Si Nan listened to every word they said outside and was secretly surprised. She said that there had been more and more home break-ins in Shenxian Garden recently. People's screams could often be heard in the middle of the night. Later, she heard others say that someone's house was robbed and the people inside were killed. The police came to the house but could not find the murderer.
After the water level continued to remain at a height of ten stories and did not recede, there were countless cases of home robberies and murders. The murderers were usually extremely cruel and would not only rob all the supplies, but also kill the people and throw the bodies into the water to destroy all evidence.
With the whole world in chaos, it is really difficult for the police with insufficient police force to find the murderer.
Because of this, many families in Shenxian Garden moved away one after another, and those who stayed behind basically had a certain ability to protect themselves, or they united together and hired bodyguards to deal with those rampant bandits.
No one would have thought that Wu En, who served the people and seemed to be fair and just, and was also one of the residents of Shenxian Garden, would actually collude with those bandits and kill those people who had sufficient supplies without anyone knowing, under the pretext of delivering supplies to their homes.
Wu En even wanted to bring the residents of Building 14 together to rob his fellow thieves, but he didn't expect to fail.
As expected, under the successive natural disasters, as national governments are increasingly unable to control their citizens and order gradually collapses, the darkness in the human heart is growing and being released in large quantities.
Si Nan felt cold all over, having already anticipated the future natural disaster and doomsday. In order to survive, people would have to do many things that violated the bottom line of morality.
And she wasn't sure she would be one of them.
There were intermittent sounds of beatings on the 14th floor. The two stood at the emergency staircase and listened for a while. Si Nan asked Cheng Su Ming in a low voice: "What should we do now?"
"Go upstairs." Cheng Suming pointed upstairs, "We are here to pick up bargains."
The two men tiptoed up to the 15th floor. A large iron door was welded at the entrance of the safety staircase on this floor, leaving only a small door for entry and exit. The entrance was filled with tables, chairs and benches as a cover.
These gangsters were still wary, fearing that someone would rob them or that they would be retaliated against, so they built this iron gate to prevent sneak attacks.
However, man proposes, God disposes. That gang probably didn't expect Wu En to turn against them and bring people to attack them. In a hurry, they all went to the 14th floor, which gave Si Nan and the other two a chance to take advantage of the situation.
The two walked in through the open small iron door. Most of the shops near the entrance were empty, but in the central area, several rechargeable light bulbs were on, illuminating the three shops filled with various supplies very clearly.
Si Nan was startled and strode over. She found that the sliding glass doors of the three shops were all locked. And from the other two shops next to these three shops, she could faintly hear women's groaning. She was alarmed and picked up a crossbow to check.
"Don't worry." Cheng Suming stopped her and whispered in her ear through a heavy gas mask: "The doors of the two shops are locked. They must have been locked before the gang left. If I'm not mistaken, the two shops are filled with women who were abducted or forcibly captured by the gang. We'd better move out the supplies next door before considering whether to take care of these women."
"You're right. If I save those women first, I won't be able to move the supplies into the space in front of them. Please open the door."
She didn't know where Cheng Suming learned the skill of opening doors like a thief, so in order not to alert the enemy, she had to ask him to do it.
Cheng Suming took out a thin wire from his bag and fiddled with the iron lock on the handle of the transparent glass door with signs of three shops selling milk tea and fast food restaurants. Soon, it opened with a sound. He carefully placed the iron lock on the ground to avoid making any noise and alerting the people downstairs.
Sinan walked into the first shop that was opened, which was filled with box after box of snacks, such as various kinds of biscuits, bread, egg yolk rolls, Swiss rolls, chocolate, sausages, various bags of spicy gluten, bags of ready-to-eat chicken and duck legs, chicken wings and so on. The stacks filled up half of the shop, and it was estimated that there were no less than a hundred boxes. This shop alone was enough for a person to have enough food for half his life.
I don’t know how many residents that gang robbed and how many people they killed to have so many supplies stored here.
No wonder Wu En wanted to rob the robbers. The supplies in this room alone are enough to make people want to move, not to mention the other two.
Sinan unceremoniously used his mind to move the boxes of snacks into the space, sorted them in the snack area, and then went to the second and third stores to load supplies.
