Chapter 52: Barehanded Blade
Whoosh, whoosh—two nails passed by Yu Duoduo's ears and flew straight towards the man who was rushing forward with a knife.
One nail pierced into the wrist holding the knife, and the kitchen knife fell to the ground. The other nail pierced into the man's forehead, and the man fell to the ground instantly.
This time, the situation was immediately under control. Everyone was silent for two seconds, and then fled in all directions like frightened birds.
"This guy looks familiar." Xie Yun said as he stuffed the nail gun back into his bag.
"It's the group of people who came to cause trouble before. One of them wants to incite the crowd to rob our boat and take revenge at the same time." Yu Duoduo walked over and turned the man over with his foot.
"He's already dead, so let's go." Xie Yun said as he stood at the windowsill, motioning Yu Duoduo to come over quickly.
Yu Duoduo turned over and jumped onto the rubber boat. "Except for this troublemaker, I think going out should be much smoother in the future."
As soon as they finished speaking, they saw Minan and Le Yan staring at them from another boat...
Having witnessed the entire process, the two men seemed to be quite frightened.
"That, that person..." Le Yan couldn't even speak clearly.
"Dead." Yu Duoduo said directly, "If you feel scared, don't force yourself to go with me."
The girl named Minan quickly waved her hands and said, "No, no, no! Thank you for saving us just now! We didn't mean it that way. It's just that killing someone would be..."
"Going to jail?" Yu Duoduo chuckled, "Miss, it was he who pointed the kitchen knife at us that led to this. We never took the initiative to provoke him."
"But we shouldn't take his life!" Le Yan seemed unable to hold back and burst out, saying in a low voice.
This left Yu Duoduo speechless.
"You don't want his life, but you're waiting for him to take mine? Do you think he's coming at me with a kitchen knife to cook for me?"
"Forget it, let's go. There's no point in talking if we don't agree." Xie Yun, who had been silent the whole time, patted Yu Duoduo's shoulder, signaling her not to be angry.
Then he said to the people on the rubber boat opposite: "If you encounter any problems in the future, go to the police."
Xie Yun took out an engineer shovel from his bag, and in a few strokes he cleared a long distance, leaving the two men far behind.
Yu Duoduo was very angry. She let them go first because she saw that they had no weapons and would be at a disadvantage if they were unarmed, so she left them behind.
In the end, not only did they not appreciate it, they also blamed them for killing people and being cruel...
"Don't be angry, they are just good kids who haven't been through the end of the world yet. If they haven't experienced it, they naturally don't understand. How can they feel the pain if the knife doesn't cut themselves?
Don't worry about it. Anger hurts the liver. Drink some water to cool down. "
Xie Yun said to Yu Duoduo who was sitting opposite him, and then took out a bottle of mineral water from his backpack and handed it to her.
“If I had known it would be like this… I shouldn’t have helped throw the bodies down from the building yesterday. It’s useless to be a good person. I really should have let them open their eyes earlier and see the outside world.
You don't even bring a weapon when you go out. You really think you are Ip Man, planning to fight with swords bare-handed. You really have no idea at all."
Yu Duoduo kept complaining about how his kindness was being ignored, but Xie Yun just listened with a smile and then rowed silently.
When Yu Duoduo finally said he was tired and stopped to drink water, he said with a gloating look on his face:
"Compared to that, do you suddenly feel that teaming up with me is the right decision?"
Yu Duoduo looked at his despicable expression, and most of the anger in his heart dissipated instantly.
Without waiting for her to answer, Xie Yun looked forward first and said, "We're here."
In order to make it easier for her to complain, the two of them sat opposite each other, with only Xie Yun facing forward.
Perhaps because my attention was distracted, it seemed like it didn't take much time to get there.
Yu Duoduo turned around and was surprised to see the large number of special "boats" gathered at the entrance of the shopping mall. She didn't know that the market could be so lively during the day!
The water has already flooded the second floor. The district government’s market is located on the third floor and above. The gate is newly installed and should have been modified from the original exterior wall.
The only gate in the entire shopping mall that was open was the front one, and policemen wearing life jackets and holding pistols were guarding the gate to prevent anyone from causing trouble.
There are many rubber boats scattered around the outer wall of the shopping mall, with three or two people standing or sitting on each boat. It is unknown what they are used for.
When Duoduo and her friends' rubber boat was only 20 meters away from the newly built gate of the shopping mall, a blue rubber boat slowly approached.
"Do you two want food?" a man in a transparent raincoat whispered, looking around vigilantly.
Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun looked at each other. It turned out to be a private grain dealer. Xie Yun smiled and said:
"There's an official market inside, why should we buy food from you?"
The man smiled and said, "This is fresh and has never been soaked in water!"
The two of them would understand the meaning of his words, but they chose not to understand, "We don't want it."
Xie Yun rowed around the man in front of him and headed quickly towards the mall gate.
The two entered the mall, and the furnishings inside were completely different from when Yu Duoduo came back last time.
The government only opened the third floor, which was originally a women's clothing area and has now been converted into a department store. However, most of the goods have more or less water stains.
The government should have organized a salvage team to gather all the goods from nearby flooded supermarkets and stores here to make it convenient for people to buy their daily necessities.
There were a lot of people in the mall, but most of them no longer had the casual shopping mentality they had before the disaster.
One reason is that there was a power outage and the internet was out, so shopping malls only accepted cash. In the age of electronic currency, not many people carry cash.
The second reason is that prices have increased tenfold, and a zero has been added to the price of all goods.
I heard that some people made a fuss this morning, saying that the pricing of these supplies was unfair, that the prices were exorbitant, and that they were trying to take advantage of the natural disaster to make money from the people!
However, the police at the door asked him to leave and put him on the mall's blacklist, and he was not allowed to enter again...
After this little incident, the number of people coming in to buy things did not decrease at all.
Now everywhere is flooded and ordinary people don’t even have a decent boat. Where else can they go if not come here to buy supplies?
No matter how expensive it is, people have to live. How can they get angry over a few material things?
Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun walked through the crowd. They did not wander around. They were not interested in the daily necessities that had been soaked in water. They walked towards the innermost food area.
Perhaps because they were afraid that some people were extremely hungry and would rush in to steal food, the food area was guarded by special armed police officers and civil servants.
There are not many types of grain, but the prices are shockingly high, and there is a purchase limit, with each person not to exceed 20 kilograms of all grain per day.
Rice, corn, and flour are all 50 yuan per catty, dried noodles are 100 yuan per tube, and instant noodles are 30 yuan per bag...
People who buy food put the food in batches, and only after all of them come out can the next batch be put in. It feels like shopping in a luxury store.
When Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun arrived there, the line for buying food was already quite long, and they waited for a long time before it was their turn.
You need to bring your own grain bags when buying grain, because all grain is sold in bulk.
They are just piled up on the rice cabinets in supermarkets, there are about dozens of them. The cabinets are not high and do not block the view, making it easier for the police to manage.
There were twenty people who came in at the same time. Except for Yu Duoduo and the other two who were pretending to be miserable, the rest were really miserable.
He was so hungry that his eyes lit up when he saw rice and he rushed over to eat it up.
Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun looked at the rice cabinets from both sides and bumped their heads at the innermost cabinet.
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