And they didn't try to sneak around at all; one or two of them banged on the door loudly.

Jin Shu turned over, frowning impatiently.

I had just warmed up in my sleeping bag and was finally starting to feel sleepy when a swarm of flies came in outside the door.

These people came with a simple purpose: to ask Jin Shu to open the door and get through this difficult time together with everyone.

Seeing that Jin Shu inside didn't respond to their knocking, the people outside shouted threateningly.

"We just want to reason with you. If you're not going to listen to reason, don't blame us for taking a hard line!"

Jin Shu remained expressionless.

This door was a carefully selected explosion-proof door, fireproof and waterproof. She wanted to see what kind of trouble these people could cause.

At this moment, outside the door, Zhao Gang, the team leader who organized everyone to come here to "hunt for treasure," had already sent people up to the roof.

"Let's hang a rope from above and send someone directly to the balcony. I refuse to believe that so many of us can't open this door!"

Soon, a man completely covered from head to toe climbed down the rope and onto the balcony outside the window.

The rain was pouring down outside, and the man was swinging back and forth on the rope, like a salted fish hanging in the wind.

Jin Shu stood by the window, watching him furtively peek inside. Unfortunately, the window was sealed off with sheet metal from both the inside and outside, leaving him dumbfounded as he had originally planned to break in.

The sledgehammer swung a few times, the sheet metal sank in, but the window inside remained completely still.

At this time, the outside temperature is approaching minus sixty degrees Celsius. The black water will not freeze, but people will.

Even though the man was wearing several layers of thick clothing, with animal fur wrapped around his body as if it were free, the strong wind mixed with black water was relentlessly lashing against his clothes.

Soon, his body was dragged so much that he could no longer move normally, and the hammer in his hand felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, making it impossible for him to swing it.

Although he was wrapped up tightly, the black rain from the sky poured down like a waterfall, quickly soaking him from head to toe. The black water seeped into his clothes and touched his body like sulfuric acid, the burning sensation clinging to his skin, and no matter how much he screamed, it was to no avail.

He began frantically taking off his clothes, one piece after another, until the last piece of clothing was removed, followed by a gust of rain and a gust of wind.

The man outside was howling and pounding on Jin Shu's window.

"Open the door!! Ahhh—!! Open the door!! Please, it hurts so much, it hurts so much!!"

The glass was fairly soundproof, and Jin Shu watched through the gaps in the metal sheet as his skin turned from red to black, until pieces of flesh fell off his body, leaving him a bloody mess.

He's beyond saving.

How pitiful.

Jin Shu closed her eyes, turned away, and chose not to look.

These are all fools sent to their deaths. Anyone who wants to be a robber has to pay a price. Instead of sympathizing with these people, you should pity the ants on the roadside.

Oh, ants might be extinct.

Who knows? Who cares?

It was too cold inside, so Jin Shu continued to warm herself by the stove, completely oblivious to the commotion outside.

"Damn it, what are we going to do if that sissy just won't open the door! It's too cold outside, we'll all freeze to death if we stay here any longer!"

At first, I thought that going in through the window would be the surest solution, but that sissy had actually sealed the window shut! We couldn't even break it open with a hammer!

Now almost all the survivors in the building are here. Since we can't force our way in, we'll have to think of other ways.

"Does anyone know where this sissy's parents live? Or maybe they have friends here?"

"Nobody knows him. He hasn't left the house since we moved here!"

"Does he have any friends in this building? Anyone he knows?"

Everyone shook their heads.

If it weren't for the apocalypse, probably no one in this building would have ever seen him.

"This guy is nocturnal, like a ghost. I even suspect he might actually be a ghost! What kind of good person stays home all day and never goes out?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Gang, who was in charge, became even more determined.

"He must have plenty of food and drink at home! People like that never go out, so they must have stockpiled a lot of daily necessities!"

"Let's think of a way to get this broken door open! Otherwise, we'll all starve to death here sooner or later!"

A woman holding a child approached the doorway and wept bitterly.

"Please, even if you can't save us, please save my child! My child is only two months old, and he hasn't eaten anything all day. Please, give him some food to save my child! Please, please, I'd give you my life if it could save my child!"

The woman's crying moved everyone around her.

What a pitiful mother, what a pitiful child! No one could stand by and watch someone die in this situation, right?

Jin Shu, inside the house, tried to see what was happening outside through the peephole, only to find that it had already been blocked by the people outside.

She couldn't see outside, she could only hear sounds.

The baby cried, weak as a kitten.

Jin Shu turned around expressionlessly and continued to warm herself by the fire with her back to the door.

"You sissy! Are you even human?! Even if you won't save us adults, can't you at least save the children?! You're a damned beast! How can there be such a heartless person like you in this world!"

"Open the door, give the child something to eat. If you're worried about us, we'll leave first, leaving the mother and child here. Just give them something to eat, and then we'll go."

After she finished speaking, the thing blocking the peephole was taken away. Jin Shu looked at the dozen or so people standing outside the door, the man in the lead being the one who had tried to break into the door last night.

At his command, everyone slowly turned and left.

Some people grumbled in dissatisfaction.

"Damn it, I've been starving and freezing here for so long, and I'm just going to leave like this?"

"Boss, are we just going to leave like this? Did Third Brother die for nothing?"

The screams of the third brother had just reached their ears.

Everyone felt a heavy weight on their hearts; the threat of death weighed on them, making it almost impossible for them to breathe.

The leader, Zhao Gang, stopped at the corner and then gestured to everyone, telling them to hide there.

Everyone immediately understood what he meant.

First, let the person inside think they've all left, and once you're sure there's no threat, he'll definitely open the door.

Their opportunity will come as soon as the door opens.

Zhao Gang crouched down along the corner of the wall, and together with the second brother, they attacked from both sides, crawling back to the two sides of the door.

This corner is a blind spot for the peephole; people inside can't see it.

The woman at the door was still crying and pleading.

Everyone waited quietly.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

The corridor was deathly silent. A cold wind blew in, and frost formed on everyone's eyebrows. There was still no movement from inside the door.