Chapter 023 Chapter 23
Feng Yexing coughed lightly, suppressed her laughter and agreed: "Yeah, that makes sense, thank you sister." She took out two small breads from her bag and handed them over. Considering the tense relationship between people nowadays, she politely placed the things on the table three meters away: "These are two bags of small breads. We haven't found much supplies yet, and we don't know when we will leave. We have to save some to prevent ourselves from starving to death. This is the only way to show our gratitude."
After saying that, he touched Yan Cheng.
Yan Cheng understood and took out a pack of compressed biscuits from his bag and handed it over, saying concisely: "Thank you."
Fang Lan: ...
The remaining four people looked embarrassed for a moment, but they were strong-minded after all. Fang Lan felt pain in his heart, but he still put a piece of biscuit on it, and the other three followed suit.
She then said, "These cookies are delicious, but your self-heating pot is still better. Can I ask where this self-heating pot is from?"
Ji Yang: "I brought it."
Fang Lan smiled even more enthusiastically: "Hey, since the heavy snow and extreme cold, I haven't touched this self-heating pot again. Now we are destined to meet and hide in the same place. I want to ask if you still have a self-heating pot? Can I exchange one?"
The middle-aged man next to him immediately added: "Yes, little girl, you are still young, it's not easy to be alone, why don't you join our team, we will replace the self-heating pot for you, we won't cheat you."
Feng Yexing and Yan Cheng frowned, feeling that there was something wrong with what he said, but they did not say anything immediately.
The other two men stared at the man and the dog, secretly drooling. The other man was eating deliciously, and the dog looked delicious too...
Xixi noticed their gazes and bared her teeth in displeasure, revealing a bit of ferocity.
The two were frightened.
Ji Yang said directly: "No, I like someone, I can exchange it for a self-heating pot, what do you want to exchange it for?"
Fang Lan was about to be disappointed, but then he was delighted when he heard the following sentence: "See what you want?"
Ji Yang tilted his head and smiled, "There are many things I want, such as supplies. Didn't you just say you didn't have any? How come you have them now?"
"We haven't found it yet, but we will definitely find it after this freezing rain." A look of embarrassment flashed across Fang Lan's face, and he was extremely confident the next second.
Ji Yang laughed when he heard this: "So you're planning to get something for nothing?"
"How can you be like this!" Fang Lan said angrily, "If you don't want to change, then don't change. Is that necessary? We are so kind to take care of you. We were afraid that you would freeze to death and wanted to take you with us."
Ji Yang: "Don't do that. I'm afraid if I really team up with you, I'll run out of my stock."
Fang Lan's eyes widened, as if he was not sure why she was so harsh? Tears fell from his eyes, and he looked at the men around him pitifully.
Yan Cheng quickly looked away.
The middle-aged man had been guarding Fang Lan as a flower protector. Seeing this, he immediately showed a fierce expression and was about to step forward: "How can a little girl like you speak so unpleasantly? Today I must defend you--"
"Brother Liu!" Feng Yexing was startled, and quickly walked over to grab him, scolding him, and said in a cold voice: "I did save you, and this is how you repay me?"
The man called Brother Liu was stunned, then he pointed at Fang Lan with a red face, wanting to vent his anger on her. However, he was a little afraid of Feng Yexing's accusations and wanted to explain himself: "That's what she said. We just want to change the self-heating pot..."
Feng Yexing laughed angrily: "If they don't want to change, then don't change. Are you still forcing them to buy? Get out! Don't disturb them. Aren't you cold? Go and light a fire!"
At this point, everyone came back to their senses.
They were already nearly frozen to death by the freezing rain. If it weren't for the food, they wouldn't have wasted time here. As a result, they didn't get to eat the food and even gave away some supplies. Their faces turned pale, and under the pressure of Feng Yexing and Yan Cheng, they left obediently.
Before leaving, Fang Lan glanced at Ji Yang, with a hint of unwillingness in his eyes.
With such a fat dog and such a big hiking bag, there must be a lot of good things in it!
Unfortunately, Feng Yexing was too old-fashioned. He only allowed others to rob them but not them to rob others, so they missed out on a lot of good things.
If it weren't for the fact that they had the only nail gun in their hands, which could keep them safe, she wouldn't want to listen to them.
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Ji Yang put down the crossbow he had touched and continued eating.
