When Sheng Youqing and the other two rode their tricycle back to the Cheng family's annex building, they saw blood and corpses all over the ground. Sheng Youqing was completely stunned!
"Youbin...what happened?" Sheng Youqing asked with difficulty.
Sheng Youbin stood in the passage, dragging the six bodies dead in the passage to the entrance with his remaining right hand, and replied with a pale face: "After you left, Liao Tianzheng's wife's brothers from the Ge family conspired with the Cheng family's servants and gardeners to rob us, and they also wanted to kill me, rape Sister Nan and Miss Cheng. Sister Nan took ruthless action to protect herself..."
Recalling how he cowardly hid behind the door of the room next to Si Nan, and saw through the peephole that nearly a hundred people attacked Si Nan, and how Si Nan calmly and fiercely attacked with a crossbow and stun baton in hand, he admired him but was also very afraid.
Si Nan and Sheng Youqing have known each other for many years, and he has also known Si Nan for many years. In his eyes, Si Nan is an older sister who looks quiet and has a good temper. Every time she came to his house, she would treat him as a younger brother and buy him delicious and fun things to play with him.
In his eyes, Si Nan was no different from his own sister. He suddenly became cold-blooded and took someone's life. Although he knew the situation was urgent and if Si Nan didn't take action, he would be the one to die, he still couldn't accept it in his heart.
It felt like it was because of his incompetence and inability to protect Si Nan that she was forced to take action and turned from a quiet woman into an executioner.
He also understood that no matter how timid and cowardly he was, if he could not stand up for himself and only knew how to hide behind others, sooner or later, his sister Sheng Youqing would become like Si Nan, who would do anything to survive.
The thought that Sheng Youqing, who loved him, would become like that was more painful than killing him, so he suppressed his fear and nausea, forced himself to face it all, and helped Sinan deal with the body.
"You're back? Did you have a smooth journey?" Si Nan walked out of her room, dragging a corpse in his hand, and greeted Sheng Youqing and the other two.
There was some blood on her body and her eyes were filled with a cold murderous look, but when she saw Sheng Youqing, Cheng Suming and Yang Wentao all carrying bulging sacks, her expression returned to her usual gentle look.
"You——" Sheng Youqing was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.
She and Si Nan have known each other for many years, so she certainly knows that beneath Si Nan's gentle and easy-going appearance, there is actually a very hot-tempered heart.
This discovery came from spending time with her over time and learning about her childhood experiences.
For example, Si Nan can tear off the hangnails without using nail clippers and with an expressionless face, and she will never complain even if her fingers bleed.
For example, when she was in college, she was stalked by a perverted senior for nearly a month. She did not tell anyone and led the pervert into the empty female restroom of the teaching building at night. She pretended to be scared and locked the pervert in the restroom. She filled the bucket left by the cleaning lady with water and poured bucket after bucket of cold water on the pervert.
Then she took the mop, stood at the bottom of the bucket, and beat the pervert again and again from above the toilet, until the pervert shouted for help and begged for mercy. The teacher who heard the noise controlled him, and she let him go...
There were many similar stories, which were all mentioned unintentionally by Si Nan when he met up with the sisters for drinks afterwards.
Sheng Youqing and Gao Moli were horrified when they heard this, and asked her if she was not afraid. At that time, she was drinking, her face was flushed, and her eyes were shining with a strange light: "I am not afraid of death, so what else can I be afraid of! Let me tell you, when I was a child, my aunt locked me in an abandoned woodshed in the town. An old man heard me crying, broke the door open, and tried to molest me. I was holding a sharp wooden stick at the time, and almost destroyed the old man's penis..."
Thinking back on it, Si Nan's unfortunate childhood experience made her a little sick and twisted. Others thought she was weak and could be bullied, but they didn't know that she was the cruelest among their three friends.
