was now smashing the last one.

The people in the bedroom were separated by the glass, and they had no way to attack with their weapons, because if they wanted to attack, they would have to open the window first, but wouldn't that be exactly what the other party wanted?

But if he doesn't open the window, the glass will be broken. Who knows what other ways he can break the anti-theft window inside after the glass is broken?

Just as the people inside were hesitating, the tempered glass finally broke, and broke into small pieces that fell downstairs.

The window was broken, what would they do? Would they stab people with a knife?

One of them gritted his teeth and tried to push forward, but the man grabbed his wrist and pulled him out of the security window.

As he exclaimed, another person in the room heard a female voice coming from the left. The voice was loud and calm: "The resident of 2105, squat down!"

They were stunned for a moment and saw a beam of strong light coming from the open window of the balcony next door. She was holding something in her hands, and the strong light was coming from the thing in her hands.

The people in the room were stunned. What was that - robbery! ?

The next second, they squatted down subconsciously, and the person whose wrist was held took advantage of the other person's distraction to pull his hand back.

There was a sound of breaking air, very subtle, puff, puff, puff, puff, which continued for who knows how many times. They only heard the person outside the windowsill screaming and struggling outside, as if he was hiding from something, but he could not escape the dense sound of breaking air.

The man finally couldn't hold on and fell from the windowsill, but the rope around his waist was still tied, so he did not fall off the building. Instead, he fell between the 19th and 18th floors, staggering and still struggling, screaming in pain and cursing, clamoring to climb up again.

"What are you standing there for? Cut the rope!" A female voice came from the balcony next to them.

The two people in the room reacted immediately. One reached out to grab the rope outside and fastened it, while the other desperately used a knife to grind it.

Fortunately, these thugs were not fully equipped and did not use professional ropes, but just ordinary ropes. After the two men chopped and grinded them madly, the rope broke before the man climbed up.

A scream was heard from mid-air outside the window, followed by a dull thud.

The man fell directly to the ground and died.

The two people in the room were so tired that their hands and feet were weak. They wanted to express their gratitude to their neighbor next door, but when they turned around, the window on the balcony on the left had already been closed.

Shu Fu locked the window again, turned off the protective shield, pulled down the large black mask on her face, turned off the powerful flashlight that was taped to the top of the nail gun, took out a row of new straight nails from the space, half-knelt there, and silently reinstalled the nail gun.

There are 30 straight nails in a row, which can be fired continuously and can hit the target within ten meters.

The distance between her balcony and the window of the bedroom next door was only three meters, which was completely within the range.