The second store sells instant noodles of various flavors, vermicelli, rice noodles, canned food, self-heating rice, self-heating hot pot, instant porridge in barrels, soups, sausages, Lao Gan Ma, various pickled mustard tubers, side dishes, etc., which can be eaten directly or by just soaking in water.
Among these, instant noodles were the most numerous, with about twenty boxes of barrels, each box containing twelve barrels, eight boxes of bagged instant noodles, each box containing twenty-four bags, and several barrels of bulk instant noodles next to them. Other foods, large and small, were packed in nearly fifty cartons, which she put all into the space without hesitation.
The last shop was stocked with a small amount of rice, flour, sweet potato flour, and some wilted vegetables such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and onions.
The most common items are various kinds of milk drinks, followed by more than ten large gas cans, various small gas cans for gas stoves, piles of honeycomb coal, several barrels of cooking oil, multiple diving suits hanging on the wall, quilts, mattresses, various clothes, shoes, socks, pots, pans, etc. piled in the corner. It is comparable to a small grocery store.
Si Nan did not mind and accepted them all. He also unexpectedly received several first aid kits and a large medicine box containing common household medicines such as cold medicine, cough medicine, painkillers, digestive tablets, heat-clearing and detoxifying tablets, etc.
After moving all the supplies, she felt a little dizzy and her body was swaying. Seeing this, Cheng Suming, who was on guard at the side, hurriedly supported her and asked, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Si Nan shook his head: "Maybe I put too many supplies in at once, and I was so busy sorting and storing them in the space that I consumed too much mental energy. I feel a little dizzy. I just need to take a rest."
Cheng Suming touched her forehead worriedly, and made sure that she was just exhausted and not sick. Then he helped her sit down on a chair in an empty shop to rest.
Less than a minute after Si Nan sat down, he heard a thunderous roar from downstairs: "Wu En, you traitor! You actually poisoned our food!"
Si Nan and Cheng Su Ming looked at each other. Cheng Su Ming pulled her up, walked to the next door, opened the two locked shops, and walked downstairs quickly before the women could react.
As soon as the two men reached the safety staircase on the 14th floor, they saw the group of people holding their stomachs and throats. Some were vomiting non-stop, some were lying on the ground with their eyes rolled back and breathing rapidly, and some had blood all over their mouths, yelling and screaming like crazy.
Wu En curled up on the ground with a bruised face and nose, laughing wildly at the gang: "Do you think I dare to bring people to rob you without any preparation? At the beginning, you threatened me with my wife and daughter, asking me to be your accomplice, and I refused. You beasts raped my wife and daughter in front of me, you are worse than beasts! My daughter is only fourteen years old, she is still a child! How could you do that to her with so many people!"
When Wu En said this, his laughter turned into a voice full of resentment and tears. "So from then on, I pretended to obey you, but in fact I was studying how to use chemicals, diesel, gas tanks, and wine bottles to make bombs and bombs. Every day I paddled a raft to hospitals and medical universities all over Xingcheng, looking for poisons and drugs that could kill people. Hard work pays off, and I finally found a little bit of □□ in the research room of a senior executive of an abandoned medical college. From then on, I actively cooperated with your instructions every day, and enthusiastically cooked and made coffee for you. Little did you know that I had already put □□ in your daily food, taking your lives bit by bit!"
"You all thought that the pain all over your body, the shaking of your hands and feet, the unsteady walking, the hair loss, the dizziness and hallucinations were all caused by being too tired, or the food you ate was not fresh and the water you drank was not clean. The hospital could not find the cause of the disease, but you would never think that I chose the time when you were poisoned and chose today to take your lives!"
"Wu En, you bastard, I'm going to fucking kill you!" The bald man in the gang opened his bloodshot eyes, endured the severe pain in his body, picked up a machete, and rushed towards Wu En.
Wu En's hands and feet were trapped and he curled up on the ground. His instinct for survival suddenly triggered his potential. He twisted his body and quickly climbed up from the ground, fleeing towards the safety stairs at a high speed, just in time to bump into Si Nan and the other man who were coming down.