Compared to the shock and fear of others, Cheng Suming seemed very calm. The Si Nan in front of him was the same as the decisive and ruthless Si Nan in his previous life. Although he hoped that it would take a little longer for Si Nan to become like the person in her previous life, he would not be surprised if she really became like the person in her previous life.
Cheng Suming stepped over the corpses, walked to Si Nan, and looked her up and down: "Are you okay?"
"No." Si Nan shook his head. "Those guys are untrained and relied on their numbers to rob. When you're not here, I have to take action to intimidate them."
Cheng Suming felt very complicated. He pulled her into his arms, hugged her tightly, and said in a low voice: "Anan, I'm sorry. I promised you that I would always stay by your side and protect you, but accidents always happen. This time, your hands are covered in blood. Will you hate me for not being capable enough?"
"How could I hate you? You and I are individuals. We can't be connected all the time like conjoined twins. We will always be separated." Sinan reached out and patted his back gently. "Just as you said, in the difficult natural disaster environment of the doomsday, if you want to survive, you must learn to protect yourself. You must be more ruthless than others in order to live better than others! If I don't take action today, you will see our corpses when you come back. I won't offend others unless they offend me. They want our lives, and I won't feel any guilt when I kill them."
"It's best if you think this way. From today on, we'd better not separate. I will feel at ease if we go everywhere together."
The next matters will be left to Cheng Suming and Yang Wentao.
Si Nan killed fifteen people, all men. One of them was Ge Xiaocui's younger brother Ge Manfu, and the others were relatives and friends such as gardeners, servants, and drivers.
Cheng Suming and his companions took Cheng Wei and found Liao Tianzheng, who was locked in the house by Ge Xiaocui. They asked him to contact other bodyguards to drive all his relatives and friends out of the Cheng family's old house, and stipulated that those people were not allowed to approach here within a week, otherwise they would be killed.
In order to intimidate Liao Tianzheng and prevent him from gathering more people to rebel and rob, Cheng Suming pulled Si Nan and carried Yang Wentao and others on his back. The couple each showed the two pistols and guns they had robbed before, and told Liao Tianzheng under the banner of Cheng family that as long as they behaved themselves, they would leave the Cheng family's old house in a week, and Liao Tianzheng and others could come back to live in these places.
During this period, if they have inappropriate thoughts again, don't blame them for being rude.
Liao Tianzheng had already felt guilty about what his wife's Yue family had done. In addition, Ge Manfu, his brother-in-law who had ruined the harmony of his family for many years, had finally died. Cheng Suming and his group had solved a big problem for him. Without saying a word, he took all the people living in the annex building and left the Cheng family's old house.
Before leaving, he asked people to carry away the bodies and wipe the bloodstains in the passage of the house. Then he led the group of people to the ruins near the Cheng family's old house and burned all the bodies.
In the next few days, Cheng Suming found excuses to get Yang Wentao and others away, and brought Si Nan along, and the couple acted alone.
They put on gloves and went to the area pointed out by the middle-aged man they met a few days ago. They took one of the many electric saws that Si Nan had stored in the space before the end of the world and sawed away the building materials that were in the way one by one.
They rummaged through the space to find usable items, such as bedding, mattresses, clothes for all seasons, underwear, pots and pans, and other daily necessities that were not too dirty, and threw them all into the space. They also found a lot of intact parts of televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, hair dryers, computers, rice cookers, and some damaged electrical appliances. They were also lucky enough to find a container of domestically produced smart phones, about fifty of them, which could still be used by plugging in power banks.
After Si Nan rescued Sheng Youqing's family, he wanted to walk back to Zizhu Town like Yu Yong to look for his uncle, aunt and their family.
Cheng Suming told her that in his dream, her uncle, aunt and family were reunited with her, and she only needed to go to the base to arrange everything in advance and wait for them to come.
Si Nan believed in Cheng Suming's words very much. When she returned to Zizhu Town, she repeatedly mentioned the matter of the natural disaster base in front of her uncle and aunt.
