Chapter 93: Can't afford any loss
"You're the neighbor on the 7th floor who bought a bunch of stuff earlier, right? Please help us out and give us some food!"
A younger female voice spoke directly, and right away she pointed out that he had supplies.
"Please give us some food. My child is starving to death." Another female voice began to sob.
He Rui followed the sound and slowly came to the iron gate. What caught his eye were two women and a little girl of a few years old who were stopped on the other side of the iron gate and standing in the stairwell holding the iron fence.
The apocalypse had just begun not long ago, and these people didn't actually look hungry on their faces, nor were they thin from hunger, but it was obvious that they had not had a good time during this period. Both adults and children looked a little disheveled, with messy hair.
Probably because I have never seen anyone like him dressed in a radiation protection suit without showing his face.
After he came over, they both froze in shock, and along with the child who had also stopped crying, they looked up at him blankly.
He Rui still remembered what he had promised Ji Changqing before, and he resisted the urge to immediately advise others not to hang around in the sun and go home quickly.
The two women came to their senses and continued to ask for his help.
But He Rui ignored them and first looked at the condition of his iron gate.
There are two doors here, including the fire exit and the original fire door.
The original one was not locked, it had been opened and pinned with something long ago.
He Rui noticed at a glance that the iron gate he had someone install had obvious signs of damage on the fence. It was probably someone who wanted to cut the iron bars and get in but failed.
He Rui glanced at the blind spot in the fire escape that he couldn't see.
Although he was wearing a protective suit that was stuffy, hot and somewhat soundproof, he could not hear the sounds from the outside world clearly and could not clearly distinguish whether there were any other breathing sounds outside besides the three people in front of him.
But he is not a fool, he is also a professional.
He has to praise Ji Changqing in this regard.
Not everyone is as unfathomable as his brother Ji, whose emotions and thoughts are indistinguishable.
For most people, he can actually tell at a glance whether the other person has something to hide.
He may not be good at other things, but it is easy for him to see who has bad intentions.
Through the iron gate, he found that the two women had very unnatural expressions when facing him, unable to hide their panic, and their eyes unconsciously wandered to the stairs on the left, which was also his blind spot. It was obvious that there was someone hiding there.
He Rui felt depressed. He didn't expect that after he came out with good intentions, the other party would ambush him.
He suppressed his anger and said, "I don't have any food, go find someone else."
"You're lying! Um, no, no, I..." The younger girl couldn't help but get angry when she heard what he said, but after shouting, she realized that her attitude was wrong and she lost her composure.
The woman holding the child beside her was more calm. "Brother, we all know that houses 701, 703, and 704 were all bought by the same buyer. You came out of 701, so you must be the family that went upstairs to transport things."
He Rui cursed in his heart, how come these people knew so clearly which house he bought.
It is estimated that the bald guy or some household owner might have spread it out for fun before the end of the world.
He underestimated these paper figures.
He Rui naturally wouldn't admit what the other party said. He continued to deny, "I don't have any food."
I don't owe these people anything.
Originally, when he heard the child crying, he chose to come out and take a look, wanting to believe that if the child was really just too hungry, or sick, and had nowhere else to go, he was willing to help.
But who knew that she had no good intentions towards him.
What his brother Ji said was right, they came here for supplies.
"If you're hungry, find a way to go to the supermarket to find supplies." He Rui said, turned around and wanted to leave.
Ji Changqing also said that there are still a lot of supplies out there, and as long as you dare to go out, you can go to the supermarket and buy them for free.
There is a large supermarket not far across the street from the community, which is also where the man went in the speedboat.
He had noticed before that the water outside was not very turbulent, and these people did not know that there were viruses in the water, nor did they know that sunlight was harmful.
As long as you can think of a way, whether it is looking for floating objects or dismantling bed boards and wooden doors to make a simple raft, and endure the fear of the outside scene, and have a strong mental quality, you can clearly go out and find supplies before others.
When the two men saw that he was about to leave, their voices became sharp and urgent.
“Don’t go!!!”
One of them reached through the cracks in the iron gate, trying to reach him. He Rui glanced over there silently and continued back to 701.
But after taking two steps, he suddenly heard the child screaming and crying again.
He Rui felt nauseous for a moment, and using his toes to think, he knew that the child must have been deliberately twisted or pinched to hurt him, which was why he suddenly started crying like this.
The purpose was to act pitiful and lure him back.
He clenched his fists and looked back at the two people who were still crying to him.
"My husband swam out and never came back. There are corpses everywhere outside. We, mother and I, really can't survive. Please have mercy on us and give us some food, just a little bit." The woman cried bitterly.
"Otherwise, can you help me take a look at my child? Do you have any medicine? My child has a high fever and feels very uncomfortable. She always bursts into tears. Can you help her?"
The other party changed his rhetoric.
He Rui just thought what the man said was ridiculous. He was not a doctor, so what was the point of asking him to take a look?
He narrowed his eyes and moved a little closer to the iron gate.
The woman also carried the struggling little girl close to the iron fence and handed it to him to see.
He Rui glanced at the child and questioned the loophole in the other party's words, "You said that you and your mother can't survive, so who is this woman next to you?"
"I'm her cousin."
"She is from 902." The two sides gave different answers, and it was obvious that their statements did not match.
He Rui looked at the child, whose complexion was healthy but whose face was covered with snot from crying.
I noticed that the woman had one free hand, holding the child in one hand and holding the iron railing with the other.
Still trying to get him to come closer and take a look.
He Rui felt that this person was about to reveal his true intentions.
Sure enough, the next second, because they were standing quite close, the other party suddenly grabbed his arm. He didn't care about the child and just focused on pulling his arm towards the railing. The woman next to him also helped to pull him.
Because of the difference in strength between men and women, and because He Rui had been exercising recently and his body was not as weak as before, He Rui did not actually take the two people's little tricks seriously. He also deliberately gave them an opportunity to see what tricks they were trying to play.
As soon as his arm was pulled through the fence, he saw the woman's expression change and she shouted anxiously, "Husband, hurry up, I caught him."
He Rui was furious. He grabbed the two people who were pulling him and kicked the iron fence hard, pulling his arms back. He also pulled the arms of the two people opposite him through the gap in the railing.
Almost at the next moment, an iron rod came from the blind spot, intending to hit him, but accidentally hit the shoulder of the woman who was his companion.
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