Chen Nian could tell there were two people outside the door; they seemed to be facing a problem and were whispering to each other.
"Brother, what should we do?"
"Give it a little more effort, we've come this far, soon we'll have everything."
"Okay! I'll count to three, and we'll all push together!"
"One... Two..."
"three!"
"Damn it, why can't this door be moved at all?"
"Let's try again, come on, push harder!"
"It still doesn't work!"
"Holy crap! This is so weird."
"Brother, let's go. It's too cold. There's a risk in staying any longer. Why don't we try another store?"
The older man thought for a moment, then reluctantly decided to give up: "...Okay..."
Although they had picked the lock, they couldn't open the roller shutter. They tried several times, trembling with exhaustion, but the door remained as solid as a steel plate, completely unmoving.
Chen Nian looked at his father with a face full of questions.
Then Dad remembered that the door had been closed before the temperature dropped and might have frozen.
The temperature difference between indoors and outdoors has been large these past few days. The roller shutter door is cold on one side and hot on the other. The hot side is molten, while the cold side is frozen.
After repeated cycles, coupled with today's sudden drop in temperature to minus twenty degrees Celsius, it froze completely inside and out, making it impossible to bend and roll up.
It's really fortunate that we escaped the first wave of invasion unscathed.
Actually, these two were repeat offenders. They met in prison because they were both arrested for petty theft and were released at the same time, so they became very close.
After they got out, they became sworn brothers and were determined to find a proper job, get married, and live a proper life.
Unfortunately, they were incredibly unlucky. Just over a week after their release from prison, they encountered a snowstorm. Penniless and jobless, the two brothers huddled in a dilapidated basement, shivering with cold. Seeing that things were going badly, the brothers decided to return to their hometown to escape the disaster, but the heavy snow blocked the roads, preventing them from leaving.
In a moment of desperation, the older man snatched several bags of food from the trembling elderly man on the roadside, and from then on, he became increasingly audacious in his acts of robbery.
At noon, we broke into a store and snagged thirty-six down jackets. The two of us kept four to wear, and plan to sell the rest to make a profit of twenty or thirty thousand yuan!
This huge sum of money made them greedy, and they were already thinking about pulling off another heist before they even got their hands on the money.
They set their sights on the supermarket at the entrance of the wealthy residential area, knowing that the supermarket had been closed for several days and must have a lot of unsold supplies.
They had just put in a lot of effort but hadn't gotten anything. The two of them grumbled and walked back, still looking for places to rob.
Suddenly, a group of people appeared in the distance at great speed. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the group had come by sleds. The two men were so stunned that they forgot to run away.
So they were immediately put on a snowmobile, blindfolded, and taken somewhere with no idea where...
Although I can't see, my other senses become more sensitive, and I even feel warm when I enter a dark environment.
Curiosity overcame fear, and the older man couldn't help but ask, "Where is this?"
You'll find out soon enough!
They heard a cold reply, and then their blindfolds were suddenly removed. Slowly, they realized they were in a dark cave and being led inside.
They then arrived at an open space where the light was brighter and a large crowd had gathered.
They also saw several men in the distance who looked familiar, seemingly friends who had recently been released from prison.
"What's going on? Why did they arrest us?"
No one dared to utter a sound; they waited silently…
Half an hour later, more and more people were brought in, and the crowd grew larger and larger, making the noisy scene somewhat uncontrollable.
One hot-tempered, burly man couldn't take it anymore. He jumped up and cursed, "Damn it, I'm leaving right now! Anyone who dares to stop me, just try it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he tried to crawl into the passage, but the guards quickly surrounded him...
"Thud! Thud!" Three muffled thuds!
The burly man collapsed to the ground, three bloody gashes appearing on his gray down jacket, from which blood gushed out.
Two guards then came over, one of them dragging the strong man by one leg, and pulled him away as if he were a piece of livestock lying on the ground.
The blood-stained fur on the burly man's clothes was being pulled, and it started to splatter out, spreading all over the ground, making the atmosphere at the scene extremely eerie...
"Ah, someone's been murdered!" someone whispered in the crowd.
Those who were just about to make a move were now too scared to move. They had killed someone for no reason, and the process was faster than killing a chicken!
The entire place was eerily quiet; people watched silently as the person on the ground was dragged past them.
The guard dragged the man into the passageway and asked another guard, "What should we do with this man?"
"The usual way, send it to the storage room, someone there will handle it."
The new guard was terrified; he never dared to go into this "storage room"...
Another half hour passed, and a voice rang out from ahead:
"Hello everyone, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting! I'm Shen Qingshan, and I've invited you all here today for a reason!"
The two brothers who robbed the supermarket stood on tiptoe to look and saw a man wearing glasses standing on a high platform at the front, speaking politely to the audience below:
"From what I understand, you guys have bought quite a lot of stuff these past few days, haven't you?"
Upon hearing this, the audience was in an uproar. Was this a case of double-crossing?
"To tell you the truth, this blizzard and extreme cold outside is an apocalyptic disaster. How long do you think you can last with the stuff you've snatched?"
"A month?"
"A year?"
"If this natural disaster continues for several years, have you thought about what to do?"
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