Because one of the dreams she had was about the scene where she survived at the Stone Mountain Military Base.
Before she completely lost contact with her uncle and aunt, she kept telling them to meet her at the Stone Mountain Base.
She believed that after experiencing so many natural disasters, her anonymous prophecy of the doomsday had come true. If her uncle and aunt were really safe and sound as Cheng Suming said, they would definitely come to find her.
Yesterday, Cheng Suming told her that governments at all levels have been working hard to restore Internet communications. After communications are restored, if her uncle and aunt have mobile phones, she should be able to contact them, and everything will be easy then.
Because many people have lost their mobile phones in the series of natural disasters, mobile phones will become hot commodities after communications are restored.
Sinan put those mobile phones into the space, thinking to keep half of them for his relatives and friends, and the rest, he would sell them or exchange them for other things when he had the chance, so that they would be worth their value.
The couple wandered around for three days. Sinan collected all the usable things he saw along the way, such as broken generators, heat insulation panels, solar panels, scattered parts of various vehicles, engines, etc., and anything that looked like it could be repaired. He deliberately avoided ruins that might be contaminated by the corpse plague, and the harvest was quite fruitful.
On the fourth day, Cheng Suming saw that there was really nothing to find around, and he did not want to go somewhere else and be infected with the plague, so he found Yang Wentao and others, took Si Nan's electric saw, saying that he had borrowed it from the military, and then sawed open the heavy stone building materials of the small department store that they had seen before. The group took turns to spend two days cleaning up the sawed materials, revealing a large amount of supplies underneath.
It turned out to be a small department store with all kinds of daily necessities. What was surprising was that there were many snacks, biscuits, canned goods, bags of rice, flour and other foods buried underneath. Although the number was not large, it still made people happy.
The group picked up large sacks, snakeskin bags, boxes and the like, loaded up the things below, filled three tricycles with them, and transported them to the Cheng family's annex building.
During this period, many people were jealous and wanted to rob, but they were all beaten away by Cheng Suming and Yang Wentao.
Of these two men, one seems gentle and easy to talk to, but in fact he is the most ruthless and would use a scalpel to cut someone's neck if they disagree with him.
He was a tall, muscular man with a fierce look on his face. He didn't use any weapons in a fight. He just used his fists as big as casserole pots to draw blood and beat people unconscious.
It was scary enough for these two to attack together, but there was a woman holding a crossbow following behind them, who would fly a kite from a distance from time to time to assist in sneak attacks. Every arrow she shot was aimed at the heart or the center of the head, killing people with one shot.
How can we play this? Saving our lives is the most important thing, let’s run!
After they returned to the Cheng family's annex building, they took the trouble to carry the tricycle and supplies to the twelfth floor one by one as usual. There were already a lot of supplies piled up in the corridor that they had been searching for in the past few days.
Most of these supplies were found by Sheng Youqing's family and Yang Wentao. Sinan and his companions just randomly found some things and put them in the belts to make them look like they were there, and usually put them in their rooms.
Mother Sheng was a very clean person. She was afraid that the supplies she picked up might contain bacteria and spread the plague if used like this. Every day, she would wait by the artificial lake downstairs to clean all the supplies, except for food, that Sheng Youqing and her brother dug out from the ruins before letting them take them upstairs to dry.
Therefore, most of the supplies in the corridor belonged to Sheng Youqing and his group.
Unlike Si Nan who had their own space and Cheng Wei who had a small warehouse, they had nothing. They lived in the annex building these days and ate the food generously provided by Cheng Wei and Si Nan.
Sheng Youqing and the other two felt very uneasy about this and have been doing everything they can to repay everyone.
Sheng Youqing and Sheng Youbin, a brother and sister, worked hard every day to search for supplies in the ruins, from small things like pots and pans to large things like bedding and mattresses. As long as they didn't have it, they would bring it all home to avoid arriving at the Shishan base with empty hands.
