Chapter 187 Human Disaster
On the second day, the fourth "Red Lotus" appeared in the city.
On the third day, the number of "Red Lotus" in the city increased to six.
On the fourth day, a new ground fissure occurred in an area that was originally safe. Fortunately, the "Red Lotus" did not appear at the same time, giving people some time to breathe and move, but the collapsed buildings caused a large number of people to be injured and killed, adding pressure to the already tense medical and rescue.
Schools, companies, and public places were all suspended, and the news called on everyone to stay at home for the time being. But in this situation, many places in the city have become death zones, causing other relatively safe areas to be overcrowded.
When there are too many people, it is easy to cause chaos and cause trouble. Moreover, among the refugees, there are natural humans and servants.
Many families have one or two servants, and the nanny-type servants and companion-type servants are the two most common types. In the past, if you had a house and a peaceful life, servants were the icing on the cake.
But now, the area where the house is located has been listed as a high-risk area and is not covered by insurance. Moreover, the people above only ordered them to evacuate and designated a new area for them to settle down. It is impossible to give them the same quality of life as before.
Some people were assigned to non-residential buildings that were not suitable for living at all, and some were assigned to the same house. Natural humans need to rest and eat, and servants also need to rest and eat. Once resources are tight, conflicts arise.
Someone disliked the servant of his roommate and said that the servant was too ugly, hurt his eyes, and was not worthy of eating, so he told the other party to throw her away. However,
the other party had already developed feelings for the servant and regarded her as a family member. Now that his family was insulted, he was not happy at all, so he started to fight back, saying that the servant in the other party's family was too thin and looked like a skeleton, and now that the house was gone, what was the point of keeping a nanny-type servant, so he told him to throw his own servant away and make room for his parents to sleep.
As they quarreled, they started fighting.
Some people quarreled over whose family slept in the bedroom, some fought to grab an ambulance, and some rushed into the nearby supermarket to carry things crazily...
The city was in complete chaos.
The apartment building where Youxi is located is known as a diamond-like aristocratic building. It is located in a rare location, with a solid structure and large apartments, but only a few people live in each apartment.
The building is self-powered by fuel, wind and solar energy, and has its own gas and water supply systems. Even if there is a gas leak in other places due to ground fissures or burst water pipes in the "Red Lotus" incident, it will not affect this place.
There are several small supermarkets of different types for people to shop, several entertainment clubs, several restaurants, several cafes, a mid-air green park spanning several floors...
In addition, there is a death forbidden zone nearby, and it is unlikely that there will be a second "red lotus" around, which makes many displaced people set their sights on this building.
But the residents in this building are either rich or noble, the building has strict security, and each family has its own bodyguards. In addition, the higher-ups also know the situation here and know that it is not appropriate to arrange for refugees to move in.
Not only that, the higher-ups also arranged for people to use low-altitude suspension vehicles to send a batch of supplies to the roof of the building as supplies for special periods.
Therefore, many people set their sights on this building, but they cannot get in. However, they have not given up the idea of moving into this building.
The wealthy people in the building know nothing about this situation.
They have been complaining recently. They know that the situation outside is tense and they can't go out for shopping, beauty and entertainment like before, so they can only hide in the building temporarily. Fortunately, every household has a refrigerator and freezer, with a lot of supplies in stock, and supplies are delivered regularly from outside.
But the entertainment venues in the building are closed, and only the supermarket is still open. Life is boring, and many wealthy people in the building know each other and are good friends.
So out of boredom, the rich people began to visit each other for dinner, not knowing how to restrain themselves and hold banquets.
At night, many residents had lights on in their homes. Compared to the surrounding areas which were dark due to periodic power outages, this building was like a lighthouse in the darkness, bright and gorgeous to the point of making people...irritated.
In other buildings, refugees who were crowded in the same house and holding the official lunch boxes could always see the sumptuous dinner parties in the building opposite through the clear floor-to-ceiling windows.
