"I'll go to the agricultural park to take a look." Si Nan took out a pair of woolen snow boots from the space and put them on: "Aunt Sheng and the others take turns to sleep and guard the greenhouse every night to prevent the vegetables grown inside from being stolen. Aunt Sheng is on duty tonight, so I have to go to the greenhouse to take a look."
"It's so chaotic outside. The thugs living in the shantytowns have already entered the greenhouse. It's not safe there. I'll go with you." Cheng Suming put the phone back into his pocket, locked the door, and went out with her.
Sheng Youbin, who received the news of the temperature dropping next door, hurriedly put on his clothes and went out. The three of them bumped into each other. Before Si Nan could say anything, he saw two people running towards him from the alley. They were Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing, both of whom had blood on their faces.
Seeing them, Yang Wentao said, "Don't go out yet. A large group of thugs have already attacked. Stay at home, lock the doors and windows, and don't open the door!"
Sheng Youbin said anxiously, "Sister, what about Mom? She is alone in Sister Nan's greenhouse keeping watch."
"Don't worry. Three reinforced regiments of soldiers have been sent there to suppress the rioters. The thugs want to stay in the greenhouse in the agricultural park with heating. They should not damage the greenhouse or hurt the staff inside." Sheng Youqing comforted Sheng Youbin: "Sinan's private greenhouse has a lock, and they can't get in for a while."
In the distance, there were faint sounds of smashing doors and windows, women screaming, and children crying. Yang Wentao glanced at Cheng Wei who had just left the house and said, "Weiwei, hide at your brother's house. No matter what you hear, don't come out."
"I know. You have to be careful." Cheng Wei nodded obediently.
The Seventh Patrol Team, to which Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing belonged, had only a hundred people in total. They had received orders from their superiors that nearly half of their men had been lost while patrolling other places.
The remaining team members lived in the alleys of old stone houses on both sides of the stream. Before the army came, they had to hold back the thugs and protect the safety of their relatives and families.
Si Nan watched them leave, still worried about the safety of Sheng's mother and her own greenhouse vegetables. Because she had to protect Cheng Wei and Sheng Youbin, and also watch over the yards of three families, she could only stay where she was and called out to Cheng Wei and the others, "You two go back and lock the doors and windows, and come to my house. Don't be reluctant to leave your things at home, save your life first."
"Okay, I'll go right away." Sheng Youbin was very self-aware. He knew that with his physical condition, he would not be able to fight back if he encountered thugs, and might even become a burden to Sinan and the others. He immediately turned around to close the gate of his own yard.
Cheng Wei was also shivering in the cold wind and went to close the door of her house.
After they closed the door, they entered Si Nan's yard. Si Nan asked them to enter the living room on the first floor and turned on the air conditioner in the living room to 28 degrees. In the gradually rising warm temperature, he told them: "Su Ming and I will be guarding outside. Don't come out if you have nothing to do. Do you hear me?"
"Don't worry, we will never go out and cause trouble for you." They both responded tactfully.
They were all weak, one would fall down if the wind blew, and the other had only one arm, so they couldn't fight against others. They all understood that if they stayed at home and didn't go anywhere, they would be responsible to themselves and others.
Si Nan locked the door of the main room, turned around and took out two crossbows from the space, handed one to Cheng Su Ming, and then took out weapons such as a machete, a baseball bat, chili powder, a stun gun, anti-wolf spray, etc. and distributed them to him.
They tied weapons such as long swords and long sticks diagonally on their backs with ropes. When the crossbows and crossbows had shot all their arrows, they could draw these weapons for self-defense.
After tying up the weapons, Si Nan took out the two guns in the space, took one for each of them, and put the guns on his waist: "Let's go."
The two men walked out of the yard and stood in the alley outside their yard, looking at the large number of people swarming in from the end of the alley in the distance.
There were so many figures that it was estimated that there were no less than two thousand of them. Yang Wentao and his patrol team of only fifty people were definitely unable to stop them.
Soon, there were sounds of smashing, screaming and cursing one after another at the end of the alley. Si Nan clenched the crossbow in his hand, worried about the safety of his uncle, aunt and their family.
