Chapter 187 Red Strips on the Window
Tan Zhaozhao's brows were tightly furrowed.
If she had just doubted whether she was too vigilant and lacked empathy, now she would only be thankful for her rationality and vigilance.
She pursed her lips and stood behind the door without leaving or making any noise. She just half-knelt down and listened attentively to the noise outside the door with Xingxing.
For five minutes, there was silence outside the door.
Only the water that poured in from the roof flowed down the stairs.
As the silence outside the door lasted longer, Tan Zhaozhao's heart grew heavier.
If the other party was really just looking for medicine for the child, he should have been rushing to look somewhere else anxiously.
But the other party did not leave. Not only did he not leave, he also pretended to have gone far away, hiding somewhere outside the door, like a venomous snake that concealed its voice and waited for its prey to approach.
Tan Zhaozhao silently clenched the blade in his hand, lowered his eyes and stared at the airplane ears that were still pressing down on the stars, and many guesses flashed quickly through his head.
Finally, as more and more time passed, Tan Zhaozhao discarded his suspicions one by one, and then listed the remaining suspicions in his mind and deduced them one by one.
If there really was a mother outside the door, then something must have happened to her child, otherwise she would not have cursed her own child maliciously.
But she was not in a hurry to find medicine. Instead, she waited outside the door. So... most likely, the other party's child had met with an accident.
Thinking of this possibility, Tan Zhaozhao's eyelids twitched.
Because this mother who has lost her child is the most uncontrollable, difficult and craziest individual among all unstable factors.
The scary thing is that despite being crazy, she can still maintain such patience, which means that her determination is so great that she cannot be easily persuaded or shaken.
If the other party was not a mother and the request for medicine was just an excuse, then the fact that a woman dared to come to the door alone to look for medicine, was not afraid of danger, and dared to coax the residents to open the door, means two possibilities.
The first is that the other party must have planned well in advance, knowing that Tan Zhaozhao was the only one at home, so he was so bold, determined to subdue Tan Zhaozhao as soon as possible.
The second possibility is that the other party either has helpers or has more obvious advantages, such as weapons, physical strength, or something else. In short, he must be confident that he can kill the "prey" who is lured to open the door with one blow, otherwise he would not knock on the door so calmly and calmly to trick them.
All of the above speculations ultimately forced Tan Zhaozhao to repeatedly label the women outside the door as "extremely dangerous."
She closed her eyes, reached out and quietly took out a mask from the cabinet at the entrance, opened it and put it on herself, hesitated for a moment, opened another one, and gently put one on Xingxing.
The mask was very large, and when it was opened it almost completely covered the kitten, but Tan Zhaozhao still covered the kitten's head with the mask in a strange posture.
She wasn't sure if there was anything left outside the door, so it was better to be cautious.
Thinking about this, she couldn't help but worry about the few people who hadn't returned yet.
Whether the woman was from the next neighborhood or somewhere else, judging from her occasional uncontrollable cough and the other party's words, the cold virus outside was probably spreading very badly.
If Li Shan and the others were not on guard, they might have been easily caught.
Even if not, if this woman had been hiding in the corridor, it would be difficult for them to escape immediately if they ran into her when they came back...
Thinking of this, Tan Zhaozhao pinched the bridge of his nose with a bit of a headache, and patiently continued to listen to the vague noises outside the door.
Later on, the other person's coughing became more and more uncontrollable, and he would even cough uncontrollably for a long time. Tan Zhaozhao could even hear the sound of him blowing his nose.
Tan Zhaozhao looked at the time and it was almost time for Li Shan and the others to return.
She was a little anxious, so she simply stopped listening to the noise outside the door and walked slowly to the window with light steps.
Fortunately, the house has always been carpeted. Although it takes a bit of time to clean up the cat hair every day, it can now quiet down all the noises that she accidentally makes.
Tan Zhaozhao found a piece of red cloth, stuffed it through the crack in the window little by little, tied the remaining piece of cloth in his hand to the handle, and then stood by the window waiting for them to come back.
As early as after the first attack, Tan Zhaozhao suggested that if those who stayed at home encountered danger, they should tie a brightly colored cloth strip on the window. This way, when everyone came back, they would be far away and would know to be cautious just by looking up.
This is the first time she has used it.
But Tan Zhaozhao still felt that it was not enough, because the woman kept coughing. If she was really infected with something, no matter how careful they were, they would still be infected accidentally when breathing the air or talking face to face.
So after thinking about it, Tan Zhaozhao reached out and took off the mask on his face and Xingxing's face, tied a knot, and tied it to the long red cloth strip that was wet in an instant.
Both red and blue are conspicuous enough in the wind and rain, and there are hints as agreed upon before, so Tan Zhaozhao is not worried that they won't see it.
After doing all this, she relaxed a little and lowered her head to ask Xingxing whether the people outside had left.
Xingxing pricked up his ears and listened, still shaking his little cat head.
Tan Zhaozhao reached out and held the kitten in his arms, then sat on the carpet.
