In the midst of the storm, the faint voices of several men could be heard in the living room: "Brother Zhang is really amazing. You opened the double security door of Room 502, which is so difficult to pry open. You are worthy of being Brother Zhang!"
"Stop flattering me and tie them up!" The man called Brother Zhang said in a rough voice, "Damn it, I finally escaped death, and I have been hungry for three days downstairs. I asked the people in this building for food, but no one gave me anything. They said they didn't have enough food, so it was impossible for them to give me anything. Since they don't know how to appreciate it, I won't be polite. I won't give them food, so I'll pry open the doors of every house and tie up those who dare to resist. Let's see how much food they can have."
There was a rustling noise coming from the living room. It should be the men outside tying up Miss Lu.
Miss Lu made no sound or resistance, and no one knew whether she was dead or alive.
Soon those people were searching for supplies outside. Maybe it was because the noise was too loud or they didn't know the situation at Miss Lu's house, but they didn't find anything to eat in the living room and kitchen, so they ran to the master bedroom to find food. Unexpectedly, they woke up the old man who was usually dazed.
The old man suddenly regained consciousness at this moment, and found that he did not recognize them. He uttered a trembling cry of extreme fear: "Who are you? Where did Yanmei go?"
Without waiting for those people to answer, he suddenly shouted: "Yanmei! Our house has been robbed, where are you?! Yanmei! A thief is coming in!"
His voice was so loud that it could be heard far away in the dark. Si Nan felt something was wrong and immediately opened the door and rushed out with a crossbow in hand, but it was too late.
A scream came from the master bedroom, followed by several gasps of fear: "Zhang, Brother Zhang, you, you actually killed someone!"
"It was just a momentary mistake. There's no need to make a fuss."
Brother Zhang pulled out the knife that had cut the old man's throat, wiped the blood that splattered on his face, wiped the bloody knife on the old man's clothes with disgust, and said indifferently: "Don't worry, the outside world is in chaos now. According to the doomsday warning on a forum half a year ago, this hailstorm will be followed by continuous heavy rain. It will last for a long time and the rain will flood the high floors. At this time, the government and the police are busy with disaster relief and have no time to deal with crimes. It has been in chaos during this period. If two more people die, they will not be able to catch the murderer."
This person actually read the doomsday warning post! Standing by the door of the master bedroom, Si Nan secretly looked inside, his pupils shrank sharply, and he suddenly felt that it was a mistake to warn the world in the first place.
She thought that issuing natural disaster warnings online and blurring the specific time and duration of the disaster would alert people and the national government and lead them to stockpile more supplies and avoid disasters.
However, they did not expect that criminals would also pay attention to these things, and after proving that the doomsday prophecy was true, they began to act fearlessly and do whatever they wanted!
In the master bedroom, Brother Zhang was still in a state of impotence and rage. He asked his accomplices to kill the old lady who had seen her husband being killed in bed and had been sobbing all the time. Then he instructed them to move the body to the puddles outside when it was dark and hit it with hailstones a few more times so that no one would know that they had committed the murder.
Si Nan was horrified when she heard this outside. She knew that human nature was evil, but she didn't expect some people to be so evil. The country's laws haven't collapsed yet, yet they dared to kill people and dump bodies. These people are simply lawless!
In that case, don't blame her for being ruthless!
Taking a deep breath, Si Nan aimed the crossbow with the loaded arrow in her hand at a man with his back to her and pulled the trigger.
"Puff--" the iron arrow flew out of the air, and Brother Zhang felt something hit his back and pierced his left chest. He screamed in pain, and collapsed to the ground, holding his chest and wailing.
"Who is it?!" The other three men in the room, aged between 20 and 40, shone their flashlights towards the door in panic and saw a slender and pretty woman standing at the door holding a uniquely shaped crossbow.
She stepped on the body of Brother Zhang who was rolling on the ground in pain and walked into the room. Her black hair was casually disheveled and her eyes were as cold as a knife, piercing everyone present. Without saying a word, she calmly raised the crossbow in her hand, aimed at the left chest of the three of them, and fired three shots in a row.