They are just ordinary people, unlike her who has been exercising and practicing fighting skills with Cheng Suming. I wonder if they can deal with those thugs.
Cheng Suming saw her worry and said, "It's too late for us to go there. My uncle and his family live half an hour away from us. But don't worry too much. With the physique of my uncle and his family, they can hold on for an hour. The army will be here within an hour. Before that, we have to take care of ourselves. We have too many things at home. If someone knows you and me and knows the situation at our home, we will be their primary target for robbery."
Si Nan lowered his eyes, "I understand."
Cheng Suming is a doctor, and her salary is many times higher than that of ordinary jobs. Her family already has abundant supplies, and she generously rented a private greenhouse to grow fruits and vegetables. In the past two months, she has earned more than 500 grain points by selling fresh vegetables. She doesn't know how many people are jealous of them. Today, the base was attacked, and it would be strange if those people didn't take this opportunity to rob them.
Ten minutes later, a group of thugs, lightly clothed and armed with a variety of weapons including sticks, kitchen knives, steel plates, etc., stopped on the left and right, about twenty meters away from the Si family's yard.
In the cold and snowy night, the dim street lights in the alley stretched the shadows of a man and a woman standing in the middle of the alley.
They stood back to back, holding crossbows in their hands, with fierce expressions on their faces, staring at the crowd that was rushing towards them.
Si Nan stared coldly at every thug who was ready to make a move: "Leave my house, and don't move the two houses next door, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"
The crowd was stunned for a moment, looking at each other, and suddenly they all laughed, "There are only two of you, and we have two thousand. How can you be rude to us?"
"Dr. Cheng, Mrs. Cheng, we have had too many good days. It's time for us to enjoy some good times."
"Yes, you have so much food at home, but you are reluctant to share it with others. You also built a big kang and planted vegetables. You live better than anyone else! But we are always hungry, drinking water to fill our stomachs, and have no clothes to cover our bodies. This is unfair. We also want to live your good life!"
"Yes! We have to live a good life too!"
People's greedy eyes with green glow made Si Nan frown.
She recognized that many of the people there were her neighbors who lived in the alley, as well as patients that Cheng Suming had treated, and even old customers who often came to her stall to buy her vegetables when she was setting up the stall.
These people hid in the crowd, thinking that she couldn't see them, but Si Nan recognized who they were at a glance.
It turned out that these people had been eyeing her and Cheng Su Ming's supplies for a long time, and they chose tonight when the base was in chaos to take advantage of the chaos to rob them.
Cheng Suming's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said to Si Nan, who had his back to him: "In this critical moment, protect yourself and don't be reluctant to use weapons."
This refers to the other guns behind the two men.
"The same to you."
The two men raised their crossbows together and calmly shot arrows at the crowd that was rushing towards them with ferocious faces.
The ten people who rushed forward the fastest were all shot in the head and chest, and fell to the ground screaming.
Ten people fell at the beginning, and the crowd that followed was shocked. They didn't expect that the seemingly small crossbows in the hands of the couple had such great lethality!
They also didn't expect that these two people were so cruel and ruthless that they killed one person with one arrow. Many people hesitated, picked up their weapons and stood there at a loss.
At this time, there were real thugs in the crowd, those irrational criminals and lunatics, who kept yelling: "Charge! There are only two of them, and we have two thousand. Why should we be afraid of them! As long as we kill them, all the supplies in their homes will belong to us, and we can even live in their homes. Don't be scared, charge together!"
When the others heard this, they immediately became motivated and rushed forward in a swarm.
When the crossbow in Si Nan's hand ran out of arrows, she immediately moved the crossbow into the space, pulled out the machete from her back, and at the same time swiftly took out the chili powder from her pocket and swept it into the air. A spicy and pungent smell filled the air.
"Ah - my eyes!" Those who rushed over were caught off guard and had their faces covered with chili powder. Most of the spicy chili powder swept into their eyes, making them cry. They couldn't help but reach out to wipe the chili powder off their faces. The more they wiped, the hotter it became, and they screamed in pain.
