Chapter 379 Neighbors unite
The heart-wrenching screams came in from outside again and again, but Xia Xiaoman remained calm and rearranged the trap.
The next morning, Xia Xiaoman walked out of the yard and swept the white bones covered with teeth marks at the door to the side.
After this period of time, the gate of her house was already full of skeletons. Even so, there were still many people who were not afraid of death and dared to come and rob.
After Xia Xiaoman cleaned up the bones, she turned around and went home. Just as she was about to close the gate, someone outside shouted, "Wait, sister, sister, wait a minute!"
A figure ran over at the corner of the street. When he saw the bones on the ground, he paused, then reacted and said quickly, "Girl, I'm your neighbor who lives across the street from you. My last name is Jiang, and you can call me Lao Jiang."
"Is there something wrong?" Xia Xiaoman looked at the other person coldly and quietly reached his right hand into his pocket.
The other party didn't mind seeing Xia Xiaoman's cold attitude, and smiled and said: "It's like this, too many people have come to rob recently, and several of us nearby have discussed it and decided to unite to fight against the foreign enemies. I wonder if you are interested in joining us."
Xia Xiaoman was about to say that she was not interested, but the other party said, "Teacher Chen who lives next door to you has already joined us. Our team is very united and friendly. Girl, do you want to consider it?"
Old Jiang's attitude was very humble, as if he was begging Xia Xiaoman to join.
Xia Xiaoman thought about it and did not refuse immediately. "I'll think about it first. If I want to join, I'll tell Chen Peiqiong."
"Okay, okay, then I'll wait for your letter. I have something else to do, so I won't bother you for now, bye!" Lao Jiang waved his hand and trotted away.
Xia Xiaoman stared at Lao Jiang's back until he disappeared at the street corner, then she closed the gate.
Back in the yard, Xia Xiaoman checked the traps in the yard, removed the ice from the traps, made sure that each trap could be used flexibly, and then climbed over the wall to Chen Peiqiong's door.
After knocking on the door for a while, Chen Peiqiong's voice came from inside, "Who is it?"
"Sister Pei, it's me."
Chen Peiqiong recognized Xia Xiaoman's voice, opened the door and pulled Xia Xiaoman into the yard. Then she stuck her head out and looked around. Seeing that there was no one there, she closed the door, propped it against the yard door with a wooden stick, and took Xia Xiaoman into the house.
"Why did you come here without a weapon? What if you meet a bad guy?"
Xia Xiaoman said: "I brought it and hid it on my body."
The room was a little hot, Xia Xiaoman took off the scarf around her neck and continued, "Sister Pei, someone just came to me and said that you joined their team. What's going on?"
Chen Peiqiong frowned when she heard this, "Did Lao Jiang come to see you?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded and said, "Well, he said that the neighbors nearby banded together to fight against the foreign enemies, and you joined them."
Chen Peiqiong sighed, "If the neighbors around us are robbed and killed, we will be the next one."
"We all stick together. If someone has problems, we go over to help. Neighbors also take turns standing guard on their own walls. If they find something is happening, they will send out a signal to notify other neighbors."
This kind of group cooperation may not be very effective, but it is better than doing nothing.
Xia Xiaoman said, "It sounds good, but we are not familiar with other neighbors, and we are afraid that someone will suddenly turn against us."
Chen Peiqiong nodded, "Indeed, everyone has this concern, so even though we stick together, we are actually on guard against each other."
After experiencing so many natural and man-made disasters, it is not so easy to trust strangers. Joining forces with strangers to fight against foreign enemies is nothing but mutual exploitation.
"Xiao Man, if you believe in me, just listen to me. Don't stick together with us and stay at home."
When Xia Xiaoman heard what Chen Peiqiong said, she asked in confusion, "Why?"
Chen Peiqiong looked at her with complicated eyes, "You are too strong, the weapons you use and the clothes you wear are too good, and you are carrying a wolf."
"You are not from the same class as us. You wear a fitted and warm rabbit fur coat and boots, while we can only wear ragged clothes and tie a small piece of rabbit skin to our feet as shoes. You use a Tang sword, a crossbow and a pistol to fight the enemy, while we only have blunt machetes, iron rods or even wooden sticks."
"We need to try our best to escape from the hands of those criminals. We have to rack our brains to avoid being targeted by the thugs. And you can handle it with ease every time."
Chen Peiqiong exhaled and continued, "If you join our team, the longer we spend together, the more unbalanced others will become. People's hearts are fickle, and I don't want the neighbors around me to turn their guns against you one day."
Xia Xiaoman was stunned for a long time. She didn't expect Chen Peiqiong to say this so frankly.
"Even if I don't join your team, I'll still make people jealous!"
Chen Peiqiong said, "You're right. Even if you don't join the team, you'll still be envied. But if you don't join the team, others won't be able to figure out your background. Relatively speaking, you'll be safer this way."
She took this into consideration, so when others asked her to persuade Xia Xiaoman to join the team, she refused. Unexpectedly, the team still refused to give up and sent Lao Jiang to find Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman had no intention of joining them, he just wanted to come over and remind Chen Peiqiong to be careful of these people.
"Sister Pei, don't worry! I'm used to being alone and I won't join any team casually."
Chen Peiqiong nodded. Suddenly, she thought of something and asked, "Xiaoman, where did you get the pistol?"
Fearing that Xia Xiaoman might misunderstand, she hastily explained, "I don't mean to meddle in other people's business. It's just that people out there are saying that there is a space user in Lingxu Gang. They say that Lingxu Gang has a lot of good stuff, such as being able to make greenhouse cotton, as well as pistols and bombs. Ordinary people can't have so many things, so they suspect that there is a space user in Lingxu Gang."
"You've been using a pistol a lot recently, and once you even used a submachine gun. I'm worried that someone might be targeting you."
"You also know how tempting spacers are to ordinary people. Once someone suspects you are a spacer, you may face endless enemies."
Xia Xiaoman ignored what Chen Peiqiong said and only grasped one key point, "Sister Pei, what did you just say? Someone suspected that Lingxu Gang had a space user?"
"Yes!" Chen Peiqiong nodded. "The Lingxu Gang has been under siege for four consecutive days. Yesterday, the security team and the Lingxu Gang drove away the besiegers. But I heard from Lao Jiang that someone has gathered a group of people and is preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Lingxu Gang tonight."
In the eyes of most people, spacers are equivalent to an inexhaustible gold mountain. Not to mention those thugs and robbers, even ordinary people are jealous of spacers.
Regardless of whether the information provided by Lingxu to the spaceman is accurate or not, as long as there is a one in ten thousand chance, it will attract countless people to covet it.
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