The snow fell heavier and heavier, and the temperature dropped rapidly. Chu Xiang walked along the road with his head down, his head throbbing slightly. He couldn't remember what had happened last night.
He remembered that Chen Nian seemed to suddenly retaliate, and then he felt a sharp pain in his head and lost consciousness.
"Were there other people last night?"
This is absurd. He didn't even reveal yesterday's plan to Pan Xin. What exactly happened?
Thinking of this, Chu Xiang felt a chill of fear. Who was the person who attacked him?
Is this a new helper that Wang Feifei found?
There are too many questions, my head is getting more and more painful...
As soon as Chu Xiang entered the house, he heard Pan Xin shouting. It turned out she needed to use the restroom and couldn't hold it in any longer.
Chu Xiang retrieved the key from the living room drawer, unlocked the shackles, and Pan Xin rushed into the bathroom.
At this moment, the loudspeakers in the community started broadcasting a friendly reminder to the residents, repeating over and over again:
"Dear valued residents, due to recent extreme weather conditions, there may be issues with food supplies in the market later on. We advise residents to prepare in advance and stock up on as many supplies as possible!"
The announcement kept echoing through the neighborhood. Chu Xiang looked out the window at the heavy snowfall. Why was the snow getting even heavier? In previous years, even during the coldest winter, there hadn't been this much snow.
He heard a commotion downstairs, went to the balcony and looked down. He saw that a lot of neighbors had gathered in the community. Some were carrying bags, some were dragging shopping carts, and they were all walking towards the gate.
"What happened? Why are you all so flustered?"
Seeing this, Chu Xiang also became nervous, as he remembered that his family hadn't bought any food for a long time.
He hurriedly opened the refrigerator, which contained only a few eggs, a few bottles of drinks, a few tomatoes, and one or two bags of green vegetables. There were also only a few potatoes left in the kitchen.
He panicked a little and decided to go with them to buy some food.
Pan Xin was hiding in the bathroom, trying to figure out how to escape. Before she could come up with a solution, Chu Xiang was already banging on the door.
"Pan Xin, come out quickly! I need to go out for a bit, please come out right away!"
The current state of Chu Xiang frightens her. If she delays any longer, she fears she might anger him. She can only slowly move on from this situation.
"Chu Xiang, please don't lock me up. I promise I'll stay home obediently, okay?"
Seeing her pitiful appearance, and having locked her up for so long yesterday, Chu Xiang felt a little soft-hearted. Plus, time was of the essence, so he decided to lock Pan Xin inside the house.
"Then you stay home and wait for me, I'll go buy some food."
"Okay, go ahead and don't worry, I'll wait for you at home."
When Chu Xiang finally squeezed his way into the supermarket, he found the doors still tightly closed, with many shoppers crowding the entrance waiting to buy things.
They usually open by this time, but for some reason, it's already past eight o'clock and they're still not open.
Chu Xiang didn't dare to delay and went home immediately. He was afraid that something might have happened to Pan Xin. When he got downstairs, he saw many pieces of paper asking for help scattered on the ground. Pan Xin had been secretly throwing them out from the balcony.
His anger flared up instantly. He picked up all the pieces of paper from the ground, ran upstairs, rushed to the balcony as soon as he entered, grabbed Pan Xin by the neck, and viciously dragged her back to the bedroom.
His face was contorted in a terrifying grimace. Ignoring Pan Xin's pleas for mercy, he grabbed her and re-locked the shackles.
"You stay put!"
"You bitch! Don't expect me to untie you again."
Ignoring Pan Xin's pleas for mercy, he hurriedly went out again, heading to a supermarket further away to try his luck...
At this moment, Chen Nian was lying in a hospital bed with a high fever. His wounds had already been treated. The doctor said that no organs had been damaged and the brain CT scan was normal, but as a precaution, he needed to stay in the hospital for observation for two days until he regained consciousness.
Chen Nian's father was by the hospital bedside. He looked much older overnight, his face haggard. Last night, his son came home covered in blood, and he didn't know where he had gone or where he had been injured.
When Chen Nian arrived home, he was still relatively conscious. He made a phone call using his father's phone, and then he lost consciousness...
The father rushed Chen Nian to the hospital that very night. Seeing his child covered in blood, he was filled with fear the whole way. He could no longer bear the thought of losing a loved one.
The old wounds reminded him of the past, causing him unbearable heartache. If he hadn't been so arrogant in his youth, he wouldn't have gone bankrupt overnight, and his wife wouldn't have suffered from postpartum depression and died with their daughter.
Everything was his own doing. Now, he and Chen Nian are left to depend on each other, and their child's life has just begun.
He stroked Chen Nian's head, not wanting anything to happen to Chen Nian, even if it meant giving his own life.
He couldn't worry about the supermarket anymore; he needed to stay with his son for the next couple of days and wait until his son regained consciousness before finding out who did it!
In fact, Chen Nian's injury and the supermarket's closure actually saved him from being looted by crowds and preserved a large amount of supplies...
The outside temperature is already -3 degrees Celsius. It's usually a bit colder at night, but not today. Wang Feifei was too tired and took a nap in the morning. She didn't wake up until noon.
She ran to the living room and saw the same heavy snow as in her previous life. She knew that this snow would last for a month.
The disaster has begun...
The indoor temperature continues to drop, and the electric heater in the vegetable room is no longer sufficient.
Wang Feifei has decided to officially start the boiler today!
Take the elevator downstairs, and on the 27th floor, in the northernmost part, there is a large boiler.
The boiler's chimney was connected to the building's flue and was well hidden. Wang Feifei found the instruction manual, poured ten kilograms of coal into the boiler's filling area, and then lit it.
Once the temperature was set to 24 degrees Celsius, the boiler began to burn steadily. The heat it generated powered the pre-installed underfloor and wall heating systems, gradually warming up the upper floors...
Wang Feifei checked the temperature of the two floors below, which was already -3 degrees Celsius. The meat delivered last night was slowly freezing. When the temperature drops even further tomorrow, the ventilation system on these two floors can be turned off.
When she returned to the 28th floor, the temperature had already started to rise. In just half an hour, it had increased by 8 degrees. Wang Feifei was in a great mood. She poured herself a cup of freshly ground hand-drip coffee and stood by the window to admire the snow scene outside.
Suddenly, I received several emergency announcements on my phone. The media explained the temperature drop, reassuring citizens not to panic or hoard supplies, and assuring them that the temperature would soon rise.
Wang Feifei glanced at it, then silently closed it. This life was indeed a little different, because turmoil had already begun.
Better-off neighborhoods had already notified residents to prepare, but most ordinary people were at work or school, completely unaware that danger was approaching...
Chu Xiang went to three supermarkets and finally managed to grab a bag of rice, two cans of oil, a box of instant noodles, and some meat at a large supermarket in the city center.
He had originally intended to buy more, but after seeing the reassuring message that popped up on his phone, he smiled easily and put down a bag of flour and cookies from his shopping cart.
Just as Chu Xiang was about to pay, he saw more than twenty burly men rush into the supermarket and quickly disperse to various areas of the supermarket.
Each of them carried two shopping carts and went on a shopping spree, buying food, clothes, and even ice sports equipment such as sleds, leaving everything emptied wherever they went...
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