Si Nan took this opportunity to swing the machete in her hand, slashing and kicking horizontally and vertically. Cheng Su Ming stuck close behind her, and the couple connected into one, forming an attack circle, relying on each other, complementing and helping each other.
When someone attacked Si Nan from the side and she had no time to take care of him, Cheng Suming turned around and stabbed the scalpel in the neck of the attacker. When the man screamed and blood sprayed on his face, he felt the hot blood on his face and pulled out the knife expressionlessly, turned around and bent down to avoid the stick swung by someone, and when he stood up, he thrust the scalpel in his hand into the man's stomach again.
When Cheng Su Ming was surrounded by a group of people, Si Nan was not idle either. Under the surprised gaze of the mob, she twisted her heavy body and nimbly ran left and right in the snow, avoiding the crowd who wanted to kill her, and slammed into a man who wanted to chop off Cheng Su Ming's head.
She endured the pain from the collision, held the machete in her hand, and chopped with all her might. Immediately, three men were knocked to the ground, holding their backs and howling in pain.
This couple was more ruthless than the other. The man didn't use any extra weapons, but just used a scalpel to fight in close combat. The sharp blade was specifically used to cut the blood vessels in people's necks and wrists, causing them to bleed to death.
The woman used a variety of weapons, sometimes sprinkling chili powder, sometimes using electric batons to stun people, and sometimes using machetes and baseball bats to hack and beat people everywhere...
She looked weak and easy to bully, but after the crowd surrounded them for a long time, no one got close to her and hurt her fingers.
The thugs knew that the couple was a tough nut to crack and besieged them even more vigorously.
Gradually, Si Nan felt overwhelmed. She and Cheng Suming fought for a long time and killed many people, but the number of people besieging them was endless, and many people went to smash and destroy the homes of Cheng Wei, Sheng Youbin and others. If this continued, they would be exhausted to death!
After kicking one man away with great effort, Si Nan couldn't bear it any longer. She pulled out the hand and the gun from behind her back and pointed the gun at a man who had been attacking her like a madman.
"Bang——"
The loud sound of gunfire exploded in their ears. All the people who were fighting stopped and looked at the smoking muzzle of the gun in Sinan's hand in shock.
"Shit! She has a gun!"
"Fuck, where did she get the gun? Besides the soldiers, ordinary people in the Stone Mountain Base also have guns? How can we fight?!"
"It doesn't matter if she has a gun. The couple is clearly exhausted. Come on, grab the gun from her. From now on, we can walk around the base freely!"
Someone shouted, and the next second, everyone heard another gunshot. The man screamed, and a bloody hole appeared in the middle of his head. Blood gushed out, and he fell straight to the ground.
"Who wants to die? Go on! We will accompany you to the end!" Si Nan glanced at everyone present with sharp eyes.
Although those eyes looked beautiful and clear, everyone who was glanced at by her had the illusion that they were thorns and would be shot to death by her in the next second.
Everyone hesitated. They dared to gather together to rob because of the herd mentality. They thought that if they hid in the crowd, they would not be the ones to die.
But now the cold wind was howling, the ice and snow were raging, and the woman was surrounded by corpses. Bright red blood was all over the ground, and was soon covered by the white snow and frozen into ice.
Those corpses were still in the painful and struggling postures of death, frozen into ice sculptures by the rapidly dropping temperature, which made people's scalps tingle just by looking at them!
It was too cold outside. Compared to Si Nan and his companions who were fully armed in thick down jackets, most of the besieging thugs were lightly dressed.
They fought with Si Nan and the other man outdoors for a while and felt themselves frozen stiff and having difficulty breathing. One of their feet stepped into the snow and they couldn't pull their feet out for a long time. They couldn't help but hold their hands together with shaking hands and feet, and kept breathing out hot air to keep warm.
In this situation, the thugs no longer had the heart to continue fighting with Si Nan and the other man. The temperature dropped too quickly and they would lose heat quickly. The other side also had hot weapons, so whoever rushed forward would be seeking death!
I don't know who started it, but seeing that the couple couldn't handle it, they simply turned around and ran to other places, rushing to other people's homes to grab thick clothes to wear.
