Chapter 5 "It was a good deal after I kicked you, didn't you think?"
The sun hung high in the sky, as if it wanted to dry up all living things. There were even visible distorted heat waves in the air.
The maximum temperature during the day has been gradually rising to nearly 60 degrees. If you go out without protection, you will quickly get sunburned. Even worse, you may suffer from heat stroke, and in severe cases, you may die.
At the same time, the appearance of alien creatures is becoming more and more frequent. They seem to have begun to evolve and are no longer as easy to kill as they were at the beginning. Their bodies have become larger and stronger, and they also have a certain level of intelligence.
They became increasingly difficult to deal with. Often, even bullets could not penetrate their skin and flesh, and the people sent by the government also suffered many casualties.
But even so, the situation in H City is not the worst. I heard that some small county-level cities have been completely covered by alien creatures due to insufficient military force. Even government supplies cannot be delivered. It is unknown how long the people inside can hold on.
But now no one has any extra sympathy for them, and no one knows whether their city will become like this in the future. In this dangerous environment, everyone is in danger.
In this situation, in order to survive, most ordinary people can only reduce going out as much as possible. Many businesses and shops have closed down, and the streets are much more deserted. Only the alien creatures are swaggering around, as if they have become the new masters of the world.
The world seems to be really forcing people to destroy themselves. Under high temperatures, the speed at which food spoils begins to accelerate. Even if fresh vegetables and meat are refrigerated, they will go bad in just two days. Only sealed instant foods can be preserved.
At the same time, someone turned on the faucet and found that the originally clear water had become turbid at some point. When you got closer, you could even smell a fishy odor. It was obvious that the water source was polluted.
At such temperatures, even with the air conditioner on, one will sweat. The human body is in urgent need of water. The bottled mineral water stored at home cannot last for a few days, and the same goes for food. An unprecedented panic is enveloping them.
Under the cover of night, Jiang Jie did not stay at home and sleep obediently, but quietly slipped out the door.
After dusk, when the sun sets, the temperature drops to only around 40 degrees Celsius. Although it is still very hot, it is at least within the normal range that the human body can withstand.
All the greenery in their community had been cleared out because of the hanging basket last time. Now the flower beds looked bare and ugly, but at least they were safe.
There was no one on duty in the security room now, and the cameras had stopped working. Jiang Jie didn't need to hide and walked out of the community in a swagger.
After getting outside, he chose to walk in the shadows, his black clothes making him inconspicuous in the night.
The deserted streets were very quiet, and any movement could be heard clearly, let alone a psychic whose five senses were stronger than those of an ordinary person.
Jiang Yan tilted his head. He could hear the sound of something moving nearby. The slightly heavy footsteps indicated that the thing was quite large.
He raised his lips and smiled, then walked in that direction.
The mutated horse dog was almost as tall as a person, with sharp teeth exposed, a ferocious and ugly face, and a pair of eyes glowing red.
It paced back and forth as if patrolling its territory.
Jiang Jie didn't rush to get closer. He looked around first and found a camera with a red flashing light not far away. With a flick of his fingertips, ice crystals shot out and destroyed the camera by blocking the blind spot. Then he stepped out.
Almost as soon as he moved, the mutant noticed him and without any confrontation, turned around and rushed towards him.
Jiang Jie stepped on the ground, jumped up, flipped in mid-air, and landed behind the alien creature.
Without hesitation, he threw a ball of fire with his backhand, hitting the alien creature's hind legs.
The mutant felt pain and let out an angry howl. It turned around and raised its claws to strike back, but before it could land, its paws were pierced by ice spikes. The pain made it retract its claws.
Jiang Jie took advantage of the victory and launched a wave of his hand. A piece of ice spike shot out. The alien creature dodged but was still pierced by a few of them. It opened its mouth in anger and bit them.
Facing its gaping bloody mouth, Jiang Jie raised his hand and opened his palm. The ice crystals quickly gathered together and condensed into a thick ice thorn, which went straight through its mouth and to the back of its head, causing blood to spurt out.