The six of them looked at each other in bewilderment.
Si Nan and his companions did not expect to be so unlucky to meet Wu En, and Wu En did not expect that someone would come down from upstairs.
He knew that the women upstairs were usually locked up there for the bald man's gang of beasts to play with. The two men were wearing gas masks and large raincoats, so their faces could not be seen clearly. It was unclear whether they were one of the gang members, or whether the women locked up upstairs took the opportunity to escape.
At this time, the bald man had already rushed over, holding a gun while running, and shot at the three of them.
Behind him followed the poisoned bandits, who were enraged by Wu En's series of actions. Regardless of the pain in their bodies, they held knives, with bloodthirsty eyes, vowing to catch Wu En before they died and cut him into pieces to vent their hatred.
Cheng Su Ming did not hesitate at all, he pulled Si Nan to the side and blocked the bullets shot by the bald man.
The bald man rushed too fast and shot the bullet very accurately. Si Nan was shot in the leg. The severe pain made her scream and she fell to the ground with her injured left leg.
Ignoring the pain in her wound, she pulled Cheng Suming, who was groaning twice in his throat, and the two of them ran down the stairs.
Wu En was shot in the back. Seeing the two of them running away, he endured the severe pain and ran downstairs.
"Wu En, you bastard, stop right there!"
The bald man's angry roar could be heard from the corridor, along with the sound of a group of people running down the stairs.
Si Nan's legs hurt so much that every time she took the next step, she felt excruciating pain. On her shoulder was Cheng Suming, who had been shot twice and had no idea where the wounds were. His entire body was hanging on her shoulder.
She didn't dare to stop. The bald guys had gone crazy when they learned that they were doomed to die.
They held two guns in their hands and shot indiscriminately during the chase, not stopping until Wu En was killed.
Si Nan and the other man happened to appear in front of Wu En. The bald man and his group must have regarded them as Wu En's accomplices and would kill them together. Her cold weapons, the crossbow, were no match for hot weapons. If she wanted to survive, she could only endure the severe pain and run desperately.
Cheng Suming lowered his head, his handsome face was pale and sweat was beaded on his forehead. He whispered to her, "You go first, I'll follow you."
"Impossible. How could I leave you alone in this situation?" Si Nan refused without hesitation: "Where are you injured? Is it serious?"
"It's okay, I won't die." Cheng Suming raised his head and smiled weakly at her, his usually dull eyes filled with tenderness: "Be good and obedient, go first and call Yang Wentao and Yu Yong for help. I have a gun and can deal with them."
His face was extremely pale. Even in the dim light, Si Nan could feel that his life was gradually slipping away. She had already touched his wet and sticky back and smelled a strong smell of blood. That was his blood.
He risked his life to block the bullet for her and lost the ability to move independently. How could she leave him and escape alone?
They have been married for almost two years. They have been together almost every day in the past two years. Every detail of their daily interactions is still vivid in her mind. Even if she was made of stone, she should have been warmed by him.
Si Nan suppressed the urge to cry and used all his strength to lift up the 1.85-meter-tall Cheng Suming. He gritted his teeth and ran to the innermost part of the empty twelfth floor.
The hurried and chaotic footsteps were infinitely amplified in the empty and silent floor. Si Nan had never felt so much like this before, wishing the night could be noisier so as to hide her and Cheng Suming's traces.
Wu En seemed to have made up his mind to drag them both down as scapegoats. Seeing that she stayed on the twelfth floor and didn't go downstairs, he ran over without hesitation.
Si Nan didn't have time to care about Wu En who was lingering behind her. She carried the heavy Cheng Su Ming, gasping for breath, and quickly ran to the public toilet at the innermost part of the shopping mall on the twelfth floor. She stopped in front of a toilet with an intact door latch and helped Cheng Su Ming sit on the toilet.
At this time, Cheng Suming had lost too much blood and his consciousness began to fade. He leaned weakly on the toilet, his body shaky. Without Si Nan supporting him, he would have fallen directly to the ground.
Si Nan found a box of painkillers, a first aid kit, some hemostatic bandages, and a flashlight. He patted Cheng Suming's cheek and cried, "Suming, wake up. Tell me where you are injured. Tell me how to give you first aid and stop the bleeding."