One person ran, then a hundred people ran, and then a thousand people ran.
The sudden drop in temperature caught everyone off guard. Many people initially just wanted to grab some thick clothes to wear and had no intention of fighting with others.
Since they couldn't capture the couple, they didn't want to risk their lives here, so they turned around and ran away to rob other people.
"Anan, are you hurt?" After watching the group of people leave, Cheng Suming immediately looked Si Nan's body up and down to make sure if she was injured.
"I'm fine, how about you?" Si Nan saw that his face was covered in blood, his hands were also stained with blood, and the scalpel was still dripping with blood. He anxiously checked him up and down to see if he was injured.
"I'm fine too. The blood on my body is someone else's."
"I'm glad you're not injured." Si Nan breathed a sigh of relief. He felt his tense nerves relax, and then he felt weak all over and a little breathless. "Let's go in. I feel very exhausted. I want to sit down and rest."
"You're probably suffering from hypoxia after a lot of exertion in the extremely cold weather. Go in, sit on the sofa and calm your breathing." Cheng Suming helped her open the gate of his yard.
Sheng Youbin and Cheng Wei, who were in the main room, heard the noise outside and couldn't sit still. They each took up their self-defense weapons and waited behind the courtyard gate. When they saw them open the door and come in, they thought they were thugs and panicked for a moment. Then they saw that it was them, calmed down, and asked them about their well-being.
"Brother, sister-in-law, are you not hurt?"
"Sister Nan, are you okay? Brother Cheng, why is there so much blood on your face!"
"Has everyone outside left?"
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"Ah, so many dead bodies!" After Cheng Wei greeted them, she saw corpses and bloodstains frozen into ice on the ground at the gate of the courtyard where Cheng Su and the others had left. Her pupils widened and she turned around subconsciously to retch.
Sheng Youbin's tolerance was much better than hers. He had worked as a medical assistant beside Cheng Suming for several months and had seen many bloody scenes in the operating room. When he smelled the thick smell of blood in the air, he just frowned, closed the hospital door with his only arm, turned around and patted Cheng Wei on the back: "Go in first, don't stay here."
Sinan walked into the living room, felt the warm temperature in the room, sat on the sofa and rested for a while. Finally, he felt much more comfortable.
She struggled to get up, Cheng Suming handed her a cup of hot water and said, "I know what you want to do, you wait at home, I'll go to the end of the alley to see if my uncle and aunt need help."
"I'll go with you!" Sheng Youbin followed behind Cheng Suming, "Brother Cheng, if Sister Nan and Uncle Nan are okay, I want you to go with me to look for my sister."
The patrol team had been outside to block the thugs and knew whether his sister was injured.
He was alone and weak, and did not dare to go out alone to look for his sister. If he had Cheng Suming, who had extremely strong fighting power, accompanying him, he would be much more confident.
"Sure." Cheng Suming agreed readily.
The two walked along, avoiding the thugs who were still robbing everywhere, and it took them half the time than usual to reach the end of the alley.
The situation of Liu Dalin and his family is much better than Cheng Suming expected.
When the first group of thugs broke into the Liu family, Mao Pingzhen, who usually seemed petty and difficult to get along with, burst out with unprecedented strength in order to protect his family's food supplies.
She took up all the large objects in the house and held them against the door, and together with her two daughters, she fought with all her might to hold the door tightly to prevent people outside from getting in.
Liu Dalin, along with his two sons-in-law, took the kitchen knives at home and chopped off the arms of all the thugs who tried to break in through the door and window to prevent them from coming in. They persisted for a long time.
Si Yufang's family was not so lucky. With the hard labor strength of Zheng Guang and his two sons, plus the two daughters-in-law and Si Yufang, Liu Dalin's family could unite together to resist the thugs and wait for the patrol team or the army to come to rescue.
Just at the critical moment, Si Chengye and his family followed the crowd of thugs to their house. Si Chengye was shouting for help outside. Si Yufang was soft-hearted and opened the door. As a result, a group of thugs rushed into their house and stole all their food, thick clothes and quilts.
