Chapter 264 Earthquake 6
Fucheng does not belong to the earthquake zone province, and most people have never thought that there might be an earthquake in Fucheng, so everyone was panicked when the earthquake occurred.
Xia Xiaoman stayed in the ruins for a week, during which there were four aftershocks of varying sizes. The later the aftershocks, the smaller they became.
Xia Xiaoman dusted off his body, put on his backpack, stood up from the ground holding his Tang sword, and planned to leave here and find an uninhabited mountain to stay temporarily.
Before leaving, she told Chen Peiqiong to come to her villa to dig when she had time. She didn't dig out the materials in the villa, so she just left them to Chen Peiqiong as a thank you gift for helping her during the earthquake.
Xia Xiaoman planned to go to the suburbs first, and then look for deep mountains and old forests nearby. According to the route she planned, she would pass by Li Yu'e's community on the way, and she would stop by to see how Li Yu'e and her family were doing.
Shuiyue Bay is relatively close to Jiaqing Square. Along the way, she saw many soldiers moving stones, rescuing people and digging for supplies in the ruins. Among them, there were some ragged people helping out. It was not known whether they were helping voluntarily or came to help in order to earn a meal.
Perhaps because there were many soldiers nearby, those who were looking for food in the ruins saw the eggs and although they were greedy, they did not eat them.
However, Xia Xiaoman saw several people exchanging glances with each other and following her from a distance, probably wanting to wait until there was no one around to take action.
Realizing that there were many people following her, she slowly drew out the Tang sword in her hand and chopped fiercely at the tilted wood next to her. The next second, the wood as thick as a bowl was neatly cut off.
Xia Xiaoman said nothing, looked coldly at the person following behind him, wiped the Tang sword clean and put it into the scabbard.
Some timid people saw this scene and immediately gave up the idea of following and sneaked away. But some people thought Xia Xiaoman was bluffing and were not scared. Instead, they provoked Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman ignored it all. Seeing that some of the people following her were scared away, she turned around and continued on her way.
After walking for more than three hours, there were fewer and fewer soldiers nearby. The people following behind could not wait any longer and quickened their pace, wanting to run to Xia Xiaoman and surround her.
When she was 10 meters away from Xia Xiaoman, she suddenly turned around, and then there was a loud bang. The person closest to Xia Xiaoman fell to the ground instantly, with a lot of blood spreading from his heart.
The others looked at the black pistol in Xia Xiaoman's hand, and they ran away in panic, disappearing completely in the blink of an eye.
Xia Xiaoman put away his pistol, turned around and continued on his way.
Not long after she left, two dusty children quietly poked their heads out from the ruins. Seeing that the man on the ground had not moved for a long time, they walked over carefully and took off the cloth bag from the man.
The older girl among them bravely searched the man's body and found all the daggers and food hidden on him. Only then did the two children leave in a panic.
On the other side, Xia Xiaoman walked for a distance and saw corpses everywhere on the ruins. He guessed that no one came to rescue nearby.
She took out a mask from her bag and put it on, trying to walk around the corpses that were emitting a foul odor.
Suddenly, a skinny woman holding a wooden stick stood in front of Xia Xiaoman.
The woman had chapped lips, dark skin, and a thin face that had lost its shape. She held the stick tightly, looked back at a hungry boy of five or six years old who was catching locusts to eat not far away, gritted her teeth, and shouted hoarsely, "Leave the dog behind..."
Before Xia Xiaoman could say anything, Maodan, sensing the malicious intent, arched his body and bared his teeth.
The woman was very timid. When she saw Maodan baring his teeth, she was so scared that she stepped back repeatedly and could hardly hold the wooden stick in her hand.
Xia Xiaoman frowned and was about to say something when the woman dropped the stick, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, crying, "Please, please give me something to eat... Please, my son, my son is almost starving to death, I beg you..."
Xia Xiaoman frowned tightly. She avoided the direction where the woman was kowtowing and said, "The military has set up a tent over at Jiaqing Square."
After saying this, without waiting for the woman to react, Xia Xiaoman walked around the place where the mother and son were and left.
This place is quite far from Jiaqing Square, and many people have not received any news about the military stationing. Every day they aimlessly search for food in the ruins. As for water...
Along the way, she saw that several wells were controlled by people. If she wanted to draw water, she had to hand over food to them. Without food, people can survive at least 7 days, but without water, they can only survive 3 days. In order to survive, many people had to hand over food.
The wells near Jiaqing Square were fine, with soldiers watching over them, so those people didn't go too far. But in places like this where the military couldn't take care of them for the time being, those people acted like local tyrants, either giving them food or dying of thirst, and sometimes they would even form gangs to rob others of the supplies they had worked so hard to dig out.
Among the group of people who followed her before were these "local tyrants".
Judging from how chapped the woman's lips were, she hadn't had any water for at least two days. If she continued like this, she would either starve to death or die of thirst.
The further she went, the more chaos Xia Xiaoman saw. For a moment, she thought about whether she should tell the higher-ups about the space. With the help of the space, perhaps Fucheng, and even the entire Xia country, would be better off.
But this was just a fleeting thought in her unclear mind.
She couldn't tell the secret of the space to anyone, not even the person she trusted the most.
If the people above knew that she had a space, they might treat her as a guest of honor and satisfy all her needs. But they might also try every means to control her, squeeze everything out of her, or even slice her up and try to study the source of the space.
She only had one life and didn't dare to gamble on that one in five chance.
Moreover, she understood the principle of being guilty of possessing a treasure. Natural disasters were frequent now, and many places needed her space. If the disaster ended one day and the space was no longer needed, her position would become very awkward.
Xia Xiaoman was lost in thought all the way and walked and stopped in the ruins for more than seven hours before he reached the community where Li Yu'e and her family lived.
The community had long since turned into ruins, and a group of people were searching for supplies in the ruins. Looking at the tacit cooperation of the team searching for supplies, it was obvious that they were all in the same group.
Xia Xiaoman walked closer. One of the men who was looking for supplies saw her coming and quickly shouted, "Stop! This is the territory of our Lingxu Gang. If you want to find supplies, look somewhere else!"
Xia Xiaoman stopped and looked at the person who was speaking, and said, "I'm not looking for supplies, I'm looking for people, the leader of your Lingxu Gang."
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