The tall body of the alien creature fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and then became motionless.
Jiang Jie stepped forward, and the flying flames fell on the mutant, burning its body to ashes in a short while.
He bent down to pick up the crystal. This time it was no longer gray, but transparent white. It looked quite beautiful when held up to the light. This was what a C-grade crystal looked like.
Jiang Jie casually put it in his pocket, turned around and left, continuing to look for other alienated objects.
Those who were hiding in their homes in fear probably never thought that there would be people chasing those terrible monsters.
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City H is too big, and the government cannot take care of it with the limited manpower. It is impossible to eliminate the alienated creatures in the entire city.
This is the situation across the country and even the world now, and it is impossible to second more military personnel from other regions.
After careful consideration, the government decided to mark out a safe zone before the situation reaches its worst point, and conduct a comprehensive cleanup of the alienated objects in this area to ensure a safe environment.
Gathering personnel and supplies together can ensure more people survive and facilitate management. The most suitable place is the city center where the population is relatively dense.
The government immediately took action and began to reduce all armed forces and focus on clearing out alienated objects in the city center.
There are quite a few alienated creatures in City H, but they are not yet densely packed, and not all of them are that powerful at the moment. When the area is reduced, the cleanup will be relatively quick.
When the time is almost up, the government will issue a notice to the public, asking citizens to prepare. In the next few days, they will escort everyone to the safe area in the city center in batches from near to far.
Most people breathed a sigh of relief and immediately packed up their necessary things to leave.
There are not enough vacant houses in the city center to accommodate all the citizens brought in from outside, and they have to be accommodated in renovated houses as much as possible. In this situation, being exposed to high temperatures for a long time may be fatal.
Only two to three families can be accommodated in each household depending on the number of people. In addition, closed hotels have also become resettlement points.
At worst, even if they stay in the mall, it is better than staying in an unfinished house or outside.
Some people are dissatisfied with having to squeeze in with others, but in extraordinary times, no matter how many complaints they have, they have to swallow them back.
People were also arranged to move into the vacant houses in the community where Jiang Yan lived. Fortunately, the government did not force people into the homes of these indigenous people. Otherwise, even if he exposed his superpowers, they would have to kick people out. Anyway, the time for people with superpowers to appear is not far away.
After arranging accommodation, we naturally have to consider the issue of food. During this period, the food and water that everyone had stockpiled have been almost used up.
When the government sent people to clean up the alien objects, they also collected all the supplies in the city, and now they are all stored together.
They will set up a distribution point in the city center square and distribute supplies per person every three days. Citizens can go there on their own after dusk.
Some people began to oppose this, saying that if they were allowed to go on their own, what if they encountered alien creatures? Why couldn't the soldiers be sent directly home? Wouldn't that be sending them to their deaths?
The alien objects in the city center have been cleared out, and personnel are arranged to patrol every day. As long as you are careful and don't do anything stupid, the danger is very small.
It takes too much manpower to have people deliver supplies to every household. Official personnel are also ordinary people. It is impossible for them not to rest. Moreover, they have to patrol in high temperatures every day to deal with those alien creatures, which is already very exhausting.
The government has tried its best to create a relatively safe environment. They will protect ordinary people, but that does not mean that some people can treat themselves like giant babies. If they don’t even have the courage to go out and get supplies, it will be difficult for them to survive in such an environment in the future.
So despite these people's many complaints, no one paid any attention to them. The official attitude was very clear: either go by yourself or don't take the supplies.
Some residents who own cars are luckier. They don’t have to suffer from the high temperature on the road, and if they really encounter an alien creature, they can escape faster.
Some smart people can think of business opportunities at this time. They can take people to the central square, but they have to give something as a reward. Some people even ask for money.
What's more, when someone really needed it, the two parties hit it off and had a pleasant cooperation.
On the day of distributing supplies, Jiang Jie went out with his car keys, pressed the button, and stood there waiting for the elevator.