Zheng Guang and his son Zheng Hao were seriously injured while protecting their family and supplies. When Cheng Suming arrived, Zheng Hao, whose head was smashed by an iron rod by the thugs, fell to the ground and was already dead.
Zheng Hao's wife was crying heart-wrenchingly beside him, and their son also cried with tears and snot all over his face.
The second son, Zheng Jian, was covered in wounds. He yelled at Si Yufang, who was standing stupidly beside Zheng Hao's body, "I told you not to open the door, but you insisted on opening it! You insisted on saving your useless brother! Now your eldest brother is dead, and your father is not far from death. Zhuangzhuang has become a fatherless child, and you are happy and satisfied!"
Si Yufang stared blankly at her son and husband lying on the ground, unable to believe that her eldest son had died.
Seeing Cheng Suming coming over, she suddenly came to her senses and hurriedly pulled Cheng Suming: "Xiao Cheng, you are here, please help your aunt to check on your cousin. He just fainted and fell asleep, right?"
Cheng Suming didn't say anything. He half-knelt down, stretched out two fingers and placed them between Zheng Hao's nose wings to feel his breathing, and then placed them on the pulse of his neck to feel the beating. In Si Yufang's expectant eyes, he shook his head at her: "My condolences!"
“Zhuangzhuang’s dad——!” Zheng Hao’s wife cried even louder, “How are Zhuangzhuang and I going to live if you’re gone? Wuuuu…”
Si Yufang collapsed to the ground, muttering to herself in disbelief: "Impossible, impossible. Ah Hao just fell asleep, he just fell asleep..."
Cheng Suming did not comfort her. He turned around to check Zheng Guang's pulse and found that it was still beating slightly. He immediately said to Sheng Youbin who was following behind him, "Go to the kitchen and find some wood ash to stop the bleeding. I will do first aid first, and you go back to your sister Nan to get some hemostatic medicine."
"I'll go right away." Sheng Youbin ran to Zheng's kitchen at an extremely fast speed, scooped out a large bowl of wood ash from under the burning stove, and then ran back to the living room quickly.
On the other side, when Si Chengye's family saw Si Yufang open the door, a group of thugs rushed into the Zheng family's courtyard before them and had a conflict with the Zheng father and son. The eldest son of the Zheng family was stabbed to death on the spot.
Si Chengye felt that something was wrong, so he took advantage of the chaos to snatch clothes from two people and wrapped them around himself. He then took Si Jiayu and the others and ran out of the Zheng family's house. On the way, he snatched clothes from two thin survivors and asked everyone to put on the clothes and follow him.
Zhu Chunyan was wearing a thin blanket and walking with difficulty in the thick snow. Her lips were frozen purple, and she asked in a trembling voice: "Jiayu's father, where are we going?"
"Where can we go now? The military is coming. If we go to someone else's house, we will definitely be caught and locked up. We might as well hide in a greenhouse in the agricultural park."
Si Chengye was wearing a thick cotton coat. Except for his cold feet, there was no other problem. He walked much faster than Zhu Chunyan and her daughter.
He turned back impatiently and urged: "Hurry up, we have to get to the agricultural park before the army."
"Dad, can't we go stay with our eldest sister temporarily, or ask her for thicker clothes to wear?" Si Jiaxue was wearing an ill-fitting children's cotton coat that left half of her belly exposed. She was only covered by a summer short coat, and a thin layer of ice had condensed on her clothes. She felt like her belly was about to turn into a lump of ice. She was afraid that she would freeze to death, but she asked with some grievance.
"Don't mention that evil creature to me!" Si Chengye looked back at her with a gloomy face: "Your elder sister is Jiayu, if you don't want to die, leave quickly!"
Si Jiaxue opened her mouth but said nothing in the end. She resigned herself to the wind and snow, put out her hands to block the snowflakes that were blown into her eyes, and walked forward with difficulty, squinting her eyes.
Half an hour later, a large number of armed soldiers arrived at the center of Boulder Town and began a comprehensive crackdown on thugs and robbers.
Outside, the sounds of gunfire, whistles, arrests, roars and running echoed throughout the streets.
This night is destined to be restless.
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