Cheng Suming opened his eyes with great effort and saw red eyes, a tearful and extremely anxious expression. This was the first time he saw Si Nan look like this for him since his rebirth. He smiled slightly and wanted to raise his hand to touch her face and tell her that he was fine, but he soon found that he was unable to raise his hand and realized that he was seriously injured.
Hearing her repeatedly asking where he was injured, his scattered thoughts gradually came back to him, and he answered her with all his strength: "Left, left side of waist, back... near the heart... First give me the painkillers, and then stop the bleeding..."
Si Nan did as she was told. When she shone her flashlight on the bleeding wounds on Cheng Su Ming's left waist and back, she could no longer hold back. Tears rolled down her cheeks like pearls from a broken string. An unprecedented panic spread through her body. She was very afraid that Cheng Su Ming would die.
She had clearly thought that it didn't matter if he died, because that way no one else would know about the existence of her space, and she could rest easy, living comfortably in the apocalypse relying on the supplies in the space.
But why now, seeing Cheng Suming on the verge of death, she was so panicked, frightened, heartbroken, scared and at a loss.
This person had unknowingly occupied a huge place in her heart. She didn't want him to die, she wanted him to live well.
No matter what the cost, she would find a way to save him, even if the price of saving him was killing someone.
She wiped the tears from her face and her expression became calm and resolute. Following Cheng Suming's instructions, she gave him a simple hemostatic bandage and also stopped the bleeding herself. She took a few painkillers, took the submachine gun that Cheng Suming had been holding in his hand, took a few deep breaths, and quietly opened the toilet door.
The moment she opened the door, Wu En, who was looking for them, was startled by her. He then gave her a weird smile and ran out of the bathroom.
Si Nan's heart trembled, wanting to know what tricks he was playing. He put the crossbow with good iron arrows into Cheng Su Ming's hand and whispered to him, "I'll be back soon."
Holding the gun, he chased after him.
Wu En ran very fast, and he didn't look like he had been shot or beaten at all. Si Nan wanted to shoot him several times, but he was afraid that the gunshot would attract the bald man's gang of crazy people, so he followed him all the time and took out a crossbow from the space, trying to shoot his leg to make him stop and use him to delay time.
Unexpectedly, not long after Wu En ran, he suddenly rushed into an empty shop with the door open, picked up a chair, smashed the window at the back of the shop, and then jumped out of the window.
Si Nan finally understood why he was following her and Cheng Su Ming like a ghost. It turned out that he wanted to make a feint to the east and attack in the west, using her and Cheng Su Ming's lives as bait to buy him time and create a chance to escape.
I have to say he was very smart. By running and knocking on the glass in such a blatant manner, the bald guys who were originally unsure about where they were running to would definitely be attracted by the sound. The water level was now at a height of ten stories, so if he jumped from the twelfth floor, there would be no problem as long as he could swim.
By the time Si Nan and his companions faced off against the bald man's gang, he had already floated away into the water and escaped into the distance.
Wu En had planned everything, but she didn't expect Si Nan to have a gun in his hand, and she didn't expect that Si Nan hated people who used her the most in her life. She no longer hesitated, took out a super-strong outdoor searchlight from the space and put it on her head, found Wu En who was swimming in the water, raised her submachine gun, and aimed it at his back and fired a few times.
The sound of the gunshots traveled far in the silent night. The arm strength and accuracy acquired from years of archery allowed Si Nan to easily deal with the recoil of charging, charging, and shooting, and also allowed her to hit Wu En who was swimming in the water between the five bullets.
The blood gradually spread, and Wu En was face down with his limbs floating on the water, without any movement.
When the bald man and his gang arrived, they only saw a large piece of broken glass. They leaned over the window with flashlights and looked down. They saw Wu En's body floating on the water and instinctively felt that something was wrong: "Who killed that bastard?"
"Could it be those two people? Are they not in the same group with him?"
"I feel something is wrong. Let's get out of here quickly. Those two have guns in their hands. I don't know where they are hiding to plot against us."
