Chapter 117 Generator Short Circuit
It only took ten minutes for the two rubber boats to reach the construction site.
Six half-built high-rise residential buildings stand above the water, amid the rain.
A dark green waterproof curtain wraps around the building.
Xie Yun brought the rubber boat closer to the curtain, and Yu Duoduo pulled out a Tang Heng short knife from his waist and cut a big hole in the curtain.
I don’t know which floor of the new building this is. Anyway, the window holes in the building have not been installed with windows yet. Yu Duoduo was the first to climb into the building, followed by the others.
The stairs were cast in place and had no handrails installed yet. Four people climbed up cautiously with flashlights to the top floor.
Just as Yu Duoduo thought, a large amount of steel bars and cement were piled on the uncapped top floor and covered with waterproof cloth.
"I estimate that we need to insert about 20 meters of steel bars on our gate. We can just take four of the 6-meter standard modulus steel bars and bring them back."
Yu Duoduo said as he fiddled with the bundles of steel bars of different thicknesses and lengths lying on the ground.
"Would you like to bring some more back?" Tong Zi asked.
"If it can be moved, there will be no problem of course, but this thing is too long. It is not easy to transport it to the 12th floor using the elevator shaft. We have to move it!" Yu Duoduo reminded.
"In addition to steel bars, I also want to transport some other things back. As long as they do not exceed the cross-section of the elevator shaft, they should be able to be transported up." Wei Dong said softly.
"It's up to you. At most I'll just have to make a few more trips!" Yu Duoduo replied.
Except for Xie Yun, the other three people chose to take some supplies back to the 12th floor.
Tong Zi and Wei Dong brought several large bundles of steel wires, iron sheets, screws and other things, while Yu Duoduo carried a lot of cement, sand and other things for mixing concrete.
So on the way back, the two rubber boats had increased to four rubber boats, loaded with four full boats of construction materials.
Yu Duoduo was not in a hurry to put the remaining building materials into the space. There were still building materials for the other five buildings, and she had to find a separate time to clean them all up!
It took the four of them some time to drag the large pile of building materials back to the apartment building.
Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun were responsible for going upstairs to transport supplies to the elevator shaft, while Wei Dong and Tong Zi were downstairs moving the building materials from the ship into the elevator room.
The building was very quiet, especially on the 11th floor, it was eerily quiet.
The two did not care. In the more than one month since the natural disaster began, people had gotten used to living without electricity. Once it got dark, they would naturally go to bed early to avoid having any wild thoughts.
As soon as Yu Duoduo reached the 12th floor, he found a woman lying upside down on the stairs with her head down and a bamboo chopstick stuck in her chest.
Yu Duoduo recognized her immediately. This woman was the hostess of the last household, No. 1120, whose door she broke into this afternoon.
Xie Yun stepped forward to check her breath and pulse, "The body is not cold yet, so she must have died not long ago."
"Sister Duoduo, Brother Yun, you're back!" Minan's voice suddenly came from behind the door, and then the lights on the door and the corridor were turned on.
"What happened?" Yu Duoduo stepped over the corpse on the stairs and walked into the door, followed closely by Xie Yun.
"Sister, brother, I didn't take a good look at the 12th floor...
This woman was like a madman. She first came to the house and tried to pick the lock, but was shocked by the electricity on the door and passed out.
I ignored her, thinking she would go away on her own when she knew it hurt.
But who would have thought that after waking up, this woman would bring up a large basin of water from downstairs and pour it towards our front door..."
As Minan spoke, she lowered her head and twisted her fingers, at a loss.
"Then what?" Yu Duoduo asked without commenting.
"The switch gave off some sparks, and then it short-circuited...
I got anxious and used the crossbow that Sister Zizi left for me to shoot the woman to death... Sister, I..."
Minan was like a child who had done something wrong, and her words were full of anxiety.
"Are you not hurt?" Yu Duoduo asked.
Minan suddenly raised her head, looked at Yu Duoduo, and shook her head violently, "But... Sister, the line is short-circuited, and a generator was burned out..."
Her tears immediately burst out. This was a generator worth 1 million. How could she afford to pay it back?
"Don't be anxious, that woman..." was coming towards their door!
"Zi Zi and the others are still waiting downstairs to move the supplies. Let's pick them up first and then talk about the door and the generator. Maybe Wei Dong will be able to fix them."
Yu Duoduo calmly held Minan's wrist and comforted her not to cry, saying that in the apocalyptic world, not everything could go smoothly.
Minan nodded and followed Yu Duoduo to the elevator.
More than ten minutes later, the four trucks of building materials towed back from the construction site were all transported to the 12th floor.
Minan told Tong Zi and Wei Dong what happened in the building, her voice still choked with sobs.
Tong Zi and Wei Dong both looked at Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun. After all, the money to buy the generator belonged to them.
"Brother Dong, do you have a way to fix it?" To the people on the 12th floor, Wei Dong is an all-round technical expert. There is no manual work that he cannot do!
Wei Dong touched the back of his head and said, "Let me try."
"Who's inside? Come out!" Suddenly there was a shout and noise coming from the stairs.
The few people who were originally surrounding Minan looked towards the stairs together, and saw a group of men and women who took advantage of the darkness and surrounded the stairs on the 12th floor.
Yu Duoduo picked up her scythe and walked towards the door.
"What's up?"
"How dare you ask us what happened? My brother's wife was brutally murdered by you. Someone was killed! Tell me, what are you going to do?"
A bald man holding a butcher knife spoke to Yu Duoduo who was standing in the door.
"Heh~ I haven't even gone to find out what's wrong with you yet, but you guys came to me first."
Yu Duoduo spotted the man hiding in the crowd at a glance. He was the man from Room 1120 whom he had just met in the afternoon, and also the husband of the dead woman lying on the stairs outside.
Apart from him, there were no other familiar faces outside who had come in the afternoon!
"What do you mean?" asked the bald man.
"Remember I said this in the corridor on the 11th floor this afternoon. Anyone who comes to the 12th floor to cause trouble will not be let off easily."
Yu Duoduo squinted his eyes and looked at the hiding man. He was considered a capable man! When something happened to his wife, he would hide behind others!
"You just admitted that you killed someone! I tell you, if you killed someone, you can expect to be shot by the government! Everyone present is a witness!"
The bald man said this with a smug look on his face, as if he had caught some powerful evidence against Yu Duoduo.
"Really? Then what about this woman who ran upstairs and splashed water on my electric switch with the intention of doing something bad to the 12th floor?"
The bald man responded fluently: "I'm telling you, don't even think about getting away with it!
She just accidentally took the wrong road at dark. What evidence do you have to prove that she damaged your door?
But this body was literally lying in front of your house, and we all saw it with our own eyes!"
Yu Duoduo smiled and said, "Then what do you mean by blocking the way here? Why don't you just call the police over?"
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