The three of them widened their eyes and tried to dodge, but the iron arrows were shot at an extremely fast speed, and the opponent seemed to have predicted their actions. Even if they subconsciously dodged, the iron arrows still hit their left chest. Although it was a little far away from the heart and would not be fatal, the severe pain made them, like Brother Zhang, collapse to the ground, holding their chests and screaming.
This move was taught to Si Nan by Cheng Su Ming. He is a surgeon and knows exactly where an iron arrow can hit a person without killing him but making his life worse than death. For this reason, Si Nan has been practicing accurate organ shooting on the human skeleton that Cheng Su Ming bought for her.
The three of them were shocked that this seemingly weak woman actually hid such a powerful weapon and attacked so ruthlessly and accurately. They couldn't help but regret having underestimated her.
The reason why they followed this man who called himself Brother Zhang, but was actually a thief, and was robbing every household in an apartment building, was mainly because they saw that Lv Yanmei from 502 had taken in this woman three days ago.
They sought help from Lv Yanmei, but she refused, saying that her house was too full to accommodate them and she didn't have much food to eat, so she couldn't help them. Others also found various excuses to decline, forcing them to rely on rainwater from outside to fill their stomachs for the next three days.
Later, they were so hungry that they couldn't bear it anymore. Brother Zhang said that he was familiar with the community and could pry open the houses in the apartment buildings at will. They were tempted and agreed to cooperate with him.
Perhaps because everyone received very little supplies, they only found a little food and drink after prying open several doors, which was not enough to fill their stomachs.
During the robbery, there were people who resisted fiercely. They simply went all out and knocked out all the resisters, tied them up with whatever weapons were available, and then moved on to the next house until they reached 502.
Because Lv Yanmei had to get up repeatedly at night to take care of two elderly people and help them drink water and go to the toilet, she had a very light sleep. When she heard the noise of the door being pried open, she wanted to wake up Si Nan. However, Brother Zhang pried the door open as quickly as possible and hit her directly on the head with a club. Lv Yanmei shouted for help before she fainted.
At this time, Si Nan was taking out five iron arrows from the pocket of his down jacket, slowly and leisurely arranged the crossbow, aiming the arrows at them, as if he was going to continue to finish them off.
Although the three did not believe that she would kill them, they were still frightened by her fierceness in shooting arrows at them without saying a word, and they shouted, "Beauty, we were wrong, don't kill us, don't kill us!"
"We were forced into this situation. We had no food and were starving for three days without being able to leave. Brother Zhang instigated us to steal. We were just helping out and didn't hurt anyone!"
"Yes! It was all done by Brother Zhang. He is the mastermind and murderer. It has nothing to do with us!"
Brother Zhang was originally in so much pain that he was half dead. When he heard this, he looked at the three people with murderous eyes. He didn't know where he got the strength from, but he endured the severe pain and climbed up from the ground, raised the knife in his hand and stabbed Si Nan's back fiercely.
Si Nan heard the movement behind him and calmly squatted down to avoid Brother Zhang's fatal blow. At the same time, he half-crouched and turned around on the spot, and swept Brother Zhang's legs directly with his right leg.
Zhang, who was already injured and unstable, was knocked to the ground by her strength. She took the opportunity to jump up and stepped on Zhang's injured left chest, crushed it twice, poured some chili powder into his eyes, and said with contempt: "You dare to resist when you are about to die. Do you think everyone is a soft persimmon for you to control?"
"Ahhh——!" Brother Zhang's tears were streaming down his face due to the spiciness of the chili powder, and he kept screaming, but he didn't reach out to wipe his eyes. Instead, he still fearlessly grabbed around with his hands, trying to hit Si Nan in the face.
Si Nan laughed angrily, picked up the wrist-thick rolling pin that fell beside Brother Zhang when he was attacked by her, and hit Brother Zhang's head hard!
With a sharp and tooth-grinding bang, Brother Zhang, who was making a fuss, rolled his eyes and fainted.
