Chapter 9 Breaking into the House
"I'm not letting you break into my house! If you dare to steal my supplies, I'll kill you!"
"Steal! Why don't you steal anymore? Weren't you very brave just now? You even said you were going to kill us, why don't you do it anymore? Don't you have the courage to kill us?"
Sun Qing's loud voice came through the door into Xia Xiaoman's ears, accompanied by unfamiliar screams.
Xia Xiaoman put the pile of heavy objects blocking the door into the space and squinted to look out through the peephole.
The five men were tied up tightly with ropes and kneeled in the corner of the corridor. Sun Qing paced back and forth with a flashlight in one hand and a stick in the other, occasionally hitting one of them with the stick.
Xia Xiaoman opened the door and asked, "Sun Qing, what's going on?"
Sun Qing turned her head and looked over. "Did I wake you up?"
"Just now these guys broke into my house and stole something, but Xiaojie knocked them down in one go. I was just trying to teach them not to steal things."
After closing the door, I walked closer to take a look. The five thieves were all residents on the sixth floor. They all had bruised faces and noses, and they kept their heads down and didn't say a word.
Xia Xiaoman glanced at her and asked, "Where's Xiaojie?"
Sun Qing pointed to the back and said, "Help Zhou Qiuyang treat his wound in the room."
These five little thieves originally wanted to steal from Xia Xiaoman's house.
Xia Xiaoman lived alone, so it was relatively easier to pick the door. But they didn't expect that the door lock of Xia Xiaoman's house was so difficult to pick.
I finally pried the lock open, but the door seemed to be blocked by something from behind and couldn't be pushed open.
As a second choice, they chose to steal from Sun Qing's house.
The lock of Sun Qing's house was violently dismantled once and could be pried open in just a few moves.
But they didn't expect that Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie would put a glass behind the door. The moment the door was pushed open, the glass fell to the ground with a crisp breaking sound.
Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie were awakened instantly. They cooperated well and subdued the five men in a few minutes.
Zhou Qiuyang, who lived next door, heard the noise and came over to help, but Ye Xiaojie mistook him for a thief, so she grabbed his hair and smashed him against the corner of the table, breaking the skin on his forehead and leaving his face covered in blood.
When Xia Xiaoman entered the room, she saw Ye Xiaojie bandaging Zhou Qiuyang's wound with a guilty look on her face.
"You didn't get a concussion, did you?"
Seeing Xia Xiaoman's gloating expression, Zhou Qiuyang said unhappily, "No, it's just a little skin broken."
Xia Xiaoman laughed unkindly, "You are so useless! Not only did you fail to help, but you were also defeated by Xiaojie in one move."
"It was because I didn't see clearly that I accidentally hurt Zhou Qiuyang." Ye Xiaojie felt guilty.
"How can anyone see clearly in the dark?" Xia Xiaoman consoled her and asked tentatively, "Xiaojie, is Sanda easy to learn?"
Ye Xiaojie was stunned for a moment, "It's okay, I just need to practice more."
"Can you teach me? I want to learn some self-defense techniques." She had great brute force, but she didn't know how to use it to its full potential.
Judging from the attitudes of those people in the building today, it can be seen that society is not safe now, at least their building is not safe.
The number of fights might increase gradually in the future. She had to be fully prepared before that. That way, even if she couldn't win, she would at least be able to escape.
Ye Xiaojie nodded, "Sure, I've been teaching Ah Qing martial arts these past two days. If you're interested, you can come and learn with me."
Zhou Qiuyang: "Then I'll learn together!"
Sun Qing, who had just come in, heard this and asked casually, "What are you learning?"
Xia Xiaoman smiled and said, "We have agreed with Xiaojie that we will start learning Sanda with her tomorrow."
"That's good. Finally I'm not the only one suffering."
She took two sips of water and continued, "Hey, those thieves just said that the rescue team didn't come today and there was nothing to eat at home, so they came to steal things."
"Analyze this for yourself. Why didn't the rescue team come today?"
"Maybe he was delayed by something!" Zhou Qiuyang said, "I saw on the Internet that a large tsunami occurred in the coastal area and many people were swept away by the sea."
"Our city is not too far from the coastal areas. Maybe the rescue team went to the coastal areas for support and was short of manpower, so they didn't come today."
"Wait, wait." Sun Qing gestured to stop. "You said you saw it online? Is there still electricity in your house?"
Zhou Qiuyang nodded, "I have batteries at home."
"You have batteries at home!?" Sun Qing was so excited that she almost screamed.
Zhou Qiuyang smiled and nodded again.
He has been delivering food for a long time, and there is no place to charge his electric car in the community, so every day he has to remove the battery of his electric car and take it home to charge it.
For convenience, he bought a few spare batteries so that if he forgot to charge them, he could just use the spare batteries.
After the community lost power, he made some modifications and used these batteries to charge mobile phones, or connect them to an electric kettle to boil water for instant noodles.
Sun Qing's eyes were almost bulging with envy. "Brother, Brother Yang, can you borrow some electricity from your house to help me charge my phone?"
"No problem, I'll get you a battery later." He turned his head to look at Xia Xiaoman, "Do you want one? I have some at home."
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "I don't want you for nothing, I'll get you some dried toast later."
Every day when the bakery makes sandwiches, there is a lot of leftover toast edges, and the shop will dry the toast edges and sell them. But not many people buy them, and she takes most of them home.
If the edges of the dried toast are well sealed, it can be kept for at least three months without going bad.
Zhou Qiuyang did not refuse. He did not have the habit of hoarding food at home. He had already finished the instant noodles given to him by the rescue team. What he lacked most at the moment was food.
One bag of toast is enough for an adult to have a full meal. Xia Xiaoman used five bags of toast to exchange for a battery and went home.
When I woke up in the morning, I turned on my fully charged phone and the ding-dong sound of message push notifications rang out.
A weak signal is like a dying person, breathing in more than out. I clicked on a piece of news and waited for a long time before the content slowly appeared. Pictures and videos could not be loaded at all.
There are floods everywhere in the south, and natural disasters are constantly occurring in the north.
A magnitude 9 earthquake struck an island country surrounded by sea water. The island was instantly torn into pieces, as if torn apart by an invisible giant hand.
At the same time, the volcano on the island erupted uncontrollably.
Flames shot up into the sky, thick smoke billowed, lava gushed out like a fire dragon, and the blazing flames lit up the entire sky. Volcanic ash filled the air, blocking out the sun and bringing an even more devastating blow to the already shattered island.
But then came the huge tsunami caused by the earthquake.
The tsunami was like a ferocious beast, sweeping in at an alarming speed and swallowing up the island in the blink of an eye.
The satellite image, which took five minutes to load, showed that the location of the island nation had become a vast ocean...
The coastal areas of Xia Country close to the island country were all affected by aftershocks and tsunamis...
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