"husband!"
"Brother Lin Bin!!"
Tao Huihui's face was streaked with tears, and the eyes of the two siblings, Yin Xin and Yin Hang, were red-rimmed.
It's all their fault, all their fault. If it weren't for saving him, Brother Lin Bin wouldn't have gotten hurt.
Tao Huihui was pinned to the ground, tears mingling with blood as she watched in despair as her husband was beaten and abused. They fought back with all their might, yet remained as weak as ants.
Just then, a creaking sound of a door opening suddenly appeared in the hallway.
Everyone was startled and looked in the direction of the sound.
A minute ago, upon hearing the screams and roars coming from outside, Xiao Jin, who was sitting on the sofa, paused slightly with her fingers.
The image of that person who had once been so cautious and tried to take her to the supermarket flashed through her mind, along with the intimate conversations that always drifted from next door.
As she pondered, the 'Wheel of Fortune' had quietly appeared in her hand without her noticing. She stood up, walked to the side, put on her coat, and then put on her tactical gloves.
Amo peeked out from her sleeve, his scarlet forked tongue trembling slightly.
"Stay put." She lightly flicked the little snake's head. "A few ordinary people, we don't need you."
Xiao Jin did not open the door directly.
She first turned off the rechargeable desk lamp in the room.
With power outages everywhere, any light coming out from her side will inevitably cause trouble.
Then Xiao Jin put on her protective gear as usual, gently turned the door lock, but she did not open the door completely, but pushed it open a crack about two arm widths wide.
Now, the scene in the hallway is clearly visible.
At the same time, the group of people, who were in complete chaos, saw that it was Xiao Jin who opened the door.
The sinister-looking man slightly grinned: "Are there still people eager to come and die?"
Scarface, who had been talking to the sinister man earlier, showed a hint of wariness in his eyes.
Sure enough, the next second, Xiao Jin's actions made everyone's expressions change, and Scarface and the others even took a few steps back in a panic.
"It's so noisy."
Xiao Jin's voice was very soft, but it was like a bucket of ice water poured over their heads.
Scarface and his men froze. Through the crack in the door, they saw a pair of eyes as cold as knives and a revolver with a ghostly blue sheen.
"Brother, big brother..." Scarface's voice trembled, "It's a misunderstanding... We're leaving now... We're leaving right away." Seemingly realizing that his voice was too loud, Scarface lowered his voice at the end.
"Coward!" The sinister man couldn't hold back any longer. He sneered, "Who are you trying to scare with a broken toy gun?"
He strode over: "Kid, you're just using this trick to fool people, aren't you! They're too stupid to tell the difference, but that doesn't mean I can't either."
The sinister-looking man suddenly smiled and said, "It's alright, I'll teach you how to handle a real gun—"
"Bang!"
Gunshots shattered the silence of the night.
A bloody hole the size of a bowl exploded in the chest of the sinister man, surrounded by a scorching heat.
He looked down in disbelief, then collapsed to the ground like a piece of rotten wood, billowing thick black smoke from his body.
The gunshots echoed eerily in the enclosed stairwell, instantly causing commotion throughout the entire building.
"Gun! It's gunshots!"
"The sound seems to be coming from the fourteenth floor!"
"Go home now! Don't stay outside!"
The thugs who were looting on other floors were terrified and ran back with the looted goods.
On the seventh floor, a young man, still reluctant to give up the canned food he had just received, was slapped on the head by his father: "You idiot, willing to risk your life for food! Didn't you hear gunshots?!"
The young man glanced at his spoils with resentment, but ultimately followed his family back into the house.
Xiao Jin never expected that her simple action would indirectly help many people avoid disaster.
………………
In the stairwell, the remaining three thugs knelt on the ground, trembling.
Xiao Jin's gun remained unmoved: "Shut up and get down there yourselves, or I'll help you."
"Alright, alright!" Scarface breathed a sigh of relief, that was enough to let them go.
Just as he stood up, a bullet, sparking as it flew, pierced his right leg.
"Ah!!!" Scarface screamed in agony, clutching his blood-soaked leg, and collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Xiao Jin put down his gun and said slowly, "Listen carefully to what I said, it's 'get out'."
The two tall, thin men looked ashen-faced, but they gritted their teeth, covered their heads with their arms, and then curled up and rolled down the stairs.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Continue." Xiao Jin's icy voice rang out from above.
The tall, thin man grinned bitterly, exchanged a glance with the fat man next to him, and had no choice but to climb to the edge of the platform and continue rolling down.
Meanwhile, the scarred man was still wailing on the other side.
Under his terrified gaze, Xiao Jin grabbed him by the back of the neck, then walked to the small window on the side and threw him out the window.
"No, no~" He tried to grab Xiao Jin's arm as he fell.
After everything was finished, Xiao Jin looked at the four people next door and asked, "Can you handle this yourselves?"
Clutching his bleeding leg, he nodded with difficulty, "Th-thank you..."
"No need." Xiao Jin had already turned and gone back to her room. "Clean up the bloodstains at the door before tomorrow, otherwise it will encourage the spread and reproduction of the toxins."
"Bang."
The door closed gently, as if nothing had happened, leaving only the four survivors outside.
Yin Xin glanced deeply at Xiao Jin's door, then said to Tao Huihui, "Sister, let me help you treat Brother Lin Bin's wounds."
Thank you so much for what you just did. Please wait here, I still have some medicine at home!
After saying that, Yin Xin quickly ran into the inner room.
Tao Huihui, standing to the side, lowered her head and hugged Lin Bin, tears streaming down her face: "Husband, we're saved, we're saved!"
………………
The next morning, the entire building returned to silence as if nothing had happened.
But everyone knows just how horrific the scene hidden in the shadows truly was.
People inside the building are living in fear, and now they don't even dare to cook, for fear that their homes will be targeted.
The only sound was faint sobbing, which echoed throughout the building.
Last night's chaotic robbery resulted in many injuries and even deaths.
Some people, whose entire families had died and who had even had their belongings stolen, were so desperate that they opened their windows and jumped out.
Throughout the morning, countless people fell from the building, and the sound of 'thump, thump' could be heard from time to time.
Some people completely ignored the toxic smog outside and left the apartment building with just a small bag on their backs.
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