She naturally felt Fang Lan's obvious gaze. If they had taken a few more steps forward, her crossbow arrow would have been shot out. Unfortunately, they were stopped.
In this case, it's considered giving them a chance to live.
Ji Yang finished eating quickly and asked Xixi to eat the dog food quickly.
Occasionally, Xixi would eat some dog food. She adapted well to it and didn't dislike it. She ate every grain without leaving any. She also gave the dog some warm water, which was boiled and placed in the space before. The environment here was too cold. The cold water would freeze in a short while, but the warm water could only last for a few minutes.
Seeing Xixi drinking water, Ji Yang drank some brown sugar ginger tea himself. He felt warmed up and finally felt like going out to see what was going on outside.
When I saw this, my breathing stopped.
In her previous life, when she encountered freezing rain, she had no mood to think so much, nor did she have the equipment to observe the surrounding situation. Now it was different. She had space and could take out a telescope to see... As far as the eye could see, there were dozens of human-shaped ice sculptures, some running, some falling to the ground, some hugging and supporting each other with their companions, and they were caught off guard and frozen in place by the freezing rain.
The expression on his face still retained the fear and panic he had felt in life.
The freezing rain was still falling, landing on the ground, on the ice sculptures, and on various buildings bit by bit, forming a terrible weight. The snow layer was collapsed, and some old buildings were directly crushed, burying the survivors inside.
A slight "click" sound was heard.
A frozen survivor who was very close to the building took on too much weight and was finally crushed.
But it wasn't the fall she thought it was.
Instead, it breaks directly.
All the water in the human body has already been frozen into ice at this temperature. When it breaks at this time, it is just like broken ice cubes. No trace of blood can be seen. Only some blood foam can be seen scattered on the ground like broken ice foam, and then reunited with the entire ice layer.
It’s raining so heavily, I don’t know when it will stop.
Ji Yang put down the telescope, went to the fire, and took out a silk quilt from her backpack to cover herself. Xixi might not be used to staying in the temperature of minus 20 or 30 degrees for a long time, so she ran to her side.
She simply held Xixi in her arms, covered the person and the dog together with a quilt, and took out two heated hand warmers.
In the afternoon, the sound of rain finally stopped.
Ji Yang had wanted to take advantage of the break in the freezing rain to quickly drive the snowmobile away, but she found that the actual weight of the snowmobile was... a bit heavy, anyway, it was too heavy for her to carry.
If she relied on Xixi, she was a little worried about accidents and encountering Feng Yexing's group. There should be other survivors around. The place she was looking for was a bit remote, but the city center might have been searched thoroughly, and many people came to try their luck from farther away. She didn't want to expose her space.
Finally gave up.
Sure enough, this break was short-lived. About twenty minutes later, heavy rain began to fall again, dashing the expectations of many people, leaving them all feeling anxious and uneasy.
Ji Yang sighed and continued to sleep.
After waking up, he found an office with the dog and quickly took out the cat litter box. The man and the dog satisfied their physiological needs. It was time to eat again. This time, Ji Yang still chose the self-heating pot, and he made stir-fried pork!
However, she replaced the rice and stir-fried pork in the self-heating pot with her own packed food.
Fragrant and hot.
But maybe that group of people were held down by Feng Yexing, and no one came up to disturb her.
Although they searched the building up and down twice, Ji Yang guessed from their conversation that they still found a lot of stock, and there was joy in their voices.
Over the next two days, the rain continued to fall intermittently, but it was much lighter in the afternoon of the second day. Although it still turned into ice when it fell to the ground, its lethality was far less than at the beginning.
If you grit your teeth, you can still get out.
But at this time the ground had turned into ice, making it even more difficult to walk on, so no one dared to rush out. Ji Yang was no exception. She valued her life and was unwilling to take risks.
It was not until noon of the third day, when Ji Yang was about to have lunch, that he suddenly heard a cry from downstairs: "The rain has stopped!!!"
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"The rain has finally stopped! I was so scared, I thought I was going to starve to death here!"
"It's actually sunny! Holy crap, I can see the sun!"
"Look over there, is that a rainbow?"
“Oh my god, so beautiful…”
It was really beautiful. A strange freezing rain turned the whole world into a world of ice and snow. Under the crystal clear ice was white snow. The sun shone through the clouds, revealing colorful light.
Regardless of the terrible consequences of this disaster, this scene alone is mesmerizing.