She was a little glad that she didn't cook in advance. She was just cleaning the ingredients and didn't cook the hot pot base in advance.
Otherwise the smell will give everything away.
The woman waiting outside the door probably thought that no one was home, so she was hiding and waiting so patiently.
But if she knew there were people at home, Tan Zhaozhao didn't dare to think about whether she could handle it alone.
Even so, she did not dare to relax, and her nerves remained tense until she saw a small black dot finally emerge from the water surface that was constantly beaten by the heavy rain.
Her tense nerves immediately became even more tense.
I held my breath and watched the small black dot getting closer and closer. It was so close that I could see that it was Li Shan and three other girls, as well as Liu Yi.
Tang Jin and Bai Yichen are not here.
Tan Zhaozhao's heart sank again.
It's not that he doesn't trust Li Shan and the others, but Bai Yichen is more meticulous and profound in the team. When they encounter danger outside or something that requires thinking, Bai Yichen usually gives the solution first, and then Tang Jin chooses the most appropriate implementation plan from them.
Now that these two are gone...
Tan Zhaozhao once again experienced the many troubles caused by the ban on modern communication tools.
In the end, she could only watch them approach.
At this time, the water level of the entire city had reached above the tenth floor, so the closer they got, the more clearly they could see what Tan Zhaozhao hung on the window.
There was also the figure of Tan Zhaozhao standing at the window, frowning and looking at them helplessly.
"He seems to be fine now..." Li Shan muttered softly. Her heart, which had been hanging in the air since she saw the red ribbon, finally settled down, and she regained some of her rationality after running away from home out of anxiety.
When climbing through the window to enter the building, they all moved very lightly, trying not to make any loud noise.
"Please wear your mask properly and wear one more layer." Chen Yi reminded everyone.
The three of them nodded, took off the masks on their faces and put them into a trash can not far from the window, then took out new masks from their arms, overlapped them, and each person wore two.
Almost at the moment they saw the two masks hanging under the red cloth, they immediately understood most of the hints that Tan Zhaozhao wanted to convey.
Because in the process of searching for and distributing supplies outside over the past two days, they have seen the situation becoming increasingly serious. There are people coughing in all the major resettlement sites, and every time they walk in, the entire resettlement site is almost filled with heart-wrenching coughs.
There is a severe shortage of medicines, and many of them only treat the symptoms and not the root cause.
Bai Yichen said that as long as it keeps raining, the humidity of the air will continue to increase, and these illnesses, which were originally just minor colds, will become more and more serious as time goes by.
Therefore, he kept reminding several people that no matter where they went, especially when they were in crowded places, they must wear masks. If they did not have masks, they must temporarily cover their mouths and noses with something clean to minimize the need for face-to-face communication with people.
In the corridor.
Several people, holding weapons in their hands, walked quietly upstream on the flowing water.
No one spoke, and no one guessed what the danger might be.
Because they knew that Tan Zhaozhao had done his best to remind them, and the rest they would have to deal with on their own.
They went up the stairs one by one, but they still didn't hear any movement.
The vigilance of several people has been raised to the highest level, and they are concentrating on using their five senses to perceive any possible movements around them.
When they were about to step onto the 17th floor, Chen Yi raised her hand to stop the men from moving, and then mouthed to them, "If necessary, kill them on the spot."
She is the one who gives the orders and is also the one who ultimately bears the responsibility.
But she spoke decisively, with a firm and calm expression, without the slightest hesitation.
Li Shan hesitated for a moment, but only for a moment, and then she immediately nodded and clenched her weapon tightly in her hand.
The few of them walked up slowly with lighter steps.
After reaching the 17th floor, they quietly checked and finally located the source of danger on the 18th floor.
So there was no more hesitation, everyone went up to the 18th floor, and then stopped at the door of the fire escape.
They heard the dull and suppressed cough, and all of them looked a little stern.
Hearing this coughing sound made them think of the situation in the resettlement site. They didn't know if it was an illusion, but when they heard this muffled cough, their own throats seemed to start to itch, and they couldn't help but want to cough along. Only by clearing their throats could they feel more comfortable.
However, because of this coughing, they immediately locked onto the location of the "source of danger".
Liu Yi grabbed Chen Yi who was about to rush out and rushed out first.
Chen Yi was stunned for a moment, and immediately followed the tall figure in front.
“Don’t move!!”
"Get down! Hold your head with your hands and don't move!!"
“…”
There was chaos outside the door.
Tan Zhaozhao gripped the door handle tightly, and a layer of sticky cold sweat had unknowingly appeared on his palms.
She still didn't open the door until there were rhythmic knocks on the door.
"Zhao Zhao, it's okay."
It was Li Shan's voice.
Tan Zhaozhao pressed the door handle, and after releasing it, he found that his hands were shaking unconsciously.
She stopped several cats that wanted to rush out, and placed the stars on the entrance counter behind the door to prevent them from running out. She then went out, closed the door with her backhand, and then looked at the woman who was pinned to the ground by Liu Yi with her hands tied behind her back.
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