Although he has enough supplies now, he would never refuse something that is given for free.
The elevator came down from the upper floor quite quickly. When the door opened, there were a few people in the car. They were residents of the upper floors. They were usually busy with work and rarely saw each other. They were not very familiar with each other, and there was no mood to exchange pleasantries at this time. They just nodded to each other as a greeting.
Jiang Jie stepped in and stood near the door, one hand in his trouser pocket and the other hand hanging by his leg, with his fingertips hooked around the car keys.
When the elevator door closed, he noticed someone's eyes on him, looking him up and down. He raised his eyes through the reflection of the wall and vaguely saw that it was a wealthy middle-aged man. He lowered his eyes and ignored him.
He ignored him, but he moved closer, smiling and talking to him, "Young man, are you alone too?"
As she got closer to him, a smell of sweat wafted over. Jiang Yan frowned but said nothing.
In contrast to him, the middle-aged man smelled a very refreshing scent from him. In this kind of weather, water cannot be used, and the little water resources are all used for drinking. Most people have a little sweat smell and greasy hair, even the rich people in this community who usually look glamorous.
Only some particular ones will spray perfume to cover it up and use dry cleaning spray to style their hair.
But most women care about their image. The middle-aged man didn't expect that such a grown man would be so particular and have no manners at all.
He looked down on me in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He cleared his throat and continued with a smile: "I'm alone too. Let's get together later. We can still talk."
Jiang Jie had no intention of paying any attention to him at all.
But I couldn't stand the middle-aged man's thick skin and didn't care about other people's eyes. He actually stood next to him and said something from time to time. Even if he didn't get a response, it was like he was talking to himself.
The space in the elevator was limited, and Jiang Jie couldn't leave. He just endured his impatience and pretended that there was a fly next to him.
Fortunately, they soon reached the underground floor, and he took the lead by striding out with his long legs.
"Hey, young man, don't walk so fast, wait for me!"
When the annoying voice came from behind again, Jiang Jie raised his eyebrows and stopped.
The middle-aged man caught up and took two breaths. "Young people are tall and have long strides."
Jiang Yan turned around, glanced behind him, then lowered his eyes and said, "What do you want?"
Seeing that he finally agreed, the middle-aged man quickly said, "Young man, I want to take a ride with you to the central square. Don't worry, you won't lose anything. I'll pay."
He also asked a few other people in the elevator, but unfortunately, they were all wealthy bosses and looked down upon the small reward he offered. Supplies were fine, but he was reluctant to give them.
Only this young man in an ordinary T-shirt and casual pants didn't look very rich. He was probably placed here like him, so he must be easier to convince.
Jiang Jie didn't expect that someone would actually try to get a ride from him. "No one's coming."
"Young man, don't be stubborn. You have to go anyway, so it's just a matter of taking me with you. If I didn't drive to the central area, I wouldn't have to ask you for a ride. We should help each other in such difficult times. What's more, I'm paying you, so it's a good deal, don't you think?" The middle-aged man continued to persuade earnestly.
Hearing this, Jiang Yan smiled and took a step closer to him. With a height of 189 cm, he was almost a head taller than the short and fat man. With his back to the light on the roof of the garage, he looked down at him. Even though he was smiling, the sense of oppression was still very strong.
The middle-aged man was inexplicably a little frightened, and subconsciously shrank his neck, still stammering: "I, I paid...ah!"
Before he could finish his words, he was kicked out and fell heavily to the ground. He curled up into a ball and howled in pain.
Jiang Jie rubbed the sole of his shoe on the ground as if he was disgusted by the dirt, raised his eyes and smiled, "Brother, you've been annoying me for so long, and I only kicked you once. It's a good deal, don't you think?"
After saying that, he didn't care what the other party said. He turned around and walked away with his hands in his pockets, and even turned the car keys with his hand.
The middle-aged man who was cowering on the ground didn't even dare to fart.
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