Chapter 38 Never Suffer Loss
On the floor of the room, various brands of insecticides, chili oil, and toilet disinfectant spray were all neatly placed in rows.
Xia Xiaoman spent a long time looking at the ingredient list and instructions, and selected the ones with the strongest and most pungent smells and mixed them together to make a batch of new anti-wolf spray.
Then I put away the bottles and cans in front of me and replaced them with high-concentration alcohol, glass bottles and cotton. After several experiments, I found the right ratio to make 50 Molotov cocktails.
Looking at the neatly arranged Molotov cocktails, Xia Xiaoman finally felt relieved and his appetite came. He took out the hot dry noodles from the space, cooked and mixed them, added two grilled sausages and a braised egg, and a simple dinner and midnight snack was ready.
The next day before 7 o'clock, the bastards in Building 12 were guarding the building and not allowing anyone to go out. If you want to go out, you have to pay protection money first.
Wen Jianfeng thought about paying the protection fee first and delaying time until the government sent someone, so he prepared food early in the morning.
Others had the same idea and at 7:30 they would carry food and wait in the corridor for people to come.
"Where's Xiaoman? Is she still asleep?" Wen Jianfeng asked.
Sun Qing yawned and said, "I'll go take a look."
Just as I was about to knock on the door, 1504 opened the door and Xia Xiaoman came out dragging two boxes of bottles and cans.
Sun Qing helped her drag a box, "What are all these? People are collecting food, but they may not want these bottles and jars."
"He has to take it even if he doesn't want it. If he dares to snatch my things, I will make him pay for it!" Xia Xiaoman gritted her teeth. She was not a person who was willing to suffer a loss.
Ye Xiaojie saw something and picked up a Molotov cocktail and sniffed it. "Is it liquor? Or alcohol?"
"Both. Light the cotton at the mouth of the bottle and throw it on the ground. The effect is similar to that of a Molotov cocktail."
Xia Xiaoman picked up another bottle and said, "This is the anti-wolf spray I made myself. It contains insecticide, chili oil, and disinfectant. If it gets into someone's eyes, they will either die or be crippled."
"I worked so hard to get my supplies back. I can't just give them away for nothing."
"If you want, join me and kill those bastards."
"It's okay if you don't want to take the risk. I'll go to the 16th floor now. If someone comes, just tell them that I broke up with you and moved to the 16th floor."
"How can this be possible?" Sun Qing was the first to object. "We are a team, we can't just split up and break up."
Xiao Zheyu also echoed: "Yes, Sister Xiaoman. We are on the same team, how can I abandon you so easily?"
Su Ran said, "With Molotov cocktails, we might be able to resist."
Zhou Qiuyang smiled and said, "I have only one life left. You can do whatever you want to me."
Ye Xiaojie was more rational. "We are not sure how many guns they have now, and whether they have other weapons besides guns."
"If you want to deal with them, I suggest you save your strength first. Don't use things like Molotov cocktails yet. Wait until they use pistols, then use Molotov cocktails."
Everyone expressed their opinions except Wen Jianfeng.
Wen Jianfeng was very conflicted. If he was the only one left, it would be fine to risk resistance, but he had children. The twins were still so young, what if something happened...
Xia Xiaoman saw his concerns and said, "Taking risks doesn't necessarily mean you will win. I've thought of a way out. We have a climbing rope. Let's hang it on the balcony first."
"If the momentum goes wrong, we can slide down the climbing rope and dive into the water to escape."
Having already thought of the retreat plan, Wen Jianfeng hesitated for a while and agreed to take the risk with everyone.
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Everyone went home to tie two climbing ropes, so that if someone ran into the wrong house, there would be an extra spare rope.
The protection fee was collected from the lower floors upwards. Because the number of people in each household was unknown, the first time the protection money was collected, the people from Building 12 went door to door to collect it, and at the same time confirmed the number of people to prevent someone from reporting false numbers.
By the time we received the message on the 15th floor, it was already past nine in the morning.
There were seven people who came to Building 3 to collect protection fees, but only three people went up to the 15th floor. Two of them guarded the food downstairs. After receiving the protection fees, they took turns to monitor and force the people who paid the fees to move the food downstairs.
The leader kicked the door and shouted at the top of his voice: "Hey, open the door inside, it's time to collect protection money!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp dagger pierced into his neck. The two people following him widened their eyes, and before they could react, two daggers were stabbed into their chests one after another.
The two men screamed at the same time as they were not killed by the single blow.
The fire door suddenly opened, Ye Xiaojie rushed in front of the two men and slashed their throats with a knife.
Xiao Zheyu and a few others quickly ran out, dragged the three bodies in, and closed the door behind them. They did it in one go, and the whole process took less than five minutes.
About ten minutes later, the two people who had delivered the protection fee climbed up the stairs.
Looking at the empty door, the two became suspicious. They carefully identified the sign on the wall and found that it was indeed the 15th floor, but where did the people go?
Just as they were about to knock on the door to ask if their companion was inside, a dagger and an axe were thrown at their backs at the same time.
There were two more screams like pigs being slaughtered. The people inside the door heard the noise and suddenly opened the fire door.
Ye Xiaojie, who was hiding inside the door, swung the knife forward again, and the two men died before they could react.
Xia Xiaoman, who was hiding in the corner of the 16th floor, asked softly, "There should be no one here. Can we go back now?"
Wen Jianfeng hummed, "Let's go! I estimate that within an hour, people from Building 12 will be sent to besiege us here."
Back on the 15th floor, Xia Xiaoman looked through the five bodies and found that none of them had guns.
Ye Xiaojie nodded. "The people sent to collect protection money are not equipped with guns, which means they don't have a lot of guns."
Xia Xiaoman stood up and said, "I'll go to the balcony and keep an eye on what's going on in Building 12. Xiao Zheyu, you guys throw these bodies out."
Xiao Zheyu responded and moved the body with Su Ran.
The balcony of 1504 faces south, just opposite to Building 12, and you can see the situation on the opposite side clearly with a telescope.
Perhaps they hadn't received the message yet, so there was no movement in Building 12. However, people from other buildings who went out to collect protection fees were loading food onto kayaks one after another, preparing to transport it back to Building 12.
About half an hour later, a seven-seater kayak came out from Building 12 and stopped downstairs of Building 3.
Xia Xiaoman shouted to the back: "Someone is coming, 7 people."
Sun Qing responded and asked everyone to prepare for the battle.
Xia Xiaoman did not go out, but still stood on the balcony staring at Building 12. Seeing that no one was sent out from Building 12, she put down the telescope and went to the corridor.
"Some of these seven people may have guns, otherwise they wouldn't have sent so few people over. Everyone be careful."
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