The other three people in the room looked at Si Nan's series of actions in astonishment. At this moment, they understood that they had met an evil star. They did not expect that this woman who looked weak and easy to bully was actually trained. Even Brother Zhang, a ruthless person who killed people without blinking an eye, was defeated by her. If they wanted to save their lives, they could only obey her.
Si Nan tied up the three men and did not forget to pull out the iron arrows that shot into their bodies. The three men began to howl like ghosts and wolves again.
According to the current trend of natural disasters, social order will become more and more chaotic, with more and more criminal acts, and there will be more and more times when crossbows and shooting will be needed.
Every time an iron arrow is shot, there is one less. If you have the ability to retrieve the iron arrows, you should naturally find a way to retrieve them. Otherwise, if you just shoot them all and don't care, the iron arrows will eventually run out.
After pulling the last iron arrow out of Brother Zhang's body, Brother Zhang groaned, his consciousness was still scattered and there was no sign of waking up.
Si Nan wiped the bloodstained iron arrow on his clothes with disgust, and threw the arrow and the crossbow into the air. He glanced at the old man lying in a pool of blood, then looked at the old lady lying on the bed with her eyes wide open, as if she was too frightened and had no breath. He sighed in his heart, bowed deeply to them, and turned to wake up Lu Yanmei in the living room.
Lu Yanmei staggered into the master bedroom, and soon there were sounds of screaming and crying.
Si Nan did not try to comfort Lu Yanmei, but instead briefly told the upstairs neighbors who came over after hearing the noise what had happened.
Some of the neighbors upstairs who were familiar with Lv Yanmei came in to comfort her and help her deal with the funeral arrangements for her two families. Some followed Si Nan downstairs and rescued the neighbors downstairs who had been robbed.
After doing all this, Si Nan returned to the small room, closed the door, took out a bowl of tofu pudding and a portion of steamed dumplings from the space, sat on the bed and started eating.
The tofu pudding is a takeaway bought from a famous street snack shop in Xingcheng. It is the salty tofu pudding that everyone here likes to eat. It is added with chili oil, pepper powder, kohlrabi grains, crispy soybean grains, soy sauce, chopped green onion and vinegar. It looks white and tender with a hint of red and green, fresh, fragrant and spicy, and just the smell will increase your appetite.
The xiaolongbao were also bought from a famous street-side bun shop in Xingcheng. They were very small, about the size of pigeon eggs, with thin skin and lots of fillings.
The price is not expensive, a serving of six is only five dollars, and you can choose a combination of different flavors.
Sinan took two of his favorite bean sprouts and meat filling, pure pork filling, and beef filling and combined them into one portion. He bought thousands of portions and put them in his space. They were still hot when he took them out.
Just pick up a Xiaolongbao and put it in your mouth. The meat is fresh and delicious, and the noodles are rich and fragrant. The Xiaolongbao is neither too big nor too small, just the right size for one bite. It is so delicious.
After eating and drinking, Sinan lay on the bed, took out his mobile phone, and checked for new messages or calls while waiting for dawn.
At about six o'clock, it was already light. After a night of torture, the people in the unit went out one after another and found that the hail had stopped, but the heavy rain was still going on. The water level downstairs was getting higher and higher, already flooding the first floor, and there was a trend of rising to the second floor. Everyone couldn't help but panic.
Some people were worried about their relatives and friends and could not contact them. They wanted to go out to find them, but were afraid that the water was too deep and that electric wires might fall and they would get electrocuted. So they stood at the stairs on the second floor, hesitating.
Some people can swim and want to go back home, or are worried about their relatives and friends, so they jump directly into the water and move towards their destination.
Some people stayed where they were, waiting for rescue by government forces.
The staircase to the second floor was crowded with people.
Sinan took out five kilograms of old rice that the government had previously distributed from the space, put two fist-sized sweet potatoes into the bag, opened the door, and walked into the living room.
Lu Yanmei was sitting on a stool in the living room, looking at the bodies of her parents-in-law, who were covered with white cloth, with a dazed expression on her face, and no one knew what she was thinking.
