Enraged by this, Mr. Wen immediately ran to the kitchen, grabbed a cleaver, and chased after Xiong Zhong and his gang, slashing wildly at them.
Xiong Zhong was no pushover, and he had been waiting for this moment so he would have a reason to capture the man surnamed Wen.
Just then, a man surnamed Wen took out a knife and attacked them. They fought back; this was self-defense.
His gang of thugs were just local bullies. Now that the outside world is being hit by torrential rains and floods, if the higher-ups had the ability to manage things, they would have already taken over here!
Therefore, they became even more reckless in their attacks, and before long, Xiong Zhong's men used knives to kill the man surnamed Wen.
Upon seeing this, Fang Lili, who was being held back by Wang Cai, broke free from his grasp and threw herself into her husband's arms, crying her heart out.
Wen Yang, who had been told by his parents to stay in his room, heard his mother crying and tried to open the door to see what was wrong, but his parents had locked the door from the outside and he couldn't open it no matter what he did.
This was the first time Xiong Zhong and his gang had killed someone since the torrential rains and floods began. They appeared fierce and calm on the surface, but they were actually quite scared inside.
They received information from their superiors that all the troops stationed near City C had been transferred downstream of the river that runs through their city.
However, it remains uncertain whether City C has truly become a city without any control.
Wang Cai glanced at the eldest brother, stepped forward, and said in a serious tone, "These supplies were obtained by us brothers at the risk of our lives. If you need them in the future, we'll settle the payment and there will be no outstanding debts. If you deliberately try to get our things for free, don't blame us for being impolite!"
Although Wang Cai was a hoodlum, he was still quite tactful in his speech.
The onlookers weren't very clear about their relationship with the Wen family. They had only seen the man surnamed Wen take a knife and go out to attack people before they noticed him and gathered around, only to find him killed in self-defense.
Now, after hearing Wang Cai's words, it turns out that the Wen family wanted to use the life-saving medicine that others had gone to great lengths to obtain for free.
This analysis made it seem that Wang Cai and his group weren't entirely unreasonable.
After all, if it were them, and someone else used the food or medicine they used to save their lives for nothing, they would fight that person to the death.
After hearing Wang Cai's words, Xiong Zhong noticed that the onlookers were no longer avoiding their gazes as they had before.
So he hypocritically stepped forward and said, "As the building manager of this building, it is my responsibility to protect the safety of the residents. But this time, the Wen family was indeed in the wrong, which led to this tragedy!"
He cleared his throat halfway through his sentence.
He pointed to Fang Lili and her husband on the ground and Wang Cai, continuing to pretend to be a good person, saying, "Now that the head of the Wen family has paid for his mistakes, it's not easy for them with only an orphan and a widow left. I hope Mr. Wang will consider my feelings and let bygones be bygones this time!"
Xu Lai, squeezed in the middle of the crowd, was furious at Xiong Zhong's arrogant attitude of pretending not to be with Wang Cai.
"Pah! They're a bunch of heartless scoundrels who eat people alive!"
Knowing the inside story, Xu Lai was angry, but having experienced the inhumanity of her previous life, she had become calm and composed.
In this second life, her goal is to ensure that her family of five can survive peacefully amidst all sorts of apocalyptic natural disasters.
Although the Wen family is pitiful, the two families have no relationship, and it's not worth her risking her own and her family's lives.
But Old Master Xiao, standing behind his son, was not calm.
He had served in the military for decades and was always upright and incorruptible. Now that someone had died in front of him, he naturally stood up to uphold justice.
But as soon as he lifted his foot, he was tightly grabbed by the perceptive Xiao Rui.
"Dad, we can't act impulsively!"
Two days ago, when Xiao Rui was setting the bones for the property management staff, he heard him talk about the complicated relationship between Xiong Zhong and Wang Cai.
These people dare to kill in public. Once their family is targeted by these ruthless criminals, they will definitely have no good days ahead.
"Grandpa Xiao, Second Uncle, let's go home first!"
Xu Lai glanced at her second uncle, who was also eager to follow Grandpa Xiao, and helplessly persuaded them to go home.
As soon as they got home, before Xu Lai could even speak, Li Qingya told her what she had learned from Yu Cheng about the relationship between Xiong Zhong and Wang Cai.
"These two are fundamentally in cahoots!"
"No matter how despicable the collusion, human life cannot be disregarded!"
As a party member with decades of experience and a veteran cadre for many years, Xiao Shan always had a scale of justice in his heart as the standard, no matter what he did.
How could he tolerate a human life being lost right before his eyes?
"Uncle Xiao, I heard from a friend that Xiong Zhong and Wang Cai dared to kill in front of everyone because Xiong Zhong has a powerful underworld force protecting him..."
Before Xu Lai could finish speaking, Old Master Xiao retorted defiantly, "So what if it's the underworld? In my entire life, have I, Xiao Shan, ever been afraid of anyone?"
"What about Brother Xiao and Sister Qingya?"
Xu Lai understood Grandpa Xiao's selfless spirit of serving the country and the family, but at this time, the normal social order in City C, or rather, in society at this time, had begun to become chaotic.
In the past, if Old Master Xiao had stood up against those forces, at least his family would have received protection from the organization.
Right now, countries and organizations are still busy dealing with this massive natural disaster.
If Grandpa Xiao had punished Xiong Zhong and the others a second ago, Brother Xiao and Sister Qingya would have been in mortal danger the next second.
Since her family had always been very close to the Xiao family, she and her family of five would certainly not escape the fate of being harmed.
Old Master Xiao wasn't stupid; after Xu Lai's reminder, he naturally understood the implications.
Seeing the old man's dejected look, Xu Lai really wanted to say something to comfort him.
Having been reborn, how could Xu Lai let these people go?
In their previous life, in order to curry favor with the powerful figures in Xiong Zhong's faction, the eldest uncle's family sent the two siblings to the beds of some influential people in the underworld.
She and her brother were tortured by those beasts to the point of wishing they were dead!
She, Xu Lai, will avenge this grudge sooner or later!
It's just that killing people now is not as easy as chopping vegetables or killing chickens as it was in the later stages of the rainstorm.
If she were to tell the Xiao family that she wanted to kill Xiong Zhong and other scoundrels, they would think she had lost her mind!
Let's not talk about that. Let's talk about something else to distract everyone.
“From today onwards, if no one takes care of the affairs of the 1302 family, Xiong Zhong and his gang will only become more and more arrogant. Our two families must take precautions to ensure our safety and defense!”
They had already installed two bank-grade bulletproof and blast-proof security doors at the entrance of the Xu family home, but Xu Lai felt that this was far from enough.
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