Chapter 37: It is better to rely on yourself than on others
Xia Xiaoman didn't want to leave the community.
It is not easy to find a good place to live. They have lived on this floor for so long, and the doors and windows have all been installed. She is unwilling to leave just like that.
Wen Jianfeng was unwilling to give in. "I suggest you stay. The danger level outside is not necessarily lower than in the community. And we can't find a better place to live than here."
Zhou Qiuyang said, "I don't want to leave either. I finally settled down here, it would be a shame to leave."
Sun Qing sighed and said, "But it's very dangerous to stay. Everyone in our building knows that we have a lot of supplies. If they go out and tell others, the people in Building 12 will definitely come looking for us."
Su Ran did not make any choice. "I will listen to you. If you say to stay, then I will stay. If you want to leave, I will leave with you."
Ye Xiaojie asked, "Why don't we seek help from professionals?"
"What do you mean?" Zhou Qiuyang asked.
Sun Qing's eyes lit up, "Xiao Jie, do you mean for us to ask for help from the search and rescue team?"
Ye Xiaojie nodded. "The search and rescue personnel may not care about other issues, but they will definitely report things like guns and send people to deal with them."
The Xia Kingdom has very strict control over guns. Although social order has collapsed now, in order to prevent certain forces from forming cliques and fighting against the government, they will definitely send people to encircle and recover the guns.
Xia Xiaoman said: "Then let's make preparations on both ends."
"I hid some emergency supplies outside. If an emergency occurs and we have to leave the community behind, at least we still have some emergency supplies."
"When I go out to hide the supplies, I will notify the search and rescue personnel. You guys stay at home and think of ways to increase the defense line on the 15th floor."
Wen Jianfeng nodded, "Okay, I'll pack the emergency kit for you now."
Others also expressed their agreement with Xia Xiaoman's arrangement.
20 minutes later, Xia Xiaoman went out with six emergency kits.
We moved some distance away from the community, found a secluded place, threw the emergency kit into the space, and rowed directly to the rescue point.
When they reached a bend, a thick rope suddenly emerged from the water and the kayak was overturned. Xia Xiaoman's eyes blurred and she sank into the water.
"Taozi, go and pull the boat over here!"
"Damn, empty ship, nothing."
"It would be nice to get a kayak, so stop dawdling and get me the kayak."
"OK!!"
The man named Taozi had just touched the kayak when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower back and a little bit of bright red rose from the water.
Before Taozi could react, he felt another sharp pain, this time in his left lower back.
Blood gushed out of his body and quickly mixed with the sewage. Taozi was in so much pain that he couldn't move. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead and he felt dizzy.
The scene before falling into darkness was a rapidly spinning axe stuck in the boss' neck, with the boss dying with his eyes open.
Xia Xiaoman swam ashore, pulled up the axe, looked around, and seeing that there was no one around, he folded up the kayak, found a corner, took out water from the space, took a shower, and changed his clothes.
In special times, you have to be careful. If parasites enter your body, it will be no joke.
We continued rowing and it was already past six in the afternoon when we reached the rescue point, and it was completely dark.
After finding the search and rescue personnel, Xia Xiaoman briefly described the shooting and murder in Building 12. The search and rescue personnel left a detailed address and promised to report it to their superiors.
As to whether the superiors will arrange people to deal with it and when they will arrange people to deal with it, the search and rescue personnel were unable to give a clear answer.
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When I got back to the community, it was almost eight o'clock.
As soon as he entered the community, Xia Xiaoman felt something was wrong.
It's too quiet.
It is dinner time at this time. In a normal community, there will be a bit of fireworks, faint lights coming out of the windows, and you can vaguely hear other people's daily conversations.
But tonight, only three or five windows in a building were flickering with light, and no sound could be heard at all.
Xia Xiaoman turned off the lights, carefully rowed back to Building 3, put away the kayak, and slowly climbed up to the 15th floor on tiptoe.
I didn't dare knock on the door too loudly. I knocked four or five times in a secret rhythm before the person inside could hear me.
"Xiao Man, are you back?"
Sun Qing's voice came from inside, and Xia Xiaoman lowered her voice and replied, "It's me, Sun Qing, please open the door."
Sun Qing opened the door only after making sure that the person outside was her own.
"You didn't meet any strangers on your way back?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head, "No. What happened during the time I was away? Why is the community so quiet?"
"How can it not be quiet? Building 12 sent people to every building, saying that they are now protecting the community. If you want to continue living in the community, you have to pay protection fees, 30 kilograms of food per person."
Xia Xiaoman asked, "So I don't have to pay if I pay 30 kilograms?"
"You wish. 30 kilograms is one month's protection fee. After one month, you have to pay another 30 kilograms. If you don't pay, we will kick you out of the community."
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "This is too overbearing. Is there no one in the community resisting?"
Sun Qing nodded, "Yes! The old, weak and disabled person downstairs who stole our wood a few days ago, heard that they had to hand over 30 kilograms of food, and they threw a tantrum and pretended to be pitiful. They used all kinds of tricks. As a result, the legs of two elderly people were broken, the child fell on his head, and the woman was bullied in turns."
"Others, when they see this situation, how dare they resist?"
Xia Xiaoman sighed, "So they didn't find us?"
"We searched every household in the community, and when they found us, it was the coach who sent them away."
Sun Qing was worried, "Tomorrow they will come to collect the grain. 30 kilograms of grain, it hurts just thinking about it."
"How about we leave tonight?"
Sun Qing shook her head. "We can't leave. Those bastards have people stationed in every building. If anyone leaves, they will find out immediately."
Xia Xiaoman was surprised. "Is there anyone stationed in the building? I didn't see any when I came up."
"I guess he's hiding it!"
Sun Qing said thankfully: "Luckily you left early. If you were a step later, you might have been stopped and wouldn't have been able to tell the search and rescue personnel about this group of people."
Xia Xiaoman didn't care. "It doesn't matter if we're stopped. At worst, we can go find the rescue team tomorrow when we go out to salvage supplies."
"That's true, but it's better to tell the search and rescue personnel as early as possible so that they can be prepared."
After exchanging messages with Sun Qing, Xia Xiaoman returned home and lay exhausted on the inflatable mattress.
Judging from the attitude of the search and rescue personnel today, it is uncertain whether anyone will come to deal with the group of people in Building 12.
It is better to rely on yourself than on others. He used his consciousness to search for supplies in the space, took out a bunch of things, and planned to make some weapons with greater lethality.
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