Si Nan placed rice and sweet potatoes on the coffee table next to her and said to her, "Miss Lu, please accept my condolences. The hail has stopped. I am going to find my friend. Thank you for taking me in and taking care of me for the past three days. This little bit of food is a token of my gratitude. I am leaving now."
"My girl, you are leaving now. I will see you off." A glimmer of light returned to Miss Lu's eyes, and she stood up to see Si Nan off.
Si Nan held her down and said, "Miss Lu, you don't need to see me off. I see that the rain is still falling and the water is rising. If a rescue team from a government department comes to rescue you, Miss Lu, you'd better follow them to a higher place to hide. Don't be reluctant to leave home and stay here. If there is a major flood in the future, you will die if you stay here. Do you understand?"
I don’t know if Miss Lu heard it or not, she nodded numbly, “I understand, thank you for the food.”
Si Nan went downstairs carrying his backpack. When he reached the stairs to the second floor, the people gathered at the stairs knew that the thieves yesterday were dealt with by the woman in front of them. They looked at her up and down with various eyes, including curiosity, admiration, and confusion.
Si Nan squeezed through the crowd with an expressionless face, and stood at the stairs to estimate the water level. The water depth was about three meters, not too deep. She had water transportation tools such as speedboats and inflatable boats in her space, but these things were rarely used in Xingcheng, which is an inland city. It was impossible for her to take out these things out of thin air and expose herself in public.
So she moved all the things in the bag to the space without telling anyone, took out a few dirty clothes from the space, and stuffed them into the bag pretending to be supplies to make the bag look less shriveled.
Then she put on her backpack, jumped into the water, and swam towards a sparsely populated small park near the Xingfu community.
Xingcheng has been restricting electricity since the second month of the high temperature, and power supply was only provided at night. Now the city is flooded, and the power supply department cannot be so foresighted as to provide power at this time. Therefore, when swimming in the water at this time, there is no need to worry about the electric wires falling into the water and the risk of being electrocuted by water.
Sinan grew up in a small town by a river. She taught herself to swim since she was a child and her swimming skills are pretty good. As long as she doesn't encounter a fast-flowing manhole cover or a sewer, this depth of water is no problem for her.
She swam out of the community quickly, and the streets outside had already turned into a vast ocean.
The water was extremely turbid, with all kinds of garbage floating on it, including collapsed building materials, daily necessities, garbage bags, beverage bottles, various vehicles, and pieces of corpses that floated on the surface of the water and had horrible faces...
The water level was still rising rapidly, and the heavy rain hit his face like beans, coming down quickly and fiercely. The strong wind blew up garbage and hit him from time to time, making Si Nan, who was swimming in the water, extremely uncomfortable.
Fortunately, there was a small park opposite the Xingfu Community. Sinan swam in despite the rain and found a place among several half-submerged large trees that could block the view. After making sure that no one was watching, he took out an orange inflatable raft that had been inflated in advance from the space and climbed up with great effort.
She lay on the raft to catch her breath, quickly wiped the rain off her face, took out a raincoat from the space and put it on, took the oars, and against the wind and rain, she rowed towards the route of the Shenxianyuan community in her memory based on the features of the surrounding buildings.
Along the way, she tried her best to avoid broken branches, construction equipment and other sharp objects floating on the water to prevent the raft from being scratched.
Even so, there were still a lot of debris hitting her. While cleaning up the large garbage, she looked in the water to see if there was anything suitable for her.
For example, she would throw intact buckets, iron basins, iron pots, plastic frames and the like into a corner away from supplies when no one was around, and take them out for cleaning and disinfection when she had the chance.
When there were people around, they put them on the raft and it was soon filled to the brim.
They rowed and picked up items along the way. Apart from occasionally seeing people leaning on the windows of buildings to look out of the situation, and some injured people standing at the stairs on the lower floor waiting for rescue, there were very few people who could row or swim on the water.
Sinan was rowing alone in the huge city, feeling like he was gliding in a famous water city abroad, and for no reason he felt lonely.
Many people saw her paddling the raft alone and thought she was from the rescue team, so they waved to her for help.