On the long dining table with a clean white tablecloth, there are exquisite plates, Wagyu, sea urchin, foie gras, salmon, lobster, piles of oysters and abalone, plump roasted pigeon and roasted whole lamb, beautiful ice cream, hot pot chocolate waterfall, golden champagne in crystal glasses and special drinks prepared on the spot by nanny-like people...
Some people use telescopes to look at the building opposite, then look down at the stir-fried cabbage and pork slices and fish pieces without much oil in their lunch boxes, and suddenly feel that they can't swallow.
In fact, most people here originally have ordinary living conditions, and their daily life is just a few dishes and a soup, which is bland.
These lunch boxes are hastily made because of the lack of manpower and materials. It is good to be able to distribute them for free and give each person one.
If they were in another area, and there was no such building across the street, they might have quickly finished their lunch boxes because of hunger and went to bed early to rest.
But now, they feel extremely unfair and insulted. They
have nothing except their carry-on luggage.
The house that was about to pay off the mortgage, the home appliances and furniture that they bought online at a discount, the home that they spent so much effort to decorate... all are gone!
Why did the ground fissure area appear near their home, why not next to this building! ?
Some people began to gather privately and began to speak in anger. Some people could not understand this jealousy and injustice, and were pulled to listen to the speech for a while, then turned around and left, but there were also people who were stimulated by the anger and injustice in their hearts.
Under natural disasters, the sources of man-made disasters are always strange.
**
Youxi once again rejected the dinner invitation sent by a celebrity in the opposite house on the same floor.
It's already the end of the world, and I don't know what they are thinking when they hold dinner parties every now and then to invite people to dinner. Can bad brains be contagious? Or have these people been rich for too long and don't understand what the word "end of the world" means? If
there is food stored at home, can't you store it and eat it slowly?
Even if there are one or two families who entertain guests at the beginning, it won't be necessary for the whole building to imitate it, right? It's as if being frugal is an extremely shameful thing. As a result, she is always visited when she goes to the mid-air green plant park on the 13th and 14th floors for a run.
Because she turned down nearly 20 dinner invitations in the past few days, she stayed in her apartment all the time except for running in the Mid-Air Park at a fixed time.
There were no secrets in the building, and everyone knew that she had bought two new companions, who were one in a million in terms of appearance and temperament, and looked more like stars than celebrities.
So, the rumor that "President You hugs her left and right every night, can't leave her two companions for a moment, and is reluctant to take them out for others to see" spread like wildfire.
In addition, she already has two male servants, four handsome men in the family, so she really doesn't have much time to go out...
Although, how come they didn't realize before that she has such a good "appetite" in some aspects?
You Xi: ...
Having good hearing is also a disadvantage, you can hear any conversation that hurts your ears.
Rich people are gossipy, and they even speculated whether she had one man a night, or two or three at the same time, and which one would make her "happier"...
"Tell your master that you don't need to send me invitations anymore. I won't go to any dinner parties. The situation outside scares me. I want to stay at home."
You Xi made up an excuse and closed the door.
In the apartment, Yan Shang was attracted by the movement outside. She stood at the door of the kitchen and looked for a few times. She saw her close the door and go into the house, and then went back to the refrigerator to count the remaining supplies with Jian Shou. In
the kitchen, Hei Mu was preparing dinner in the kitchen, and Xi Yuan was washing the vegetables for use by the sink.
He had never done these things before, and at first he stayed in the apartment for a few days doing nothing. Later, when he saw Yan Shang always going to the kitchen to help, he also said that he could help.
He was really a kitchen novice, and he didn't even know that he had to wash the vegetables first. Fortunately, Hei Mu was patient enough and knew how to make arrangements, so he took him to prepare meals in the kitchen.
You Xi looked at the refrigerator and the kitchen, and felt very satisfied. She continued to lean on the recliner in the living room, eating fruit and reading current affairs news.
The accident happened around the early morning of that night. She heard a faint cry for help, and then suddenly woke up.
The sound insulation of the building is very good, but her hearing is better.
The cry for help did not come from outside the building, but from inside the building.