"This makes me think the disaster is about to pass." Someone sighed hopefully.
Someone else shouted, "Oh my God, are you going to let us go?!"
"Yes! It must be!"
There was a firm response from the other side.
The person asking the question grinned widely.
It makes people very happy to hear it.
Everyone had hope, but of course they had to come to their senses and face reality. After being trapped for three days, their food supplies had run out. It was time for them to go out and look for supplies.
However, this does not include Feng Yexing's team.
They did find a lot of things in this building.
Many people came here to raid before, but they were trapped here for three days. They couldn't just eat and sleep every day and waste time, right? So Feng Yexing and Yan Cheng took the lead and searched layer by layer in detail.
When I come across a cabinet that I have never opened before, I will try my best to open it without worrying about wasting time.
After hammering around, they found dozens of packets of instant noodles, even two self-heating pots, a bunch of snacks, drinks, instant coffee, etc. Everyone's bag was stuffed full.
In addition to these survival supplies, they also found some that could be exchanged for points at redemption points.
Unlike Ji Yang, even though they encountered freezing rain and had not been back for three days, they still planned to go to the exchange point to exchange points before going back. However, before setting off, Feng Yexing still said the words of parting ways.
She couldn't avenge Xiaoya and Uncle Zhang because she was weak, but she couldn't go with these people either.
She even suspected that the accidental deaths of several people who had been at odds with Fang Lan might have been caused by her. Although she couldn't figure out Fang Lan's purpose in doing so, the fewer people there were, the more detrimental it would be to their safety.
It’s just that Feng Yexing will never understand the way some people think, so she chooses to stay away from them.
As soon as the words of splitting up came out, Fang Lan and the other three were stunned: "Split up? Why?"
The man called Brother Liu's eyes flickered: "Are you unhappy because Uncle Zhang and the others got into trouble?"
Fang Lan's eyes were red as he looked at Yan Cheng: "Brother Yan, do you really want to break up with us? We got along so well before."
Yan Cheng pursed his lips: "Sorry."
Feng Yexing had made up her mind and didn't care what others thought. She picked up her backpack and was ready to leave.
Seeing this, Yan Cheng hurriedly followed behind.
Fang Lan secretly hated him. She saw a nail gun sticking out from the zipper of Yan Cheng's backpack, which he hadn't zipped up in his hurry. She suddenly rushed over and said, "Brother Yan, I, I like you!"
Yan Cheng was shocked and dodged subconsciously.
The gap was just in front of Fang Lan, who immediately reached out and grabbed it. Then, without waiting for Feng Yexing and Yan Cheng to react, he pointed the nail gun at them: "Stop!"
"Fang Lan, what are you doing?!" Feng Yexing was stunned. He never expected that she would suddenly point the gun at him.
Yan Cheng's face also changed drastically. He checked his backpack immediately and found that he had not zipped up the backpack, allowing someone to take advantage of it!
Fang Lan was also a little nervous, but he was more proud and excited. This thing had always been closely watched by them, and no one else was qualified to touch it. Among so many people, only Yan Cheng had the ability to do it. As long as the nails were sharpened, the lethality was still very strong.
Although due to limitations, the range is only twenty meters.
But it's totally enough.
Her eyes were still red, and her tone revealed grievance: "Brother Yan, Ye Xing, I don't want to do this either, but since you guys just leave like that, I have to leave some room for retreat, right? You guys are so capable, it's only right that you leave the nail guns and the supplies here to us, right?"
Brother Liu and the other two's eyes lit up, and they immediately came to Fang Lan's side: "Yes, since you are so powerful, leave these weapons to us!"
Feng Yexing & Yan Cheng: …………
The two looked at each other. Feng Yexing wished he could smash Yan Cheng's head with a hammer. He looked like a smart and capable cool guy, but in fact, he could even lose a weapon like a nail gun.
Even though it hurt, Feng Yexing still didn't dare to bet whether Fang Lan could do it.
She said decisively: "Okay, I'll put them all here."
She immediately threw away the two packages tied in her hands, opened her backpack and took out the supplies inside. While doing this, she was always paying attention to Fang Lan's movements. Seeing that her expression was relaxed and she seemed quite satisfied, her movements became more and more agile.
The same goes for Yan Cheng. Someone is pointing at your head, so he can't act recklessly.