Every time she took off her rain hat, revealing her pale face from being soaked and frozen, she told passers-by coldly that she was not part of the rescue team, her raft was her own, and she was unwilling to take anyone on the raft.
After walking and stopping for nearly an hour, when she was almost at the Shenxianyuan community, she finally saw the real rescue team.
The kayaks were filled with people wearing orange life jackets and firefighters rowing the kayaks.
People huddled together holding umbrellas and squeezed into small kayaks, moving towards the hospital or higher floors.
There were also very fast motorboats shuttling across the water, filled with seriously injured people, pregnant women, the elderly, and children.
Among a group of rescue kayaks full of people, Sinan was obviously an outlier as he was paddling a raft filled with all kinds of miscellaneous items alone.
She ignored the hesitant looks of the firefighters and went straight to Building 14 of Shenxianyuan.
The water level had risen a little bit at this time. Many people who wanted to go out were standing on the second floor of Building 14. When they saw Sinan appear, someone who knew her called out to her, "Mrs. Cheng, you're back? Oh, you came back at such a bad time. Your husband was just taken away by the rescue team. They asked him to help with the emergency. He came downstairs every day these days to see if you were back. We were all worried about him."
"That's really not a coincidence." Si Nan felt strange, a little touched but also a little unbelievable. He felt that a cruel and ruthless person like Cheng Su Ming would not do such a thing as the Wife-Looking Stone.
While she was stopping here, someone asked to borrow her raft. She readily asked people to help her move the debris on the raft upstairs, and then asked everyone to discuss a time to row out and come back before dark.
"Sister-in-law, you're back?" Cheng Wei heard the noise next door. She opened the door and saw Si Nan standing outside 1501 wearing a raincoat. She excitedly rushed over and took her hand, looking her up and down and said, "Sister-in-law, are you okay? My brother and I were so worried about you during the few days you were away."
"I'm fine." Si Nan patted her hand and said softly, "I've been hiding in my aunt's house in an old residential area these days. I have food and drinks in my backpack. Luckily, I borrowed an inflatable raft to go home. Nothing's wrong. You don't have to worry."
Only then did Cheng Wei notice the various sundries being carried up into the corridor, and her eyes became complicated.
Si Nan told her briefly and clearly what had happened in the past three days. She was surprised to learn that Cheng Suming had gone out to look for her, and that he had agreed to go with the rescue team to provide first aid. He might not be back until the evening.
On the one hand, she didn't expect Cheng Su Ming to do this for her, on the other hand, she felt that she was not determined enough and should learn from Cheng Su Ming and paddle the raft to find Gao Moli and the others.
However, with Sheng Youqing, who is always very opinionated, by her side, Si Nan believes that they must have been hiding in a safe place for the past three days. She plans to wait for Cheng Suming to come back, and then go out on a raft with Cheng Suming tomorrow to find Sheng Youqing and the other two.
While they were chatting, Yang Wentao, who was very strong, helped move the sundries in the corridor into Room 1501.
Si Nanwan declined Cheng Wei's offer to help her pack her things, closed the door, sat on the sofa, took off her raincoat and wet clothes, changed into a clean, soft and warm autumn outfit, and a light red down jacket, took out a few cold medicines from the space to prevent colds, and went to the kitchen to boil a bowl of ginger soup and drank it. Only then did she feel that her limbs, which were stiff from the cold, were much more comfortable.
After being trapped outside for three days without taking a shower and swimming in bacteria-filled water for half a day, she felt that she stank, so she took out a few extra-large water barrels that had been used to store tap water from the space and went to the balcony, intending to put them under the awning that had a big hole burned by the fire, so as to collect more rain water for bathing.
Unexpectedly, when she walked to the balcony, she found several buckets, pots, pans, etc. filled with rainwater placed under the hole. It looked like Cheng Suming's masterpiece.
During the three days she was away, Cheng Suming probably didn't have enough water, so he used everything in the house that could hold water.
Fortunately, she put a lot of food in the small bedroom before she went out, otherwise Cheng Suming would go to room 1503 next door to get some food, and he would have to face the face of his future brother-in-law, whom he hated.
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