"Why should I be afraid of them? I'm going to die soon anyway, so I'll take a few more people with me before I die! First, find those two and kill them. Then kill all the women on the fifteenth floor and bury them all with me!"
"What's the point of dying? If you want to die, go ahead and die. I won't die! I'm going to the hospital. The doctors there will definitely be a way to save me. I'm not going with you guys anymore!"
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Amidst the noise and discussion, a cold voice sounded behind them: "Are you looking for us?"
The group of bald men were startled and turned their heads around.
A man wearing a military green raincoat, a gas mask, and blood on his body, looking like a midnight killer, stood behind them. Without saying a word, he raised a gun and fired at them.
The bald man and another fat man wanted to raise their guns to fight back, but the man's charge and gun fire were concentrated on them. Before they could pull the trigger, they were shot to pieces by the man and fell in a pool of blood.
The others were stunned upon seeing this and turned to run, but they had been poisoned and were already exhausted. Every step they took caused pain all over their bodies and they moved very slowly.
Sinan picked up the weapons of the two bald men, quickly searched their bodies, found two magazines, and threw them into the space along with the weapons and guns.
Then she took the crossbow and shot the hands and feet of the remaining nine people. When they fell to the ground wailing, she walked up to them, pulled out all the iron arrows that shot them, confiscated all their weapons, threw them into the space, and left them to fend for themselves on the ground.
According to Wu En, none of these people would survive the night, and the location she shot would make them incapable of movement. There was no need for her to kill them again and add to their psychological burden.
She grew up under the red flag, in a peaceful and safe country, and was taught to abide by the law. Even though it had been almost two years since the apocalypse, she had witnessed countless darkness and had fought in the process, but she had never thought of taking anyone's life.
Although Wu En and the other two bald men had committed many evil deeds and were responsible for many deaths, they deserved to be put to death, but after Si Nan killed them, in addition to panic and fear, he also felt more physically uncomfortable.
She walked to the fifteenth floor with her submachine gun. After taking two steps, her stomach cramped and she leaned over the stair railing and vomited violently.
Killing is disgusting after all.
After vomiting everything in her stomach, she walked to the central area of the 15th floor with her gun in hand. There were about ten beautiful young women, naked, who were looking for clothes to wear in an attempt to escape.
Seeing Si Nan appear, a group of women were so scared that they ran away with their heads in their hands, screaming and crying: "Don't kill me! Don't hit me! I'll be obedient and I won't run away."
Si Nan had no time to sympathize with them. She pointed her rifle at them and lowered her voice, "Be quiet!"
The women obediently quieted down and hid in the corner, shivering.
Sinan: "Everyone, stand up and go downstairs."
The women were obediently driven downstairs by her and came to the public restroom on the twelfth floor. She opened the innermost toilet door and found that Cheng Suming had fainted due to excessive blood loss. Her heart tightened and she reached out to touch his nostrils. Fortunately, he was still breathing.
Si Nan breathed a sigh of relief, and while the women were not paying attention, he put a box of winter clothes, a box of compressed biscuits, and a box of bread in the toilet next door. He asked them to put on their clothes first, and gave each of them a few packets of biscuits and bread, and asked them to put them in their pockets. Then he asked them to carry Cheng Suming downstairs and get on a speedboat.
She tied the rafts, inflatable boats and other water transportation tools of Wu En, Baldy's group, to the back of the speedboat they were in with ropes, and let the women take all the oars and row towards the nearest hospital.
She sat in the middle of the speedboat, holding Cheng Suming against her body, with one hand holding a speedboat and pointing it at the women, and said coldly, "Paddle faster. If my companion dies on the road, I will let you be buried with him! If he is alive, I will let you go."
Perhaps it was because Si Nan's appearance was too scary, or perhaps it was because they felt freedom calling them, all the women took up their oars and paddled desperately.
When they were almost at the hospital, Sinan asked the women to untie the rafts and inflatable boats towing behind the speedboat and let them leave on their own.
She took off her and Cheng Suming's raincoats and gas masks, put the gun back into the space, and ran to the temporary entrance on the upper floor of the hospital as quickly as possible, asking for help from the doctor on duty at the door: "Doctor, help! Save my husband..."
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