The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and more and more chaotic. Water and electricity were initially available within the prescribed time limits, but as time went on, they came later and went out earlier. Electricity is now only available from 2 pm to 5 pm, and water is even less available, only for one hour in the afternoon. Everyone uses this one hour, and the water supply is pitifully low.
The network is completely down because no one is maintaining it, and phone calls can't be made; all you can hear is a buzzing sound.
The government has been distributing supplies to each community during this period. Jiang Li went down to get some the first time. Inside was a bag of noodles, some compressed biscuits, water, and so on. If you eat sparingly, the contents are enough to last a week. Each person can only receive one item at a time, and the supplies are distributed once a week.
With so many people across the country, no matter how powerful a nation is, it cannot sustain itself for long.
Sure enough, one day not long after, the power was supposed to come back on at 2 p.m., but it never came back on, and the water was also cut off. Jiang Li was completely thrown into chaos when he found out.
The government's distribution of supplies has changed from once a week to once every two weeks or longer, and now it hasn't arrived for three weeks, just like in my previous life.
In the previous life, people called the first day with the highest temperature the first day of the apocalypse. The base was also built within six months afterward, in March of the following year. In this life, the temperature was already high in August, a month earlier than before. I wonder if the base construction will also be earlier, and there will also be earthquakes.
In my past life, the earthquake happened in January, close to the Spring Festival. Based on the current situation, it should happen earlier.
It's already the end of October. There was a murder in our neighborhood before. Someone broke into someone's house in the middle of the night to steal supplies. But the young man inside was awake. He was a night owl, but that day he slept a lot during the day and didn't sleep at all. When he heard the noise, he found that someone had entered his house. The young man was alone and unprepared. The lock-picker was a three-person gang that had scouted the place beforehand and made preparations. So they beat the young man up and stole his supplies.
Normally, no one would have died, but the young man who was robbed saw that he had run out of supplies and could not survive, so he fought with the robbers to prevent them from leaving. During the scuffle, someone stabbed the young man, causing him to bleed to death.
The murderers were also panicked at first, and the three of them left in a hurry without closing the door. Later, the people across the street smelled the stench outside and came out to find the person dead. In such hot weather, the body had already started to smell bad in just one day, and there was a knife in the chest.
The story seems to have originated from someone who couldn't sleep and was looking at the moon. They heard a noise and saw three people stumbling out of the building and then going to another building. This, combined with the fact that they came out the next day, led to this speculation.
There have been quite a few home invasion robberies, and they are mostly committed by gangs who specifically target people who are alone.
Around four o'clock that day, Jiang Li was exercising in the living room when he heard a noise outside.
"Li Rui, are you sure there's only one woman inside?"
"Don't worry, brother, I'm sure. I've observed her before. She's all alone and hasn't left the house in a long time. I even saw some movement inside a couple of days ago, so she must have a lot of food." The one who answered was a thin, weak middle-aged man. The one who asked the question was a strong man who was estimated to be about 1.8 meters tall. He had a scar next to his eyebrow and tattoos on his arm. This man was named Li Hu. He was a small-time hoodlum in the neighborhood. After the heat wave hit, he broke into an empty room in the community and moved in.
These kinds of people usually don't have much money, so when they finish eating, they start thinking crookedly. The one who answered was named Zhang Rui. When Li Hu was robbing someone, Zhang Rui saw that he couldn't beat the other party, so he took the food and offered to be his underling. That's why Li Hu took him along.
Zhang Rui lived in the community and had seen Jiang Li before. He noticed that she was pretty and paid special attention to her.
"Ergou, hurry up!" Li Hu kicked Ergou's leg and said.
"Okay, okay, boss." Er Gou skillfully took out his tools and pried open the door. He had already scouted the place beforehand, so he had put on plastic gloves in advance.
Er Gou was Li Hu's lackey and a hoodlum.
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