**
On the seventh floor, the door of the luxurious apartment was left open because of the banquet tonight. The banquet started at 8 o'clock. Now it was 12 o'clock in the morning, just the right time to see some people off and then open a bottle of red wine to continue drinking with others.
Maybe they would talk about where the ground cracked again in today's current news, and where the news of the "Red Lotus" appeared.
In their opinion, although this disaster is terrible, the higher-ups must have had a countermeasure. The video on the Internet before, and some information about the characteristics of the "Red Lotus", should have been leaked by insiders.
Otherwise, how could someone be so lucky to take a picture of the giant "Red Lotus" appearing, not only come back alive, but also write about the characteristics of the "Red Lotus" in advance?
It was just that something went wrong inside, and the people above refused to admit it.
With this analysis, although the disaster was terrible, they believed that the people above had already had a countermeasure, and they only needed to wait patiently, and after a while, the disaster would be over, and they could resume their normal lives.
So, when a group of strangers with grim expressions rushed out of the stairwell holding sticks and knives and rushed straight into the door of their apartment, the wealthy people who were dressed in evening gowns for the dinner were completely shocked.
It was too late for them to close the door again. The other party and their bodyguards rushed out of the crowd. Although their bodyguards were trained, they could not withstand the number of people on the other side, and they could not defeat them with two fists. In the end, they were besieged and fell to the ground one by one.
"Are you crazy? What the hell are you doing? What do you think this place is? Do you want to spend the rest of your life in prison?" Someone who was used to big scenes shouted. But
he was knocked unconscious by a stick after he said a few words.
Several intruders rushed over, tied him up with a rope, gagged him, and threw him aside.
"We are not stupid. They are just slaves. If they die, they die. As for you rich people, we are just here to discuss things with you."
The leader of this group of intruders smiled and said to the others who were staring at him blankly, "Look, there is no water where we live. We can't even take a shower. The food we are given is all tasteless. You are living well here, partying every night, and there are so many endless dishes. Why don't we help you?"
After he finished speaking, in front of the other party's horrified eyes, he asked the other intruders to tie up everyone and throw them into a room in the house.
Starting from tonight, this safe building and so many rich supplies belong to them!
The same thing happened on different floors of the building.
Some people closed the door in time, but they couldn't stand the people outside who kept hacking, beating, kicking, and bumping them... In the end, they just took some things and drove the low-altitude suspension vehicle outside the balcony to escape from the apartment.
But more people didn't have a low-altitude suspension vehicle. They locked the door and moved all kinds of cabinets and tables to block, but the people outside who broke the door never stopped.
They knew that if they continued like this, the door would be broken sooner or later, and those intruders would rush into their homes and take away everything they had.
They picked up the phone and wanted to call the police, but they couldn't get through at all. All the rescue and police lines were busy, because today at the other end of the city, a new "Red Lotus" suddenly appeared with a crack in the ground.
A new disaster is happening, and everyone is busy with rescue operations, so they have no time to care about what is happening here...
The security of this building is so good that they have never thought about being broken into by outsiders, or they are in such a position that they naturally think some things are impossible.
They have never thought that those well-trained security personnel also have their own families, and they will also have their own selfish desires, and will do things for their families that are originally impossible.
In peacetime, everything is fine.
But when major changes occur, people's hearts can never withstand any tests.
**
In the short time from Youxi waking up to leaving the room, two low-altitude suspended vehicles carrying people fled in panic on the balconies on different floors of the building.
She walked to the door of the apartment and looked out through the cat's eyes on the door panel.
The double doors of the apartment across the street were open, and there were overturned items everywhere on the floor. The white plush carpet had been completely trampled and was mixed with red liquid. I don't know if it was wine or... blood.
A tall stranger holding a stick came out of the door and whispered to another man holding a knife standing in the corridor, while pointing at her apartment door.
The general meaning was that the little star had just asked, that the other party's house was also a big one, and he was the president of a listed group, much richer than the little star.
The other party's house had more and more supplies.
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