Chapter 128 Women's Shelter
Early in the morning, dozens of corpses were piled on the street in front of Shuiyue Bay, forming a small mountain of corpses.
In the residential complex, there are twice as many patrolmen as usual, taking turns patrolling the community.
While Xia Xiaoman was standing at the window observing the smog outside, he saw the patrol team passing by three or four times.
At around 10 o'clock, the patrol team passed by again, but this time they brought a small loudspeaker, which played a looping message saying that someone was sent to open the manhole cover and asked everyone to bring containers to fetch water.
There has been no water for two consecutive days, and some people have used up all the water stored at home. If there is no water today, they all want to write a joint letter to the property management department, requesting to pry open the manhole cover to get water themselves.
The above probably took into account that the manhole covers had not been opened for two consecutive days and they were worried that some people would die of thirst, so when they found that the smog was not as thick as it was in the past two days, they asked people to find a way to open the manhole covers of each well.
Today we can fetch water to make up for the water we missed in the past two days, so Xia Xiaoman specially took a larger bucket.
Following the signpost to the water-getting point, I vaguely saw people queuing up, and Xia Xiaoman quietly lined up at the end.
After being cooped up at home for two days, people in the queue were able to chat happily with acquaintances when they saw them, even while wearing masks. This lively scene diluted the dull atmosphere brought about by the smog.
Suddenly, she heard Fu Baiwei's voice. She looked up and saw that Fu Baiwei was standing in front of her, with four people between them.
Fu Baiwei just turned around to talk to the person behind her and unexpectedly met her gaze. The next second, she waved at her with a look of surprise.
"Xiaoman! You're wearing a gas mask. I almost didn't recognize you." Fu Baiwei pulled Sun Haiyun out of the team and stood behind Xia Xiaoman. "Someone broke into the community yesterday. Did you know about this?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "I know, it made quite a big noise."
"That's right. My house was broken into by criminals. There were four women. They almost slashed me. Luckily, Grandpa Luo acted in time." Fu Baiwei said with lingering fear.
Sun Haiyun smiled and pinched her face, "You don't take any credit for my contribution at all, do you?"
When Fu Baiwei heard this, she immediately smiled and said flatteringly: "Hey, you are my boyfriend. Even if I don't say it, others will know that you will protect me. There is no need to emphasize it!"
Xia Xiaoman turned her head silently, silently refusing to eat dog food.
After playing around with Sun Haiyun for a while, Fu Baiwei continued, "A lot of people died in the community this time. I heard that all 20 patrolmen guarding the gate of the community yesterday were knocked unconscious and killed."
Xia Xiaoman was stunned for a moment, "Fainted? Is there such a thing as drug now?"
Fu Baiwei nodded, "Yes! Yesterday those people brought ether here. Ether has a strong anesthetic effect. Once sprayed, you will feel dizzy instantly. The patrolman at the door was knocked down by them yesterday."
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "Who were those people yesterday? Why were they all women, and they were carrying ether."
"I know this." Fu Baiwei explained: "They are all from the women's shelter..."
The flood submerged the floating city, and many people who lost their homes were resettled in relief centers with the help of the floating city government.
The rescue center is really just a rescue center, it just guarantees you to stay alive. You won’t starve to death but you won’t get enough to eat at the rescue center, it’s a place to live but it’s not a good place to live.
The living conditions at the relief center are as bad as a beggar's den, with men and women living together. No one knows whether the person lying next to you is a human or a ghost.
Although the staff has tried their best to arrange separate accommodation for men and women, some people do not want to be separated from their family or friends, so the rule of separate accommodation for men and women is in vain.
In this dirty and messy environment, the elderly, the weak, the sick, and women became the targets of bullying by many people. It was common for most women to have their supplies robbed and to be dragged away and brutally abused.
Don't ask why you didn't tell the staff at the rescue center.
The shelter has a small number of staff and is very busy. If you tell them, they will indeed drive the abusers out of the shelter.
But this is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution.
After this group of perpetrators were driven away, the next group of perpetrators would appear. Moreover, the next group of perpetrators knew about the things they had complained about, and they would be even more cruel to them.
In order to protect themselves, a woman named Li Bing and several others set up a women's shelter that only accepted women.
Li Bing is a Taekwondo coach. The people who set up the women's shelter with her also have their own strengths. Some are medical students, some are swimming coaches, and some are business tycoons.
They each used their own strengths to develop the women's shelter into a place that no one dared to mess with in a short period of time.
"I heard that everyone who joins the women's shelter must learn self-defense from Li Bing. So everyone there knows some basic boxing and kicking skills."
Xia Xiaoman was puzzled, "Li Bing set up a women's shelter for self-protection, so why did he come to Shuiyue Bay to rob?"
"Because Li Bing died." Fu Baiwei sighed with regret, "I don't know exactly how Li Bing died. But since Li Bing died, the nature of learning martial arts in the women's shelter has completely changed."
"Li Bing originally asked them to learn martial arts to protect themselves. But after Li Bing died, the people in the women's shelter took advantage of their martial arts skills to bully the weak and rob others of their supplies."
"At first, they went to cause trouble for those who had bullied them in the name of revenge. Later, they may have become addicted to causing trouble for others and thought that this was a faster way to earn supplies, so they gradually evolved into female bandits."
"Now no one calls them the Women's Shelter anymore. They have been given a name, the Black Widows."
Xia Xiaoman was speechless, "Does this mean that the victim eventually becomes the perpetrator?"
Fu Baiwei nodded, "Maybe!"
"But don't underestimate them just because they are women. They are very powerful. When they go out to rob, they will rob if they can. If they can't rob and fall into the hands of others, they will give up their self-esteem and use beauty to seduce the enemy, and then strike back when the enemy lets down his guard."
"How do you know it so clearly?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
"That's how the man who lived in 1201, Building 16 of our community died. He and his brother had already arrested those women yesterday. He couldn't hold back when they flirted with him, so he wanted to rape and kill them. Unexpectedly, both brothers died."
"I heard that when the neighbors next door ran to rescue them, they had all taken off their pants. Tsk, it's really a disgrace to our Shuiyue Bay." Fu Baiwei looked disgusted.
Xia Xiaoman: “…”
I really can't understand it. Will I die if I don't touch a woman? It's already this late, and I still can't control my lower body. I deserve to die.
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