Mother Sheng was in poor health and had been waiting for everyone to come back in the annex building. She took the initiative to cook, do the laundry, and help everyone clean supplies.
Everyone told her not to work too hard and not to overwork herself, as her health was more important.
She refused to listen and continued to do as she pleased. Seeing that she insisted, everyone just let her do as she pleased.
After the supplies were moved upstairs, everyone gathered together and divided the supplies collectively.
Si Nan meant to give more of the clothes, backpacks, shoes, socks, sanitary napkins, underwear, two boxes of snacks and canned food, two large bags of rice and flour, etc. to Sheng Youqing and her family. After all, she has everything she needs, and Cheng Wei has her own little treasury.
Sheng Youqing said with a serious face: "If we are going to divide it, we should divide it equally. These materials are only because of your efforts. We are ashamed to take one third. If you give us more, we will feel guilty."
Si Nan knew her temper. She had always had a bad temper and was quite competitive. If he argued with her about these issues, she would definitely get angry, so she had no choice but to share the supplies with everyone.
They rested on the spot for a day, and everyone slept comfortably in the house to replenish their energy. In the evening, they took a bath and gathered together for a sumptuous dinner. They ate half of the various vegetables that Cheng Wei could not bring with her, made all the meat into jerky, and made a lot of steamed buns and sushi with rice and flour so that they could eat them on the road without having to cook.
That night, no one slept well. One was uneasy about setting off for the foot of the stone mountain to start their future collective base life, and the other was melancholy about leaving the city where they had lived for a long time.
Among them, Cheng Wei and Sheng's mother slept the most uneasily.
As soon as night fell, Cheng Wei stayed in Yang Wentao's arms and fell asleep quickly. This time, she tossed and turned for nearly an hour and couldn't fall asleep. Yang Wentao hugged her and asked, "Can't sleep?"
"Yeah, I'm a little reluctant to leave." Cheng Wei has been living in Xingcheng. The Cheng family's old house is where she grew up, and she has deep feelings for this place.
Before, she had overcome all difficulties and refused to follow the Cheng family, vowing to be with Yang Wentao. But after going to the Shishan Base, she didn't know when she would return to Xingcheng, and she didn't know if her parents would be angry if they didn't see her go to Kyoto, and would no longer recognize her as their daughter.
When she thought of this, she felt extremely melancholy and couldn't fall asleep.
"Don't think too much. Things will work out when the time comes. I'm here and I won't let you down." Yang Wentao kissed her cheek. "Go to sleep. You have to get up early tomorrow and the road will be difficult to walk. You have to be alert when the time comes. You can't walk without a good sleep."
Cheng Wei also knew how bad the road conditions were. They were heading down the rocky mountain on a road full of cracks and traps, which must be fraught with danger. She hummed a word and obediently closed her eyes to sleep.
Mother Sheng couldn't sleep because she was a sentimental and tearful woman.
She and Sheng Youqing slept on the double bed inside, and Sheng Youbin slept on the single bed outside.
Hearing her soft, suppressed sobs, Sheng Youqing was inevitably woken up and got up to look at her, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay." Mother Sheng turned her back to Sheng Youqing and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve: "Mom just feels that after we all left, your father would be left alone in Xingcheng. How lonely he would be. Even if we want to come back to pay tribute to him in the future, we won't be able to find a place to bury him. We can only go to the gate of that Class-A hospital to burn incense and offer flowers. I don't know if he will blame us."
Sheng Youqing's tears welled up in her eyes when she heard this. She reached out and hugged her mother tightly from behind, crying softly: "Mom, I'm sorry, it's my fault that I didn't protect Dad well. If I had protected Dad under me during the earthquake, he would be fine now, and he would live a good life with you for the rest of his life. It's all my fault..."