Fang Lan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Brother Yan, can you give me all the nails from your nail gun?"
Yan Cheng's eyelids twitched, reluctantly.
Fang Lan made a gesture to Brother Liu, and Brother Liu immediately went over to look for it. At this point, Yan Cheng could only leave it alone. Soon Brother Liu found a cloth bag full of nails that Yan Cheng had been grinding during this period of time.
With these, they will be able to use them for a long time and deal with... many people.
Fang Lan was imagining the future when a burst of untimely footsteps interrupted the stalemate.
The six people looked over subconsciously.
Just then Ji Yang and the dog came over.
The man and the dog seemed not to notice the tense situation here and went straight downstairs. Fang Lan and others were confronting on the fifth floor, which happened to be near the stairs, so they bumped into each other head-on.
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When their eyes met, Ji Yang still had no expression on his face, while the expressions of the people opposite him had changed to some extent.
Feng Yexing was startled and immediately shouted, "Run!!!"
If you run away at this time, you can still be saved.
If she was targeted, Feng Yexing would be extremely anxious, thinking that Fang Lan had had some feelings for this girl before.
Ji Yang glanced at her and quickened his pace in cooperation.
But this sound seemed to remind Fang Lan, and Fang Lan immediately turned the gun towards Ji Yang and shouted, "Stop! You can leave if you want, but leave the bag and the dog behind!"
Ji Yang paused, Xixi was so angry that she almost rushed forward, but was held down by her.
Feng Yexing looked up with a hopeless look, not daring to look at the scene.
Yan Cheng also sighed: "I'm sorry."
It’s all his fault for getting this girl into trouble.
Fang Lan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the people stop. She almost let a fat sheep get away. She had been smelling the fragrance coming from upstairs every day for the past two days. If she hadn't been concerned about Feng Yexing and Yan Cheng, she would have brought people up to rob it long ago.
"Old Liu, go collect the things." Fang Lan ordered. She was on guard against these three people. Her eyes couldn't help but linger on Ji Yang's big mountaineering bag. She wondered how many good things were inside it.
Old Liu frowned, as if he was a little dissatisfied with the title, but thinking of all the supplies, he still went over happily. The other two men also hurried over: "Let's go too. This dog looks fat and it's not safe. We have to kill it while its owner is here!"
"Yes, yes, let's go back and have dog meat hotpot!"
As he spoke, he was about to approach the man and the dog.
Suddenly, Ji Yang, who had been standing still, took out something.
Before anyone present could see clearly, Fang Lan felt something coming straight towards her.
Her instinct was to hide.
But that thing was too fast and penetrated her body in an instant. With a "puff" sound, Fang Lan suddenly had a thought in her mind. So this is what it feels like to be shot in the body?
I don't feel any pain.
But the blood gushed out quickly, and her body temperature dropped rapidly. By the time she realized the severe pain, she could no longer move.
The remaining five people were also dumbfounded. They never expected that Ji Yang also had a weapon.
That's right, a girl with a big fat dog and no weapons, isn't that a mobile dinner?!
But what I didn't expect was that this person attacked directly without even saying hello!
Fang Lan fell to the ground, and the nail gun in his hand fell. Yan Cheng reacted quickly and snatched it away. Just as he was about to tell the remaining three people to behave themselves, he heard a clear and cold voice saying, "Xixi, go ahead!"
"Woof!" A command, a response.
The big dog, who had just been sitting obediently at his owner's feet, rushed towards Lao Liu without saying a word.
"ah!"
Lao Liu’s screams echoed throughout the fifth floor.
The other two subconsciously wanted to run, but Ji Yang stepped forward and kicked one of them in the chin, knocking him to the ground and making him roll. He couldn't even scream, and his jawbone was broken!
The third person took this opportunity to rush into the stairwell, but at that moment Lao Liu had been bitten on the neck by the vicious dog. The dog exerted force with its canine teeth, and with a "click", the cry of pain disappeared. The dog immediately shook off the flesh and blood in its mouth and rushed towards the person who was running away.
Just as I reached the fourth floor, I heard the sound of something heavy rolling down, followed by a man's scream.
After a short while, the screams disappeared again.
The big dog came back, with blood all over its mouth, paws and face, and it pounced on its owner with its tail wagging happily.
Ji Yang silently took a step back and refused Xixi's loving hug.
Xixi unhappily raised her tail and gave her a resentful look.