"No, Youqing, how can I blame you for this." Sheng's mother turned around quickly and reached out to wipe the tears from Sheng Youqing's face: "As parents, we are willing to give everything for our children. Your father saved you because he loves you as a father. You should not feel guilty. Mom just felt that I was not good enough to your father before. He took everything on his own, and I enjoyed his love for me with peace of mind. Now that I think about it, I was really selfish and ashamed of him. Mom didn't mean anything else by saying that just now, Youqing, don't think too much. Mom just hopes that you can be good to Youbin. Mom loves your father, and loves you even more!"
"Mom..." Sheng Youqing threw herself into her arms, crying loudly: "Thank you for forgiving me. When these disasters are completely over, we will come back and build a grave for Dad, okay?"
"good."
Sheng Youbin was lying on the bed. When he heard the two of them talking, his eyes gradually became moist, but he bit his lips tightly to prevent himself from making any sound.
As for Si Nan, after taking a shower, he nestled comfortably in Cheng Su Ming's arms and fell asleep without any sign of uneasiness.
On the contrary, Cheng Su Ming was a little insomniac. He held her in his arms, thought about many things with his eyes open in the dark night, and then slowly fell asleep.
The next morning, around six o'clock, Sheng's mother got up early, kneaded the dough and made a pot of vegetarian noodles, and asked everyone to get up and eat noodles.
She knew how to cook before she married Sheng's father. After she married Sheng's father, Sheng's father took over all the housework. She hadn't cooked for many years, and the meals she cooked recently were a bit rough, with the salt taste sometimes salty and sometimes bland.
The noodles today were a bit salty. No one said anything and silently added more noodle soup to their bowls to dilute the saltiness. After eating and drinking their fill, the group packed up their bags and rode their tricycles downstairs.
Among their group, Cheng Wei and her partner had the most supplies. They carried ten bags of rice and flour weighing 50 kilograms downstairs alone, not to mention other food, daily necessities, pots and pans, clothes, bedding, shoes and socks, which were piled up into a small mountain.
Yang Wentao took a large piece of cloth curtain and covered the hill tightly. Then he used several thick ropes to tie it inside and out. The tires were flattened a lot, which made Sinan worry whether the tricycle could withstand the weight.
Sheng Youqing's family mainly packed pots and pans, daily utensils, and bedding and clothes for the three of them. Although they didn't pack as much as Cheng Wei and the others, they still filled the tricycle.
Finally, it was Si Nan and his friend's turn. They imitated Sheng Youqing's family and pretended to load a set of daily necessities in the car, but actually all the things were stored in the space.
After Yang Wentao and others had moved their things down and would not go up again, Si Nan used the excuse of having diarrhea and wanted to go upstairs to the toilet. Cheng Su Ming was worried about her and followed her upstairs.
The two of them moved all the floor-standing air conditioners in the four rooms on the twelfth floor, the unused oversized refrigerator that Cheng Wei had left in the supply room, some large furniture and wardrobes, etc. into the space. Then they slowly walked downstairs and set off with everyone.
Because the road conditions were bad, with cracks everywhere and ground bulges and breaks caused by crustal movement, and they had a lot of luggage, they could only ride along the wider and less congested roads.
When they encountered places on the road where they could not ride through, they got off the bikes and pushed them. Sometimes when they encountered uphill or downhill roads, everyone helped each other push and pull the bikes, moving step by step out of the city.
Their vehicle equipment naturally attracted the attention of many people. Some people curiously asked them where they were going, and they all replied that they were going to the countryside.
There were also small teams that saw their vehicles were full of supplies. Although the three tricycles were covered with large cloths and they couldn't see what supplies were inside, many teams still wanted to rob them. Sinan and his team had no choice but to fight with them.
It would have taken only five hours to get out of the city, but they were stopped by those short-sighted people who kept coming in, causing the journey to take half the time.
Less than two hours after they left the city, it was already dark, and everyone could only find a relatively hidden and safe deserted forest to set up camp.
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