Feng Yexing and Yan Cheng, who were standing nearby, stared at the scene in amazement and almost fell to their knees.
Help, are humans and dogs so strong these days? !
Are they in the same time and space? Could it be that when the end of the world came, some people mutated and evolved into Super Saiyans first without them knowing?!
Of course, when they came to their senses and saw the blood on the ground, they still felt a chill down their spines and were frightened.
The two men looked at Ji Yang timidly, not daring to make any sound, for fear that she would remember that they were still alive.
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Ji Yang certainly didn't forget, but she wasn't really bloodthirsty. Everything she did was just to protect herself. She wouldn't take action unless it involved her. In the future, natural disasters had already killed enough humans.
However, to be cautious, Ji Yang still went over to confirm that Fang Lan was indeed dead.
Then retrieve the arrow.
Take Xixi downstairs.
The skateboard is buried, but it doesn’t matter, she still has her ice skates!
Just assume that she was searching in the building. No one would be able to guess it anyway.
Ji Yang put on her ice skates and tried to skate first. The extreme cold froze the ice hard. Although it was not very regular because it was ice condensed from rain, it was hard enough and her technique was good enough so she did not fall.
As she tried, Xixi was also trying to run on the ice.
However, the dog's paws were hairy and it slipped again and again. Finally, Ji Yang became proficient, but the dog was still standing there aggrieved, falling down two out of three steps. Ji Yang couldn't bear it anymore, so he simply picked up the dog and slid it away.
After hurrying for twenty minutes, we returned to Building Nine.
As soon as he arrived at the bottom of Building 9, Ji Yang felt many eyes looking at him.
Maybe it was an accident that she didn't die outside.
But this time no one appeared in front of her, at least because after she killed a lot of people in the building, everyone was afraid of her, whether they had bad intentions or not.
This is good, at least it's quiet.
After this freezing rain, the first floor was completely buried, and the height of the ice and snow layer just reached the corridor window on the second floor. There was no need to drill a snow hole, but to climb in directly through the window.
After not being back for three days, Ji Yang went upstairs and found that there were some changes in the building. Some of the empty houses were occupied again.
This surprised her a little.
Going all the way to the fifteenth floor, she was even more surprised to find that there were some supplies at her doorstep?
A closer look revealed that mostly rice was brown rice, along with some bags of instant noodles and a sausage, which are considered scarce commodities nowadays.
"You're back!" The door opposite opened and Li Yi appeared at the door with a bright smile.
Ji Yang nodded, took off his goggles and scarf, and gave himself a chance to catch his breath.
Li Yi didn't mind her cold face anymore, and said with a smile: "These are the supplies those people offered."
Ji Yang: "What? Offering tribute?"
She began to doubt the world.
How come I don't understand this word?
She's still alive!
Li Yi explained: "The so-called Extreme Cold Survival Alliance, the president and vice president and some important figures all died because of this, so the alliance was disbanded. Originally, the survivors of Building 9, Building 10, Building 11, and Building 12 were considered a gang, but now there is no one to gather them, so the other three buildings are bullied by other organizations in our community. So a group of people probably heard that you are powerful and people from other buildings don't dare to come and make trouble, so they moved here. Before you left, some people moved in one after another. Today, the rain stopped, and another group moved in. They thought that you were protecting this building, so they sent these as tributes, begging you to allow them to live here."
Li Yi made himself laugh as he spoke, his tone was very relaxed: "And I told them that they could stay wherever they wanted as long as they didn't disturb you, but they didn't believe me and insisted on leaving it here. The most important thing is that no one dared to take it, and there are more and more things."
Just as he finished speaking, there was a noise in the stairwell.
When they looked, they saw several people coming over hesitantly with some fear but mustering up the courage, each holding two or three kilograms of rice or potatoes or other supplies in their hands.
When they saw Ji Yang, they seemed hesitant and unbelieving, and looked at each other in surprise.
Is it possible that the boss who was rumored to have killed hundreds of people is so pretty and quiet? !
It doesn't look like he has ever killed anyone.
Li Yi kindly reminded: "It's her."
Several people's eyes lit up, and they immediately took two steps forward and placed the things at Ji Yang's feet. Finally, a tall man said as a representative: "Well, we are here to live here, and we will definitely not disturb you. This is protection money."
Ji Yang: “………………”
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